I'm sorry, but sticking to only "seriously famous locations"? Only the two later games has done that, and because they are sandbox, it was the easiest thing they could do - just take a wellknown city, scale it down and base the game around it and its immediate area.
Fallout 1 took place in southern California and maybe a litte Nevada, I dunno. It has known cities (or more like shells of what used to be known cities) like Bakersfield and Los Angeles, but did you recognize it was them? Not really, they were both pretty much razed to the ground, just black shells and debris. No real landmarks that I know of. They aren't even called Bakersfield and Los Angeles in Fallout, they are called Necropolis and Graveyard.
In Fallout 2 we get to see San Francisco and Reno, they are called the same but are just two locations of many. And I dunno how "seriously famous" either are, I've never heard about Reno before Fallout 2 for example, and I don't think they've got any landmarks either.
Fallout Tactics took place in loads of towns, from between Chicago and Cheyenne mountain but I don't think it ever took place in Chicago, and I don't know about any famous locations in the game. But really, I know about Chicago and I'm a swede. Though the only things I know is that a lot of planes land there, it's by Lake Michigan and that it's called the "Windy City" (which could make for some great weather effects).
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel takes place in Carbon, I've never heard of it but I've never played the game either since it's considered to be so crappy. I've also haven't got a console to play it on.

Tbf I wasnt saying I didnt know OF Chicago - only that I couldnt name any architectural features or anything famous about the city (other than it being the "Windy City" its true). Nor was I saying that all Fallout games dealt with well-know locales; only that they SHOULD imo continue to do so because it adds to the sense of history, awe and exploration that F3 and FNV are so well known for.

Don't forget Chicago is also the railway hub of the US. It was also home the the Mob, Al Capone came to power there as did so many others. badabing badaboom

i problly should have looked for this before i made a topic of my own but anyways

New Orleans is the best place for a fallout game

I wikll throw out the four corners area again.

I DO feel it should be in a place that hasnt been done yet. it would make it easier to add new factions and create new lore- and i think thats a win fore veryone.

The best place would Detroit or Toronto. The region around lake ontario and Erie. Cleveland and buffalo are right there.

They did that in the first two Fallouts Everybody has heard of L.A and San Fransisco. The reason they were pretty much razed to the ground is because the bombs struck there first and the hardest the rest of the country at least had a little time to get the hell away or prepare anti-missile defenses

Never heard of Reno? Obviously not an REM fan.

SanFran's location was a landmark - it was SanFran's Chinatown which is internationaly known.

Yeah, they had a whole hour or so to get their act together. Also you know the earth is round right? ICBM and missile subs would have also come to America from the East and from the North over the ice caps and it wasn't just China and America lauching all their nukes it was everyone that had nukes to launch.

Every place should have been hit just as bad as the West Coast. DC should have been totally raised to the ground.

Southern California was hit very hard because of the research places like West Tek, so the Capital should have been nothing but a glowing radioactive crater.

Oh Jeez the Earth is round I didn't know that :facepalm: I was going on Fallout logic which doesn't exactly make sense at times. And an hour is plenty to ready missile defenses and to get away from danger if your not stuck in a city. It'd be Especially for San Fransisco because electric cars are terrible and would've broke on them

I agree with most of those posts cept this last on. How many nukes did each nation get manufactured before the great war, this is something we dont know i assume quite a bit, but the US and USSR the two nations with the most nukes dismattled a lot of nukes in the 80s and i doubt they couldnt have manufactured that many nukes. So i think the targets were limited to how many nukes that get fired at it. Thuse D.C. looks as it should with a max 200 nukes fired at the city.

It's nuclear fallout, I'm 110% positive nobody cares about sports, otherthan that sports are lame.

Since the timeline split and became an alternative universe sometime in 1950, they could very much have never have been any dismantling of the nations atomic bomb armories. Especially since the Cold War became worse and worse, nations began to trust less and less in each other, alliances were broken, there were the Resource Wars and everything in USA was nuclear powered anyways (like cars, fridges, stoves, toys, central heating...). There could very much have been a way bigger amount of nukes in the world than what ever existed in real life. And I think in real life, at one point both sides had enough nukes to kill everyone like 70 times.
D.C. is the capital of Chinas greatest enemy. They would bomb the crap out of it more than they did with L.A. or Bakersfield, but still those cities are almost leveled to the ground.

NY, South dakota, chicago,

I could agree with that. also maybe the nations didnt lauch all their ICBMs and only had enough time to launch 500 max ICBMs at other nations in an hour long period which still explains why D.C. looks like it should.

I think it should take place in South Texas Not only because im from there I want to see giant mutated mosquitos

hey guys, ICBM's werent all that were used.

Planes with Fatmans

just saying

I am glad SavageBeatings was able to explain that for you.

You are right not everyone managed to get all the nukes off as we have seen an ICBM still in a silo in Fallout 3. Still 500 is more then enough to destroy every major city in America. Thing is we know an insain amount of nukes were used during the Great War. Something like 77 nukes for the Mojave area alone. 77 nukes to take out Las Vegas, Hoover Dam and a handful of other cities. That is alot and just for the Mojave.

It wouldn't just be China sending nukes to America it would be any nation that had nukes and hated America, which was all of them. Two hours would have been more then enough time to get pretty much every nuke up in the air.

"In 2077 the storm of World War had come again. In two brief hours most of the planet was reduced to cinders." Fallout intro

"The Earth was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands quickly raged out of control." Fallout 2 intro.

You know Styles, I think you are taking the intro a tad too literally...

They should not be counted out as a source for information. The over all thing to take away from the intros is. The whole world was destroyed. Nuked to hell an no nation survived. Everyone has to start over. The intros are the prologue.

Well that's taking it literally, think about it, who is the narrator? Probably some rambling old tribal fart sitting by a fire who goes by the name "Passing Wind" and has nothing better to do than talk about old stuff people don't care about, hardly the type of chap who would bother with giving a detailed picture of the world. I mean let's face it, details ruin stories, "So yeah the world was nuked, well not quite all of it, New Vegas managed to survive... and Samoa doing pretty well all thing's considered, plus Tannu Tuva is an independent state once more..."

The narrator (Ron Perlman) is speaking on the behalf of the Devs. He is setting the background. It isn't some tribal talking to us. It is the Devs. They are saying "this is the world you are about to enter. This is what happened, enjoy!"

Fallot could develop into a book series if they really wanted to. That said i think they really like storys and making games.