If people want to see BoS so bad, why not Virginia? You know, where they took over the Pentago of which we heard about on the Enclave Radio station in FO3.
I want less glitches. Not talking minor ones that are hard to find, I'm talking:
People and items falling through the ground.
Pushing objects through people while they sit/sleep and sometimes through their head as they stand.
When I went to the casino in FO:NV to kill Benny, then convinced the guy at the desk to let me have my weapons. What was so bad about that? It glitched and gave me Boone's sniper rifle, which I could not return to him and didn't realize until I saved over it. (Luckily I reglitched it later on, like 5 hours or better, by going to work for the Van Graff's, they took my guns then gave them back and it gave Boone his rifle back).
If other stories arise like Boone's as well, I want to kill the SOB who enslaved his wife (not just who sold her).

Umm, what we hear about on Enclave radio in FO3 is about BoS base in FO3. Ya know, where Lyons is at.

Hollywood = LA, so no thanks. Already too much WC.

Actually that's what I imagine Chicago would turn back into, a swamp.

what if it could span Detroit/Windsor as well as Toronto and Buffalo including Niagara Falls.....maybe Chicago too...but that almost seems too big for one game

New Orleans, it would pretty cool to have something like Point Lookout again. I really enjoyed the Southern Swamps and there is a ton of history to draw from. Also there's a lot of different ways that they could explore people adopting the various religious beliefs that dominate that area. Finally I would love to see a city that is actually flooded, which in all realities New Orleans would be.

I'm not American so I don't know a huge amount about these places but the south and south east of the USA really don't spark my interest that much. Swamp lands too aren't particularly enticing for me(would they have changed after the war?)

The south =/= swamps. There are definitely swamps there, but the whole thing isn't a swamp.

Niether do I, but really if Fallout is about the rebuilding of humanity and the people. Then you can't do much better than the south. There is so much you can work with, from Voodoo religious practices, the Civil War, the rampant racism, the fact that many people consider the Southern US to be among the most haunted in the country. (Personally I think they are loonies) which would provide great bases for tribal superstitions.

EDIT: Also it doesn't have to be the swamps. You can set it in the Cotton Belt, or the Mississippi Delta, even the Appalachian mountains. South Carolina has a nice range of geography from what I recall. But if you do set it in the swamplands, then let me just give you one thing, Mutant Alligators.

I didn't mean the whole thing was, but the cities and region doesnt really interest me, and the main difference in setting to the rest of the country would be swamps so that would mostly be in the game to set it apart....so yeah, not really too keen, especially considering all of the other untouched areas so far.


Mutant Alligators would be cool, lol but that's not enough for me

And after a nuclear war it seems like there will not be that much going on this this part of the country compared to the rest would there? All those things you said you could work with in a way could be interesting if done right(even thoough they don't interest me that much), but it doesn't really seem to provide a strong basis for any epic adventures of great significance.

I thought about the previous fallout, where the story was and I realized some things:

1) Bethesda won't do California, they don't want to be compared with the first 2

2) New York would do a logical follow up to fallout 3, downtown and upstate could make an interesting map. sure Ellis island liberty island, system island would make nice places for factions. you elks have tunnels (underwater + subways). destroyed skyscraqers, done nearly intact and so on

3) Midwest would be the perfect place it could be an area of contacts between bots, ncr, Las Vegas dominion, the remnants of Caesar, maybe the new power from Washington. you could even add remnants of the enclave, Lyons people, done new factions like southerners, northern one (Canadian, even Chinese).
you could be in an independent territory wanted by major factions who would fight for it. Midwest could allow big cities, wastelands, vaults, secret bases, lot of different landscapes

Well it didn't help in the Civil War when Sherman burnt cities to the ground, so a lot of them lost their history. And then you won't have to have swamps. Florida for example, the everglades are the big swamp area, but there are places in Florida where there are still ranchers with hundreds of cattle.

well exactly, it doesn't make for a greatly exciting area compared to other places.

If they ever did it in the south (which I don't really want) I think Miami and the Florida keys would be interesting.

If they choose to do another major metropolitan area, please oh fraking please, make rubble climbable. I deteseted fo3 in how nukes drop buildings destroyed but the subway is fine and the only way to traverse because ruined concrete buildings arent climbable.

ok sorry a really bad pet peeve there now that that is out of the way =)

I would love an older fallout as in when all the vaults open and we the player can be either the leader of our vault tribe or the leader of the scouts that set out to look for a habital place/scrounge for whats needed as we make our way outta the vaults.
I dont like my post apoc to be like new vegas with big super powers already.

Also the more north the better =)

I really hate repeating myself but it has been 200 years.

That is more than enough time for countries to start and grow to a degree.

If an entire city is in ruins, how exactly do you rebuild?

What I mean is...whatcha gonna do when the hulka..with all the concrete rubble?

There are no construction vehicles. Dump trucks. Etc.. Etc. I see the large cities as a place the "maniacs" would live. Raiders, cannibals, and other undesirables. Most re-building, would be done outside of the major cities. So say if the game was set in Chicago, Chicago proper would be a fairly dangerous place, with villages and towns actually in the areas outside of the city.

I agree Towns would be the worst place to be. cities would have taken nearly all the hits from the bombs. the country wild have been less radioactive.so new cities should be in former country side. Washington dc is a good examples lot of raiders ghouls mutants.

New York Area. NYC is a bit over-done I guess, but I think it'd be a good area. The Institution, mentioned in Fallout 3, is near enough to NYC that it could be in the game along with NYC. I mean... NYC is a pretty big city, I think the developers would have a lot of buildings still up, which would add to the exploration theme of the game, all those buildings, all the loot, all the mysteries that each building could have. And the city layout may be a bit nostalgic to DC, which would probably be a good feeling. Since the city is big, there'd probably be a lot of NPCs there and a lot of enemies and stuffs. They could make the faction of NYC and the Institution big time enemies for some reason. I don't know, I would certainly enjoy the next location being in the NYC area.

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Tokyo would be legit.

Also, from what I've read no one won the war and the whole world went up in flames.

Hong Kong would be a nice setting.

NYC is nice, but it doesn't give me that spaghetti western feel. So if they can bring it back to California it would be much appreciated by people across the globe.

Oh please bring it back to California, it shouldn't even be up for debate.

Well California seems to be like a nice place to live due to the NCR.

I think a decent idea for a location would be Miami Florida with some of the Florida keys. This would essentially force Bethesda to try some kind of node system for their maps.

yes indeed

Florida????? Is extremely boring, I remember vice city and that just wasn't fun. I have no interest in being in florida whatsoever.

New Vegas had the NCR, and that wasn't so safe.

If it were to be in California again on a new engine such as skyrim, I wouldn't side with the NCR and I would raise all sorts of hell.

I would rather be on the moon than in California in FO4.

Now if Obsidian got another game after FO4, I wouldn't mind visiting northern Cali/Oregon and New Arroyo. But not in FO4.

…but if we were to be in California we could have DLC in Mexico and a return to New Vegas as well.

1- Vice City was just Rockstar's parody of Miami, not the whole state. Florida would be much more interesting because not only would Bethesda(if they are the ones making Fallout 4) would have to come up with new content instead of recycling the old like they did with Fallout 3, but it wouldn't be in the centre of NCR territory.

2- New Vegas had House, the Mojave was a warzone that was being fought over by multiple factions.

3- The problem with having it in California is that it would be in the centre of NCR territory. The NCR would be the only major faction.