There would be deserts around those cities, though Look at Fallout Tactics intro, seems like it's pretty desert-like around Chicago (while Chicago is engulfed in a thunderstorm)

Or well, realistically speaking, 200 years after a nuclear war, nature would have reclaimed much. Like if D.C. was more realistic, looking away from the fact that whole of D.C. would just be a hole in the ground, then all the buildings and streets would be overgrown by trees and vegetation. But the Fallout thing is kind of a deserty landscape, or well, that's how Fallout 1, 2, Tactics and New Vegas made it (and Fallout 3, although more like a desert made out of dirt instead of sand)

You do realize, wastelands are deserts right?

You could try and google "wasteland", see what you get... yeah, mostly deserts.

Though I am near positive that nobody at Bethesda Softworks really cares where I think the next Fallout should take place, I will make the suggestion anyway. Here goes:

I have talked to many people who say that Fallout 3 is better that New Vegas. People who like Fallout 3 better usually note the landscape and the storyline. These have a lot to do with location. The pros of New Vegas that I hear from people is that the skills were much better. These need to be combined together into a Fallout game that will be better than any previous fallout. Once again, location is very important. I propose that the next Fallout should take place in a fairly large urban area with some decent sized suburbs. Chicago would be the perfect choice for a couple of reasons. 1 Very large city that has some landmark buildings just like Fallout 3 had. 2 Decent sized suburbs. Fallout 3 had some scattered suburbs that you could look for items in. I didn't think they were quite large enough though. 3 Forested areas. While most people think that the Chicagoland area is mostly flat and full of fields, there are still a lot of forests. These would make a great contrast to a ruined city while the burnt trees would still provide a desolate wasteland look. If anyone has any comments or questions, please reply to this topic. I would like to refine my idea to suit what most people are looking for in a new location to make it at least a little presentable to the people at Bethesda Softworks.

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How about grasslands.

i say that the next fallout should take place in new york city and a awesome story line

I'd say Alaska. I know it was involved in war with China, so there could be some storyline involving that. Of course there was a turrible representation of Alaska in Operation: Anchorage, so some would feel that F4 should take place somewhere "new" or some BS like that. Others would b&moan that it is a "copy of Skyrim, stop putting TES in Fallout" or something.

Alaska could have some cool mutated sea-life, like kraken-things, mutated whale-things, walrus-things... and so on. Plus, Alaska could have what is called a climate or something, with the rare phenomenon known as weather.

I'd take anything [i.e. Alaska] that is not just sand, dead trees, sand, and dead plants, and sand. With weather. And mutated crabs.

http://savagebeatings.deviantart.com/#/d4te8a0

Personally, I'd like desert environment, forest environment (both conifer and broadleaf), lake environment, mountain environment, snowy environment and swamp enviroment - all in one game. And not like in FNV where you walk up to Jacobstown and there's a small place where there are pine trees and snow, felt oddly placed when the world map is so small. That's why I'd like Fallout 4 to cover the size of a state like Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics did. Then we'd get this diversity, say it takes place around the great lakes, then we could get snow, and pine forest up north, down south we'd have grasslands and desert, somewhere there'd be a deciduous forest. And we'd get a lot of water thanks to the great lakes and we could get a http://savagebeatings.deviantart.com/gallery/34104749#/d4mkmxv.

Indeed. Diversity would be welcome. I am partial to areas with an ocean, but large bodies of water (like the great lakes) would be good too. Sea life has a lot of unique-ness as it is, and with mutations [or whatever], the biodiversity of the ocean could lead to some very interesting and original creature designs. Some of the more unique creatures in F3/NV were water-based ones: mirelurks, and the http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/1/3/0/3/1/2/9/1/orig-13031291.jpg-things.

With large bodies of water, there are of course new gameplay opportunities that you can't get without them. New creatures, fast travel boats (like you mentioned), economies, items, and even weapons [harpoons?]. There are even new quest and story opportunities [think http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Entertainment/deadliest-catch.jpg] if Fallout 4 is in a coastal/lake region.

New York would be great because not only is it BA ( i liked the ruins of the cities the most in fallout games like LA, San Fran, DC, not really Vegas tho) and DLCs would be perfect because the y mention all these places in fallout 3.
- Commonwealth dlc in Boston
-Ronto dlc in Toronto Canada ( no its not toronto ohio, if they're willing to travel alot of miles to dc, why not toronto.)
-Erie Stretch dlc in Cleveland
-Philly dlc in Philly
i would like that because those places have bugged me forever so NYC would be perfect.

Boston/Massachusetts would be the commonwealth

Are you refering to the whole city of New York or just Manhatten because Manhatten would be flooded so only the tops of the tallest skyscraqers would be visable.

I don't really care where Fallout 4 takes place, just as long as it's another Major city. Something about New Vegas's lack of a truly "Post apocalyptic" feeling reminded me why I'll always consider Fallout 3 vastly superior. Simply seeing the decaying skeleton of D.C. on the Horizon reminded you what world you were in. I'm probably alone in this, but I really loved the actual D.C. ruins, subways and all.

trust me, you're definitely not alone on this one lol. While NV had better factions and better quests such as the casinos, FO3 is infinitely better at conveying the sense of desperation that simply didn't exist in NV. new vegas imo was nothing more than a western with the fallout title slapped on it whereas FO3 had the broken down ruins of the city that reminded you how the bombs affected the area. I entertained the thought of having the game in NY, but then i realized that most of it would be underwater like a poster here mentioned already, so i figured the next best city would be chicago. The lore is in place for the area and DLCs into the annexed canada or detroit is possible. I'd love to see it philly also with DLCs into parts of NY or D.C., thus making FO3 canonized based on whatever outcome the devs want to be canon

Oh yeah that this place was nuked five years ago theme goes perfect with the fact that the game takes place 200 years after the great war. Fallout 1 had more growth and devolpment in it and it takes place less then 90 years after the great war.

yes agree but to come away from desert you have to go to Alaska, Canada, pacific, CCCP or Scandinavia. Maybe New England id you bend and trix whit the game ....




Yes Alaska must be fun to have the game in!

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Well i don't care where the next games will tack place as long as it give more info about the rest off the world!!!

I don't know if anybody has said this, considering all this is too much to read in the little time I have, but I think I'd like to see San. Fran. because of Alcatraz. Using Alcatraz, I'm sure Bethesda can make a pretty sweet story line.
Another idea, that is probably stupid, is being a pirate. I don't think we should be looking for people for ALL the main quest. With a pirate, you can search for a treasure your father left behind for you after taking over a Raidar ship. This may not necessarily be money, but it could be some religious artifact or a map or some reason to go and search for a certain person. Looking for treasure and a person is better than looking for just a person.
Also, can anyone send me the official thread to where we put quest ideas, because my mind has been scrambling after playing my first Fallout on Saturday

New York, well, it may be unpopular, but let's roll with it for now.

Yes, in the real world, 200 years after a nuke hits it, the buildings would have been flattened, grass would have grown over, maybe parts boggy. But this is the world according to Bethesda, remember, where an atom bomb can drop on the White House, yet the glass in the windows and the clock tower next door stays intact, or you could set another bomb off, yet the nearby town of Springvale just gets dark skies. I'm thinking more in terms what might be good for a game - in my personal opinion.

But one could also run with parts of New York being submerged in water, it could make interesting gameplay, having parts as swampy marshland. You can have mirelurk infested lobbies of skyscraqers, or traversing across the abandoned downtown traffic of abandoned buses, cars and taxis avoiding the water.

There is the skycraqers themselves, they could be cities unto themselves, accessed not only be the lobby, but rooftops, window cleaning platforms, walkways, gangaways - both pre and post war, two communities could even reside the same building without being aware of each other because they access the building in different way - mirelirks in the lobby, raiders halfway up, even a community of peaceful settlers in the penthouse. You've got different sets of buildings: theatres, being shot at from boxes and circles, weaving through seats; a seaport, ships, sea mutants, perhaps a "vault on the seas" a glamorous ocean liner that was out at sea when bombs dropped who make use of hydroponics, plus it could be the location where the likes of Moriarty, Tenpenny and others like them arrive at the Wasteland. And the Statue is dying to be the base of some big faction.

You could span through across the suburban boroughs, and upstate further away, with lodges on by the lakeside. I'm not saying that the next game should take place in New York, but rather, it could be set there. Many of the things I suggested could possibly be used for other cities.

Personally, I would prefer somewhere on the East Coast, maybe not New York, but perhaps New England - just so as long as it doesn't look like that pre war America had only one architect and one interior decorator.

Welcome to the Forum and the Fallout Universe

Here is the topic for Fallout 4 ideas that you asked for ==> http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1364939-fallout-4-speculation-suggestions-and-ideas-thread-59/

Also San Francisco was already in Fallout 2.

I recently got into the Fallout series with NV (been following TES since the beginning) but I like it and would like to see more.

Im not entirely familiar with the lore behind Fallout so if I make a mistake, forgive me.

For future Fallout, I would like to see maybe NYC, Florida, Tex/Mex, Great Lakes Regions (Im from Buffalo), or Colorado? I think that any of those locations could provide very good story lines and may produce very good DLC for PS and Xbox plus PC gamers could enjoy a lot of modding as well?

Also a thought, St. Lawrence Seaway. Battle for control of the river and great lakes? I think it would be cool, other people maybe maybe not. I just thought of it because Im writing a fiction story about something similar set during the American Revolution.

Anywhere in NY State would be fine, but NYC is a no go. Too overused and because of that, not as interesting or as fun as people would think. Somewhere like Buffalo, would be more interesting because it's so unused and really in a better place for a Fallout game, than NYC. The whole border of Canada thing, could show a faction or two, from Canada that formed and is in conflict with the Buffalo faction(s) over Niagara Falls, and like you also said, part of the Great Lakes area.

*Gasp* I just got an idea that might not be bad.

What if a Fallout came out that took place on a completely new continent/island? It would still be on earth, but with nuclear warfare you'd think that some new places could "pop up". This way they have complete freedom for doing whatever they want, which I suppose they've always had.

Do you mean the nuclear bombs would result in seismic activity creating a completely new land mass in the middle of an ocean?

Possibly. Whatever would make it possible, I just think it would be nice.

In NY, just imagine walking into a football stadium from one end and there's a super mutant armored king behemoth with lasers coming from it's back just sitting on his throne on the other side's touchdown area. Super mutants would be everywhere on the side lines, side seating areas, and snipers in the VIP balconies. Bad ass.

Change New York to St. Louis because Super Mutants are already established there, and it'd be awesome.