From the looks of things Bunker Alpha is just outside Chicago.

I suggest somewhere like alaska. Fallout has seen a lot of desert wasteland but what about snow wastelands? If not than at least make a city thats more accessable! DC was horrible. you couldn't get around in there very much.

I kinda assumed that the Brotherhood took over control of the majority of Chicago.

It's possible but the MWBOS fell on hard times where the Legion was kicking their ass all around the Denver area

Actually in Fallout 3 we are told they have in fact fallen on hard times. What I think is that the Legion figured this out and killed a bit of them.

I figure that line "Fallen on hard times" comes from one of the four guide books made for Fallout 3. I am not sure if they are all different but I assume they are, I only have the collectors edition. Same with people mentioning Lyons orginal missions including finding out what happened to the MWBoS.

If it's Fallout 4, it's going to be on the East Coast, close to DC because it has to be some sort of sequal to Fallout 3, or Fallout 1 and 2, but California area is already overdone in the Fallout series, so it's probably going to sequal Fallout 3. several characters are from/go to the Commonwealth, which is mentioned a few times in Fallout 3, therefore it's a little obvious it's going to be set in the Commonwealth area. If people from the Commonwealth can walk to DC, it's easy for the games to be connected in some sense, and therefore the BoS in DC can walk to the Commonwealth? Since it's supposedly a wealthy state with high-end technology, BoS would go there. So yeah, next game is probably going to be set there.

I'm guessing that where its set depends entirely on who develops it. Bethesda will most likely stay on the east coats whereas Obsidian will most likely stay in the west to midwest area.

I just hope and wish Obsidian is involved so we can stay somewhat in the west.

Arizona would be so cash, we could have DLC's in a return to New Vegas, Mexico, and gasp dare I say parts of California.

New Orleans would be interesting because they could create new lore there and has an eerie backdrop. Also with the underground voodoo culture there. Could have new factions and such. They could also add a hurricane Katrina like story complete with rioters. Not to mention Bourbon street, they could throw in a Mardi Gras like atmosphere. The deep south is very intriguing with slavery put in place.

They went east and west, we could possibly see a heavy southern influence in the next.

Though if I had a say in this whatsoever, I would choose to stay out west.

As long as they stay away from areas already done then I'm fine with it.

I love the idea of Chicago or New Orleans.

Not New York, please.

I'd like to see the next game take place in San Francisco. There's urban areas for Super Mutants/Brotherhood of Steel/Shi, the BART system for Ghouls and such, and the suburbs and hills make up a good wasteland area. I think it would be nice.

Even if I am scandinavian Id really see no point in doing a FO franchise about it. Its DLC material at the most.

Denmark wouldnt exist and neither would the southern part of sweden. Denmark alone were to be hit by 72 tactical nukes if the cold war plans had come to fruition. Thats basically enought nukes to turn all of Denmark into cinders.

The mountainious parts of scandinavia would likely have bunkers and/or survivors.

If FO was to include Scandinavia then for something like that to make sense the setting would have to be set in the North east, close to canada and then have us take a tour from the north east > canada > Thule Airforce base > Norway (by way of subs).

Thule Airforce base would basically be a hole in the ground. Both chinese and russian nukes would pummel it hard because its a part of the early US warning system. A "vault" might survive. And the "Scandinavian commonwealth" likely built vaults on the east side of Greenland, perhaps even with sub-pens. At least it could be "Lore and logic-defendable".


It would be more logical to have Scandinavian survivors/ghouls from Greenland trek to the US via Canada. You could then sneak some information on http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1369645-european-fo-timeline/ into the setting.

The problem is that there wouldn't be any super mutants or Brotherhood. San Francisco is deep in NCR territory and would have been cleansed of anything that would make it interesting for a new Fallout.

Seeing how alot of places are mentioned in FO3, maybe we can see them like:
The Commonwealth, i mean, they mention it alot
Ronto, i always wanted to see the power they had ( its Toronto, Ontario)
Erie Stretch just cause they mention it and i heard it was Clevelands wasteland.
Philly, americas birthplace would be cool to see in ruins
We could return to DC because i wanna know what happened to the outcasts and every one else
New York would be cool, as long as its NYC and only NYC
I hope fallout dosent go to europe or china, america is the most diverse country in the world, and its always disturbing seeing the most powerful country in the free world in ruins.

That's true it is disturbing but why would you wanna go D.C again

Disturbing, yet inevitable. Nothing lasts forever, not even Rome. As powerful as we are, we are not invincible. The bigger they are as they say.

I'd like to see Fallout in Kentucky. Something based around splinter groups of Enclave or BoS (not as we've seen them before, but tribally organized descendants of the soldiers from Ft. Knox & Ft. Campbell, who battle each other for idealogical supremacy). They could even make it a civil war theme (enclave vs. enclave, or BoS vs. BoS), because both presidents of the North & South in the U.S. Civil War were born in KY (and within the game area, between the forts).

I'd like a faction called 'Longhunters', that are basically a few long distance rangers, that hunt. Badasses w/hunter inventories. They'd carry a Kentucky Long Rifle, a .50 cal muzzle loading rifle. Massive dmg, heavy, very accurate, 1 shot, extremely slow reload. And KY Belt Axe (big hatchet). I think you should be able to join them, like Reilly's Rangers, and help recruit new members. They're protecting, and feeding, the people while also serving the economy through the transport of goods.

There are lots of unique people and place to explore. Edgar Cayce's X-Ray Eyes. Ali's boxing gloves. Hunter Thompson's hat. Clark's 'Long Knife' (sword). Daniel Boone's coonskin cap. There's many more. Mammoth Cave = underground city. Lots of caves in the area = dungeons. Bourbon distilleries and/or tobacco farms as the economic backbone. And DLC with Cumberland Falls & Red River Gorge (both are within Daniel Boone Natl Forrest = Woodlands Zion). Add some 1940's country/bluegrass, & you'd have one epic, gorgeous Fallout game. But the map would be so big (roughly 2.5 to 3 times bigger than F:NV map in real world area, not counting DLC) you'd need transport.

Now... if we could only think of a way to explain horses being in Kentucky...

What I think would be a good idea for that area is have 3 cities as the focus. In the top right corner you can have Cincinnati, in the bottom left you have Louisville, and in the bottom right you have little ol' Lexington. 10 minutes on MapQuest basically confirmed its possibility.

I took searchlight Nevada and what I presumed to be Jacobson on MapQuest and the travel time was about 1 hour 20 minutes. The travel time between each city I mention just so happens to be 1 hour 20 minutes. So all they need to do is increase the map size relatively from New Vegas and each of those cities could fit in the game.

Then places like Fort Knox, Cumberland, and Wright Patt could be awesome DLC.

That could be a fun idea, too. I'd forgotten about Wright Patterson, but I'd already thought about having Cincinnati as a DLC, since I believe it was mentioned in the Pitt (as 'Cincy'? Can't remember for sure). Moving the map that far north would cut out pretty much everything I mentioned, though. Except horses. I'd imagine a city vs. city rivalry between Lex and the 'Ville, with Cincy probably being tribal gangs. That's just my feeling.

You could maybe do a DLC of just Knox, (call it 'Hard Knox'..?) that would be pretty cool. I just think if you're going to do a KY Fallout, it's gotta have Ft. Knox with all that gold. It's the perfect plot device. Putting it into DLC would be a lot like Dead Money, though.

yes at least not as the main map ... but to use the old maps in DLC or connect them whit type a node map and you have to go there for some quests.

From what you mentioned the faction, and civil war thing could stay. It could even use Cincinnati as a free area, like crossing the Ohio river brings you to freedom. Then items could be moved anywhere really if they are needed that bad. The map increase would be rather small to include all three cities, so they could also make it expand around those areas to have more wilderness in Kentucky.

In a Wright Patterson dlc you could go to the three of its bases, and as a little Easter egg there could be a bunker hidden somewhere and inside you could find a stereotypical flying saucer with an alien weapon.

I tend to notice this about Fallout games, they tend to be set in famous cities, a common way to tell this is the 4 teams rule, cities with 4 teams in the leageus are usually famous and unique. I dont know if this is coincidence or the opposite of a coincidence. The cities include:
-Boston or the commonwealth, we could see it in the future after all the references it gets. a urban coastal wasteland
-Chicago was kinda visited in FO tactics, but it would be cool to see the whole thing. an urban wasteland
-Dallas because its texas, and fallout would be good in texas. a good southern wasteland
-Denver they were going to go there in van buren so i dont see why we cant go there now. A mountainous wasteland
-Detroit Motown baby, can use factories to make vehicles and already looks like fallout, just youtube detroit ghettos, looks scarily like fallout. an industrial wasteland
-Miami would be pretty awesome, a ocean avenue with dead palm trees and mutant gators. a tropical (kinda) wasteland
-Minneapolis-St. Paul just imagine, an arctic wasteland
-New York just a big urban wasteland.
-Philadelphia cause its just a perfect average american city. a somewhat urban and forest wasteland
-Phoenix I know we've been to a desert, but this is a unique desert with alot more plant life and cooler sand. A desert wasteland
-San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose is a mix of urban, coastal, mountains, forest, and others
-Washington D.C. been there, but i wouldn't mind going back to see it in the future. we already know the type of wasteland

They could also do teams that once hosted 4 teams and are pretty (in)famous:
-Cleveland would be a Coastal Urban and arctic wasteland.
-Kansas City would be the prairies like wasteland
-Los Angeles we been there, but why not go back in 3d, the environment was confusing to me
-St. Louis is pretty iconic and would be a river front wasteland
-Atlanta would be a southern style wasteland
-Seattle is a heavy forest and coastal wasteland
-Pittsburgh, been there again, but like i said, i wanna see its future
-Toronto because i was curios of its power

Or other worthy cities:
-Houston, a faction with space ships would be cool. a southern coastal wasteland
-Tampa Bay, a cool coastal and tropical wasteland.
-Vancouver, nice and icy. a coastal arctic wasteland
-San Diego, could be coastal,tropical and a desert.
-Charlette, with the banks, they can be rich and NASCAR now a death race. A forest like wasteland
-Cincinnati, people on this forum got good ideas. a forest wasteland
-Portland, rip city fool of people getting ripped up. a north american rainforest wasteland
-Indianapolis, kinda same as Charlette.
-Milwaukee, A nice big brewery. A coastal industrial wasteland
-Nashville, a forest southern wasteland
-Buffalo, a coastal forest wasteland
-New Orleans, WOULD.....BE.....AWESOME! a coastal wasteland
-Columbus, Americas biggest small town in ruins. a forest wasteland
-Salt Lake City, they mentioned it in honest hearts, but i wanna see it. a mountainous next to a lake wasteland
-Orlando, destroyed disney world, mutated mickey, you dont wanna see that. a theme parkish wasteland
-Sacremento, just wanna see all of cali. a, i guess desert wasteland.
-San Antonio, The alamo baby. a desert wasteland
-Jacksonville, i cool LARGE city. coastal urban wasteland
-Oklahoma City, a southern desert wasteland
-Memphis, gotta love the music. a forest riverfront wasteland

So thats my list, if any else has any great cities or ideas for these location, let us here it, it would be cool and you guys can be creative, which i cant.

I have both special edition guides for Fallout 3 as well as the 2 dlc guides. What your talking about Lyons mentions in the game I'm pretty sure, but the guide might give a little more detail.

If they have Louisville I want the faction or settlement in that area to take the Fleur De Lis as their symbol or banner.