think it would be cool if you could take part in great war that started it all,also if the game carried on a while after the war you could see the vast difference betwween
pre + post war world + the effect is different depending on the path you take.downside is you already know whats gonna happen but defo be great still

Don't know why people like this sorta thing, it pretty much goes against the base premise of the Fallout series. Post apocolyptic survival, and the social dynamics they go through adapting to the new landsscape.

The problem is the Great War was only and completely fought by nuclear bombs and lasted two hours.

True, you couldnt really fight in the great war.. but you could put a game opening at the events of the great war..

it could be centered around the Mariposa events, when Maxons group left... Not really using the pre-BoS as the protagonist group, rather the civilians that stayed behind.
The first part of the quest could be escape the sealed military base.

You could also center around Maxons group.. but that would have to be handled right, and it may be a better idea, to create a newer story that doesnt ahve a pre-determined ouotcome, such as with the BoS being born.

It would have to be a much smaller, much more linear game, and securely with that pre-apocalypse lacuna of time. During the apocalypse is a big no-no, even with the nonsensical 50s pulp-comic SCIENCE! in play, it's just implausible to be waltzing around while a deluge of Hiroshima-tonnage fission bombs are raining from the sky. It's just not survivable. If you even get a good glimpse of one of those going off, from miles away, the extreme light and radiation will literally cook the vitreous fluid in your eyes. Like others have said, Ron the Narrator wasn't just waxing poetically when he talked about the Earth being bathed in nuclear fire and then darkness- the planet was literally wiped clean. Those that survived did so in the vaults.

That in mind, a game set in the Old World should probably focus on the linear journey of a family of four (plus a dog and/or cat), in a nuclear-powered wood-paneled station wagon, desperately clutching their Vault # entrance passes, just trying to be beat the crowds and rioters on the eve of the disaster. It'd be a much more cerebral game, for sure, dealing with a nuclear family's attempt to cope admit the paranoia and panic preceding an all-out disaster- at best, Dad (or Mom!) might have to kill a guy trying to steal their food with a claw hammer. But still, it'd be a hearty, visceral dose of that wacky 50s cultural-stasis-world that thus far we've only gotten bare glimpses of.

nah, not all of the survivors were in the vaults, or at mariposa, or on the rig. maxons group encountered raiders on the way to lost hills. and they left only a month after the great war.



Pre-war, the resource wars would be the way to go.

No.