» Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:17 am
NY, Detroit, New Orleans, St. Louis. Voted a few others, but those are the ones that "really have it":
New York is simply iconic, cosmopolitan. You want it, it can be found there.
St. Louis has iconic structures, musical tradition, geographical features to play with.
New Orleans has the musical tradition, distinct culture, and so forth to make an excellent FO setting.
However, Detroit is where it's really at for a multitude of angles all wrapped in one game:
Music, mainly Motown, but it would be a nod to the city as well to have a post-nuclear techno station being born
History, in the form of the Henry Ford Museum
Industrialization- because it's what we do
Lack of direct nuclear hazards, because nuking the Great Lakes is prettty much "off the table" in military circles (too valuable a resource)
Factions, because if there's one thing living here would teach you, it's that we can't agree on anything except "*&^&*^*^ Ohio State"
Canada- because there's no sane way to map the area without including it.
Varied environments- Suppose you choose about a 50x50 mile patch of Metro Detroit for the game. You'd include Urban Detroit, dense suburbia (livonia/Canton), and farms near the Wayne-Washtenaw county line. Likewise, you'd have the very conservative/business Oakland county in the same map as the liberal/academic Ann Arbor area... and that's without trying to really paint the diversifications within these areas.
Plus, there's that Uniroyal tire that just BEGS for some Fallout humor.