I posted in another thread, that the character could be an outsider. He could be from any other country, but America, arrived there just before the bombs fell. He maybe have bought last minute ticket to a vault, or just survived any other way. This could be set in fewer years after the war (10-30) in some area like New Vegas, where radiaton could be low. It would allow alot of RP possibilities, and the plot could be about his past enemies finding him in the US.

A character who has little background like the Courier. In Fallout New Vegas, the only thing that's set by the Courier is that you're part of the Mojave Express.

Alright, your character wakes up in a desert dressed in a santa suit and has to get to his home in NY by 6pm Christmas day or... Wait never mind, I think that plot has already been used for a movie.

Anti-Enclave Background: you are a descendant of enclave scientists growing up in the last enclave base/shelter (new vegas brotherhood style) and eventually you get kicked out for asking too many questions about the enclave's past failures and outside you encounter gary number #### and you take his pip boy from him after he trys to kill you. que main storyline.

Pro-Enclave background: you are a descendant of enclave scientists growing up in the last enclave base/shelter (new vegas brotherhood style) and eventually you get sent on a mission to raid a reportedly abandoned vault for supplies, spare water chips and air recycling components. However, outside the vault the rest of the raiding team encounters wandering brotherhood outcasts who proceed to slaughter everyone except you who manages to slip into the vault and seal the door. Inside the vault you encounter a wounded scientist who was being hunted by the outcasts for having a pipboy, he takes it off and throws it at you proclaiming he doesn't want to die over a friggin wristband. A week later you emerge from the vault cautiously to find that the outcasts had set up a camp but had been subjected to attacks from raiders, other enclave members who were sent to assess what happened to the team and a few of the last remaining supermutants. There is one remaining outcast who you can either avoid, talk to or kill. que the main storyline.

Pro-Brotherhood background: you are a descendant of the lone wanderer and sarah lyons who has been training for entire 19 years of their life in the citadel to join the lyons pride, however the character is required to undertake a special mission in order to become a member of the elite team. que main storyline.

These are all assuming that the story takes place on the east coast, which i severely hope it does.

as long as its outside the USA borders its fine by me....

I would LOVE to see a Vault City type of deal rendered in 3-D like the scale of New Vegas or 3 (Not Gamebryo of Skyrims renamed engine thing, they wouldnt do it justice).

As for a background, I'm okay with having events, but I prefer to have enough of room in the collar of my shirt to properly breathe if you know what I mean.

how about your character is about to be lynched / court marshalled?

too TES? screw it the elder scrolls doesnt get to do all the "your pc was prison and about to die" openers

Another reason to call Fallout a TES wash and rinse? No thanks. I'd rather it be someone temporarily jailed for suspicion of a crime, or to be some ambushed traveller, or MAYBE a vault dweller, provided they dont do a third 'I GOTTA SAVE MY PEOPLE! routine.

dam elder scrolls.. i dont care what most people think, but i agree that nobody wants some game reviewer guy to say "Fallout is a copy of Elder Scrolls, its a recycled game" thus hurting fallout and discourging them to not make another fallout....

dont like the jail idea it seems like a dull opener, "Inless its like in Fallout: 3 VB prison full of convicts then im all for it" but like a regular jail in just some random small town ? rather not. i like the Ambushed traveller deal but i cant see being ambushed can turn into a plot. And im always cool with Vault Dwellers


[edit] i want to start off as a prisoner escaping prison just after he gets his stats checked out

You realize that in New Vegas, The Courier was what you're saying, more or less. He/She was just a courier going about their job, then thrust against their will into a power vacuum between two major powers. Don't see how that was very "Chosen One"-esque, unlike in Fallout 2 where you were actually the Chosen One.

Not gonna happen.

^ this guy can predict the furture

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have not played Vegas yet so don't know, but earlier and TES game you was

i dont know but one more fallout and most thing in US is done and not mutch more info to find... and most old factions are wiped out

Fallout is based on 50's era America. I'd say Canada would be the only place they'd be comfortable going to.

That's because TES, has the whole fantasy-genre going for it, and most of the time it's a generic story that's twisted with some form of determinism aka destiny. It's just your generic fantasy-genre way.

Fallout, I don't see it. Fallout 1, you're not any sort of chosen one, the Vault Dweller just happen to pull the short straw when they were deciding who to send out. (Literally, he pulled the short straw by his account in his memoir.) Fallout 2, you're actually named the Chosen One. Tactics, you're not really anything special, just a soldier in the BOS who goes on an adventure. No Chosen One/Destiny tinge there either. Fallout 3, is more like stumbling upon your actual origins/place of birth, that get tangled up in the current affairs of the wasteland, but you're not destined in the sense you're thinking of, to destroy the Enclave and save the Capital Wasteland and whatever. New Vegas is as I said.

I'd like to see seperate origins for your character that you could choose instead of being railroaded into just one. Just to name a few you could choose to start as a tribal, prospector, raider, mercenary, scientist, doctor, runaway slave or just some random wastelander. The random wastelander would be the ambiguous origin. Each origin may have they're own, short starting quest after creation then after that you're free to roam. The main quest would have to be setup to where it wouldn't start until your character eventually stumbles into it; the right man/woman in the wrong place as usual.

Perhaps depending on the origins of your character they might start with some skills higher than others while some may also be lower. Take a tribal for example, they'd have a boost to Melee Weapons and Survival while having a penalty to Science and Energy Weapons. Would skill boosts and penalties break your planned character? Absolutely not, you can still turn your tribal into an energy weapon-using mad scientist if you wanted to. A free perk or trait of some sort could be added depending on your origin as well.

What about you find yourself in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxPBfEXk3yQ&feature=related? A public hanging. You are accused of something you can choose to be guility or not guilty of, it's up to your RP. The executioner, judge, sheriff or whatever might say "Any last words?" and you can pick from a few options, one of them would of course be "Nah, I'm good" or something if saying "Yes, I killed the little girls and I enjoyed every minute of it!" is too evil for you and/or your character (of course that wouldn't be what you'd be accused for, it would be something that makes for a better plot) But then suddenly, something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9WAsQ1hsNk happens! Something cause some sort of chaos, the rope is off your neck and you've got a moment to run away (hands tied though, maybe that's a bit too Skyrim? But you can still kick and tackle.)

Or it could start with you being freed from jail because the town sherrif acknowledge you weren't the right guy or something. But to make a story out of it, you were involved in the crime in some way. Like there was some people who were to murder someone and you happened to visit the victim at his/her home at the same time, you show up too late, victim's bleeding to death, hands you a note, dies, then law enforcers show up and and arrest you. But I wouldn't like a "break out from jail"-scenario. The sheriff could be a good guy and key character of the story, but there could be corrupted enforcers there too, maybe working for the same group as the murderers of this person you knew or were going to talk to about something that is going around that you are investigating for some reason before your story begins? And the reasons for investigating this would have to be made so it'd be easy to RP the motives of different people, whether a goodie, a devil, an opportunist, et cetera.

Also, I'd prefer though if you created your character, with appearance, stats, skills, perks and traits, on one screen before the story telling begins. It'll be weird to have these "look in the mirror to create your face, do this exam to decide your skills" but in different variations. In Fallout 4 we will have "look in the reflection of this source of water to create your face"?

FIRST: i love Clint Eastwood (no homo) im going to watch that movie right now

also thats exactly what im talking about,
i would love to have some dialog as Last Words, then something happens to the town "Mutant Invasion, Crazy Sniper, some guy who wants to save you because you know something?NCR / Legion Invasion" something to do with the Plot. The guy pulls the lever and your dangling trying to get out. It leaves you with alot of Backstory, maybe throw in s curious guard asking something like "why are you being lynched?" "you have any family?"
i can picture you in a first person point of view just looking at the chaos of the situation around you and then having to forcus on your feet.
i hate that its shun because it seems too Elder Scrolls =/

about the walking out of jail thing, it seems stupid and i dont like it...but yet again *sign* i said the same thing about being shot in the head and i was wrong soo maybe ill change my mind if its implemented right

my idea would be....



born as an orphan in the slums of a new emerged settlement. You start from the bottom and make your way to the top.





Clint Eastwood is the upmost king!! I think I'll join you there.

Well it would seem that California, Las Vegas, Chicago, and D.C. is most of America. I never knew that. And only the Enclave is wiped out, unless you count minor factions.

So for example we still have:

New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Florida (Miami, Orlando, Tampa)
Texas (Houston and Dallas could even be seperate)
Washington/Seattle
Ohio (Cincinnati, Columbus)
Indiana (Indianapolis)
Chicago again
Tennessee
Alaska
Hawaii
Denver (maybe Legion stuff)
St. Louis (fix it up maybe)
Michigan/Detroit

I could go into more boring states, but why would I do that. And if each city/area got its own game then that would be at most 17 games. They could all also each have their own new faction making 16 more that we never knew and could mix them with old ones. So I think America is still open.

Edit: Added some more:

New Orleans
Virginia (Richmond)
Atlanta

So that is 20 more games if each city or area is done seperately.

How 'bout Caravaneer or adopted Caravaneer. Hm, .02cents

It would be a proper hanging, one that snaps your neck!

How about a fake hanging? (it's actually a very precise thing and can be done to look real to a crowd of people if the hangman is skilled) From there the people that "hung" you could give you the option of taking a job (starting the main quest) or freedom to walk of the door behind you (you check and the door opens over a large cliff). It would be a unique and new approach and not as combat based like oblivion or skyrim.