I was wondering what other people thought about the top five regions or landmarks we'd like to see explored in the world of fallout... we've covered Cali twice, the midwest near Indianapolis and Chicago in tactics, and now D.C.
my top 5 would be:

5. ST. Louis area to Branson Missouri, Power struggle for control of the missisippi river
4. Orlando Fl. How cool would it be to fight raiders in the ruins of Disney or Universal studios... on up to the NASA shuttle in Cape Canaveral plus cruise ships..
3. Chicago. Tactics barely touched down on the windy city there could be a lot more going on.
2. Norfolk (Hampton Roads area) Virginia. Lots of possibilities since there is a large military base for every branch in the area including us intelligence at langley.
1. FT Knox Mamouth Cave areal in Kentucky. Tanks, Caves, chemical weapons, the enclave officers have southern accents and John henry eden boasts being born in rural ky. back woods country boys armed to the teeth, and wildlife monsters all over the place..

what are some other suggestions?

St. Louis was in Fallout Tactics:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/St._Louis



According to FOT, the city was pretty much destroyed, with tribal villages forming in its outskirts, as well as the Midwestern BoS Bunker Alpha.

I thought Tactics was non-cannon?

Tactics is semi-canon. Stuff in it that contradicts FO1 and 2 is non-canon, the rest is canon. Some of the events from Tactics are referenced in FO3 and the official FO3 guide.

(5) New York City - it's the stereotypical place for a post-apocalyptic storyline, after all.

(4) Panama - yes, as in the canol. And yes, I know in THIS world, the Treaty ended, and it's no longer a U.S. possession. In the Fallout universe, though ... who knows?

(3) Hawaii - it being a series of islands, the "invisible wall" map-boundary would be a lot less obtrusive, IMO. Plus, cannibalistic tribals, an active volcano, a major naval base, and lush tropical (FEV-mutated) jungles ...!

(2) Florida - FEV + Everglades = Awesome! Throwing in the nuclear-blasted ruins of Fallout's equivalent to Disneyworld is just icing on the cake ...

(1) New England, especially around Boston - because it's where I live, and grew up. Seeing it Fallout-ised would be awesome.

Florida was going to be in Fallout Tactics 2:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Tactics_2

Massachussetts is the Commonwealth mentioned in FO3:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Commonwealth

I know, Ausir. But the OP asked what five regions I wanted to see. And so, I answered.

Yeah, just sayin'.

Dam those mutant crocodiles look awesome!

Sadly I think most skyscraqers would be fallen and make the city a large pile of rubble...

In a real-world scenario, assuming the nukes didn't just scoure the city clean, all the way to the bedrock? You're right.

But, look at some alternate ideas. What if, instead of destroying all the skyscraqers entirely, the nukes just blew off the TOPS of MOST of them (with a few mostly-intact ones around) ...? What if New York's anti-nuclear shell was strong enough, few nukes actually hit INSIDE the city - instead landing AROUND it. And, what if those "around it" nukes triggered the very real and very dangerous fault-line beneath the city ... and sank the city fifty or so feet, straight down ...? Let's also posit that some of the metro system retained it's integrity - and had the exits directly to the streets sufficiently clogged with debris from the blasted-off TOPS of the skyscraqers. Thus, despite being plunged so far down - and despite the rubble being thoroughly flooded - SOME parts of the metro system are dry (at least partially) and not collapsed (at least, partially). And finally, while teh island sinks, the floor of the harbor RISES - so Staten Island isn't an island anymore, it's a hill in the middle of a saltwater marsh.

So ... picture a ruined New York where the broken, perhaps leaning-at-crazy-angles remnants of skyscraqers jut up from a foetid morass of radioactive swamp and sludge. Natural and artificial causeways link some buildings; rope- and cable-suspended bridges like others; and a few can only be reached via the ruined Metro system. A much more VERTICAL environment than prior Fallouts have been, certainly. Maybe a ship or two gets driven into the heart of Manhattan Island ... or rather, the bog that USED to be Manhattan!

I think that could be an AWESOME experience, to explore an urban ruin of that amazing scale and scope - and claustrophobia. Instead of wide-open spaces everywhere, you've got interiors everywhere. And even the outside - either you're on a bridge, or at a window, and can't GET to anything you see "Way over there" (not directly, anyway) ... or you're down in the muck and yuck of the bogs, and can't see very far due to the constant fog.

Skip the Supermutants entirely (well, maybe a token couple - Fawkes might make it up to NYC several years post-Broken Steel, for example). Instead, your "brutish barbarians" can come in the form of ... mutated intelligent RATS. After all, what's more iconically New York than giant rats ...? Except these're smart enough to use melee weapons, and even some GUNS. And they breed like rabbits. Sure, none of them are as imposing, individually, as a supermutant. But where you might have found two or three supermutants ... you instead find TEN "Rat-kin".

Radroaches would still be in, of course. And radscorpions. And deathclaws - a local SCALED variety, reminiscent of .... ALLIGATORS. ^_^ Because after rats, "sewer-croc" is also pretty darned iconic for a major urban environment like NYC.

...

And in my mind, I have this image of a wet, mold- and lichen-overrun, fog-choked swamp/bog. Out of the mists rise the broken and crumbling remains of former skyscraqers; bridges, some in dubious states of repair, link a few of the ruined buildings here and there; one or two show areas of lights, and probable habitation. And finally, in the center of a large stretch of open bog rises a hill ... on which the decapitated and partly-skeletal remains of the Statue of Liberty can just be made out through the fog.

...

Good lord, I would SO rush out and immediately buy that, if it were available right now! :tops:


NOTE to Bethesda: if you think this idea is HALF as awesome as I think it is, PLEASE make it. I hereby officially surrender all rights, interests, and other elements of control or ownership in this idea, real or imagined, to Bethesda Game Studios in perpetuity - no compensation or consideration need ever be offered or tendered to me, neither by you nor any third party to whom you might delegate the development rights for a game with such a setting. IOW: "the idea belongs to you, now".

Of course, if you're feeling REALLY and ESPECIALLY grateful and generous ... a comp copy, guaranteed beta spot, and maybe a byline in the credits (which'd give me "ultimate bragging rights" forever) ...? Would make me an extremely happy really devoted fan!!

Hawaii.
Cape Canaveral.
Texas Ranger, Walker.
Canada.
The place what was in the movie "Fargo".

New York - http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/i-am-alive-081808.jpg

Wow, I was hoping for an expansion or game there. Interestingly, I did not know that in that game there was a Macomb to visit. That is where I am going to college. Neat.

IMO. That is an amazing description you've got there. I'm with you when you say you'd rush out and immediately buy it. Good goin'!

Being from Florida myself, I would love to see Fallout go south.

Imagine a world map that goes from roughly Tampa Bay to Orlando... there could be some kind of water/boat mechanic, beaches. swamps between the two cities and some kind of Disney-like theme park in Orlando, though with a cool retro-50's theme with "future technology" exhibits, which could offer cool weapons and tools.

Somewhere in the deep south so I can cap some backwards rednecks.

Denver in Van Buren (the real Fallout 3) survived pretty good, but became a abandoned town run by vicious dogs.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Denver

You're probably from the north so I'll make this quick for you...Most of the Deep south is highly educated..at least more than what I've seen from the north...
Secondly..You wouldn't see "backwards rednecks" as that's not only incorrectly written as it would be "back-woods rednecks" but after a nuclear war most people would be a scav. like peoples trying to re-create society using left-over tech. Your name is also Incorrectly spelled out..So it seems that not only is it ironic that you joke about rednecks but you further the stereotype that they are illiterate. "Enclave's Shadow"


now..as for my list

1. ~Texas~ ( radscorpions, snakes, alligators, brahmin, etc. )
2. ~Florida~ ( crocodiles, swampy-lands )
3. ~New York~ ( rats, crocodiles, apartment-buildings, REAL concrete jungle )
4. ~Michigan~ ( Surrounded by water, marshy land )
5. ~North Carolina~ ( same reason above. See Florida )

1. Texas (just to see if ghoulificated rednecks are more stupid than normal ghouls)
2. Alaska (was about time)
3. Detroit (same as for Texas)
4. somewhere you find Amish people
5. Hawaii (would make a difference)

[edit]switched Alaska and Hawaii

Would love it to be in Kentucky

I could imagine the Brotherhood of Steel using Rupp Arena as a major base...

I live in Kentucky and had a field trip to Mammouth cave in the 5th grade...Was good fun!

Just FYI, no crocodiles in North America. Only alligators..

Just FYI, you're wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crocodile

Arent you nice, yall come on in and try.



Hmmm, from the painstville/prestions berg/pikeville area are we?

I grew up in western North Carolina, there aren't really any swamplands or large reptiles to speak of, just mountains and woodlands. Same with the Piedmont, that's mostly city (Though Charlette could be interesting in Fallout). The Coasts I'm not too sure of, so maybe I'm wrong to correct you.

Anyway, here is my list:

1. Niagra Falls
2. Yellowstone Natoinal Park (Has this been visited before?)
3. Hawaii
4. The Great Lakes
5. The Gulf Coast