Anywere but new york city.Its been the setting of too many recent games that came out this year and now it is starting to get boring

I would like to see it in Alaska though

I think alaska would be cool.

Seattle would be AMAZING.

Texas, 'cause everything is bigger in Texas.

Lol! Nothing but flattened forest, yeh great!

How about London? lots of underground network ect.........

Hmm..flatten Forest...or flattened Wasteland? Wasteland ^.^. Yeah I first looked at the map and I thought it was actually pretty small at first sight compared to Oblivion, and It doesn't take TOO long to get all the way across but they packed a pretty good amount of stuff throughout it. Less "2 or 4 miles to next dungeon" and more "give yourself about 5-10 minutes...you'll find something." Found a nice house somewhere with the luck bobble head ^.^.

Anyways London probably would be interesting. But reading a couple of post and playing Fallout 3, some of the characters, and just setting and feel are attended to pure, smiley, old commie paranoid, U.S. Underground networks would be interesting but I guess you don't want it to get to " too many endless tunnels". But...I'd like to see the Britain Vault Boy...I also wonder how the French one looks X|.

I prefer the Midwest not only am I from Chicago, it'll just help form the story for the Brotherhood and correct FoT lmao! How did they end up with the Enclave armor in the Midwest? Hahaha! That was funny I thought always but I didn't mind it and just thought the armor looked cooler in that. But yeah Fallout 4 should be in Chicago. I mean c'mon you'll have 50's gangsters roaming around hahaha! "Joe Capone" that's one idea hah! You can put it in NYC though but Why Vegas? If anything go to Canada then hahaha! Vegas is nothing. It's all about New Reno. but spoiler alert: [spoiler]Who's the new vault dweller?

I love it how when everyone is predicting a sequel setting of any game they always say Chicago. =p

half way between washington and moscow (well, sort of): BERLIN of course.
plus its not that absurd to imagine that city to be the place were all the nukes would have went in the
climix of the cold war. and say, would a complete environmental change after hundreds of years of fallout be illogical?
berlin, a megacity with lots of interesting and monumental places, the once biggest zoo of the world, a strong punk scene,
as of today theres hightech-enclaves surrounded by torn-down social housings.
the tvtower as a followup to tenpenny tower, google it if you don't know how mighty it looks.
the imagery and vaulttec-theme could be preserved through the fact that there were tripartite garrisons after the second world war.
meaning the clash of US and soviet imagery in one city, which is history.
the perfect place to incorporate the fallout theme. the quest could beto escape the vault in order to return to the states, but you need to get
to the soviet part of berlin to get off the ground.

The best location for fallout 4 is mars for all the sense fallout 3's story made
plus that has the added bonus of saving the franchise from anymore [censored]

I'd like to see one take place in texas, or north carolina(rural/urban). some place where people already are used to having a "up yours too, pal!" attitude and are fairly self reliant to begin with. definitely a southern-US setting would be great though.

Lucas Simms would fit in well!!!

ooooh i love this idea!!! non-US setting. Berlin, yes! from Madrid, to St. Petersburg and Moscow in western Russia.

that would be fun fun fun!!!!

very good suggestion, my good sir!

I'm rather ignorant when it comes to the culture of other countries back in the 50's and whatnot but it's that 50's American theme that really hooked me in Fallout. What the U.S. was like and what they thought the future held. Moving the series outside of the U.S. could possibly make me lose interest, so I would like to see it another interesting location in the U.S. (unless, of course, I learn more about other places and their history).

Chicago, New York or maybe St. Louis.

Wisconsin, so you can traverse through all the mini-golf courses, cheese factories and bombed out moccasin shops.

thats a good point; the fallout theme seemed to me from the first fallout to be a satirical version of McCarthy scare tactics. a transition to a non-US setting could lose part of the fallout flare UNLESS they do it from the point of view of the culture of stalinist Russia, which actually did build vaults cuz they were scared to death of american pre-emptive nuclear attack.

but the berlin setting is well suited because it used to be split in half, eastern bloc and western bloc. that tension and the resulting angst and apathy from citizens could have serious potential for a fun plotline.

yep, you could do some running for both sides to get started
and then, as the plot evolves, eventually turn them against each other
through planting of delicate stuff. the split of the city would bring alot of contrastive imagery.
lets say the player was born in a US-base, brought up in western Berlin in the US-enclave (which there was)
and then is part of the consolidation of the german satellite of the brotherhood.
i just want the megacity with enormous buildings and some kind of fortification going on. and i loves ma berlin <3

just found some nice pics of the actual 50s Berlin:
http://www.berlinermaueronline.de/berlin-fotos/berlin-1950.htm

I've read through the whole thread and must agree with most other people here that keeping the action on the north american continent would be the logical and RIGHT thing to do.
I'm especially fond of the idea about using the northernmost parts of north america as the playground for the sequel (or prequel - still taking place AFTER the bombs), focusing on Alaska and eastern parts of Canada.

Allthough I haven't played Fallout 3 yet I'm a bit put down by the fact that the entire game takes place in a single city. One of the finest moments with the earlier Fallouts was the travelling between different locations and local cultures, the random encounters and exploring the wasteland, stumbling over small settlements, vaults etc.

But then again.... Hawai would be cool. A great opportunity for Bethesda to have a rather large, but still confined area to work wonders with.

Nowhere. I don't want anymore Fallout games. Not because I have a problem with 3, I actually think it's great, but because by this point we're looking at extreme contrivances to keep things bad. After FO2 the whole of the West Coast had cause for optimism. The Enclave was defeated there, as was the Master. The NCR was flourishing and expanding and was making a good shot of being a decent government. Things were looking up out there. And now we're 200 years after the War. To go back in time would mean contrivances for keeping the consequences of whatever you do there quiet. To continue a few more decades into the future A) Continues to decrese the number of vaults which we can seriously be talking about, because most of them should have been opened up to two centuries earlier, and B) Makes the continuining state of despair and degradation less and less believable. I had a big enough problem with it in 2, in 3 I'm really struggling to suspend my disbelief. Just doesn't work anymore that things haven't improved considerably.

Fallout 3 spoilers

I would like Korea and Japan. Since there are many US military bases in South Korea, they could have
vaults for the soldiers, federal workers, and families in there.

i'd like to see fallout 4 in Cyrodill.

in canada

California or England

I would like to see the story from another continent.
Maybe with different ways than vaults to deal with the impending nuclear war.

I also think it would be cool to have a world wide fallout, perhaps if and when flight becomes incorporated into the game.

Fallout 4 will be set in or around the Commonwealth, which is just another name for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts, of course! Sure, there is something like a half dozen commonwealths in the US, if I recall right, but doesn't Zimmer mention that the Commonwealth is an institute or a school? Boston is pretty much packed with schools.

There was too much talk about them in F3. Plenty of teasers and forshadowing. Besides, we've had mutants as the bad guy for one game, the Enclave as the bad guy for two games... The Commonwealth would fill that roll nice.

Manhattan, for the following reasons:

Extremely varied landscape, from very high urban density in the downtown and midtown, less dense in between, almost surburban feel in the north section. Central Park is a large open area in the middle of it all. Lots of recognizable landmarks. Very extensive subway network. Very diverse population and neighborhood character can make for lots of possibilities in the post Great War world.

Manhattan is slightly more than 30 square miles, so they could do a 1/2 scale and fit it into 16 sq miles, and fit part of brooklyn, queens, roosevelt island, and a part of NE New Jersey.

I think the best location would be right at the begining. Same location as fallout 1.

At the end of fallout 1 it says that Killian never had troubles with raiders ever again. But what does that mean? EVER? Does that mean within his lifetime?

I would just like to see the familiar places from the new perspective, a new story, and etc.

That's just my two cents.