What?

You have no idea what radiation is do you?

I'm not sure Tactics is canon - and Van Buren was never finished.

Besides there have been two games set on the west coast there can be multiple games set in these various areas. There is no need for continually changing locations. There are different time periods and even different perspectives to cover perhaps in the same place and same time (a game from the perspective of different vault dwellers with different problems, from the perspective of playable characters starting in various factions....

The notion that we are running out of US material doesn't hold water for me.

Australia. Because fallout is also influenced from Mad Max.

Tactics doesn't necessarily matter if it's canon or not. It stretched across a huge range but barely touched on anything along the way. Most of it was spent in military bases, mutant strongholds, or raider camps, not actual civilization. The BOS bunkers themselves are about the only locations that would need to persist to other games.

Hawaii would be great in game developers view. Big island as a play area. I don't know about how Hawaii is treated military (Any large navy bases or some sort?). So maybe it didn't get hit from nukes so badly. It would be nice to watch to polluted sea and drink precious purified water under a spore palm tree plant when mutated seagulls eat sick fish... And wear surfer shirts. (Or what they are called.)

Hawaii is where every naval officer in the U.S. wants to be stationed. The military infrastructure on Hawaii isn't any denser than anywhere else in the U.S., but, as Pearl Harbor demonstrated, it does have enough strategic importance to be worth attacking.

I'm picturing a supermutant wearing a lei and a grass skirt now. That is just weird..

@AshOfTheWaste; I'd have to agree with your point of view to the heading of a new Fallout universe. And @TheGlow I do respect your point of view, but it's too limited for me to agree with. Take in stride what AsheOfTheWaste said that the American time line ended in the good old 50's era, but what about how the rest of the world, we are not the only ones on Earth.

Plus the prospect of building a vault on an active volcano is kind of neat. Geothermal energy for the win.

...and a coconut bra...

Tactics is considered semi-canon - elements that did not contradict the original games are more or less canon.



Not true, there were quite a few towns:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Kansas_City
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Macomb
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Quincy
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Springfield
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Junction_City
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Cold_Water

And tribal villages:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Dirt_Haven
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Brahmin_Wood
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Peoria

personally I feel that NY and CA are over-rated since most game's and or movie's seem to happy in those location's...how about something original like Texas along the Gulf Coast...we have refineries=money=powrr=tech!....Pollution perfect for ghoul's and mutant's

I would love to see some Western European Areas, the Netherlands being flooded over for atleast 50% thanks to the drastic climate changes after the great war, cities as Rotterdam and Amsterdam flooded over by sea, a 'island hopping adventure' like in Waterworld only than the island are filled up between savage humans, ghouls and mutants ...

i think las vegas would fuel that classic fallout sense of irony that we all know and love quite well... then again it may serve to just shove the irony down our throats in huge doses. it would have to be done very carefully. i see great potential in vegas. the neon lights, the slot machines, the extravagant hotels, that classic vegas feeling of false optimism hiding great greed and materialism would be replaced with a dead husk of a city.
there would really be some great opportunities for irony. slot machines leaking once valuable coins everywhere, neon signs lying atop piles of rubble, etc. it has a lot of potential as a location for a fallout game.

I think Interplay would be by far the best location for FO4

I second Scotland!
But anywhere outside of America would be cool, just so we could see what happened in other parts of the world. Perhaps even in the annexed Canada?

That was like what Resident Evil: Apocalypse was like. Except with zombies.

It should be Australia if Fallout goes international( Alot can be done with the Mad Max influence), but if fallout stays in the US, it should be New York.

it could definately be done in a large city,I'd love to see some opposite.Everyone can't have gone into the vaults.
I think they could make small communities on the tops of Manhattan's sky scraqers and have the streets bellow infected with all the low lifes and scum, on the rivers you could have the equivilent of pirates,the brotherhood of steel could own the top of the Empire state building.Mutants and the other monstrosities could have hold of the mostly destroyed downtown area,and faction patrols fight in the streets.
or individual communities inside buildings,The Chrysler Building Mutants or the Flairtron community
(I understand how bad my knowledge of America is

new york is good 4 me


Blow up the red soxs :celebration:


good place because china blew up USA


the pyramd hotel = phun thing lol


New york = good


but i hope the game doesnt take till 2012

I think it should be set in mainland Eroupe. ( maybe we'll see if any nukes flew over there)

There all great and repeatedly ideas, but they are just two limited. I still strongly suggest the world as the battleground and not just one ideal location.

How about the jungles of lousiana?

Tour the irriadiated swamps of the south, fight all manner of mutants, gator mutants are a must, perhaps giant snakes, maybe a few more giant plant enemies, and let us not forget giant mosquitoes! Come on, you know you wanna explore flooded cities and hack your way through jungles towards secluded vaults and old government labrotories. perhaps roam around the gulf of mexico on a steampowered boat or an old pre-exchange boat, searching for dilapidated oil rigs and exploring labrotories devoted to ocean research....

What? They've done the north? why not the south?

Why not Portugal? :tops:

I like that. I want it to be somwhere else than USA for a change. don't care whether it's still in the continent of America, it should be somewhere Non-USA. Perhaps China. That would be nice, to see the other face of the conflict.

oK all, what would be something to explore, see and kill in China, Russia, Europe, Australia and... Dare I say it, New York?

You know, maybe a good place for Fallout 4 would be Mars.

Due to the Vaults being experiments to test humans in isolation to see how they would handle space travel angle. Maybe in addition to the Vault experiements, the Fallout universe's version of NASA was already working towards the terraforming and colonization of Mars.

Maybe a few colony ships were emergency launched at the start of the Great War. Being launched in an emergency there's a good chance that they weren't stocked properly with supplies, and maybe either not all the people intended for the trip made it on board or extra people around the launch site that weren't authorized to go managed to slip in. The harsh conditions of Mars would make an interesting parallel to those on Earth (thinner atmosphere, more radiation from the sun due to the thinner atmosphere + perhaps no ozone layer, water is pretty scarce, etc.) Story could be that after making planetfall the colonization efforts fell into chaos due to the quick launch and unplanned personell changes, and multiple factions have arrisen that are in conflict with each other for what little resources are available. The main quest could be to find or assemble a ship to return to Earth, mistakenly thinking that it may be recolonized now that the Great War is over with. Or since Fallout takes a reto view of sci-fi, maybe the main quest, or parts of it, has to do with dealing with the little green men of Mars who aren't taking too kindly to their Earthling neighbors dropping in like they did.

Did you just get done watching http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087130/ before posting? That is what the idea of yours reminded me of.