I dont think so. The pure mystacism of what happened to the rest of the world is entertaining.

Seattle

Yeah they almost came across as...subway tunnels.

I want to see the Mid-west. You can have a larger area that would allow for usable cars and motorbikes, and plenty of scattered big cities in the vicinity. Missouri for one would be great cause of all the Naturally ocurring caves that Vault-tec would be sure to change into Vaults.

Anywhere, as long as it is still within the contiguous United States ...or Canada at a push, seeing as it was annexed and all.

cali would be fun but also florida! but new york i think is the most probable

I think there should be a super large play area like NE U.S or MW U.S, i just want an extremely large area to explore. although i'd like to see Fallout come to Chicago area.


or possibly a different country, like the Soviet Union or the United Kingdom (to see the affect of the war on them)

Play Fallout Tactics.

I still think New Orleans would be great. My original point (in the topic I created) was that it would be nice to see the other areas of the USA and how they were affected. You know New York and other large cities will be wrecks of twisted metal and large rad zones - New Orleans was a civilian port city, and as such, is not so much of a military primary target as a secondary target...they probably didn't get completely wiped out. Plus, the marshlands of the Mississippi are right there...one minute, you're in twisted slag ruins, the next, you're in near-jungle surroundings, waist-deep in radioactive bog (mind the carnivorous fish, please). Remember, the Mississippi will be quite radioactive, with all the other tributary rivers flowing into it. All sorts of critters will be living there, and plenty of ghouls, too (hopefully with cajun accents).

I never played much of Fallout Tactics after I got it (computer problems), so I didn't remember it was in Chicago. My point about Chicago was to allow the game to show new environmental effects of radioactive blizzards, super-storm effects, fighting on ice, etc. Those things would be good to make the game feel new. I think that's very, very important. Radscorpions and starving dogs are getting old, IMHO. Imagine the mutant wolverines, much less mutant moose (yipe yipe yipe yipe yipe!!!). Imagine a large zoo that might have survived the blast...the possibilities are endless. If not Chicago, then try Buffalo. Lots of snow there, too. Or Detroit - the throne of the almighty car industry. Maybe you could get the Chicago BoS variant to get a car production plant online (or tractor-trailer assembly line - also useful to future plots).

Denver would be another good choice. The Rockies allow for diverse climates within a small geographical area. Hmm, skiing in Power Armor...James Bond meets Super Mutants. "No, Vault Dweller, I expect you to die!" *dakka dakka dakka*

I also like the idea of low-tech urban sprawl. Rio, anyone? Jungle right outside the sprawl, and lots of survivors...also, old Meso-American tribal ruins could have spawned a number of semi-civilized cults. Lots of room to play with there.

Was UC Berkeley in a dead zone according to canon? If not, there's another great place to go...lots of high-tech to discover. In this vein, Los Alamos would be another great place.

I also like the Area 51 idea (kudos to whoever suggested it). There weren't any active alien critters in Fallout 3 (unlike Fallout 2).

Hmm...perhaps Yellowstone National Park, too. You could write a super-volcano tie-in with that area (the setting off of which would lead into the next sequel).

Final note for this post: There can only be so many Vaults in America, or world-wide, for that matter. Eventually, the concept of a "pure" Vault Dweller will have to become a relic of the past, as they will all eventually be opened or sacked. Once that happens, the game will have to focus on surviving settlements and their descendants' struggles against the Wasteland (barring the master plan of Vault-Tec being revealed...that would be a game-changer). The world will eventually be re-civilized, or the human race will go extinct. And who knows how many other military bases have ZAX computers with working AI's (Skynet, anyone)? The world will change over the generations, and if Fallout 3 is any guide, civilization will prevail and the environment will eventually be restored to something arable/livable. All of this, the game canon will have to deal with eventually. Better to start planning now, rather than try to piece everything together later. And as long as any of the FEV exists, anything is possible. Even carnivorous walking plants. ***evil grin***

I want to see Denver and Boulder...kinda close to me

I can see Hong Kong working quite nicely as a DLC, actually.

I think it should go back west so casidy and me can finally see if texas survived the war...

I dont care where exactly, as long as there is little to no Brotherhood or Enclave. Original factions please.

And make most of the game world wasteland, not ruined city. I hated walking through the ruins that shouldn't even be standing after 200 years, let alone after a nuclear war.

I want to see small town/towns USA be in it. Small cities and small villages that did not get a direct hit. Total wasteland but mostly standing structures. maybe even small army depots like National Guard posts no major military bases or cities.

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel was set in Texas.



They were going to be in Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle.

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

Thats the console one not Tactics right? Never played the console one.

Yes. Both it and the canceled sequel were set in Texas.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Texas
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Carbon
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Los

FO:BO2 was going to feature Austin and Alamo.

Both FO:BOS and especially FO:BOS2 are considered non-canon, though (even though Bethesda lifted some stuff from them in FO3 and its DLC).

I hope it is from an enclave point of view, it could be on a ship they made in space (read about somthing like this before) and you go down and cant go back for a while if ever, it allows you to start in a place where you are basically abandoned, provides basic weapons and forces me to join the opposite faction of fallout 3.

It's probably been said before, but what about the probable remanant US forces in china?

Other than that, I don't care where it is, or what it's about, just SET IT SOMEPLACE THAT CAN GROW PLANTS! So massive amounts of nukes would change weather patterns, but that means a change, not that whether just stops, it has to be temperate or tropical somewhere (tropical islands?), and plants might not die, just mutant along with everything else (giant venus fly traps?). I'm tired of brown and gray. Not only was it in the ridiculous hours of all three fallouts, but nearly every game now a days does that color under the guise of "grit."

Fallout tatics took place from chicago to norad... u went through denver, and van buren was suppose to take place in the southwest. I would like to see it in the new england area, but it probally look like the bone yard (LA) from fallout 1

That's an interesting idea...do something like "STALKER: Clear Sky", and have one of the Enclave who survived turn independent and start his/her own storyline (and maybe even his/her own nation). That way, you could give the player knowledge of operating and destroyed Enclave bases to explore. Maybe they even have a few GECKs to spare (or self-replicating GECK-like nano-terraforming bots). If the Outcast BoS could go independent, so could some remnant of the Enclave. Recruit an entire army, maybe even rebuild a ruined metropolis using Enclave technology (arcologies, anyone?). After all, who really knows just how advanced their science is? This would dove-tail with the backstory of Vault-Tec's master plan, too.

And on another note, just where is the first vault (0 or 1)? And where was the bomb shelter for the President? The physical scale of the Capital wasteland was way, way too small. They have fast-travel already, so why not scale it properly? Then, you actually have room for inserting DLC if you want (I don't, I want a complete game and substantial retail add-ons). There are so many little details that could become complete storylines themselves (and the Commonwealth from Fallout 3 is begging for one since its description reminds me so much of Wasteland's Base Cochise).

Oh yeah, don't forget about any asteroid impacts in the previous 200+ years, either. Details, details, all waiting to be used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kxq3Rmq1ho

chicago

Under Cheyenne Mountain, according to Fallout Tactics.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_0



The President took refuge on the Enclave Oil Rig from Fallout 2.

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

i hope, if there is a FO4, that it would be in Florida...mainly do to the mix of civilization and wildlife they have...since the Mirelurks have come from a species of crab, then what would an alligator look like?
i heard Disney mentioned also, and although it would be a great change of scene im sure some copyright issues would occur, so maybe a Disney-esque theme-park.
Not to mention the amazing story line that could be available with the Florida N.A.S.A. station. imagine the possibilities with the tech that was there...and if its set later in time then FO3, maybe a space mission just for kicks, although the idea is pretty radical.
I'm liking all the ideas

and Ausir, I've noticed you know quite a bit about Fallout lore and other related topics, what would you like to see if there was a new FO?

Like this:

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



More new ideas, less of a rehash of old plots.