Florida would be ok I think. It's the only state I've ever been to in the U.S.

I don't think Europe would really have anything good happening there, and you'd have to put up will the accents(jk lol).

Ireland would be the best tho! Potato Power Armor, Damp-grown off the brick wall fungi fruit, midgets in tracksuits, Imagine!

It boggles my mind how anyone could want it to be set in New York City. That is THE absolutely most overused and cliche city to use in video games, especially post-apocalyptic ones. I'm so sick and tired of seeing NYC in video games, it's as if the developers of the world aren't aware of the fact that other cities exist, and that plenty are even more interesting.

Besides, in a nuclear war on the scale of the Great War, there would be practically nothing left of NYC.

But anyway... I'd be quite disappointed if it wasn't in the Commonwealth, it was talked about so much in Fallout 3 and it's DLCs that by now I'm just dying to go there.

Has to be somewhere near DC for it to continue fallout 3's storyline, otherwise it ain't a sequel right?
And I also believe it should move towards west to collide with fallout 1 and 2's storyline.
So... Any important place towards the west of DC that isn't too far away.
My vote is for The Pitt.

souix city iowa would be perfect in my opinion. 1 decent sized city to explore with plains and small towns all around and military bunkers and vaults military bases all around as well as well as plenty of DLC that could be intertwined with tactics. its also at the middle of 3 states so you could have 3 waring factions fighting over it with super mutants and ghouls all thrown in the mix with the locals. also backwoods kentucky would be cool as well.

IM IRISH YOU SON OF A [censored]!

Well, language barriers would be an easy obstacle. It would provide an interesting dynamic, and a potential set of perks, Language skill could be a skill in and of itself that you raise, as you would small guns, sneak, etc. The higher the skill, the easier you translate foreign languages. What would be considered a foreign language to your character? Well, during the character creation process, you choose your native tongue, and anything NOT of your native tongue is of course a foreign language. At first, it might be hard to understand certain individuals, but over time, through the reading of books, seeing holotapes, etc. you could raise the skill rather easily. Or make a low level perk, like a level 6 or 8 one that bumps your language skill up a lot to speed it up. And maybe if you start the game in 'EASY' mode, there is no language barrier at all...

Maybe North Canada, in a tundra w/ wood and a small city.

common wealth

If its an american city, I'd go for the one which borders Canada. Like half is american and nuked and the other half wasnt but is full of mutants due to radiation.

Hmm it appears your trying to say Fallout 3 wasnt a good Fallout concidering it took place on the East Coast. How will you react to Vegas when you realize its the SAME ENGINE as Fallout 3.

My personal opinion is New York. The city and Time Square would make a great Fallout experience. Possibly make ALL the stores around Time Square accesible. Then have the outters a Wasteland. Maybe make a DLC to travel back to DC and do a little work there to see how the place has come along. Hmm. My mind wanders B)

I couldn't see New York working too well. It would be a prime target and all those buildings collapsing would result in a serious amount of rubble choking the streets.

It would be nothing but metro tunnels.

It would be cool to play in New York

Detroit, with storyline involving a dispute with former Canadians in Windsor across the river.

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i agree, fallout 3's city kinda svcked, most of the buildings you couldn't go into, there were no settlements in the city except for underworld, it was all blocked off from rubble, i'm talking about a city kinda like in GTA an open city, with lots going on, industrial complexes to explore, an airport, apartment buidings, houses, parks, skyscraqers, settlements throughout the city, i'm talking about a city the size of the entire fallout 3 CW area. :poke:

We annexed Canada, it would be like a frozen wasteland (no pun intended jk)

I'd like to see New York City, there was a mod for that at the Nexus but I don't have the system requirements to play F3 on my PC

or maybe Russia, don't know if they were in the war, but after playing Metro 2033 I wished it was open world like Fallout

I vote for Detroit.

And before anybody says "isn't it already a wasteland hahaha"
go visit it... the metro area is statistically safer than other cities (look it up)

Detroit is a good idea, but I am still for Baltimore or Moscow.

souix city iowa would be perfect, small settlements a ruined city tons of military bases and nuclear silos spread through the plains, Super mutants from the east moving west (whats left of them anyway) and ones from the west going east, fighting echother, in the middle of a farm culture in post nuclear age.

I think there's something fundamentally American about Fallout. Much of the humor - and horror - stems from the whole notion of a Cold War future that grew from a frozen-in-time 1950's society, with a lot of the prejudices and repression that came with it. I can see how a European - especially Russian or German - setting might be interesting, but maybe only as add-on episodes.

That said, beyond the additions that are coming with New Vegas, the only real problem I had with Fallout 3 was that it was missing a chunk of Fallout 2's deep, sarcastic weirdness. Some people preferred the tone of the first game or Fallout 3, but I loved the rather snarky attitude in Fallout 2. The gallows humor helped buoy the essentially horrific story the game was telling.

I think setting a Fallout game in Florida would be interesting. From what I can tell, New Vegas will be much more citified, which is interesting, although I'll miss the random wilds of the Wasteland.

Alcatraz island would be an interesting setting, as would Chicago. New Orleans, maybe.

A Russian or Eastern European setting would be kind of interesting perhaps.

Contrary to (seemingly) popular belief on these forums, America is Not the center of the universe. The point I mean by that is that Fallout does not need to be set in America to have a true Fallout game. There are many more locations that are much better and would bring a new flavor to the Fallout franchise, to name a few:
Urban/Coastal parts of Australia (as much of Australia's infrastructure/society resides in coastal regions), tumultuous parts of Europe that weren't completely destroyed during the Resource wars or the Great war, Siberia (there's never been snow in Fallout as far as I know) or hell even southern Canada would be alright (even though in the Fallout universe, is now technically a part of USA).

I think I can speak for most fans when I say that we don't want up to (possibly) 52-ish or more Fallout games in what is (in our universe) considered USA soil.

As for staying on topic, I wholeheartedly believe that there is not even a snowball's chance in hell of New York not being hit by at least 3-5 nukes or even if only 1 hit, not one chance of being able to move freely in a GTA style city as skyscraqers would have been decimated or at least turned into impassible MASSIVE piles of rubble, that would take: 5-6 years to clear up with OUR current technology along with another 40-50 years AT LEAST to MAYBE rebuild to somewhere near it's former glory. Now as the people (in the Fallout universe) obviously do not have the resources (human or technological (meaning infra-structurally technological) at our disposal, it would take nearly 20-40 years to clear or at least move the Rubble and, on top of that, another 100-200 YEARS to rebuild to anywhere close to a 1960's New York, let alone a 2077's New York. So I am sorry to those who's hopes of playing in New York I have crushed, but New York is just Not anywhere even close to plausible. (This is not intended as flaming, only trying to point out obvious flaws)


Now back to being FULLY on topic, being Australian I am 100% inclined to say GOOOOOO FALLOUT AUSTRALIA!!!!!! :celebration:
But, that aside, I am incredibly interested in J.E. Sawyer's idea of a Fallout during the Resource wars and can see incredible potential within that chain of thought.
I also am extremely interested to the fate of Russia and to whether they stayed clear of the implied total nuclear Armageddon that occurred in the world.

And with my points made, I leave you with my regards.

I would like to see the Commonwealth or Alaska....

that would be cool, but not much radiation would probably reach it.

It Should definitely be in Los Angles like Fallout 1 u guys member the bone yard. maybe you'll be able to play a big role with: NCR (New California Republic)

intersting you said that because fallout brotherhoood of steel tactics 2 was supposed to be in florida.