I was thinking about the Fallout Universe, basically we know only what is happening in USA. Fallout 3 has done the transition from West coast to East Coast.

If there will be a continuation to Fallout 3, is there a chance for it to be in non-USA territory? I heavily doubt that though. Fallout is everything about Vaults and Brotherhood of Steel, which of course I don't expect to see it in other countries and for sure on other continents too. May be Canada, who knows.. Of course F1 & F2 [censored] will not be able to digest anything else than US setting.

Why am I asking this? I am just curious if Fallout is capable enough to extend its universe beyond its borders - the US territory. I would gladly see in what state is the devastated fallout world on other continents.

Unless Vault-tec had a foreign office... No.

I hope to god they never cut the US out of any Fallout games. BTW... you could go to Mexico in Fallout 1. Really, with American Propaganda being such an integral part of the Fallout Universe, I don't see them putting the game in a different setting. If you want to hear about China or Europe, I am sure they can have more characters travel to the North American Continent bringing news of the condition of other countries with them. We might see Canada... they were, after all, brutally annexed into the Union. Perhaps Alaska, but that seem unlikely.

No... the remenants of pure corporate corruption and 1950's USA inspired propaganda facism are what really drives the Fallout series for most of us. If they DID put a game in another setting, eh... I would probably end up buying it. They have the fan base for one set in Eastern Europe... I wouldn't expect to see much more of Vault-Boy, the Enclave, or Super Mutants. No BOS... but it would be funny to see French Power Armor. Still... perhaps the Enclave would have a presence in Germany. Who knows? The real issue is finding the appropriate flavor for that area, getting good Voice acting, and making it mesh with the current Fallout Universe.

Who says Vault-tec is needed in fallout games?? Fallout Tactics was a great game and had very little to do with Valt-tec, just those few missions revolving around Vault 0.

The game is called fallout, not Vault-tec.

in europe, you wouldn't have power armor.

Germany have have some form of Tesla Armor in the fallout Universe. They were actually working on Tesla Technology during world war 2.

Tesla was a brilliant man Btw, he was on the verge of a major breakthrough in physics when he died. It is a real shame. people never took him seriously on some of his more advanced research.

But Vault-Tec is an integral part of the Fallout mythos. As you yourself pointed out, even Fallout Tactics had a "token Vault" that was central to the story. Hell, even Brotherhood of Steel had that.


It'd feel weird to cut Vault-Tec out of a future Fallout game. Even more then the Brotherhood of Steel, Vault-Tec has been a driving force behind all the games, even minutely.

well canada could be an option... or possibly chine as they were part of the great war...

europe is out of the questions though, europe was in ruines years before the war thanks to their war about oil with the middle east

Like others have said, the canon is too U.S.-centric. Taking it elsewhere would encounter significant community resistance. Even non-canon FO Tactics took place in the American midwest. On the other hand, where else can they go next? New York, but that setting seems so overdone. It's an interesting question. Going back to the roots--the western U.S. deserts and mountains would be entirely new though in full FPS view. A Russian theme would also be very interesting and politically edgy.

the soviet union might be intresting but i'm not sure i'f vault tech will fall in for that, mabye a seperated game in the fall out universe, for so far i readed the soviets and the states where neutral on each other, i could think that the soviet union did have there kind of 'vault tech' program (remember in our universe the russians where the first to go into space, so i am sure something like that also happend in the fall out universe), they also might have a form of government.... Russians who invaded the States

In the FO universe, the US was the first to go into space, in '61, it does not give a specific date for China or Russia, but it makes it appear that in the Fallout world, China and Russia were basically tied behind the US in space exploration. The US then went to the moon in '69 and kept going back until the 2050s. Before the crap on earth really started heating up.

'k but still

As far as I know Canon does not state that other countries could not develop their own Power Armor.
Or their own Vault technology.

Maybe the Soviets would go the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth route. (Not literally, just making a mirror-country under Siberia perhaps.)
I'm not sure if a post-apocalyptic Underdark setting would be very interesting.

Nah that would be all the more reason it could be....it was already in ruins...so the people who were still alive there would likely have stayed alive. When the US got blitzed. Speaking from my own standpoint i think it would be VERY likely that people like the Highlanders and Scottish islanders would survive along with the very north of scandanavia...probably Iceland too. These places would see very little in the way of fighting as there arent any huge population's or at least very few..

It might even be americans that are in europe when the bombing starts would survive easier than if they were at home...

I think the main series should stay in America, but I wouldn't mind a spin-off taking place elsewhere, e.g. a Fallout Tactics 2 done by Nival (makers of Silent Storm) and set in post-nuclear Soviet Union.

Like many people have stated here already I think it is hard to do a Fallout game separated from the United States because of Vault-Tec, the propaganda style, ect. Now I think they could easily go to Mexico and Canada, considering they boarder the US. Though I think they can easily work in other areas of the world by just simply having other people from different places in the world arriving to talk about it. I believe that Moriarty in Fallout 3 came from outside the US so that means that someone in the world has the ability to travel.

If they really wanted a change of pace for a Fallout 4 they would probably take it to Alaska and do an arctic wasteland. You still keep all of the American themes, you have a region that was critical to the war, and lots and lots of wasteland.

My concern would be not enough nukes dropped there, but it was the central front of the war before the bombs dropped, so it's likely a few were dropped there when China invaded. Heck that could be the reason the bombs were dropped, the US retakes Alaska, and China responds by trying to take it again this time by leading with nukes. To which the US resonds by nuking mainland china, and from there china responds in kind and so goes history.

I think he was only of Irish descent, not actually from Ireland.

But there was still modes of long distance travel, like the Zeppelins that the BoS used to go from one side of the US to the other. So while Moriarty may have been born in the US, it could still be feasible that long distance travel could feature.

They should set a game in Britain. You could fight in the ruins of Buckingham Palace, and have an epic main quest about restoring the rightful heir to the throne of Britain, then you get to fight for the cause of imperialism. There can be an epic ending where you die in a suicidal bayonet charge, trying to protect the monarch. You fall to the ground, and the screen starts fading out, and the last thing you see is the Union Jack flying in the wind above you.

The fallout series will be ruined if they base the game outside the USA.

Lies, you just don't want it to be anywhere else.
Did you know that there were many other companies competing with Posiedon Oil and Vault-tec? There are other vault-like networks in the US and Abroad.

It could be on the fricken moon, The Enclave were in the process of creating interplanetary starships. Their first step would have been to colonize the moon. There may very well still be a rogue Enclave base on the moon.

I think its totally possible to tkae the game outside the US. Dont forget a lot fo the "western" countries of the 50s had the same propaganda style and what not that the Us did....hell in britian you could have a radio station with someone like lord haw haw on it.

it would be awsome to take it out somewhere else.

Agreed, taking the series into post war russia or britian, hell ireland, scotland, any of the western areas would be awesome.

Britian and russia had their own propaganda campaigns going on so you could have a comparable setting.

But to balance things out I think the game would have to start in the US, you've got this enemy threatening a small nation or town or something and he does something that pisses your character off or threatens his ultimate goal. (like stealing a GECK, or if you're a member of the brotherhood stealing technology, or maybe even kidnapping another character...)

so then your character has to get on a vertiberd or ship or something and your ride gets destroyed, so the first section of the game acts as your tutorial and the next section (russia, britian or some other nation) is the game proper.

For one, I think Europe would look awesome Nuked.