Ive been suggesting to seattle to a buddy of mine for a while. It is perfect. Im not workin off a map just my knowledge of the area.

Place seattle in the North at the top of the map.

On the Far east of the map, bout 40 miles (guesstimating) is a series of Small towns, Snoqualmie Falls, Northbend. Great starting place. Not so far east you have Bellevue

South of Seattle you have Ft. Lewis, Mchord Airbase, Military museum, and Tacoma.

Inside seattle you have tons of locations to see. Space Needle, Pikes market, Naval shipyards, puget sound, head west to Bremerton.

The location makes the game easy so they can spend some much needed time on a story that doesnt svck.

Vote 1 AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys seem to reckon Texas is big?? :lmao:
Texas has nothing on Queensland!!!!
You want some new enemies? How 'bout a mutated koala chewing on your face, or a massive kangaroo mutie hopping towards you!!

Fo4 should start in Siberia (Russia) and have a russian vault dweller/siberian villager travel to China & Alaska on a mission. There would be all kinds of cool creatures lurking in Siberian wilderness, and the chinese folk lore/truly historical locations could inspire to some really neat stuff. Alaska would then tell the story of chinese occupation and what happened afterwards.

I agree completely to what someone said about hiring professional writers to make a great story and having text based conversations instead of spending the money on crappy voice acting and having stupid dialogue.

I vote London England or Toronto Ontario

it needs to go south. south florida, miami :fallout:

I can picture Fallout 4 being set in New York.

I'm really hoping for Fallout 5 to be set in the Detroit area.

I'm not a person to sugar coat things so here's what I have to say. There is as much chance of Fallout getting a sequel as there is gamesas making Elder Scrolls 5. Don't get me wrong, I do think gamesas will make an Elder Scrolls 5. However if Oblivion is the last Elder Scrolls game then they can end it without having a whole bunch of loose ends to tie up. Yeah there are a bunch of Dedric princes still alive but that doesn't mean they will try to destroy the world like Dagon. There was a hint a there being an Elder Scrolls 5 at the end of Oblivion. Now, they can end the Fallout series and not make another one, because the world changes in all ending and in one ending *Spoiler Alert* The Mutants along with all of the other infected are killed by the modified FEV put into the water. gamesas could easily say the series is over because of that ending. If they make another one it will probably be along the same lines as Fallout 3 and based off the ending they choose. It could very well be about making the water drinkable on the west coast based off the designs of the Project Purity from FO3. It could also be about finishing out the mutants once and for all using the water containing the modified FEV. Either way you go, Elder Scroll 5 will most likely be made first (If they make it). Unless they make FO4 on the same system and hold ES5 for newer technology. I would like to see it moved back somewhere in the west coast back to the roots if and when they do make a sequel.

I'm surprised I didn't see this anywhere else, but with the nod to the Commonwealth and the Institute in FO3, I think it would be interesting to have things move towards New England.

And the fallout franchise doesn't make sense outside of the US. The whole premise is on a US 1950's style post-apocalypse. I find it hard to imagine transplanting this series outside of the US and still retaining it's essential character.

Although id love to see some english city, birmingham manchester or london perhaps, after the great war. It isnt really plausable, we have no evidence (that i can recall) which tells us that vault tec existed outside of america, and the heart of fallout seems to be the Vaults, without them, its just not the same to me. So with that in mind, i would like to see New york, huge vaults underneath the statue or liberty? empire state building etc? that would rock, it would be very Guerella as far as combat goes aswell.




What? loose ends? are you KIDDING, they have gold to work with, without an emperor the empire will fall into decline and face rebelion from every province, that for me would be great, and Dagon isnt dead, daedra cant die. And not all daedra are intent on invading tamriel either.

Besides, as far as the FEV goes, they could say it didnt work, or it could take years to effect mutants, or that it even had a reverse effect and created a new strain of mutant.

no vote as I don't care about the location as long as the game is at least as big as Fallout3 and open ended

Agreed. If we don't see the Commonwealth in a DLC, Fallout 4 would be perfect in New England, centered around Boston. Figuring it would retain all the engineering, biotech, and business schools. During the school year, around half the darn city population is made up of college students. Young, healthy college students who are really likely to survive a disaster. Heck, Bethesda could also give a nod to the premise of Van Buren by casting your character as a freshly wiped andriod similar to the prisoner.

Plus! I'd love to see weather implemented in the next game. Warm, even scorching summers, then buried in snow in the winter. That would be a neat aspect to bring to Fallout, though I suspect snowy regions would pull more fallout particles from the sky and actually increase the radioactivity. Maybe!

Emil P. also worked at the late, lamented Looking Glass Studios ( /hates on Ion Storm-Daikatana ) which was in Boston. That's totally circumstantial evidence, but it's more evidence than most internet theories.
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Cities with more than 10 people might confuse Bethesda

Better stay east.

Voted "yes" because I'd love to go back and see how those areas we helped save/destroy have fared since FO2.

Fallout 4 needs to be truly Epic and have several cities available to span the main quest. Regional location I do not believe matters but there should be at least 3 or 4 connected regions, each as big as the DC wasteland map, with perhaps at least one being fully under ground

I would like to see it moved up north too. Nuclear winter is something that belongs in the fallout universe. maybe new york... or canada?

I think that DC was a perfect choice. DC ruins have a sci-fi history (Logan run etc.) and the place is not very big. I think new game should begin in DC right after FO3 with some minor quest. Then there should be some other countries involved. something surprising like Switzerland or Australia. These countries were not hit by bombs, so they evolved but in isolation. Then australians/any other nation should either attack US wasteland or help BoS to fight some other enemies. There definetly should be an ability to travel by plane to other cities and countries, though not all the locations should be as big and as filled with quests as DC area. There could be only twice more quests and characters, but at least 4-5 countries/big locations involved (China and Russia to be two of these locations). NCR too obviously.

I didn't vote, because I don't care where it takes place. I realize that the op has stated he feels the other two felt like Fallout because they were on the west coast, but all nuclear wasteland is pretty much desert, so that doesn't really apply at all in my opinion. I never got that old west feel that I didn't get here.

Wanderer, you're going to freak out, but try not to, I honestly from all I've read and despite what you've repeatedly stated, feel like the difference in graphics and UI has something to do subconsciously with why you can't get over your problems with how the game feels.

[edit] Actually, a good idea would be Tennessee. Mountainous, and few people know in the fifties it housed several research facilities for atomic weapons. Alternate timeline, sure, but the real-world inspiration is there.

I dont think that moving back to the west coast is a good idea.

First all, I dont accept that moving from the west coast stripped anything from the soul of fallout - With the graphics the way they were the towns for the most part could have been anywhere, any place. None of the unique charm of LA or SF were there... Where was the hollywood sign? Where was the Golden Gate Bridge? Where was the cable car Tracks? The Row houses? Anything that makes it recognisably california? It suffered from the same problem that most american TV series have - other than the odd glib reference here and there, there is nothing really tieing it to the place it claims to be.

Going from that, if we did move to the west coast, there are really only two places it can be centred around - Again LA and SF - As these are the only cities that have those world class landmarks possible to get that visual style that was for me a slam-dunk "I really am here" feel. If folks were queasy about the changes made already, they'll be grabbing torches and pitchforks when bethesda "Rewrites History" (as I'm sure the claim will be made). The only other possibility on the west coast is Seattle - A long long way from California, and a very different style of territory (There has to be a big arcology though, bonus point if you get the reference)

Texas I think can work, I think that Huston has the landmarks. Florida is a possiblity, Chicago has the landmarks, but would rewrite history. Toronto could be good, and quebec... but I think the best possible place is the New York / Boston area, and with the Commonwealth and its insitiute being slipped in as a potential major force for the next game, is a early clue to this plan.

I wonder if it'll have a sixiteria.

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I hope someone gets my (albeit still incorrect) reference .

Poor Renraku.

I'd love for it to be in Colorado, my home state. About right in the middle of the country, and not as wild west as most people think. The city of Denver would probably be quite the setting... then again, it would be cool if it focused on a triangle of Mt. Elbert(Northwest) and the surrounding regions, Denver(NE) and then the empty stuff to the southwest(SW if you didn't figure it out, Sherlock). Of course, since the map would be square, my home town would make the fourth, south eastern corner of the map. This would allow for the Cheyenne Mountain head of NORAD to be in the game which would be cool as that was the situation room for any hypothetical nuclear war during the 50's, and where the president would be taken if there were enough time. It's like a massive, modern day version of a Vault. ^_^

Chyenne mountain has already made its fallout appearence - Its vault 0 in the inadequate Fallout Tactics.

C'mon. Alaska!

Parts of Colorado appeared in Fallout Tactics, and it was also a major part of the setting of Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 by Black Isle. See:

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

For the description of Denver in Van Buren, see:

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



Other countries also had their visions of the future in the 1950s, which would also be interesting to explore. I still think the Fallout series proper should stick to the US, though, but wouldn't mind spin-offs set outside the US.

CANADA!