All Things Fallout, A Non Game Specific Discussion Thread Options

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Khajiit had something to say related to the Fallout series but didn't see a thread that it would fit in. So he made one!

This one was thinking that he would love to see a spinoff game from the main Fallout series that takes place in post apocalyptic China. Khajiit thinks it would be interesting to see things from their point of view and to see what is going on over there after the Great War ended.

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

And Renee raises another thread from the dead. Going to respond to over 3-year old comments.

I would love to see a fallout game set anywhere outside the U.S. for a change. After Fallout 1, 2, Tactics, 3, and New Vegas, the American Wasteland is pretty same old, same old. I was hoping that Fallout 4 would be set in London. Big Ben, black cabs, double-decker buses, mutant ravens in the Tower of London, a blue police call box... There is so much you could do with that setting.

Hard disagree with the American Wasteland being same old, same old. There's a lot of variety to it--it just has to be presented well. For all their flaws, I think 1/2/NV, 3, 4, and 76 feel pretty distinct in this regard. That being said, there is some stuff that gets recycled too much (like Deathclaws and Super Mutants being apparently everywhere).

That being said, it would be really cool to see how other countries are handling it. Interplay did have plans for a Fallout: Resource Wars game in Europe. There's so much room for creativity there. Europe was hit especially hard by the overall Resource Wars, the Euro-Middle Eastern War, the dissolution of the European Commonwealth, and the European Civil War. From all the references that we have in the series, it sounds like Europe is doing even worse than the U.S. in the post-War world.

China, in particular, would be an intriguing setting, I think. They were the mortal enemies of the U.S. in Fallout, after all. I also wonder how much it would reference real-world China's government and politics.

Definitely. This one just wonders how they would market it. One of the big complaints about the idea of a non-American setting for a Fallout game over on Bethsoft was that it wouldn't be a Fallout game with the American setting. Khajiit really doesn't understand this, but they could totally spin it off the main series and call it something else. Something new.

It would be quite different because Fallout is based on 1950s American culture and how it envisioned the future. While I can't speak too much on what other countries' 1950s culture was like, there is a pretty distinct flavor to that timeframe here in America. But I hate the whole "It's not a real [INSERT HERE] game!" garbage that capital G gamers tend to spout out. It's a real Fallout game if the Fallout title is slapped on it and no arbitrary definition is going to change that. But it would likely be a monumental shift in feel, tone, etc.