Chris Parks
Vault Senior Citizen
Any chance he may let us use the work?
Fallout game set in a different country.
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Vault Senior Citizen
Any chance he may let us use the work?
czak_norris
First time out of the vault
I have to say, that I would love to see a Fallout game set in Europe. Preferably eastern one. I don't think that countries like Spain or France would make good background for post-apocalyptic game.
Here's an idea for Fallout game set in Eastern Europe:
Let's say game takes place in 2318, 30 years after Fallout 3. Portugal, Greece, Italy, Netherlands and Denmark are mostly underwater.
In 2077 in former CCCP the governments are all trying to get safety for their most precious people like presidents, scientists etc. Unlike Vault-Tek though they think that massive fallout would get them underground as well, so they go under the water. One of those shelters is built near nuclear power plant in Kursk. When people try to get in there just before the bombs will fall, there is an accident. So the bombs don't actually hit there, but the power plant fails, there's a huge blast etc. Some of the people didn't make it inside fast enough, so shelter is only half full. Everything around looks more or less untouched, only the power plant surroundings are still life-clean. In Russian shelters, people were hibernated, so they don't know about what happened with the world. Unlike Vault 112, people there are not getting older or anything, they are kept deeply frozen without any kind of artificial life.
In 2318 many of Russian Shelters are already open and some of them are used as cities. The majority of people are a little radiated, so having greenish skin doesn't look weird in there. There is no government left, all the towns are independent. They only communicate or barter when they have to.
Back in the US, the Enclave is gone, everything is getting better with the help of Brotherhood of Steel. They actually join NCR in their quest to unite all of California. But BoS thinks bigger. They want to recreate USA as they know it from old documents. As they are doing it, they find another Vault. Vault 63. It was designated for containing people with exceptionally big knowledge in small population. Most of equipment in there has a lot of tweaks and improvements. Also, the main computer in V63 could connect to satellites and there are still some pictures in the computer memory. According to some documents that BoS scribes recovered from V63 and the pictures, there might still be life in Europe. They are getting curious of what might be behind the ocean, so they send newly recovered ship with some recruits to Europe, to scope things out.
The ship crashes on the coast of Ukraine. As BoS soldiers set up a temporary camp, their scouts find entrance to the shelter I mentioned before. Player is on the team that is going there to check if there are any people alive in there. They find some hibernation chambers, and with the help from scribes they manage to open them and let the people out. They are not grateful for that though. As they were asleep for almost 250 years, they actually get quite aggressive. BoS team has to back off for now. When player's team returns to BoS base camp, they find no one there. No equipment, no nothing. They only chance is to get back to the shelter and try to talk to those people over there.
Crap, I was only supposed to write a simple response and I lost myself. Nevertheless I hope you like at least few of my ideas.
God, I can already hear Perlman saying “You are on that ship. Riding to the unknown...”
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Here's an idea for Fallout game set in Eastern Europe:
Let's say game takes place in 2318, 30 years after Fallout 3. Portugal, Greece, Italy, Netherlands and Denmark are mostly underwater.
In 2077 in former CCCP the governments are all trying to get safety for their most precious people like presidents, scientists etc. Unlike Vault-Tek though they think that massive fallout would get them underground as well, so they go under the water. One of those shelters is built near nuclear power plant in Kursk. When people try to get in there just before the bombs will fall, there is an accident. So the bombs don't actually hit there, but the power plant fails, there's a huge blast etc. Some of the people didn't make it inside fast enough, so shelter is only half full. Everything around looks more or less untouched, only the power plant surroundings are still life-clean. In Russian shelters, people were hibernated, so they don't know about what happened with the world. Unlike Vault 112, people there are not getting older or anything, they are kept deeply frozen without any kind of artificial life.
In 2318 many of Russian Shelters are already open and some of them are used as cities. The majority of people are a little radiated, so having greenish skin doesn't look weird in there. There is no government left, all the towns are independent. They only communicate or barter when they have to.
Back in the US, the Enclave is gone, everything is getting better with the help of Brotherhood of Steel. They actually join NCR in their quest to unite all of California. But BoS thinks bigger. They want to recreate USA as they know it from old documents. As they are doing it, they find another Vault. Vault 63. It was designated for containing people with exceptionally big knowledge in small population. Most of equipment in there has a lot of tweaks and improvements. Also, the main computer in V63 could connect to satellites and there are still some pictures in the computer memory. According to some documents that BoS scribes recovered from V63 and the pictures, there might still be life in Europe. They are getting curious of what might be behind the ocean, so they send newly recovered ship with some recruits to Europe, to scope things out.
The ship crashes on the coast of Ukraine. As BoS soldiers set up a temporary camp, their scouts find entrance to the shelter I mentioned before. Player is on the team that is going there to check if there are any people alive in there. They find some hibernation chambers, and with the help from scribes they manage to open them and let the people out. They are not grateful for that though. As they were asleep for almost 250 years, they actually get quite aggressive. BoS team has to back off for now. When player's team returns to BoS base camp, they find no one there. No equipment, no nothing. They only chance is to get back to the shelter and try to talk to those people over there.
Crap, I was only supposed to write a simple response and I lost myself. Nevertheless I hope you like at least few of my ideas.
God, I can already hear Perlman saying “You are on that ship. Riding to the unknown...”
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[/spoiler:e10a99419c]coliphorbs
Look, Ma! Two Heads!
Is no one getting a little tired of post-apocalyptic games based in eastern Europe by now? I'd be much more interested to see a western Europe or Middle East based one.
It could be played out in modern day Zimbabwe, that’s about as post-apocalyptic as it gets.
the_cpl
Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
The other countries has bad gun laws. I would hate to fight with a stick against supermutants. 
Imagine an epic fight against a Behemoth... with an airsoft rifle.
Imagine an epic fight against a Behemoth... with an airsoft rifle.
TwoEyedYum
Naked Moose
...with an airsoft rifle you still able to make critical hit in sensors for no damage... and kill him 
Jax Sparrow
It Wandered In From the Wastes
I support Julius and czak_norris I think eastern europe preferably russia would make a great background, soviet retro futurism that term rang the bell I have actually suggested this in another forum 
There are no Super Mutants in other countries, let alone Europe.
mutated_pole
First time out of the vault
yeah I agree... F1 was ok as it all happened right after the apocalypse... but in F3 you can still find potato chips or nuke cola in downtown DC..
is this realistic ? damn ppl 99% of food would be gone in the first two yrs after the war
this is a dead end...
is this realistic ? damn ppl 99% of food would be gone in the first two yrs after the war
this is a dead end...
Tremer said:
There is no FEV in the rest of the world that could lead to very strong mutant types.
FEV is what made insects and certain mammals so big.
Radiation seems to be more the opposite to FEV, leading to degenerate mutation.
KarmaPolice
It Wandered In From the Wastes
For Europe, I think soviet retro holds the best promise, but wouldn't that mean everybody is speaking Russian? I wouldn't mind that, and I suspect that most non-english speakers wouldn't mind much either (they are used to playing a game with dialogue they don't understand) but what about most english-speakers? We've gotten lazy as speakers of the dominant language and assume that all VO's should be dubbed for us, even for foriegn-based games like STALKER.
I think Germany could be a nice setting, too.
The timelines diverged, so maybe the countries of the European Commonwealth have much less strict gun laws than the actual european countries, or if the soviets marched in, there could be more guns from the war lying around.
Or, guns could just be much less common and would be used rarely, like in Road Warrior. More Raiders with knives and sharp sticks instead of Raiders with phased plasma pulse rifles and independently targeting particle beam phalanxes (Raider just aren't state of the badass art in my opinion).
And the setting, well, we could try something different, though Art Deco and Streamline Modern wasn't exactly limited to America.
Maybe in Germany they'd have more Jugendstil architecture or Bauhaus.
And the language... Well, english subtitles and text or just complete dubbing. I don't think it would matter that much. I'm german, I'm used to dubbed movies and games
/edit: Now that I think about it, a game set in Germany would miss a lot of iconic things from the original Fallouts. There would probably be no power armor (or at least completely different power armor), no super mutants, much more working cars (because let's face it, german cars are superior
), none of the iconic weaponry (except for the Vindicator minigun, Gatling Laser and so on).
Maybe Russia would be the better choice, or remnant american soldiers in China.
The timelines diverged, so maybe the countries of the European Commonwealth have much less strict gun laws than the actual european countries, or if the soviets marched in, there could be more guns from the war lying around.
Or, guns could just be much less common and would be used rarely, like in Road Warrior. More Raiders with knives and sharp sticks instead of Raiders with phased plasma pulse rifles and independently targeting particle beam phalanxes (Raider just aren't state of the badass art in my opinion).
And the setting, well, we could try something different, though Art Deco and Streamline Modern wasn't exactly limited to America.
Maybe in Germany they'd have more Jugendstil architecture or Bauhaus.
And the language... Well, english subtitles and text or just complete dubbing. I don't think it would matter that much. I'm german, I'm used to dubbed movies and games
/edit: Now that I think about it, a game set in Germany would miss a lot of iconic things from the original Fallouts. There would probably be no power armor (or at least completely different power armor), no super mutants, much more working cars (because let's face it, german cars are superior
), none of the iconic weaponry (except for the Vindicator minigun, Gatling Laser and so on). Maybe Russia would be the better choice, or remnant american soldiers in China.
GreatestHits
First time out of the vault
I think the UK, Australia, or China would be good settings as long as games set there aren't developed in-house by Bethesda. I'd accept Russia as long as it is a deconstruction/parody of some of the recent games(Metro, STALKER) set there.
Surely there would be some ships that would be useable.. or even subs stationed at dry docks that never got deployed at locations away from where the bombs fell and that didn't get found out. So, making Super Mutants or 50's retro, American culture plausible in other countries.
A spin off game in another country could work, but I'm not sure how well Fallout's 50's Americana and what not would work out.
Besides with the series in Bethsofts hands, we'll probably see copy and past ideas such as a European Brotherhood like organization and an Enclave like one.
Besides with the series in Bethsofts hands, we'll probably see copy and past ideas such as a European Brotherhood like organization and an Enclave like one.
vanzizzle said:
Honestly ask yourself, why would Super Mutants go to the other continents?
Also there really are not that much anymore you know, Mariposa base is gone, and quite some Super Mutants were eliminated afterwards.
Even if you consider Vault 87 canon (which I don't), its supply of FEV had run dry for some time now.
But what would be the point?vanzizzle said:
A Fallout set in a different country should specifically NOT be 50's americana+super mutants+whatnot.
I think there are a lot of possibilities there.
A Fallout game set anywhere else would lose a lot of iconic imagery, but well, America is not the entire world.