I didn't know where exactly to place this one as it does relate to Fallout the series insofar as it concerns the type of game that it is (thought it doesn't seem to fit perfectly into any of the sub-forums), but I'm wondering if anyone's heard anything (or has any thoughts) about the potential for, and likelihood of, a game created in the mold of a Fallout or Oblivion, but perhaps set in the present day?
Perhaps something involving a huge government conspiracy or...I dunno, I'm spitballing here a bit. Or maybe even a game set in a more industrialized or cyberpunk future. Like waaaay in the future?
I know ME is the most obvious recent game to be set in sort of a "hi-tech" universe, but I think (no matter how much I enjoyed the game) it's lacks more than a little of the openness of games like Fallout and Oblivion. Especially the second iteration.
I also think of Deux Ex (I know about the new one coming out) and wonder how cool it would be to set a game with the mechanics and scope of Fallout in a world with FTL travel, or mega cities. A game that's maybe got cyberpunk leanings (think Richard K. Morgan's "Altered Carbon"). I expect Deus Ex to be a great game, but I don't think anything has quite the open-world feel of a Fallout and I doubt this game will be any different (doesn't have to be of course).
Something closer to hard sci-fi and about as far removed from the wasteland aesthetic as one can get.
Why hasn't anyone really done this yet?
Perhaps something involving a huge government conspiracy or...I dunno, I'm spitballing here a bit. Or maybe even a game set in a more industrialized or cyberpunk future. Like waaaay in the future?
I know ME is the most obvious recent game to be set in sort of a "hi-tech" universe, but I think (no matter how much I enjoyed the game) it's lacks more than a little of the openness of games like Fallout and Oblivion. Especially the second iteration.
I also think of Deux Ex (I know about the new one coming out) and wonder how cool it would be to set a game with the mechanics and scope of Fallout in a world with FTL travel, or mega cities. A game that's maybe got cyberpunk leanings (think Richard K. Morgan's "Altered Carbon"). I expect Deus Ex to be a great game, but I don't think anything has quite the open-world feel of a Fallout and I doubt this game will be any different (doesn't have to be of course).
Something closer to hard sci-fi and about as far removed from the wasteland aesthetic as one can get.
Why hasn't anyone really done this yet?