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Alixian

Alixian

First time out of the vault
Love the series so far (never played 1 or 2, however I do store my MtG cards in a Fallout 2 Box), but what I would like to see in the series is a game where the location wasn't mainland USA. So far we've had LA, Washington DC, Nevada (Mojave), and Boston (there may be others).

Being from Scotland I would like to see a Fallout game set in the UK (preferably Scotland, but it would be London most likely), or at the very least, a game set in a non-USA country.

Surely the US wasn't the only country bombed during the war?



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The series doesn't work outside of the US in my opinion. It barely works outside of the West Coast. They had to use a lot of awkward plot contrivances to get things like the Brotherhood of Steel and super mutants into Fallout 3, because those things originated in the West and it made little real sense for them to be elsewhere.

The further away you move geographically from the source material, the less Fallout story elements you can incorporate without it becoming increasingly ridiculous, and the less the game resembles Fallout in any meaningful way.
 
I appreciate that, but to set it somewhere thats outside the US gives you a blank slate in which to be creative. Yes the BoS is a significant part of the saga, as well as the Enclave, NCR, and other factions within Fallout.

Wouldn't you like to see more of the Red Army? Or to see if there is tribe of irradiated frenchmen called Ghauls?
 
Let me elaborate - I like post-apocalyptic games, I'll happily play any that come on the market. But to migrate Fallout into completely foreign territory, with all new game elements, and without it losing any sense of being a Fallout game, would take a great deal of talent and skill from the developer. Odds are pretty good that it would end up bearing little similarity to the other games and at that point it might as well just be a new franchise. Which wouldn't be a bad thing either in my opinion, it would encourage the developer to make something good on its own merit rather than just selling the brand.
 
I see your point, just wishful thinking. Fallout New Edinburgh will just have to be a pipedream.
 
Lanfear said:
The series doesn't work outside of the US in my opinion. It barely works outside of the West Coast. They had to use a lot of awkward plot contrivances to get things like the Brotherhood of Steel and super mutants into Fallout 3, because those things originated in the West and it made little real sense for them to be elsewhere.

The further away you move geographically from the source material, the less Fallout story elements you can incorporate without it becoming increasingly ridiculous, and the less the game resembles Fallout in any meaningful way.
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Pretty much this I'm afraid OP, it is just to ingrained with Americana to work anywhere else.

Should there ever be an attempt to make a Post Apocalyptic game in Scotland/Edinburgh? Hey if someone wants to try, let them do it. And if it is interesting I will definitely take a look at it to see if it is something I would want to play.
 
A spinoff set in a different part of the world would work. That way the main series can stay in the US.
 
After seeing Bethesda's take on the Irish - presenting the most cartoonishly stereotypical Irish drunk barfighter in Cait, I seriously doubt you'd want to see what they would do with Scotland.

They don't really know how to write characters without the use of overused, stereotypical, exhausted character types that are borderline offensive in how bad and lazily written they are.
 
i'd like to see a pa game in europe,but not fallout.
FO it's filled with american 50s culture,it has that american dream- gone-wrong feeling and the cold war paranoia as well.
scotland,england or any other country of the old continent just can't work for a fallout setting,
 
I do appreciate that part of Fallout is the Americana, and I love the series. If I ever visit Vegas I would be disappointed in the fact that it's not anything like New Vegas lol.
No doubt some die hard fan out there has created a fan-fic of Fallout that is set somewhere outside the US.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
After seeing Bethesda's take on the Irish - presenting the most cartoonishly stereotypical Irish drunk barfighter in Cait, I seriously doubt you'd want to see what they would do with Scotland.

They don't really know how to write characters without the use of overused, stereotypical, exhausted character types that are borderline offensive in how bad and lazily written they are.
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Bethesda's High Big Boss Person: "We just read someone would love a Fallout in Scotland, lets see who has good ideas for it"
Employee Nr1: "Those skirts they all wear around there... mmm I think they are called Kilns or Kilts or something"
Employee Nr2: "Let's not forget they all stab eachother with big ass swords"
Employee Nr1: "They are all called McLoud"
Employee Nr2: "I think it is Mcleod"
Employee Nr3: "We can't forget the bagpipes"
Employee Nr1: "And they all live in old ruined castles right?"
Employee Nr2: "And they drink Whiskey like it is water"
Employee Nr1: "No, it is not Whiskey, it's Scotch. They are totally different things"
Employee Nr3: "I think Scotch is whis..."
Employee Nr2: "*Interrupts* And we have to have a lot of fist fights, Scottish people fist fight all the time"
Bethesda's High Big Boss Person: "Great ideas people, they are all approved, now lets start working on the Fallout Scotland"

8 Years later:

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I hope that if anyone makes a Fallout outside of the USA, it will not be Bethesda because they would just destroy it ...
 
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That's the worst thing about stereotypes, the angry up the blood. I don't wear a kilt, I don't live in a ruined castle, I don't wield a claymore, my last name isn't McLeod, I can't play the bagpipes, and I don't drink alcohol (rare for a scotsman lol).

Surely there are US steroetypes that Bethesda have overelooked?
 
If they made a Fallout set in the UK, they'd have to abandon the 50s Americana. I think it would be kind of cool to have a post-apocalyptic setting with throwbacks to London in the Swinging 60s.

Fallout:Glasgow probably wouldn't notice much of a difference. Barely a day goes by when I don't get accosted on Sauchiehall Street by some wee ned with a plasma rifle
 
peadar87 said:
If they made a Fallout set in the UK, they'd have to abandon the 50s Americana. I think it would be kind of cool to have a post-apocalyptic setting with throwbacks to London in the Swinging 60s.

Fallout:Glasgow probably wouldn't notice much of a difference. Barely a day goes by when I don't get accosted on Sauchiehall Street by some wee ned with a plasma rifle
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Forget Sauchiehall Street, it's the Driver Nephi wannabes in Clydebank and Easterhouse
 
I'm sure that the midwest Fallout game is coming someday. The glimpse we saw at Fallout 4 was not that bad, my favourite map area basically for being different to more forest, swamps and ruined towns and the Boston hellhole. That Glowing Sea part mixed with some Lonesome Road-like decayed cities (you have to recognize it was a pretty interesting map, sad for the linear focus) and it would be one of the best main "central cities" of any Fallout game yet. With a new engine and preferably developed by Obsidian it can be really interesting.
 
I'd love to see a Fallout in Alaska, that could work. We could have remnants of the US army, remnants of the Chinese army and various other groups there.
 
It could be possible too that the Fallout universe is expanded south, with the glimpse at Raul's story? I doubt so though, Beth and the racist stereotypes are annoying as hell, and i can't even be offended by them.
 
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