How should the east coast have really been done?

As others have said, subtract the West Coast exclusive stuff like the Enclave or the Brotherhood of Steel. Mutants like Brahmin can stay and Ghouls too, stuff like Radscorpions and Deathclaws better fit the western deserts so find alternatives. They kind of already had them in terms of Mirelurks and Yao Gaui.

I like the idea of DC being glass, but it's canon as of Fallout 2 (do correct me if I'm wrong) that LA got hit harder than DC so having a more dystopian art deco DC would be cool.

Honestly one of the things that would interest me most about East Coast Fallout is something that 4 very lightly touched on but didn't do justice is the New England maritime vibe. It's a neat colour for the post-nuclear theme and distinct from the western vibe of the west coast games and the bland vibe of Fallout 3.

Honestly really, just writing was the biggest fault rather than the setting itself. Iconography and West Coast stuff being on the East Coast was problematic and really shouldn't be there, but I disagree with the people saying it should have been completely different to west coast fallout. It's a weird opinion that is lazily parroted. Keep your core Fallout setting tent-pillars as long as they don't contract the geographical lore, and then use the local region to colour the aesthetic (New England horror/maritime vibe).
 
Gizmojunk said:
One can extrapolate easy reasons.
  • The original could have been toppled, and rebuilt.
  • The interior could have been reinforced.
  • [ick] The original was different for them, than for us.
My peeve, is that there is no platinum* cap on the top. :(

*The cap is aluminum, but at the time, its material was chosen because aluminum was considered more valuable than platinum.
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I visited D.C. a few times as a kid and then looked at screenshots of the ruined monument in the game. One of those trips saw me go to the IRL monument, Lincoln Memorial, Korean and Vietnam War Memorials, and Capitol Hill. My uncle, then-congressman Wayne Gilchrest (little R-MD), was supposed to help with the Capitol Hill portion of the trip but had to cancel at the last minute because his uncle died. This was a school trip back in 1996; I was in 4th grade. The other times I went there were mainly trips to the Smithsonian museums. But it still seemed jarring to see a steel frame in the FO3 monument. It's like how Disney put CLIFFS in Pocahontas. I've visited eastern Virginia. There are no cliffs there. It's flat land. If you want anything vaguely resembling cliffs, go further, toward the Appalachians. Closest I've been to anything like that is in Upstate New York, and you're not missing much there unless you enjoy mountains, waterfalls, and a bunch of hillbillies in Habsburg marriages strung out on opioids and meth.
 
The major East Coast cities would definitely be mostly craters. I also had something similar in mind to what someone else here mentioned happened to New York City/Manhattan Island etc, it being mostly flooded ruins.
There would definitely be no Pentagon fortress, it has been blasted to pieces.

I would have to check out what animals are native to the East Coast to determine what would make new exciting mutant creatures alongside new abominations.

As for factions and organizations, I would look at historical and cultural background to take inspiration from alongside various science fiction.
There would be no Enclave, they all moved to the West Coast and Poseidon Oil Rig before the War, leaving behind the government people who were not part of the Enclave.
 
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