Potential for Fallout: New York

New York could be pretty cool, the raider gangs could be like the gangs from 'The Warriors' and the city could be a cross between Reno and the Den in terms of how much of a shithole it is.
Areas without significant cities seem somewhat boring, Fallout had Los Angeles and Bakersfield, Fallout 2 had Reno and Shady Sands, Van Buren was going to have Denver and Boulder City and, New Vegas had Vegas, obviously. What does Alaska and Wyoming offer? Cheyenne and, Anchorage are the two largest cities and they're both quite small.
 
Izak said:
Well that's blatant racism, besides Brooklyn's reputation is overblown.
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Admitting that a Borough has a lot of gang activity is racism? Can you please explain apart from shouting the word of shame?

Racism:the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
 
Hmm, Dr. Fallout got my intention correctly, Brooklyn's not a slum, it contains a couple of slums but to classify all Brooklynites (is that the word for people who live in Brooklyn?) as members of vicious gangs is kind of racist.
 
Izak said:
Hmm, Dr. Fallout got my intention correctly, Brooklyn's not a slum, it contains a couple of slums but to classify all Brooklynites (is that the word for people who live in Brooklyn?) as members of vicious gangs is kind of racist.
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Yeah obviously Brooklyn has large middle class areas, But theres some real scumbag gangs too who terrorize people even today. Imagine what these gangs would do to the people if the bombs dropped. I was not suggesting that everyone in Brooklyn is a thug.
 
Personally I doubt the US would allow gang violence so close to home base. Remember, they started doing military crackdowns... though then again, the chaos could increase more gangs.

It depends on how zealous the army was.
 
Damn right, if you're going to set a BGS game in NYC and shoot everything in sight it might as well be done with some style.
 
Each borough could have a distinct taste since they are all seperated, Could be great contrast between them. Of course the setting doesn't matter as much as the quality of dialogue and story telling (plz revert back to fo new vegas dialogue systme)
 
I prefer Bethesda's settings on the East Coast to the West Coast settings. New Vegas was set in Nevada, which is a huge desert. So for me it's not as appealing for a post-apocalyptic setting because it was a desert before and after the apocalypse. While I loved New Vegas overall more than Fallout 3, I liked Fallout 3's atmosphere and ambience a lot more.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
I prefer Bethesda's settings on the East Coast to the West Coast settings. New Vegas was set in Nevada, which is a huge desert. So for me it's not as appealing for a post-apocalyptic setting because it was a desert before and after the apocalypse. While I loved New Vegas overall more than Fallout 3, I liked Fallout 3's atmosphere and ambience a lot more.
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Even though Fallout 3's ambiance doesn't always make sense... I mean, various memorials survive nuke blasts.
 
Maybe it's just me, because everyone loved Fallout 3's atmosphere, but I never cared for it because so many buildings were intact. It just feels so designed. Like it was built deliberately to be emotionally manipulative.

Personally I prefer the desert, and the new settlements built in the wastes. If we do get a New York Fallout game, I'd want the place to have been blown to high hell, maybe only one or two pre-war structures left. That and a Escape From New York reference. Other than that it should be a new world building upon the ruins of the old, not people camping out in actual ruins.
 
Gaaah. No. Personal opinion, but New York City is the last place I would want to see a Fallout game taking place in - no offense to New Yorkers. It is the blandest, most overused location ever used in fiction. Real-life NYC aside, not seeing it again would be too soon. Movies and games have drained that well dry, anywhere else would be much better - even anywhere else in New York state.

Besides, in a post-apocalyptic environment, it would be the same urban decay with collapsed skyscrapers and subway tunnels we already got with Fallout 3, and different landmarks is not nearly enough to justify a return.

NotAcasul said:
New York city is the biggest target on the entire eastern seaboard without any real military protection.

New York city doesn't exist anymore.
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There's also this.
 
I'd like the next Fallout to be in a region 500 000 km² large, that should be big enough for a few interesting factions to compete, settlement, trade networks, etc... and not just a story about a dispute between neighborhood because the municipal waterworks stopped working for the last 100s years, or a cheeky neighbor pranking everybody with its automated speaking dolls.
 
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