The Legion Returning?

mrchaos said:
The only way I can see the Legion returning is has divided factions figthing between themselfs after Caesar dies, each side saying they´re the ´´true`` legion and the others are traitors.
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Still not bad, could make for an interesting setting, what with Lanius loyalists, Vulpes Vultures and Caesar's Chosen.
 
If there's a prequel, I'd much rather have one almost immediately after the bombs dropped. Think of Randall Carter from Honest Hearts and imagine you're playing somebody like him.

It wouldn't necessarily be core region, but a lot of the basic Fallout and Bethesdian assumptions of the gameworld work better when the Great War is still a fresh reality. Stuff like cans of beans, raiders and radiation become realistic concerns and not just wallpaper. And it's fair to assume that most raiders would actually have believable motivations because they're just doing what you're trying to do: Survive.

I'm also going to go with the school of thought that New Vegas mostly accomplished a lot of the stuff Van Buren did. (And seriously, yet another genocidal megalomaniac for a villain? Yawn.)
 
DVL said:
If there's a prequel, I'd much rather have one almost immediately after the bombs dropped. Think of Randall Carter from Honest Hearts and imagine you're playing somebody like him.

It wouldn't necessarily be core region, but a lot of the basic Fallout and Bethesdian assumptions of the gameworld work better when the Great War is still a fresh reality. Stuff like cans of beans, raiders and radiation become realistic concerns and not just wallpaper. And it's fair to assume that most raiders would actually have believable motivations because they're just doing what you're trying to do: Survive.

I'm also going to go with the school of thought that New Vegas mostly accomplished a lot of the stuff Van Buren did. (And seriously, yet another genocidal megalomaniac for a villain? Yawn.)
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Actually that would be a great idea. You should expand on that.
 
Woops, I mean Randall Clark, not Carter. Thought I'd throw that in there because it's bothering me.

I really don't trust myself to expand on it. I don't really know a lot about the culture or geography of the United States except by very broad stereotypes. And I imagine a good writer would've done research on stuff like this. If for example, I want a creepy Doomsday cult as antagonists somewhere, then I'd probably have to look for real-world examples involving natural disasters, plagues or just any time period that people thought things were going to shit.

Hurricane Katrina is also probably a good example of what happens when the public order breaks down and some people really did think the world ended.
I've read at least one opinion from (from a survivalist prepper's perspective admittedly) about the subject and it was pretty fascinating stuff. He pointed out that a lot of the really obvious and in-your-face gungho gunslinging and camouflage run-to-the-hills stuff was pretty stupid. Not that he didn't have some questionably crank ideas of his own, but you get the idea.
Like you might think you're shooting at a pseudocommando raider. But oops, actually. That guy was a cop. And you failed to notice five of his buddies near him.
You look like a pretty big asshole then.
 
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Considering I live in Mississippi, very close to the New Orleans area, I can definitely say Hurricane Katrina was almost like the end of the world for us, definitely. In fact, the South has never been the same since then. Before Hurricane Katrina hit, for instance, I could go down to the store and fill up my car for 10 dollars, and get a whole cart full of groceries for 100 dollars. Now it takes nearly 40 dollars to fill my car up, and 300 dollars for just half a cart of groceries.

If you want a creepy Doomsday cult, there's a lot of those here in the Deep South. I'd love to see Obsidian tackle Fallout: New Orleans considering the last game their forefather was working on was Fallout Tactics 2, which was going to be set in post-war Florida.
 
When people started talking about a game set after the war, for some reason I started thinking of what it would be like if you were in Disney Land when the bombs fell. Is Disney World Florida isolated enough to survive nuclear Armageddon? Would there be people visiting, and what would happen to them? I heard there are underground tunnels for the costumed characters to walk through. Might help survive the initial Fallout.

Sorry, idea just came to me so I thought I'd throw it out there. Fallout 3 and 4 are theme parks so I thought, what if we had a game set in an actual theme park?
 
It depends on whether Orlando would be a high priority target (or a fascinating setting for a Fallout game). Either way I would love to go through a gutted disneyland rip-off, as long as they keep costumes away, I could never play a game where a fucked up dude in a Goofy costume came rushing at me, that shit would scar me for life.
 
Izak said:
It depends on whether Orlando would be a high priority target (or a fascinating setting for a Fallout game). Either way I would love to go through a gutted disneyland rip-off, as long as they keep costumes away, I could never play a game where a fucked up dude in a Goofy costume came rushing at me, that shit would scar me for life.
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You've ruined my childhood man. Now there's always going to be raiders in Goofy costumes chasing me in my sleep.
 
I just think the "survival just after the bombs fell" has been done, not only in the Randall Clark story but also in games like METRO 2033. What makes Fallout unique is that you see humanity starting to get back on its feet, rather than the initial days of kill-or-be-killed survival.

Being in Disneyland just after the bombs fell would at least give a more colourful and surreal atmosphere. Or we could just do the old fashioned Fallout style of seeing it all a few years later. I can totally see Disneyland becoming a city of some kind in a post-apocalyptic setting. It's on the fringes of Orlando so it has a chance of surviving an atomic blast, although I'm sure plastic shit like Disney Castle probably won't fare too well after a few years. Depends on the military importance of Orlando I guess.
 
Dr Fallout said:
Actually there would be less. And not necessarily brown.

And Bethesda isn't writing, which mean there can be a well written world and story.
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If it was in a area where the bombs didn´t hit and with minimal radiation, yes it could work.
 
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