What’s your ideal post-New Vegas game?

[PaxVenire]

A lot of people who write fan fiction whether on paper or in their heads come up with Fallout games set before New Vegas, probably because there’s massive gaps in time to fill in that also allows for more post-apocalyptic storytelling over post-post-apocalyptic like New Vegas, but also probably because everyone has an idea in their head over which New Vegas canon is best and solidifying one seems criminal after all this time.

But I’m interested, if there were to be a post-New Vegas game set in the West, what the community has colloquially dubbed “New Vegas 2” what would you like to see? And don’t worry about tiptoeing around New Vegas, let me know what ending you want to see canonized and how you’d advance the story.

Personally, I’d like to see a Mr. House ending canonized but also how it fails. I’m not against New Vegas collapsing and as a matter of fact think it can make for a great setting, but I’d want it to make sense. I’m not sure what the TV show has in store for us with S2, but the idea of New Vegas going under isn’t intrinsically bad imo. If Benny, the Legion, or NCR couldn’t kill the Courier, then the question is who can, to which I think it’d make sense for Mr. House himself to do so. Shower your lapdog with praise, wealth, luxury, and when he’s content, stab him in the back. Mr. House shows us in New Vegas that he has everything planned out to a T, and so it would have to be a real wild card thrown at him to shake his plans up. Perhaps a united Brotherhood war with him over his actions against the Mojave Chapter, perhaps a new antagonistic force all together, I don’t know as the thought all together is just a concept.

Another idea I could see being interesting is a game set in the Four Corners Commonwealth post-Van Buren where the Legion canonically lost Vegas and without Caesar or Lanius, is still kicking but can be severely exploited by you, the player. Perhaps another force can pose a significant threat to this newly humbled Legion such as a midwestern invasion force perhaps comprised of the Tactics rogue BOS and Enclave remnants marrying into one new faction or a completely new one from Texas.

There’s also the idea of a game set in Wyoming where the Great Khans and Followers of the Apocalypse can truly carve out an empire of their own in a canonized ending of New Vegas where the Courier convinces them to leave the Mojave and start their own prospects. I’ve seen a pretty interesting YouTube video about this as well as AtomicPostman’s PnP campaign setting involving this idea, but I also understand it’s not a popular concept for some.

These ideas are merely concepts and aren’t fleshed out and I’m sure holes can be picked apart, but this was mainly to give some ideas. What would you like to see from a continued story in the West?

 

[Hardboiled Android]

Prequel. Not really interested in seeing the setting go forward after New Vegas. The Boneyard always struck me as the most interesting place to set a Fallout story between 1 and New Vegas, especially for a 3D game since you can have the dense urban ruins and real-life landmarks that all of the sickos out there love so much.

 

[PaxVenire]

Prequel. Not really interested in seeing the setting go forward after New Vegas. The Boneyard always struck me as the most interesting place to set a Fallout story between 1 and New Vegas, especially for a 3D game since you can have the dense urban ruins and real-life landmarks that all of the sickos out there love so much.

The Boneyard would be cool and it’s surprising we haven’t gotten something set there sooner than the show, which call it Shady Sands. Perhaps if Bethesda’s original plans of making a West Coast sequel were realized over Washington D.C. we’d have gotten a game set in L.A. sooner than the show. Purely speculative though. As for not wanting to see a post-New Vegas setting, I used to be of this mindset but there’s still just so much that could be done with the setting that New Vegas acting as an ending to the originals is a bit dreary even if fitting.

 

[Hardboiled Android]

The Boneyard would be cool and it’s surprising we haven’t gotten something set there sooner than the show, which call it Shady Sands. Perhaps if Bethesda’s original plans of making a West Coast sequel were realized over Washington D.C. we’d have gotten a game set in L.A. sooner than the show. Purely speculative though.

I do think I've heard tell of a pitch for a Fallout game after 3 - Maybe it even came from Tim Cain? - to have a 3d game set in the Boneyard where you're fighting hordes of ghouls, basically a zombie shooter. Which sounds like an awful idea to me.

 

[PaxVenire]

I do think I've heard tell of a pitch for a Fallout game after 3 - Maybe it even came from Tim Cain? - to have a 3d game set in the Boneyard where you're fighting hordes of ghouls, basically a zombie shooter. Which sounds like an awful idea to me.

With the way the show is going, that sounds like it's still a possibility lmao. A Fallout Dead Rising. The show even gave us Zombrex lmao.

 

[TheKingofVault14]

I do think I've heard tell of a pitch for a Fallout game after 3 - Maybe it even came from Tim Cain? - to have a 3d game set in the Boneyard where you're fighting hordes of ghouls, basically a zombie shooter. Which sounds like an awful idea to me.

Imagine if they actually did this in the style of Call of Duty Zombies, that would be interesting yet pretty lame at the same time.

 

[laclongquan]

Caesar's Legion after Caesar died (for whatever reason/cause)

That would mean a huge stretch of land in tribals' hand, so the style turn back to tribal theme. There will be city (ruins) but the theme will not be too modern because tribals dont do modern. Also CL lands will be far from NCR/Mojave, so the influence from that direction will be small, meaning new style

Fallout New Vegas 2: Colorado Myth sounds about right.

 

[The_Proletarian]

The theme of the game is that it's impossible for humanity to restore civilization after the apocalypse. No matter how hard the NCR attempted, their republic would eventually fail, and humanity could at best hope to have an existence as tribals. The pre-war tech should almost be entirely gone by this point in time and the massive exhaustion of natural resources before the war would make it impossible for civilization to return. No conditions exists for civilised society to ever return. The ambitious project of NCR turned out to be a dead end and the republic crumbles.

You are part of the last generation of humans being literate on planet Earth. There will be no more schools. All books have decayed beyond being readable and all pre-war electronic equipment have ceased to function. No new can be manufactured.

What do you do when society around you collapses and everything returns to a tribal state? You're amidst the fall of the once great republic. Is there anything else to fight for than your own survival? This is the last Fallout game ever.

 

[eissa]

Focus on Southern Coast. AKA the bible belt. AKA ex-confederate states. So Texas, New Orleans, Missisipi, Alabama, Florida, etc.

 

[SquidWard]

Prequel. Not really interested in seeing the setting go forward after New Vegas. The Boneyard always struck me as the most interesting place to set a Fallout story between 1 and New Vegas, especially for a 3D game since you can have the dense urban ruins and real-life landmarks that all of the sickos out there love so much.

Focus on Southern Coast. AKA the bible belt. AKA ex-confederate states. So Texas, New Orleans, Missisipi, Alabama, Florida, etc.

Both of these I agree with heavily. New Vegas is pushing very closely to the time periods where random threats become less of an issue and conflict between states becomes to focal point. Sure, there'd be the occasional mutant that threatens some small town right outside of protection of a state or raiders in the outskirts but eventually, people will demand their rulers start providing consistent protection from everyday threats until they've almost entirely disappeared.

So going to a time before New Vegas is the safest and personally most desired. I'd also like to see things entirely new rather than continue the random East Coast following a break-off chapter of the Brotherhood or even continuing the NCR's efforts to expand Eastward. Watching the NCR grow is fine but concluding that would either reset too much of what's been done or would end up changing the identity and tone of the games. Either they are massively defeated and exist as a smaller state or die off and it feels like their build up as a powerful state is thrown to the wayside or they are successful and take a decent share of the USA and start manufacturing items, eliminating wildlife mutants that threaten their borders, and start executing and/or imprisoning raiders and gangs. Those type of encounters would be far less while you are in their borders when they are established well enough. Too much of that and there's not much to do in the game besides maybe take part in random street fights? Never go into their territory? Eh.

Go to the South or South-East, show us the rest of the world's interesting locales and stories that could be done without interfering with what happened in California and Nevada. Or mid-West even, I'd be down to see Caesar's Legion's growth over the course of a few games that lead up to New Vegas's events.

 

[yomegonightcore]

just about anything with emil and todd's and the tards responsible for the aborted abomination that is the amazon series' meddling meaty fingers faaaar away would be acceptable at this point.

to seriously answer your question though, the most amazing and damning thing about nv is how great those endings are at taking things in literally any conceivable interesting direction. you could easily make the case for full tim caine mode and have house take humanity to the stars, or go full naugrim with something akin to DUST, which idk what the collective opinion on this forum is of DUST if there is one but i do feel like it's exceptionally well done for what it is and then some, but of course it can only exist thanks to avellone's excellent work with dead money. point is you get almost choice paralysis at having your brain lit on fire by all the possibilities. it's enough to make like a tabletop setting out of, really, like a cyberpunk red situation. real testament to the strength of new vegas' narrative and world design

i do know one thing, which is that whatever happens i wanna work the 80s tribe somewhere in there. something about em fascinates me even though there isn't much extant lore for them that im aware of