Fallout 5’s location will be paramount to it’s success. We’ve found five cities that we think could create incredible post-apocalyptic maps to explore.
Where do you want Fallout 5 to be set? Countless places have been called out but one has risen above
Nashville area wouldn't be bad tbh, but I'd prefer to take that back to the west coast.
Pacific northwest. Bethesda seems to want a verdant apocalypse these days. Oregon is a low priority nuclear target. Plenty of lush forest with a bit of metro area thrown in. Obviously I'm biased.
Games not set in the USA would be nice, the only people obsessed with the US are people from the US
GB: "We'd love for the next Fallout game to let us explore the post-nuclear remains of any of these five locations."
Toronto or Montreal. You have the lake or the river and you get to play with winter in the wasteland.
Would have been nice to see if Canada had their own version of Vault Tech before they were annexed
Vaults were commissioned in 2054 while the process of Canada being took over by the US started in 2059, so there was a good 5 years without any issues to see if Canada as its own nation would try to copy Vault Tech but even then they weren't fully annexed until 2072 so anything could have happened in the background
It would be cool to see rivals for Vault Tech in the world especially from Canada, the UK and Europe.
Their own different kind of vaults, their own variation of the Vault Boy mascot, own style, different brand of food, different computer terminals and locks which mean completely different minigames, their own rival versions of Robco resulting in different robots etc. Least it keeps things fresh and there's a lore reason why things are different rather than just saying "yeah this region of the US has different hacking / lockpicking, just because"
I think Japan would be a great departure from what we've had before, and makes sense with what happened in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. It would be interesting to explore an alternate history, imagining what Japanese technology had evolved into in a retro post-apocalyptic world vs what Japanese tech actually looks like today in the real world.
Yeah, I'd love that, or any modern Asian city for that matter. Hong Kong could be amazing as well. Just let the disaster' hit in modern times or 10 years into the future, and then set the game 25-30 years orso from now ...
A bit early to get excited. Haven't even seen any gameplay of TES and we are talking Fallout 5. Which probably releases around 2032 or something.
But would like to see one a bit further into the future where they might have gotten further on rebuilding the world. Still a Wasteland, but citites are more populated and living areas are less filled with ancient junk and skeletons. They cleaned up and moved forth. But maybe Cities are isolated because of the dangers and lawlessness of the wasteland between the populated areas.
Kinda like taking Fallout 2 and go further into the future.
Choices similar to New Vegas but better, better physics, current graphics, and solid combat. It can be in any location if they include this.
Fallout creator Tim Cain has voiced concerns about Bethesda's current trajectory with the modern Fallout games, says he is worried about Fallout 5.
I think bethesada goes back to the way I was for fallout 5. Fallout 4 was an extremely fun game imo but it felt really dumbed down. Can't wait for 5
At the rate Bethesda is publishing their main single player RPGs, Fallout 5 won't be out 'til 2033, and that's if we're lucky.
Same way I felt with Skyrim. Way too dumbed down. I knew they messed up when they made Death Claws fodder.
You kill a 15 foot Death Claw at level 3 in Fallout 4. They just made the most terrifying enemy a pushover.
Death Claws were properly terrifying in New Vega. Didn't matter what level you were on.
We need a new Vegas 2. Fallout under Bethesda just feels weird. 3, 4 and 76 follow their own east coast plot and feels out of place even all these years later. New Vegas was the last real fallout.
I think Bethesda misunderstood a lot of the original vision of Fallout (e.g., retrofuturism and the whole point behind bottle caps as currency). I'm not a fallout player, I just watched vids of the earlier games and the new ones in an attempt to get interested in it, so take my word with skepticism.
But yeah. They've made it into their own product now and it could just be that Cain would have done things differently. But it's not like they're pumping them out. You get one numbered game per generation, so I think it's fair to say there's going to be some thoughtfulness before you see Fallout 5. As long as there's no rush, which I think Starfield buys them a healthy amount of time.
@DarXyde “I think Bethesda misunderstood a lot of the original vision of Fallout (e.g., retrofuturism and the whole point behind bottle caps as currency).” A genuine question, what was the original vision and point of retrofuturism?
I’ve played Fallout 3 & 4, and judging from the narrated intro “War… never ends” and multiple scorched copies of the book Paradise Lost, I thought the meaning is straight forward comment about humanity ruining the world - and some DLC messaging about how when people are united they can be a strong force for good.
The retrofuturism I took at face value as a stylistic choice that contrasts the gritty post-apocalyptic world with the cheery optimism of the fifties.
VenomUK,
Sure, no worries. I'll try to explain what I mean. Retrofuturism would be like what we think the future would look like from today. Good example of that would be something like The Jetsons, where people in the past/present imagine what the future would be like (in that case, it was 2062 which was a century after the series premiered).
I had to double-check, but the first Fallout apparently took place in 2161, following a nuclear war in 2077. The way the world was actually seemed like "the future, according to someone in the 1950s". When Bethesda took over, this was continued, but it slowly integrated the 60s/70s aesthetics. It gets weird and confusing by the time you get to Fallout 76, which actually predates Fallout 1. For some reason, this game has a 70s aesthetic, despite being closer to the Great War... So... Did everything regress, or is Bethesda just moving forward in the decades with every iteration?
Maybe it's intentional, but it seems like they didn't really get it.
Vegas was the fallout that I just couldn't get into ... obviously that's just my opinion.
I’m so tired of hearing “make new Vegas 2”. Not every movie or game needs a sequel. Just do something new! Use creativity and not nostalgia for once.
True, the vegas lore of the fallout universe has been explored. It's better to visit other cities.....like Chicago or Miami.
I’d love New York City, London, or Tokyo. I doubt they’d leave the states though.
When people say “New Vegas 2” they just mean a spiritual sequel
A new location…that’s all
I know a lot of people and have read articles about what the fans want it a lot of them really mean new Vegas 2 literally.
Do they though? I'd still be okay with New Vegas 2 being in Vegas.. just be more in-depth, add the Grand Canyon, maybe even another nearby city.
Yeah Bethesda have really started to simplify their RPG games
They took so much stuff out of Skyrim compared to Oblivion and Fallout 4 was so dumbed down compared to Fallout 3. I enjoyed them but you can’t deny that they want to become more accessible.
When I was younger I had to restart and go through the sewer tutorial level of Oblivion like 6 times or something because I never nailed down my character correctly. It took time but I got there and I learned from it.
Agreed, loved Oblivion and FO3, found Skyrim and FO4 to be tedious. That's why I'm not allowing myself to get too excited for Starfield.
Thas pretty much exactly what I was talking about. Fallout was pretty accessible to begin with well the bethesada ones, idk why they dumbed down 4 so much
Yeah. Kinda moot eh? Maybe don’t sell your creations if want creative control.
London would be good spec witb all the Subways and big Ben, buckingham Palace so on.
Still waiting for the F4 Complete edition to be released :)
While it's nice to think about Fallout 5, considering ES6 is like a 1025 game FO5 will most likely be a 2040 title which may actually be post apocalypse if Trump and Kim get their way.
I would like to see
San Francisco..
Alaska..
Colorado