Fallout Online

[Purkake]

Better not give it to any East-European developers then

 

The logistics would be kind of problematic as well, you can't just make a few square kilometer map and stick all of Europe's bigger cities on it...

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

  Purkake said:

Better not give it to any East-European developers then

 

The logistics would be kind of problematic as well, you can't just make a few square kilometer map and stick all of Europe's bigger cities on it...

Then pick a major city.

 

I vote for London.

[WorstUsernameEver]

I honestly can't see Fallout working in a european setting, it's too much tied with the idealized american 50s, the red scare and all of that.

Even if you do a retrofuturistic game set in London, it would still feel too different, or at least, it would for me.

[Morgoth]

London/UK would lend itself well to a PA setting. An Action RPG a'la Doomsday meets 28 days later would be kinda cool.

[Purkake]

Hellgate: London ruined a PA London for me.

 

You could set it in D

[Oner]

Osterfest with yodeling ghouls and supermutants serving beer!

[Ausir]

  WorstUsernameEver said:

I honestly can't see Fallout working in a european setting, it's too much tied with the idealized american 50s, the red scare and all of that.

Even if you do a retrofuturistic game set in London, it would still feel too different, or at least, it would for me.

 

There was red scare in Europe as well. As well as retro looking visions of the future.

Edited July 6, 2010 by Ausir

[Gizmo]

Imagine a Fallout (V1) game purposely (and humorously) designed as the "other side" of the war, not set in America (still based on 50's idealism ~just not the US's).

Could it have worked? Maybe with the right folks making it.

 

I think it could have been neat, and would likely have it installed now had it been made.

[WorstUsernameEver]

  Ausir said:

There was red scare in Europe as well. As well as retro looking visions of the future.

 

True, but that wasn't really my point, my point is that Fallout is tied to the United States.

Keep it out from the USA and it's not the same game, like it or not.

[Volourn]

Nah. Not true.

[Tigranes]

Actually, a postapocalyptic Africa would have been amazing IMO - that's something I'd love to see done with a OTS/FPP, 3D fallout. There will be extremely remote areas where the small population and their environment was never really in touch with technology, and were not so affected by the apocalypse, either; more 'urban' areas that do know about it but were not targeted by bombs and become the new metropolis; devastated areas; disruption to wildlife and nature; some refugees from the West that made it to Africa or were stuck when the bombs hit; etc.

[Mamoulian War]

  Volourn said:

EA, ..., Activision, ...

 

You're joking, right?

[Purkake]

  Tigranes said:

Actually, a postapocalyptic Africa would have been amazing IMO - that's something I'd love to see done with a OTS/FPP, 3D fallout. There will be extremely remote areas where the small population and their environment was never really in touch with technology, and were not so affected by the apocalypse, either; more 'urban' areas that do know about it but were not targeted by bombs and become the new metropolis; devastated areas; disruption to wildlife and nature; some refugees from the West that made it to Africa or were stuck when the bombs hit; etc.

So it would be a modern Africa simulator?

 

 

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just kidding

 

[Walsingham]

Yeah, sadly I can't see Africa being that different.

 

What about Paris? In terms of the people things happening in the '50s that would rule.

 

On the other hand, the UK/London would have far more creepy infrastructure. All the different architectures, and there would be the equivalent to the Enclave, and god knows what that would be like. I'm thinking the Armitage strips from 2000AD. Quatermass and the Pit... Sherlock Holmes... Could work.

[Purkake]

Plus everyone would have a crazy accent.

[Amentep]

  Walsingham said:

Yeah, sadly I can't see Africa being that different.

 

What about Paris? In terms of the people things happening in the '50s that would rule.

 

On the other hand, the UK/London would have far more creepy infrastructure. All the different architectures, and there would be the equivalent to the Enclave, and god knows what that would be like. I'm thinking the Armitage strips from 2000AD. Quatermass and the Pit... Sherlock Holmes... Could work.

 

The Daleks Invasion of Earth and Daleks Invasion of Earth 2150 AD...

[Ausir]

  WorstUsernameEver said:

  Ausir said:

There was red scare in Europe as well. As well as retro looking visions of the future.

 

True, but that wasn't really my point, my point is that Fallout is tied to the United States.

Keep it out from the USA and it's not the same game, like it or not.

 

It's not as if it will ever be "the same game" anymore anyways.

[WorstUsernameEver]

  Ausir said:

  WorstUsernameEver said:

  Ausir said:

There was red scare in Europe as well. As well as retro looking visions of the future.

 

True, but that wasn't really my point, my point is that Fallout is tied to the United States.

Keep it out from the USA and it's not the same game, like it or not.

 

It's not as if it will ever be "the same game" anymore anyways.

 

So , hum, let's make it as different as possible for **** and giggles?

Can't say I like the strategy.

[Gizmo]

  WorstUsernameEver said:

  Ausir said:

  WorstUsernameEver said:

  Ausir said:

There was red scare in Europe as well. As well as retro looking visions of the future.

 

True, but that wasn't really my point, my point is that Fallout is tied to the United States.

Keep it out from the USA and it's not the same game, like it or not.

 

It's not as if it will ever be "the same game" anymore anyways.

 

So , hum, let's make it as different as possible for **** and giggles?

Can't say I like the strategy.

, but it has irrevocably/undeniably, already happened Edited July 7, 2010 by Gizmo

[Purkake]

Your fantasy Fallout 3 looks kind of crappy.

 

The Redneck Rampage mod looks way better.

[Gizmo]

  Purkake said:

Your fantasy Fallout 3 looks kind of crappy.

 

The Redneck Rampage mod looks way better.

Of course it looks crappy ; whadya expect from an hours [unpaid] work. It was just a concept proof. (using Dawn of War screen captures)

Imagine a Witcher style TPP game, done post apoc, with NPC dialogs like Fallout 1 had, but in this kind of facial quality.

 

When FO3 enters a menu/dialog, everything else stops cold... and they have only one NPC on-screen ~ this could have been a single animated head (of the GPU taxing type), and really impressed the fans. Fallout 3 (IMO) should have been Fallout 2 made fully DX9 3d-rotatable ISO, in the style of Witcher and NWN, and improved every single thing about it... the heads, the animations, the depth of story, and interactivity.

 

~Everything that made FO2 fun, but improved. Not everything that made Oblivion fun, but improved.

 

[ btw, the face is a youtube link]

Edited July 8, 2010 by Gizmo

[Purkake]

The talking heads thing in FO1/2 was a necessity of the time, I don't think it would fly these days. Just adding decent facial animation with some body movement thrown in should be good enough.

[HoonDing]

  Purkake said:

The talking heads thing in FO1/2 was a necessity of the time, I don't think it would fly these days. Just adding decent facial animation with some boob movement thrown in should be good enough.

fixed

[Purkake]

So you would like a more Japanese take on the series?

[HoonDing]

I was thinking more about Bloodlines, but... why not.