Forum:Fallout in the UK?

Ahoy!

First post on this nice and shiny forum, and I'm surprised to not see as many suggestions like this. To the point; Though I thoroughly enjoy the Fallout Series, I have one issue with it: It's always Set in the USA.

At most I've come up with maybe the beginning, Starts off on the East Coast of the US (maybe Miami?) and your about to board a boat not too different to the "duchess gambit" (except maybe bigger. And ocean worthy.) after falling foul of the big local merc/raider group the "Gators", after killing one of their leader for raping your wife/husband/significant other. Aboard the boat, you can do your S.P.E.C.I.A.L attributes, and find out your skills by fighting a Blue-whale Mirelurk (all of which can be edited after you reach land)

Once you arrive on England's green and pleasant shores (the sort of Cornwall area), your treated to some friendly, British hospitality. Which is to say, your boat is shelled, Wifey /Hubby drowns, and you nearly do too. You drift ashore, only to be picked up by the merry old folks who bombed you. They torture you for no particular reason, tie you to a chair in a field somewhere, and are about to execute you when the local Mutated Wolf creature comes and chases them off, Leaving you still dying in a field somewhere.

As luck would have it, a nomadic tribe comes across you the next morning, patches you up (you might pick traits here, if not on the boat) and their leader (a guy named Wike) explains: The people who attacked you are (supposedly) the remnants of a Pre-war Government Group called " the round table organisation", who were to take charge of the country, should the world be burned in atomic fire. The round tables views were simple, if not Xenophobic; "the rest of the world caused this, were having nothing else to do with them" The round table organisation, were also involved in the construction of the UK's Equivalent of vaults, in case you wondered.

Wike then hands you a crossbow, a knife, and some winter worthy clothes (it gets quite chilly) and sends you on your merry way (after helping them out with some things, in return for saving you life, beasties, raiders, making some urban poisons/medicine)

With regards to the round table, you DO get to hear their side of the story. They say (after infiltration, and subsequent near defeat) that the only reason they've been quite so isolationistic is because it's worked so far, but people want their freedom. They explain that, with a clever pre-war doo-hickey, planted on the highest point around (that'd be up to you to find, by the way) they can transmit a subliminal brainwave manipulator, to calm people down, and be more docile (with the exception of cases of extreme aggression I.E raiders/ beasts)therefore can be instructed to rebuild cities/ buildings.

And The end battle would be the Gators coming in full force to the UK looking for you, and you can fight them with the round table's small army, or the various raider, slaver, trader villages you've come across during your travels.

So It'd be up to you, help The Round Table organisation enslave blighty, and get her shining once again, or let it end up like the rest of the world, where violence and sin reign.

let me know what you think

Peace out

Hrafn Wulf 03:55, December 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry sir. Fallout revolves around the US because one of the BIG themes of it is the American Dream and how our own advancement with our weapons to protect our Dream destroyed us and how we adapted it to the post apocalyptic America we made. So setting a Fallout anywhere else is out of the question. I'm sorry. MoonshadowDark


 * Fallout has a lot going on and need not restrict itself to a single theme. I wouldn't say it's out of the question to have a game set elsewhere, just a little unlikely, seeing as how nations on the other continents are barely mentioned except for China.  I am curious about how things are doing elsewhere in the world, but there's enough going on in the USA and really not enough need to look outside it. Chintzmas 04:51, December 11, 2010 (UTC)

personally i can't see fallout being set anywhere other than America, perhaps china since they were directly related with what happened (can anyone else spell "finished up in the US and goes to China to get some payback?") but the idea of having only 2 options, enslave peoples minds or use raiders to take over, its like evil vrs evil, what good, singlehandedly killing the raiders and the round table so the generic commoners could live in peace? Sounga 08:36, December 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Payback for what? China got nuked too.  Plus do people who grew up knowing only life in the wasteland even hold a grudge against a country for what it did to a country that hasn't existed for two hundred years?
 * Good point. MoonshadowDark

i just thought of that because i figured hey, the only other country directly related to this stuff was china so if your going to be going to another country, i could picture in that scenario the enclave, remnants of americas government would maybe be besieging the chinese remnants, or whatever u want to call them, still fallout outside of america doesn't sound that good to me either way. Sounga 19:03, December 11, 2010 (UTC)

I would like to see a Fallout outside America but only as a DLC like game, that you download from xbox live or whatever the PS3 uses. Only on the scale, as Point Lookout though 86.163.9.99 11:48, December 11, 2010 (UTC) Sec 19

Aww, shoot me down man... bummer. Though I don't really want to campaign for a broken idea, It'd be refreshing. 'sall i'm saying, instead of hearing the same 5 sort of accents.

@Sounga the idea was to use every faction you've met, not necessarily just raiders, you could kill all the raiders, and do your good deed, but it'd make the last fight harder, see, it's all about moral Grey areas. But yeah, I see your points. I'd still buy it though. Hrafn Wulf 15:04, December 11, 2010 (UTC)

Only if the Fallout world's UK has stayed stuck in the "swinging sixties" (Much like how the US stayed stuck in the "atomic age"). I could see it working better as a DLC than a full-blown game, though. --GaussRifle 22:17, December 11, 2010 (UTC)