Ive heard some rumors about Fallout 4 coming out sometime this year. Is that true, or is it the media just trying to trick us

It is all speculation at this point. It could be true of course that it is being worked on and it is very likely. Fallout is a big name franchise that brings big money for Bethsoft so there will definitely be a sequel at some point.

It seems unlikely that it'd be released any time soon since it hasn't even officially been announced yet though. My hope is that Bethsoft takes some tips from Obsidian when it comes to weapons and factions though but keeps FO3 style dungeons.

If they decide to come out with a fallout 4, I hope it's good.

Though I'd prefer if they worked on skyrim DLC's first

Wait, don't they have two different teams for the elder scrolls series and the fallout series?

So far the closest thing we have to evidence is, I think, the actor who played Threedog tweeting that he might be doing more work as his character; Bethesda then said that it may not necessarily be Fallout 4 but instead something to do with a planned, official Fallout TV series.

Rumour mill seems to be pointing that the next location for it will Bowston. Sorry, sorry, Baawstun

With the PS4 just announced, I have little doubt that any new Fallout will be on the next next-gen platforms...

The last snippet I'd heard was that Bethesda had been seen sniffing around Boston at the time ACIII was coming out...

Will look forward to seeing what they do with it though...

Well, through the games mags I will at least... ...

I've got my fingers crossed they'll release a version for the 360 and the PS3 as well. Either that, or I'm going to have to shove some new chips into my PC.

Ah yes, but the PS4/X-Box 720 ones will be so epic-ally different that any of the lesser versions will be not worth playing... ...

I doubt that they are going to release anything this year. It has only been a year since Skryim, and as far as I know it is the same people who work on both games. I know that Todd Howard was on FO3 for example, and Skyrim is packed with things from FO3. 2014 is when we will probably see FO4.

I have been hearing Baaastan too for the location of the next FO game. That is kind of disappointing. We have been all over the U.S. already. I would have preferred to see something set outside America, like in London. That way they could work in a blue police call box for an easter egg...

Eeeeeh, I don't know. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a Fallout game in Europe, especially in London seeing as that's where I grew up and where I live right now, but the thing that makes Fallout Fallout is the constant sense of Retro Hyper-Americana that permeats it. A Fallout game set in London or somewhere else would probably be a good post-apocalyptic game provided Bethesda don't suffer a complete brainfart, but it wouldn't really be a true Fallout game, I feel.

They'd actually have to create lore for what happened outside the US, which at this point nobody knows. It is a big mystery what happened overseas. Not to mention that London wouldn't be saturated with guns like the USA.

I do see why people love foreign settings though, probably why I enjoy Metro 2033 so much.

This why I would love to see a Fallout game somewhere else. I would love to see what happened to Europe. We know that the Euros were at war with the Middle East over the last drop of oil in the world. But that is it. Did they go all the nuclear cars, nuclear toasters, nuclear toothbrushes... route that America did? Or something completely different?

One of the things about FONV that puts me off is that it is back in almost the same old place again. The NCR, the Great Khans, didn't we do this already? We have had five Fallout games set in America (FO1-03, Tactics, and NV). It feels old and stale now. One American wasteland looks the same as the next. I would like a breath of fresh air in the franchise, rather than more of the same old thing.

As much as of like to see Fallout in another country, it would also be pretty cool if they had the next fallout setting in New York. It would be quote an experience seeing New York after an atomic war....

Agreed. I imagine with the Skyrim engine that I assume Bethesda will use, plus whatever the next gen consoles can offer, I imagine the result will be spectacular... I mean, I know we've all seem various incarnations, but who wouldn't want to see a post-war Statue of Liberty?

This. What better way to truly mine Mustard's retro hyper-Americana (nice term btw) than by setting Fallout 4 in Boston. Imagine the possibilities in exploring Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Roxbury, Southy (which just screams for Deathclaws imho), and Hyde Park. I can just see facing down ghouls or whatever in the Old State House, The Old North Church, Paul Revere’s House, or Quincy Market.

I came into the Fallout series with Fallout 3, so the post apocalyptic US of A hasn't become old hat for me yet. I imagine that, if I had played the other games, I'd be right next to SubRosa calling for a setting somewhere other than America.

But wouldn't it be far more interesting to have Fallout 4 set in new york? Imagine exploring the big apple! You have the empire state building, broadway, times square, the statue of liberty, and skyscrapers! It would be simply epic!"

I personally like the idea of the next game being set in Boston. I think it'd be cool to get a look into foreign cities too though. I would like to see it as a spinoff type series though like "Fallout: London" or something similar.

At least give us a ghoul immigrant from abroad to give us a look into what happened across the ocean according to Fallout lore. It may be that they've left it a mystery intentionally so that we'd be left to wonder...imagination is a powerful thing.

Or better yet, at least give us a ghoul race to play as!

New York hasn't been done enough for you yet! Every franchise set in the US has to tackle the Big Apple at some point. Believe me, those people already have an overblown sense of their own importance. We don't need every single franchise to validate it for them!


Now you're talkin'! Maybe feral ghouls won't even attack another ghoul, but people will.

I've only played FO3 and FONV, so I'm not aware of New York being used already. But still, Bethesda is using a better game engine , so the graphics will most likely be better! I think going to New York would be fun.




They should make feral people, lol.

Wait, people aren't feral? Have you been to Paradise Falls lately?

Yeah, seems like there are TONS of feral people in both FO games, they're called raiders!

I can't WAIT for the announcement of this game. I hope the time jump between this and New Vegas isn't too extreme... I really want to bring Eva Bree into this game!

I know what you mean...But I'm probably going to retire Arnaud with New Vegas...Which means I'm gonna have to come up with some poor new fool in order to play in exactly the same way with... ...

Although, at least I'll have an origin for him to start with... ...

I wish they'd get on with it already... ...

At least I'll have my PS4 for it then...Ooooh, I'll just be a bit excited then... ...

Seeing as, by this point in time, Courier is basically King Courier of the Independent Republic of New Vegas and has neither the inclination nor freedom to go wondering, I'll probably be bringing in a new hero for this one. They'll probably be in power armour and toting enough firepower to level a city block again, as that's always how my characters seem to end up (and possibly rocking the same cowboy hat/Ray Bands/power armour fashion combo again, because that one's awesome and badass), but instead of being the tale of Courier, it'll be the tale of the game's Iconic Character Title.

I'll probably need to jam some more chips into my PC before then as well.

So far we've seen the extreme east and west of the States. How about somewhere in the middle? Say... Colorado (Cheyenne Mountain *cough*) or Texas (Fallout: Lone Star State)?

I think the problem with places like that is that they just do not have enough iconic sights to make them interesting. Take Texas. Everyone knows The Alamo. But aside from that what is there? A lot of flat, empty, dusty plains occasionally broken up by a fence. And that is before the nuclear war.

It is the same all over middle America. St. Louis has the big arch, but I cannot think of anything else in the city, or even the state. OTOH Destri reeled off a whole list of places that make Boston interesting. New York is the same. It is what I like about London as well. That is why places like that so often get picked as settings.

Red Dead Redemption managed to make the US-Mexican border interesting. You can make nearly any location work.

Then again, iconic places drive home the whole apocalypse theme better.

How about Alaska?

Alaska would be cool!

Badum-tish!

Godawful puns aside, Alaska could be interesting, especially seeing as Anchorage was where the Chinese invasion took place; there could be a Chinese faction/community in it formed from descendants of the invading soldiers, and all the ancient battlefields and trench lines could make great places to explore.

Operation Anchorage already covers this though. I would have preferred it was real rather than a sim, but they did take us there at the height of the war.

Rocky Mountains?

This, so much this.

Aye, me hearty, aye. On the subject of London: Ghoul Royal Family. That is all.

Mutant ravens in the Tower of London.

Sniper nest in Big Ben.

And a quest that lets you blow up the houses of parliament

Possibly with a ghoul named Fawkes

Oliver Cromwell's greatgreat etc. grandson is the Brotherhood of Steel....leader...guy? I don't play much.

Not sure if the Brotherhood of Steel was just an American thing or not. They might not have crossed the ocean.

And to be honest, I'd prefer it if they hadn't. Setting it outside of America let's them do something different.

They could have the New Model Army instead, led by the Lord Protector...

And courtesy of the alternate timline it would be without the millenium dome, the london eye, or that damn gherkin looking thing. Even half destroyed it will look better.

And this pyramid's starting to get out of hand, much more of this and the thread might collapse.

I'll skip the pyramid and just suggest Knockers in the London Underground.

http://thesurvivor2299.com/

Anyone know Morse code?

It's the date. 12.11.13.

That was a week ago. Exactly a week. What the heck is going on?

That is to say December 11th 2013. Eheh.. Sorry should have been a lil clearer on that.

Oh, yeah, of course. American timings.

*Feels a little bit stupid*

No need Colonel, I could have been clearer on the message. Anyway the code is those three numbers and the date of December 11th matches up with the countdown.. So mark the date, the eleventh is going to be interesting.

Maybe they are going to release the game on 14/14/14?

12/13/14?