Fallout China, aka, the New Warring States Period.They could even go to China, with an american-as-applepie soldier who as part of an invading force ended up with his company in deep-freeze before getting unthawed 200 or so years later.
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They could even go to China, with an american-as-applepie soldier who as part of an invading force ended up with his company in deep-freeze before getting unthawed 200 or so years later.
Fallout China, aka, the New Warring States Period.
- Neo-imperial dynasty, aka, caesar's legion based on imperial china rather than rome.
- Mao's red guard personality cult turned into an actual religion like a more genocidal version of the Kings. Take every single nasty trait of every single communist regime and mash them together, plus a literal cult. Lots of trigger-happy commissars and gulag slave camps in mordorish industral wastelands.
- The Khanate transhumanist wuxia mongol horde. Before the war, china had their own supersoldier program to rival america's deathclaws and FEV. In some ways they were more successful, their bioengineered supermen kept their minds and fertility, were unaffected by the radiation, able to survive the most poisoned environments, consume anything organic, fight the radiation-spawned monsters and barbarian hordes, etc. Then the bombs fell, the merely human scientists died or were reduced to feral ghoulhood by the radiation and their prototypes were abandoned in a wasteland lethal to anything but themselves and the other monsters. The culture they built was some completely unworkable mess of Proud Warrior Race Guy-isms, deliberately since it was set up by the first generation of them who wanted to make a society in which strength, something they had in abundance would be the most valuable attribute. Their founder may have dressed this up in a propaganda narrative about how a world without science and engineering would mean a world where conflict was limited to 'safe' low-tech forms which only kill individual combatants instead of entire civilizations, but the actual intention was to make a society where their traits were the most valued, and prioritize smothering any developing rival civilizations in their cradle, since if they ever started technologically advancing, they'd inevitably curbstomp with superior weapons technology. Take some thematic inspiration from this December 1953 Mechanix Ilustrated magazine article "How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race" by Otto Binder. The bioengineered supermen have approximately the same relation to wuxia heroes as bretonnians possess in regards to chivalric romance, specifically regarding their treatment of peasants. The Great Khan, their leader, is also the first of their species ever created, they just grow stronger with age.
No way Microsoft will make a Fallout China.
More relevantly, the 3D fallout games are very attached to American symbols and locations, there's a reason that the franchise is so prone to making major landmarks and locations involved in its quests, sometimes to an excessive degree (like having the first two minuteman quests taking place at Lexington and Concord. Real subtle, Bethesda).
Going overseas, you're going to hit the point where the entire landscape becomes completely unrecognizable very quickly. There's a reason that Fallout London mod is set in London, and not, like, Wiltshire-Upon-Fairgroundsville or some other British town no one in the US has heard of, namely that no one in the US has ever heard of it. The only parts of China that are similarly well known in the US is the forbidden city and the wall, and I'm not sure that's enough to build a game around.
Actually, my implication was that Microsoft would never make a Fallout: China for political reasons.
I don't even think the stuff that happened in Fallout 3 could happen today.
You have to eventually mix up the formula.
Locations don't have to be recognizable, you just have to have heard of them. How many people could ACTUALLY recognize Lexington and Concord? Not many.
I don't even think the stuff that happened in Fallout 3 could happen today.
The main baddies being a conspiracy among the American wealthy, politically powerful and intelligence agencies with the aim of practicing inhumane medical and physiological Mad Science upon and killing off and replacing all the plebeians.Really? What do you think would be too objectionable to include?
That would have been my ending of choice...Fallout Four's Minutemen ending should've involved convincing Captain Ironsides of how your organization represented the resurrection of his beloved american colonial grandeur, repairing the Constitution's engines and having it fight the Prydwen instead of reprogramming Library Prime to shoot it down. Surprise at being attacked by a rocket-propelled sailing galleon ought to keep the Brotherhood distracted long enough for a few broadsides of cannon fire to send them to davy jones' locker.
Fallout Four's Minutemen ending should've involved convincing Captain Ironsides of how your organization represented the resurrection of his beloved american colonial grandeur, repairing the Constitution's engines and having it fight the Prydwen instead of reprogramming Library Prime to shoot it down. Surprise at being attacked by a rocket-propelled sailing galleon ought to keep the Brotherhood distracted long enough for a few broadsides of cannon fire to send them to davy jones' locker.
Well to be fair these techno-knights are flying a gasbag filled with hydrogen in an era of laser pistols, missiles, artillery, and flamethrowers..Shooting it down with Prime is the emostitute ending. Minuteman ending is taking it down with a massive artillery barrage- with 19th century naval guns. It is a pretty good ending, I think, you take down a technological terror and utterly humiliate one of the most powerful factions in the wasteland, with technology that was hilariously outdated when the Sole Survivor was in diapers.
Well to be fair these techno-knights are flying a gasbag filled with hydrogen in an era of laser pistols, missiles, artillery, and flamethrowers..
About what precisely? Eden wasn't wrong that a world with Mirelurks, Super mutants, Feral Ghouls and Deathclaws wouldn't be able to reestablish society effectively is doesn't mean we should follow his plans or endorse his actions.Personally, I like the ending where the Minutemen don't murder the BoS... because, let's face it, Maxson isn't wrong.
About what precisely? Eden wasn't wrong that a world with Mirelurks, Super mutants, Feral Ghouls and Deathclaws wouldn't be able to reestablish society effectively is doesn't mean we should follow his plans or endorse his actions.
The Brotherhood has it's points philosophically, but through action they are next to worthless for the average joe of the waste at best and exist to his complete expense at worst.