Todd Howard: Bethesda Plans to Keep Fallout Predominantly in the US - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2024 / 3,544 Views
Bethesda Game Studios Executive Producer and Director Todd Howard in an interview with Kinda Funny Games said the plan for the company for future Fallout entries is to keep them in the US.
"My view is—part of the Fallout shtick is on the Americana naivete," said Howard. "And so for us right now it's okay to sort of acknowledge those other areas. But our plan is to predominantly keep it in the US."
Fallout is set in an alternate timeline from ours with the bombs dropping in 2077 and the games and TV show taking place in the 2100s and 2200s. The series has mainly taken place in the former United States of America.
Howard in the same interview might have teased a new Fallout project that is in the works that he is not allowed to discuss yet.
"We look at what we are doing with the [Fallout] franchise and then we say do we still feel good about - I can't reveal it now - but here is our runway for Fallout as a franchise," said Howard.
The Fallout franchise has seen a boost in sales and player counts all over the world following the success of the Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime. The gaming franchise had nearly five million players in a single day with Fallout 76 topping one million players in a single day.
There is a rumor that Microsoft, who owns Fallout developer Bethesda, is looking to get the next Fallout game out "sooner rather than later."
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Based on the premise of the Vaults and their importance in the narrative, this kinda makes sense. VaultTech were a US company after all. Although we know a few things about the world beyond US shores already. A few characters are not American, Tenpenny from 3 is British.
This said, the next game I'd like set in like Seatle and Vancouver area or near the great lakes. I think that would be interesting.
Yeah I don't think Fallout should leave the US. The country is big enough for countless number of games
I am not even American, but Fallout shouldn't leave the US. The whole setting is too important for the feel of the games to do that. The TV show could shed some light on the state of the rest of the world, but even then it shouldn't be the main focus.
There could be value in visiting Canada since canada was recently annexed in the pre war backstory. place a west coast game in the seattle to vancouver area and explore the cultural impact.
Boring,
If u don't wanna do Asian countries at least have some effort on making a fallout in Europe lol
There is no shortage of post-apocalyptic games.
If you wanna see such a game in Asia or Europe, there several other series you can take a look at.
Metro Exodus covers both Asia and Europe.
I mean they are an American company, it's easier to create art for what you know. Maybe Microsoft can have one of it's other studios in Europe or Japan work on a Fallout in another country.
Meanwhile, a Scottish company made the most successful game ever, which happens to be set in the US, fictional version obviously but then so is Fallout.
I'm sure when you tell me the game I'll know it, but I have no idea what Scottish game you are talking about. Yes they could make it a fictional game in London or Tokyo, but there is something to making a game around what you know. For instance when I went to Washington DC a year or two after beating Fallout 3, I'm walking down a street not thinking about the game and all of a sudden I think to myself, wait I was here in the game. And from that point I kept seeing multiple areas of Washington DC that were exactly like they were in the game just not destroyed. It made walking around Washington DC more fun than it probably would have been.
GTA. And of course, which is why I expect it to remain in US forever but good stories and games are good regardless. Location won't matter.
GTA V may have been made by Rockstar North as the predominant developer, but they received assistance from every single Rockstar studio, including Rockstar San Diego and Rockstar New England, so there were American developers there to provide cultural assistance. It's also worth noting that it's a bit easier for a non-US studio to make a game about American culture, since Hollywood movies are popular in most countries around the world, than it would be for an American studio to make a game about say European culture.
