Despite the prospect of Fallout 5 With things looking so far away, the confirmed project is still the focus of much debate and anticipation. With nearly a decade since the last release of the mainline IP, there's a clear desire for a new single-player experience in the franchise's fascinating, irradiated, war-torn world.
One of the most important aspects of everyone Fallout the game is its core environment, which is often integral to shaping the stories, themes, factions, and experiences of a given title. There is already a lot of pressure Fallout 5 aiming to shake up the current trends of the wider franchise, with many recent releases for the IP choosing parts of the eastern United States as their primary locations. Given this pattern plus the success of not playing recently Fallout projects taking place outside this region, everything seems to be pointing in the right direction Fallout 5 drawing inspiration from the franchise's early beginnings for its main setting.
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Fallout 5 can look to the past when choosing the main environment
The Fallout the franchise has remained fairly centralized in its choice of settings for some time, with major gameplay shifts in 2008 Fallout 3 also marks a departure from the IP's early locational focus on the western United States. Fallout 3 it famously took place, for example, in the Capital Wasteland, which includes the regions of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC. Fallout 4's Commonwealth, which itself includes Boston and other areas of New England.
Even FalloutThe latest edition followed this eastern trend with Fallout 76's Appalachia showing large swaths of West Virginia. All this contributes to the location of many Fallouta more modern focus directly on a relatively exclusive area of the United States and Fallout 5 It appears to be in the best position to buck the trend significantly. While Fallout 5 has been confirmed by Bethesda, the only real information fans have to go on at the moment is that the project will only gain popularity once the content is released Star fieldas well as the massively anticipated release The Elder Scrolls 6.
This distant release date makes it all the more important Fallout 5 stand out from its immediate predecessors, and a return to the western origins of the franchise could be a great way to do that. Trimetric gameplay Fallout 1 and 2 both are set around the sun-baked nuclear deserts of California, with iconic franchise factions such as the Brotherhood of Steel and the NCR based in the region.
Fallout 5's modern gameplay would be a perfect way to explore the west coast again
Of course the only modern major Fallout title to re-examine this kind of setting was Fallout: New Vegaswhich earned itself fan favorite status for the kinds of themes, locations, and factions its Mojave setting was able to support. Newer Fallout the media also cleverly embraced this fiery and nostalgic setting with the successful Fallout The TV show is centered around Los Angeles and its surroundings.
If Fallout 5 also decided to adopt this setup, it would be the perfect way to give the project a truly distinct identity against the backdrop of newer releases, while massively appealing to fans of the original games as well New Vegas. It seems likely that the main series Fallout games will never leave the United States setting, the long-awaited return to the West Coast seems like a fantastic way to go Fallout 5 break a fairly entrenched recent pattern for IP.
