With Obsidian tasked with crafting a new Fallout game, fans are speculating about where the next post-apocalyptic slice of America will be set. While Bethesda has focused on the East Coast and Obsidian's past work in Fallout: New Vegas explored the West, a new entry opens the door for fresh settings tailored to Obsidian's political and ideological faction-based approach.
10 Potential Locations for Obsidian's Fallout
- New Vegas: A return to the Mojave would let Obsidian explore the consequences of New Vegas a few years on, though the Amazon Fallout series is already exploring the region.
- Seattle: A tech hub rich for corporate satire, exploring pre-war corporate greed, tech cults, and environmental factions in the Pacific Northwest.
- Detroit: A major manufacturing hub plagued by pre-war gang warfare and tensions between human workers and robotic automation.
- St. Louis: Situated strategically along the Mississippi River, offering opportunities for river-based trading factions and transport control conflicts.
- Portland: Known for environmentalism and counterculture, providing a unique visual identity with mutated flora and fauna.
- Houston: Features a major space center and oil industry connections, fitting for Fallout's satirical look at pre-war resource wars and space exploration.
- The Great Lakes: An unexplored frontier touching on pre-war Canada annexation, offering urban ruins and lake-dominated map geography.
- Denver: A Rocky Mountain setting that could act as a spiritual successor to New Vegas and feature Caesar's Legion in lands it administers.
- Albuquerque: A New Mexico bridge between New Vegas and a new story, dealing with the aftermath of Caesar's Legion sweeping through the area.
- New Orleans: A swamp-based setting featuring flooded streets, bayous, river trade routes, and a post-apocalyptic Mardi Gras filled with competing cultural identities.