Fallout 5, a new mainline installment of the action RPG series best known for its post-apocalyptic setting and various peculiarities, including Super Mutants, Deathclaws, and Ghouls, is currently in very early development at Bethesda Game Studios, and while director and producer Todd Howard hasn’t revealed where the game takes place yet, many fans would be happy if it was set in the East—namely, China, or maybe even Japan—according to discussions that have surfaced on social media this week. Fallout: London, an extensive mod for Fallout 4 that delivers plenty of new content to the game, including 200 quests, 7 companions, 15 boroughs, and even an overhauled soundtrack and new voice acting, is now available on platforms that include GOG.
Players are saying:
- “China ,so we can see their propaganda,the opposite side to why nukes were launched on the US ,either that or Tokyo because it would look brilliant with all the lights ,sorta like a devastated cyberpunk.”
- “…China would be good place since they are also a superpower and have advanced technology, and they were at war with the USA. So maybe we couls hear the Chinese side of the story.”
- “Someone told me that, according to the lore, China became a massive ‘glowing sea’ like place because even if the entire world got struck by nuclear warheads, it seems that China was the most bombarded one.”
- “I can imagine Okinawa would make a great setting. It’s a good combo or urban and nature. With a distinct and divided Japanese and American presence.”
- “…if the city is so hard to survive you could have a bit of a mechanicus cyberpunk body modification or… Samuri style power armour.”
The Synonymous channel on how China has fared in the franchise:
From the Fallout Wiki:
Nuclear weapons were launched on October 23, 2077. Vaults are sealed as the air raid sirens blare for the last time. Within two hours, both the United States and China ceased to exist as nations, their cities vaporized in nuclear fireballs. The nuclear exchange was believed to have kicked back communist China into the stone age by remnants of the American government.