People keep bringing up the scale of the next game, but one would hope with a jump to a new generation they would make significant efforts to make the world much bigger. And I've always wished for a little more white space in Fallout just to have a bit more wilderness and space for variety.
And it's not like the world would likely be very vehicle friendly. It'd be cool to have some sort of clunky hoverbike or something that's unwieldy and feels cool to tool around on but isn't great at handling the terrain so it has limited uses.
Imagine if the world was much much larger, and you were cruising down a highway piled up with abandoned cars, but in order to travel the last couple of miles to where you were going, off the beaten path, you'd have to leave your vehicle. They could even make it the sort of thing that if you didn't hide it somewhere there would be a chance it'd get lifted.
I never felt like Fallout had much "scale". It felt like a small slice of a dense world, rather than just a big world. New Vegas was bigger but walking across New Vegas got kind of tedious. Scaled up to match the new generation of systems, I could see that sort of space used for a new level of gameplay, while the normal density of Fallout could be maintained in certain areas that would be treacherous for vehicles. So you could have more potential for new and interesting "random encounters." And it's not like you'd be screaming through town in a Lambo or something, you'd still easily get random encounters.
Hell, even if it wasn't really much faster I'd like alternative transportation. Walking everywhere is so impractical and unrealistic.
Now that I think about it, even in a dense urban environment it would be cool to have something like a hover bike. Especially if I could keep supplies on-board, and if they gave us a really big urban environment to explore around.
@vinny_says said:
Okay I'll agree that any vehicle besides a horse would be extremely difficult to use on the terrain in a fallout game. All those bumps on the road, rocks to climb, radioactive streams, etc...
However, there were rumors that the next game would deal with androids, and the possibility of the player actually being a cyborg or some sort of machine instead of a human. Now what if that was true and as it turns out that as a robot man you have a crazy dash move or super sprint or super jump or hover feet or whatever that would be a great help in getting around.
Would that be out of place in Fallout?
I don't remember androids having those kinds of abilities, and I don't really want that kind of stuff. I like just being some schmuck in the wasteland. I wouldn't find super human speed or jumping very fun in that universe. If anything I want more opportunities for slower more methodical gameplay. Stalking, sneaking, hunting etc.
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