2. Fallout: Survivors/ Fallout Meets Survival-Horror
So the first game in the Fallout series also takes place the earliest in the fictional history, just under 100 years after The Great War. Fallout: Survivors would predate that by a substantial margin, taking us back to the first years after the catastrophe. The game would have to take place in one of the few cities that wasn't totally destroyed by nuclear weapons, which leaves very few options. Pittsburgh stands out as the best possible place to set this immediate-after-the-end story. In the Fallout 3 DLC "The Pitt" players got the chance to see Pittsburgh a couple hundred years after the bombs. The story goes something like this: Pittsburgh was fairly intact so people settled there, the water got contaminated so people got all mutated and monstery, the brotherhood wiped everyone out. All pretty fun stuff. A game based in that city would be the perfect way to play through the years immediately after the bombs fall. Players could start as either a member of a group that is settling in Pittsburgh or as a surviving native of Pittsburgh. Either way, we would get to explore a whole new dynamic of interaction in the Fallout world. There would be no established "raiders vs townsfolk", nor would there be a Brotherhood of Steel or an NCR or any of the things that tie the story down. Instead, the player would have to make choices based totally on personal interaction with characters, who may or may not loosely belong to small factions. But what would make it fun, is that nearly every group would be a raider, when it comes down to it. 10 years after the bombs, it's just not likely for people to be capable of setting up sustainable agriculture, so theft would be the status quo, and the player would have to choose exactly to what lengths they would go to stay alive. Consider how much more difficult "hardcore mode" might be if there was no established currency, only bartering, or if scavenging was still the main means of feeding oneself. Lastly, the ability to play through the game in a largely intact city would give the entire game a whole new look. There's no reason to say that many stores wouldn't look nearly the same as they had before the bombs, or that sections of the city wouldn't have electricity or running water just out of sheer luck. Pittsburgh, in short, would be the perfect place to change Fallout from a pure RPG in to the first true Survival-RPG.