Fallout.... set in Australia! 
Think about it. Completely new avenues of lore to explore, completely new wastelands to scrounge. I mean as much as the series has "homaged" to Mad Max, might as well take it full circle and set on there.  Drive nuclear powered Rovers across the wastes, fight along side power-armored ASAS troops, loot jars of Vegemite off of corpses to regain HP, find Quigly's rifle as a Unique. 
Shit, think of all the creatures right now living in the land down under that can kill you. Now imagine gigantic, radioactive pants-shittingly scary versions of them. Radioactive drop bears, gator-lurks, beasts that look like Cthulu fucked a pit viper, giant two-headed baby-stealing dingos, thylacine's that can swallow you whole!
It's not like the aussie government's track record couldn't be satired equally like the US's is in the current fallout series, or have their own vault's run by the AU branch of Vault Tech. 
 
What do you guys think? Crazy fever dream, or awesome sauce?    

 Fallout.... set in Australia! 
Think about it. Completely new avenues of lore to explore, completely new wastelands to scrounge. I mean as much as the series has "homaged" to Mad Max, might as well take it full circle and set on there.  Drive nuclear powered Rovers across the wastes, fight along side power-armored ASAS troops, loot jars of Vegemite off of corpses to regain HP, find Quigly's rifle as a Unique. 
Shit, think of all the creatures right now living in the land down under that can kill you. Now imagine gigantic, radioactive pants-shittingly scary versions of them. Radioactive drop bears, gator-lurks, beasts that look like Cthulu fucked a pit viper, giant two-headed baby-stealing dingos, thylacine's that can swallow you whole!
It's not like the aussie government's track record couldn't be satired equally like the US's is in the current fallout series, or have their own vault's run by the AU branch of Vault Tech. 
 
What do you guys think? Crazy fever dream, or awesome sauce?    

Awesome

If you had brought this idea up before Assassin's Creed 2, I would have told you "American's don't like anything outside of America" citing GTA as an example. But in a post AC2 world, it's anyone's game.

Question, who is the Aussie equivalent of Ron Perlman?

As much as I love Mad Max and Fallout, I don't want to see their boundaries cross any further than has already been done.  I'd like to see the next Fallout set in the New England states, with New York and its suburbs being the biggest draw.  One of the most intriguing elements of Fallout 3 was the light talk of the consortium from that area, and I'd like to see that fleshed out.  There's also a lot of talk about Wyoming, Utah, and Montana in New Vegas, which I think would be a pretty awesome area to explore too.  What would a post-apocalyptic Yellowstone Park look like?

It would be strange. I mean, since it's a different country, the only thing that would carry over from past games is that it's set after the nukes went off. Other than that, no brotherhood, no NCR, nothing Fallout.

Although Fallout has taken influence from Mad Max I feel like setting it in Australia is a little on the nose. The setting of America is also a big part of what makes up the Fallout narrative and I wouldn't want them to move the series outside of America without knowing that they felt they could really pull off their new location as well as they have the U.S. settings of previous Fallout games.

" It would be strange. I mean, since it's a different country, the only thing that would carry over from past games is that it's set after the nukes went off. Other than that, no brotherhood, no NCR, nothing Fallout. "

I always thought that they should do one set in China. I always thought it was interesting that the "culture" of post-apocalyptic ruins of America is based largely on propaganda appropriate to the 1950's era. Seeing a culture based on communist propaganda of the 50's would probably be an interesting take on that universe.

I get that people who live wherever the hell they live would want a Fallout to take place there. I think Beth should just expand the IP to the point where they've got an Australian dev building on the foundation laid and making a Fallout set in Australia. Because if it wasn't being done by locals who actually know their shit, its just a whole game of mutant crocs, a talking kangaroo, a character based on croc hunter and "that's not a knife" jokes. Once a brand gets big enough, you're suddenly allowed to make it other genres of game. If Halo Reach came out after Halo 1 people would have been pissed, the brand has to grow enough first. Then you can basically get anyone in on the IP. Fallout Japan the SRPG, Fallout Russia the weird adventure game, Fallout Greenland where Greenland is some new utopia and vikings and shit are fighting over it. And so on. But I don't think Fallout the brand is big enough for that now. At the moment "Fallout" has to be a shooter RPG set in America or fans will bitch about it.

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As much as I love Mad Max and Fallout, I don't want to see their boundaries cross any further than has already been done.  I'd like to see the next Fallout set in the New England states, with New York and its suburbs being the biggest draw.  One of the most intriguing elements of Fallout 3 was the light talk of the consortium from that area, and I'd like to see that fleshed out.  There's also a lot of talk about Wyoming, Utah, and Montana in New Vegas, which I think would be a pretty awesome area to explore too.  What would a post-apocalyptic Yellowstone Park look like?

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" It would be strange. I mean, since it's a different country, the only thing that would carry over from past games is that it's set after the nukes went off. Other than that, no brotherhood, no NCR, nothing Fallout. "

" @ryanwho: If all you have is convicts, weird animals, and the old west motif, congratulations, these are all themes of Fallout, but what I'm saying is it wouldn't have to be a Fallout game at that point; you can be any game set after a nuclear war. Actually with those themes you could be a fantasy survival game set in the old west. "

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As much as I love Mad Max and Fallout, I don't want to see their boundaries cross any further than has already been done.  I'd like to see the next Fallout set in the New England states, with New York and its suburbs being the biggest draw.  One of the most intriguing elements of Fallout 3 was the light talk of the consortium from that area, and I'd like to see that fleshed out.  There's also a lot of talk about Wyoming, Utah, and Montana in New Vegas, which I think would be a pretty awesome area to explore too.  What would a post-apocalyptic Yellowstone Park look like?

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I've really been thinking about some DLC where you go to New Canaan, which is essentially Salt Lake City. This is mostly because I live in Utah, and it would be extremely interesting to see the Mormons in a post-apocalyptic setting.

On one hand, I would really like to see Fallout games take place in other parts of the world. I was always partial to Africa. Imagine crazy mutated lions and elephants and shit. But on the other hand, I feel like a huge part of Fallout's identity and personality comes from the weird Americana on display in the games. 

An awesome awesome fever dream. Don't ever see it happening, but if it did, goddamn would that be a hell of an awesome Fallout game. 

so...borderlands?

Sounds like awesome sauce to me!

" @Soapy86: If you put the ruins of a zoo in a Fallout game you could then build the story that some of the animals escaped and began breeding and mutating in the wild. So you could have mutated elephants or lions in American. That would be awesome. "

If you got the bear grylls special edition of New Vegas (Only 100 were printed and left in boxes in various forests around the world), you'd already have a voucher for the aussie DLC.

Question, who is the Aussie equivalent of Ron Perlman?

I think Randy Pitchford would be proud of you.

A quigley unique would rule so hard. you'd need some sick, sick draw distance in the engine though. I don't know if the current one could handle it. Also, I propose Orlando as a fallout environment. Even though it would be *impossible* for obvious licensing reasons, seeing disneyworld and all 9,001 attractions being overtaken by a resurging swamp forest would be so awesome. Plus it'd be a fresh departure from "desert"-type locales. 

" On one hand, I would really like to see Fallout games take place in other parts of the world. I was always partial to Africa. Imagine crazy mutated lions and elephants and shit. But on the other hand, I feel like a huge part of Fallout's identity and personality comes from the weird Americana on display in the games.  "

" @ryanwho:, these are all themes of Fallout, but what I'm saying is it wouldn't have to be a Fallout game at that point; you can be any game set after a nuclear war.  

" @Mrnitropb: I was pretty sure I'd seen every location in Fallout 3 and I don't remember ever seeing a zoo, and Google seems to confirm it. "

i think they'll continue using the us because if they dont they would have to make all new factions and shit.. 

" I love it must have: Ned Kelly armour slouch hats giant kangaroos, platapus, etc  "

"Oh hell I forgot all about Ned Kelly. Heck, that would be a faction of Power armor troops/rebels! "

"Question, who is the Aussie equivalent of Ron Perlman? "

Was Australia ever even nuked in the Fallout fiction? I thought the war was between the US and China.

why would China nuke and already baron wasteland? Isn't Australia already 80% desert?
 
A cooler thing would be to navigate the ruined skyscrapers of Manhattan and the surrounding areas. If fallout 4 uses a new engine, might as well make the most of it. Have a bunch of shit on-screen....