Since 1997, there have been ten Fallout games. Despite the wealth of opportunities provided by Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, Fallout Pinball, and Fallou🎃t 76, there has only ever been one Fallout gam🤡e set in the Midwest.
That was Fallout Tactics, and it was only partially set in the region. Tactics 🍨began in Chicago (definitely Midwest), with a journe✱y that continued through Kansas and Missouri (also Midwest but, IMO, less Midwest and more Great Plains), and Colorado (absolutely not Midwest).
Tactics was developed by Micro Forté, and launched in 2001. It's one of two spin-offs that filled the decade-long gap between Fallout 2 and 3.
Fallout, I Promise, The Midwest Is Not Mid
Instead, Fallout tends to stick to the coasts. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 3 and 4 are set in East Coast cities (Washington, D.C. and Boston) and Fallout 1 and 2 are set in California. New Vegas and 76 move slightly further inland, but West Virginia, Arizona, and Nevada are still adjacent to coastal states (and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:New Vegas does have portions set in California).
Though Tactics is partially set in the Midwest, there has never been a mainline Fallout game set in the Midwest at all, and certainly not one dedicated to expꦉloring Chicago, or Detroit, or Minne𝓡apolis, or Toledo in the way that Fallout 3 and 4 recreated Washington D.C. and Boston.
That’s a shame because, as a lifelong Midwesterner — the lon🦩gest I’ve spent outside the region was a three-week cross-cultural trip to Cambodia in college — 🧔I can confirm that my beloved flyover states have plenty of material for the post-apocalypse.
There are some obvious landmarks that could survive a nuclear holocaust throughout the Midwest. The Cloud Gate statue in Chicago, better known as The Bean due to its kidney shape, would likely still be standing hundreds of years after the bombs fell, though its gleaming T-1000 exterior would likely tarnish with time. The Spirit of Detroit, the Motor City's bronze statue hefting symbolic representations of God and Family, too, could survive.
I grew up in Michigan, so I may be biased, but I think the Mitten's diverse terrain and natural Great Lakes boundaries would make it a great setting for an open-world game.
Would Radiation Come For Regional Cuisine?
I see no reason that a city's cuisine wouldn't survive the apocalypse, too, as its residents would likely maintain those culinary traditions in the vault. I like to imagine that people in the vaults beneath Detroit would keep the city's signature rectangular pizza alive, and that Chicagoans sheltering deep within the crust of the Earth would find continuity with their past lives through the deep crust of the city's pies.
Good meat would be hard to come by, but I imagine Cincinattians could makℱe a vegan Skyline Chili and that Minneapolitans could use rat meat to scrape together a Juicy Lucy. Maybe, eventually, they would figure out how to💃 grow meat in a lab or carry the hidden knowledge of Beyond Burgers into the future.
Once the survivors emerged from the vaults, past games have taught us that stadiums make for good town squares, sheltered🙈 from Ghouls and Radscorpi🅷ons. Wrigley Field, Comerica Park, and the Glass Bowl could be safe harbors for the denizens of the post-apocalyptic world.
Fallout games don't come around all that often and, when only one major city can feature prominently in each game, I understand why we haven't seen the Midwest get its due yet. Coastal cities tend to get more focus in most media, in part because Los Angeles and New York are where most of that media is produced. But, I still hold out hope that Bethesda's next outing lets me and my companions enjoy a hot dog that has been dragged through the garden or a wet beef while scouting Willis Tower for Deathclaws.
I'll Never Forgive Fallout 4 For What It Did To Ghouls
The fourth entry changed the ghouls in ways that made the𒐪m less scary, empathetic, and memorable.
