Alright, so I was sitting here looking through the discussion boards and noticed no one has ever brought up what kind of story they would like to see in the next Fallout installment. So I'm giving it to all you lovely people. Is there anything specific you would like to see? Any characters you would like to see brought back? Or perhaps be able to visit a familiar place? Let me know, I'd love to hear all your ideas!

We've always been a vault dweller, being a courier in new vegas is refreshing...
How about starting the game as a member of the BOS?
Oh wait, fallout tactics already did that...

How about playing the game as a member of the enclave?
Or remnants of the old government?

I don't really care,as long as I can decide what happens (like in 3 and Nv) I am satisfied with it.
I just hope if there will be the Legion they will have some more quests locations etc... in New vegas it is like "WE ARE F*CKING BAD" is written on their chests.Sure they are some kinf of bad but we have only 2/5 non story related quests for them hope this will be diffrent in F4

One thing I love about the mod community is the role play starts. I would love for the vanilla game to have that. Backstories or a blank slate. I only like to play as a human when I have a choice so hopefully in F4 we aren't a android like the rumors say. I think whatever the story is we should be able to make our own faction. Like in NW but it actually means something. If the game is set in The Commonwealth maybe we takeover the android factories or labs and make our own army. I guess the other stories would be to destroy these labs or to help them grow, but the story shouldn't be black and white in which one is truly good and one is truly evil. The decision you make at the end of the game should be a hard one. It should make both the saints and demons of the wasteland think.

@KaizerBlack Those all sound like promising ideas. I think it would be cool if you could start off, by choosing which faction you belong to. This is sorta touched upon in a mod for New Vegas called Alternate Start, however seeing it in an official game would be better! Also the remnants of the old Government idea.


@snowglobecolector Agreed. It should kinda be like Skyrim with the Legion and the Stormcloaks. Each side should see things a different way. Each side should have bad, but also good qualities. The legion in New Vegas was Just plain evil which kinda sucks. Obviously your gonna go for the good side. Again in Skyrim if you play both sides you feel sympathetic to both of them.


@Zurab347 A backstory idea would be really cool! I know there are a few mods on the Modgames website that do that, but seeing it in game would be even better. I also agree with the Android idea. I always like to be a human male, an android wouldn't interest me. Maybe they can add it to the race menu that way if someone wants to be human they can, and if they want to be an Android they can. As for the factory idea your pretty much right on the money. Like is said to snowglobecolector, it should be a hard choice. Not just one side is good and the other is bad, that's just boring.

Great theme. I would certainly like to go back to the shelter 101, it is for me like a second home. Of course I'm sure that Bethesda will not fail and will make a great story. But speaking on the topic, I would like to see some sort of opposition to such things civilized and savage factions (like the Raiders).
I would like that the main character had a family and he did everything to protect her. It's so cool when you can always come home and then you'll be glad your favorite parents. And in the company could be his brother and destroy the enemies together.
Here's a story I would have made. Thank you for the opportunity given to dream.

As long as it doesn't involve chasing after somebody like in Fallout 3 with your dad and in Fallout New Vegas with Benny I don't care. Anything but that

This came to my mind after i first played Far Cry 3 back when it came out: I thought it would be cool to start as a normal scavanger, intro sequence would involve a friend or someone teaching you basic crafting and hunting (i assumed it would be more "smoother" and polished than previous games) and then you would go to sleep (and now you know the basics of guns, inventory, created your character and everything) and then raiders would take you as a slave andburn your camp or village or whatever, it would take i think 15-20 minutes including the next part where you escape and take out the raiders (i assumed it would teach you the light, shadows, hiding, sneaking, distracting enemies, non-lethal takedown mechanics like a modern game would and then, by probably throwing a grenade under a gas tank or something you would blow up the raider base.
then ---> you have NO home, your friends are dead or missing (maybe OPTIONAL side quest would be freeing them... or cahnging the other side) and your home is burned. You could start a new life and choose whatever faction you want to. No BoS from FO3 to protect you within the citadel, no Goodsprings from NV where they save your life, just yourself as an "empty" character. This would allow for kill or no kill run form the start (maybe you could reject hunting in the tutorial sequence and get a "peaceful" trait that grants you stat bonuses) and later you would be able to join oter (separate) raider groups, tribes, governments or anything. NCR (if they will be present) would be more obiviously corrupt, player would see the good and bad sides of all factions (Legion was a choice but was severely under developed in NV and was intende dto "evil" players). And after (probably) redesigning and making the karmasystem dynamic, you would get a gmae where you start as i said an "empty" character and YOU the player will have an actual and TRUE CHOICE to choose how the history of the game progresses. (Purifier and Dam were set story pieces no matter what you did, so it was never really a true choice.)

Whoops, ok, sorry for mentioning too much of my game mechanic ideas, but this is how i think Fallout 4 would be able to be good no matter what the factions and the location is.

Sorry for bad english i'm not native speaker.

Even though they've done it multiple times before, I would like a story that starts out in a vault. I really enjoyed it in F3, and didn't really enjoy the courier gig in NV.

If it's not in a vault, then as long as I can make my own choices I'll be happy with whatever they come up with. I would like to see more Enclave though, always liked them.

I would like the antagonist to be a skinny elderly gentleman dressed like Santa Claus, he has no shirt on though, and he has on of those clown nose things, he rubs his nipples all over the place, and the play known as "Bill Clinton" must spray the holy olive oil all over, after chasing him around the map during the main quest line. Did I mention the Doritos and Mt. Dew laying around yet? And the brand new quick scope 180 feature? Any way there is already a DLC and this is the script "A penguin knocks the elderly man over and Bill Clinton says "Oh no he is kill." but then the man gets back up and says "What if I'm not kill?" I know you're asking me how much this will cost because you want to buy it so here's the price: $599.99 for the game and $300 for the DLC.

Just kidding please don't ban me. XD

I have to say I love the creativity here. You guys are coming up with alot of awesome ideas and I do hope to see these most of these ideas in Fallout 4. Well except maybe not the Santa idea....that one was a little creepy..., but otherwise great ideas everyone!

Yeah, I'm not good at writing serious things, if I were I'd give an actual thing. XD

I wouldn't prefer starting out in a vault in my opinion. It kills having a backstory for my character.

What I would like to see in the next Fallout is players get to choose who they are starting out. Give it more immersion. Like players can play as a wasteland mercenary, a Enclave trooper, or a raider etc. And each occupation has its own storyline, following different paths from each other but leads up to the same ending.

I wish that could happen with the newest Fallout.

I'd prefer something other than a vault dweller, it'd be pretty cool to be able to start off as a lowly BoS initiate or maybe even American Army remnants??

Something different then starting in a vault would be nice, like a common city inhabitant or something,
and about the storyline itself, multiple endings again would be nice, and just a diversity in choices and decisions and such.

I would love if the storyline had the commonwealth in it and they were a major faction and influenced the story so you could have the chance to see and use new technology as they are supposed to have the most advanced technology. I reckon it would also be cool if by doing sidequest you could discover you were either a android on the run or one of the Synth retention bureau who has been left for dead by members of the railroad, there are tons of options for a different type of character.

I'd like to see a big city (maybe Boston) like Washington DC in Fallout 3 that's the main focus of the storyline. Different factions control different parts of the city and territory warfare often occurs between these factions. You get to choose which you join and help them take parts of the city.

I'd like to see a functional, still-relatively-safe vault where everything hasn't went to hell. I got so tired of coming across 'everything is dead' vaults in FO3/NV.

Outside of US.London will be grate.

Even though it'll probably will never happen I would love to have the option to play as a super mutant and see things from their perspective. Like we have seen some great super mutant characters, (Marcus, Fawkes, Lily, the Super Mutant from Fallout 2 whose name eludes me as of writing.) but more often than not, we only see them as brutes and enemies (Except of course Jacobstown). Granted most of the gen 2 mutants are not as bright as the gen 1 mutants so I understand that there will always be conflict between them and the rest of the survivors of the wastes, but I would just love the option to play as one in order to experience the story from a new perspective.