Fallout Tactics is the unsung gem of the Fallout series. That's why I constantly vouch for how good, and how influential it was. Radroaches, Brotherhood airships, Enclave power armour in Fallout 3, continuing to use former Star Trek actors as voice actors, etc. Fallout Tactics is surprisingly full of things that are important to the franchise.
@@karomiooo It's hard to say how non canon it is. The Airships comments kind of cement that they existed. It's not a stretch to say the BOS destroyed a robot menace either.
1. There is a whole German WW2 U-boat in a museum in Chicago. Big quest potential there. 2. Cloud gate: all hail the silver bean 3. Maybe the Elevated Trains for some interesting housing/ settlements/ transport? (I actually had a similar idea for a game set in the Southeastern US called Fallout Seared South.)
2: all hail the substructure of the bean, or what little remains of it after nuclear blast wave and fire or just not at all, cause wikipedia informed me that the space of millennium park was railyards well into the 80"s and the cloud gate was a 2004 project (finished 2006)
@@prcerviliteralmente es diseño postmoderno, ni de broma una ciudad de fallout lo usaria.. .. .. .. bueno, tal vez una fundada por el instituto o un refugio de vault tec luego de recolonizar la superficie 😂😂😂
You really f*-king got me. I, a Chicago resident, was taking notes while listening to the video. I started to tune in more when heard you talking about uptown. I go to uptown all the time to catch live shows or get a drink. My mind started to wander. "Wow! I'd love to see 'The Riv' in fallout. Or walk The Redline from there down to Addison. I'd love to build a-" "WrIgLeY'5 fIeLd" and I broke from my trance.... "an 'S? There is no-" "Home of the White Sox!" and my face turned red. I skipped back and listened to it again so ready to correct you.... Then I saw the picture. I had been punked! You knew what you were doing, and you got me.
They got to also make Alton, IL a DLC (a mod for Fallout 3 as an actual DLC). Hell, maybe have you go to The Pitt but explore more of Pittsburg outside the restricted area in The Pitt. Or even jump to New York City
Tactic's Brotheehood of Steel Summary: - Abandons old dogma for the sake of practicality - Helps others to get help in return - Strives to master and understand technology - Harsh but effective justice - Allows outsiders to join their ranks - Basicly Brotherhood only in name
@@CamaradaDoppio chosen one in F2 can't join brotherhood. Also in F1 head paladin says that they used to get recruits before rise of the Unity, but everyone else (playerbase and devs) forgot about it.
Fallout Chicago MUST include the following: - References to The Blues Brothers. The exploded Bluesmobile in the ruins of Richard J. Daley Plaza; an outfit based on their signature suits; an Orange Whip consumable; an alternative to the Mysterious Stranger, in which Sister / Mother Mary Stigmata appears and repeatedly whacks the target with a ruler or metal baton. - Malort - A mission to repair and lower one of the famous drawbridges to open up a caravan route - "Sweet Home Chicago" on the radio.
Since trains are nuclear powered in the Fallout world, it would make sense that major post war cities would form around rail yards. Locomotives are 6000 horse power in our world (towards the max) which would keep a small town running on its own. Let alone having hundreds of them laying around. Especially given Fallout world nuclear technology effectively runs forever.
the line about the detachment in Chicago going rogue kinda works with an idea i had for a raider gang founded by an ex BoS unit, with the gang's original identity being lost to time, but with the BoS culture intact, but mixed with raiding and chems. they'd also be operating in a region with no former permanent BoS, so to everyone there it'd be a mystery where they came from, but to the player themselves it'd be subtly hinted that they're BoS
I could very much imagine that the Children of Atom created some kind of pilgrimage course that starts on the Memorial statue, goes through 2 or 3 locations (like the Bullfrog Lake) and ends in the universities Fission Lab, where they have created some kind of "Cathedral of Atom".
As a chicagoan, i have several thoughts on this i felt like sharing. For one, while yes we do have an Irish presence, i feel it'd be remiss to ignore our SIGNIFICANT Polish population. We had more polish people than any city outside of Poland (til new york took that because they have such a massive population; we still have a higher rate per capita), and we have an important city holiday celebrating a prominent polish figure in the history of chicago, Casimir Pulaski day. Another thought is that it feels criminal to try to recreate the chicago skyline without the sears tower (i know it's the willis tower now but too bad) and the hancock center. I'd LOVE to see a fallout-ified version of those iconic skyscrapers, maybe in ruins or maybe with somewhat more wacky architecture similar to the skyscrapers in fallout 4's boston. A fairly important aspect of downtown chicago that didn't get mentioned here is the iconic elevated train system (the L), which of course includes the Loop. Imagine a faction that uses the loop as a border of their territory, maybe building down from the elevated tracks to make it into a border wall like New Vegas, or just using it as a way to travel the city with some elevation on your side. Maybe this faction is what grew from the remnants of chicago's organized crime, and you can live inside their territory with their protection from outside threats, but also with the downsides of being ruled over by the mob. One major downside of a game set in chicago is the distinct lack of wilderness. the chicagoland area stretches for a HUGE area around the city proper; it'd be pretty hard to find forests or plains or any undeveloped space within a realistic distance from the downtown area. Undeveloped, untamed, and unknown wilderness is a pretty big part of the fallout series, so i think it would be pretty difficult to make a game without that still feel like fallout. Maybe it'd therefore be more important for DLC to focus more on that nature & wilderness, maybe with a national park like you mentioned, or going up into surrounding states' rural areas (hey, the bristol renaissance faire is right over the wisconsin border. it'd probably feel off in fallout but hey i loved it as a kid so i'm gonna mention it). If you want to get political (which the fallout series often does), chicago is a GREAT option for that. you can touch on the rampant corporatization of public life as a result of capitalism (A lot of public transit is managed by a private company (metra), many parking spaces in the city are owned by private companies, etc), the history of racism in housing (chicago has a LONG and awful history with redlining and other racist housing laws & practices), or just the overall divide between the rich and poor. I'm not sure how much of that bethesda would really want to tackle, but hey, it's there. last couple thoughts: 1) it's just very funny to think that i could visit the spot where my irl house is but in a fallout game, maybe live in whatever exists on that spot lol 2) hey, maybe due to some nuclear mishap the chicago river is PERMANENTLY green, instead of just on saint patty's day; that could also create a pretty interesting gameplay mechanic where swimming in the river is incredibly dangerous so you have to use the many many bridges if you want to get around safely, and therefore different factions fight for control of said bridges. 3) as usual, this was a fantastic video and evidently really got me thinking about my city and how it might appear in one of my favorite fictional worlds. keep up the great work Your Majesty
@@karomiooo The panthers were not a hate group. They were explicitly founded for outreach programs for poor black neighborhoods and self defense. There are many different sects of the Black Panther Party and like many other political parties was not a monolith. There are many videos on TH-cam that goes into further depth about the party than I ever could. This is my third time writing this comment because whenever I link a video that explains what the panthers were TH-cam deletes the comment. Funny how youtube will keep spambot comments but remove actual informative comments
I think it would be interesting if we could find that after the events of Fallout 4, Nick Valentine goes to find what happened to the original Valentine, and finds him goulified and has a reunion with himself.
Quiza un valentine synth y recto como el de f4 encuentra al original como ghoul y raider? Digo, luego de una guerra nuclear la gente ruda suele acabar asi, de prueba una saqueadora en un puesto pesquero de crater cerca de la planta embotelladora en 76, si hablas con ella (no recuerdo cual 😅) te dice "Era maestra de escuela antes de las bombas, pero que no te engañe! Aguantar a esos crios te hace tener el alma de un raider" o algo asi, no recuerdo bien, pero encajaria con los precedentes de la saga
Fallout 5: Valentine. It’s literally just him going through through a soul search. Differently from some games past and trying to right the wrongs of fallout 4s prologue. You get “dunwich borders” type moments throughout the story of both *Nick Valentines* life and Nicks early life in the institute
A Fallout set in chicago would be awesome! You could have prohibition era tunnels and survivors, dig into the F:Tactics lore with remnants from the robot army (can't remember the name now). But Your Grace RadKing I would like to suggest Houston Texas for another episode of this series, I think the Lone Star state has a lot of potential for the games
@@maximumoverdrive4241 El Paso also sounds awesome, could even have Mexico’s presence. I mainly chose Houston because the game could incorporate the Johnson Space Center (or whatever it’s called in the Fallout-verse) like the Hoover Dam was used in New Vegas.
26:17 - I'm envisioning a Ferris wheel being immobilized by rubble or welding, and turned into a small makeshift settlement with the carts being turned into shops or apartments
I can imagine a really dark outcome where Chinatown gets “re-organized” into a hyper-patriotic Americatown that exemplifies the worst of Prewar America’s eco-fascist attitude towards its neighboring nations and the consumerist drive that lead to nuclear oblivion.
I’m actually planning a fallout ttrpg set in Chicago, this video is really helpful! An idea I thought about would be, with Chicago’s historical meat packing history, a company like mama dolce’s could lead to a Chinese influence in post Great War Chicago. Possibly a faction or a location! Thank you for the good videos!
I think an interesting approach with Chicago being the transportation hub it is would be to use Chicago as something of a hub world, for a lack of a better word. Take a boat down the river to St Louis or a train to one of the surrounding cities. Something like Point Lookout or The Pit being smaller maps but mesh in a bit more sensically for the setting. Fast travel on the trains to go to other hub areas and cover more area without having a larger map. You could even get a bit whacky with the factions. Railway nomads, that go from city to city trading and scavenging whose origins are old train staff or something. Or turn Gary Indiana into a Vault City situation where it's (kinda) thrived post war. Canadian migrants from across the lake.Not sure what you'd do with said factions but it'd be neat I guess.
Nah, make The Pitt a bigger map and allow us to explore the areas outside where you are restricted in the Pitt! Oh better yet, make Alton, IL an official DLC!
There is some things you forgot and understandably so… 1. Hotdogs are in the Fallout Universe and are in Fallout 76. The strange part is there is no bun,it is just the sausage 2. While your trying to stay reasonable with map size being less then Fallout 4,their most recent title 76 was “4x” the size.
Its really nice to see that you didn't just cover the main city but included outer towns, one which I'm from, in the larger city map. Also, as Sailor, I love the idea of a bunch of Sailors branching off and making their own faction.
Rehashing some ideas I've posted before on how Tactics could be brought in line with the current lore. For starters, move the events of Tactics to after the events of Fallout 2. This would make it so that the Brotherhood's encounter with the Enclave and the realization that they are no longer the technological big dogs in the Wasteland was the catalyst for the schism that saw the formation of the Midwest Chapter. Next, seeing as ED-E's recordings confirm the presence of Enclave in Chicago, make them the main antagonists instead of the Calculator because, let's face it, if a robot army like that had existed in prewar America, its remnants would be everywhere, not just in the Midwest. You could even make it so that the reason the Brotherhood crashed wasn't because they flew into a storm, which makes them seem pretty negligent, but were shot down by the Enclave. And the reason their power armor starts to look like a hybrid of Brotherhood and Enclave armor is because it is. They would start using components taken from the armor of dead Enclave soldiers to repair and upgrade their own armor.
The Calculator's robot army only woke up the he detected that its vault had been breached by mutants, which happens after the brotherhood had arrived in the region, that's why they didn't spread to other places. One more thing, while the Enclave are cool villains and all, I think we have enough of them for now.
Because of the Chicago fires, maybe having burned/burnt/Smoldering/torched/chard/ as prefixes for harder variants of wasteland creatures would be fitting. Also have Mysterious Rad Fire storms that pop up with irradiated (green?) fire in certain locations would be interesting. As always great video Rad.
Honestly, the green fire bit could be used to reference Greek fire, which is usually depicted as green flames in pop culture; Was commonly used by the Byzantine Empire for use against attackers of Constantinople, and is basically the ancient equivalent of white phosphorus being that it's a complete bitch to snuff out.
....The Great Chicago Fire was started because of the city being primarily wood at first. After the fire, buildings were constructed with brick and developed rigorous fire safety standards. Your concept only makes sense if you're not American and just taking random events you know.
Ghouls on fire that never burn out. A monster in the lake that only the most demented worship. Terror birds roosting in the highest buildings. Gangs that use the rail lines to mark their turf. It has potential.
A few comments, but not much: I think one thing that should be in a Fallout Chicago but wasn't mentioned is the Rum Tunnels. These are a separate system than what you mentioned and were dug by the gangs of Chicago to move liquor between areas of Chicago and places in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana. Also the L-Train systems (especially in the Loop areas as highlighted in the map you gave) would probably hold some importance too. As far as DLC, two I'd love to see that are important to Chicago to a degree would be Gary Indiana (right across the Illinois Indiana border) which currently IRL looks like Fallout in areas but miiiiight be a bit too similar to the Pitt as it was a steel mill company city, but more prominent during the 50s and having a very direct connection (via shortrail that runs directly from it to Millennium Station in Chicago, where you had shown) is South Bend Indiana. This city was prominent in the car industry pre-70s, but heavily in the 50s and 60s with Studebaker, plus the presence of the University of Notre Dame could lead into a large number of themes you presented in this video.
Remember Wasteland Omelet quest? What if there is a quest for making a Wasteland Burek? Or just Rakija/Moonshine, but without that fission battery trash, but by mixing with other alchohols: Beer and Moonshine to make Concrete, with sparkling water/Aqua Pura for some tonic, vodka and unique Nuka Cola to make cheap White Russian. Or hell, make it a plant/fruit only moonshine that gives some idiotic buffs)
24:18 there *are* hot dogs in the Fallout games, specifically Fallout 76. I remember a particular daily quest in Camden Park where you have to eat hot dogs on plates in a hot dog eating challenge.
I literally keep coming back to this video over and over again as my biggest aid in creating my Fallout TTRPG campaign. Thanks for the great ideas and inspiration for plenty of my own!
I would love a crime faction you could join similar to the trigermen from f4. Just on a larger scale and joinable especially due to their presence in Chicago during the mafia golden age and probation, it would also work due to fallout 1950's vibes
I always had the dream Fallout game set in Chicago and its surrounding area. It would work as a spinoff like New Vegas but much more developed (like 3-5 years of development into it) and have a similar map to what you laid out but more extensive, incorporating more areas south, southeast, southwest, north and northwest. Having the Midwestern Brotherhood and Enclave very much involved alongside many other factions, tribes, raider groups, etc. I would even have direct ties to New Vegas and Fallout 1 and 2. And definitely a revisioned Fallout Tactics story that would be made canon. I’d have the game set in Fall of 2290 but spanning all the way into summer when seasons change occurring throughout the game. We have to get a game set in Chicago
I'd love to see Indianapolis as a DLC zone just to see what NASCAR looked like in Fallout and how the Indianapolis Motor Speedway held up (possibly even still housing races like was mentioned in the video)
So here's a neat little idea to go along with your criminal gangs factions. Since Capone retired from the Mob in the 30s, and was originally from Brooklyn, you could have two major groups. You could have the "Capones" and the "Outfit." The first basically in the style of the Kings venerating Elvis. They could have a more New York aesthetic to them. The Second group could represent the disciples of Capone and the Colisimo crime family and have more traditional Italian/Irish Catholic Mob vibe. Basically fanatics of the Alcohol Bootlegger King who died of Syphilis, vs. Made Men who dabble in protection rackets, gambling, and harder drugs.
I would love to hear Chicago blues in the next Fallout, but don't forget, Gene Autry had his start singing on a Chicago radio station in the 1930s. Add to that, Bozo the Clown. You have to have a clown character, and maybe even Svengoolie.
Milwaukee has gotta be a powerhouse with long stretching trade out east, maybe West due to all the bottling plants and their ability to produce counterfeit caps.
Oh definitely, I’d say limit the it to western trade and northern trade and the western trade being north western so as to not have to explain its absence in 1,2, and NV out west.
Being from Wisconsin I'd love to see a DLC for Milwaukee where it's more light hearted(ish) like Nuka World where theres like a cheese king that's just out of his gourd that and have Wisconsin be a booze making hub for the wastes that's be super cool. Chicago is legitimately my hope for F5🙏🙏🙏🙌
For about a year & a half I have been planning/writing a Fallout RPG with Chicago as the setting. Atom Bless You for making this video, so much great inspiration!
I’m actually from around Chicago (I’m a little bit outside the city) and I think that one thing I’d love to see that this video mentioned a little is involvement of Lake Michigan in some way (possibly a dlc, main plot or a way to cross the lake to other dlc areas)
6:43 they could just mean Chicago as in the area of Chicago. Like how it’s the Capitol Wasteland, despite it not all being in the old capitol but in the general area of it
Yeah, that’s generally what is assumed in the community as a whole. But still it’s fun to think of the city itself since most U.S. metropolitan areas are basically small nations.
Yes! Chicago must be a Fallout game some day. Maybe even with Springfield showcased as a DLC city that was mostly untouched by bombs and mostly intact and portrayed as a community that is actually banding together to rebuild and hint that they intend to be a legitimate rival to the Enclave. Just my imagination running with the concept LOL. Have a great day all !!
Oh mighty and Knowledgeable RadKing... Awesome idea of location and your concepts and reasoning is sound. Only one small issue Wrigley Field is the home of the Cubs not the White Sox. LOL as a Chicago Southsider, and White Sox Fan, my favorite baseball team is the White Sox and my second favorite team is who ever is playing the Cubs. The rivalry between the Sox and Cubs is visceral and that too would make a interesting factional spin...
A few other ideas: North Side / South Side rival factions (Cubs vs Sox), the L (Chicago's Metro system) could still be functional, and Argonne National Lab and Fermi Lab are two very important physics laboratories just outside of the city.
even though it's quite a bit outside the map you suggest, I think a trip out to naval station great lakes would be a great DLC concept. if they chose to reproduce the "battle stations" facility which is basically the final exam for passing Navy bootcamp and is literally a ship at a pier, inside a giant warehouse. recruits board the ship just around sunset, and they spend the first few hours doing the basic menial stuff like standing bridge watch, loading supplies from the pier to the ship, etc. but then, missile hits are simulated and there are rooms that fill with smoke, ammunition magazines that start to flood, so you're supposed to move all the heavy "shells" to an adjacent compartment before all the ammo gets waterlogged. walls and ceilings that collapse, floors that shake, and rooms that catch fire, all so sailors can put all their basic training to the test. that would be a great dungeon dive. there is also the firing ranges, the gas chamber, the swimming pools, the NEX (Navy equivalent to the super duper mart), and a rather large chapel. across the street you have a few other training commands for occupational specializations including diver training so there's a pretty wide number of interesting facilities that they could incorporate.
Something I think lots of people forget or are completely unaware of. If a Chicago game is done, the Chicago underground city spaces definitely need to be featured.
Fallout is my favorite game. Children of Atom is my favorite faction. Chicago is my favorite city. I was born and raised less than a mile from where those experiments took place. Loving this vid. Would be the best game ever! 💚
FYI, there are hot dogs in Fallout 76. The Chow Line daily is a hot dog eating contest, they are found various other places on the map, and the Nuka-World update includes Nuka-Dogs as well.
7:39 I think the main reason they made it non-cannon was for that map. Lake Michigan looks like it was mirrored, the terrain around the west side looks like the Appalachian mountains (and it looks like it wasn’t from the nukes either) and there’s a random river that looks wider than the Mississippi River in Wisconsin 😂. Maybe I’m just picky as someone from the Chicagoland area but I really hope they make a better map next time around
It's absolutely crazy that this shows up on my feed and came out 2 days ago, as I've been working on creating a fallout campaign setting for the tabletop RPG setting in Chicago, because of the great setting, history, and open lore connections to the existing universe. I've done most research on many of the points in this video but nonetheless it will be an awesome resource to use to help with my project.
I like the idea of the Chicago faction of the BoS having gradually been infiltrated and overtaken by the Children of Atom, becoming the Brotherhood of Atom. A splinter faction would reject this and be forced to vacate the city. You could pick either side, and also form an allegiance with the Enclave. You could spread the teachings of Atom amongst the Enclave, converting them and turning them against the BoS. Or the BoS could ally with the Enclave to bring down the Brotherhood of Atom, which would be an interesting dynamic.
I wonder if maybe instead of focusing on a single urban area, like the last few fallout games, the next game uses the Great Lakes as a whole. It could be based in Chicago, then the main story has you travel to other locations on the Great Lakes like Cleveland, Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie, Duluth, etc. Perhaps the reason for this is because some dangerous, new creature dominates the countryside and it's just safer to travel over water. This could also be a reason why we never hear about midwestern settlements in other games, they either never made it there or didn’t want to try and make that same dangerous journey back. I'd also love to see what an area governed by the Brotherhood of Steel would be like; perhaps there are bans on certain tech, creating a black market for things like energy weapons, bringing smugglers and gangs into the mix.
i think Chicago would have a lot of good factions based of the mafia, the china and Greek towns, a faction similar to responders or NCR, a vault faction with vault 85 and 86 alliance, (fallout gravel pit) a dlc mission to Canada or on islands in the great lakes would be interesting to explore also was Lincoln born in Kentucky
my own headcanon is that tactics story is not literally canon but its all just a mash up of wasteland legends, which would also explain things like wierd power armors which didnt look like this but were remembered like this
What about Caesar's Legion? In Fallout New Vegas, they mention contacting the Midwest Brother of Steel. It could work as the Legion being an outsider group who saw the value of Chicago steel mills for the mass production of weapons, Enclave returning to regroup and collect the technology like the Midwest Power Armor suit (which is in reality, Advanced Power Armor MK II but more robust), Brotherhood of Steel who is their on their purge of super mutants, and Gammorin's Army, lead by a former Brotherhood of Steel member who saw the light after being save by a Super Mutant and Ghoul who just want peace but have been murder by his BOS members.
Your broad outline of Chicago fits a lot of the thoughts I’ve had, so I’ll comment on DLC areas. I like the idea of going to the Mall of America and seeing it as hi-tech but cheesy place, probably filled with Viking raiders. Kind of like Nuka World but with more brand names. My headcanon, for lack of a better word, is that St Louis was the HQ for the mutants because the wanted to dump FEV in the river. Maybe you have to return here because a new strain has emerged & is killing folks. Detroit. Even more Raider heavy than the Mall, someone is turning old cars into a new patchwork army of robots. Attack of the Killer Corvegas!
How can you neglect the L! Chicago has a railway system called "The L" It is was initially coal powered and was unvailed during the Colombian wold exposition in 1893. It is a largely elevated rail that started as a "loop" in the downtown area that would reach up and out some. Today the L is a "Commuter" railway designed to take folks from outside and in the edges of the city in toward The Loop. It still forms that "Loop" in downtown then sends folks right back out. This rail actually gives Chicago's downtown it's nickname of "The Loop". The L also got it's name because it's elevated. In the downtown area, The L has a few lines that sit 3-10 stories above ground level. It also has a few line that travel underground and under the river just to pop back up and join there elevated brethren. To locals, it's nothing new. Kinda loud when you're under it. To visitors and tourists, however, it's baffling. To be on a rail in the air that runs down roads, pops into neighborhoods and weaves between the houses. It's an experience for sure.
copy/pasted from my big ol' comment of thoughts lol: Imagine a faction that uses the loop as a border of their territory, maybe building down from the elevated tracks to make it into a border wall like New Vegas, or just using it as a way to travel the city with some elevation on your side. Maybe this faction is what grew from the remnants of chicago's organized crime, and you can live inside their territory with their protection from outside threats, but also with the downsides of being ruled over by criminals. tbh i hadn't even considered the novelty of riding an elevated train like that; having lived here my whole life it's just normal. maybe some of the trains are still working, or hey, maybe the organized crime faction got them up and running again and uses that as the key to maintaining their power; quick and relatively easy transport all over the city is a HUGE leg up, and whoever controls it would have a much easier time controlling the city.
@@StealthPants1 Yes! Something almost like the Forge(?) raider group in FO4 who is repairing the L and fortifying it's struts to make walls around the loop! If you control the L, you control the city. Since I was a kid playing FO3, I've thought about how cool it'd be to fortify the larger stations like Wilson in uptown. Or Howard over in Roger's Park! It is an elevated station with a huge that but unpopulated train yard, a lot of bridges, bypasses, and lot of little entrances and exits. That's make a great trading post, settlement, or perhaps a base for organized crime. Whoever would have a strong footing on the north most edge of the city. With a straight shot to the loop.
@@Copper.Trees. oooh i really like the idea of a faction that repairs/maintains the infrastructure around the city. like, EVERYONE relies on the L and the bridges to get around, so you have to pay their fees/ protection money, or at the very least maintain a good relationship with them. but if they're raiders or other organized crime you can't just sit back and abide by the bad shit they do. GOD it's just such a fun thing to think about yk. like i know we're probably not gonna actually get a fallout game set here, but it's still so fun to think & talk about
Surprised there was no mention of a Canada DLC in this hypothetical scenario. Should be pretty easy to take a boat across the lake since we had Point Lookout and Far Harbot
You have made a compeling case for this being the setting for a future Fallout game. You did a great job of explaining the history of the city and you are right that a lot of factions and stories almost write themselves. My only point of concern is that it would be very similar to Fallout 4. Not that that is a bad thing, it's an incredible game and I'm all for more of that (I would have been happy with some kind of a direct sequel to F4 in the Commonwealth) That said I have a feeling the next game could be something radically different. Everyone names cities to be the setting for the next game, but what if they don't have a host city at all? What if we think much bigger? What if you travel between smaller connected maps? I'm thinking something like how you travel between the Commonwealth, Far Harbour and Nuka World. How about individual maps around the size of Far Harbour but maybe a dozen or so of them? Lots of areas each with there own character. You could have different climate and weather in each area. Smaller groups and factions fighting for control of an area map and the large factions fight to control the whole map. You could finally have the under-the-sea zone, or even something off-world! How about an orbital station? Or a base on the moon or even Mars! If these games are going to be around for many years it makes sense to make them more modular and infinitely expandable and this format would allow that.
I've been teaching myself creation kit and LOVE big things like this that cover many areas of aspects to work with, I have also been kinda thinking of doing a big new area mod for fallout 4, I'm not that skilled yet, but the mod I'm currently working on should give me a pretty decent level to work at, soooo I wont lie, some of your ideas might get used if you dont mind. I'm a huge fallout fan as well and adhering to established lore is a huge thing for me, I'm honestly pretty anal about the small stuff lol A mafia like faction that mispronounce Capone and call their leader "cap one" more of a military like tank then an actual name
As a Chicagoan, born and raised, I would love to see what would be done with the Shedd Aquarium. I used to go there so much as a kid. And Navy Pier would be a great place for a trading plaza in fallout.
I've actually been considering getting into Fallout 4 modding so that I could potentially make a big mod based in Chicago, and this video's really got my fuel rods reacting. It's exciting hearing about someone's ideas for it.
A potential DLC location could be the Rock Island Arsenal. My own personal headcanon is that the reason the Midwest BoS has radically different power armor compared to the other games is that a parallel development of power armor took place at RIA, where the distinct Midwest BoS PA was developed. However, due to crony corporatist lobbying, price, insufficient manufacturing capabilities, or something else entirely, the WestTek T45 and T51 models were downselected as military issue instead. The RIA models were then put into storage, and the Great War triggered an automated lockdown of the facility, keeping raiders and wastelanders out. The Midwest BoS could initially be depicted in a potential FO:Chicago as having equipment that's worn out from years of use with little appropriate maintenance capabilities, and the entire RIA DLC could be centered around assisting them in shutting down the automated lockdown and defenses of the facility, which would not only explain where their armor came from, but also aid in refurbishing their other weapons, equipment, and vehicles, as that's basically what RIA does in real life and has the facilities to accomplish.
I really like your ideas for a Fallout Chicago. Bonus points if I get to take Nick Valentine with me as a tour guide, just to hear him make witty commentary on the various changes to the Windy City.
17:52 replaying fallout 2 reminds me how great the "corrupt family" dynamic was. Fallout NV did things a little better than 3 and 4, but even that didn't really compare to the way entire towns were being subjugated through Jet trafficking. Other games have "protection money" quests and other criminal activity, but you never see an entire town in shackles like you did in fallout 2
Hey RadKing! I’ve recently came across your channel and I really like your videos. But I have a question, what mod are you using for that outfit you’re wearing? I think it’s super cool, and I think it would fit my COA play through I’m currently working on modding. Also keep up the good work on the videos, I really like how informative your lore videos are. I’ve actually been learning new things about fallout I never knew, so thanks again! 💚
Maybe a Fallout Gettysburg. We already got Pittsburgh for Pennsylvania but I think a more rural area would be a unique spin on things plus the massive historical importance.
I'm really digging your ideas for a Chicago-based game. My biggest love that you've presented has easily been the culture/history. I'm probably not alone here, but Fallout 4 and 76 are woefully lacking in brutalist concrete skyscrapers and lavish art deco installations. Fallout 3 hilariously got that aspect of atmosphere and world design right despite the hate it gets; fitting the retro futurism really well and looking good while doing it. While an interesting art direction, I think 4 leans too hard into metal buildings and curvy architecture. Yes, it's retro-futuristic, but not Fallout's interpretation. The music would be interesting to hear take such a change compared to the usual (still great, mind you) swing and jazz. I think this all sounds so refreshing while not just being different for the sake of it. All in all, makes me wish for it bad.
This would be my own head canon, but with access to Lake Michigan, any that they sometimes go out of the area, I would love a trip to Mackinac Island. Would love to visit the Grand Hotel and Fort Mackinac and the bridge between upper and lower peninsulas. And it’s history with the War of 1812. Probably doesn’t hold a lot of interest, but it could be a neat side quest.
One of the resent datamines from F76 revealed one of the Caculators robots in the game files. We have to wait and see if we will see them in F76 in the future. EDIT: Seems to be the Security Robot from Fallout Tactics. EDIT: Hotdogs can be found and eaten in F76 btw
15:30 why not both? shows the age of the city, perhaps with the older buildings actively being fought over prewar for property value by various businesses that you can read about or hear from old ghouls, think it'd be interesting edit: 17:30 mafia ending mafia ending mafia ending mafia ending
One of John Cassidy's floating dialogue comments in Fallout 2 is that the midwest has "twisters miles wide" and is a "big ol' radioactive dustbowl now". Though IIRC he prefaces this with "I hear" making it in universe second hand information. As far as interesting game concepts, having the war permanently alter weather patterns could make things wildly different. If you look at maps of the Great Lakes you'll notice population density is unevenly distributed. The east side of lakes, even the smaller (non great) ones get very cold and huge amounts of snow in winter, leading to difficulties that result in small and spare settlements. Even without the war changing the weather, the advanced technology of the pre-war likely meant rapid expansion of suburbs into these areas where abundant energy and snow clearing robots made these challenges become mere inconveniences. They'd likely have been abandoned entirely during the (nuclear) winter of 2077-2078 and never resettled, only being explored during the warmer months. Since most places in Fallout still have people living around ruins, a mostly untouched location has a lot of potential. Since you said "let it fly", well, it's visible from Chicago at least. Mount Baldy is a sand dune in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on the south shore of Lake Michigan. It's roughly 126 feet tall and it wanders very slowly over time. In 2013 a 6 year old child was swallowed up by an anomaly in the dune and while you'd expect someone buried in sand to die very quickly, a search and rescue effort located and rescued the boy after over 3 hours. Sand dunes aren't supposed to have any natural cavities as they're made entirely of sand. Baldy was closed to the public after this, and over half a dozen other anomalies, called "decomposition chimneys" have since been discovered, attributed to decaying black oak trees.
31:05 OMG I'm all down for Red Letter Media in a Fallout game! A small tightly knit society of cinephiles collecting obscure survived pieces of pre war movies and stitching them together in ther magnus opus.
Perhaps the Chicago Fire aspect could been turned up to 11, akin to something like the effects of the Red Mountain in Morrowind/Dragonborn. Perhaps feral ghouls can appear more soot covered, or even look more like they're made out of lava rock than flesh, and potentially even have the ability to breath fire, rather than the usual glowing ones.
@@TheRussianORIONTrooper Im guessing you must have hated things like Mothership Zeta or Old World Blues. I mean in the latter, you talk to your brain. YOUR OWN BRAIN!
Fallout Tactics is the unsung gem of the Fallout series. That's why I constantly vouch for how good, and how influential it was. Radroaches, Brotherhood airships, Enclave power armour in Fallout 3, continuing to use former Star Trek actors as voice actors, etc. Fallout Tactics is surprisingly full of things that are important to the franchise.
Not Canon god bless
@@karomiooo they say that, but they also loot Tactics so heavily, that it pretty much has to be canon.
@@karomiooo It's hard to say how non canon it is. The Airships comments kind of cement that they existed. It's not a stretch to say the BOS destroyed a robot menace either.
Lmao
@@genericscout5408 It is a stretch. Only elements of the game confirmed by other games are canon.
1. There is a whole German WW2 U-boat in a museum in Chicago. Big quest potential there.
2. Cloud gate: all hail the silver bean
3. Maybe the Elevated Trains for some interesting housing/ settlements/ transport?
(I actually had a similar idea for a game set in the Southeastern US called Fallout Seared South.)
1. too controversial by today's standards, snowflakes will cry nazi and hitler. that will never happen
2: all hail the substructure of the bean, or what little remains of it after nuclear blast wave and fire
or just not at all, cause wikipedia informed me that the space of millennium park was railyards well into the 80"s and the cloud gate was a 2004 project (finished 2006)
@@prcervi The Great War took place in 2077. There is no reason it shouldn't be there.
@@chuckthewizard7288 maybe but fallout is rocking the 50's retro futurism and the cloud gate as it is would not win a design competition in that world
@@prcerviliteralmente es diseño postmoderno, ni de broma una ciudad de fallout lo usaria.. .. .. .. bueno, tal vez una fundada por el instituto o un refugio de vault tec luego de recolonizar la superficie 😂😂😂
You really f*-king got me.
I, a Chicago resident, was taking notes while listening to the video. I started to tune in more when heard you talking about uptown. I go to uptown all the time to catch live shows or get a drink. My mind started to wander. "Wow! I'd love to see 'The Riv' in fallout. Or walk The Redline from there down to Addison. I'd love to build a-"
"WrIgLeY'5 fIeLd" and I broke from my trance.... "an 'S? There is no-"
"Home of the White Sox!" and my face turned red. I skipped back and listened to it again so ready to correct you.... Then I saw the picture. I had been punked! You knew what you were doing, and you got me.
Don’t forget Springfield. Def not Abe Lincoln’s birthplace
@@xxslomegaxx9574 thank you for saying that!!! I couldn't comfortably leave a 3rd comment! But yes!! Lincoln is from Kentucky!
SAME BECAUSE THE SECOND I HEARD WRIGLEY AND WHITE SOX, MY WHITE SOX FAN BRAIN STOPPED WHAT I WAS DOING TO CHECK IF ANYONE ELSE NOTICED
i did the same thing, and i was born and raised north of Chicago, but it seems that he still has a beef with the 90's era Bulls, lol
They got to also make Alton, IL a DLC (a mod for Fallout 3 as an actual DLC). Hell, maybe have you go to The Pitt but explore more of Pittsburg outside the restricted area in The Pitt. Or even jump to New York City
Tactic's Brotheehood of Steel Summary:
- Abandons old dogma for the sake of practicality
- Helps others to get help in return
- Strives to master and understand technology
- Harsh but effective justice
- Allows outsiders to join their ranks
- Basicly Brotherhood only in name
So it's the Fallout 3 BOS.
@@insomniagobrrr5542 fallout 3's bos is heavily inspired by Tactics
In fallout 1 and 2 and NEW VEGAS, A game loved because his respect to old games, a Outsider joined...
@@CamaradaDoppio In fallout 1 and 2 it's only because the character is so important.
@@CamaradaDoppio chosen one in F2 can't join brotherhood. Also in F1 head paladin says that they used to get recruits before rise of the Unity, but everyone else (playerbase and devs) forgot about it.
Fallout Chicago MUST include the following:
- References to The Blues Brothers. The exploded Bluesmobile in the ruins of Richard J. Daley Plaza; an outfit based on their signature suits; an Orange Whip consumable; an alternative to the Mysterious Stranger, in which Sister / Mother Mary Stigmata appears and repeatedly whacks the target with a ruler or metal baton.
- Malort
- A mission to repair and lower one of the famous drawbridges to open up a caravan route
- "Sweet Home Chicago" on the radio.
Since trains are nuclear powered in the Fallout world, it would make sense that major post war cities would form around rail yards. Locomotives are 6000 horse power in our world (towards the max) which would keep a small town running on its own. Let alone having hundreds of them laying around. Especially given Fallout world nuclear technology effectively runs forever.
An NPC in New Vegas mentions that concrete is shipped via rail, indicating that at least some of the pre-war rail network is still in use.
the line about the detachment in Chicago going rogue kinda works with an idea i had for a raider gang founded by an ex BoS unit, with the gang's original identity being lost to time, but with the BoS culture intact, but mixed with raiding and chems. they'd also be operating in a region with no former permanent BoS, so to everyone there it'd be a mystery where they came from, but to the player themselves it'd be subtly hinted that they're BoS
I could very much imagine that the Children of Atom created some kind of pilgrimage course that starts on the Memorial statue, goes through 2 or 3 locations (like the Bullfrog Lake) and ends in the universities Fission Lab, where they have created some kind of "Cathedral of Atom".
I feel like the canonicity of Tactics can be summed up like how Metroid: Other M is. The events of that game happened, but not as they were portrayed.
As a chicagoan, i have several thoughts on this i felt like sharing. For one, while yes we do have an Irish presence, i feel it'd be remiss to ignore our SIGNIFICANT Polish population. We had more polish people than any city outside of Poland (til new york took that because they have such a massive population; we still have a higher rate per capita), and we have an important city holiday celebrating a prominent polish figure in the history of chicago, Casimir Pulaski day. Another thought is that it feels criminal to try to recreate the chicago skyline without the sears tower (i know it's the willis tower now but too bad) and the hancock center. I'd LOVE to see a fallout-ified version of those iconic skyscrapers, maybe in ruins or maybe with somewhat more wacky architecture similar to the skyscrapers in fallout 4's boston.
A fairly important aspect of downtown chicago that didn't get mentioned here is the iconic elevated train system (the L), which of course includes the Loop. Imagine a faction that uses the loop as a border of their territory, maybe building down from the elevated tracks to make it into a border wall like New Vegas, or just using it as a way to travel the city with some elevation on your side. Maybe this faction is what grew from the remnants of chicago's organized crime, and you can live inside their territory with their protection from outside threats, but also with the downsides of being ruled over by the mob.
One major downside of a game set in chicago is the distinct lack of wilderness. the chicagoland area stretches for a HUGE area around the city proper; it'd be pretty hard to find forests or plains or any undeveloped space within a realistic distance from the downtown area. Undeveloped, untamed, and unknown wilderness is a pretty big part of the fallout series, so i think it would be pretty difficult to make a game without that still feel like fallout. Maybe it'd therefore be more important for DLC to focus more on that nature & wilderness, maybe with a national park like you mentioned, or going up into surrounding states' rural areas (hey, the bristol renaissance faire is right over the wisconsin border. it'd probably feel off in fallout but hey i loved it as a kid so i'm gonna mention it).
If you want to get political (which the fallout series often does), chicago is a GREAT option for that. you can touch on the rampant corporatization of public life as a result of capitalism (A lot of public transit is managed by a private company (metra), many parking spaces in the city are owned by private companies, etc), the history of racism in housing (chicago has a LONG and awful history with redlining and other racist housing laws & practices), or just the overall divide between the rich and poor. I'm not sure how much of that bethesda would really want to tackle, but hey, it's there.
last couple thoughts:
1) it's just very funny to think that i could visit the spot where my irl house is but in a fallout game, maybe live in whatever exists on that spot lol
2) hey, maybe due to some nuclear mishap the chicago river is PERMANENTLY green, instead of just on saint patty's day; that could also create a pretty interesting gameplay mechanic where swimming in the river is incredibly dangerous so you have to use the many many bridges if you want to get around safely, and therefore different factions fight for control of said bridges.
3) as usual, this was a fantastic video and evidently really got me thinking about my city and how it might appear in one of my favorite fictional worlds. keep up the great work Your Majesty
When talking about the politics of Chicago, do not forget about the black panthers
@@garrettmetting6938 Why would you want to bring up a hate group like that
@@karomiooo The panthers were not a hate group. They were explicitly founded for outreach programs for poor black neighborhoods and self defense. There are many different sects of the Black Panther Party and like many other political parties was not a monolith. There are many videos on TH-cam that goes into further depth about the party than I ever could. This is my third time writing this comment because whenever I link a video that explains what the panthers were TH-cam deletes the comment. Funny how youtube will keep spambot comments but remove actual informative comments
I think it would be interesting if we could find that after the events of Fallout 4, Nick Valentine goes to find what happened to the original Valentine, and finds him goulified and has a reunion with himself.
Very interesting! Many more mob/movie themes could be present if we get a chicago fallout game. I like it. Like, mafia style stuff bur for fallout.
Quiza un valentine synth y recto como el de f4 encuentra al original como ghoul y raider? Digo, luego de una guerra nuclear la gente ruda suele acabar asi, de prueba una saqueadora en un puesto pesquero de crater cerca de la planta embotelladora en 76, si hablas con ella (no recuerdo cual 😅) te dice "Era maestra de escuela antes de las bombas, pero que no te engañe! Aguantar a esos crios te hace tener el alma de un raider" o algo asi, no recuerdo bien, pero encajaria con los precedentes de la saga
Fallout 5: Valentine. It’s literally just him going through through a soul search. Differently from some games past and trying to right the wrongs of fallout 4s prologue. You get “dunwich borders” type moments throughout the story of both *Nick Valentines* life and Nicks early life in the institute
Funny you mention this my writer showed me this video, our team is currently working on a Fallout NV Expansion set in Chicago
sounds fun ~shed
A Fallout set in chicago would be awesome! You could have prohibition era tunnels and survivors, dig into the F:Tactics lore with remnants from the robot army (can't remember the name now).
But Your Grace RadKing I would like to suggest Houston Texas for another episode of this series, I think the Lone Star state has a lot of potential for the games
Houston would never happen unless Bethesda finally lets us drive cars. That city, even after a nuke, is NOT walking friendly
Instead of those two how about one set in El Paso, we could have Ciudad Juarez make an apearence, finally taking us outside the Us
@@maximumoverdrive4241 El Paso also sounds awesome, could even have Mexico’s presence. I mainly chose Houston because the game could incorporate the Johnson Space Center (or whatever it’s called in the Fallout-verse) like the Hoover Dam was used in New Vegas.
same with Oklahoma, we also need some love
Gooo gooo ASTROS
26:17 - I'm envisioning a Ferris wheel being immobilized by rubble or welding, and turned into a small makeshift settlement with the carts being turned into shops or apartments
I can imagine a really dark outcome where Chinatown gets “re-organized” into a hyper-patriotic Americatown that exemplifies the worst of Prewar America’s eco-fascist attitude towards its neighboring nations and the consumerist drive that lead to nuclear oblivion.
I’m actually planning a fallout ttrpg set in Chicago, this video is really helpful! An idea I thought about would be, with Chicago’s historical meat packing history, a company like mama dolce’s could lead to a Chinese influence in post Great War Chicago. Possibly a faction or a location!
Thank you for the good videos!
Just don't forget the Naval Base around Chicago, "Great Mistakes".
The good old days of Boot camps.
I think an interesting approach with Chicago being the transportation hub it is would be to use Chicago as something of a hub world, for a lack of a better word. Take a boat down the river to St Louis or a train to one of the surrounding cities. Something like Point Lookout or The Pit being smaller maps but mesh in a bit more sensically for the setting. Fast travel on the trains to go to other hub areas and cover more area without having a larger map. You could even get a bit whacky with the factions. Railway nomads, that go from city to city trading and scavenging whose origins are old train staff or something. Or turn Gary Indiana into a Vault City situation where it's (kinda) thrived post war. Canadian migrants from across the lake.Not sure what you'd do with said factions but it'd be neat I guess.
Take a nice drive to Detroit ( a decent location)
Gary Indiana is clearly a colony of vault 108.
Nah, make The Pitt a bigger map and allow us to explore the areas outside where you are restricted in the Pitt! Oh better yet, make Alton, IL an official DLC!
There is some things you forgot and understandably so…
1. Hotdogs are in the Fallout Universe and are in Fallout 76. The strange part is there is no bun,it is just the sausage
2. While your trying to stay reasonable with map size being less then Fallout 4,their most recent title 76 was “4x” the size.
Its really nice to see that you didn't just cover the main city but included outer towns, one which I'm from, in the larger city map.
Also, as Sailor, I love the idea of a bunch of Sailors branching off and making their own faction.
I think the brotherhoods main base being the crashed airship would be cool
Rehashing some ideas I've posted before on how Tactics could be brought in line with the current lore. For starters, move the events of Tactics to after the events of Fallout 2. This would make it so that the Brotherhood's encounter with the Enclave and the realization that they are no longer the technological big dogs in the Wasteland was the catalyst for the schism that saw the formation of the Midwest Chapter. Next, seeing as ED-E's recordings confirm the presence of Enclave in Chicago, make them the main antagonists instead of the Calculator because, let's face it, if a robot army like that had existed in prewar America, its remnants would be everywhere, not just in the Midwest. You could even make it so that the reason the Brotherhood crashed wasn't because they flew into a storm, which makes them seem pretty negligent, but were shot down by the Enclave. And the reason their power armor starts to look like a hybrid of Brotherhood and Enclave armor is because it is. They would start using components taken from the armor of dead Enclave soldiers to repair and upgrade their own armor.
The Calculator's robot army only woke up the he detected that its vault had been breached by mutants, which happens after the brotherhood had arrived in the region, that's why they didn't spread to other places. One more thing, while the Enclave are cool villains and all, I think we have enough of them for now.
Have it that the Chicago brotherhood and the Enclave remnant have joined forces to fight the Calculator, and that’s why they have the mixed armour
Because of the Chicago fires, maybe having burned/burnt/Smoldering/torched/chard/ as prefixes for harder variants of wasteland creatures would be fitting.
Also have Mysterious Rad Fire storms that pop up with irradiated (green?) fire in certain locations would be interesting.
As always great video Rad.
Honestly, the green fire bit could be used to reference Greek fire, which is usually depicted as green flames in pop culture; Was commonly used by the Byzantine Empire for use against attackers of Constantinople, and is basically the ancient equivalent of white phosphorus being that it's a complete bitch to snuff out.
....The Great Chicago Fire was started because of the city being primarily wood at first. After the fire, buildings were constructed with brick and developed rigorous fire safety standards. Your concept only makes sense if you're not American and just taking random events you know.
Ghouls on fire that never burn out. A monster in the lake that only the most demented worship. Terror birds roosting in the highest buildings. Gangs that use the rail lines to mark their turf.
It has potential.
A few comments, but not much: I think one thing that should be in a Fallout Chicago but wasn't mentioned is the Rum Tunnels. These are a separate system than what you mentioned and were dug by the gangs of Chicago to move liquor between areas of Chicago and places in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana. Also the L-Train systems (especially in the Loop areas as highlighted in the map you gave) would probably hold some importance too.
As far as DLC, two I'd love to see that are important to Chicago to a degree would be Gary Indiana (right across the Illinois Indiana border) which currently IRL looks like Fallout in areas but miiiiight be a bit too similar to the Pitt as it was a steel mill company city, but more prominent during the 50s and having a very direct connection (via shortrail that runs directly from it to Millennium Station in Chicago, where you had shown) is South Bend Indiana. This city was prominent in the car industry pre-70s, but heavily in the 50s and 60s with Studebaker, plus the presence of the University of Notre Dame could lead into a large number of themes you presented in this video.
How about New York City or Norfolk?
Much love from a Hoosier who was thinking Gary should've been in this video, it's even *actually* part of the Chicago Metropolitan area
Remember Wasteland Omelet quest? What if there is a quest for making a Wasteland Burek? Or just Rakija/Moonshine, but without that fission battery trash, but by mixing with other alchohols: Beer and Moonshine to make Concrete, with sparkling water/Aqua Pura for some tonic, vodka and unique Nuka Cola to make cheap White Russian. Or hell, make it a plant/fruit only moonshine that gives some idiotic buffs)
24:18 there *are* hot dogs in the Fallout games, specifically Fallout 76. I remember a particular daily quest in Camden Park where you have to eat hot dogs on plates in a hot dog eating challenge.
I literally keep coming back to this video over and over again as my biggest aid in creating my Fallout TTRPG campaign.
Thanks for the great ideas and inspiration for plenty of my own!
I would love a crime faction you could join similar to the trigermen from f4. Just on a larger scale and joinable especially due to their presence in Chicago during the mafia golden age and probation, it would also work due to fallout 1950's vibes
Italian mob vibes, similar to The Godfather. Totally viable.
Call em the Outfitters.
I always had the dream Fallout game set in Chicago and its surrounding area. It would work as a spinoff like New Vegas but much more developed (like 3-5 years of development into it) and have a similar map to what you laid out but more extensive, incorporating more areas south, southeast, southwest, north and northwest. Having the Midwestern Brotherhood and Enclave very much involved alongside many other factions, tribes, raider groups, etc. I would even have direct ties to New Vegas and Fallout 1 and 2. And definitely a revisioned Fallout Tactics story that would be made canon. I’d have the game set in Fall of 2290 but spanning all the way into summer when seasons change occurring throughout the game. We have to get a game set in Chicago
I'd love to see Indianapolis as a DLC zone just to see what NASCAR looked like in Fallout and how the Indianapolis Motor Speedway held up (possibly even still housing races like was mentioned in the video)
Loving this series, keep it up!
Some suggestions for some other settings to potentially look at could be:
-Seattle
-Hawaii
-New Orleans
for a chicago fallout, up in wisconsin there is a museum submarine USS Cobia, so maybe some sort of mini faction using said submarine
So here's a neat little idea to go along with your criminal gangs factions.
Since Capone retired from the Mob in the 30s, and was originally from Brooklyn, you could have two major groups.
You could have the "Capones" and the "Outfit." The first basically in the style of the Kings venerating Elvis. They could have a more New York aesthetic to them.
The Second group could represent the disciples of Capone and the Colisimo crime family and have more traditional Italian/Irish Catholic Mob vibe.
Basically fanatics of the Alcohol Bootlegger King who died of Syphilis, vs. Made Men who dabble in protection rackets, gambling, and harder drugs.
I would love to hear Chicago blues in the next Fallout, but don't forget, Gene Autry had his start singing on a Chicago radio station in the 1930s. Add to that, Bozo the Clown. You have to have a clown character, and maybe even Svengoolie.
Milwaukee has gotta be a powerhouse with long stretching trade out east, maybe West due to all the bottling plants and their ability to produce counterfeit caps.
Oh definitely, I’d say limit the it to western trade and northern trade and the western trade being north western so as to not have to explain its absence in 1,2, and NV out west.
I'm working on a project set in Fallout's Chicago, and this has been extremely insightful. Thanks for the great content!
Also Tactics take place between Fallout and Fallout 2 so it could be that the location of the super mutants changes.
Being from Wisconsin I'd love to see a DLC for Milwaukee where it's more light hearted(ish) like Nuka World where theres like a cheese king that's just out of his gourd that and have Wisconsin be a booze making hub for the wastes that's be super cool. Chicago is legitimately my hope for F5🙏🙏🙏🙌
For about a year & a half I have been planning/writing a Fallout RPG with Chicago as the setting. Atom Bless You for making this video, so much great inspiration!
Do you mind sharing notes?
I’m actually from around Chicago (I’m a little bit outside the city) and I think that one thing I’d love to see that this video mentioned a little is involvement of Lake Michigan in some way (possibly a dlc, main plot or a way to cross the lake to other dlc areas)
Imagine someone sees the hot dog signs and thought people ate dogs in pre war so they make a dog farm and sell dog meat in buns 😭😭
6:43 they could just mean Chicago as in the area of Chicago. Like how it’s the Capitol Wasteland, despite it not all being in the old capitol but in the general area of it
Yeah, that’s generally what is assumed in the community as a whole. But still it’s fun to think of the city itself since most U.S. metropolitan areas are basically small nations.
Yes! Chicago must be a Fallout game some day. Maybe even with Springfield showcased as a DLC city that was mostly untouched by bombs and mostly intact and portrayed as a community that is actually banding together to rebuild and hint that they intend to be a legitimate rival to the Enclave. Just my imagination running with the concept LOL. Have a great day all !!
There are hotdogs in FO76. You can find them on grills sometimes, and there is a daily quest at Camden Park that involves a hotdog eating contest.
Oh mighty and Knowledgeable RadKing... Awesome idea of location and your concepts and reasoning is sound. Only one small issue Wrigley Field is the home of the Cubs not the White Sox. LOL as a Chicago Southsider, and White Sox Fan, my favorite baseball team is the White Sox and my second favorite team is who ever is playing the Cubs. The rivalry between the Sox and Cubs is visceral and that too would make a interesting factional spin...
A few other ideas: North Side / South Side rival factions (Cubs vs Sox), the L (Chicago's Metro system) could still be functional, and Argonne National Lab and Fermi Lab are two very important physics laboratories just outside of the city.
I know I can count on you to post some quality fallout content when I needed it. Thank you.
even though it's quite a bit outside the map you suggest, I think a trip out to naval station great lakes would be a great DLC concept. if they chose to reproduce the "battle stations" facility which is basically the final exam for passing Navy bootcamp and is literally a ship at a pier, inside a giant warehouse. recruits board the ship just around sunset, and they spend the first few hours doing the basic menial stuff like standing bridge watch, loading supplies from the pier to the ship, etc. but then, missile hits are simulated and there are rooms that fill with smoke, ammunition magazines that start to flood, so you're supposed to move all the heavy "shells" to an adjacent compartment before all the ammo gets waterlogged. walls and ceilings that collapse, floors that shake, and rooms that catch fire, all so sailors can put all their basic training to the test. that would be a great dungeon dive. there is also the firing ranges, the gas chamber, the swimming pools, the NEX (Navy equivalent to the super duper mart), and a rather large chapel. across the street you have a few other training commands for occupational specializations including diver training so there's a pretty wide number of interesting facilities that they could incorporate.
the fact that all the buildings in chicago are leaning is actually a really cool hint that maybe just like irl the city was lifted
Something I think lots of people forget or are completely unaware of. If a Chicago game is done, the Chicago underground city spaces definitely need to be featured.
Fallout is my favorite game. Children of Atom is my favorite faction. Chicago is my favorite city. I was born and raised less than a mile from where those experiments took place. Loving this vid. Would be the best game ever! 💚
FYI, there are hot dogs in Fallout 76. The Chow Line daily is a hot dog eating contest, they are found various other places on the map, and the Nuka-World update includes Nuka-Dogs as well.
7:39 I think the main reason they made it non-cannon was for that map. Lake Michigan looks like it was mirrored, the terrain around the west side looks like the Appalachian mountains (and it looks like it wasn’t from the nukes either) and there’s a random river that looks wider than the Mississippi River in Wisconsin 😂.
Maybe I’m just picky as someone from the Chicagoland area but I really hope they make a better map next time around
If it's gonna take place in Chicago they need a gang of drill rappers who roam the wastes spitting hot bars
It's absolutely crazy that this shows up on my feed and came out 2 days ago, as I've been working on creating a fallout campaign setting for the tabletop RPG setting in Chicago, because of the great setting, history, and open lore connections to the existing universe. I've done most research on many of the points in this video but nonetheless it will be an awesome resource to use to help with my project.
Do you mind sharing some notes?
I can see it now! Fallout: The Black City.
I like the idea of the Chicago faction of the BoS having gradually been infiltrated and overtaken by the Children of Atom, becoming the Brotherhood of Atom. A splinter faction would reject this and be forced to vacate the city. You could pick either side, and also form an allegiance with the Enclave. You could spread the teachings of Atom amongst the Enclave, converting them and turning them against the BoS. Or the BoS could ally with the Enclave to bring down the Brotherhood of Atom, which would be an interesting dynamic.
Small correction: Wrigley field is home to the Chicago Cubs, not the White Sox.
Minor correction about the hot dogs: Hot dogs are actually featured in Fallout 76 for a daily quest called "Chow Line" at Camden Park
I wonder if maybe instead of focusing on a single urban area, like the last few fallout games, the next game uses the Great Lakes as a whole. It could be based in Chicago, then the main story has you travel to other locations on the Great Lakes like Cleveland, Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie, Duluth, etc. Perhaps the reason for this is because some dangerous, new creature dominates the countryside and it's just safer to travel over water. This could also be a reason why we never hear about midwestern settlements in other games, they either never made it there or didn’t want to try and make that same dangerous journey back.
I'd also love to see what an area governed by the Brotherhood of Steel would be like; perhaps there are bans on certain tech, creating a black market for things like energy weapons, bringing smugglers and gangs into the mix.
i think Chicago would have a lot of good factions based of the mafia, the china and Greek towns, a faction similar to responders or NCR, a vault faction with vault 85 and 86 alliance, (fallout gravel pit)
a dlc mission to Canada or on islands in the great lakes would be interesting to explore also was Lincoln born in Kentucky
my own headcanon is that tactics story is not literally canon but its all just a mash up of wasteland legends, which would also explain things like wierd power armors which didnt look like this but were remembered like this
What about Caesar's Legion? In Fallout New Vegas, they mention contacting the Midwest Brother of Steel. It could work as the Legion being an outsider group who saw the value of Chicago steel mills for the mass production of weapons, Enclave returning to regroup and collect the technology like the Midwest Power Armor suit (which is in reality, Advanced Power Armor MK II but more robust), Brotherhood of Steel who is their on their purge of super mutants, and Gammorin's Army, lead by a former Brotherhood of Steel member who saw the light after being save by a Super Mutant and Ghoul who just want peace but have been murder by his BOS members.
This is truly amazing. You've made a great case for Chicago as a setting in a future Fallout game, or at the very least, an epic mod.
4:50 Also Caesar references BOS from the East, which is very likely a subtle reference to Chicago BOS.
There are hotdogs in Fallout. There are some on grills in Fallout 76.
Your broad outline of Chicago fits a lot of the thoughts I’ve had, so I’ll comment on DLC areas.
I like the idea of going to the Mall of America and seeing it as hi-tech but cheesy place, probably filled with Viking raiders. Kind of like Nuka World but with more brand names.
My headcanon, for lack of a better word, is that St Louis was the HQ for the mutants because the wanted to dump FEV in the river. Maybe you have to return here because a new strain has emerged & is killing folks.
Detroit. Even more Raider heavy than the Mall, someone is turning old cars into a new patchwork army of robots. Attack of the Killer Corvegas!
How can you neglect the L!
Chicago has a railway system called "The L" It is was initially coal powered and was unvailed during the Colombian wold exposition in 1893.
It is a largely elevated rail that started as a "loop" in the downtown area that would reach up and out some.
Today the L is a "Commuter" railway designed to take folks from outside and in the edges of the city in toward The Loop. It still forms that "Loop" in downtown then sends folks right back out. This rail actually gives Chicago's downtown it's nickname of "The Loop". The L also got it's name because it's elevated. In the downtown area, The L has a few lines that sit 3-10 stories above ground level. It also has a few line that travel underground and under the river just to pop back up and join there elevated brethren.
To locals, it's nothing new. Kinda loud when you're under it. To visitors and tourists, however, it's baffling. To be on a rail in the air that runs down roads, pops into neighborhoods and weaves between the houses. It's an experience for sure.
copy/pasted from my big ol' comment of thoughts lol:
Imagine a faction that uses the loop as a border of their territory, maybe building down from the elevated tracks to make it into a border wall like New Vegas, or just using it as a way to travel the city with some elevation on your side. Maybe this faction is what grew from the remnants of chicago's organized crime, and you can live inside their territory with their protection from outside threats, but also with the downsides of being ruled over by criminals.
tbh i hadn't even considered the novelty of riding an elevated train like that; having lived here my whole life it's just normal. maybe some of the trains are still working, or hey, maybe the organized crime faction got them up and running again and uses that as the key to maintaining their power; quick and relatively easy transport all over the city is a HUGE leg up, and whoever controls it would have a much easier time controlling the city.
@@StealthPants1 Yes! Something almost like the Forge(?) raider group in FO4 who is repairing the L and fortifying it's struts to make walls around the loop! If you control the L, you control the city.
Since I was a kid playing FO3, I've thought about how cool it'd be to fortify the larger stations like Wilson in uptown. Or Howard over in Roger's Park! It is an elevated station with a huge that but unpopulated train yard, a lot of bridges, bypasses, and lot of little entrances and exits. That's make a great trading post, settlement, or perhaps a base for organized crime.
Whoever would have a strong footing on the north most edge of the city. With a straight shot to the loop.
@@Copper.Trees. oooh i really like the idea of a faction that repairs/maintains the infrastructure around the city. like, EVERYONE relies on the L and the bridges to get around, so you have to pay their fees/ protection money, or at the very least maintain a good relationship with them. but if they're raiders or other organized crime you can't just sit back and abide by the bad shit they do. GOD it's just such a fun thing to think about yk. like i know we're probably not gonna actually get a fallout game set here, but it's still so fun to think & talk about
@@StealthPants1 either we pick up modding or wait til were 90
No hot dogs in Fallout? West Virginia would like to have a word.
Hot dogs in fallout 76 at various camp sites and at the amusement park in the south of the map.
24:20. But…. Hotdogs are in Fallout 76
I'd say fermilab is just close enough for an interesting location in a Chicago fallout game too.
Been waiting for a video about a fallout in Chicago, I think it has everything needed for a fallout game and has been my n1 pick for years
Surprised there was no mention of a Canada DLC in this hypothetical scenario. Should be pretty easy to take a boat across the lake since we had Point Lookout and Far Harbot
Assuming the lake isn't frozen over or dried up.
You have made a compeling case for this being the setting for a future Fallout game. You did a great job of explaining the history of the city and you are right that a lot of factions and stories almost write themselves.
My only point of concern is that it would be very similar to Fallout 4. Not that that is a bad thing, it's an incredible game and I'm all for more of that (I would have been happy with some kind of a direct sequel to F4 in the Commonwealth)
That said I have a feeling the next game could be something radically different. Everyone names cities to be the setting for the next game, but what if they don't have a host city at all?
What if we think much bigger?
What if you travel between smaller connected maps? I'm thinking something like how you travel between the Commonwealth, Far Harbour and Nuka World.
How about individual maps around the size of Far Harbour but maybe a dozen or so of them? Lots of areas each with there own character. You could have different climate and weather in each area. Smaller groups and factions fighting for control of an area map and the large factions fight to control the whole map.
You could finally have the under-the-sea zone, or even something off-world! How about an orbital station? Or a base on the moon or even Mars!
If these games are going to be around for many years it makes sense to make them more modular and infinitely expandable and this format would allow that.
I've been teaching myself creation kit and LOVE big things like this that cover many areas of aspects to work with, I have also been kinda thinking of doing a big new area mod for fallout 4, I'm not that skilled yet, but the mod I'm currently working on should give me a pretty decent level to work at, soooo I wont lie, some of your ideas might get used if you dont mind.
I'm a huge fallout fan as well and adhering to established lore is a huge thing for me, I'm honestly pretty anal about the small stuff lol
A mafia like faction that mispronounce Capone and call their leader "cap one" more of a military like tank then an actual name
I love these kinds of videos. Speculating where the next fallout game could be.
As a Chicagoan, born and raised, I would love to see what would be done with the Shedd Aquarium. I used to go there so much as a kid. And Navy Pier would be a great place for a trading plaza in fallout.
I've actually been considering getting into Fallout 4 modding so that I could potentially make a big mod based in Chicago, and this video's really got my fuel rods reacting. It's exciting hearing about someone's ideas for it.
Captain Tuvok.. er... KELLS talks about airships in a vague reference to Tactics as well.
OH SHIT THAT WAS TUVOK I NEVER REALISED
A potential DLC location could be the Rock Island Arsenal. My own personal headcanon is that the reason the Midwest BoS has radically different power armor compared to the other games is that a parallel development of power armor took place at RIA, where the distinct Midwest BoS PA was developed. However, due to crony corporatist lobbying, price, insufficient manufacturing capabilities, or something else entirely, the WestTek T45 and T51 models were downselected as military issue instead. The RIA models were then put into storage, and the Great War triggered an automated lockdown of the facility, keeping raiders and wastelanders out. The Midwest BoS could initially be depicted in a potential FO:Chicago as having equipment that's worn out from years of use with little appropriate maintenance capabilities, and the entire RIA DLC could be centered around assisting them in shutting down the automated lockdown and defenses of the facility, which would not only explain where their armor came from, but also aid in refurbishing their other weapons, equipment, and vehicles, as that's basically what RIA does in real life and has the facilities to accomplish.
I really like your ideas for a Fallout Chicago. Bonus points if I get to take Nick Valentine with me as a tour guide, just to hear him make witty commentary on the various changes to the Windy City.
Great video!! Chicago or New Orleans would be awesome.
17:52 replaying fallout 2 reminds me how great the "corrupt family" dynamic was. Fallout NV did things a little better than 3 and 4, but even that didn't really compare to the way entire towns were being subjugated through Jet trafficking.
Other games have "protection money" quests and other criminal activity, but you never see an entire town in shackles like you did in fallout 2
I did a gurps tabletop campaign in Chicago so hearing this lore with the research I’ve done was cool
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There should definitely be a side quest where you destroy the old Meigs Field by sneaking in at night and blowing it up
Maybe a Fallout Gettysburg. We already got Pittsburgh for Pennsylvania but I think a more rural area would be a unique spin on things plus the massive historical importance.
God please no more muskets
Wrigley Field is home of the Cubs, not White Sox.
I'm really digging your ideas for a Chicago-based game. My biggest love that you've presented has easily been the culture/history. I'm probably not alone here, but Fallout 4 and 76 are woefully lacking in brutalist concrete skyscrapers and lavish art deco installations. Fallout 3 hilariously got that aspect of atmosphere and world design right despite the hate it gets; fitting the retro futurism really well and looking good while doing it. While an interesting art direction, I think 4 leans too hard into metal buildings and curvy architecture. Yes, it's retro-futuristic, but not Fallout's interpretation.
The music would be interesting to hear take such a change compared to the usual (still great, mind you) swing and jazz. I think this all sounds so refreshing while not just being different for the sake of it. All in all, makes me wish for it bad.
Great video, man!
24:24 hot dogs actually exist in 76 as a consumable, nearby the morgantown airport, on a red grill!
This would be my own head canon, but with access to Lake Michigan, any that they sometimes go out of the area, I would love a trip to Mackinac Island. Would love to visit the Grand Hotel and Fort Mackinac and the bridge between upper and lower peninsulas. And it’s history with the War of 1812.
Probably doesn’t hold a lot of interest, but it could be a neat side quest.
One of the resent datamines from F76 revealed one of the Caculators robots in the game files. We have to wait and see if we will see them in F76 in the future.
EDIT: Seems to be the Security Robot from Fallout Tactics.
EDIT: Hotdogs can be found and eaten in F76 btw
The Great Lakes region would be such a great setting, michigan can be pretty empty in some places but they could do so many new things.
15:30 why not both? shows the age of the city, perhaps with the older buildings actively being fought over prewar for property value by various businesses that you can read about or hear from old ghouls, think it'd be interesting
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One of John Cassidy's floating dialogue comments in Fallout 2 is that the midwest has "twisters miles wide" and is a "big ol' radioactive dustbowl now". Though IIRC he prefaces this with "I hear" making it in universe second hand information.
As far as interesting game concepts, having the war permanently alter weather patterns could make things wildly different. If you look at maps of the Great Lakes you'll notice population density is unevenly distributed. The east side of lakes, even the smaller (non great) ones get very cold and huge amounts of snow in winter, leading to difficulties that result in small and spare settlements.
Even without the war changing the weather, the advanced technology of the pre-war likely meant rapid expansion of suburbs into these areas where abundant energy and snow clearing robots made these challenges become mere inconveniences. They'd likely have been abandoned entirely during the (nuclear) winter of 2077-2078 and never resettled, only being explored during the warmer months.
Since most places in Fallout still have people living around ruins, a mostly untouched location has a lot of potential.
Since you said "let it fly", well, it's visible from Chicago at least. Mount Baldy is a sand dune in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on the south shore of Lake Michigan. It's roughly 126 feet tall and it wanders very slowly over time. In 2013 a 6 year old child was swallowed up by an anomaly in the dune and while you'd expect someone buried in sand to die very quickly, a search and rescue effort located and rescued the boy after over 3 hours. Sand dunes aren't supposed to have any natural cavities as they're made entirely of sand.
Baldy was closed to the public after this, and over half a dozen other anomalies, called "decomposition chimneys" have since been discovered, attributed to decaying black oak trees.
I am so ready to see a ENCLAVE super secret base underneath lake Michigan. ❤🇺🇸
That black obelisk at the Trinity site could also be a nice little shrine. Though that being in Arizona would probably confine it to a Vegas sequel
31:05 OMG I'm all down for Red Letter Media in a Fallout game! A small tightly knit society of cinephiles collecting obscure survived pieces of pre war movies and stitching them together in ther magnus opus.
Perhaps the Chicago Fire aspect could been turned up to 11, akin to something like the effects of the Red Mountain in Morrowind/Dragonborn. Perhaps feral ghouls can appear more soot covered, or even look more like they're made out of lava rock than flesh, and potentially even have the ability to breath fire, rather than the usual glowing ones.
I'm not even going to lie to you, that sounds really dumb and cartoonish
@@TheRussianORIONTrooper Im guessing you must have hated things like Mothership Zeta or Old World Blues. I mean in the latter, you talk to your brain. YOUR OWN BRAIN!
@@arkurianstormblade4109 yeah I did, too cartoonish.