Fallout

That "time frozen in '50s American retrofuturistic utopian design" is a fundamental part of Fallout's lore and visual identity. They could totally go outside that, but it'd be considered a ballsy departure and it'd be a huge chance to get it wrong compared to the safety of the known design.

I'd like to see them do it, but I think there's too much for them to do within the framework still before trying something like that. A bit similar to how GTA is trapped in America due to how core to its identity American culture is.

I'd like to see something done involving Canada. In the lore the US annexed Canada for reasons but nothing was really done with it in the games. You don't even meet a Canadian ghoul.

I dunno, I thought the "American-ness" has been a pretty important part of the three games I've played (3, NV, 4).

Not that I'd frankly mind a Fallout-style game or even an actual Fallout set somewhere else. It just seems like satirizing a lot of fairly "American" things is a very large part of what the series is even about, from lore to dialogue to worldbuilding and, I suppose, gameplay.

A Fallout game in Mexico would be a hype spin-off game similar to New Vegas. We know from existing lore that Mexico had heavy US investment to the point that China felt the need to nuke it. Because of its close ties to the US in lore, much of the 50s Americana aesthetic can still be used with some Mexican flavor mixed in, while the cultural differences between the US and Mexico would allow the tone and story to be a great departure from existing Fallout titles

Its been a while since I've brushed up on my fallout lore, but weren't the bombs pretty much exclusively dropped on America? Idk if it's ever stated anywhere whether other countries had bombs dropped on them; if so then I'm with you, but if not then I feel like it'd break the fallout aesthetic to explore a region that isn't a nuclear wasteland with craters and radiation all over the place. Like I feel like it'd be kinda boring if we were walking around through Paris or something and it's completely unscathed except for everyone being dead due to the nuclear winter and all that.

Idk, just kinda talking outta my ass here, but if the lore supports it then it'd be pretty cool to go somewhere new for a change.

I mean…

This would require a complete overhaul of the franchise’s most recognizable enemies/factions, would need entirely different theming and ideas compared to the base games that would likely be better off as an entirely different series set in the same universe. Even then, you ask for less amerco-centric games/ideas and yet america was really on the world stage with their bombs in WWII. The whole theme of the series is chinese/american nationalism and globalization breaking down as each country vies for control of the last natural resources. AFAIK the bombs were only exchanged between china and america with europe and the middle east glassing each other earlier. The soviets also engaged in the exchange (?) and south america/latin america, australia, and antarctica were relatively intact (save for the nuclear fallout). I really think another west coast fallout taking place after FO4 would be great to see more of the NCR.

TL;DR: American nationalism is a core identity of the series and other NEARBY countries like mexico and canada should be reserved for DLC.

You may be interested in the Fallout: London conversion mod, which is planned to release later this year.

The only good non-US setting IMO is a Far Harbor sized DLC in a dense urban part of the USSR. That would contrast the typical US centric Fallout games rather than shirk them. Maybe it could reveal what sparked the first missle launch, and who did it.

Sorry its early and I had that rant sitting in my head and just started typing and now I'm more awake and... I'm sorry for the typos 😅