I know that Fallout 76's barely been released, but its reviews are doing terrible (bug & lack of content complaints) and it's purely an online game... and I don't like online games because on Xbox (my console) you gotta pay a monthly subscription to even gain permission to access the online gaming... which arises the whole "why should I pay to play a game that I paid full price for" argument that's boiling in my head and one of the reasons why I hate Microsoft. So, bellow are my ideas & recommendations for Fallout 5:
(By the way, I recommend that we throw Fallout 76 under the rug in a similar manner that was done with Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, for example, remove it from Xbox Games Pass a month or two after Fallout 5's LAUNCH, NOT TRAILER so it can slip away silently)
*I'd like to point out that I'm not an expert on Fallout's lore, I just know the basics, so if I make a mistake, know that this'll probably never go to Bethesda and feel free to correct me.
*Also, don't make the world look like Fallout 76 or Fallout 3, as in 76, the world doesn't look nuked on the surface, and in 3, it looks like as if you came out seconds after the drop. Make it look like Fallout 4 (parts healed, parts healing, parts still nuked)
Anyway:
Our story starts somewhere in California, a couple of days before the atomic bombs decide to greet America in their own special way, with a young (~18 yr old) Native American lad named George*1, who has a White dad and a Native mom (he takes after his mom in looks, BTW) which basically outcasted him from others as he couldn't fit in the Native/White Category, which led him to want to join the American military as he thought he could find comfort there (as they were all Americans) and finally feel apart of a group + no one could tell that he looks Native in Power Armor, but he was always turned down, not because he was fat or something, but because his recruiting center kept telling him to go be with his family and friends, because those are the precious things in life, not war. And there was no point in fighting in this war or any war because war... war never changes. (The recruiter knew what was going to happen on 10/23, and thought the least he could do was make sure these kids spent their last moments with their family) Which basically angered George because he thought his recruiter wanted the Chinese government to take Alaska (BTW, before anyone ask the reason why didn't go to Alaska and go full 'MURICA was because... well... getting to Alaska would be hard, especially when Canada was going full "WTH BRO CHILL"), So he decided he'd go to another recruitment center, report that he suspected his town's recruiter to be a communist, and getting accepted to his nation's Department of Defense! But that didn't happen... George decided that he'd go very early in the morning so they'd have a good first impression as an early bird (which I assume is important in ANY military), + it was getting dark and he'd probably have better chances at getting accepted if going home wasn't the first thing on his recruiter's mind, however, something arguably worse happened as he was visited by a Vault-Tec rep claiming that since he wanted to serve in his nation's military (George wasn't exactly quiet about his plans), he earned the LAST spot at Vault-Tec just in case the nuked said hello. At first, George thought this was bullcrap because... a random rep saying " You've won!" always is, but George thought that saying that THE Vault-Tec offered him a spot in one of their vaults because they recognized him as a soon-to-be veteran might make him standout, just incase there was anything competition (George also didn't take the "we gonna get nuked" phobias as if anyone gonna loose the war, it would have been China as they were... basically loosing the war), so he signed it and went off on his merry way to the other town (the vault was in the other town, so he could, theoretical, take the recruiter to the Vault if proof was needed). When he arrived, did all of the speaking he planned to, but was surprised when the recruiter told him that all of the spots where full.
Of course, George was basically pissed because he drove all the way to the other town... Just to find out that all the spots were full. But when he was going to his car, he realized that Vault-Tec called him a "to-be" in service, and since they were funded by the American government, the very people who manage the Marines, Navy, etc., there probably was a spot available all this time, because surely they wouldn't say such a bold statement if it isn't true. So, he decided that he'd go Vault-Tec as that'd be his best bet as of the moment. So he went to Vault-Tec to try SOMETHING, but he wasn't exactly sure. When he got to Vault-Tec he was told to sit down and to verify some information (player will edit S.P.E.C.I.A.L. at this moment) and to wait a bit. There was a TV in the room, so since George was waiting with nothing to do, he watched it. But as he was watching it, the newscaster said something that George thought that he'd never hear:
"Followed by... yes, followed by flashes. Blinding flashes. Sounds of explosions... We're... we're trying to get confirmation... But we seem to have lost contact with our affiliate stations... We do have... coming in... confirmed reports. I repeat, confirmed reports of nuclear detonations in New York and Pennsylvania. My God."*2
Within a few seconds, an employee came in smiling nd said, " Sir, would you like to be escorted to your vault?" George stuttered and replied by asking, "Wha- What about my family?"
"Don't worry, we have public vaults that they can live in."*3 Uneasily George went to the vault (make this part dramatic with "my family, I gotta get to my family when the radiation lifts") They are set to sleep for 200 years, so Vault-Tec can basically do their "for science" crap when they wake up, but the opposite happens as exactly 137 years later*4 Chinese forces opened the vault and proclaimed that the capitalists will help rebuild society in America because they destroyed China. Once George leaves, he discovers that the Chinese survivors settled in the West Coast and began to colonize it (claiming that China has been overrun with ghouls and is too radiated for life) George also meets up with fellow Americans (lots of them to be exact) and is now on a quest to not gain his freedom from his captors, but also kick these "visitors" out & and to rebuild America.
However, throughout the game, George is always questioned with the following:
How long do the ends justify the means?
How long can you fight your enemy until you harm the innocent? (Keep in mind, there are people living their because they simply can't go to China)
How far can you go to reclaim what's yours until the end prize isn't worth the effort?
Should we really hold future generations accountable for what their grandparents did?
(The game adjusts based on how your character responds & acts)
*1= He's named George because it's symbolic to George Washington. George Washington helped to build America, now George must help to (re)build America.
*2= This line is from Fallout 4 (SO DON'T EDIT IT), showing that 4 & 5 take place in the same universe.
*3= The employee lied to George to trick him to go to the vault so VT could later conduct science experiments on him. George can later go back to his town to find the skeletons of his parents & realize that he was lied to.
*4= California wasn't nuked as hard as New York City or Washington, meaning that it healed WAY sooner and had less radiation, but still does suffer somewhat
**I want George to at least be part Native so someone can say "How does it feel to loose your land twice, and this time, you don't even know if you'll get to keep at least a slice of it." to add more tension & strain to the game.
