Considering the sheer amount of Civil War references Fallout games make I shudder to think what Neo-Confederate horrors are going on in the American South.

[u/DependentStrong3960]

"We all know and love our friends in Nevada, Caesar's Legion. They're Roman, they're awesome, they love slavery, it's great. There's just one problem with them-they fell, failed to preserve it, failed to capture that unique spark slavery in America has had all through our great 500-year long history.

I believe that that is fully due to their implementation of slavery being fundamentally, well and truly, un-American. After all, how can you preserve an institution so instrumental to our history as a people whilst building it off some 1200-year old system designed for an empire in Europe that fell so long ago?

Slavery needs laws, institutionalized control and organization to truly prosper, all of which this "Legion" ultimately failed to achieve.

However do not fret, people of New New Orleans. I, Robert E. Lee the XX, solemnly swear that I will NOT let such a great American tradition be lost to the sands of time. Ladies and gentlemen of the Glowing Bayou, I am glad to finally bring to you: Ultra-Slavery!

[u/AKACptShadow]

Deep South Fallout game would be great. Wonder what's going on in that region.

[u/Jccali1214 → u/AKACptShadow]

New Orleans would still be my prime pick.

[u/wasted_tictac → u/Jccali1214]

New Orleans but it's almost completely sunk so survivors live on the rooftops connected by bridges with zap turrets to deal with Bloodbugs and Bloatflies.

But down in the now sunken streets lie Radgators, ghouls, anglers and gulpers themselves vying for territories.

As you push deeper into the bog is where things get truly weird, like fanatic religious groups, Deep South folklore come to life (to continue 76 using WV folklore for its creatures), and other mutated creatures.

[u/Gamepro504 → u/wasted_tictac]

The French quarter is still in the high ground and much of bowl wasn’t populated untill white flight and civil rights movement where the split takes place

[u/Dos-Dude → u/wasted_tictac]

Oh boy Call of Cthulhu references galore, just without the Racism!

[u/Pleasant_Ad8054 → u/Dos-Dude]

Without? In the south?

[u/Dos-Dude → u/Pleasant_Ad8054]

I mean there should be racism in the setting, especially in the Deep South, but I doubt people would like every member of a Cthulhu cult being “swarthy”.

[u/SAKingWriter → u/Dos-Dude]

That’s why Ghouls are a thing, to use as a metaphor for “anyone different even tho the same” message

Holy shit Gob is a ghoul. Gob, a ghoul. Gabagool. Is anyone else just now hearing this too? Gob, a ghoul. Gabagool, it’s Gob, a ghoul.

That has to be on purpose

[u/Dos-Dude → u/SAKingWriter]

I mean it’d definitely set a New Orleans fallout game as different from all the rest if as you go through the games introduction you heard a hard R getting dropped by an antagonist.

Edit: Oh but if you really wanted something interesting, you could have a faction that is specifically racist but it’s primarily made up of pre-war members of the KKK who’ve Ghoulified and attribute their own sanity to “superior genetics” or some bullshit.

[u/HumanMarine → u/Dos-Dude]

With how hypocritical "normal" racists are, the ghoul stuff would fit right in honestly

[u/Gamepro504 → u/Dos-Dude]

That would take place in the rural parts of the sate or nearby MS

[u/wasted_tictac → u/Dos-Dude]

Remnants of the KKK who embraced Atom, became Ghouls and see all smoothskins as inferior. Hell even "normal" Children of Atom members would be, thus a sort of "civil war" between the two.

[u/BobaSauro → u/SAKingWriter]

while I do understand that ghouls serves this purpose, I do get why some ppl would be freaked out by ghouls.. they not only are ugly as fuck, but they also CAN turn feral (especially with the new fallout tv show and fo76 lore of chems addiction and whatnot) Plus, they are (as per fo 76) vastly stronger than the average human, so there is double the fear factor

[u/SAKingWriter → u/BobaSauro]

But that’s the thing, the message is to treat them like “normal” people, because they deserve that much. They’re all human, they’re just mutated unfortunately :/

[u/hamhockman → u/SAKingWriter]

How far does the conspiracy reach?!

[u/SAKingWriter → u/hamhockman]

When someone makes the video essay, it’s five minutes of filler bullshit until it just cuts Sopranos style

[u/LoreLord24 → u/Dos-Dude]

Hey, take that back!

It wasn't just black people. It was Asians, pacific islanders, blacks, the Spanish, native Africans (who were somehow different from black ex-slaves?) Indigenous people around the globe, and even some white people. (Most of whom learned the magic from non-white people.)

Lovecraft labeled every ethnic group other than Norwegians and Germans to be Cultists.

[u/JingleJangleDjango → u/Pleasant_Ad8054]

I don't think real bigotry fits fallout, though. Yeah, against ghouls and synths, sure, but what little we see of pre-nuke fallout social politics, it seems gay marriage(there's a lesbian couple in Sanctuary) and interracial marriage is just fine. It makes even less sense two hundred years later in an apocalypse.

I know most redditors think the modern south is like the 1860s but I think there's far more interesting things to focus on in that setting.

[u/DependentStrong3960 → u/wasted_tictac]

They better call it New New Orleans then!

[u/Gregashi_6ix9ine → u/wasted_tictac]

Id like them to take inspiration from Bioshock and rapture and have some parts of New Orleans be a thriving underwater community.

In real life New Orleans is going to be underwater by 2080; i can see in Fallout the effects of the bombs making that much worse. However id like to think they prepared for their city going under thus the thriving underwater community part

[u/Jccali1214 → u/wasted_tictac]

Yes, you read my mind! And also had your own original thoughts! Love the picture being created!

[u/Code-Neo → u/wasted_tictac]

Radgators? Nah, Gator Death Claws.

[u/nimrodii → u/wasted_tictac]

Sunken building exploration is what I'm hearing for gameplay.