Fallout 4

Mouth for war · Wed 03/06/2015 17:49:05

AHHH I just saw the trailer. I can't wait for this piece of jewelry to arrive!!!! Anyone else feeling the same excitement

(I'm like a kid waiting for santa right now) hehe

www.fallout4.com

Stupot · Wed 03/06/2015 17:58:20

It is a beautiful trailer.
I've only ever played a small part of Fallout 1 in my life, found it too hard and have admired the series from a distance ever since.

Mouth for war · Wed 03/06/2015 18:02:28

You should definitely play fallout 3 (one of my alltime favourite games I must say)

Retro Wolf · Wed 03/06/2015 18:08:03

Stupot, Fallout 3 is a whole new direction for the series. Fallout Tactics is worth checking out if you like strategy.

Awesome trailer, nice to see a bit of colour. Fallout 3 had so many shades of brown and grey, but then again it is the apocalypse!

Now a days I tend to wait until a game is half off to buy, but with this series I'm willing to make an exception.

Cuiki · Wed 03/06/2015 18:55:46

And looks like you'll have a cute dog companion again!! (Or play as him?

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kconan · Wed 03/06/2015 19:02:10

I'm excited for this being a huge fallout fan; staying loyal even after the series went first-person.

Anyone who wants to revisit Fallout 2 should check out Killap's Mod.

SilverSpook · Thu 04/06/2015 01:24:56

Thank the 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating for Mad Max Fury Road for the Fallout 4 greenlight. Nothing like a little market priming to get your show on the road. Speaking of which, I better get Neofeud revved up and rolling now if I want to ride this wasteland train....

Fallout is a lot of things, but it is definitely an interactive gamified Mad Max, to the point you can actually have Mel Gibson's asymetrical biker jacket, and his Australian sheep dog following you around.

Mandle · Thu 04/06/2015 08:53:27

OMG what a sweet trailer. Looks awesome and is even a bit sad and a bit shocking in parts. Very cool stuff!

Grim · Mon 08/06/2015 09:17:06

Why can't they make a CAT companion?... (my only complaint, otherwise, I was among those looking at the clock counting down at Bethesda's website

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Armageddon · Mon 08/06/2015 10:40:42

Quote from: Grim on Mon 08/06/2015 09:17:06
Why can't they make a CAT companion?... (my only complaint, otherwise, I was among those looking at the clock counting down at Bethesda's website )

Have you ever seen a cat rip out a man's throat?

I don't like the colors they're going with, reminds me too much of STALKER and TF2. And the graphics are exactly the quality of FO3, very disappointing. Was hoping they would drop Gamebryo after Skyrim, but NOPE. Maybe they can at least write some proper player physics and AI movement with IK. And maybe give the weapons some weight.

Cuiki · Mon 08/06/2015 15:19:03

Haha, I was hoping the AGS forum would be the one place where no one complains about the quality of the graphics...

And haven't the weapons always had weight? Even the ammo did in New Vegas HC mode..

David Ostman · Mon 08/06/2015 16:20:55

QuoteThank the 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating for Mad Max Fury Road for the Fallout 4 greenlight.

They've already worked on Fallout 4 for years, so I'm not sure how much Fury Road had to do with it

Fallout 4 was already in development before Skyrim was finished, a small team on it, and when Skyrim was finishing production the rest of that team moved over to Fallout 4.

Quote from: Armageddon on Mon 08/06/2015 10:40:42I don't like the colors they're going with, reminds me too much of STALKER and TF2. And the graphics are exactly the quality of FO3, very disappointing. Was hoping they would drop Gamebryo after Skyrim, but NOPE. Maybe they can at least write some proper player physics and AI movement with IK. And maybe give the weapons some weight.

Fallout 3 didn't even have any dynamic lighting, which Fallout 4 has, so just that is a huge upgrade in graphics. Pretty sure that's not Gamebryo.

Gribbler · Mon 08/06/2015 16:21:11

I can't wait for Fallout 4 but after this trailer my hype went down. I don't know. It was just kinda "meh" for me. Don't get me wrong - I love the series (finished Fallout 3 and New Vegas, didn't play the originals isometric ones) I'm sure the game will be awesome and I will play it extensively but the trailer just didn't clicked for me.

kconan · Mon 08/06/2015 16:35:18

Over the No Mutants Allowed forums there is a thread where folks have meticulously broken down the trailer for both location and character speculation.

It does look like a pumped up version of Fallout 3's engine. Awesome graphics would be good, though I'm mainly hoping for interesting stories and characters along with solid AI.

Ibispi · Mon 08/06/2015 18:13:23

I hope that dog in the trailer is not the Pariah dog from Fallout 2. If so, then that guy will not have a nice time in the wasteland!
Jokes aside, I like the trailer. It seems a lot of people don't like it, but I love it. And I can't wait to play this game. And as long as Fallout games are being made and are single player RPGs as they have been so far I don't need anything else in my miserable life.
You gotta love the smell of a nuclear apocalypse.

ManicMatt · Mon 08/06/2015 22:15:54

I guess I fall (out) into the "meh" camp. I enjoyed Fallout 3, didn't get on with new vegas. Fallout 4 just feels like I'll be playing the same game again but with prettier graphics. Just like Assassin's Creed I suppose - I haven't bothered playing the last 3-4 in the series.

SilverSpook · Mon 08/06/2015 22:37:55

I'm sad to say I didn't even finish Fallout NV. I've played all the others through multiple times, though. Not sure what it was... Perhaps I'm just becoming old or archaic or over-apocalypsed or full-time jobbed, but I felt like I'd played through the same wasteland locales and character types and dramatic beats. I'll need to give this thing at least a try, though.

ManicMatt · Mon 08/06/2015 22:48:00

I didn't finish it either! I ended up making an enemy of the biggest town and had to destroy all the robots.. and then I didn't really have much else to do and couldn't be bothered anymore. Yet some critics said this game was better, didn't they?

Gurok · Tue 09/06/2015 00:04:55

I don't know why people say Fallout NV is better. I prefer Fallout 3 as well. Fallout NV might have been a truer roleplaying experience with more choice, but Fallout 3 was more engaging. I think there's pressure to like Fallout NV because Obsidian made it and it *should* be the authentic Fallout experience. FWIW, I loved Fallout 1 & 2 as well.

SilverSpook · Tue 09/06/2015 09:33:26

Choice is good, but if it becomes too "Write your own novel!" It can have this weird effect of giving the characters and events less weight. I think this is what I kind of disliked about NV; there was a lot of time just diddling around doing random little things for my taste. Like, "Do this little quest," then, "Do THAT little quest," and "Do this quest too, if you like, but you don't have to. Whatever."

This is what I liked about Deus Ex, in that there are a million ways to approach an objective, but the goals remain somewhat constant, coherent, tightly-written, and each sequence of events is pivotal as part of a larger dramatic arc?