nicked on 3/6/2015 at 19:05
Quote Posted by van HellSing
It does?
It has more colours than brown. It's a start!
DaBeast on 3/6/2015 at 19:26
Anyone else get the impression they were blatantly trying to appeal to Bioshock/Thiefy|Dishonored fans with the steampunkish visuals?
van HellSing on 3/6/2015 at 20:10
Quote Posted by DaBeast
Anyone else get the impression they were blatantly trying to appeal to Bioshock/Thiefy|Dishonored fans with the steampunkish visuals?
Uhh, Fallout's always been dieselpunk.
Malf on 3/6/2015 at 20:18
Fallout's Engine.
Fallout's Engine never changes.
Seriously, they're releasing THAT in 2016?
DaBeast on 3/6/2015 at 20:26
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First coined in 2001 by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his role-playing game Children of the Sun.
.... to me, World War I is the dividing point where modernity goes from being optimistic to being pessimistic...
Interesting.
I'd never heard of it before. Some might argue that Fallout 3 would be Atompunk, the last punk era before Cyberpunk, others seem happy to call it Deisel. I really don't know since I had to google it and apparantly there are Xpunk sub genres galore :confused:
Now that I think of it a little more, its probably the wider range of colours and a handful of art designs that's making me wonder. The airships iirc were at least discussed in the old lore.
If those are BOS airships, could this be setting up some coverage of the Midwestern/Chicago events?
nicked on 3/6/2015 at 20:35
Time was, this forum would have been the last place on the planet to complain about the graphics of all things.
The art direction looks good, that's the important thing. And if they're using the same old engine, it hopefully means they've been able to spend more time on writing interesting quests and characters (hard to say that without a derisive snort, but hey!).
van HellSing on 3/6/2015 at 20:53
The graphics are just downright embarassing considering Bethesda's resources. Sorry.
Malf on 3/6/2015 at 21:38
Quote Posted by nicked
Time was, this forum would have been the last place on the planet to complain about the graphics of all things.
The art direction looks good, that's the important thing. And if they're using the same old engine, it hopefully means they've been able to spend more time on writing interesting quests and characters (hard to say that without a derisive snort, but hey!).
It's not so much the graphics, it's that they've not bothered to upgrade or move away from Gamebryo / "Creation".
While I agree that graphics aren't necessarily a sign of quality, if they're using the same engine again (which it certainly appears they are from that trailer), we'll once again experience load transitions when entering or exiting buildings, limited conversation trees, a clunky quest system and dreadful animations. Granted, that last one's not a fault of the engine, more a lack of talent in that department, but I think my point's been made: Bethesda would rather stick with ancient technology and stagnate rather than create new technology and advance.
And post-Witcher 3, that stuff just won't cut it any more.
Edit: On this trailer's merits, I'd even go so far as to predict that this game will continue Bethesda's shameful tradition of hiring far too few voice actors.
Renault on 3/6/2015 at 21:43
Agreed on the visuals. No one is saying it has to be cutting edge, but just being up-to-date and current should be mandatory from a place like Bethesda.
