Caradavin on 4/6/2015 at 01:24
I'm so dang excited! I'm doing Fallout 3 right now (along with many other games like Skyrim)! Can't wait can't wait can't wait!
Jason Moyer on 4/6/2015 at 02:44
Looks like FO3 i.e. I will probably put 200 hours into it between a day 1 playthrough and a full-DLC playthrough.
I wish Zenimax would have started a pattern of alternating Bethesbryo titles between Bethsoft and Obsidian though. While one studio is doing the next Fallout game, the other works on the next Elder Scrolls game and vice versa.
Yakoob on 4/6/2015 at 07:32
Hmm the flying ship and some of the city designs look cool but frankly it just seems like 'more of the same' and I feel the formula is running dry. How many times have we seen the power armor reveal in a trailer? And wasnt the "vault dweller on a lonely road with a dog " the F3's symbol?
I wish they'd go for a completely fresh setting. Maybe europe? Or asia? Show how a whOle different society copes with the post nuclear life. That would give them a lot more creative freedom too.
nicked on 4/6/2015 at 07:46
This is what I mean by the Fallout concept being wrung a bit dry. If you insist a Fallout game has to be North American, nuclear desert, power armour, vaults, rubble that no-one's bothered to sweep up for 200+ years, then it will get stale.
I think really I'd much rather have seen Fallout as a franchise lay dormant and unloved after Tactics, and then have got the Pillars of Eternity treatment via Kickstarter. Might even be glorious nostalgic isometric then!
(And I know there's Wasteland 2, but it's not the same...)
I take the point about the unseen technical limitations of using the same engine (entering buildings with a load screen etc.). Regardless, I still think the new one looks pretty.
icemann on 4/6/2015 at 08:05
To me, improved graphics mean - zero
Story and gameplay mean - everything
They could release the game with the same engine but with a new campaign and setting and that'd be completely fine by me.
Fallout 3 and NV looked great then and still look good now. And if that's all we get (same engine, new campaign), that's 100% fine by me.
PigLick on 4/6/2015 at 08:28
A Fallout game set anywhere other than the USA wouldnt be a Fallout game. I am actually pretty hyped about this, I hope you get to play as the dog.
Thirith on 4/6/2015 at 09:13
I could imagine a New Vegas-style spinoff set outside the USA, but '50s Americana is so central to Fallout, it's difficult to see what could reasonably replace it.
Jason Moyer on 4/6/2015 at 11:25
I can't imagine a point where the Fallout universe would feel rung dry to me. Especially when for the past month everyone I know has been losing their minds over medieval fantasy nonsense.
Thirith on 4/6/2015 at 11:31
Quote Posted by icemann
Fallout 3 and NV looked great then and still look good now.
These games, much like everything by Bethesda, are odd beasts graphically. They can generate absolutely gorgeous vistas, but some things are consistently mediocre to bad, especially faces, animations and many of the textures.
Graphics aren't everything, but they can make a good game great. For me,
Fallout is also very much about the atmosphere, and consistent art design and good lighting can add a lot to this.
PigLick on 4/6/2015 at 13:11
to be honest I would take the amazing vistas, and just sweat the small stuff. I like sitting on top of a hill and looking out upon the map, thinking about the myriad locations that I can visit.
