Fallout Announcement Confirmed!

[Angelowl]

can anyone discern if that's a real life city based on landmarks?

Pretty sure it's Boston, as all the rumours suggested. Guess that means The Commonwealth mentioned in 3 will play a part.

Looks like they are disregarding the original game's lore a lot again, and the graphics don't look fully ' next gen', perhaps the game will be very scalable to increase PC sales, or maybe even last gen releases.

Shame they are still ignoring the original lore, but looking forward to some gameplay. I'm optimistic they haven't gone too far action, dropping the RPG elements along the way.

Now, I never got around to finish the first game and never played the second. What part of the lore are you thinking of? I kind of like it being loosely connected to 3, gives hope of the being something akin to a New Vegas 2.

On Topic: Give me the rough gameplay of New Vegas with some additions and a large map to explore while playing music on my pipboy and I will be a happy panda indeed.

 

[MHR]

The trailer wasn't impressive, the music wasn't great as the music in fallout3/NV/Skyrim trailers, and the graphics looked like crap, but I'm still psyched. Lets hope they don't consolize it anymore than they did Skyrim. I don't think I could let that one go.

Those definitely look like "console friendly" graphics... it better come with a HUGE world and fewer bugs than is traditional to make up for it.

 

[Phasmal]

My reaction: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH - but seriously you can still be a girl, right?

Waiting for further information but FUCK YEAH FALLOUT 4. I cannot WAIT.
Just the other day me and my boyfriend were kinda bummed that there are no new games for us to be hyped about and then BOOM FALLOUT 4!
Ah, it is a happy day.

 

[Albetta]

Alright I've got some speculation: The protagonist was in some sort of cryogenic storage, and the game starts off pre-war.

 

[Frezzato]

This is a stretch, but I'm hopeful you can visit Georges Island in Fallout 4 since it's in Boston. Perhaps as DLC.

Can't make a game that takes place in Boston and not use this place!

Spoiler

 

[Areloch]

My reaction: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH - but seriously you can still be a girl, right?

Waiting for further information but FUCK YEAH FALLOUT 4. I cannot WAIT.
Just the other day me and my boyfriend were kinda bummed that there are no new games for us to be hyped about and then BOOM FALLOUT 4!
Ah, it is a happy day.

Those are the best kinds of days.

"Aw man, I'm kinda bummed because nothing is coming oHMY GOD YES"

Alright I've got some speculation: The protagonist was in some sort of cryogenic storage, and the game starts off pre-war.

One thing that came up when I was talking with my friends about it, is if it takes place in Boston, The Institute will likely come into play. And one of the things they were known for was producing true AI and androids that could pass as humans.

So one theory is that the player character is actually one of those androids(maybe based on someone from when the bombs fell, which is where the flashbacks come into play?).

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

AAAAAH! Oh my god, this looks fucking AMAZING! I don't get this psyched about a game usually but Fallout 3 is like my second favorite game of all time and the setting here just hits me right in the feels and makes me remember the lovely time I had in the Capital Wasteland. I watched the trailer and teared up hard, can't wait to see what happens when I actually play this game.

I do have a few questions though. Will we be able to create our own character or are we playing the guy in the trailer? Will the main character be fully voiced or was that just for the purpose of this trailer?

It also looks like maybe we'll be seeing flashbacks from before the world went to hell, possibly? That'd be pretty cool.

All in all, I eagerly await the release of this game and I will devour any and all info that is released in the upcoming months because I'm a pushover when it comes to games made by Bethesda.

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

Oh my god, this looks fucking AMAZING!

No it doesn't. There is literally no way to make a more generic Fallout trailer than this. Well, okay - a green filter could make it worse.

Will we be able to create our own character or are we playing the guy in the trailer?

Chargen, 100%. No point in restriction. Too risky a change. And if you could remember F3 and FNV marketing campaigns - they also had a more or less defined protagonist in trailers and ads.

Will the main character be fully voiced or was that just for the purpose of this trailer?

Voicing of the protagonist would demand a new dialogue system. Which is more than Bethesda can stomach. And if you could remember F3 and FNV - you would remember that their protagonists, while mostly silent, are actually voiced, i.e. - the narrator voice is always the protagonist, according to credits.

It also looks like maybe we'll be seeing flashbacks from before the world went to hell, possibly? That'd be pretty cool.

No it wouldn't be. One of the best parts of Fallout lore is the scattered picture of corrupt, decadent, paranoid and outright insane pre-War world. For starters - simply showing what people have been carefully gathering by pieces for years will guarantee a disappointment. And what's worse - judging by what we know from the rest of Fallout games, America of 2070s was a downright grimdark place, with middle class brainwashed through media and plainly brainwashing medication and psy-tech, food riots, military craze, extensive experimentation on populace, completely fucked up ecology, Canada annexation, et cetera. Even if Bethesda dared to display something actually dark and disturbing - they simple don't have the talent to deliver on this field. Give the series to Obsidian FFS.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over all of my excitement for this game. Go play Fallout 1 and 2 for the hundredth time and stop trying to ruin my fun.

 

[Godhead]

I honestly don't know how to feel about this. One second I'm incredibly pessimistic, the other i want to jump on the train.

Spoiler: This train to be exact

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over all of my excitement for this game.

I wonder if the moderators will give me a pass for dropping a f-nuke on you if I tell them that you can't hear it anyway.

Try it and see what happens. What's life without a few risks?

No but seriously, I'm sorry you're angry that this isn't what you wanted out of the next Fallout. I'd probably be in your shoes if it was reversed and Obsidian was developing this instead. Sorry you can't enjoy this news like everyone else.

 

[martyrdrebel27]

can anyone discern if that's a real life city based on landmarks?

It's in Boston. (As all the leakes and reports about Bethesda going there for field work said)

Trailer looks really unimpressive to be honest, and it's blatantly visible it's still using their shitty in-house version of Gamebryo. (Animations look like they'll be as jank as ever unfortunately).

At the very least no awful filters are used, and it's actually colourful this time around, so yay. Hope the gameplay trailer at E3 shows some actual improvement over the Skyrim/Fallout floaty, shitty combat that we've been used to up until now.

I also appreciate that the Vault jumpsuit now looks like the Fallout 1/2 ones. And Dogmeat's back once more.

i didn't wanna be THAT GUY, but you're absolutely right, that trailer looked pretty shit-tastic for a Triple A game in this day and age. Especially when you consider that they apparently outsourced that trailer to Guillermo Del Toro's production studio. unless the Fallout 4 trailer they were hiring for is going to be the E3 trailer. Either way, the graphics are looking kinda meh so far.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

No it wouldn't be. One of the best parts of Fallout lore is the scattered picture of corrupt, decadent, paranoid and outright insane pre-War world. For starters - simply showing what people have been carefully gathering by pieces for years will guarantee a disappointment. And what's worse - judging by what we know from the rest of Fallout games, America of 2070s was a downright grimdark place, with middle class brainwashed through media and plainly brainwashing medication and psy-tech, food riots, military craze, extensive experimentation on populace, completely fucked up ecology, Canada annexation, et cetera. Even if Bethesda dared to display something actually dark and disturbing - they simple don't have the talent to deliver on this field. Give the series to Obsidian FFS.

And let's not forget that the one time we got to see what the war was like it was a pretty horrible DLC, Operation Anchorage. Not only did it clash with the entire mood of Fallout 3, it also highlighted just how boring the Fallout lore would be to play though. The entire charm of Fallout, just like with any good post-apocalypse setting or story, is that you are walking among the ruins of an earlier civilization and that you get glimpses of what that civilization was like and the people that lived in it but ultimately you are in a new world, with its' own problems and high points.

The only way I can see it possibly work is if Vault 111 is some kind of silly cryogenic lab and the prelude/tutorial is the protagonist escaping in there (not saying it will be good though). That way you can get a brief glimpse without ruining the magic of the procedural narrative that the post-apocalyptic Fallout world is.

 

[Zenn3k]

After the backlash against New Vegas I'm worried this game is going to be as shallow as a paddling pool, much like Skyrim.

By fans of the series, NV is considered the superior game. I'm sure that isn't lost on Bethesda.

Also, fun fact, the Vault 111 guy talking to the dog MAY signal the end of the "Silence Protagonist" from the previous games in the series. He might actually be fully voiced this time around, we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Danbo Jambo]

I think hype trains can do more harm than good sometimes, but Christ alive this looks fucking stunning!

Not just the visuals, but the fact they seem to have retained the traditional elements which I loved about 3 & NV, yet also freshened it up with the more pre-war aspects.

It's very rare I get on that train, The Witcher 3 being the only game this decade to stoke me up pre release, but FA4 has joined that elite.