Fallout Announcement Confirmed!

[Vault101]

due tot he trailer and some speculation I read on anther site we might have a set protagonist

male ex pre war army dude bro with child and wife

if that's the case I'm out

 

[Vault101]

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?
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we don't know anything at this state but there was a leaked document floating around from like 2013 that implied the protagonist might be set UNLESS they give us the option (which is also a possibility given a saw a twitter mention of someone saying his wife auditioned for the role)

which...obviously there isn't really evidence I just hope I don't have to play as white bro...

 

[sXeth]

Well the trailer looks.... Fallouty? I mean, it shows very little. They have a dog, but we already seen that in fallout 3.

There was an airship that briefly hyped me up a bit, but then I remembered Bethesda can't do vehicles to save their life. (Remember "Dragon Riding" in the Skyrim DLC? Wasn't that great!)

I mean, I'm not negative on it, but it was as generic and undetailed an announcement as you could make.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Well the trailer looks.... Fallouty? I mean, it shows very little. They have a dog, but we already seen that in fallout 3.

There was an airship that briefly hyped me up a bit, but then I remembered Bethesda can't do vehicles to save their life. (Remember "Dragon Riding" in the Skyrim DLC? Wasn't that great!)

I mean, I'm not negative on it, but it was as generic and undetailed an announcement as you could make.

All it said was "We're making Fallout 4 and it is set in Boston." But it seems to me that's all they wanted to say. This is setting up for their E3 showcase, where it's a safe bet they'll have more substantial information. Nobody was even expecting them to announce anything UNTIL E3, so I'm happy they decided to tease this.

 

[Vault101]

[snip?

....wut?

playing as a female character is important to me just as I'm sure the level of RPG'ness is important to others, were allowed to have different priorities

 

[Eddie the head]

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.

Why? There's no reason to change. The silent protagonist works.

 

[Vault101]

Why? There's no reason to change. The silent protagonist works.

I'm not sure either, it seems very un Bethesda like

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.

it would be a great irony that I've bitched about Bethesdas blankness for years and then when they DO give you a defined character its a bland one I can't change

seriously ex army guy with a fridged wife *face palm*

since you can't play as any gender character in Bethesda games. Because you don't play as a character there. You play as a power projection on a featureless dummy, having fun in a theme park.

again...wut?

I don't like Bethesdas approach but it actually IS important

because the less they give you then the MORE you need that customization, playing a black female for me is different to playing a blank male

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

due tot he trailer and some speculation I read on anther site we might have a set protagonist

We're talking about Fallout here, a series that allowed you to choose PC's sex from the very first installment. And it's now owned by Bethesda, that makes games known from their character generator, where sex and skin colour choice are mere details when it comes to customization.

Sorry, but Bethesda dropping all of this now, for a preset character, seems ridiculous.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Yeah, I mean, nothing against you Vault101, but I'll need more than an unconfirmed rumor to believe a they'd break pattern so heavily.

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

playing as a female character is important to me just as I'm sure the level of RPG'ness is important to others, were allowed to have different priorities

Welp, aside from irritation from focusing on the least important fuck-up that Bethesda is capable of, I was trying to convey that HERE it is literally the least important thing possible since you can't play as any gender character in Bethesda games. Because you don't play as a character there. You play as a power projection on a featureless dummy, having fun in a theme park.

So? What does it matter? I thought that was what video games were about, fun power trips and such. Also, just because you don't find the gender of the main character important doesn't mean others shouldn't. Some people, men and women, want to play a lady with a perfectly coiffed '50s housewife hairdo, that's just how it is.

 

[xSerix]

Pre-orders already available on steam for £50 or regional equivalent and is selling better than Witcher 3 on steam.

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

I thought that was what video games were about, fun power trips and such.

Yes, please tell me how game about downfall of humanity that centers it's narrative on irredeemable conflict-bound and sinful nature of humans should be a fun power trip. Just like Silent Hill 2, Papers Please, This War of Mine or I don't know FIRST TWO GAMES - nothing like some power fantasy! /sarcasm

Oh, wait, a fun power trip is what Bethesda turned the series into, nevermind.

Okay so Fallout 3 wasn't as grim and depressing as the first games were. That doesn't mean it didn't have its moments. It's not like everything was sunshine and rainbows the whole time, it's just that Bethesda didn't feel the need to beat you over the head with how fucked the world was since it was pretty obvious when you stopped and took in the scenery.

Besides, when a game series changes hands the tone of the new games will be different. Just because the new Fallout games aren't like the old ones doesn't make one better or worse, just different visions of the same material.

 

[baddude1337]

Pre-orders already available on steam for £50 or regional equivalent and is selling better than Witcher 3 on steam.

Seems £50 is the new standard AAA PC price in the UK. Bit of a shame it's hiked up so much this gen, and makes the disparity in regional pricing more apparent for us (£50 = $76.08 USD).

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

Okay so Fallout 3 wasn't as grim and depressing as the first games were.

Actually, Fallout 2 was not grim at all. And it DEFINITELY wasn't depressing. It was in fact far more lulzy and whimsical than F3. The thing is - it still was anything but a power trip created to entertain player. 'Tis a game about post-nuclear world, talking to the player on the language of black humor and satire. And even in it's jokes and allegories it was rather clever most of the time, and wasn't ashamed of treading the territory of it's own ideas.

Meanwhile, F3 is a game about nothing, that simply happened to be set in Fallout universe. But hey! You can save/blow up Megaton! Or exterminate/work with slavers! Or irrigate/poison the Wasteland! Why? What's the point of any of it? The context? The reasons? The world and it's people that we came here to see? Who cares when you can go around being literally Nuclear Jesus in awesome power armor! That annoying radio guy will even call you so, while you're having a laugh at the records of those duuuuuuumb and paranoid pre-War people.

So it's not the tone Bethesda fucked up. It's the substance. Oh, and they also couldn't write anything not overwhelmingly stupid if their lives depended on it.

Did you actually play Fallout 3 or did you immediately hate it because Bethesda made it? Dude, if you hate the new Fallout games so much then why do you even care about this series anymore? I highly doubt it will ever return to the way you prefer it.

Bethesda makes open-world games with tons of quests, that's what they do, and if you expect anything more or less you will be disappointed. For me, that's what I want and that's what I get.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Trailer looks pretty crap (animation quality in particular feels ten years old) and perhaps even a bit stodgy. After some 300 hours knocking around in FO3 and New Vegas this looks dangerously close to being more of the same, which could potentially get wearisome with startling rapidity.

That said, Bethesda has been trotting out the same open world formula since the late 90's and I haven't really gotten bored of it yet, so I'm sure I'll enjoy it well enough. Just not enough to get super excited about it.

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I can't deny you your predilections but the volume of your outrage is bonkers.