New Vegas was all orangey-brown, 3 was greeny-grey, now this look is looking like a mixture of the two.

Halloween vomit chic. I can dig it.

I've always turned off those filters with mods the first chance I got. Made the game look much better.

When I first played Fallout 3 with the filter on I did sort of sense that something wasn't right, colour-wise. When turning it off suddenly it was like taking off a pair of green sunglasses and I could enjoy the sky, the grass. In some films I can understand why it's done, but it doesn't really have any place in videogames and should be optional if anything.

Storywise, I think like a lot of big stories the start of the story is generally the best and most exciting part. The ending that the developers choose can be dramatic but sometimes can really irritate fans. (Fallout 3 Non-DLC Ending/Mass Effect 3) Fallout 3 held your hand a bit and taught you the mechanics of the game and also introduced you to the speech based choices which can have a strong impact on future scenes. The events that occur at the start of Fallout 3 do a good job of starting the Call to Adventure in which the hero is pretty much forces to start their quest.

I felt attachment to Fallout 3's story, particularly of the main character's dad who I felt portrayed the concerned father right. (Liam Neeson was a great casting choice) As with most open world games, I explored a lot of the map before I even considered going to the main campaign. The parts I enjoyed the least were the underground segments and the large confusing bases, along with finding pesky NPCs that would keep disappearing or hiding in a large area.

Fallout New Vegas took the series to another level, I wasn't as attached to the main story but exploration I think seemed more enjoyable and the enemy variety kept things interesting.

I would be very surprised if there wasn't any kind of customisation, in these types of games they usually have a 'default guy' (like Commander Shepherd) as they want to show 'a' player character but not necessarily your character. I'm interested in Fallout 4 but will most likely wait for some reviews before I take another trip to the wastelands.

Holy fuck, that Fallout 4 presentation... amazing. Simply amazing. Getting so fucking hyped for this game, it's insane. Gonna be spending hours with just building settlements and managing them, let alone anything else.

Story does seem a tad predictable though. You're a pre-war survivor that (presumably) awakes from a 200 year stasis Vault in Boston. Which feels like a very cheap way of showing the pre-war world before starting the real game. Could have left that out as far as I'm concerned, though it does give a certain sense of loneliness I guess. We'll see how it unfolds.

Saw some amazingly cool things, can't wait for this game. November 10th is the release date. Hope it doesn't get delayed :D

Edit: Wrote a more extensive blog post on my website. http://www.tiger-gaming.net/fallout-...ype-train-518/

The reveal trailer didn't do much for me, I liked the look of it but that was about it. The E3 presentation however was really great, got me quite hyped. I liked the new building system and the fact that you can pretty much set up your own town. NPC dialogues seem much more natural and dynamic now because the player character actually has a voice of his own. Graphics were nice, don't know why so many people are complaining about the visuals, it looks a lot more lively and colorful than Fallout 3 or New Vegas. The FPS rate during the presentation kind of bummed me out though, it was definitely struggling to hold a solid 30FPS, hope this is not the case with the final product.

Fallout: Shelter, that little mobile game they demo'd, looked really cool to be honest. It's something I could see myself playing every once in a while on my phone. Hope they bring it to Android, I think it's just for iOS at least for now.

But yeah, Fallout hype!

Person that wakes up in the future... That's Futurama! To be honest I think we can kind of expect that with the franchise. That's like being a military guy in Call of Duty / Battlefield or becoming an Assassin in Assassin's Creed.

I'm interested in what it will do with regards to competing with these Early Access survival games that have a big emphasis on crafting/survival (which possibly ties in with the whole base building/management idea. Hopefully they will innovate enough with the core game to make it worth a purchase. It's definitely something I do look forward to (depending how buggy the launch is).

On a side note, I wish that Fallout Shelter was on Android now. Having to wait is a bit of a shame.

Uh except that waking up in the future is something that none of the protagonists from the other games has done?

Well no, because there's never been a pre-war player character in any of the Fallout games so far. What I meant was that they seemed so very fixated on showing the pre-war world that the leap 200 years ahead is kind of weird and feels a little cheap. Of course, for all we know that little prologue set in the pre-war world could be a major plot element, but I kind of doubt it. It feels more gimmicky than anything else at this point.

I guess it's convenient more than anything because it explains why you don't know shit without being a vault dweller. I feel like it's hard for them to justify adding to much more to vault lore at this point - it already feels a bit dense. Still nothing wrong with being born in the wasteland a la FO2.

They’ve run the gamut on innocent character backstories now anyway – between “grew up in Vault and leaves for first time” and “born pre-war and held in stasis” there’s not many other ways they could reasonably explain a player being so inexperienced without reaching.

Not Fallout 4, but an amazing mod project currently in development for New Vegas.

http://i.imgur.com/22H2y3e.jpg

I can't wait


Though for real I am looking forward to this. Didn't really care about it that much at first but it's starting to grow on me.

We had a thread for such a subject once. But it got closed.

I'd say you're trying to ignore the elephant in the room here Havoc, but I have a feeling this somehow would make this discussion even worse.

Speaking of elephants in the room, can anyone justify the £50 price tag? That's just ridiculous for a singleplayer game... not counting all the DLC that will no doubt come shortly after launch. Smash Bros wasn't £50. Shadow of Mordor wasn't £50. Mario Kart 8 wasn't £50. I don't think games should become more expensive to justify companies pouring buckets of cash into a game that won't make a profit without extra income. I'll reserve my judgement for the game of course, as it isn't out yet but I definitely won't buy it at launch. If it doesn't have major bugs on launch I will be very surprised.

Because Bethesda wants your money in exchange of their shitty games, that's why

Goddamn, 50 pounds? That's more than what games usually get over-inflated to over in Australia anyway. $130 game incoming mates.

Not sure why, in Euro's it's just a cozy 60 Euro as is to be expected. Maybe some sort of tax thing? Not unheard of.

£50? What?

You can Pre-Order Fallout 4 on Amazon for £42 (all platforms) and it's only £39.99 on Steam.

I think he meant the physical "Nuke" edition. That works out to my estimated $130 over here too.

I got the special edition so I don't think it was any more expensive than the NV limited edition.