Fallout 4 Pre-Release Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

I don't give a shit about graphics, but it's weird how the masses are so quick to judge new games and franchises on how they look, BUT if it's a franchise they love then it's already excused for that no matter what because of the gameplay.

I mean it's good games are judged on non-superficial stuff, but I find it very unfair. I guarantee if these graphics were an entirely new non-Bethesda, non Fallout game then people would be shitting on it a lot more.

It's one of the reasons popular established franchises have such a big advantage I guess.

 

I don't know men. Bethesda has a lot of moneys and are known for supporting seemingly random work, Woolfen Cattle Stein, Dishonored, The Evil Within, Call of Cthulhu, a bunch of Star Trek games and all sorts of other shit. Point is while the main studio can't code for shit they can, if they fee like it, hire almost anybody for a pet project.

 

I think it's good more people are getting used to not complain that much about how good graphics should be. It's not the main issue for sure. But the downgrade controversies are a problem to consider-and before any of you say anything, there are some people who think TW3 looked better even after the downgrade, so it's not that. It's more about a problem with how the industry handles hype.

 

A comparison that includes the above pic.

http://imgur.com/a/buEqa

Um...if that FO3 can be played on more than 10FPS, it looks better. (yes, I know youtube screencaps don't mean much)

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The "city" looks so cartoony/colorful it reminds me of Borderlands

 

It looks like Fallout 3 with added dynamic lighting and stern warning from the boss to make it more colourful. Both things were available at the time of development.

Poly count looks similar.

 

It's pretty obvious to me, all the drama with shitty graphics will artificially inflate the ratings and consumer's opinion of the game specifically thanks to all those downgrade hysterias. Bethesda is setting itself as vanguard of honesty and hard work.

Crashing, glitches, lack of many basic effects that almost every other modern game had before Skyrim and all the standard failings of gameplay will be again seen as nitpicking and being negative. Also, those "feral ghouls" move so fast and so similarily to those troglodytes from RAGE that simplification of mechanics must have occured.

 

You need glasses. Re: color, I'll take vivid over shitty drab any day. Is it as 'ATMOSPHERIC,' perhaps not but I don't play popamole for atmosphere. I play it to pop moles.

 

Does anyone know if Boston (realworld) has ladders? What will Beths excuse be his time? "Ladders are particularly susceptible to nuclear attack, and were all destroyed in the war!"

Ladders, ladders never change!

 

100% indistinguishable from shivering isles. 25 fps on a 6600 GT. I'm calling it now.

 

I can confirm there are no ladders in Boston.

Link to an uncompressed version of the trailier: http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_fallout_4_trailer-34774_en.html

I know as a two month old newfag you're trying desperately to fit in but you're overdoing it on the edginess.

 

I actually agree here. Since I assume we can all agree at this point that the best we can hope for is a fun amusement park that has nothing to do with Fallout, it might as well look like one and not bother preserving any of the old aesthetics.

 

If that's the case, I'd better be able to ride horses in this game

 

A british-sounding steam-powered horse with tentacled hooves, Mr. Horsey.

 

Why do so many people think that the true essence of Fallout is about wandering in empty piles of rubble?

 

Just to be clear, I have absolutely no doubts this game will have:

- Bad writing.
- Nothing even resembling choice and consequence except maybe factions.
- Tons of bugs/glitches.
- A fairly shallow character system.
- [Insert pretty much any other Bethesdurp sin here.]

That said, for people to complain about the graphics especially on the Codex is the height of irony. The graphics are fine. And, no, they aren't Oblivion levels of fidelity.

Increasing the color palette is a good move. There's no scientific reason why the world would looked drab and bleached after some fallout and the passage of time. Sure, colors fade, but not to the extreme point that everything is a hue of either grey or brown.

 

You will see the face that never remembered in Bethesda's E3 show of the game.

 

RPG games are all about immersion. If you don't like that, maybe it's not the right genre for you.

 

It is pretty confusing that someone who - going just by what they've said in that comment - hasn't played Fo1 or Fo2 considers themselves an authority on "the feeling a Fallout game should have". It's like Fo3 is the first Fallout game and the original games exist only to be referred to when debating whether or not Fo3 is better than NV.

 

Exactly. The atmosphere in the first two Fallouts was a bit more lighthearted than FO3's dire... everything is grey and we're all fucked tone.

 

Don't be dumb. The color scheme of a video game or any other piece of visual art is not chosen for its adherence to photorealism unless that is the specific intention of the work. Fallout has a visual style and primary colors are not part of that style.

I was completely serious when I said it's fine for Fallout 4 to not look like Fallout, because it's unlikely to be Fallout in any way. But at least I recognize that bright colors are a substantial artistic departure from the original games.

 

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