Fallout 4 Pre-Announcement Bullshit Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Psquit]

Fallout 4, dont you want it?.

 

[EG]

I want to believe in greater things than Bethesda's Fallout.

 

[Koelkastmagneet]

I just hope Bethesda manages to scrape together the few brain cells they have lying around the office and actually manage to figure out that using the Enclave again is fucking retarded, even moreso than it was when they did it in Fallout 3.

Then again, I've also been hoping for decent storytelling ever since Morrowind so yeah.

Vehicle based combat. On rails missions where you man the trunk-turret of a Highwayman or Corvega while outrunning Vertibirds manned by enclave super mutant army.

Do you seriously think that Bethesda can overhaul their POS engine enough for anything moving beyond 10 kilometers per hour to be (relativily) safe from crashing the game?

 

[Jaesun]

Do you also believe in Fairies and Unicorns?

 

[Harold]

harold will be a forest

If a tree falls inside a Harold but there's noone there to... of FUCK THIS!

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

they will probably announce Fallout 4 on the next E3 and release arround Christmas ´14
Oh well I shall have towait paciently

Why would anyone wait for Fallout 4?

 

[Koelkastmagneet]

they will probably announce Fallout 4 on the next E3 and release arround Christmas ´14
Oh well I shall have towait paciently

Why would anyone wait for Fallout 4?

Tasteful rape in a new setting bro

 

[EG]

they will probably announce Fallout 4 on the next E3 and release arround Christmas ´14
Oh well I shall have towait paciently

Why would anyone wait for Fallout 4?

Lack of things to anticipate.

 

[Gurkog]

I think it'd be really cool if they rebooted the series and decided to just call it Fallout.

Part of me wishes they did that to begin with, but then we would not have received the real Fallout 3 in New Vegas.

You couldn't do this in the main series, for obvious reasons (Americana is central to the game's identity, Bethesda would assfuck any attempt to include a new thematic component), but I think there'd be good potential for a NV style 'same universe spinoff' set concurrently with the events of FO1, but in China. It's plausible that a massively centralised government could have an extremely different reaction to, and recovery from, nuclear holocaust. I'd love to see that done, with a formerly heavily integrated society suddenly having to deal with extreme localised independence for the first time in centuries. Whereas the brotherhood of steel in FO tries to protect the tech, in FO: Shanghai you'd have similar groups trying to preserve books and pieces of centuries-old chinese culture (like the monks in real life who tried to hide, protect and smuggle out cultural artifacts and history books to hong kong as the communist cultural revolution swept in - often paying for it with their lives).

Of course, if it ever were done it would probably be a herp derp equivalent of the Chinese city in FO2. Done well, however, with cultural and history consultants helping the design, it could be awesome: I can just envisage this grey-but-possibly-necessary remnants of the old chinese bureaucracy taking over from the collapsed government, more determined to keep a national order than their US counterparts, but with a local population questioning wondering whether or not they really WANT to re-establish the meritocratic beauracy, or whether they should use this new beginning to adopt a new Chinese culture (individualism? Back to confucionism? Localised governance?). And then, of course, a whole new batch of destructive weapons and radiated horrors springing from the eastern end of the world (perhaps their focus was on genetic alteration rather than laser tech, so you've got genetically altered tigers that were once controlled via brain chips, plaguelands where viral experiments ran rampant once there was no-one left to make sure they were sealed in, etc).

You just want talking Chinese pandas in Fallout after playing Mists of Panderia. ADMIT IT!!!

The general premise sounds cool, but you have to realize that the cultural identity in eastern Asia is so focused on the group (instead of the self) that I highly doubt there would be a race for independent living.

 

[DalekFlay]

I think the American setting is pretty essential to Fallout's tone. People who say "yo set the next one in London" or whatever the fuck are missing half the symbolism and parody, in my opinion. I'm all for a post-apocalyptic RPG set in another country but call it something else, make it... *SHOCK*... a new IP. The bane of the publisher.

 

[ohWOW]

It's because all they know is from Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
Which are shit.

So they want it in London and China. With supermutant invasion under the great wall of china.

 

[Gurkog]

Bethesda will introduce dragons and magical 'shouts' with Fallout 4. The coming of your character will fulfill the legendary Steelborn prophecy. A descendant of the mythical 'Brotherhood of Steel' who will take on a cave full of giant Orcs and evil black knights an underground super mutant breeding facility organized and monitored by the Enclave.

Sorry, but I just made myself vomit a little bit into my mouth. I will stop before I cause permanent blindness and brain damage.

 

[ohWOW]

And dragons ARE NOT DRAGONS, hater. They're mutants after the nuclear war, lol! Science-fiction.

 

[Menckenstein]

Fallout 4: Reign of Fire

Dragons and London, there ya go, faggots.

 

[Morgoth]

All this hate. Fallout 4 will most likely blow away anything coming from Bioware anyway.

 

[General Maxson]

All this hate. Fallout 4 will most likely blow away anything coming from Bioware anyway.

Like that's hard to do.

 

[HardDeck]

I won't name any names. But I have inside information from a friend who works for Obsidian. He said that Bethesda has contracted them for the next installment of Fallout. Not only that, but they have been given free reign over the entire game. Meaning they decide on the game mechanics, story, etc.
This friend of mine also let slip that Fallout 4 will be set in more than one state, and will use a node map similar to that seen in Fallout 1 & 2 to travel between points of interest.
Why so many changes from the current formula? Apparently, Bethesda Game Studios wants to focus more on The Elder Scrolls series of games and thinks Fallout is better off in Obsidian's hands whom they believe to be better suited to provide the best Fallout experience possible for fans of both the originals and newer titles.
Fallout 4 is not currently in development and isn't expected to be until Obsidian is finished with their current title, "Project Eternity" and any DLC/patches.

So, moving right along, Is there going to be a Fallout 4? We can't say for certain there will be, but I don't see any reasonable company abandoning a popular title thats had recent good sales. I have however had this screenshot apparently from a Skyrim Beta sent to me….

Notice the VATS references. Now this isn't a silver bullet that says Fallout 4 is in Secret development, or that it will definitely use the creation engine - quite the opposite, it equally could just be a bit like an appendix held over from Fallout 3/NV. However I think both the creation engine and F4 being in development are likely - Bethesda spent a lot of cash on engine development, and it only makes sense to try and use it multiple times to cover the costs; plus you don't tend to have employees sit around doing nothing if you can help it.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Agent_c/Nukapedia_News_Digest_-_20_Oct_2012

Obsidian Entertainment presents:
Fallout 4


Story:
Chris Avellone, George Ziets

Mechanics:
Josh Sawyer
Tim Cain

 

[Morgoth]

Don't believe that. Bethesda wouldn't let such a chance slip to make the next big FO entry themselves, especially since Hot Rod Todd himself enjoyed working on F3 so much. Obsidian, however, is probably gonna make another spin-off/Semi-Addon again.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Calling bullshit.

Because it would be too good to be true.

Also,

Fallout 4 is not currently in development

No way.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Yeah, not buying it. Those idiots' egos are wayyyyy too fucking big to admit to Obsidian being the better team for the title. They'll make and break Fallout once again, folks. Don't you doubt it for a single, derpy, head-in-a-bucket second.

Also: Hey we didn't pay you for NV but here's Fallout 4 entirely for you, lolz!

 

[Harold]

Ever since the whole Ausir fiasco, the new Nukapedia is a cesspool full of social-media tards posting bullshit they 'heard from a friend' as news.
Bethesda is in fact even now doing their research in Boston for Fallout 4, recording with the highest precision-tools the day to day conversations of Bostonians, so they can make sure Ghouls of Irish descent and Supermutant MIT researchers speak with the appropiate accents.

 

[Jaesun]

Obsidian should approach them to do an Isometric turn-based Fallout spin-off. That is pretty much the only future Fallout I would play. NV was a GREAT game, but that fucking fucking shit engine. gawd.

 

[Ovg]

And so ITZ is coming again.

I wonder how long will it take for loverslabs to produce a worthy dlc for the next installment in the GOTY OF ALL YEARS series original by Bethesda.

 

[Luzur]

some time ago i heard about someone making a Denver mod for Fallout 3.

dunno if they ever finished it, i stopped playing Fallout 3 long before.

 

[Oesophagus]

Obsidian should approach them to do an Isometric turn-based Fallout spin-off. That is pretty much the only future Fallout I would play. NV was a GREAT game, but that fucking fucking shit engine. gawd.

Fat chance, Beth has to keep an apropriate image. The fanbase expects more of the same, so if a turn based isometric fallout ever happens, it'll be on facebook at best. And Obsidian should focus on PE, and helping with W2