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

[ohWOW]

An image says more than a thousand words.

:declining:

The decline is the fact you take metacritic seriously.

 

[Crispy]

Ouch!

 

[SwiftCrack]

The decline is the fact you take metacritic seriously.

 

[CrustyBot]

The decline is the fact you take metacritic seriously.

Bethesda and Obsidian did.

 

[ohWOW]

That's why Obsidian is full of shit.

 

[Konjad]

An image says more than a thousand words.

:declining:

The decline is the fact you take metacritic seriously.

Actually I take it more-or-less seriously too. If I'm not sure whether to buy or not to buy something I sometimes check metacritic's user score and reviews of that game.

 

[ohWOW]

Go buy Fallout 3, it's has generally favorable reviews from users.

 

[Dustin542]

That's why Obsidian is full of shit.

They only took it seriously because a contract clause with Bethesda said they would get a bonus if they reached an 85 in Metacritic.

 

[ohWOW]

The fact they agreed on that is enough to say they're retarded.

 

[Turisas]

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/16cgj0/pal_of_mine_works_in_public_relations_at_bethesda/

• First and foremost, the game will take place in Boston, and be kind of a direct sequel to Fallout 3 with a few groups returning.
• From what it sounds like, "The Institute" is pretty much the downtown DC or New Vegas of this game. Boston is going to be unlike anything we've seen in a Fallout game before, with buildings more on par with cyberpunk and retro-futurism.
• Androids play a big part in this game. The railroad from Fallout 3 is a faction. The enemies of the railroad is "the Plantation" -- a group who force Androids to farm so that Humans can get food. The Institute is highly advanced and probably obtained or built their own GECK to start a farm.
• Due to complaints about using Super Mutants and the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 3 excessively and going against the lore too much, Bethesda has decided to avoid using these groups. Bethesda wants to make a new "race" (think Ghoul, Super Mutant) which will be central to Boston. Bethesda is currently looking at Lovecraftian fiction since Boston is around "Lovecraft Country".
• Bethesda has no plans to reinvent the leveling up system to make it more like Skyrim and want to make Fallout 4 more distinct from Skyrim since of the complaints that Oblivion and Fallout 3 were too similar. Bethesda is thinking about introducing a system, similar to Skyrim, where your skills can level up if you perform certain tasks.

Sounds shitty and contradictory enough to actually be true.

 

[Eddard Stark]

A step forward with New Vegas & ten steps back with the new Bethesda abomination.

Btw, in all seriousness, how does this

Bethesda has no plans to reinvent the leveling up system to make it more like Skyrim

go with this

Bethesda is thinking about introducing a system, similar to Skyrim

???

Is it the "insider poster" that is brain damaged or Bethesda? Or both maybe?

 

[bonescraper]

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/16cgj0/pal_of_mine_works_in_public_relations_at_bethesda/

• First and foremost, the game will take place in Boston, and be kind of a direct sequel to Fallout 3 with a few groups returning.
• From what it sounds like, "The Institute" is pretty much the downtown DC or New Vegas of this game. Boston is going to be unlike anything we've seen in a Fallout game before, with buildings more on par with cyberpunk and retro-futurism.
• Androids play a big part in this game. The railroad from Fallout 3 is a faction. The enemies of the railroad is "the Plantation" -- a group who force Androids to farm so that Humans can get food. The Institute is highly advanced and probably obtained or built their own GECK to start a farm.
• Due to complaints about using Super Mutants and the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 3 excessively and going against the lore too much, Bethesda has decided to avoid using these groups. Bethesda wants to make a new "race" (think Ghoul, Super Mutant) which will be central to Boston. Bethesda is currently looking at Lovecraftian fiction since Boston is around "Lovecraft Country".
• Bethesda has no plans to reinvent the leveling up system to make it more like Skyrim and want to make Fallout 4 more distinct from Skyrim since of the complaints that Oblivion and Fallout 3 were too similar. Bethesda is thinking about introducing a system, similar to Skyrim, where your skills can level up if you perform certain tasks.

Sounds shitty and contradictory enough to actually be true.

It's like 2007 all over again. I want to fucking kill them all.

 

[Turisas]

Is it the "insider poster" that is brain damaged or Bethesda? Or both maybe?

It really does sound like something Pete Hines would say.

 

[Crispy]

I don't like the sound of that retro-futurism. It's giving me a BioShock vibe, which I hated.

Boston should be a freakin' crater anyway, shouldn't it? Major populace of (circa 1950's) almost a million people. Somehow it just got missed in the exchange?

 

[dibens]

I don't like the sound of that retro-futurism. It's giving me a BioShock vibe, which I hated.

A little too late.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

Due to complaints about using Super Mutants and the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 3 excessively and going against the lore too much, Bethesda has decided to avoid using these groups.

Uhm... yay? Good to see we still matter. At least not much of olde can be desecrated.

 

[MasPingon]

Due to complaints about using Super Mutants and the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 3 excessively and going against the lore too much, Bethesda has decided to avoid using these groups. Bethesda wants to make a new "race" (think Ghoul, Super Mutant) which will be central to Boston. Bethesda is currently looking at Lovecraftian fiction since Boston is around "Lovecraft Country".

So now they want to rape Fallout and Lovecraftian lore at once? Shouldn't they go to jail for those threads?

Also, why don't just fix Super Mutants to be true to the lore? It seems it's beyond them

 

[Lancehead]

Some positives here. They were not going to mess with the West Coast, now they're (rumoured to) not going to (further) mess with Super Mutants and BoS. They should also leave alone the Enclave, while they're at it.

 

[Kahlis]

 

[Broseph]

Due to complaints about using Super Mutants and the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 3 excessively and going against the lore too much, Bethesda has decided to avoid using these groups.

Uhm... yay? Good to see we still matter. At least not much of olde can be desecrated.

At least they're trying to fix their mistakes. No doubt the execution will be total derp, but it could be an improvement on FO3 in the way Skyrim improved on Oblivion; going from full retard to just above good-for-what-it-is.

 

[Kahlis]

Weren't they supposed to fix their mistakes after Oblivion, after Fallout 3, after seeing Fallout: New Vegas? I think Skyrim is better than Oblivion only in the sense that they simplified everything to the point that there'd be nothing left for them to potentially mess up on.

 

[Broseph]

Mechanically, that's certainly true. Skyrim is a bare-bones ARPG with emphasis on the action. But the world design improved drastically from Oblivion and they at least tried to show some respect to the lore. The setup for the civil war was also pretty interesting, given that they tried to make both sides morally gray, it's just the execution that was lacking. The level scaling was also a lot less fucked up and there was the potential to get your ass kicked some early on if you weren't careful (take for example Shimmermist Cove north of Whiterun; lots of falmer and chauruses there, which are potentially lethal for a character under level 15 or so).

 

[Major_Blackhart]

So, here's the question: will they turn to Obsidian once more for an actually good version of a game they own?

 

[Brayko]

So, here's the question: will they turn to Obsidian once more for an actually good version of a game they own?

I really hope so, that way the massive shit that Bethesda once again takes on both the industry and the franchise is partially redeemed.

 

[EG]

So, here's the question: will they turn to Obsidian once more for an actually good version of a game they own?

I really hope so, that way the massive shit that Bethesda once again takes on both the industry and the franchise is partially redeemed.

For a major release?

 

[Stinger]

So, here's the question: will they turn to Obsidian once more for an actually good version of a game they own?

No because Bethesda has better rep than Obsidian among the general population and FNV, for whatever idiotic reason, is regarded as worse or phoned in compared to F3. More likely they'll just hire Obsidian for a rushed, slam dunk follow up (that ends up being significantly better) once the ruleset and assets are established.