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

[Killzig]

Isn't it more likely that they'll add a ton more perks instead, Skyrim-style?

Yes, probably. YOU GET TWO PERKS A LEVEL NOW or something ridiculous like that. Come to think of it, I think I saw a perk related to augmenting one of your SPECIAL stats.

 

[Alfons]

It's essentially the same boring implementation of SPECIAL as Fallout 3 only they're acknowledging that they have no idea how to make character systems. Perks were special in the first games because you only got one ever so often.

I think that's the least of the problems fallout 3 perks have. Perks in the good fallouts gave you things that could only be gained with perks. Now go and take a look at how many perks in F3 just give you an addition to a skill or an attribute. That was the first thing I noticed about that POS. The perks that don't are just so fucking generic and indistinct that there's barely any difference from character to character. And the worst thing, the worst fucking thing, is that they celebrate that. The DLC solidifies the fact that everyone becomes the same generic polymath asshole. "I don't think it's enough for them to have 100 in every skills. Fuck it! Let's make everyone have 10 in every attribute too." What in the fuck?

How is it possible that Todd doesn't age at all? Look at video with oblivion from 10 years ago, he looks the same as now.

Oh shit!
He must be the same race of alien as Keanu reeves.

 

[Arulan]

Yes, probably. YOU GET TWO PERKS A LEVEL NOW or something ridiculous like that. Come to think of it, I think I saw a perk related to augmenting one of your SPECIAL stats.

The speculation I've read has hinted on a perk tree which is ordered both my levels and by SPECIAL in some way. Perhaps something like this:

based off of this image:

Has there been any hint or confirmation of skill checks still being in the game?

 

[Makabb]

It's essentially the same boring implementation of SPECIAL as Fallout 3 only they're acknowledging that they have no idea how to make character systems. Perks were special in the first games because you only got one ever so often.

I think that's the least of the problems fallout 3 perks have. Perks in the good fallouts gave you things that could only be gained with perks. Now go and take a look at how many perks in F3 just give you an addition to a skill or an attribute. That was the first thing I noticed about that POS. The perks that don't are just so fucking generic and indistinct that there's barely any difference from character to character. And the worst thing, the worst fucking thing, is that they celebrate that. The DLC solidifies the fact that everyone becomes the same generic polymath asshole. "I don't think it's enough for them to have 100 in every skills. Fuck it! Let's make everyone have 10 in every attribute too." What in the fuck?

How is it possible that Todd doesn't age at all? Look at video with oblivion from 10 years ago, he looks the same as now.

Oh shit!
He must be the same race of alien as Keanu reeves.

No shit


10 years ago

Today

He even has exact same hair.

 

[Makabb]

Some trivia

Gamepro magazine named him to the Top 20 Most Influential People in Gaming over the last 20 years. He has also been named one of IGN’s Top Game Creators of All Time. He received one of the industry’s highest awards by being named Best Game Director by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences in 2012. In 2014 he received the Lara of Honor, Germany’s lifetime achievement award for gaming. Todd Howard is one of a small amount of developers to create three consecutive Game of the Year award winners with Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim.

He is a frequent speaker at industry events, and his games have been featured in everything from Newsweek, CNN, USA Today, and The today show, to magazine covers worldwide. Howard has stated that Bethesda's philosophy for the Elder Scrolls games is to allow people to "live another life, in another world."

Great games are played not made. – "You can have the greatest design document ever made, and you're going to change 90 percent of it as soon as you play the game.

"Keep it simple. – "Doing something really well takes time, more time than you think it will. Simple systems acting together create complexity that players can appreciate.

"Define the experience. – "Don't define your game by a list of bullet points… define it by the experience you want people to have.

50 years from now Todd will be known to world as a cultural icon like Elvis presley

 

[Drax]

based off of this image:

What am I looking at?

 

[Killzig]

Todd would have been the perfect Malfoy had the Harry Potter books/movies been set in the late 70s / early 80s Ohio.

 

[Killzig]

Oh oh wait, he's perfect as the teenage antagonist from an off-brand Karate Kid movie. You know, the shithead from the rich kid dojo.

 

[Makabb]

ok ok ok this Todd quote has to be the quote of the century

if install base really mattered, we'd all make board games, because there are a lot of tables.

 

[Alfons]

The brilliance just oozes from the screen as I read it.
I'm just starting to realize that I actually like Beth. As a gaming company they're shit but as a joke they're pretty good.

 

[Drax]

Freaking todd, gotta love the guy.

 

[Arulan]

What am I looking at?

It's all speculation at this point though. Regardless, Bethesda doesn't know what Fallout is, but I wonder whether the mainstream will notice given a lot them will likely have played New Vegas at least for comparison.

 

[Drax]

I thought maybe it was from that iPhone game.

 

[pippin]

Yeah it does look like the iphone game. Fallout 4 will be Skyrim with Guns and there's no real mystery about that.

 

[Zombra]

Fallout 4 will be Skyrim with Guns and there's no real mystery about that.

At this point I wish we were getting "Skyrim with Guns". At least Skyrim didn't force you to play as Mild-Mannered, Good-Natured Straight Man Dude.

 

[pippin]

Fallout 4 will be Skyrim with Guns and there's no real mystery about that.

At this point I wish we were getting "Skyrim with Guns". At least Skyrim didn't force you to play as Mild-Mannered, Good-Natured Straight Man Dude.

To be fair, the female character looks nice this time. At least she looks somewhat human. Besides, she looks decided and commited, while the dude always looks like he's sad for some reason, as if he knos he has a very small dick. If I ever play the game, I'm going to pick the female character first.

Plus, she will be voiced by Courtenay Taylor

 

[Clockwork Knight]

How is it possible that Todd doesn't age at all? Look at video with oblivion from 10 years ago, he looks the same as now.

Before the birth of Todd, the decline ruled all

The Todd is worship

Follow the Inner path

Speak only in True Need

 

[Metro]

Fallout 4 will be Skyrim with Guns and there's no real mystery about that.

At this point I wish we were getting "Skyrim with Guns". At least Skyrim didn't force you to play as Mild-Mannered, Good-Natured Straight Man Dude.

E-Larpers. E-Larpers never change.

 

[Lord Carlos Wafflebum]

Rape train is best train. Rape train is life. My body is ready.

 

[Alfons]

Perks were extremely banal and lame in FO3 because they showed up at each level. The perks weren't that good either. With skill perks, the designers in Bethesda may want to add a extra element of choice - Skill or perk? - or simply cover their lack of creativity at making good perks.

 

[Jools]

Ain't no train like the wasteland rape train!

 

[DosBuster]

Ah, nice to see this on the site, I like the new logos too.

 

[Night Goat]

where's Brotherhood of Steel

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

FNV dude is supposed to wield a hueg penis badass revolver, not some generic rifle, ffs.

 

[Aoyagi]

FNV dude is supposed to wield a hueg penis badass revolver, not some generic rifle, ffs.

Anti-material rifles are not some generic rubbish. And the revolver image is different.