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

[Infinitron]

I herd u liek embargoes so I embargoed your embargo yadda yadda

This is SO Bethesda:

Fallout 4 Review Embargo Gets Embargo

Fallout 4, like most major video games, has a review embargo. Unlike most major video games, however, Fallout 4 has an embargo for its review embargo.

A “review embargo” is shorthand for the day and time that critics with publisher-provided early copies of a game can publish their reviews. This is a common practice, and in many ways it’s a good one: By setting an embargo, a publisher prevents outlets from racing to see who can publish the first review at expense of thoroughness. We at Kotaku are not against review embargoes—unless they’re set after a game has already come out.

But this is the first time we’ve seen an embargo on a review embargo. Here, obtained by Kotaku, is an e-mail Bethesda sent out to press (not including Kotaku) today.


We hope you’re having fun exploring the Wasteland in Fallout 4. We know your followers are eager to hear more about the game. If you’d like to reveal when your review or launch coverage will run, you can share beginning this Friday, November 6 at 10 a.m. PST.

Please keep in mind that the embargo below is still in place.

All review coverage is under embargo until Monday, November 9 at 8 a.m. EST.

This embargo also includes streaming gameplay footage or posting impressions from your experience on social media, etc.

We do ask that you avoid including story spoilers in your review coverage.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

The Bethesda PR team

So on Friday, at 10am PT, the embargo will be up for embargoed reviewers saying they’re embargoed until Monday at 8am ET. Anyone else feel like they’ve just walked into a Dr. Seuss novel?

 

[Metro]

Seems to be a problem as I've yet to get the Codex review copy.

 

[Blaine]

It's bad enough that Fallout 3 and 4 are pale imitations and bastardizations of a treasured cRPG franchise. "We're huge fans of Fallout," quoth Todd during Fallout 3's development, and yet Fallout 3 demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of the Brotherhood of Steel, of Super Mutants, of the tone and atmosphere of the classics, not to mention Bethesda's absolute shit-tier writing and inability to deliver black humor (those are faults of Bethesda Softworks regardless of franchise, but they hit Fallout especially hard).

On top of that you've now got full-blown consolization to contend with, right down to shitty UIs based on smartphones (Skyrim), iffy controls, issues with keybinding since they design the game for controllers and apparently pass that part off to a single intern, few and far-between patches that break more than they fix (dragons flying backwards in Skyrim, etc.) and Todd ranting that they can't be bothered to allocate resources to creating and maintaining a proper PC port because of pirates.

This time, poor design decisions from Skyrim and other modern games are working their way into the mix, too, and they're going full-on shooter from the sound of things.

Doesn't matter, though. Fallout 3 was seven years ago, and a lot of 20-somethings grew up with with that brand of Fallout. It's gonna sell like hotcakes.

 

[Lagole Gon]

So... another 20 milions sold? 11/10?

Or maybe slavs raised the bar for open world popamoleRPGs?

 

[Necroscope]

We hope you’re having fun exploring the Wasteland in Fallout 4.

You better.

 

[Hirato]

Are those really PC screenshots?
Why is there no indoor lighting and shadows at all? Even Skyrim had that

Expecting some kid on the internet to pull a Watch_Dogs in one week or two and find out the game has been made to look like ass on PC on purpose.

Happened plenty of times before, almost no one gave a damn.



This is also for you Zeriel

 

[Bubbles]

http://streamcountry.com/hatenewspapers/

 

[Lagole Gon]

So apparently the big twist is:

Spoiler

Srsly, spoiler.

Spoiler

Waifu is dead and the kid has been turned into a synth. Two endings - you can kill it or spare this synthetic abomination.

https://a.pomf.cat/wqklnu.ogg

Maybe I should post it in the launch trailer comments...

 

[Akratus]

That stream: A granny says "The sight takes a toll on ya."

Psychics confirmed?

 

[Lemming42]

Semi-called this a while back http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...redictions-here-too.99894/page-2#post-3972807

Spoiler

Making your kid the final boss was the single most jaw-droppingly boring twist in the world.

 

[ED-209]

http://streamcountry.com/hatenewspapers/

Stream was running great not too long ago. Then the kid enabled ads and now everything is "undefined."

ETA: But the ads run great. Of course they do.

 

[Akratus]

Really at this point all I care about is evil options, betraying people, or siding with a morally questionable faction. I want to murder the railroad and shit. I'm just wondering if there's something remotely fun in there. That's the only entertainment value I want to expect above the regular 100 hours of dumb fun as a hiking simulator.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

So apparently the big twist is:

Spoiler

Srsly, spoiler.

Spoiler

Waifu is dead and the kid has been turned into a synth. Two endings - you can kill it or spare this synthetic abomination.

https://a.pomf.cat/wqklnu.ogg

Maybe I should post it in the launch trailer comments...

Am I a bad person for being tempted to spam it all over the Internet, just to ruin this clusterfuck for the nu-Fallout generation?

 

[pippin]

The game is pretty shit as it is but Bethesda has bought everyone, every review. I'm just expecting something to be insanely broken, Arkham Knight style. The tears will be delicious.

 

[MapMan]

The only time I was ever mad about a franchise I liked getting ruined was with the release of fallout 3 and how it wasn't why we (the fans) ever wanted. I was really fucking mad back then. But then something broke inside me and I decided not to give a fuck ever again. Hitman, Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider and numerous other franchises I really liked got butchered and it didn't rustle my jimmies in the slightest. Fallout 4 doesn't bother me at all, the world keeps spinning and maybe one day we'll get a good fallout or post apoc crpg game. Be strong, brothers.

 

[Wolfe]

Looks awesome, hope we can choose our own side and that leads to different story arcs. Will give the game a hell of a lot of replayability.

Really at this point all I care about is evil options, betraying people, or siding with a morally questionable faction. I want to murder the railroad and shit. I'm just wondering if there's something remotely fun in there. That's the only entertainment value I want to expect above the regular 100 hours of dumb fun as a hiking simulator.

That's how I played FO3 and I plan on doing the same in this one. Roleplay as a motherfucking retard set on destroying as much as possible of the fake world Bethesda created.

 

[Adon]

So apparently the big twist is:

Spoiler

Srsly, spoiler.

Spoiler

Waifu is dead and the kid has been turned into a synth. Two endings - you can kill it or spare this synthetic abomination.

https://a.pomf.cat/wqklnu.ogg

Maybe I should post it in the launch trailer comments...

Spoiler

Real plot twist is that they're all synths which is why none of them act or sound human. Instead we get an imitation of what they think is human emotion explaining why everyone is so underplayed.

 

[Metro]

Not that much of a surprise people guessed that while ago given the quest in Fallout 3 with the Institute and runaway android.

 

[moon knight]

So apparently the big twist is:

Spoiler

Srsly, spoiler.

Spoiler

Waifu is dead and the kid has been turned into a synth. Two endings - you can kill it or spare this synthetic abomination.

https://a.pomf.cat/wqklnu.ogg

Maybe I should post it in the launch trailer comments...

Wow....moral dilemma.

I'll spam it on Youtube.

 

[pippin]

Wow....moral dilemma.

I'll spam it on Youtube.

Post screenshots!

 

[Echo Mirage]

Someone already did it on steam. There was a few hours of butthurt and cancer threats before it got removed.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Someone already did it on steam. There was a few hours of butthurt and cancer threats before it got removed.

The hero we need.

 

[upwardlymobile]

Spoiler

Real plot twist is that they're all synths which is why none of them act or sound human. Instead we get an imitation of what they think is human emotion explaining why everyone is so underplayed.

well that explains things, and here i thought it was because bethesda has no writing talent and still uses their secretarial staff for voice actors

VVV well we know for sure the secretaries aren't checking their spelling anyway

 

[Bubbles]

 

[Shammy]

I really can't get over how bad those textures are. I know we've beaten this point to death but seriously, what the flying fuck.