Utterly Mad

Just watched some Fallout 4 leaked gameplay, it looks like the last two games but updated with modern graphics and the new tweaks they said they added.

Like the animations are better, but the voice actors are the same, when the guy was looting buildings it felt like I was watching Fallout 3 with some nice mods on, and the combat is probably the only thing that looks to be majorly overhauled. The shooting looks really good.

As for everything else, it might be a beta build or just what the console versions look like, but the game looks a little bit better then Fallout New Vegas, the textures and models sometimes vary in vast degrees of quality, and the lighting is complete shit. So I might wait a couple of weeks before making a purchasing decision.

Unlike Perigrin who is saving up money to preorder, instead of waiting for an 'Ultimate Edition' or even it to go on sale.

Quote from: Bubbadoo on November 01, 2015, 11:27:20 pm

Quote from: ajwilli1 on November 01, 2015, 10:52:44 pm

Just watched some Fallout 4 leaked gameplay, it looks like the last two games but updated with modern graphics and the new tweaks they said they added.

Like the animations are better, but the voice actors are the same, when the guy was looting buildings it felt like I was watching Fallout 3 with some nice mods on, and the combat is probably the only thing that looks to be majorly overhauled. The shooting looks really good.

As for everything else, it might be a beta build or just what the console versions look like, but the game looks a little bit better then Fallout New Vegas, the textures and models sometimes vary in vast degrees of quality, and the lighting is complete shit. So I might wait a couple of weeks before making a purchasing decision.

Unlike Perigrin who is saving up money to preorder, instead of waiting for an 'Ultimate Edition' or even it to go on sale.

Yes, bitch about the fact that somebody wants to play a game when it bloody well comes out.

I am just teasing, mostly.
Seriously though, if you just wait for the winter sales in one month it might just go on sale.

If I had a computer that would run Fo4 then I'd totally do the same thing as Peri

If I had a computer that would run Fo4 then I'd totally do the same thing as Peri

Tone down the graphics and you'll be able to run Fo4, the reason why they recommend a beefy rig is because there really aren't that many loading screens when entering new areas like in the previous games. I saw people hop into elevators and it basically teleported them to the top of the building.

The game generates entire cells to play in, which means it loads all the areas in that particular "block". At least that's what I'm understanding from the leaks.

But I'd still advise delaying your purchase, the game doesn't ship with mod support, it'll probably be poorly optimized or buggy upon release, and there's a slight chance that the characters, story, and quests are complete shit. The shooting however looks badass, but some of the dialogue is pretty bad judging from the leaks, especially from the two leads of the game. Not to mention the "animations" for some of the characters are more wooden and robotic then Skyrim... and I have no fucking idea how they managed that (alright you remember how GTA character's would move in the PS2 era of games? Waving their arms around, leaning around, and their lips kinda just flap to the words. Its kinda like that.).

However its not all horrible, some of the dialogue is funny (from the NPCs), the super mutants are still as funny and voiced by the same guy again, like I said the shooting looks like it got the most attention, looting is done semi-Borderlands style (menu pops up on the container in real time, you just loot on the spot), the particle effects are fantastic and the sheer scale of the Boston metro areas is like what I wanted Fallout 3 to be like; full buildings you can just enter just because, heading up to the rooftops and upper floors of towering skyscrapers and engaging in vertical firefights.

It seems like Bethesda wanted to make Fallout 4 into the shooter a lot of people expected Fallout 3 to be, think Rage but not bland and shitty.

Also babymaking technology looks like it wasn't wasted, you can get a good Mochaccino baby from a black and white couple.

I'm still going to buy it. And probably love it to bits, because who plays bethsoft games for the story.

Me. I'm sick of that being the one argument people use to defend Bethsofts sometimes horrible or bland writing, I will agree they can craft beautiful worlds with some crazy deep lore. But how come the stories I read in the books in these games or in the terminals is several times more interesting then the story or writing as a whole.

There's a reason why I haven't streamed Skyrim again, because I cannot get back into it no matter how much I mod it. If you want me to waste hours of my life grinding away levels, getting skills, and basically doing a chorelist; either the writing better be fucking good, or what I'm doing should be more interesting then "Go here and get me a radio transistor because I can't hear my radio dramas.", or at least make the fetch quest fun by sending me on a fubar mission where I fight in some exotic locale.

I mean almost 90% of New Vegas's quests were fetch quests (pretty funny how that is since you play as a pissed off vengeful Mailman), but what saved it for me was the writing of the characters and I didn't realize how literally every quest is a fetch quest until I started streaming it and watching people play it.

Hell half the sidequests in Fallout 3 were well-written and filled with character like the vampire mission or the ones that sent you to go retrieve items deep within DC. Because the locales were interesting, scary, and sometimes just plan cool.

I just want the main quest to at least be fulfilling instead of the wet fart that was Skyrim's story, at least in Fallout 3 people fucking acknowledged you if you were a bastard or a hero. I want what I'm doing to have serious consequences or some form of punishment or reward if I chose something, I don't want what I do to be a throw away line that some retarded guard uses with his other canned dialogue that makes fun of you.

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Fallout 4 is basically STALKER in America during the retro-future 50s, its a FPS focusing more on exploration and gunfights with the primary means of upgrading being through use of special items like clothes and bobbleheads (artifacts) with a excellent perk system that will probably be better to what their aiming for. I just hope there will be mods that add back in the more RPGy elements.