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Fallout 4 Officially Revealed for PC, Xbox One, PS4 [Reddit Rumor = Ban]
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Teletraan1
Banned
Perfect.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Never played 1,2 or 3. Should I bother?
-duskdoll-
Member
Do you think we will be able to fly hoverships? (I'm assuming it's the protagonist in the second picture)
Octavianus
Banned
I hope they'll get Troy Baker to voice the MC. I'm definetly not sick off hearing him in every single game for the past 3 years. Not at all.
NullPointer
Member
Compare and contrast with the GAF thread from the first gameplay footage of Skyrim:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422670
I see a lot of people impressed there.
This whole "Skyrim always looked like crap" idea is definitely news to me.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422670
I see a lot of people impressed there.
This whole "Skyrim always looked like crap" idea is definitely news to me.
daaamn.
Yup I remember loving that trailer, it was a huge jump from Oblivion.
Man I really wanted another Elder Scrolls, especially after the massive disappointment that was ESO.
I thought it looked great.
Octavianus
Banned
Play 1 and 2, pretend like the rest doesn't exist.
1, 2 and New Vegas, yes.
New Vegas is great
3 is still very much worth playing
tho with New Vegas out one might as well skip it
Fried Food
Banned
No one in their right mind expected for us to receive an in-engine trailer. And then the discussion immediately turns to the graphics, specifically whether or not they are good. Were we better off receiving CG until the gameplay demonstration?
Dick Justice
Banned
New Vegas is great too.
This is what they showed, so people are going to talk about what was shown. The amount of people complaining about other people complaining is laughable.
Thats bullshit.
Morrowind and Oblivion had top tier graphics for their times. People bought top of the line PC hardware for them.
Water in Morrowind was key marketing tool for Nvidia and Geforce 3.
HDR rendering was novum in Oblivion and foliage + scale of the game was like nothing done before in RPGs.
Skyrim looked great at launch too, it wasnt though top of the line like previous Elder Scrolls Games.
Looks good to me..
missing square enix watermark
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
They can't be fucking serious with these graphics. Theres no excuse.
Play all of them and NV. You'll notice how F3 is the odd one out in terms of focus/essence.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Sorry. I meant should I bother with 4 if I never touched the others.
This is selective memory, they all looked pretty good for their time. One of the main selling points of Oblivion was the improved "next gen" graphics and there were a lot of threads comparing the massive improvements of Skyrim compared to Oblivion, not only in graphics but also in animations.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
i think they all look good but this is just incorrect. Maybe if you revisited these games years after release i could see how one could come to that opinion. Every single one of those games there were praised for its graphics at the time.
Guess which game this IGN graphics review is from:
Answer is
.......... Morrowind. "Animations are excellent"
At the time of release the game have looked great. Oblivion had that famous magazine cover that was very impessive or have we even forgotten that? This is the first (modern) Bethesda rpg game to get some static over the graphics. The graphics look fine to me.
NullPointer
Member
People are discussing graphics because the video doesn't appear to showcase new gameplay systems. Not obviously so anyway.
Whats the intended takeaway from that trailer?
No because people on here would inevitably bitch about the graphics during E3. Better to get out of the way now and have people accept that's what the game looks like.
Like it or lump it, simple as that. Don't buy it if you don't want it. No one is forcing you to do anything.
Graphics and art style look better than the last two games and that works for me. I just hope that the soundtrack isnt by Inon Zur again, and they at least look to Fallout 1 and 2 for inspiration. Or hell find a way to let Mark Morgan compose.
Only if you like the kind of game Bethesda's makes (shallowest RPG with nice vistas).
I mean, if it gest you in the mood for more Fallout that's a good thing!
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
That trailer still gives me goosebumps.
maniac-kun
Member
Well that trailer was like 70% pure gameplay. And has this awesome soundtrack. One of the best trailers of all time.
GreatestHits
Member
Imagine a Fallout 4 built with the Rage engine:
I assumed that was why they bought Id tbh...
I wish they could mod that to make it like Gamebryo. I really thought they were going to try that with FO4 but that just goes to show how close the design philosophy is to elder scrolls IMO
gundamkyoukai
Member
Sad thing is they have 10 times the amount of ram .
So they don't have that excuse .
It's hardly the most deep game. Bethesda RPGs tend to be fairly shallow (of recent), relying on the breadth of their world rather than depth or gameplay. Combats usually passable at best, so it would have been nice to have a good looking expansive world. I mean its been five years since NV, a new generation of consoles significantly more powerful than their predecessors as well as the PC which has far surpassed them, and we've got not much to show for it really. If they pissed the power away on pure draw distance, that will be a shame indeed in my view.
I would perhaps not dismiss peoples views as idiotic so quickly - graphics are a key part of the immersive experience that probably many don't understand having not played some of these games on high end PCs; for instance FC4 on PC was amazing at least partially because of the fidelity. The better the vegetation etc looks, the stronger the suspension of belief. It all feeds in.
Fallout-with-swords
Banned
I suppose there is no way of really knowing, but is gamebryo like the only engine that works with Bethesda games? You know massive open world / pretty much every item has physics / modable?
A lot of people seem to be implying they are lazy not switching to something new like idTech just wondering if that is even possible with Fallout 4 being the massive game, that I assume it is.
A lot of people seem to be implying they are lazy not switching to something new like idTech just wondering if that is even possible with Fallout 4 being the massive game, that I assume it is.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Skyrim looked good, but it was kind of the outlier. Fallout 3 and NV were always very rough games in the visual department. You could say that Morrowind was technically interesting, but at the same time, art wise it was a total. fucking. mess.
On the plus side, for all the maledicent hyperbole in this thread, at least it's far removed from the vitriol over No Mutants Allowed. Because goddamn.
On the plus side, for all the maledicent hyperbole in this thread, at least it's far removed from the vitriol over No Mutants Allowed. Because goddamn.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
i think this is why people are going crazy over this. The Fallout 4 trailer pales in comparison to the Skyrim one. Its just not as exciting.
Dick Justice
Banned
Idiotic and superfluous because they don't enforce the circlejerk that you'd prefer?
D
Deleted member 325805
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I just watched the trailer and it looks pretty bad graphically, I guess they'll be aiming for 60fps on consoles.
Of course New Vegas graphics were bad compared to other games of its time, but some of that is because it was graphically straight up Fallout 3. It was a spin-off, by another developer.
Fallout 3 to Grand Theft Auto 4 is a much fairer comparison
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
What?
Morrowind looked amazing at the time, and had some of the best water in existence.
Oblivion was the first big "Next Gen" game of the 360/PS3 era, and was jaw dropping at the time. (Even post lighting downgrade)
Fallout 3 was a middle ground title, and was more of a sidegrade from Oblivion.
Skyrim was also a jaw dropping title at release, people were amazed that the leap from Oblivion was on the same hardware.
Bethesda has always delivered competitive graphics, and mods make their games graphical masterpieces.
Show me a Western open world RPG that looks better than Skyrim last gen. There is not one.
cripterion
Member
Rewatching the trailer, it's really not that bad but I hope access to plenty of mods early on.
Also yeah don't know if I dig the blue sky. Rather have it look like these early shots but that's not that big of a deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17MBtPiq-E
Also yeah don't know if I dig the blue sky. Rather have it look like these early shots but that's not that big of a deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17MBtPiq-E
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Interesting static set pieces devoid of life.
Liking something means you're part of a circlejerk. Okay then.
TemplaerDude
Member
maniac-kun
Member
Thats not true.
The reception was more like this:
Morrowind was on of the first games with pixelshaders. It was pretty great for 2001.
Oblivion was one of the first nextgen games and looked quite stunning at release.
Fallout 3 was oblivion with guns.
And Skyrim impressed by how much it improved over Oblivion.