They just spent an extra year of development on Skyrim (3 years instead of the usual 2 and a bit it takes for them to make a game) rewriting/reworking major parts of their engine. Suffice to say, any new Fallout is going to use it.
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They just spent an extra year of development on Skyrim (3 years instead of the usual 2 and a bit it takes for them to make a game) rewriting/reworking major parts of their engine. Suffice to say, any new Fallout is going to use it.
Baron_Calamity
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That's my take as well. New Vegas had better characters and dialog, Fallout 3 was better in everything else. To be fair, I like 3 more probably because I live in the area and been to those landmarks.
The Vegas strip has been used in other games and presented far better than New Vegas.
That said, I love both and will take another of either.
Fallout 4, fades into Fallout 2014.
A Fallout 4 announcement for next gen consoles at E3 would be amazing. I love me some Skyrim but Fallout will always be my number 1. So ready for next gen so consoles can catch up to PC (this will benefit PC versions as well). Ready to listen to Threedog while blasting mutants in VATS!
Blue Ninja
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So Fallout: Angels' Boneyard? Works for me.
As a Bostonian, I am looking forward to seeing how badly they butcher the geography of the area.
I also have a feeling that they're planning on having it be a launch-window title (probably aiming for launch, but I have a feeling they may not make it) based on how well that worked out for Oblivion.
Ironically, I also think Bioware is trying to pull the same trick with Dragon Age 3, so we may have two major WRPGs at launch, which kind of blows my mind.
I also have a feeling that they're planning on having it be a launch-window title (probably aiming for launch, but I have a feeling they may not make it) based on how well that worked out for Oblivion.
Ironically, I also think Bioware is trying to pull the same trick with Dragon Age 3, so we may have two major WRPGs at launch, which kind of blows my mind.
You truly live up to your tag, sir.
PuppetSlave
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Fallout 4, out fall 2014.
More like Fallout: Boring NCR Territory, unless they do a prequel.
Rollo Lawson
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Wouldn't upset me at all....
alfredofroylan
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I replayed Fallout 3 last December and I ended liking more that model than the Mojave desert from New Vegas, at least with a big city you can feel the history and legacy behind the buildings and ruins. Hope they don't push the history further, I'd love to play in a time closer to the great war.
Like the hat?
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Fuck fuck fuck. While I planned to be wii u only this gen, I will buy whatever console is the lead dev platform.
And I think we all know a new fallout should be set in a ruined Chicago
And I think we all know a new fallout should be set in a ruined Chicago
TemplaerDude
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I wonder what new lies will come out of this Bethesda cycle.
Unless it's turn based isometric, meh, no. It's better Fallout is put to rest.
Blue Ninja
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I want Fallout: Alaska. Snowy apocalyptic wasteland, would look great with the Creation Engine.
Obsidian is more than capable of making a worthy modern fallout game. What they accomplished with New Vegas with Bethesda's shitty engine and them overlooking everything was mindblowing. Turn based and isometric would be such a regression now.
I just wish there was a Fallout style game set in a non post apocalypse world, then there would be more interesting things to steal! haha. Full of life and things to do with nicer things to look at.
Really excited to see what they do with this game, Next gen Fallout? I'm there day 1!
Really excited to see what they do with this game, Next gen Fallout? I'm there day 1!
So ready for more Fallout. Be great if it's next gen and some sort of new engine.
And this is coming from someone who prefers New Vegas. But you simply have to be realistic about these things. Bethesda games review well and sell like crazy.
I really hope Fallout discussion can move past this eventually. It's a dead end hope, Bethesda has zero reason to not develop another Fallout.
And this is coming from someone who prefers New Vegas. But you simply have to be realistic about these things. Bethesda games review well and sell like crazy.
Rollo Lawson
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I keep imagining a Fallout being as massive and open as Skyrim. I just...wow. I mean still haven't even finished Skyrim
Wait it's not? What is it then? *emo*
Wait it's not? What is it then? *emo*
You know what would be interesting, you could play half of the game when the world was full of life and the second half of the game after the nuclear fallout etc, sort of like Ocarina Of Time
That way you would get the best of both worlds, and the change on the world would have a dramatic effect.
It could make sense if the main character went into some sort of freeze machine like Futurama or Demolition Man.
Not sure I want another disjointed first person open world god simulator masquerading as a Fallout game from Bethesda in hopes that Obsidian might get to do another New Vegas. There's Wasteland 2, so I'm not that desperate. And Age of Decadence if it ever releases.
Going turn based and isometric would actually be a big progress. It makes the gameplay more tactical, more defined and governed by the character build, and removes area design constraints and provides more possibilities for better writing.
Fuck. It's the movie.
I wonder how many generations would need to pass before having sex with your descendant stops being weird.
fierrotlepou
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VistraNorrez
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My wish is that someone would take the Earthbound approach to modern RPGs. Just straight rip the mechanics but set it in a modern quirky world.
I H8 Memes
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I'm never buying another Gamebryo engine game again. Bethesda has made plenty of money using the same engine and their customers deserve a new engine.
IndieJones
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Fixed.
afternoon delight
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Fallout is great but FUCK Fallout 3's "lore". Goddammit, are we going back to the Capital Wasteland?
Back to the super good brotherhood of steel and ultra bad, mindless super mutants!
Blue Ninja
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I doubt we're going back there. Plus, Beth seems to have learned a bit from New Vegas: in Skyrim, both the Empire and the Stormcloaks are massive dicks. :lol
Well I assume they will be using a new engine for next gen. I hope I'm not wrong.
Gucci Messiah
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I wouldn't say it was boring but I definitely enjoyed Fallout 3 a lot more
How would it be to change the fact that Fallout always takes place in a "local" area and go more global by reducing the size of each area and making all the locations accessible by fast travel once discovered (back and forth unless story elements bar one from accessing a location)? I have always wondered what Fallout would be like if it portrayed other county/countries that were affected by the war, like parts of China or my country, Canada (under US annexation) as playable locales.
Also whatever happened to EU nations during this great war?
Also whatever happened to EU nations during this great war?
PIMPBYBLUD
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Well E3 is right around the corner. Hopefully this is next-gen
Rollo Lawson
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I could totally see a deathclaw voiced by Michael Caine.
Easy, fellow, holster your weapon. Wouldn't want to be disemboweled, now would we?
afternoon delight
Member
I guess I'm just upset because I imagine all of the talent that makes Fallout is currently preoccupied on Project Eternity and Wasteland 2 and South Park. And I loathe me some Bethesda game mechanics.
Most of Europe was part of the "European Commonwealth" but it's only been mentioned once or twice throughout the entire series. I think it's assumed that Europe is in ruin from the global nuclear attacks.
Fallout is just as much about American pop culture and politics as it is about the apocalyptic wastelands, so there's never been much insight into other parts of the world.
Blue Ninja
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I would spend good money on this.
Master Nairb
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Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games of all time but I can't stomach New Vegas for some reason. I believe whatever Fallout 4 turns out to be it will be more commercially successful than Skyrim .... with just as many technical bug issues. Even though this is a rumor, that rumor is still more exciting than any other game I know coming out.
Good writing and Bethesda is sadly an oxymoron.