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Bethesda registers Fallout 4 trademark
- Thread starter Poetic.Injustice
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?? That's what Fallout is.... that's like asking for a GTA that doesn't take place in America.
Solid Samus
Banned
iirc to boil it down they've in the past hired developers for certain projects, withheld important milestone pay leading to studio bankruptcy, and offers these devs a way out by... buying them out completely
I preferred fallout 3, but they are both pretty solid.
Deified Data
Banned
Here. Both games excel in ways that the other doesn't. Fallout 3 offers a more open, interesting world to explore. New Vegas offers more combat variety and a better-written story. As someone who prefers New Vegas, let's not pretend for a second that Obsidian would be capable of developing a game like that without the groundwork Bethesda initially provided.
Strife In a Teacup
Member
Bethesda couldn't have made Fallout 3 at all without Obsidian (Black Isle).
Crafting and quests are way better in New Vegas
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Hopefully wherever they take the game they put less of an emphasis on subways. That shit got old. I generally loved Fallout 3 though, but it is hard to go back to after New Vegas.
Deified Data
Banned
You know very well I'm talking about the game, not the franchise. Fallout 3 could have been a Mad Max game and still be an inherently "Bethesda" product, for better and worse.
Disagree about the quests, and their branching paths. I found them pretty much the same, go here kill that, talk to him, etc. The set piece events in New Vegas were pretty weak as well. The finale is about as ho-hum as you can get once you get to the Dam. It's the interaction with NPCs and the life they breathe into the world that made it stand out for me.
Better than one that makes no sense like 3 though.
DagnastyEp
Member
I really enjoyed both games. I feel like 3 was more richly populated, but the choices you made mattered more in NV.
After hours much I really enjoyed Fallout 3/NV, I was really surprised by how boring I thought Skyrim was.
I can't wait to see what they're doing in Fallout 4, I think it will benefit greatly from next gen tech.
Strife In a Teacup
Member
A buggy, jank filled mess on the Gamebryo engine with no Obsidian followup.
I really don't get Bethesda with the Gamebryo engine. I mean, Divinity 2 uses it and they have decent enough animations in it given the time period. Warhammer Online uses it and looks good/runs good. But Bethesda for all their love of it can't seem to get it right. It begs the question of whether the engine sucks or otherwise.
I mean, seriously, look at the Gamebryo engine games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebryo
Catherine, Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, Divinity 2...
I really hope they have Id make them an engine for their games and lay off Gamebryo. Then again, it could prove once and for all whether it's the engine or the developers themselves.
I don't hate Bethesda. I loved Daggerfall & Morrowind, but Oblivion I could not stomach. I did platinum Skyrim on PS3 though so that says something I imagine (Whether good or sado masochistic I don't know).
DagnastyEp
Member
I think Boston is rumoured, though I could be wrong.
Ace Harding
Member
Bought a 360 when Fallout 3 came out, waiting for Fallout 4 for next gen. Bring it Bethesda!!!
CouchDweller
Member
Huh? There is a lot of places that the Fallout universe has referenced to that isn't in America, particularly in the early story. (China, Canada, and Russia) it'd be interesting to visit those areas in a future installment imo.
P.S. Although the style might have to change a little, the early games did take after a lot from the culture of 1950's North America
That's not what he meant, Fallout as a series is inexorably tied with 50's americana, it would cease to be Fallout if you set it in China etc.
Succinct Verbosity
Member
The entire engine better be improved. No more recycled voice actors. Better animations (especially facial ones). There is no excuse this time.
I can see Canada since it was annexed by America, but other than that I think the series would lose a lot of its unique charm in a different country. The retro post-war America vibe is one of my favourite things about the series.
Blue Ninja
Member
Yeah. New Vegas took some time to grow on me, but now it's up there with my best games ever. Fallout 3 pretty much hooked me from the get-go.
Replaying 3 with Project Reality installed right now, and it's cool. Really cool.
Thats one of the benefits of a Bethesda game. Their commitment to the modding community is really admirable. I love tinkering with stuff, adding mods and getting my game to play just how I want (or close to it at least). It extended the life of all of their games immeasurably for me.
Bluemercury
Member
Blah doesnt do it justice...you guys should just download the restoration project for fallout 2 and play that...anything fallout3 beyond blah...
hemtae
Member
Yup and you can see this with how long Skyrim stayed on the most played list on Steam. For everybody's bitching, Bethesda has been pretty good to me.
Solid Samus
Banned
I feel like Fallout 1 and 2 are kind of "You would have had to have been there to understand" sort of games. As amazing as a lot of people still find them to be today it's definitely hard for the uninitiated to get into. Especially if you don't get a PDF version of the manuals. IDK it's been years since I've played
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Ja, I think so. I feel an announcement is well due, and if the release date is ~Q4 2014 an announcement at the VGX this year would work wonderfully with a Bethesda marketing cycle. It and Mass Effect 4 are the most likely appearances in my opinion, alongside a proper Uncharted 4 reveal.
HL3. Believe.
TheSinkingKnight
Member
I'd believe L4D3.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Gotta get through Left 4 Dead 3 as a frontrunner for Source 2 first. Then Portal 3, followed by Team Fortress 3. DOTA3 should be due sometime after that, the stretch finishing up with something Counter-Strike.
Only then will Valve be ready to reveal outsourced Half-Life 3.
Only then will Valve be ready to reveal outsourced Half-Life 3.
NoSkillz187
Member
Fallout 3 is my game of the generation, followed closely by Mass Effect 2. I just think it's missions were more varied or at least more interesting. You could blow up a whole city!! But I still enjoyed NV and would like Bethesda to make F4.
TheVampire
Banned
Wasn't that just adding of iron sights?
I know this'd be a pipe dream but I'd love to see the first 2 Fallouts ported to the new consoles, even if they were downloads as part of a Fallout 4 CE. The isometic gameplay could easily work with a controller, and with the new PC-like architecture I don't think it'd be that difficult to make them work, like how the original CoD got thrown in as a download with the Prestige Edition of MW2.
Trickster
Member
Loved both of them. Fallout 3 was more fun for me though.
MasterOfPastures
Banned
Its going to be really hard for them to get me to buy it after New Vegas. Fallout 3 is a joke in comparison.
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