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[watchdog]

I think it looks pretty good. I like how colorful the world appears to be.

I'm particularly curious about the gameplay. The combat has always felt a little clunky to me so I hope they've made a lot of improvements there.

 

[bombshell]

There is such a huge hole in games for holiday (afaik nothing great cept Tomb Raider) so it would be amazing if it released Nov

Star Wars Battlefront
Call Of Duty Black Ops 3
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Just Cause 3
Halo 5
Need for Speed

Off the top of my head.

 

[n0razi]

ive learned.. no more day 1 for bethesda/gamebryo but once the first bug stability patch and mods come out i will jump on

 

[BrianAltano]

This place is so fucking miserable sometimes.

 

[Seanspeed]

Why would they reveal a game with some inengine trailer and no details on the gameplay.

Yea, this is unheard of!

 

[Phrozenflame500]

Huh, this is not really the trailer I expected.

Still, it's a teaser. I can't make any meaningful judgement until i see some more info at E3.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

uhhh...pretty sure killzone and infamous second son also started around 2011.

and i'm pretty sure bethesda, of all devs, were aware of the existence of ps4/xbone that time. 2 years before product launch is really, really close. it isn't like bethesda knew of the ps4 when it was revealed on feb 2013.

Well, Killzone and Infamous were for current gen only, not cross gen targets.

I'm sure Bethesda knew the new gen was around the corner, but maybe they saw the sales a year ago and saw projected sales for release and decided dropping last gen wasn't going to be much of a loss.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

I don't really care if the game has good graphics or not, since Fallout was always awesome and I hope it to run smooth on PS4/XB1. But, yeah, I was expecting the graphics to be a little better! At least they're showing how the game certainly will look like, and not some "in-engine" made-up stuff.

Still, that's a sure buy! Fallout is awesome and I'm happy with an official confirmation!

 

[RP912]

I seriously don't understand some the tones in here. We are getting Fallout 4, the trailer is upfront with how the graphics looks, and it's friggin FALLOUT 4.

I don't care about how dated the graphics look. As long as the game looks tolerable, but have the same Fallout goodness...choo fucking choo.

 

[GreatestHits]

I am deadly serious. The game looks like shit, anyone who says otherwise is deluded.

Well seeing as I'm deluded in your mind, don't think I have anything more to say. Especially if you're deadly serious....

It's not worth complaining about because all you need is a decent imagination to fill in the visual blanks.

Does the average gamer not have that bit of imagination these days?

That is correct

 

[EnVy_CaLiBeR]

Great trailer. Don't really care about if the graphics look bad or not. My issue with the ES and Fallout games has always been the combat system and the lack of responsiveness from enemies when you hit them in combat, though I complained about it less with Fallout 3 due to the VATS system.

Hopefully they've made everything a bit more fluid and responsive, but I'm not so sure they will. We'll see.

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

This guy's deadly serious guys.

Deadly. Serious.

 

[Ted]

The German Shepherd flicking the child's mobile cross-cut with the parents looking over the crib brought a tear to my eye. The sense of loss is so palpable.

Great trailer.

 

[Omega]

Why would they reveal a game with some inengine trailer and no details on the gameplay.

Probably because E3 is in a few days?

nah, couldn't quite possibly be that

 

[Forkball]

The colors are nice and it looks like we might get some nicely populated cities. Outside of that I didn't really see anything that noted big changes for the franchise.

 

[Daingurse]

Trailer was pretty cool, definitely excited for the game because I really enjoyed Fallout 3, but I have some gripes. Graphically it didn't impress me, just looks serviceable at this point, and aesthetically I actually don't like all the color. I'm probably in the minority, but I liked the Fallout 3 green haze filter. Honestly contributed greatly to the atmosphere of the game for me, really made the world feel bleak and depressing. Won't stop me from playing the game tho, the story and gameplay just needs to be there. Hopefully with mods and ReShade, I'll be able to fix my issues at some point.

 

[kinggroin]

Trailer would have been better off showing a snippet of a moody, scary quest. Similar to what EA does with Battlefield. Then cut to some of the environment montage stuff at the end.


I mean the gameplay is the strength and the trailer was focused on visuals and aesthetics. Setup for complaints from the jaded.

 

[DrROBschiz]

I get it

People want constant growth curve escalation

They WANT to be blown away from every angle

I say give the game a damn chance to breath before writing it off though

 

[Jobbs]

It's nice to see they're not shying away from color like in FO3.

 

[Darryl M R]

Why would they reveal a game with some inengine trailer and no details on the gameplay.

E3 hype I believe, get people to tune in.

It would be hilarious if come E3 they show a trailer/gameplay of the game with upgraded visuals and GAF goes down because of hype.

 

[Emedan]

It's not worth complaining about because all you need is a decent imagination to fill in the visual blanks.

Does the average gamer not have that bit of imagination these days?

That's a cop out answer, imagination was fine when there were no physical way of making a game represent a real world, like Morrowind for instance, that was a great immersive experience, but if you could point to imagination every time then why aren't people still making games in such graphics?

People complaining about people complaining about graphics (jikes) is really missing the mark, games aren't only about gamplay or story or one thing, but games are a visual medium and improving visuals with technological progress is hardly something one should have to beg for, it should simply be part of a natural evolution, I see no excuse other than money (that is time) for companies not to always make the most graphical impressive game they can, I realize that it's business of course but that doesn't mean we should settle. I want games to move forward, in all areas, visual, storytelling and gameplay - not just say one being more important than the other so fuck that.

And it's always graphics that people say is the least important, which is just looking at it wrong, none of the elements making a game is less important than the other, excellence should always be the goal.

 

[Summer Haze]

This game features lots of gore right?

Yes_____ No_______

Oh yes.

 

[Zoso]

Finally, environmental shadows in a Fallout game. That was a good trailer.

Hopefully there's a gameplay demo at E3.

 

[Akiyama_AE]

BTW that is Riley from CoD

 

[dyergram]

First thing I thought when I watched was the animation looks vastly improved on the enemies. Can't fucking wait.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Do we have any kind of date or even a year for it? sorry if I missed it is the thread.

I am excite!

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

It's not that bad. Just wait until somebody compares it with Ocarina of Time or Goldeneye.

Or Twilight Princess.

 

[AmyS]

Awesome.

This will be my first Fallout game.

Love the German Shepherd, and even its lack of hair.

So colorful.

 

[Quadraphonic]

Happy to see Dogmeat's successor.

Surprised at all the bitching about cross-gen, color-filter and graphics. I'm just guessing that's from people who aren't actual fans of the game and have no clue what they're getting into.

Comparisons to MGS5? Holy fuck, you guys. These are games on a different budget and scale. MGS5 is a speed-run game worked on by the top graphics programmers. There's a singular narrative it tries to convey, regardless of the open world mechanic. Fallout is one where you craft your own. About discovery.

Trying to compare everything to the pinnacle of a series that even the publisher has given up on isn't the smartest idea. You're setting yourself up to be constantly disappointed.

No one that seriously cares about Fallout is going to be upset the graphics don't fucking blow everything out of the water. They're good enough to get you immersed. Just be fucking happy they got rid of the artificial color filter.

Also, as usual, I see people excited to get it on consoles. Because that's a successful fucking track record for Fallout, right?

 

[Lulubop]

FarCry 3 and 2 looked better than both Fallout 3, New Vegas.

Different developers, different mindsets, different games, different engines.

Ok? The point is you don't need an ultra PC to get visuals like Far Cry 4 on the PS4, so why is it disillusional to expect something better than this?

 

[fedexpeon]

This looks last-gen tbh with yall.
I guess I will wait for the mod community to put in a better looking dog with CoD fur technology, and it is still amazed me that they are still using 90s tech for their faces.

 

[dhonk]

The graphics complaints are absurd imo, as long as the major jank from Fallout 3 is gone I couldnt give less of a fuck how much of a jump in graphics it is.

 

[UnblessedSoul]

Looks pretty bad graphically, hopefully pc mod support can somewhat fix that

 

[aeolist]

it looks fine, the problem is it also looks like the skyrim engine which speaks to a lot more besides the visuals

 

[Seanspeed]

Then the scope and ambition were determined by the resources they had access to at the time and what they wanted to invest into the next project.

I'm pretty sure developers are not as short sighted as you think they are. And development is a long process. They don't have to lock down technical scope on Day 1.

 

[Darkstorne]

I was disappointed at the lack of visual improvement from Oblivion to Skyrim

Exactly the same hardware, higher quality meshes, higher quality textures, larger draw distances, real time shadows on everything (Oblivion had no shadow casting at all, even for buildings and trees, except for on up to 5 NPCs at once lol), larger game world, and a brand new foliage system so grasses and leaves didn't spin in place when you stood directly over or under them.

What the hell were you expecting? lol

 

[DrROBschiz]

E3 hype I believe, get people to tune in.

It would be hilarious if come E3 they show a trailer/gameplay of the game with upgraded visuals and GAF goes down because of hype.

This was a real and pretty representative trailer

This is the game and it looks like they are close to release considering how long its been

I'm pretty sure developers are not as short sighted as you think they are. And development is a long process. They don't have to lock down technical scope on Day 1.

I didn't call them short sighted. If anything this makes them realistic, focused and smart.

 

[Lingitiz]

Gah. Another east coast Fallout. I'm disappoint. Also super curious what it is they're doin that prevents them from putting it on last gen hardware.

The main thing I hope is no loading screens for interiors. That added so much to TW3.

 

[littletran22]

I'm in.

I'm so in I don't even know if my hand is in my ass anymore.

 

[BoosterDuck]

What other developers deliver on the same hardware?

There's no excuse. As a current-gen only game, this simply looks disappointing. The footage looks as good as (and in some aspects worse than) GTA5 on PS4 ... which was a remaster of last-gen game from 2013.

That's bullcrap, it's like me saying "Shadow of Mordor looks ugly because TLOU Remastered, a last gen game, looks better."

the excuse is Gamebryo

 

[neogaffer1]

Questions like this always baffle me. Bethesda make triple A games that sell in the tens of millions. They don't achieve that by making them only accessible to players already familiar with the series.

You never know. Technically Arkham City is self-contained, but I wouldn't recommend jumping straight into it without playing Arkham Asylum first, as the main conflict(s) builds off of stuff from the last game.

 

[AmyS]

Awesome.

This will be my first Fallout game.

Love the German Shepherd, and even its lack of hair.

So colorful.

Spoiler

At least we don't have to worry about the graphics getting downgraded amirite?

 

[Nibel]

The best kind of Fallout gore is when you punch someone so hard that his head explodes; need a gif of that.

 

[Asd202]

Dog companion? So fucking IN.

GFX look dated :/

Wouldn't surprise if the game was supposed to be cross-gen.

 

[Frillen]

Setting confirmed?

 

[maquiladora]

Some of these replies.....I can't.

 

[UrbanRats]

I get it

People want constant growth curve escalation

They WANT to be blown away from every angle

I say give the game a damn chance to breath before writing it off though

First impressions being bad, doesn't mean you're writing the game off, in case it turns out to be a masterpiece.

That said, having played Oblivion, F3 and Skyrim, i'm not exactly holding my breath about it being likely.

 

[Arion]

Also, for those crying over Gamebryo let me ask you this: what other licensable engines exist that are capable of rendering open worlds on a Bethesda scale?

Cryengine

 

[funkystudent]

Just saying, If it was coming in 2015 it would have said so in the trailer.

 

[todahawk]

Looks fucking good. People's complaints are crazy to me.

I thought it looked great, these complaints are nuts. Makes me wonder what would make them happy. I think the art direction looks amazing. Love the use of color in the trailer.