Fallout 4

    Personally I love the trailer, but maybe I'm biased because I'm a massive Fallout fan.

    From the trailer:

    • It looks like we're actually going to have some lighting in this game. There's actual light and shadows present! :o
    • The environments seem much more detailed now, I just hope we can interact with it at least as much as we could in FO3/NV
    • It looks like we'll get to see just before the bombs go off. Perhaps in the tutorial or something? It'll be awesome to see the panic as the bombs drop!
    • Finally, it looks like we're getting some improved animations. They're not perfect, but compared to FO3/NV they're vastly improved. Especially the dog, it actually has some character it seems now!
    • Speaking of the dog, it's present in the trailer a lot. I guess it's going to play a big role being your companion. Maybe sniffing out objects in the environment etc?
    • At first I wasn't too sure how I felt about this, but the game looks damn colourful. I think it's a nice change over the ever green/ brown of FO3/NV but it does kind of detract from the feeling that you're in a wasteland. I guess after a few decades the world would start to clean itself up and you'd start to see colour come back into the world. Look at Chernobyl.
    • Power armour looks HUGE now. Gonna be so badass wondering the wasteland in one of those suits :D
    • When the music kicked in and we see Vault 111's door open I think I let out a little squeal at work.
    • We see quite a few largish looking settlements/cities in the trailer. Since the graphics aren't top of the line (as in you need SLI'd Titans to run it) I wonder if the world is going to be bigger than we've seen previously. Skyrim was pretty huge, would be nice if they could top that. Regardless I can't wait to explore and steal EVERYTHING.
    • New Deathclaws looks pretty beasty!
    • The group of ghouls in the supermarket... just awesome. I hope there are a number of areas with tough groups of enemies to challenge me in FO4.
    • Seems like air transport is quite common. Maybe a form of quick travel?
    • And finally, the main character appears to have a voice now. Some people seem a bit put off by this. I don't mind. I've been choosing text replies for my character to say over the years, why not just have him speak them?

    Can you tell I'm excited?

    Quote from Buddy

    I think with this game it's more of an artists problem I'm afraid. Must be said however that the art direction seems better than Fo3 this time. I'd much rather play less than perfect looking game with decent quests than the other way around (see Gta V)

    I think the art direction is fine, you just named another open-world game that looks better, and it came out a long time ago. That for me is the depressing part, I guess I have to get used to Bethesda gamebryo games having only "OK" graphics. It would be cool if they were PC exclusive and we got to see an amazing futuristic-graphics Fallout, but I guess that's just a fantasy. To me this trailer left me less hyped than the Fallout 3 trailers did, but whatever.

    Quote from FMPONE

    I think the art direction is fine, you just named another open-world game that looks better, and it came out a long time ago. That for me is the depressing part, I guess I have to get used to Bethesda gamebryo games having only "OK" graphics. It would be cool if they were PC exclusive and we got to see an amazing futuristic-graphics Fallout, but I guess that's just a fantasy. To me this trailer left me less hyped than the Fallout 3 trailers did, but whatever.

    I dunno, even Skyrim's visuals didn't look incredible when I saw the first trailer. There were plenty of open-world games that looked better than Skyrim at the time. I remember being disappointed at the time, but it's clear that the appeal of Bethesda's games is something much more. Almost as soon as they open the world up, the graphics just sort-of take a backseat. It's also important to keep in mind that the visuals of Bethesda's games have always been very modular. If you're disappointed with how it looks, there will most certainly be a 2k texture pack +ENB presets to spice things up. With the right presets and texture packs you can make Skyrim look like a game released this year.

    The whole "next-gen" thing really screws with the level of expectations for new-releases. It sucks because graphics are one of the easiest things to get hyped over and also one of the easiest things to be disappointed in. I'm not sure if I've seen a game that screams "next-gen" or makes that leap from what we expect from games now to the "future" - even though the consoles have been out for 2 years almost. I don't think I ever really expected it to be a Bethesda game that would make the leap in visuals. I guess in a way that is depressing, but all things considered - the visuals look to me like an improvement on their previous works. Maybe it will be Valve's first Source 2 game or something to make the jump to what we consider "next-gen". Who knows.

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    What...! What are you talking about dude, If there were no consoles, there would be no industry!

    It was meant technically and graphically.

    Quote from (HP)

    What...! What are you talking about dude, If there were no consoles, there would be no industry!

    My whole post was pure sarcasm and repeating everything everybody else said. How did you not get that when I actually referred to my real response within the first sentence :S

    I really, really like the idea of being able to explore the world before the nukes go off. I imagine the game will start with you and maybe your family and dog or something, all living out your lives before the nuke. Maybe you start in your car going to work, or coming home from work, back to your idyllic, American Dream-style house with a lovely, well-kept lawn, your wife and kids waving you off or back from work.... You spend the evening with your family, and then the nukes go off. You pack your things hastily, and escape to your assigned Vault. Then maybe.... To explain the time difference, perhaps you get cryogenically frozen, and then wake up decades, or a century later.. Your family are missing. You have to find them.

    Could be awesome :D

    Quote from Sprony

    My whole post was pure sarcasm and repeating everything everybody else said. How did you not get that when I actually referred to my real response within the first sentence :S

    I blame that on me trying to cut on my caffeine intake dude.

    Quote from PogoP

    I really, really like the idea of being able to explore the world before the nukes go off. I imagine the game will start with you and maybe your family and dog or something, all living out your lives before the nuke. Maybe you start in your car going to work, or coming home from work, back to your idyllic, American Dream-style house with a lovely, well-kept lawn, your wife and kids waving you off or back from work.... You spend the evening with your family, and then the nukes go off. You pack your things hastily, and escape to your assigned Vault. Then maybe.... To explain the time difference, perhaps you get cryogenically frozen, and then wake up decades, or a century later.. Your family are missing. You have to find them.

    Could be awesome

    You just wrote out the entire storyline for Fallout 5

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    Website links to Amazon and GAME for UK pre-orders, but neither had a price.

    However, the Fallout4 Steam Page is up, and comes with the hefty price tag of £50...

    I don't like this new "standard price"... I attribute this spiralling price increase to CoD pushing up the prices to match console prices...

    I never trust retailers release dates but since Bethesda's own site did say 2015 also it does seem like a good bet. I really hope it is this year, so hyped! X(

    I'm not really liking the new prices either. It's a whole £20 on top of the regular PC game prices which has suddenly been sprung upon us over the last year it seems. Trouble is people must be paying it else publishers wouldn't do it.

    I would recommend against preordering the standard edition at least until E3 anyway. I'm expecting at least 3 versions of this one :P

    £50 for a PC game is ridiculous but I'll pay through the nose for fallout though...I'll be buying the OMG double deluxe super l33t version that's been sealed with deathclaw tears.

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