Fallout Announcement Confirmed!

[Albetta]

Alright I've got some speculation: The protagonist was in some sort of cryogenic storage, and the game starts off pre-war.

 

[Frezzato]

This is a stretch, but I'm hopeful you can visit Georges Island in Fallout 4 since it's in Boston. Perhaps as DLC.

Can't make a game that takes place in Boston and not use this place!

Spoiler

 

[Areloch]

My reaction: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH - but seriously you can still be a girl, right?

Waiting for further information but FUCK YEAH FALLOUT 4. I cannot WAIT.
Just the other day me and my boyfriend were kinda bummed that there are no new games for us to be hyped about and then BOOM FALLOUT 4!
Ah, it is a happy day.

Those are the best kinds of days.

"Aw man, I'm kinda bummed because nothing is coming oHMY GOD YES"

Alright I've got some speculation: The protagonist was in some sort of cryogenic storage, and the game starts off pre-war.

One thing that came up when I was talking with my friends about it, is if it takes place in Boston, The Institute will likely come into play. And one of the things they were known for was producing true AI and androids that could pass as humans.

So one theory is that the player character is actually one of those androids(maybe based on someone from when the bombs fell, which is where the flashbacks come into play?).

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

AAAAAH! Oh my god, this looks fucking AMAZING! I don't get this psyched about a game usually but Fallout 3 is like my second favorite game of all time and the setting here just hits me right in the feels and makes me remember the lovely time I had in the Capital Wasteland. I watched the trailer and teared up hard, can't wait to see what happens when I actually play this game.

I do have a few questions though. Will we be able to create our own character or are we playing the guy in the trailer? Will the main character be fully voiced or was that just for the purpose of this trailer?

It also looks like maybe we'll be seeing flashbacks from before the world went to hell, possibly? That'd be pretty cool.

All in all, I eagerly await the release of this game and I will devour any and all info that is released in the upcoming months because I'm a pushover when it comes to games made by Bethesda.

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

Oh my god, this looks fucking AMAZING!

No it doesn't. There is literally no way to make a more generic Fallout trailer than this. Well, okay - a green filter could make it worse.

Will we be able to create our own character or are we playing the guy in the trailer?

Chargen, 100%. No point in restriction. Too risky a change. And if you could remember F3 and FNV marketing campaigns - they also had a more or less defined protagonist in trailers and ads.

Will the main character be fully voiced or was that just for the purpose of this trailer?

Voicing of the protagonist would demand a new dialogue system. Which is more than Bethesda can stomach. And if you could remember F3 and FNV - you would remember that their protagonists, while mostly silent, are actually voiced, i.e. - the narrator voice is always the protagonist, according to credits.

It also looks like maybe we'll be seeing flashbacks from before the world went to hell, possibly? That'd be pretty cool.

No it wouldn't be. One of the best parts of Fallout lore is the scattered picture of corrupt, decadent, paranoid and outright insane pre-War world. For starters - simply showing what people have been carefully gathering by pieces for years will guarantee a disappointment. And what's worse - judging by what we know from the rest of Fallout games, America of 2070s was a downright grimdark place, with middle class brainwashed through media and plainly brainwashing medication and psy-tech, food riots, military craze, extensive experimentation on populace, completely fucked up ecology, Canada annexation, et cetera. Even if Bethesda dared to display something actually dark and disturbing - they simple don't have the talent to deliver on this field. Give the series to Obsidian FFS.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over all of my excitement for this game. Go play Fallout 1 and 2 for the hundredth time and stop trying to ruin my fun.

 

[Godhead]

I honestly don't know how to feel about this. One second I'm incredibly pessimistic, the other i want to jump on the train.

Spoiler: This train to be exact

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over all of my excitement for this game.

I wonder if the moderators will give me a pass for dropping a f-nuke on you if I tell them that you can't hear it anyway.

Try it and see what happens. What's life without a few risks?

No but seriously, I'm sorry you're angry that this isn't what you wanted out of the next Fallout. I'd probably be in your shoes if it was reversed and Obsidian was developing this instead. Sorry you can't enjoy this news like everyone else.

 

[martyrdrebel27]

can anyone discern if that's a real life city based on landmarks?

It's in Boston. (As all the leakes and reports about Bethesda going there for field work said)

Trailer looks really unimpressive to be honest, and it's blatantly visible it's still using their shitty in-house version of Gamebryo. (Animations look like they'll be as jank as ever unfortunately).

At the very least no awful filters are used, and it's actually colourful this time around, so yay. Hope the gameplay trailer at E3 shows some actual improvement over the Skyrim/Fallout floaty, shitty combat that we've been used to up until now.

I also appreciate that the Vault jumpsuit now looks like the Fallout 1/2 ones. And Dogmeat's back once more.

i didn't wanna be THAT GUY, but you're absolutely right, that trailer looked pretty shit-tastic for a Triple A game in this day and age. Especially when you consider that they apparently outsourced that trailer to Guillermo Del Toro's production studio. unless the Fallout 4 trailer they were hiring for is going to be the E3 trailer. Either way, the graphics are looking kinda meh so far.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

No it wouldn't be. One of the best parts of Fallout lore is the scattered picture of corrupt, decadent, paranoid and outright insane pre-War world. For starters - simply showing what people have been carefully gathering by pieces for years will guarantee a disappointment. And what's worse - judging by what we know from the rest of Fallout games, America of 2070s was a downright grimdark place, with middle class brainwashed through media and plainly brainwashing medication and psy-tech, food riots, military craze, extensive experimentation on populace, completely fucked up ecology, Canada annexation, et cetera. Even if Bethesda dared to display something actually dark and disturbing - they simple don't have the talent to deliver on this field. Give the series to Obsidian FFS.

And let's not forget that the one time we got to see what the war was like it was a pretty horrible DLC, Operation Anchorage. Not only did it clash with the entire mood of Fallout 3, it also highlighted just how boring the Fallout lore would be to play though. The entire charm of Fallout, just like with any good post-apocalypse setting or story, is that you are walking among the ruins of an earlier civilization and that you get glimpses of what that civilization was like and the people that lived in it but ultimately you are in a new world, with its' own problems and high points.

The only way I can see it possibly work is if Vault 111 is some kind of silly cryogenic lab and the prelude/tutorial is the protagonist escaping in there (not saying it will be good though). That way you can get a brief glimpse without ruining the magic of the procedural narrative that the post-apocalyptic Fallout world is.

 

[Zenn3k]

After the backlash against New Vegas I'm worried this game is going to be as shallow as a paddling pool, much like Skyrim.

By fans of the series, NV is considered the superior game. I'm sure that isn't lost on Bethesda.

Also, fun fact, the Vault 111 guy talking to the dog MAY signal the end of the "Silence Protagonist" from the previous games in the series. He might actually be fully voiced this time around, we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Danbo Jambo]

I think hype trains can do more harm than good sometimes, but Christ alive this looks fucking stunning!

Not just the visuals, but the fact they seem to have retained the traditional elements which I loved about 3 & NV, yet also freshened it up with the more pre-war aspects.

It's very rare I get on that train, The Witcher 3 being the only game this decade to stoke me up pre release, but FA4 has joined that elite.

 

[Vault101]

due tot he trailer and some speculation I read on anther site we might have a set protagonist

male ex pre war army dude bro with child and wife

if that's the case I'm out

 

[Vault101]

I do have a few questions though. Will we be able to create our own character or are we playing the guy in the trailer? Will the main character be fully voiced or was that just for the purpose of this trailer?
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we don't know anything at this state but there was a leaked document floating around from like 2013 that implied the protagonist might be set UNLESS they give us the option (which is also a possibility given a saw a twitter mention of someone saying his wife auditioned for the role)

which...obviously there isn't really evidence I just hope I don't have to play as white bro...

 

[sXeth]

Well the trailer looks.... Fallouty? I mean, it shows very little. They have a dog, but we already seen that in fallout 3.

There was an airship that briefly hyped me up a bit, but then I remembered Bethesda can't do vehicles to save their life. (Remember "Dragon Riding" in the Skyrim DLC? Wasn't that great!)

I mean, I'm not negative on it, but it was as generic and undetailed an announcement as you could make.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Well the trailer looks.... Fallouty? I mean, it shows very little. They have a dog, but we already seen that in fallout 3.

There was an airship that briefly hyped me up a bit, but then I remembered Bethesda can't do vehicles to save their life. (Remember "Dragon Riding" in the Skyrim DLC? Wasn't that great!)

I mean, I'm not negative on it, but it was as generic and undetailed an announcement as you could make.

All it said was "We're making Fallout 4 and it is set in Boston." But it seems to me that's all they wanted to say. This is setting up for their E3 showcase, where it's a safe bet they'll have more substantial information. Nobody was even expecting them to announce anything UNTIL E3, so I'm happy they decided to tease this.

 

[Vault101]

[snip?

....wut?

playing as a female character is important to me just as I'm sure the level of RPG'ness is important to others, were allowed to have different priorities

 

[Eddie the head]

After the backlash against New Vegas I'm worried this game is going to be as shallow as a paddling pool, much like Skyrim.

By fans of the series, NV is considered the superior game. I'm sure that isn't lost on Bethesda.

Also, fun fact, the Vault 111 guy talking to the dog MAY signal the end of the "Silence Protagonist" from the previous games in the series. He might actually be fully voiced this time around, we'll have to wait and see.

Why? There's no reason to change. The silent protagonist works.

 

[Vault101]

Why? There's no reason to change. The silent protagonist works.

I'm not sure either, it seems very un Bethesda like

Also, fun fact, the Vault 111 guy talking to the dog MAY signal the end of the "Silence Protagonist" from the previous games in the series. He might actually be fully voiced this time around, we'll have to wait and see.

it would be a great irony that I've bitched about Bethesdas blankness for years and then when they DO give you a defined character its a bland one I can't change

seriously ex army guy with a fridged wife *face palm*

since you can't play as any gender character in Bethesda games. Because you don't play as a character there. You play as a power projection on a featureless dummy, having fun in a theme park.

again...wut?

I don't like Bethesdas approach but it actually IS important

because the less they give you then the MORE you need that customization, playing a black female for me is different to playing a blank male

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

due tot he trailer and some speculation I read on anther site we might have a set protagonist

We're talking about Fallout here, a series that allowed you to choose PC's sex from the very first installment. And it's now owned by Bethesda, that makes games known from their character generator, where sex and skin colour choice are mere details when it comes to customization.

Sorry, but Bethesda dropping all of this now, for a preset character, seems ridiculous.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Yeah, I mean, nothing against you Vault101, but I'll need more than an unconfirmed rumor to believe a they'd break pattern so heavily.