Rumor: Bethesda Teases Next Fallout With New Website - UPDATED
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And all of those soulless creatures are PC-sexual. Because Bethesda has absolutely zero integrity as storytellers. And whose writers think that fleshing out the characters which you're purportedly supposed to be interacting with is far less important than accidentally interfering with someone's ability to play house with a virtual puppet.CharrHearted said:
Also gangs based on Punks, Mods and Rockers. A mutant royal family with guards.VMK said:
I think London would be perfect as their is the tube and many world recognized buildings to visit.Fingers crossed. Where ever they set it it will be a day one purchase for me.
I'm not American, or all that familiar with the geography, but I did do a quick Google Maps search for 'Bridgeport'. It seemed to be just North East of Washington and where the 'Capital Wasteland' would be. A quick look to where Pittsburgh or 'The Pitt' was and the distances appeared to be roughly similar if going to the Bridgeport in Connecticut, closer for the one in Philadelphia.
Now me not being a super genius game designer may put me on the wrong track, but isn't Bridgeport a bit too close for a new game? Sure Fallout 1 & 2 were set in basically the same area, and New Vegas was close to the original Core Region show in its predecessors, but that was after 10 years (real world time) and had a nostalgic feel to revisiting the area.
Bridgeport is barely further from the original game than one of the expansion packs game locations. It seems a bit implausible for a location, unless it nearer the most Southern West corner I suppose.
If I am mistaken about any of my geography, then please correct me.
Now me not being a super genius game designer may put me on the wrong track, but isn't Bridgeport a bit too close for a new game? Sure Fallout 1 & 2 were set in basically the same area, and New Vegas was close to the original Core Region show in its predecessors, but that was after 10 years (real world time) and had a nostalgic feel to revisiting the area.
Bridgeport is barely further from the original game than one of the expansion packs game locations. It seems a bit implausible for a location, unless it nearer the most Southern West corner I suppose.
If I am mistaken about any of my geography, then please correct me.
Fun thing about Bethesda, they arent Valve. That is, if they register something, and rumors begin...they are likely right. Bethesda registered Skyrim as a trademark like a year or so before it was announced and people were like "Are we going to Skyrim next!?"
But its a good thing.
But its a good thing.
This may actually get me lynched here but [small]I wasn't a massive fan of Fallout 3 and related DLCs.[/small]
Still, looking forward to what comes out.
On a totally unrelated note, I'm glad to see the date given on the website was in one of the two logical orders of writing dates. Month/Day/Year infuriates me to no end.
Still, looking forward to what comes out.
On a totally unrelated note, I'm glad to see the date given on the website was in one of the two logical orders of writing dates. Month/Day/Year infuriates me to no end.
All the thin evidence I've seen since NV clearly indicates that F4 takes place in Boston, with a heavy focus on MIT and the android revolution.
This stinks of hokum, makes no sense, and nothing short of a Bethesda announcement will convince me otherwise.
This stinks of hokum, makes no sense, and nothing short of a Bethesda announcement will convince me otherwise.
Why does everyone want it to be set in England? I'd much rather see it set in China, since the war was mainly between US and China.
I don't have a voice in this conversation though, since the chances of me playing it are very slim. I was a huge fan of the turn-based games but was never a fan of the decision to turn the series into a first person shooter. I played New Vegas recently and even with mods I really had to force myself to finish it. I find the first 2 games to be better in just about every way. Maybe we'll get another turn-based Fallout game some day...but I'm not holding my breath
I don't have a voice in this conversation though, since the chances of me playing it are very slim. I was a huge fan of the turn-based games but was never a fan of the decision to turn the series into a first person shooter. I played New Vegas recently and even with mods I really had to force myself to finish it. I find the first 2 games to be better in just about every way. Maybe we'll get another turn-based Fallout game some day...but I'm not holding my breath
00slash00 said:
IMHO, US and China settings are over represented. I've been all over the U.S. and Hong Kong in various games. An European setting would be really nice for a change. There are so many fantastic cities to explore on the old continent. London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Moscow... I would love to experience a game adaptation of them. But as the greatest videogame market is the U.S, I guess it's "risky business".Skeleon said:
And no, Britain is not just an appendage of U.S. culture.
Odds are that if we ever do get another turn-based Fallout it'll be a small F2P game for tablets and smartphones. Other than XCom, there just doesn't seem to be a place for more mainstream TBS games anymore.00slash00 said:
Hopefully, if XCom is succesful enough, devs and publishers will consider it atleast possible for TBS games to work and maybe then we'll see a sequel to the classic Fallout games.
the countdown timer now has the fallout emblem...
this one
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VVo6zJ8RRFs/TkaPmSgOpnI/AAAAAAAABCY/B1ipalQSrtk/s1600/VaultTecLogoGreen.png
this one
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VVo6zJ8RRFs/TkaPmSgOpnI/AAAAAAAABCY/B1ipalQSrtk/s1600/VaultTecLogoGreen.png
The count down page now has an official Vault-Tec logo on it. And ZeniMax is insanely protective of their intellectual properties, if this was not genuine, they'd have had this domain down by 8am EST this morning.
Some thoughts as a long time franchise fan going back to Black Isle/Interplay.
1.) Obsidian definitely did the better of the two "modern" Fallout adaptations but Fallout 3 was something beautiful to behold when it was new, that first step into the wasteland from the vault....I still remember it to this day and it helped me accept the Bethsoft adaptation of the IP quite a bit.
2.) Fallout 3's shortfall's were in the massive divergence from the western coastal theme that had always been part of the Fallout tone and timbre. D.C. was a wide divergence. It also lacked immense amounts of key plot points linking Vault-Tec to the US Government that it could have covered as compared to pushing an action based storyline focused around the vault dweller and their father and the Brotherhood of Steel....which to be honest the immensity of the divide and the BOS's first recorded appearances being in California chapters, it was kind of hard to swallow. FO3 lacked the depth it needed to really break out, but it was still...good enough.
3.) Engine, its always Gamebyro and it will continue to be Gamebyro, the upside here is that its entirely likely that this project has been built on the bones and girders of the engine that drove Skyrim which all in all, while still problematic is a large improvement over their previous TES Gamebyro engine builds that were ported over and used to support FO3 and FONV.
4.) Depending on how closely the content format fits the previous Skyrim model there is, potentially, already a huge amount of resources on hand that can easily cross port (for PC versions at least) with a little creativity to make whatever horrors Bethsoft releases as body/face models a bit less problematic.
5.) Over the last two years multiple highly skilled programmers have developed mods that have stabilized Skyrim to the point of being able to run a 200+ mod install with little to no crashing whatsoever, most of these patches and fixes will likely be cross compatible with FO4.
6.) Boston, Bridgeport....wherever this occurs, its still FO4 and as big a fan of TES as I am, Fallout is simply the better and more interesting IP to me. If they give FO4 the depth of story it needs to carry a long term open world experience, it will be very interesting indeed.
7.) Hopefully they hire more than 22 VOA's for this one. Skyrim got a little annoying hearing 20 characters voiced by the same person. Money spent on VOA can't be quantified in total potential profit returns but its the one thing thats made BioWare's stuff stand out through a very rough patch for that studio. They don't skimp on character immersion, hopefully Bethsoft has taken a few key lessons from where they kinda faceplanted on various parts of Skyrim and will show improvement for this title...and if not....don't worry about it, we'll take care of it like we always do (the modding community).
On a non-bullet point point, I am more excited about the presence of a web page with a jscript countdown app and an embeded sound file than I am everything ZeniMax has posted about ESO. I think a lot of true Bethesda fans feel this way....this is what we've been waiting for. ESO has just been a concern and a distraction.
Some thoughts as a long time franchise fan going back to Black Isle/Interplay.
1.) Obsidian definitely did the better of the two "modern" Fallout adaptations but Fallout 3 was something beautiful to behold when it was new, that first step into the wasteland from the vault....I still remember it to this day and it helped me accept the Bethsoft adaptation of the IP quite a bit.
2.) Fallout 3's shortfall's were in the massive divergence from the western coastal theme that had always been part of the Fallout tone and timbre. D.C. was a wide divergence. It also lacked immense amounts of key plot points linking Vault-Tec to the US Government that it could have covered as compared to pushing an action based storyline focused around the vault dweller and their father and the Brotherhood of Steel....which to be honest the immensity of the divide and the BOS's first recorded appearances being in California chapters, it was kind of hard to swallow. FO3 lacked the depth it needed to really break out, but it was still...good enough.
3.) Engine, its always Gamebyro and it will continue to be Gamebyro, the upside here is that its entirely likely that this project has been built on the bones and girders of the engine that drove Skyrim which all in all, while still problematic is a large improvement over their previous TES Gamebyro engine builds that were ported over and used to support FO3 and FONV.
4.) Depending on how closely the content format fits the previous Skyrim model there is, potentially, already a huge amount of resources on hand that can easily cross port (for PC versions at least) with a little creativity to make whatever horrors Bethsoft releases as body/face models a bit less problematic.
5.) Over the last two years multiple highly skilled programmers have developed mods that have stabilized Skyrim to the point of being able to run a 200+ mod install with little to no crashing whatsoever, most of these patches and fixes will likely be cross compatible with FO4.
6.) Boston, Bridgeport....wherever this occurs, its still FO4 and as big a fan of TES as I am, Fallout is simply the better and more interesting IP to me. If they give FO4 the depth of story it needs to carry a long term open world experience, it will be very interesting indeed.
7.) Hopefully they hire more than 22 VOA's for this one. Skyrim got a little annoying hearing 20 characters voiced by the same person. Money spent on VOA can't be quantified in total potential profit returns but its the one thing thats made BioWare's stuff stand out through a very rough patch for that studio. They don't skimp on character immersion, hopefully Bethsoft has taken a few key lessons from where they kinda faceplanted on various parts of Skyrim and will show improvement for this title...and if not....don't worry about it, we'll take care of it like we always do (the modding community).
On a non-bullet point point, I am more excited about the presence of a web page with a jscript countdown app and an embeded sound file than I am everything ZeniMax has posted about ESO. I think a lot of true Bethesda fans feel this way....this is what we've been waiting for. ESO has just been a concern and a distraction.
Having looked at the HTML source, the date on which the timer ends is 06.12.2013, which is coincidentally also what the <a href=http://thesurvivor2299.com/radio/bridgeport-5284ec0d1b93c.mp3>morse code mp3 seems to say.
The logo is indeed a vault tech logo, as the name already states: <a href=http://thesurvivor2299.com/assets/static/vt.png>http://thesurvivor2299.com/assets/static/vt.png.
There seems to be some kind of placeholder comment for a future flash video to be put in, or something. There's this piece of code:
Nothing else really interesting to find, with the exception of the javascript code for an age gate being present.
Let's hope I'm actually allowed to do this and won't get a warning.
As for my personal hopes for this game: I hope it uses id Tech 5, because I have an AMD card and thus pretty good OpenGL performance, alongside with the fact that id Tech 5 is an actual state-of-the-art FPS engine (and the fact that I... kind of know how to mod FPS engines more or less properly, but loathe the CK).
The logo is indeed a vault tech logo, as the name already states: <a href=http://thesurvivor2299.com/assets/static/vt.png>http://thesurvivor2299.com/assets/static/vt.png.
There seems to be some kind of placeholder comment for a future flash video to be put in, or something. There's this piece of code:
Nothing else really interesting to find, with the exception of the javascript code for an age gate being present.
Let's hope I'm actually allowed to do this and won't get a warning.
As for my personal hopes for this game: I hope it uses id Tech 5, because I have an AMD card and thus pretty good OpenGL performance, alongside with the fact that id Tech 5 is an actual state-of-the-art FPS engine (and the fact that I... kind of know how to mod FPS engines more or less properly, but loathe the CK).
Wait, the morse code has demitones now. I listened to this last night and the date was clear in the code, but now there are demitones in the sound.
The demitones start in about the second play through of the date. Another layer of data? Telegraphic mining code has used demitone in past history. But I'm unsure if its ever been overlayed on straight morse.
Yes its definitely right channel demitone, left channel is straight morse, the right channel is demitone mining code.
The demitones start in about the second play through of the date. Another layer of data? Telegraphic mining code has used demitone in past history. But I'm unsure if its ever been overlayed on straight morse.
Yes its definitely right channel demitone, left channel is straight morse, the right channel is demitone mining code.
XD no offence but fallout new vegas was boring with the worst intro I've ever seen to a game, and the entire gritty orange-everywhere environment just made it worse, the main story has holes in it right when I start the game, all the buildings looked the same, it felt so horrible XD The Elder Scrolls Skryim however... ho ho ho! (I'm Santa Claus.) There's a keeper, but that's because it was done by bethesda, not Obsidian.CharrHearted said: