Please Stand By... Fallout 4

[MajorTalon]

Gotta admit, after seeing the trailer I might just have to do the same this week... sigh...

I'm just left wondering whether or not the rumours of Connecticut being in game are true.

[flags_of_war]

Excellent

[Wyrmalla]

OK, first impressions?

I totally thought they were going to play "We'll meet again" at the start of that trailer. Seriously, after listening to hundreds of classic tunes when playing 3 and New Vegas you realise how similar a load of them sound.

Uh, does that house from the trailer have the same layout as the one from Breaking Bad? o.O

Bonus points that they used the same Mr Handy as they did in the original Fallout 3 Trailer. Holy crap is that the same house from that trailer?! XD

Points then:

They've retained some designs from Fallout 3, as in little bits of clutter like the rockets above the baby's crib, the Enclave armour, Captain Cosmos poster, Riot Shotgun from NV. T-51b looks like its had a redesign though (no big wheel on the back). Is that Brotherhood riding those Vertibirds? If so then I take it that Bethesda took a nod from Tactics and brought in the Brotherhood's airships from there (they haven't explicitly made Tactics non-canon, and gave it nods back in 3 too).

It looks a lot greener than 3 did, which is great.

Yay, they had to get Mudcrabs in there somewhere...

Ooh, Super Mutants.

I see a poster on the wall of some slum telling people to "Enlist!".

Eugh, more Red Rocket Gasoline rather than Poseidon for some reason. :/

The city looks a lot more like the original concepts rather than what they went for in 3. As in its more "Metropolis" than just what our world looked like in the 50s with some crap tacked on.

Is that T-45d power armour or a later variant of it? Cool though, a nod to Van Buren where the guys guarding the Vault just before the War were kitted out in the same suits. I'm liking the redesign. It reminds me more of a futuristic car than something that's all edges (which the original design had credit to be, but given that the T-51b's been made to look more advance then the earlier armour can be too).

New weapons on the wall? I see the same laser rifle that one of the guys outside the Vault was carrying (credence to the Kotaku claim that you play as a guy from before the War? Plus the original trailer's house at military crap in one of its rooms the dog passes). A Power Fist maybe. Some smaller laser weapons (not Wattz 1000s unfortunately), and is that a Sniper Rifle?

Pipboy's not been redesigned majorly. It looks more like a bit of military gear, but thankfully they didn't change the original's useless ergonomics (the buttons are all in horrible places, as noted by the guy who originally made the thing, he only discovered this after it was finalised). It has a massive light bulb on the side now however, rather than the light being emitted from its screen (hopefully then it'll be like a directional torch rather than lighting up 360 around you like in 3 and the originals)...

Looks like the family from the start, or in other word's the game's tutorial, don't make it into the Vault in time. ...Or do they?

...Probably. Least the father will.

Overall it looks a lot more realistic than 3 did, but put that down to it being a good couple of years on. Its nice to see the game looking like that though, even Skyrim was a bit off looking. However I'm also getting a RAGE feeling from those post-war towns.

[Wyrmalla]

Looks like the Mr Handy from the trailer wound up in that guy's garage . Also see a rudimentary trap made from a tin can and bottle caps and a pulse grenade on a shelf. Heh, and yeah if it wasn't super clear who the owner of that armour was there's his pipboy on that workbench.

[Diakon]

Looks like the Mr Handy from the trailer wound up in that guy's garage . Also see a rudimentary trap made from a tin can and bottle caps and a pulse grenade on a shelf. Heh, and yeah if it wasn't super clear who the owner of that armour was there's his pipboy on that workbench.

Also a Bobblehead on that chest of drawers.

Also regarding your point about the music, a lot of Ink Spots tracks start with that guitar riff intro. Not sure why but you hear it and know you're hearing the Ink Spots.

[Wyrmalla]

The doom and woe's already started on the No Mutants Allowed forum thread for this.

Good point though, Vault 112 was a simulation Vault that had a bunch of Pre-war people living in it. In that case the pre-war segment may be a simulation (i.e. the same intro as the film had), or the protagonist may have been stored from before the War. I'm disliking that he's voiced however, though that could be just for the intro, or not even by the player character.

Oh, and they seem to think its the same engine as Skyrim, which I'd hope. Bethesda have flip flopped between saying its that or the one they used for Wolfenstein (which to quote, is totally unusable for an open world RPG). They're reasoning, ah, picking out all the flaws with that in engine screen shot that I posted above. =P

And yes, the Youtube comments on that video are literally all just "The graphics suck". Dude good, my computer will probably be able to run the damn thing then (and that's just the vanilla game, what about with all the mods..).

[Wyrmalla]

Here's a better run down than I can come up with.

http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Blog:News/Fallout_4:_Welcome_Home_-_Trailer_analysis_and_summary#Summary

[Messyart]

So.. My only complaints so far.

A. I'm gonna need a new console and I've been saving up for a Triumph Speedmaster.

B. ... I forgot sometime after the drooling started.


...Ooh, and it's got a MUCH nicer aesthetic than 3

OH I REMEMBER

THE NAME SUCKS

[Cherno]

Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade and I'm excited for the game too, but isn't this thread aganst the forum rules? As I recall, non-wargaming-related discussions were previously relegated to the Open Talk forum, which got axed a while back. I understand that Fallout in particular is closely related to miniature wargaming on this forum, and again, I love discussing videogames that are  related to miniature gaming, so I would just like to know when it's ok and when it's not ok to post a thread like this

[Wyrmalla]

OK, on topic then, what shall I be making models of first... 

[Messyart]

On topic, my Deathclaw is gon' need some changes to match that ugly thing

[Cherno]

Look different indeed. Beefier. Larger horns, the spine sail on the back, and the feet look different as well.

I don't have too many thing I'd like to see for the sequel, save for a stealth mechanic that more akin to the one from Skyrim instead of the less-than satisfactory one from Fallout 3 and NV.

[Wyrmalla]

I just wish they gave more close up shots of all the armour. Have to wait till E3 for that I suppose, but I was wanting to start a model based on that trailer now.

That link I posted of the run down at least has screen shots of each major scene, so perhaps I can use that. However they only really showed off the Power Armour and Vault suit. The combat armour that the soldiers are wearing is too small to pick out the details unfortunately.

[Messyart]

They were taken to Jurassic Park for some gene slicing.

[Wyrmalla]

Actually on looking at the guy who I thought was wearing combat armour closer, he isn't. No, he's kitted out in what appears to be baseball gear! Hah, that beats all the American Football armour we've seen in previous games and Mad Max!

Is he wearing a Vietnam era American military pilot's helmet? Or is that a baseball thing too? ...Not that I'm trying to work out how to turn him into a model at all.