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Fallout 4 — Boston Makes Me Feel Good

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I have absolutely zero enthusiasm for this despite loving Fallout 3. I don't even think I'm going to buy it...

 

Not sure whether it's open world fatigue or the fact I disliked Skyrim so much. Probably a mixture of the two, but it's really not like me to be so indifferent towards a game where I loved the prequel. Normally I'd be watching trailers and shit, but none of them can even hold my attention.

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I've been getting excited for this lately for a particular reason.

 

At E3 they said that your robot buddy Codsworth comes packaged with about a thousand common names in his spoken dialogue, ostensibly allowing him to refer to you by your chosen name, which is a feature I found really progressive. Since I'm assuming Jason will be one of the names available, I've actually been inspired to roleplay the game as myself. Normally, games like Bethesda, BioWare, and other similar RPGs, I take advantage of character customization to try to inhabit somebody else (particularly women and people of color).

 

However, with the advent of the name feature and the seemingly massive graphic overhaul on facial models compared to Skyrim and previous Bethesda titles, I've been encouraged to be the adolescent thing of just making myself - common name and stupid white male face and brown hair and all. At what's more, I'm going to take it to the extreme, and not allow myself to be (or at least start) as a superior version of myself. So, for instance, while in prior Fallout games I always specialized in agility and small arms by default because I found VATS gameplay with basic guns both fun and efficient, in real life I have no actual experience with firearms and I'm not gymnast, so I won't allow any kind of head start in those areas - or any others which have no analog in real life. Depending on the layout of the game, I'm either going to allow myself to roleplay leveling these skills up from scratch as I use them, or abandoning them entirely in favor of whatever suits actual Jason's arsenal. (Which is, I don't know, moderate intelligence and charisma?)

 

So I'm actually really excited to try this experiment, since it's so outside my usual approach to a new game. Shame there's still so many days to go before it's out.

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The last time I remember a game dev saying "We have almost all common names in our database recorded!" was Black and White 1. It wasn't very impressive. Great if your god is going to be named Steve, Mary or Peter but not if it's Domen, Jošt or Jernej.

 

I read "progressive" as a joke at first but it could actually be a lot better in Fallout than it was in B&W. Most characters would probably have english names if they lived in the Boston area. If your name isn't there will it just say "Oh hey there!" instead of "Oh hey there Joe!"?

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I'm one of those people who has a foreign name in an English speaking country. Years of huge disappointment as a kid when everyone had key chains with their name on, and I could never find mine.

 

I don't think I ever recovered from that. Fallout 4 would just be rubbing salt in the wound.

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Most characters would probably have english names if they lived in the Boston area. 

 

I don't disagree, but I'm gonna throw out there that technically Boston is a majority minority city. I think after the last census I read that the city was 47% white.

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I feel like I should be worried about spoilers for this game since it's leaked, but honestly I play Bethesda games to just sort of exist in them. Finding out that your missing baby has secretly been your dog the whole time doesn't really bother me. I'll avoid it if I can, but otherwise I kinda don't care.

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I think I would be way more excited about Fallout if life and a giant slate of games wasn't so completely overwhelming right now.

 

I will probably get pretty excited about 48 hours before it releases.

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Most every $60 game that I was looking forward to this year has either been delayed, ended up as a huge disappointment, or I simply lost interest in before it came out, so I'm pinning a lot of my hopes on Fallout 4.

 

The crop of indie games this year has been incredible though.

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I was strong, and resisted preordering right up  to the moment I didn't :P!

 

I have high hopes for this game, but have enjoyed Bethesda's other games so much that I would be happy to give them the money anyway. Furthermore, I spent 5 years in the Boston area, and expect to have fun just poking around. I might even be able to find my office, or at least investigate Harvard Yard :D. Also, I'll be playing on pc, and expect that players will patch up many broken things even if the devs don't. Eventually!

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So I just found out there's a character planner already made on the internet for Fallout 4. It's all based on info discovered from a leak that happened this past week. So enjoy I guess, unless you try to avoid this sorta thing before a game is out; in which case I say, enjoy resisting temptation.

 

http://www.rpg-gaming.com/fo4.html

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I think I would be way more excited about Fallout if life and a giant slate of games wasn't so completely overwhelming right now.

 

I will probably get pretty excited about 48 hours before it releases.

Funny.  The last game I got hyped about was Witcher 3 and I'm still playing it!  House rule: finish W3 before buying FO4. :P

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I've been checking this thread for several weeks and I just realized this thread's title is a Ghostbusters joke.

 

I don't have anything to say about FO4, I just wanted to share my realization in case anyone else missed it. Good job on the title, mikemariano.

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The Fallout Pip-Boy app is now available on Google Play and the apple App Store. It will link via wireless to PS4, XB1, or PC, but also has a nifty demo mode which is fun to mess around with for a few minutes :). The demo gives stats, perks, inventory etc. There is a surprising change to the character creation that I will put in spoilers

The initial stats add up to 28, rather than the 40 of previous games IIRC. This means that specialised characters will be seriously deficient in other areas, or that 5 is no longer average. Also, armour appears to go on top of clothing, and is specific to individual limbs as well as a chest piece

I can see where my apartment and work would be on the map :)

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The Fallout Pip-Boy app is now available on Google Play and the apple App Store. It will link via wireless to PS4, XB1, or PC, but also has a nifty demo mode which is fun to mess around with for a few minutes :). The demo gives stats, perks, inventory etc. There is a surprising change to the character creation that I will put in spoilers

The initial stats add up to 28, rather than the 40 of previous games IIRC. This means that specialised characters will be seriously deficient in other areas, or that 5 is no longer average. Also, armour appears to go on top of clothing, and is specific to individual limbs as well as a chest piece

I can see where my apartment and work would be on the map :)

 

The leveling system in the game seems really intriguing. Bear in mind that there's no level cap and you can choose to improve a SPECIAL stat with any level up (in lieu of a perk), so if it's a lower amount to begin with, that makes sense.

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The leveling system in the game seems really intriguing. Bear in mind that there's no level cap and you can choose to improve a SPECIAL stat with any level up (in lieu of a perk), so if it's a lower amount to begin with, that makes sense.

I missed that, thanks... it does look different and interesting. One of my Fallout 3 characters was suggested Priest as a vocation, so I decided to give her 10 Luck to represent divine intervention from some non-specific deitiy. Some pretty amazing things happened! I had trained in unarmed, and when I got to the very first supermarket, I met a bunch of raiders in a battle with a deathclaw, and they did enough damage to each other that I could just roll up and get everything I needed for a deathclaw gauntlet! Ever since then, I have liked to have one character that is just ridiculously lucky. As you can imagine, this meant lots of winnings in New Vegas :D

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Funny.  The last game I got hyped about was Witcher 3 and I'm still playing it!  House rule: finish W3 before buying FO4. :P

 

Oh yes indeed. I have 90+ hours into Witcher 3, and a friend is finishing it right now and asking me about my play through/telling me his. I'm hoping for something half as immersive as this.

 

Thread title is still the best thread title.

 

 

Good lord Fallout has the best theme music.

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For some reason the Fallout hype has been nowhere near the level of interest I've had in other Bethesda games. It was only yesterday that thought to myself "Oh right, that Fallout game is about to come out." It's not like I'm expecting it to be bad but it's weird that this is a game I should be excited for that's just crept up on me. This is something I never thought I'd say, but I wish the marketing for this game was more obvious!

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