Fallout 4

[KevanG]

Of course one of the easier ways to make the games crash less is to put less into it.

We'd ***** them out royally for that though so it'll never happen.

 

[Tanin]

I always expect crashes in open world games. It's just too hard to code and keep everything going as big as they are.

 

[James]

My save-obsession comes less from a fear of the game crashing, and more from death. Not that I can recall ever dying often in these games, but when you're fresh out the vault and don't know the map at all, every step is a potential ending. Exciting as that is, I don't want to have to go back and have to redo anything.

As to putting less in, didn't the Bethesda fellow (Todd something) say that Fallout 4 is so big even he hasn't seen parts of it? That fact alone blows my mind.

 

[KevanG]

"This game is so big the city is thirty times bigger than it actually is."
"This game is so big it makes GTA5 look tiny"
"This game is so big I got lost during the tutorial and still haven't found my way out."

 

[James]

I have no reason not to believe the guy.

 

[KevanG]

I have no doubt it's going to be incredibly massive, I was just poking fun at him.

So, what about the DLC? What would you guys want?

Personally I'm hoping less like Mothership Zeta and more like Dead Money (my favorite Fallout DLC) or Point Lookout (minus the cheating computer damage).

 

[Tanin]

I'd love to leave the USA in a DLC. Maybe cross into what used to be Canada or Mexico.

 

[James]

The DLCs I've always liked most are the ones that give us an entirely new location to explore. Point Lookout, Dragonborn. I really liked the Pitt, although it was a little linear in terms of exploration. Tanin's idea is interesting, it would be fun to see how somewhere else got effected by the war.

 

[Havok83]

"This game is so big the city is thirty times bigger than it actually is."
"This game is so big it makes GTA5 look tiny"
"This game is so big I got lost during the tutorial and still haven't found my way out."

GTAV didnt really feel all that big compared to Skyrim, so its definitely plausible

 

[darthcoolness3]

I am expecting a 1 TB day one patch for Fallout 4 that will melt the servers for PC, PS4 and Xbox One

 

[Destructus86]

I can't wait to pre-order on PSN!!

 

[KevanG]

I'll be getting the pip-boy edition. I just need to get paid first.

 

[Havok83]

am I the only one getting this on PC? It never feels right playing Bethesda games on a console

 

[Tanin]

I'll be getting the PC version

 

[James]

I've always played Bethesda games on console, it'd be weird playing one on PC.

 

[KevanG]

I'd love to play FO3 or NV on PC but nothing I have can run it. My mac uses a non-standard graphics card for any type of gaming so I have a lot of trouble even playing FO1.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

I'd love to play FO3 or NV on PC but nothing I have can run it. My mac uses a non-standard graphics card for any type of gaming so I have a lot of trouble even playing FO1.

How old is your mac? I have a late 2012 mac mini and that I game on and I have no issues with contemporary games

 

[KevanG]

Not a clue. I got it for free from my sisters ex-fiancee. I also got FO1,FO2 and tactics for free a few years back from GOG.com when they had a promo. I did some testing after I found it wouldn't work and when I did all the tech support all it said afterwards was nothing could fix it due to the graphics card. The game was sort of playable, I got to the first town and did some things but it was slow, froze a lot and I got the usual rainbows where the graphics didn't display right.

Also, the backup drive is taking around 70gb of a 120 gb drive and I can't fix that.

 

[Tanin]

I play FO1 2 and tactics on a 50$ laptop I have for older games.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Man, if you're computer can't play the original Fallout, it might just be time to throw that **** in the dump.

 

[Iceman]

http://mashable.com/2015/06/25/fallout-4-multiplayer-nope/
There's no multiplayer in 'Fallout 4,' but some ideas were tossed around

 

[Tanin]

New interview where they say the size of the playable map is about the same size as Skyrim

http://www.blahtrends.com/fallout-4-interview-todd-howard-talks-mods-in-game-building-and-map-size/

 

[KevanG]

*Remembers spending days just walking around and getting lost in the woods and mountains* Sweeeet.

 

[Tanin]

It's good to know the game isn't going to be tiny.

 

[KevanG]

COnsidering the size of the last two games I'd find it really strange if it was less than NV.