Though I would have liked to see a Fallout reveal trailer that wasn't some old timey music over a slow pan out. If it ain't broke, I guess.

Thank you for responses.

Fallout Dive.

My ideal Fallout game.

A world like F3, full of interesting side quests, characters and towns. 
Blank slate character that you mould how you see fit, but with multiple starting points. So you can choose to be a ghoul and all that involves, or a vault dweller, or part of a raider gang etc. Ghouls have to balance radiation but aren't attacked by wildlife etc, Raiders can call in their gang to battle but are attacked often and by rival gangs etc etc.

The main quest is basically the same for all but with different outcomes guided by the motivations of your character.

So for example, the final mission could involve some kind of Nuclear plant, you can choose to blow it up further irradiating the waste land, utilise it's equipment to clean the local air and water, capture it and become rich off the power supply. The point is all those things would be considered good or bad depending on the type of character you are playing.

The journey would also be different. Vault Dwellers could enter towns happily but Ghouls would need a disguise and the cover of night. Raiders would get turned away but could overthrow the security and take control of the own. 


Fallout to me is about building a character from a blank avatar then using that character to influence the world around them, or indeed not if that is the way of your character.
F4 lost that. It became your kid's story and you woke up to decide the final act.

Is it still the same engine ffs?

What's Wasteland 2 like?

There's a Kotaku article on what is known.

Kotaku wrote:

But Fallout 76 is in fact an online survival RPG that’s heavily inspired by games like DayZ and Rust, according to three people familiar with the project.

Sounds promising to be fair. It's about time a AAA dev took up the mantle of these indie games, let's see what's possible with proper funding.

All the performance issues of a survival asset flip multiplied by Bethesda.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Sounds promising to be fair.

No it doesn't. It sounds bloody awful. Fallout goes back 20 years, and has always been about getting lost in a single player wasteland.  To toss that away and replace it with multiplayer mode is bizarre, and runs contrary to the entire legacy of the Lone Wanderer. And this from a devco that championed single player games in a recent ad campaign!

Yeah, doesn't sound like something I'll have the slightest interest in but there's nothing wrong with setting new things in the same world.

I know. But if they want to try a battle royale or base building bunkum pick another franchise or do it with a new IP.  I let them have Fallout Shelter because that was a fun little disposable mobile game. This appears to be a full price release and is going to fuck over the Fallout franchise completely.

They'd get shit for treading the same ground, but try something different and it's RiP Fallout. Tough crowd.

All that being said, I will keep an eye on it. If they keep the role-playing quite open it could be interesting.
If I can choose to be a travelling Ghoul slaver or a gunsmith etc it might be cool. If it is just busy work collecting materials followed by Fallout's less than stellar shooting then nope.

To ones with better gameplay?

Blocks100 wrote:

Yeah, that kind of sums up my feelings too.  I get precious about Fallout because it is one of the last bastions of single player gameplay.  Dunno where I'll go if even Bethesda start turning their back on epic immersive rpgs.

I get the feeling, Blocks, that this is more of small side project rather than something that requires all hands on deck. Elder Scrolls fans already have Online if they want to play something a little more sociable, and now Fallout fans have 76. I’m still feeling very confident that we’ll be playing Bethesda’s new singe-player behemoth before we’re putting up our Christmas trees this year.