That’s a fairly sweet deal for those console-oriented players who don’t already have an XBone. Assuming that person exists. 
Although I note that the package is a “Gears of War” bundle and F4 is a toss-in. Dunno what that means, other than the console and controllers won’t have Fallout-themed decoration. More’s the shame.
That’s a lot of people actually. PS4 is handing Microsoft it’s lunch money.
No wait, that’s not right. Sony is eating Microsoft’s breakfast and their lunch too, and nibbling on it’s dinner.
Yes, you’re probably thinking of him. Although I don’t remember him talking about cats much, but then a good majority of Dopers like 'em.
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I was initially hesitant about the system, but there were perks in the old games, like the one that allowed you to fast travel while encumbered, that were extremely useful but not (IMHO) worth wasting a perk on. So I like now that they’re combined.
On your old version, didn’t “Party Boy” say something about settlements?
Radiation weapons are new, huh? Fusion core: I guess power armor has a time limit/fuel now?
Idiot Savant: wow. Reminds me of Arcanum.
I might have to get a new computer for this. I suppose it’s time. There is really no way to compare the required CPU to an older one that’s overclocked, right? Can You Run It? doesn’t seem to compensate for overclocking.
New perk list looks a lot better. I thought the previous one was way too much a direct substitute for having a skill system. There was a lot of “you do 20% more damage with X” and “you’re 20% better at Y%”, which is basically using a perk to replace a skill.
It makes your progression feel more natural and your character more unique when you have skills to determine how good you are at things, and then perks to give you some sort of unique character-defining trait on top of that. Something unique like having better stats and abilities at night or whatever.
It seems like they’ve revamped it to be less generic. “You do 20% more damage with X, but also there’s a chance you’ll Y” “You do 40% more damage with X, you have a chance to Y, and sometimes Z”
Better. Not as good as having skills and perks, but better.
Amazon was running a Prime special for the PS4 version: ten bucks off and launch-day delivery.
I’ll trade it in a month later for half-value, then pick up on steam a year from now for 20 bucks. After the modders have gotten to it.
Since I ordered a physical copy, I don’t know when I’ll be able to actually fire the thing up. In the past, Amazon has featured release date delivery on items, and those items tended to come in at 7 p.m. No such promises here. People who ordered digitally will apparently get a chance to start downloading starting a few days earlier, but I suspect they won’t mail me a code – it’ll be on a sticker inside the honking metal box the rest of the game is coming in. Bastages.
I have this crazy dream my 2012 laptop will somehow run it on lowest settings. It doesn’t look that much more complicated than New Vegas, though I assume it is actually a lot more advanced.
I played Skyrim and New Vegas on medium graphics, but they could run in slightly higher if I accepted a low frame-rate.
Ummmm…me, for one.
I don’t have time to play a lot, and there are still plenty of 360 games I’ll do never get to.
So i had no reason to upgrade until F4 came out.
Fallout 4 uses the Creation Engine, which is the same thing that Skyrim was built on.
Looks like it. So I guess rad poisoning lowers max hp.
I’m trying to decipher the icons on the ghoul in VATS. From left to right I’d guess: armor, energy resistance, radiation resistance (since that’s a damage type now), ???. Absolutely no idea what that last one could be.
I haven’t looked forward to game release so much in years. Want!
Still, I can’t picture my Toshiba Satellite from 2012 running it.
I wish a demo was released so I could test out the gameplay/frame-rate. If it worked, it would be my very first pre-order. I never pay full price, but Fallout 4 is my most wanted game in a very, very long time.
I hear ya.
I’m ordering it on the PS4 for a reason. 
One thing I want to get on record before it actually comes out – I actually don’t see that replacing the sliders with a system of just moving facial parts with the mouse (or whatever they’ll be doing on the consoles) will be an improvement. I think it’ll mostly be a different annoying mess, and more likely than not will make it even more frustratingly fiddly to get a face you can live with.
I do think their exemplar Vault Guy is a pretty good look, but my Commander Shepard never looked like the one on the box, and I don’t think I’ll be playing generic guy in Fallout either.
Here’s another commentary on a matter that is possibly quite nitpicky but which I’ve never seen addressed before. According to the Fallout 1 Vault Dweller’s Survival Guide the final cost of Vault 13 was 645 Billion Dollars. Inflation would have to have been utterly staggering for it to have been a sensible expenditure to turn most of these vaults into cruel human psychology experiments. Otherwise the price could only be justified as the cost of seeing that the human race survived the apocalypse. But most of the vaults we know about had these experiments going on, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars each and in many cases minimizing the chances of the survival of the human race.
Also, apparently the vault was only supposed to last 10 years. It was given a faulty water chip as some kind of experiment in human behavior. The war started in 2077, and the Vault Dweller was pushed out to look for a new water chip in 2161. So, not only did the apocalypse vastly outlast the specs of the vault, and presumably all of the vaults, the vault outlasted its own design parameters, including the water chip which was intended to be faulty to begin with.
In other trivia, if you get the PDF of the Vault Dweller’s Survival Manual such as from the extras available from Good Old Games, there actually is text underneath the notes taped in by the Overseer, which you can select to copy-and-paste.
Dude, that kind of “Oh noes will it run on my PC??!!”, is a thing of the past.
First, Steam now offer refunds, no questions asked, so long as you don’t play a game more than 2 hours, you can ask for a refund.
So there’s no danger in pre-ordering or picking up any game on PC (on Steam at least). If it doesn’t work, or performance isn’t cutting it for you, or you hate it, or you found out that one of the developers likes Nutella, and you hate Nutella and anyone who likes it, or even if you buy it, and then a few days later it’s on sale for 50% off (Valve has said straight out it doesn’t consider that scenario to be exploitative and it’s fine with it), you CAN get a full refund.
Also, comprehensive benchmarks will be available on the day of release, if not before, form numerous online publications - and those should tell you about how well you cna expect to run the game.
I just suck at facial construction, I usually end up with some sort freak that looks like a human-eggplant hybrid. So I’ve been known to hit the “randomize appearance” button for 40 straight minutes until I get once close enough to the picture in my head.
I’ll sometimes use the technique of randomizing and then tweaking. Not rarely, I’ll spend an inordinate amount of time generating a face, though I rarely see it except during those slow-motion V.A.T.S. scenes where you’re grimacing as you look down the length of your gun barrel. They should let you see your V.A.T.S. face while you’re designing your look.
I haven’t really been paying too much attention to pre-release stuff. So I have to ask, is VATS coming back?
I made a really ugly MF-er one time, because I was tired of trying to get him to look right. For some reason, he also had bad teeth.
Had to look at that stupid face so many times, just for blasting a mole rat…
Yes, though this time it slows down time rather than stops it altogether. They also have a different Critical mechanic. Do you remember the NPCs in Fallout 2 who kept saying “I wish I had a Limit Break”? Well, now criticals are your limit break.