It will be on PC…but damn, it still looked good. I might just get an Xbone instead of spending a grand on a new PC.
My bad. I meant Fallout Shelter.
Oh you meant IT it. 
I run Fallout 3 and New Vegas fairly well(really well, actually) on my 2012 Toshiba Satellite L775 laptop.
Any chance of me running Fallout 4 on minimum settings? I’m super excited about this game.
I won’t be making the mistake of running a Bethesda title on a console again.
Bad idea. No mods ? No fan patches correcting the thousands of little bugs Bethesda never gets around to ? No save editor or console for use when something inevitably gets borked beyond recognition, a quest item falls through the world or an essential NPC spawns inside a wall ?
At the Xbox One conference they confirmed that mods will be coming to the console in 2016, so that’s that problem sorted.
No news on whether they’ll be coming to the PS4, so I’ll be holding off until I hear how it works - New Vegas and Skyrim were unplayable for a while on the PS3 because of something making the saves get bigger and bigger until they were impossible to load.
PS4 will get mods as well but after PC and then Xbox.
I wonder if this’ll extend to things like console controls (as in the “Hit ~” bit, not controls for gaming consoles) or if the Xbox/PS4 mods will be more of a walled garden where only Xbox/PS4-friendly mods will be available.
Man, having multiple meanings for “console” makes this difficult 
I usually only but games at a deep discount.* This may be an exception.
*Thank you to all you gamers who simply must play the game right away.
The first playthrough of a Fallout is always the best, I want the game to be as patched as possible. Its better to wait a patch or two.
Lol, yeah no. This is going to be like a subset of a subset of mods coming to consoles. It’s not going to be anything like what’s typically available on the Pc for a Bethesda title.
They can’t do that on consoles for a number of reasons. Expect a small set of mods that are curated and tested, and only change very limited and specific things.
Basically house/town modifications (which apparently you can already do in game), possibly new models. Maybe new adventures, so long as they don’t rely on things like script changes.
Forget about most graphics mods. They work on PC because there’s more hardware power to tpa there, that’s not the case on consoles. Forget about a lot UI changes (unless we finally get UI hooks in the editor), forget about mods that change things on the scripting side of things.
$1,000 PC will give you a hell of a better experience over an Xbone. And if you’re looking just to have a slightly better experience, then $500 is more like your target price point.
I too would love to have an idea what it will take to run this game on high video settings. If I can accomplish it on $700 that would be great…any more than that and I’ll consider a new console instead.
Weird ninja there…
Yeah, I’m just not sure I’s can justify spending a grand or more. I don’t have much time at all for PC games, so I’m rather literally building a new machine so I can play F4.
I guess it depends on how willing Bethesda is to go that extra mile on PC, graphics wise.
Most games released this gen so far run at the PC equivalent of a mix of low, medium and high (mostly medium) at 900p on Xbone and 1080p on PS4, and at 30 FPS (most of the time, a LOT of games experience drops into the 20’s though). But Beth might be willing to add PC specific graphics effects at higher levels that might make high/very high settings taxing on anything but modern hardware.
Digital foundry has found than a modern i3 + 750ti is basically matching or beating the performance of a PS4 in most games. Thats $200 worth of hardware, making a system build at roughly $450 a possibility.
I would personally aim a bit higher though - more headroom, better settings, more value for the buck, etc: with a modern i5 + a GTX 960. That’s closer to $400 worth of hardware, bringing up the price of a complete machine to around ~$650.
AMD just announced new GPU’s too at E3, coming out later this month. They’re pricey but amazingly powerful. $550 for 8 TFLops of performance! That’s 4 times the power of a PS4’s GPU! More over, they might bring the prices of the Nvidia cards a bit down 
Yeah, you really don’t have to spend that much to handily beat out consoles. Sadly, because that means most games won’t push graphical boundaries. $600 should give 60 FPS at better graphics settings than any console @ 1080p, possibly at 1440p.
I always find I do less wandering on my first playthrough, but on later playthroughs I start looking in every nook and cranny. And then I go online to find the nooks and crannies I still missed.
That was my experience too until I played Fallout 3 (was vary late to the franchise.) I have about 120 hours on it. I refused to use any guides or walkthroughs until I got stuck advancing the main storyline in the cave with those kids. It was the most fun I ever had with a game. Then I bought the Prima Official Game Guide which was excellent. Getting…so…excited…for…this…
Also because the Nexus is the most prolific outputer of tits, ass and giant erect super mutant cocks this side of PornHub 
Incidentally if you like the idea of creating your own settlements and want a taste before Fallout 4 ships there’s a great mod for New Vegas called Wasteland Defense, where you construct your own fort and defend against waves of attackers.
Yet another FO fan video, this one’s inspired by the Boston setting of FO4, and is less than a minute long.