[Fallout 4 announced with teaser trailer]

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Lisnpuppy wrote:

 

In response to post #25824069.

znancekivell wrote: Excellent.

In fact, I have only a single complaint about the whole trailer.

We all know that Fallout 4 will ( or should! ) let us choose which gender we want to be, so as far as the actual game is concerned this is a moot point, but I am disappointed that Bethesda chose ( yet again! ) a male stand-in for the PC instead of a female wanderer. I really am becoming utterly sick of all these Caucasian males running around in video games, and I would prefer to see some actual variety in the spice of nuclear apocalyptic life.

Love the dog, by the way. Wo/Man's best friend!

If rumours are correct there is no female player character, that's going to piss some people off, as for dudes in nearly every game...



Contains strong language.

 

 

If that is true...(and I hope to the internet deities that Bethesda has learned players want MORE choices and not less) then that may actually be a deal breaker for me. That is going backwards. The last two games you could play as female so it makes little sense why you would not be able to do so now.

 

It wouldn't even be totally about the fact I am female...it is at the end, choice. Bethesda seems to narrow games more and more with each one. I don't care how pretty the graphics are or if the game has drivable cars. Let me have at least a semblance of choice and be able to choose male or female.

 

With everything that has taken place in the past few years regarding women's place in gaming I would think that in a title that is looked forward to by so many that gender choice would be a no-brainer. I would smack of lazy and that Bethesda has had its fingers in the ears and are loudly singing "la la la la la can't hear you la la la."

jim_uk wrote: This woman was mocked at the time but so far what she's said has been on the money https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/28v2dn/i_played_fallout_4 not just the date and location but if you check out of the developer making the spin off you'll find they're a Bethesda partner and looking to hire people with Gamebryo/id Tech experience. If the post in genuine then it's not looking good for those who want choices.

Darkspazz wrote: Good lord everyone chill out, They already hired voice actors for both the male and female character, You'll be able to play as a girl. Can y'all stop circle jerking nonsense?

SMB92 wrote: Can you back that, Darkspazz, with say, some EVIDENCE :/

Back to the topic, I don't particularly feel comfortable with having a "gender change" at the end of the story, in fact if at all. I always play my character as "Trinity" from the Matrix, this would piss me off severely. And hopefully that woman from reddit isn't joking about a new engine + map size, let's hope it's moddable. With all this talk of cutting everything else, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. But then, they'd probably want to charge wouldn't they?

JianXintou wrote: Are there any sources for these supposed VAs?

The reddit post above may not be 100% accurate but doesn't seem too far off, either.

CRBASF23 wrote: If we was really the person who leaked the information to Kotaku, why in the Kotaku article it says that they called for both Male and Female actors, when in her reddit post says you can only play as Male?

CRBASF23 wrote: Kotaku the supposed magazine which the woman leaked the info to, in it's article said that they had a casting call for both male and female VA's: http://kotaku.com/leaked-documents-reveal-that-fallout-4-is-real-set-in-1481322956

jim_uk wrote: Try reading the Reddit post, it says you can switch to female after the main quest, that would explain the female VA as would having women Npcs.

jediakyrol wrote: In every fallout you could play as a woman...even BoS for XBox... It would be the stupidest thing in the world if they locked you to one gender (unless it was for like a flashback chapter where you are put in the shoes of your ancestor)

frogzilla98 wrote: Yeah. White men are the devil. /s

monsterseventeen wrote: i play fallout as a woman, and most games as the same character where i can put her, the reason might seem sexist, i have put her there since oblivion on playstation 3, this was the first game i played where a player could fully customise there own character, so naturally i put myself or as close as i could as the character, then half way down the gold road toward anvil a bunch of female bandits jumped out and set about me, i killed one before feeling uncomfortable, since then i have had the same kick ass woman in every game i can, i feel a great affection for her, apart from the fact she is all i want to look at 'cos i play 3rd person, i always try to find her romance.

NDDragor wrote: If they are taking away the option to play as a female, then they are destroying the creative process of creating your own and unique character that was one of the things which I enjoyed the most in the Fallout and TES series because the different characters which I created felt alive and I could play the games again and again, always making my own and new story with a different character.

But to play with a predetermined character is making me feel like something is limiting me and I cant feel the freedom of the game anymore. But this opinion of mine is only about the Fallout and TES series. There are many games where I enjoy the predetermined protagonists.

CRBASF23 wrote: This is what the kotaku article said:
The casting documents describe some of the other characters in the next Fallout's wasteland, like a radio DJ named Travis Miles and an engineer named Sturges who is described as "a cross between Buddy Holly and Vin Diesel." Casting calls for both the male and female versions of the player character note that the player begins the game in a cryogenic sleep chamber.

JianXintou wrote: @CRBASF23: Thanks for the source.

" it says you can switch to female after the main quest"
That sounds like an odd design decision. "Hey, you're done with the MQ, congrats. Now you can go to some big MT-esque geniuses that can change your sex!"

"a new "Classic Mode" that will put the game into birds eye view and play similar to the classic Fallout Games."
This sounds curious, kind of like DA. Not sure how this will play out if it's true.

CRBASF23 wrote: She claimed that Fallout 4 is using a completely new engine: "This version uses a brand new engine built from the ground up to take advantage of the power of next gen systems. Absolutely everything is new, and no assets or scrips are being used from Fallout 3/NV or Skyrim."
From what I saw from the trailer it's more like a modified Gamebryo engine than a new one to me, but with tweaks to lighting and animations, that's all. But I'm Ok with it since this way modders will have an easier time modding it.

†TYRANICK†™ wrote: But gamebryo sucks. Look at all the problems with 32bit/64bit issues and limited RAM availibility and no x64 .EXE and the game not using more than 4 gbs of ram and a whole host of bugs, limitations and all sorts.

I for one hope it's on a brand new engine if it's really been in development for so long...I am hoping for UE4 but that's a long shot. the gamebryo engine is dead, dated and limiting, i really really hope it's not a tweaked skyrim engine or we'll suffer all the same issues as last time, but even worse.

People have 4-12gb GPUs now and 8-24GBs of RAM in there machines these days and rely on x64 a lot, if they are using a tweaked Skyrim engine well the game is crippled to x32 straight away unless they figured out how to make it x64 this time.

Time will tell.

Also that "leak" is so full of guess work, don't believe a thing.

Camonna Tong wrote: I highly doubt they would not make it x64. That would leave 1.3 GB of RAM they can't use. Yes, only 4.5 GB of the 8 GB is usable of the consoles for games. The rest is for the OS. It will be x64. I can guarantee it. Especially after seeing how big Boston is, and how much they've done.

Cinnaspice wrote: I too would prefer to be able to choose and create my own character including gender. I am a woman and never play RPGs as a male character. It is a role-playing game after all and per Gary Gygax a role-playing game is one in which you get to create your character. A game in which you assume the mantle of a pre-determined character is a role-assumption game. Of course, no one ever calls them that.

Unfortunately, some companies think it is a good idea to force people into a certain character so they can tell a specific story (even if they still give players choices, the narrative remains the same.) I fervently hope Bethesda isn't one of the stupid ones.

Just going to throw my 2 cents in and add that I don't think they would ruin the FO name by creating the first and ONLY FO game designed not to have a gender choice for the main PC (even if its only for main story). That would be insane. Insanely stupid that is.

I'm more concerned about the game play and combat system, and whether or not they will release a broken game or one that I can actually play. I wont be buying right away, I'm going to wait until I read and watch reviews after it's been out for a while.

[Fallout 4 announced with teaser trailer]

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Immo82 wrote: After reading these comments I have a feeling that Fallout 4 will suck big time. I bet they won't care one bit about what the fans want, they're just gonna make a Fallout version of mass effect mixed with CoD or some s#*! like that... Atleast I still have Torment - Tides of Numenera to look forward to.

lucastimothy wrote: I respect your opinion, but frankly disagree.

Bethesda Softworks has been working on Fallout 4 since Skyrim's release, which is almost 5 years now. Todd Howard stated and I quote, "We know what this game means to everyone," said Howard. "The time and technology have allowed us to be more ambitious than ever. We've never been more excited about a game, and we can't wait to share it." Bethesda has been known for releasing extremely well-made games that were ultimately a huge success; ie. Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc. In general, their track record is clean, except for having multiple glitches in their larger titles. Their last Fallout game was Fallout 3 as Obsidian worked on Fallout: New Vegas, and Todd as well as Bethesda realises their Fallout fanbase: I seriously doubt they would work this long and hard on a rather disappointing title. Most of these "comments" are pure speculation and rumours: the ONLY thing that is confirmed is everything you see in the official trailer, anything else, at all, is here-say or *cough* "educated" (if that word is appropriate) guesses.

djhater wrote: Fallout 3 iz teh best game evar! Todd Howard Rulez!!!!
I spent "1,000,000" hours collecting lootz and "exploring" the huge open worldz cuz the story was the best evar!!!!!!!!
I loooove talking to all the awesome characterz in teh game
nneedz more greeeen colors

I only wish xzibit could put fallout in my fallout so i could fallout whle fallouting. best itz teh best game evar...
GOTY.....Skyrim rulez..

I dont really have 'high' hopes either. Seems big companies like to hype up their games and only few actually live up to them, I guess we shall see when Beth releases FO4 whether or not they knew what this game means to us.

BTW Skyrim was unplayable for me so naturally I hated it, Oblivion was ok but the gameplay was dreadful and Skyrim was only a small upgrade from that, FO3 I must admit I loved it but they lacked a lot of the humor from the original Fallouts... the dialog was garbage while Liam Nelson was amazeballs.

The only reason Bethesda games are so successful is because of the mods... without them the games really wouldn't be that great.

[Help with red lightning]

I've been looking everywhere for red lightning, hope this gets released soon.

[Cass wont change her look]

Never mind, I'm an idiot. I fixed my issue and everything is peachy.

[Cass wont change her look]

I've tried a couple different mods that are supposed to change Cass' appearance and she absolutely refuses, and keeps her default look. I tried midtek's A better Cass first, and got nothing, so I tried Dracomies Cass and Veronica Redesigned (along with Downloading NV Redesigned II, which is required) and still nothing. Redesigned II is working perfectly btw. I haven't tried looking for Veronica to see if she's changed or not, but this whole Cass thing is bothering me right now lol.

 

I don't know how to get my load order on notepad to paste here... I have it screen captured, and edited it in Paint, but it looks too small to attach to this post.

[Supermutants are women too]

Fawkes is a male. Theres unused audiologs of him speaking as a human... I had a mod in FO3 that added them back into the game. He was put into the holding cell by the other mutant because he was... different (intelligent and not as aggressive) and the holding cell belonged to a female.

[Hair Texture Issue]

Thanks for the replies, I'm going to try these suggestions... though I probably wont try to remove the conflicts sadly as I really dont want to cause anymore damage than I already have lol.

[Hair Texture Issue]

Yeah I did, also DLed ArchiveInvalidated Invalitation to be sure and it didn't fix the issue. It really blows my mind why it decided to do this. I recently moved the game over to this computer, so I think I'm going to check my DL history on my old laptop and see if I can't find the issue there. I tried removing a bunch of mods before with no success... I wonder if it's a ground texture issue? Cause when I walk up the hill to leave Megaton my hair doesn't flicker, it just takes on a different texture. Also it appears through FO3Editor I have a bunch of conflicting mods which is weird cause I always read to make sure a mod doesn't conflict with another, cause most mods I have are clothing mods.

 

EDIT: Okay so I've pretty much removed practically all my mods... and still having the same texture issue with the hair. I took a screenshot after I ran a filter with editor and heres what I got.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/545/loadorderfilter.jpg

[Hair Texture Issue]

Ok, so finally after several months of playing with the same character, my hair suddenly decided to go chameleon on me and take on the texture of nearby surfaces. It's more severe in Megaton, however running around I have noticed my hair taking on the textures of grass and things like that, but it's non-existent indoors. I do have like over 200 mods installed, and I remember before taking a month-long break from FO3, I uninstalled some quest mods and deleted the saves that I used for them, so I just had the save right before I started any of those quests. When I came back I noticed my hair textures going nuts, and I changed my hair to a style that came with the race mod I use and it had no problems. So I tried replacing the textures, thinking that they might have gotten corrupt somehow, but that didn't help either.

 

Anyone have any idea's? Hair mod that I'm having problems with is Cazy Hair.

[Purple Texture]

I'm having an issue when making a new race in GECK and it only seems to affect my new race. No matter what I do, the tongue is purple (or I should say the whole inside of the mouth). The first time I tried to find the tongue texture using the same paths as the other races and there is no tongue texture to be found, then I tried again this time not altering the tongue texture, just leaving it as default and it's still purple. Other races are normal so I'm completely lost. Anyone else have any advise or experienced the same thing?

[Resident Evil: Extinction - ALICE's Clothing Type 3]

I would like to see this made too! I've been looking for more wasteland-type clothing and this would fit the feel of Fallout perfectly.