Will there ever be another like Fallout?

[Moksha8088]

I have a vested interest in seeing something like the Fallout Series continue. It is the only RPG that has caught my interest. I am an adult and grew up before the age of video games. Fantasy and Mario type games may have been something I would have enjoyed in my youth, but I am way past that unfortunately.

 

I need a PC game that is fundamentally adult in nature and grounded in at least some degree of reality to which I can relate. I love both science fiction and the real world, and Fallout seems a perfect melding of the two.

 

I am tired of linear first person shooters, but I still like the action. I like some degree of problem solving (problem solving degree of Puce Moose's mods are okay - but not essential). I like the overall script to be intelligent. I like better than cartoon graphics. Don't think I will ever find that combination in very many console games which are market driven by those not old enough to drive.

 

I loved Fallout 3, love Fallout New Vegas and I am looking for another such game for the future. I don't want to suffer the slings, arrow and swords of outrageous fantasy game fortune.

 

This leads me to my question as to whether there will ever be another Fallout?

[GrindedStone]

Well yeah, but it will forever remain a watered down version of TES. Oblivion was made for Xbox, an cornered the market on 360 at the time. Fallout was also developed for Xbox, but play Oblivion an you'll see in the first 5 minutes how watered down Fallout 3 is. There's a Fallout 4 yeah, but you're talking about a watered down Skyrim. Which heck Skyrim isn't even that good. So there's no way Fallout 4 would be better than that. However the Skyrim elements built into it will at least make it more fun to play, but it won't be more fun than FO3. There isn't a market for mature games, well there is but it's called casual gaming not RPGFPS. Then it's not cartoon graphics, it's stylized an what you like about Fallout so much is that it's in between ultra realistic an stylized, so when you play Fallout you are indeed playing a stylized game, it's just that it's not full tilt welcome to cartoon land. Since you now know that you can enjoy games like Borderlands 2 which just came out. As well as SWTOR just don't forget to tweek the hidden config file so it's 16x texture filtering.

 

Say what you will about the now very old Borderlands 1, the things that happen during play filled with absolute out of their minds development. Stuff you wouldn't think of, an nobody would expect any less from Borderlands 2. SWTOR on the other hand is a double edged sword. Personally I can't play it for more than 14 days at a time without wanting to puke my guts out, but as far as development it's solid as a rock. Weapon mods, cover system, melee fighting, player/npc voice dialog, hard to get insane armors, then the world is full of hidden areas an designed so that monkeys could play it only on Thursdays if monkeys could only tell what day it was. It feels like you are trapped in this little box most of the time, but really there's more game world than you'll ever see. The scale of things are so large you don't even see most of the game world unless you stop to look around. Everyone was really critical on SWTOR instead of just playing it for what it is. Once you see it that way it's actually a pretty good game.

 

Then you know I bet you play the same Fallout load order over an over. It's habit an really hard to break that cycle. Make a new load order that doesn't use any of your old mods. Make new characters in Fallout 3 an play them differently. Make a ugly one, an make a stupid one. Then play them until you get killed an that's it, they are dead, start over. Now do the same thing on very hard difficulty. Now do the same thing after using mods to make it impossible difficulty. Then pay attention to how your combat style changes from rush in kill everything to run for your life. That said, both Oblivion an Skyrim are kind of mature if you can wrap your head around the whole middle ages era. You could play fallout 1-2 an tactics, though I never got around to it myself. It's a pretty different feeling playing Fallout 3 on Xbox too if you played on PC. It's not the same game. There's also a indie Xbox game called still alive or something, it was stupid an failed, but it was fun an kind of like Fallout.

 

This is a full render non-doctored image of a shipwreck on a nuked planet in SWTOR- Star Wars The Old Republic. Well I say it's full rendered actually you lose about 35% of the detail when you host the image on photobucket because it's limited to 1Mb for free storage.

http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac156/grindedstone/aaa3%20SWTOR/swtor2012-06-1505-48-05-11.jpg

 

An old 4:3 full render of Borderlands 1 I don't own 2 yet, but it's id software so it's the id tech 4+ engine, one of the most detailed in the entire world, it's a wonky half broken video card frying engine, but detailed non the less.

http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac156/grindedstone/aaa3%20SWTOR/Borderlands2012-05-2700-08-00-83.jpg

[huntsman2310]

You should definitely look into the STALKER series,

 

Its three games set inside the Zone of Alienation around Chernobyl, which is now full of anomalies, mutant and criminals trying to get rich off of the artifacts found from the anomalies.

[cooltrickle]

You should definitely look into the STALKER series,

 

Its three games set inside the Zone of Alienation around Chernobyl, which is now full of anomalies, mutant and criminals trying to get rich off of the artifacts found from the anomalies.

 

Agreed. Also, the developers that made the STALKER games have formed a new studio called Vostok Games. They're working on something called Survarium.

 

"Survarium is a free2play MMOFPS game set in the near future. The game focuses on the aftermath of a massive ecological catastrophe on Earth, the reasons behind which are only vaguely known.

 

Impassable woods advance onto cities from every side, as maddened animals and birds attack industrial complexes, military structures, warehouses and power-plants. Strange plants and mushrooms grow through concrete and steel. Scientists all over the world haplessly try to cope with the anomaly expanding with terrifying speed across the planet. Countries collapse; anarchy spreads throughout the world. Now force dictates who can survive.

 

The game is developed with new proprietary Vostok Engine technology and is planned for release on PC by the end of 2013."

[bamff13]

The fairly new game Dishonored, produced by Bethesda look as though it resembled a kind of cross between Fallout and Assassins creed, two of my favorite game series, however upon playing it I was greattly dissapointed with the simplicity of game play, poor detail, terrible graphics and a bland story line.

[matuka123]

DISHONORED, I have completed it. OMG... It was very good game :)! Fallout+Deus EX+Assassin's Creed. It is a very good game, not a bad game.

 

Dishonored deserves 8/10 score. Story + characters + collectibles + Gameplay, make it so good. Graphics unique but technically they are only OK.