I wish i am wrong and that you all will later say ..we told you its going to be awesome,,BUT.....The more i listen Todd the more i am certain they made pure FPS aka Call of Duty style shooter just set in post apocalyptyc world. , with rpg elements as cosmetics. Silence about story is going to back fire at all of us with poor story (thats why they are silent) ,while all of you expect something great. All this huge hype is going to blow up in our faces as soon as you realised that they made poor story with lack of dark humor ,lack of true freedom to do what ever you want( invincible children) and lack of everything that Fallout is. Zillions of weapons and playing like Rambo after few hours of the game is ok for brainless FPS but not Fallout (but as far i can see 90% people like brainless shooters,i wonder why? )

This thread will go nowhere fast.

I doubt it will end up as a FFP but yes we could end up with a very weakened story. I hope it will not end up like this and the secrecy is so we all get a nice surprise

This is like your third thread on this, at least to be a bit more subtle.

This OP is drenched in poetic irony.

this dude is ridiculous

-Watches as this thread blows up-

it's like some people want a barebones version of the game just rehashed over and over again lol

Anyone who doesn't like fallout 4 or doesn't want it needs to get the heck off these forums and go find a game they like better... It is very simple. If you think fallout 4 is simply a shooter after the details we know skills, and settlement building ect you are delusional. COD has a few hour long campaign and this has 400 with an open world. Haters gonna hate...

(sigh)

I thought we had established that silence about the story is to preserve the surprise.

Naturally silence/lack of information also proves:

• the Loch Ness monster
• Roswell Aliens
• The shooter on the grassy knoll

etc...

(no it doesn't)

And being able to do what you want does not extend to casual child murder,

that's a one way ticket to the game getting re-certified, cut, or banned.

I'd put the chance of not screwing up at 95%,

but we'll see won't we...

Nah man. The story will actually be fine. One thing about Bethesda, when they set their mind to something, they will go overboard with it. I'm more worried about survival crafting, hardcoe mode, reloading and weapon and ammo types. They are dead silent about those things as well. I expect the story (and companions) to actually be a highlight. Their silence in that is probably more to build suspense than anything. I hope their silence on the other things is not to defer disappointment.

Yeah, well...this thread isn't going well which is what one should expect when strolling into a fan site to make such predictions for a game we know little to nothing about on the fansite established for the fans of that game.