So I was just watching a video where you can build your own house, decorate it and you can also set up generators and plant food in the ground and all that...I mean what about the dramatic conflict and linear storytelling from Fallout 3?

I don't like the option of building what ever you want and setting up what ever you want as Fallout isn't life simulation or at least it wasn't until this game. Sigh.

Fallout 3 was a mix of RPG and FPS which worked like a charm. There was a conflict with the Enclave and you played a hero who fought against them. But with Fallout 4 it seems like building and decorating your own little house is more important. And you have a family as well, even a little baby who probably will survive and hang around.

So is dramatic storytelling being replaced with life simulation gameplay? Building houses and making a family?

No. Not even in the slightest. Building a town is completely optional and you can choose to never do it. If you do, you should still have a perfectly good RPG/FPS to play.

Like the person above me said, it's a optional side thing for funzies. I for one am very excited to play around with this new feature to the series, I love how they keep on adding more and more to the formula to keep things fresh and new! I cannot wait to get creative with some of my base designs too! I'll be sure to share some of them on here if my first one gets enough attention!

Nope, it is still a action/rpg game.

But the family thing is not optional? I sure as don't want a [censored] baby.

You don't have to marry or have a lover or have a baby. I'm not even sure how much of that is available even if you did want it.

No it's not optional...in the beginning...But we however do not know the extent they are going to play in the game, and the devs aren't just going to tell us that.

Look if the game isn't tickling your bones, you don't HAVE to buy it, you know...Or wait for proper reviews. No sense panicking now.

That baby thing is the beginning of the game and is part of the storytelling you seem to be afraid is missing. The family might show up again later, but even then, it'll be part of the story or plot.

But it's clearly proven that you do have a family at the start of the game. Before the nuclear attack happens.

And then you're the sole survivor of the vault you and your wretched family ran to. It's implied that they are dead.

I wouldn't sweat it; it looks like there's lots to shoot. As it should be.

(There's a lot of speculation that as you survived your spouse or child did as well... it could be. There's no way of us knowing at this point.)

Fallout isn't about forcing things on the player. That's just bad writing.

And it's not the same as the player having a father as in Fallout 3 because everyone has a father. But having a family with a baby should not happen in a Fallout game.

That stuff belong in games like The Sims.

You had a family in F3 as well.. The whole first half of F3 was trying to find your dad and then the rest of the story was helping fulfill his dream.

But not everyone has a father that ran away from a vault to work on a major project to bring pure water to the Capital Wasteland.

I'm sorry, but you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.

You are talking about past life. Background to story. No, that isn't optional but the future for the lone survivor is open.

Your conception of Fallout doesn't seem to be based on Fallout.

Consider Todd assures the house building is 100% optional ya free to just ignore it and just focus on roaming the map, just like 3.

Are you seriously comparing the father in Fallout 3 to the wife and baby in Fallout 4?

EVERYONE has a father.

Not everyone has a wife and a baby.

I dont care what genre they call it, Fallout 4 is looking to be the most worth playing FO game yet to me.

You can also romance and shag companions, confirmed, so you're only married in the beginning. Feel free to be liberated after the bombs drop. Problem solved.

Romance in Fallout....meh.

Epic storyline with the Enclave....cool.

And you won't either after the opening sequence.

I'm not sure what your so upset about.. it seems like you just want to argue about something you've made up in your head. If you don't like sim games and think fallout is going to be a sim game, then simply wait until after it's out, watch some videos and make up your mind whether you want to buy it or not.

More unfounded nonsense.

My problem is that Bethesda is ruining Fallout. This looks even worse than New Vegas and that one I didn't even consider canon at all.

I don't care what the story is but having a baby and building your own house....doesn't that sound like The Sims and not Fallout?

Well, everyone makes mistakes and often people end up with a baby they didn't plan. And often they marry their baby's mama. So....life isn't always as we choose either. The bottom line is our character "was" married and "had" a baby. Both past tense. Now they come out alone in a world destroyed. Their life as they knew it also destroyed. What they do now is up to them. Find a companion and romance them or become a loner. Up to each player to decide at that point.

Every story has a beginning.

Right now, we know practically nothing about the story of Fallout 4. You're comparing one small part of the game to the entire main storyline of Fallout 3.