The design of the site isn't the impressive thing but the content, the knowledge an alleged prankster would have to posses through extensive research would be astounding for someone

just having a piss at a bunch of fans for a month. Sure Morse Code is simple and yes word scrambles with a cipher isn't hard but the knowledge behind that stuff ain't easy, otherwise

games would be a lot more in depth on their settings than the shotty work that most do. Like a friend of mine has stated previously when I showed him the site," This is some Bethesda

level Redacted right here".

Still down for me

I guess because they have God like powers on the forum, get free stuff and have credits on Bethesda games... but yeah they don't have inside knowledge of Bethesda.

Then you unestimate the Fallout Community. There are still people to this day making mods for the orginal Fallouts.

Hell there is an Online Fallout mod using the orginal Fallouts called FOline Reloaded ==> http://fonline-reloaded.net/

Reddit users on IRC have posted this as concept art, but I very much doubt it. It doesn't look anywhere near as good as it was for F3.

http://s9.postimg.org/ac33tkejz/image.jpg

What you don't get is as soon as AKQA is found the whole game is over and FO4 is confirmed. What's so hard about to understand here. Sure you have to look amateurish to hide the fact that it s profesionally done. Do you really think Spike TV would be happy if FO4 was announced before they can get the ratings. I don't get you??

It's not about announcing FO4 . It's about teasing the announcement.

it is down for me

but I use this link to get there

http://12072299.tumblr.com/

i think it's worth noting re: the "skepticism" that most Fallout fans who care enough to post here are cynical and jaded as [censored] and sometimes prone to ignore things in spite of overwhelming evidence

whether or not this is real or fake it would be met with the same exact doubt as it currently is

Maybe they couldn't afford to hire anyone fancy, cause they blew all their money getting Bryan Cranston or Ryan Gosling or whoever popular nowadays to say a few lines for their precious game. Pretty sure all other voice acting had to be done by Todd Howard, the female ones as well.

Or it could be that the actual hype campaign starts with a VGA announcement, and this is just some [censored] they give as a bonus to the dedicated fans, something they have to do by themselves, cause Zenimax only gave their blessings but no money at all (at least not for this).

what content are you talking about? a sentence or two about the institute? the only "research" some would have had to do is read the fallout 4 wiki where it mentions the boston rumor.

Who cares about the shareholders? [censored] those guys. This is Fallout 4, this is the big cheese. There aren't one way to run a company... Any video games company who has passion and give a damn about game quality knows that sometimes it is worth it to act erratically. Beth employees aren't running on constant deadlines like EA or IW.

Orcam's razor: My guess is that they build the website ahead of time so it is functional and ready to go by the time of the official announcement. So that means when it is announced, then people will have a load of quality contents to look forward to. This whole code things is just so people can pass the time and have fun while the site is continue building.

People need to look at this in a more positive light and just hope.

The moderators here are only members - but if we did know anything we couldn't share it anyway.

your kidding right? Bethesda has enough money they could never make another fallout game and not consider the money they spent to get the right that big of a loss.

So if I were to see something posted by Bethesda on this site about a possible Fallout 4 I would bash it out of spite? I don't think so.

"Overwhelming evidence" Show me some "Overwhelming evidence." So far this is all based on "Oh but Bethesda hasn't stopped it so it must be real."

Down again....

Zzzzz.

Well Adam IS dead.*

*I don't mean that in any disrespectful way whatsoever, Adam is probably my favorite artist to ever grace the gaming world. Forgive me

Money they have to control as the overlords instruct them. If they said: "we'll let you do this, but you can't use our money to finance it, deal with it" they would have to (deal with it i mean). But then again, throwing dedicated fans a bone like this ain't what the Bethesda devs are famous about, so...

Any company that has shareholders cares about their shareholders. The bottom line is everything. Money is everything. They don't just piss it away on a whim even if they are as rich as Bethesda.

They could still afford to get better concept artists. I'm not saying it's bad, it's just not the standard I'd expect, and it doesn't look distinctively Fallout.

Hold on there cowboy, this isn't EA or Ubisoft we are talking about here. Bethesda actually makes what THEY want to and cares less about the bottom line than most devs because

unlike other teams they actually know that whatever they decide to make will make their investment back with interest every single time because they are that brilliant.

I'm going to choose to remain positive. The site is real and when the countdown reaches zero, Bethesda and/or Zenimax will come clean and announce Fallout 4 (or Fallout Online. Not what I would prefer, but I'd probably still get it.)

If there hasn't anything changed in the meantime (my info is a bit old) Bethesda/Zenimax is still privatly owned. So no shareholders.

The hard part is that it makes absolutely no sense. You want people to know that Fallout 4 is coming and a formal announcement is going to be made. You want people to look forward to the formal announcement. You don't create a badly made website that directs the community towards bickering about the legitimacy of the website, rather than creating a self-perpetuating cycle of hype.


Marketing budgets are separate from development budgets and are handled separately. Again, remember who you're talking about. Bethesda is not a garage upstart. It's a company owned by a media giant.


The developers, for starters? The shareholders own the company and they decide the course. Any marketing head who would greenlight an amateurish thing like the survivor website would be losing his job the moment anyone realized just how much potential was wasted here.

Also, you don't act erratically in a business. If you do, you're fired. Sorry, but that's reality.


Occam's Razor doesn't work like that. In a nutshell, it means that the simplest answer (requiring the least assumptions) is usually the right one.

In this case, assuming that the site is a hoax is the simplest answer.

Otherwise you have to start making excuses for a long string of incompetence at the hands of the site's author, such as making constant updates to the code (precluding the theory that this was made in advance), use of GPL code authored by a Polish programmer (who doesn't even pop up on the first page when you Google for javascript countdown), placement of the site on a Polish server, fraudulent registration of the domain (using Polish credentials, claiming that ZeniMax is incorporated in Poland), and so on and so forth.

I'm calling major BS on this. My pessimism has never failed me, same thing with the Redguard DLC nonsense a while back. Everybody wanted to believe it so they shut their eyes from the obvious. Understandable but if this is Bethesda then they are really mucking it up.

The bethesda website says BGS is hiring for a concept artist, so maybe thats something.

It doesn't work that way. If they seem like a cavalier type of company to you than that is what they want you to see. They have to have budgets and reports and expenditures and meetings all the time like every other company.

They can't just walk into the office and on a whim spend money because of an "everything we do is pure gold" mentality.