Everything Bethesda has released up until this point has attempted to look 'cool', and the rule of cool plagued Fallout 3 more often than not.

By this stage Obsidian had released some information on the story and the developer diaries depicting the political intrigue between the main factions of New Vegas; offering something other than explosions and 'badassery'.

Partially incorrect. Wasteland 2 (the most recent game in the series) was actually the game that the original Fallout 1 dev team wanted to make. I believe they couldn't because EA (and someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), the owner of the IP at the time, renewed the license by releasing some bundle for Wasteland 1.

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ok that is not true, im a huge fan of Fallout, and that trailer was perfect, it wasnt game play or anything is just a small cinematic trailer. Dont speak for every fan. that is just ur opinion

Well not sure what this has to do with the trailer. He certainly wasn't that badass. I mean sure, he did kill a roach without looking but that's not a big deal. I swallowed a spider while sleeping once.

I agree though that the TES games tend to make you some sort of god-sent-prophecy-being of some sort. FO you're just a normal guy/gal. The exception with FO4 is that now you are from the past, so you actually are not part of the current game world so to speak. Hard to tell yet what that means you get to bring with you as far as knowledge and such.

have u play wasteland 2? im glad they didnt make fallout 3, Wasteland 2 is a horrible game with a lot of problem not even the "director cut" edition fix how bad the game is.

Where'd you get that impression from any fallout game? I'm genuinely curious because I'd say everything you said about it is false.

I'd like you to point me to which fallout game, besides tactics, where you are just "some guy".

In 1 you're at least a little anonymous, but surely the overseer chose you for some reason, no?

In fallout 2 you're the chosen one, I mean, that's your name. How can you be chosen one and "some guy". Your statements don't make much sense, but I'll continue.

In 3 you're the son of the only guy who can bring purified water to the wasteland, and you're the only person who knows the code to get it done. Again, some guy?

Finally, in NV you not only survive a shot to the head, but annihilated an entire community with nuclear warheads. While it may have been on accident, Ulysses states the repercussions will be lasting. Still don't feel like I'm "some guy", so I've got to ask again: where do you get that impression?

Utterly ruining any sort of sense of wonder, or mystery, the plot might have, and allowing us to utterly deconstruct everything the climix will turn out to be before the game even releases, making playing through the game a boring slog of predictable "twists" with no real surprises.

That gets me real excited for the game..... not.

I'm not saying fans must not enjoy the trailer.But what is there of substance being shown?

Where did you gather that last part? I'm curious because this video was shown to us by a fan, in a place where fans frequent and I think the general consensus is that people are excited.

You can take a look at the comments of the video if you'd like further proof, and I think you should.

As for calling it a flagrant attempt to "stoke the fires", I'm not sure how you call it that and a trailer aimed at a different demographic. Your statements contradict themselves you see? It's hard to take them seriously when that happens.

As for comparing this with obsidians trailers. I'll have to call that a lie as well; look at their e3 trailer. Nothing but explosions.

Also, I hope you considered the fact that they worked almost exclusively with existing assets; showing people what they've already seen in FO3 would be a bad idea, don't you think? Adopting the same marketing strategy would have been pretty stupid.

Ok? That's an opinion. Luckily Beth doesn't have to build the game for just you. And certainly doesn't have to create trailers in hopes that the few people who aren't even on the fence, come over to the other side and buy the game.

Nah I haven't. Seemed interesting but I really don't have time to play anything at the moment.

Great song, hope there is more like that in the game, video was good, not long now.

u have a horrible understanding on how fallout lie to u, about ur freedom, on all the fallout game u are set on a path bc u are THE GUY, that can save or destroy.

Im tire of reading about post about how ur character is a random person, and in any game u play ur character is the hero or bad guys, no meter what. Happen on all the Fallout game and on all the ES game.

Those are titles mostly that anybody could earn. In the TES games you actually have some magical/deity force of some sort that nobody else has. You are not the one 'Chosen', you are simply THE ONE in TES games.

nothing is a marketing trailer, lol we have 3 weeks to go, is like any game, look a game like witcher 3, 4 week from release we got the cinematic trailer about the Geralt kill ppl near a tree.

This trailer probably will end on Tv.

Todd said he wont give much about Gameplay or story or anything he want it that way.

How so? How could anyone possibly be the lone wanderer when only he know the code to the purifier? How could anyone be the courier when he is the one who destroyed the decide.

How can anyone be the chosen one when you are the chosen one, the offspring of the vault dweller.

That doesn't even begin to refute the claim that in fallout you are "ensnared" by a greater issue, when you've been at the center of it from the beginning in every title.

Well you know, not everything needs to have substance, sometimes things can just be fun.

Well you're far more intelligent and prescient than me because I never deduced the nuances of the plot and faction quarrels from the developer diary.

That's not to say I didn't have a broad stroke understanding of the plot, but the finer detials were painted in at a later date.

But for us mere mortals; with our stunted mammalian brains, a brief overview of the main factions in Fallout 4 wouldn't have extirpated the notion of interest.

Yeah. So there must be multiple doors.

lol u really want to set a fantasy world like ES to be compare to Fallout world, OFCURSE u are chosen by god on ES, is the whole [censored] lore of the game, the ELDER SCROLL is WRITTEN by the god so everything that happen or will happen is the gods playing with the world.

Like i said im not hear to bash off that game i heard its a copy cat off of fallout, i didn't even look at the older one, im talking about number two look at a video of it, looks like it does have similarities tied to it.

Great trailer...and is that an M-14 I see our hero carrying, one-handing a rad roach? Why yes it is!

OooOoo, the plot thickens!

I really thought that was a great little teaser. Just something to hold us over. I'm not really expecting anything substantial to come outta Beth prior to release, nor would I want it. I want the full-blown experience shot straight into my brain on release day, without knowing what to expect AT ALL!

I've always liked live action trailers (when they're not the cheesy as [censored] ones done by an Activision published game). When done right, they can really make a game universe feel real. One reason why I think the live action trailers from the Halo franchise are some of the best trailers because of the amount of effort put into them to really bring you into that world.

Thus, I liked this trailer well enough. If not primarily for the music choice that added to its tone. Makes me look forward to hearing some similar music in Fallout 4 that isn't entirely from the 30s and 40s.