Anyone think the will add a folder for us to drag and drop MP3s to add our own songs to the radio? MGS5 did this and frankly I can't believe its taken until now for an open world game to do it. [censored], for that matter I can't believe so many open world games make it impossible to listen to the radio outside of cars (Saints Row 3 or 4, or both, is the only example where they made it everywhere that I can think of. I believe it was supposed to be playing through your phone. Even MGS5 stopped it every cutscene, or level restart, or whatever). Obviously this would be a PC only feature, but assuming the in game radio already works by reading MP3s this shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

And yea, yea I know you could just use headphones (someone says this on every forum/facebook post/article where anyone mentions and idea like this), but its more immersive and convinient to have it in game. Especially if the game devs designed it to auto-stop, pause, or quite down durning dialouge and cutscenes.

I have a ton of music that I love, but I voted no. They put a lot of thought into the soundtrack they have in the game and it fits the environment better than anything I could come up with, so I'll stick with what they have in-game. If we were talking about GTAV, then I'd say hell yes.

I replaced all the music in oblivion with Morrowind music so you can already do it if you know what files to replace. Just not as simple as a folder labeled "custom music".

yeah, but thats the issue. it should be that simple. I tried doing it in FO3 and it was a huge pain in the ass, and you were limited to only as many songs as they originally had in the game. Plus it overrote the original tracks, so you couldn't just switch between your music and the game's provided music on the fly.

true, but it gets dull after 100 hours. and personally I'd rather listen to my music sometimes, especially durning firefights. I don't mind that it doesn't neccesarily fit the vibe of the game perfectly.

Given that they design their soundtracks & radio stations to fit together into the theme/atmosphere/etc of the games? Very doubtful.

Why are you talking about MGSV as if they did something new? I was able to do this in San Andreas, and I presume most other GTA games too.

It's not so simple any more. Now they have situational playlists set up to play songs based on context, like for quests events or locations. And they don't use mp3s in an open folder any more, either; it's xwm files packed into a BSA.

All of that said, I'd freaking love if they gave us a system to import our own tracks to make a user-defined radio station, like Grand Theft Auto.

I was pretty much the opposite - I liked Fallout 3's soundtrack so much I burned a Galaxy News Radio CD and listened to it in my car

Someone will make custom radio station mods just like they did in Fo3 and FoNV.

Friggin' BSA files. Even oblivion's music wasn't very easy to change. In the music folder were more than a few subfolders for each situation. I meticulously changed them all (after backing up of course). I doubt BSA files can be changed without complicated measures though do they got us bent over on that one.

Hey, don't knock BSAs. Bethesda's wicked good at file compression. Now, they'd have to set up the infrastructure specifically for user-defined radio stations, but they could easily do something like what GTA does and make it super easy to drop in music files for one particular radio station to play. I don't think they'll do it, but it would be nice.

I never could get those mods to work, unfortunately, but you're probably right. But those most likely wouldn't make it onto the consoles - the mods I'm thinking of are applications that generate an .ESP file for you after you fill in a few parameters and put your music in the right place. Wouldn't be able to upload any of those plugins onto the online mod platform for consoles without running into those pesky licensing issues.

because I was under the impression that it was a new. Its the first game I've played that let you do it, though I also only moved to PC two years ago. to my knowledge though, you can't do that in GTA5. and iirc you also can't listen to the radio through your phone in GTA5 either.

Uhm no? What kind of sense does it make to add modern music to Fallout? Totally ruins the immersion.

Maybe if you play on console. PC version of GTA V has a folder for custom music and even has a radio station in game for it.

Oh, I love it as well. I just got tired of hearing the same stuff for the 1000th time durning long stretches of gameplay or when I'd played pretty regularly for a couple of weeks. In fact I'm disappointed that the vinyl soundtrack they are releasing is only the score and not the licenced songs they used for FO3.

yeah but assuming bethesda hasn't dramatically changed their file types/strucutre it will probably be BSA files or something similar that requires pain in the ass workarounds, or mods where others chose music rather than letting you put your own stuff in.

Here's the ultimate solution to your problem should they not include a custom music folder....you can put music on in the background with a sesperate program or even a separate device. I have a pause button on my keyboard that works for programs like ITunes even when it's in the background while I'm gaming out. Not really the end of the world if they don't include it. Just takes a little initiative. Haha I do it all the time for games such as the Witched 3 when I get tired of walking around with the default game music.

Fair enough. I'll admit that on one playthrough I was in the middle of a quest, and Three Dog decided to play "Mighty, Mighty Man" twice back to back (with a news break in between). I dropped what I was doing and marched straight to GNR and melted him into goo.

Well technically it shouldn't just be 50s/60s music because fallout history goes till 2077, so realistically there definitely would have been some advancement musically, whether it would have reflected what we have now or not. Of course the music fits the asthetic more, but what you put in that file is up to you. If you don't care about immersion or don't think it would ruin it for you (come on, your suspension of disbelief really ends when a modern song plays, despite flying ships, laser weapons, mutants, ect?) its not a big deal. and you could always use it to put more classic songs in instead.

Note: sorry about the multiple posts. I'm used to a forum that auto-merges subsequent posts, so it didn't even occur to me to use the multiquote option.

Uggh, didn't you read my first post? lol. Someone always says that, but this lacks the immersion benefit of having it in game and the convinience of automatically quieting, rather than pausing, during dialouge, and stopping for cutscenes. Plus I'm sure I'm not alone in prefering to play games and watch movies with the lights off, so I'd rather not go from the game to a bright screen at night (even with the brightness turned down its still bright in the dark).

Its not a big deal really, I just feel like it isn't (or shouldn't be, if they set up their music player taking this idea into consideration) hard for devs to add but is a neat and convinient feature for players so I'd like to see most open world games incorporate it. Given that fallout 3 is still one of my favorite games of all time, I naturally want to see this in FO4 the most.

Immersion shmimmersion, it's a user-defined radio station - you'd put whatever you want on it. If you want it to stay "immersive", just put appropriate music in it. If you don't care, throw in some Tom Waits and Gorillaz.

This isn't something that Bethesda would do, I think. But you can expect that a mod will likely be made so that you can have a custom music radio station to play from your pip-boy as others have mentioned, which would work better imo than playing music outside of the game if it pauses when it needs to such as when the pc is talking to others.

Why is this even a poll...? "Should they..." or "Do you want..." is poll-appropriate, "Will they.."? We can't truly know. Most of us would likely guess 'no' to that question anyway.

Modern music? You can add more 60's music if you decided too.

Hell I already have some fallout tunes so I'm just gonna put all of the fallout 3 and new vegas songs on my memory stick and use it while playing on my ps4.

Couldn't agree more.

Uh, no. This isn't GTA. The expectation of it makes no sense.