» Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:14 pm
I've probably watched the trailer 50 times now as I've tried to formulate an opinion, I'll start with the positives:
I like the shift in aesthetics, the variegation gave fallout 4 a distinct look from the abject gloom in fallout 3.
The redesigned deathclaw and protrectrons look excellent IMO.
Some of the environments looked beautiful, specifically the scenes with the deathclaw (draw distance looked good on the destroyed pylons), the crab in the sand and the dog under the bridge.
The implementation of airships is interesting and not an option I expected. Which serves to reify the general focus on advanced technology and rebuilding of society potentially, with the latter being something I've sedulously advocated.
What I dislike:
Reliance on fallout tropes, super mutants, power armour, vaults are all the cynosure of the design philosophy, as it was in fallout 3...
The guy in the trenchcoat is most likely an android, while I advocate advanced technology and rebuilding of society, android technology should not be possible in the fallout universe.
At least not to the risible advancement of harkness, who believed he was human and functioned as such, even shaving and bleeding.
Voiced protagonist may limit dialogue and writing as everything wrote for the PC now has to be recorded (presumably twice for each six).
Graphics underwhelemed, Fallout with all of it's hype and Bethesda with all of it's purported talent and money shouldn't be releasing a game that is objectively inferior graphically to the witcher 3, a game with less hype, a publisher with less money and a game that is released at least 6 months prior to Fallout 4.