I think if you use the wiki during your first playthru you are cheating yourself out of a lot of the game.....just my opinion.

Discovery is half the fun to me. The only way I would stop playing on release is if the game has issues. Remember Skyrim on release day?

If my game is glitchy or crashs more than a normal B game I will put it away and wait for updates.

i still haven't really played skyrim yet after having 1000 hours in the CK.

IF FO4 is 64 bit, then i most likely will play the game within a month or two of the release since modding will be limitless, so i can radically change the original experience.

this is probably the first release where i think the vanilla game might be strong on its own.

Play how you want. I would suggest a re-roll, multiple character builds, and/or 1000's of saves.

My first play through of any Bethesda game is an absolute mess, and I love it. Making mistakes and absolutely screwing something up is part of what makes a blind run of a game so much fun. You will have years after Fallout 4 is released to research things and do a perfect play through of the game, I wouldn't waste the one opportunity to really experience true exploration of the game world.

Right there with you buddy on the whole "knowing the consequences of my decisions before I make them" thing. That being said, assuming they haven't gone out of business yet, Prima Games usually makes a deal with Beth to put out a mean strategy guide before the game is released; Fallout 3 had a fantastically written guide that I loved leafing through even when I wasn't playing.

The game is ment to be played how you want. That being said... Killing the wrong people is fine... that's what multiple play throughs are for!! I do find it strange that you don't wanna play an exploration game, until everything is mapped out for you.. but it's your money play how you wish.

Play through a few times before you get meta with it.
You may not spoil the plot for yourself, but finding something based only on playing the game is much more rewarding, IMO.

eh, i can kind of seen what he is saying. There are several instances in bethesda games i have noticed, where some stuff (quest, or item, or whatever) are so well hidden, that the only possible way of finding it is super, super lucky out of nowhere lucky, or knowing about it ahead of time.

heck, for me, realizing i missed some unique, or rare item or quest that i could have used or liked REALLY gets to me sometimes.

Look, Im not ruining the story, I just need to know if I need to find something before I never have the chances of doing it. Like, Tranquility lane! Doing the quest while being good? You had to do the code in a way I would have never figured out, and I never did. I wont read the entire wiki, just use it as a guide when I get at a cross road.

Replicated Man? I didn't know you could get the cool Gun and the Android component. I was about to just give the component. But you could get both items, by doing a little, "cheat" and killing the old guy after you tell him.

Then I would definitely pick up the game guide the day the game comes out, that way you can play day one but still have something to refer to when at a crossroads.

it well take maybe a week for a wiki to come avaiable

That's cool and all.
but you shouldn't be able to get everything in every play through anyway, particularly not the first one.

I meta game the crap out of F3. I have "battle plans" for all unique items and side quests- so I do see the appeal.
But I can't see doing that on the very first play through.
Just my opinion and obviously people are going to play how they want.
Cheers

When I played FO1 I didn't have the manual. I didn't even know my character could run. I'd wait for him to tiptoe screens away.
So yeah. Playing with the Wiki on really helps.

I'm still not playing the Baldur's Gate games without the Wiki. The older games especially have a lot of "Where do I go?" and "what do I do?" moments.
Let's not even discuss the bugs.
That's why when I was a kid, Diablo was the only PC RPG I played. Simple interface. Sure my skill point distribution was off but I still got to the end of the game.

Well, I dont think Im ruining the game. I love exploring the unknown, and I love finding unexpected things.

When I went to find the White House, I can say that I would rather never read the Wiki first honestly. Because it was a blast going through that mess. But it would have been nice to know where I was going.

Okay. Well, you play your way.

Me personally, I'm gonna be at the midnight opening at GameStop with a ticket for my pre ordered copy.

You'll always have the forums to ask questions.

I lost my virginity to a forum

Game virginity.

Not the other thing. I lost that to a tree. I was only 7...

thats what i do but i only look stuff up for character builds, i like the plan ahead for what perks i wanna get. also when a puzzle defeats me .

Your missing out on the exploring aspect of the game, but if that doesn't worry you then go ahead.

I like the exploring aspect. I will not look up everything, if I hear about a cool place, then I will just look up where it is on the map wiki, then head for it there.

So you're gonna wait for wiki's and walkthroughs. You do you, I do me.

I personally kinda relish that "Living in the moment" feel with Fallout games. Just playing it naturally, what happens happens (to some degree, sometimes I cheese certain things. I'm only human). For instance, in Fallout 3, when I first arrived at Tenpenny Tower, I saw that little exchange with that Ghoul, and he was walking away, and I could have sworn the gun he was carrying looked unique to me. Or a model I'd never found yet.

It was my first, and only, cold-blooded homicide in a Fallout game. Locked me out of that side of that quest I would come to find out much later.

But yeah, Kamikaze...You just do you, man.

Yea, I will play how I play. I just wanted to know if I was the only one, and its nice to know I am not.

We have people like you all to run through the game, and post back here, "DONT PUNCH BETTY IN TRANQUILITY LANE"