why are you overhyping this game bethesda you already lnow it will be one of the main contenders for the game of the year , you know this game going to be succesfull and still

iwhy do you only show demo s to a select few , mostly those working on the many gamingsite and channels and not your truefans / customers and therefore even fuelling the hype even more , why all the secrecy or is there something you do not want to tell us like by example that you basivly said goodbye to the openworlf rpg games you so well known for and instead given us a linear narrative driven story line ,

that why the voiced protagonist , why even bother to create a character if it is going to be the same character on every play thru

the rubberband scalling or a more subtile way of saying we did exactly like in new vegas and killed any form of exploration by forcing you to go only in one direction because wz do not want players to screw up our beautifull scripted storyline

why all the wecrecy about the mainstory or is this just to hide the fact that it is so linear and no matter what choices you make it doesn't matter , almost exactly like the witcher where no choice really matter only choice that do matter are those that decide with which of those female npcs you have a sixscne with triss yennifer or both

and why is that stupid dog so overhyped or is this a way of telling us that you still didn't fixed the companions AI and human follower will do the most awefull stupied things

i could be complete wrong on all those thing and i am just in a dark brooding mood today

And this ladies and gentlemen is why you shouldnt let your emotions stear your head when you write forum posts

I think this game should be hyped more than any game ever because I have never been more excited for a single game. I'm in the boat of not being a fan of the voiced protagonist, but I do feel that even if I only get two playthroughs (male/female) because of it, it will be EPIC.

Seemed to me that there is a lot less hype for F4 than for Skyrim. That may just be me though.

Wasn't Skyrim announced almost a year before its release? Maybe not quite that long, but it did seem like the wait between announcement and release was way longer than it has been for Fallout 4. Also maybe with Skyrim it seemed like the competition wasn't quite as fierce, now everyone and their mother seems to be making huge, immersive, AAA, open-world titles.

I have to ask, what hype? Pretty much I just hear about FO4 here in the Fallout section of the forums. I was hearing about Skyrim left and right, but it's been quiet so far.

We only get a Fallout game from Bethesda once every 7 yrs! Deserves a fair amount of hype in my world.

FALLOUT 4 IS A CONSPIRACY BY THE ILLUMINATI TO TAKE YOUR MINDS BY PLAYING A COMPUTER GAME. SPECIAL GROUPS OF THE CIA WILL USE THE INFORMATION YOU CHOSE IN FALLOUT 4 TO ACTIVATE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES IN GAME TO TURN YOU OFF RED MEAT AND ONTO POULTRY.

Do not wear a hat in game as it is known to reduce your intelligence score!

ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROLL!

This, words to live by.

Given the recent revelations, would this really surprise people? I mean wasn't Angry Birds effectively used to mass collect data on its users by government agencies in some way? People who suggested governments around the world were involved in mass surveillance and data collection programs targeting regular civlians used to be mocked and discredited like this.

How I feel about Fallout 4:https://youtu.be/hUIxxIhgopA

Punctuation OP. It is a thing. I mean no disrespect if you're intoxicated, if this isn't your first language, etc, etc. It's just a little hard to read, that's all.

The fact of the matter is, we the fan base are the ones who are fueling the hype train, not Bethesda. We got the hype train rolling to ludicrous speed before they even announced the game. Their announcing it and releasing game info bit by bit before launch is just standard procedure.

For all my cynicism about Bethesda's bad writing/ story telling track record, I really do love the studio and their games. Been playing them since the days of Morrowind and Oblivion, and while I've pretty much stopped playing other games, I'm still religiously playing the fallout and TES games (thanks to mods keeping them fresh).

This game appears to have a lot to be hyped about, and I'm greatly anticipating it's arrival. Will it have flaws? No doubt. Will it be the game everyone expects it to be? Probably not, you can't please everyone. But I have no doubt it will be a fun game, and I trust it will be another Bethesda-style "free time black hole" kind of game that I can relax and loose myself in for a while after a long days work. So I'm greatly looking forward to it.

Trust me, he isn't drunk. That's just redguard.

There's been a video released to the public so far, and a bit more information received second-hand from the press viewing a closed demo of the game... I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more in the few months left before the game comes out, personally.

They're also trying to convey as much information as possible in a limited amount of time - they're going to focus on a couple key selling points for these, and they're likely to be the elements with the most visual "bang for the buck." So obviously you're going to see a lot of gore and shooting mechanics and other things that you can get the gist of from seeing a couple seconds of it in action.

This is Bethesda, they make a particular sort of game, but not all of the things that go into that type of gameplay are going to be easy to convey in a couple seconds during an announcement trailer. I mean how would you, in fifteen seconds, show that a game is open-ended with lots of sidequests and not a linear story? What series of images would convey that?

I've been pretty critical of the Bethesda Hype Train regarding Skyrim, and I can tell you with Fallout 4, I have not seen that train roll into town as of yet. If you are seeing it, that is a creation of your doing, not Bethesda's.

Beth can, and obviously should advertize their games, but the Skyrim Hype Train should (and hopefully will) remain a thing of the past.

Am I the only one who sees ''FALLOUT 4 HYPE'' everywhere?

They've made it clear in every interview they do not want to give away the story line. They want it to be a surprise. If they keep showing the game eventually people could figure it out. They could probably show bits and pieces from different side quests to avoid that, but that would probably just lead to more hype.

Yep, you're right it was close to that. Definitely a longer amount of time than F4. As to the competition, I can't even remember what was up against Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City maybe? I don't know.

What if redguards fears become reality,And you preorder it expecting true non linear rpg fallout 4 ?? Will you ask for money back? Or you ll act like a sheep and do nothing?

no worries, because they wont, nothing we seen and heard so far has proven that this will be anything but the sandbox action rpg we come to expect from beth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKrOoq3LKrw&feature=youtu.be&t=7m53s

Bethesda are playing a stunning marketing game.

The focus is not what information is released, the focus is on getting a bunch of people talking about it.

• The teaser pre-E3 was clever because in the days running up to E3 when other studios were holding back their reveal, all people were talking about was Fallout 4, including the infamous 'let's go pal...'.
• The showcase was a presentation masterclass with treat upon treat being dropped (just listen to the audience).
• The success of Fallout Shelter, essentially a Fallout 4 promotional tool, and with the Android release imminent a second wave of press.
• The demand for the Pip-Boy edition has occupied game new media and underlines demand.
• The restricted demos further hype players by NOT sharing stuff with them.

Yet with all this

• Almost no story aside of the obvious has been leaked.
• Mechanics have been shared without spoiling anything.

In short Bethesda have over-hyped very little, it is the games press and the players getting excited that have done Bethesda's marketing job for them.

And there's only 94 days to go.

What? Really? Man, I could have sworn it was only like a month or two away. My comprehension of time is a mess these days. On a more positive note, 94 days gives them plenty of time to work on some early post-release patch for the dialog system, let's hope they go all out and include a traditional Bethesda dialog system in it. But I'll just as happily take them adding an option to display the full sentence in the dialog options wheel instead of several word contractions.

consider beth has said the game is featurewise done, one wiuld assume the only thing they want to do is optimise code and crush bugs, any patch ins they choose to do of extra features wil most likely not be workt on until after the game is launched.