Edit : Due to popular demand I'll allow people to confirm/deny and discuss the presence of Mirelurks/Yao Guai/Geckos. If I can get a Yao Guai as a pet/Mount and raise them, and whether the gun mechanics and damage system is akin to NV or FO3. Anything more than that though, is too still too much. Thanks for at least following what I asked for so far.

Right, I barely watched the Trailer due to self-censoring, so I don't need to know much to know I'm buying the game. With that in mind, NO SPOILERS PLEASE! Any information released outside of that original trailer is not wanted in this thread, and I will report any such attempts to the Mods. I do not want to know, please respect that.

Now that's out of the way, let me begin with what I want in the game :

- Mirelurks and Yao Guai. Maybe Geckos, if possible. I liked Mirelurks, because they were weird, underrated and underused. A new incarnation or redesign of these guys would be welcome.

Yao Guai, on the other hand, are my favourite Fallout animals. I don't just want them in the game. I want to kick Dogmeat out, and have a Yao Guai as a pet. We saw Scavengers have them as pets in FO3, so it's about time we (the player) got the same. I want them to level up and get stronger, I want to be able to have one as a Mount and I want to be able to give him upgradable Armour (like Armour Plating). I'm think at least Metal Armour, with extra spikes. This is something I really, really want to see, I so hope it catches on.

As for Geckos, they were always kinda cool in New Vegas, and some were even not hostile. Much like having a Yao Guai, having a pack of Geckos would be very awesome. If I had to choose though, Yao Guai is still my favourite.

- The vastly improved Gun mechanics and damage systems from New Vegas have to return, we can't go back to FO3's 85% DR VATS and all that stuff. I'm hoping they've at least kept it NV style, or modified that template even further. It was a vastly superior experience in that regard, in my opinion.

- And, for my final hope, the one everyone can agree on, I would like Fallout 4 to please try to not have many game-breaking, save corrupting or total game crashing bugs and glitches. These are usually far, far easier to deal with on PC, but for console users, it can totally kill the game. If it crashes, our only alternative is usually a hard reset, and with games like these (Bethesda RPGs), they can cause no end of problems for console gamers. We all know to back up our saves, use multiple save files, turn autosave off if it's contributing to loading errors, loading an earlier save then the one you want to get back to where you were, and generally being aware of everything that can and may go wrong.

However, this brings me to my main and central concern :

- A whole world of gamers are psyched for Fallout 4, and it's bringing scores of people to prepare in anticipation. I don't mean to add any additional pressure to you guys at Bethesda, but there's millions of people who are going to be upset if the game doesn't run to a fair and functional degree. Those preorders are made out of trust, including my own, and no-one expects miracles, but we can't have a year's worth of patches to bring it up to being playable post-release. If it suffers from any really serious issues at release, all it'll do is justify the attitude (an attitude I condone, understand and have done before) that holding off buying the game until the inevitable GOTY edition is the best course of action. It saves time, money and stress for the customer if they just treat the game like an announcement and wait for the "full version" to come out later.

And we all know there will probably be a season pass and DLC, so it really is imperative that FO4 works universally on all the platforms it's on, when it releases on 10th November.

So, that's pretty much everything I wanted to say (as far as I can remember).

Please Bethesda, the Yao Guai are counting on you.

Well, uh, the No Spoilers decree kinda kills all discussion on the matter, but...Glad you were able to put that out there?

I mean, there was an entire 30 minute E3 presentation that showed A LOT.

Was there a question there or something? If so I missed it.

I can't really talk about much else ... you know ... spoiler assumptions.

We can agree that we hope there are no game breaking bugs, I guess. Seems everything else would be off limits.

shaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuun

Fine, give me a min to edit it. I guess everyone knows everything already. @_@

Edit : OP has been edited.

Well, not EVERYTHING...

...I can say for certain that Yao Quai are in the game. I can tell you that much.

lots to say, but...

spoilers....

As a Pet/Companion? Are Mirelurks back?

Yao Guai were the best. Deathclaws are the favourites to win in every fight, but I always root for the underdog (underbear in this case).

Message to OP re: spoilers.

So much information has already been extracted from the E3 footage, it would be impossible to completely avoid spoilers whilst viewing threads on this forum. This is especially true before an actual proper spoiler section is created.

Just to demonstrate a point: on several of my own threads, I have posted various parts of a very detailed and extensive theory. This theory takes into account literally hundreds of details from the footage, the trailer, and the many interviews we have seen. And as such it would be highly unlikely that everything I have proposed were to be somehow proved incorrect, especially given the sheer number of correlations between the various details.

So just bear this in mind as you read. Although I personally love reading all of the ideas that others have posted, I also know that by the time the game launches, just by the fact of being active on here, we are all far more likely to know what is going on in the game than those who do not use the forum.

That's a given, I only came on to mostly voice my hopes and concerns and hope that Bethesda read them and take note. Perhaps a show of like-mindedness or agreements on what I said as well. Just because some people can't help themselves and have to seek out and speculate over every detail, doesn't mean they can't relate to some, if not most, of what I said. And speculation being just that, what is known, is far different from what people think they know.

The best result I hope for is like I said, Bethesda to take note, people to relate and maybe have my questions answered.

Seems fair, right?

OP. I'm glad you're trying to go into the game blind. I mean that's honestly the best experience. The thrill of discovering the unknown. Best of luck to you on that.

That said SPOILERS there'll be radiation.

You've ruined the game! D:<

Yeah though, that's always my thinking. Especially since "games journalism" became more and more spoiler focused and utterly irrelevant besides. If I like a franchise or game enough, and the last game was great, provided I hear no startling news before release, the game gets bought. It's the way I tend to operate and have done for years.

I had a hard time avoiding Skyrim spoilers a few years back, but I feel like I got a lot more out of the game than most. I was so stunned when Lycanthropy turned up and just fell in love with it after I turned. Definitely one of my many awesome Skyrim memories.

Self-censoring is pretty much essential if you want to get the most out of your games. The sense of discovery is part of what makes Bethesda RPGs so enjoyable.

the fact that there are so many people on the hype train the train might crashes in disappointment.

But then again, the glass may even end up being half full.

Half Full 3 confirmed.

I tend to avoid hype like the plague. My investment in Fallout 4 comes from my immense enjoyment of FO3 and NV. Admittedly, I joined these Forums because of New Vegas and my unplayable save files which killed a few of my playthroughs, so I mostly turn up to do bug reporting whenever a new gamesas RPG comes out.

Hype is pretty toxic imo, and I've been gaming so long I find it almost impossible to get genuinely excited for any video game anymore. The best I can hope for is a sense that something will be worthwhile and relatively enjoyable. Gaming lost it's novelty around the turn of the millennium for me. Games like Jet Force Gemini and Perfect Dark were the last ones I was ever truly excited about. :/

in some ways thats sad what i seen from fallout and halo 5 has me very excited some the few games that like you said get pumped up for.

rampage for commodore 64 is my first game.

this shocking i know

We haven't seen or heard about any companions so far, not even human ones. But like the other person posted, yao guai are going to be in the game. Don't know about some being domesticated or anything though

Wow! I used to own a C64 myself back in the day.

Which reminds me. On the setup screen for the Pip-Boy, it actually says "64k ram system" and then "38911 bytes free"

We should start a petition.

I really love the Yao Guai, in spite of their appearance, because I half feel sorry for them and half just see them as the natural animals that they are. I mean, they're just irradiated bears. Their breathing sounds terrible, and I kinda want to help them. Pretty much all other wildlife are either insects (or insect like), genuine abominations, already socially accepted in places (like some Mole Rats, Dogs), or not possible to domesticate. We've seen domesticated Yao Guai, it's just the next logical step imo.

i will try to explain what you want to hear! i have seen mirlurks in the trailer, but i havent seen gheckos. the gun mechanics have been greatly improved with a huge i mean fricken massive amount of gun customization. (not spoiling how much because im not sure if you want to know). vats is now a slow motion moving type of vats with dynamic percentages. i hope that covered what you wanted to know

Thanks, man.

Gun customisation is one thing though, whether they handle it well and make it feel good is another. Take BOREDerlands for example (I'm not a fan as you can guess). They've got "a bazillion guns" and they all feel terrible. I bought BL2 in the hope that they'd improved on BL1 and it was the opposite. It's a tedious numbers game focused around mindless grinding.

Take Doom by comparison. Even in Doom 3, that Double Barreled Shotgun felt amazing. That's why I use Dinner Bell in New Vegas with Shotgun Perks. Damage Threshold added so much to the game, modified VATS so it wasn't as OP and the way it sectioned off the tougher areas by simply making the enemies themselves tough. You could overcome it if you tried, but you could also come back later. Conversely, if you were late-game, you could resist lesser attacks almost completely. It gives that RPG sense of progression but with an in-game mechanic that's also open to experience, knowledge and skill.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know. Glad to see Mirelurks back.

guns seem to be balanced though. from the looks of it, they seem to actually have weight to them. i dont know how to describe it, but its a good different in my opinion.

what else blow your mind is their making a rampage Movie

on topic don'ty have any love for mutant black bears we have enough in canada lol

I look forward to checking it out on 10th November. I've got a Dental appointment sometime that week too. I think that's the 12th though.