I have.

Which game out of curiosity and what open world rpg did you prefer over it? There have been good games but hard to compete with BGS games.

A synopsis doesnt ruin plot points... Being told I was the dragonborn and that I can consume the souls of dragons and speak the language doesnt ruin the journey. It just gives a general idea of what direction the story will go, the theme of it if you will.

I think you need to make peace with the fact that they ain't spoiling anything more just to satisfy a need for more info, bro.
Just accept it.

I remember the days when we had to get game info from magazines and word of mouth. Now people see like 15 minutes of gameplay plus leaked gameplay plus interviews with Bethesda team members plus tons of pictures and still that is not good enough. I pray for the kiddos these days... It is never enough and they want everything right here and now (instant gratification and all info immediately) I for one am just so dang happy we had to wait only half a year from announcement to release.

Yeah and back then, all you had to go on was a one page or a half page blurb in the magazine.
People just need patience.

It's good. I hate it when they tell us too much of the story. And by "they" I mean the gaming industry in general. I want to find out myself and I avoid anything F4 related that might ruin this.

Also it's good if you think of some fans who love to pick everything apart. "You see that tin can in the background?!?! IT'S A BIT BLUE! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!!1" no and no one cares, stop over-anolyze every damn thing.

I think older gamers complain less. It's usually the kids wanting better graphics and a bunch of crap. I went from playing wario on the original black and white gameboy to skyrim and fallout... I mean how can I complain about current games. I remember playing skyrim on a new 3d TV and thinking it was the most insane thing I had ever seen. 20 years ago I never could have imagined what games would be like these days. I still think the best games ever were star wars galaxies for an mmo and Morrowind for open world rpg.

right?
I remember going to a friends house and occasionally getting a peak at Nintendo Power. The rest was either hearing about a game from a friend, or playing it with them if the have it (see also: waiting for what seems like an eternity before your friend finally let's you play.)

Yeah I would go over to my neighbors house who introduced me to the original Warcraft game (not the mmo for those of you who didn't play the old Warcraft games) and he would let me play one game after he played 10 I got the shaft so had to wash cars to make $ tp buy the game to play on our our crappy family computer.

I wish I could send the whiners back to the days when we had to try and play things on a 56k internet connection. That will show them how lucky they are to have fallout 4 with flaws and all regardless of how good the main story is. In old Mario games the main story was saving some ugly chick from a giant turtle dinosaur guy.... And it was awesome back then.

In a lot of the post-Skyrim interviews, Todd Howard and Bethesda implied that they're pretty confident in the way their worlds are constructed at this point, and for the future they want to improve on their writing (and, in particular, characters). So if Bethesda wants to improve the storyline, and thinks it's good enough to keep under wraps for the marketing campaign (which is already a really quiet campaign, something that I really appreciate), I'll give them that chance. I can't say that it will be great, but I do think Bethesda will make good on their claims.

VA recorded over 13,000 lines! I'm sure we'll have a real narrative...even a decent one.

A proper Fallout game has a proper story. Fallout 3 had abysmal story and thus doesn't deserve it's name. Knowing Beth's reputations I'm seriously concerned.

Eh, it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJLzAzjxc8A.

Most games and movies are rehashes of old ideas. I can't recall the last time I saw something completely unique, original, and awe inspiring; maybe the original star wars movie from the 1970s?. I agree fallout 3 didn't have the best story but the world was fun to explore and the story was mediocre.

I think they took fan feedback to heart and the story will be 10x better than it was in fallout 3. Skyrim was a great story. I still think morrowind was the best overall gameplay and story and the game was pretty original in setting and play.

i call it clever and and evil marketing

show oonly a little bit and let others completely overhype your game with wild speculation and rumours

doesn t matter if your game doesn t meet the expectations wiped up by all the hype and speculation you can always blame them

are we sure EA and bethezsda are not the same company

I love this new approach, there are so few games now a days that leaves you with just teasing clues, leaving you oh so curious.

I understand its a approach not everyone approves, but if so, simply don't pre order the game, wait until launch when more of the story is revealed via reviews and private people comments.

The main story is not important me anyway, i make my own story when i play my own character. Main story amd side quests/missions are just to fill in time.

If people want spoilers and to know what they are getting here is the best idea!

The day the game releases to to the local gamestore. Read through the guide on the shelf and skim through the main story plot. Then you can decide whether or not to buy the game and you are already at the video game store. Flipping through the guide on the shelf is free so you lose nothing.

See! I just solved the problem for you all worried about the story and whether the game Is worth it.

I can not even remotely take you seriously. Please tell me you got bored and decided to troll.

They have given the story already. Here you go.

You are a military vet who left the military recently. You have a wife and infant child. But your world is shattered when the nuclear holocaust starts. You and your family make it to the vault but bombs go off.

Suddenly you wake up 200 years in the future to find everything you know and love gone. Did your family somehow survive? Who is this commonwealth you hear about or the institute? Your journey to put your life back together will will leave you disgusted by the depths of human cruelty yet uplifted by the tales of sacrifice and loyalty.

I usually wait for Yahtzee Croshaw to complain about it, then I know I'll enjoy it. I notoriously like games he thinks is crap

Starwars was just Akira Kurosawa's films in space. Not a spec of it was original.

Which ironically was most likely due to Beth approaching Fallout 3 story with the mindset of "what does the old Fallout fans expect out of a Fallout story" rather then "what kind of Fallout story do we want to tell"

With what Beth has shown so far, Fallout 4 feels more like the Fallout they want to make, and I suspect that will reflect in the quality of the story, whether that quality is good enough for some people, well that's personal taste for ya.

Actually my impression is that their PR, including Toddler, is avoiding talking about story like plague. World to explore, endless supply of side-activities, cinematic dialogues with a dull voiced protagonist, and countless scenes that are supposed to make you say "oh wow".

Maybe they don't talk about story because they don't want to spoil anything and I'd be extremely grateful for that if I was excited for it. Maybe their marketing just reflects the priorities they developed the game with. Maybe both!

Talk about being the poster boy for "hey this the internet, I can insult another human being with feelings and not take responsibility!"

Like seriously, did you really need to resort to such childish namecalling?