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What do you want to see in Fallout 4? I want to be able to ride animals, bicycles and vehicles, greater variety of clothing, I want there to still be a hardcore mode (even if its optional), better dialogue trees and role-playing in general as NPC interactions feel very impersonal and bland at the
moment, be able to refill containers with water, more destructible terrain, more colourful environments and glass objects are breakable.
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I'd like something along the lines of when you rescue survivors in fallout 3 (from supermutants, raiders, etc) you can escort them somewhere safe. Get enough of them together they'll form a shanty town. You can arm them with weapons you pick up, help them fortify their town, and basically be the mayor, all as a side quest from your regular stuff. Scavenge material, if you can drive vehicles you can find junked cars and get them back to use as barricades, all sorts of stuff. It'd be great fun, and runners can try and come find you before it gets hit by a raid, but if you've armed them enough then they should really be able to handle it. And you can keep adding to it (to some kind of balanced in game maximum) with other survivors you find, you can train them with your skills (e.g. got high INT and MED? Train a doctor! High Small Guns and Big Guns? Train a warrior! Repair and Lockpicking? Mechanic-locksmith-kinda-guy)
I don't know why I'd like that so much, but I would play the living daylights out of that game
edit: sorry for swearing, hurrah for swear filters catching my errors before I do
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I wish I had time for all the game systems I own, let alone want to own...
n0t_u wrote: I'd kind of want to see another country if they could pull it off properly.
I don't think you could have a Fallout game not set in America. A big part of Fallout's identity is the retro-futuristic american culture and I feel putting it in a different country would rob the game of one of its major identity points.
As for what I want, pretty much everything you guys have mentioned so far minus the multiplayer. And preferably it would be set either out west or Florida.
Florida would be pretty fun, and different enough to the desert/DC for it to be fresh. Or Louisiana (that's a swampy state, right?) I loved the daylights out of point lookout's environment, so yeah
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I wish I had time for all the game systems I own, let alone want to own...
What do I want to see, or what do I expect to see? If its the latter then so far not much that's been listed in this thread is stuff I'd imagine would be getting in. Vehicles are probably something that'll need to be modded in, as they don't react well off road as to they make the game seem smaller (which seeing as the series is about "huge" game worlds is probably to be avoided).
So far from the tidbits I'm suspected that their writers have been reading The Postman a little. That is to say that they said they used it as a source text with Fallout 3, now it seems they've knicked some of the setting too. Or has the source that said that the game will be set around the area of MIT been disproven? They did seem to be dropping a lot of hints towards "The Institute" and "The Railroad" in 3. If you haven't read The Postman MIT became a settlement full of scientists (the most prosperous in the region, bar the raiders to the south) that followed the word of a Wizard of Oz styled AI. That The Railroad are about freeing AI's from their "slavery" infers that MIT's becomes stable enough to start producing things beyond repairing pre-war technology.
But anyhow, I want more from Bethesda than they made of Fallout 3. Skyrim came across as a better game due to the better resources and experience of the company, topped off with them taking in feedback (ie knicking mod ideas). If its the attitude that they took in making Skyrim set back in the Fallout world I'll be happy (though its a Fallout/ Bethesda game, so it'd take a lot for me to be unhappy...). However, its definitely going to be no New Vegas. Obsidian just have a more grey on grey attitude to the world, whereas in Bethesda games everything needs to be black and white. Obsidian has agreed though to produce more expand-alone style games in the series similar to New Vegas though, so hopefully they'll be developing title based on Fallout 4 at some point in the future. ...And it'll be miles better. =)
Oh, and I want goggles that go on your fore-head without having to mod them in. I fething love goggles.
More variation, more realistic settlements with methods of growing and supplying food and water for the number of people there are and jobs for everyone that they actually do, etc.
I want Fallout 3 with Mercenaries/ older GTA (3, Vice City and San Andreas) vehciles - not the rubbish GTA 4.
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"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
More tangible outcomes, like if I raid a slaver camp like I did in FO3, I want grateful slaves to take over rather than just have it be an empty building. Better AI; If I shoot the town psychopath, the whole town shouldn't draw their guns on me without letting me explain.
I'm a little wary of vehicles. Hard to find a brilliant action game that didn't have chitsky vehicle controls. (Halo, Half-life 2, GTA/Saboteur/Red Dead) Maybe they could pull it off though.
I'd love to play as non-human characters and have that open up new adversities/avenues for me. (Plus, I could play a mutant and Ork it up like mad.)
I notice my posts seem to bring threads to a screeching halt. Considering the content of most threads on dakka, you're welcome.
Built-in nude mod, so that the mods made during the first week after release aren't all just different ways to give your character giant cans.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
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"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
As for Fallout 4...well I'm not sure what I want, probably a move back towards its roots. Oblivion with mutants was an interesting diversion but its not the Fallout game that I was hoping for all those years.
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Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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"Maybe a hardcore mode like New Vegas, but more punishing. Toggleable, of course. "
THIS!
I loved the hardcore mode in New Vegas, and I want even more brutal levels of realism. And yes, toggleable.
Fallout 3, NV are some of the few games I ever wanted to play on max difficulty, because for me it made the desperate survival experience so much more enjoyable. Less ammo, injuries, starvation/dehydration, radiation sickness and other injuries that make the game more realistic is what I'd like to see.
Also, more atmospheric sound effects and weather. Some mods really made Fallout come to life with rain, rad-storms, dust storms, and great sound effects. Sometimes the stock game felt a little too quiet and uneventful in this regard.
I'd also like to see a wasteland more intensely reclaimed by nature, with heavily overgrown buildings invaded by trees, plants, weathering, and not a bleak, barren landscape.
Vehicles would be sweet and a larger world to explore is also top on the list. New Vegas felt too small, and lacked the really cool subway system of Fallout 3. More underground bases and tunnels, caves etc would be nice to see.
Basically, just more of everything while staying faithful to the original spirit of the game. I really hope they make another one as I loved each and every Fallout game, right from the first one.
Both those states are firmly under Legion control, thus it doesn't really offer up much of a middle ground for factions. The East coast is Obsidian's deal, whilst the West is Bethesda's, just because the company's are based there and it makes it easier to research. I'd like to see each company develop their own coasts, showing their alternative societies. If the series went on further it'd be nice to have each company's games referencing events in the other games more and more, till some sort of climax in the middle or something. =)
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I think a good starting point for Fallout 4 would be to start off as an escaped slave, it'd give your player character a suitable start to the story.
Also I want to be able to become a Ghoul, < this could affect the game so certain factions or cities will dislike you as result and also you'll be welcome in underworld type areas where you receive Ghoul-only quests. This would encourage multiple playthroughs and will also give more of an impression that your choices have an impact too.
Another thing that'd I think would be nice is if they actually had 3d scopes instead of just a circle with a crosshair in the middle of the screen. Also eye patches that you can actually obtain in-game this time around.
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