With the official announcement trailer for Fallout 4, many people were critical of the graphics represented, with some calling it 'last generation' or simply ugly in comparison to the games out there.
This video explores how graphics play a minor part in the overall value of game and how visual style is a much more pressing matter. It defends the aesthetic quality of Fallout 4 and how it's style lives up the expectations of current technology.
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They need to look at Morrowind and see what the progression should have been from there instead of the regression we got with the next 2 games. They weren’t horrible games but they could have been so much more.
Fallout 4 just felt too streamlined and accessible to me, the perk system was not as fun as it was in Fallout 3, not saying Fallout 3 didn't have issues but 4 just felt like a complete step back.
So the part where you just sold the same games for the last 10 years while you focused on 76 and merch, was not a reset from the "creative" aspect eh? How very Todd of you.
I bought Fallout 4 (I loved Fallout 3) at launch and I couldn't bring myself to finish it or even get close to finishing it. It was soooo damned boring and bland. I played on a very hard difficulty and I had hundreds of stimpaks. One of the only games I've played for a while and not ended up finishing it. I hated it. Just flat out hated it.
Its the only thing we ALL have a true opinion on as no one know anything else about game play or mechanics or story, so its going to be the main thing people focus on until we find out more and experience it.
I for one think it looks great, i think the image of it is fitting with the time period it represents in a way.
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Also i imagine there is going to be a lot of pi**ed people when they realise that footage was PC. (my opinion, NOT CONFIRMED)
THIS. 100% THIS.
It's about the experience, the mood, the atmosphere, stylizing etc. that's what captures Fallout not it's visuals and makes it one of the best RPGs of all time. It's just got that charm about it that no other game can capture, I for one think the game looks great and can't wait to play it.
It's an early release of a trailer. Graphics aren't final yet why do people feel they need to complain about the graphics on an announcement trailer so early on? I don't understand.
Listen, I get it. Fallout is about open world and great detail to the experience. Yet, I laugh at the people blindly defending this game. People who dislike these graphics are not really saying this game is going to be terrible. For a next gen/pc only game, I think people (like myself) were expecting more visually. At the end of the day this game will be great, but I laugh when people defend it saying "this game is huge" or "the amount of detail and depth the game has" when we haven't been informed or seen ANYTHING other then this trailer. Yes, it probably will be huge and in depth, but people get so defensive when something they love is criticized. I thought the graphics were eh, but the character models were horrendous.
Fallout 3 and NV weren't exactly powerhouses in the graphics department but they were incredible games in terms of the atmosphere and world they created.
Graphics are not everything. I for one would rather have a subpar looking game with a great story and environment than a stellar looking game without content or depth but that's just me.
I can't wait to play the game, not just look at it.