Fallout 4 Dev Todd Howard thinks that graphics indeed matter in videogames, while adding that the studio increased the game's variety.
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"So we started with [the idea] that you want to be in your spaceship and to fly around a planet or fly smoothly over to that moon or whatever, right? It started there, then we're going to have this mode where you're going to go fast.’ Then it was, 'Well that needs to have some gameplay, what would players expect?' And that's where we got into all of the systems that Free Lanes has."
It's definitely a step in the right direction and I hope they keep improving on it. But honestly, that's the very least that should have been in the game from the start. He's saying it like they had an 'idea' that people would want to actually fly their ship around. That should have been obvious already from games like No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous.
Fallout 4 on Switch 2 offers 30fps, 40fps, and 60fps modes, with graphics settings differing from PS4 and PS5 versions.
One of the main things that put me off Fallout 3/NV was the bland, boring environment. I know it's supposed to be a wasteland but jeez, Chernobyl is way more colourful.
But yeah, Fallout 4 looks like a massive improvement to me. Looking forward to it.
I think to be honest it was Borderlands 2 that really showed off (for me) the power of varied locations for the first time. Slightly extreme but really well done.
If your saying that graphics matter you have to make sure your gameplay is top notch..
Morrowind excellent graphics and excellent gameplay
Oblivion excellent graphics and excellent gameplay
Skyrim excellent graphics and excellent gameplay
From one artist to the ones working at Bethesda I understand
the drive to create a beautiful graphical world and convert it
to an art form I think gamers don't get that...
But but the gameplay is more important...this is the passion of
game developers from the content artists to the clay artists to the digital artists it's an art form.
These guys try to create an artistic world as best as they can when you guys say that graphics don't matter on the other side you have guys like Todd who are NO they do matter, and they matter to us...
Its 2015, I have played plenty of games that have great graphics and gameplay, so I hold all games to that standard... People say graphics dont matter, then Witcher 3 comes out with a few bugs and graphical glitches, gameplay worked great and people lose their minds lol. everyone should make up their minds, do graphics matter or not?
For me in a game like Fallout 4, the graphics dont have to even match GTAV or Witcher 3, come close, but have those great mechanics. And everyone expect bugs and glitches until its patched, lets not be surprised when it comes out and its buggy like usual, lets be surprised if it comes out and works flawlessly.