{"id":76770,"date":"2015-06-05T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=76770"},"modified":"2015-06-05T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:24:41","slug":"everything-thats-wrong-with-fallout-4s-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/76770-everything-thats-wrong-with-fallout-4s-reveal","title":{"rendered":"Everything that’s wrong with Fallout 4’s reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fallout 4<\/em> trailer was released yesterday<\/a> amidst an explosion of excitement, and thus the game is officially announced and set for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m thrilled to see the return of the masterpiece franchise in what should be Bethesda’s greatest title yet.<\/p>\n

There were some issues I have with the trailer, however.<\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a>

As cool as scenes like this were, the trailer was not without its flaws.<\/p><\/div>\n

Perhaps the most obvious point is that the graphics seemed underwhelming.<\/p>\n

When the dog, who I’m assuming is Dogmeat<\/a>, initially came into the room, its fur was flat and the fella lacked the realism seen in many animals in other games already released or that are set to release.<\/p>\n

His muscles are seen to move, but his fur is uninspired, flat and a little dreary.<\/p>\n

The apartment the dog moves through also seemed rather lacklustre and the peeling paint did not feel life-like. Upon further investigation, I discovered that the engine they\u2019re using is the Gamebryo one they’ve used for the previous instalment, Fallout 3<\/em>, as well as Oblivion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a>

The moment is endearing, but it’s also visually a little flat.<\/p><\/div>\n

Although this engine astonished us X number of years ago when we first played these fantastic classics, this is unacceptable for the current-gen.<\/p>\n

We have been waiting a long time for this, the least Bethesda could have done is use a new engine, let alone develop a new one.<\/p>\n

Something like the Tech 5 engine id is currently using, for exampe, which produces fantastic-looking worlds. Bethesda and id are practically siblings under parent company ZeniMax Media<\/a>. And why not Skyrim’s <\/em>Creation Engine?<\/p>\n

To be fair, everything we saw in the trailer was in-game. This is a lot better than some overblown cinematic posing as in game footage where you sit there thinking \u2018There\u2019s no way!\u2019<\/p>\n

To add to that, the game is still in development (albeit nearly finished seeing as its release date has been announced as 2015), and often we get sucker-punched by the sheer surprise of what a game actually looks like when we finally get our hands on it.<\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a>

The world in general does seem more detailed.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fallout<\/a>

Ghouls certainly seem to move more realistically, and the physics seems a lot more capable.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fallout<\/a>

With more detailed textures, better lighting effects and more particles, the Death Claw is far more menacing this time.<\/p><\/div>\n

Given the images just above, there’s hope yet.<\/p>\n

Another issue I have is the lack of new features and environments shown in the trailer. For a game we’ve waited so long for, it would be nice to have been shown some kind of combat or mechanics.<\/p>\n

Obviously, Bethesda wants to keep it all under wraps for an explosive revelation. The environments shown seemed almost identical to Fallout 3<\/em>, save for Boston.<\/p>\n

Apocalyptic wastelands are amazing and all, but no one wants to trudge through the same barren matchstick forests or craggy swamps ad nauseam.<\/p>\n

It would be great to see a new take on nuclear apocalypse, something different from monochrome baby-poo coloured hellscapes.<\/p>\n

This is why the juxtaposition of the colourful world pre-apocalypse was such a great touch, and I really hope that it’s more than just a prologue, that there is some clever hopping between present and past throughout the game.<\/p>\n

In related news<\/h3>\n

Fallout 4 is coming: it\u2019s exactly what we wanted<\/a><\/p>\n

2015 Wii U exclusives that will save the console<\/a><\/p>\n

Our Doom wishlist: what we want from the new Doom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fallout 4’s reveal had us shedding tears, but it wasn’t perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":76772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[165,6316,3180,15397,1239,1853,10065],"class_list":["post-76770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-bethesda","tag-fallout-4","tag-feature","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76784,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76770\/revisions\/76784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}