{"id":84279,"date":"2015-12-08T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84279"},"modified":"2015-12-08T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:33:22","slug":"fallout-4-looks-its-best-as-an-isometric-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/84279-fallout-4-looks-its-best-as-an-isometric-rpg","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 4 looks its best as an isometric RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re able to crank up the settings to their maximum, Fallout 4<\/em> is actually rather pretty, at least your immediate surroundings are.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because of the way in which the Creation Engine handles the world around you, as cells.<\/p>\n

If you imagine the world to be a massive grid, each plot of land within each square of the grid is a cell.<\/p>\n

To ease the load of rendering a massive world, cells within the player\u2019s proximity are rendered with more detail, and less and less as they get further from you.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why one of the easiest ways to improve the look of any Bethesda game is to configure the game to render more detail for cells further away from you, more so than Bethesda prescribes \u2013 just as long as your PC can handle it.<\/p>\n

So imagine if you could only see the cell your player currently inhabited.<\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a><\/p>\n

A player going by YttriumTyclief was playing around with the game\u2019s camera angles, only to discover just how well the game looks as an isometric title, reminiscent of Fallout 1 <\/em>and Fallout 2<\/em> by Black Isle Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I was playing around with camera angles and other camera settings I got inspired to take some isometric screenshots of what Fallout 4 might be like if it was made by Black Isle. Figured I’d share, so here you go!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, if Fallout 4 <\/em>were an isometric title, it\u2019d be the best looker by some margin.<\/p>\n

And by mitigating aspects like the game\u2019s iffy facial animations and dodgy textures off in the distance, it comes across gorgeously.<\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re so sold on this new POV (point-of-view), we\u2019d happily play the entire game like this.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re huge fans of the original Fallout <\/em>games, and the recent release of a number of solid isometric RPGs proves that the sub-genre is far from dead.<\/p>\n

Weirdly, Fallout 4\u2019s<\/em> aesthetic and colour tone suits the isometric perspective rather well, without Bethesda ever intending it to we bet.<\/p>\n

It would certainly make for an interesting mod, though we imagine combat would be rather difficult.<\/p>\n

Imagine playing Fallout 4<\/em> from an isometric perspective and having all combat take place via VATs. Someone do that. Please.<\/p>\n

\"Fallout<\/a><\/p>\n

That said, this POV does take away from one of the game\u2019s strongest visual effects, radiation storms.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re a sight to behold, to be sure.<\/p>\n

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In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Fallout 4 pirate has R25, 775 worth of Bitcoins stolen<\/a><\/p>\n

Half-Life 3 listed in Steam Database<\/a><\/p>\n

Hands-on with Doom\u2019s alpha<\/a><\/p>\n

You will have to repurchase PS2 games to play them on PS4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can someone create an isometric, complete overhaul mod. Please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[165,2735,16633,14919,6316,16631,1969],"class_list":["post-84279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bethesda","tag-black-isle","tag-fallout-1","tag-fallout-2","tag-fallout-4","tag-isometric-rpg","tag-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84279","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}