Fallout 4 Post-Release Bullshit

[Rendakor]

Greenman has a 20% off code that you can apply to FO4.

SAVE20-NOVEMB-GAMING

Snagged it and the Season Pass; thanks for the tip.

[Jeff Kelly]

I was quite hyped for a new fallout but all of that pre-release bullshit the embargoes plus the current rumblings and rumors an the web that make it sound less than stellar have cooled me off considerably.

I'll probably wait for a few weeks until the initial hype has ebbed a little until the more honest and less hyped opinions crop up.

[apocrypha]

The review embargo is absolutely standard. Every single AAA game has a review embargo date, the only thing of any note about this one was that they stated when that embargo date could be made public. The only cause for concern with review embargoes is when the date is *after* the release date (E.g. Assassin's Creed).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that pre-ordering anything is sensible these days, just that there's nothing unusual about FO4's review embargo.

[JRave]

Anyone found a place that doesn't have the Australia tax and is somewhat reputable?

Try G2A or Kinguin?

I wouldn't risk it.  Multiple companies have started to revoke/ban keys sold by these companies.  ArenaNet just did a ban wave against keys sold by these resellers shortly after Heart of Thorns released.  I know Bethesda has revoked ESO keys sold by these resellers in the past as well.

[Riggswolfe]

I was quite hyped for a new fallout but all of that pre-release bullshit the embargoes plus the current rumblings and rumors an the web that make it sound less than stellar have cooled me off considerably.

I'll probably wait for a few weeks until the initial hype has ebbed a little until the more honest and less hyped opinions crop up.

I have avoided spoilers and pirates of early versions leaking stuff. That said, I don't particularly care about the story in a Bethesda game. They're not Bioware, they're good at making big sandboxes for me to play in with a story that I can sort of enjoy along the way.

Tempted to pick this up at launch, but I think I'll pass. $80 just for the game (let alone the $40 for the season pass) is just too much even if it turns out to be pretty good. Had the ending spoiled (fucking internet.. wasn't even on a gaming website when it happened) and it sounds like, well, Fallout 3 level stupid in terms of the ending quality. I think I'll wait for the first big sale so there's some DLC actually out and the modders have had a crack at the game.

The only thing about the ending that I care about is that they have flat out said you can keep playing after the ending and the leveling is unlimited. That's good enough for me. If the story ends in a stupid way I'll still be able to keep playing and poking around if I want.

[Falconeer]

When I care a lot about a game, I "embargo" myself. I don't want to know anything, don't even watch trailers. I am already hyped, so these things can't add anything for me, only detract.

[Evildrider]

Other than the trailer and the announcement I know fuck all about the game.  I'm eager to play though, but I didn't feel I needed to get the season pass yet.

[luckton]

Review firewall is down. Getting high scores all over the place. I might be inclined to pick this up until Legion gets here.

[Ragnoros]

For those with itchy trigger fingers: I VPN'ed over to New Zealand briefly this morning and have been playing the last couple hours. Fairly painless, just had to set my steam download server to NZ to grab the key/hash/whatever once I had the VPN running and decrypt the files. Went into offline more after I verified it worked and have been golden since.

General consensus on the web is if you paid for a legit key, Valve/Bethsoft don't care enough to ban anyone and the trick has worked fine for skyrim and such in the past.

[apocrypha]

Here's easy peasy instructions for the VPN deal if you're so inclined. Can confirm it worked for me, playing right now.

[Setanta]

Released in Australia at 12pm last night on Steam. I was nicely surprised to see that the settings defaulted to ultra and that it's pully 60fps on my rig in the house. The house graphics are... underwhelming. Think HL2. I'm off to work so I can't evaluate the rest of the game - I'm only 32 minutes in as I fell asleep after character creation. :D

[luckton]

Isn't this using Skyrim's engine? How old is Skyrim?

[Jeff Kelly]

Sony decided to push a system update today which meant that I got logged out of PSN and made it so that the auto download function didn't work.

Noticed when I came home from work just now and so I'm now at 20 MB of 42 GB with 32 hours to go. Curse PSN's slow download speed.

...and yes I caved and bought it day one.

[Falconeer]

You are getting this on Playstation instead of PC? Do you hate yourself?

[Ginaz]

You are getting this on Playstation instead of PC? Do you hate yourself?

I was wondering that myself.  Does this new console generation have the ability to include player made mods?

[luckton]

Render distance: Potato.

Left: PS4, Right: Xbox One

[Merusk]

You are getting this on Playstation instead of PC? Do you hate yourself?

Daughter insisted the copy I buy her be for PS4 rather than on her steam account.

Damn kids.

[luckton]

Of course, I'm one to talk...my current rig doesn't even meet the minimum system reqs. for this game. New rig should fix that soon enough :D

[Falconeer]

Not sure I understand what is going on in those gifs. Anyway, I take it the console version is locked at 30fps, so even if they had the same mods of the PC version,  I don't see why anyone would be OK with a mouse-less and 30fps locked version of anything (EDIT: Assuming you have a PC that can run it better than 30fps, of course).

[luckton]

Not sure I understand what is going on in those gifs. Anyway, I take it the console version is locked at 30fps, so even if they had the same mods of the PC version,  I don't see why anyone would be OK with a mouse-less and 30fps locked version of anything (EDIT: Assuming you have a PC that can run it better than 30fps, of course).

The draw distance for rendering graphics from low to high def is extremely short. I can't imagine it getting any better as more stuff pops on the screen.

[Ginaz]

Not sure I understand what is going on in those gifs. Anyway, I take it the console version is locked at 30fps, so even if they had the same mods of the PC version,  I don't see why anyone would be OK with a mouse-less and 30fps locked version of anything (EDIT: Assuming you have a PC that can run it better than 30fps, of course).

The render distance isn't very far in either of those yet its stuck at 30 fps.

[Merusk]

If you still can't see it, watch the top of the screen just above the gun. You'll notice where things start to fade-in on the mound of junk and it's abysmally close.

[Falconeer]

Thank you all, now I can see it.   

[Jeff Kelly]

You are getting this on Playstation instead of PC? Do you hate yourself?

My only PC is a laptop with an NVidia GT650M and 1 Gig of VRAM and I don't want to spend the money right now necessary to get a new gaming level PC.

So PS4 it is.

I'll probably cave and build a new PC when Dark Souls 3 comes out and the Skylake stuff has gotten a bit cheaper.

[Nija]

I got rid of my gaming PC 2 years ago and I haven't looked back.

If it's worth playing, it's going to come to a console.

Also my back is so fucked up that I can't sit in a desk anymore. At all. That may have had something to do with it as well.

[Ginaz]

I just realized this has 8 GB of RAM as a min. requirement.  I only have 6.   I wonder if having a GTX 970 with 4GB GDDR5 will allow me to play it?  And before anyone says it, I've been just fine for every game I've ever played with 6 GB and updating just the video card since I got my PC in 2009 (CPU is an i7 920 @ 2.67GHz).

[Ragnoros]

Should be fine. Big city areas might lag a bit. The probably just copied the 8gig req from console specs.

[Wasted]

I so rarely buy physical discs any more but it proved the cheapest option this time.  I know big day 1 patches are the norm but is only giving you 20% of the game (all what they can fit on 1 dvd) also normal now for PC?

[schild]

Just built an i7 with 980 ti and some bizarre hdd that reads at 2500MBPS. I think I'll be fine.

[Tannhauser]

I'll be up at 4am to play.  Finally my insomnia comes in handy!

[luckton]

I so rarely buy physical discs any more but it proved the cheapest option this time.  I know big day 1 patches are the norm but is only giving you 20% of the game (all what they can fit on 1 dvd) also normal now for PC?

In the age where digital download/delivery is cheaper per gig than burning discs, yes.

[Falconeer]

Thins thing runs great on fairly old computers. You'll all be fine.

[Malakili]

I am going to stay up late tonight and play for a couple (or more, ahem) hours.  Will report back.

[Phildo]

Godspeed to all of you.

[Rendakor]

I've got work at 5am tomorrow so playing will have to wait until after. There are rumblings of 12 hour days at work all week, and a coworker already took the week off so I can't burn the few vacation days I have left. Ugh.