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Cyrrex
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The idea of pre-ordering anything these days without some major carrot being dangled is pretty absurd.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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I'm unlikely to pre-order. The reason for pre-ordering in the distant past was, for me, to ensure you got a copy on release day, back when physical copies from actual stores was a thing.
However, I do have five good reasons for considering it a probable day 1 purchase: Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout: Tactics, Fallout 3 and Fallout: NV. All of which I bought, played, loved and re-played. In this case I'd be fine with not much innovation. More of the same is fine with me here. All I ask is that they don't fuck it up.
My faith in the gaming industry is so low now that just not making it worse than Fallout 3 or NV is all I hope for.
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Signe
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You can pre order already but you know you really shouldn't. Srsly. :)
I hate to admit it but I might pre-order this game if they happen to announce an interesting collector's edition for it. (but for the normal edition I see now real reason to pre-order especially so soon). I know. Me, too. I really shouldn't though.
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Malakili
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Pre-ordering to get some kind of THING is at least reasonable. Right now they just put the game up for 60 bucks on Steam without even a release date announced. There is no reason to do that. It's not like steam is going to run out of copies.
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Miguel
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My son takes our Fallout 3 lunch box to school. :) He likes the little dude in a blue suit holding a massive canon. I have the bobble-head on my desk at work.
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rattran
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I'll preorder the collector's edition, for the crazy crap included. I use my Nuka-Cola bottle opener at home and smile every time.
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Kail
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Plot twist: you play as the dog.
Devs apparently learned NOTHING from Fallout 3. One dog ain't enough. Even two is too low.
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Trippy
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No it wasn't and the fur sucked too. wat. Yeah, fur wasn't great but the motion of the animal was exactly how Shepherds act. It was like I was watching a virtual version of my dog. Yes the mannerisms were cool but the initial walk animation was jerky and the run animation looked "floaty".
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Tannhauser
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This is coming out polished and bug free 11/10/15.
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Falconeer
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rk47
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Bethesda.Net = uPlay
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Merusk
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This is coming out polished and bug free 11/10/15.
Ahahahha. Thanks for the reminder of why I shouldn't order. I fully expected to wait a year until released was announced, I can wait till a GOTY or similar with fixes comes out.
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CmdrSlack
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I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
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CmdrSlack
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This is coming out polished and bug free 11/10/15.
Ahahahha. Thanks for the reminder of why I shouldn't order. I fully expected to wait a year until released was announced, I can wait till a GOTY or similar with fixes comes out. It's allegedly been in development for four years based on an article I read today. Not that that means anything.
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schild
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Said I'll order the pipboy edition today
don't want a physical game but whatever
amazon sold out
oh well, it's plastic trash you put your phone in anyway
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Malakili
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schild tries his hand at slam poetry.
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Engels
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Is it my machine or is that categorically not 1080p60fps? Looks cruddy to me. Also, although I will probably also buy it first day, just because these games tend to be good, can we stop pretending its robot Jesus? Nothing has really changed that dramatically. No serious revision of the artwork, no announced revolutionary game play, no significant additional features that I can tell. I'm used to F13 being a group of crabby old farts that don't get moved to excitement unless its something that's been tried and true by other suckers first, so I am a bit appalled at all the fanboi-ism going on. Forsooth, my monocle has not popped out for this at all. Edit: Looks like there's going to be a whole new crafting element that does, indeed, look pretty cool.
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« Last Edit: June 15, 2015, 11:32:30 AM by Engels »
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
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Rasix
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Completely useless. For the price of that stupid piece of plastic that will just take up space in the corner of your office, you can buy a 3 years worth of backlog games during the Steam sale.
I doubt I'll have even purchased/finished Witcher 3 by November. That makes it likely, however, that I can just purchase the "sorry for all of the bugs" version they'll release in a year for the price of a burrito. Because, once this is out, all other games cease to exist.
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CmdrSlack
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As of last night, there were more collector's edition preorders available.
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MournelitheCalix
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As of last night, there were more collector's edition preorders available.
FYI Gamestop just phoned me letting me know there were more PC pipboy editions available.
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jakonovski
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Said I'll order the pipboy edition today
don't want a physical game but whatever
amazon sold out
oh well, it's plastic trash you put your phone in anyway
Crappy plastic in the hour of preorder
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Malakili
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I like my Diablo skull usb drive holder from my Diablo 3 collector's edition .
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schild
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I like my Diablo skull usb drive holder from my Diablo 3 collector's edition . Mine never left the Diablo box.
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Malakili
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Mine is still in the box too, that just happens to be the last plastic thing I got in a game box.
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Gimfain
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After reading about the latest disaster of a launched game it better be an amazing deal for me to pre-order fallout 4 on PC.
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Ironwood
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Also, although I will probably also buy it first day, just because these games tend to be good, can we stop pretending its robot Jesus? Nothing has really changed that dramatically. No serious revision of the artwork, no announced revolutionary game play, no significant additional features that I can tell. I'm used to F13 being a group of crabby old farts that don't get moved to excitement unless its something that's been tried and true by other suckers first, so I am a bit appalled at all the fanboi-ism going on.
Forsooth, my monocle has not popped out for this at all.
Ahem. I don't get it. It looks like just the same game.
Though, in fairness, that crafting does look interesting, but I worry that it's probably in the wrong game. I meant, what's the point ?
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brellium
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Lantyssa
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Though, in fairness, that crafting does look interesting, but I worry that it's probably in the wrong game. I meant, what's the point ?
Though I'd like a little co-op, the point is to make the world your own. It's exactly the sort of thing I want in a Fallout. I'll spend as much time putting up settlements as exploring the wasteland. In all the Bethesda games it takes me years to get around to beating the main plot, if I ever do.
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Ironwood
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Ok, but that's not what fallout is to me. Skyrim, sure, Fallout, not so much.
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Lantyssa
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I prefer Sci-Fi to Fantasy, so it very much works for me.
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Riggswolfe
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Ok, but that's not what fallout is to me. Skyrim, sure, Fallout, not so much.
It's totally optional. If you don't want to rebuild the post apocalypse world, then ignore it. It being there adds value for those of us who think it'd be great fun while not hurting you at all.
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Sophismata
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Ok, but that's not what fallout is to me. Skyrim, sure, Fallout, not so much.
It's totally optional. If you don't want to rebuild the post apocalypse world, then ignore it. It being there adds value for those of us who think it'd be great fun while not hurting you at all. Strictly speaking, the effort going into this could be better spent elsewhere. Content being optional doesn't excuse it for being off theme and/or bad.
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Lantyssa
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Where else are they going to go with an open-world game than making it more open-world?
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Jeff Kelly
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Mass Effect 3 for example experienced significant delays because of the co-op multiplayer not being ready on time. This lead to all kinds of internal resource reshuffling and also to the single player campaign getting less resources than would have been necessary.
Some even argue that the way the ending was handled was due to the multiplayer having eaten up so much time and budget that they had no way of finishing the single player before release.
So I'm in the camp of people that are skeptical about content like the world building because it seems to be unnecessary for the way I'd like a new Fallout to play and it might direct resources away from the more essential parts of the game.
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Lantyssa
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Multi-player was not essential to Mass Effect.
More stuff to do is kind of the point of a sandbox game, though.
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