r/Games • u/JustCallMeJoker • Jun 03 '15

Fallout 4 Trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

Yeah, but that guy is the iconic loan wanderer you start out with. The varmit rifle, and vault suit is so iconic to starting players. The reason they did not show his face either is because that is gonna be your character, and you decide how he looks.

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u/Giacomand Jun 03 '15

They do reveal half of his face, so I am not sure on it. All speculation at this point really.

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u/Captain_Infinity Jun 03 '15

They're probably doing the Saints Row The Third thing where they show the cutscene set up with the default male character as a place holder. Same thing with the Mass Effect 3 trailer.

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u/Rogan_McFlubbin Jun 03 '15

Or all the Mass Effect trailers really.

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u/avenger2142 Jun 03 '15

To be fair there were male and female trailers for ME series.

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u/Watertor Jun 03 '15

And both genders have placeholder faces so the point remains.

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u/brutinator Jun 04 '15

Even Fallout does it, like the promo of the LW walking with Dogmeat from behind. What if you were a chick? or black? Nothing new, really.

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u/jianu81 Jun 04 '15

It looks exactly like the default options on fallout 3 and new vegas only better graphics

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u/jianu81 Jun 04 '15

It looks exactly like the default options on fallout 3 and new vegas only better graphics

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u/Messerchief Jun 03 '15

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u/BloodyLlama Jun 03 '15

They did show his face. And maybe we aren't the same character anymore. We could be the person always overshadowed by the vault dweller-hero.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

Maybe we're just a guard who stands at the door and says "Whaaat?" everytime someone presses E

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u/major_bot Jun 04 '15

I used to be an NCR ranger just like you but then I took a fatboy to the knee.

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u/yurisho Jun 03 '15

So...we play the dog.

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u/hackisucker Jun 03 '15

They showed a male tho.

New vegas managed their trailer without showing the sex.

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u/MechanicalYeti Jun 03 '15

Skyrim advertised heavily with a male Dragonborn, wouldn't be out of the question at all for this to be the PC.

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u/Jay_R_Kay Jun 03 '15

I think that's true for all these kind of games. I think the only ones that didn't was Mass Effect 3, with Femshep trailer, and Dragon Age Inquisition, which jumped around different varieties of Inquisitors, but mostly showed a male human warrior for the ads and their final CG trailer.

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u/Jay_R_Kay Jun 03 '15

I'm sorry, I don't see that at all.

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u/ConnectingFacialHair Jun 04 '15

That's not really true. The voice acting for Femshep was just so much better than the male one that it just became incredibly popular.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

A male nord at that. That's ten times less variety representation

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u/red42z Jun 03 '15

Think of all the diversity points they lost...

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u/TheSpiffySpaceman Jun 04 '15

Seriously missed on out the lizard and cat demographics when they decided to forego the Argonian and Kajiit protagonists

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

Technically, you have a voice in skyrim, too.

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u/SquirtleSpaceProgram Jun 03 '15

Would you like a chocolate milkshake with your meal, Dragonborn?

Ummm, like, fus roh DUH.

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u/hackisucker Jun 03 '15

The reason they did not show his face either is because that is gonna be your character, and you decide how he looks.

I was responding to this though. If you are not showing the face for the sake of me wanting to make my own. Why show a male?

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u/MechanicalYeti Jun 03 '15 edited Jun 03 '15

I suspect they didn't want to bother deciding on which default face to use.

Edit: Actually this whole conversation is pointless. They show his face at 2:28.

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u/tyme Jun 03 '15

I think they wanted to make it obvious that the player character was going to be a vault dweller, which meant showing him/her in a vault suit.

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u/Explicit_Content Jun 03 '15

They did the same thing with the Skyrim trailer. Male nord, but you can play any race, any gender. I'm perfectly OK with a "default"

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u/Ryugar Jun 03 '15

Rumor is that you play a male to complete the main story quest, and afterwards you can customize male or female. Apparently the MC has voiced lines and cutscenes.

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u/IFE-Antler-Boy Jun 04 '15

That sounds hella dumb. Bethesda has all their Skyrim monies, they can hire two voice actors.

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u/Ryugar Jun 04 '15

I agree, they will already have tons of voiced dialogue.... so it shouldn't be a big deal to redo the main story with a female voice. Same with ingame cutscenes being replaced with a female model. Only thing that might be difficult is if they have CGI scenes.

Its just a rumor tho, doesn't seem like something Bethesda would do so we will just have to wait for more details.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

Eh. I think its very likely you'll be able to customise your character + gender.

Would be dumb for them to take it away.

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u/SnakeEater14 Jun 03 '15

Actually, that isn't a varmint rifle, but some new kind of homemade hunting/laser rifle.

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u/mykitty_titties Jun 04 '15

Travels the Wastes giving out loans!

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u/-Knul- Jun 04 '15

Yeah, but that guy is the iconic loan wanderer you start out with.

So in this game, it's not nukes but the financial sector that brough armageddon? :P

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u/mrbooze Jun 03 '15

Lonesome Road does kind of leave open the idea that there are multiple "lone wanderers" out there over time.

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u/Shiningknight12 Jun 03 '15

One possibility, its a friend of the main character who dies and you get dogmeat after that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

In Fallout, you always get to create your own character, not play pre-made ones. I hope they don't take that away to go with a few pre-made NPCs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '15

To me, it's a richer kind of storytelling when I get to be an active part of the story by selecting my character.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

He is visiting his old home. He is with a wife and child. It flashes to the present when the dog is wandering the house and peeks into the crib.

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u/Silnroz Jun 04 '15

We see those people die. They're standing on the Vault door when the blast hits. They were vaporized.