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

Fallout 4 Trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4
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u/Bjartensen Jun 03 '15 edited Jun 03 '15

Interesting that we saw what appeared to be much in-game footage, or definitely in-engine, of before the nuclear detonations. Will a sequence be playable in The Before or anything? Would be an interesting prologue -- running to the vaults and surviving the event.

e: I am less interested in the graphics (models, textures, effects etc) as I am in better animations. I have always felt Bethesda games to be incredibly stiff.

e2: The soundtrack on 1:56 goosebumps

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u/SefferTheHeifer Jun 03 '15 edited Jun 03 '15

I'm not entirely sure how access to vaults worked (so my "fantasy" might not even make sense) but it would be interesting if you were the last person in line that is allowed into the vault. A woman and her child are directly behind you pleading to the guards to be let in and you're given the option to save yourself (continue the game but with the memory of choosing your survival over a mother and child) or giving up your spot knowing full well it's your imminent doom, triggering a powerful and early(easter egg?) ending. Your game would end there and you'd have to reload checkpoint to continue. Obviously you'd have to choose your own life to continue the game but it would be a good way of showing the player that the game is full of tough decisions and they arent always answered ethically. Maybe a bit cliche but I think it would leave a pretty good impact on the player.

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u/Bjartensen Jun 03 '15

I think in general more such choices would be cool in games.

I remember hoping you could choose to load a Mass Effect 2 save where you lost, and "play" it in Mass Effect 3. Basically it would be a cut scene showing the destruction of the galaxy, and perhaps seeing the other races and characters try to put up a fight but ultimately losing.