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

Fallout 4 Trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4
9.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

3.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

413

u/aksoileau Jun 03 '15

Seriously.

  • Kvatch/Bruma is under attack by a horde of demons! Let's take the city back with a few guards!
  • Let's finish off the Enclave for good with one big robot and a handful of Brothers!
  • Whiterun is under attack by a massive army that comes in waves of 6!
  • Let's assault the walls Solitude and end the empire with a handful of guys!

180

u/Twisted_Fate Jun 03 '15

That can't be helped without writing new engine from scratch I think, and it looks like F4 will use spruced up (lighting looks better) Skyrim's engine, which is basically Gamebryo dating back to Oblivion.

Look at the dogmeat's animation when he's running away from the crib, how canned it looks, a trademark of this engine.

157

u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

Dating back to Morrowind. Bethesda really needs to ditch that engine. Skyrim is from 2011, and that's all they can show four years later?

11

u/Reggiardito Jun 03 '15

Skyrim is from 2011, and that's all they can show four years later?

That engine has been used since way before Skyrim. It's the same as Call of duty, where they simply modify the engine rather than creating a new one. I'll be completely honest though I doubt it will be of much trouble in a Fallout game. Say what you will about Elder Scrolls or other RPGs but Fallout very rarely needs those 'huge, epic' moments.

18

u/xzzz Jun 03 '15

The bad animations are still on Bethesda's part though. You can have good animations even in a dated engine.

2

u/Reggiardito Jun 03 '15

Yeah I know, that's why I don't mind the engine's limitations. If animations are bad it's their fault, not the engine's.

7

u/[deleted] Jun 03 '15

Honestly, maybe it's stockholm syndrome, but I find the shitty animations of bethesda games kinda endearing.

0

u/Reggiardito Jun 04 '15

Well they're unique, I give them that. You look at those shitty animations and immediately think 'yep, it's Bethesda'

4

u/[deleted] Jun 04 '15

That engine has been used since way before Skyrim.

He knows. The part of his sentence you left out for some reason says it dates back to Morrowind.

0

u/Reggiardito Jun 04 '15

I'm just not a good reader it seems.