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[Guardian G.I.]

...What, like...We'd have parts of the game where he's having flashbacks? Maybe an item or ability that controls it?

There was a "Memory Den" shop in the trailer, so it's also possible.

[Neonivek]

Who can even be the villain of this game when I think about it?

All the villains in the universe are dead.

[NullForceOmega]

This is Fallout, War Never Changes, we just find the new evil and kill that.

[Guardian G.I.]

Who can even be the villain of this game when I think about it?

All the villains in the universe are dead.

The Institute, those Supermutants from Washington D.C., some other kind of threat residing in and around Boston...

[SealyStar]

...What, like...We'd have parts of the game where he's having flashbacks? Maybe an item or ability that controls it?

I thought of this, too. The trailer heavily emphasizing the events leading up to the war and while we all know how extravagant AAA game trailers can be, it seems wasteful to create so many pre-war Bwahston assets and not use them in the final game.

Also, I'm still bothered by the typeface on the Vault 111 door being different from the normal Vault number typeface. It seems like a stupid oversight so hopefully it actually isn't and there's some explanation (like, it's different from the other Vaults somehow).

And the cryogenic freezing thing makes sense, because assuming this takes place chronologically after the previous game (as all previous Fallouts have) it would be illogical to still have people in "normal" vaults at least two centuries after the war, and after Vaults like 101, specifically intended to stay closed for a long time, have opened.

[TripJack]

i predict evil chinese invaders

what starts off as an interesting story turns real cliche real fast ("you must defend the people of the wastes from the evil Enclavenazis who murdered your father and want to commit genocide!").

made even better by the fact they didn't kill you father and except for the talking computer they don't want to commit genocide

[Krevsin]

They didn't kill your father? I must've imagined that sequence where he killed himself as a direct result of their actions and plans. That's good enough "you killed my father!" for me. 

Still, I submit on the whole "genocide" thing. You are in fact correct. They are still purity-obsessed racist bastards tho. ALSO WHERE IS MY CHANCE OF JOINING THEM DAMMIT.

[TripJack]

no you didn't imagine, i just meant that he killed himself in a stupid and pointless attempt to murder autumn for vague unexplained reasons

[kaenneth]

of course why they just left instead of using the computer destruct code (which autumn had) is beyond me, plot holes are fun

Maybe the whole base self-destructing wasn't desirable.

[TripJack]

true dat

[scriver]

I've just re-watched the FO4 trailer for the umpteenth time, and I've noticed that pre-war flashbacks are more colourful than the rest of the game - at times they make Bioshock Infinite look like a CoD game. Since there were very old rumours that the main character is a cryogenically frozen Vault resident, it occurred to me - maybe the main character was alive in 2077, and all those scenes are just their memories of the apocalypse. Compared to the post-war wastelands, the pre-War world would definitely look extremely shiny in their mind.

But that wouldn't work with the obvious "no john you are the androids" plot twist.

[FArgHalfnr]

Posting to hype.

Honestly the only thing that would ruin the game for me is paid mods. I can completely ignore the main questline if I get to have nice survival mods or something else equally interesting. Since NV had a hardcore mode where you needed to eat and drink to survive I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar in FO4, especially since it has become apparent in the recent years that people REALLY love to see survival aspects in their games. I bet there will also be some kind of crafting system since everyone and their dog seems to be adding that to their games these days.

[MasterFancyPants]

My biggest problem with FO3 was that It took place 200 years after the war. 200. Years.
IRL what have we accomplished in 200 years? Household electricity, flight, computers, medical science, the internet, cars, universal suffrage, etc, etc, et-fucking-c.
What have the people the capital wasteland done in 200 years? Built tin sheds.

[NullForceOmega]

Well, I mean, it takes something like 140 years for the least irradiated areas to reach background levels through rain-out, then you've got to account for population being hugely reduced and spread out, then factor in resource shortages, but yes, ultimately the CW looks far too barren and undeveloped, but that ties into my irritation with the lore around the CW.

[Darkmere]

It still amuses me that people seriously try to defend FO3 and it's teen fantasy empowerment plot with kindergarden-level good vs evil tripe. The only half-decent writing in it was The Pitt, which conveniently glossed over any ramifications of your resolution so I guess people didn't think about it?

The rest of the world looked like an amusement park ride... here's crazy survivalist town, and there's cannibal apocalypse town, and here's a bunch of people who live in shacks on a bridge with no farmland. Also, hey a giant bomb, let's put a city here and use it as a tourist attraction. If you don't like those, there's always miles of recycled subway tunnels for you to explore! (hint: it's all ghouls)

Vegas actually felt like a real place... there were farms, slums, gangs. Even the outliers had crops to at least feed themselves. No one was a goth cannibal vampyre, no city full of pre-teens that spits in the face of all logic, no fantasy luxury tower fortress with a nuclear briefcase run by a.... British fop? Comon...

My biggest problem with FO3 was that It took place 200 years after the war. 200. Years.
IRL what have we accomplished in 200 years? Household electricity, flight, computers, medical science, the internet, cars, universal suffrage, etc, etc, et-fucking-c.
What have the people the capital wasteland done in 200 years? Built tin sheds.

To be fair the whole point of a nuclear saturation bombing would have been to obliterate as much infrastructure as possible. Society can't spring forth from nothing, especially when the last working technology is controlled by delinquent fascists like the Brotherhood.