AFAIK there is a time limit in Fallout 2 too. The medicine man will pop up in dreams telling you to hurry the fuck up every once in awhile.
Yeah but it's not a hard time limit, he just harasses you with skippable still pictures every once in a while.
Anyway, I'm still addicted to FO4 hype but I am getting pissed off at the hatejerkers. There's nothing wrong with being cynical about a game and refusing to buy into the hype, and plenty of people are doing just that, but "hatejerk" is the only fitting word for some people talking about it (not so much here as on other sites, thankfully).
1. "Teh graphics suck!"
While I will concede that the graphics aren't as advanced as some AAA games recently, they're far from terrible and honestly pretty damn good when you look at the bigger picture. Furthermore, I can't get over the hypocrisy of people complaining about a trailer honestly showing what a game will look like, after years of complaining about prerendered movie trailers and bullshots.
2. "It's running on Gamebryo!"
Saying Skyrim and, apparently, Fallout 4 run on Gamebryo is like saying Half-Life 2 runs on the Quake Engine or Bioshock Infinite runs on the same engine as Deus Ex. It runs on a heavily updated fork of what was originally Gamebryo and so people are acting like it's literally Morrowind with guns.
3. "M'lady Sandra Reed said you can only be a dude!"
Countless people have skewered "The Reed Post" already, myself included. I don't hope to win anyone over by repeating the message, but if just one person stops treating the post as divine and infallible because of this I'll be happy.
First, the story behind it is fishy. Trusting the post means accepting that Bethesda let a single grunt programmer who had worked there less than a month access a nearly-finished game more than a year ago, and provided her tons of specific insider business and marketing information, that she presumably had no reason to know anyway, such as launch dates of the game itself and literally all DLC for it, and plans for projects that hadn't even started yet.
Second, most of the things in the post that do correspond to the currently-available information from the trailer and website can be Occam's-Razored as coincidence or based on information that was already available at the time it was made. For example, rumors that FO4 would be in Boston go back literally years and Bethesda employees were reportedly snooping around Beantown several months before the Reed Post.
Third, from the limited information we have, a lot of Reed's claims are demonstrably false. The plot she gave for the game doesn't seem to correspond with the scenario from the trailer that you come out of a Vault, the game has so far only been revealed for PS4/XBone/PC, with no references to last-gen versions, and the "brand new engine with 100% new from scratch code" looks remarkably like the Creation Engine. The last one really sticks in my craw because many of the people who believe the Reed post are the same people who bitch about how FO4 runs on Gamebryo.
4. "DAE paid mod$?"
While it's obviously possible and I wouldn't be shocked if they were announced, the rejection of paid mods for Skyrim was so strong and near-unilateral that even if Bethesda implemented it for FO4, they would probably be protested away again, unless the system was seriously revamped, or even cause boycotts if they were announced ahead of time.