Fallout 4

[BrewsterBear]

There's a lot of chatter and hype about this at the moment. Bethesda registered Fallout 4 as a trademark a couple of weeks ago and at the same time this website appeared;

http://thesurvivor2299.com/

The website is currently down, but it should be back up. There were two counters on the website. One that counted down to "Nuclear Winter is coming..." which arrived this evening. The second is for another 10 days or so. Along with the counters there have been various Morse code messages and cryptic clues all pointing to Fallout.

I really hope this isn't a hoax a la Halflife 3.

[DKS]

<claps hands excitedly, but possibly too childishly>

[davepoth]

It's back up.

KVNGR REV ALPHA PPS VT PIZ UHMYLPVOQ CM XHWMZP. NBJB SPI'F BYQS QT D'Y BYFGEOB FI VQDYL MAQ. -NGQHT 5120-

Nuclear winter has come

Translates to

"THE INSTITUTE IS SEALED. THEY WON'T HELP US I'M HEADING TO BLACK ROW. -TBNLS 5120-"

And also some morse code.

"Calling all stations, calling all stations, calling all stations. This is Overseer of Vault 119. Emergency. Unknown enemy. SOS SOS SOS. Vault 119. Quabbin. 7667. SOS SOS SOS. Vault 119. Quabbin. 7667. Enemy unkno-"

[Baryonyx]

I'm praying this is genuine. I thought this had been exposed as a hoax along with the recent Shenmue 3 copyright application?

[TheEnd]

"Threedog" said something about it in his twitter a month or so back.

[JDMDrifter]

I haven't played fall out 3 yet! Loved new Vegas though

[BrewsterBear]

JDMDrifter said:

I haven't played fall out 3 yet! Loved new Vegas though

What are you doing man?! F3 is so much more immersive than NV with a much richer storyline. You might not like the older style weapons of F3 after the goodies in NV though. F3 is in bargain buckets all over. Pick up a copy and say goodbye to a month of your life.

[dave7692]

Fallout 4? On next gen?

[XslaneyX]

Lets hope they fix the random crash/freezes that plague F3 and NV

Edited by XslaneyX on Monday 2nd December 08:56

[BrewsterBear]

XslaneyX said:

Lets hope they fix the random crash/freezes that plague F3 and NV

Edited by XslaneyX on Monday 2nd December 08:56

With PS4 and XBone architecture being much more closely related to PC stuff the port over should be much easier for the developer and glitches will hopefully be a lot fewer.

[Jasandjules]

If that is Fallout 4 on the PS4 coming out in 10 days, I think I am getting a PS4 (well, I'll try to !).

[RobGT81]

BrewsterBear said:

There's a lot of chatter and hype about this at the moment. Bethesda registered Fallout 4 as a trademark a couple of weeks ago and at the same time this website appeared;

http://thesurvivor2299.com/

I can't view that website at work because the filter has it marked as "games" hmmm..

[dave7692]

Jasandjules said:

If that is Fallout 4 on the PS4 coming out in 10 days, I think I am getting a PS4 (well, I'll try to !).

Nah I think it'll be an announcement regarding a future release rather than the release itself. They're probably still focus on Elder Scrolls Online at the moment.

[Altrezia]

I really can't wait. Played the st out of the Fallout games - amazing atmosphere.

Wheeeee

[BrewsterBear]

Jasandjules said:

If that is Fallout 4 on the PS4 coming out in 10 days, I think I am getting a PS4 (well, I'll try to !).

I very much doubt it unfortunately. I'm hoping it's going to be a release date reveal for some point in the first half of 2014, although I imagine Christmas next year is more likely.

[JDMDrifter]

BrewsterBear said:

What are you doing man?! F3 is so much more immersive than NV with a much richer storyline. You might not like the older style weapons of F3 after the goodies in NV though. F3 is in bargain buckets all over. Pick up a copy and say goodbye to a month of your life.

I will be buying shortly, may as well go for game of the year edition if there are a few left over.

[Durzel]

dave7692 said:

Fallout 4? On next gen?

This.

Also, thesurvivor2299.com is owned by ZeniMax Media, who own Bethesda Game Studios. So, it's legit.

I loved Fallout 3, coming out of the vault for the first time and seeing the vast expanse in front of you that you could explore is up there with one of my most memorable gaming moments.

[Altrezia]

I agree btw - I never finished NV - got bored. F3 is in my top 5 games ever.

[MintyChris]

Fallout 3 GOTY edition is a must buy for any gamer. One of the greatest games easily. Very much looking forward to F4.

[davepoth]

I really enjoyed F3, and even most of the DLC (the UFO one was a bit silly though). The writing was very good with lots of layers to it, especially some of the logs from just after the bombs dropped.

It looks like Fallout 4 will be in Massachusetts - plenty of references to "The Institute" which is expected to be MIT in Boston (sort of) and Quabbin Reservoir which is upstate:

http://goo.gl/maps/wwx1i

The distance between the two is roughly the same as the real-life distance between downtown DC and Raven Rock, MD.