CVG Fallout "5"'s wishlist

[WorstUsernameEver]

CVG has penned one of those popular features wishlist articles for the successor of Fallout: New Vegas, which they call "Fallout 5". The features listed in the article won't come out exactly as a surprise, but here's a snippet anyway:<blockquote>We want deep customisation for our vehicles, then, but we also want it to be extended everywhere else.

In Fallout, customisation has been defined more by the items you pick up on your travels rather than being able to actually tweak character traits and appearance to your liking directly.

We want to have more control over our face (doesn't everyone?). There are plenty of games in the world with really sophisticated character customisation suites and, if you ask us, being able to tweak every eyebrow hair only serves to make you feel more connected to your character and, therefore, the game as well.

It can be taken further than threads and bone structure though, customisation shouldn't end when you leave the creation station.

We've always felt that the Fallout Karma system could be a little less stark and - in a related way - the dialogue mechanic could be more complex.

We'd like to be able to craft our character's personality and the way he or she is perceived through both our words and our actions. While Fallout has always had different dialogue options pointing towards different personality traits, none of them really seem to have that much lasting effect.

Maybe it's just that folk in a post-apocalyptic world have to be more understanding (radioactive times are hard) but it seems you have to nuke a town before its inhabitants will look at you with a burning glare. Burning for two reasons.

We'd like interaction systems to be more subtle and more significant at the same time. </blockquote>Thanks, GameBanshee

 

[Surf Solar]

So basically they want more options so they can dress their virtual dolls more which helps them to larp throughout the game?
The only valid point is the one with the more complex dialog system, although this is very vague and they don't go into detail...

 

[Blazerfrost]

With Skyrim, Bethesda's boasting communities that get on with their lives regardless of whether or not you exist or not, they have jobs, homes, working hours, day-to-day routines. We want to see this in the next Fallout.

Wasn't Oblivion supposed to have this already? And didn't Ultima and Arcanum already do this? They talk about this as if it's some new super tech that has never been done before.

 

[Jabu]

As much as has been maligned about the poor state of video game journalism ad nauseam, these sorts of articles act as a constant reminder of how the complaints are absolutely valid. And CVG isn't some dinky little private blog.

This is middle school (if that) level writing. The topic is potentially interesting, but most of the ideas boil down to wanting more, bigger and better without proposing solutions or alternatives. Better graphics, more customization, more world sensitivity etc. It's entirely uninspired and lazy. edit:And the complaints about facial customization are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel. The new Fallout's have just about as much character creation (well the face anyway) tools as most other RPGs, arguably more than Mass Effect were personalization plays a bigger role as your interactions are more active.

Wasn't there some reason in the original Fallouts why there were (almost) no working cars around? Even the Highwayman was modified.

 

[monsharen]

I can see vehicles being a fun element (thinking mad max) but unless the wasteland get to play another/more important role it could also just turn into to another mini-game-esque gta riddled with bugs.

 

[Lexx]

We've always felt that the Fallout Karma system could be a little less stark and - in a related way - the dialogue mechanic could be more complex.

Karma is bullshit. This crapy stuff should be dropped totally. Makes no sense that I do something somewhere and in the next moment everyone knows I am evil or a godchild.

Reputation system is the way to go, nothing else. Of course, it gets more complicated then, but it's better than Karma in any possible way.

 

[drawnacrol]

You never saw your face in Fallout unless you went into Vats and that specific camera angle came up. For something like ME/DA2 facial appearance was very important but its been largely pointless in the last 2 games unless they introduce a voiced character in the new game. I always had a hat and glasses on aswell.

 

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

You never saw your face in Fallout unless you went into Vats and that specific camera angle came up.

You never saw your face in Fallout full stop. Oh wait you don't actually mean Fallout do you, but one of the sequels/spinoffs but how are we meant to know which one?

 

[ZeusComplex]

You never saw your face in Fallout unless you went into Vats and that specific camera angle came up. For something like ME/DA2 facial appearance was very important but its been largely pointless in the last 2 games unless they introduce a voiced character in the new game. I always had a hat and glasses on as well.

I'm guessing you don't know there was a third person view and you could do a complete 360 swing of the camera around your character. It even has zoom! What wonders!

Edit: Please remove the double post. That was a complete mistake on my part.

 

[Courier]

"And then we can like dress them up and make them look like us and give them little funny hats and they can explode cars they drive and the graphics will be epic and it'll be lulz."

There, that's the article summed up so you don't have to read it. I just saved you all five minutes.

 

[generalissimofurioso]

The Player's eyes should be microscopes!

No, wait, telescopes!

No, no , no, PERISCOPES!

Can you come back to me? I'm the average video game fan and have no idea what makes games good!

 

[shihonage]

We want to have more control over our face (doesn't everyone?). There are plenty of games in the world with really sophisticated character customisation suites and, if you ask us, being able to tweak every eyebrow hair only serves to make you feel more connected to your character and, therefore, the game as well.

Sweet Moses.

Stopped reading there, don't want to boil.

 

[brfritos]

Sweet Moses.

Stopped reading there, don't want to boil.

Wait until you read the entire article and see the wonderful idea of re-introducing vehicles in FO5.

We'd love deal with a group of Radscorpions by mowing them down at speed.

Sweet Moses indeed.

 

[Courier]

Bethesda is already doing that. It's called "Rage".

 

[lisac2k]

Yes, distinguished comments galore, just like the article that sparked them. I reckon they belong together. Let's see... Ah, one of the many very insightful posters around there:

OK?! well first of all Fallout: New Vegas isnt fallout 4 not even close! If you wanna count all the Spin offs (such as new vegas ) We would be at fallout # 7 ! So you should fix it becuase the next REAL fallout will be fallout 4 ( unless you count fallout online but thats not a squeal either)!

Fallout Online is not a squeal! You heard it, people! Interplay is maybe sparse on information regarding this issue, but it has leaked!

Hold on, hold on... maybe there's more proven facts you would like to know about games these days? How about:

WRONG: The game engine [Gamebryo] can produce graphics unlike any thing seen this generation. You simply have to look at some of the Mod's on oblivion never mind Fallout to see how amazing the engine can be given time to dvelop.

Indeed, the article and the comments belong together.

 

[Walpknut]

The more complex dialog system" sounds like the only good idea, but the way they word it is just vague, Vehicles are not such a bad idea, but they would require a lot of work for them to be something more than a super speed option, the more customizable facial customization is just something really superfluous, having a cyberdoll, go play Sims?

 

[grayx]

How far have we come from original one... Now, Oblivion, Skyrim and Rage are normal to mention along side with Fallout game...

*imaginary spitting on the floor*

Maybe it's me, but i have noticed that angry devs, generally, are making games that i like. A lot.

I would like angry devs.

Please.

 

[OakTable]

Dunno. Always wanted to have tattoos and piercings in New Vegas. Too bad no one is making them and is busy making anime hair mods and HH-cup tit mods.

 

[Walpknut]

^I think there are tatoo races mods. I use one that adds the tribal tatoos as a playable race.

 

[PainlessDocM]

I want to play F3 created by Troika and a boat and a house in Vietnam and the continuation of Project Orion and I want my ex gf back into my life and a glass of good red wine.