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Fallout 4 to feature Nvidia Gameworks
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I don't think any of them have looked great (for the time) tbh, think the emphasis is more on gameplay? If that's spot on then I won't complain
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Expect Gameworks to halve fps and add virtually nothing 
That's my attitude atm, and if it's a little better then I'd pleasantly surprised
That's my attitude atm, and if it's a little better then I'd pleasantly surprised
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Even Skyrim was not the best looking game at the time,but then it was a huge map and Fallout 4 is even larger!! The modders will probably make this game look very pretty,just like they did with Skyrim.
Fallout has always been about the gameplay,the universe the game is set in,the humour and the story.
Fallout has always been about the gameplay,the universe the game is set in,the humour and the story.
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Exactly, which is why it's being looked forward to so much!!
I have been waiting a few years for it,and TBH it could look EXACTLY the same as Fallout:New Vegas and I would still buy it.
Having said that from the link Wrinkly posted,there are some better quality screenshots from the PS4 version:
http://i.imgur.com/WlbvuM5.png
http://i.imgur.com/SGFyqOM.png
http://i.imgur.com/KwUovKf.png
http://i.imgur.com/kUhrzq6.png
http://i.imgur.com/tgUDqlO.png
Looks OK to me and I don't expect any of us were expecting the next Crysis.
Not for me! By the time the Fallout 4 GOTY edition launches on Steam for £9.99 Gameworks will be nilch on the fps hit i imagine. That is when i will pounce Pascal + Fallout 4 = win. Maybe 4K and Gameworks at 120hz will actually give Pascal a run for the money.
You are all beta testing for me ^^
All your beta are belong to us!
Not sure why I felt the need to say that... Maybe someone set us up the bomb ;D
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For me this is true of every game I play. Are there really people that will put up with the worst gameplay imaginable if the graphics are pretty?
PS4 is a very popular console, so yes.
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Yep - you only have to look at many pretty looking PC games,which have no character development,no real story,staid mechanics and linear gameplay but people will buy them since they look pretty and can be used to show off their latest hardware,which again there is nothing wrong with. Lots of PC "tech demo" games excel in this. Even look at Crysis,its major plus points were graphics,certain aspects of its design and certain aspects of its gameplay mechanics but had a pretty generic story and has hardly any character development. FarCry being being pretty much the same. FEAR,being another one,which had an interesting protaganist and some parts of the story were interesting but was still quite linear and the main characters outside her,were poorly characterised,but was a graphical standard when released. There are enough of those games about.
Fallout has a massive universe and lots of history behind it,lots of humour and they have never been the prettiest games but at least with the last few years,the art style and direction has been pretty good.
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Plus you can see how many on this forum value graphics by the amount they spend on CPUs and graphics cards and how they will mod games to make them look better. Virtually,every release in the last few years will run on a £100 to £200 graphics card fine with a few settings reduced.
Even look at the fuore on how The Witcher 3 and Watchdogs were not as "pretty as advertised" in pre-release videos.
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Yeah, I could play it for the story, the setting, the graphics, etc. It's all about the experience. I'm still waiting for the day when a settlement/town/city actually has thousands of inhabitants with everything that such a society is.
"Gameplay" hasn't really changed much in the past years. Number of NPCs is still low, AI is still dumb, worlds are still artificial, etc. Change the story, the backdrop, fine tune some stuff and that's it: a BRAND NEW game!
CPU's dont usually make things prettier, they make them run better.
Likewise, I bought a GTX970 not because I care so desperately about graphics, but because I want 60fps with reasonable settings. Also spending a lot of money on a really nice PC/GPU doesn't automatically mean you care about graphics more than anything else. It means that you enjoy nice graphics(dont we all?), good performance and can justify spending the money on your hobby.
Valuing graphics is a bad thing? O.o
Story and Gameplay is still tops. If a game has those, it's still well worth playing (I'm currently playing Legend of Heroes; Trails in the Sky SC) but given the choice of playing game x with **** graphics or playing game x with good graphics, most folk would prefer to play it at its best I'd imagine.
I cannot fathom why people think you can't have both great gameplay and great graphics in AAA games.
AAA game developers have no excuse for making games in 2015 with mediocre graphics that look no better than ~7-8 years ago.
AAA game developers have no excuse for making games in 2015 with mediocre graphics that look no better than ~7-8 years ago.
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I don't even think of it like that. You only have so much resources and time. I rather them put those in story and gameplay more than graphics with a game like Fallout 4. Sure we all want nice graphics, but I can't imagine it is easy or cheap to do it. End of the day they want to make profit and most people buying such game are not doing it for the graphics.
Look at a game like Ryse, awesome graphics, boring game = poor sales. If only they put half as much effort into gameplay as they did graphics, that game may have been worth playing. lol.
But yeah, in the ideal world we want best gameplay, story and graphics. But in reality won't get it all the time. No point winging about it. As long as story and gameplay is good, the graphics I have seen is more than adequate
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It's not that you can't. It's that if a game's strong suit isn't its graphics, but is still a blast to play, then many of us are super forgiving for that.
Plus, Bethesda games are developed with some pretty clear priorities in mind, and they do not involve pushing graphics. Which is cool. Their engine seems far more built for complexity, scope and modding than it is for high end graphics and that's not a bad thing in my eyes. Would I like nicer graphics? Sure, but if graphics are the price we pay for everything else these games provide, I'll take that any day.