**** Pre-Official Fallout 4 Thread ****

[On Holiday]

Where has £50 been plucked from? It's up at £40.

Oh, I see it on Steam.

Well there's your problem.. Steam has always been more expensive.

 

[Ayahuasca]

It's a console port.

It's not.

 

[Akagi]

It's a console port.

It's not.

Why don't we stop arguing about this eh?

It is a little bit pointless since nobody knows one way or the other.

It doesn't matter either. If it is ported; as long as it is ported properly with better textures and such I don't mind.

 

[Oh Ed not again.]

Got a code for 23% off at GMG but it doesn't seem to work when buying from the UK store. (Might only be valid in the US as the price reduction was $46.20 down from $59.99)

23PERC-ENTOFF-48HOUR

Just took £11.49 off for me when I tried the code.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Why don't we stop arguing about this eh?

It is a little bit pointless since nobody knows one way or the other.

It doesn't matter either. If it is ported; as long as it is ported properly with better textures and such I don't mind.

There's nothing to argue over, PC games aren't simply ported from the consoles, it's a terrible phrase that seems to have caught on and people seem to use it for pretty much any PC game that doesn't perform well or looks poor.

 

[HazardO]

Just took £11.49 off for me when I tried the code.

Oooh I'll give it another go then!

Edit: No it just says "unable to add voucher" for me. (As opposed to "This is not a valid voucher")

Anyway I'm glad it helped someone.

 

[Oh Ed not again.]

Oooh I'll give it another go then!

Edit: No it just says "unable to add voucher" for me. (As opposed to "This is not a valid voucher")

Anyway I'm glad it helped someone.

Weird, got another machine (or a proxy) you can try?



All seems dandy for me!

 

[HazardO]

I'll try again when I get home. It might be "new account" protection of some sort.

 

[EddScott]

It works for me also.

If I play this like 3 and NV (which is solid flat out for a week or two) I'll probably lose my GF.

/in basket (sorry love)

 

[spoffle]

Why do you keep posting these images? They look just as bad as the first time.

Not ported? It is a console port. It's patently obvious from the trailer.

Because you won't answer the question.

Also, no it's not because games aren't ported. That's not how development works.

 

[barmyllama]

Games are developed on PC's.

If it's a multi platform game then the developers will have console development kits connected to their development PC's so they run their code on the actual console hardware.

What people wrongly call console ports are PC games that use the same assets as the console version. So the developers don't spend any extra time, therefore money, on taking advantage of any potential extra processing power that PC gamers might have avaialble in their PC's.

Which, when you consider PC game sales against console game sales, makes economic sense most of the time.

 

[dave1180]

pre order is about £20 on kinguin

 

[spoffle]

Games are developed on PC's.

If it's a multi platform game then the developers will have console development kits connected to their development PC's so they run their code on the actual console hardware.

What people wrongly call console ports are PC games that use the same assets as the console version. So the developers don't spend any extra time, therefore money, on taking advantage of any potential extra processing power that PC gamers might have avaialble in their PC's.

Which, when you consider PC game sales against console game sales, makes economic sense most of the time.

People actually think the game is developed for a console, then that complete console version is "adapted" to run on PC.

What actually happens is that they will create a build for each platform it'll be released on, and then work on it from there after the majority of the source is complete.

It's a truly awful term that the vast majority of people just don't understand, which is why you get people getting all upset when you point out to them that porting doesn't actually exist for the most part when it comes to games development.

 

[spoffle]

Here are some much higher quality screen captures:

Spoiler

Right click on any of the images and choose "view image" to see it in its full resolution.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Looks absolutely fine to me, the fallout games have never been ones for groundbreaking cutting edge graphics anyway. They still however capture the atmosphere very well.

 

[spoffle]

I still think the guy and the dog look quite ropey, but it gives some perspective as to much detail was being lost in the official Youtube video to this other one.

 

[barmyllama]

I'm currently playing through Uncharted: Drakes Fortune on the PS3 for the first time.

The graphics are fine, considering it's from 2007.

Would it be a better game with better graphics?

No, the enemies would still be bullet sponges and apart from that I'd enjoy it just the same.

I actually don't think the Fallout 4 trailer looked bad at all.

I have to laugh when people say things like "the dog looks like it's from a PS2 game"

Go back and actually play games from the PS2 era and then come back and say the same.

 

[Tummy]

I take it everyone has seen the uncompressed video?

 

[BS Dave]

link please?

 

[Oh Ed not again.]

http://www.gamersyde.com/download_fallout_4_trailer-34774_en.html