Some Fallout 4 (RUMORS) Might Be True

Wooah, mind blowing time. Remember that one person who said she was a fired from Bethesda and now wants some revenge in the form of leaked information? No? Good, because why would you. They were only rumors, right?There is one little detail in the trailer though, that makes those rumors look somewhat legit.

At the end of the trailer, we can hear the player character talk for the first time in a Bethesda RPG. One thing mentioned in the rumors:

“(…)we are making the game more "Story Based" and the player character will finally talk, and narrate his storyline.”

If it's true that the player character can now talk, then our dreams of playing as the dog have been shattered

And Boom! goes the dynamite.
Now, if I was one to make up rumors on a new Bethesda RPG, a talking player character and a character creator that won’t allow you to make female characters wouldn’t be very high on my list.

The leaker also mentions that the game is set in Boston and that she was fired for accidentally leaking some Fallout 4 information to Kotaku. A quick check-up confirms that Kotaku did get some Information on the game back in December 2013, detailing that the game would be set in Boston. So this bit of the backstory could be true, but I wouldn’t take the Boston mention as further proof, since that detail was already known back then.

Confirmed to be set in Boston

Call me the Mulder of video games, but I want to believe, so let me list some more details from the Reddit post:

The map of Fallout 4 is about 3 times the size of Skyrim
The game is set 10 years after Fallout 3, in the year 2287.
After finishing the storyline, you will still be able to swap your characters gender to female.
The Institute from Fallout 3 returns and is headed by a man called Thomas Littleton. They will be the primary antagonists and control most of Boston Downtown.
The Brotherhood of Steel returns, but they will be less like in Fallout 3 and more like the one we’ve seen in New Vegas.
Feral Cats make their debut and you can only find them in one of the vaults.
A couple of characters make their return, like Madison Li, Bryan Wilks, Three Dog (though he may only be a recording), and some other unspecified ones.
There might be a last gen version after all

With flying pretty much confirmed as an option, 3 times the size of Skyrim would make sense

There is one detail in the Reddit post which makes me doubt the information though:

“Fallout 4 will be available for a wide range of platforms after launch. The first version that will be released is being developed for Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC. This version uses a brand new engine built from the ground up to take advantage of the power of next gen systems. Absolutely everything is new, and no assets or scripts are being used from Fallout 3/NV or Skyrim.”

From what we’ve seen in the trailer, this is very much running in the Creation Engine used for previous Bethesda games and at least uses some of the assets for character models. Now maybe they’ve scraped the version running on the new engine, maybe it’s just the way the game is built and the setting, but this statement still makes the internal Scully scream.

Either way, we will find out once E3 hits.

Source: Reddit
Via: Destructoid

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