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Bethesda’s Pete Hines Fallout 4 – ‘We’re doing stuff that other folks wouldn’t do or don’t do’

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GameCentral talks to Bethesda’s Pete Hines about the future of the company, Fallout 4’s graphics, and why Bethesda wouldn’t publish Rocket League.

Usually it’s pretty pointless talking to someone with a job title like Vice President of PR and Marketing. They’re not directly involved in making games and it’s specifically their job not to say anything controversial or unexpected. But Pete Hines has been at Elder Scrolls and Fallout publisher Bethesda for 16 years now, and in that time has become one of the figureheads of the company.

DarkOcelet3191d ago

''‘Who are the folks that we respect? Who are the folks that we’re interested in working with and what might we be able to do with them?’ I mean, that’s how we ended up working with somebody like Arkane, and they ultimately ended up joining us. That’s how we ended up with Id, that’s how we ended up with Shinji [Mikami] and his team at Tango.''

I bet anyone a hundred bucks that they will talk to Kojima about joining them.

Mikami and Kojima working on a game together would be **** ing awesome.

Cyfyxtfg3191d ago

Good interview. Fallout GOTY 😁 ill be spending many days on this game

DarkOcelet3191d ago

I think MGSV will be GOTY.

nX3191d ago

It's still too hard to say what game will win GOTY, there's also Bloodborne, Witcher3, Battlefront... there's a lot of competition this year. In any case, Fallout shapes up to be exactly the game fans wanted it to be.

greenmiker3191d ago

"No, I mean what would you think if I’d gotten up on stage at the showcase and I’d said, ‘Here’s our bright colourful 3D platformer.’ You’d be like, ‘What in the hell is going on?!’"

LOL! I like that guy!

Clown_Syndr0me3191d ago

I worry they're over hyping this. I hope it's a asterpiece but making statements like that often doesn't end well.

DarkOcelet3191d ago

It will not be an asterpiece, it will be a masterpiece :D Jk...

Jokes aside, The game will be fine as long as there is little to no bugs.

scark923191d ago

I was thinking asterpiece was an actual word that I was not aware of,

Bethesda game without bugs? HA!

Though the bugs were never as bad for me as it was for some people, they were always playable.

GearsOfWar3191d ago

You might be hoping for a little much if you expect no bugs from Bethesda. To be fair, they often focus on large projects, which will usually always have more bugs.

I hope we get the same support from Bethesda as we got from CDPR on Witcher 3.

Then again, I could be wrong. Maybe Fallout 4 will come out completely polished. They'd certainly set a new bar for themselves as a company.

Clown_Syndr0me3191d ago

Writing on my phone absolutely sucks, I corrected that word 3 times and it just kept changing it so I gave up lol.

Activemessiah3191d ago

Of course he's gonna say that, this is coming from the PR dude of Bethesda.

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Fallout 4 – Next Gen Update 2 Notes

A new update is now available for Fallout 4. This update adds the ability to manage your control over graphic fidelity or performance and addresses some further stability and visual issues.

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Tacoboto1d 13h ago

How nice of them to give us more control over graphical settings as a way to *completely* avoid taking accountability for the broken Xbox settings.

bondsmx1d 10h ago

Well, I still crashed like 5 times last night within two hours. So there’s that.

anast16h ago

I had to stop. The game is not good. I'd rather play Skyrim and that game isn't that good either.

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I Think It's About Time We Realize Fallout 4 Wasn't That Bad

Ahmed from eXputer: "2015's Fallout 4 received harsh criticism upon launching, but I think it was unwarranted and the game deserves more praise than it got."

helicoptergirl6d ago

It was totally that bad. I couldn't finish the campaign it was so bland and boring as I recall. Got so sick of it. 1000 stimpaks on hard. It is very rare that I play half a game and then just quit. I usually always finish it. But i was so bored with this game I just stopped and never went back and never regretted it. Just thinking about that game makes me shudder

Furesis6d ago

That's exactly what happened to me too lmao
Fallout 4 is not a fallout game period it's a bethesda game

Vits6d ago

The comparison with Skyrim is mind-boggling. Yes, Skyrim has streamlined many of the systems that Morrowind introduced. However, it did not tamper with the core of the Elder Scrolls franchise; it did not diminish the freedom and sense of exploration that made Bethesda RPGs famous. Fallout 4, on the other hand, did exactly that to the Fallout series. It eliminated what made Fallout such a beloved series to play. There are no consequences for your choices, no reason to explore, and barely any interesting set pieces in the game.

It's not terrible, but it's a painfully mediocre game in a franchise that typically doesn't produce such mediocrity. So that is why people see it as bad, the bar is just much higher.

anast6d ago

They both feel the same because they are, it's just that one has swords and magic and the other has swords and guns.

anast6d ago

I'm replaying it now. It sucks. I'm about 30 hours in and thinking about quitting again. I am so tired of the dialogue I just spam a random button because it doesn't matter. The upgrade just feels like a graphical mod, everything else is not good.

Good-Smurf6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

I couldn't play the game as-is it was insanely boring and grindy and the grind itself are not fun at all.
Mods helped me stomach the game a bit better but after a while I just stopped playing and uninstalled it because the game did nothing after the first few hours to give me any motivation to keep playing it, it just became a mindless looter shooter with obsession in settlement building and defending.
Compared to F3 and FNV, F4 was barely a mediocre game it wasn't bad but it's also very forgettable entry.

MrDead6d ago

It's not that bad after 300+ mods that fix it's issues and make the game fun... but lets not talk about mods right now as they are f****d.

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Interview on Fallout 4 with the Actor for Nick Valentine, Codsworth & Mr Handy (Stephen Russell)

Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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