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Role-playing video games have been a craze among many gamers in recent times. The gore and strategy accompanying it, has fascinated numerous gamers. Therefore, the Fallout game franchise has given these gamers their exact taste in the virtual world, but with an added attraction of being in the post-apocalyptic world. Also gaining an influence from the post-war culture of 1950’s America, the Fallout series has been immensely historical in it’s approach and has enthralled gamers with the graphical content in it. Thus, Fallout 4 has been eagerly awaited by RPG gamers around the globe. And, as is the custom with all Fallout games in the past, the run-of-the-mill rumors are already going around the globe, most of them being a hoax. So, let’s have a look at some of the various expectations of the game.
1. Real Setting
There have been extensive rumors about the developers of the Fallout franchise, Bethesda, researching for a real location for their game, the primary focus being on the Cambridge-based university Massachussets Institute of Technology. In Fallout 3, there was only a mere mention of the university as it became The Institute in the alternate history of the series, but it seems now that they were just laying the foundation stone for setting the subsequent game in the real-life location of Boston. Also, this claim is supported by the leaked casting papers of the game on the net which include scripts, character descriptions and other details.
2. Varied music choices:
In the previous Fallout game franchises, the game had just one disc jockey by the name of Three Dog. Now that the game will be primarily shifted to Boston, it will be hard for the disc jockey to travel in a post-apocalyptic era. But due to the huge popularity that the jockey garnered in his stint, the storyline is going to be manipulated so that Three Dog’s appearance seems legit. Also, the appearance of another disc jockey, Travis Milers, in the leaked documents has paved the way for believing that Bethesda may try to correct their error of having a lesser range of music in their previous game editions by giving gamers a wider array of radio stations to choose from.
3. Ron Perlman’s narration
The Pacific Rim and Son of Anarchy actor, Ron Perlman, has been the voice behind the beginning monologue of every Fallout game edition till date. Not, it seems like the monologue will be done by the player character himself rather than Perlman delivering his gravelly voice for it. A sore pill to swallow for the Fallout faithful, if these rumours hold true.
4. Home-building opportunities:
There have been varied rumours circulating the web that gamers will get oppurtunities to build homes or sanctuaries for themselves. But this would not suit the game as it’s set up in a post-apocalyptic world and, also, it would destroy the whole meaning of the world, i.e. isolation and fear.
5. Easy transport in the game:
There haven’t been many opportunities for gamers to travel in the game and, therefore, with the rumors of horses and cars coming into the game, wishes of these gamers may just be fulfilled. Again, this can prove to be detrimental for the realism in the game as horses may kill different characters along the way, thus there may be no need of some gung-ho action which this game portrays. Cars may push gamers to search more for engines and, thus, there will be a certain ignorance about the real message of the game.
6. Realism in the player character:
Grapevine suggests that the player character will wake up from a cryogenic sleep in the middle of the war – a state in which he has been since the beginning of the war. The casting documents have this as the character’s opening monolgue:
“We now stand on the brink of total war – and I’m afraid. For myself, for my wife, for my infant son. Because if my time in the army taught me one thing, it’s that war – war never changes.”
This would make sense for the secondary characters to talk to the gamer’s character in a way in which both the gamer and his character don’t know about what will happen in the future. Also, this idea can further explain about the story that the U.S. government deliberately put some of their selected personnel in such a state so that they can come back and save the country and restore order.
7. Multiplayer mode:
It has been said that the game, like Elder Scrolls, will include multiplayer gaming which has made many gamers around the world excited.
8. Difficulty to be increased:
The difficulty levels are rumoured to being increased in this game as many have complained about the previous games being too easy and, therefore, getting finished early. Josh Sawyer, lead designer and director of the game, accepted the flaw and has promised that the difficulty level will be increased.
9. Exclusivity:
There have been talks that the game will only be available on Xbox consoles and not on others, which has come as a big shocker to gamers around the globe, as the previous editions were available for all platforms.
10. Modding limited to consoles:
This is a major let down as mods are much more easier to create on PC’s than on consoles, and, thus, it is best that this rumour remains a ruse…just like many others in the franchise.
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