Director Todd Howard has spilled some interesting beans on Fallout 4 via an interview with Digital Spy. In it, the Bethesda development lead mentions that the post-apocalyptic adventure will have '"no load", referring to how seamless parts of the game's open world will be.
"In the city, it's very dense, but there is no load - like in Fallout 3, there's a load - for areas of the city, we don't do that," Howard commented. "So it's very dense, the buildings are tall, and a lot of them are open, so you can just walk in and around," he continued, conjuring pictures of titles like Grand Theft Auto V or The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Realistically, this could prove to be quite a big step forward for the franchise, and for Bethesda's titles in general. After all, players have often been critical of the load times and amount of load screens in releases like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. As for the Boston itself, Howard states that to avoid any kind of confusion, the studio is saying that the map's "about the same size" as Skyrim.
Is your interest piqued? Are you hoping that it runs well on PlayStation 4? Build yourself a nuke launcher in the comments section below.
[source digitalspy.co.uk, via twitter.com]
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Good news, nothing worse than loading screens. Expect looong loading screens.
i cant wait for this, its going to be so good! every aspect seems very well thought out and appears to be CRAMmed full of fun things.
I forgot about loading screens. Then I played Bloodborne.
I can't wait to play this!
On a side note, I hope Sony says "yes" to the Mods, and doesn't mess up and, bend over all of us fans of the Fallout series.
But I wouldn't "think" they would be that short sighted.
Aww, nobody else liked the artwork slideshows? Loading screens don't really bother me as long as they're under a minute or two, which PS3 never exceeds, let alone PS4... Hopefully this won't equate to popping 😬
No load screens is the benefit of generation 8 open world games. I do think that some are more creative in the way they load up. I know the Witcher 3 was separated up into a few areas and that Batman: Arkham Knight doesn't have load screens either (although its obvious that some areas are loaded by the long lift sequences)
Of all the games due in November, this is 4th on my list of games wanted. Because of all the other games due, a game like this is unlikely to get the time spent on it from my perspective. Both CoD and SW:BF will be my MP/co-op choices and I expect that CoD and Tomb Raider are likely to be my SP options in between. I expect to get Fallout 4 at some point - more likely when there is a big gap in releases I want.
But can you climb ladders in real time yet?
The Witcher said it had no loading screens and it certainly does. Hopefully Fallout lives up to this statement
@milero91 if it does loading screens as well as the witcher, I will be super happy. They can do better by not having zones, but the only way to have less loading than that is to not have fast travel and to not allow dying, which would both be essential to fallout. There will obviously be loading screens there. What he is saying is that you won't have a loading screen when you enter a town, which is exactly what witcher does.
I'm saddened that the pipboy version is sold out in my region, but I'll still buy this day 1, so I am excited for that.
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