Warp Zoned Presents
All Articles: Fallout 4
Insert Quarter: Why Bethesda’s E3 Showcase Means More Than a Fallout 4 Announcement
Insert Quarter is our showcase for some of the best and most interesting writing about video games on the Internet.
Bethesda will present a Press Conference during this year’s E3 Expo for the first time in the company’s history. This is a momentous occasion for many reasons, but first and foremost, because Bethesda will surely use the event to announce Fallout 4. But Bethesda’s E3 Press Conference is also much bigger than that… and not just because it’ll probably also include more substantive reveals of Doom 4, BattleCry, and possibly even Dishonored 2. Bethesda’s E3 Press Conference also signals the publisher’s entry into the upper echelon of third-party publishers.
VG247’s Matt Martin recently delved into exactly what this means for Bethesda and the wider gaming industry:
Elder Scrolls publisher Bethesda announced it would be hosting its own event at E3 this year. For a brief second everyone paused… and then immediately lost their minds over a Fallout 4 announcement.
While that’s likely, there’s a lot more to Bethesda going big at E3 than a new take on 50s sci-fi. It’s worth looking at what this says about the publisher, the two main consoles and E3 itself, as much as the games we can expect to be on show.
The full article is available for your perusal at VG247.
Posted in Insert Quarter, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged BattleCry, Dishonored 2, Doom (2016), Fallout 4
Bethesda on possibility of Fallout 4 announcement: “It’s gonna be a while”
It’s been over three years since the last installment in the Fallout franchise was released. Fallout: New Vegas wasn’t a sequel to Fallout 3, per se, but it did expand on the Fallout universe, taking place around the same time on the other side of the post-apocalyptic United States. With the incredible success of the most recent Elder Scrolls game, fans have become increasingly anxious for news on the official sequel to Fallout 3. But a recent interview with Bethesda Game Director Todd Howard via Rock, Paper, Shotgun brings some bad news.
Howard stated that there is no timetable for the announcement, but that it will likely be “a while.” He was pretty tight lipped after that statement, but he did go on to mention that Bethesda has noticed the increased interest in PC gaming. Howard also said that there is potential in the PC (and new consoles that are “very PC-like”) for Bethesda to do things they’ve wanted to try in the past:
“We’ve gotten fairly used to all the questions and curiosity over the years. Everyone wants information. Right now, we’re just trying to figure out which of our ideas are going to stick and finding an appropriate time to talk about it.”
Unfortunately, the current official word is still just vague maybes and “potential.” So it looks like we’ll have to keep waiting “a while” for word on the next Fallout game.
Fallout 4 is real… for real this time
Despite many gamers and journalists falling for the Fallout 4-styled hoax set up at TheSurvivor2299, it seems that the game does indeed exist (as if there was any doubt). Kotaku has discovered a possibly Fallout-related casting call put out by a casting director previously connected with other Bethesda titles such as Dishonored and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Although it does not reference the Fallout franchise directly, the documents do allude to several multiple locations and settings from the series. The script also includes the famous opening lines of the previous games: “War. War never changes.”
In addition to the script, other information has trickled out of the casting call, including references to the Institute, the Fallout alternative reality version of MIT. There are also allusions to the Commonwealth, the name for what remains of the state of Massachusetts. This possibly suggests that the world of the next game may span an entire state, making it the biggest game in the series yet.
Meanwhile, “the prick behind Survivor2299” has taken to Reddit to discuss why he launched the hoax site and what he hopes Bethesda will do with the next installment in the Fallout series. It is well worth a read.