LOL! Great article. I don’t recall ever playing any of the Fallout games although I always thought they looked liked they would be fun.
I preordered long time ago. I am prepared.
My wife is going to visit her father for a week at the same time. Just a lucky coincidence.
Make sure you also pick up some Nuka Cola to go with it 
Also related to actual game development I still refer to this article that is a couple years old by Bethesda on how they built Skyrim and their other open world games. I think it is a great resource on open world and modular reuse and shows one way of doing it that obviously works for them.
I certainly wouldn’t take any QA advice from them though. It’s a good thing their games are great fun because they’re also always horribly buggy
Agreed, but I think that goes hand in hand with large openworld games in general.
True, but Bethesda seems to be especially prone to it. I’ve not seen near the issues with Witcher 3 for example. But, the Fallout series is far more fun.
Fortunately their fanbase seems very willing to patch their games for them. If I weren’t so eager to play I would be tempted to hold off until the unofficial patch mods have matured.
I’ve been explaining this to all my friends and my wife for months now.
It’s coming.
It was really nice knowing all the real people I’ve met so far. But I have a virtual dog now.
Yup, see you in a couple of months Aurore… It’s been a pleasure…
It’s going to be hilarious in the office:
So what have you been doing today?
Well I just made this building…
That’s a rectangle.
Well let me get back to playing Fallout for some inspiration then…
Umm yeah “inspiration”…
I never used my NPC in Fallout 3. I just got the dog and I left him in my house while I spent days collecting garden gnomes (and an entire garden gnome chess set). Only thing is, often times I’d come back to my house and all of the gnomes I nicely placed everywhere would be all over hell. And the dog would be standing there waiting for me… I swear it must have been his mission in life to completely wreck my feng shui every time I left the place.
I recommend fallout 2. I fondly remember mordino casino shootout.
Same. Bethesda’s past NPCs simply got in the way. It’ll be interesting to see if Fallout 4’s will be worth using.
They often were great at tanking damage though.
Can’t wait to see all the bugs, reminds me that we’re only human and game development isn’t easy.
For me, Fallout 1 is the best Fallout. Fallout 2 took itself a bit too less serious, had a bit too many pop culture references etc IMO. Not saying Fallout 2 wasn’t awesome, just not as awesome 
But for new players, the old Fallouts might be too dated (or not, have a 15 year old cousin who recently played both Fallout 1 and 2 and she loved them) and then I’d highly recommend Fallout: New Vegas over Fallout 3. New Vegas feels a lot more ‘Fallout-y’ than Fallout 3.
If I got any it’d be #1. I’d probably like that one more than 3 or 4 unless they are atypical AAA.