It’s official: Fallout 4 is coming. Bethesda just put up a countdown timer leading up to the announcement, which will apparently take place tomorrow.
It’s curious to see Bethesda announce the game before their E3 conference, which takes place on June 14, but it’s happening. Yesterday, a person familiar with goings-on at the company told me that a 24-hour countdown clock would be launching today and lead up to a Fallout 4 announcement this week. Looks like that’s true, although of course it’s possible they will drag this out with an extended ARG or other teasers leading up to the 14th.
Fallout 4, a sequel to Bethesda’s 2008 post-apocalyptic RPG, is one of the most anticipated games in recent history, and it’s been driving everyone nuts for years now. Back in December of 2013, we posted leaked casting documents indicating the game would be in Boston, but we haven’t heard much since then, despite countless fake rumours and vague teases.
That “please stand by” image, of course, is straight out of Fallout:
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117 responses to “The Fallout 4 Announcement Has Begun”
YAY!!! Take me money 🙂
I’m not sure what I want more. Fallout 4 or this to be an announcement of a f2p mobile game so I can watch the world burn.
I logged in just to upvote this.
Nah, it’s going to be an online only MMORPG with a RRP of $120, $20/Month subscription, P2W stores and no ability to actually have fun.
IPhone exclusive at launch.
Do you kick puppies, burn kittens and orphan millionaire children for shits and giggles?????
Jeez, the kittens get shafted in that deal while the dogs are comparably unscathed.
Because they’re puppies man!
That’s evil. You’re evil. Stop being evil!
I LOLed and upvoted.
Careful now, that kind of talk is how you get put on Police watchlists 😛
Or an announcement of a remaster of Fallout 3.
I would love it if the last gen games were re-released and optimised for the current gen…as long as Fallout 4 is also there 😉
I am more okay with this idea than expected.
Mobile game with paid mods
Only 99 cents for the VATS doubler.
This has to be probably the most upvoted comment I’ve ever seen on Kotaku.
Trjn had one awhile back that broke 100.
I don’t want to set the world on fire. I just want to start a flame in your heart.
I’m taking this with a grain of salt. Wouldn’t be the first time someone’s put up a fake site like this
It’s official though. The article says so.
It is official. Pete Hines has been talking it up on Twitter
It came from the official twitter accounts run by Bethesda… maybe do your research?
It doesn’t say anything about it coming from Twitter in the article and the article is what I based my comment on or do I need to cross reference and cite my sources to comment now
No, you’re just misinformed.
The source is cited as Bethesda’s official fallout blog, fallout.bethsoft.com
Going to their developer blog bethblog.com also redirects there.
There have been so many fakeouts that it’s good and proper to be skeptical, even cynical, but this time is different and very easy to verify. There’s a definite Fallout announcement coming.
Looking around the page’s source we can find some great little Easter eggs…
The code is written in the same style, hosted on Bethesda’s Website and has been confirmed by multiple officials. Also, the URL is fallout.bethsoft.com, if it’s fake, Bethesda should be very….very scared.
All I ment by this was that I’m going into this sceptical because I’ve been let down by these thing in the past not saying it’s out right fake
Of course, I’m just giving you some reasons to get hyped haha
@sweepar has just been hurt too many times. i think someone needs a… group hug!
That’s all I’ve ever asked for
Ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod
I only just got up and I have to change my pants already!
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Called this when the Bethesda e3 invite not showing fallout silhouette. Finally a new fallout!
*jumping and clapping like a giddy school girl at a 1D concert*
SQUEE!
Well that’s just me in overload now
While I love the idea of Fallout 4 coming, I hate all this teaser garbage. Why can’t they just announce it straight away and avoid all of this ?
Clearly after the fakes it would have been the best option.
It ensures as many people have eyes on them as possible. Just an announcement would trickle out from news sites whereas now they’ll have a whole heap of people anxiously waiting and refreshing their site.
Hypetrain is best train. No complaints here. Not their fault jerks made fakes constantly leading up to the real deal.
But all those fakes only have credibility because Bethesda play these stupid hype games. If Fallout 4 was just announced and relied on trailers and junk for hype like a regular game then when we’re waiting for Fallout 5 the fake teasers wouldn’t seem like real announcements.
Looking forward to only seeing a live action “trailer”. Wonders why any game publisher does that.
Choo choo!!
http://www.bethblog.com/2015/05/29/register-for-the-sydney-e3-showcase-event/
I also don’t recall this being put up from any of the Australian guys. E3 thing going down in Sydney from Bethesda
Thank God…
Why not just announce it now? Why waste time with a countdown timer if we know it’s fallout?
Because PR and marketing people told them to.
Because it will lead to a trailer or teaser and e3 will show actual gameplay.
Oooh, found this embedded in the code of the page:
PA system failure has occured.
Shutdown of the Masterbrain has been authorized and all sensitive materials have been removed for security purposes.
Please attempt re-access. Have a pleasant day.
I just came here to say …… GIGITTY !!
OHHH YEAHHH !
Excellent news to fall asleep to last night
I lived under a rock back in the Fallout days. Bethesda only came to my attention after I put about 270 hours into Skyrim.
Is Fallout really that good?
you should be able to pick up fallout 3 really cheap, and yes it is pretty good if you like the setting. Judging from the 270 hours in Skyrim you enjoy exploring and finding random things to explore and crazy things to kill, so that will fit nicely. If you also enjoy FPS games I would pick this up, although to be honest you can use your VATS for most of the fighting so you don’t even have to be good at FPS games to enjoy it.
pick upfallout 3 and play through it, then install the dlc and play through that, then pick up fallout: new vegas and its dlc and play through it. Now while i love NV over Fallout 3, both of them are just way better than skyrim. the story and characters are just soo much better in fallout 3 and NV than in skyrim
It’s Skyrim’s older brother with guns, basically.
I’ve put in over 500 hours on Skyrim myself, and definitely don’t regret the couple of hundred hours I put into Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
The original fallout is one of the games of it’s generation. For those of us who played it back in the dark ages, fallout has a huge amount of nostalgia.
The remakes Fallout 3 and NV took it in a totally different direction gameplay wise but still kept the core fallout vibe.
So to answer, yes they are really that good
Holy shit, someone who loves the original games and then doesn’t hate on the Bethesda games 😀
there’s actually quite a few us
I loved FO3 to death. Completely indifferent towards skyrim. I just couldn’t click with the latter and I love fantasy.
I was very resistant because I still consider Fallout 2 to be the best RPG I have ever played (just beats out Baldurs Gate 2) but I learned to love the new Fallouts.
I also played wasteland back in the day (i am really old) so i got pedigree.
You have the entirety of your E3 conference to announce it, unless they have something spectacularly new also to reveal at E3 then this could have waited. Same thing happened last year with something that I can’t remember either. They could have lead with this then dropped a demo at E3 and basically won hands down there and then but they they put up a teaser, term used loosely because people know what it is for anyway and surprise nobody.
Agreed. it tires me that all of this stuff gets announced 2 weeks before e3. I’m a big fan of e3, I take a couple of days off work so I can stay up and watch it all live, but year on year there’s increasingly less point in doing so because most of the surprises are typically ruined already.
Half Life 3 confirmed…oh wait, wrong one. nevermind.
this would be the best possible day to announce Half Life 3. Watching two enormous hype trains collide…
I don’t think that I could handle that.
wsedlfvba;lfvniUEBDFJSA;DFHUOWBEFAN!!
That’s pretty much the sound that came out of my mouth when I saw this. Can’t wait!
I see them announcing a deal with Valve to include VATS into Half-Life 3. They will also confirm that Fallout 4 has gone the way of Titan because they couldn’t make it “fun”
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN! TOOT TOOT!
Hurry up E3
Shock of the century, i am not really a big fan of Fallout, i played New Vegas for about 30 minutes, tried to open a locked door, got chased out of town and then the game crashed. Uninstalled and never touched it again.
If that was a Steam review you missed the “10/10 Would play again.”
Hoping for a release date so I know just how much precious time I have left to cherish with my loved ones.
inb4 MMO
Better not be!
though a co-op option would be awesome.
I hope against hope the release date isn’t 2 years away. Six months is about all the hype I could handle.
the only thing i want to hear about it is if Obsidian will at least have some imput into it other wise im not going be extremely hyped for it like i was with skyrim (after playing 1200+ hrs of skyrim you really start to see how empty the game is
After doing 1200 hours of anything it would feel empty and meaningless!
not really, just the longr you play something you more notice what its got and what it doesnt. in the case of skyrim better base graphics and models and a proper sprint action along with dual wielding which are all great, but theres just so more that gone that was in previous games, such as quests and characters and even world building which were better in fallout 3 and oblivion than skyrim. take the compaions in fallout 3, they all had more backstory than the followers in skyrim except for serna and she was the only one that even had chance of being as good as the followers in new vegas
Fair enough!
Anyone able to get on the site link? All I get is the spinning gear and that’s it. Anyway, I am really excited to see what FO4 will be.
Yeah. It’s just the picture at the top of the article with a countdown timer that I believe will end at midnight.
The link on the page goes to the normal bethblog.com site but everything Bethesda related currently goes to the Fallout countdown, even elderscrolls.com . The only thing that doesn’t is elderscrollsonline.com
Love it if it’s just a Fallout 3 remastered for new consoles…
The internet would implode.
Haha, yeah. Fallout 3 & New Vegas for PS4/Xbone. I’d still buy it..
Please Bethesda for the love of god don’t use gamebryo and outsource plot, script and quest design to people who can write/aren’t retarded.
is it wrong that a little bit of me is hoping this is the next “FFVII on PS4” moment?
I hope they’ve made a new engine or heavily updated the current. Don’t really like that engine much.
I would love fallout in something like the source engine
There will be a release date announced, I did some digging and found a few things, including a pre-order form and release date mentioned everywhere. There is also a video container so I imagine a short 15 second teaser or maybe a new war never changes opening scene. If you change your computer date the timer disappears but nothing else becomes available.
There is a cool little error message that says:
PA system failure has occured.
Shutdown of the Masterbrain has been authorized and all sensitive materials have been removed for security purposes.
Please attempt re-access. Have a pleasant day.
Which release date is mentioned?
Hopefully now people can stop whining for it.
Can’t wait
IM NAKED!!!
and you seem to be very excited…
I’m so excited I might throw up! Currently five and a half hours to go… That’d be about midnight Sydney time
For some reason this doesnt load at all on my computer, but does on my phone.
Damnit…think I’ll have to just soak all of this goodness up in the AM.
42 minutes to go!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Count down over!
I just got a brief moment of fuzz and then it went back to the Standby screen again.
Well, that wasn’t worth waiting up for.
^^^ Agreed… just announce it already 🙂
What’s the point of a countdown if you’re not going to be ready when it finishes?
The trailer’s gone live on youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4
🙂
This is buggier than New Vegas when it first came out.
well the title of the tab now switched to fallout 4, and it’s still asking me to stand by
Try this.
https://youtu.be/GE2BkLqMef4
is that the CoD dog?
Pretty sure the site has crashed, I’m not getting any graphics anymore only text
YAH! Coming through live now!!! 🙂
HHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGFFHHHHHHH
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnn2rJpjar4&t=30
It finally loaded. Some cool bits. Hate to sound like a bitch, but the graphics looked kinda sub par. No wow factor like when I first saw Fallout 3’s movie.
I kinda felt the same way. The Character model of the guy in the Vault 111 outfit at the end just looked… bad.
Baby in the crib looks terrible too. Seems much brighter and colourful than I’d expected.
Holy crap. That looked fairly finished, no release date though?
Looks like sharper last gen though. I hope they’re not going down the patch of multi platform release.
Still, Fallout is Fallout.
According to leaked stuff, XBONE/PS4/PC only
Pre-order link on page says Xbox, ps4 and “PC ready”. Shows box art for all three… Pre-order page has drop down for Australia and can select job-hiding and engages but when followed to their websites neither outlet is yet listing the game available for preorder.
Edit: “job-hiding and engages!!!” Lol….. JB-Hifi and EB Games….
Eb Games has the ‘please stand by’ at the top of their page but it just refreshes the page
fallout4.com is saying current gen and PC only. I think it looks great
Yeah on second thoughts, it looks alright. Heck, I’ll enjoy the hell out of it no matter what it looks like. I still play Fallout 1 and 2 occasionally.
whelp… time to buy an xbone. Looks like we’ll be in the Boston area.
I will go out on a limb here and say at least part of the game is set in Canada and Montana in the USA, briefly you see a shop sign saying “Diamond City” which is a Canadian town just over the border from Montana. Some of the scenery shown looks similar to that part of the world that was shown in the video…just a guess anyway! Anyone else pick up any hints?