#Fallout 4 improved map windows 10#

Intelligent artificial intelligenceįallout 3‘s quasi-turn-based body targeting combat system (V.A.T.S., or “Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System”) was amazing in principle, until you figured out the game’s anemic enemy A.I. A setting outside the United States?ĭang it, too late: based on the landmarks in the trailer, Fallout 4 is set in Massachusetts. I’m cautiously hopeful change is in store here, because the iconically vault-clothed fellow at the end of the game’s debut trailer-possibly the protagonist, though who knows?-speaks.

#Fallout 4 improved map windows 10#

MORE: This Is Microsoft’s Big Secret Windows 10 Featureīut maybe not Fallout 4. So we get the “voiceless vault dweller” compromise, the pro argument-weak, in my view-being that you can just make up any old voice you want to hear in your head. The rationale, I assume, is that recording all the voice work necessary to establish a palette of unique vocal types, carried through start to finish, would be insane, or at least insanely expensive. But that’s not what’s going on in Bethesda’s games. Which would be kind of awesome were you supposed to play a voiceless character. When you do speak, it’s in silent, selectable sentences. Speaking of dissociation, Bethesda’s games have a significant Achilles heel that may in part explain why I found Fallout 3‘s ending so lifeless: everyone can speak but you in these games.

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