Bethesda wants to recreate Fallout 4 in VR
Director Todd Howard believes games like Fallout 4 capitalize on 'the promise of VR, being in a big virtual world.'
In an interview with Glixel, Bethesda director and executive producer Todd Howard confirmed that the development team wants to make Fallout 4 fully playable in virtual reality.
"We definitely are," Howard answer when Glixel's editor asked if he was "trying to put all of Fallout 4 in VR."
"That's the promise of VR, being in a big virtual world," Howard continued. "The core experience, meaning you put on the headset and you're standing in the world of Fallout and can go where you want, just that little bit is every bit as cool as you hope it would be. Once we did that, we were like, 'OK, we gotta see where this goes.'"
For most publishers, the current VR marketplace would be a concern: most games are bite-sized experiences, such as VR Sports Challenge and Job Simulator. Howard and the devs at Bethesda want to think bigger by making a product more in their wheelhouse.
"We have an opportunity to make something really unique. We'd rather do that than make some other tiny experience. I don't think that's what people want from us," he said.
In the same interview, Howard positively gushed about Nintendo's Switch console, but wouldn't give a firm yea-or-nay on Skyrim Special Edition making the jump to the console/handheld hybrid.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, Bethesda wants to recreate Fallout 4 in VR
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I want them to recreate a Fallout 4 that doesn't suck.
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Ouch.
I do think a game the scope of Fallout 4 is a good move for VR. It's what I want: a long, engrossing experience. A virtual world in which to immerse myself.-
Same here. I would actually buy Fallout 4 and a VR headset if this happened.
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I've been very vocal about how lazily I felt Fallout 4 was put together. I'm not saying it isn't a triple-A title, but it seems like Bethesda is just slapping together another one at this point. They need a major overhaul with the engine and an update to their gameplay. The reason we love their games is still in there, but it hasn't changed much.
But, that's beside the point. The world and scope of it all is absolutely worth a great VR experience! I just feel like they need to fix other things before tacking on something else to distract them from making Fallout Great Again. -
It seems that for most people, they can only tolerate small bite size VR experiences. I doubt enough people could tolerate living in a VR world for hundreds of hours to make such a project profitable.
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Fallout 4 was the best game of 2009
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That would require them to recreate a good frame rate.
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recreate
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although with Oculus' asynchronous space warp they would only need to hit 45FPS.
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My PC is 5 years old and I had a good frame rate around 60 most of the time. Were you running it on a potato console?
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It's the most of the time, frame rate dips in vr are horrible. Average fps doesn't matter, minimum is what will fuck you over.
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why don't they focus on making a good game instead
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For all the time they spent on the "characters and textures", they sure screwed the pooch on not having holstered weapons show anymore.
The lack of juicy quests was also a huge piss off, it's not quite on rails, but because they spent time on missions defending settlements you're left with a hollow experience. Maybe the DLC has fixed some of this, but I'll only buy it on sale.
NO SHOWN HOLSTERED WEAPONS? WHAT THE HELL BETHESDA? all the mods so far haven't fixed this to my entitled requirement -
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If they manage to deliver something close to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBqw_Fb3lbE
then this wouldn't be bad at all -
Would only work with a full-VATS combat system if they are sticking with teleportation.
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Did I accidentally time travel or was this announced a couple months back (E3 maybe?)
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Fallout 4 VR is suppose to be a small project like the Batman VR game. Not the entire game.
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