Fallout 4 Revealed After Years of Anticipation

So, I’ve somehow managed to have seen the Fallout 4 trailer more than 8 times now after getting home an hour ago and being busy with life’s daily errands. The point is – I can’t stop watching it, and I’m sure most of you can’t either, what with the 4.6 million views the official trailer has on YouTube at the time of writing.

Announcement Trailer

Yesterday, June 2, 2015, Bethesda published a countdown timer scheduled to expire on June 3, 2015 at 14:00 UTC.

The game’s official website went live slightly ahead of schedule, revealing the game along with its box-art and platforms. The game will be released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows.

The game’s official trailer, below, was released when the countdown timer expired, and the game has been confirmed to take place in Boston, Massachusetts, as suggested by earlier rumors. A release date for the game has not been given yet. More details are expected during Bethesda‘s E3 press conference on June 14, 2015. Bethesda announced that the first full reveal of the game will take place on June 18, 2015 at E3 2015.

After years of anticipation for a true sequel to Bethesda‘s highly popular RPG Fallout 3, it’s been pretty well known that Fallout 4 was rated as the most anticipated game of late by fans—without having even been officially announced. The hype for Fallout 4 led to rumors and leaks, such as script that came out more than a year ago, claiming the setting would be Boston, Massachusetts (which was proven true as seen by the landmarks in the trailer!) and the infamous countdown website that appeared a while back that was taken down, later to confirmed by Bethesda to be a fan-made fake.

And while the internet quickly exploded yesterday with questions and excitement when the real countdown went up yesterday, it was pretty obvious what we were getting: A hard night of sleep and a trailer the following day, followed by more in-depth content in 2 weeks at Bethesda‘s first personal E3 conference. After watching the trailer, I can understand the backlash for the games not-too-stellar graphics from what we’ve seen. But that’s exactly the problem,- from what we’ve seen. And we haven’t seen much of anything yet. Especially if you base graphics off of a trailer that could been recorded who knows how long ago and then compressed to YouTube.

But I’m getting off topic. The game looks phenomenal, and I’m very excited that we can finally go back to the pre-nuke times and see it all unfold. I am also loving the new colors the trailer showed off. Fallout 3 has an amazing atmosphere that captured the post-apocalyptic 50’s world with dark skies and lots of gray and moldy green hues. Now it seems like we’ll still be seeing some of that, but with plenty of colorful pinks and light colors, somewhat reminiscent of BioShock. There’s a lot of details to be let out, and we can only watch the trailer a few more hundred times and wait patiently for E3.

So, what are your opinions on Fallout 4? Are you as excited as I am? Ready to grab a bottle of Nuka-Cola and collect some Vault Boy bobbleheads? Please let us know! 👍