now aside from Fallout 3, think about what anon said, he's satirizing the concept of the main character being born into the world and the game, whereas most western RPG's and a few other games lately have your character introduced as dead, shot in the head, or in prison Fallout NV, Elder Scrolls Online, Bioshock 2, Destiny, etc. , or how Japanese RPG's just have the character be a part of society for a long time and have either a weird past, criminal past, or just plain boring past.
yeah, and I thought it was funny, given the backstories of rpg protagonists of other games, as for the other anon that could be another anon for all I care, point is that this anon I felt was funny for making fun of rpg protagonists.
Okay so apparently you read it but didn't really understand it.
With Bethesda open world games possibly the only saving grace for them is how easy it is to roleplay whoever/whatever you want.
Play as a spellblade in oblivion who was locked up for performing illegal magic to defend him/herself and falsely accused of murder.
Fallout 3 sort of limited this option considering you were a vault dweller, but you could at least choose what sort of person to be.
In Fallout 4, from what we know so far, you are a father/husband(mother/wife) with a cocky attitude who from appearances doesn't seem to give a **** that the world ended 200 years ago.
There's no way to insert your own backstory into that.
and here I'm thinking he was poking fun at backstories in RPG's, when you're on this site this long it's hard to interpret what people mean without them actually speaking.
I guess that's... comforting? Still kinda puts a hamper on a lot of people's backstory **** . Some people love putting all kinds of motivations and personality into their character but w/e. Still kind of wary of the whole voiced protagonist thing since I don't feel it worked over pretty well with the dragon age series. Did they show dialogue wheels too during their presentation?
yeah, I'll admit it looks a bit like the Bioware wheel, but it seemed to be just a UI update for the classic Fallout text boxes, also you can apparently switch between 3rd and 1st during conversations and walk away whenever.
mfw I just paid £99.99 for a preorder because I get an actual Pipboy that I can put my phone into and have it connect to the game so I can use my phone as the ingame pipboy.