Fallout 4 - Ugly world?

[rovaira2]

Is Fallout 4 an Ugly world? I get the nuclear blast, etc., but this part is a turn off for me. Is the entire game like that or is the world beautiful in some areas/vary a bit? I torn on buying this or not because of this.

[Chaosium]

Well what would you expect, there's kinda been a nuclear disaster...

Can't really say it's an ugly world, when you're walking on the east coast under a bright sun, things aren't that bad looking

[hyperparageom]

Originally posted by Chaosium:

Well what would you expect, there's kinda been a nuclear disaster...

Can't really say it's an ugly world, when you're walking on the east coast under a bright sun, things aren't that bad looking

It's pretty bad but you can mod your game i.e. to add green grass, living trees, fair weather, and the like. You could make a brighter world a goal.

[BlackD]

if you want it more green and not so "wastelandish" there are a lot of mods. but some of them are kinda performance heavy.

[Tesityr]

If I may 'Second' what Chaosium states: that is the point of the game.

I, like many, use SweetFX or Mods, to make the game look grittier, darker, sunnier, more colorful, whateveryouwant; there's even Mods that can put trees and grass everywhere (Healthier Commonwealth?) and more - try those things if you want it to look different for you personally.

Like people were saying with Fallout 3, it is barren and 'charred' and yes ugly in some places - but again, that's the point - so much has been destroyed or decayed.
(If you mean it is emotionally stunting ("depressing", etc) that is actually a compliment to the game designers and artists... being able to create that response in a person is no doubt 'what they were going for'..).
[If I may state how it affected me, the first couple times playing through, the stark differences between the Starting Area (home, Sanctuary Hills) and the end result (the home, the world after that)... did have an emotional 'depressing' effect on me too; I enjoyed the fact that the game could make me feel that way though]

If you can turn things up (Graphic Settings) the game can look quite good at times (the sunbeams cutting through the trees, or distant lights shining through the dark night sky cluttered by ruins around), but if you mean the 'overall look' of the game, that is their creative intention and you can't really change that (without lots of Mods). If you want to go the Modding route, you can make the game look surprisingly different... maybe look into that. GL with it

[Nite69]

If you use image sharpening in the nvidia control panel + Vivid fallout all in one texture pack from nexus it makes a huge difference

[rovaira2]

Originally posted by hyperparageom:

Originally posted by Chaosium:

Well what would you expect, there's kinda been a nuclear disaster...

Can't really say it's an ugly world, when you're walking on the east coast under a bright sun, things aren't that bad looking

It's pretty bad but you can mod your game i.e. to add green grass, living trees, fair weather, and the like. You could make a brighter world a goal.

Thanks. Where do people go to get mods like that? I haven't gone to the company website, but assuming maybe there?

[galacticcorgi]

I see people saying "that's the point" but like. Fallout 4 is 200 years after the bombs fell. Surely SOME vegetation has returned since then?

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Anakha:

I see people saying "that's the point" but like. Fallout 4 is 200 years after the bombs fell. Surely SOME vegetation has returned since then?

No cause the radiation poisoned water has killed the vegetation.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Anakha:

I see people saying "that's the point" but like. Fallout 4 is 200 years after the bombs fell. Surely SOME vegetation has returned since then?

If I may, this has been under contention since early Fallout games were released. Since humanity only has experience with nuclear weapons spanning about 50 years, there is not much data for long-term effects on vegetation, let alone human beings.

No amount of radiation is harmless, none. The body can 'filter out' a lot of background radiation but vegetation cannot and radiation will always be present where it is created/left (for as long as we can test) - for example, parts of Chernobyl are still too highly radioactive and some parts are estimated to remain that way for up to 20,000 years. Vegetation has not even begun to grow back in the slightest, in many areas if you look up pictures and it has already been almost 50 years since that one.

Noone can really know the answer, since we have no bombs that have caused radiation for 200+ years yet, so we can only estimate. This game is just estimating (for Setting) that vegetation is not likely to grow back at all.

[Docsprock]

Originally posted by rovaira2:

Originally posted by hyperparageom:

It's pretty bad but you can mod your game i.e. to add green grass, living trees, fair weather, and the like. You could make a brighter world a goal.

Thanks. Where do people go to get mods like that? I haven't gone to the company website, but assuming maybe there?

Nexusmods is the place to get the best mods for free.

[Reef]

its ugly yes but still more colorful than fallout 3 and new vegas

[The Inept European]

Sunset and dawn are beautiful. As Codsworth observes. Rad storms can also be beautiful.

But yes the basic story is of a broken wasteland. Most of the man-made parts, whether they are new or old, are ugly.

You can alter the landscape with farmland and construction, even without mods, to make something more pleasing to the eye.

[Zotliatlicor]

Originally posted by rovaira2:

Is Fallout 4 an Ugly world? I get the nuclear blast, etc., but this part is a turn off for me. Is the entire game like that or is the world beautiful in some areas/vary a bit? I torn on buying this or not because of this.

There is a beauty on its own in the Fallout world, and has been so in all the games. It is Immersion. The world is bleached. Fallout 3 was Grey, Fallout 3 NV was dust coloured. Fallout 4 has much more colour variety, but it is still dulled down. Fallout 76 (yes i have tried it) is very colourful, so much that i think they overdid it.

But if you get yourself Immersed, you see beauty everywhere and nowhere. If you dont get immersed in the world i think you will not like the game even if you paint it in a million colours.

Give it a try and see if you like it. Fallout fans like me like the bleached world just as it is.

[BUG77]

kacper

[Caduceus]

Well, I'd ask what your perspective and criteria are on beauty, Rovaira2.

As others have adequately stated, Fallout 4's setting spans a post-nuclear war Massachusetts set some centuries after our real time.

You can expect the gamut of New England climates with dusty hills, dark trees, and flora. While much of the explorable world is scarred by the Great War, some regions show signs of return or remain entirely verdant as always. For example, Mt. Desert Island, Maine is the setting of Fallout 4's Far Harbor "DLC" expansion, and it is very much a thriving wild ecosystem. Likewise, due south of Boston-proper is a lush swampland complete with proper bogs and foreboding fog.

Boston and the Cambridge area both play large roles in the game's narrative. They are very much "war-torn" and show that humanity has not returned to its prior status. Buildings are dilapidated, the grounds are caked in rubble and refuse, and signs of "better times" lie all around you.

As a subjective aside, I absolutely love Fallout 4's setting. Like with any installment in the series, the gritty setting is as much a character in the narrative as our own player characters!

I hope that helped answer some of your concerns.