For quite a few years fans of the stolen Fallout franchise have been anticipating the next part, ever since word got out that Bethesta was measuring the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for Fallout 4, back in 2012. In January 2015, Bethesda finally went public with Fallout 4 at the E3 2015, with exhilarating gameplay footage, revealing few but very interesting information and details, like the story of the main character. The highly anticipated next part of the Fallout franchise, Fallout 4, was quite recently finally released, and some time before that, its system requirements.
From these minimum system requirements of the previous franchise parts…
Fallout 3:
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Memory: 1 GB (XP)/ 2 GB (Vista)
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
Fallout: New Vegas:
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Memory: 1GB System RAM (XP)/ 2GB System RAM (Vista)
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
…they went straight up to the following minimum system requirements:
Operating system: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Video: NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent
To not just be a dick, we’ll also take in the minimum system requirements of Skyrim for comparison, which worked perfectly fine on my 32-bit system:
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor (AMD Sempron @ 2.4 GHz)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
Even more arrogant, though, are some egoic user’s comments on the internet, about that “it’s long overdue for PC games to require a 64 bit OS and more than 4 Gb of RAM“, as if it’s not only TOTALLY COOL to be consumtion-crazy sheeple but also an ABSOLUTE MUST to upgrade the damn PC, just so that you can play the “new game” – IF you’ve got a 64-bit system, that is. If you don’t, you’ve got to buy a completely new PC to replace your “old” one which is working totally fine in most cases and throw your “old” junk to Africa or wherever your useless waste goes to. Demanding people to buy new systems and throw away their older ones is the same logic as if I’d say “Let’s stop consumerism and use well what we have” and DEMAND people to think as I think. Do you see the problem?
Does anybody remember the old gaming days where it actually didn’t matter what kind of system you had because with a little know-how there mostly was a workaround to play a game anyway, in sacrifice of some fancy graphical shit? No? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
We – thank god – are not all consumption-crazy sheeple who pee on other people’s leg by DEMANDING people who still own a 32-bit system to either buy new (sometimes the newest!) shit or to be forgotten in the game world altogether. If you want to give people, who still own a 32-bit system, a 64-bit system with 4 processor cores, 8 GB RAM and a graphics card with at least 2GB for free, open your mouth as much as you like. But if you don’t plan on doing so, shut the fuck up and stop demanding game developers to ONLY care about you and to forget the “older” gamers who most probably are way longer a gamer than you young, spoiled brat are. Consumption is not everything. In fact, it’s absolutely nothing, it has no value, no reality, it’s artificial.
With all this being said, it is sad to leave the Fallout franchise behind, especially if you were a player of the previous parts, but quite some people won’t follow you on this ride and into this trap hole.
Let’s assume we’ll get a 64-bit system today that can run Fallout 4 – how long will it last? A year? Maybe two? How many RAM will the next game need? 16 GB RAM, this time? How many processor cores? How much GB does the graphics card need, then? Of course everything gets better, but there’s a clear difference between decent progress and excessive consumerism.
I was a fan of the Pip-Boy, Vault Boy, even Nuka-Cola, although the idea of it, applied on real life, is quite disturbing, and despite I found the part where Bethesda kind of stole the rights to Fallout from the previous and original developers Black Isle Studios (no, they didn’t just “went bankrupt”) shitty. Also, the slavery-like part with Obsidian on Fallout: New Vegas wasn’t cool either. But now I won’t follow you anymore.
Good bye, Fallout. It was fun while it lasted.
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