Fallout 4

Folded settlement construction and scrap crafting into the open-world RPG loop.

Released 2015 Developer Bethesda Game Studios Publisher Bethesda Softworks Platform PC Genre Action RPG Era Live service & the long tail Website fallout.bethesda.net ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Fallout 4 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Open Data Formats and Mod SDK ~~1993~~Crafting From Gathered Materials ~~1997~~Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~Radiant / Generated Activity ~~2006~~Cinematic Dialogue Wheel ~~2007~~Free-Form Base Building ~~2009~~

The Fallout series in this dataset

1997

Fallout ~~1997~~

1998

Fallout 2 ~~1998~~

2008

Fallout 3 ~~2008~~

2010

Fallout: New Vegas ~~2010~~

2015

Fallout 4 ~~this page~~

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