Storing things is certainly fair enough as you can't carry everything around with you but I'm as baffled as Craster at the idea of 'displaying' stuff you've found. It's weird enough in something like GTA online where you can actually show off your stuff to other people but in a single player game especially it's not a factor I've ever found compelling.

Storing things is certainly fair enough as you can't carry everything around with you but I'm as baffled as Craster at the idea of 'displaying' stuff you've found. It's weird enough in something like GTA online where you can actually show off your stuff to other people but in a single player game especially it's not a factor I've ever found compelling.

I thought he meant, like, storing tinkets and books and stuff. Item management such as guns you can't carry, f'instance, is fine with me.

Storing bobble-heads, or summats, to look at later is, um, a bit weird to me.

none of that is game engine footage, is it?

Fallout Beer is a real thing

Miss out on the special edition of Fallout 4? You know, the one that comes with a real-life, smartphone-enabled Pip-Boy? Never mind, you can always drown your sorrows with some Fallout Beer instead. That is, if you live in the UK anyway. Developer Bethesda has teamed up with Carlsberg for the promotional beverage, which it says is inspired by Vault-Tec Industries and the rest of the post-apocalyptic game franchise. A 12-pack will set you back £29.99 on Amazon, with delivery expected around November 5th. Fallout 4 arrives five days later, meaning you should have the perfect brew ready for your inaugural adventure in Boston. Bethesda describes it as a "pilsner lager, with a refreshing zesty hoppy taste and a floral aroma" -- we'll let you decide if that's better than an ice-cold Nuka-Cola.

A lager from Carlsberg? Pass.

Go ahead and get the controller, man! It's always good to have a spare controller, anyway.

I ordered this yesterday.

I'm away in Warsaw for a few days at the end of the week it comes out so I think I'll wait until after that to pick it up as that gives the internet hordes plenty of time to test it out for me. I can't face the idea of getting some way into it and having my save game corrupt or a quest line fucking up or something and having to redo it all.

I'm away in Warsaw for a few days at the end of the week it comes out so I think I'll wait until after that to pick it up as that gives the internet hordes plenty of time to test it out for me. I can't face the idea of getting some way into it and having my save game corrupt or a quest line fucking up or something and having to redo it all.

I'm not at all confident, but only because these games are, by necessity and by design, hilariously complex so testing all the possible paths through is near impossible. It'll probably be fine, but it's no problem to leave it a week and let it settle in given that I'm away anyway.

You disgust me.

So, business as usual then?

You can't fool me. That's a butt with nipples drawn on it

On one hand I'm thinking that Pip Boy is ridiculous tat for what amounts to a holder for your phone and on the other hand I'm thinking that's absolutely glorious tat for the fans. I'm going to plump for the latter. Even that Nuke Cola news that's going around I'm thinking "so what" it's not for casuals it's for The Fans and thank god that the makers are even making merch.

So if you've got the Pip Boy edition I'm a little envious right now.

The only video I watched had the view entirely in first person so you're safe.

Really? as much as it pains me the graphics look pretty dated. Far more dated than I thought they were going to.

Mind you what am I even saying? I mean, it's Fallout 4 ! I know for a fact that once I settle in I really won't give two monkeys about how it looks

I only really skimmed through those videos. I didn't pay much attention because like you I don't want to ruin the experience, but TBH? Bethesda already showed the part where you step out of the vault and see the landscape for the first time.

The sods, that was one of "the" moments in FO3.

Oh yeah. Also, I hope the game isn't stuck in that awful zoomy third person mode. I only ever played it in first person because Bethesda couldn't animate a wooden spoon.