http://www.vg247.com/2015/08/05/fallout-4-looks-more-and-more-like-a-recycled-fallout-3/

After sitting through a 15 minute extended (edited) gameplay video of the game today at Gamescom, we can report it looks exactly the same as Fallout 3, for good and bad.

I have to stress that this and the snippets from E3 earlier this year is all we’ve seen of Fallout 4 and all we’re likely to see of the game before it’s official November release. Publisher Bethesda is rightly being protective of its baby, to the point of muted communication and tightly controlled assets released to the press and public.

The buildings and environments that make up Lexington are incredibly detailed, with rust, battered faux 50s advertising boards, shells, trash and general post-apocalyptic filth littering the streets. This is when the game looks its best. But then you notice that things like the computer terminals from Fallout 3 look exactly the same here, as do other artefacts, to the point where they look lifted without a next-gen polish.

Fallout 4 isn’t an ugly game, but it’s not much of a looker. Fittingly for a game that encourages scavenging and hammering together equipment to survive, Fallout 4 looks recycled. Character models stand out here, with a lack of definition in the Ghouls and Raiders up close. There’s no impressive facial animation to wow over. It’s functional.

When it’s all kicking off Fallout 4 looks more intense than I remember Fallout 3 being, but that may have been because I relied on the VATS system significantly during my three playthroughs of the previous game. Our demo today has the hero switching between first-person and VATS a lot, and the battles soon escalate from head-shotting moaning Ghouls to an exchange with a stomping Behemoth, trudging across the map with a shopping cart swinging from its back.

But Bethesda’s whole presentation felt a little flat at Gamescom today. We were ushered into a dark room with no real ceremony and watched all of this from a pre-recorded video with a 4-5 minute voice over from Todd Howard. After fifteen minutes it was over and we were ushered out with no chance for follow up questions or anything other than a polite “hope you enjoyed it, thanks for coming”. If the people making and publishing this seem like they’re just going through the motions, how can they expect us to get excited? I’m not a fan of the over-the-top marketing presentation, but a little fizz would have gone a long way.

Hopefully there will be more to come in the next few months

Sounds like click bait.

Hope so. They seemed to have at least a couple of new things going on, like a load of environmental objects being used for crafting, which looked pretty good

Finally someone had the balls to say it.

Clickbait. Just in the E3 gameplay I can tell you right now after playing Fallout 3 again a mere week ago that a lot has changed. Conversation presentation and system is overhauled. Art design has changed on everything, including terminals wwhich we saw at e3. Character model quality and design is quite far above Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Guns have ironsights, which wasn't in Fallout 3. New details like howhow you equip power armor have been added. Designs of gouls have changed. There are more weapons. The crafting system is completely new and far more advanced than the New Vegas system. The settlement building is totally new. In fact, everything has been changed to some degree. Even VATS, which has gone from the op freezing of time to slow motion. And the list goes on and on. This article is clickbait capitalizing purely on the fact the demo was behind closed doors.

People take VG247 seriously? Hard to believe. They're almost P4rgaming bad most of the time

That's what it looked like at E3

i said something similar after seeing at E3 as well, it didnt go over well xD

I honestly don't really care about the graphics at this point or bethesda recycling assets from fallout 3. I just want the game to be bug free when it's released but I know that I'm asking for too much. We'll see though.

I've seen some of the extended gameplay (link below, skip to 7:50), you can do things like build your own settlements which travelers will come across and eventually inhabit, raiders will also come across your settlements and attack it, they've improved on modding weapons to the point you can turn one weapon into something else using the items you find lying around that in previous games were pointless. The game may have some short comings in reusing some assets but some of the changes will add replay value for months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfb65f7Dfgc&list=WL&index=130