This entire time Fallout 4 had the capability of playing VIDEOS in the game.

[King Tøny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmWTJ-yM70

This entire time the TVs in this game were capable of playing actual VIDEOS not loving gif files. I have never seen a game where it was possible to play actual video.

This makes me wonder, why was this not in the base game? They spent all that time on the animated vault tec videos and you can't even play them on TV without a mod.

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[Filipe]

GTA 4 and 5 plays actual videos on TV as well I believe

[Rally]

I knew there was something unfinished about those TVs lol

[AutoBahn]

skyrim has native support for video files but it's never used iirc

[Marios]

Half Life 2 and Outlast (among others) also play videos in the form of .bik files.

[King Tøny]

I knew there was something unfinished about those TVs lol

F4 had 4 year dev time

NV had a 14 month dev time.

makes you wonder what NV could have done in 4 years. F4 couldn't even animate TVs. lol

[King Tøny]

GTA 4 and 5 plays actual videos on TV as well I believe

I thought GTA 4 was cleverly made gif files timed just right.

[Marios]

F4 couldn't even animate TVs. lol

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This entire time the TVs in this game were capable of playing actual VIDEOS not loving gif files.

[McJob]

It's a core feature of the engine, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have to use it.

Videos are more expensive in file size and rendering costs. Videos require special surfaces and systems in game which can decrease performance. Videos are overkill for what is essentially a tiny screen that nobody is going to spend their time looking at.

Once again, bare witness to Lord Tony believing like he's some kind of master of game design, when in reality he's just one of those pricks who shouts at PR guys about a game's framerate during events like they have any power to change the game.

[King Tøny]

It's a core feature of the engine, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have to use it.

Videos are more expensive in file size and rendering costs. Videos require special surfaces and systems in game which can decrease performance. Videos are overkill for what is essentially a tiny screen that nobody is going to spend their time looking at.

Once again, bare witness to Lord Tony believing like he's some kind of master of game design, when in reality he's just one of those pricks who shouts at PR guys about a game's framerate during events like they have any power to change the game.

All the SPECIAL videos are already in the game during the game's intro. So...... they were already in the game. Nothing stopping them from being on TV.

[Trogtor]

i like the way half life did their videos have it being a texture that basically renders whatever a camera object projects

[King Tøny]

You can also get it to work for the drive in movie theater.

[McJob]

All the SPECIAL videos are already in the game during the game's intro.

You mean during the frontend/main menu as idle movies? You know that the game unloads the geometry to have enough memory to play the fullscreen videos at that point, right? It's not like they're just playing inside the world.

[Trogtor]

It's a core feature of the engine, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have to use it.

Videos are more expensive in file size and rendering costs. Videos require special surfaces and systems in game which can decrease performance. Videos are overkill for what is essentially a tiny screen that nobody is going to spend their time looking at.

Once again, bare witness to Lord Tony believing like he's some kind of master of game design, when in reality he's just one of those pricks who shouts at PR guys about a game's framerate during events like they have any power to change the game.

as much as id agree id say little features like this is stuff that people remember and i think its worth the couple extra space required to be able to watch tv. plus, just like how gta 4 and gta5 television is, it looks super compressed.

[King Tøny]

It already takes like 2 hours to install Fallout 4 what's 10 more minutes going to do?

The game also has animated mini games and other visual images.