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After years of development, Bethesda Game Studios has completed work on Fallout 4, the base game at least. The developer made the "gone gold" announcement on Twitter today, October 23.

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"Oct 23rd - the bombs have fallen. Fallout 4 is complete. All 27 versions," it wrote, with the image above attached. It shows nine copies each of the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC versions of the game.

Although Bethesda has finished development on Fallout 4, the developer isn't moving on to its next project just yet. The studio is now working on the game's expansions, the first of which will launch in 2016. In addition, Bethesda continues to work on the game's PC modding tools, which won't be available at launch.

The Fallout 4 release date is set for November 10. In other recent news about the game, Bethesda has clarified that the game's PC discs do not contain all of the required data.

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Finally. I better check food/bar/candy/water stocks just to be sure..

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Where is the ps2 version? With those shitty graphics, they could as well release it on ps2

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@atakanovic: Not sure if trolling, or just went full retard...

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@atakanovic: Is that why you need 2gb dedicated vram to play it?
You might be referring to the art style, in which case, gtfo, nobody likes you.

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@Xenro4: Honestly the art style is the only thing in the game that keeps it from looking like Fallout 3. That and the volumetric lighting. Without those the game literally IS Fallout 3 graphically.

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Modding tools won't be available at launch? But I need the nude mods now.

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@PhoenixB1ue: You also wanna see naked super mutants? I thought it was just me :D

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Oh yes!! Days away friends.

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How bad do u guys want to reach inside that picture and grab a copy? :) Its like waving food in front of a dog(meat)

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Got my copy all pre-ordered and ready to go. It looks good so it should be a good time can't wait to blow up the wasteland.

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Look! Physical PC games!

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@Mercaptan: The "always" cost less? What do you mean?

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Excited!

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So much hype, but so much room for an epic fail too.

I have little faith in Todd Howard. I sincerely hope I'm proven wrong.

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@Boddicker: Me too, though previous games have not been failures, just riddled with bugs which we can take some comfort in knowing for the most part, they repaired post release instead of just pulling a Batman and saying "Fuuuu, you already bought it now buy this DLC we would rather shove at you overpriced and 10 minutes long"

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Just me, dogmeat, my pip boy, and the wasteland. Cant wait boys

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The cover is so bland and ugly.

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Save the best for the middle.

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Cool now how about you just go ahead and let us Steam users play it now.

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Why do we have to wait til 11/10? The game gone gold today they could have it ready for world wide distribution by 11/3! WHY DO WE HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER WEEK?????

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The ps4 cover looks higher res.

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Goodbye everyone!

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The alpha version of the game is finally ready! November 10 is when the beta testing begins.

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@nurnberg: HAHAHAHAHA !!! I know what you mean. Hopefully, it isn't as buggy as FO3 or New Vegas. :p

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Edited By austinpickle

It's been a long time since I've been truly excited for a game. Nowadays, games that make my palms itch and fingers twitch with the need to play them are VERY rare. The last time this happened was with the 'The Last of Us' and before that, 'Skyrim', 'Mass Effect 2', 'Fallout 3', etc.

When a game as promising as this one comes around, it's a special moment for myself as a gamer. Now all that's left are two simple hopes:

.1 - That my local GameStop (the location I have it pre-ordered at) has a midnight release cause I'll have college/work during the time it would "normally" be out till late, and the wait would be horrible - though it might be worse having put 7+ hours in just before my workday started...

And,

.2 - That there are no game-breaking bugs day one. Small ones that don't affect play-ability are fine and understandable, but bigger ones would slightly ruin the first experience of something I am so highly anticipating.

Gonna be great... hopefully. :D

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Nice, time to break into Bethesda headquarters

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To say that I am super excited would be the understatement of my life time !!!!! It's now reaching a point where I may storm Bethesda's HQ and steal a copy xD. I cannot wait any more. Me want this game now !!!!!

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I always hated that. "The games ready, but **** you wait til whenever"

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I will not be seeing too much of the outside world when this game is released.

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fap fap fap

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good stuff, cant wait!

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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"Bethesda Game Studios has completed work on Fallout 4". Based on their track record I highly doubt this statement :). Nonetheless I am excited and can't wait to play!

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Edited By Pyrosa

Excellent. I can't wait to install it on the first day... ...after the first major patch is released.

(Hey, I'm a lifetime fan of FO and Elder Scrolls, which means "I've learned my lessons." On a related example, even the re-release of Wasteland 2 is rife with game-breaking bugs for recruitable NPCs -- and that game came out a year ago.)

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The worst part about working in retail is knowing that every time I go into the warehouse for a couple days before release they'll be there. Watching me. Staring into my soul.

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@macklin_: *chuckles* I know that feeling. I used to work retail.

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My body is ready.

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I can hardly wait for this one. I haven't been this excited about an upcoming game since Skyrim. Yup... Love them open world Bethesda games.

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Those PC cases...LOL

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Sooo....can we just have it now then?

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Witcher 3, Metal Gear 5, Fallout 4 -- all sequels -- all better than the sum of their predecessors...well, except Fallout 4. That still remains to be seen, but those cases sure do look nice! (If it's only as good as 3, I'll still be happy. More Fallout is always a good thing)

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Music to my ears. It has been a wait of over 6 years for new Fallout content from Bethesda, and especially over the last year or so, it has not been easy at all. But in the end, I'm glad they decided to wait till Fallout 4 was basically done to announce it. I hope more devs/publishers adopt a similar approach in the future instead of announcing 2 or more years out and then delaying 3 or even 4 times till release.

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Cover is butt ugly. But screw that.

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@bilazaurus: Cover, like 3, is a throwback to the first two.

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@olddadgamer: I know, it's just u gly.

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@bilazaurus: Yeah not a big fan of it, but then again I'll be getting it digitally.

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Edited By KaalKurayami

This is going to be so awesome, just a few weeks left too :D This is definitely a potential GOTY if done well, along with Witcher 3. Would include MGSV but that game is incomplete.

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@kaalkurayami: True but it still may be GOTY material I am crossing my fingers on FO4 because I seen some games that was hyped so much but never lived up to it.

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Between Fallout 4 and Jessica Jones I'm going to have a busy mid November.

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