Yeah, we know Bethseda does not have 'the engineering knowhow', we've known that for like a decade now.

That the author considers this 'an eyebrow raising assertion' betrays that they understand nothing about games on the backend, or how development actually works.

Avellone argues there's a unique roadblock with New Vegas: "the very last milestone" Bethesda gave Obsidian Entertainment was to "deliver all the source code and the ability to make the build" for $10,000.

"For reasons unknown to me, but I have suspicions, [Obsidian studio head] Feargus [Urquhart] decided not to cash out that milestone, and did not deliver it," says Avellone. "It's not a strange decision if you feel, which would not be out of the realms of possibility, that the New Vegas experience cheated him out of X amount of money.

You pull away all their bonuses, a decade ago, for missing a review score mandate by one point.

For a game with barely enough dev time allocated to it, for a dev cycle that would have been 100% crunch before crunch became a term people use.

Its the best 3D Fallout game that exists.

Its a game that largely revolves around revenge on some asshole who fucked you over.

And Bethesda wants to now remake it, probably looking to make a lot more than $10k.

Yeah, gee, I have no idea why they didn't go for that last stretch goal, yep, no clue.

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Now excuse me while I laugh, and whistle Heartache by the Numbers.