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Obsidian is now going to make a new Fallout game
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A lot of people are doomer about Obsidian, but I still believe the series is in better hands when handled even by present Obsidian over Bethesda. Fallout is a big guilty pleasure series of mine, so I'm sure Obsidian would at minimum focus more on being an RPG than an almost extraction-shooter like modern Bethesda games are (not even saying it in a derogatory manner, I've come to enjoy 3/4 for that gameplay loop even if I prefer RPGs), and that's far more than I ever expected to come to the series. I had written it off as entirely dead to me, so even a mediocre Obsidian sequel is good news to me!
Horrible about the people laid off though, typical Microsoft bullshit.
I might have had some hope for it if Outer Worlds, which was basically just Fallout with the serial numbers filed off and in space, had turned out as anything more than mediocre at best
Josh Sawyer wasn't directors for those at least. He's likely the one that would be in charge of a new fallout game, and I can hope that he still has it.
Pentiment was a very creative work, so he's clearly still got some artistic vision.
Gonzalez and Tim Cain coming back, plus Joshua Sawyer leading the project, is at least a good combo. Probably won't be lightning in a bottle again, but will be better than, say, Fallout 4, which is enough for me!
I played both 1 and 2 and some of Avowed and I don't want to be overly critical but... how average they are is kind of insulting. I don't think they revolutionized anything or improved upon anything substantially between any of those games. There were 0 risks taken, they felt very safe and by the books, meaning that nothing especially interesting was attempted either. The best I can really say is that they run well, which I can't say for the older Fallout games at this point.
Maybe whatever they put out will be better than something from Bethesda, who also seem incapable of moving away from their decades old outdated designs, as evidence by Starfield. But people have been saying "let Obsidian do it" since all the people who worked on their best games were there. Most of them aren't anymore and the company hasn't put out anything I would consider as culturally iconic or deserving of praise as their earliest titles.
I would even say Alpha Protocol, as broken as it was, was a better game than anything they've done recently. It was at least unique. Tyranny and Pillars of Eternity 2 are also good CRPGs, but I doubt their plan is to create a new Fallout game in that style. That probably has the best chances of being close to anything old Obsidian produced. They could win people's hearts back if they essentially made Van Buren and got the Owlcat & Baldur's Gate 3 crowd.
Fallout doesn't even have to be a guilty pleasure imo.
The more modern iterations tend towards corporatized slop, but the bones of the series are quite solid. Great games, and actually quite good political messaging. Like, a game from the early 2000's showing the US as a fascist imperialist force lol, that's rare.
Agreed! It's got good bones, I'd just make pretty significant changes to game systems and political messaging if I were to run the series, that I'm pretty sure most would either not care about or disagree with.
I'm uneasy about it, but I have naive hope since it's obsidian.
Hopefully it's west coast! The series is awesome in general but 1, 2 and NV are just so special. Since it's obsidian it's not impossible, but theres not much of a pattern, since they only made one fallout game, but the copium will flow.
Excellent news regardless
I agree! Also my hope is for New Orleans or Chicago, both have relatively untapped potential and both have been mentioned, either as what would be fun to make a game in or as an important spot in the lore. Plus, Chicago would give us a chance for an actual nuclear winter, and New Orleans would give us a ton of fun swamp-y southern areas to explore.
Failing that, I'd also like an East Coast game but tackled like 1/2/NV, patching up the lore and giving the series a path forward that isn't just silliness. I'd also not oppose a Fallout game in China or the USSR (a lot of people forget that the soviets were still around, just relatively neutral between China and the US).
West coast would be fun, but it's hard to actually go anywhere. Either it follows the TV series and is mostly reset, but with vestiges of the old factions, or it treats the show as not canon, or semi-canon. It's hard, it would have to take some time.
Other fun options would be to make it isometric! Or even around the same time as Fallout 1/2, as a soft-reboot for the series.
Fair! West coast games are generally more solid, but probably less because of setting alone and more since the developers weren't Bethesda lol. Although east coast factions badly need additions and refinement IMO. A Fallout game outside the US, or the coasts would be fascinating and I think there's a lot of interesting based on the mods like the one for the UK or Mexico, but as cool as that would be knowing Bethesda, they'll try to play it safe and stick to the east coast ;')
Isometric would be so so awesome :D I don't know if you know Newblood (I am a shill ashamedly, their games are the pride of my library) but they're actually developing an isometric game inspired by Fallout 1 and 2! I don't think it can ever be comparable to the games exactly, but since it's Newblood I'm pretty optimistic, and you might be interested if you're a fan of the old games too
New Orleans would kick ass as a Fallout setting.
Pillars of Eternity is one of the best modern CRPGs. BG3's success shows that there is a market for this if done well. No better time than now to try it.
Agreed on both fronts! There's a new thirst for cRPGs, and Fallout 1 and 2 are absolute legends that are dying for a sequel. I doubt Van Buren will be made, but an isometric Fallout would be an amazing gamble.
Realistically a first person one will be made first, considering the Xbox strategy seems to be "return to our core classics," which is safe but will probably work very well compared to the rest of the industry.