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Obsidian is now going to make a new Fallout game
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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.