New Vegas Fans: “We want Obsidian to make Fallout again”
Monkeys paw curls
I feel obligated to point out that this won't be the same Obsidian who made New Vegas. Same company, but (mostly) not the same devs or the same leadership.
Though I'm a little hopeful that Josh Sawyer manages to make something neat.
I mean Josh Sawyer is leading it and Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are both at Obsidian and I imagine they'll be pulled in, as well as a bunch of other folks - so no idea what you're talking about?
Most notably, John Gonzales, the actual writer on New Vegas, is also there.
outer worlds was not that good (imo) avowed was decent. would be insane to just assume theyd catch lightning in a bottle again
I liked the story of outerworlds but the mechanics and gameplay were never that interesting and it lost me, had to force myself to finish the game and I'm glad I did but oof.
totally agree, it was so not fun fighting enemies
I mean you have two of the most important contributors to Fallout 1 & 2, and the project director from New Vegas - if they can't do it, it can't be done.
For what it's worth I really liked Outer Worlds 1&2 and PoE I & II, as well as Avowed - so whatever they make, I'm probably going to enjoy it.
I only watched playthroughs of Outer Worlds and Avowed, and I agree that they were mediocre. But Obsidian's isometric CRPGs Pillars of Eternity I and II and Tyranny were great. If they can assign the isometric writing teams to the first-person games it might work.
I'm hoping they just need the right setting, and going back to FO could do that for them.
Welp this is going to be disastrous for the fallout series.
Wasn’t it already? Apart from new vegas, all fps fallout games are basically mediocre crap with boring non memorable stories.
Who remembers what was the main mission fallout 2 and fallout 3? Who remembers who is yes man and the stupid butler robot from 4?
Fallout 2 wasn't first person. Lots of people remember who Yes Man was, as that was from New Vegas which you suggested was good. Do you want to go back and rewrite this?
One and two are totally different games. And are amazing.
3 is probably my favorite (but only because it is first person), new Vegas is ok.
4 is where mediocre shows up and 76 is where it just doesn't matter anymore.
The tv show is fun though.
I haven’t played anything before 3.. I enjoyed 3 because it was my intro to the series, it was far from perfect in a good sort of way. 76 has given me a lot of mixed feelings through its life.. fo4 was good for like 1 play through but I can’t bring myself to try it again.. new Vegas was amazing, but obsidian isn’t even the same company or people anymore. Judging by obsidians latest releases, if the new fallout is anything like them, I’m gonna be sad af.
Microsoft had Windows 95, Windows XP and Windows 7. Microsoft have a lot of things that they bought then destroyed.. Go Google Microsoft acquisitions Here
Look how many of those companies and software no longer exist.
Now my company is moving to Windows 11, I see all these problems and bugs because Microsoft company-wide actually don't understand the product that they support.
Go to your windows computer, go into the settings, dive deep into the settings.. The older the UI looks the more likely it's going to be actually in control of your computer.
The older the UI looks the more likely it's going to be actually in control of your computer.
It tends to be more functional too
Yep.
Fingers crossed it actually comes out
It's gotta really suck to be some employee at a cool studio... And then microfuckingsoft buys it. I'd be wicked pissed at whoever made that decision.
I don't know why you'd want to work at Bethesda these days, but Id Soft does not deserve to be in that spot.
Stoked Obsidian gets to do a proper title though. I hope they can use a different engine this time.
Eh, it's the circle of ~~life~~ game development.
Small studio makes great games, gets bought by big studio, big studio's management flood small studio's staff, the games developed suffer, big studio makes cuts firing almost everyone who was worth a damn, small studio shambles on in name only for a while longer before being mercifully put down. Meanwhile some of the fired devs band together creating a new small studio which makes great games, attracting the attention of a big studio...
And then shut them down.
No if it doesn't sell $1B let half of staff go like with ID Software. Force remaining people to use AI and work twice as much.
Honestly, the new Odsidian game is not going to be on the same level of New Vegas. Due most of the people who made NV left Odsidian (mainly the writers) years ago.
Ok but the people that made the og games are on the team.
I don't get this mentality of deciding something isn't as good before it's even been created yet. I don't even think New Vegas is Obsidian's best RPG. I'd say that's Pillars 2.
I can only expect it'll be as lifeless as Avowed.
Hopefully I'm wrong.
Honestly I am surprised they didn't do this years ago. It makes sense to let the studio that made the best Fallout game continue making Fallout games while the other studio works on the long-neglected Elder Scrolls 6. Otherwise we'd just be looking at decade-long droughts between Elder Scrolls and Fallout games at the pace BGS develops.
Especially since Bethesda's Fallouts suck because of the thing that makes TES great - what they do is power fantasy. That's great for Nirn, since you almost always turn out to be some sort of demigod anyway. But a post-apocalyptic RPG? You're meant to be scraping by in dirt. Sure, let the player become a wasteland badass, but not godlike. That sucks.
Sad. They have better games to develop than Fallout.
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