Following on from the huge success of Fallout 3 back in 2008, Bethesda looked to capitalise on the series' rebirth with Fallout: New Vegas, which launched around two years later. However, Bethesda saw fit to give the spin-off project to legendary role-playing game studio Obsidian, so that it could concentrate on upcoming titles like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The result was arguably a better Fallout title than Fallout 3. New Vegas doubled down on the franchise's RPG roots, pushing player choice right to the forefront of the experience. As such, New Vegas is fondly remembered by many Fallout fans to this day.
Not too long ago, before Fallout 76 was officially revealed, there were rumours that Bethesda could once again hand development of the next Fallout game over to an outside studio like Obsidian. Obviously that never came to be, but since New Vegas, there's certainly been demand for a similar situation.
Unfortunately for those interested in such an idea, it's starting to sound less and less likely. Speaking to The Guardian, Bethesda boss and meme king Todd Howard has stated that because of his team's recent growth, there's no real need to outsource projects.
"I wouldn’t say never [to an outside studio]," Howard said. "[But] now that our company is so big, it’s always better to keep stuff internal... It becomes less likely." Howard reckons Obsidian was top notch with New Vegas, though: "I thought the Obsidian guys did a fabulous job."
Indeed, Bethesda as a development studio is now bigger than it's ever been. We know that most of it is currently working on Fallout 76, which is due to launch later this year, but it also has Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI in the pipeline. Needless to say, these are exciting times for Howard and the gang.
Would you have liked to see a developer like Obsidian have another crack at Fallout? Remember how good New Vegas was in the comments section below.
[source theguardian.com]
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shame.
obsidian was better at making a fallout game,bethesda seem to have lost the fallout magic with both 4 and now 76 (the latter is not even a fallout imo).
i hope any future fallout games excluding 76 will be as good as new vegas or atleast as good as fallout 3.
less basebuiding,more role playing options (4 was very lacking in that regard) and most importantly,keep it SP only.
Grown? 7 years since Skyrim and sequel is many many years away. Morons.
They should be asking the important questions.
Like when is Evil Within 3 coming out?
Just give me ANY (3+) Fallout for PSVR
@kyleforrester87
so much this!
such an underated horror franshise.
That's a massive shame.
They didn't like seeing a spin-off by another studio end up being a hundred times better than their own game.
That's a shame. New Vegas was a better game than either of the ones Bethesda developed.
Bethesda has "grown" so much that they don't need to make great games like New Vegas anymore...
If I was cynical, I would take that comment as - Don't bother waiting for a really good Fallout game again, just accept the mediocore content we're putting out right now, it's all you're going to get.
..if I was cynical.
I enjoyed Fallout 3 on PS3, which was unusual for me as I'm really not an RPG fan. I eventually got New Vegas when I bought an Xbox 360, but I only played the first few hours before getting bored, and I never finished it. I just found it far too similar.
Will the new released be less broken. So no more months to fix input lag. A patch that is half the size of the "retail release" or a game that is released more then 3 times on different consoles with the same unfixed problems. Its sad that on PC the community fixes there crap.
That's fair. I wouldn't wanna be shown up either.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi That's because they've been making other games as well as TES.
They absolutely should have done something similar with TES. Didn't have to give VI to another studio, but how about a story set somewhere else that takes place during the events of Skyrim? Or even more simply an Oblivion remaster?
That and they might not likely have a lot of extra story fodder. NV pulled a lot of content from Van Buren which was what FO3 was going to be if Bethesda hadn't bought the franchise (or if the franchise hadn't gone bust financially till Bethesda picked it up) and went their own way. Obsidian had a lot of members and assets from black isle. They even called it Fallout 3.5 internally.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi If I remember correctly, their main studio is around 80-100 people and with most of them working on Fallout 76 and Starfield, I don't believe you can really blame them for taking such a long time.
This just breaks my heart. I absolutely loved New Vegas, and I personally didn't like Fallout 4, so I was hoping for Obsidian to be given another crack at the series. I'm sorry but Bethesda Fallout, is just not Fallout.
If someone took my work and created something 1000X better I'd have a bruised ego and can understand the reluctance to let them do it again.
Giants only hear the loudest voices...
At least CD Projekt are making something I can enjoy on my own without fear of hurray henry’s antagonising me on a regular basis.
Fallout New Vegas is a much better game than Skyrim imo.
Bethesda must be too embarrassed to give Obsidian work.
@AnthonyStark86 And Bethesda doesn't care about quality as long as they get plenty of money either way.
I love New Vegas but no way it's better than Fallout 3
@kyleforrester87 @Bad-MuthaAdebisi @jdv95 Agreed on all 3 points, so much.
@Paranoimia that's because you're still not a fan of RPGs, since fallout 3 is an action games with RPG elements and fallout New Vegas is a RPG with action
game elements.
@VRDart New Vegas was basically identical to Fallout 3 from the hours I did play. I think that was a big part of the problem for me.
But no, I'm still not a an of RPGs. Mass Effect 3 bored me senseless as well. Absolutely loved Horizon, though.
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