hmm so basically it's going to be some sort of new reno rip off?

could be good i guess, i mean if F3 needs anything it's some more interesting towns.

Oh Dear God I almost exploded...

I hope to god this is true...I mean they HAVE to put Chris Avellone onto this project.

I just get all giddy at the thought of Black Isle Studios-Redux making another Fallout Game...Fallout 2 was utter brilliance.

Damn...this is just the PERFECT news

Yes! If this is true, then Fallout's writing has returned home.

@Vrynix - Dragons Age: Origins looks pretty old school, I'm looking forward to that a lot.

More Fallout = good in my book.

I hope it's like KOTOR 2, just in the fallout universe. And with VATS. and nukes. And more awesome.

Awesome. But even more awesome would be some Fallout DLC released for the ps3.

I can dig it.

Obsidian did KOTOR2 and that was really awesome, though admittedly not as good as the first. Therefore I don't see any reason at this point why we should be pessimistic.

yes yes yes yes yes yes! Even if it is just a big expansion I want it

Awesome possum!

Cool.

Maybe they could patch in facial expressions for the characters. Oh and some of the voice acting was terrible, that guy that does the mercenary's voice on the roof (and other voices) either lacked emphasis or put them on the wrong words. Sure the writing was decent, but a lot of characters lacked...character.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

I think I'll pass. Fallout 3 is the last Bethesda game I'm going to pay for. The PC version is riddled with bugs and glitches that Bethesda haven't fixed for months, and the only patching we get is achievements for the new paid DLC.

Frequent crashes, VATS is broken and the Pipboy music is all distorted as hell. These are very, very common issues and Bethesda haven't once acknowldged them.

I wonder if Obsidian will change the combat system to something deeper than "Hurr hurr his head go boom" multiplied by infinity.

@Timmeh

Well have fun then, I've not expereinced a single bug and I'm running unpatched.

The only one was the music distorted for my Pipboy, and that was a codec issue that I fixed with the MADFilter.ax driver.

But yes Bethesda tends to have a fair share of really minor bugs in their games due to simply the size of their world and how shitty the engine they use for everything is.

Anyone else think this will be like The Shivering Isles? Just a genuine expansion pack, with lots of stuff to do and see?

That's fine by me, Post apocalyptic Vegas would be sweet.

@KorJax

They broke VATS in a patch, that's probably why you haven't seen it, it's broken for everyone who has updated their game.

I wouln't really call stuff like that or audio problems minor but whatever. They are lazy bastards who didn't bother to fix well known, well documented bugs from Oblivion, never mind fixing things they broke post-release.

Thank god it's out of Bethesda's hands. Fallout 3 might be the most broken game I've ever played, even more so than Morrowind. Bethesda had some good ideas, but they just don't have the technical skill to pull off a game like this.

Obsidian? Really? Seriously Bethesda, you couldn't find anyone better? I mean, Bioware's a stretch now that EA writes their paychecks, SqEnix probably would have put everybody with spiky hair, but Obsidian?

Excuse me while I blow my brains out.

-Kazoo

Awsome! I loved Fallout 3 (not as good as 1&2, but still good).

I like to call it Lost Wages!

@ Kazooaloo

obsidian is obviously the best choice, considering that's where most of the ex black isle employees ended up. if you already knew that, then i figure you must have preferred fallout 3 to the previous games in which case, go ahead and blow those brains out.

I honestly loved fallout 3, although there are a few hitches, the level cap, and game-ending main questline were the obvious points here, but also the non RPG'ishness of it.

Yes you could choose your starting attribute points and there were perks leveling up, but in terms of equipment, there really was only 5-6 weapons i used, and up untill power armor, you allways defaulted to using whatever has the highest def rating.

I have recently tried the fallout overhaul kit V1.6, and i highly recomend it to anyone who feels that FO3 was too little like its predecessors, it adds stat modifiers to ALL equipment, and adds in well over 50 new weapons(varying degrees of wear), and over a dozen new ammo types.

All in all, a way more RPG'ish feel, but onto the article, I think if the current dev's actually pay attention to what key game mechanics, and plot elements endeared gamers to FO 1/2, they should be able to pull of a decent fallout game.

@ Psycho

Unfortunately, Fallout 3 is the only incarnation of the series I have played, and I did enjoy it. The only downside is that I have only played 2 Obsidian titles, KotOR 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2, both of which I thought the stories and gameplay were terrible. I'm going to give the new Fallout game a try *shivers* but I really don't have high-hopes for it.

-Kazoo