If the Twitterverse is to be believed, Obsidian -- currently working on Sega's Alpha Protocol -- is currently developing a new, "non-sequel" to Fallout 3 title for Bethesda Softworks.
The game, entitled Fallout: New Vegas, is slated to hit the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in 2010. Little details are known about the game, save for that it will retain the gameplay style of last year's award-winning Fallout 3.
The info comes from Bethesda's press event, which is currently taking place in London. Our own Dale North is on the scene, but hasn't hit his Twitter to drop any juicy details. But other people most certainly have.
Our guess is we'll hear (and see) more details soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime, start thinking about the posibilities, and get excited.
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8:29 AM on 04.20.2009
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could be good i guess, i mean if F3 needs anything it's some more interesting towns.
I am getting tired of "standalone" expansion packs though.
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
That being said, I just want One old school RPG in the fallout universe...pretty please? PC gaming isn't dead, it really isn't.
More Fallout = good in my book.
I just hope the Devs have seen Six String Samurai
I can't wait.
I hope it has DLC that is actually released on the PS3.
hopefully I could actaully walk down my street XD that would be fecking sick
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.
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.
That's fine by me, Post apocalyptic Vegas would be sweet.
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.
Also happen to be in love with fallout 3 as well.. <3
Excuse me while I blow my brains out.
-Kazoo
thats why you get a 360
I love Bethesda games. Awesome engine. I'm sure obsidian will fail at this though. Any time a different developer makes a franchised game it sucks.
"What we have here, Ian... *puts power armor helmet on* is one hot ghoul."
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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.
OH WAH WAH WAH BETHESDA STOLE INTERPLAY'S PROPERTY AND WE'LL NEVER HAVE A REAL FALLOUT AGAIN.
Now Obsidian is in charge, which is far closer to the original team than ANYTHING Interplay has to offer. Is everybody happy?
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.
I guess I don't need to tell you how disappointed I was. Still, I really liked FO3, even if there's a few things I disliked, I enjoyed the experience with all my heart. If you ask me, FO: New Vegas, in comparison with FO3, needs better dialogues/voice acting and moral choices that REALLY affect the world and keeps you from completing all the quests in one playthrough. I found it kinda awkward to kill half of Rivet City, come back two days later, and hear something like : "Baaad boy, don't do it again please. Ok ? Go on then, we still like you".
Anyway, GO OBSIDIAN GO !
Oh... and bring back the Childkiller reputation please.
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