The layoffs at one of your studios most able to ship games is a bonkers, stupid decision; but pivoting Obsidian to making a new Fallout game is a good business decision if you don’t care about what your creatives feel led to create.
New Vegas Fans: “We want Obsidian to make Fallout again”
Monkeys paw curls
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
theyll probably use the fo4 engine (i hope not) or the new engine starfield had (i hope so). fallout not in creation engine seems insane, unless its isometric again
I doubt they’ll use a Bethesda engine. They have their own engine, plus whatever resources Microsoft gives them.
they loved using it on new vegas
Did they? I was under the impression that was just the only real option at the time, not that they had any real love for the engine itself.
from interviews with some of the devs they have said they loved working with the engine. might have been sawyer who said it, cant really remember for sure
Damn, Obsidian makes good RPGs but they’re not so great at making the kind of open world sandbox RPG that Fallout has been since the 3D era, so idk if they’ll do better than last time where they gave us a great RPG hidden deep under the baggy clothes of an absolutely awful open world. I like FNV for what it is, but they’re really not the right studio for modern 3d Fallout. I hope they let Obsidian make the more classic RPG style of Fallout that they clearly wanted to make with FNV, but I highly doubt that would happen.
