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[reektann]

So realistically it'll still be 2-4 years from now if they are only just now thinking about it.. cool... cool cool cool.

 

[Loomy]

Of course they do lol

 

[Braag]

Remake Fallout 3 or New Vegas. They have several studios which could do it.
Obsidian is way too busy with Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 to be able to make NV2. And I honestly don't think anyone but Obsidian should be making a Fallout spinoff game.

 

[Wildebeest]

To be cynical, they could probably quickly bang out a Fallout themed Lethal Company clone and people would eat it up. Thematically it fits.

 

[Puscifer]

Hand it over to Obsidian and bring back the New Vegas crew. They won't do this because it hurts poor Todd Howards feelings that Obsidian arguably made a better Fallout game than they did.

Its fucking obvious that is the best decision.

Would MS do it? No, because they're run by incompetent fucking morons

If MS had any intelligence they would have commissioned remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas the day they acquired Bethesda. People were BEGGING for this.

Again, they're too fucking dumb to take easy wins.

C'mon Microsoft, show me.....just once....that you are capable of making a good decision in the Phil Spencer era.

You know they literally could've remastered it with mods and did some coding to make it stable upon integration and passed the mixers modders some cash. I can't imagine that would've been more than a few months of work at the most.

 

[user friendly]

I also want the next Fallout game to come out sooner but please don't it.

 

[Pop]

Did Xbox just release Bethesda is fucking slow

 

[BennyBlanco]

Write a fat check to Avellone and get him on board with Obsidian. Put the new Outer Worlds on ice (nobody cares) and have them make a smaller scale production Fallout game. Could be done in a few years.

Instead they will show a teaser trailer for a sweet baby approved fallout 5 to coincide with season 2 and it won’t come out until 2035.

 

[Wildebeest]

Write a fat check to Avellone and get him on board with Obsidian. Put the new Outer Worlds on ice (nobody cares) and have them make a smaller scale production Fallout game. Could be done in a few years.

Instead they will show a teaser trailer for a sweet baby approved fallout 5 to coincide with season 2 and it won’t come out until 2035.

It's going to take the crackheads at BGS at least 15 years to come up with a different family member to go hunting for other than the main character's father or son.

 

[RoboFu]

Hindsight is always 20/20 huh. They planned a new tv series but didn't think on how to time it to capitalized on it beyond a simple upgrade of old games.

 

[StereoVsn]

I won't believe that is happening until it actually happens. Fallout 3 remaster was posted on the leak, but we've heard nothing since then.

Knowing MS they probably cancelled it, because....big daddy Todd said no.

Also after the effort Bethesda put into “remastering” Fallout 4, I wouldn’t trust them to do a decent job anyways. They seem to have lost any semblance of competency in recent years.

Look at Starfield, another game with huge issues around design, writing, storytelling and gameplay. Look at Fallout 4 where they can’t do nearly as good a job as some random modders.

So yeah, I agree, a competent MS would have given the IP to Obsidian, but that’s not what we got here.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Not surprising. If the show remains good and has a few seasons on it, they might be able to capitalise but who knows.

 

[AJUMP23]

Obsidian did New Vegas in 18 months and look how it turned out, still the highest regarded Fallout, so it doesn't need to take 5 or Bethesda's 10 to 20 years.

As leader of the gaming. 5 years.

 

[The Stig]

Only if we get a new engine. That thing is ANCIENT and in Starfield we saw it's corpse dug up and re-animated.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Give us the next Elder Scrolls game instead thanks.

 

[Laptop1991]

As leader of the gaming. 5 years.

? ok

 

[Tg89]

Weird strategy. They let Starfield cook for an extra year and it was a steaming pile of shit. Not sure how rushing that same developer is a good idea.

 

[CherryFalls]

Nobody wants fallout 5. New Vegas 2 or bust

 

[ManaByte]

People want Bethesda to rush a Fallout game.

The installer will probably format your C:\ drive.

 

[systemr123]

Just let obsidian do it and that is really the best solution. Still if they start today 5 years.

They apparently did New Vegas within 8 months. So it could be done, if they use the current engine… which is a thing in and of itself I guess.

Also, New Vegas was miles better than the other Bethesda Fallouts

 

[Evil Calvin]

Is New Vegas playable on PC? I just saw the Ultimate Edition on GoG and thinking of buying it. Never played Fallout but heard this one was the best.

I have it on Steam Deck. Plays fine for me....but I'm not a PC super race snob

 

[Crayon]

I think we all want all the games to come sooner.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Obsidian is way too busy with Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 to be able to make NV2.

Gonna be kinda hard even if they were available, NV walls seems to have been breached and it's a dead city in the series.

Unless it would be about rebuilding NV to its former glory.

 

[March Climber]

I Don’t think obsidian is capable of writing a game like New Vegas any longer.

Let’s wait until Avowed comes out before making this claim.

I didn’t like the storytelling in Outer Worlds but I need to see them handle a world that isn’t based on corporations and product placement before I call it.

 

[Killer8]

It's crazy that they still have a lot of the New Vegas team and aren't putting them to work on a sequel. Instead we get a lot of middling crap like Avowed and The Outer Worlds because 'muh creative freedom'.

Crack the whip and get them to work on something the public actually gives a damn about.

 

[Calverz]

No thanks. I want Skyrim 2 yesterday

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Is New Vegas playable on PC? I just saw the Ultimate Edition on GoG and thinking of buying it. Never played Fallout but heard this one was the best.

Yeah and it's awesome. I've been playing it modded on Steam Deck and it's a great time.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen

And sounds like it’s going to be a while

 

[struggler_guts]

Give it to Larian and make is isometric again

 

[RespawnX]

Welp, Microsoft didn't have a strategy around show and games? Not surprised, just sounds like Xbox.

 

[simpatico]

Grow a set of balls Microsoft and just assign it to Obsidian. Todd doesn’t have to give his input. They’re wasting their time with the Dollar Tree Skyrim game they’re making right now anyways.

 

[PSYGN]

Of course they do lol

Took the words right out of my mouth. It's like... well, duh.

 

[rkofan87]

Isn't F3 and Oblivion being remade as we speak? Not sure how reliable this was

a f3 remaster with mods on xbox id be all over that day 1.

 

[SHA]

Y.M.C.A
Young Man, don't ever let yourself down.

 

[Badlucktroll]

Grow a set of balls Microsoft and just assign it to Obsidian. Todd doesn’t have to give his input. They’re wasting their time with the Dollar Tree Skyrim game they’re making right now anyways.

Todd probably did something like or will do something like, threaten to quit, join sony, never make a game again, ect to prevent that

 

[Shut0wen]

Hand it over to Obsidian and bring back the New Vegas crew. They won't do this because it hurts poor Todd Howards feelings that Obsidian arguably made a better Fallout game than they did.

Its fucking obvious that is the best decision.

Would MS do it? No, because they're run by incompetent fucking morons

If MS had any intelligence they would have commissioned remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas the day they acquired Bethesda. People were BEGGING for this.

Again, they're too fucking dumb to take easy wins.

C'mon Microsoft, show me.....just once....that you are capable of making a good decision in the Phil Spencer era.

Your implying obsidian can even take on the job which i highly doubt since they have 2 games in development, plus the obvious answer would be giving the series back to the ogs at inexile

 

[coffinbirth]

Obligatory.

 

[Evil Calvin]

I want MS and Xbox to release a new game .......period!

 

[TintoConCasera]

I'd rather they don't, neither Bethesda nor Obsidian, which imo are far from being today who they where when they developed New Vegas.

Honestly after Outer Worlds and how average Avowed looks, I have 0 faith in them.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Your implying obsidian can even take on the job which i highly doubt since they have 2 games in development, plus the obvious answer would be giving the series back to the ogs at inexile

Yep. Sure am. They would easily.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I have it on Steam Deck. Plays fine for me....but I'm not a PC super race snob

Me neither. It just needs to work properly and I'm satisfied. Doesn't need maxed out settings to enjoy games. And from the replies I got it seems New Vegas works as intended. Pulling the trigger now that it's on sale on GoG.

 

[Frwrd]

C'mon Microsoft, show me.....just once....that you are capable of making a good decision in the Phil Spencer era.

Microsoft:

 

[Raven117]

Let’s wait until Avowed comes out before making this claim.

I didn’t like the storytelling in Outer Worlds but I need to see them handle a world that isn’t based on corporations and product placement before I call it.

Probably a wise choice. But from what I’ve seen, I’m not too hopeful.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

I think we all want all the games to come sooner.

This. Gaming as a whole is worse for it that it takes so long to make games. But rushing isn't going to make it better.

One of the reason Switch is a hybrid is because Nintendo couldn't make games fast enough for two separate platforms. At this point we are all resigning to the fact that new games will take 5 years.

 

[Griffon]

Hand it over to Obsidian and bring back the New Vegas crew.

That Obsidian is long gone.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

Imagine that. One of the largest software publishers on Earth, and they can't find enough people out of the MANY studios they own, to make a Fallout game.

Just exactly what are they hiring all these people FOR?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Pulling the trigger now that it's on sale on GoG.

Best Fallout since Fallout 2.

 

[Ownage]

Best option is to remaster F3/NV like they did with Skyrim Anniversary edition or whatever

Obsidian is busy with Avowed and Bethesda is busy with ES VI. Not a chance that they will stop what they are doing to make a new Fallout. And even if they do, it would take at least 3-4 years to make.

MS being surprised by the boom in popularity after the tv series is such a MS thing. They fuck up every single time.

Even boomers in my family, 70+ years old, are now into Fallout because of the tv show. How hard was this to predict?

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

I think at best they can make some remaster but game dev takes too much time this days. Though potentially before 2030 it is possible to get a new game. Though by that time FO fever might go away.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

I think at best they can make some remaster but game dev takes too much time this days. Though potentially before 2030 it is possible to get a new game. Though by that time FO fever might go away.

I can't believe that Microsoft can't form a team from scratch to make a Fallout game. You can't seriously be telling me every single employee at Xbox are too busy? i understand Bethesda and Obsidian are out, but that shouldn't stop Microsoft if they want to cobble a team together. Yes, it still will take 4-5 years, but at this point starting is better than not starting.