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Fallout: New Vegas
Johnny C:
see, they're idea dudes and if fallout's gonna now be a Monetizable IP or whatever then i get the feeling that we're gonna get to see more and more great stories out of them, and with any luck that'll push bethesda to do more interesting things in the universe as well. when you get down to it i actually liked fallout 3's main quest, and if obsidian's storytelling causes them to step their game up further that can only be a good thing.
still a shame vb got cancelled though. wonder if we'll ever see a fan-based project.
Storm Rider:
That's the thing, I saw a theory online that since Bethsoft approached Obsidian with 'pitch us an idea for a Fallout game set in the Western US, and if we like it then we'll contract you to make it', that the overarching plan for Bethesda might be to contract Obsidian (or potentially acquire them outright) for a Call of Duty style arrangement (pre-IW's meltdown, of course) where the teams trade off every 12 or 18 months with Howard's team making the 'numbered' Fallout games on the East Coast and Obsidian making the western spinoffs. On the one hand, that it would be kind of a shame to see Fallout made into a relentlessly sequelized product, and to a certain degree I'd like to see the creative talent at Obsidian chasing whatever crazy whim strikes them. On the other, I think Obsidian's continued involvement will only make the Fallout series better, and since it's effectively a multi-million dollar property now that will give them long-term financial security if they do decide to remain independent so they can do their more offbeat stuff in the time when it's not their turn. Plus, the Western US is where Fallout started, so having the ex-Black Isle guys in control of that part of the Fallout universe seems like the best way to keep that connection alive, however tenuous it might be at this point.
look out! Ninjas!:
I wouldn't have a problem with the series being turned into a franchise of sorts because the setting is interesting enough and you can do a fiar bit with it.
Inevitably the games will just become bad or at least uninteresting because they offer nothing new though. But if Obsidian are able to fund more interesting projects because of it, then it's still a win.
KvP:
Bethsoft has an MMO division but it seems like they'll be tackling Elder Scrolls first. That's the common wisdom, anyhow.
One thing that Bethsoft has mandated has been that no iteration of Fallout from 3 onward can go back in time - that is, if Obsidz wanted to make a game set 5 years after Fallout 2, that would be off-limits as Fallout 3 takes place some 20 years past Fallout 2 (I think), so it's ever-forward. Bethsoft has two more numbered iterations of the game planned, as far as I know.
Speaking of Fallout 2, it will be interesting to see who shows up in New Vegas from that game. The obvious prediction is Marcus, though I don't know how they'll make him look with the new Super Mutant design. Maybe Lenny the Ghoul, though he was hardly a presence in the first game. Sulik's a possibility, since Caesar's Legion are slavers and officially his sister was never recovered (she was to be the leader of a slaving tribal group in Van Buren). Vic will probably be too old, Myron's dead, and they probably want to forget about talking deathclaws so Goris is likely out of the picture. Bethsoft kind of screwed the pooch by turning Harold into a tree. Who else could show up?
Emaline:
Yeah, but how do trees reproduce? I can see Harold coming back as a seedling. ...kinda
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