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I'm pretty sure Obsidian's reason for doing this and not more Fallout is "if we make something ourselves, we own the IP and most of the profits are ours to pay our employees, expand the company, etc." Why it's this specific thing and not some other new thing is probably because this is the...

If the securitron army says "House is not dead, that was just a software glitch that was triggered by adding additional securitrons to the network" who's going to disagree? I mean, the only person who has met House's physical body is the Courier and everybody else has only seen his computer...

I kind of like the idea of the Far Harbor DLC, but I wish they'd go further and just stick it in Newfoundland and make a point of showing: - What life was like in pre-war Occupied Canada. - What tribes and other groups exist there now, having descended from people with good reason to resent the...

It could also be that a world in which evil is real and is in charge would likely be administered in much the same way as the Legion went about their business. I mean, every brain cycle that went in to figuring out "how does the Legion assimilate tribes, indoctrinate children, keep order, etc."...

It's entirely conceivable that the Courier would quickly realize that "pretending to be Robert House" would be the easiest way to rule Vegas. After all, that would allow her to maintain the existing deals with the strip families (and maybe the NCR), whereas having some virtual unknown be...

I think unique weapons being extra good are fine, and even a good thing to include in your game. My bigger problem with the Fallout 4 weapons is that a lot of the legendary weapon effects make no sense. Like "does more damage at night" or "freezes your target" or "does more damage to...

I'm honestly curious whether they wrote New Vegas with certain ideas about what the canon endings would be, or if they decided to just figure that out if and when they revisit Fallout.

There's a balancing thing here, where on one hand you want your games to be approachable for as many people as possible, but also deep enough for people to get really interested in. It's inevitable that games will tip one way or the other, but generally once the developers realize that erring...

I've been thinking about it, and I honestly think that maybe a Fallout game that really does explore the "the Enclave were just ordinary people thinking they were carrying on the legacy of America, they just happened to have leaders that were world class asshats" idea could be interesting. Like...

The thing that confuses me is that there are apparently people who actually liked the Antagonizer vs. Mechanist quest in Fallout 3 instead of seeing it as being in contention for one of the worst bits in the game? I mean, credit to Bethesda that it has non-violent solutions (something Fallout 4...

What defines a roleplaying game to me is simply put- a game that allows me to roleplay. If a game allows me to define or shape a character and explore his or her values and personality through what they choose to say and what they do, then it's a roleplaying game. If it doesn't, then it's...

What makes me question the likelihood of this experience is that other AAA RPG developers in the west had followed a similar path, but eventually reached a point where the mechanical streamlining was too much and actually reversed course on this. Like Bioware agreed that Mass Effect 2 had too...

One of the endings has to be canon, and two of them don't really require anything in the way of follow-up. If the NCR wins it's just "and thus civilization came to the Mojave". If the Courier wins it's just "but the Mojave walked the middle path and achieved independence." Since those are the...

I would prefer the cut Think Tank ending from OWB to be canon, but I'll take it.

I think that the reason the Legion ending is the most unlikely is that if you advance the clock ~50 years the only difference between "Legion victory" and "Legion defeat" is the extent of the region affected by the chaos and violence following Caesar's death (i.e. "does it extend into Nevada or...

I'd be fine with either, honestly. I don't like first person shooters but having a pause like VATS and an emphasis on roleplaying with a lot of negative space to do stuff other than fight makes them tolerable. I think the FPSRPG would definitely sell better though.

For what it's worth, the "Atomic Cocktail" is a real drink from the 1950s. Named in honor of the nuclear testing site 50 miles away from Las Vegas's Virginia’s Café (later renamed "Atomic Liquors"). It's on Fremont street so it might have been one of the inspirations that went into the...

It takes forever to finish and it's not a quest that sends you after level appropriate enemies for the most part. That is, if you follow the suggested route to Vegas by the time you get to Westside mantises, radscorpions, and fire geckos really pose very little threat to you if you even bother...

One of the big missed opportunities in Fallout 4 I think was really exploring post-apocalyptic weather, particularly in the context of survival, so I'd be all over a Fallout game where the game tracking what month it is actually matters. Having food be scarcer in winter, and having to dress...

Does anybody know how BGS is structured in terms of writing/editors? Is it really just Emil? Like, say what you want about Bioware's design priorities, you can't really deny that they write the heck out of those games. Dragon Age: Inquisition, for example had nine writers and three editors...