Hypothetically, could Van Buren be resurrected using AI in the future?

[Ugly Kid]

I firmly believe FNV is meant as a sequel to Van Buren not as a redo. They said at some point (can't recall if it was sin the design docs or an interview) that the NCR/Legion war was originally going to be main conflict of Van Buren but they decided to save it for "Fallout 4". FNV is that Fallout 4 in my eyes.

 

[Mr Fish]

I think Bethesda told Obsidian that they were not allowed to go backwards in the timeline and the timeline had to go forward so that might be a reason for why it isn't more like VB and in some ways kind of a post-VB (when they feel like it).

 

[Tenebris]

I firmly believe FNV is meant as a sequel to Van Buren not as a redo. They said at some point (can't recall if it was sin the design docs or an interview) that the NCR/Legion war was originally going to be main conflict of Van Buren but they decided to save it for "Fallout 4". FNV is that Fallout 4 in my eyes.

i think merging them is better but changes here and there would be important
like the ncr blaming the brotherhood for the destruction of san franc is while the enclave is trying to build it self after fallout 2 or the stealth boy EMF affecting the brotherhood instead of the super mutants
for the reasons that i wrote here

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Jul 20, 2025

I was thinking about this for a while, it is probably just me being nitpicky but i will write anyway
I don't like stealth boy/nightkin new lore in new vegas, modulating field or in other name an electromagnetic field can produce radiation and interfere or induce the signal in nervous system, which means changes in brain chemistry like drugs

my problem is how changes in brain chemistry give you psychological or mental like Dissociative Identity Disorder or schizophrenia, it should have give anger problems depression fog brain and memory problems
and the radiation from stealth boy can...

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