Obsidian working on Fallout after Fallout 4?

Not so much a theory as much as it is very optimistic wishful thinking.

 

The mistake on your theory is you name kindness, when the whole affair is about money. Fallout New Vegas was, from my POV, an experiment: "should we keep on prioritizing visuals, sandboxing and cool for coolness, or try to reach out to the old fans?". They let the original devs make their own version, probably get a decent part of the revenue also (as they are allowing them to use their IP and their name as publishers) and also get their hands into real world numbers to back up either strategy. Now they know (for good or bad, I'm not looking for the numbers so I won't decide on an opinion on which has better chances in the market) and they don't need Obsidian to release a game that feels more like the originals. In case they decide for "older school", they are more likely changing their own devs rather than dividing the money with Obsidian.

PS: the voiced character has *only* one voice? It's worse than I expected

 

They sued the fuck out of Interplay and also sued a card game for having "Scrolls" in the title. "Kind" is not the word you use for Bethesda...

 

I think you mean Zenimax.

 

And they own Bethesda.... So....

 

Still a difference there.

 

Minimal differnce at that.

 

Well the Issue with Interplay is kind of complex, altho from what I read Ithink it's actually more justified:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Project_V13

 

Actually, i have a more positive opinion about Fo3 publisher than about Fo3 devellopper.

The devellopper seems to always devellop the same game, while removed more and more feature, and escaping any form of quality, while the publisher seems willing to take a few risk and publish games from different genres. Pure FPS like Wolfenstein, pure RPG like FoNV, survival horror like Evil Within and so on... I still don't understand how their develloppers can be so afraid of quality and diversity while they have a publisher more open-minded than them...

 

Zenimax owns a bunch of properties/companies. Bethesda is just one of them.

 

Well, yes. That's exactly why I said I wouldn't pick a side on the results of their experiment, lacking the actual numbers. Still, I think it's more likely that, if the numbers helped the more old-school NV, they hire either the original developers or someone with a similar profile rather than outsourcing the development and having to share the money with Obsidian.

I'm personally just put a lot more faith for them to make action FPSs than RPGs. I have high expectations on their approach to Doom, even though Carmack is no longer working for them AFAIK. The way I see it, what makes the RPG genre so interesting is boring in the eyes of most gamers, and this doesn't happen with FPSs. As FPSs can stay relatively true to their identities, big companies like Bethesda can make good quality implementations while aiming at the kind (and size, specifically) of market they want to aim at the same time. A thing they wouldn't probably be able to do with the Fallout franchise.

 

Personally I believe Bethesda learned an important lesson from allowing Obsidian to make Fallout New Vegas: Don't allow Obsidian anywhere near them again.

You can also tell by their sharp return to a FO3-"vibe" rather than adopting lessons from FONV such as immersive dialogue, replaced by the stark opposite

It is naive of us to expect a skyrocketing company to care about "old fans", who are dwindling in numbers, growing in age, and becoming more and more irrelevant compared to the hordes of youngsters who loved FO3 as it was, and even resented the "bore-fest" they experienced FONV to be.

My thoughts on the matter anyway. My eager gamer friend has a similar attitude, and it baffles me every time - he seems to believe that movies and games are created as a favor to the consumer, as if Universal Studios sit around, gazing into the sky, sighing, thinking about all the children, the smiles on their faces, wondering what gift to bestow upon them next. Where do people get this idea!? It's money. Only money. Nothing but money. If you give them more money than the other ones, they'll love you more than the other ones.

 

Not really, they make their own games and do their own things. But when it comes to Fallout... I'm sure they have to listen to whatever Bethesda says.

 

Oh, if that were true... Wishful thinking indeed, of the sweetest kind.

 

Man, don't talk like that.

You're gonna make me cry.

 

It all depends on $$$

if New Vegas met or exceeded their expectations they have a good chance to do another game. I do think a spinoff game is very likely given that Bethesda likes to do one thing at a time and will likely be doing something elder scrolls related for the forseeable future.

Bethesda will listen to what the fans want also (like any business that wants money) and if enough fans let them know that they want a new west coast fallout game then that will further increase Obsidians odds at a new game.

Ideally I would like to see Obsidian come into enough money to buy the IP outright but thats wishful thinking at best