At a Bethesda event in London today, the company announced Fallout: New Vegas coming to the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 in 2010. Being developed by Obsidian Studios, it is not a sequel to Fallout 3, but being done in the same style. Think of it as a side story, I guess.
The game is not interfering with what Todd Howard and team are doing internally at Bethesda, which makes me a bit leery about the game. Will the story hold up in the same way as Fallout 3? Do we need more of the same in a new setting? I got about 10 hours into Fallout 3 and stopped, mainly because of time issues. Maybe I can get through that one first before New Vegas gets released.
I think it’s going to be a massive expansion pack. Same game as Fallout 3, new setting, new story, maybe playing as a new vault dweller. Same engine, probably improved a bit.
Yes!!! can’t wait. Loved fallout 3, can’t wait for more dlc. But, I also feel like Fallout: New Vegas will be delayed. Cause, 2010 feels to soon, are maybe it will be shorter than 3.
[...] Before Fallout 3, there was Fallout 3 – or Van Buren, as Black Isle called it. Confused? Even though Bethesda released Fallout 3 last year, it wasn’t the same Fallout 3 that was slated to be released back in 2003. The original owners of the Fallout intellectual property, Interplay, ended up laying off the entire PC development staff working on Van Buren, a top-down isometric RPG styled in the same vein as the original Fallout games. Interplay later sold the rights to the Fallout license to Bethesda, who made the first person RPG game we all know. Not that I don’t love Fallout 3, but it would certainly be interesting to see what Black Isle would have done with the game. Curiously enough most Black Isle employees moved on to Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind the announced Fallout: New Vegas game. [...]
Is this for real? Do you not know that many of the folks at Obsidian are the people who made the real Fallout games? IMO the weakest part of F3 was the story (and the non-existant RGP gameplay – look mom, I can have 100% stats in everything). Those are a couple of really big holes.
F3 was enjoyable for how immersive the PA environment was with some solid RPG mechanics and a real story New Vegas will be awesome.
But I would not hold my breath for 2010, Obsidian are always late.