Who will be making Fallout 4, Bethesda or Obsidian?

[StrangerGuy]

I don't even want Bethesda to develop Elder Scrolls let alone Fallout. They should instead just pay Obsidian or some other competent developer to make them so the games won't be a mile wide and an inch deep.

 

[futurefields]

I don't even want Bethesda to develop Elder Scrolls let alone Fallout. They should instead just pay Obsidian or some other competent developer to make them so the games won't be a mile wide and an inch deep.

I'd rather they didn't. New Vegas is incredibly boring. More features does not make a game better. New Vegas has some more features than Fallout 3 but whereas Fallout 3 rises above to be more than the sum of it's parts, New Vegas does not. If having more features makes one game better than another, everybody would think Modern Warfare 3 is the best in that series, but it's not, COD4 is.

 

[lilrayray69]

Is Obsidian related to Black Isle Studios in some way? I didn't know they made New Vegas. I'm a fan of Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics (the latter being my favorite due to the online RP component) but I did NOT like New Vegas. The entire environment just felt...unfinished to me. Never could get into it. Fallout 3 however I played entirely, including all of the DLCs and I liked it very much.

As to that actual topic question - I have no idea! But based on Fallout 3 and New Vegas, I think I'd actually prefer Bethesda. Why would they not just use the Skyrim engine? Is that also Gamebryo?...not that the Skyrim engine is all that great either though.

I have tried multiple times to get into New Vegas. I did once play through the campaign, but that was it and I found it lackluster. I think it has something to do with the color scheme of the game and the look of the environment, the backdrops all look like cardboard cutouts to me and just doesn't feel gritty like the overall dark tone of 3.

I'd heard rumors Interplay was working on a Fallout themed MMORPG, no idea if that's coming along at all.

Those of us who've played FO1, 2, 3, and New Vegas know FO3 was the weakest entry in the franchise.

You didn't play Tactics? Most fans of the series I know say Tactics is the weakest, though as I said it's my favorite

 

[JujuFish]

I'd rather they didn't. New Vegas is incredibly boring. More features does not make a game better. New Vegas has some more features than Fallout 3 but whereas Fallout 3 rises above to be more than the sum of it's parts, New Vegas does not. If having more features makes one game better than another, everybody would think Modern Warfare 3 is the best in that series, but it's not, COD4 is.

New Vegas has more features, a better storyline, and better characters. All 3 has is a better environment. NV > 3.

 

[toughtrasher]

New Vegas has more features, a better storyline, and better characters. All 3 has is a better environment. NV > 3.

Oh goodness, a guy can't ask a question without people starting wars on his thread. :twisted:

 

[Scooby Doo]

Well we can't really argue about Quake versus Unreal anymore, it's a bit out-of-date ROFLOL

 

[HorsemanSix]

It will probably be Bethesda. I'm hoping for Alpha Protocol 2! Will never happen but a man can dream.

 

[clok1966]

FO3 is fine with the "dual core fix" that's why it crashes all the time.

I also liked FO3 better than NV, although in saying that i loved both games.

have to agree with the "loved both games", to me fallout 3 felt more "Fallout" F:NV had to much "normal" for me.. Vegas was just to -nice-. The Howard H reference quests where great and a high point of that game I must admit, and might be my favorite quest linein any fallout game. Fallout 3 just felt like i was a destroyed world trying to rebuild more to me..

with all that said.. loved um both.. IF i had a gripe about the games its the fact i want to do all quests, but some quests cancel others.. I want to join the legion, then destroy it, i want to join the other factions.. but often on quest cancels another.. catch 22.. makes my decisions mean something, but limits my quests!

a new fallout (or elder scrolls) game is good news whoever makes it.. i hope..

 

[CrackRabbit]

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Bethesda's world builders combined with Obsidian's characters and story= More Perfect Fallout.

 

[shortylickens]

Hopefully Bethesda makes the game and leases CryEngine.

 

[lord_emperor]

There's a lot of hate in this thread for two very good games. I'd be really happy if either party made Fallout 4.

Fallout 3 had a better world, placing it in a city worked well it really felt like a post-apocalyptic world with raider gangs potentially holed up in every building, marauding super mutants and monsters everywhere. The story was really linear;

Spoiler

let's face it you chase your dad and either poison the water or don't and either sacrifice yourself or don't, in the end it doesn't matter at all.

But I could and did spend a lot of hours chasing side quests and exploring every building in the wasteland.

New Vegas' story branches out in excellent ways depending on your choices; factions end up reacting differently to you. The environment makes no sense though. Las Vegas is a big city which should realistically cover the entire in-game map with ruins - not the desert with highway-esque roads between standalone buildings. New Vegas brought a lot of mechanical improvements - iron sights, AP/HP ammo and weapon mods added some depth to combat and so far I have yet to become god-like invincible even at high levels.

 

[ArenCordial]

Though I greatly prefer NV, I'd be happy if they settled on a tick-tock development.

Bethesda's doing their more the game world is the character Elder Scrolls like version on the East Coast and

Obsidian doing their strong story/character version that's closer to the originals on the West Coast.

Both parties win and if you like both, so much the better.

 

[BrosephD]

I hope it's Obsidian. I would rather have Bethesda work on other games.

 

[Tikka1]

Hopefully Bethesda.
Obsidian is the most overrated untalented development team in existence, they live off the blind and loyal old fanbase who swallow any garbage that's thrown at them and call it brilliant.
Fallout 3 was in fact superior to New Vegas in every way imaginable (except maybe NV's iron sights).

"Swallow any garbage thrown at them." Says the little kid thats dry humping fallout 3 because you get "shoot things in a wasteland, like I can in my COD games." Fallout 3 was the shittiest fallout game, I can take shits prettier than what half ass Bethesda can dream of making


Dialog is terrible, quests are terrible, lore is destroyed and half assed, DLC have not story and shitty gameplay, its community is filled with little kids who think of the self as a fallout fan when they just found out about it years after release and want radical call of duty shit in the game.

 

[UberNeuman]

"Swallow any garbage thrown at them." Says the little kid thats dry humping fallout 3 because you get "shoot things in a wasteland, like I can in my COD games." Fallout 3 was the shittiest fallout game, I can take shits prettier than what half ass Bethesda can dream of making

Dialog is terrible, quests are terrible, lore is destroyed and half assed, DLC have not story and shitty gameplay, its community is filled with little kids who think of the self as a fallout fan when they just found out about it years after release and want radical call of duty shit in the game.

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[Zorander]

I'm late to the party but would like to add that I enjoyed NV far more than FO3 (never even realised they were made by different developers back then).

I found FO3 desert-scape really desolate and devoid of life (which probably suits the sandbox players). I much prefer the more colourful life and landscape in NV (though main storyline was woefully short).

 

[DucatiMonster696]

I'm late to the party but would like to add that I enjoyed NV far more than FO3 (never even realised they were made by different developers back then).

I found FO3 desert-scape really desolate and devoid of life (which probably suits the sandbox players). I much prefer the more colourful life and landscape in NV (though main storyline was woefully short).

New Vegas has the desertscape FO3 was set in post apocalyptic ruins of the Washington D.C. area.

 

[Agent11]

I enjoyed both fo3 and nv.

A new engine is needed however.