"It just works" - Todd Howard

With all the info that comes through this forum I am learning more and more about this game. A lot of it seems to be over the top. Bethesda really put some work into this game and with the amount of content being discussed here it is starting to make me wonder will this be the last fallout game from Bethesda?

Does anyone else have this feeling?

Are you kidding? If you are sitting on a gold mine, are you just suddenly going to stop mining it?

if it sell well why should they not make another?

Lol I doubt it, unless Fallout 4 sells shockingly poorly despite the hype there is gonna be a good incentive for Beth to make more.

Why so pessimistic?

The franchise didn't sink even with Interplay sinking, no way it's gonna sink now that Bethesda is the most popular in its history. Their track record makes it impossible to tank after what we have seen about it and they won't abandon the franchise if it doesn't tank in unseen proportions.

While the long waits between games can be frustrating for some gamers, there's a huge advantage to Bethesda Game Studios alternating between Elder Scrolls and Fallout games - they get to alternate between two quite different properties (despite the similarities in Bethesda's overall approach), which means they can come to each franchise with a really fresh mindset each time.

With their solid track record, I can see them continuing to make great Fallout games for quite some time yet.

Don't worry. There will be a Fallout 47 one day.

Nope.

Bethesda makes games the right way - put everything you have into what you're working on right now, and don't hold anything in reserve. I feel like some series hold things back so that they have content for next year's incremental sequel. Bethesda's style means huge waits for the next one, but each one is as good as they can make it. That doesn't mean the franchise has an expiration date and honestly I don't understand how you came to that conclusion.

Yep.. After this they all plan to retire and never sell the franchise off. Centuries from now the rights to fallout will be found in an underground vault and be speculated over and studied... but because the world will have been taken over by giant koala's by then, nobody will understand what they've discovered and the prospect that humans ever could have ruled the world and created these "video games" will be laughed off as a practical joke.

Yeaaa.... no. This is just the beginning for Bethesda's fallout, they're only 2 games in. I can only see the games getting bigger and better.

Of course not. Who buys a popular IP just to make two games then call it quits?

I wonder if they'll expand the lore and delve outside North America? If they did they'd be able to add a lot of new everything. There's still quite a lot of North America left to explore though.

Id prefer a region outside the U.S. We have a few metropolis's covered here in the U.S. so I think its time to delve outside the norm.

no really after Fallout 4 we will see another ES game, and after that Fallout 5

Probably not, but if they'd start another franchise besides The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, the wait time until the next Fallout would be longer.

Anyway, what I'm wondering is that "Bethesda always advances the timeline" -thing and how the world is rebuilding. By Fallout 8, you might start at the mirror like in 4, but instead of bombs dropping, you'll commute to your job as a teacher of Wasteland-history. When you commute back, you'll pick Brahmin milk from the grocery store. Then when the weekend comes, you and your buddies fly to New Vegas for a weekend casino-trip and "events transpire" and the game turns out be Hangover-type adventure.

Like others I highly doubt it'll be the last, but who knows maybe Fallout 5 will be another turning point in the series. Fallout 5 could go in a less RPG direction as some already say Fallout 4 is doing, or be designed primarily for mobile, or whatever, you never know .

So maybe Fallout 4 will be the last of this sub-series that started with Fallout 3, but yeah super unlikely it'll be the last Fallout game.

I see no evidence or allusions to them stopping the series, it's never hinted at and the fact that Bethesda seems to have put in a lot of work has no bearing on whether the game is going to be discontinued or not.

I very much doubt it. Why would this be the last Fallout with so much mass profit to be made from the hype alone? We'll probably see Fallout 5 sometime after 2020. I think it's great Bethesda is not milking TES and Fallout games like Ubisoft is doing with Assassin's Creed.

They will milk this brahmin dry for many years to come. Steaks will be made.

this is what a lot of people were saying for the last few years, "oh fallout 3 was the last fallout game"....lol i really don't think some people realize how married todd howard and bethesda are to their two franchises, i had to hear people on youtube and various forums saying for the last 4 or 5 years that bethesda won't be making fallout 4 and i knew they would be making it and so did others but there's always gonna be doubters, of course some day will be the last game for every franchise most likely, but as long as todd howard is making games i'm more than happy with buying bethesda games. if they did decide to make something different all together, it would be just as good as ES and fallout.

They're not going to stop milking such a popular and profitable franchise. TES and Fallout are Bethesda's two largest moneymaking IPs, and I don't think anything short of abysmal game sales (unlikely given the generally high quality of Bethesda games) or some other studio financial crisis will make them give up on either series.

Besides, there's still at least one more games worth of Fallout content to explore. I'd love to see them tap into some of the Van Buren ideas (even if Bethesda considers in non-canon) and go somewhere like Denver or Seattle. We've seen California and Nevada, we've seen a lot of the East Coast. The Pacific Northwest or the South would be the next logical places to go. The Midwest is probably a wash, given the general lack of anything particularly interesting there and the existing lore about Caesar's Legion already sweeping through the place.

Could we stop with the "milking" crap. That phrase annoys the hell out of me. Call of Duty is "milking", making a game in a franchise once every 3 years is continuing a brand.

THIS. The word "milking" is pretty derogatory and should be reserved for companies that deserve it such as EA and Ubisoft.

The games not even out yet. Let's not think about such sad things yet, but I doubt it. it's a goldmine. Next project: Fallout Multiplayer