I just know fallout 5 won't come out for another 7-8 years so it would be nice to have a fallout by Obsidian between the 2 games. Everyone knows Bethesda is currently hard at work on Elder scrolls 6 now to release 2017 holiday season

I have to say I cannot give credence to the people who keep disparaging Fallout 3 for the writing.

Fallout 3 won Best Writing at the Game Developers Choice Awards the year it came out. So in the opinion of the people who

actually make these kind of games Fallout 3 DOES have good writing.

Oh and if it was not obvious I agree with them.

disclaimer - I also enjoy FNV (replaying it right now).

Concurred!

I think it was Chris Avellone who said that and he has now left Obsidian. What I would love to see is Chris taking over the FO franchise at Beth and Beth expanding so they can work on FO and ES at the same time only at different stages of production, so we get a FO every four years instead of eight.

New vegas was a blast, but jeez that map svcked talk about boring....don't think the "choices" really mattered in it either...other than you can help these people but not these ppl. Mr house however was one of my all time fave characters

New Vegas was awesome, so I'd be psyched if Obsidian made another Bethesda style game. I'd prefer a new KOTOR though...

I think F: NV was a once off personally and Obsidian is heading off in different directions now. I think after Fallout 5, they are going to let the franchise rest for another 8 years before looking at it again.

That or they spin Fallout off into a Movie/tv show franchise and just consult on that.

maybe they shouldmove this too general fallout discusion , i dont like these FO3 versus FONV discusions here

I'm certain that Bethesda will keep to the main series, so 4, 5, 6 and so on and if any other companies make a Fallout game it would just have its own name, such as Fallout: New Vegas.

Assuming Bethesda sticks to coastal cities like they have been, I can see them doing Fallout: Miami, Fallout: New Orleans, and maybe something like Fallout: Charleston, to cover the gap between D.C. and Miami.

On the west coast, for an Obsidian made game, I can see them doing Fallout: LA, Fallout: San Francisco, and Fallout: Seattle. The first two they have explicitly said they wanted to do, the third being the last major city in the western U.S. they haven't either destroyed or civilized yet.

With those cities, and areas covered in past games, we will have covered basically all of America in some way or another, be it directly in-game, or lore saying theres nothing going on there.

All of the American north, everything east of Seattle, west of Chicago, and north of Salt Lake City, is an empty mess, so I doubt we will ever see a Fallout game actually take place up there. Instead we will probably just get slight references to those areas like we did in NV.

And there are plenty of states on the east coast, like Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, West Virgina, that don't really have any cities of equal size or notoriety as D.C., Vegas, and Boston do, so I assume Bethesda will do to them like they did actually do to New Jersey in Fallout 3, and give some one off mentions of places like Atlantic City being "Great Lanta" now.

I could so dig on this. Replaying Vegas now while waiting.

That would be nice. Bethesda does not know how to put soul in the game , just mainstream stuff for everybody .

Agree.

Next Spin off will be made by a difeent studio. Zenimax online, perhaps.

There's also the deep south/bible belt states that have yet to be touched upon or covered (outside of Georgia). I'd imagine Bethesda wouldn't mind Obsidian doing a New Orleans or possibly Kentucky/Tennessee Fallout.

EDIT: Also, north of Salt Lake City is definitely pretty empty, but once you push into Nothern Idaho and towards Canada things start picking up and the scenery actually becomes pretty fantastic. You also forgot about Portland Oregon/the Oregon Washington border for places that haven't been covered. No need to necessarily go as far up as Seattle (though they could easily include Vancouver since it's literally a 25 minute ferry ride away).

-Most of those would be covered in a New Orleans game. Mississippi and Alabama lack cities on par with D.C., Vegas, or Boston, and New Orleans is a short distance from both the capitals of Mississippi and Alabama, that you could realistically have NPCs talk about those places, or visit them in DLC. Similarly, a game set in Charleston South Carolina for instance, would cover South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, in so far as like an Atlanta DLC, and a DLC to the Outer Banks in North Carolina or something.

-Scenery is something you can get anywhere really. Like it or not, newer Fallout games are based around easily marketable big cities everyone knows about. the American north, while pretty, lacks anything of the sort. Obsidian even wrote off most of the northwest as being wilderness, in ruins, and so devoid of anything significant in terms of civilization that the Khans are able to conquer most of it in a really short time span. There just isn't anything really to set a game around.

-I personally assume Portland would be done as a DLC for a Seattle game, like the Pitt was for Fo3, given how close they are. Seattle could also go up to Vancouver in another DLC, covering all of that at once.

We have to remember, we aren't going to see every big city, or even every state, in a Fallout game. There is just so much land to cover that its unrealistic. What we are most likely to get is something like Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and likely like Fallout 4.

Fallout 3

-Had pieces of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia in it.

-Talked about New Jersey's Atlantic city, now named Great Lanta.

-Made reference to Philly in Pennsylvania, it being in ruins, and a dump.

-Had a DLC to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, which has risen to become one of the major wastelands of the east coast.

-The Pitt DLC also mentioned places like Erie, in northern Pennsylvania.

-Had the Point Lookout DLC to show us what it was like in the backwoods areas in the wasteland around D.C.

So, while we don't get to visit all of these places directly, we at least get a little info that theres people here and there, and we see the larger/more important areas in the nearby states(D.C., and The Pitt).

Fallout 4

-Takes place in Boston, covering Massachusetts.

-Is likely to have several minor comments about the nearby states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, due to them not have many people/large cities. We will probably hear about people in the ruins of Providence Rhode Island, and out in the forests of Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

-We will likely get a DLC to someplace in New York State, with some minor references to other small towns in NYC ala The Pitt.

And all of that will end up covering the upper east coast in lore, be it directly or not, and combined well with Fallout 3 covering most of the central east coast.

And that is likely how other Fallout games go. They will pick the biggest city in one area, have a game take place there, and then talk about the more minor states around that area, and have a DLC or two to the larger states, and then that area will be "covered" lore wise. So when I mention these games, I always think about them covering the states around them too, so theres not really any places we don't at least hear about.

I'd love another Fallout game from Obsidian, and they have the proud title of being the only Fallout developer to make a game that both old and new fans enjoyed (seemingly). That's a dichotomy Bethesda is incapable of reconciling, and is probably quite indifferent towards any such propitiations.

Another Obsidian game could only hope to paper over the gaping fissures left behind by Bethesda.The rpgs that Beth and Obsidian make are becoming too discordant from each other.

I've said it before but what must Obsidian secretly think when they see skills have been gutted, traits removed again, combat that is becoming increasingly reaction based (Bungie and ID make great FPS combat, not RPG combat) and a dialogue system that is shallow and in many ways the antithesis of the dialogue system in PoE?

I'd rather Obsidian explored their own ideas than attempt to paper over the widening chasm of Bethesda's differing design ethos.

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Forgive any spelling and grammar errors, I'm typing on my phone