» Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:31 am
I would rather Obsidian take over the series from Bethesda entirely, as the Fallout series is better in the hands of the original creators, but they are world-renowned for releasing games in unplayable states. That's not to say that New Vegas is UNPLAYABLE, but I've had to go into the GECK/console several times to fix something or reset a quest which is not possible on the console versions and breaks some of the enjoyment. However, if Obsidian takes over the franchise entirely (obviously using Bethesda as the publisher), they may be able to shake the GameBryo engine once and for all and use some sort of streaming middleware with a modified UE3 which would in all likelihood create a better play environment. GameBryo has an ease-of-development that is hard to match, but the animation, navmeshing, and NPC movement/ai is poor which breaks a lot of the immersion in an otherwise fantastic idea. Fallout 3 and New Vegas were enjoyable, yes, but there are a lot of flaws that are difficult to overlook.