Can Fallout: New Vegas 2 Actually Happen Now?

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Now that the Bethesda and Microsoft deal has closed it is time to revisit the topic of a potential New Vegas 2. This idea of a Fallout spinoff or remake by Obsidian has been constantly discussed and here I go over what may actually happen.

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Brandon Adler: https://twitter.com/badler07
Obsidian Tour: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-11-14-visiting-obsidian-post-acquisition-to-see-what-has-changed
Josh Sawyer Own Project: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1290867551711268864
Todd Howard Internal Projects: https://www.pcgamer.com/todd-howard-on-outsourcing-future-fallout-games-i-wouldnt-say-never/
inXile Steampunk RPG: https://www.resetera.com/threads/some-potential-hints-of-inxiles-new-ip.309424/
The Outer Worlds 2 Interview: https://www.gamereactor.eu/the-outer-worlds/?sid=9175369ad78c07c7ff24b05e0963fd59
Tim Cain & Leonard Boyarsky Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2CXtrPkT2M
‘Elder Scrolls Online’ Is ‘Still Growing, Not Slowing Down’ With Over 15 Million Players: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjagneaux/2020/03/30/elder-scrolls-online-is-still-growing-not-slowing-down-with-over-15-million-players/?sh=4053e78e5ec3
Obsidian Wants to Work on Fallout: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5vzou1/we_are_obsidian_entertainment_purveyors_of_fine/de65ko8/
IGN Editor Bad Takes: https://twitter.com/DanStapleton/status/1369398291943858178

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Author – dragbody

Notes:
– Last week the MSFT Bethesda deal finally came to a close and immediately we saw some speculation and discussion on the potential of a New Vegas 2 or really a Fallout spinoff in general
o The big reason being that, although the MSFT deal was announced back in September, only now would work on a hypothetical New Vegas 2 by Obsidian or another MSFT owned studio actually begin
o So lets discuss whether or not this could actually happen as I would argue this likely isn’t all bad news
– So immediately this discussion looks at Obsidian – creator of many fans favorite Fallout game ever, now that MSFT owns both Obsidian and Bethesda/the Fallout IP a lot of people naturally connect those dots…
o Some even taking it a step further that things like Avowed should be cancelled to focus on Bethesda projects instead – and that is the head of reviews at IGN
o except there is some problems with this all – Obsidians current project list
 ToW DLC which quite literally just concluded – so that team led by Megan Sparks can move onto something else, but likely small considering it was just DLC
• But then again a ton of new job listings just went up for Obsidian – including a network programmer
 Grounded
 Avowed which seems to be a pretty large project, like the largest thing in progress right now
• Based on job listings and more it seems like many devs moved from ToW to Avowed after ToW released
• Chris Parker, for instance – director of Alpha Protocol – is now making a new game, presumably in charge of it – from late-2019, likely Avowed
 Josh Sawyer is leading a team on something – not too sure what it is, but it isn’t Avowed or a New Vegas 2
• Been on this project seemingly since late 2019 at least
 Leonard Boyarsky/Tim Cain – The Outer Worlds 2 seems the obvious choice
• Take-Two CEO- “It’s outperforming our expectations handily”
 Brandon Adler twitter bio: Game Director at Obsidian Entertainment. Currently working on an unannounced project
• Although above could hypothetically be on the same projects
o So Obsidian seemingly has 6 or so projects in the works between announced and unannounced stuff
 All we really know is this quote from Adam Brennecke: “Just like with Outer Worlds we have big RPGs being worked on right now. We have a lot of stuff being worked on right now.”
 The thing is none of these could be Fallout. The team working on ToW DLC could hypothetically move onto Fallout starting now, but that team is quite small with a first time game director on it – not how you envision the Fallout IP going
– So either Obsidian was already working on something Fallout before MSFT acquired Bethesda – which Todd Howard said was unlikely in 2018 with how much bigger Bethesda is – or a Fallout game from them would be far out
o Likely Avowed is next in 2021 or 2022, then perhaps Project Missouri from Sawyer, perhaps The Outer Worlds 2 at some point and we get around to 2025 pretty quickly.
o Obsidian has a very full plate and it seems like even if they were to work on something Fallout it would be a ways away
o On hiring more people the studio head has said he likes keeping things smaller: only got slightly bigger post buyout and mentioned no plans to go above 200 employees, prefers focused games

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44 thoughts on “Can Fallout: New Vegas 2 Actually Happen Now?”

  4. I'm worried that if we got a direct sequel it would ruin the choice that the original game provides with it's ending by making a specific one "cannon" and thereby invalidating the rest

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  8. Fallout 5, California, Nevada, and Arizona. California NCR, Arizona Caesers Legion, and Nevada wasteland with a bunch of different tribes(Besides New Reno).

    Maybe it's a little too big and I do want the map and story to be very dense with quests and things to do, but if it can be both it would be one of the best games. Although if they actually start doing a new Fallout the map would probably be way way smaller, but hopefully still an awesome story with lots of things to do. If they even do it.

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  10. I think we need a remastered Fallout New Vegas. The original was given only 18 months to be made and the developers wanted to add so much content but were limited by Bethesda and the technology of 2011. Now they have the chance to make Fallout NV the way they want.

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  16. Just make the next Fallout LIKE New Vegas, RPG based, Karma system, MULTIPLE DIALOGUE CHOICES THAT CHANGE THE STORY, etc..

    Not like Fallout 4 "Start Mission. Search. Kill things. Gather. Build. Repeat." Soooo boring.

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  22. If they make a new fallout, they need to drop that fallout 76 bullshit and find it's old roots. Like look how perfect NV was, like right after leaving Good Springs, you can just straight up kill any main quest character and the game allows it. These old games gave you an option in how to play. And these fake weapons in Fallout 4 and 76 are stupid. I like now NV keep the guns in our timeline or some what similar to ours with the mixture of perfectly balanced energy weapons😂. Euclid's C-Finder is one of its own.

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  29. I want another Obsidian fallout game, not a new vegas 2. Unless they remaster/remake new vegas with new graphics, better gameplay and added the content that was cut I don't think the Mojave should come back.

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  36. Microsoft could also make its own new team that solely creates Fallout games like they did with Halo when Bungie left. 343 industries pretty much only exists in order to milk the Halo franchise so I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft dedicated an entire team of people to pumping out a Fallout game every few years.

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