Obsidian has stated it’s nicely conscious that every time it declares a new recreation, folks ask the place Fallout: New Vegas 2 is, but it loves the way it’s been in a position to create new IP and even launch sequels to them — and its proprietor Microsoft sounds prefer it helps that method.
Fallout Season 2 is about to hit Prime Video this December, and whereas Bethesda has a new Fallout: New Vegas bundle up its sleeve, there’s no phrase but on a Fallout remaster or a Fallout: New Vegas 2 to capitalize on the surge of curiosity within the franchise. Obsidian is after all the developer of the much-loved 2010 RPG Fallout: New Vegas, so followers usually wonder if it is going to return to the setting for a sequel, particularly given it’s owned by Bethesda mum or dad firm Microsoft.
Obsidian, although, has centered on making model new video games, and it’s prolific in doing so. It’s launched Grounded (Grounded 2 got here out this 12 months), fantasy RPG Avowed (which got here out this 12 months), and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds (The Outer Worlds 2 got here out this 12 months). Pentiment, which got here out final 12 months, was one other model new recreation, though I wouldn’t count on a sequel to that any time quickly.
In an interview with The Game Business, Obsidian’s VP of operations Marcus Morgan and VP of manufacturing Justin Britch touched on the fan requires a New Vegas follow-up, but pointed to its work establishing new franchises as a “pleasure.”
“I do know everybody on the web, on each recreation we ever announce, will continuously reference again to, ‘When’s the following New Vegas? Or when’s the following no matter?” Morgan stated.
“But this 12 months, as well as to it being a celebration of delivery three video games, all three of these video games are IP that we’ve created, which can be Obsidian IP. Our historical past, prior to the Microsoft acquisition, actually was surrounding round engaged on others’ IP. And that is the enjoyment that we get of… how will we begin to outline our personal and how will we construct our personal IP? And we’ve obtained to the half the place we now have sequels to all of them. All of them are sequels to the IP we created.”
And it feels like Microsoft has supported Obsidian’s want to just do that, despite the fact that you’d assume the mega corp may need gone arduous on Fallout, particularly with the massively common Fallout TV present breaking by means of into the mainstream.
“Xbox has been fairly supportive of the stuff we would like to do,” Britch insisted. “It’s been nice.”
There was no point out made throughout the latest Fallout Day broadcast of a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, which some (together with Danny Trejo!) have referred to as on Bethesda to develop. Certainly, there have been no new Fallout video games introduced in any respect. Discover out every thing introduced throughout the Fallout Day broadcast right here.
But there are all kinds of rumors floating round about potential Fallout remakes now that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is out the door (Fallout 3 Remastered was leaked again in 2023, but these plans might have modified). And we all know Bethesda needs to ultimately get to Fallout 5, albeit after The Elder Scrolls 6.
The final we heard on Fallout 5, by the way in which, was again in June 2024, when Bethesda Softworks head Todd Howard stated he wasn’t keen on dashing it out the door. Howard opened up about the way forward for the hit post-apocalyptic RPG sequence throughout an interview with YouTube content creator MrMattyPlays.
“For different Fallout video games sooner or later, you realize, clearly I can’t discuss these proper now, but I’d say, form of dashing by means of them, or we type of want to get stuff out that’s totally different than the work we’re doing in 76… we don’t really feel like we want to rush any of that,” he stated. “The Fallout TV present fills a sure area of interest when it comes to the franchise and storytelling.”
The final mainline Fallout recreation was Fallout 4, which was launched in 2015. DLC content material for the entry was steadily launched for PC and consoles over the following 12 months, and in 2018, Bethesda launched its multiplayer-centered offshoot, Fallout 76. Whereas followers flocked to the West Virginia-set open-world RPG over time (and after a rocky launch), it wasn’t till the premiere of Prime Video’s Fallout TV present that the Bethesda sequence leveled up when it comes to consideration.
Nonetheless, Howard would not budge when it got here to needs for a substantial online game launch. For him, it comes down to wanting to deal with Bethesda’s franchises with care.
“Completely get the need for a new type of mainline single-player recreation,” he stated. “And look, these issues take time. I don’t assume it’s dangerous for folks to miss issues. We simply need to get it proper and make it possible for every thing we’re doing in a franchise, whether or not it’s Elder Scrolls, Fallout, or now Starfield, that these change into significant moments for everyone who beloved these franchises as a lot as we do.”
Within the meantime, The Outer Worlds 2 has robust New Vegas vibes. Take a look at IGN’s The Outer Worlds 2 assessment for extra.
Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.