With Fallout seeing a brand new wave of curiosity because of Amazon Prime Video’s current Fallout TV collection, Todd Howard has been reflecting on the franchise as an entire. In a current interview, Howard clarified his ideas on the Obsidian-developed Fallout: New Vegas, and spoke about the way it could be mirrored within the subsequent season of the TV present.
Talking on a livestreamed interview with Kinda Funny Games, Howard clarified that he thinks Obsidian “did an incredible job with New Vegas.” Responding to rumors that he hates New Vegas, Obsidian, and desires to retcon the occasions of the sport, Howard mentioned: “We see a few of that, and I will say to everyone, that is a sport that we printed, proper? I’ll say Fergus, who runs Obsidian, is totally one in all my favourite folks within the online game business.”
When requested whether or not Obsidian and Bethesda could be prone to collaborate once more now each are owned by Microsoft, Howard mentioned: “I can not communicate to issues that we’re doing with the franchise sooner or later, clearly, however New Vegas is a really crucial sport to us and our followers, we expect they did an unbelievable job.”
After already having to make clear that the present did not truly retcon the occasions of New Vegas, Howard went on to speak extra concerning the sport’s influence on the present. “If something, the present is leaning into the occasions [of New Vegas]. Season two is gonna be that includes a few of New Vegas, and we’re cautious about sustaining the important thing occasions of that sport and the content material in it.”
“It’s clearly troublesome to cope with, if you’re going again to an space the place a sport had a number of endings, you already know? We have now some solutions there, however … it is laborious to form of canonize or say ‘that is precisely how that sport ended,’ and so each time we are able to I wish to keep away from it,” Howard elaborated on the difficulties of bringing New Vegas to the display. “Like, do not refute something that occurred. Watch out if you’re particular about what occurred. We would like that sport and what the gamers did to be their actuality and true.”