Old J.E. Sawyer GDC talk about New Vegas now freely available on YouTube

[PlanHex]

This old GDC talk from 2012 by Josh Sawyer is called Do (Say) The Right Thing: Choice Architecture, Player Expression and Narrative Design in New Vegas, which should be pretty a decent explanation of what you will find within.

As far as I can tell, it has actually been freely available on the GDC site since September 2015 but we never actually newsposted it, so now that oversight has been rectified. Phew! Only 2 years late on that one.

 

[CaptJ]

The GDC is mostly shit but sometimes you can get some good content.

 

[Risewild]

I don't have time to watch it now, but I will definitely do it later.

 

[DerGogan]

Holy shit, this video should've been THE tutorial video for Bethesda how to make a good (Fallout) game.

Thank you for the news and link.

 

[Risewild]

Holy shit, this video should've been THE tutorial video for Bethesda how to make a good (Fallout) game.

Thank you for the news and link.

It probably was, but they wanted a "make a game with popular elements from other games while removing pretty much any real choice or consequence and RPG elements but make sure the player can make a God Character in a few levels so we can attract the most possible players for this game" tutorial instead.