I would love it if Obsidian came along and gave us Fallout: ________ (area to be determined) with Fallout 4's gunplay and assets, better dialogue and quests. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Dr Fallout;4101639 Don't forget the restrictions made by Bethesda on Obsidian if they made a new Fallout game.[/QUOTE said:
I think it would be interesting to have them handle the West Coast and have Bethesda do the East Coast. Then Again, I prefer the East Coast post-apocalypse because some desert areas are already Wastelands BEFORE nuclear war so it's sometimes hard to even tell the difference.
If they wanted to play around with verticality like Bethesda does a bit in FO4, then Sacramento would be a good choice. Not a *huge* metropolis but plenty of tall buildings that may or may not have withstood the blasts. It's a capital so perhaps not.
That was kinda the point though in FO1, 2 and NV, the maps were desert because they were naturally desert. I mean taking some liberties with a setting to establish a certain atmosphere but turning DC (essentially built on top of a swamp) into a desert is a bit ridiculous. I mean FO4 is a bit better, but there's still dead trees all around even after 200 years for some unexplained reason.
I doubt there would be much in the way restrictions if they keep to the west or Midwest. I think time would be more on an issue then anything else.
Interesting because I found the narrative in 1 and 2 to be a bit simplistic, in fact I liked that NV didn't have any real heroes and I'm not sure how that weakens the narrative. Really for me the main strength of the originals was the world building more than the narrative. Different strokes I suppose
Thankfully for me Fallout is not going to die out ever. It's actually become mainstream at this point. Conan O'Brian even made a Fallout video. I am staying optimistic that Fallout becoming mainstream and all this money going around the franchise may be good for it - Bethesda may let Obsidian do another game and may allow for experimentation and even a top-down isometric Fallout like the originals. Spin-offs could be amazing. Or they could be cheesy cell phone games. I'm hoping for the former.
Would Obisidian be allowed to implement a skill system? It kinda sucks now that the last remaining RPG elements are stripped from the franchise. You can't even mod this shit back into shape now, so Obisidian will have a tough job cut out for them. At least they could produce a -decent- story, but still, the whole franchise is becoming less and less like anything Fallout ever was. If Bethsoft keeps dumbing it down, Obisidian has to dumb down along with it.
Also, even though FNV was more like Fallout than F3 and F4 ever will be, it still didn't feel like a proper sequel to the original series. Not just because they had to work with the whole "fallout is a shooter now"-thing but also story wise. Can't quite put my finger on it. In F1 and F2 I felt like I was out to save what was left of the world. FNV was just a silly war for territory. No real villains or heroes there. It felt weak after the great narratives of F1 and F2. At least they managed to be respectful towards the original series, but that just makes it a nice tribute.
I don't think the Fallout franchise can be saved in any way, at this point.
Edit: after some sips of beer and some thought I've come to the conclusion that it'd be best if the whole franchise just died out after this. Even if Obsidian is allowed to produce a marginally better game than Bethesda did, it'll still just be beating a dead horse. This shit has gone beyond redemption by now. As long as the rights to the franchise are in the hands of Bethsoft and they get to decide how the actual mechanics of the game work with their engine and all, it'll never be like Fallout ever again.
