r/XboxSeriesX Apr 21 '24

Phil Spencer on the phone right now to get someone to make a new Fallout game asap. Discussion

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u/M0n33baggz Apr 22 '24

They need to get obsidian on a new spin off

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u/Obvious-End-7948 Apr 22 '24

I feel like this is what's going to happen. They're currently making Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 so that suggests they have two teams operating simultaneously. I imagine after Avowed launches that team will start on a Fallout New Vegas remake or sequel. In a perfect world they'd get the full team after Outer Worlds 2 finishes as well so it can be a big, polished game.

Edit: Or even a traditional Fallout CRPG given the studio also did Pillars of Eternity. Go back to the roots of the franchise (and cash in on some of that CRPG hype from Baldur's Gate 3).

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u/yautja1992 Apr 22 '24

Slim to no chance of a ground up new Vegas remake, the dialogue alone would take like two to three years to make, then the entire map.

Re 4 remake is probably the best example of a ground up remake that didn't cut content and that took years of development and it has less than one quarter the dialogue as new Vegas does.

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u/Obvious-End-7948 Apr 22 '24

I mean I don't expect any modern RPG on the scale of a Fallout game to take less than 4-5 years either way. Plus it's not like the dialogue is being recorded by the same people making the map, obviously those parts of development run concurrently.

It's really just when do you want another Fallout game? A remake can go faster by already having a lot of narrative and world-related information already locked-in. Realistically it would still be coming out in 2028-2030 if they started this year. Or they could re-use the audio and just go for gameplay/graphical updates, although that trends closer to remaster than remake.

Or we wait for Bethesda to finish support and DLC for Starfield, develop the Elder Scrolls VI then support and DLC for that and then start developing Fallout 5 for a release in 2036-2038...at best.