No because Bethesda has better rep than Obsidian among the general population and FNV, for whatever idiotic reason, is regarded as worse or phoned in compared to F3. More likely they'll just hire Obsidian for a rushed, slam dunk follow up (that ends up being significantly better) once the ruleset and assets are established.
I fucking HATE that. Calling New Vegas out on its engine and bugs when the tech was all Bethesda's doing? If you were going to evaluate New Vegas completely separately from Fallout 3, then you wouldn't say the engine is any worse than Fallout 3's, and the bugs would be no worse than the bugs in Fallout 3, and all that leaves are the writing and world design which is infinitely superior to Fallout 3. But instead they grade it with the expectation that it's supposed to be an improvement off of FO3 in every way while at the same time complaining that it's, you know, based off of FO3. What were they expecting?
The best are the people who say FO3 has more "atmosphere", because they like the completely flanderized use of 1950's Americana and the green.
Does Bethesda look at Obsidian's work and get a little jealous of their superior storytelling ability I wonder?
I don't think Todd even played New Vegas. Bioshock 2 on the other hand, he was constantly citing that as a source of inspiration for Skyrim. So there you go.
Jesus fuck, what the hell is wrong with the world? The author of that is like one of those caricatures that I make up in my head as a scapegoat for why games are so shitty, you know, one of those people that doesn't really exist but I'd like to because it makes it easier to understand why things are the way they are. Except... that person actually does exist, and he's even more of an idiot than I ever could have imagined.
Bethesda and its fans are like the Jehova's Witnesses of gaming. They're so retarded and their ideas are so retarded, and they want to believe in them so much, that they've convinced that their retardation is not a flaw, but that it actually makes them more intelligent and superior to other people. And there are millions of them, living among us.
That is exactly how I feel about things like pop music. The numbers keep telling me that there are apparently people out there who buy and listen to that garbage, and yet I've never really encountered any of them in real life. Such primitive individuals can't possibly exist, right? Maybe the industry is inflating the sales numbers to create the illusion the songs are super popular, and
then people go out and buy them because they're the "in" thing. But no. In my first year of college there was a group of about 6 girls at my end of the hallway in my dorm that were blasting that shit all of the time.
One thing that doesn't do us any favors is that it seems like there's a lot of people who hate Bethesda games for all the wrong reasons. Those random YouTube reviews of how "SKYRIM SUX" from a 12-year-old because he was expecting CoD and lacks the attention span. That's probably what leaves the Bethdrones thinking that their games are so intellectual and only truly retarded people could not find any appeal in them. If I were to run down a list of reasons why I think Skyrim is crap in real life, highlighting things like the lack of meaningful character progression, railroading, and horrible writing, the person would probably just stare at me blankly and go "whoa, I never even knew that those were things people looked for in games, I just want to kill stuff, your standards are too high and you're describing a game that will never exist."
Don't know guys, this doesn't sound so bad to me. Roaming Boston (this better has Irish mobster mutants) and the MIT sounds pretty cool to me. That whole Western style wasteland shit has worn out. Fallout needs something new and fresh.
I'd kind of agree with you, but this is Bethesda. If there's going to be Irish mobster mutants then the theme song is going to be a jig by Inon Zur with a bunch of shitty fiddles in it, and all the NPCs are going to be like MOIRA and be like HURR I'M IRISH WE DRINK ALL THE TIME BOYO EH HE HE HE. Please no.
