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But that doesn't mean 250 million players bought something? I think it's more that Skyrim is still selling even today and people keep rebuying it.

The engine is incredibly easy to use and very powerful. Just because Bethsoft can't make good games, doesn't mean the engine is garbage. If the next Fallout game runs on Unreal Engine, it will be forgotten a few months after release. A new Fallout in the style of BG3 also crossed my mind, but IMO this is extremely unlikely. I also doubt they are given 5 years to develop the game. If it's going to be anything like in the past, we're probably seeing something in 2 years, max.

FNV is extremely popular. I'd say Obsidian just have to copy that, but in new, and it can't really go wrong. Real question is, will they build the whole game from scratch, or will they use the Fo4 engine and assets in a similar way as they used Fo3 for FNV. Personally I would prefer if they use Bethsofts engine at least. I swear, the moddability is the reason why their games are still popular, and it's why neither Avowed, nor Outer Worlds had any big long–term buzz going. Allow people to do big changes to your game in a more or less easy way and they will look past certain flaws in it. If the game is fun to play / will capture the audience AND is easy to make mods for, you win.

Don't know if I would have loved a Fallout game by Larian, but it sure as hell would have had nice turn based combat, so there's that at least...

Releasing a new Fallout every 2 years would be terrible too, though.

Just a few hours ago I've read someone claimed "Avowed 2 is too far ahead to be canceled" and now there's news that it is canceled. lol. https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-obsidian-new-fallout-game-cancelled-avowed-sequel/ Also, they are probably trying to pacify the people with claiming a new Fallout game by Obsidian has been green-lit. At this point, who knows what's true.

So not closing just yet, but getting f'd anyways. Great.

Watched season 1 last year or so, didn't really vibe with it too much. Guess I will dive into it again, because everything is better than yet another isekai that turns into all the same garbage after the first episode.

Trying to find a new anime to watch but literally everything is just isekai or isekai adjacenced bullcrap. God damned, do they make anything else nowadays.

I haven't played Outer Worlds 2, but I can tell you why I stopped playing Avowed. It's not that I didn't like the game or something - I thought the world looked nice, and I like the Pillars setting. Using sword and pistol was cool too. But something in the game didn't feel "organic" to me. It felt more like I was running through a checklist. Groups of monsters in expected places, with expected behavior, with expected paths for how I solve things. Then the expected loot chests with expected loot. At the end of the day, it felt formulaic to me, like so many other new Obsidian games. Sure it makes them less buggy, but also somewhat more boring to play. Can't really tell you what they would need to do to make it feel less like that to me, though. Maybe I would have liked it more if it were similar in style to PoE1 and 2, though Deadfire already started with the formulaic approach. It just somehow got worse after that? No idea. Maybe not every quest needs to have the same different 4 approaches to solve them. It's ok if there's stories that can't be solved by everyone or only a certain way - as long as it feels like it makes sense.

Still crazy to me that after everything, Grounded is what Obsidian has real success with. Unbelievable.

For now at least.

tbh I don't think I've ever seen the end. The last one or two seasons were pretty bad as well (where they moved into the town?).

I loved the original show, because it was so simple and somewhat easy. This trailer feels weirdly over dramatic.