4w ago

Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn't really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people's games, the studio is finding 'joy' in doing its own thing

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4w ago

Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn't really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people's games, the studio is finding 'joy' in doing its own thing

www.pcgamer.com /games/rpg/sorry-fallout-fans-but-obsidian-isnt-really-interested-in-making-new-vegas-2-after-years-of-working-on-other-peoples-games-the-studio-is-finding-joy-in-doing-its-own-thing/

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For me, the FONV was unplayable. No matter what I did the game would crash so often I couldn't get anything done. I think the longest I was able to play in one sitting was like two hours. I tried every stability mod I could find but nothing solved the issue permanently.
- Not sure why they're voting you down for your own experience, but that's unfortunate. It's a fantastic game, and probably the best fallout. Sorry you didn't get a proper chance to enjoy it.
- oh yeah, New Vegas on launch was awful with the instability, even the first several patches didnt really seem to help anything. But the story was so good that we kept trying.. and learned to mash F5 every 30 seconds.
- Sorry to hear that :c my experience has been pretty stable, I use New Vegas Anti-Crash and some unofficial patches, I can share my mod list if you wanna give it a try
  
  NVAC isn't recommended anymore, because it lets the game continue even if it encounters a normally fatal error which can permanently fuck up your save. The errors will accumulate until the game can no longer function. As long as you follow the Viva New Vegas modding guide, you should no longer run into crashes unless you heavily mod it further.
Fallout is their own thing tho ;-; bethesda has no idea what they're doing bc they're not at all connected to the material, I wanna get at least one more good fallout before I die
- its not their own thing. it was black isle/interplay's, then they sold it because the company was going under. bethesda saved the franchise with the critically and culturally acclaimed fallout 3
  
  Black Isle became Obsidian, so yeah it's their thing in every way other than legal. And I don't like the bethesda fallout games at all. 3 has a story and setting even more creatively bankrupt than The Force Awakens, 4 can barely even be considered an RPG, and they've both got bland bethesda writing and characters rather than the iconic stuff from the Black Isle/Obsidian games. I haven't played 76 but at the very least it seems like bethesda finally did something original with the franchise rather than just copying and pasting everything from the west coast onto the east coast and slapping a green filter on it.
  I don't want a critically acclaimed AAA bethesda RPG, I want another Fallout game. And compared to NV, how much cultural significance does 3 have other than people making fun of it? I see a ton of references to and memes about New Vegas, but not many about 3 besides "it is your destiny and I would not rob you of that" or "death is a preferable alternative to communism"

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