“Everything I learned from Wasteland I put into Fallout and everything I learned from Fallout I put into Wasteland 2,” Brian Fargo tells us-back in 2014, and at the time of writing work is underway on Wasteland 3, with none other than Chris Avellone contributing. Brian Fargo’s current studio, InXile, was able to crowdfund Wasteland 2. It’s different to what it used to be, but it is still loved-even by the creator who abandoned it: “Fallout will always be my baby, even if it was adopted by another family,” says Tim Cain.Īn additional bonus of Fallout’s success has been the resurrection of the series that inspired it. At the same time, however, its central themes of the apocalypse, the fundamental nature of humanity, and the need for some sturdy rope in a survival situation have all passed through the decades to make up core tenets of the series. A great Fallout game? That’s up for debate.įallout is a series that has changed a gigantic amount since its inception-possibly more than any other series in gaming. While well-received in its own right, the fourth game was never going to hit all the right notes with the old school purists. But the experience was fraught, and Obsidian’s crack of the whip proved a one-off.īethesda did of course return to the sci-fi series with Fallout 4-another step away from the pure form of the original, bringing in elements of construction and crafting.
Fixed with subsequent patches and built upon with some genuinely brilliant DLC expansions, New Vegas served as the balance between Bethesda’s new 3D approach, and Black Isle/Interplay’s focus on traditional RPG mechanics.
New Vegas ended up on 84.ĭespite all of that, New Vegas went down as a cult classic and has, over the years, cemented itself as the best in the series for a certain subsection of the Fallout fanbase. And then there was the infamous Metacritic scoring incident, where Obsidian apparently only received royalties for achieving a Metacritic rating of 85 or above.
New Vegas was riddled with bugs, and received extensive criticism at launch for this.
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