Obsidian Entertainment co-founder and former senior designer Chris Avellone claimed in a recent interview with YouTuber TKs-Mantis that the Fallout: New Vegas DLC was designed to spawn a sequel, but unfortunately those plans “quickly evaporated.”
“That's why all the nukes go away,” Avellone explained (thanks, GamesRadar+), referring to the end of Lonesome Road where the Courier is presented with an opportunity to level crucial NCR and Legion territories.
“I think, 'Well, I have to destabilize some regions.' Not wiping out factions, but I've got to shake up both the Brotherhood, I've got to shake up the NCR, I've got to have them even more at each other's throats in California,” he continued. “And so that was the reason for some of the pre-marker decisions for some of the DLC stuff and some of the stuff in the core of New Vegas […] when we still thought we could do a New Vegas 2, or whatever the title was going to be.”
Don't get your hopes up for New Vegas 2 anytime soon
Those plans may not have materialized 16 years ago, but Todd Howard teased that Fallout is the franchise “we're doing the most in right now,” even though he's probably busy with The Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield, giving hope for more spin-offs like New Vegas. But while credible leakers claim a sequel is in the works, Chris Avellone claimed it “won't happen for the next six years at least, if ever.”
In fact, Obsidian's VP of operations, Marcus Morgan, said last year that the studio is well aware that “everyone on the internet” is clamoring for a New Vegas sequel, but that the team is focusing on the “joy” of building its own IP, such as The Outer Worlds, Avowed and Grounded.
That doesn't necessarily rule out a new game, but it seems unlikely. Instead, according to leaked FTC documents, Bethesda is planning an Obsidian-style Fallout 3 remaster. A New Vegas remaster has also been rumored to be launching alongside it, but Avellone claimed that Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart turned down the $10,000 offer Bethesda made for the source code, and that it has “no idea how to put it back together.”
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October 19, 2010
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M for adult: blood and gore, intense violence, sexual content, strong language, use of drugs
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Gamebryo
