Fallout's Potential Is Wasted On Too Few Games

Like everyone else, I’ve been mystified by how poorly Bethesda has been able to capitalize on t𓆏he success of Amazon’s Fallout series. The show has been such an enormous hit that it’s inspiring tens of thousands to return to the wasteland, or in some cases, to play Fallout for the very first time.

The renewed interest in Fallout is incredible to see, so it must be pretty disappointing for Bethesda that all it has to offer right now is a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:six year old multiplayer spin-off that was widely despised upon release, and a current-gen “upgrade” for a nine year old game that by most accounts 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:made that game worse.

I know it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect the launch of Fallout 5 to coincide with the TV series. Games take absurdly long time to make, much longer than TV shows, and Bethesda’s games take the longest to make of them all. I’m sure if the studio had a crystal ball it would have prepared to have something new come out just as the TV show hype reached a🎃 fever pitch, but then again, if Bethesda had a crystal ball it probably wouldn’t have made half of the terrible decisions it’s made over the last decade, Starfield included.

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I want Fallout 5 as much as the next vault dweller, and I’m going to play it whether it takes five, ten, or 20 years to come out. But, in the meantime, maybe it’s time for Bethesda to realize how much money it’s leaving on the table by having such a narrow vision of what a Fallout game can be. It’s time t♋o expand the Fallout universe beyond 100-hour open-world RPGs. With clever licensing deals and thoughtful studio choices, Fallout could be the most expansive video game franchise around.

There’s a lot of approaches Bet🀅hesda could take to expand Fallout, but I’m partial to Riot’♊s now-defunct Riot Forge program. Through Forge, Riot partnered with a wide range of indie developers to make original games within the League of Legends universe.

🌱Riot did an amazing job finding devs who could bring their unique specialties to Runeterra, and through that initiative we got gems like Ruined King, a turn-based RPG from the Battle Chasers team; and The Mageseeker, a stylish pixel art acti🅷on game from Moonlighter studio Digital Sun. Riot Forge shuttered earlier this year after a major round of layoffs and a reorg at Riot, but that model is one other big studios can and should replicate, especially if they have a beloved and expansive IP like Fallout.

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Fallout usually presents itself as The Elder Scrolls with guns, but it’s flexible🐷 enough that it could be anything. The setting is so rich and the lore so well-established that there’s room for a wide variety of games that are nothing like Bethesda’s games, but could still retain the identity of the series. The simplest example would be a throw-back to traditional Fallout. Mario and Metroid have kept returning to their 2D roots after transitioning to 3D, and Fallout could do the same. If you need an example, just look at WolfEye Studios’ Weird West, a modern CRPG heavily inspired by classic Fallout. If the success of Baldur&😼rsquo;s Gate 3 proves anything, it’s that there’s still an appetite for slow, crunchy RPGs.

Of course, Bethesda is already well aware of the spin-off potential Fallout has. The mobile gameဣ Fallout Shelter made $5 million in its first two weeks back in 2015. I don’t crave more microtransaction-filled Fallout games, but the precedent is there for smaller, weirder Fallout experiences.

I’d love to see a Telltale-style Fallout game, which Telltale could probably make if it ever finishes The Wolf Among Us 2. A Diablo-style dungeon crawler could definitely work. Just replace the quillrats with rad roaches and goatmen with ghouls and you’ve got yourself a video game. There’s practically no genre Fallout couldn’t work in. A Stardew Valley-style cozy-sim about building a Wasteland ho🦂mestead? A Metroidvania about a mutated experiment escaping the Institute’s underground labs? A 4X game where you choose a faction and battle for control of New Vegas? Fallout could be anything, and it’s silly that right now it’s only🔥 one kind of game that comes out once every ten years.