In the wake of Fallout's success on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prime Video, Bethesda's timetable for the next game in the series seems increasingly untenable. The studio has said that it won't start work on Fallout 5 in earnest until it has shipped The Elder Scrolls 6. With estimates placing TES6's launch in 2028 (which would make sense given 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield's 2023 release), the next Fallout game likely wouldn't hit store shelves — if brick-and-mortar stores still exist at all — 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:until 2032. If you're keeping track, that's 17 years after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4, 14 years after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 76, and eight years after the Fallout TV show&rsꦚquo;s .
Want To Play A New Fallout Game? Wait A Decade.
Bloated game development cycles have been unsustainable for years now, as the failure of this year’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Suicide Squad — 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rocksteady's first full-length game in nine years — illustrates. Fallout being adapted into another medium — one with much more reasonable turnaround times — makes the problem all the more obvious. As game development tools have gotten better, the computers developers work on have become more powerful, and all of the tech has become more widely available, the process to make a game now takes… two to five times longer? That doesn't seem right.
As the tools have improved, ambitions have also scaled up. Now a triple-A game needs to look significantly better than the previous game in the series, be significantly bigger, and take significantly longer to finish. Whereas movie lengths have stayed the same and TV seasons have gotten shorter, every new game in a series is expected to be bigger than the one that preceded it. It's a silly expectation, and if we want to play the next game in a series we love before our grandchildren can shave, we need to get okay with smaller games. The upside is that smaller games also means more games, more often.
Fallout: New Vegas Is The Way
That shift seems inevitable to me, but it may take a while to arrive. In the meantime, there’s an easier solution that can be implemented without too many grand, sweeping changes laying the groundwork. It already happens sometimes, it just needs to happen more frequently. That is: publishers and developers should be more open to allowing other studios to work on games in their series. This happened back in 2010 when Obsidian used the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 3 engine to make 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout: New Vegas, and players got one of the most beloved🐎 games in the series in the proces🎀s.
We Need More Indie Franchise Games Like The Rogue Prince Of Persiღa
Triple-A companies rarely hand💟 off their prized franchises to indie devs. But they should.
. I don’t disagree, but that also isn’t exactly what I’m saying. I think Bethesda should just let other developers take a crack at making Fallout games. I think Rockstar should let other developers take a crack at making GTA games. And I think Nintendo should let other developers take a crack at making Zelda and Mario games, too. Firaxis could make a Fallout game in the style of XCOM; it could even be branded as a sequel to Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. inXile could bring the CRPG chops it honed on the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Wasteland games ꦦto the Fallout universe for a game that threw back to the original Interplay and Black Isle games. And, hey, why not, Obsidian could make Fallout: New Vegas 2?
Six years passed between Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. At least seven will have passed between Super Mario Odyssey and whatever comes next. GTA 6 (as I’ve 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:noted many times) will arrive 12 years after GTA 5. At some point, this is just a bizarre business model. It would make sense for only one developer to touch a series if games only took a year to make. But when 65 million people just finished watching a hit show, why is the answer that, if they want to play a new game in that series, they can either♛ pick up a six-year-old MMO or wait another decade?
I’m not advocating the return of shameless cash grabs. Instead, I’m arguing ❀that the series we love will be better if their developers can get comfortable with loaning them out for a while.
14 Years Later And Fallout: New Vegas Is Still A 🤡Buggy Mess ♏
But I still can't help but love it...
