According to what I read, Obsidian took New Vegas 2. Bethesda is claiming Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are being made, so I can only assume it still technically retains ownership.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Didn’t they recently get rid of the Fallout IP?
I read that Obsidian took it over.
lath@piefed.social 2 months ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’m not sure why many people read it as they lose the IP to Obsidian, someone even made a 20min video talking about this topic. The original article only mentioned Obsidian is developing a new Fallout.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
From what I understand, Bethesda will be making Fallout 5 while Obsidian makes New Vegas 2 or something similar. Maybe they’ll have two Fallout series now, one from each dev. Sort of like how there’s 3 studios making CoD games (I think, I haven’t touched that franchise since the 360 days).
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Multiple studios can be licensed to work on the same franchise at the same time. This isn’t anything new
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah, I realize that, but from what I have heard, Microsoft took the franchise from Bethesda and gave it to Obsidian.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, they didn’t. They have Obsidian making an additional Fallout game
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
theres no way theyll just hand the fallout ip to obsidian like that. theyre just making another spin off
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Obsidian has done a mainline Fallout before, New Vegas. And apparently Tim Cain (original Fallout 1) guy just showed back up and is working at Obsidian and said that he plans to do one last game before re-retiring. And Josh Sawyer is there, and he directed New Vegas.
KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 months ago
Fallout 67 let’s go
radix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Word is Josh Sawyer started working on a Fallout game, but couldn’t get Bethesda to let him call it “Fallout,” so things were reworked into a completely standalone game.
Now that MS wants more Fallout, they pressured Todd to loosen his grip, and the Sawyer game is back to its original intent. It’s still in development, but it has had some time to get actual work done, so it’s closer than if they just started last week.
Again, lots of whispers and rumors, so take that with as much salt as necessary.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
itd be nice playing an obsidian fallout thats actually been playtested 😂