Fallout: New Vegas

[Swaki]

looking forward to it, i hope you can buy casinos and be the big shot of the wasteland.

and i really hope it has more quests in it that fallout 3 had, and that your actions will make a bigger impact, beside the one where you could nuke megaton your actions didnt do much.

 

[Meggiepants]

They could make a Fallout: The Sims and I'd still buy it. So obviously this game is high on my list of most anticipated releases this year. Not saying I'm a Fallout fan girl per say, but I am a sucker for the environment of the post-apocalyptic world. Apocalypse = the awesome. Now if you'll excuse me I just have to go work on my shelter a bit more. My survival food needs to be rotated. I have some stale ass Sugar Bombs I need to feed to the squirrels.

 

[SimuLord]

cant waite for this game to be released =D i like what fallout is doing now =) although id love to see a post-apocalyptic New York...or maybe in another country? like England, so i can kill mutants on downing street ^_^

Fallout 3 had a lot to say about the Commonwealth (which would seem to encompass New York and New England). Wouldn't surprise me if they set a game there. I could totally see Fallout 4 set in the ruins of Boston, which would be interesting---it'd be the first time in Fallout's history that they set it in a city that didn't look way better after having been nuked to hell and back. The Capital Wasteland is a massive improvement over the real Washington, DC!

 

[DoctorNick]

I'm tentatively looking forward to this, Fallout 1 and 2 were fairly iconic games and I liked Fallout 3 as well. So to see some of the devs for the original two using the tech for Fallout 3, well, it might be awful or it might be "Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!" level awesome.

So far, the magic eight-ball indicates that signs are good.

Going a bit more meta, for the last few years there have been exactly two companies I could consistently rely on to release good RPGs:

BioWare
Bethesda

Obsidian has some games in the past that I've heard good things about but have not had the chance to play personally, so if they get active in the current generation of consoles/PC hardware I'll be rather pleased if I can amend my list to be:

BioWare
Bethesda
Obsidian

The more people putting out nice long and complex RPGs, the better.

 

[ultrachicken]

Keeping Vegas intact is the only thing that irks me. Fallout 3's charm came from being a lone wanderer in a torn world. If you remove lone wanderer and torn world, you just have Fallout New Vegas's charm came from being _____ in a _____.