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Today in articles that will result in Feargus Urqhart getting another angry phone-call from Paradox of someone going "why are these articles all shilling your old games, you were supposed to shill the new Tyranny expansion, you idiot!", there's a piece on Eurogamer talking about how New Vegas came to be.
You can read it all here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...fallout-sin-city-and-had-three-playable-races

There's also a podcast on USGamer with Feargus and Josh Sawyer about New Vegas:
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/axe-of-the-blood-god-looking-back-on-fallout-new-vegas-rpg-podcast
Skip to 36:00 for the interview with them.
They said there would be "more on Monday" but since it's Wednesday now, I guess they meant next Monday? Who knows.
edit: They finally put it up: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the...bsidians-cult-sequel-became-a-beloved-classic
 
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PlanHex said:
You can read it all here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...fallout-sin-city-and-had-three-playable-races
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The way at least I see it, B*thesda thought they didn't risk anything. They didn't provide the necessary QA, necessary PR, necessary access to the engine itself. A terms like "Do it yourself faggot but if the final score somehow won't be 9000%, then fuck you." All to make original creators look no better if not worse than B*thesda and sell future inevitable Fallout 4 on hype. That was a mistake.
 
Nevertheless Obsidian is working on something. Something big - something to keep the bulk of the 175-person studio busy. "There's a new project," Urquhart says cagily. "Yes" it has a publisher but he won't tell me who it is, nor if Obsidian has worked with the publisher before. "That's too easy!" he says. Then after careful consideration he continues: "We're making a big RPG - and it's not Fallout!" Whether or not it's a new IP we'll apparently see.
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Is this a new trend, to keep everything in secrecy for a cheap hype?
 
Isn't it done like that since forever? Isn't that why we have announcements for a countdown timer for a teaser trailer?
 
I'm pretty sure Feargus said they won't be showing it until 2018 or something somewhere, though I think was in some random deadfire fig comment that'd be impossible to find...
 
Cobra Commander said:
Obsidian seems to be everywhere these days ....... there is something coming there, is not it?
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You'd think so, but Paradox paid for all this and likely don't have anything to do with the new project. I still think this was all supposed to be publicity for the Tyranny expansion, but that came out to "meh" reviews and wasn't as news-worthy as all this other stuff I guess.

If anyone's interested, there's a good post summing up everything known about the new project here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...discussion-thread.84849/page-203#post-5300787
 
So New Vegas was gonna have 3 playable races. I understand why Super Mutants would be complicated to get working but aren't Ghouls just regular human NPCs with a race already?
 
Problem is that if it's just cosmetic, it's really kinda worthless. And if it's not, like being a Ghoul impedes you in most places, it takes up a lot of extra design resources for a game that's frankly replayable enough already.
Not that I'm against putting even more C&C in there, but they only had so much time and money to work with.
Like, the fact that you can work for the Legion as a woman is already stretching it a bit, and a ghoulified woman stretches it even more.
Plus, did they even let ghouls into The Strip? Don't remember.
 
I would love if you could play as a Ghoul and it had in game effects on quests and dialogue. Mods just let you pick the race but every ghoul will call you a Smoothskin anyway.
 
Rummaging through that Kodex link PlanHex posted - those 7 design decisions/mistakes by Tim Cain...that's weird. Very weird.
Kodex assumption that it's an aRPG seems to be right. Kinda disappointed, but then again, I never did believe in gods on earth.
 
PlanHex said:
You'd think so, but Paradox paid for all this and likely don't have anything to do with the new project. I still think this was all supposed to be publicity for the Tyranny expansion, but that came out to "meh" reviews and wasn't as news-worthy as all this other stuff I guess.

If anyone's interested, there's a good post summing up everything known about the new project here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...discussion-thread.84849/page-203#post-5300787
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Awesome. Anyone risk the ambiance? I would like to see something like The Foundation (Asimov).
 
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