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On today's menu we changed the schedule for today's video as I'd like to discuss
the rumours around Fallout New Vegas 2
This rumour has the internet divided, half of it believes that it's impossible and
we shouldn't believe it, and the other half trusts the source, since they have a record
of trustful leaks including Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Last of us 2 weeks before it dropped
even though all the details they gave about it weren't 100% accurate, the games were
a reality and the rumours they spread were true, so not only for the hype I'm inclined
to believe that we should give them a chance
Also because, as Mulder says, I want to believe…
So we're going to analyse all the information we have about it, and we're going to put
a link in the description of all the sources of this information for your reference
Please, keep in mind that good part of this information is rumours and speculation, so
don't forget to leave a comment and let me know if you agree with this rumour or you
believe that it's impossible that it's real
We'd love to know your thoughts too
But please take the effort to watch the whole video first, is slightly annoying to have
questions that are already addressed in the video
I suppose all of you remember all the info that drove us crazy past year regarding Fallout:
New Orleans, that started with the news on August tenth of past year when Bethesda supposedly
filled a trademark of Fallout New Orleans, where you could see that the registered logo
was very similar to the one used in Fallout New Vegas
So the thing is that usually the name and logo of a game property is filed the same
day that a reveal trailer is out to prevent people from getting ideas too soon, because
there's a marketing date for everything and they don't want to spoil the fun, and
also it looked very suspicious because it was filled only on Europe, but as we Fallout
fans wanted the hype we believed it for a few days until the trademark eventually disappeared
So now there's no trademark whatsoever for Fallout New Orleans?
Nope
So it could've been a troll
Someone created this register to troll fans
Well, actually this kind of trademark registry
is not cheap, so it should've been a troll with money to spend
But is also usual for gaming companies to file trademarks that they're never going to use use in the
end because some projects can be stuck at a very early stage and they never come to
be a real thing
In the meantime, we saw people of Obsidian, the video game developers that created Fallout
New Vegas, referencing something called "Project Louisiana"
On an Interview with one of the fathers of the Fallout franchise, the video game designer
Chris Avellone, who at the time of the interview was already outside of Obsidian, explained
that Obsidian used codenames for the games that they are developing when they are far
from the release date, so he basically said that Project Louisiana was only a random game
Obsidian was working on
He was also asked that if he would return to Obsidian in case they are working on a
new Fallout project, and his answer was that he had differences with the management and
that he didn't have the creative freedom that he needed to work so chances are he wouldn't.
In a different interview with Pete Hines, PV of Bethesda, where the Project Louisiana
and Fallout: New Orleans questions raised, he was asked if Bethesda would consider using
external developers again for a big franchise Hines replied that indeed as this was the
case of Quake, then the interviewer asks, and I quote, "But New Vegas was something
different, the dev must have had quite close access to your own internal studios and tech,
would you do something like that again?
Because I think that everyone felt that New Vegas turned out pretty well" and Pete Hines'
answer was "I don't know, we'll have to see" and then slight grin marked, well
I personally don't know Pete Hines, I don't know if he smiles a lot, but the fact that
this grin was marked in the interview drove Internet crazy for some time.
That's how surprised people were that this guy smiled?
On August 12th the Quest Gaming Network released their Fallout off the Record podcast episode
52, where they interviewed Obsidian's design director and lead designer Josh Sawyer, and
when he's asked what he working on now, he says this:
What are you working on now?
Well now I'm working on Project Louisiana
I don't know if I can say specifically what I'm working on, but
I was working on fa...
on Pillars of Eternity 1
He's working on faaaa
On fa… and also he's giving a lot of information
regarding Pillars of Eternity to not be allowed to give much information about what Project
Louisiana is, that's why when Obsidian revealed Pillars of Eternity 2 there was a portion
of fans that were sceptical that this game was actually Project Louisiana
And Obsidian didn't say it clearly
Well, I didn't hear or read anyone at Obsidian
saying that Pillars of Eternity 2 is actually Project Louisiana, but as this was the project
they publicly said they were working on, a good part of people assumed that Pillars of
Eternity 2 was actually Project Louisiana
Actually, everybody was so focused on Obsidian doing the next instalment of the Fallout saga
since Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart
I believe that is pronounced that way, I'm not sure
said very clearly, that they were really interested
in doing a sequel for Fallout New Vegas
Unfortunately Obsidian came out with an official statement to shut down the rumours, saying,
and I quote: "We've said plenty of times that we'd love to work on a Fallout again
if Bethesda wanted us to, we just aren't at this time.
Whenever a new Fallout comes around though, whoever is doing it, we all look forward to
playing it!"
That sounds quite definitive in my opinion
And that was said past February
So, I must say that the weirdest thing about Obsidian developing a new Fallout game is
that I always thought that if they wanted to make a new Fallout outside Bethesda they
would probably want to have Chris Avellon on the team
But his Fallout Bible is not considered Canon anymore
Anyway, I think we can agree he would be a great writer for it
But a new piece of information came out, when the same source that leaked Red Dead Redemption 2
and Last of us 2 weeks before official sources confirmed them and, as I said at the beginning
their information wasn't 100% accurate but their leak was real and these game were a
real thing, this source states that the new Fallout Videogame will be a Fallout New Vegas
sequel, that Obsidian is involved which doesn't mean that they are developing the game and
that its upcoming reveal is planned, possibly for next E3
So if we take a look at the press invites to the Bethesda E3 press conference we have
this theme park where the attractions are Fallout, Dishonored 2, Prey, an attraction
that is under construction, Elder Scrolls and people will pray for the new instalment
to be included in this announcement but I'm afraid that the thing will revolve around
the online and Legends more than anything, Doom, Quake and another attraction under construction
We also know that Bethesda is going to announce Fallout news on E3 and they revolve around
Fallout 4 VR, so I find pretty weird that the reveal would include a New Vegas sequel
considering how big Fallout 4 VR is going to be
And the two attractions under construction?
Well, one is supposed to be Wolfenstein, and
there are lots of speculations of the other one
But we'll find out next month as Bethesda's showcase is scheduled for Sunday, June 11th,
7pm PT, that is 3am in UK time
So, dear viewers, now is your turn, so what do you think?
Do you believe that we're going to see soon a Fallout New Vegas 2?
Or you are the part of the internet that believes that this is impossible in short term?
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