What videogames are you playing in 2026?
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Paul Farquhar
Legend
Fallen Order is good.
Gradine
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The real answer is of course Resident Evil 4. The joke answer is Metal Gear Solid 3.
Love a classic runthrough of the series! Last time through I tried a "living off the land" challenge and made it all the way through to a short way into FF6 by the time I lost steam. It's definitely a challenge that has more difficult earlier on and also FF6 is the easiest game in the series.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I should update my "upcoming videogame RPGs" thread at some point but I know some people here might appreciate this news:
If you can't get through for some reason, or don't care to, the news is:
1) Obsidian are making a new Fallout game.
Yes Obsidian, of Fallout New Vegas fame (and who have a lot of FO1 and FO2 vets), not Bethesda Game Studios (who made FO3 and FO4).
2) Josh Sawyer is in charge of it.
He's one of the more prominent and willing-to-talk-about-it game designers out there, and was game director (and lead designer) for Fallout New Vega (John Gonzalez was the lead writer, and Josh credits him and the other writers for a lot of what is good about NV). He used to post about RPG design on RPG.net long, long ago too so you may have spoken to him there (not sure if he ever did on any version of ENworld).
I think this would conventionally considered "very good news", but also potentially is a massive hail mary from from Microsoft/a desperate attempt to curry favour with "gamers" as a whole when they're firing 3200 game developers over the next year.
I mean, people have been saying "Why the hell doesn't MS do [exactly this - new Obsidian FO with Sawyer in charge] for literally decades, so yeah it's a little obvious in that it's essentially wish-fulfilment. Sawyer is extremely serious about making good games, sometimes to the point where he might be a little too serious, but so long as there isn't some sort of disaster along the way, this is probably going to be something rather remarkable.
The negatives are:
1) MS are terrible. They're only having to fire so many people because they got so greedy (not just for money, in fact almost more for dominance/power/control than money, which is part of why they got in so deep), so you kinda hate to see them do something smart on a certain cynical level.
2) It's likely to be MS ecosystem exclusive. That means PC and Xbox when Sony and Nintendo consoles will likely still be far more owned than MS ones. Given the timing it's likely not going to be for the current Xboxes at all either.
3) They just "pivoted" to it. So we're probably looking at a dead minimum of 3 years, more likely 4-5 before it actually comes out.
EDIT - I wouldn't be shocked if it still managed to beat Elder Scrolls 6 to market though!
4) They were working on Avowed 2, and have dropped that for this. So if you're an Avowed/Pillars fan this might not be great, and we might have seen the last of the Pillars setting*.
* = There is a small but non-zero chance Sawyer has demanded they make a Pillars 3 after this as part of him doing this but I wouldn't count on it.
EDIT - Also from the article: "Previously, Sawyer had been directing a roleplaying game that was similar structurally and thematically to Fallout but was not part of the franchise." - I think this maybe also goes under negatives, because honestly it's possible a spiritual sequel to Fallout could have been, well, better than an actual sequel because it's not tied to the same lore and aesthetics. It is interesting to find this out though because a lot of people guessed Sawyer was working on a game but almost no-one thought it was a post-apoc RPG that wasn't Fallout.
If you can't get through for some reason, or don't care to, the news is:
1) Obsidian are making a new Fallout game.
Yes Obsidian, of Fallout New Vegas fame (and who have a lot of FO1 and FO2 vets), not Bethesda Game Studios (who made FO3 and FO4).
2) Josh Sawyer is in charge of it.
He's one of the more prominent and willing-to-talk-about-it game designers out there, and was game director (and lead designer) for Fallout New Vega (John Gonzalez was the lead writer, and Josh credits him and the other writers for a lot of what is good about NV). He used to post about RPG design on RPG.net long, long ago too so you may have spoken to him there (not sure if he ever did on any version of ENworld).
I think this would conventionally considered "very good news", but also potentially is a massive hail mary from from Microsoft/a desperate attempt to curry favour with "gamers" as a whole when they're firing 3200 game developers over the next year.
I mean, people have been saying "Why the hell doesn't MS do [exactly this - new Obsidian FO with Sawyer in charge] for literally decades, so yeah it's a little obvious in that it's essentially wish-fulfilment. Sawyer is extremely serious about making good games, sometimes to the point where he might be a little too serious, but so long as there isn't some sort of disaster along the way, this is probably going to be something rather remarkable.
The negatives are:
1) MS are terrible. They're only having to fire so many people because they got so greedy (not just for money, in fact almost more for dominance/power/control than money, which is part of why they got in so deep), so you kinda hate to see them do something smart on a certain cynical level.
2) It's likely to be MS ecosystem exclusive. That means PC and Xbox when Sony and Nintendo consoles will likely still be far more owned than MS ones. Given the timing it's likely not going to be for the current Xboxes at all either.
3) They just "pivoted" to it. So we're probably looking at a dead minimum of 3 years, more likely 4-5 before it actually comes out.
EDIT - I wouldn't be shocked if it still managed to beat Elder Scrolls 6 to market though!
4) They were working on Avowed 2, and have dropped that for this. So if you're an Avowed/Pillars fan this might not be great, and we might have seen the last of the Pillars setting*.
* = There is a small but non-zero chance Sawyer has demanded they make a Pillars 3 after this as part of him doing this but I wouldn't count on it.
EDIT - Also from the article: "Previously, Sawyer had been directing a roleplaying game that was similar structurally and thematically to Fallout but was not part of the franchise." - I think this maybe also goes under negatives, because honestly it's possible a spiritual sequel to Fallout could have been, well, better than an actual sequel because it's not tied to the same lore and aesthetics. It is interesting to find this out though because a lot of people guessed Sawyer was working on a game but almost no-one thought it was a post-apoc RPG that wasn't Fallout.
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Reynard
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MarkB
Legend
Fallout: New New York maybe?
Kaodi
Legend
Honestly I thought that bit might have been something about more Outer Worlds content, which is, I think, also similar structurally and thematically to Fallout?
Ironically I think this is the worst possible time for this news for one particular reason you did not mention. Because it is the about height of irony that this "dream New Vegas sequel" made by "Fallout 1 and 2 vets" is being made precisely after the series literally nuked the world they built in Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas. Shady Sands is gone, and the NCR is a shell at best. And without those things what actually story elements of their own era do those vets have to work with?
I also feel badly for them having to "indefinitely postpone" an Avowed sequel, seeing as that was their own IP.
All that said - I am intrigued to see if they can built a new Fallout game that lives up to the hype of this much sought after collaboration.
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