Fallout Fallout is 20 years old today!

[Roguey]

And? How many of those sales are because it was backed by Bethesda and because most people thought and still think it was developed by them as well?

I'm sure Bethesda is trembling in fear of Obsidian stealing their millions, when Bethesda's market share has more to do with their brand than with whatever garbage they shit out.

Fallout 4
Score rank: 25% Userscore: 68% Old userscore: 68% Metascore: 84%
Owners: 4,916,437 ± 64,381

Obsidian introduced actual role playing and decent writing to the new Fallout audience, and they liked it.

(granted, a nice chunk of that negativity is recent on account of paid mods but even without it, the Steam user score is still 75% which is a far cry from New Vegas's 94%)

 

[FeelTheRads]

Obsidian introduced actual role playing and decent writing to the new Fallout audience, and they liked it.

Yeah. Some did. Some thought it had worse writing. Let's count how many are in each category now.

(granted, a nice chunk of that negativity is recent on account of paid mods but even without it, the Steam user score is still 75% which is a far cry from New Vegas's 94%)

Irrelevant if NV is still considered a Bethesda game.

Obsidian is like if Sanjeep Patel working in customer support for a huge company as Barry Smith would make his own customer support company under his real name and offer the same work quality. People wouldn't give a shit.

A NV spiritual successor won't have a strong franchise behind it or Bethesda's name. It would sell as much as your average Obshitian game.

 

[Roguey]

A NV spiritual successor won't have a strong franchise behind it or Bethesda's name. It would sell as much as your average Obshitian game.

If Pillars of Eternity is any indication, that's pretty well.