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It’s notable that Bethesda has been quiet about Fallout 76‘s total sales, while publisher Take-Two applauded that The Outer Worlds had exceeded expectations and had sold over 2 million copies as of this past February. The Outer Worlds, meanwhile, was much better received by critics and fans alike. The game was subject to poor reviews and less-than-stellar sales numbers.
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On release, it didn’t even have NPCs, and you can be sure the previous games in the series weren’t loved for their combat and crafting systems. Sure, the studio released the multiplayer Fallout 76 in 2018, but that hardly counts as a Fallout game. Its space RPG Starfield, which is apparently further along in development, also has little more than a content-free trailer available to the public eye. The only information we have about the upcoming sixth chapter in the Elder Scrolls series is a video of some sprawling landscapes paired with some epic music. Skyrim was released all the way back in 2011. Somebody’s gotta be Bethesda, and Bethesda certainly hasn’t bothered to take up that role lately.īethesda’s most-recent single-player RPG is Fallout 4, which came out half a decade ago. Rather, it feels like the studio is wearing Bethesda’s clothes and trying to take over its life, like Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. This connection to pre-Bethesda Fallout was, of course, seen in The Outer Worlds’ emphasis on player choice and dialogue options - something that was more than welcome after Fallout 4 pushed those elements to the wayside.īut now that Obsidian is working on Avowed, it feels like the company’s doing more than writing love letters to games of the past. Obsidian devs openly welcomed the comparisons to Fallout in press interviews - which isn’t surprising, because some of those devs have been part of the Fallout series since before Bethesda even touched the franchise. That’s not just idle speculation, either. It became clear that Obsidian has taken quite a liking to Bethesda’s specific brand of open-world RPG. But then Obsidian released The Outer Worlds, which borrowed the Fallout series’s role-playing systems and satirical retro-futuristic style. It’s a reputation that isn’t entirely fair, since up until that point most of Obsidian’s catalogue had consisted of follow-ups to BioWare titles, including Knights of the Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights 2, and an aborted attempt to create Baldur’s Gate III. But any first-person RPG will draw some comparisons to the long-running Bethesda series, and if the game happens to be made by Obsidian, it’s hard to do anything but assume that it will take significant inspiration from the beloved Elder Scrolls titles.Įver since Obsidian released Fallout: New Vegas back in 2010, fans have linked the studio with Bethesda, which owns the Fallout franchise. That might not be a fair assessment, seeing as we know next to nothing about Avowed besides what little can be gleaned from its short reveal. It takes place in the same world as the company’s Pillars of Eternity series, but upon hearing the announcement, I couldn’t help but wonder whether the universe contains any scrolls, particularly of the elder sort. Obsidian seems dead set on doing all those things Bethesda does and not really bothering to hide it.ĭuring Thursday’s Xbox Games Showcase, Obsidian Entertainment announced that it’s working on the first-person sword and sorcery RPG, Avowed. While there are plenty of great (and arguably superior) open-world RPGs out there, there’s no company that really does things like Bethesda. That’s a pretty common theme among gamers - the moment the studio releases a new title, vacations days are planned, schedules are cleared, and we lose ourselves in the sprawling worlds filled with detailed backstories, conflicting factions, an unnecessarily large number of collectible items, and the occasional head-scratching bug that’s somehow easier to forgive than you’d think it would be.īethesda just makes a certain type of RPG that’s instantly identifiable and strikes a chord with players that’s hard to define. There isn’t a single Bethesda game since Morrowind that I haven’t sunk dozens, if not hundreds, of hours into.