>take assets from existing game>make far superior productwhy didn't Bethesda just hire Obsidian to make Fallout 4, are they stupid?
>>737949131Obsidian was already dead by then. Also Todd hates NV.
Bethesda has been insecure ever since Obsidian showed them up at their own game
>>737949131the "superior product" was worse critically and commercially
>>737949413>the "superior product" was worse critically and comm-ACK
>>737949492i guess they made the right choice then
>>737949413New Vegas outsold Fallout 3
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>>737949131because outside of the insanely shitty story and voice acting, the geck was used by paid modder since obsidian had no idea to use the game engine
They should've made Obsidian their "B-team" at the very least so they could keep pumping out games under the Bethesda brand every 2-3 years instead of these gigantic, 10 year fucking windows between releases they're having now.We could've had an Obsidian made TES game, another Fallout spin-off by now, all without interfering with Todd's precious Saarfield, but instead they let Obsidian fall apart instead of just buying and integrating them, making them the "Dark Souls 2 team" of Bethesda.Massive mistake on their part. They could've made so much more money.
>>737949702if Obsidian made it, it would have triple those numbers
>>737950626If Obsidian made it, it would've flopped.
it's just a bethesda game that is made by another studio not smeared with bethesda's baggage, all the same bugs, all the same shit engine, obviously obsidian would go on to do great things after fallout NV surely
>>737949131Obsidian literally suggested to Bethesda to make something like New Vegas but for The Elder Scrolls.To answer your question, yes, Bethesda are idiots.
>>737950989Oh how easily people forget Obsidian is nothing but purple hairs and feminists now.
>>737949702Fallout 4 is good, but not because of Bethesda but in spite of them. It’s no surprise that the first thing people do is install mods to make it look more like New Vegas.
Vanilla New Vegas is far and away the worst 3D vanilla Fallout game.
>>737949131They should have made Fallout 4.5
>>737949131Obsidian used to be feargus's nepo hell according to avellone and made a shit ton of devs quit
>>737953958What confuses me, is that they clearly all hated Feargus when they worked at Black Isle where supposedly his mouth and nose were fused to Brian Fargo’s asshole.Why did they think it was a good idea to start a new company with him?
>>737954205he had the contacts and means to pull it off, probably thought they would've ended up like troika games on their own
