They have brute-forced that with memory, though. Fallout 4 was a huge improvement in how only the larger interior buildings were in a separate file and you had to load into them, the smaller shops and shacks were now part of the exterior world whilst in Fallout 3 and Oblivion it had to load a separate cell for…

They started using that engine for Morrowind (when it was called NetImmerse).

I think I’d prefer inXile to do a remake of Fallout 1 and 2 in their Wasteland engine. Bethesda will clearly never authorise a top-down, isometric CRPG as the next “main” Fallout game (though I can see them authorising a Fallout Tactics reboot or spiritual successor that’s basically XCOM Fallout, everyone’s jumping on…

Avowed was one of the titles mentioned in their preamble, so I’d be surprised if we got nothing on that game at all. It might just be a mention or another very short video.

Search for Skyblivion on YouTube. That team has made a huge amount of progress recently and they reported being about 80% done a few months ago. I can see them getting the official seal of approval from Bethesda, because frankly it’s even more impressive than the Black Mesa remaster of Half-Life.

I’m not sure you can get 300 hours out of it, that seems extremely optimistic (I got about 40 after Wastelanders came out exclusively focusing on SP stuff and it seemed pretty dry by that point, but I haven’t logged back in since then), especially since that’s a lot more than you can get out of any SP BGS game without…

I think way past 2028. I think Bethesda will be doing very well indeed to bring ES6 out before 2028, let alone a new Fallout game.

To be fair, they absolutely could not have been faster off the blocks to announce they had two single-player CRPGs still on their way and they were pretty vocal that they were still a CRPG single-player development team. The marketing might as well have said, “Zenimax’s senior execs told us to do this and we couldn’t…

FO76 is fine, it’s not even really a multiplayer game in the traditional sense (you can only have a small number of people on each server) and the multiplayer is only really useful for certain events. Otherwise you can solo the game. I even got a private server when Wastelanders came out and got about 40 hours…

Yup, FO76 had a ton of issues on launch and it still has a few now, but being a pay-to-win game is not one of them.

New Vegas borrowed from Van Buren but it wasn’t just Van Buren resurrected. They changed a lot of things about it.

The article actually reverses the already strange and oft-contradicted (by devs) idea that work on Starfield didn’t start in earnest until 2018. It confirms that work on Starfield started in 2015 and may have been delayed slightly by FO76 but if anything reinforces the idea that the single-player RPG teams at BGS…

Unless they let someone else make it, there is no way we are getting a Fallout game this decade. Starfield comes out in 2023, and Elder Scrolls VI will be at least 5-6 years after that. That puts Fallout 5 comfortably in the early 2030s, assuming that Bethesda even decide to make it their next project and not a Starfie…

It also helps that people know where the dividing line is. If they want to treat Volumes 1-41 as “Actual Berserk” and 42+ as “the best we’re ever going to get short of time travel,” then that’s not too bad.

Jordan did not spend any time with Sanderson. He did spend time preparing notes, but he didn’t any particular author in mind. He trusted his publisher and wife (who was also his editor) to sort that out later on. After he passed away, his wife got in touch with Brandon and asked him to help out.

Dune is a bad example. Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert lied, at some length, about the “notes” that Frank Herbert had left behind (they later turned out to fill less than 2 sides of A4, and were exclusively concerned with bringing back some older characters as gholas) in order to make money. Their behaviour was…

I remember playing Final Fantasy IX on my friend’s PlayStation in 2000 and thinking, “This is good, but I’ll wait until it comes out on PC.” He laughed and said it would never come out (FF7 and 8 had come out on PC, but 8 had bombed and it seemed unlikely they’d ever bother with PC again).

GoG spent ages negotiating with Nintendo in the clearly futile attempt to try to bring older Nintendo games to PC. Not even current generation games or even Wii U ones, but going back to the NES and SNES days and doing a huge, legal emulation and update package. Nintendo were apparently baffled and just impossible to…

What We Dooku in the Shadows of the Empire?

The Steve/Dustin team-up in Season 3 was somewhat fan-servicey (since everyone wanted more of their bromance from Season 2) but they made it work, and adding Robin gave it some more depth.