If I were Verhoeven, I'd probably retire just because Hollywood is seemingly intent on erasing me. All of his early, big budget, mainstream successes either already have or are soon to see sterilized remakes

To borrow an example from Marvel, it's sort of like the new SHIELD comic compared with previous SHIELD comics that Colson was in: theoretically a continuation, but not really.

I'm gonna go ahead and say they wanna get the game made for rights-squatting purposes.

After how much money they sunk into getting the rights and fixing it up for Skyrim?

Tim Sale if you're willing to spend money.

And that's a good thing, because the alternative is that they get kinda hackneyed and repetitive.

Don't expect the new Thief to be too much like the old one, or like Deus Ex. It's basically dishonored with a less interesting story.

Well, sorta. The business people and top level creatives like Todd Howard are the same, but they brought in a new team under the name Zenimax Online to actually execute it. Hence the Bioware Austin comparison.

The PS3 had a wonderful way of bringing out the absolute worst in any game, right up until people actually learned how to make the hardware work properly. Hacks like tricking one of the cores into just doing anti-aliasing.

Well, here's how I understand it:

Isn't Zenimax just Bethesda by any other name? Chris Weaver founded it as a shell company in order to move money around.

The bugs are mostly shit like broken quests, scripting errors, and breaks in the physics engine. Which is mostly not that bad. Way better than Fallout 3 in that regard, but it still has the grandaddy of them all: The memory ceiling crash.

Well, I know I'd kill for a new Obsidian Fallout, so I hope it happens.

On the other hand, their in-house version of Gamebyro only got basic features like functional occlusion culling when they overhauled it for Skyrim, and the memory ceiling crash is also still around. Which is kinda fucked up for an open world game.

He's a grizzled, white, short-haired soldier-man with a wife and a babby who gets cryogenically frozen and wakes up IN A FUTURE HE NEVER MADE. Presumably there's angst about his family.

I'd wish for that, but I think Obsidian probably has too much on their plate at the moment. They've got PoE, the expansion to PoE, that F2P Russian MMO, and the Pathfinder CCG.

Try the reboot of Thief. It plays pretty similarly, although it's not as good.

Eh, that's the thing though: a fallout game is a fallout game, if it plays superficially but has a fundamentally different direction, tone, level of civilization, etc, it detracts from what Bethesda's trying to do.

Sure there is: Brand dilution.

The Wall Street Journal confirmed earlier today that he's showing up in Civil War, albeit in a much smaller role than originally envisioned when Marvel first offered Sony the deal. So yeah, that's pretty much definitely what's going to happen. Age of Ultron will probably reference that there are more and more capes…