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It's... odd
(lemmy.world)
Meanwhile my lonely ass been sitting over here absolutely loathing Fallout: New Vegas since its release. I did not like that game. I probably would today if I got over myself and tried playing it again.
no they didnt, obsidian crippled themselves by saying they can do it in 18 months and then mismanaging their time
Yeah, Obsidian has a bad habit of that. Crazy thing is they still managed to make one of the greatest RPGs of all time, crippled and short on development time.
Its a bit "theme parky", but the writing and narrative agency is just so good it's unreal.
its just a shame it could have been even better had they managed it better. i think it was j.e. sawyer who said they really fucked up by not doing the bug testing until it was way too late to fix everything
Maybe, there are a lot of shames in life, and it would have been great to see what they could have done with more dev time. But Bethesda said "we will let you do it if you can get it done in 18 months" and Obsidian said "hell yeah!".
And given that situation, I am actually glad they spent the effort on the writing and player agency over bug fixing. A "better managed" development might well have been far less ambitious.
Now Troika games not winning the bidding war for the Fallout license, that's a damn shame.
if troika won the bidding war fallout would be an obscure hidden gem from the late 90s and thats it