'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas
If we keep bugging Todd Howard about Fallout: New Vegas, I wonder if he'll get so irritated that he eventually turns against the game for real? For now, at least, the Bethesda Game Studios director has reiterated that he likes New Vegas, the 2010 Fallout spin-off developed by Obsidian, and also likes Obsidian, and also respects New Vegas' lore, and also isn't trying to erase it from history.
The question posed was a benign one, actually: On a Kinda Funny Games stream, a fan asked whether Bethesda and Obsidian now both being owned by Microsoft opens up the possibility of another collaboration. To that, Howard said that he can't say: «I can't speak to things that we're doing with the franchise in the future, obviously.»
While posing the question, though, host Greg Miller joked that Howard didn't have to answer at all given his rumored disdain for New Vegas. Taking the cue, Howard once again put it on record that he is not and has never been an Obsidian hater.
«First I'll say, [Obsidian] did an amazing job with New Vegas,» said Howard. «And I'll say to everybody, that's a game that we published … and I would say Feargus [Urquhart], who runs Obsidian, is absolutely one of my favorite people in the videogame industry … New Vegas is a very, very important game to us, and our fans, we think they did an incredible job. If anything the show is leaning into the events [of New Vegas].»
It was in fact the Amazon Fallout show that Howard's alleged resentment of New Vegas was supposedly evidenced by most recently, mainly due to its treatment of Shady Sands, a location from the original Fallouts and New Vegas. Chris broke down that whole controversy in an article, but the short version is that it took some strenuous stretching to find a coded anti-New Vegas message in the show's plot, and Howard later said that, no, they were not trying to retcon the events of non-Bethesda Fallout games.
In this week's interview, he said again that he wants to respect the experiences of Fallout
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