#fallout-new-vegas

#fallout-new-vegas

Recently, the topic of 2010's Fallout: New Vegas and Bethesda creative director Todd Howard came up during a New Year's Eve party I attended. During the conversation, a few people, myself included, joked about how Howard doesn't like New Vegas, a Fallout game developed not by Bethesda but by Obsidian. Look around online, and you'll see plenty of others joking and suggesting the same thing. Howard hates New Vegas. Or is at least annoyed by its success.

This week's Fallout episode traded in personal stories for status updates on fan-favorite factions from Fallout: New Vegas. While we briefly saw the Khans and primary followed the Brotherhood of Steel storyline, we finally got caught up with the NCR and Caesar's Legion. With this expansion of the Mojave Wasteland, this episode had a healthy dose of easter eggs and callbacks for fans of the video games. Let's take a look at what this week had to offer.

Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in the wastelands. Fallout fans are set to feast over the long winter with season 2 of the hit series streaming now on Prime Video. Picking up where season 1 left off, the acclaimed adaptation of the video game franchise from Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan sees Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) continue her adventure through the wastelands with "The Ghoul" (Walton Goggins) in search of her father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan).

The spinoff of a popular first-person RPG series gets handed off to a new studio that's never made a first-person game before. Envisioned as an expansion, it grows into a full game, though its developer has only 18 months to finish it. It launches with a host of bugs that make it frustrating if not unplayable for large parts of its audience. That might sound like a nightmare, but instead, it ended up as a nearly universally beloved entry in the series,

Unfortunately, Trejo's wish wasn't included in Bethesda's official lineup for Fallout Day. During the celebration, the studio is set to show off more from Fallout 76's upcoming Burning Springs expansion out this December, and yes, that includes Walton Goggins returning as The Ghoul from the hit Fallout TV series. There are also updates coming to Fallout 4 and Fallout Shelter, plus new content via Creations, Bethesda's name for officially supported community mods.