Bethesda’s Todd Howard was featured in an hour-long video interview on the latest episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast and, of course, the Fallout franchise was one of the most prominent topics.
When asked about potential Fallout collaborations with external parties, Howard teased a couple of ‘other things’ that haven’t been announced yet.
I would say we’ve always had those conversations. We did a lot of things for the show. It might seem like, hey, there isn’t a big new game out, but we added content into 76 for the show. 76 has a really great map expansion that’s coming this Summer with Skyline Valley. So, we look at what we’re doing with the franchise and then we say, do we still feel good about it? I can’t reveal it now, but here’s our runway for Fallout: season two (of the show) is happening; what are we doing on mobile, what are we doing in 76, what are we doing with this thing, what are we doing with this other thing, when are these landing. Again, if I could snap my fingers and have them all out and ready, I would, but the main thing is, how do we deliver these at a high-quality level? That’s always the most important.
One of them is likely to be the Fallout 3 remaster that was leaked during the Microsoft vs FTC trial alongside The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster.
Howard also said that Fallout 76 now has the largest amount of active players it’s ever had, which made him proud for all the work the team has done to improve the game after the middling launch back in 2018. The Bethesda game designer then talked about Fallout New Vegas, praising Obsidian for their work on that game and teasing that the location will be very important in the show’s second season.
First, I’ll say they did an amazing job with New Vegas. I will say Feargus (Urquhart), who runs Obsidian, is absolutely one of my favorite people in the videogame industry. He’s been around for so many decades, has done so many things and has seen it all. They did a fantastic job. I can’t speak to things that we’re doing with the franchise in the future, obviously, but New Vegas is a very, very important game to us and our fans. We think they did an incredible job and if anything, the show is leaning into the events there. Obviously, season two is going to be featuring some of New Vegas and we’re careful about maintaining the key events of that game and the great content in it. It is obviously difficult to deal with when you’re going back to an area where a game had multiple endings. We have some answers there, but it’s hard to sort of canonize or say, this is exactly how that game ended. So, whenever we can I like to avoid it, like, don’t refute anything that happened, be careful when you’re specific about what happened. We want that game and what the players did to be their reality and true.
Just yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Microsoft is seemingly pushing for a new Fallout game to be made by another developer while Bethesda works on The Elder Scrolls VI, with Obsidian being the obvious choice. This all comes back to the incredible popularity of the show, which amassed 65 million viewers in the first 16 days of availability, becoming the second most-watched series ever on Prime Video and topping even 2022’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.