The lead author of Fallout: New Vegas has returned to developer Obsidian, after 14 years away from the corporate.
John Gonzalez introduced the information on his LinkedIn profile this week, confirming he’s taken up the position of artistic director. Nevertheless, in line with the author, his new job is “not FNV2”.
After his earlier stint at Obsidian in 2008 – 2011, Gonzalez was notably a author for Monolith’s Center-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, the lead author for Guerrilla’s Horizon: Zero Daybreak, and narrative director for its sequel Forbidden West.
Enthusiasm for extra Fallout titles from the crew behind New Vegas has been rising for years. In 2023, authentic Fallout co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky expressed their enthusiasm for a possible Fallout New Vegas remaster.
Then, final yr, Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer mentioned that he’d be keen to work on a brand new Fallout title so long as sure artistic standards had been met.
In 2022, it was claimed that very early talks had been held about a possible Fallout New Vegas sequel, with Obsidian and Bethesda proprietor Microsoft reportedly expressing lots of curiosity in making it occur.
Commenting on the way forward for the Fallout sequence final yr, sequence boss Todd Howard mentioned the franchise was extra fashionable than ever following the profitable launch of Amazon’s TV present, which has helped drive a large enhance in sport gross sales. However, Howard mentioned Bethesda’s keen to take its time with the subsequent mainline Fallout sport in an effort to “get it proper”.
“For different Fallout video games sooner or later, clearly, I can’t speak about these proper now, however I might say type of speeding by way of them, or we have to get stuff out that’s completely different than the work we’re doing in Fallout 76, we don’t really feel like we have to rush any of that,” he mentioned.
“Proper now, the Fallout TV present fills a sure area of interest by way of the franchise and storytelling. I completely get the will for a brand new mainline single participant sport and look, these issues take time. I don’t assume it’s dangerous for folks to overlook issues as nicely.
“We simply wish to get it proper and ensure that all the pieces we’re doing in a franchise, whether or not it’s Elder Scrolls or Fallout or now Starfield, that these change into significant moments for everyone who loves these franchises as a lot as we do.”
