Currently, Josh Sawyer is working on Pentiment and Pillars of Eternity, but he was once responsible for creating Fallout: New Vegas, one of the most revered games in Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic franchise.
The game designer has never hidden his desire to return to the Fallout franchise, and fans would certainly be happy if that happened. However, Josh says that there is one condition under which he is willing to return to working on a Bethesda IP: he must have complete freedom to tell the story he wants.
“I would absolutely [work on Fallout again]. Any project is a question of ‘What are we doing, what are the boundaries within which we’re working, what can I do, what can’t I do?’ I think with any IP, especially one that I’ve worked on before, the question is, ‘What do I want to do this time, that I couldn’t do last time?’ But if those boundaries are so constrained, it’s not very attractive because who’s going to want to work on something that’s impossible to implement?
I love the Fallout IP. I think there are many more stories to be told and questions to be asked about… society. Overall, any IP is like ‘Do you want to work on this or that? What are we allowed to do, what aren’t we allowed to do?'”
Sawyer’s words align with the opinion of Tim Cain, one of the original creators of Fallout. Responding to a question about possibly returning to the series earlier this year, Cain said it would depend on whether the project offered him the opportunity to do something he hadn’t done before.
The likelihood of Sawyer or Cain ever returning to Fallout is very low – for the simple reason that Bethesda RPGs are more of a repetitive experience focused on the system rather than the story, so it’s not quite their style.
Of course, dreaming is not harmful, especially since there is always a chance that Microsoft will entrust the series to one of them and say, ‘Do as you wish,’ but given the current state of the gaming industry – namely, very cautious in terms of risk and primarily focused on releasing big hits – it’s unlikely to count on that.
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