Pete Hines has a few things to say about Battlecry, and perhaps by implication, about how its announcement obfuscated many gamers’ expectations for a Fallout 4 announcement.
As we’ve noted before, the barrage that Hines has received for neither confirming nor denying Fallout 4 has been relentless. It’s been bad enough that he has demonstrably cracked a few times in his tweets, although he has stood firm in Bethesda’s official stance.
If you think you were going to see some of that acrimony here, however, you’d be dead wrong. Hines is all about Battlecry, about how he loves to play it, as much as he does other Bethesda games. He loves that Battlecry is more than your everyday MOBA, and he and everyone at Bethesda have been enjoying the game, even when it was still earlier builds that lacked textures.
Hines also pointed out that they are, in fact, bigger than Fallout, or Elder Scrolls. Bethesda has seven studios working on games, and new IPs like Battlecry are not foreign to Bethesda at all.
Ultimately, Hines sees the diehard Fallout fans relentless trolling him as just Fallout fans. The conclusion he has reached is that these fans will not be satisfied by anything except Fallout. Obviously, he has opted to not worry about it.
So, tough for Fallout fans, but when you consider The Elder Scrolls Online, Wolfenstein: The New Order, The Evil Within, and now Battlecry, it would seem to me that Bethesda’s hands have been full, too full to finish Fallout 4. Barring help from other companies or some extraordinary effort from Bethesda, I think it’s safe to say you should squash any hopes of a Fallout 4 reveal at E3, or anytime this year. Hey, there’s always Battlecry.
