There are many trends within the gaming space that many people, especially gamers, don’t want to continue. One of the biggest ones is the trend of developers and publishers rushing out titles to try and make a profit, only for the games to not meet the level of quality and standard that many expect. It’s been done by numerous developers and publishers in the past, and it’s rather annoying. Thankfully, some companies are taking a stand and stating they won’t do that with their star AAA titles, such as Bethesda and Fallout. Todd Howard himself has said that rushing out a game in the franchise won’t happen again.
Howard talked with a YouTube channel and was asked about the series and whether a game would come out soon to help piggyback off the success of the recent Amazon Prime TV show. Here’s how Howard responded:
“I agree with the statement that Fallout has never been more popular. Clearly, it is. And people are hungry for even more. We’ve never stopped doing Fallout work. A lot of that work goes on in Fallout 76, we have the Skyland Valley update out today [June 12], so [we’re] really excited with where that game is at.”
As for the future titles that will inevitably come:
“Obviously I can’t talk about those right now, but I would say […] we don’t feel that we need to rush any of that. [I] totally get the desire for a new mainline single-player game, and those things take time. I don’t think it’s bad for people to miss things. We just want to get it right.”
You can unpack many things from that, but the biggest one is that Bethesda doesn’t desire to rush out a game, which is good for multiple reasons. Not the least of which is that they very much rushed out its MMO attempt within the universe, and it’s taken literal years to finally get it on better standing. It’s not as good as they want people to think it is, but it’s better than launch by a West Virginia mile.
Second, games in the series tend to be big, not just in scale and scope but in the ways in which you can do things. To rush that out would risk many things quality-wise. The twist, though, is that if they wait too long for a new entry, they could potentially redo the mistakes of Starfield and make it seem better than it actually is due to hype and then have yet another divisive launch.
