A new Fallout 4 Steam update includes mention of a 'New Vegas 2,' but is then quickly changed and removed, as the Bethesda RPG game heads towards the launch of its upcoming next-gen version, and we ponder the possibility of a Fallout 5 release date. With Starfield also just around the corner, and developers at Obsidian giving their unofficial blessing to a Fallout New Vegas remake, we're naturally left to wonder what on scorched, post-apocalyptic earth is going on.
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Following a Fallout 4 update on Steam, fans have noticed — and are now bewildered by — the appearance of ‘New Vegas 2’ in the update, via SteamDB. Not long after, this particular branch was removed, although, it is still visible on SteamDB.
This isn’t exactly unusual. It wouldn’t come as a surprise that Fallout 4 is gearing up for new content, especially with Fallout 4’s next-gen update arriving later this year. That said, this particular branch, and its removal, hasn’t stopped Fallout fans from theorising all the possibilities of what ‘New Vegas 2’ might mean. After all, New Vegas does have a die-hard fan base out there, and can you blame them? Fallout: New Vegas is perhaps the best Fallout game of them all.
While the simplest answer is that Bethesda are perhaps planning some New Vegas-themed content for Fallout 4, more specifically a Creation Club pack, it’s nice to pretend, and hope, that a New Vegas sequel or remaster could be coming. There is, after all, every chance that Bethesda could remaster the brilliant RPG from Obsidian in Fallout 4’s engine, or even release a New Vegas-themed DLC for Fallout 4. The chances of it actually happening, however, with Starfield around the corner and The Elder Scrolls 6 being in pre-production, appear slim.
Look, I'll admit it: I never finished Fallout 4. Before you get all uppity about that, and gather to organise my lynching, know that I did finish Fallout 3. Twice, in fact. Know also that I really tried to finish Fallout 4 (sort of). And be aware that it wasn't my fault that I didn't. After all, how could I when there was still so much work to be done rebuilding Sanctuary Hills - one of the best Fallout 4 settlements?
Sure, the awkward, towering conglomerate of wood and corrugated metal I constructed was nowhere near as cosy as the House of Tomorrow which once stood on the same location - the building that served as my pre-apocalypse domicile - but it was the closest thing I had to a home.
Don't get me wrong: I was relatively concerned about the wellbeing of my kidnapped son, Shaun. And was absolutely kind of mourning Nora, the recently murdered spouse I had spent five minutes of wedded bliss with during the game's preamble. But I had bigger questions to answer. Questions like: 'what if I could electrify my base and then decorate it with Christmas tree lights?'
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One of the central complaints about Fallout 4, and perhaps Bethesda RPG games generally, is how it partially forces you to play a certain type of character. Your backstory is given to you. Your objective - rescue Shaun - is pretty rigid, and makes freeform exploration feel like a guilty pleasure. If the goal of Fallout 4 mods is to expand, overhaul, and transform the 2015 original, this new one might be one of the best - and throws in some of that classic Fallout New Vegas story building to boot.
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