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Fallout creator asks why triple-A RPGs focus on violence, doesn't provide very hopeful answer


Original Fallout designer Tim Cain, also known for co-directing The Outer Worlds at Obsidian, has published a video responding to a player's question about why violence is the "default" path in so many big budget RPGs. That's specifically RPGs with "AAA" budgets, whatever AAA means these days. Cain is, of course, well aware that there are many RPGs from smaller teams that "evolve past the paradigm of violence being the default way in which the player interacts with the world", and that there are plenty of puzzle games, adventure games and the like in which there is no violence at all.

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Xbox's Phil Spencer on why a new Fallout game didn't drop alongside the TV show: "the play is much more long term than trying to drive some gift buying"

Most Fallout fans now have their eyes set on looking forward to the second series of Amazon's Fallout TV show that's already in the works. However, one of the big talking points surrounding the release of its initial season earlier this year was this - should there have been a new Fallout game ready to drop around the same time? Well, Xbox's Phil Spencer has now offered his view on that.

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Despite releasing a popular demo this summer, Fallout 1 remake mod Fallout: Vault 13 has now had its development "suspended"

The team behind Fallout: Vault 13, a modding project dedicated to remaking the very first Fallout game in Fallout 4, has announced that it's made the decision to "suspend" development.

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Bethesda announces its first ever Fallout Day broadcast, featuring a look at future plans for Fallout 76 and a community parade

October 23 is coming up, which only means one thing - what's grown into the Fallout version of May the fourth. It's the anniversary of series' world getting a nuclear makeover on that fateful day in 2077, and for the first time, Bethesda's commemorating the occasion with a broadcast that'll feature both developers and community folks.

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Full Fallout 1 remake mod for Fallout 4 has a demo out now, because there simply aren't enough cool Fallout things to play at the moment

Right, so, as you know, us Fallout fans have been really hard done by when it's come to modders and companies doing things with this series we like so far in 2024. It definitely isn't like we've had a Fallout TV Series, Fallout 76 things, and most recently Fallout: London's release, all giving us Fallout stuff to do.

Well, if you've still got room in your schedule for more Fallout stuff, I've got some good news. The modding team behind Fallout: Vault 13, a project dedicated to remaking the very first Fallout game as a Fallout 4 total conversion mod, has just delivered the demo it'd previously told us all to look out for once the summer hit.

To play the demo, you'll need to head on over to Nexus Mods, where you'll find it under exactly the name you'd expect 'Fallout Vault 13 - Demo'. The team says it's "being released as an early access preview to gather feedback from players".

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