10 Brutally Honest Confessions Of A Bethesda Fan
9. Bethesda’s Most Well-Received Game Was Created By Someone Else
I can only imagine that this one still irks someone at Bethesda. Some director; some higher-up has to know that New Vegas, a game developed by Obsidian, is the best-received, most beloved entry in the Fallout franchise.
Even more so because Bethesda gave the developers an 18 month window to finish every aspect of the game and have it ready to be shipped. Luckily, you can’t name a better duo than a Fallout game and bugs, so there was some wiggle room there in regards to Obsidian's QA.
New Vegas is the game people look back on with well-earned nostalgia, because you really could make choices that had an impact on the world and how characters treated you. Which skills and SPECIAL stats you chose affected the game on a ground level. This idea even going so far as to make your dialogue trees more difficult if you chose low intelligence, grunting and shouting out random nonsense in any given conversation.
The game is stellar, rich in areas to explore and besides the expected bugs and decaying visuals, it’s still worth a replay alongside Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3.