TITLE
The Making of Fallout New Vegas: How Obsidian’s Cult Sequel Became a Beloved Classic
AUTHOR
Kat Bailey
PUBLICATION
USgamer
YEAR
2017
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
If you want to know how relevant Fallout: New Vegas still is today, consider what happened when Obsidian founder Feargus Urquhart and director Josh Sawyer went to a local middle school for a game design competition.Given an opportunity to ask the judges a question, the competition’s winner-a 7th grader who couldn’t been older than six when New Vegas was first released-asked Sawyer: “Hey, are you going to update your mod anymore?”
Sawyer was flabbergasted.
“I was like, ‘What? How does this kid, one, know about New Vegas, two, know about my mod, and three: that’s the burning question that he wants to ask’?”
But that’s the kind of cultural cachet that Fallout: New Vegas has these days. In the wake of Fallout 4, which has become something of a whipping boy for the Fallout community, New Vegas’ legacy is stronger than ever.
GAMES MENTIONED
Fallout: New Vegas
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Josh Sawyer
Feargus Urquhart
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