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Josh Sawyer on Fallout: New Vegas

Brad chats with project director and Fallout veteran Josh Sawyer about the next in the series.

May. 4 2010

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Fallout: New Vegas

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Viva las fuckin' vegas!

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Can't wait for this game!

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Loved Fallout 3, so this should be good

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Shit so close. Next time please please please use less volume on the background song. It's very distracting and I can't even hear what Brad is saying. :S

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ah,fiddlesticks.

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Very much looking forward to Fallout New Vegas

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Looks like another worthwhile DLC for Fallout 3.

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@papuccino1 said:
" Shit so close. Next time please please please use less volume on the background song. It's very distracting and I can't even hear what Brad is saying. :S "
yeah right i smell a bullshit troll the music is fine I can hear Brad fine quit your whining
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Mogwai t-shirt! Thats onne hip video game developer :P

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It always seems super awkward that Brad doesn't shake anyone's hands after interviews.

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Awesome interview.

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Yay Fallout

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@impulsives said:
" Looks like another worthwhile DLC for Fallout 3. "
Yeah, $60 DLC that comes on its own disc.
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Brad didn't use companions in Fallout 3?  Learn2play dude!  Dogmeat and Fawkes were both great tanks who auto heal completely after combat ends, so less time spent applying stim-packs to yourself.
 
It's really alright, western RPG's are all about playing any way you feel like.

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Like what I heard about characters being more interesting and involved in this one. It continues to look like New Vegas is taking what I liked about Fallout 3 and correcting a lot of the points that I found to be dull or implemented poorly. Sweet!

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Good old Games - gog.com Fallout 1 and 2 is mandatory. But I preach to the choir.

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Looking forward to it!

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"Josh Sawyer" hehe, i see something awesome in that name.

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Fallout: New Vegas? Maybe.

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Can't wait! I loved all the fallout games even BoS.   
Sounds like it could be amazing what with Black Isle and all...

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He has a ._. face on his face :o

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@skrutop said:

" @impulsives said:

" Looks like another worthwhile DLC for Fallout 3. "
Yeah, $60 DLC that comes on its own disc. "
A $60 DLC that had ~2 years of development by a different team, has new gameplay additions and takes place in an entirely different location with it's own story and characters. Yeah, sorry trolls, you can't pull the "this is just an expansion" line here. 
 
Speaking of the companions, I hope they improved the combat AI, and/or added a way to not have companions perma-die. One of the reasons I was hesitant to use companions in F3 was that they would often get killed due to dumb behaviour that I had no control over, and once they were dead that was it, they were gone.
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Sounds really lame.

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Man, that guy seemed like a dick. He just came off like he was annoyed with Brad's questions.

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@LoneRiver said:
" It always seems super awkward that Brad doesn't shake anyone's hands after interviews. "
Not to mention his questions sound like they came out of a college interview.
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Can Vinny or Drew or whoever is filming please keep still? Making me kinda nauseous here...

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Dude's got a smiley face on his cheek

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There goes another 100 hours of my life. I can't wait!!

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Show me the damn game!

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I now have the urge to reinstall Fallout 1 and 2.
Maybe even tactics...

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HOLY CRAP! Josh Sawyer is wearing a Shmunks for you shirt! I didn't know they had shirts!

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First?

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Really hope Companions only perma die on Hardcore mode. 
 
Seemed kind of stupid in 3.

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@Droop: Holy shit. He does :O 
 
This is definitely going to be my winter hibernation game :P
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I like the sound of the tweaks there making to the game.

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Never played the first two games, and I hated three, but this game sounds cool; especially the focus on companions. I just hope they make a shooting system that works this time, and a PC version that isn't a buggy piece of shit that crashes every other time you hit a button like three was.

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I wake up every morning with my bed surrounded by Rangers saying, "Hey, buddy...".

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brad has giant arms!

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Cannot wait! FO was great. FO2 was awesome and FO3 was maybe the best game I ever played. Vegas, here I come baby!!!!!

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What the hell? Companion wheel, resolution quests, companions commenting ont he world...someone has been playing Bioware games.

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The Shmunks character on his shirt kinda looks like Michael Keaton.

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Eh... it's beginning to sound like every developer says the exact same thing in every interview, regardless of good questions.

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@Kilnik: Its an awesome mogwai shirt :O
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To all those who consider this to be little more than Fallout: Bethesda DLC, need I remind you that in fact this game has been inproduction BEFORE that game. For many people, myself included, Fallout: Bethesda was a good game, buggy and fun but not a proper Fallout game, I believe this will return the formula a bit more. If you've ever spent more than an hour JUST reading the Fallout Wiki you know what I mean, I've enjoyed books but somehow the Fallout Wiki because a drug.
 
While it's not being upgraded superifically which isn't a problem in my books, I do wish they'd address some problems
1. The 3D person view. NO, don't bother.
2. The computer hacking, change it please
3. Out of VATS combat to not be about dice, for me Fallout 3 felt like out of VATS combat was just like VATS combat, NO SKILL
4. No repetive underground.
5. The weapons to be more relevant, you could pick up special weapons etc but as soon as you had the right compo your done, why no drastically limit ammo for certain guns, by the end of Fallout Bethesda I was walking around with a full upgraded plasma rifle (1 infact), 1,000 power cells and my upgraded power armour. I could have completed the ENTIRE game with just that, so long as I slept.
6. Limit VATS, it just ruins one on one combat.... enter VATS fire off some round turns and run... repeat.
7. More quests, even repeatable ones which would be cool.
 
Apparently this team was working on multiplayer, imagine if this game had co-op, no VATS just combat .
 
THIS IS NOT DLC!
 

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@zanthox: 
http://www.merchlackey.com/item_detail.php?clientID=154&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merchlackey.com%2Fmogwai%2F&productID=3975&cart_image=&keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=400&width=800
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I look forward to the texture mods that'll come out for this. If there isn't an editor I don't think I can go back to vanilla fallout 3 graphics.

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Cant wait for this game and Hardcore mode. Also this mans mole is indifferent : |

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 Nice, been a fan of his work since Black Isle and Icewind Dale.

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Great outro!

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all the new stuff he was talking about sounded a lot like dragon age/mass effect stuff