Obsidian Entertainment co-founder and former senior designer Chris Avellone claimed in a recent interview with YouTuber TKs-Mantis that the Fallout: New Vegas DLC was designed to set up a sequel, but unfortunately, those plans "quickly evaporated."
"That's why all the nukes go off," Avellone explained (thanks, GamesRadar+), referencing the end of Lonesome Road in which the Courier is presented with an option to level crucial NCR and Legion territories.
"I'm like, 'Well, I need to destabilize some regions. Not wipe out factions, but I need to shake up both the Brotherhood, I need to shake up the NCR, I need to have them even more at each other's throats in California'," he continued. "And so that was the reason for some of the pre-cursor decisions for some of the DLC stuff and some of the stuff in core New Vegas [...] when we still thought we'd be able to do a New Vegas 2, or whatever the title would be."
Those plans might not have come to fruition 16 years ago, but Todd Howard teased that Fallout is the franchise "we're doing the most in right now," despite presumably being busy with The Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield,...
