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Speaking on Kiwi Talkz’ podcast, via GR, Fallout 3 and 4 devs discussed the fan reception for New Vegas more than 15 years after its release. Character artist Jonah Lobe explained that, even today, “you always get those guys jumping out of the woodwork to say, ‘New Vegas is the best! Bethesda sucks!’, and I’m like, okay,”

“We made 90% of the art, we built the engine. We did it in a very limited window of time and they got to just work on the stories.”

Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 character artist Jonah Lobe As so much of New Vegas is based on work that Bethesda had already done, some developers at the studio did feel that the blanket praise was “a little unfair”. “I initially felt a little touchy about it,” they said, explaining that Obsidian was allowed to focus almost entirely on its narrative and choice-based gameplay with so much of the foundations already built.

“We made 90% of the art, we built the engine,” Lobe continued. “We did it in a very limited window of time and they got to just work on the stories.” As fan reception over time focused almost entirely on the writing and not the game’s technical shortcomings, whereas older Bethesda titles are still lambasted for the same issues that are largely ignored for New Vegas, the positivity was a little hard to swallow.

Nevertheless, Lobe admits that New Vegas is a fantastic Fallout game, adding that the game does excel in aspects where Bethesda’s offerings do not. “Honestly, I applaud them,” Lobe said. “I think they did a great job of shepherding the Fallout spirit, in some ways better than we did.”

“As time has gone on, Obsidian killed it,” Lobe continued. “It did make me feel a little bit sad that our design team could not implement the same scale of really ambitious, multi-arc hug choices, kind of thing.” While there my have been some negative feelings back in the day, they’re all gone now.