Bethesda has plans for Fallout 4

By Robert Purchese Published 4 August, 2008

"We clearly intended to make more."

Bethesda man Pete Hines has said the company "clearly intended" to make more than one Fallout game when it bought the rights to the series.

"The whole reason we went out and acquired the licence and that we now own Fallout is that we clearly intended to make more than one," Hines told TVG. "This is not something we're going to do once and then go away and never do it again.

"When that will be or how long that will be god only knows, but we acquired it specifically because we wanted to own it and develop it and work on it like we do with The Elder Scrolls," he added.

However, Hines publicly talked of sequels after licensing Fallout 3 (and Fallout 4, Fallout 5) back in 2004.

The company acquired full rights to the series from Interplay in 2007.

Fallout 3 is in development for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. But you will need a PC or an Xbox 360 in order to access downloadable content for the game, as Bethesda announced during E3.

Head over to our E3 hands-on impressions of Fallout 3 to find out more.

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Comments (27) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Machetazo #1 4 years ago

    Based on what they showed, at E3, during Microsoft's briefing, counting those unhatched chicks maybe isn't the best idea.
    Edited by 1 at 04/08/08 @ 12:07

  • agparrot #2 4 years ago

    Well let us hope it is good enough to garner further fan interest in a Bethesda-developed sequel. The EG preview was hardly positive. It would be a shame to see the franchise frittered away.

  • SeesThroughAll #3 4 years ago

    Just do Elder Scrolls 5, fix what didn't work right in Oblivion, and be done with it!

  • michaelius #4 4 years ago

    I hope they at least make them on next gen engine instead of producing Fallblivion IV and Fallblivion V mods to their wannabe RPG slasher.

  • M83J01P97 #5 4 years ago

    They are already making The Elder Scrolls V, and the E3 build of Fallout 3 was an early build, i.e. probably not as polished as the version we will be playing in October.

  • DFawkes #6 4 years ago

    When they say they're planning a series, I always assume that's just an excuse to make the ending of the central fallout 3 story rubbish (To Be Continued...). It better not be.

  • Machetazo #7 4 years ago

    Elder Scrolls 5, built from Morrowind, with the better elements of Oblivion. Throw in some sort of considered connected element, and release.

  • drunkymonkey #8 4 years ago

    Haha, this news is kinda funny.

    "You didn't really think we'd finished turning your favourite franchise into something that makes you froth at the mouth disagreeing with, did you?! No! We've got plans to further make your life a living hell!"

    And NMA thought Fallout 3 was bad enough!

  • andywilkie35 #9 4 years ago

    i'm currently playing through Oblivion, think its fooking brilliant, they better do Elder Scrolls 5 as soon as Fallout 3 is out the way!

  • Farfarer #10 4 years ago

    *OK, BETHESDA, WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED*

    *PUT DOWN THE IP AND WALK AWAY, EASY NOW*

  • w00t #11 4 years ago

    I tut at your pessimism!

    More Fallout = happy w00t

  • Tomo #12 4 years ago

    lol

  • M83J01P97 #13 4 years ago

    NMA are a bunch of elitist fucks. No one cares what they have to say. They would only be happy if Bethesda remake Fallout 1 and 2 keeping them identical to the originals in every way, and then they would think of some way of moaning.

  • X201 #14 4 years ago

    As regards Elder Scrolls 5
    I'd settle for Oblivion again only next time don't blow the whole voice acting budget on Sean Bean and the bald bloke off of Star Trek

  • dominalien #15 4 years ago

    Why is this listed as X360 news? Fallout 4 and 5 are not coming to other platforms?

  • michaelius #16 4 years ago

    NMA are a bunch of elitist fucks. No one cares what they have to say. They would only be happy if Bethesda remake Fallout 1 and 2 keeping them identical to the originals in every way, and then they would think of some way of moaning.

    Yeah God forbid someone wants proper game and not brainwashed politically correct oversimplified pulp cattered to masses which most companies are producing those times.

  • kangarootoo #17 4 years ago

    First off, who are NMA?

    Secondly, though he is a bit grumpy, I agree with some of the sentiment behind M83J01P97's post. A lot of old school fans of any game series will never be happy with a new releqase within the franchise, because they are stuck in some cloud of nostalgia.

    "Yeah God forbid someone wants proper game and not brainwashed politically correct oversimplified pulp cattered to masses which most companies are producing those times."

    Is there not perhaps some ground in between the two extremes. I'm not sure that a remake of Fallout 1 really qualifies as a "proper game".

    Seriously, everyone needs to stop taking this all so damn seriously. It ONLY A GAME. Weirdos.

  • gmmonkey #18 4 years ago

    I went back to play oblivion again as well. It's fucking awesome. Never completed it the first time around. I still managed to put in 90 hours. I'm at 30 hours in this one. Fuck fallout. I want TES 5. Like others said, somewhere in between oblivion and morrowind.

  • M83J01P97 #19 4 years ago

    NMA = No Mutants Allowed

    A Fallout fan-site that's been around since the 'good old days' and community are the self proclaimed guardians of the Fallout IP, and ever since Bethesda announced Fallout 3 all they have done is bitch and moan that the game doesn't meet their precious requirements.

    They are among the worst level of fan-boys basically who need to accept change.

  • UncleLou #20 4 years ago

    Is there not perhaps some ground in between the two extremes. I'm not sure that a remake of Fallout 1 really qualifies as a "proper game".

    Strawman argument, sorry, kangaroo. It's brutally unfair of accuse fans of the original games to "want a remake" and suggest to "go play Fallout 1". They changed the fundamentals so drastically that that argument just isn't valid.

  • Setaro #21 4 years ago

    I started playing Fallout 1 again today. In the last hour, I shagged a prostitute (3 times), murdered a bunch of defenceless women in order to join a raider gang, stole an Urn containing the ashes of a widower then shot him in the face, injected drugs into my eyeballs and accicently blew away a pair of children when my SMG burst missed.

    I guarantee Fallout 3 won't let me do virtually any of that. Fallout 1 and 2 are the best western RPGs ever made. Morrowind is 3rd best for me, but alas Oblivion sucked massive balls and was Morrowind with the soul ripped out and dumbed down for the 360-using masses, which leaves me with little hope for Fallout 3.

  • DAL9000 #22 4 years ago

    Setaro: You also didn't do ANY of that from a first-person viewpoint, which substantially disconnected you from the action. I think first-person Fallout will be pretty spiffy, actually.

  • Setaro #23 4 years ago

    Fallout was never about action, is was about narative and dialog. It just so happened to also have a great turn based combat system, just like other classics such as X-Com and Jagged Alliance.

    And if there's one thing Bethesda can't do (apart from decent faces on their character models) then it's Dialog. They actually regressed with Oblivion; Morrowind had better much better dialog.

  • Vandrius #24 4 years ago

    Setaro is pretty spot on with that.

    Especially about the console using massing dragging us down.

  • UncleLou #25 4 years ago

    Setaro: You also didn't do ANY of that from a first-person viewpoint, which substantially disconnected you from the action.

    Um, no, not at all. I for one absolutely love the isometric perspective for that type of game, I find it not one bit less immersive than the first-person perspective.

  • 7creature #26 4 years ago

    Yeah, dialogues in Morrowind (or at least story and texts) were actually quite interesting. Compared to Oblivion :-/ Different games basically.

  • hiddenranbir #27 4 years ago

    Bethesda should have plans to sort themselves out, instead.