Fallout creator wishes he made different genres in the RPG series like a "really good FPS" similar to Borderlands or an adventure game all about stealing from Vaults
Dec. 4, 2024The possibilities are endless
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Falloutcreator Timothy Cain has been thinking about what genres would work well for the beloved RPG series, and I’d play all of them.
“Why don’t we make a Fallout-style game that’s just combat,” Cain says in aYouTubevideo. While he likes that it continued as an RPG series and appreciates the ways you can avoid combat through stealth and dialog, he also thinks, “You could really double down on the combat elements and make a really, really good FPS in the Fallout universe.”
When he first playedBorderlands, he thought, “Just like this. It would have been very similar to this. Could you imagine a Borderlands-style game set in the Fallout universe?” Well, now I can, Tim. And I want it.
He has more ideas for the series. “What if it was an adventure game,” he ponders. What if “combat was so deadly it would probably kill you? So it was mainly a game about exploration and puzzle solving. You’re running around trying to find things and break into Vaults and steal stuff.”
In this game, combat would be a fail state only initiated if you botched a heist so difficult you’d simply die.
My favorite idea is a proper survival horror game. Fallout already has some great horror in it, like the Dunwich building inFallout 3or the Dunwich borers inFallout 4. But maybeStalker 2already fills that niche.
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For me, the first few hours of a Fallout playthrough are the most tense and nerve-wracking, because you’re actually struggling as much as the lore suggests you should be. You’ve barely got any weapons, they hardly work, and you don’t have much ammo or supplies. Having a whole game that keeps you down, prevents you from becoming an overpowered RPG god where you’ve got more bullets than you could ever shoot would really make you feel the oppression and scarcity way the world is supposed to have.
I’d also love to see a proper 4X Fallout game. Imagine the base-building mechanics of Fallout 4 andSheltercombined with territorial expansion. You could become a king in the wasteland, leading an army of raiders, or create a scientific haven, or a utopian garden paradise.
I’d also be down for a zombie Fallout game. Scavenging for parts to create makeshift weapons like you do inDead Islandor a co-op campaign likeLeft 4 Deadwhere you fight off hordes of feral ghouls. Hire me already, Bethesda.
While none of these ideas have been turned into reality yet, you can still check out our ranking of thebest Fallout games.
I’m Issy, a freelancer who you’ll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I’ve always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you’ll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I’m currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.
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