Fallout 5 is Yet Another Game Bethesda Has Confirmed Too Soon

GameRant Writes "Fallout 5 is yet another instance of Bethesda announcing its upcoming games too early, and this may be more harmful than helpful for building hype."

[DMgHalt]

Fallout 5, I doubt anyone cares that a game we all know is in development, received confirmation that it was, in fact, in development.

[Kerppamaister]

Yeah this is a big nothing burger

[just_looken]

Not really a nothing burger they basically said here is our first new ip starfield and we think its going to be so good we wont go back to that ip in another 8-10 years.

elder scrolls/fallout 5 has to come out before we even hear about starfield 2

and starfield dlc packs? no doubt shelved also.

All companies have future roll outs but when your using the same product but dress it differently for 20 years i was glad to see a new ip but nope after its out then they drag back the skeleton cows and milk milk again.

I am personally fallout/elder scrolls drained. do not forget eso and mobile version yeall

Now avowed lets go.

[Tacoboto]

An off the cuff acknowledgment that after Starfield comes ES6 and after ES6 comes Fallout 5 suddenly means they're dropping Starfield once it's out and shelving any and all post-release content?

Calm down. You do know Avowed isn't a new IP either, right?

[Kerppamaister]

@just_looken I think we can assume some things in the gaming scene. From Software are propably brainstorming their next game, GT will continue, GTA will continue after GTA6... Doesn't mean anything, no need to say they are ditching their previous games.

[StarkR3ality]

Yeah when they announced this it was like well no shit 😂

The problem isn't announcing games are in development, it's announcing release dates years in advance and then constantly having to delay them.

Devs should only announce release dates when they're 99% done and in the polishing stages.

*Cough* Cyberpunk *Cough*

[Crows90]

Well to be fair the higher ups did think they were 99% done. Otherwise they wouldn't have pushed the release.

Garbage management will always be garbage management. Feel bad for the devs who spent so much work on that game.

[gamer9]

It was also confirmed there will be another call of duty game after MW2022, i'm shocked

[KillBill]

Bad rant... but getting used to these bad rants being the norm now.

[RaidenBlack]

In one way, yea its True. But on the other, isn't it obvious?
Its similar to R* confirming that they'll be releasing GTA6 after RDR2, IW confirming that they'll be making a MW sequel and Capcom confirming the next Remake would be RE4.

[Derekvinyard13]

This game is at least 6-8 years out.

[YodaCracker]

At least. Starfield is 2023. Elder Scrolls is next. 2025 at the very, very earliest. Probably 2026-2027. Then another 3 years for Fallout 5? I miss the days of reasonable development cycles. When big games like GTA and TES didn’t take a decade to make.

[RaidenBlack]

Games have become more complex.

[maelstromb]

I have to laugh at this statement. Everyone truly wants to buy into this BS so badly. Yes, fact - games have become more complex. But no, fact - that doesn't mean they have to take 2, 3 or 10xs as long to develop. Technology/software has been designed to improve development cycles and create automated methods, efficiencies, etc. If a company as dumb as Bethesda thinks continuing to use an incredibly out-dated, inefficient, junk engine such as their Creation Engine makes any sense, they're absolutely bonkers. Building and using your own engine may have made sense for some devs in the past, but more and more are moving to engines such as Unreal b/c it isn't worth the continued time and expense and added risks of launching a game which already looks outdated at release b/c the dev cycles are 4-5 years on average. This is complete BS. What it comes down to is laziness on Bethesda's part. It's why they rely on the modding community to fix every single one of their inept, broken games.

The games taking a decade to make is a complete and utter lie. It's called lack of focus/vision, laziness and greed which drive artificial development cycles which appear to take 6-10+ years... The greed aspect comes in w/ the latest console generation as an excuse to jack up the retail price per game by $10 and through the micro-transaction driven/long-term monetization of games which ppl foolishly pour their money into time and time again (here's looking at you GTA V Online). Frankly, I'm disgusted by the state of the games industry for these reasons. Ubisoft, Bethesda, Rockstar, EA Games, they've turned the industry I've loved nearly my entire life into a virtual ghetto while they sling half-baked cheap tricks and premium, steaming sh** to their gullible customers.

[porkChop]

It was an off-the-cuff remark that Fallout 5 will have to wait. It's not even in development yet, hell they're probably not even in the planning stages. You're complaining about a confirmation of a game that everyone knows is coming after TES VI. What a pointless complaint.

[MrBaskerville]

I'd rather have confirmation too soon than no news and endless rumours like with the 600 Silent Hill games currently in development. It's nice to know what to expect and they did make it clear that we shouldn't expect Fallout 5 anytime soon, but that they would make it at some point.

[phoenixwing]

I agree with you on getting confirmation early.

[Profchaos]

Fallout 5 is so far out that Bethesda themselves are probably not even sure what the story will be.

[Lionsguard]

It's knowledge by now that any time a Bethesda game is announced you have to give it AT LEAST 20 years before any news that it might be out in the next 5 years or so.

[EvertonFC]

We won't see fallout until 2030 at the earliest.

[Muigi]

Ok cool.

[Relientk77]

Cool can't wait until it releases in 2032 😒

[CrimsonWing69]

I really feel publishers need to quit announcing projects years and years away. It doesn’t help with fans as we wait f*cking 5 years for something and never get it. Just make these announcements a year out before release.

It reminds me of Knights of the Old Republic Remake. Gets announced way too early and then canceled… great.

[gamer9]

This wasn't an announcement though, it was a random comment that was obvious to everyone already

[anast]

It will be ES6 with a gun. I wouldn't get too excited about it. I wish someone else had the rights to Fallout, it was headed in a great direction with NV and it got flattened when Bethesda took full control.

[mastershredder]

Yes let's listen to the expertise of gamerant random banter. Give me a break. Geez next it will be not soon enough, or announced at the right time of day.

[Ashunderfire86]

Lol 😂 they already confirmed that they was going to make Fallout 5 so this is not a surprise. It’s just later down the line after Elder Scrolls.

[Phils_Libra]

As a fan of Bethesda Game Studios’ games, I have this hope that with now being under the Microsoft umbrella, BGS will have significantly more development resources to be able to develop their games more quickly than before their acquisition. Phil Spencer even says in the “Power On” YouTube video series, referring to acquisitioned studios, that their (Xbox) "job is to expedite what they do.” I think (and hope) we’ll see new Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, including perhaps spin-offs like from Obsidian (Fallout New Vegas), sooner than the current discourse.

[MrBaskerville]

After the succes of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim, I'd aasume they allready have all the resources they could want.

[TheAlexWalters]

So we were all supposed to play dumb and pretend Fallout 5 wasn't coming after ES6 when anyone with a brain and that knows the value of that IP already knew 99.0% that it was coming. I'd even argue that by announcing games earlier and getting feedback on new concepts and ideas, that the missteps they had with Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 could have easily been avoided. Things like the voiced protagonist or letting us mess around with a settlment system demo and give feedback could have improved those games immeasurably.

[2moda5gamer]

As long as it's running on that god-awful outdated engine then it's gonna be a disappointment regardless.
They have Microsoft money now - move on! it's 2022 ffs.

[giovonni]

I mean, it’s not like we didn’t know

[maelstromb]

Why MS hasn't taken away the creative rights for Fallout from Bethesda is mind boggling to me... MS now owns all 3 studios!!! They can do whatever they f*** they want! Give fans the sequel they have been asking for and knock off the god damned pussy-footed nonsense already. Eliminate Bethesda and put Brian Fargo and the remaining members of the original Fallout games (splintered between Obsidian and InXile) back in charge of the IP they created. It's not f***ing rocket science here. Bethesda and the crooked board at ZeniMax have raped the Fallout franchise of its worth and demeaned it to the utterly despicable level of pure monetization. It's not even about the substantive content anymore.

[HyperMoused]

They have to up the reward for exploring in Fallout, in the in 4 it becomes apparent that you are not going to find anything super special when exploring the map. No unique weapon or items really.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I think it was best how Fallout 4 was announced and released 6 months later