Activision's Call of duty series strategy is well known. Every year Activision are announcing a new Call of Duty, developed by either Treyarch or Infinity Ward.

With the revival of the Fallout series by Bethesda Software, the arrival of Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment, and the announced 'Fallout 4' which is now been developed by Bethesda Software again, will we see a similar strategy to Activision's? A two years gap between each Installment, each game developed by a different company (*-Bethesda-Obsidian-Bethesda-?).

What do you think? Will we enjoy a new Fallout every two years? Chronically, it shouldn't be much of a problem, they can continue the stories from the entire US, and even moving forward to different locations. (that is up to them - I'm not suggesting anything),

*I'm not referring anything related to Fallout 1 and 2 since I have limited informations regarding these two games. I believe Black Isle is the company involved in the making, however before Fallout 3 was completed, Black Isle had problems and Interplay closed the company. Most of Black Isle's members now folded "Obsidian Entertainment".

1) Two years is not the same model as every single year.
2) Obsidian is still an independent developer.

Other way around... Interplay had problems and closed Black Isle as a cost savings.
*Nasty too... IIRC they gave them all pink slips the week before Christmas.

Yep...a French company called Titus Software gained control of Interplay after Brian Fargo left. After more than a few incredibly bad decisions (and bad games) they jettisoned the Black Isle guys to delay the inevitable sinking of the Interplay ship. Now Titus no longer exists either, which isn't a surprise.

On the subject of the OP, I kind of hope so. In my opinion New Vegas is more of a revival of the Fallout series than Fallout 3 was. Fallout 3 was a good game, but it didn't feel like a Fallout game to me. I'd love to see more Fallout from Obsidian, and I suppose I wouldn't mind if it took the form of a "tock" to Bethesda's "tick." Fallout 3 seemed to strike a chord with fans of Bethesda's giant sandbox games. As much as I liked it FO3 left me cold when it came to the setting, story, and core gameplay. New Vegas isn't gears toward the random exploration stuff as much as FO3 was, but it has a lot of the things I felt Fallout 3 was missing. If we can't have everything from one game I'd settle for getting one fix from the "tick" and the other from the "tock."

I believe Infinity Ward is also an independent developer (correct me if I'm wrong)



Yeah....It's why I tried ot to mention them as I'm not too familiar with them.

I hope they do. Bugs and glitches aside, I would love a new game in the FO series every 2 years.

You're wrong.

if the game was good then so would i, if they had given new vegas another 2 years, who knows how much better it would be.(not that FNV isnt amazing) just think how much better it would be if they had twice as long to work on it.

I've heard lots of comments about limitations of the engine, and bugs due to the engine. If they're already working on FO4, does that mean they're going to keep riding the same buggy engine? Anyone know if there's a new engine in the works anywhere?