I’m falling out fans have been desperate for something new to play in the post-apocalyptic RPG franchise ever since Amazon’s TV adaptation blew up earlier this year. However, director Todd Howard recently said that Bethesda doesn’t want to “rush” a new singleplayer I’m falling out game and went into more detail about what the team has been up to, including expansions for Starfield beyond this fall Broken space DLC.
“We think a lot about running a franchise,” Howard, speaking as a longtime NFL owner, told YouTuber MrMattyPlays in wide-ranging interview posted over the weekend. He said the team never stopped working I’m falling outbut most of it now enters the Fallout 76the multiplayer spin-off that just got a new map expansion and story questline.
“For others I’m falling out games in the future, you know obviously I can’t talk about them right now, but I would say we have to rush through them or we have to put things out that are different from the work we’re doing 76, you know we don’t feel like we have to rush it,” he told MrMattyPlays. “The Fallout The TV show fills a certain niche in terms of the franchise and the storytelling.”
Howard continued:
Totally get the urge for a new kind of basic single player game. And look, these things take time. I don’t think it’s bad for people to miss things. We just want to get it right and make sure that everything we do in a franchise, whether it’s The Elder Scrolls, I’m falling outor now Starfieldthat they become meaningful moments for everyone who loves these franchises as much as we do.
New I’m falling out it may not happen soon
This will be bad news for anyone who was hoping that Bethesda might turn to the next one I’m falling out the game comes out early as a result of I’m falling out Runaway success of the TV show and breakthrough popularity beyond the existing fan base. Fallout 5or whatever the studio decided to call it, is currently slated to go into production next The Elder Scrolls VI is complete, which is probably many years away at this point.
The recent rise in popularity, incl Negative impact 4next generation update making it one of the most downloaded games in April, renewed speculation as to whether Bethesda would be willing to once again hand the franchise over to a third party such as made with Obsidian Entertainment for Fallout: New Vegas. Given that the studio is already part of Microsoft, there are plenty of other internal teams it could partner with to potentially create a smaller spin-off based in that world in the short term.
But nothing Howard said in the interview suggests that’s currently one of Bethesda’s goals for the franchise. Doesn’t sound like remasters of Fallout 1 and 2 are also on the table. CRPGs developed by Interplay Entertainment before Bethesda bought the license are isometric and more punishing. They’re great, but much harder to get into in 2024.
Howard suggested that modernizing them or porting them to console isn’t really where the studio wants to put its resources, and also that he’d rather players experience them in their original form (both of which are easy enough to download and play through GOG and steam). He did not address the rumors directly Fallout 3 or The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remasters, so it’s unclear if the studio will feel the same way about upgrading them.
Instead, the director talked about how the team is trying to support existing games for a longer time. We have obviously seen this with Fallout 76, now in its sixth year, is in the best form it has ever been and is winning players instead of losing them. Although Starfield is a single-player game, it looks like Bethesda may be taking a longer view as their offline RPGs progress.
Starfield can be maintained for years to come
For example, Howard said he wishes the team had backed him The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim for longer considering how long it was widely sold and played. Starfield is currently set to receive its first expansion, Broken space, later this year, but it won’t be the only one. “We’re planning one after this one, so there will be one more,” he confirmed in the interview.
It also sounds like the currently announced DLC will address some of the bigger criticisms of the base game, namely how empty, scattered and repetitive it has come to feel, due in part to its procedurally generated worlds. Broken spaceon the other hand, it sounds pretty hand-crafted, focusing on a certain city and questline.
“In terms of content, we’re looking at what we’ve done Far Harbor On Negative impact 4,” Howard told MrMattyPlays. “It’s a scope that works for our development in doing this type of annual story expansion. We’re very excited about it and it allows us to do some things the way we would in previous games and give people not quite that experience because we still Starfieldbut this new kind of alien world that you can explore and it’s happening there.”
Broken space it still doesn’t have a release date beyond fall 2024, but the expansion looked great when it was shown off during Microsoft’s recent Xbox unveiling. It could be just what the sci-fi RPG needs to win over more people. The DLC will also be available on Game Pass once it releases.
