It would be a smart move by Bethesta. It will hardly be more expensive (especially of Obsidian gets suckered into a similar deal as with F:NV) and it was universally praised as the better Fallout 3. And the "novelty" of F3 has worn of, a new game needs to better than just a good post-apoc exploration game.

Bethesta can use their in house devs to work on TES projects, which are probably more successfull for them.


Edit:

Buuuut the page rather looks like Dungeon Siege 4.

Derp, I think you are mistaken, Fallout (published by Interplay and developed by Black Isle Studios) ended with Fallout 2.

Unless you're talking about those first-person shooters that appropriated the namesake.

my dream scenerio for today: it's wheel of time and gog releases the old wheel of time game (unreal engine) today for 5.99. Instabuy. Are you listening gog, make it happen ;) (you have now 98 minutes to change to game you where planning to release to wheel of time, go go go....)

I second that! Since the old WoT game just refuses to run on my Win 7 rig (and the cutscenes don't play properly either!), this game needs the GOG treatment. Desperately.

There's really no hint except the big 4 inside the ouroboroidish snaky.
So unless it's a red(dish) herring, that'll be the 4:th game in some fantasy series.
Not an amazing amount of games with the 3rd episode out now.
Then consider Obsidian did DS 3 just a while back.

Might be good.
Use the brand name.
Toss out the existing lore.
Use the game mechanics in place.
Sprinkle some graphics update.
Add an obsidian style story.

I disagree with that. FO:NV was in keeping with the original series. With the exception of dropping Dog meat and Harold. Not to mention that a lot of the locales used in NV were originally intended for Van Buren.

Plus, technically fallout itself was a somewhat less than authorized sequel to Wasteland anyways. Which makes the whole thing silly.
I'll do you one better. I shall eat a puppy and make everybody watch if it is anything involving Gamebryo.

mmmm, puppy.

The ouroboros does show up in the Wheel of Time universe as a symbol, and is noted as being an ancient representation of eternity and the Wheel of Time itself. As I noted earlier, Aes Sedai (and Accepted, the equivalent of a journeyman in their organization) wear rings shaped like one. It's entirely possible they opted for the less known symbol as a teaser.

Although, I do feel kind of silly now. I completely overlooked the "4" in the middle of the ring because I figured they were hinting at the WoT game which has been in the works for ages. The rest of the page doesn't add up, either. I'm guessing it's a sequel to one of the series mentioned in this thread - probably Dungeon Siege.

Brother None mentioned it's not a WoT game.

Damn Obsidian cockteases.

FO4 would be totally sweet. but not at all in line with the feel of the teaser page.

I'll have to add though. Dogmeat is dead, there was about zero chance of getting him through FO1 alive, so... dead. Heroic but dead. Especially after like 100 yrs later.

And Harold, the rest of his story was told in FO3. Well told at that.

Not quite zero. I managed to keep him alive throughout the entire game once, but it was really freaking hard.

But you're right, this can't be Fallout.

Hmm, Dogmeat was never a properly continuous character in the series. Plus, he was 110 years old by the time that FO3 happened. So, I'm not really sure that adding a few extra decades is really that unreasonable.

Or at least that's what I got from the wiki, he was in FO, FO2 and FO3 for a combined lifespan of like 110 years. It's just odd that they're drawing the line at moving him to New Vegas after all that.

Well, the F2 Dogmeat is the F1 Dogmeat who died (Fountain of Lost Dreams contains dead PC). And the F3 Dogmeat is a descendent of the F1/F2 Dogmeat.

That wasn't Obsidian, it was just Chris Avellone saying he'd like to do it at some point. And he's working on Wasteland 2 anyway, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.

I'm not going to get my hope up, I know Obsidian has the talent to make a great game when they don't half ass it, just that they half ass games too often. I'll wait until the game is done before I judge anything.

In the good ol' spirit of doing Bioware Sequels: Mass Effect 4 :P