Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment is seemingly working on a «cross-platform RPG» built using Unreal Engine. Obsidian Entertainment was founded over 20 years ago and has gone on to develop some of the most popular and iconic RPGs of all time. Obsidian was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and since then, the studio has continued to release critically-acclaimed work.
Fallout: New Vegas History, Lore, Endings & Timeline Explained
21.04.2024 - 06:10 / screenrant.com / Andrew Zhou
With the first season of the TV show wrapped up, it's a good time to brush up on the story of . Considered by a sizable contingent of fans to be the best of the modern games, has garnered considerable praise for its approach to the factions, history, and gameplay of the series and for, in some opinions, striking a good balance between the classic, isometric games and their first-person shooter sequels.
Importantly, it should be noted that 's unique approach to its world and gameplay can be attributed in large part to being developed by a different studio than other modern games — whereas,, and were all developed by Bethesda, was instead developed by Obsidian Entertainment, a studio that's now known for games like,, and the upcoming. The result is that has a significant amount of its own lore and background that's fairly separate from other modern games.
Whereas most recent games have been set on the East Coast, instead takes place in the Mojave Desert, in and around the titular New Vegas — the remains of Las Vegas that were preserved significantly better through the nuclear war that defines the setting than most of its surroundings. The different setting means, in turn, that has some factions that are entirely unique to it, not appearing in any other game, and that the preexisting factions that do appear are significantly different from their depictions elsewhere in the series.
Central to the overarching plot of is an ongoing war between the two biggest factions in the area — the New California Republic, or NCR, and Caesar's Legion. The NCR, which originated in the first two games, has grown into a mostly functioning nation by the time of, mostly imitating the structure of the old-world American government and attempting to annex the Mojave. In part by allying with the local Desert Rangers, the NCR maintains a tenuous hold on parts of the Mojave, though the game draws attention to the faction's bureaucracy problems.
The NCR's greatest opposition in the region is the Legion, a faction styling itself after the civilization of ancient Rome, led by a single dictator — Edward Sallow, or «Caesar.» The most obviously evil faction in the game, Caesar's Legion is formed largely out of the conquered and assimilated remains of wasteland tribes, the members of which are either harshly conditioned into serving the Legion, or else otherwise enslaved, killed, or crucified. Unlike other factions in the game, the Legion also strictly segregates based on gender, with the women of the faction being treated more as objects than citizens.
The last major faction of is the city of New Vegas itself, or the «Free Economic Zone of New Vegas,» as its leader, Robert House, calls it. House, the pre-war CEO of RobCo
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