Obsidian’s VP of operations, Marcus Morgan, has admitted that the team is more than aware that everyone wants to see it make a sequel to Fallout New Vegas, even though it’s clearly been sticking to original IP.
2025 has been a very busy year for gaming, and there’s no one who represents that more than Obsidian. In the past 12 months, the team has released three massive games, starting with the long-awaited Avowed, surprising us all in the middle with Grounded 2, and then ending the year with its best game in some time, The Outer Worlds 2.
As great as it is that all three of Obsidian’s games this year have been based on its own IP, it’s fair to say that almost all of us have something different in mind from the team – Fallout New Vegas 2. That’s been a wish for more than a decade, but with Fallout’s recent resurgence, it’s something that’s become impossible for Obsidian to ignore.
Yes, Obsidian Knows We All Want It To Make Fallout New Vegas 2
It’s Having Much More Fun Working On Original IP, Though
As pointed out by PCGamesN, Obsidian VP of operations Marcus Morgan recently talked to The Game Business about the studio’s incredibly busy year. During the interview, Morgan notes that he and the team know that “everyone on the internet” asks where the New Vegas sequel is whenever it announces a new game.
Even though Obsidian knows that big question is coming whenever it does literally anything, Morgan notes that the team has been focusing on the “joy” of building its own IP, to the point where it’s got sequels for a good number of them now. While New Vegas 2 doesn’t sound impossible, it’s clear that the team isn’t as interested in adapting others’ IP as it used to be.
But this year, all three of the games are IP that we’ve created. Our history prior to Microsoft surrounded working on others’ IP. And this is the joy that we get of… how do we build our own IP? And we’ve got to the part where we have sequels to all of them. Marcus Morgan
Morgan also notes that the “journey” towards The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed put Obsidian’s approach “to the test”, as the team wondered whether it should be chasing more triple-A trends. That thankfully hasn’t been the case, as not only is Obsidian sticking to its own IP for now, but it’s also sticking to the things that make its games so beloved.
Fallout: New Vegas
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October 19, 2010
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
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