Some Fallout fans, more specifically than Fallout: New Vegaswhich many consider the best chapter of the 3D course, did not like how the game was treated in the recent Prime Video TV seriesbecause it seems to take him out of canon. Josh Sawyerwho directed the game, said he understands the fans’ motivations, but at the same time he doesn’t share the same feelings because it doesn’t concern him.
“This may sound strange to you, but whatever they do to us, I don’t care,” Sawyer said. “My approach to the intellectual properties I’ve worked on, and even the characters I’ve created, is to not consider anything as mine. It was never mine. And the things I’ve done is what I’ve done.”
Sawyer later admitted that he has his own opinions on some of the changes operated or on the news of the world of Fallout, but he also specified that he “is not attached to things in a certain way”, because he does not consider it healthy to get too involved in situations over which he has no control.
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“I may think that I wouldn’t have done some things I saw in a certain way, and in other cases I may think that they are done really well. But it’s not my space, it was never mine. I was a guest who worked on it . So I try to keep some distance between myself and the setting.”
Sawyer is not one of the original authors of the Fallout series, but he is still a name that comes up frequently when we talk about it. Before working on New Vegas, he had in fact directed the works on Van Burenessentially the canceled isometric Fallout 3 from Interplay and Black Isle Studios.
It must be said that Fallout: New Vegas has always been the subject of dispute between Obsidian Interactive and Bethesda, now both of Xbox Game Studios, partly due to an economic issue (at launch the publisher at the time did not pay bonuses due to of the Metacritic below the agreed threshold), partly because over time it has been re-evaluated as the best Fallout 3D, with constant requests to entrust a new chapter to Obsidian, creating some jealousy within Bethesa.
Fallout: New Vegas currently has more than 160,000 reviews on Steam with an average positive rating of 96%, higher than that of all the other chapters. Only Fallout and Fallout 2 come close, both with 94% positive reviews.
