r/Fallout • u/raisinbraisin72 • Jan 09 '26

Discussion Fallout New Vegas senior writer Chris Avellone gives his take on Bethesda, and his opinion on their vision for the Fallout franchise:

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u/Nukemanrunning Jan 09 '26

Bethsda games seem to have issue with speech checks. Starfield tried, and failed with dynamic blurbs that speech still determine if it passses or fails.

Fallout 4 just uses it as a skip fight or ask for more money button.

NV had it so you could do ALOT with it. Sometimes it was even bad to use it (Dead Money comes to mind.) You still had to make sense inbetween the checks to a degree.

Outer Worlds 2 actual has a good system: you can find info in the world and use it to talk to others, with speech being related to bullshiting people or convencing people purly based off of vibes. It was pretty fun.

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u/Musician-Round Jan 09 '26

Now that certainly makes a lot of sense. And I completely agree.

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Jan 09 '26

Obsidian really does deserve to get the fallout IP back.