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'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] NotMyOldRedditName 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How the hell do you make that game in 18 months?! Wow

[–] Rakonat 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

80% of the game was already made in the form of Fallout 3. 10 years prior NV would have been considered an expansion pack, not a standalone game. Most of what they did was story work and added a few new things like gambling mini games and use the ingame editor to make new npc faces and clothing. It was an impressive undertaking but they still bit off more than they could chew

[–] Moneo 6 points 6 months ago

80% of the game being made is definitely a stretch. The engine and many assets were there but they still had to build the world and populate it, that in itself is a gargantuan task. Call it DLC if you want but it's a fully fledged story with a full game's worth of content and deserved to be full price.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah gotcha. If that had been sold as a DLC it would probably have been the most comprehensive DLC I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's definitely more substantial than something like Blood Dragon for Far Cry 3.