Fallout New Vegas Director Would Work on New Series Entry If He Had His Way

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer, in addition to several Fallout devs, have expressed interest in working on a future Fallout game, but there's a catch.

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has expressed interest in working on a new Fallout game as long as he's given ample creative freedom. In one episode of his Q&A series on YouTube, Sawyer said he would gladly develop another Fallout title, but it would largely depend on what he's allowed to do: "Any project has to do with ‘what are we doing, what are the boundaries," he explained, "what am I allowed to do and not allowed to do?'"

"If those constraints are just really constraining then it’s not appealing," Sawyer explained further, "because who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not possible?"

Apart from Sawyer, several Fallout developers have also expressed interest in returning to the series. Last year, Fallout co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky said they would happily work on a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas. Speaking in an interview with The Gamer, Cain said that, while they are keen on working on Fallout, his comeback would also be contingent on the level of creativity he's offered—if he's allowed to do something new.

"Every RPG I've ever made offered me something new and different that got me interested in making it," Cain explained. "It was the game itself that offered me something interesting that made me go 'Ooh, I want to do that, I've never done that.'" He added, "If someone came to me and said, 'You want to make a Fallout game?' My answer is 'Well, what's new?' I didn't even want to make Fallout 2, why would I want to make a new Fallout? What's different about it?"

Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart has also expressed his interest in working on another Fallout game if the opportunity presents itself. Though, in an interview with Game Pressure published January last year, Urquhart confirmed at the time that a new Fallout game wasn't in the pipeline. "We’re not working on Fallout, and we haven’t even talked about what it would be," he said.

Urquhart went on to explain that their plate is "pretty full with Avowed, Grounded and Outer Worlds 2." "I don’t know when we’re going to start talking about new games, maybe towards the end of [2023]," he said. "But I’ll stick to what I said. I would love to make another Fallout before I retire. I don’t know when that is, I don’t have a date of my retirement. It’s funny, you can say I’m already 52, or only 52. It’s one of those two, depending on the day. My hope is that’ll happen, but we’ll have to wait and see."