Yesterday was Fallout Day, the date in the series’ universe when the bombs dropped and permanently turned a lot of people into those skeletons you grind into dust while tramping about in your power armour. Bethesda awakened Todd Howard from cryo-sleep, and announced some stuff in a broadcast. Fallout 4 and New Vegas are being sold to people again. Also, in admittedly more exciting news, Fallout 76‘s Burning Springs update got a proper release date.
The upcoming second series of Prime Video’s Fallout TV Show was also there, with that and the 76 update set to make December very Walton Gogginsy.
First, we might as well get the Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition over with. It’s mainly a Skyrim-esque title engrandening around the RPG hitting Nintendo Switch 2 via a re-release that’s also dropping for PC on November 10th. It’s basically the all-DLC game of the year edition, but with 150 bits of extra creation club stuff and a new menu dedicated to its more modern form, creations.
How you feel about both likely depends on whether you’re cool with the idea of leaning into mods which have been given the official Bethesda thumbs up to add an extra twist to your thousandth trip through the Commonwealth. Odds are that’s much more appealing to console players whose mod access is limited, with the bigger question for us PC folks being whether the anniversary edition’s arrival will come with an update to the original game which leaves existing mods in need of a nudge to get working again.
On the even more cynical side, the PC version of Fallout: New Vegas’ ultimate edition is being re-released with a bundle of merch to commemorate its 15th Anniversary. This arrives next year, and will set you back an eye-watering £139.99 / $154.99. That’s for the New Vegas ultimate edition that you can currently get for £4 / $5 / €5 on Steam as of writing, thanks to a deal that ends shortly. Or £16 / equivalent if it’s reset to regular price and you don’t fancy waiting for the next sale.
Why the price hike? Well, there’s a PVC statue of Victor, some of Doc Mitchell’s two-headed bear pictures, and a few pins/patches of the clothing variety lobbed into a bigger box. Now, as someone who once bought a cheap fan-made t-shirt with the graffiti logo of Ulysses from the Lonesome Road DLC on it, I may be chucking stones in a glass house here, but er, no, my wallet will be staying closed.
I will, however, likely give Fallout 76’s TV Show Ghoul-centric Burning Springs update a go when it arrives on the freshly revealed full release date of December 2nd. I’m sceptical it’ll be able to avoid feeling like a rather naked cash-in on the Fallout TV Show that struggles to justify its existence much beyond that, but I’ll give it a chance to prove me wrong before declaring either way.
As alluded to earlier Todd Howard also popped up during the Fallout Day stream. We know you want things, and are working on things, he told the assembled throngs. Cheers Todd, replied the assembled throngs.
