If they’d have kept it open-ended then consequences could ”not be very major”, so they decided to use slides. New Vegas warns us of last level.
”We put a lot of effort into the ending slides – we know those slides are really popular with people so we want to make sure there’s a huge amount of variety and reactivity with that stuff. We weren’t really focused on new features so much as to add a really rich sense of reactivity to the players and the choices they make,” said Josh Sawyer.
”We want to make it a definitive ending. Initially, we talked about trying to support post-game play, but because the changes that can happen at the end of the game are pretty major, this is what it basically came down to: either have the changes feel really major in the end slides and then have them not be very major after the end of the game, or make them really minor and not that impactful,” continued the project director.
”And we feel it’s better to say, ‘you know what, we’re just going to end the game, and the changes you made can be minor or really really big, but because we can’t script all the changes to the Wasteland to let you keep playing, we’re just going to stop it there.’”
”But we do let the player know when that’s about to happen– a sort of, ‘the end of the game is coming, so we’re saving your game right now, so if you want to keep your game going, you can, otherwise, it’s about to be over,’” he added.
Fallout: New Vegas will be keeping us busy with all that’s on offer. ”We have a huge number of quests in this game. We’ve often said this is the same physical size as Fallout 3, which is true, but the amount of quest content is crazy.” No Broken Steel DLC, eh?
Bethesda ‘removed’ the ending to Fallout 3 with the Broken Steel DLC so you could keep on exploring the Wasteland to your heart’s desire. Fallout: New Vegas releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC October 22nd. Do you like open-ended RPGs?
