We can’t stop saying it: Fallout has been a resounding success. We loved the series, but it has also been loved by critics and the public. So much so that the games in the franchise are having a second life that we can only celebrate. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t some concern among a certain sector of the fandom. Considering the events of the series, how does what happened in the most beloved game of all, Fallout: New Vegas, fit into it?
Allowing ourselves a small spoiler only during this paragraph and never again, in the series Shadow Arenas is blown up. Not only that. It is implied that New Vegas has been completely destroyed. This would make the events of Fallout: New Vegas impossible, suggesting to fans that the series is a retcon of the franchise’s lore. Or worse yet: they have decided to leave out the highest-rated game in the franchise.
Todd Howard, director of Bethesda, has come out to explain through IGN that there is no reason to worry. New Vegas is part of the Fallout canon. According to Howard, the event that doesn’t fit in with the series would occur immediately after New Vegas.
That doesn’t mean it’s not worrisome that an iconic location in the franchise is impossible to visit again. Although considering that Bethesda has never felt a special affection for Fallout: New Vegas, which was made by their subsidiary studio Obsidian, it shouldn’t surprise us either. So while the timeline fits, Howard’s dislike for the city of New Vegas also fits.
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