It’s a fact of Life that Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series of games offer a complete sandbox filled with nearly unlimited experiences that you can play for years and years and still come back for more. These games are monolithic, once-in-a-lifetime gaming experiences that’s designed to adapt themselves with your playstyles and become essentially endless, forever games that only get better with time. Whereas The Elder Scrolls titles take you to a medieval fantasy universe, the Fallout Open World RPGs place you in a slightly more familiar, modern setting with it’s post-apocalyptic world that also doubles up as the playground of your own character and how you respond to the events that are crucial to the world.
Both Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 give you essentially endless experiences and quite unsurprisingly, Bethesda wants to take this even further beyond in the next Fallout title as according to one of the devs in the Bethesda Game Studios, Fallout 5 could see you spend as much as over 600 hours in it. In a recent interview with Game Informer, Emil Pagliarulo, one of the studio’s design director, shared an insight of the grand ambition that they have for Fallout 5:
“I would be happy with a game that is as successful as the previous Fallout games that continues to give fans what they love, you know, and to give them a story that they can get into and systems that they love and really just an experience that they play not for 20 hours and not for 100 hours, but an experience they can play for 200, 300, you know, 600 hours, because that’s the kind of games we make. That would be my hope going forward: Keep doing what we’ve done, and also to evolve.”
Although, any serious Skyrim player knows that even 600 hours could be too short for a game of such magnitude, and that’s just one of the reasons why those titles are as historic as they are groundbreaking.
