"You are wrong" and Fallout New Vegas was ripped apart at launch, Obsidian's Josh Sawyer reminds RPG fans, comparing it to Cyberpunk 2077: "Its reputation at launch was not fantastic"

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"There was another game that sold very well at launch that did not review amazingly"

Fallout New Vegas
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Fallout: New Vegas is often held up for delivering the peak of role-playing variety in the modern Fallout RPGs, but when it first launched in 2010 it was widely derided as a busted-up pile of junk that made Bethesda games look bug-free. Fallout: New Vegas lead and Obsidian veteran Josh Sawyer has had to remind fans of the now-beloved game's difficult launch, refusing to entertain any revisions of history.

Following comments that "it took about five years" for Fallout fans to warm up to New Vegas, Sawyer took to Bluesky to hammer his point home.

Austin Wood
Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.

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