Fans of Obsidian Entertainment’s 2010 hit Fallout: New Vegas — often lauded as one of the best RPGs of all time — will likely be happy to learn that John Gonzalez, the game’s lead writer and lead creative designer, has returned to the Xbox Game Studios developer after 14 years.
The news comes from Gonzalez’s LinkedIn profile, which recently revealed that he’s back with Obsidian to serve as a creative director. Gonzalez commented that he’s come back “for exciting times,” though he hasn’t mentioned anything that he’s working on specifically.
A natural assumption to make is that he’s probably working on a Fallout sequel to New Vegas, but Gonzalez actually got out ahead of things and confirmed this isn’t the case, directly stating that “No, it’s not FNV2.” With that said, it is likely he’s contributing on an upcoming single player RPG from Obsidian, as the developer is known for these and Gonzalez has worked on several of these before.
In addition to being “the lead story guy” on Fallout: New Vegas, Gonzalez was also the lead narrative designer on Monolith Productions’ 2014 ARPG Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and the narrative director for Guerilla Games’ open-world Horizon: Zero Dawn and Horizon: Forbidden West titles. He also contributed to Outrage Entertainment’s 2003 adventure title Alter Echo, its cancelled Rubu Tribe action game, Ubisoft’s 2008 strategy game Tom Clancy’s EndWar, and the team at Fantastic Pixel Castle.
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