RPG General News - Fallout Homage

PC Gamer reports that New Blood is working on an RPG in the Fallout tradition:

New Blood's Fallout homage will have first-person combat

It'll be in the vein of dungeon crawlers, not Doom.

New Blood's Fallout-style isometric RPG

New Blood teased a new CRPG (opens in new tab) back in June that's very deliberately taking cues from the original isometric Fallout games. Not only does the project boast two veterans of the Fallout modding scene, but original composer Mark Morgan will provide the soundtrack.

It's clearly a homage, but it isn't a copy. The still untitled game will deviate from the original games in at least one obvious way: the combat. In a Twitter thread, New Blood head Dave Oshry offered a rare update on the project, which will not be playable or even fully revealed "for a long time" (consider what you know and have seen of the project officially unrevealed, then).

"Surely the biggest complaint about classic Fallout games has always been the slow n' clunky nature of the turn based combat," Oshry wrote. "While we're still keeping things turn based, by switching up the style and perspective more akin to classic dungeon crawlers, we find it much more engaging."

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