{"id":884979,"date":"2026-01-14T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/bethesda-didnt-think-fallout-4-having-voiced-protagonists-in-the-rpg-would-be-so-controversial-we-were-keeping-up-with-the-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:19:32","slug":"bethesda-didnt-think-fallout-4-having-voiced-protagonists-in-the-rpg-would-be-so-controversial-we-were-keeping-up-with-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/bethesda-didnt-think-fallout-4-having-voiced-protagonists-in-the-rpg-would-be-so-controversial-we-were-keeping-up-with-the-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda didn’t think Fallout 4 having voiced protagonists in the RPG would be so controversial \u2013 “we were keeping up with the industry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As far as Bethesda protagonists go, Fallout 4’s Nate and Nora aren’t quite the blank canvas you might be used to. They both come with a backstory and voice acting that give them a sense of who they are before you dictate where they’ll go. While the design call still splits fans today, the RPG’s lead designer says it was simply a sign of the times, man.<\/p>\n

Speaking to GamesRadar+, Emil Pagliarulo says the call “didn’t seem as controversial as it ended up becoming,” though you can perhaps see some lessons Bethesda drew from it for Starfield many years later.<\/p>\n

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As far as Bethesda protagonists go, Fallout 4’s Nate and Nora aren’t quite the blank canvas you might be used to. They both come with a backstory and voice acting that give them a sense of who they are before you dictate where they’ll go. While the design call still splits fans today, the RPG’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32528,23888],"tags":[18779,6113],"class_list":{"0":"post-884979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethesda","8":"category-didnt","9":"tag-bethesda","10":"tag-didnt"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}