Fallout

Following the success of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda was on top of the world when it came to open world RPGs — despite the massive amount of bugs that seem to plague every modern Bethesda release. So when Fallout 4 was announced at E3 2015 it was met with a tangible kind of excitement. Not just because of Bethesda’s penchant for making vast, open world games players could spend hundreds of hours in, but because of its continuation of the Fallout series, which had been dormant since 2010 when the critically acclaimed Fallout: New Vegas was released. But Todd Howard saved the best for last, when he announced Fallout 4 would be released that year, the same year as it was revealed at E3. To this day there hasn’t been an ambitious release announcement quite like it.