“I will admit one bit of trickery I did was, because we had a limited number of voice lines, we started doing things like making some of the main characters mute. So they’d only do like, hand gestures and symbols and non-spoken text. We were only able to get away with that for so long.” - Chris Avellone, src
damn bethesda really did all they could to fuck over obsidian on new vegas
and yet new vegas is still the best fallout game so i guess that means obsidian’s pretty boss