That certainly speeds up the process so they can Finnish early.

With enough regex and sed/awk you might be able to make even complicated stuff work. I’m not a regex guru (but I do occasionally dabble in the dark arts).

For more complicated input/output file handling, certainly.

Little shell scripts do great though if all you need to do is concatenate files by piping them.

It’s like the Internet, it’s not one big truck but a series of tubes.

A new IP is smart. Many game developers have gotten huge when a successful franchise takes off. Assassin’s Creed, The Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, ESO), Fallout (like you mentioned), Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto, Far Cry, Witcher, just to name a few.