Todd Howard says he'd rather leave Fallout 1 and 2 for people to experience the way they were
    • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Because they could sell them as new games.

      Fallout is hot right now thanks to the show, and from a business perspective its kind of crazy that they didn’t plan to have something available to capitalize on that interest. A Fallout 1 & 2 remake or remaster would have been an easier option than a whole new game. And it’s the kind of thing you can outsource to another studio, so it doesn’t have to disrupt their current plans.

      If I were some soulless executive at Microsoft, I’d have been getting this put together the second I saw that the show was a huge hit. I’d be trying greenlight remasters of basically all the games, plus a new non-numbered game in the series that could have limited scope but keep the same basic flavor, and maybe a new game in a different genre altogether. Things that could be handled by other developers and pushed out over a reasonable time frame so we could at least have something to announce before season 2, while letting Bethesda keep Fallout 5 for whenever they finally get around to it.

      • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Someone mentioned they don’t hold the source code anymore so it would be quite a feat to remake either 1 or 2 at this point.

        Rumor has it that Microsoft bought zennymax to put obsidian to work on something that isn’t Avowed or The Outer Worlds 2 but again that’s just a rumor and if true is poorly timed.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    There’s a lot of quality of life issues with the first two games. Plenty of room to make just a couple UI changes while keeping the rest of the game the same.

    Too bad they don’t have the original source to work from, because they’re basically going to have to remake it from the ground up just to make a couple minor changes, and that’s just not worth it.

    • OhmsLawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’d just like an iOS/android port. Those games would be fantastic on a tablet with touch controls.

      Edit: didn’t really intend this to be a comment reply. I didn’t realize source files were unavailable. That would make a port unreasonable.