Fallout 3 remastered rumored to be happening, but is still early in development
Not surprising considering how successful oblivion remastered was
Fallout 3 remastered rumored to be happening, but is still early in development
Not surprising considering how successful oblivion remastered was
I would pretty happily buy the 3D Fallout games remastered for the Starfield engine. Higher texture resolution. Use some of the features that were added to their engine in the years subsequent to release. Capable of being rendered at frame rates that modern monitors can display. Eliminate some of the weird ragdoll stuff they used to have. Modders have improved the models a lot, and I’m sure that that’s doable. Another popular change for Skyrim modders was doing things like opening up the world (because you didn’t need to load towns separately from the outside world on modern computers), adding more foliage and other things that computers couldn’t handle back at release, adding modern shader effects, and all that.
I mean, sure, I’d also like to have Fallout 5, but I suspect that the cost of doing a remaster is a lot less than a new game, and the earlier games are getting old enough that they’re kinda hard to recommend. I mean, if they release Fallout 5 in the early 2030s, the last game in the mainline series will be Fallout 4, 2015, and before that, Fallout: New Vegas from 2010 and Fallout 3 from 2008. That’ll be a huge gap, if you hope to get players to play the series. If you rewind a comparable 15 years from Fallout 3, you’re at 1993. That’s the original Doom release. That’s a pretty enormous gap.
Skyrim got the LE->SE (well, and AE) path, so it got updated to be more-playable over the years. The Fallout games are still running on the old stuff.
What did you think of the Oblivion remastered?
Starfield looked pretty good. But for some reason, Oblivion in Unreal 5 looked incredible. I could be drinking the Kool aid.
I’ve never played either the original or the remastered version of Oblivion. I got into Bethesda games via the Fallout series rather than the Elder Scrolls series.
I think I did see a friend, who was a big fan of Daggerfall, play that. And I went back and played Morrowind with the open-source GemRB engine. But I never did Oblivion.
EDIT: Sorry, via the open-source OpenMW engine. GemRB was for the Infinity Engine, and I also did those games.
EDIT2: I’ve also never played Elder Scrolls Online, as I wasn’t really interested in an online experience. I did play Fallout 76, which is online, but that was only because Fallout 5 wasn’t coming out any time soon, and the most that was going to be available for a long time was Fallout 76.