Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky say a New Vegas remaster would be awesome

[Cyberarmy]

Key staff at The Outer Worlds studio expressed a desire to remaster the beloved RPG Fallout: New Vegas, calling it "awesome."

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Key staff at The Outer Worlds studio expressed a desire to remaster the beloved RPG Fallout: New Vegas, calling it "awesome."

After seeing the quality of Remasters these days, I'd rather they didn't.

 

[Potato Canon]

New Vegas absolutely will get remastered at some point. The most important thing is that Bethesda doesn't do it and twist it into one of their bug-ridden arcade-loot cash-shop circuses, and make changes to its lore to fit Bethesda Fallout.

Obsidian employees are more likely to care about a New Vegas remaster's quality, unlike at some other studio where some poor shmuck is just trying to get through the day and do their job. Obsidian would take the whole thing more seriously than any other studio. Remasters almost always lose something from the original in the process, but Obsidian doing it would probably result in a "least worst" scenario.

 

[Frank Capicoli]

Obsidian employees are more likely to care about a New Vegas remaster's quality

From what I understand very very few people that worked on NV are even still at Obsidian.

unlike at some other studio where some poor shmuck is just trying to get through the day and do their job.

Judging by the quality of their recent games I think that's all an Obsidian worker is.

 

[Butter]

New Vegas absolutely will get remastered at some point. The most important thing is that Bethesda doesn't do it and twist it into one of their bug-ridden arcade-loot cash-shop circuses, and make changes to its lore to fit Bethesda Fallout.

Obsidian employees are more likely to care about a New Vegas remaster's quality, unlike at some other studio where some poor shmuck is just trying to get through the day and do their job. Obsidian would take the whole thing more seriously than any other studio. Remasters almost always lose something from the original in the process, but Obsidian doing it would probably result in a "least worst" scenario.

Ironically, Obsidian would be more likely to make editorial changes because New Vegas isn't woke enough. Bethesda wouldn't care enough to make any changes to the writing.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

In the remaster Cook-Cook will respect women as individuals and only engage in consensual relationships.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

In the remaster Cook-Cook will respect women as individuals and only engage in consensual relationships.

Yeah, but he's still a sick bastard, so it will be in the missionary position for the purpose of procreation.

 

[Atlantico]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/obsidian-wants-to-make-fallout-new-vegas-remastered/1100-6511908/

Fallout: New Vegas is one of the most beloved RPGs of all time, and it can be pretty tough to get it run well on a modern PC. The leadership of developer Obsidian would love to change that if they have a chance, with game directors Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky saying that they would love to remaster the game.

 

[Quillon]

so they aren't directing TOW2 but what are they even doing atm?

 

[d1r]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/obsidian-wants-to-make-fallout-new-vegas-remastered/1100-6511908/

Fallout: New Vegas is one of the most beloved RPGs of all time, and it can be pretty tough to get it run well on a modern PC. The leadership of developer Obsidian would love to change that if they have a chance, with game directors Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky saying that they would love to remaster the game.

My 8 years old mod list would not like that.

 

[ZeKaiserIsWeiser87]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/obsidian-wants-to-make-fallout-new-vegas-remastered/1100-6511908/

Fallout: New Vegas is one of the most beloved RPGs of all time, and it can be pretty tough to get it run well on a modern PC. The leadership of developer Obsidian would love to change that if they have a chance, with game directors Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky saying that they would love to remaster the game.

The year is 2029, and the Fallout: New Vegas: Remaster: Premium edition has finally dropped, forcefully converting any copy on Steam and similar websites to the new version. All legal download/purchase links for the original version are taken down. The brand new OFFICIAL multiplayer mode requires a constant internet connection. All Legion quests have been removed, and the faction has been rendered permanently hostile to the player. House has been completely reworked into a story about how Donald Trump ruined America, and his catchphrase is "Make Vegas Great Again." Every other line of dialogue spoken by him ends with it. There are 23 new achievements, 4 of which are physically impossible to complete without breaking the game. Acquiring every achievement unlocks a new end of credits sequence where Joshua Sawyer and Chris Avellone are trapped in a basement, zip-tied to shitty office chairs, ball-gagged, and buck naked. Todd Howard descends from the basement stairs with a BBW-tier dragon dildo in each hand.

The scene fades to black. Muffled screams of pain and pleasure are audible. The darkness slowly fades away to reveal Todd Howard's stoic, unblinking expression.

"Buy my game." The words are repeated by him faster and faster, with a higher pitch each time, until the game CTD's. In its place is your web browser, forcefully opened, and on the store page for The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim: Legendarily Epic Edition.

 

[deuxhero]

A stable 64 bit version with base game bugs fixed ala Skyrim would be fine, but I doubt MS could even do that now.

 

[thesecret1]

After TOW? Uh, no, thanks. I hope Bethesda keeps despising NV enough to forbid such a thing.

 

[karoliner]

It would be nice to play a New Vegas that doesn't crash every 3 minutes.

 

[thesecret1]

It would be nice to play a New Vegas that doesn't crash every 3 minutes.

Strange, mine practically never crashes. Maybe you're running mods that conflict with each other?

 

[Lambach]

After TOW? Uh, no, thanks. I hope Bethesda keeps despising NV enough to forbid such a thing.

I always spend a bunch of time setting up my modlist before every playthrough, with mods that fix bugs, improve stability, enhance visuals, add some QoL improvements etc.

If the idea behind this would-be Remaster is to do the same without altering the content, I don't see why they shouldn't do it. It would be pretty convenient to have all those mod features pre-packaged and installed with just two clicks instead of having to download 15 separate files from the Nexus and fuck around with the Mod Organizer and .ini files.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

This is so dumb... FNV is one of my favorites, but why remaster games that came out after say 1995? Before that, you can make a case the graphics/UI/sounds/etc was just trash, so it might make some sense, but obviously you can't just remaster those either, you would have to redo them in modern style. But for games after 1995, they are perfectly playable, and these remasters are just pointless money grabs by studios.

Grow a pair and start making good new games. The whole remaster phenomenon shows just how big of hacks most developers are. Imagine if someone told a writer to remaster their book, or a painter to redraw their painting with the latest technologies... Real artists want to create new original stuff, these hacks just keep churning the same old shit.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

In what engine? Bethesda's current one? Unreal? Fucking Unity? Bethesda's engine held New Vegas back, technically speaking. I don't think they can make New Vegas' combat any good though.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Lol, remasters.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

We'll never get the sizeable Legion content that got cut (including Ulysses as a proper companion) with or without a remaster, so meh.

I always spend a bunch of time setting up my modlist before every playthrough, with mods that fix bugs, improve stability, enhance visuals, add some QoL improvements etc.

If the idea behind this would-be Remaster is to do the same without altering the content, I don't see why they shouldn't do it. It would be pretty convenient to have all those mod features pre-packaged and installed with just two clicks instead of having to download 15 separate files from the Nexus and fuck around with the Mod Organizer and .ini files.

This though would be okay I guess.

 

[NecroLord]

Remasters, remasters, remasters.
Remasters up the asshole, man.
Enough already.
This industry has run out of creativity.

 

[Konjad]

They are basically saying they are too uncreative nowadays to create anything new and hope that redoing successes from the past would bring some dosh, since it's the easiest way.

 

[Lambach]

Remasters, remasters, remasters.
Remasters up the asshole, man.
Enough already.
This industry has run out of creativity.

Quite the contrary, my good fellow, the industry has creativity and art just bursting out its asshole non-stop, it just can't keep it contained.

For example, tell me, have you heard of the absolute creative masterpiece that is...... The Pentiment???

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

The main flaw in New Vegas that should be addressed in a full on remake (it would need more than a "remaster" in order to sell properly) is the small themepark open world layout where deserts are crossed in a couple of minutes of running and you're never more than a 30 second sprint from a source of fresh water and food rendering all the survival elements and themes ridiculous.

If Starfield ends up successful then whoever remakes New Vegas (probably shouldn't be obsidian - remakes are primarily about technical upgrades) could use Starfield's procedurally generated landmasses and vehicle stuff to bring back a realistically sized overworld whose greatest distances are travelled through the map like in the older games.

so they aren't directing TOW2 but what are they even doing atm?

Outer Worlds with swords Skyrim ripoff in their bootleg d&d setting, for a company that now actually owns Skyrim and only didn't cancel it because gamepass demands quantity rather than quality.

They are basically saying they are too uncreative nowadays to create anything new and hope that redoing successes from the past would bring some dosh, since it's the easiest way.

At least it's honest work. I'd rather see good games get proper remakes so that they can be introduced to new audiences and elevate their tastes/increase their expectations for new games than keeping the new audiences ignorant and less demanding.

Look at what happened with VTMB2. Wouldn't simply remaking Bloodlines -a buggy pc-only release that didn't reach one tenth of the audience it deserved- have been far preferable?

 

[Quillon]

Outer Worlds with swords Skyrim ripoff in their bootleg d&d setting, for a company that now actually owns Skyrim and only didn't cancel it because gamepass demands quantity rather than quality.

I meant these 2 specifically. Adler is GD of TOW2, Patel is Awoved's, Josh is busy tweeting shit, Tim & Leo?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Remasters, remasters, remasters.
Remasters up the asshole, man.
Enough already.
This industry has run out of creativity.

These days remasters just means "we want a PS5 port of this game". That's why 5 yo games get remasters these days.