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Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works (www.trueachievements.com)
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[–] 23 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Genuine question: why is it news that they're repackaging a game and selling it at full price? I have the game, I play the game, and I enjoy it. Why would I buy it again?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Funny enough, some people haven't played the games yet and might be interested in playing a modernized version!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I guess what I mean here is that they can just update the old one maybe and not try to make money on old property...

    I'm being curmudgeony possibly lol just IMO the old game still stands because of the hardware its built for, and the story it has. Not the graphics

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I guess what I mean here is that they can just update the old one

    The old ones are still riddled with bugs. Trying to update them would exasperate the problems

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And building a new one from scratch would magically have no bugs at all!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, obviously they'd still have bugs; everything does, but the two original games are so broken they don't even launch without installing 20+ mods and it's clear playing either that a near full to full rewrite is the way to go. They could do that and also just replace the original but that would mean taking away peoples access to an existing mod ecosystem, so releasing it separately makes the most sense

    And of course they could give existing owners a free copy of the new version but if they're redoing the whole game then its equivalent to a triple A game studio making and releasing a large game for free which would just remove any incentive to actually do the rewrite

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    you're right on a surface level; no software is bug free.

    The issue I'm trying to bring forth is that the existing software is already a legacy piece of software with existing issues. Trying to extend said piece of software to do even more will make the existing issues worse AND introduce new issues.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I've played NV and would be absolutely interested in playing a modernised version. Same goes for FO3 which I played through most of but lost my save from corruption and rage quit

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    These are old enough a remake could be good

    Oblivion remake was meh because Skyrim exists.

    Fallout 4/76 just wasnt as good. But it exists and the graphics and quality of life there can keep people from 3/NV just because of the comparison.

    FO4 is 11 years old, they could possibly update NV to where FO4 is, and that would be amazing

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