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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Because they are remasters. If you are on PC, with graphics and performance mods, this is likely meaningless to you.
As someone who has only played these games on PS3, I really look forward to a good remake.
Unless of course they are Xbox exclusives, which is entirely possible.
I'll keep an eye on this but I'm not hopeful.
Exactly. At this point everyone's expectations should be that this will either never get released or if it does it will be loaded with ads and microtransactions.
AAA is dead. We need to stop beating a dead horse and shift our attention to indie and small dev teams that respect their customers.
Fuck all this corporatized bullshit. The best of all these massive IPs is in the past. The sooner we accept that, the better. More money flowing to independent teams, the better because they're like us, subject to the same shitty economy as us, living in the same housing options as us, and unable to afford yachts like us.
Support your class. Support indie and small dev teams. They're making the best games anyway.
I am. The original versions were made on the Oblivion engine, and Oblivion Remastered was fucking fantastic.
I just want new games

Worst of both worlds.
No new games and no morrowind remake.
I hope they leave morrowind alone, these remakes are mostly just insulting facsimiles of the original works
Skywind (Morrowind recreated in Skyrim engine) is nearing completion. So that should scratch that itch.
Ehh morrowind remake wouldn't have tamriel rebuilt our very own community engine replacement which is ptactically a remaster (openmw) is better
I don't mind getting remasters. If it's an older game that's a pain in the ass to get running on modern hardware I'd buy a remaster if it means getting modern QoL (like ultrawide support). But what I'd really like are proper remakes, especially of games like New Vegas that were held back by hardware limitations and/or time crunch. There's so much unrealized content in New Vegas that you could remake it and have it feel like a new game.
I'm less concerned about getting new games because those are coming in faster than I can play them.
I wouldn't mind some base-building in the remasters. Modders did it already
Agreed fallout 3 and NV are fine the modding community has it. These game companies are just dry on new ideas and mechanics.
Every five to ten years someone makes something new and they all jump on it. Whether that's some crafting/survival thing, some sort of base building or a Battle Royale mode. It's quite pathetic honestly.
I hope they don't try and cram the games through Unreal Engine like they did with Oblivion. The Oblivion Remaster looked terrible because of it, particularly with every NPC looking like a skincrawler
What a waste of time. They are good games, revisit them anytime you want.
There is nothing that needs to be done.
Just don't break mods, please.
Nothing is going to stop you from playing the originals with mods though.
Highly doubt any of the original mods would work with the remastered ones though, if they use a different engine. The Oblivion remaster used Unreal Engine 5 to handle all of the visuals, but kept Gamebryo as the base engine for all of the underlying mechanics. Virtually none of the existing mods for the original Oblivion worked with the remaster, but new ones could be created.
I would expect the same thing to happen with FO3 and FNV remasters.
we need someone working on that fred durst mod as soon as possible. new vegas is unplayable without it
It's a shame to me because it divides the modding scene, and plenty old but stable mods will never be updated to work with the remaster. But it is what it is. I guess it will be nice for console players as F:NV is practically unplayably broken without mods.
I remember checking and being incredibly disappointed by the lack of Oblivion mods a while after it released. It really informed me on not purchasing it. I would assume the same will be true for these l. They'll technically support mods, but realistically the people who would be interested in making them aren't interested in making them for the remake. I'd love to be mistaken though.
Those are gonna be remaster like the Oblivion recently released, of course the mods are not gonna work
They won't replace the old versions. They'll sell you new ones. Just stick to the old version.
stop fucking remastering trying to sell us the same games over and over again, and just make new ones already!
So I should probably buy the original Fallout 3 before they delist it on Steam?
This trend of companies slapping a new coat of paint on old games just to resell it is annoying. Having to rebuy the same game repeatedly is something I was hoping to get away from when I stopped buying consoles.
I wish they'd remaster them in the style of Fallout 2, or Wasteland 2 or 3.
Will these effectively be "new games"? In other words, a separate purchase (on Steam, for instance) from the original.
I still can't properly run Oblivion Remastered, and I have no doubt these remasters will be made in the same way, so I'll just write these off as dead on arrival on my part.
I know fallout New Vegas was and still is a bit of a hot mess, but I have no confidence a remaster will be any better. I mean has anyone played a game from them that was not a hot mess?
Is Bethesda doing the remaster of NV, or will it be Obsidian? Because maybe no thanks...
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