They're working on that, too. It went from preproduction to full development about 2 years ago. It is likely to be released next year, according to some sources that were also completely accurate about the Oblivion remake rumors.

I don’t think they have a good idea for ES6 and they know it’ll be a disappointment so they aren’t in a rush to put it out there

Game studios don't only work on one game at a time, especially not big studios like Bethesda.

I got 76 "free" in a humble monthly bundle and I still feel ripped off.

The 3 people that still play 76 say it's good now. I'll choose to believe them and not check for myself.

Because a fully new game takes way longer and more resources to develop than remasters.

I mean, they do have the infinite money glitch, a.k.a. being owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft's investors think Fallout 5 will make its money back, it's more lucrative to get started on it sooner rather than later.

And it does also need to be said that they can't keep remastering Fallout titles forever. They need to develop a new title at some point.

Bethesda Game Studios has so far always only had one game in development at a time, which should be TES6 right now. If they are working on Fallout 5, we're likely talking pre-production stages. So, it might very well be the case that the two remasters come out in roughly equal spacing before Fallout 5 comes out in a few years.

That's because the remaster wasn't done by Bethesda but by Virtuosos, a different studio.

And an Elder Scrolls game. And a sequel to Starfield.

They lost me when they released Fallout 76 prematurely and refused to honor my refund request. I'm glad I bought it direct rather than through Steam, I charged that shit back and swore them off right then.

I'm rabid and hungry because Bethesda has fucked up everything they've touched lately and I want something that makes me feel like how old Bethesda games did. Give me Morrowind remaster damnit, and Bethesda didn't even make Fallout 2 and NV they'd butcher remaster/remakes

I also don't know what "Fallout 3 Remastered" entails, but if it means forward-porting the content to Starfield's engine, that'd be pretty cool, though I do wonder how much effort will be required for mod-porting.

I think all their previous games will eventually get the Oblivion Remaster treatment. So a frankenstein'd UE5 renderer + gamebyro backend.

They notoriously do not have the source code. Because the studio lost it after having told a few of the top devs to delete their copies.

One of them may not have listened, but it's unclear as yet what survived.

As much as I would love that, I think the original games being remastered to remove any bugs or maybe just having balance/difficulty changes/updates would be enough for me.

On a personal level, I would absolutely not buy a Fallout 1/2 remaster that changes how the NPC faces move when in the dialogue box thing with them. That almost uncanny valley like facial movement is something I absolutely love in older games.

The only Fallout games worth playing.

I'm still waiting for them to recover financially so they can create another deep RPG like Daggerfall. I'll bet ES6 will be for the fans /s

I get hating Fallout 3. I hate how it (and every subsequent Bethesda Fallout game) has done irreparable damage to the Fallout lore. I think its main story is pretty shit and the only reason it's not a steaming pile of shit is because somehow Fallout 4 was able to surpass Fallout 3 in shittiness.

But you have to have your head pretty far up your ass if you think people wouldn't actually enjoy it. It's a good game (a bit dated by today's standards), it's just not a good Fallout game. And the people who love Fallout 3 don't care about the reasons that make it a bad Fallout game.

I would argue that Fallout 3 is a good game, but it is not a good Fallout game. It is fun to play, and has all the other hallmarks of a good Bethesda game, but the vibe is wrong. It feels like something ripping off Fallout (because, it kinda is?) and misses the beats of the originals. It's more than likely just cultural differences between the developers. Black Isle was Californian, Bethesda is somewhere on the East coast. And 4 managed to bring that OG vibe to the series, even if it absolutely fucking sucks as an RPG (great FPS tho).

That said, the Oblivion remake showed me that just updating the graphics but keeping the original jank was not a good thing. Fallout 3 now would not hold up the same way it did back in 2008.

I think them not understanding Fallout has been proven so often, it's already been accepted as fact.

Considering that Oblivion with UE5 grafted on top of it (plus assets bloating it to 120GiB) sold like hotcakes (despite something like Skyblivion existing), I don't think most people care.

Personally I think FO3 was good for Bethesda, especially compared to Oblivion and FO4. Still not interested in whatever they're working on, though.

What’s the issue with Fallout 3?

The gunplay is a lot better in FO4.

Disagree, the combat feels a lot better in fallout 4

Same. I'm still upset that Skyrim has been released so many times and they haven't changed a single thing in it. They could have implemented the fallout 4 material management or decorating for player homes, they could have fixed the stupid necromancers amulet mission, they could have added more content, literally anything. No, you buy the same game that came out in the fucking teens and you accept that anything added to it will be shitty cash grabs.

Fuck, if they just released a new dlc every few years people would be happy.