Chris Avellone Is Not Sure Whether Bethesda Can Make Fallout: New Vegas Remastered

Just like the remastered version of Fallout 3, the new version of Fallout: New Vegas is rumored to be in development at Bethesda Game Studios. Although the studio hasn’t given any hints about potential remastered versions of Fallout classics, we heard plenty of reports from notable gaming insiders and merchandise leaks, which often turn out to be true.

Despite the remastered versions of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas secretly in development, Windows Central’s Jez Corden recently revealed that both titles are still far away from their release date, and we don’t know when they could be officially unveiled. He also clarified that the release of Fallout 3 Remastered is expected before the remaster of Fallout: New Vegas.

Speaking of New Vegas, the game is considered almost the best part of Fallout, and it is especially surprising that it was developed not by Bethesda but by Obsidian, led by the legendary Chris Avellone, which likely became the reason for such success. Earlier, he criticized the studio's approach to the franchise and recently revealed that he expressed doubt about whether Obsidian would ever release a new installment of the game series, despite the hopes of fans who are still alive.

Moreover, in the latest interview with TKs-Mantis, he also revealed that Bethesda Game Studios will be able to produce the remastered version of Fallout: New Vegas, and you can check out the highlights from his interview below:

“Just really simply, I don’t think Bethesda has the engineering know-how to make a remaster of New Vegas at all. I mean, just pragmatically, it would make more sense to try out that process with Fallout 3 before going to New Vegas, just to see what all the problems and issues are as a result.

The very last milestone for New Vegas was ‘please deliver all the source code and the ability to make the build and we’ll pay you, like, $10,000 for that milestone’. Now, what that milestone really meant was if all those assets are given to Bethesda, that means they can recreate the game at any time. So, for reasons unknown to me, but I have suspicions, Feargus decided not to cash out that milestone and did not deliver it.

It’s not a strange decision if you feel – which would not be out of the realms of possibility – that he felt that the New Vegas experience cheated him out of X amount of money, in which case cutting off the revenue stream from that product for a time would be a possibility. I could certainly see that, and I’m not saying that’s the case.

They may have aspects of the code, but everyone that I talked to after that period of time said they had no idea how to reassemble it.”

Currently, Bethesda Game Studios is focused on adding more content to Fallout 76, as confirmed by the game’s creative director Jon Rush when he recently shared that “we have ideas for years down the road". The studio is also developing Fallout 5, which is still likely to be in an early stage of development and confirmed to be inspired by Amazon’s Fallout TV show.

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