Fallout 3, New Vegas, Elder scrolls Oblivion are my three favorite games of all time If I had to put my finger on them. But it’s not enjoyable anymore to simply download them and try to play through them again. There’s just something about trying to replay them and it just doesn’t work. Maybe I spent too much time playing games with high graphical fidelity lately, or I spent too much time in them back in the day. But if there was a remake, 2028, they released a brand new version of any of these games, it would be immediate purchase for me. I would spend another thousand hours in them with modern graphics and updates. Like a modern game engine… The thing I wonder though is why? Why don’t they remake any of their games? Not even Skyrim! They just keep re-releasing it.
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Oh boy, I get to excite you with the news of SkyBlivion, a community project to recreate the Oblivion game in the skyrim engine. Its been in development since 2013, and they say they have a 2025 release date scheduled but as I’ve been following this project and SkyWind (Morrowind remade in Skyrim’s engine) for years, I wouldn’t hold your breath on a 2025 release.
I’ve known about this for a while. Sadly, I don’t think it’ll ever be finished. Even if it is, Skyrim is an extremely old engine and looks like crap, runs like crap. I modded the hell out of it with 4k graphics on an RTX 4070… It’s just awful. The engine isn’t great. They need to make something new. Even Starfield had the same old ass dated engine.
Most of the work is done and they are aiming to release next year, at this point I’d be surprised if it doesn’t get done.
In any case, this is a project that a lot of people have been working on, for free, for over a decade, I wouldn’t tell them it will look like crap even if I really thought so.
What does “4k graphics” even mean? Did you just install 4k textures for everything or what? Either way, you can get modded Skyrim to look very beautiful, without being insanely demanding. I guess it depends on your resolution, but a 4070 should be able to manage it just fine, so I’m not sure what you did.
Go play Fallout London. It’s a bitch to install and has more bugs than an ant colony but it’s the best Fallout since New Vegas imo. Even in it’s rough around the edges state you can tell it is a love letter to Fallout and is so good its canon for me regardless of what the will of Todd may ultimately decide.
If you have any issues installing the game and getting it stable please reach out to me. There was also a nearly gamebreaking issue with semi auto rifle damage being grossly under calculated that I can help with as well. If Fallout 3 and NV are your favorite games you really should play it and that goes for anyone else who stumbles on this comment. It’s just so good.
I really want to try it but own the Xbox version, is it worth buying the whole game again?
OpenMW counts as a remake of Morrowind, kinda. It only changes the game engine though.
But like, officially? Pretty unlikely. Which is fine, the old games are still good, easily available, and very playable. I’d rather that than Bethesda’s new games get delayed in favor of remaking old ones, and then the remakes completely change what the old games were into something they were not.
Project Arroyo seems dead, though, so no Fallout that I know of.
But why no official ones? They don’t think it would be profitable. Microsoft and Bethesda are businesses first.
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Countless games have had successful remakes, and crazy profits.
The vast majority of remakes, even the bigger budget ones tend to be of smaller games. Games that are easier to recreate or port. Bethesda games are huge, and it’d need to be ported to another engine and redo everything from voice acting to the open world visuals. Even if they’ll bother with all that, I don’t think there’s a demand to remake Bethesda’s older, clunkier games.
Voice acting has been good enough in the past few decades that it’s usually usable without re-recording. Maybe remastering at most.
There’s also plenty of tooling to upscale textures too, even without AI. The biggest hurdle (for assets, at least) is 3D models. You can slap a subdivision modifier on them to make them higher-poly, but you’d still have to make sure the UVs didn’t get messed up (or whatever it is that they’re using these days). And also verify that nothing weird happened like new geometry hiding or showing something in-game. (Collision probably doesn’t need to change if you’re just increasing polycount.)
I’d like to see that data. I’d be surprised if it exists, companies rarely release that level of detail on their finances.
And “evil” is a very strong word. We’re talking about video games, a luxury recreational product.
No.
Damn, that was easy.
Have you played Morrowind? Best Elder Scrolls game by far, in my opinion.
And so hard to play, so yeah.
Not gonna happen. It’s a lot of work, and they’d rather spend it making new games (for legitimate reasons).
Best we got is a new Skyrim version. What do you mean you don’t want to buy the game you already own again? We made 20 different versions, all just for you to buy!
Remaking them in the same tired-ass engine would only make them worse and it’s not likely they will ever give up their Frankenstein’s monster of GameBryo in favor of something that isn’t a pile of dogshit.
The last few re-releases of Skyrim where they updated some visual features and added new content (most of which they didn’t make) is as close to a remaster or remake they will actually do.
I’m still curious to see, if the Microsoft leadership pushes them to do that, especially with the more recent titles being duds, but in general, I don’t expect them to do it, because:
- As others said, mods and community remakes like OpenMW, Skywind, Skyblivion etc. reduce the value that an official remake would have. They would need to deliver something much better, otherwise they’ll get ridiculed.
- They don’t have an amazing story or anything like that, where there’s a strong argument for playing an old title rather than a new title.
- Their engine hasn’t made that many amazing advances since Oblivion. To make things look better, they’d pretty much need to update all the textures, which is a lot of work.
No, because they got modders to do what for them.
