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Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

https://tesrskywind.com/

https://skyblivion.com/

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Don't forget https://capitalwasteland.com/

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.