this comment is so filled with disinformation that it must be ragebait

for one, the bonus was a tacked on thing bethesda threw in as a freebie, which obsidian devs (i think it was sawyer) said would just be going to the shareholders/business people up stairs

for two, obsidian is the one who set the timeframe to make the game, and obsidian is the one who denied the devs more time, no matter how much they asked

for three, thats not objective in the slightest

for four, only for the first quarter of the game. the rest being a bunch of almost optional fetch quests, with some main quests sprinkled in

for five, not confirmed anywhere

for six, because obsidian was ran like absolute garbage back then and couldnt even afford another month to fix bugs because they would have went under due to the incompitance of the ceos of obsidian

my internet is not good right now so i dont feel like finding sources, but i know sawyer, avellone, and a few other obsidian devs have said as much

with the cut content restored and an actually fleshed out legion

I'm of a firm opinion that no game needs a remake. Fixing up old games so that they can be played on modern systems - yes please. Remaking the same game but """better""" - no thanks, I'd rather see something original and new come out

There are some exceptions like Pathologic 2 which is basically a remake but also a reimagining, but those are exceedingly rare.

Are you telling me severed arms are NOT supposed to rubber band across the ground as Deathclaws with power fists fly like rockets across the horizon?

I thought that was cannon.

The AAA industry is obsessed with using their own game engines, to the point where the AA industry can run circles around them using Unreal.

You can give the IP to a random Norwegian (they're always Scandinavian) game studio you've never heard of before and get a better product.

Bethesda just kept them to their original contract and didn't pay anything they weren't required to. I mean, it would have been a nice "thank you" for almost meeting their goals. But they didn't.

Cause the real reason which is well known is Bethesda higher up dont like the fact it s the most loved fallout post Bethesda acquisition and wasn't made by them

That’s a solid point. Assuming their bespoke Unreal Engine/Gamebryo hybrid engine can run the scripts, there’s no reason it couldn’t be “remastered” in the same way.

Todd Howard seething

See there are a couple of problems with this plan.

1] Emil Pagliarulo is complete self-sucking hack at this point, who quite literally could not write a coherent, engaging story, with characters that actually act and speak like human beings, in a world that is actually consistent and makes sense... if he tried.

As evidence of this, please see anything he's done in the last decade.

So unless you're gonna fire him and everyone he's molded, no shot.

He was also the design director of Fallout 76 and Starfield.

Which are essentially perfect examples of both incompetent game design and execution of ssid design.

Literally, he is the primary problem with Bethesda as a game developing company.

2] The entire problem is that you, like the rest of AAA gaming, have the game dev prioritization backwards.

You want the actual experts to fix and refactor the engine. Having contractors do all that for the last decade plus is why everything is broken now; bandaids upon bandaids produces code necrosis.

Assets, on the other hand, are broadly much simpler, (presuming you habe templates and standards as determined by the engine), and there are way more people who can produce quality assets than there are people who can fix and refactor core engine code competently.

The problem that now exists, not just with Bethesda, but many game dev studios, and engines... is that there have been so many things contracted out for so long that nobody, literally no one actually has both a broad and deep understanding... there aren't any experts any more.

Another great example of this is the attempt at the new engine for Halo Infinite. They just hired a bunch of contractors to overhaul the existing engine.... almost none of them had ever used it before. They did their best, it was not enough, snd then they all got let go.