re: Bethesda officially confirms Fallout 3 and NV remakes are coming

All of that is 100% true but more than anything I think it’s what I said

When you’re a studio playing at the level where you are responsible for creating and then having to further make games in the universe of some of the greatest IPs ever the magic number really does seem to be two with all that goes into making games now,

Attempt to go for 3 or higher and you will dilute quality and it’s how you end up with main main entrees in franchise being nearly 20 years apart,


Seriously look around and try to find studios who handle more than 2 successfully and what you’ll find instead is that 2 is what all the successful ones settle on and build out from there,

The only possible exception to this is Capcom but I would argue they aren’t an exception they’re just incredibly efficient at pumping out game after game while having only one true pillar franchise as things stand currently, resident evil.


Examples;

CDPR- the Witcher and cyberpunk
SQE- Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest
Prior to their implosion BioWare- Mass Effect and Dragon Age
Insomniac- Spider Man and Wolverine
Blizzard and Activision are a bit of an exception to prove the rule but primarily blizzard is concerned with overwatch and Wow (two franchises) and Activision is concerned with black ops and modern warfare (two franchises)


You can literally do this for days

Which one is better? fallout 3 or new Vegas? I’m assuming new Vegas

I would love a version of Fallout 3 and NV that allowed settlement building like fallout 4.

I didn’t have complex settlements but it was nice to build settlements all over the map and allowed a very fun survival gameplay experience.

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Remakes and remasters exist on a scale that’s extremely wide so I don’t like it I paint broad strokes saying Remakes bad or Remakes good.

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Consider Oblivion's a remaster

Consider FFVII a remake

I mention this in every fo4 settlement thread, but I’ll say it again:

The settlement building in fo4 was WAY better and more intriguing than darn near anything else I’ve played.

With switches and sirens, anytime “a settlement got attacked”, I had a npc standing next to a switch. He could instantly switch off every water filtration system that was using power and immediately reroute it to my laser turret battery. The depth of the entire electric system Bethesda implemented was extraordinary to me.


Spotlights found a threat in the woods, siren sounds, switches flipped, my simple water farming community turned into the Iron Dome. Threat resolved and switched back.

This was way too complicated for me. I just gave my settlers automatic weapons and they took care of themselves. Attacks always came from the same one or two spawn points so you could just load up your turrets there.

Been about a decade but iirc, around lvl 50 or 60 those settlement attacks got pretty intense and full of super mutants, thus I determined I needed a final solution.

Complete overkill? Oh yeah. Tons of fun though and Bethesdas entire settlement system was way more intricate and detailed than I ever expected.

Felt like I had a minor in electrical engineering with the crazy shite I had running.


Basically the game went from “a settlement is under attack” (yawn) to “frick yeah let’s see what I cooked up”