Oblivion Remastered was a dream come true for many players and breathed new life into a game that is considered outdated by some. It gained new players who experienced Oblivion for the first time, with all the triumphs and drawbacks that came with the original. Since Oblivion Remastered's success, many fans have turned to other older games that could use the remaster treatment.
One of the most prominent requests for a remaster is Fallout: New Vegas, which is widely considered the best game in the Fallout franchise. There are a lot of reasons to consider a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, and such an endeavor would likely be lucrative and bring the magic back for many players. While Fallout: New Vegas is still well-regarded, it's considered to be outdated by many, and a remaster could bring in many new fans to experience New Vegas in a completely different way.
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A Fallout: New Vegas Remake Would Hit All the Right Notes
Fallout is more popular than ever thanks to the Fallout series on Amazon Prime, which has reached wider audiences that the video games haven't been able to capture. Despite Fallout 4's mixed reception, the setting and potential of the Fallout universe has drawn many people to it.
Thanks to the success of the Fallout series, the long wait between games, and the success of Oblivion Remastered, many players have become vocal about a Fallout: New Vegas remaster. While Bethesda didn't develop Fallout: New Vegas, its name is synonymous with Fallout, and many fans of The Elder Scrolls are looking for the next Bethesda game to be remastered. Morrowind is also a contender, but likely needs a remake to be viable, with Fallout: New Vegas being the more obvious choice.
With Fallout 76 being the last game in the franchise to be released back in 2018 and Fallout 5 likely a very long way off, a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas would be the perfect way to bring in new fans, as well as a way to fill time during the long wait for another Fallout game. Oblivion Remastered has shown that a visual overhaul of older games, even an open world RPG, goes a long way in recreating the magic of those games.
A Fallout: New Vegas Remake Would Have an Asterisk Attached
Unfortunately, while Oblivion Remastered did fix many of the glitches and bugs that were rampant in the original, it also left many of them untouched. Some of the glitches are game-breaking, while others, like the Bruma statue bug, can be very silly or frustrating. Much of Oblivion's charm comes from its systems not working as intended, so leaving these parts untouched in the remaster was a good move, but other glitches that break the game or make certain questlines unplayable are incredibly frustrating.
A Fallout: New Vegas remaster would likely give the same experience. Despite its fantastic reputation among fans, Fallout: New Vegas has its share of glitches and gamebreaking bugs that would likely carry over to a remaster, and would likely only be removed in a full remake.
Fallout: New Vegas bugs include crashes, characters and NPCs getting stuck, and the game not recognizing DLC. One of the more egregious bugs includes a save corruption issue, where autosave can cause an entire save file to be corrupted. The old adage of saving often and in different slots helps to avoid this issue, but too many save files can cause crashes.
Some bugs in Fallout: New Vegas can be fixed with console commands on PC, but this doesn't help console players. Many of these bugs would likely be carried through in a remaster. Some Oblivion Remastered players have been vocal about the bugs that are still around, and the remaster even introduced new bugs. Patches have been released to address these bugs, but some Oblivion Remastered players feel that the fixes are too little, too late, a trap that a Fallout: New Vegas remaster would need to avoid.
Fallout: New Vegas
- Released
- October 19, 2010
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
- Developer(s)
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
- Bethesda
- Engine
- Gamebryo
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- RPG
