Fallout 3 could possibly be getting an HD remake

I guess it makes sense from a financial point of view as many other publishers have been doing it with several of their titles, their apparent thinking that their older products don't sell because they are not graphically up to standard any more.
Still this also says a lot about the potential buyers, feeling that older titles are not of interest because they are not graphically up to par any more, even if their content and gameplay is still great.

But I do not think that a lot of titles that got HD treatment really were such classics to begin with, I found for example The Last of us story wise severely overrated.
I also don't see the need for a Gears of War remake as I found the original game pretty average for a shooter featuring over muscled gruff and loud space marines versus reptile humanoids and their animal collection that could come from a Games Workshop game.

Content wise Fallout 3 is pretty disappointing and expecting gamers to fork the full price for a game with a new skin is rather ridiculous.
I guess the main appeal to it is that it was the first Fallout game for a lot of people but how long does that hold up when they start playing it again and realize a lot of it feels outdated or boring.

Edit: Duh, severely, not severally
 
The only HD remake of a game that I've thoroughly enjoyed was Black Mesa for Half-Life, and even now it isn't completely finished yet. Still waiting for them to release the last half, but where they left it off (jumping into the portal into Xen at the Lambda Complex) was a solid ending with enough closure, so even as a standalone game, while short, it's remarkably good.

If any of you are fans of FPS games, then I would suggest you get it. My only criticism is that the marine grunts seems to be ridiculously overpowered, but I feel like that's only because I've been thoroughly spoiled by the forgiving enemy NPCs of modern FPS games.
 
"HD remake" translates to "can we get console users to re-buy our old crap on a new system." What they should be releasing is "FO3, the now it won't crash every 5 minutes edition."
 
Well with console users it's easy to milk the cash cow because they're limited and unable to do what PC users can do like mods, SweetFX, ini tweaks, etc.
 
ZigzagPX4 said:
The only HD remake of a game that I've thoroughly enjoyed was Black Mesa for Half-Life, and even now it isn't completely finished yet. Still waiting for them to release the last half, but where they left it off (jumping into the portal into Xen at the Lambda Complex) was a solid ending with enough closure, so even as a standalone game, while short, it's remarkably good.

If any of you are fans of FPS games, then I would suggest you get it. My only criticism is that the marine grunts seems to be ridiculously overpowered, but I feel like that's only because I've been thoroughly spoiled by the forgiving enemy NPCs of modern FPS games.
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I think with Black Mesa it is a little different, the original game was more than eighteen years old, and though it was pretty impressive and advanced for its time and set a whole new standard for story driven FPS, the genre has made quite some advances since. (like physics for example)
That was now implemented but the designers also decided to completely overhaul the levels and add new features and alternative paths for the player, making it rewarding for both the old players and new players who are interested in trying out Half Life 1 but previously for some reason decided not to.

It was much more than an HD update, it was a remake that expanded on the original and not retold it in a completely different way.

If we would use Black Mesa as an example, Fallout 3 HD would not only have to have better graphics, but perhaps an expanded main campaign, additional single quests, more filled in locations,features taken from FNV such as customizable weapons and gear, increased variety of weapons, various types of munition, expanded work and reloading benches.

And if features from Fallout 4 were used Fallout 3 HD would have to be expanded to an even larger degree that it would become almost a full AAA project.

I think it will be just a reskin, like MercenarySnake already wrote, for console users who can not update their old game with mods and better textures like PC users can.
 
Graham2077 said:
http://fraghero.com/report-fallout-3-could-be-getting-hd-remake-on-ps4-and-xbox-one/

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Don't see why you care so much. Only idiotic people will buy this, when they could buy FO3 for cheaper.

In fact, Bethesda are doing a good thing for the world. Since any Fallout Fan who cares about visuals tends to be a plague to the fanbases, they are taking all the Bethtards and depriving them of money, henceforth making the scum of the earth a lot poorer.

Thank you Bethesda for your act of charity.
 
MercenarySnake said:
Well with console users it's easy to milk the cash cow because they're limited and unable to do what PC users can do like mods, SweetFX, ini tweaks, etc.
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yep, that's why console makers don't give backwards comparability, it allows greedy cash grabs like this. The worst part is how many people eat this shit up with comments like "take my money now."
 
MercenarySnake said:
Well with console users it's easy to milk the cash cow because they're limited and unable to do what PC users can do like mods, SweetFX, ini tweaks, etc.
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You filthy elitist, how do you dare present FACTS against my consoles? Don't you know it's a matter of OPINION?

Jokes aside, I have nothing against consoles.
 
Sergeant Politeness said:
You filthy elitist, how do you dare present FACTS against my consoles? Don't you know it's a matter of OPINION?

Jokes aside, I have nothing against consoles.
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There is nothing wrong with consoles, I just wished that they had stuck with their own library of games like during the early generations instead of this cross platform crap we have now. (and that PC original titles stuck to the PC)
Each platform offered its own unique games, making it more interesting to own a home computer and a console.

I know it is fair weather wishing at this point. I wish now that cross platform games are developed for the PC first, then get converted to console and undergo the cuts necessary to run on them.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
I know it is fair weather wishing at this point. I wish now that cross platform games are developed for the PC first, then get converted to console and undergo the cuts necessary to run on them.
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I wish, but as PC gamers none of us have any kind of standardized hardware so it's a lot easier to start from the lowest common denominator that will never change throughout it's entire life cycle.
 
As a console gamer, I have no interest in a HD Release of Fallout 3.
It's way to late to re-release games remastered considering how many games are on the XONE/PS4.
They only started due to faith in the new gen being low from a publisher view.
Anyway, I only pick up a remaster games if I missed them the first time round or if it's something really special. Like I would pick-up a HD Remaster of Shenmue 1 and 2 for example (mostly because I haven't played 1) but yeah. If Bethesda announce this, I would be pretty disappointed. Afterall, Fallout 3 is pretty much one of the worst Fallouts outside of PoS.
 
Yeah, like Millim said, I'd have zero interest in this sorta thing. I played and platinumed FO3, I have zero desire to play through it again but I wouldn't put it past Bethsoft to do it though.
 
I want Bethesda to give Fallout New Vegas a graphical and mechanical overhaul. Update the graphics and the shooting, let Obsidian add a few extra bits of bonus content (maybe flesh out some of the content they never got to finish [I'm still wondering about the tainted meat in the Ultra-Luxe]), maybe have the opportunity to build one settlement in a previously out of the way area (that one canyon in the southwest, or maybe Ivanpah Dry Lake), and then pop it out to the market for $30 including all the DLC content. I don't expect they'll do it, but you never know.
 
Ben Soto said:
I want Bethesda to give Fallout New Vegas a graphical and mechanical overhaul. Update the graphics and the shooting, let Obsidian add a few extra bits of bonus content (maybe flesh out some of the content they never got to finish [I'm still wondering about the tainted meat in the Ultra-Luxe]), maybe have the opportunity to build one settlement in a previously out of the way area (that one canyon in the southwest, or maybe Ivanpah Dry Lake), and then pop it out to the market for $30 including all the DLC content. I don't expect they'll do it, but you never know.
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This is like buying a new suit for the guy that stole your girlfriend.
 
Ben Soto said:
and then pop it out to the market for $30 including all the DLC content. I don't expect they'll do it, but you never know.
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I have a better chance of reinstating the Holy Roman Empire and making first contact with Martians than that ever happening for that price.
 
I'll pleasure myself if they do it and it is a buggy mess to the point that it completely bombs.
 
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