Fallout New Vegas Remastered has the blessing of Obsidian devs
pcgamesn.comJust the mention of it – Fallout New Vegas Remastered – is enough to make my skin tingle. With the future of Bethesda’s RPG game series currently uncertain, and only a few hints at a possible Fallout 5 release date, the prospect of the greatest apocalyptic survival sim ever made being refreshed and re-released for modern PCs is, frankly, the stuff of dreams. But maybe, just maybe, it could happen, as two developers from Obsidian, the Pentiment and Outer Worlds studio behind the 2010 original, say a Fallout New Vegas remaster would be “awesome.”
The Outer Worlds Spacer’s Choice Edition is set to launch March 7, providing a remaster of the 2019 open-world game with better visuals and an increased level cap.
Discussing the remaster, Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, two Obsidian directors who worked on the original Fallout games, as well as New Vegas and Outer Worlds, seem to approve the idea of Fallout New Vegas Remastered.
“Not that it’s up to me, but wouldn’t a graphical remaster of Fallout New Vegas be awesome?” Cain tells The Gamer. “It would be awesome,” Boyarsky agrees.
Of course, this is far from an official Obsidian sign-off on a New Vegas remaster, but it’s very nice to imagine. The bugs and technical hiccups in the original became part of the experience – that distinctive New Vegas aesthetic, with the vibrant oranges and scuttering Cazadors wouldn’t be the same if everything ran smoothly.
Nevertheless, an updated version of Fallout New Vegas, with a higher level cap, some tweaks to combat, and some more scale in the big battle scenes would be great to play. Imagine the Hoover Dam finale but with 30, 40, 50 NCR soldiers instead of the usual handful.
Imagine The Strip, revitalised and upscaled to give a real sense of
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