Their game engine can't keep up though. They need to build a new 1 rather than trying to upgrade it. Hopefully they're doing that for the next ES. On top of that, they need some decent writers as oblivion and fallout 3 were so much more captivating than skyrim / fallout 4. In my option obviously but if you take the dark brotherhood quest line in oblivion for instance, it was mind blowingly good. As was the thieves guild and plenty of other quest lines. Skyrim in comparison was just going through the motions compared.
Fair enough. Each to their own all that but it may well become apparent when you then play fallout 4. Also, when I say writing, I guess I also mean story lines but fair play, I did not make that clear.
Regardless of how Starfield turned out, I'm glad that they spent the time to create a new world and IP. To me, that's a better use of their time than just cycling back and forth between the same two franchises for eternity.
And I love Elder Scrolls and don't even like Starfield.
I feel like this is what's going to happen. They're currently making Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 so that suggests they have two teams operating simultaneously. I imagine after Avowed launches that team will start on a Fallout New Vegas remake or sequel. In a perfect world they'd get the full team after Outer Worlds 2 finishes as well so it can be a big, polished game.
Edit: Or even a traditional Fallout CRPG given the studio also did Pillars of Eternity. Go back to the roots of the franchise (and cash in on some of that CRPG hype from Baldur's Gate 3).
Slim to no chance of a ground up new Vegas remake, the dialogue alone would take like two to three years to make, then the entire map.
Re 4 remake is probably the best example of a ground up remake that didn't cut content and that took years of development and it has less than one quarter the dialogue as new Vegas does.
I mean I don't expect any modern RPG on the scale of a Fallout game to take less than 4-5 years either way. Plus it's not like the dialogue is being recorded by the same people making the map, obviously those parts of development run concurrently.
It's really just when do you want another Fallout game? A remake can go faster by already having a lot of narrative and world-related information already locked-in. Realistically it would still be coming out in 2028-2030 if they started this year. Or they could re-use the audio and just go for gameplay/graphical updates, although that trends closer to remaster than remake.
Or we wait for Bethesda to finish support and DLC for Starfield, develop the Elder Scrolls VI then support and DLC for that and then start developing Fallout 5 for a release in 2036-2038...at best.
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u/ser_pounc-a-lot Apr 21 '24
Bro the next fallout game is so far away they still have release any dlc for starfield and still waiting for the new elder scrolls game.