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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Fallout 3 isn‘t even a good game on the surface and I doubt anyone actually wants a UE5 slop version of it but people will buy it anyway not knowing they actually won‘t enjoy it because they haven‘t touched it since release if they ever even played it. It‘s success was entirely carried by hype but was ultimately already outdated when it came out. There is no logical reason to revive it because there are endless better alternatives out there but luckily for Todd Howard Bethesda fans aren‘t logical creatures and will buy that shit and proceed to not beat it and forget about it within a week.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I get hating Fallout 3. I hate how it (and every subsequent Bethesda Fallout game) has done irreparable damage to the Fallout lore. I think its main story is pretty shit and the only reason it's not a steaming pile of shit is because somehow Fallout 4 was able to surpass Fallout 3 in shittiness.

But you have to have your head pretty far up your ass if you think people wouldn't actually enjoy it. It's a good game (a bit dated by today's standards), it's just not a good Fallout game. And the people who love Fallout 3 don't care about the reasons that make it a bad Fallout game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I would argue that Fallout 3 is a good game, but it is not a good Fallout game. It is fun to play, and has all the other hallmarks of a good Bethesda game, but the vibe is wrong. It feels like something ripping off Fallout (because, it kinda is?) and misses the beats of the originals. It's more than likely just cultural differences between the developers. Black Isle was Californian, Bethesda is somewhere on the East coast. And 4 managed to bring that OG vibe to the series, even if it absolutely fucking sucks as an RPG (great FPS tho).

That said, the Oblivion remake showed me that just updating the graphics but keeping the original jank was not a good thing. Fallout 3 now would not hold up the same way it did back in 2008.