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Fallout 3 remastered rumored to be happening, but is still early in development

Not surprising considering how successful oblivion remastered was

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

This was probably on the back burner and barely being worked on until they saw if Oblivion Remastered would be successful or not. They're under Microsoft now and they could get shut down for any and every reason. And especially so if they waste money on developing a game that wouldn't be profitable.

As much as I hate the idea of remastering all their games instead of just making another fucking game, Fallout 3 is incredibly unplayable on modern PCs. You have to spend 5 hours modding it just to get it to work properly and even then it will still crash 4 times in the span of one day.

On a Windows machine, the GOG version of Fallout 3 works right out of the box in Windows 10. Not sure about 11, but no reason to believe it would be different.

The issue was, Fallout 3 had DRM that was shut down ages ago. Games for Windows Live. Xbox Live for Windows. Bethesda refused to remove the DRM and it was actually illegal to do so in the US. GOG had it without DRM first. Like a decade later Bethesda officially removed it from the Steam version.

There's like one other thing you have to do and it has to do with memory and I'm not sure how necessary it is, but again, the GOG version does it automatically.

But screw Windows and its bullshit. I can run the GOG version of Fallout 4 on my Mac, albeit with a few hacks. I have to disable gore because something about the gore animation fucks up the translation layer. There are a couple others but the biggest change is, no gore. I mean the exploding heads. I think it still has blood. It's not censored. Anyway, the flying eyeballs were a bit much, it got old quick. So no issues there. I've also run Deus Ex, but that's Unreal Engine 1 and not really relevant. Haven't tried running Fallout 3 yet.

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