“Fallout 3” Designer Talks Potential Remaster

The game industry is still losing its collective mind somewhat following Bethesda’s surprise drop of its “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion” remaster this week with no real preliminaries.

The release from French developer studio Virtuos, which entirely remakes the game in Unreal Engine 5, has so far been met with an incredibly positive response and has prompted speculation of what other games from Bethesda or around the same time period (late 2000s) could be next to get this style of treatment.

The most obvious candidate many are suggesting is Bethesda’s seminal 2008 title “Fallout 3,” especially as a court document which first hinted at the “Oblivion” remaster months ago also indicated a similar possibility for “Fallout 3”.

Bruce Nesmith, the original “Oblivion” lead designer and a designer on “Fallout 3,” recently spoke with VideoGamer and says any such remake would need to bring the game up to modern standards and that would require a major overhaul of the game’s combat systems with Nesmith saying the game’s gun combat was “not good” which is why improving it was a big focus of the design of “Fallout 4”:

“What did you see in Fallout 4? That will tell you what they felt was necessary to change from Fallout 3. I know in Fallout 4 there was a lot of work done on the gun combat, because Fallout 3 is the first time they ever tried to do a shooter-style game. And, well, I think the work that was done was amazing.

[Fallout 3 combat] didn’t hold up to shooters at the time. Also, it’s an RPG shooter, it’s not a run-and-gun shooter. But a lot of work was done on that for Fallout 4. So I anticipate seeing a lot of that work go into it, assuming they’re doing the same thing. Oblivion wasn’t just brought up to the 2011 version of Skyrim. It was brought up to something that, at least on the surface, looks like it exceeds the most recent graphics update in Skyrim.”

“Fallout 3 Remastered” has not been officially announced by Bethesda, but then again the “Oblivion” remaster wasn’t official revealed until the day it dropped so who knows when it might happen. The last main entry in the franchise was “Fallout 4” in 2015 and the multiplayer spin-off “Fallout 76” in 2018.

The talk comes as Sony is reportedly set to pull its first-party PS3 title “Resistance: Fall of Man” and its sequel from its cloud streaming service – prompting speculation the studio is potentially working on a remaster of that title.

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