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Senior designer on Fallout: New Vegas, Chris Avellone, doesn’t think that Bethesda has the “engineering know-how” to deliver a remaster of the beloved RPG.
Following the success of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered from 2025, fans have been desperate for Bethesda to give the Fallout series the same treatment. Specifically, the community wants to see overhauled versions of both Fallout 3 and New Vegas for modern hardware.
But according to the co-founder of Obsidian, a New Vegas remaster might not be as easy as many expect.
Chris Avellone doesn’t think Bethesda can remaster Fallout: New Vegas
Speaking in an interview with TKs-Mantis on YouTube, Chris Avellone, who was the senior designer on the original project, claimed that Bethesda doesn’t have what is required to remake New Vegas.
“I don’t think Bethesda has the engineering know-how to make a remaster of New Vegas at all,” Avellone claimed.
When it was nearing the end of development, Bethesda offered Obsidian $10,000 for the game’s source code, which would give them “the ability to make the build.”
“Now, what that milestone really meant was if all those assets are given to Bethesda, that means they can recreate the game at any time,” he continued, but Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart ultimately “decided not to cash out that milestone and did not deliver it.”
Avellone then clarified that Bethesda does have “aspects” of the code, but he had heard from other sources that they “had no idea how to reassemble it.”
All hope isn’t lost, though, as the legendary designer admitted that it may still be possible to remaster New Vegas by “wrapping” Unreal Engine 4 around the original’s Creation Engine, just like they did with Oblivion.
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There have been reports that a Fallout: New Vegas remaster is in development at Obsidian, and this could explain why Bethesda isn’t handling the project itself.
