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This goes beyond just graphical changes, any mechanics that’d you’d love to see get more fleshed out or quests get expanded? Does not have to be realistic!
I mean, if you're gonna ask for my biggest wish for the Remasters.. it would be that there wouldnt be a remaster, but a Remake instead. Because both games deserve a ground up remake, on a more modern (NOT FUCKING UNREAL5) engine, with more love and time that their original iterations had during creation.
but, thats probably not gonna happen..
So I guess I guess I hope they at least somehow convert the base engines to 64bit so they can address more than 3.5gb of ram (and even that was only due to hex editing the .exe files), and all the ram limited design in game be redone.
Prime example being New Vegas in FONV, make the city completely open. It was only segmented and instanced behind load screens because of ram limitations on the consoles at the time.
I really can’t understand how their tech is so chronically held back. I understand they need their games to interop with modders and such. But can’t they keep that API relatively stable while modernizing the stack behind it? I clearly don’t get it.
Maybe it has to do with the way their games all take 11 years to make. It’s like interstellar war: you launch ships and you know they’ll need centuries to arrive and be outdated when they get there.
I wonder how much of it is "they'll buy it anyway, why spend money on something that isn't going to move the needle and also adds retraining costs and risk".
I'm constantly frustrated by their naff tech.