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Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, we know Bethseda does not have 'the engineering knowhow', we've known that for like a decade now.

That the author considers this 'an eyebrow raising assertion' betrays that they understand nothing about games on the backend, or how development actually works.

Avellone argues there's a unique roadblock with New Vegas: "the very last milestone" Bethesda gave Obsidian Entertainment was to "deliver all the source code and the ability to make the build" for $10,000.

"For reasons unknown to me, but I have suspicions, [Obsidian studio head] Feargus [Urquhart] decided not to cash out that milestone, and did not deliver it," says Avellone. "It's not a strange decision if you feel, which would not be out of the realms of possibility, that the New Vegas experience cheated him out of X amount of money.

You pull away all their bonuses, a decade ago, for missing a review score mandate by one point.

For a game with barely enough dev time allocated to it, for a dev cycle that would have been 100% crunch before crunch became a term people use.

Its the best 3D Fallout game that exists.

Its a game that largely revolves around revenge on some asshole who fucked you over.

And Bethesda wants to now remake it, probably looking to make a lot more than $10k.

Yeah, gee, I have no idea why they didn't go for that last stretch goal, yep, no clue.

EDIT:

Now excuse me while I laugh, and whistle Heartache by the Numbers.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

this comment is so filled with disinformation that it must be ragebait

for one, the bonus was a tacked on thing bethesda threw in as a freebie, which obsidian devs (i think it was sawyer) said would just be going to the shareholders/business people up stairs

for two, obsidian is the one who set the timeframe to make the game, and obsidian is the one who denied the devs more time, no matter how much they asked

for three, thats not objective in the slightest

for four, only for the first quarter of the game. the rest being a bunch of almost optional fetch quests, with some main quests sprinkled in

for five, not confirmed anywhere

for six, because obsidian was ran like absolute garbage back then and couldnt even afford another month to fix bugs because they would have went under due to the incompitance of the ceos of obsidian

my internet is not good right now so i dont feel like finding sources, but i know sawyer, avellone, and a few other obsidian devs have said as much

[–] Bananskal@nord.pub 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I like your username.