• paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Oh look: tons of comments explaining how this is a ridiculous product that shouldn’t exist.

    And yet it’s going to sell and be profitable.

    Re-releasing old games is a great thing. Keep everything available, give consumers options, increase the size of libraries for every platform. Enhanced resolutions and better load times. It’s a free upgrade if you already own the Anniversary edition on Switch.

    Rather than asking why they are doing this, I think the real question should be why was this not a launch title months ago?

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        2 days ago

        Eh I think Fallout 4 is the only one that would really work with.

        You could have maybe argued for Oblivion, but I think they made the right call in re-making it. (I know Bethesda calls it a “re-master”, but imo when you start re-doing models, NPC behaviors, and voice lines that crosses the threshold into “re-make”).

        I think Fallout 3 would really benefit from the same re-make treatment Oblivion got. Morrowind too.

        Starfield is current gen. Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online are kind of different beasts as live-servics games. The older Elder Scrolls games are so outdated and janky that I think they would either have to completely re-imagine them into functionally new games, or just do a quick port (maybe upscale the resolution and add a few QoL improvements to call it a “re-master”) in a cheap sort of “classics collection”.

        I haven’t played the pre-Bethesda Fallout games, but they do look re-makeable. They’re also nowhere near as popular as the rest of Bethesda’s games so there may not be enough demand for them.

        Of course, if there’s a lot more options for games by other studios and published by Bethesda, but I could spend all day picking through that library and evaluating lol.

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        2 days ago

        I’ll say this product shouldn’t exist. Nintendo switch games are already playable on switch 2. Releasing this game again on a game system that can already play it is just a money grab.

        Remakes and releases take development funds away from new IP. Same with live service. So I’m not a fan.

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          2 days ago

          Ok. Just seems a bit odd as your comment is here under this post commenting the comments on YouTube.