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Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm
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Why would they waste money making what modders are doing for free?
Because they could sell them as new games.
Fallout is hot right now thanks to the show, and from a business perspective its kind of crazy that they didn't plan to have something available to capitalize on that interest. A Fallout 1 & 2 remake or remaster would have been an easier option than a whole new game. And it's the kind of thing you can outsource to another studio, so it doesn't have to disrupt their current plans.
If I were some soulless executive at Microsoft, I'd have been getting this put together the second I saw that the show was a huge hit. I'd be trying greenlight remasters of basically all the games, plus a new non-numbered game in the series that could have limited scope but keep the same basic flavor, and maybe a new game in a different genre altogether. Things that could be handled by other developers and pushed out over a reasonable time frame so we could at least have something to announce before season 2, while letting Bethesda keep Fallout 5 for whenever they finally get around to it.
Someone mentioned they don't hold the source code anymore so it would be quite a feat to remake either 1 or 2 at this point.
Rumor has it that Microsoft bought zennymax to put obsidian to work on something that isn't Avowed or The Outer Worlds 2 but again that's just a rumor and if true is poorly timed.