With many rumors surrounding Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, fans are eager for anything that indicates some sort of development on the possible projects- however, former New Vegas writer and Obsidian creative officer Chris Avellone is telling fans not to get their hopes up. According to Avellone in an interview with TKs-Mantis, “I don’t think Bethesda has the engineering knowhow to make a remaster of New Vegas at all”, going so far to claim that that Bethesda doesn’t even have the source code: “And I’m not saying Bethesda doesn’t have the source code for New Vegas, they may have aspects of the code…but everyone that I talked to after that period of time said they had no idea how to reassemble it”. 

Avellone also spoke on his own contributions to New Vegas, including the Dead Money DLC, a controversial addition to the game that offers a more challenging experience closer to a survival horror, saying despite it being an interesting examination of the series, “…it was so different from the core experience that it’s obviously a huge turnoff for a lot of people”. Avellone split from Bethesda and left Obsidian back in 2015 due to disagreements with upper management, as well as supposed bad blood over how Obsidian operated as a company. Bethesda was not happy either, with Avellone saying that they presented an entire PowerPoint following Dead Money’s release on what Obsidian was doing wrong at the time, much to the surprise of Obsidian devs who had thought they’d make a worthy product. 

This is ironic to think about years later where New Vegas is remembered as one of the superior Bethesda Fallouts, which to this day has an avid fanbase and modding community still keeping the 2010 game alive and in memory. Following the success of the Amazon Prime show, a new Fallout game is highly anticipated by series fans and many are eager to see where Bethesda sets its sights next in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.