Overview
- Chris Avellone, a senior designer on the original game, says Bethesda lacks the engineering skill to deliver a Fallout: New Vegas remaster.
- He says Obsidian declined a $10,000 milestone to hand over full source code, which would have given Bethesda a build-ready project.
- Avellone adds that Bethesda holds parts of the code but says he was told the studio could not reassemble them into a working build.
- As a workaround, he proposes wrapping the original systems with Unreal Engine visuals, similar to Oblivion Remastered, and testing the process on Fallout 3 first.
- He notes that Microsoft owns both Bethesda and Obsidian but says shared ownership does not guarantee cooperation, as hopes for a Fallout remaster grow after 2025's Oblivion update.