Hello everyone,

I was just playing some Fallout classics recently, and I got so much nostalgic. (oh good ol' Sgt. Dornan ;P) I was just wondering if community would welcome remakes of original Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 in Fallout 3/NV engine. Obviously, the old classics are the best, there's no doubt, but in my opinion it would be great addition to Fallout series and completely new experience during revisiting era of Master and Enclave at it's finest, in the time when desolated deserts were all along wasteland and people were building towns from metal junk in the middle of desert. I was thinking if Obsidian should make this as separate game, or this would be work for community moders, or Obsidian should make it as DLC. My opinion on this is, it would be perfect as an separate game from Obsidian, but obviously Obsidian got work with Fallout 4 and other stuff, and even if they had time and money to do it, they will probably never find this post or get my idea as good, so mod should be fine for me, if there exist such a mod, please let me know.

So, I made this thread up just as some kind of research or survey, what is your opinion on it, so please vote in a poll, eventually comment/post your opinion.

Thanks a lot.

Welcome to the forum. This topic comes up alot.

Good to know you have played the originals before asking if they should be remade..

No I don't think they should be remade. The maps of Fallout and Fallout 2 are way to large to be crammed into the space of New Vegas or Fallout 3. Would ruin the feel of the originals. Also they got away with things Bethesda can't or will not do, such as the drug use, killing of children, all of New Reno would be gone. All the classic robots would be changed and the vaults would be changed.

In short they would not be the orginals games. They would be changed way to much for them to be called remakes. I also don't trust Bethesda with the cnaon set in those games. Just leave them alone!

Also the polls second options should have a "nothing because its a bad idea" option.


If fans want to make a mod that would be fine by me, just as long as Bethesda or any other company leaves them alone.

i like the idea if it were possible. i have not played the originals, but i have heard spectacular reviews of them. i simply do not have a computer compatible to play them or else i would buy them in a heartbeat. :fallout:

If they were developed well by a skilled developer who makes sure to do a lot of glitch and bug tests, while keeping to the spirit of the original versions while beefing them up and showing them in ways that technology at the time of the originals couldn't manage, then they might be very good.

It would really come down to how well they're made and improved upon.

Why is there no "No" option on the second poll?

Anyway, no, they can't do it without cutting/tweaking/overhauling content so I don't think it's possible.

If it was the exact same games with isometric TB but with better graphics, more animations and lots more voice actors then I'd be fine with it.
But it's not realistic, it simply won't happen.
If a remake is done it will cut out content, they will mess up the writing, they'll mess up with the artistic design et cetera.

As DLC's? Can't be done.
Official game? I doubt anyones going to pay full price for those games.
Mod? Erm... No? That breaks a law I think, to freely distribute a whole game that has been a mod project.

Oh and the old games can't work with Fallout 3/New Vegas' design.

No.

Just play them on your pc, chances are if you can run an Internet Browser, you can run Fallout 1 and 2.

Way I see it, if they're going to redo all the art, models, audio, scripting etc,etc and all in first person 3d........they'd may as well just make a brand new game instead.

It won't tick off the fans.
It won't require them to stick to the rails as it were.
It won't be just a retread of someone elses idea.

No because people would just be annoyed about it and plus there is no need to

No -- not an official game or DLC. Too much would be lost in translation.

If a modder decides to make an attempt... go for it. No harm done. But remaking them worse than what they are by official team would be a waste of time and resources.

I say yes, but only if they keep the general 'feel' of them right. Aka not FO3/NV with FO1/2 characters. Basically what I would want is just updated graphics and maybe an updated interface if it was done right. There was a thread here some time ago about iPhone/IPad versions, maybe release remakes as iOS games. The whole interface and control scheme would have to be changed, but if they do a good job (and get the right people) something like that will only boost interest in the series.

This post made me laugh because if you are posting, if you are even on this forum, it's already ten times higher than Fallout 1/2's suggested system specs. :laugh:

Fallout 1 system requirements, as quoted from wikipedia:

10+ MB, lol

To be fair at 10MB it did run pretty much everything off the CD. Nowerdays we're talking somewhere around 700Mb as you're probably playing a downloaded version.

True, but I can't help but laugh at the big difference from then and now, makes me laugh a bit... PROGRESS, GENTLEMEN!

Alright, I added "nothing" option in the second poll for you guys. :cookie:

I suggested this months back and I later just went for them on PC, much rather they stay there.
One game would take like 3 discs or something if it was done in the same style as Fallout 3 or New Vegas

I voted "no", and "nothing"; For reasons mostly already mentioned here.

[IMO... The recent Fallout games are totally out of spirit with the series, and any remake would share this disconnect.]

no and nothing for me too, just play the originals if you want to experience them.

Yes, remake them, I know theres a lot of "No" people here, but what if Obsidian made them? Acceptable remake? A few of the older games are getting the make-over treatment, X-Com, Syndicate, they'd sell no probs, anyone who remade them would easily get their money back and even a profit. Or at least make them for the Hand-Held market 3DS, PSV or download only PSN & XBL. I have them already and I've played them but I'd be up for a remake, would love to be able to play them on a console.

It doesn't matter who'd make them, they'd still be waste of time as the original games are still very much playable. And Fallout already received the same treatment as X-Com and Syndicate in Fallout 3 (turning a non-FPS game into an FPS).

Well, let's put it this way... If they absolutely needed to be done for some reason, let some smaller developer tackle with it and see what kind of translation they could come up. Let Obsidian (and Bethesda too) do something new rather than fitting something already done in a new (and inferior, I might add) mold.

Either way, though, I see it as a waste of time and money.

Selling is not the contention.. and X-com & Syndicate are bad examples [IMO] ~or rather GOOD examples of why not to do it.

It would be better if it was before Fallout 3, though Bethesda has stated that they won't go back in the timeline.

They should have done that in the beginning IMO.

It's a shame too; The Fallout setting looses its draw the farther ahead you go into their 'recovery'.

yeah, but I'd hardly call X-com and Syndicate's "remakes" as Acceptable. XD If you call throwing out everything that made the games what they are and making FPS's out of them loosely based on the lore as Acceptable. XD