Would anyone pay to play Fallout 1 & 2 in first/third person on this new engine?
I would definitely love to see those old games resurrected using the Fallout 3 engine!

Since Bethesda plans to do a lot of downloadable content, I wanted to throw this idea
out there and plant the seeds! If we get a lot of Yes's on this forum, perhaps they
will put that project into development at some point.

Has this idea already been discussed anywhere?

-Jared

If anything, I'd prefer it the other way around.

yeah it has lots of times.
the basic conclusion is that you need to move on and accept the game industry has moved on.

A game company will never remake the game. However if there's a CS you can bet modders will. Although judging by how poorly large scale mods have gone in the past the chances of it being released are slim to none.

A total conversion might be a bit much, but there are certain areas/quests from the originals that might be fun to add as mods.

-New Reno Boxing
-The Tresure Hunt (Broken Hills)
-Sheriff of Redding

just to name a few:)

Good points all around.

Considering it took 4 years to make FO3 I doubt they will ever convert the first 2. I would love it if they did though. Hell even if they just updated the graphics on the first 2 to todays standard I would play them again

It's really pushing the envelope. I wouldn't mind seeing it be done but I'm sure Bethesda already spent all its time and money on Fallout 3 for the moment. Plus a total conversion would take awhile for even just one. But the quest ideas or if they were to make remakes of places like New Reno, San Francisco etc. (Although I have no idea [for New Reno] how the ESRB wouldn't like stomp on it entirely because "it corrupts childrens' minds" X|). Although I'm not sure how they would get it to mix with the D.C. environment already made for Fallout 3. They could make something like make it a far away place you can fast travel to or a postcard "Portal" to bring you there like a flashback or dream...that would be cheesy probably X|. But yeah maybe people could do a conversion of Fallout (Some people have done some pretty nice looking graphical updates for old games) on a lower scale, like Halo: CE or the PS1 generation. But it would get rid of one of the annoyances. The walls blocking your view on the bottom. X|

There have been very successful mods on games, not sure why you would say there hasn't been. Just to name a few; Counter-Strike(originated with Half-life 1, by a single modder), OOO for Oblivion(actually a ton of great mods on Oblivion), Good mods on Never winter Nights, etc. So if a developer's kit is released in the future for Fallout 3 then it is possible for a good mod to crop up adding parts from Fallout 1 & 2.

Nintendo...

Zelda. Mario. Nuff said.

I would love to see Fallout 1&2 converted to FO3 graphics but I doubt it will ever get done. Several modders asked and tried converting morrowind to obilivon but to my knowledge I have not seen one working adaption of that convertion mod.

I doubt the modding tools, if released, would provide the freedom to mod in a change so drastic as the addition of the overland travel map that featured in the first two games. Trying to make anything close to the first two without it would either require immense tracts of almost entirely pointless terrain or a drastic change of scale. Either would be wrong.

I'm a vote for both sides

If someone did a total conversion mod that let you play the Fallout 1 and/or 2 storylines in the new Fallout 3 engine, I would definitely give it a try, but don't think they could be done as well as the originals. It'd help if there was the chance for random encounters while fast travelling in Fallout 3.

I'd also like it a lot if someone did a total conversion mod that let you play the Fallout 3 storyline with the Fallout 2 engine. Or, just about any other total conversion mod for Fallout 2 (or Tactics) as I love their game mechanics.

Nowhere in his post did he mention or infer that he was disappointed in the way Fallout 3 has turned out.

Way to jump to conclusions, just like most everyone else on this forum.

All he wants is some sort of remake of the originals on the new engine. What's wrong with that?

Oh, wait, I forgot, anything having to do with the original games besides criticizing them is "old man talk". Now I remember. :rolleyes:

Tell me about it!

I'd dearly, dearly love to see Fallout 2 in particular updated. I'm playing Fallout Tactics again and had a look at Fallout 2 and was dismayed at how dated it seemed, but it still gave me warm fuzzies. It wouldn't even have to be a modern update with F3 engine, just something a bit better like Fallout Tactics. That game still looks pretty decent I think, and that engine would probably suite the old games better than F3s.

crap ...

the "industry" or better yet Bethesda hasn't moved on .. its all theyve been mostly doing for the past 10+ years .. First Person RPGs / ARPGS

they admitted it themselves to an extent by saying - theyre gonna do what they do best (and only thing they know)

i dont mind them for doing so but all this moving on business is just PR fluff

reality is simple

ITS BEEN __BOUGHT__ BY BETHESDA and its their legal right to mess with it in the only way they know

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ontopic

I think i would like a FO1 & 2 TC - if the conversion were total including combat (to the extent possible)

i'd love a FALLOUT 3 -TRUE FALLOUT Total Conversion - but that would allready imply a different story

oh well

No. A modding team already tried to make Morrowind on the Oblivion engine. B* stomped that idea into the ground because of copyright.

I'm not sure how well that conversion would go. It would be very complex b/c the game play is vastly different. As for the Morrowind to Oblivion project, personally, I don't see the point since there are so many graphics enhancing mods for Morrowind. They make the game look about as good as Oblivion, and in some ways it looks better. I'm sure there are still things you could do with the physics, but wonder if it's worth all the trouble. That game sure has come along way.