They can’t really remaster without the source code, especially if they wanted to go the route of Oblivion and tack a new rendering engine onto the old game logic. They’d have to remake the game from scratch, which would definitely make a better product, but is wayyyyy more work.
That’s a bit silly thing to say tbh. There’s nothing special about NV that can’t be recreated without source code.
Especially when the community makes games like fallout London on their own time. Fucking copout from weak ass developers.
Tbf he’s a writer, left obsidian long ago, and only info of this is a few dev inside bethesda who probably don’t care enough to answer him seriously
They can’t really remaster without the source code, especially if they wanted to go the route of Oblivion and tack a new rendering engine onto the old game logic. They’d have to remake the game from scratch, which would definitely make a better product, but is wayyyyy more work.