@@ojerico6097 Why make them at all if you are not going to make them? That's like re-imagining ice cream for the lactose intolerant-and still calling it dairy.
@@zurcus7224 This is true... but isn't it disingenuous to call it ice cream if there is no cream in it? Making something new is fine for everyone, but labeling it as something remembered-and having it not be that thing is asking for enmity; and deserving it.
Thanks Tim. I remember either writing up a suggestion or talking to Chris about how Intelligence was too important for making a decent character. I thought the SPECIAL values should affect them in some way so you could make a strong idiot and be still able to pump up Unarmed/Melee. You ended up giving Dennis Presnel and myself an additional design credit in the game (manuals had already been printed months earlier), I think primarily because when we wrote up feedback, we also provided suggestions. I was so irritated by the original HP gain per level being only if you had enough Endurance, you needed 4 to get 1hp. I nagged Chris and you to make it a base gain per level with an additional amount based on half your endurance, and I think that's what went in. Jason also had me write some dialog for the BOS and a few generic responses that I think were in the Hub. It's still the thing I'm most proud of being part of.
I loved your suggestions. You played the game more than anyone else before it shipped, so I knew I should listen to what you said. And you had good ideas.
@@invisibleacropolis8195actually you can’t reassign the skill points from gifted. Since charisma is a dump stat i always remove all the points but with gifted it can’t go lower than 2. But i agree its way to op
Yeah this was implemented in New Vegas and it was cool. Obviously, if you helped the NCR take Nelson, NCR troops would replace the defeated Legion troops there. But there's a ghost town called Bonnie Springs where, if you kill the Viper raiders there, Cazadors will have taken over the town, posing a much bigger threat to the player
@@justinferraro1926 Modders implement something similar to Skyrim, I forgot what the mod is called but if you decide to clear an abandoned fort or watchtower a ruling faction would take it over and repopulate the area.
@@okkydirgantaraohara126 yeah I got that mod! I think it was part of a Civil War overhaul bundle. But it made clearing forts way more satisfying, made me feel like more of a hero, helping society rebuild and winning the war
I think a Wasteland 2-style remake of the first Fallout would be incredible. Like you said, leave it completely as is, but add some new bells and whistles like voicing all NPCs (not even necessary) and overhauling the UI.
I'm not opposed to pretty much any change, although I would insist that they keep the talking heads. I feel like that's exactly the kind of feature that an out of touch executive would think people want to see re-animated.
What really leaps out to me about everything Tim's saying here is how different it sounds to me from Wasteland 2. Drop-in explorable procedurally generated areas could potentially revolutionize the gameplay loop
@@rrrrthats4rs I meant more visually/gamefeel-wise than strictly game design. Weird West would be another cool inspiration as a way to pull off real-time combat, since it would be a huge draw for existing fans of Bethesda's Fallout to not have to stick with turn-based (although it's what I'd prefer).
This is the kind of remake I like, respectful with the original material. I would personally change character movement so that you can move straight up or straight down, it always bothered me the way characters would zig-zag in the game.
I feel that for player homes its great but outside of those areas its a mixed bag. If i was to see anything like that for older games it should be more like the 76 camps than fo4s settlement building. I dont think it should be though. i do think a much better option is to make a brahmin that acts like the highwayman from fo2 that gives no boost to travel time.
Yeah, it's hard to balance effort in development vs payoff. Like, if it was just one of several play strategies that fed into the big plot and unlocked different outcomes for quests and the main plot, sure, but then the devs have to put a ton of work into a feature that is meant to only apply to some PCs. I'd rather see base building implemented as quests to help out a specific town and then see that town grow over time. Do a bunch of work to improve Shady Sands' trade routes and access to resources and watch it grow. But actually laying out and building the town is meh; not enough bang-for-buck to bother. Maybe provide some options for which way a town grows and when, but pretend an NPC is doing the actual architecture work. If there's a defend-the-town quest or plot point, maybe a minor defense-building minigame?
@@Underqualified_Gunman Yeah, it very much had a place in Fallout 4 just because it fit into the story as well. It's a nice feature to have optional, but if we're talking Fallout 1 remake it would be nice to see it just expanded on a single home/base. The Vault Dweller doesn't have time to save the mf wasteland he's trying to get the water chip ASAP.
That would be the dream! I just finished Fallout 1 last week for the first time and I loved the darker atmosphere, somehow it is something that has changed with the most recent ones. Greetings from Italy supporters!
@@NoFeckingNamesLeftI personally feel like 3 ripped off a lot from van buren and tactics but It was my introduction into the series soo always willl enjoy it
I like the idea of perks that reduce random encounters, it is a positive perk to some players, like those wanting a more focused adventure. It sounds like something a DM would use in tabletop play.
How about encounter choice instead? "You spot a place that looks like it's made for an ambush on your planned route. 1: continue without changing your plans 2: investigate the places where ambushers would hide as stealthy as possible 3: take a different route that avoids the potential ambush" More choice, not less.
@@AJordan44- Yeah, but in this case the perk would stay positive even in situations where you want to play different from your standard. Took the perk to avoid disruptions of your vendor trips? Now you can still farm encounters when you're broke and your inventory is empty. Couldn't do that with a system that just subtracts options.
Ever since finding your video essays being used (with credits to you, and a good minute long ode about how integral you are/were to the games industry and a link to your page) in another RUclipsr's video about their love for the Fallout series, I am FREAKING THRILLED that you upload almost every single day! I'm 31 years old, and grew up with many titles you've had a hand in working on! It's an absolute goldmine for someone like me, who has maybe become jaded with the industry (as a consumer) at the same time that uh, GROWING UP and the paces of life started happening. I love hearing your takes, your stories, your interviews with people you've worked with, and there's something new every single day! Thanks for some of the best memories growing up. I'll never forget convincing the Master (of the SuperMutants) to kill themselves in FO1, or doing an entire FO2 playthrough as a freaking NEANDERTHAL (1 INT) with BRUTE STRENGTH. Oh my God, those dialogue choices, and the NPC's that would make fun of you for being dumber than a brick. "Me no.. like you" "Geez, buddy, I've had better conversations with scrap metal" When I was 14 my homies were playing World of Warcraft... I was playing Baulder's Gate 2 for the 10th time and taking hand-written notes in a spiral notebook about NPC's and item locations xD Some people are just into different things. I still can't talk about TES or Fallout Series around my friends, I can never stop myself from lore-dumping and asking them if they "made sure to look into EVERY single option in the questline." And I get so upset when they shrug and go "Oh nah, I killed everyone,"
I have a few specific questions: - would you show players the requirements / success chance of checks? - would you make the game 3D or sprite-based? - would you allow players to control their companions in combat? - Would you bring companions more in line with the expectations of modern games (E.g affinity system, quests, more reactivity)?
theres fo1 remake actually in the works by some fans that are remaking the game in the fo4 engine. it looks promising ngl. if your interested js look up fo4 vault 13
I'm not him, of course, but I have a pretty strong opinion on showing/hiding check requirements and chances. They should be hidden. In fact, you shouldn't even get to know if there was a chance to succeed or not. Showing that stuff just encourages save scumming, which makes the game less fun. The one exception would be something like fixing up a machine or something similar, in which case it should hint at it being a possibility if you increase your skill.
hey tim! just wanna say that one time i went on vacation and i saw an old guy wearing a nuka cola tee. i said it was cool and he said thanks! thanks for making that moment exist.
I recently in the past year played through Fallout 1 and I gotta say man it was one of the most amazing experiences in gaming I've ever had. There were a few bumps here and there to work past, but for the time it was created and what it is, FO1 is nearly a masterpiece. I think a proper remaster/remake would make the title ascend to a true masterpiece. Your team killed it and thanks for making that great game. I still listen to the Shady Sands song regularly, Godlike sound design.
With Outdoorsman, I would do it like this: You get low outdoorsman, you get the more basic encounters and the low yielding ones and the better encounters are more rare. Raising it does not give you less encounters, but gives you more options to accept or evade the encounters, and also more chances for better ones. I am happy when I can choose not to fight some random tribal savages with knives, but then I get offered to meet for example a hermit and he may have some interesting cave nearby.
@@cleverman383 Yes, but these are the rare special encounters. And sometimes it gives you bad ones when your luck is too low. But I wondered about various types of non rare encounters, like basic ones, less common and uncommon, these would be affected only by outdoorsman, so basically you would get the "better" ones with high outdoorsman not just the basic radscorpions and half naked tribals. So it would work like: basic value Outdoorsman (15-20% I think) would show the approximate chances of encountering the good encounters, which would then be around 15-20% and then when you go up to 100%, you will almost always have the better encounters, but there would be about 10% chance to still encounter the weak ones, but you deduct your Luck value from that chance so with Luck 10 and Outdoorsman 100 you would only get the good encounters, but with Luck 1 (if that is even possible) and Outdoorsman 100 you would get 91% for better encounters. This chance can be raised by going above 100% though, so unlucky characters only need to spend more skill points if they want to get the best. Outdoorsman can also be used for spotting clues (little detective work in some quests, would work together with perception and raise your chances of finding things even if PE is not high.) One more thing I would give to Outdoorsman is map travel speed which would be affectted even when you go way beyond 100%. Luck would mostly play a role in increasing the chances for the rare, unique ones as well as placement before fight and low luck would still give you some unique bad encounters.
One thing I absolutely love when hearing you talk about Fallout, THE PASSION you clearly still have for it! I feel like that's something that is sorely missing with today's developers. It's presented more-so as just a product so shareholders can get their return and less so about the passion behind the idea/concept they're cooking.
I have been hoping and praying for InXile to be given the rights to remake Fallout 1 & 2, i think they’d do a fantastic job. these games right at the top of my dream remake list and i wanna see it done so bad
@@Jiub_SN I love Larian but I don't think they really fit with Fallout. I think Arkane or InXile would be the only devs I can really see nailing it. That said, I also didn't think Larian would make a great BG3 but they proved me wrong there too. But I still think BG lends itself better to Larian's core philosophy still than FO
loooooooool, Beth are WAY ato prideful to ever do that... again, Todd will never admit, likely because he didn’t even see at the time just how embarrassing New Vegas was to their own Fallout games, and New Vegas isn’t even all that great, it’s a big step down from 1 and 2 in a lot of ways, especially the writing, and it’s still leagues better than anything anyone at Bethesda could ever produce. But there might be hope of Bethesda continues on their current trajectory they might well crash and burn, then Microsoft just has to put the IP in the right hands... doubtful but hey, give it another decade let’s see what happens.
Tim, thank you for making Fallout. I had such a blast playing it when you published it, and it ranks as one of the games that warms my heart. :) If you ever decide to remake it, I'll happily purchase it!
I think the gold standard when it comes to remakes the original Resident Evil remake takes the first place. Shinji Mikami stated his goal was to implement the ideas he could not back then due to resources/tech. He brought better graphics, voice acting, script and he added all plot stuff he had to cut. He left the core gameplay practically untouched, except for the crimson head mechanic that added a layer of complexity to the game. The result was an incredible game that is in every single way superior to the original.
Oh dear... Talking about the remake in the context of better voice acting and better writing and better story LOL... When your bar is as low I guess... Fortunately with fall out that's not the issue here.... If anything it might be a feature considering how low the bar Bethesda set... But apparently it had a 20 year Lag and people are just noticing LOL go figure... Either way none of this is a problem, Or at least it shouldn't be LOL... I don't know maybe the Japanese version is where it really counts or something for Resident Evil I would be surprised given how absolutely non Priority or care localization was back in the day...
@@JackWseyou don't understand the original 1996 Resident Evil at all, it was SUPPOSED to be a B Horror movie hence why the voice acting and story was silly or bad, once you understand the reality of it you truly understand RE1, but yes the RE1 remake is amazing and I adore it
Completely agree. Honestly the RE1 remake feels so underrated. It’s amazing how well it captures the original game with great graphics and vibes. I love it so much. The RE2 remake was amazing in its own way but I think I honestly prefer RE1s remake
Thank you for doing these sir. I thought I knew you a bit from the game, Ilike to see the bits the devs leave, that sounds weird but I love figuring out the influence and then seeing if I am correct. Listening to you talk about this game is so soothing. I have spent a good chunk of my life playing them. I adore them. I am grateful you all made them and they saved my life. I'm autistic and was bullied, like every other nerd I ain't special, but I found solace in these discordant worlds you created. They sing with life and death. I still play them. I have already started teaching my grandson how to play the OG titles. He is very big on early gaming era content. He's six and he wants to start at the beginning and it's just super cool to be able to show him these videos you have made and for that I thank you again! Cheers good sir Knight!
Honestly the thing I would want the most would be for the companions to be revisited. They're kind of barebone in Fallout. Give them dialog trees so we know what they're all about, more reactivity to the environment, personal quest that improves their stats and keep them competitive! Now that would be sweet.
A few of these ideas ended up happening in Skyrim and it went a long way towards making you feel like you had an impact in the game. Oh look, a fort full of bandits. Clear it out, come back a week later, and the Imperial Legion has moved in. Guards will remark on your armor, your weapons, have special dialogue for artifacts you might be carrying, it was really neat. It's neat when you feel like you're a part of the world and can have an effect on it.
Forgive me have been watching your videos for quite some time now. Been a Fallout fan for some time now and now a fan of yours. Every video has been entertaining and educational all at once. Your an amazing person!🤯 Thank you!
I hear you frequently speak on playing as a character class and I think this ties into your TTRPG passion and perspective. I never really played a TTRPG, my experiences were formed by playing a majority of video games where classes usually didn't mean that much of a difference. Examples I could think of would be say Gauntlet or the first Diablo. Classes don't matter that much if you have enough quarters in the former or in the latter level up enough. I think the loss is on my part here because I am fascinated by hearing about people's TTRPG experiences (but usually more so on the lore) but my take on playing a game has been less, "Survival expert with a penchant for tinkering on computers" or "Charismatic leader and doctor with an extensive army" or "big strong brute fighter with amazing luck" so much as whatever attributes guides recommend for best playthrough. Maybe I'm having trouble seeing class in a video game or maybe I don't feel inclined to roleplay since I'm usually playing games by myself and letting the game reveal itself to me and I don't immerse myself much. I suppose from Fallout's entire series, if I were to pick a class, mine would be akin to a chaotic good thief/ninja/rogue type because I like the idea of striking without being seen and having massive effects from the surprise and avoiding fights I don't need, or basically Natalia Dubrovhsky.
Hi Tim! What are your thoughts on the myriad of Classical Fallout mod/games out there? There's some really great ones that came into fruition this decade ranging from totally new universes to SOMEHOW making classic fallout into an MMORPG, have you seen any of them? In my book having people still working on mods and expanding your universe almost 3 decades later surely must be something some kind of highest achievement when creating a game. Would be fun to hear your thought on this!
TBH I did not know who you were when I stumbled upon your videos. When I learned you did Fallout I got really interested. Now I learned you also made Arcanum. That go me :) I played Arcanum several times with some unfinished attempts crashing in the middle of the game but still I played it again. Just wonderful game. Never played Masquerade, played TOEE only twice :) and Fallout... a lot of times. All I can say is thank you for all the entertainment and fun I had with these masterpieces. My gratitude and appreciation for all you have done Tim.
The thing that would me everyone happy, would be you guys ( and like you mentioned, gather most of the art team ) the team, getting to work together again, and to see that PASSION, once again, into a beloved game by so many. Because, with all of that passion, ideas, creativity and everything learned PLUS some of the things thate exist today, and didn't exist back there. All of that would make everyone happy, because you'd be a happy teamn with passion, and we would all be able to feel it, play it and ultimately, also, be happy (:
If it ever does get a remake I would hope they do all of this. The expansion on the series's lore for the ending slides like you said with the NCR and other things would be cool to see
All of those assets would be amazing to get a hold of and rework with current tech. Especially the models, they have so much character and to see them in a higher resolution with textures and material shaders to compliment it would be something else. I think the only thing that ever showed up was a texture file of Tandi's face from FO2.
the level cap removal could be a new game PLUS thing you start a new game with your current character stats and levels. but all your gear is taken away or something like that. so in practice you play the first time with the level cap on and then next playthrough unlocks the cap
I would love so much for this to exist. Fallout 1 is the single game I credit with getting me into PC gaming, if not gaming as a whole. The Killian/Gizmo story is one of the things I reference to this day when talking about stuff I like in games, and I'd adore a visit to high-res Junktown, where maybe someone other than Dogmeat would notice my cool leather jacket.
I would absolutely love if all of this somehow came to fruition one day. If not as an official entry, at least as a community or fan project. Speaking of that, Tim, I'm curious. Have you seen anything about New Blood's upcoming CRPG? Do you have any thoughts on it? It looks JUST like the original Fallout with higher res art and they even got Mark Morgan on board for the soundtrack. I'm super excited for it. Might be the closest thing to an actual Fallout remake we'll get.
Has there been anything recently released about the New Blood Interactive game? I remember it was awhile back now that the showed a black and white still image of it. I did a quick google search but didn't come up with anything other than that one image.
Very nice ideas! I'm not sure how I feel about the level cap removal (not that you seem very adamant yourself on that); it tends to create same-y characters.. Would you do a remake of Arcanum and if so what would have been your vision?
If ya go the route of a post game sandbox you could always just leave the cap in place till the story was done.. sort of a thing to do post game for kicks..
Hey Tim, I'm curious if you're familiar with the ongoing Fallout 2 fan-made remake being done as a DOOM mod. It's a really cool and new idea, and I'd love to hear your opinions on the current demo. I know you didn't work on Fallout 2 for long and contributed less to it, but I would be really interested to know your thoughts!
Hey Tim. I think some of the changes are really good. Hearing about the locations having different states depending of the actions is really cool. I know a game that does this really well, it's call kenshi. In this game if you kill certain npcs in certain locations, some of the cities change for better or worst, this is called world states. You can even start a war between faction or completly exterminate a faction. The game was made by one guy during a process of 15 years of work. It has some of that buggy charm and its inspired on classic fallouts. Being a post-post apocalyptic samurai inspired sandbox. I think you will enjoy it. And if you get to play it, remember that any action has some effect on the player stats. Have a good one and nice video as always
I think the reactivity stuff is an awesome idea. I LOVE it when games react to my decisions, even small ones i might not think about until the game reacts to it. On that note, as someone who makes a lot of stealth characters, i think you should also consider disguises or costumes. If you wear certain armor, NPCs may treat you differently, especially faction armor. Out of all the RPGs with stealth mechanics, precious few allow me to take a guards armor to help me get somewhere im not aupposed to be, unless it was specifically part of a quest. Kenshi has a rough disguise system, where looted faction armor gave you a percentage chance to be recognized as that faction, based on the number of pieces you were wearing, your stealth skill, and the faction of the NPC noticing you (same faction NPCs were more likely to see through the disguise). I think it could be expanded upon in a lot of interesting ways, to allow some interesting gameplay options.
Tim what is your opinion on dialogue skill checks? New RPGs have all the checks tagged, and even worse, they show the threshold necessary to pass them, while old cRPGs didn't have dialogue tags at all. What alternative do you like more?
I think INT and CHA should provide a base level of speech, with the speech skill adding on top of that, with LUCK and reputation adding a final modifier. What you’re likely to achieve and what is required should remain hidden.
So many brilliant ideas here TIM! I would really look forward to a remake you'd make of Fallout with most of the original team maybe. I personally wouldn't remove the level cap. I would maybe have a diminishing returns near the end of leveling, so maybe if the level cap is lvl 20, the player would reach their potential at level 15 and still be able to grow until level 20, but in a much limited capacity where it wouldn't impact the capabilities of the player but just prepare them for a battle (critical or not) I think. (Fine tuning?) I would agree, with the updated art since you aren't that limited to hardware today as you guys were in 1990's lol. Although I would argue, sometimes lower detailed artwork gives me more to flesh out with my imagination which ads to the player agency over their story or journey. Also, you are able to get away with turn based mechanics more easily I think aswell. I wouldn't tamper with the mechanics, as I feel it's brilliant as it is. I am currently doing a playthrough with mutliple starts just to document the differences and my actions affect each replay or test. I love how each point matters in the SPECIAL system and affects what type of character I want to play. For instance, If I want to shoot everything, I can compromise on Endurance, but the con to that would be melee enemies would make tender meat out me up-close. Also, ammo is limited, but then maybe relying on a backup melee weapon would come into play which can be exciting. Maybe a more survival horror based element can be cool to it aswell such as the Resident Evil type of games where ammo is scarce or pricey. I also dislike base building as it takes a long time to build a base in Fallout 4 for example, and the payoff usually isn't worth it, because of it's custom nature, lacks depth or quality when you spawn waves of generic enemies attacking it and trying to defend against their attack, it becomes more of a chore later down the line as you have to present each time to be in control. What I always would like in an RPG wouyld be to join 1 faction, and one faction only instead of being a jack of all guilds so to speak. I didn't like the Elder Scrolls style of being everything, I would rather want to specialize and create a story with my faction. Maybe perks of having them as followers and having more followers with each rank in that faction. There is a lot to digest, I apologize, but these thoughts stood out to me based on what you mentioned in the video. Thanks for your hardwork so far and the legacy you have given us in game development! I am enjoying my Fallout playthrough.
You mostly focused on mechanics here- are there any story things you’d want to change/add/remove if you were to remake Fallout? And same question for Fallout 2
A good remake stays faithful to the original story, quirks and all. If they make changes, even minor ones like some of the dated pop culture references, the game loses some of its original identity. In the case of fallout 1 and 2, the story and characters are already so well done. All the games really need is a visual uplift and some qol updates in the mechanics and ui.
I can understand the frustration in a high level character being able to do anything. Though, being able to level up, through the grind mind you, has always been a useful mechanic for me, I think due to a high level of anxiety that I have rolled into videogames. Slow meticulous playing, leading to an overpowered character, relieves that and I can trudge forward without the fear of an in-game death. I wish I didn't have this problem 😅
I really like the idea of kind of merging a skill point and action based system where you still get points to level up, but the more experience you gained doing certain actions gets you bonuses to those skills. Say you spent an entire level punching things you would get skill points to assign wherever you wanted but you either get bonus points or a multiplier for every point you put into unarmed. You could even have it where you automatically get points to those skills when you level up and then free skill points to put wherever you want.
Solid stuff. I'd suggest possibly: - getting rid of hex and revise the movement system to be limited by formula : Available AP x (AGILITY stat x (set distance ) ) and displayed as a radius similar to BG3 . - Have the reveal that if you don't bloody mess the overseer that you can see that the vault was pissed at exiling the Vault Dweller.(some people still miss that dialogue in 2 ) - Rework Scout so if you choose to enter them you aren't caught off guard on ambushes encounters and to not trigger on special encounters that aren't fights by default.
Honestly, if Bethesda hired Larian for a fallout remake like they did with Obsidian for New Vegas, it would probably be game of the year. But it's bethesda, so it'll never happen lol
And now, do it. (If only). I started another play through of Fallout last night, and it’s still just as captivating as when I first played it at release. It’s just that good! Thanks Tim!
A couple ideas that come to mind: 1. Keep the 150-day timer for the chip but either remove or increase the Necropolis timer to a point where killing the mutants and the Master is doable without too many problems. 2. Bigger map and more stuff to do + cut content. 3. More side quests + making them a bit more clear on the map. 4. Cities with all sections merged (we can handle this now) 5. Make Big Guns more viable (they get outshined by Energy Weapons in FO1) 6. Make the other traits more useful. (Atm for FO1 only Gifted + Small Frame/Fast Shot/Finesse is viable) 7. Implement an improved version of the FO2 companion system (which is kinda done in Et Tu)
Regarding reactivity, one of the stand out parts of the first fallout game is how much you're ignored as you walk around, which I really like. In Bethesda games it's really annoying that every NPC you walk past has something to say. Imagine walking around a town you've never been in and every person you meet tells you some stupid fact or tidbit about their personal life.
No NPC Greetings, Vendors Reply Only with 'Take a Look' and, especially, The Choice is Yours mods for the win. I love that a lot of modders for one Bethesda game generally produce the same mods for other Bethesda games (and Bethesda might get the message) or I might not ever play them (or play them again) for that reason alone. You can't go anywhere without "overhearing" something and having radiants galore added to your quest log automatically. The Choice Is Yours, especially, is a life-saver because you can pick and choose what you will and will not pursue even if you initiated a conversation with a questgiver in Skyrim. A lot of RPGs perhaps *overdo* the background conversations, etc. because the developers fear the world will sound dead (i.e. not lively) or empty or that players will miss content they want them to see, but that's half the fun. If you don't choose to engage on one playthrough, you might on another, but most games today want you to become a member (if not the leader) of every faction and do everything there is to do in the game in a single go. That wreaks havoc with roleplay to the point that I made Brynolf, for example, unessential and killed him off via the console just so he wouldn't follow me around Riften insisting my character was a thief every time s/he showed up. Things like that irriate the **** out of me. Now, thanks to The Choice Is Yours, Brynolf gets to live to another day. The conversation occuring between Mjoll and Aerin upon entering Riften is enough to let you know where you are and what the place is like and even the barkeep mentions the Ratway if the Thieves Guild route is the way you want to go. And when my Nordic Ranger showed up at the Mage's College in Skyrim just to ask where to retrieve a piece of an amulet and was met with the "if you want to be a student here, you'll have to prove yourself" nonsense, I was literally thinking to myself, "Do I look like a mage to you?!" No, I didn't want to become a member of the college. At least, not right then and not on that playthrough at all. I can only imagine what players of games that don't provide mod support must be going through. This goes back to a point Neverknowsbest was making about developers working longer and harder to actively make their games worse. Things can be overcooked as well as undercooked and it's probably the most delicate balance a game has to strike to be enjoyable as opposed to so irritating, aggravating and annoying you just don't want to play it anymore.
Yeah, modern devs really need to put thought into when it's appropriate for random NPCs to make random quip at you. If you're not supposed to be a well-known figure in those parts, they should just treat you however it is that they would realistically treat a random unknown person (ignore you in a big settlement, perhaps a look of distrust in a smaller town, etc). If you've became famous (or infamous), only then should reactions differ. In that distinction is reactivity better demonstrated, rather than always have everyone everywhere uniformly have a reaction to you. My opinion, anyway!
Hi Tim i've been loving your videos, i would really like to hear you talk about disco elysium because for me it was a game that completely changed the way i see rpgs and what's possible in videogames, hearing the input of an rpg veteran like you would be great
I think the success of BG3 and DOS2 really speaks to the potential of a modernized Fallout in its classic format. DOS2 feels so close to AP and the sprites being originally 3d it makes a lot of sense as a 3d isometric game.
I think you hit the nail right on the head with the improvements you'd want to make. I think a big thing for me, personally, would be the inventory-system, as everything takes a reasonably large number of clicks, and most other things in the game are pretty gentle in that front. This is mostly due to the fact that I easily get pain in my hands, and I would wish games in general were a little more... conservative with the hilariously large amount of clicks required to do extremely trivial, non-engaging tasks.
Show me one remake that actually improved on the base game. At best they have to make concessions to stay competitive, at worst they're handled by people who don't respect the originals. New games suffer from this, too, as they're mostly made by people who never played the classics.
@@pitbul2877 Resident Evil 2 buddy lol (or Mafia 1, or Dead Space, or Black Mesa, or Wasteland. List goes on and on lmao). Just cause you're blind to good remakes doesn't mean they don't exist
I would assume like many other new viewers I have only recently stumbled upon your channel due to the RUclips algorithm + the new TV show. I’ve been a fan since the original game but was quite young when they came out (probably too young to have been playing games like Fallout haha) so consequently had really no idea who made these games. I only recently learned more about who Brian Fargo was and the history of Interplay, and now learning more about you and listening to all the interviews of the members of the team and other stories shared on this channel has just been such a treat. Thank you so much for your contributions to this art form and for this fantastic channel. Not sure if you will see this or have time to respond to a comment on an old video but one question: given the massive success of BG3 what do you think about the idea of a new Fallout game in an updated version of the original CRPG style? Not sure if you are under NDA for anything like this or if you have addressed the idea already in another video, but since you explicitly mentioned in this video that you wouldn’t want a remake to be a new game per se I’m curious about your thoughts on the concept. I love Bethesda (also played Daggerfall at way too young an age haha) but for me, Fallout will always be best in its original genre and I’d love to see that return. I really enjoyed Wasteland 3 for this reason. Anyway, thanks again for everything!
Hi Tim just wanted to say i recently bought fallout and fallout 2 after only playing the 3D fallout games. I’ve still only just started fallout but I’m already in love with the system and style of the game. Every choice feels like it matters, I can’t just wander around because my vault needs me to find that water chip! I feel like most of that would be lost in a different version of the game. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas with the community, I’ve always been fascinated with game development and writing. One suggestion I have would be expanding the conversation option with NPCs. In the original game having the option to ask a companion a general keyword that could cause them to say some info made them seem more lifelike…until they don’t know a keyword and don’t get the concept of what radiation means lol. In a remake having expanded NPC conversations with more dynamic interactions would be so cool!
I know it's confirmed but I think 3 needs a remake more than NV as NV mods are excellent and can basically make it into a modern game but 3 doesn't really have that love and mods were broken with games for windows live. But would also love a remaster of 1 + 2 to make it easier for someone like me to get into
Also I would love if they passed the IP to Obsidian again so they can make another spin off so I don't have to wait until I'm like 35 (23 now) to play another new official Fallout release
Speaking of the chess match with the ZAX, it would be neat if it showed up as a game you can actually play, with it being terminal based with ascii characters and the game types from the original (Blitz, bullet, etc.)
I love these ideas! I know you talk a lot about wanting to spur a player into playing again, but something that was really difficult for me in Fallout was the invisible timers for saving all the different towns from mutants! The solution that I (not a game dev or expert) thought would be nice would be a prompt at certain intervals, either a pop-up or some kind of terrified survivor that tells the player like "The mutant armies are marching north..." or "The mutant army has grown in force, there are rumors that they are marching to claim a settlement!" or something to that effect. I know saying "they're going to shady sands" would prompt the player to GO there instead of fighting the mutants/master, but something to just say "you need to get back to work" because there's not really anything in the game or manual that says that there's a time limit that's causing those endings.
It would get hyper censored. Fallout was a product of its time you can even shoot kids and be hyper evil if you wanted to. I dont think modern devs have the guts for a full roleplaying experience where almost anything goes.
They removed kids from certain versions of the game because of the controversy, you gotta get a patch to add them back in lol. Wasn't exactly the wild west back then.
The question is do people want a Remake or a Remaster? I think many are open to a Remaster, meaning better graphics and QOL improvements. A 3D Remake is the whole debate. However, due to how modern Western gaming companies like to censor, "adjust for the modern audience" and force their politics into almost everything, I do not think we are in the right era to remake most things.
@@zurcus7224 Of courses Fallout has ingame politics related to the real world, but never lectures you. But you are being disingenuous as we all know that they push modern propaganda these days.
@@AndreasSelzerAt the end of FO2 the walking embodiment of American fascism and imperialism calls you a dirty mutant who needs to be eliminated and you respond by tearing him in half and blowing his head off. Can you explain to me what they were trying to say with that? It's not obvious enough for me to understand.
Something I personally would love to see, though it would probably be too much work, is them to create talking heads for every character you can speak to in the game. Even just guards or civilians that have one-line responses when you click on them. I imagine clicking on the character and it pulls up the talking head animation, they say something like "I ain't got time to talk," and then just closes on its own. I feel like that would bring a sense of modernity to the game since I know there's tons of people out there who hate reading, though I just like the animations themselves. I looked forward to every talking head character you can encounter so I don't know if that would make those interactions less unique?
Hey, some thoughts on the points mentioned. How about removing the level cap after one did finish the game and one (in lore) becomes this mystical figure of "The Vault Dweller" while having a questseries to found Arroyo to bridge Fallout 1 and 2? For Intelligence, one could maybe split the skill points per level also to Luck so one had a chance to get more or with bad luck even less skill points on a level up, Gambling as a perk could then up either the ups/downs or the odds of those occurring. Maybe an inverse interaction with the Perk rate? Like the lower the Intelligence the better the Perk rate? That would offer 2 very different approaches to gain power for the character, either more skill points or more perks.
I love the settlement-system and could see it utilized to rebuild the various towns to help the inhabitants, making a mark on the world. Not to let the player have 'ownership' of these towns, just some guy being hired to do technical stuff (if the player has the right perks). And you could create a fast-travel system using caravans between these towns, so it doesn't seem 'cheaty'.
Gambling might've been nice as an alternative to just having high gun skills for specific body part aiming - IE you gamble on a lucky hit in the eyes vs "I have 150 small guns so I snipe them in the eyeballs every single time".
I think another cool addition would be the ability to switch between 1st person and have a top down 3rd person (Kinda like FO4's character camera but zoomed further out). The NPC re-pop idea is wonderful. Seeing those changed you make in the wasteland really drive the immersion factors. We don't even need to overhaul the graphics I'd be okay playing this like an old-school Doom fps but Fallout.
I think there's definitely room to port the original Fallout to all platforms with gamepad support if it were ever to be remade, a lot of people would really love it if they had the chance to try it. People would also get a clearer idea of where the series' identity started to give them some perspective when comparing with the recent games.
Personally if Fallout 1+2 was to get a remake, I think Larian studios making it with the passion and thought-process of Baldur's Gate 3 would be insanely cool. I would also love to have yourself on board as well.
Hey Tim! I was just thinking that while it's true that no level cap means you can effectively become God by maxing out every stat, I also feel this wouldn't be a problem in Fallout so much because of the timer restricting the amount of grinding you can do. Since time is a scarce resource in the game, and the game will end if you don't complete your main objectives in time, there's only so much time you can spend levelling up before you hit a natural cap anyway. Just a thought!
I love the idea of locations responding to PC changes -- just like what the Keep on the Borderlands recommended the DM do as the players cleared out various caves! Cheers.
Remakes of Fallout and Fallout 2 would be interesting, especially after seeing what modern turnbased games are capable of (Wasteland 3 and Larian's works come to mind). But what I'd really love to see is an Arcanum Remake. The original just captivated me, all of it, the unique world, the characters, the lore... everything. So much so, in fact, that I've homebrewed a veeery primitive tabletop rules adaptation of it, so far only for my drawer (and I don't expect that to change anytime soon). Admittedly, the game is a flawed gem, but exactly because that, it deserves to be polished to perfection, doesn't matter that it'd have taken over 20 years. Not to mention that, if I understood right, there are some concepts for a sequel out there.
a level cap would be cool yk that way the developers can create a system where the perk you choose feels more important, you could also make that once you reach the final level you get the option to keep leveling up or not.
This would be great if it happened. The work nightdive studios has done with their remasters has been great which gives me hope for other games in the future
I'd play it for the additional ending slides alone. I remember finishing Fallout and being blown away by the ending slides, revisiting where I was good and bad and the out comes. It was like nothing I had ever seen before, instead of end story and done, seeing all the impact from the side work, made me want to play the game again.
Hi Tim, thanks for the videos they're both entertaining & informative to watch! 😁👍 Also I've got a question in regards to Fallout 1's release date, was it released on October 7th, 1997? Or October 10th, 1997? 🤔
Good question. Here's what I have in my notes (all dates are 1997): Oct 1: final build made, tested, and sent to the duplicator Oct 7: reports from people on the Internet that they have seen the game in U.S. stores Oct 9: we confirmed the game for sale in local stores Oct 10: official release day
For Scout, I could probably see reworking that so instead of decreasing the chance of a random encounter, it gives you choices on how you want to handle the encounter, whether you fight or take a detour around the encounter, or it could offer information about what’s in the encounter beforehand so you could be better informed on what to expect if you do investigate it. Basically, a perk that gives the player better information for making a decision, or otherwise allows for them to have more control over their decision-making, rather than making those decisions easier
Regarding the level cap: I feel that level caps tend to force me to build a characters end point from the get-go, while uncapped makes me able to have a organic character growth.
After Diablo 2 Resurrected came out and I played it for months all I could think was "man I wish they would do fallout 1 and 2 like this" it was (in my opinion) the perfect remake. the graphics are amazing, they added quality of life stuff like auto gold pickup and bigger stash space and even reworked some items and added a few rune words. I would love a remake for fallout 1 and 2 like that.
Honestly the coolest thing would be the ability to spin the camera around and have the buildings be higer fidelity. Be able to walk through companions/move them so they dont block you into a hallway or corner. My favorite addition in fallout 4 and new vegas is the personalities and faction alignments the followers would have. Some would get angry at you if you stole or if you attacked a faction they liked. More voiced/animated faces for npcs. Your idea for procedural generation reminds me of daggerfall or starfield. I personally prefer more curated areas than procedural jank. Always sounds good on paper but evey implementation ive seen always leaves something to be desired.
Those sound like good ideas! I hope we get out of this era of constant remakes soon though. A lot of old video games are still very good, even if you didn't play them at the time. I had only reached the ripe old age of 4 when Fallout came out, but I think the game pretty much holds up today, you wouldn't really need to change much at all. There's a really cool fan remake of the old Lego RTS Rock Raiders (the remakes is confusingly titled "Manic Miners") that included a remastered campaign with new features, the classic campaign with bug fixes, and the classic campaign with all the old flaws intact. Something like that for the original Fallout would be really cool.
There is one thing I missed: Dogmeat is not in the endslides. It's minor, but after getting him alive through the Church and Mariposa, Dogmeat must accompany the player character after casting out of the vault...
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Honestly i have to agree, if you change fallout 1&2 too much theyll lose a lot of what made them great originally
Or you could make them better for a new generation of players
@@ojerico6097 Why make them at all if you are not going to make them? That's like re-imagining ice cream for the lactose intolerant-and still calling it dairy.
@@GizmoJunk or you could add extra stuff to ice cream to improve it's taste lol
@@zurcus7224 This is true... but isn't it disingenuous to call it ice cream if there is no cream in it? Making something new is fine for everyone, but labeling it as something remembered-and having it not be that thing is asking for enmity; and deserving it.
@@GizmoJunk bad example because you can add lactase to dairy for lactose intolerant and it remains the same. It is just more expensive.
Thanks Tim. I remember either writing up a suggestion or talking to Chris about how Intelligence was too important for making a decent character. I thought the SPECIAL values should affect them in some way so you could make a strong idiot and be still able to pump up Unarmed/Melee.
You ended up giving Dennis Presnel and myself an additional design credit in the game (manuals had already been printed months earlier), I think primarily because when we wrote up feedback, we also provided suggestions. I was so irritated by the original HP gain per level being only if you had enough Endurance, you needed 4 to get 1hp. I nagged Chris and you to make it a base gain per level with an additional amount based on half your endurance, and I think that's what went in. Jason also had me write some dialog for the BOS and a few generic responses that I think were in the Hub.
It's still the thing I'm most proud of being part of.
I loved your suggestions. You played the game more than anyone else before it shipped, so I knew I should listen to what you said. And you had good ideas.
all the BOS scripts are great, i'm sure you did a great job
@@invisibleacropolis8195actually you can’t reassign the skill points from gifted. Since charisma is a dump stat i always remove all the points but with gifted it can’t go lower than 2. But i agree its way to op
Why are you lying?
@@413XAj0n3z he's not lying, why are you being so presumptuous?
I was about to dislike the respawning idea, but what you actually described, this repopulation, is a great idea. I love it.
"we had" something like this to get the gap between 16-21... "easy" (deathclaw aditum reset).... that was lame, but what he said maybe can be fun.
Yeah this was implemented in New Vegas and it was cool. Obviously, if you helped the NCR take Nelson, NCR troops would replace the defeated Legion troops there.
But there's a ghost town called Bonnie Springs where, if you kill the Viper raiders there, Cazadors will have taken over the town, posing a much bigger threat to the player
@@justinferraro1926 fast traveling back there and finding cazadores was a nightmare lmao
@@justinferraro1926 Modders implement something similar to Skyrim, I forgot what the mod is called but if you decide to clear an abandoned fort or watchtower a ruling faction would take it over and repopulate the area.
@@okkydirgantaraohara126 yeah I got that mod! I think it was part of a Civil War overhaul bundle. But it made clearing forts way more satisfying, made me feel like more of a hero, helping society rebuild and winning the war
Sounds like 75% remaster 25% remake. Uprezzed, enhanced, expanded. I need it!
I think a Wasteland 2-style remake of the first Fallout would be incredible. Like you said, leave it completely as is, but add some new bells and whistles like voicing all NPCs (not even necessary) and overhauling the UI.
I'm not opposed to pretty much any change, although I would insist that they keep the talking heads. I feel like that's exactly the kind of feature that an out of touch executive would think people want to see re-animated.
the difference voice acting made in disco elysium is amazing, it can really change a game
@@sungiant2000talking heads would be nice to see reanimated but I'd push to have it redone at the same frame rate
What really leaps out to me about everything Tim's saying here is how different it sounds to me from Wasteland 2. Drop-in explorable procedurally generated areas could potentially revolutionize the gameplay loop
@@rrrrthats4rs I meant more visually/gamefeel-wise than strictly game design. Weird West would be another cool inspiration as a way to pull off real-time combat, since it would be a huge draw for existing fans of Bethesda's Fallout to not have to stick with turn-based (although it's what I'd prefer).
This is the kind of remake I like, respectful with the original material. I would personally change character movement so that you can move straight up or straight down, it always bothered me the way characters would zig-zag in the game.
Ha, I agree, but some people have told me they like the zig-zag!
@@CainOnGamesEasier to evade snipers.
As much as I love the zigzag I would equally enjoy, say, XCOM style movement.
It's just evolution just like the older poster said. Human adaptation to bullets. It's lore friendly
@@CainOnGames That sounds like an excellent user toggle
Base-building has no place in the Lone Wanderer types of stories in the early Fallouts.
Maybe with repair perk and intelligence and bla bla bla yk but base building mechanic is lameeee
I feel that for player homes its great but outside of those areas its a mixed bag. If i was to see anything like that for older games it should be more like the 76 camps than fo4s settlement building. I dont think it should be though. i do think a much better option is to make a brahmin that acts like the highwayman from fo2 that gives no boost to travel time.
Yeah, it's hard to balance effort in development vs payoff. Like, if it was just one of several play strategies that fed into the big plot and unlocked different outcomes for quests and the main plot, sure, but then the devs have to put a ton of work into a feature that is meant to only apply to some PCs.
I'd rather see base building implemented as quests to help out a specific town and then see that town grow over time. Do a bunch of work to improve Shady Sands' trade routes and access to resources and watch it grow. But actually laying out and building the town is meh; not enough bang-for-buck to bother. Maybe provide some options for which way a town grows and when, but pretend an NPC is doing the actual architecture work.
If there's a defend-the-town quest or plot point, maybe a minor defense-building minigame?
Base building in this style should be you help an already existing place be better defended
@@Underqualified_Gunman Yeah, it very much had a place in Fallout 4 just because it fit into the story as well. It's a nice feature to have optional, but if we're talking Fallout 1 remake it would be nice to see it just expanded on a single home/base. The Vault Dweller doesn't have time to save the mf wasteland he's trying to get the water chip ASAP.
"I made a list"
Me: *grabs chair and sits patiently*
That would be the dream! I just finished Fallout 1 last week for the first time and I loved the darker atmosphere, somehow it is something that has changed with the most recent ones. Greetings from Italy supporters!
It makes sense as 2 and NV are basically post-post-apocalypse, but this feeling is why I like 1 and 3 the best.
If you enjoyed one you'll love 2 idk I'd You can handle tactics but it's also amazing
@@NoFeckingNamesLeftI personally feel like 3 ripped off a lot from van buren and tactics but It was my introduction into the series soo always willl enjoy it
@@jetrifle4209it’s from the same game series, it’s not called “ripping off”
@@Angel-Otk it is. Cope harder
I like the idea of perks that reduce random encounters, it is a positive perk to some players, like those wanting a more focused adventure. It sounds like something a DM would use in tabletop play.
How about encounter choice instead?
"You spot a place that looks like it's made for an ambush on your planned route.
1: continue without changing your plans
2: investigate the places where ambushers would hide as stealthy as possible
3: take a different route that avoids the potential ambush"
More choice, not less.
@@vmonk722 You dont have to take a perk though
@@AJordan44- Yeah, but in this case the perk would stay positive even in situations where you want to play different from your standard. Took the perk to avoid disruptions of your vendor trips? Now you can still farm encounters when you're broke and your inventory is empty. Couldn't do that with a system that just subtracts options.
Ever since finding your video essays being used (with credits to you, and a good minute long ode about how integral you are/were to the games industry and a link to your page) in another RUclipsr's video about their love for the Fallout series, I am FREAKING THRILLED that you upload almost every single day! I'm 31 years old, and grew up with many titles you've had a hand in working on! It's an absolute goldmine for someone like me, who has maybe become jaded with the industry (as a consumer) at the same time that uh, GROWING UP and the paces of life started happening. I love hearing your takes, your stories, your interviews with people you've worked with, and there's something new every single day! Thanks for some of the best memories growing up. I'll never forget convincing the Master (of the SuperMutants) to kill themselves in FO1, or doing an entire FO2 playthrough as a freaking NEANDERTHAL (1 INT) with BRUTE STRENGTH. Oh my God, those dialogue choices, and the NPC's that would make fun of you for being dumber than a brick.
"Me no.. like you"
"Geez, buddy, I've had better conversations with scrap metal"
When I was 14 my homies were playing World of Warcraft... I was playing Baulder's Gate 2 for the 10th time and taking hand-written notes in a spiral notebook about NPC's and item locations xD Some people are just into different things. I still can't talk about TES or Fallout Series around my friends, I can never stop myself from lore-dumping and asking them if they "made sure to look into EVERY single option in the questline." And I get so upset when they shrug and go "Oh nah, I killed everyone,"
I have a few specific questions:
- would you show players the requirements / success chance of checks?
- would you make the game 3D or sprite-based?
- would you allow players to control their companions in combat?
- Would you bring companions more in line with the expectations of modern games (E.g affinity system, quests, more reactivity)?
theres fo1 remake actually in the works by some fans that are remaking the game in the fo4 engine. it looks promising ngl. if your interested js look up fo4 vault 13
@@ytmldfan made remakes almost never get done.
I'm not him, of course, but I have a pretty strong opinion on showing/hiding check requirements and chances. They should be hidden. In fact, you shouldn't even get to know if there was a chance to succeed or not. Showing that stuff just encourages save scumming, which makes the game less fun. The one exception would be something like fixing up a machine or something similar, in which case it should hint at it being a possibility if you increase your skill.
@@user-ev5md5sz9x I don't know man, Skyblivion is almost done, and it's not a remake but fallout london is pretty much done
hey tim! just wanna say that one time i went on vacation and i saw an old guy wearing a nuka cola tee. i said it was cool and he said thanks! thanks for making that moment exist.
I recently in the past year played through Fallout 1 and I gotta say man it was one of the most amazing experiences in gaming I've ever had. There were a few bumps here and there to work past, but for the time it was created and what it is, FO1 is nearly a masterpiece. I think a proper remaster/remake would make the title ascend to a true masterpiece. Your team killed it and thanks for making that great game. I still listen to the Shady Sands song regularly, Godlike sound design.
With Outdoorsman, I would do it like this: You get low outdoorsman, you get the more basic encounters and the low yielding ones and the better encounters are more rare. Raising it does not give you less encounters, but gives you more options to accept or evade the encounters, and also more chances for better ones. I am happy when I can choose not to fight some random tribal savages with knives, but then I get offered to meet for example a hermit and he may have some interesting cave nearby.
Getting better encounters with outdoorsman totally changes the value proposition of that skill. This is a really interesting idea.
Doesn't Luck already give you better encounters?
@@cleverman383 Yes, but these are the rare special encounters.
And sometimes it gives you bad ones when your luck is too low.
But I wondered about various types of non rare encounters, like basic ones, less common and uncommon, these would be affected only by outdoorsman, so basically you would get the "better" ones with high outdoorsman not just the basic radscorpions and half naked tribals.
So it would work like: basic value Outdoorsman (15-20% I think) would show the approximate chances of encountering the good encounters, which would then be around 15-20% and then when you go up to 100%, you will almost always have the better encounters, but there would be about 10% chance to still encounter the weak ones, but you deduct your Luck value from that chance so with Luck 10 and Outdoorsman 100 you would only get the good encounters, but with Luck 1 (if that is even possible) and Outdoorsman 100 you would get 91% for better encounters. This chance can be raised by going above 100% though, so unlucky characters only need to spend more skill points if they want to get the best.
Outdoorsman can also be used for spotting clues (little detective work in some quests, would work together with perception and raise your chances of finding things even if PE is not high.)
One more thing I would give to Outdoorsman is map travel speed which would be affectted even when you go way beyond 100%.
Luck would mostly play a role in increasing the chances for the rare, unique ones as well as placement before fight and low luck would still give you some unique bad encounters.
Thanks for this video, Tim. So happy I happened upon your channel.
One thing I absolutely love when hearing you talk about Fallout, THE PASSION you clearly still have for it! I feel like that's something that is sorely missing with today's developers. It's presented more-so as just a product so shareholders can get their return and less so about the passion behind the idea/concept they're cooking.
I have been hoping and praying for InXile to be given the rights to remake Fallout 1 & 2, i think they’d do a fantastic job. these games right at the top of my dream remake list and i wanna see it done so bad
I think Larian Studios could be a good choice if they don't do too much to it
@@Jiub_SN I love Larian but I don't think they really fit with Fallout. I think Arkane or InXile would be the only devs I can really see nailing it.
That said, I also didn't think Larian would make a great BG3 but they proved me wrong there too. But I still think BG lends itself better to Larian's core philosophy still than FO
loooooooool, Beth are WAY ato prideful to ever do that... again, Todd will never admit, likely because he didn’t even see at the time just how embarrassing New Vegas was to their own Fallout games, and New Vegas isn’t even all that great, it’s a big step down from 1 and 2 in a lot of ways, especially the writing, and it’s still leagues better than anything anyone at Bethesda could ever produce.
But there might be hope of Bethesda continues on their current trajectory they might well crash and burn, then Microsoft just has to put the IP in the right hands... doubtful but hey, give it another decade let’s see what happens.
There’s the Vault 13 mod that aims to remake FO1 with the FO4 engine.
@@hansmoleman2666You are quite delusional
Tim, thank you for making Fallout. I had such a blast playing it when you published it, and it ranks as one of the games that warms my heart. :) If you ever decide to remake it, I'll happily purchase it!
I think the gold standard when it comes to remakes the original Resident Evil remake takes the first place.
Shinji Mikami stated his goal was to implement the ideas he could not back then due to resources/tech. He brought better graphics, voice acting, script and he added all plot stuff he had to cut. He left the core gameplay practically untouched, except for the crimson head mechanic that added a layer of complexity to the game.
The result was an incredible game that is in every single way superior to the original.
Oh dear... Talking about the remake in the context of better voice acting and better writing and better story LOL... When your bar is as low I guess... Fortunately with fall out that's not the issue here.... If anything it might be a feature considering how low the bar Bethesda set... But apparently it had a 20 year Lag and people are just noticing LOL go figure...
Either way none of this is a problem, Or at least it shouldn't be LOL... I don't know maybe the Japanese version is where it really counts or something for Resident Evil I would be surprised given how absolutely non Priority or care localization was back in the day...
@@JackWsewhat the fuck are going on about? Jesus no cares about your opinion
@@JackWse ok 👍
@@JackWseyou don't understand the original 1996 Resident Evil at all, it was SUPPOSED to be a B Horror movie hence why the voice acting and story was silly or bad, once you understand the reality of it you truly understand RE1, but yes the RE1 remake is amazing and I adore it
Completely agree. Honestly the RE1 remake feels so underrated. It’s amazing how well it captures the original game with great graphics and vibes. I love it so much. The RE2 remake was amazing in its own way but I think I honestly prefer RE1s remake
These ideas are stellar, hopefully someday we get a remake. Also I'm such a sucker for NPCs reacting to your actions and what you are wearing.🎉
theres actually a fo1 remake called fo4 vault 13 in the works by a team of dedicated fans. check it out if your interested
Thank you for doing these sir. I thought I knew you a bit from the game, Ilike to see the bits the devs leave, that sounds weird but I love figuring out the influence and then seeing if I am correct. Listening to you talk about this game is so soothing. I have spent a good chunk of my life playing them. I adore them. I am grateful you all made them and they saved my life. I'm autistic and was bullied, like every other nerd I ain't special, but I found solace in these discordant worlds you created. They sing with life and death. I still play them. I have already started teaching my grandson how to play the OG titles. He is very big on early gaming era content. He's six and he wants to start at the beginning and it's just super cool to be able to show him these videos you have made and for that I thank you again! Cheers good sir Knight!
No, sir, thank you. I’m glad you like the games and my stories, and I’m thrilled you’re passing that down to your grandson.
@@CainOnGames I'm honored. Thank you for taking you time. You really have no idea.
What we really need is a Stonekeep remake. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the development of that game/on that kind of grid-based dungeon crawler!
Honestly the thing I would want the most would be for the companions to be revisited. They're kind of barebone in Fallout. Give them dialog trees so we know what they're all about, more reactivity to the environment, personal quest that improves their stats and keep them competitive! Now that would be sweet.
so basically make it more like fonv
A few of these ideas ended up happening in Skyrim and it went a long way towards making you feel like you had an impact in the game. Oh look, a fort full of bandits. Clear it out, come back a week later, and the Imperial Legion has moved in. Guards will remark on your armor, your weapons, have special dialogue for artifacts you might be carrying, it was really neat. It's neat when you feel like you're a part of the world and can have an effect on it.
Man these changes with like a Diablo II Resurrected type of art treatment would be so cool
I strongly agree withg your claims Tim, I just love your work and now I find it so nice to watch your vids here in YT
Forgive me have been watching your videos for quite some time now. Been a Fallout fan for some time now and now a fan of yours. Every video has been entertaining and educational all at once. Your an amazing person!🤯 Thank you!
I hear you frequently speak on playing as a character class and I think this ties into your TTRPG passion and perspective. I never really played a TTRPG, my experiences were formed by playing a majority of video games where classes usually didn't mean that much of a difference. Examples I could think of would be say Gauntlet or the first Diablo. Classes don't matter that much if you have enough quarters in the former or in the latter level up enough. I think the loss is on my part here because I am fascinated by hearing about people's TTRPG experiences (but usually more so on the lore) but my take on playing a game has been less, "Survival expert with a penchant for tinkering on computers" or "Charismatic leader and doctor with an extensive army" or "big strong brute fighter with amazing luck" so much as whatever attributes guides recommend for best playthrough. Maybe I'm having trouble seeing class in a video game or maybe I don't feel inclined to roleplay since I'm usually playing games by myself and letting the game reveal itself to me and I don't immerse myself much. I suppose from Fallout's entire series, if I were to pick a class, mine would be akin to a chaotic good thief/ninja/rogue type because I like the idea of striking without being seen and having massive effects from the surprise and avoiding fights I don't need, or basically Natalia Dubrovhsky.
Hi Tim! What are your thoughts on the myriad of Classical Fallout mod/games out there?
There's some really great ones that came into fruition this decade ranging from totally new universes to SOMEHOW making classic fallout into an MMORPG, have you seen any of them?
In my book having people still working on mods and expanding your universe almost 3 decades later surely must be something some kind of highest achievement when creating a game.
Would be fun to hear your thought on this!
TBH I did not know who you were when I stumbled upon your videos. When I learned you did Fallout I got really interested. Now I learned you also made Arcanum. That go me :) I played Arcanum several times with some unfinished attempts crashing in the middle of the game but still I played it again. Just wonderful game. Never played Masquerade, played TOEE only twice :) and Fallout... a lot of times. All I can say is thank you for all the entertainment and fun I had with these masterpieces. My gratitude and appreciation for all you have done Tim.
The thing that would me everyone happy, would be you guys ( and like you mentioned, gather most of the art team ) the team, getting to work together again, and to see that PASSION, once again, into a beloved game by so many.
Because, with all of that passion, ideas, creativity and everything learned PLUS some of the things thate exist today, and didn't exist back there.
All of that would make everyone happy, because you'd be a happy teamn with passion, and we would all be able to feel it, play it and ultimately, also, be happy
(:
If it ever does get a remake I would hope they do all of this. The expansion on the series's lore for the ending slides like you said with the NCR and other things would be cool to see
All of those assets would be amazing to get a hold of and rework with current tech. Especially the models, they have so much character and to see them in a higher resolution with textures and material shaders to compliment it would be something else. I think the only thing that ever showed up was a texture file of Tandi's face from FO2.
the level cap removal could be a new game PLUS thing you start a new game with your current character stats and levels. but all your gear is taken away or something like that.
so in practice you play the first time with the level cap on and then next playthrough unlocks the cap
Just wanted to say that you bring a smile to my face every video, and I love hearing your ideas and stories. They inspire me immensely
I would love so much for this to exist. Fallout 1 is the single game I credit with getting me into PC gaming, if not gaming as a whole. The Killian/Gizmo story is one of the things I reference to this day when talking about stuff I like in games, and I'd adore a visit to high-res Junktown, where maybe someone other than Dogmeat would notice my cool leather jacket.
I would absolutely love if all of this somehow came to fruition one day. If not as an official entry, at least as a community or fan project.
Speaking of that, Tim, I'm curious. Have you seen anything about New Blood's upcoming CRPG? Do you have any thoughts on it? It looks JUST like the original Fallout with higher res art and they even got Mark Morgan on board for the soundtrack. I'm super excited for it. Might be the closest thing to an actual Fallout remake we'll get.
Looks great, but I'd prefer classic combat.
Has there been anything recently released about the New Blood Interactive game? I remember it was awhile back now that the showed a black and white still image of it. I did a quick google search but didn't come up with anything other than that one image.
Fallout 1 & 2 are among my all time favorite games, I replay them every so often. A remake like you described it here would be a dream come true..
Fantastic video Tim, and I've gotta be honest. If we can't get this to happen I'm gonna be so mad.
Very nice ideas! I'm not sure how I feel about the level cap removal (not that you seem very adamant yourself on that); it tends to create same-y characters..
Would you do a remake of Arcanum and if so what would have been your vision?
If ya go the route of a post game sandbox you could always just leave the cap in place till the story was done.. sort of a thing to do post game for kicks..
Hey Tim, I'm curious if you're familiar with the ongoing Fallout 2 fan-made remake being done as a DOOM mod. It's a really cool and new idea, and I'd love to hear your opinions on the current demo. I know you didn't work on Fallout 2 for long and contributed less to it, but I would be really interested to know your thoughts!
Hey Tim. I think some of the changes are really good. Hearing about the locations having different states depending of the actions is really cool. I know a game that does this really well, it's call kenshi. In this game if you kill certain npcs in certain locations, some of the cities change for better or worst, this is called world states. You can even start a war between faction or completly exterminate a faction. The game was made by one guy during a process of 15 years of work. It has some of that buggy charm and its inspired on classic fallouts. Being a post-post apocalyptic samurai inspired sandbox. I think you will enjoy it. And if you get to play it, remember that any action has some effect on the player stats.
Have a good one and nice video as always
I think the reactivity stuff is an awesome idea. I LOVE it when games react to my decisions, even small ones i might not think about until the game reacts to it.
On that note, as someone who makes a lot of stealth characters, i think you should also consider disguises or costumes. If you wear certain armor, NPCs may treat you differently, especially faction armor. Out of all the RPGs with stealth mechanics, precious few allow me to take a guards armor to help me get somewhere im not aupposed to be, unless it was specifically part of a quest.
Kenshi has a rough disguise system, where looted faction armor gave you a percentage chance to be recognized as that faction, based on the number of pieces you were wearing, your stealth skill, and the faction of the NPC noticing you (same faction NPCs were more likely to see through the disguise).
I think it could be expanded upon in a lot of interesting ways, to allow some interesting gameplay options.
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Don’t listen to them tim
@@SofaPop. i think they’re just trolling a bit, I doubt they have bad intentions lmao
No Tim is allowed to do that without looking like a nerd
Tim what is your opinion on dialogue skill checks? New RPGs have all the checks tagged, and even worse, they show the threshold necessary to pass them, while old cRPGs didn't have dialogue tags at all. What alternative do you like more?
I think INT and CHA should provide a base level of speech, with the speech skill adding on top of that, with LUCK and reputation adding a final modifier. What you’re likely to achieve and what is required should remain hidden.
Maybe there should be an option to turn on or off skill check tags, like in Pillars of Eternity.
@@xgrillsenx Is that what the expert mode does? Or is it turned off in the configurations?
@@arthurvandelay. I believe it is just a setting in the options, I haven't played expert mode though, so it could be on by default in that mode.
This all sounds great. I wish there was a kickstarter! 👍
So many brilliant ideas here TIM! I would really look forward to a remake you'd make of Fallout with most of the original team maybe.
I personally wouldn't remove the level cap. I would maybe have a diminishing returns near the end of leveling, so maybe if the level cap is lvl 20, the player would reach their potential at level 15 and still be able to grow until level 20, but in a much limited capacity where it wouldn't impact the capabilities of the player but just prepare them for a battle (critical or not) I think. (Fine tuning?)
I would agree, with the updated art since you aren't that limited to hardware today as you guys were in 1990's lol. Although I would argue, sometimes lower detailed artwork gives me more to flesh out with my imagination which ads to the player agency over their story or journey. Also, you are able to get away with turn based mechanics more easily I think aswell.
I wouldn't tamper with the mechanics, as I feel it's brilliant as it is. I am currently doing a playthrough with mutliple starts just to document the differences and my actions affect each replay or test.
I love how each point matters in the SPECIAL system and affects what type of character I want to play. For instance, If I want to shoot everything, I can compromise on Endurance, but the con to that would be melee enemies would make tender meat out me up-close. Also, ammo is limited, but then maybe relying on a backup melee weapon would come into play which can be exciting. Maybe a more survival horror based element can be cool to it aswell such as the Resident Evil type of games where ammo is scarce or pricey.
I also dislike base building as it takes a long time to build a base in Fallout 4 for example, and the payoff usually isn't worth it, because of it's custom nature, lacks depth or quality when you spawn waves of generic enemies attacking it and trying to defend against their attack, it becomes more of a chore later down the line as you have to present each time to be in control.
What I always would like in an RPG wouyld be to join 1 faction, and one faction only instead of being a jack of all guilds so to speak. I didn't like the Elder Scrolls style of being everything, I would rather want to specialize and create a story with my faction. Maybe perks of having them as followers and having more followers with each rank in that faction.
There is a lot to digest, I apologize, but these thoughts stood out to me based on what you mentioned in the video. Thanks for your hardwork so far and the legacy you have given us in game development! I am enjoying my Fallout playthrough.
You mostly focused on mechanics here- are there any story things you’d want to change/add/remove if you were to remake Fallout? And same question for Fallout 2
Elephant Question in the Room: do the copious 90's pop culture references stay? XD
A good remake stays faithful to the original story, quirks and all. If they make changes, even minor ones like some of the dated pop culture references, the game loses some of its original identity. In the case of fallout 1 and 2, the story and characters are already so well done. All the games really need is a visual uplift and some qol updates in the mechanics and ui.
I can understand the frustration in a high level character being able to do anything. Though, being able to level up, through the grind mind you, has always been a useful mechanic for me, I think due to a high level of anxiety that I have rolled into videogames. Slow meticulous playing, leading to an overpowered character, relieves that and I can trudge forward without the fear of an in-game death. I wish I didn't have this problem 😅
I really like the idea of kind of merging a skill point and action based system where you still get points to level up, but the more experience you gained doing certain actions gets you bonuses to those skills. Say you spent an entire level punching things you would get skill points to assign wherever you wanted but you either get bonus points or a multiplier for every point you put into unarmed. You could even have it where you automatically get points to those skills when you level up and then free skill points to put wherever you want.
A remake based on the Et Tu mod, with all the possible changes you mentioned, would be the ultimate FO1 experience I believe.
Solid stuff. I'd suggest possibly:
- getting rid of hex and revise the movement system to be limited by formula :
Available AP x (AGILITY stat x (set distance ) )
and displayed as a radius similar to BG3 .
- Have the reveal that if you don't bloody mess the overseer that you can see that the vault was pissed at exiling the Vault Dweller.(some people still miss that dialogue in 2 )
- Rework Scout so if you choose to enter them you aren't caught off guard on ambushes encounters and to not trigger on special encounters that aren't fights by default.
Larian Studios + Fallout IP = Cash printing machine
Honestly, if Bethesda hired Larian for a fallout remake like they did with Obsidian for New Vegas, it would probably be game of the year. But it's bethesda, so it'll never happen lol
One can dream
The fallout IP would be more of a waste of talent for larian.
Problem is IP owners get so much of the revenue. Larian should build there own IP for their own sake and not prop up Bethesda.
And now, do it. (If only). I started another play through of Fallout last night, and it’s still just as captivating as when I first played it at release. It’s just that good! Thanks Tim!
A couple ideas that come to mind:
1. Keep the 150-day timer for the chip but either remove or increase the Necropolis timer to a point where killing the mutants and the Master is doable without too many problems.
2. Bigger map and more stuff to do + cut content.
3. More side quests + making them a bit more clear on the map.
4. Cities with all sections merged (we can handle this now)
5. Make Big Guns more viable (they get outshined by Energy Weapons in FO1)
6. Make the other traits more useful. (Atm for FO1 only Gifted + Small Frame/Fast Shot/Finesse is viable)
7. Implement an improved version of the FO2 companion system (which is kinda done in Et Tu)
Regarding reactivity, one of the stand out parts of the first fallout game is how much you're ignored as you walk around, which I really like. In Bethesda games it's really annoying that every NPC you walk past has something to say. Imagine walking around a town you've never been in and every person you meet tells you some stupid fact or tidbit about their personal life.
No NPC Greetings, Vendors Reply Only with 'Take a Look' and, especially, The Choice is Yours mods for the win. I love that a lot of modders for one Bethesda game generally produce the same mods for other Bethesda games (and Bethesda might get the message) or I might not ever play them (or play them again) for that reason alone. You can't go anywhere without "overhearing" something and having radiants galore added to your quest log automatically. The Choice Is Yours, especially, is a life-saver because you can pick and choose what you will and will not pursue even if you initiated a conversation with a questgiver in Skyrim.
A lot of RPGs perhaps *overdo* the background conversations, etc. because the developers fear the world will sound dead (i.e. not lively) or empty or that players will miss content they want them to see, but that's half the fun. If you don't choose to engage on one playthrough, you might on another, but most games today want you to become a member (if not the leader) of every faction and do everything there is to do in the game in a single go. That wreaks havoc with roleplay to the point that I made Brynolf, for example, unessential and killed him off via the console just so he wouldn't follow me around Riften insisting my character was a thief every time s/he showed up. Things like that irriate the **** out of me. Now, thanks to The Choice Is Yours, Brynolf gets to live to another day. The conversation occuring between Mjoll and Aerin upon entering Riften is enough to let you know where you are and what the place is like and even the barkeep mentions the Ratway if the Thieves Guild route is the way you want to go. And when my Nordic Ranger showed up at the Mage's College in Skyrim just to ask where to retrieve a piece of an amulet and was met with the "if you want to be a student here, you'll have to prove yourself" nonsense, I was literally thinking to myself, "Do I look like a mage to you?!" No, I didn't want to become a member of the college. At least, not right then and not on that playthrough at all.
I can only imagine what players of games that don't provide mod support must be going through. This goes back to a point Neverknowsbest was making about developers working longer and harder to actively make their games worse. Things can be overcooked as well as undercooked and it's probably the most delicate balance a game has to strike to be enjoyable as opposed to so irritating, aggravating and annoying you just don't want to play it anymore.
Yeah, modern devs really need to put thought into when it's appropriate for random NPCs to make random quip at you.
If you're not supposed to be a well-known figure in those parts, they should just treat you however it is that they would realistically treat a random unknown person (ignore you in a big settlement, perhaps a look of distrust in a smaller town, etc).
If you've became famous (or infamous), only then should reactions differ. In that distinction is reactivity better demonstrated, rather than always have everyone everywhere uniformly have a reaction to you.
My opinion, anyway!
Question: Do you think base building/ creation tools within a game creates a god complex and makes the player disconnect from the world?
And how do you Balance player 'ability' vs making the world feel like a real place?
it's just boring and out of place. I like Tetris but I wouldn't suggest putting it in Fallout as a minigame.
Hope this comes to fruition for both the originals 🙏🙏
Hi Tim i've been loving your videos, i would really like to hear you talk about disco elysium because for me it was a game that completely changed the way i see rpgs and what's possible in videogames, hearing the input of an rpg veteran like you would be great
I think people get remake and remaster confused
Sounds like a patch rather than a remake.
I think the success of BG3 and DOS2 really speaks to the potential of a modernized Fallout in its classic format. DOS2 feels so close to AP and the sprites being originally 3d it makes a lot of sense as a 3d isometric game.
I think you hit the nail right on the head with the improvements you'd want to make. I think a big thing for me, personally, would be the inventory-system, as everything takes a reasonably large number of clicks, and most other things in the game are pretty gentle in that front. This is mostly due to the fact that I easily get pain in my hands, and I would wish games in general were a little more... conservative with the hilariously large amount of clicks required to do extremely trivial, non-engaging tasks.
Microsoft… Bethesda… Can we please make this happen? Please?
I'm always torn between "remake great old games to make them even better" and "make new games based on the lessons of the past".
Not necessarily a dichotomy
Show me one remake that actually improved on the base game. At best they have to make concessions to stay competitive, at worst they're handled by people who don't respect the originals. New games suffer from this, too, as they're mostly made by people who never played the classics.
@@pitbul2877 Resident Evil 2 buddy lol (or Mafia 1, or Dead Space, or Black Mesa, or Wasteland. List goes on and on lmao). Just cause you're blind to good remakes doesn't mean they don't exist
@@NoFeckingNamesLeft It is when you're talking about development time.
@@zurcus7224 None of these are objectively better than the originals tho? I never said there is no good remakes
I would assume like many other new viewers I have only recently stumbled upon your channel due to the RUclips algorithm + the new TV show. I’ve been a fan since the original game but was quite young when they came out (probably too young to have been playing games like Fallout haha) so consequently had really no idea who made these games. I only recently learned more about who Brian Fargo was and the history of Interplay, and now learning more about you and listening to all the interviews of the members of the team and other stories shared on this channel has just been such a treat. Thank you so much for your contributions to this art form and for this fantastic channel. Not sure if you will see this or have time to respond to a comment on an old video but one question: given the massive success of BG3 what do you think about the idea of a new Fallout game in an updated version of the original CRPG style? Not sure if you are under NDA for anything like this or if you have addressed the idea already in another video, but since you explicitly mentioned in this video that you wouldn’t want a remake to be a new game per se I’m curious about your thoughts on the concept. I love Bethesda (also played Daggerfall at way too young an age haha) but for me, Fallout will always be best in its original genre and I’d love to see that return. I really enjoyed Wasteland 3 for this reason. Anyway, thanks again for everything!
Hi Tim just wanted to say i recently bought fallout and fallout 2 after only playing the 3D fallout games. I’ve still only just started fallout but I’m already in love with the system and style of the game. Every choice feels like it matters, I can’t just wander around because my vault needs me to find that water chip! I feel like most of that would be lost in a different version of the game. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas with the community, I’ve always been fascinated with game development and writing. One suggestion I have would be expanding the conversation option with NPCs. In the original game having the option to ask a companion a general keyword that could cause them to say some info made them seem more lifelike…until they don’t know a keyword and don’t get the concept of what radiation means lol. In a remake having expanded NPC conversations with more dynamic interactions would be so cool!
I Need a NV's Remake :(
New Vegas story and dialogue options on Fallout 4 engine 😍
I know it's confirmed but I think 3 needs a remake more than NV as NV mods are excellent and can basically make it into a modern game but 3 doesn't really have that love and mods were broken with games for windows live. But would also love a remaster of 1 + 2 to make it easier for someone like me to get into
Also I would love if they passed the IP to Obsidian again so they can make another spin off so I don't have to wait until I'm like 35 (23 now) to play another new official Fallout release
yeah, NV is probably the most painful one to get running these days
Speaking of the chess match with the ZAX, it would be neat if it showed up as a game you can actually play, with it being terminal based with ascii characters and the game types from the original (Blitz, bullet, etc.)
I love these ideas! I know you talk a lot about wanting to spur a player into playing again, but something that was really difficult for me in Fallout was the invisible timers for saving all the different towns from mutants! The solution that I (not a game dev or expert) thought would be nice would be a prompt at certain intervals, either a pop-up or some kind of terrified survivor that tells the player like "The mutant armies are marching north..." or "The mutant army has grown in force, there are rumors that they are marching to claim a settlement!" or something to that effect.
I know saying "they're going to shady sands" would prompt the player to GO there instead of fighting the mutants/master, but something to just say "you need to get back to work" because there's not really anything in the game or manual that says that there's a time limit that's causing those endings.
It would get hyper censored. Fallout was a product of its time you can even shoot kids and be hyper evil if you wanted to. I dont think modern devs have the guts for a full roleplaying experience where almost anything goes.
And they would add in modern politics and other rot to force an agenda in your face.
You can kill kids in Baldurs gate 3 and that's pretty damn modern.
meanwhile CP77, when you get into car: kids? What kids? We ain't got any.
They removed kids from certain versions of the game because of the controversy, you gotta get a patch to add them back in lol. Wasn't exactly the wild west back then.
@@shizzledink I didnt knew that, thats interesting.
The question is do people want a Remake or a Remaster? I think many are open to a Remaster, meaning better graphics and QOL improvements. A 3D Remake is the whole debate.
However, due to how modern Western gaming companies like to censor, "adjust for the modern audience" and force their politics into almost everything, I do not think we are in the right era to remake most things.
Oh no, people would force politics into Fallout! How horrible! That series was so free of politics from day 1
@@zurcus7224 Of courses Fallout has ingame politics related to the real world, but never lectures you. But you are being disingenuous as we all know that they push modern propaganda these days.
@@AndreasSelzerAt the end of FO2 the walking embodiment of American fascism and imperialism calls you a dirty mutant who needs to be eliminated and you respond by tearing him in half and blowing his head off. Can you explain to me what they were trying to say with that? It's not obvious enough for me to understand.
Something I personally would love to see, though it would probably be too much work, is them to create talking heads for every character you can speak to in the game. Even just guards or civilians that have one-line responses when you click on them. I imagine clicking on the character and it pulls up the talking head animation, they say something like "I ain't got time to talk," and then just closes on its own. I feel like that would bring a sense of modernity to the game since I know there's tons of people out there who hate reading, though I just like the animations themselves. I looked forward to every talking head character you can encounter so I don't know if that would make those interactions less unique?
Hey,
some thoughts on the points mentioned. How about removing the level cap after one did finish the game and one (in lore) becomes this mystical figure of "The Vault Dweller" while having a questseries to found Arroyo to bridge Fallout 1 and 2?
For Intelligence, one could maybe split the skill points per level also to Luck so one had a chance to get more or with bad luck even less skill points on a level up, Gambling as a perk could then up either the ups/downs or the odds of those occurring.
Maybe an inverse interaction with the Perk rate? Like the lower the Intelligence the better the Perk rate? That would offer 2 very different approaches to gain power for the character, either more skill points or more perks.
Don't do a remake, just do an actual sequel in 2D. Let's forget about those 3D wannabes
Thank you. I would love to see you code some small games, for fledgling game devs. You are a hero to me.
I love the settlement-system and could see it utilized to rebuild the various towns to help the inhabitants, making a mark on the world. Not to let the player have 'ownership' of these towns, just some guy being hired to do technical stuff (if the player has the right perks). And you could create a fast-travel system using caravans between these towns, so it doesn't seem 'cheaty'.
Gambling might've been nice as an alternative to just having high gun skills for specific body part aiming - IE you gamble on a lucky hit in the eyes vs "I have 150 small guns so I snipe them in the eyeballs every single time".
Thanks for everything Tim, you're the GOAT
I think another cool addition would be the ability to switch between 1st person and have a top down 3rd person (Kinda like FO4's character camera but zoomed further out). The NPC re-pop idea is wonderful. Seeing those changed you make in the wasteland really drive the immersion factors. We don't even need to overhaul the graphics I'd be okay playing this like an old-school Doom fps but Fallout.
I think there's definitely room to port the original Fallout to all platforms with gamepad support if it were ever to be remade, a lot of people would really love it if they had the chance to try it.
People would also get a clearer idea of where the series' identity started to give them some perspective when comparing with the recent games.
Personally if Fallout 1+2 was to get a remake, I think Larian studios making it with the passion and thought-process of Baldur's Gate 3 would be insanely cool. I would also love to have yourself on board as well.
Hey Tim! I was just thinking that while it's true that no level cap means you can effectively become God by maxing out every stat, I also feel this wouldn't be a problem in Fallout so much because of the timer restricting the amount of grinding you can do. Since time is a scarce resource in the game, and the game will end if you don't complete your main objectives in time, there's only so much time you can spend levelling up before you hit a natural cap anyway. Just a thought!
I love the idea of locations responding to PC changes -- just like what the Keep on the Borderlands recommended the DM do as the players cleared out various caves! Cheers.
Remakes of Fallout and Fallout 2 would be interesting, especially after seeing what modern turnbased games are capable of (Wasteland 3 and Larian's works come to mind). But what I'd really love to see is an Arcanum Remake. The original just captivated me, all of it, the unique world, the characters, the lore... everything. So much so, in fact, that I've homebrewed a veeery primitive tabletop rules adaptation of it, so far only for my drawer (and I don't expect that to change anytime soon). Admittedly, the game is a flawed gem, but exactly because that, it deserves to be polished to perfection, doesn't matter that it'd have taken over 20 years. Not to mention that, if I understood right, there are some concepts for a sequel out there.
You've just said my thoughts I've been collecting for fallout remake I want to make. I'm supper happy now.
been waiting for this one
a level cap would be cool yk that way the developers can create a system where the perk you choose feels more important, you could also make that once you reach the final level you get the option to keep leveling up or not.
This would be great if it happened.
The work nightdive studios has done with their remasters has been great which gives me hope for other games in the future
I'd play it for the additional ending slides alone. I remember finishing Fallout and being blown away by the ending slides, revisiting where I was good and bad and the out comes. It was like nothing I had ever seen before, instead of end story and done, seeing all the impact from the side work, made me want to play the game again.
Hi Tim, thanks for the videos they're both entertaining & informative to watch! 😁👍
Also I've got a question in regards to Fallout 1's release date, was it released on October 7th, 1997? Or October 10th, 1997? 🤔
Good question. Here's what I have in my notes (all dates are 1997):
Oct 1: final build made, tested, and sent to the duplicator
Oct 7: reports from people on the Internet that they have seen the game in U.S. stores
Oct 9: we confirmed the game for sale in local stores
Oct 10: official release day
For Scout, I could probably see reworking that so instead of decreasing the chance of a random encounter, it gives you choices on how you want to handle the encounter, whether you fight or take a detour around the encounter, or it could offer information about what’s in the encounter beforehand so you could be better informed on what to expect if you do investigate it. Basically, a perk that gives the player better information for making a decision, or otherwise allows for them to have more control over their decision-making, rather than making those decisions easier
a fallout 1 remake in the style of baldurs gate would be sick
Regarding the level cap: I feel that level caps tend to force me to build a characters end point from the get-go, while uncapped makes me able to have a organic character growth.
After Diablo 2 Resurrected came out and I played it for months all I could think was "man I wish they would do fallout 1 and 2 like this" it was (in my opinion) the perfect remake. the graphics are amazing, they added quality of life stuff like auto gold pickup and bigger stash space and even reworked some items and added a few rune words. I would love a remake for fallout 1 and 2 like that.
Honestly the coolest thing would be the ability to spin the camera around and have the buildings be higer fidelity.
Be able to walk through companions/move them so they dont block you into a hallway or corner.
My favorite addition in fallout 4 and new vegas is the personalities and faction alignments the followers would have. Some would get angry at you if you stole or if you attacked a faction they liked.
More voiced/animated faces for npcs.
Your idea for procedural generation reminds me of daggerfall or starfield. I personally prefer more curated areas than procedural jank. Always sounds good on paper but evey implementation ive seen always leaves something to be desired.
Those sound like good ideas! I hope we get out of this era of constant remakes soon though. A lot of old video games are still very good, even if you didn't play them at the time. I had only reached the ripe old age of 4 when Fallout came out, but I think the game pretty much holds up today, you wouldn't really need to change much at all. There's a really cool fan remake of the old Lego RTS Rock Raiders (the remakes is confusingly titled "Manic Miners") that included a remastered campaign with new features, the classic campaign with bug fixes, and the classic campaign with all the old flaws intact. Something like that for the original Fallout would be really cool.
I think a "real" remake should not be afraid to change things up and play with what is already there.
Beyond that, this is interesting stuff.
There is one thing I missed: Dogmeat is not in the endslides. It's minor, but after getting him alive through the Church and Mariposa, Dogmeat must accompany the player character after casting out of the vault...