Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game?

• simple@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Countless games have had successful remakes, and crazy profits.

  The vast majority of remakes, even the bigger budget ones tend to be of smaller games. Games that are easier to recreate or port. Bethesda games are huge, and it’d need to be ported to another engine and redo everything from voice acting to the open world visuals. Even if they’ll bother with all that, I don’t think there’s a demand to remake Bethesda’s older, clunkier games.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Voice acting has been good enough in the past few decades that it’s usually usable without re-recording. Maybe remastering at most.

    There’s also plenty of tooling to upscale textures too, even without AI. The biggest hurdle (for assets, at least) is 3D models. You can slap a subdivision modifier on them to make them higher-poly, but you’d still have to make sure the UVs didn’t get messed up (or whatever it is that they’re using these days). And also verify that nothing weird happened like new geometry hiding or showing something in-game. (Collision probably doesn’t need to change if you’re just increasing polycount.)

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d like to see that data. I’d be surprised if it exists, companies rarely release that level of detail on their finances.

  And “evil” is a very strong word. We’re talking about video games, a luxury recreational product.

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