Overview
- Former New Vegas lead Chris Avellone, in an interview reported Wednesday by multiple outlets, said Bethesda lacks what it needs to rebuild the 2010 RPG for a proper remaster.
- He claims Obsidian did not deliver the final milestone tied to handing over the full source and build instructions for $10,000, leaving Bethesda without an assembled version of the game.
- Avellone argued Bethesda "doesn't have the engineering know-how" to remaster New Vegas and floated an Unreal Engine visual wrapper as a possible workaround that he said should be tested first on Fallout 3.
- He added that early ideas for a direct New Vegas sequel "quickly evaporated" and that such a project will not happen in the next six years at least, if ever.
- Outlets note these are Avellone's assertions rather than confirmed facts, and they report no official comment from Bethesda, Obsidian, or Microsoft, though Avellone also described Van Buren story seeds that fed into New Vegas.