Fallout: New Vegas writer and former Obsidian creative officer, Chris Avellone, says don't get your hopes up for an Oblivion-style remaster of the game, and his reasoning is a bit of a doozy.
"I don't think Bethesda has the engineering knowhow to make a remaster of New Vegas at all," says Avellone in an interview with TKs-Mantis (spotted by GR+). That's a pretty eyebrow-raising assertion, given that what the studio and Virtuous managed with Oblivion, but Avellone argues there's a unique roadblock with New Vegas: "the very last milestone" Bethesda gave Obsidian Entertainment was to "deliver all the source code and the ability to make the build" for $10,000.
"For reasons unknown to me, but I have suspicions, [Obsidian studio head] Feargus [Urquhart] decided not to cash out that milestone, and did not deliver it," says Avellone. "It's not a strange decision if you feel, which would not be out of the realms of ...
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