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Sure, but like…would it really be the end of the world if it got controller support? I’m far more comfortable on controller than I am on mouse and keyboard, largely because I work on mouse and keyboard all day.

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It would be very difficult to control a game like Fallout 1 with a conventional controller, but if you really need it you can use DOSBox, which has controller support. The Retroarch core is probably the easiest to use and setup, I am not sure about the standalone version, but it is probably similar.

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I’m playing Fallout 2 via GOG right now, and I would really appreciate controller support.

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You’re best bet is doing that commentor’s suggestion. Those games do not map to a controller that well and most likely will never officially receive that.

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add it to steam as a non-steam game , if you use that for other games, and try to create a mapping with Steaminput. I have not done that for fallout, but that offers so many options that i am certain you’ll be able to map everything to your controller you need.

If steam is not an option xpadder or joy2key might work for you, but i have not used them for ages.

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Write a mod. Or pay someone to.

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Steam Deck is such a godsend for these exact situations. Played through Tactics on my deck earlier in the year.

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Sadly FO1 plays terribly on it if you don’t have a mouse and keyboard, and the resolution/display settings get borked all the time

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Steam Input lets you map the trackpads to a mouse and you can map the buttons to any keyboard button. You can even map a zoom button and force the game to a specific resolution. It’s doable if you believe in yourself haha.

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Well support might not be an option but have you considered/tried something like xpadder? I had to use it to map keyboard buttons to a controller for gameboy emulators a couple years ago. Might do the trick.

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What I need is a larger UI so I can fucking see what the hell I’m doing. I got like 6.25 glasses and astigmatism, and I guess I should qualify as having a visual impairment because fallout 1 is unplayable

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Yeah, being able to zoom in and out and scale the UI would be huge quality of life improvements. Maybe even make the Pip Boy map slightly more usable.

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Good. Leave them be, Howard.

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He’s too busy working on the next skyrim release anyway.

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Are there any platforms left?

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They still havent gotten it on Apple Vision Pro and Amazon Alexa Microwave Ovens

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Allow me to introduce Skyrim Very Special Edition

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I’d love to see them try to run it on a Flipper Zero. Theoretically you could maybe make it work. Should you? Absolutely not, but I wanna see it.

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Oh fuck, they even have it on ti-84

https://youtu.be/rN58_svR8nk?si=KjSREre2P8eX-5Ie

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The ti-84 is actually using a version of a processor from the 70s

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what a bunch of bullshit. These games are still good now because they are timeless. the only thing of its era in these games is some of the bugs and the visuals; which a remake should fix. Honestly the only reason i would even want a remake is because i constantly get graphical glitches in the original releases and because i want a lot of the bugs fixed that aren’t even fixed through community patches

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He said exactly that…

A remaster can certainly help with modernising some aspect, but ehh people been asking for a remake so i get where he’s coming from.

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I think when people ask for a remake they usually just mean a remaster, anyway. Unfortunately in practice they have different meanings. 🤔

Like, I don’t want the games remade in a different vision with changes to plot, characters, or dialogue; I want the same games just brought up to modern standards. So technically, I want remasters.

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Look, I wouldn’t mind a remake in whatever gamebryo engine they’re using today but my confidence in their ability to accurately portray the originals without missing out on the intricacies of them isn’t particularly high.

To name two off the top of my inebriated head; becoming a pornstar and murdering children are two things I can’t see Bethesda including in a remake of Fallout 2.

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the bugs and the visuals; which a remake should fix.

It’s Bethesda. They’ll introduce more bugs, and I’m not talking about rad scorpions

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You can still run Fallout 1 and 2 on modern hardware. Maybe not the original disks, but a remake wouldn’t fix that anyways.

A remake would involve redoing nearly everything in the base game in a new engine. You’re likely thinking of a remaster, which brings it up to modern hardware without rebuilding the whole thing.

A remake isn’t needed for fallout 1 or 2

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Rewriting the entire code for 2 25 year old games without changing the end result is a lot of work.

They’d also need to redo the voice acting for legal reasons like mods do and change some of the dialogue that wouldn’t fly these days.

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Tell me you have no idea about software development without saying you have no idea about software development

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