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Bethesda 'demakes' Fallout 3 for Japanese New Vegas website

by JC Fletcher on Jan 3rd 2011 4:00PM

"Demakes" have become a trend in the last couple of years, thanks to things like TIGSource competitions and Eric Ruth's "Pixel Force" games. Now that trend has officially entered the mainstream, as Bethesda has released an 8-bit style demake of its own game, Fallout 3.

Well, sort of. The Japanese Fallout: New Vegas website is designed as a Dragon Quest-style RPG, presenting the menu and links as areas on a pixelated map of Fallout 3's Capital Wasteland, with each link leading to an amusing faked gameplay segment, along with a Japanese-language explanation of that particular game element.

It's designed to introduce Japanese gamers to the "Freestyle RPG" design of the Fallout games, but it also has the side effect of being awesome.

Via: Bethblog
Source: Bethesda

Tags: Bethesda-Softworks, demake, fallout-3, Fallout-New-Vegas, japan, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (30)

The funny thing is that most Japanese players would rather play something like this than the actual Fallout 3.

@NukaCola

Are you really saying that if someone made an open-world RPG in the style of the old Final Fantasy games you wouldn't play it? That's my dream game.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my
How do you not know what to do in that game? It is one of the most awesome game and not hard at all where to go next. Maybe it's just cause I played the SNES version and didn't get all the fancy scenes all you new players get. In fact, I'm going to go pick up this new remake of Chrono Trigger. But before I do, I'm going to try beating Super Kaizo world. God that game is hard.

@NukaCola

I think I actually enjoyed FFXII more because I didn't play it until after I had played some Fallout 3 and understood what a more open world could mean for a game.

@quiggy Uhhhh...play Wasteland, Fallout 1 and 2.

@GewurztraminerX
Thank you for saying that. FFXII gets so much bad talk against it when I thought it was a step forward for the series. Let's put it this way, no one complained about linearity while Final Fantasy XII was new. Sure it had its flaws, but it was the first Final Fantasy game in a while that I played and actually had fun.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

I think it's because you replied as if you were in 4chan, despite the truth in your comment.

If this were real it would be pretty awesome,I can actually see this happening in the future...just not by Bethesda.

Translate it to engrish and put in XBLA for 5 bucks and I guarantee it'll make a million. Or as Mr Esc said, maybe put it on DS/android?

@SuperWoody64
Take it a step further and release it on all platforms. DS, PSP, iPhone, Android, WP7, Xbox Live, PSN, PC.

@Bewoulf
I only mentioned the systems I'd buy it on. I wouldn't be against it going to psp/iOS/psn etc. I just wouldn't buy it unless that was the only option.

Good try on getting Japanese interested in Western games by making it into a cookie cutter JRPG.

Here are some other thoughts on making Fallout more appealing to Japanese gamers:

They should replace the dog in Fallout 3 with an annoying cat like creature that talks in a high pitched voice.

Port it to a portable device. Japanese gamers only play games in subways.

Add a dating sim. Lots of girls in school girl outfits.

@FriedConsole

These sound like awesome improvements to me.

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my
That mentality is silly to me. I play the games that are enjoyable, I don't care where they are made. I understand cultural differences, hell I see it in the JRPGs I play. But I've played some Japanese games that are amazing and likewise there are some amazing Western games. But if we are referring strictly to the RPG genre, I could understand that. Western companies were really slow to really get the hang of RPGs.

You'd think a demake of fallout 3 would be fallout.

@Unreal Armos

Ironic...

@Unreal Armos
It turns out Fallout 3 reduces to a jrpg.
Fallout reduces to Wasteland, by comparison.

@Unreal Armos

Actually I'd be more interested in seeing a 8bit or 16bit rendition of Fallout.

*Daydreams about roaming a pixelated Junktown or Hub*

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

Agreed. This needs to be a PSP Mini, like, last week.

10 years ago no one wanted to play open-ended rpgs. it was all JRPGS. Nowadays they bitch about JRPGS. Ironic, to say the least.

@The Minn

Romancing Saga gave you a hell of a lot choices...and it was soundly trashed just for that.

I don't understand internet land complaints sometimes.

Dragon Quest + Fallout? Where do I sign up?

Hey that's pretty neat ^_^

...but in order for this to have the full effect of being anything related to Fallout Vegas....it has to crash every 20 to 30 minutes of play, enemies falling through the ground during combat, and your companion characters vanishing and/or dying for no apparent reason.

I bet the remake has far less bugs. Fix my game Obsidian!

Do you really have to "demake" fallout 3?!?

Isn't that the games that came out 10 years previous to fallout 3.. called Fallout and Fallout 2.

WTF??!! That picture/website/idea is crazy! And it does make me miss Fallout 3

Good for you Bethesda, trying to get Japanese gamers on board with the games everyone else has been playing for years now. Baby steps Japan, baby steps.

How about a link. Joystick sucks on giving proper links.

@GErvy It's under "source" in the article.

Just like every article on joystiq.

@The Nth Doctor

DOH - I stand corrected. Wonder if there is an Engrish version.

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