'Remaster New Vegas Boss!' — Danny Trejo Calls on Bethesda to Give Fallout Fans What They Really Want

With Fallout Day upon america and rumors swirling astir remakes, remasters, and adjacent caller games successful the celebrated post-apocalyptic role-playing series, 1 Hollywood prima has made his thoughts crystal clear.

That prima is Danny Trejo, whose appearances successful the likes of From Dusk till Dawn, Con Air, and Spy Kids made him a cult figure. But he’s intimately acquainted with Fallout, too, having played Raul Alfonso Tejada, a Ghoul companion, successful the much-loved Fallout: New Vegas.

So it stands to crushed that Trejo would, similar truthful galore fans, emotion to spot Fallout: New Vegas instrumentality successful immoderate fashion. Responding to Bethesda’s authoritative Instagram station connected what to expect from Fallout Day, Trejo said: “Remaster New Vegas boss!” alongside a occurrence emoji. Trejo has 3.1 cardinal followers connected Instagram, truthful his remark volition beryllium heard large crossed the societal network.

Alas, a Fallout: New Vegas remaster was not connected Bethesda’s authoritative database of games acceptable to look during its Fallout Day broadcast, which is acceptable for 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK today, October 23. Specifically connected Fallout 76, Bethesda volition amusement much of the Burning Springs update. This large expansion, owed retired successful December, sees Walton Goggins reprise his fan-favorite relation arsenic The Ghoul from the Fallout TV show.

Fallout Shelter is besides mentioned, arsenic is Fallout 4 and Creations, which suggests the decennary aged role-playing crippled volition get immoderate caller contented soon. Creations are assemblage created mods released officially for Bethesda’s video games.

Elsewhere, determination are caller merch drops, assemblage in-person events, and a post-show celebrating the community. There is nary circumstantial notation of the Fallout TV show, either. with Season 2 owed retired successful December.

There are each sorts of rumors floating astir astir imaginable Fallout remakes present that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is retired the doorway (Fallout 3 Remastered was leaked backmost successful 2023, but those plans whitethorn person changed). And we cognize Bethesda plans to yet get to Fallout 5, albeit aft The Elder Scrolls 6.

The past we heard connected Fallout 5, by the way, was backmost successful June 2024, erstwhile Bethesda Softworks caput Todd Howard said helium wasn’t funny successful rushing it retired the door. Howard opened up astir the aboriginal of the deed post-apocalyptic RPG bid during an interrogation with YouTube contented creator MrMattyPlays.

"For different Fallout games successful the future, you know, evidently I can’t speech astir those close now, but I would say, benignant of rushing done them, oregon we benignant of request to get worldly retired that is antithetic than the enactment we’re doing successful 76… we don’t consciousness similar we request to unreserved immoderate of that," helium said. "The Fallout TV amusement fills a definite niche successful presumption of the franchise and storytelling."

The past mainline Fallout crippled was Fallout 4, which was released successful 2015. DLC contented for the introduction was steadily released for PC and consoles implicit the adjacent year, and successful 2018, Bethesda launched its multiplayer-centered offshoot, Fallout 76. While fans dilatory flocked to the West Virginia-set open-world RPG, it wasn’t until the premiere of Prime Video’s Fallout TV amusement that the Bethesda bid leveled up successful presumption of attention.

Danny Trejo wants Bethesda to remaster Fallout: New Vegas. Photo by Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images.

Still, Howard wouldn't budge erstwhile it came to desires for a important video crippled release. For him, it comes down to wanting to dainty Bethesda's franchises with care.

"Totally get the tendency for a caller benignant of mainline single-player game," helium said. "And look, those things instrumentality time. I don’t deliberation it’s atrocious for radical to miss things. We conscionable privation to get it close and marque definite that everything we’re doing successful a franchise, whether it’s Elder Scrolls, Fallout, oregon present Starfield, that those go meaningful moments for everybody who loved these franchises arsenic overmuch arsenic we do."

Perhaps Danny Trejo should person a word?

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].