• SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    This is advanced CEO brain. He read the same reviews as everyone else did, but he has to conclude that he should play it safer with the company’s money, which means we’ll probably be getting another Skyrim port or two before TES VI.

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      7 months ago

      The lovingly crafted story|-------------------------|infinite steamed hams ratchet only goes one way.

      If a game using more procedurally generated content does well, the ratchet is cranked and the next game has even more busy work. If it bombs, we get a rerelease of the last game a.

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      The fucked up thing is he’s probably right

      If they had just made Fallout 5 or Elder Scrolls 6 I’m pretty sure the game wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much backlash even if it sucked just as bad because people would have been more forgiving of an existing IP due to feeling loyalty to that series

      Everyone ignored how deeply flawed Bethesda games were for years up until this and I don’t see too many waking up to how they’ve always kinda sucked

      That’s not to say Skyrim and Fallout 3 aren’t fun but the base gameplay has never been great

      • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        all bethesda has ever been decent at was world design, fallout 3 and skyrim were super well made open worlds imo, just great to walk around in

        but the engine and combat and dialogue and storytelling is such trash, every single time, and this time they fucked up the world too