There is a 100% chance that this game is going to suck.
For one brief moment, at least we got Skyrim (even though it was a buggy mess on release)
on release?
Yeah, before the community patched it up.
I’d implore anyone who disagrees to maybe replay the MegaTon section at the beginning of Fallout 3. Bethesda haven’t evolved at all since and it’s aged badly, especially the writing.
I didn’t notice when I was 18, but that was me with 16 years less experience.
Never go 100%, there’s a 1% chance they’ve actually put some effort into it.
I’d wager there’s a higher chance the game never gets made than gets made well.
Yes, but there is still a chance they accidentally struck gold.
In the same way a 2nd grader might cure cancer for a science project, yes there’s technically a chance.
Yes, exactly in that way. The second grader might have a bit of an edge on Bethesda tbh.
They never made another Ultima after Ultima Online and I am still salty about it
Same. But at least UO was great.
There’s 0 chance it will be better than their new game (successfully blocked out the title, sorry).
Their games are from another time, I feel. They are so focused on how they have always made games and somehow proud of it.
They were great when they were made all those years ago, the times when games felt clunky. It was the times.
But Starfield still has that clunk and other games feel way more fluid these days. I don’t feel like I can go back to playing a game that feels like I’m playing a brick.
No preorders, probably won’t even end up playing it because it will most likely, probably, definately, suck farts.
The fucked up thing is that no matter how bad and disappointing Starfield was, and no matter how bad and disappointing their subsequent games will be, I’ll still buy and be naively excited for Elder Scrolls VI because Skyrim was such a foundational gaming experience 😩
Just wait a year or two and it’ll be half the price or better
If that’s your mindset you’d love !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
already there baby ❤️
Gotta love seeing CoD and Doom agreeing on this.
Half the price or better and also have a massive modding scene which fixes all the Bethesda jank.
I genuinely don’t know how anyone who played Starfield could willingly give Bethesda more money for another game. I didn’t even get to the procedurally generated part before quitting.
I also only lasted 5 hours in Diablo 4. I normally play very curated high quality games and finish what I start no matter what, so this was a huge shock to me having two unprecedented flops back to back.
tldr fuck gaming I’m touching grass instead
Starfield wasn’t terrible, but it also wasn’t great, very mediocre. I bought the limited edition like a fool because I saw the gameplay trailers and thought it looked awesome. I should have expected there would be very little depth to any of the systems.
Fallout 4 and Skyrim are my top played games on Steam by a mile, but I always play heavily modded.
Would you want to play it (and support Bethesda) if it’s as bad as Starfield? If yes I won’t judge you, but if not it’s worth it to wait 1-2 weeks. If it’s bad and you still want to play, the seven seas might provide a solution…
I think Skyrim is when many gamers realized this. The quests in Oblivion were better, and aside from that, it was just more of the same.
What?
Sub parfield
It will be riddled with monetisation, with the attendant mission/quest structure to support that goal. Like, it’s an impossibility that it won’t be. Starfield was on the verge of getting some good will back from the player base, but squandered it on that bullshit pay-per-quest DLC they released recently. Bethesda is beyond help at this point.
Truly, because on top of that it will compete with The Elder Scrolls MMO for income and have much of the same whaled playerbase interested in it.
“Y’all have ESO, right?”
It’s going to be a flagship game that releases with a newer engine. Maybe ES6 will be that game. A less hopeful take is that the success of ESO is going to prevent them releasing anything else in the universe until it dies.
I believe that was the same year as Fallout 76, which has come out as being made to boost Bethesda’s stock before the Microsoft buyout. I would not be shocked at all if the trailer was put out solely for the same reason.
It was there to calm the fans. TES fans wanted the next TES but Bethesda didn’t really have anything about the next TES. They had FO76 (which is not a traditional Bethesda title), Elder Scrolls Blades (that nobody remembers) and Starfield (which they didn’t really elaborate on). To throw a bone to the TES fans, because nobody gives a shit about a mobile game, they said the game after Starfield will be TES6.
It was just something they did to prevent what Blizzard ended up doing a few months later with the Diablo Immortals reveal. And it worked because what do people remember 6 years later? Nobody cares about FO76 or TES: Blades or Starfield. All people remember is “Bethesda announced TES 6”.
Hoy take time i guess…
I’m hopeful. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted to hell cus how dare I enjoy things, but I’ve had fun with all their games. Even starfield. It was a departure and an attempt at something new. I still put in over a hundred hours on it. The ship builder was awesome and the ships themselves were super cool too.
Skyrim is still my 3rd most played game. And I’m pretty sure fallout is up there too.
You’re 100% allowed to just enjoy it and not worry about the drama. That said, we’re looking at the fifteenth year on the horizon with no follow up to Skyrim.
A “AAA” studio taking fifteen years to make a game is unacceptable. Especially when its a game that guarantees massive sales thanks to the IP’s pedigree.
Bethesda leadership is incompetent.
Agree. If it comes out someday I’ll probably buy it and enjoy it. Even starfield I thought was fine. Not great, it was fine. BUT ain’t no way it’s been under development for 15 years. It’s been on the back burner. They’re terrified because they know they can’t top Skyrim, and that style of gameplay is no longer really accepted. (See - Starfield endless loading screens).
Idk why any shareholder holds Bethesda stock, I guess now that it’s Microsoft
Why is it unacceptable?
Also plenty of games have taken 10years to make or more. And dev on ES6 wouldn’t have started right as Skyrim was done. At least not on full.
Why does dev time matter anyway?
If you’re the Adams brothers making Dwarf Fortress then yeah, I’d agree with you.
13 years since Skyrim released. Game development simply doesn’t take that long.
I dunno what this has to do with anyone I said. It’s also not true?
Like Prey took 11 years. FF15 took 10 years.
Why does it even matter that it’s been 13 years since Skyrim released? They wouldn’t immediately start development on ES6.
I don’t have high hopes for TES6 anyway. It’ll probably look shit and plqay worse
I can’t say I’m all that excited about this game, Starfield kinda killed any interest I had in playing another Bethesda RPG
There was less time between morrowind and Skyrim than between Skyrim and now
