• Jumi@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t have high hopes for TES6 anyway. It’ll probably look shit and plqay worse

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    8 hours ago

    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.

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      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”.

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    16 hours ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      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.

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    16 hours ago

    Games take time…

    I’m hopeful. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted to help cus how dare I enjoy things, bit I’ve had fun with all their games. Even star field. It was a departure and an attempt at someone new. I still put on 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.

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      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.

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        9 hours ago

        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

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      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.

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        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.

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        22 hours ago

        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 😩

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          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

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          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…

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    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.