Hear me out, Bethesda hasn’t made a really successful game since Skyrim. their new overlords are more than happy to shuffle them around, and who’s to say Todd Howard won’t retire after TES6 is launched?
I’m seeing a lot of parallels to Bioware, with game after game not doing as hot as the previous ones, and XBOX being very trigger happy with axing studios that aren’t pulling their weight, similar to EA.
It’s possible TES6, if it releases, will be the make it or break it of the company.
Yes. The last good game they made was Fallout 4 and it’s 11 years old.
That’s the rose color of a decade creeping in in you. I like fallout 4 but, like skyrim before it, it’s a bad game in its franchise. Both of them dramatically oversimplified their RPG format to make room for graphical fidelity what wasn’t even particularly impressive compared to their contemporaries. Nobody is obsessed with New Vega for it’s cinematic FPS experience, they’re fans because they can immerse themselves in the rich narrative of Cheezboi McShwiftey, the jet addicted robosexual on his quest to bear-bull a hole through Ulysses before Fisto starts to wonder if he’s got competition.
11 years later and the first thing everyone does is tell Preston and Shaun to fuck off and let them enjoy their mod collection in peace. There’s not a fallout player in the world that wouldn’t immediately stuff baby shaun in a fat man pointed at Strong’s open mouth if it meant they’d get a wholly different game out of it.
that’s the thing, I tried to avoid using “good” and instead went for “successful”. Skyrim is a lesser game than its predecessors but it still made them a lot of money.
You’re right. The reason I picked Fallout 4. If you ask people, “What is the last good Bethesda game?”. Safe bet they will say Fallout 4.