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.
The old jank engine is honestly pretty good for atmospheric storytelling.
Sure, Cyberpunk is shiny and all, but there’s something about Bethesda.
Idk how to explain, corpses in Fallout never despawn. That item you hid in the bush? it’s still there 300h later. It has a certain persistence that isn’t that common.
It can also feel stale real quick though.
Especially when you get into janky bugs.
But all this needs an interesting premise, story and vision.
I don’t have much hopes for whatever they release next.
Nor from any AAA.
Games is art and art is incompatible with the corpo mindset of most game companies these days.
I’d rather play something that was made with passion than with greed.
I don’t disagree, I actually mod Skyrim in my free time, but that doesn’t make the games successful. Starfield basically flopped, and made many fans lose excitement for a new Bethesda game.
That’s not necessarily a good thing world building wise, I’d certainly expect bodies to eventually get eaten / buried / rot for example.
it takes 30d in game for cells to reset fyi
Like how RDR2 does it with animal carcasses.