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Bethesda honcho says Starfield is 'the best game we've ever made' in massive bout of amnesia (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think that's ultimately it. The next TES is going to be a disaster.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In August 2023, Todd Howard described his intent behind The Elder Scrolls VI as wanting to make "the ultimate fantasy-world simulator",

That's when you should have known. TES is at heart a novelistic series that is owned by a studio whose entire style is now "short term crafting and gameplay loops occurring within a physics simulation".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The same could be said of Skyrim, but tons of people loved it and it's still a great framework for modding if Bethesda themselves don't give it a good storyline.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Skyrim had a narrative, it had stories that raised curiosity enough to engage with the gameplay loops. Some of the side quest were even pretty good, the main quest was meh.

Increasingly Bethesda seems to be building their games around gameplay loops with narrative increasingly ancillary. They’ve optimized for grind without giving a reason to grind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Quite so, but I'll be damned if fans are ever going to redo TES6 in whatever engine they make for (god forbid) TES10, forty years from now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

This has been obvious for a few years now. I used to get shit on for voicing this opinion a couple years ago and now it seems almost universally agreed upon. Bethesda is truly shit now.