Computer RPG Games
Community for CRPG games and other RPG gaming discussions. Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Baldurs Gate as well as indie RPGs (Underrail, Avernum, Space Wreck etc.). Focus is on CRPGs, but discussion around JPRGs, ARPGs and hybrid games with RPG components is also welcome.
Tabletop/pen & paper RPG discussion is not a good fit for this community. Check out !rpg@ttrpg.network for TT/P&P RPG discussions.
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Some other gaming communities across Lemmy:
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- Cozy Games - !cozygames@lemmy.world
- City Builders - !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
- Incremental - !incremental_games@incremental.social
- Indie Games (variety) - !bside@fedia.io
- Lifesim Games - !lifesimulation@lemmy.world
- Open Source Games - !foss_gaming@lemmy.world
- Roguelike Games - !roguelikes@lemmy.world
- RTS Games - !rts@reddthat.com
- Space Games (variety) - !space_games@piefed.world
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- Video Game Questions - !askgaming@piefed.social
Game-specific communities on Lemmy:
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- Cyberpunk - !cyberpunk2077@lemmy.world
- Deus Ex - !deus_ex@lemmy.cafe
- Elder Scrolls - !elderscrolls@lemmy.zip
- Fallout - !fallout@lemmy.world
- Lovecraft Mythos - !lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world
- The Witcher - !thewitcher@lemmy.world
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Do you folks think Bethesda is still capable of creating the type of experiences they used to?
No, and neither is Obsidian.
No. I am a huge Elder Scrolls fan but I have zero hope for 6.
As long as they don’t hamper mods or modding too much, then yes, sorta. The de facto experience for many is the modded experience. Which is often leagues above vanilla. Maybe they can’t ship a good thing out of the box, but they leave reasonable tools out for people to make the thing actually good.
But of course it shouldn’t be like that. Unfortunately it is. But if you think of the games as sandboxes for modders, and expect nothing more, then in a sense I guess, they do deliver.
But it takes years for the mods to mature and the games to reach actually reasonable prices for what they are.
Pretty sure everyone that made this experiences good is no longer at the company.
I hear that about most of legendary game companies like Blizzard, Bioware, etc. So I wonder where do those people work now?
If they are in the US, either at another game company by now or out of the biz. The gamedev industry is incestuous and unstable.
They have the potential to. But these days, I personally focus on indie, AA and large mods of older games (Morrowind, New Vegas).
CDPR is still good though.
Maybe, if they decide to ditch the janky gamebryo engine and/or stop glueing things on to see what sticks.
TES I dunno. Fallout...playing 76 now, maybe? It seems they learned what folk want. Seems.
TES has the problem of a simple fact that dumbing it down brough a lot more players that it took out.