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Yeah let's focus on our franchises like Doom and Quake -- by firing half the staff at id.
Sony is on fire, Microsoft is on fire, Nintendo seems to be doing fine by focusing on brands and profit-first hardware; Valve is doing its own thing...Where did everyone else go so wrong?
Yes, it's always a wonderful idea for creative game companies to stop being creative and trying to come up with cool new things and instead focus on things that have sold well in the past to please the shareholders.
That always works out for everyone.
Who are they going to hire to make their games good if Obsidian goes under?
NGL I don't have a lot of faith in Bethesda to actually create quality anymore. The image for this is for Vegas, which was more obsidian's work, and they did it in a fraction of time, I think?
I'm a huge Elder Scrolls fan. I met my partner on Elder Scrolls Online. I have pretty much zero faith in Elder Scrolls VI being any good.
I mean ESO was developed by ZeniMax. Perhaps it would be best to let them handle Bethesda‘s franchises directly and disband their subsidiary. I suspect Bethesda has suffered too much from toxic positivity.
Yea it was a very short window for development, 18 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas
Is that code for "Rerelease Skyrim again"?
Its code for more horse armour and online services that they can milk for years
I mean fuck, better than what they've been doing.
I mean if they did the Oblivion Remastered with Skyrim, that's easy fucking money.
Or even Fallout 3 & 4.
Fuck no, not that. UE5 looks horrible, and most of the NPC's in the Oblivion remaster look lile skinwalkers
Honestly I'd be alright with fallout 3 remastered
That’s what you’re going to get.
Honestly, I'd be alright with $10,000
That's what you're going to get!
I like this game
Your username made me want to smoke a brisket and watch Cowboy Bebop...thanks for setting my weekend plans for me!
Good luck Bethesda, even Obsidian has hit an 18 carat run of bad luck. I guess they'll stay afloat due to casual players and the fact that its an elderschrolls game. But count me the fuck out on getting es6, that shit will need to be fucking amazing for me to pay the AAA price it will inevitability be, and I mean AMAZING cause after fallout 4 I've been disappointed with them. God I wanna be wrong Tod, PLEASE TOD PROVE ME WRONG 😭
You dont need to worry about ES7, with the amount of time ES6 is taking, ES7 wont be within out lifetimes
Lmao, my dumbass meant es6
I'm not a CEO or anything but maybe they should try making an elder scrolls more than once every 20 years.
But making games costs money. Corporations are supposed to make money for their shareholders, not spend it!
someone should have told them that before Starfield.
Starfield almost certainly made a boatload of money.
Here’s my uninspired lame advise that will never happen: ZeniMax should close down Bethesda. Then they should contract the Crimson Dessert guys and hire a good writer to make the next Elder Scrolls game. Sure it‘s more expensive than doing it in house and it would take years but I think it‘s what players would want.
Warhorse is working on a Lord of the Rings game. That's probably more of what we want out of a new Elder Scrolls than the actual next Elder Scrolls.
What else have they been busy with? Just Starfield?
Skyrim > 4 years > Fallout 4 > 4 Years > Fallout 76 (yes, it was Todd's team that made the map and original quests) > 4+1 years > Starfield
Seriously, it isn't like Bethesda has a long list of IP to work with here.
Other than Elder Scrolls and Fallout (which they should already be assumed to be focusing on to begin with), the only other IPs that are still alive would be DOOM and maybe Wolfenstein,
Dishonored is dead, Quake is dead, they shuttered Tango so no continuation of Hi-Fi Rush or Ghostwire, RAGE is dead.
Unfortunately, Bethesda decided to spend all their time working on Starfield. The only thing they had when they revealed the ES6 trailer, was the video. And that's because they knew they'd get lynched if they didn't annoubce ES6
The morale must be great.