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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Goddamn everyone here is so dismissive or apathetic, it's a little disappointing and sad to see.

I'm not 100% gung-ho about this or anything, but I'm pleasantly unsurprised and I'm gonna start building up a tiny bit of excitement for it.

Like why can't we just be kind of happy or excited that we're gonna get more of what we like? Does everything really have to have some kind of negative connotation these days?

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 6 points 11 hours ago

For me it's that I've played loads of games that use Bethesda's tooling and it just ends up feeling pokey and samey to me. They're hamstrung by their technical choices and after all these years I just don't have it in me to get excited about their latest stab at making their wheezing toolchain cough out another needlessly sparse experience.

[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Starfield kinda killed positive views of Bethesda. Fallout 76 shortly before that essentially eliminating most of the good will they had.

Beyond the technical failures inherent to those titles, even more so than the average Bethesda title, the writing, the story, the atmospheric story telling were all just... bad. Not a single glimmer of what made Skyrim or their previous titles great could really be found. Fallout 76 felt like the most obvious and pathetic cash grab in game release history, being practically unplayable for the first six months of its life... which for an online game is ridiculous; and Starfield legitimately felt like what a dev team that were fans of Skyrim might produce. It felt like a third-party rip off of Bethesda's style.

Don't get me wrong both games have their fans, and honestly the hate is overrated as both games are competent, they're just not good. They're just not Bethesda games.

Add onto that the fact it's been 15 years since a significant elder scrolls title was released; because let's face it no one remembers Blades, ESO is its own thing entirely, and I had to actually google 'elder scrolls card game' to remember wtf Legends was called; and you have a recipe for absolute disappointment. Most of the people that worked on Oblivion and Skyrim are gone from the company. The new batch have not made a popular game in that time besides Fallout 4, which is still viewed by half the fallout fan base as the worst fallout game despite Fallout Tactics existing.

The negative outlook is because we aren't likely to get more of what we like. Especially given Todd Howard's obsession with using AI. This is much more likely to be a corpse wearing the skin of a beloved franchise than anything worth playing, all for the low-low price of $80+ USD, if not $100+ USD.