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Hooray!
but creation
I'm ecstatic, other engines just aren't moddable like creation, this is GREAT news.
So if this releases after TES 6 I guess I’ll play it with my friends in assisted living?
Man I wish Lemmy had a way to give awards to comments (like old Reddit did), cause this one absolutely deserve it! xD
Right? Like I just turned 48. It's been 15 years since the last elder scrolls. I don't count online bc I don't care about online.
I'll most likely be pushing 65 by the time fallout 5 releases
Look at it this way: you could be the next "Skyrim Grandma"
See you in the home! Maybe there will be a wheelchair magic item in the game as a joke for fans. Like maybe wheelchair mounts?
Wheelchair mounts are paid DLC
They took so long to start that all the hype is gone. I've got anti-hype, I fully expect to be disappointed. It's going to suck.
Pretty sure the only reason they're doing it is as a token move for some court order or something. I'm really not interested either. No hype for me thanks. I'd rather have an actual game then the nebulous promise of a game that's going to be disappointing.
Starfield was their last shot for me. They fumbled that.
Genuinely, like, I know where the money went obviously, but what about the shear amount of time they’ve had to make anything, like what the hell was actually happening in that studio honestly
that just means itll surpass expectations of sucking, instead of disappointing hype for not being perfect
But if it surpasses expectations does that mean it gets a raise for doing a good job??!
No. It just gets additional responsibilities with no pay raise.
Just wait until the official reveal and you'll be back onboard that hype train in seconds.
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?
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.
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.
For once I'm glad a game will be using Creation Engine. That's how low Unreal has fallen.
"And the elder scrolls VI is built on the elder scrolls IV engine"
(Probably) Lol
You say that as if Unreal Engine gets a ground-up rewrite for every single version.
Code gets upgraded and adapted over time. And the Creation Engine is no different.
I have no idea how you got that from what I said. I literally pointed it out for that reason…
Cool, I'll give this hype train a miss though.
I mean this should surprise no one after how well the TV show did. Probably not coming till like 2036 and two more rounds of mass layoffs from Xbox.
Is Fallout 5 the same game or a different game to the one allegedly being developed by Obsidian?
Different games, Fallout 5 is developed by Bethesda after TES 6, Obsidian is working on another new Fallout
Assuming this was decided after microslop decided to mass produce the Fallout IP faster and faster, I'd say they're different games.
Mmm... I hoped the IP was transferred from one studio to another. Seems more like a borrowing.
Don't know what Xbox would do if Obsidian ends making a better game and the Bethesda game is overshadowed by it.
Microsoft basically took it from Bethesda and cleared out a bunch of their core staff
The IP might not have been transferred, but Bethesda's product ownership has been revoked. They didn't even let outside teams touch their offshoot projects (like apps), and now the IP is probably going to be milked
Maybe obsidian will do something interesting with it before it inevitably is reduced to slop
What, like how Obsidian made a better Fallout 3 than Fallout 3 with New Vegas?
Yeah, the difference being Fallout 3 was well received and the studio had some pedigree. While Fallout 76 and Starfield were actively disliked.
I’m not sure what happened with 76 since I lost interest upon finding out it was multiplayer, but it’s really well received now when looking at Steam reviews
It got a lot better. Then they changed the seasons and it started getting worse. Around the time they added becoming a ghoul for player characters it was more or less necessary to have their subscription service if you didn't want to deal with a lot of arbitrary bullshit that was designed to force you to buy the subscription. You basically couldn't get all the season rewards without it. All that aside it was surprisingly fun and adds a lot of good lore. You can play it more or less like a single player game and when I still played old timer high level characters would often drop gear and resources for new players, it was the most genuinely pleasant online community I've ever experienced.
Yeah, the game is in a better place now. The problem being they shouldn't have released as it was.
The steam reviews aren't accurate. The review timeline of steam shows suspiciously low negative reviews during release, a disastrous release with game breaking bugs and a strong backlash against the horrible monetization systems, to say nothing of the shitstorm that bethesda caused outside of the game itself. Iirc that was also a point in time that steam made a big deal out of hiding negative reviews for corpos under the guise of fighting review bombing.
Also it's still at 50 on metacritic.
I'm out of the loop - is that just another iteration of the engine Bethesda has been using forever or did someone finally punch whoever keeps making that call in the right body part to make it stop?
That jank engine is what makes the bethesda games modding community work.
If they give it up theyre throwing away a huge advantage, and we will get worse mods.
I really don't want to have to spend time figuring out which additional things I need to install to make their games good. I'd rather they were good out of the box.
They're making it in Creation 3, which is almost certainly a new iteration of Gamebryo/Creation Engine.
Hooray.
First off, you clearly haven't played a Bethesda game since Skyrim. Bethesda has actually been making a ton of improvements to the engine over the years.
Second, rethink what you said. Do you really think every other engine isn't continually updating the same engine over the past several decades?
Unreal Engine 6 is about to release. Do you seriously think that Epic is completely rewriting the engine from scratch for each version?
Do you really think that Unity is getting a ground-up rewrite every few years? Or GameMaker? Or Godot?
No developer is going to throw away a giant body of software and start over from scratch if they can help it. It's absolutely insane. You take what you have, and upgrade it and adapt it for what you need.
Your assumption is completely incorrect.
It isn't that the engine is an iteration, it's that it's an iteration of an engine that is legendarily janky.
Now, when I say "engine" I'm using it as short-hand for "the way Bethesda uses the engine, its associated tooling, and media". I'm aware that the GameBryo engine (or whatever they're calling its latest descendant) can be used to make stuff that's decent, but the open world RPGs that Bethesda uses it for are a terrible fit for it.
Their games succeed despite the engine, not because of it, and I'd love to see them build on something that I don't pick up and immediately go "Yep, it's another game using their technology, guess we're in for a tiny map and a handful of NPCs".
I am not expecting a developer to start over from scratch. I'm hoping that a company as wealthy and successful as Bethesda might consider using a different engine that actually allows for the kinds of worlds their devs clearly want to create. It's obviously not going to happen, as why bother when people will buy their games regardless, but what can I say, I'm a cynical optimist.
- Your assumption is completely incorrect.
it's that it's an iteration of an engine that is legendarily janky.
Pick 1, not both. Fallout 4 was stable. Starfield actually did have fairly few bugs, about on par with most AAA games on release. They've gotten a lot better over the years. Again, if you'd actually played any of their games since Skyrim you'd have seen that.
the GameBryo engine (or whatever they're calling its latest descendant) can be used to make stuff that's decent, but the open world RPGs that Bethesda uses it for are a terrible fit for it.
You have absolutely no fucking clue what you're talking about. At all.
Could my notifications on here, for once, not light up with someone picking a fucking fight with me over dumb bullshit?
Then don't say dumb bullshit that isn't even consistent.
Then don’t say dumb bullshit that isn’t even consistent.
Take your own advice and get the fuck out of my mentions.
Given the downward trend from 3 -> 4 (and from 2 -> 3 from what I hear) this is a game that will really need to impress before I consider picking it up.
2 to 3 isn't really a genuine comparison though. They're different genres.
I'd argue 4 is actually better than 3, just not in any way that actually makes it worth playing. 4 is a mediocre S.T.A.L.K.E.R. like, 3 is hot garbage.
3 and New Vegas are great games. 4 was okay, they just sold a lot of the soul in exchange for mass appeal, just like Skyrim did compared to Oblivion and Morrowind
I dont believe you