• Pliny@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    And starfield hasn’t even released yet cry at this rate the trailer will be as old as skyrim was at the time of the announcement before we get a release

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    1 year ago

    Talk about jumping the gun with that announcement. I’ll honestly be a bit surprised if we see the game this decade.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the same situation as with Metroid Prime 4. It’s more to just confirm people that “yes we will make it at some point so stop f*ing asking. Buy Skyrim for the 5th time while you wait”

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        1 year ago

        I think that’s something a lot of people don’t understand even now. For me, it was pretty clear, that was just an “of course we are making TES6 someday, stop asking,” because people were acting like the series was dead and Bethesda would never release another game. Also, nobody should expect anything before Starfall is released.

        Of course, that gets lost outside the actual presentation, where this was dropped, so here we are, years later, and people think is in development hell or something. Only saying that they’ll get to TES6 eventually, without the teaser, would probably have been better.

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      Rock and a hard place. They were 7ish years from their last elder scrolls release, and knew they had at least 7 (probably) for the next one. Their poor planning caused it, but the fans were so loud that they had to do something.

      And what an underwhelming something. Studio could have started work on ES6 shortly after Skyrim and had another amazing game out by now, but dawdled. They were at their peak, they could have doubled the number of teams and pumped out fallout and es every other year. But they wasted their opportunity.

    • Cuttlefishcarl@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      At least Nintendo came out and said “we messed up already and need to try again” instead of “here’s a shit game, gimme AAA price for it because title.”

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    1 year ago

    For all the complaints over the years (from myself included), there are very few options for games like Elder Scrolls main games.

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      1 year ago

      These kinds of games are extremly difficult to build. Skyrim still does things I haven’t seen any game other than Fallout 4 do since.

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        1 year ago

        What things would that be? Im trying to think of something that hasnt been replicated / improved in another game, but I am drawing a blank personally.

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          1 year ago

          One example: The way Bethesda games track an enormous number of physics enabled objects across their open worlds. I feel like most games in the last 10 years have made a point of simplifying their physics systems to a point of near-nonexistence.

          Bethesda knows that when I dump 500 wheels of cheese on the floor of my house in Whiterun, I want it all to still be exactly where I left it when I come back 20 hours later.