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Bethesda now has 180 staff members, up from 108 circa Fallout 4's release
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Yeah, sure.
They acknowledged the poor quest design and narrative of their previous games too and look what a shitshow F4 turned out to be.
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Do we know if they have a set number of people working on Fallout 4 VR?
Error in the title. This stroy is referring to the Studio that built Fallout and Skyrim not the entire publisher Bethesda.
Lalalandia
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Well that's far less people than you'd need to do a rewrite/dump Game Bryo 
Gormenghast
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Finding bugs is not hard, it's fixing them that requires time and people.
InsaneTiger
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I can't wait to hear the voice of the character you play in ES6.
thequickandthedead
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Did Bethesda have separate teams working on TES4/5 and Fallout 3? That's a pretty fast turnaround if the entire team worked on all the games.
Damn, that's quite impressive if true.
(By the time Skyrim started, they had far more and better tools to speed up the creation work -nevermind the accumulated experience with Netimmerse engine-, so 100 does not sound bad)
sssstententen
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Elder Scrolls 6 probably started pre-prod after Skyrim finished. The fact people think they're "sitting" on it is crazy.
Those games wouldn't be what they are without being in the oven for as long as they do. There are tons of games to play, I see no issue doing ES - FO - ES etc etc every 3-4 years.
Some Nobody
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SpiceMelange
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Hopefully these 72 motherfuckers are working on the real hardcore mode.
....wtf?
I'm taking them at their word. Repeatedly they have said they are not working on ES, and have two(?) other games in the pipe. This, to me, means 4+ years of development from once they start.
Whether I should take them at their word is a whole different topic, but it's certainly not crazy.
Xion_Stellar
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Hopefully they hired competent writers this time around because I would hate to see what happens to TES VI after the B's they pulled with Fallout 4.
Obliterator
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Their next game isn't Elder Scrolls. It's likely a sci-fi RPG code named Starfield
Happy to see them upping their staff count as they desperately need it to stay competitive with modern open world RPG standards. I really hope they've either created a new engine or are using iD Tech for their future projects
Kind of shows how inefficient a lot of AAA developers are with their man-power when Bethesda's team of 100 can crank out Skyrim DLC and Fallout 4 in just four years. Compare that to Ubisoft or Activision's 300+ man teams that take just as long to make their games that really aren't any bigger.
I'm no developer but I've long felt that more people on a project doesn't necessarily speed up or improve it.
I'm no developer but I've long felt that more people on a project doesn't necessarily speed up or improve it.
Bethesda's asset generation is pathetic in comparison.
Some Nobody
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MirageDwarf
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Elder Scrolls and Fallout are main in house franchises for Bethesda. People seem to love Fallout NV much more than games made by Bethesda. If this trend continues, it may not be good for them in long run. I doubt Bethesda will allow third party studios to work on their main franchises as long as they are making it internally.
SinCityAssassin
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You need those 80~ people to help make the Switch version of Skyrim I bet /s
They really should have hired more people, and way earlier, to rework that ancient engine. Fallout 4 is the last time they could get away with bugs all over the place, really crappy animation and textures and loading screens all over. And even then they didn't reallyvget away with it. F4 got around 84 on metacritic while Skyrim got over 90%. If F4 looked and played like a game from 2015, it would have gotten much better reviews. They can't do that with the next elder scrolls or their sales and critical reputation will tank.
I don't want a sequel to Skyrim in 2019 that looks worse than the 2015 Witcher 3 ffs.
I don't want a sequel to Skyrim in 2019 that looks worse than the 2015 Witcher 3 ffs.
Foldedpencil
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Does this mean they are going to build a new engine? That would be exciting.
Never, their engine is going to survive mankind. They will laser burn the source-code into diamonds and a million years from now an alien race will find it and think its some sort of religious artefact.
ALLseeingEYE
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Yup, this is an insanely small team, considering the general size of modern game studios. I'd imagine a standard team on a AAA title the size/popularity of Skyrim, would more generally be closer to 200-300 people.
I'm very curious what the actual budget of Skyrim or even oblivion was. I wouldn't be surprised if the development itself didn't cost more than $40,000,000, and Marketing took up the majority of the cost.
Hopefully these 72 motherfuckers are working on the real hardcore mode.
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