And considering he made Morrowind almost 25 years ago I would say the quality is going down with each subsequent game.
Literally NPCs in their games have schedules, their own homes, tons of dialogue, most of their games are living sandboxes. Not just GTA NPCs like in Cyberpunk. It is literally some of the most alive sims we get in RPGs ever. Full on guilds/factions that all have the same qualities. How is that lifeless? How has it went down in quality when he literally described in the video everything they improved with the game loop and engine. Only thing lifeless is your brain dead post.
He tends to somewhat embellish the truth and conceal things a bit… people definitely thought they would be free roaming a lot more “freely” than they ended up being (not having a random seed generating different parts of the plant each time you land, aside from custom laid areas, making it quite hard to feel like you are really exploring things thoroughly), all the loading screens cutting the gameplay apart, etc…
I was mostly speaking for all their games since that was what he was pointing out but yeah Starfield is a new IP & I'm sure people had the expectations of NPCs being as free as in Fallout & ES. Each Bethesda IP takes some aspects from their other titles and does new things as well. At the end of the day I can't think of many studios that does it better, Also on Starfield too, I followed around some of the named NPCs & they did in fact have schedules and multiple places they went like to work etc. but I'm with you. Wish you could run into them anywhere in space, that would be amazing! The random encounters I do find in space are very enjoyable though haha.
Is this post really or you are trolling? What improved engine? It's the same engine as for Morrowind, with same limitations. They are repacking it periodically using a new name but it's still Shitbryo.
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It's a shame the game is dragged down by so many puzzling design choices. It's honestly the only game this year that had some moments of wonder for me.
Actually I think he put the library in context for the sole point of saying he's not going to be chasing that anymore, and that it was kind of a unique point in time where millions of non-gamers and non-RPG players found their games. The "360 era." He really siloed it off as a separate thing.
Yeah, I agree. Well, I liked FO4, but I get the sentiment.
Under MS and tied to GamePass? I just do not see that…
I actually think that's the only time he could do it. They have the funding and they're not tied exclusively to retail sales. Now's his chance to make his last hardcore game, if he's smart.
I do not think MS really plans for that. Do not think such a game would be green light and properly supported.
I do. Like I was saying, they can't compete with Naughty Dog and action games. That's where the casual audience went. In the 360 era they tapped into an audience that now plays other open world games.
Just because he is terrible at stories doesn’t mean he needs to make a philosophy of it. The guy came from Looking Glass - even with gameplay-driven story Thief is leagues ahead of what Bethesda ever did.
For those that wanna retvrn to Daggerfall.
That was always obvious for anyone being even slightly realistic. They had a large graphical jump to Oblivion, and stayed there for Fallout and Skyrim.
whatever jump they are doing, gets dwarfed by others.
It’s the same engine….
100% completely serious. Never said it was a new engine, the engine is improved, if you actually watched the video he details all of it & to deny that is just foolish & you'd be the only one trolling here.
This is BS of course. Bethesda games each have 100+ fully scripted, pre-written quests and stories. They are not pure sandboxes. People are criticizing - rightfully - the quality of those quests, stories, characters and writing in general, because it is poor.
You do know Microsoft owns Bethesda, he's not worrying about that anymore.
