Well, studio closed. Fallout 4 was released in 2015 and the last elder scrolls game was 2011.
Damn it microslop! You already closed Arkane Austin, I will be so disappointed if Lyon goes too.
With no hope of Dishonored 3, I’m resigned to wander the wastes of this doomed world.
I would commit crimes for dishonored 3. The second game was some of the most fun I’ve ever had and it makes sad knowing I won’t see more expertly crafted maps from that team
Microsoft eventually ruins what they touch.
Bethesda is the only good, old, non indy studio left.
Not to disagree but, when was the last new “good” game from Bethesda released, in your opinion?
Personally, i like the subsidiary studios. Dishonored, prey, wolfenstein, doom
ZeniMax uses Bethesda Softworks to publish the projects from various studios, but those studios aren’t subsidiaries of Softworks.
The only Softworks subsidiary is Bethesda Game Studios, the other studios are under ZeniMax directly.
How much pressure Softworks may have as a publisher over those studios is much more questionable compared to the Bethesda Game Studios games because of that difference.
While the third installment was t my favorite, Dishonored 1 & 2, as a full set, are in my top 5. Prey was also lovely. When I have the headspace and time for a new series/game I’ll buy Deathloop.
Fallout as a whole > Elder Scrolls imo. I was looking forward to starfield but again, time and headspace. And a decent sale, given the reviews.
As is though, for me, there’s drought all around for new games. Granted I’m forever waiting for the next immersive single player rpg with solid character arcs and voice acting.
Not to be all semantic, but those are all Arkane Studios games. Bethesda the publisher is different than Bethesda the studio. Bethesda the publisher did indeed release Arkane’s Dishonored 1 & 2, Prey, and Deathloop, but Bethesda the Studio’s recent output is Starfield, Fallout 76, and Elder Scrolls Online.
Obsidian too. But they all get lumped in together.
I want new releases, but like I said, feels like a game desert from everyone (except Larian) waiting for more immersive RPGs with character arcs and voice acting. As is, for me, it’s replaying old fare, throwing 4x into the spaces inbetween. (Even 4x is shitting the bed though, look at Civ VII going off the rails to try to imitate Humankind. Hopefully Amplitude can make up for that crap with Endless Legend 2.)
What I really want is another mass effect or dragon age trilogy that doesn’t shit the bed after. I think all the studios are dead on that though. Even Spiders never did another Greedfall type game, and they’re now dead too.
We’re stuck with old fare, probably, from here on out. Or remakes of PS1 games, like RE and FF7.
Pretty much. All I meant was that Bethesda’s output hasn’t been good for a while. Bethesda has been dead since Fallout 4, imo. Arkane was my main hope from that wing but they made Redfall of all things, so I really just think Xbox has poor leadership.
Microsoft/Microslop. Probably.
I haven’t seen anyone who would be in the know reporting this (eg Jason Schreier) and this article is using a reply to a tweet from a non MSFT dev as its source. Seems like clickbait.
What? You are incredibly talented? Sorry, we assigned you to X instead of Y. Which means you no longer have a job. Goodbye.
Very good to hear tbh. Maybe Bethesda can make games again?
They havent made a good game in over a decade
I dont have high hopes
F03 was almost twenty years ago, and we all know NV was outsourced.
It’s honestly just like 90% schadenfreude for me with this headline because what the fuck have these people been doing for so long??
Chiming in to defend FO4. I have nearly 7000 hours in that game, thanks in no small part to mods.
Even FO4 has been over a decade.
It’s all relative too. Even if FO4 is a decent game, I don’t think many would argue against the idea that it is objectively less good than the earlier Fallout titles. Just like Skyrim was better than Oblivion. Just like Starfield was not up to par with any earlier Bethesda release, despite the ambition.
It doesn’t mean any of them are bad games, but the relative pattern / trajectory of Bethesda is plain to see.
Ugh. I found 4 to be the worst of the first-person SPs.
I agree.
The gunplay was better, the graphics were better, and the animations. Downsides? Voiced protag, bugs (as per usual) weak main story (and a lot of sidequests were weak as well), and factions sucked so much.
Starfield
Is not good
Its not shovelware either
Its just mediocre
Track record of Microsoft at sifting chaff from the talent pool is a bit questionable, but there’s still posibility that good choices could’ve been made with how dire the situation is. I’m neither optimistic nor pessimistic with this one. This is neither good or bad, but merely just ‘news’ to me.
