Bethesda isn't far behind. My expectations/hype for TES6 is non existent right now. With the push for discless consoles there's absolutely no reason to pre order anything ever again.
For real. Like when TES6 was announced back in like 1982 or whatever, I was hype af for it. I was willing to give them a pass for the release of Fallout 76 since its an MMO which is different from what they normally do, and although I didn't play it because MMOs aren't my jam I heard they got it in pretty good shape like 2 years later.
However Starfield being the type of strictly single-player RPG they're known for killed all my enthusiasm for TES6. Bethesda is supposed to be a AAA studio, but honestly that game to me looked like a AA game and just the camera movement and stuff felt super dated.
My Bethesda Days ended with Oblivion. Skyrim was a great game, but for me it was too much of trying bring back the feel of Morrowwind with some reworking of Oblivions graphics. The time between games is both a blessing and a curse... keep them steady you build a dedicated fan base or steady income... wait too long and then you become Bethesda and teader on the and of company and your IP taken over and Halo'd
I don’t think TES6 exists or will ever exist. Microsoft wants Bethesda to focus on Fallout because of the TV show. We likely won’t get anything else from Bethesda in the foreseeable future.
Bethesda hasn't been a good company fo ra long time. FO4 wasn't great and most other games are unmitigated crap when they come out. They depend on the modders to have a decent game.
Yep. They been on a downward trend for a while its just with the last 2 major releases and of course the updates and re-releases of old games its never felt steeper. Like I love Skyrim but even then its a flawed product compared to previous releases. Streamlining the rpg elements down. Making the vanilla world feel kind of binary.
Then we got Fallout 4 which further devaited from their rpg mechanics while delivering a kinda subpar story (still fun but not the greatest). Then there was 76 and all the insane decisions made around the release and development.
And then there was Starfield. Now props to starfield for trying a new setting. Bringing back missed rpg mechanics but its story and world fell kinda flat. It felt old when it was released.
Now we have to wait for Elder Scrolls 6. I am curious about it more than I am excited rn. Its been a long time. I personally think its not going to live up to expectations. Maybe it'll be a great world to explore, with good side quests occasionally but I can't help but feel it will be "Skyrim 2" essentially trying to do what Skyrim did but nearly 2 decades later with no feedback taken to heart
I had a friend spoil it for me and somehow it made the twist hit even harder when it did. I guess I was just in denial and/or assumed my friend was messing with me so when it actually happened I had a reaction very similar to Luke when Vader told him he's his father.
Have you ever seen the movie "Equilibrium"? The type of society portrayed in that film always reminded me of what it might look like when you take the Jedi code to the extreme. It would be cool to see an idea like that explored in Star Wars imo. Make us really sympathize with the dark side when the balance of the force has swung so far in the other direction.
Davaeorn's (assuming that's who you're talking about) streams are really cool! I sometimes have him on while remote working, it's chill. BG really has an insane replayability!
I've tried so many times to play this and I don't get far. I only have it on mobile, is it better on console/PC and just isn't mobile friendly? For comparison, I've played Kotor 1 and 2 on mobile multiple times.
I have a glimmer of hope that OwlCat will deliver us an incredible experience with their game set in The Expanse universe coming out next year. So far they've done a mostly-favorable job with their CRPG games (Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader). Osiris Protocol, their "The Expanse" game, looks like it'll play similarly to Mass Effect, but is in the same setting as my favorite show of all time.
(Edit: Said Paizo instead of OwlCat, thanks for the correction.)
Wow this wasn't even on my radar lol... Looks decent. One thing that The Expanse doesn't really have as far as a worldbuilding element is that the only species in the solar system is Human. The books were originally intended to be lore drops for an RPG setting that the writers wanted to make, but we get Martian, Earther, and Belter as the 3 somewhat different "races" that is, unless you read past where the show ends in the books. You get hundreds of worlds and plenty of xeno-biology to play around with then...
Exodus, exploring a more vast space, looks like it will have more variety in that regard. Though it's a little weird to me that they'd choose "40,000 years in the future" when we kind of already have a 40k franchise that for sure has more lore than this new thing can hope to achieve.
This BioWare ist actually gone. Most people, who build these games have left the studio. It's mostly just the name that's left. So you might have to look towards other studios, if you want the old BioWare.
Me too, my friend. I will forever love them for what they gave us, but unless something truly drastic changes they will never again get a cent of my money.
Can I potentially recommend Owlcat to you? If you like the classics, like really good stories, and don't mind ARPGs like classic Baldur's Gate or Divinity: Original Sin, they write some really good stuff.
Wow, still sort of feels like im still living in that era..I haven't played through any of those series in its entirety. Still want to. Time is just a fabricated construct.
Mass Effect in particular is something I struggled to let go, but I think I've accepted it at this point. Andromeda was fine for what it was, but I'd be absolutely shocked if they were able to ever recapture the magic of the original ME trilogy.
Not continuing the Trilogy is a good choice on their part. Shep doesn't need more story.
Veilguard was an outright failure, there's no way around that. Why? I don't have a clue but unless they retconed the whole thing with a successful new release then DA Is unfortunately dead.
We don't talk about Anthem.
Andromeda flopped and that's not a big surprise. Plot holes, empty worlds, pointless missions/objectives, no impactful choices, absolute GARBAGE loot system, terrible multiplayer, a certified half-made game. I still can't get over the fact it took them 7 MONTHS after release to give us access to the X5 Ghost. The games LITERAL ICONIC WEAPON that defaults in every cutscene. Like how the **** do you not have that ready to launch?
BUT Andromeda also failed due to EA's shit production methods. The game was more than halfway done when the geniuses at EA decided to switch from Unreal to Frostbite to save cash. Bioware had to scrap everything and start over from the beginning without an extension to the games release deadline. They did the best they could with what little time they had but it still flopped.
Andromeda had some good ideas and could have been a good game, but sadly, this is what we ended up with.
I don't have much hope left either. Been let down too often; but I'm willing to hope just a bit for ME4 given how much time they've had to work on it. At current it doesn't seem to be a rushed release so maybe, just maybe, it will be good.
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u/SmoothConfection1115 Jul 10 '26
I’ve accepted that the BioWare I loved, is gone.
Mass Effect, Dragon Age, KOTOR…that’s what I’ll remember them for.