I don't understand why Bethesda is the butt of every joke about gaming. The best games and most time I have ever spent on any single player games are from Bethesda. The lore is amazing, the world is so full of stories.
Because their games have historically been buggy messes and both of the two original games they have launched in the last 11 years have been met with massive backlash, with Fallout 76 having gotten slightly better after a ton of updates and Starfield basically being abandonware that even modders don't want to touch.
I've never really played an Elder Scrolls seriously until the Oblivion remake and instantly understood all the meme references as soon as I did. NPC's shouting quest dialogue at awkard spots, buggy facial animations. It was so odd to see an AA much revered game with so many bugs and glitches seemingly intentionally left in tact.
They massively improved, in my experience, with the release of Skyrim SE and moreso with FO4. But they were bugfests for all their games before that.
Though as a PC player, they always had ways of getting around it, and I can't remember ever having a game breaking bug.
Like being able to use ~console commands to teleport to specific cell locations, or spawn in items or NPCs, or set quest stages to force objectives to end/start, or turn on God mode. Even just something basic, like Morrowind had a reset actors command that was extremely helpful when NPCs decided to park themselves in a doorway.
But if you were playing on a console you didn't have access to those, so I'm sure the experience was a lot more infuriating for them.
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u/nurik2411 2h ago
I don't understand why Bethesda is the butt of every joke about gaming. The best games and most time I have ever spent on any single player games are from Bethesda. The lore is amazing, the world is so full of stories.