I had hoped that Xbox's acquisition of Zenimax would result in Phil Spencer forcing BGS to hire more talent, I can't imagine he's too happy with the 6+ year turnaround on delivering games. I'm still holding out hope that he's cracked the whip on development of TESVI, because a 15 year gap between games is just absolutely unacceptable. But looking at the Starfield trailer and this malformed creature, I just can't understand how after 30 years of experience this company is still so far behind in terms of graphical fidelity, technology, and just basic good design. This thing is so bad it even looks poor compared to the other NPC's shown in the trailer, which are still severely lacking in all aspects. I heard there's an attitude of nepotism at BGS, that Todd hired an animator for Fallout 3 because he was a friend even though animator was awful at his job. Much smaller teams with less experience and similar scopes deliver equal if not greater quality work than BGS, what is Todd's excuse? Is Gamebryo really such a limiting factor that the artists at BGS turn out half-sucked Milk Duds like this NPC?
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>1000 UNIQUE PLANET OF FULL EXPLORATION
>TOTAL CUSTOMIZABLE SHIP WITH INTERIOR AND CREW
>SPACE FIGHTS
>JESUS
>200K LINES OF DIALOGUES
>ENCLAVE FACTION
>MORTAGE SYSTEM AND SPACE ECONOMY
LMAO LOOK THE OUTER WORLD TARD
the artworks alone are better than anything designed by obsidian.
I didn't like the Outer Worlds my guy.
but you hate this
Boring Character design. Blaśe is no substitue for based.
Who gives a frick? They make ugly game for modders who are a small class of elite gamers who get to tweak any way they want. Meanwhile their base vanilla games will always be stuck in late PS3 era and indie devs are making space games actually live up to current gen.
Modders think everything is about them and their coom
>Who gives a frick?
I do. One of the reasons is because the devs take forever to fix bugs they take 3 years after release to fix and when they do they just create more bugs or turn the game incompatible so most people cant even play the game until they do a hot fix which takes like 2 months.
You're basing that off of performance. I'd rather have a jank cyberpunk that looks good that eventually has its issues ironed out, rather than a jank piece of playdough that still has to fumble with bugs.
>I do.
This is for a mass market. Modders are underglorified QA testers
>defending cyberpunk
cyberpunk is a fricking junk compared to any bethesda game
aka baby worldbuilding for morons.
Factions are not cosplayers
So you would rather have shit with sprinkles on it? I mean we all have our preferences in games but I could care less if the game didnt have a realistic graphics as long as the game play was smooth and fun or had the option to smooth it out.
This is looking like shit without the sprinkles.
>No seamless flying onto planets
>Press X to land
Where's the fricking donut?
Hopefully with enough public input they will give it to us.
From what Todd said it sounded like seamless landing would have required a total overhaul of the engine, coding at the absolute base level. It's likely impossible for them to deliver that after the fact without breaking everything.
Man why do they develop shitty engines all the time? I mean if they dont want to add it fair enough but their toolkit should have the tools to add it so the community can add it themselves. This is what frustrates me about Bethesda is they give you a roughly polished stone but they give us the toolkit to polish it into a marble master piece.
A more accurate metaphor would be they hand us a gem buried in sediment and expect us with no training to extract it without causing any damage. There is something of quality in there, but they don't do the legwork to ensure that quality comes out, and instead we end up with something dirty and unimpressive. I maintain that under a different dev team the TES and Fallout IP's could be masterpieces.
Yeah your metaphor is better and describes it a lot more. Think we will ever see an Indie developer(s) that will make a game that can rival the TES/FO sereies?
o yes SPACE FIGHTS REQUIRE 0 CODING?
lmao return in your shithole wlaking simulator
Then start development of the space game with a total overhaul of the engine fit for a space game, much smaller and poorer devs with no expectations did it all the time when a new game required it, that's how we have modern tech and not garbage from 1997, what's the problem
No, what he actually said was It sounds cool but by the 50th time you do it, The same idiots complaining that it isn't in the game would be screeching how it's boring and then make a mod to disable it.
>underglorified
That isn't a word you fricking idiot.
Except it is, you absolute moron.
>Boring Character design. Blaśe is no substitue for based.
true character design not a cosplaying moron
>ugly games
HHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
GO TO WATCH YOUR MOVIE GAMES WITHOUT DEEP TARD
you hate gaming
Cosplaying as an anachronist 1940's general seems like something that would satisfy a Fallout cosplayer.
I'm not the guy you're replying to but Colonel Autumn is pretty run of the mill dude, he's not that interesting. And to go back to what I was saying in the OP, he suffers from janky animations and poor VA. Had Bethesda ran quality assurance on him maybe he'd have turned out better, but he's very meh.
single handed create the 99% of fallout 3 events and revolted agasints is president to defend his ideal
A TRUE HUMAN
bethesda quality created real expirience not b tier movies
>janky animations
zoomer get the rope
I don't care what he did, I care about how poorly made he is. I am almost certain I'm older than you considering your attitude and grasp of the English language but here, enjoy Bethesda's quality assurance:
Bethesda game is a complete world setting
>there is a bug
never happened to 99% of people stop being moron zoomer
good morning sir
compared to what?
he's a literal who NPC, not a main character. now compare him to other nameless npcs from other vidyas.
How do you know? He's in the boardroom for Constellation, for all we know he's an important character.
because he didn't appear on the box art like that British lady or the black astronaut (both were shown in high fidelity compared to the others)
the best thing is hwo different are the scenarios
People wear and act like another nation is different planets
A TRUE CIVILIZATION
You do realise the beauty of Tod's games is that they survive because of the modding community. With out the modding community all those rpgs would be long dead. Never knew any player that didnt mod skyrim or fallout once they found out they could mod it.
What does that have to do with the art team at BGS delivering poor quality work?
you probably b***h about games like the last of us 2 being soulless, then turn around and demand all games do the same thing.
No I've never played the Last of Us games and have no opinion on them.
>What does that have to do with the art team at BGS delivering poor quality work?
Well the shit art team forces us to make mods that make community loved designed companions and npcs. Pic related.
forgot pic
But you're limited by Bethesda's poor quality engine. There's only so much work a modder can do to improve upon existing graphics. If Gamebryo doesn't support modern standards like subsurface scattering that isn't something a modder can implement into the engine themselves because they're using an API, not the source code. If Bethesda were to take some time to build the tools necessary to bring their games to a modern standard then modders would be in an even better position to create high quality content. None of this excuses Bethesda from still delivering poor art design however, they are more experienced and have more resources than modders, and yet they still pump out grotesque creatures. Alyx Vance in 2007 looks better than FO76 NPC's, and she looks better than what we've seen in Starfield too.
Yeah I understand what your saying. Bethesda needs to get a better art dev team. But there are "upgrades" is suppose for the FO and TES games. Like ReShade and ENB turns the shit graphics to amazing cinematic visuals.
but people kept buying them on console before console modding was a thing.
arguably, it is the console sales of morrowind that kept bethesda alive in the first place, and led to the decrepitude that they have consolized their games into.
but the memes are from the PC side, and the memes keep the games in people's minds and hearts.
>Microsoft
>talent
Based moron
Your reading comprehension is lacking, I said 'hire talent,' that talent can come from anywhere, inside or outside the company.
W-wow Micro$oft castrates everything it touches, who would've thought?!?!
Explains why they push troony propaganda so much.
>, I can't imagine he's too happy with the 6+ year turnaround on delivering games. I'm still holding out hope that he's cracked the whip on development of TESVI, because a 15 year gap between games is just absolutely unacceptable.
This moron op doesn't even know what game design is.
Can you please explain in detail an instance in which a 15 year gap between sequels is acceptable, not just to the customer, but also to the shareholders and the company that just bought them.
You are talking about production times. That shit has nothing to do with design you midwit
Funnily enough I can talk about two problems at once, you're the 'nitwit' conflating what I said.
but there isnt a 15 year gap.
they made fallout 4 and 76 in the meantime, they are effectively the same game, only continually worse.
but they are the sequels.
SEE THAT PLANET OVER THERE?
YOU CAN FLY TO IT!
>no no no no seamless flying at all
>yeah cutscenes too
Microsoft has no interest in how Bethesda runs their shit, it was just about securing a large publisher for Game Pass. I don't even see why you would expect MS of all companies to want to foster good game design
Because M$ cares about money and want to see a return on their investments. BGS isn't as untouchable as it used to be since FO76, Xbox can't let them run riot and do what they want since they have now been seen to fail and lose money. In order for Zenimax as a whole to have been a good purchase, they need to be delivering product that makes money.
im kinda worried how long it will take bethesda to release the modding tools this time, took them long enough with fallout 4 back in the day
>TESVI
I believe that game is still in pre production.
Starfield will be ready when it's released + 10 extra years when modders have had their fill. Same with any and all Bethesda games and on top of that you as the player still need to build the damn thing from the ground up like some twisted fricked up version of an IKEA couch.
Frick me, I just want to play complete games again.
I love the "Todd hired his high school buddy as an animator and that's why animation sucks" rumor because fricking no one knows where it originates from, I remember hearing it here 10 years ago and no one had a source for it then either. I'm not saying it's not true because that seems like a highly likely scenario, just that it's fascinating as a self-perpetuating rumor no one knows the origin of, it's literal folklore about a game development studio, that's hilarious.
Why can't Bethesda into design? Just for that one chief, your whole opinion is invalidated.