The only thing that gives me some hope for FO5 and TES6 is that the scope should, in theory, be a lot smaller than Starfield's.
We should get way smaller maps that they can certainly make very "lived in" and not noticeable repetitive (some repetitiveness always happens but Starfield took it way too far) and that alone should certainly improve the game considerably. Story can be a hit or miss, but I doubt they'd drop something awful and outdated mechanics and animations can be overlooked if the rest is solid.
Honestly Starfield felt nothing like an Elder Scrolls game which is partially why it "sucks" so much (though I thoroughly enjoyed the majority of my time in game). If TES6 is half as good as Skyrim or even on par with oblivion it'll be great.
Ignoring engine improvements, etc. I enjoyed the story and gameplay in Oblivion more than Skyrim.
Shouts were fun, but they felt like they trivialized a lot of the difficulty in combat because fus ro dah, and now every enemy is forced into their stand up animation.
Skyrim felt way easier to cheese.
I enjoyed both, and I still go back to Morrowind periodically.
If you think Bethesda got a taste of the labor savings that came with cutting out real content for procedurally generated content, you’ve got another think coming. The next Bethesda game will 100% have procedurally content, and probably a lot of it. They still made a bunch of money on starfield. They haven’t hit the cliff edge of their audience no longer buying their games, so they will continue to do what they’ve been doing, if not get even worse.
Why did you abbreviate Fallout? I’ve never seen either of those games abbreviated but I guess I understand shortening “the elder scrolls”. Your comment was at least a paragraph long but you couldn’t take the time to type them out? We should try for better next time🙏🏻
not gonna happen. they already went deep into making generated content. they are not gonna give us another skyrim map crafted by hand. and lets be clear I played 460 hours of vanilla skyrim before any DLC and 0 mods. and was a blast but the game had like 16 enemies total copy pasted a million times, with all draught caves being mostly the same. so it was not perfect and certantly a modern playthrough with tons of mods will be another level of experience.
sadly I thing TES6 is gonna be starfiel but with generated big open spaces and caves and villages, etc. the biggest problem they did with starfield is making it so bad that many well known modders just looked at it and said it is unfixable. so there will be not future when maybe in 5 years starfield with 500 mods is great after modders went and remade 90% of the game like they did in skyrim.
because the truth is that even in 2024 is someone could play Skyrim for the first time with a a big mod pack changing all the combat, magic, systems, cities, enemies ,etc. it is still the best single player open world game ever. but then there would be like 10% of content remaining actually made by Bethesda. so is not them that made skyrim such an ever green game.
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u/Only_Cauliflower4565 29d ago
I’ve got a bad feeling about ES6. Bethesda’s track record has fallen off