You make me feel lucky I came in with no knowledge of the Games, I could enjoy it a lot (not knowing the plot wad recycled). With that in mind it was so much fun and the music is amazing. Ghoul is obviously the best part. I may watch it again with mom because she isn't a gamer but could appreciate it in this form. I appreciate your explanation into the issues though. Makes me understand why my brother doesn't like it as much
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They could have it both ways, by telling the origin stories of reemergence in parallel, focusing on different regions in different entries in the series. That's what I thought they were trying to do with Fallout 3. It stood to reason that the east coast would take longer to reemerge than the west, so the advancing timeline wasn't an obvious red flag.
But it's Bethesda, and in spite of reputation, epic narratives are not really what they do. Not to mention they're mostly skinsuited at this point, Howard himself notwithstanding, and as such have lost whatever talent made the early Elder Scrolls games compelling and Fallout 3 a promising start.
It would take a grand vision beyond "making money reselling reskins of our janky sandbox game engine" to develop and coordinate an overarching theme. Easier to just re-re-rerelease Skyrim in Spaaaace! or whatever.
I'm seriously so jaded about and dreading the release of Elder Scrolls VI. Starfield cemented that for me and it would take a serious miracle to reverse that opinion.
Yeah it's sad, but I doubt it'll be any good. I passed on Starfield - knew that was going to be a shit show from the start. Procgen and space games are just not Bethesda's wheelhouse, and they're historically not good at going outside their comfort zone. Nor is their engine suited to the task.
You make me feel lucky I came in with no knowledge of the Games, I could enjoy it a lot (not knowing the plot wad recycled). With that in mind it was so much fun and the music is amazing. Ghoul is obviously the best part. I may watch it again with mom because she isn't a gamer but could appreciate it in this form. I appreciate your explanation into the issues though. Makes me understand why my brother doesn't like it as much
They could have it both ways, by telling the origin stories of reemergence in parallel, focusing on different regions in different entries in the series. That's what I thought they were trying to do with Fallout 3. It stood to reason that the east coast would take longer to reemerge than the west, so the advancing timeline wasn't an obvious red flag.
But it's Bethesda, and in spite of reputation, epic narratives are not really what they do. Not to mention they're mostly skinsuited at this point, Howard himself notwithstanding, and as such have lost whatever talent made the early Elder Scrolls games compelling and Fallout 3 a promising start.
It would take a grand vision beyond "making money reselling reskins of our janky sandbox game engine" to develop and coordinate an overarching theme. Easier to just re-re-rerelease Skyrim in Spaaaace! or whatever.
I'm seriously so jaded about and dreading the release of Elder Scrolls VI. Starfield cemented that for me and it would take a serious miracle to reverse that opinion.
Yeah it's sad, but I doubt it'll be any good. I passed on Starfield - knew that was going to be a shit show from the start. Procgen and space games are just not Bethesda's wheelhouse, and they're historically not good at going outside their comfort zone. Nor is their engine suited to the task.