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Topic	28 Geeks Later
ParanoidObsessive 09/21/20 6:36:19 PM #422:	Zeus posted... Example? Pretty much every creative decision they've made over the last few years or so? It used to be that their reputation was almost bulletproof, and people would fall over themselves to excuse or justify buggy game design as "Well, it's okay, modders will fix it" or "Yeah, but give it a few years and it will be a great game", but they've been stepping on rake after rake after rake and slowly turning the community as a whole against them, to the point where now release announcements from them are more likely to spark negativity than optimism. They still hold the Elder Scrolls trump card, but honestly, they've milked Skyrim so hard and hyped it up so much that it almost feels like no possible follow-up game could ever live up to it. Especially not games set in places like Elsweyr (the most likely possibility), Valenwood, or Black Marsh. Hammerfell (the other likely possibility) might have advantages of its own, but it depends on how they handle it. Starfield might be the fulcrum point, though. If it comes out and is kind of shit, the backlash might hit them hard. (Not financially, though. We all know gamers tend to buy based on their memory/opinion of past products more than they do the worth of the actual new thing, but that building resentment tends to be cumulative. But that only takes you so far.) Zeus posted... Considering that the company hasn't been around all that long, it'd be weird for you to have nostalgia. They've been around longer than some PotDers have been alive. They're certainly older than most of the companies I DO still have some degree of love/nostalgia for, and plenty of ones I used to have affection for before they either ruined their own legacies or got ruined by outside powers. Honestly, one of the few companies I can think of that's older than Bethesda that I used to be really fond of is Squeenix, and honestly I've hated them for like 15 years now. The merger basically killed everything worthwhile in either company for me - the whole is less than the sum of its parts. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:944912926] in 28 Geeks L... [t:78893470]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>Example?</quote> Pretty much every creative decision they've made over the last few years or so? It used to be that their reputation was almost bulletproof, and people would fall over themselves to excuse or justify buggy game design as "Well, it's okay, modders will fix it" or "Yeah, but give it a few years and it will be a great game", but they've been stepping on rake after rake after rake and slowly turning the community as a whole against them, to the point where now release announcements from them are more likely to spark negativity than optimism. They still hold the Elder Scrolls trump card, but honestly, they've milked Skyrim so hard and hyped it up so much that it almost feels like no possible follow-up game could ever live up to it. Especially not games set in places like Elsweyr (the most likely possibility), Valenwood, or Black Marsh. Hammerfell (the other likely possibility) might have advantages of its own, but it depends on how they handle it. Starfield might be the fulcrum point, though. If it comes out and is kind of shit, the backlash might hit them hard. (Not financially, though. We all know gamers tend to buy based on their memory/opinion of past products more than they do the worth of the actual new thing, but that building resentment tends to be cumulative. But that only takes you so far.) <cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>Considering that the company hasn't been around all that long, it'd be weird for you to have nostalgia.</quote> They've been around longer than some PotDers have been alive. They're certainly older than most of the companies I DO still have some degree of love/nostalgia for, and plenty of ones I used to have affection for before they either ruined their own legacies or got ruined by outside powers. Honestly, one of the few companies I can think of that's older than Bethesda that I used to be really fond of is Squeenix, and honestly I've hated them for like 15 years now. The merger basically killed everything worthwhile in either company for me - the whole is less than the sum of its parts. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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