Current Events > I can't really picture a Bethesda Games Studios game not being janky

(+) Yeah! (+)

Improved combat and stuff like interiors no longer being behind a load screen? Sure. Hopefully that's there.

But the actual design of their games just ask for weird and dumb shit to happen. Waking up people in their beds by talking to them. People awkwardly getting up, walking towards a table, sitting down like a robot and eating food while having weird randomly generated conversations. Rumors and voice lines that are recycled among characters. Being able to pick up objects and put them over heads without any reactions. Guards randomly stopping you and saying 'Stop right there criminal scum!' Random villagers trying to fight monsters with their fists and dying.

There's just so much jank that happens because the game is so systemic and just goes on its own. The majority of games avoid this by scripting and polishing every single interaction so it looks perfect but that's inherently not what these games are. So in a way I hope it does stick around and they don't get embarrassed by jank such as this. Technology probably won't be there for a long time to actually make a game like Elder Scrolls look authentic and real and I think that's okay.

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