Bethesda announces another E3 press conference

Izak said:
There's no way there'll be a TES announcement, Bethesda always likes to take their time with projects; the gap between Skyrim and Fallout 4 was 4 years, you should expect that again. As a side note, I loosely remember them saying they'll be releasing a couple of new IPs, so those will probably be announced soon, though it might just be QUAKE.
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You're not thinking this through right now. The main reason they always wait so long to announce new projects normally is because usually their games are fun enough to keep everyone preoccupied and not worry about a new game. For example people playing Skyrim were still finding secrets and whatnot like 2 years after the game was out, and people were having fun. Fallout 4 meanwhile is sitting at a 5.4 on Metacritic, has a Mixed score on Steam, and is generally hailed as probably the biggest gaming blunder of this decade. So they'll either have to announce some big thing like a new Elder Scrolls or have to deal with more people complaining about Fallout 4.

What I'm trying to say is, the reason they've been able to keep up this business model of not announcing anything for a while is their games are usually at least passable and enough to keep people distracted for a year or more. Meanwhile Fallout 4 is so stupid and vapid that only a couple of months after the game even loyal fans of Bethesda were calling foul and people are "waking up" essentially as more and more people get bored of FO4 and start pointing out the huge flaws with it before even a year has past. Thus Bethesda's backed into a corner right now. They can either try to distract people with some Elder Scrolls stuff (like dangling keys in front of a baby's face to stop it from crying) or let people keep realizing how shitty Fallout 4 is and take even more backlash and criticism as time goes on.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
It's more likely they consider Fallout 4 a smashing success and Elder Scrolls VI will be even more dumbed down and stupid.
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Perhaps they will include an option in which you don't even have to play the game any more and instead it plays itself.
That would be such a relief for gamers, then their fingers would no longer get tired.
 
Izak said:
There's no way there'll be a TES announcement, Bethesda always likes to take their time with projects; the gap between Skyrim and Fallout 4 was 4 years, you should expect that again. As a side note, I loosely remember them saying they'll be releasing a couple of new IPs, so those will probably be announced soon, though it might just be QUAKE.
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Prey 2

if DOOM is about Demon, Quake is about Lovercraftian stuff, then Prey is about The Culture Civilization.

Skyrim and fallout 4 takes 2.5 year of gap, i dont believe bethesda claim of that; its just long time and anomaly in video game development if its true, ussually a symptom of development hell which i dont believe happen in fallout 4 either
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Perhaps they will include an option in which you don't even have to play the game any more and instead it plays itself.
That would be such a relief for gamers, then their fingers would no longer get tired.
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progress quest 2.0, which todd claim inspire the development of fallout shelter
 
Ragemage said:
...has a Mixed score on Steam...
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Many people could tell within the first 10 hours of Fallout 4 that it was dumbed down and was an insult to all previous Fallout games including Fallout 3. I realized this after 20 hours of trying to have a conversation with someone only to realize you cannot talk to anyone in this game as you can in actual role-playing games.

Then there are the people that defended the game only to realize a few months later that it really is dumbed down lazy MMO quests with terrible story and characters and dialogue. A lot of of comments say "I really LOVED Fallout 4 but suddenly...it's all very boring and I don't want to play it anymore." Well there's a reason for that. It's a bad role-playing game that plays like an offline-MMO that could have been made in the last 12 months instead of 5-7 years.

So people are slowly realizing Skyrim and Fallout 4 are dumbed down. I don't know how many more iterations of these games it's going to take for the majority to see that. I imagine Fallout 6 will be 90% quicktime events and maybe only then will fanboys realize it has become stupid.

Interplay's slogan was "by gamers for gamers" well Bethesda has interpreted that as "by casuals for casuals" with Fallout 4.

15 dollars for workshop mod DLCs that modders do better and for free and consoles stealing mods is the icing on the sh*tcake. Fallout 4 has SOME redeeming qualities, but for me this is the biggest example of "dropping the ball" and "missing the point" in gaming history.
 
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When I first played Fallout 4 the day it came out, (I pre ordered it) I knew something was horribly wrong about the game within an hour or so. I actually didn't look forward to playing it the next day, I was crushed by that game and all I wanted was a decent Fallout game. I wasn't expecting another New Vegas, I expected Fallout 3 quality with slight improvements and I got a lot worse than that. I had a feeling that the game was going to be a disappointment the moment I left Vault 111 and that feeling got a lot stronger when I got to the Minutemen crap in Concord.
 
Paladin Waffles said:
When I first played Fallout 4 the day it came out, (I pre ordered it) I knew something was horribly wrong about the game within an hour or so. I actually didn't look forward to playing it the next day, I was crushed by that game and all I wanted was a decent Fallout game. I wasn't expecting another New Vegas, I expected Fallout 3 quality with slight improvements and I got a lot worse than that. I had a feeling that the game was going to be a disappointment the moment I left Vault 111 and that feeling got a lot stronger when I got to the Minutemen crap in Concord.
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This is exactly how I felt. I wasn't expecting New Vegas from Bethesda. I was expecting at least the level of Fallout 3 role-playing and Fallout experience. Instead, it turned out much much worse.

I saw it coming from the moment they revealed the voiced protagonist and dialogue wheel. Fallout would be incredibly dumbed down.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
I saw it coming from the moment they revealed the voiced protagonist and dialogue wheel. Fallout would be incredibly dumbed down.
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I'm glad you and most of the people on the site saw it coming. I gave the voiced protagonist, the dialog system and the new leveling system the benefit of the doubt which was a huge mistake. The writing was on the wall leading up to it's release, I just chose to ignore it for the sake of optimism.
 
Going to be on topic for a moment: Great, another hype gathering machine to make fanboys go nuts over the dumbing-down of their next IP or it will simply promote games made by more competent people (Doom 2016 was certainly a pleasant surprise from id Software) while claiming credit from them. I wonder if Beth will reveal that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be a simple dungeon corridor where every step you take produces blinding bloom effects that hides textures straight out of 2011 and that dialogue options do not exist so that the player will be immersed in a character-driven story.

Now off-topic: It will be a while before the Steam ratings of Fallout 4 will match its actual quality. There are probably people that will try to counter the low ratings with fake one-line reviews on how 'perfect' Fallout 4 is to them. As for Fallout 4 optimism, it drained out for me when they revealed that skills would be replaced by perks, the protagonist will have a voice and a dialogue wheel would be used. Playing the game merely stuck the nail into the coffin.
 
I played Fallout 4 on release (Midnight Launch and Pre-Order, I was like third in the line for it, and got the season pass + Strategy Guide).

And within an hour, I felt like I wasted £100.
That ws my Birthday Money gone...

Edit. If they annouce Skyrim Remaster, I'll cause Genocide (Be afraid JO'Geran)
 
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