...And unfortunately it's not due to incompetence. It's more likely due to market perception; tailoring the product to ideally suit their perceived customer. (Not an exact science, as seen with 76.)
Link?, I kinda wanna see your game.I twice spent a year on a dungeon-crawler mod that was very puzzle-centric, and not overly hack-slash. Yesterday I read a post by a player condemning them as no fun because it was not open hack & slash.
That's the key point; they re-skinned Oblivion as a Fallout sequel. Like as if re-skinning Spacemarine as a 'Dawn of War' sequel.
Oh right it's a mod for a game. Don't own Legend of Grimrock unfortunately
...And unfortunately it's not due to incompetence. It's more likely due to market perception; tailoring the product to ideally suit their perceived customer. (Not an exact science, as seen with 76.)
I once read an opinion of Superman, that observed that Superman's 'Clark Kent' identity was his low opinion of [weak & frail] Humanity; a downgrade to blend in. Well, I think that Bethesda's FO themed products are quite telling of their level of esteem (or lack therof) for the majority of the game-buying audience.
(Low patience empowerment junkies, that hate to think—that being seen as a chore that they play games to escape.)
The sad part is that they have been proved right more often than not. They made a ton of money on their games; people paid them for that crap, and enjoyed it. People did, and still do dish trash on the original [Fallout] games as outdated, limiting, and —fine for old people. Just like a kid disparaging sprouts in favor of candy corn.
I twice spent a year on a dungeon-crawler mod that was very puzzle-centric, and not overly hack-slash. Yesterday I read a post by a player condemning them as no fun because it was not open hack & slash.
Bethesda avoids anything but an ostensible challenge that can be perceived as an accomplishment by the player; never something that might actually give them pause. The closest thing I ever saw to that in one of their [recent] games was the optional musical escape puzzle in Tranquility Lane. How many players even know about it?
To be fair, Morrowind, and to an extent, Daggerfall, are probably the few games from Bethesda that was actually good rather than being the latest over-hyped trendy game that they produced recently. The writing in Morrowind for the most part is not the Emil level stuff we got in their modern titles.
That's because both weren't made with the lowest common denominator in mind like their titles since Oblivion. Funny how both get looked upon more favorably than their most recent games.
Far out
Ty Cobb was also a baseball player. “Hard-headed fuck you all!”