If Bethesda decides to make a Fallout film, it should focus on the story of Randall Clark and his adventures in Zion. It’s one of the best pieces of lore I’ve ever read.

[u/Royalexp]

[u/Strange_Compote_4592]

And instead of having multiple IPs working at once, the dude hyperfocuses on one IP at a time

It will probably sound weird, but that approach is why I consider Bethesda my favourite studio.

[u/Mr-BillCipher → u/Strange_Compote_4592]

Ever since they took that approach they just re-released skyrim for over a decade. Before todd was ceo, they would always have fallout and elderscrolls, and usually one small ip on the side

The only thing they've produced from this tactic is starfield

[u/Strange_Compote_4592 → u/Mr-BillCipher]

Do you think they re-release skyrim just because they don't want to make a new game? It sells like crazy, they would be stupid not to do it. And pry tell me, why nobody has issues with GTA 5 re-releases? RE4?

And yes, while starfield is not all it could have been, it is still a decent game. A bit too ambitious for its own pants.

[u/M242-TrueLove → u/Strange_Compote_4592]

starfield is decent, but its so infinetely shallow. nothing means anything. exploration sucks, writing sucks, characters suck, enviroments are dull. nothing is good. nothing

[u/Strange_Compote_4592 → u/M242-TrueLove]

I haven't played starfield, to be the judge of its writing myself. But If there is one thing about bethesda that I learned throughout the years is this:

People who complain about their writing DON'T PAY ATTENTION. Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4 all suffer from "BeThEsDa WrItIng", which is usually condensed to "I didn't pay any attention neither to the environment, nor to the dialogues". So i am pretty sure the writing is, at the very least, is alright. (Poor Institute... How many times will I have to listen to "institute has no goal")

Environment is just a plain out lieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Is generated stuff a too vast? Yes. Are 100 planets are plain too big? Yes, the game IS too ambitions. But is it bad or uninteresting? No. Bethesda is THE best environment storytelling studio, so I hardly pressed to even consider it.

Same goes for the characters. They aren't made to be "video gamey", they are made to feel like real people. And 95% of real people are BLAND AND BORING. (Not because they are bland and boring in vacuum, but because your interests don't collide)

[u/M242-TrueLove → u/Strange_Compote_4592]

there is little to no enviromental storytelling in starfield, characters are also embarassingly bad they are all the same and they also tend to have incoherent dialogue, and the most egregious part about the game isnt even anything i already said, its the fact you have no agency at all with regards to anything that happens, its an rpg in name only. and fallout 4 characters rarely feel like real people outside of companions-

i have played starfield 40 hours of gameplay and its the biggest piece of AAA slop ever produced outside of sport games.