There’s a reason Bethesda’s become a giant in gaming. They have a specific storytelling, game design and world building that’s unique to them.
Sure, other games may have better designed worlds, but something about Bethesda games just makes them unreplacable(?). There’s also the fact that they’re the only xbox games with an actual modding community and some really in depth mods.
There’s a reason Bethesda’s become a giant in gaming.
Yes, their old masterpieces.
They have a specific storytelling
Being honest, their storytelling feels very outdated by now, even old trilogies like Mass Effect and Bioshock had a storytelling that has aged far better; not to mention TW3, RDR2 and just recently Baldur's Gate 3.
something about Bethesda games just makes them unreplaceable(?)
Starfield is a bigger better game than Fallout New Vegas. Just because it’s not your favorite game, doesn’t mean those of us who grew up playing BGS games and loving them can’t appreciate what this game is and what it will eventually be with mods.
I think you want to argue there are better games but that’s dumb it’s just your opinion.
New Vegas is old. The world isn’t as big. The gameplay isn’t as clean. I get that you like NV more. I used to LOVE new Vegas but yikes change. If Starfield had released as the game it is now at the same time as new nvegas people would have had their minds blown.
Don’t let nostalgia fool you. The things that have changed in that time are not insignificant.
I think Starfield is the perfect example of how no game can meet expectations anymore. There was no reason to think Starfield was going to be anything more than what it is. It’s an open world space BGS RPG.
Like, what did you think you were going to get? This is exactly what any rational person expected.
baldurs gate 3 met expectations, alan wake 2 met expectations, hell lots of games have, starfield is not one of them and the bar really wasnt very high for bethesda and they still tripped over it, people didnt expect some genre defining game from them like morrowind and skyrim but they did expect it not to be a soulless husk filled with copy pasted content on dead empty worlds
BG3 had bugs that made NPC’s say dialogue options that spoiled parts of the game you hadn’t even been to yet. That’s kind of a big deal.
If you don’t like Starfield, that’s fine. I don’t like BG3 to even buy it (not because of the bugs, I think all that stuff is forgivable), but why you get to say one is objectively good and one is objectively had is weird.
BG3 did better than expected so it’s cult following serves to protect it from criticism. BGS is so successful everything they make gets a microscope on it.
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u/Redisigh Nov 20 '23
There’s a reason Bethesda’s become a giant in gaming. They have a specific storytelling, game design and world building that’s unique to them.
Sure, other games may have better designed worlds, but something about Bethesda games just makes them unreplacable(?). There’s also the fact that they’re the only xbox games with an actual modding community and some really in depth mods.