I love Bethesda’s games, I play them all the time. But as of late, they’ve been milking them more and more with small, useless updates to push paid content. And after I spent a month perfecting my modded load order, they produced yet another useless application update that breaks EVERYTHING and now I have to start all over (which means hours of uninstalling mods and clearing the entire game directory).
You make it very hard to love you, Bethesda.
Starfield is where the studio died for me, and it’s not because it was a bad game. It’s actually nothing to do with Starfield directly, but more that I realized they just don’t know how to make any other type of game, and the world has left them behind.
Skyrim came and went, and then Fallout 4, which was great, but then you got the Witcher 3, and Red Dead 2, and the bar has been raised for open world RPGs. It’s not that Bethesda is bad, it’s that they haven’t modernized their gameplay or engines.
Starfield had a great idea, but they couldn’t execute on it. 16 loading screens to jump between planets, annoying clunky animations, the game felt like it came out in 2013, not 2023. Even if ES6 came out next year I wouldn’t trust it simply because I don’t think they know how to make a modern RPG anymore.
This video did a decent job summing up my thoughts