Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don’t put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.

  • Fuck Yankies@lemmy.ml
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    There’s something I’d like to call “the Bethesda” bar. It’s basically an industrial bar lower than most. Let’s define what that means:

    • releasing the same game over and over
    • make games so buggy that a release with only a couple hundred of glitches is deemed "polished*
    • ignore progressive development for things like NPC AI
    • put all the money in marketing and hype
    • make the user think they’re getting something new, rather than just another boilerplate game

    I’m sure the story writers did some characters justice, but I won’t be playing this game - especially since Bethesda claims it “can’t run on older hardware”, despite the fact that modders are proving them wrong.

    The Betheada bar is a cancer upon the industry and I view it as consumer facing psy-ops, relying on brain-dead fanboys with nothing going on in their lives to squeal with glee as a new AAA-title is released to fill that void.

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      1 year ago

      Ah yes the “everyone who likes something I don’t like is a brainless zombie” argument, coming from someone who doesn’t like Bethesda and hasn’t even played the game.

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        It’s the same game as the last several Bethesda games, no need to play it to criticize it.

        But even watching a few streams and videos is really enough to see even the harsh criticisms are putting it mildly.

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          It’s obviously vastly different in so many aspects. You realize that Fallout 4, their last mainline game, was 8 years ago?