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Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda can't just switch engines because the current one is "perfectly tuned" to make the studio's RPGs (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Well yeah, that's what happens when you make enormous games with basically no player safely rails. With unrestricted freedom comes unpredictable interactions and inevitable bugs. Feel free to point out any other game that comes close to the scale of a Bethesda game without being full of bugs.

[–] paultimate14 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How quickly people forget how common it was to see Roach on rooftops in the Witcher 3.

GTAas an entire series has tons of reels of people doing ridiculous and hilarious things.

I've never understood the weird hate for Bethesda games in that regard.

[–] Donebrach 1 points 2 months ago

No one forgets that—the artwork for Roach’s Gwent card has her ON A ROOF.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

basically no player safely rails

Skyrim is full of safety rails in the form of essential NPCs and places that won't unlock unless you're at the right part of a specific quest. Newer bethesda games are even worse in those regards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Zelda TOTK?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Admittedly haven't played it yet, but BOTW was absolutely a masterpiece.

That said, the NPC scripting and interactions are way simpler than Bethesda games, and there's very little in terms of even marginally open ended quests. It's a great open world, but it's pretty on rails story wise outside the order in which you tackled areas.

[–] DWBstep 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elden Ring?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I love Elden Ring and From Soft games in general, but the way they work is completely different.

There are no dialog trees in Elden Ring, no skills outside of combat, rudimentary crafting mechanics, rudimentary "enchanting" through things like affinity or ashes of war in ER.

Blatantly put, the focus is on completely different mechanics/systems that are much more simple, meaning much easier to not run into lots of bugs.

It's just not really a good comparison.

[–] vxx 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RDR2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Just look at the mod sites to see how many bugfixes are out there. It's been improved in the years since it launched, but it's far from a bug free game.