As long as they don’t hamper mods or modding too much, then yes, sorta. The de facto experience for many is the modded experience. Which is often leagues above vanilla. Maybe they can’t ship a good thing out of the box, but they leave reasonable tools out for people to make the thing actually good.
But of course it shouldn’t be like that. Unfortunately it is. But if you think of the games as sandboxes for modders, and expect nothing more, then in a sense I guess, they do deliver.
But it takes years for the mods to mature and the games to reach actually reasonable prices for what they are.
Do you folks think Bethesda is still capable of creating the type of experiences they used to?
No. I am a huge Elder Scrolls fan but I have zero hope for 6.
Pretty sure everyone that made this experiences good is no longer at the company.
I hear that about most of legendary game companies like Blizzard, Bioware, etc. So I wonder where do those people work now?
If they are in the US, either at another game company by now or out of the biz. The gamedev industry is incestuous and unstable.
They have the potential to. But these days, I personally focus on indie, AA and large mods of older games (Morrowind, New Vegas).
CDPR is still good though.
As long as they don’t hamper mods or modding too much, then yes, sorta. The de facto experience for many is the modded experience. Which is often leagues above vanilla. Maybe they can’t ship a good thing out of the box, but they leave reasonable tools out for people to make the thing actually good.
But of course it shouldn’t be like that. Unfortunately it is. But if you think of the games as sandboxes for modders, and expect nothing more, then in a sense I guess, they do deliver.
But it takes years for the mods to mature and the games to reach actually reasonable prices for what they are.
No, and neither is Obsidian.
TES I dunno. Fallout…playing 76 now, maybe? It seems they learned what folk want. Seems.
TES has the problem of a simple fact that dumbing it down brough a lot more players that it took out.
Maybe, if they decide to ditch the janky gamebryo engine and/or stop glueing things on to see what sticks.