Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lane Larson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Next Fallout Game Coming... Sooner? Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 03:16:37 -0500 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <0hk03j12svrrmkgp2d610ff9eth2nis25e@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net SyrZK/Ys2a9FY0OB1W8u7QwGX0YjEMp4naocyoz4nzxRNPyP6w Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wv4Ce89Fb/qtGNlA+rN6S+pXEOw= sha256:i50o8pEuY5vVlTLByANaYcuzCBM9cqkDio5kxOY/YfE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3350 Kyonshi wrote: > On 4/30/2024 5:53 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:14:07 -0600, "rms" >> wrote: >> >>>> Rumors* have it that - due to the recent success of the TV show - >>>> Bethesda is accelerating the release of the next Fallout game. >>>> Because if there's anything we all want, it's a Bethesda game even >>>> /more/ rushed out of production. After all, it's the bugs and janks >>>> that make their games so memorable, right? >>> >>>    Perhaps they could reuse the same engine to save production time?  Or >>> shorten the writing process by replacing writers with a chatbot? >> >> Procedural generation all the way, baby! Why hand-craft maps, quests, >> characters, ANYTHING when you can get a computer to do it? >> >> I'm sure it will all work out fine. ;-) >> >> In truth, the rumor that Bethesda is expediting the next Fallout >> remains just that: a rumor. But it's definitely something Bethesda >> needs to get ahead of. They /don't/ have the best reputation right >> now. A lot of their recent in-house productions have been >> disappointments; maybe not flops, but seen as a step down from earlier >> games. "Fallout 4" was fairly average. "Fallout 76" had an incredibly >> rocky launch. "Starfield" failed to impress on almost every level. >> They're continually milking "Skyrim". They're breaking mods. Their >> trying to grift off the modder's hard work. They don't have anything >> exciting in the pipeline. >> >> Their PR team needs to get out there and issue the usual platitudes: >> 'of course we aren't going to rush out the next game. We're dedicated >> to creating quality products. We're not simply chasing the next >> popular trend. Other other IPs remain important to us.' The usual >> schtick; say a lot without saying anything. That it's been several >> days and Bethesda has remained silent does not speak well of their >> management. >> >> >> >> > > Bethesda is in the slow downward spiral of death right now. It's gonna > take a few years longer, but they will become irrelevant, their IP will > get sold to a different company founded by one of the original people of > whatever, and then stuff is gonna get released that's actually decent to > good again. Don't you think they are making bank off of Elder Scrolls Online?