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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Next Fallout Game Coming... Sooner?
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 10:42:13 +0200
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On 4/30/2024 5:53 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:14:07 -0600, "rms"
> <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> 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.