What, exactly, is Bethesda good at?
Making a sandbox for modders to take control of.
They're a canvas supplier. Unfortunately, their canvases seem to be getting more and more limiting with each iteration.
Making /v/ cry
Letting other people fix their games for them.
>>339777665
This tbqh famalam.
Good analogy anon.
Building hype.
making large, cool environments and allowing you to have a level of player agency that other RPGs can't offer. it's a level of "be anything and go anywhere at any time or with any fervency that you want to" that you just can't get elsewhere. and having good soundtracks. and they're pretty based in terms of mod tools. few game companies even allow proper mods anymore but bethesda genuinely supports modding.
things they're they bad at:
>writing stories
>writing quests
>writing characters
>writing dialogue
>actually having rpg stats/gameplay decisions
>take a box
>dump a pile of sand in it
>throw a bunch of toys in
>say "have fun"
or at least it used to be.
now it has the added steps of
>nononono you can't play that way in our sandbox
>oh by the way we took stuff out of the sandbox
>obsidian will never make another fallout installment
Why even wake up in the morning at this point?
>>339778285
>making large, cool environments
>Bethesda is the only company making open world games.
>a level of player agency that other RPGs can't offer
>You can't kill Ulfric Stormcloak because he's essential to the quest in which you kill Ulfric Stormcloak.
>a level of "be anything and go anywhere at any time or with any fervency that you want to" that you just can't get elsewhere
>If only other open world games existed.
>having good soundtracks
>The composers Bethesda contracts (and who work on many other games) now work for Bethesda apparently.
>few game companies even allow proper mods anymore
>Steam workshop doesn't exist.
Do you even think about what you type or do you just throw random feelwords together?
>>339778748
new vegas was shit
>>339778779
the thread isn't about when makes bethesda unique, it's about what they can do
>>339778746
and then todd kicks sand in your eye
Publishing
>you will never make a character than can one shot deathclaw alphas in another fallout game
Hey, at least there are weapon mods and (((legendary))) NPC's
Making games people find fun to play.
And thats what matters in this industry boy.
>>339778872
Actually, it's about what Bethesda is good at.
That, and the replied-to post was explicitly saying that other RPGs and other companies weren't doing them.
Reading's not that hard, sport.
>>339778862
Why are are you here?
Serious question.
You realize saying things to get a rise out ot your IRL peers on Facebook is a lot more amusing
>>339779156
Fuck off Todd.
Making mediocre games with ugly graphics.
Making money..
>>339778862
>was
It's still shit. Pretentious writting doesn't make it for boring ass bland world and uninteresting, main quest.
>>339779169
I don't use facebook
>>339778779
Do you? Your post was really dumb
>>Bethesda is the only company making open world games.
I don't recall claiming that Bethesda is the only company making open world. I said they are "making large, cool environments". Which they do. And I would argue that Bethesda's environmental design is more interesting than the open worlds we usually get. Not all open worlds are equal
>>You can't kill Ulfric Stormcloak because he's essential to the quest in which you kill Ulfric Stormcloak.
Hence I said "things they're they bad at: ...>actually having rpg stats/gameplay decisions". Player agency is more than how you affect the plot. In Skyrim, for example, you can basically do any quest of the game from any region of the map at any time that you want to. It's a degree of flexibility that is rare. And, I'm talking about player agency of your own character. In what other game can you be a catgirl thief running across the rooftops pickpocketing and stealing things or also a blue elf boy who focuses solely on being a magician or green shrek orc who takes every issue head on with his axe? Bethesda games are autism simulators in a good way
>>If only other open world games existed.
Again, the only person who claimed Bethesda invented the open world is the little talking voice in your head
>>The composers Bethesda contracts (and who work on many other games) now work for Bethesda apparently
You're being obtuse. If contracting fantastic composers is so easy, why do so few games have wondrous soundtracks? Bethesda games always have top tier music, whether it be TES games using Jeremy Soule or Fallout games licensing great songs from the past
>>Steam workshop doesn't exist.
You're probably too young to remember, but modding used to be a much more prevalent thing than it is now. Franchises like Battlefield, for instance, used to have utterly massive amounts of conversion mods. Nowadays, they have none. For most franchises today, modding is a relic of the past
>>339777421
ruining franchises
and also publishing alright gamesbethesda is literally 2000s EA
>>339777421
absolutely nothing
all TES lore is pure shit trash. Every time someone in morrowind, oblivion or skyrim tries to tell me of the rich history of tamriel I literally do not give one fuck its all just generic RPG trash.
>>339777421
brute forcing. by sheer force of will and momentum, their farms of trained monkeys push out huge swathes of terrain, (laughably deformed) character models, and shitty dialogue trees.
it's a shame that they can't make an actual playable game though.
>>339777421
Lying.
They are the best at currently owning Fallout desu
>>339777421
Being the only developer that makes the kind of games they do. If they had competition from other highly-moddable first person action RPGs, they'd probably be in deep shit.
>>339780126
>If they had competition from other highly-moddable first person action RPGs, they'd probably be in deep shit.
I wish Obsidian would try to turn Pillars of Eternity into a first person RPG clone of TES. It's basically the same gameworld, they've got the furry people and the colorful elves and everything else.
Breeding bugs.
>>339782185i actually agree with the last point and i think most of you subconsciously do as well.
