To all the people saying, “eh, it’s not so bad”. How about we, as gamers, have some standards and stop giving developers who release games of ever backsliding quality any money or XBOX Game Pass (XBGP) billable hours so they can stop getting the reassurances that their downward trajectories are justified?
It’s not like games like Starfield and Diablo IV are the ONLY games out there FFS.
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EDIT: To all the people crying out “what didn’t we get that Bethesda promised?”, I encourage you to watch this review:
It’s done by a man who, despite all the game’s problems and unfulfilled promises (which he explicitly cites, I might add) still played 100+ hours and claims to have enjoyed it. However, that doesn’t prevent him from objectively evaluating the game for all its virtues and faults, which I appreciate from quality game reviewers. After watching this review, all my previous research findings and apprehensions about the game were confirmed and I have decided not to purchase it at this time.
Maybe the modding community or even Bethesda themselves will address some or all of these problems in the future, but until that time, I will choose to look to other horizons of entertainment. I wish that wasn’t the case with a AAA studio’s game, but sadly, that’s par for the course these days. Too many big-name titles released today are rushed-out, unfinished, barely-tested, buggy messes that people continue to pre-order, buy, or play on XBGP within the first week of their launch, which I reiterate, just lets developers know they can keep slacking on quality, still get paid, and someone in the wild will probably fix it for free (on PC, anyway).