Nah, you can pre-order games but do it on things you feel very strongly about or if it’s a limited edition that has some good stuff...like KH3 with the figures. 

The engine is fine.  What isn’t fine is how Bethesda conducts their business.  There are a lot of small bugs in this game that anyone playing would notice.  Including the playtesters.  So either Bethesda doesn’t have playtesters, or it has incompetent playtesters, or probably worst of all, has competent playtesters,…

For fuck sake stop spreading this shit. No one knows what the things are other than that they exist within a dev test cell within the game and that all they do is give some very mediocre temporary buffs.

The problem isn’t so much with the engines age its more about the state of the tools that they use. Instead of improving the tools they keep using the same broken code over and over. Reusing code is not in itself a bad thing because anyone who writes code will tell you its foolish to start from scratch each time you…