They must have gotten bored being in a game as humorless and aggressively mid as Starfield :V

Why would they?

So - just bear with me now - what if I told you you could actually tell when your framerate drops without actually having to monitor the exact number? What if I also told you that it can be highly distracting when that happens?

I feel like needing 120 fps is ridiculous, personally (ditto for needing ultra high…

I mean he isn’t wrong. Outside of those tiny buildings with not much inside, almost every other building has Skyrim and Fallout 4 levels of loading screens. I noticed that in the 20ish or so hours I’ve played so far. Even a random small cave I went in on a random planet with almost nothing inside aside from a few…

Not a single Bethesda game has launched in a way that doesn’t chug on PC.

A major recurring theme of the game is that prioritizing power above everything else will cause you to lose everything worthwhile, so I don’t really have a problem with this ending being so concise. Even in a game that’s pretty open like BG3, there are still constraints that have to be in place to ensure a narrative…

I found the main quest writing to be almost goofy. Which is weird, because almost all side quests I’ve come across are just so much better. Maybe the main quest writing got rewritten and edited a thousand times by people who care too much. Where a lot of the side quests were just written by people who had good ideas…

That’s not a problem because the two complaints are not mutually exclusive. People can want seamless travel around a planet rather than loading a square grid “sandbox” AND they can also want to move around large open areas faster.

It’s almost like different people want different things and what people really want is the freedom to play it how they want to. I know, shocking. 

I think they’re being 100% truthful. Todd Howard is quoted above, saying “make it an experience where we know how fast they’re seeing things”, which, to me, indicates that a fast-moving vehicle had the potential to break how the game could render the world if stuff was going in and out if memory too quickly. It makes…

“Todd Howard says it’s all about making planet exploration an “experience.”

Got about 55 hours in now. The main ‘experience’ I have walking towards unexplored waypoints on planets is boredom and annoyance as I sometimes need to wait for my stamina/oxygen to replenish before I can sprint again. And as far as jetpacks…

Cool so it took 1 person a few days(?) to completely overhaul and fix the game’s terrible inventory system? It’s a good job that Bethesda aren’t a billion dollar development/publishing goliath with a track record of their games needing the same fixes from community mods of every game they release or this would be…

To be fair for a game of this size with this much anticipation there’s definitely going to be some review bloat. It's the new Bethesda games, people are going to be afraid to give it a low score. Fallout 4 is polarizing, its metacritic scores range from 84-88. Skyward sword is divisive, it's at a 93 on metacritic.…

So, I watched a stream for 5 minutes, and there was a sound bug that sounded like the player was getting shot at the entire time, even with all the enemies dead. It disappeared when he got into the ship, so not the worst thing, but the jank is still there.

I’m seeing the word Overwhelming thrown around a lot in these reviews, and that’s a big red flag to me. Quantity over quality is another phrase I saw, but if anything, 100+ hours of gameplay doesn’t draw me in anymore like it did 10 years ago when Skyrim came out, it makes me run for the hills.

After reading a couple of the first excerpts from gamespot and polygon, this game sounds like it’s almost exactly what I assumed it would be. Incredibly over hyped by it’s own marketing.

He’s so smug and proud it’s honestly pathetic. People like this are just so intensely lame. 

“I am now a pariah of that subreddit,” Adkins wrote in his initial email. “I get it, hype and excitement are at an all-time high. I’m just as excited as the next person, but I draw the line at theft. I was raised to believe that crime doesn’t pay. I had hoped our society, and so-called Bethesda fans could be held to…

“Or, basically, anything No Man’s Sky did, you can expect Bethesda to copy in a way that feels like it SHOULD be better, but somehow isn’t.”

Hey now, Bethesda has surely advanced to, “mine X minerals, take pictures of Y Dinosaurs, and fly these people you don’t know (or care about,) to Z planet.”