Clearly their game engine is showing its age and needs some redesign.

Go play Starfield. The story may be bland, but they’ve crammed tons of updated tech in it, and it lived up to the claims of being the least buggy Besthesda release ever

Do you want Nazis? Because that type of sarcasm is a major contributor to getting Nazis

A lot of those old Dell Optiplexes are going to get dogshit performance without a GPU upgrade

and its because true stupidity has become so extreme that its impossible to tell from sarcasm in the tone free medium of text.

Eh. There’s some sarcasm where it’s so subtle that it better fits into an example pf Schroedinger’s Asshole

“The missions will continue until shareholder value improves”

Really? That’s your only response? That’s pathetic

The Obsidian Fallout game that was just announced probably isn’t going to release for at least 3 years, tbh

1. Your assumption is completely incorrect.

it’s that it’s an iteration of an engine that is legendarily janky.

Pick 1, not both. Fallout 4 was stable. Starfield actually did have fairly few bugs, about on par with most AAA games on release. They’ve gotten a lot better over the years. Again, if you’d actually played any of their games since Skyrim you’d have seen that.

the GameBryo engine (or whatever they’re calling its latest descendant) can be used to make stuff that’s decent, but the open world RPGs that Bethesda uses it for are a terrible fit for it.

You have absolutely no fucking clue what you’re talking about. At all.

Could my notifications on here, for once, not light up with someone picking a fucking fight with me over dumb bullshit?

Then don’t say dumb bullshit that isn’t even consistent.

No, they didn’t. They have Obsidian making an additional Fallout game

Do you really think Unreal Engine has been completely remade every version? News flash: it hasn’t. No game engine has. They all get upgrades to meet new demands over time.

But you clearly haven’t played a Bethesda game since the original release of Skyrim, or you’d have seen it.

Do you seriously think that Unreal Engine has gotten a complete rebuild with every version? Software gets upgraded and adapted, not thrown away. Get over it

Honestly, if they just ported a lot of their games into newer versions of the Creation Engine like they did with Skyrim Special Edition but with higher end textures that’d be pretty sweet

Bethesda is effectively 1 studio, and they all depend on Todd Howard to make creative decisions. A lot of their issue with output is based on how efficiently they can use Todd’s time.

Plus, a lot of the time since Fallout 4 was spent developing Starfield

Do you really think that Unreal Engine has been rebuilt from scratch for every version? Because it hasn’t, code gets upgraded and adapted all the time at every company.

Multiple studios can be licensed to work on the same franchise at the same time. This isn’t anything new

Agreed. I get that people want more Elder Scrolls and Fallout, but mods help with that

You say that as if Unreal Engine gets a ground-up rewrite for every single version.

Code gets upgraded and adapted over time. And the Creation Engine is no different.

First off, you clearly haven’t played a Bethesda game since Skyrim. Bethesda has actually been making a ton of improvements to the engine over the years.

Second, rethink what you said. Do you really think every other engine isn’t continually updating the same engine over the past several decades?

Unreal Engine 6 is about to release. Do you seriously think that Epic is completely rewriting the engine from scratch for each version?

Do you really think that Unity is getting a ground-up rewrite every few years? Or GameMaker? Or Godot?

No developer is going to throw away a giant body of software and start over from scratch if they can help it. It’s absolutely insane. You take what you have, and upgrade it and adapt it for what you need.

I hope they don’t try and cram the games through Unreal Engine like they did with Oblivion. The Oblivion Remaster looked terrible because of it, particularly with every NPC looking like a skincrawler

Yeah, now that you mention it I remember finding snap on Discovery. It’s kinda nice when there’s no flatpak available tbh