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On 12/30/2023 at 9:24 AM, Doublezero said:

Another fine job by Bethesda. The title of the video is clickbait though.

 

Hey if they released this game mutiple times....

Why didn't they just do all this shit to a copy and then release a SSE version?  They could have built the engine and tools before the release. Then relese all the needed tools that are designed to work with their engine and game.  Fuck, they could have even sold it... I am sure the fanboys and fangirls would have bought the game yet again.

To be clearly different, they could have upgraded the graphics (which works well with the tools) and make it look even better. Better lighting and water and such. We all know they take the ideas of the modders and add it to games in the future, they could have done this for this new release.

Less upset customers from bullshit breaking shit and if released all at once (and worked) would do great to improve their rep. If they gave it free, even more better.

Why they didn't...

They are assholes.

This is for the SE version correct? Not the original?

I ask as they can just as easily patch the original game as well to this buillshit.

I usually don't contribute to this thread much but ...

This is just shit.  Those that caused this bullshit just leave to start this shit elsewhere.

10 hours ago, endgameaddiction said:

 

O.O

Where is the rolled up newspaper?

3 hours ago, Nessa said:

Not having an insufferable bitch as your leading actress is always a plus as well. That Zugler whatever thing is so disgusting to me now, I can't even be bothered to listen in on her apology tour. I'm sure she's done a PR approved 180 and now loves the original though.

If she has done the PR aproved 180 I haven't seen it.  I would love to see her eat her own shit even though I know it is a lie.

Why do actor think once they have some success they can spout diarrera out of their mouths?  Instead of sit back and follow whatever PR tour that was planed with the approved bullshit the company is handing out?

I was less excited for Elder Scrolls way back with Fallout 4 and got even less excited with Fallout 76 etc. etc.

2 hours ago, endgameaddiction said:

 

What are you guy's thoughts on Vivek? I like the guy. He definitely has the attitude for the position. But he does not have a chance against Trump for 2024.

I am not familar with his work however, until the post and video of him commenting about Trump being removed from the ballot I have not heard of him from any other source. I am not genrally watching politics but, I can at least recognize those that are in the news very often. This isn't the case with him.

As for having a chance against trump for 2024, it is possible. The comments about him withdrawing himself from the ballot in that state etc. Calls for others to do so as well in protest about his removal can gain points. Then the Democratic and Left wing groups trying to work againsts Trump can possibly hinder him as well.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/who-are-candidates-running-2024-us-presidential-election-2023-09-19/

There are many people running. This gives more options but also can divide votes. Possibly lowering the possiblity for everyone. IMO it would be better to have 2 strong canadates that have complementary views and resumes etc, but different histories etc. This would give a more precise and benificial options for the vote. Basically both are on the party lines and goals but different capabilities. Both are very strong and recognizable and compentent and won't be held back by potential issues that haven't been resolved. I believe Trump needs to get the Jan 6th and other *stuff* addressed and settled, then run for the President. I know of some Republicans that are concerned with the issues he is battling outside of running for president and likely would vote for another strong canadate over Trump even if they would really prefer Trump.

The actual trailer

I don't know about you, but both staying true to the original content where possible along with those involved having a passion about the story is extremely important. 

Hogwarts was a very polished game.  Same with Baulder's gate 3. Both are excellent games.

10 hours ago, endgameaddiction said:

Toddler's pride is at stake here. He needs to win over his chess club buddies again.

Todd is too out of it to even know how far off the planet he is. As far as his fucked up brain is telling him, he is a hero of his Chess Club Buddies. (which I doubt he has han any contact with since he graduated.)

The alternitive is he is out of his element when he got promoted and doesn't know fuck all on how to managed those below him and is just ridding along roughly at least since Fallout 4, perhaps before. Just riding along on his previous work which BTW was done with many other excellent individuals with extreme tallent which no longer work there. Just how much of the previous games success could be contributed to him? It might have been that he had limited tallent and skilil and just stuck around and since he was part of the "successful" releases they kept on promoting him because they hoped that he would bring that back.

Evidence: not even being about to properly explain what is going to be released. 1000 times, bullshit etc.  You heard of where there is smoke there is fire? Well the same goes for games. Where there is random hype, there is a shitty game.  Take Baldur's gate 3. There was hype but there were actual game play being shown, clear directions being taken etc. Skyrim promo vs, Fallout 4 promo then, Vault 76 and now Starfail promo. Watch as they progressively get worse and worse and you will start to learn how to spot shitty games being relased by shitty game producers.

Both options suck for the I.P. and by extention the fans of that I.P.

You didn't follow the instructions or something is conficting with it.  I had a similar problem the first time I installed this. I installed it wrong. Once I fixed it, I had no probems

However, go ahead and use the packaged Breeze from Nexus.

2 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

FO4, FO76 and now Starfield.  Can't control my enthusiasm to see how they royally fuck up ES6.

Now it is getting to a point where I can't imagine what they can screw up going foward.

Honestly, they would do better to licence the IP to some other company that will do it justice. I mean they can still make good $$ doing so with minimum effort.

Now it isn't something that is funny, that they just screwed up and people make fun of the results. It is getting extremely sad.  Everybody is just so deluded about reality of the situation they just won't be able to move forward. They just can't even do something that is basic. They can't even provide the basic modding tools so that someone else can come along and make it great (or at least fix the shit)  Just fucking sad.

33 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

Anyone see that shit going on in Poland?  Fishy election, media questioning the outcome, EU stooge Reichsführer Donald Tusk ordering the police to occupy newspapers, radio and TV stations...and they actually fucking do it?  And their weak-ass President Duda says and DOES nothing to stop it?

My guess is the 'Ukraine is on it's own' stance Poland took last month wasn't popular with the Eurotrash Globalists.  Time to mix things up a bit.

Trying to find actual, proper and unbias news on anything much less this trigger toppic is dam near impossible.  You would be lead to believe that Putin eats babies for breakfast or or something along those lines while Ukraine cannot do any wrong regardless of what they do. They have an excuse!

Are you saying that there is a coo in Poland? That those backing supporting Ukraine is tampering with the local elections so that they can maintain their agenda? Not letting Poland decide for themselves what they want to do about the Ukraine/ Russian war. That can't be, we all know the EU (and the US) cannot do anything wrong or improper. They would never interfere with enemies much less allies goverement processes. Your sources must be on crack or something just as strong.

3 hours ago, Doublezero said:

Nice video if you have an hour to burn.

 

He is wrong. The blame can be placed on one person. That blame goes to the top guy/gal in charge of the entire project. They set the stage, they hold the employees accountable.

One example is the policy of not having approprate documentation which would allow everybody know what is going on (as I understand it)

16 hours ago, Doublezero said:

Like with paid mods? 

No like they did with Fallout New Vegas. Use their IP to create a game. I am sure they make some money.

15 hours ago, Doublezero said:

 

Is it just me or does this person remind you of Gilbert Gottfried?

11 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

Yeah, those assholes rejected NewVegas 2 AND an Elder Scrolls spinoff.  Obvious that others can better and they don't want that.  The only things Todd is good at is being a lying wormy little fuck and screwing up IPs he inherits.  Elder Scrolls, NOT HIS idea.  Fallout, NOT HIS EITHER.  Shout out to the chess club, you cunt.

Question, if Bethesda allowed someone to make a game on their IP. They (Bethesda) gets a tidy sum of  money for basically doing nothing... correct?

Sorry for the above wall of text and any spelling errors etc. 

On 12/15/2023 at 9:10 PM, vancleef said:

I predict ES 6 won't flop. But I'm an opitimist.

I am an optimist as well but th evidence shows that the individuals that were behind the Fallout 3 and even to a degree Skyrim no longer works for them. The story, the characters etc. As bad as they were (looking to the main quest for Fallout 3) they still had very interesting encounters. I found events years later that I missed the first time I played through.  I mention as bad as they were as there was little concenquence to your action. Not as much as other games during the time the game(s) were released. they had a reasonable framework and Bethesda had tools and opened the game in a way that few other producers did. Now with the last release of Starfail they don't even have the tools and framework that mod authors can start to work on. They don't even have the willingness to work with mod authors to help shore up the modding options. They are releasing mostly bullshit leveling crap and not working on the core so that others can start working on making the game interesting. Help fix the bugs etc. They should be working hand in hand with the modding community. Fuck, they even want to create a modding store. How can you do this and not have a great relationship with the community. I'm not talking about them giving away the game and unlimited changes to accomidate them, but not having the basic tools and structure for mod authors to do their thing and/or dialogue with them to help them understand the changes so that they can do their work.

This is all pointing to ever increasing failures from them going forward until they fire those responsible and get proper responsible indivduals hired to do the basic job. I mean FUCK, their fans are willing to eat shit to get a game from them but there is only so much that even they will accept and more and more people will leave.

I'd suggest that they hire those mod authors with the deep undestanding of the engine and modding and work with them to properly shore up at least the mod tools and documentation so that at a minimum mods can be made for the game. The community can take the game in a direction that they want. Am I lying to say that a boring game for 50~60 dollars with excellent moding tools and a vibrant community would be bought without much of a complaint? Add a few proper character and some basic BS framework and done. Jesus Christ, they don't have to write much of a story or shit. Look at 76. All they did there when it was released with console notes and stuff. NO intereaction with any NPC. People are liking that game and playing it still unlike starfail which is rapidly falling off the charts.

1. Better engine. Excellent documentation of commands and as easy as possible scriptiong etc. Increase limitations on scripts etc as much as feasible.

2. Excellent mod tools. Close to what the devs would use. Released AT THE TIME OF THE GAME RELEASE.

3. Large area, with intereresting quest, NPC. Goal here is to help create a vision of a game world that is being released. Not pin you to some major quest for example find your father.  Major and minor quest should be able to be started at the customers decided time and choice.

4. Stable, Stable, Stable. when game released.  Perhaps chosen individuals in the community given the option to play test it and give feed back. Fuck at this point I don't even care if they use Nexis simps.  With a good engine and tools this should only be needed to make sure the colision map and memory leaks are addressed. Floating gun, chest not refreshing , NPC time and schedule wrong etc. Also good to test different hardware.

5. PROFIT. Release the game. First 6 months work on bugs FIRST. then worry about exploits etc. Most games released are SINGLE PLAYER. Who GIVES A FUCK IF THERE IS AN EXPLOIT IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME! They release the game with console option and commands that can givd FUCKING GOD MODE, ACCESS DEVELOPER'S AREA ETC. Let the customers have some fun. If a complaint occurs, first you are working on bugs let them know that. Then you will fix the exploits. Only time Bethesda should address exploits is when it is a mutiplayer.

The really fucking stupid thing is they can release games (gamebro) quickly without all this delay. Focus on a strong game engine with modding tools that can be relased. Perhap even the ones that the dev are using (approprate modifications of course but keep it as little as possible) .  Hire some writers that can create some interesting quest that the customer can enjoy. Hell the main quest could be as simple as escaping the vault. For TES. escaping a dungon. Leave the tutorial area, get the prompt to edit your character. (where most save so they don't have to go through the tutorial again. Add option to join a faction etc. (like alternate start) and then leave.  You can start the random quest etc when you leave.  Their updates can be simple additional quest, equiptment etc. DLC is nice new large areas that quesst can be tied into. Not as hard as they say. A person created a major DLC (actually larger one) for Skyrim that exceeded the quality of the actual game. A FUCKING SINGLE PERSON AND HE ONLY TOOK A YEAR!!!!!!

4 hours ago, Doublezero said:

This is starting to look like a disaster for Bethesda. Steam player count is consistently below Fallout 4 and still dropping. I'm sure Bethesda made their money after launch, but I can't imagine they expected the game to fall off this quickly.

Maybe broke even? perhaps but not the money that they expected and projected I am sure. They were still selling Skyrim for almost full price 3 to 5 years after it was released.  AND selling it.

Microsoft needs to fire all those people that is in charge namely Todd Howard. Has one or two games left in him... NO. he doesn't. Proof in the recent decline from Fallout 4 to now that he doesn't.  Fire them to prevent further damage. BUT, cooporations don't do that. They fire the employees and blame the customers because they can't admit that they fucked up and allowed senior managers to continue to work without being responsible for the results.

Hey even if the game play sucked. Which in recent years all of the games (gamebro) that they released has sucked story wise.  All they needed to do is create a functional game and really strong modding tools.  Fuck, they even have a fuckign store to sell mods. you would think that they would at least get that shit right.  I know that they have heard that the mod authors not only create new content but fix shit.  They can't even get that right.

with mod tools and empty planets they (mod authors) could have added interersting landing zones and other stuff.  In time, even entire quest liines (looking at alternate start) and other stuff.

They aren't even sticking with the core thing that is working for them.  How stupid can a company be?

9 hours ago, Doublezero said:

Bethesda keeps on giving. I hate that I didn't put any time into an OpenMW game. I'm ready to give up on this studio.

 

WE don't need to know how to create a Hostess twinkie to say it taste like SHIT.  That we don't like it or want to buy it.

How stupid can you be?

Is it ready for mainstream?

I'd like to play it but my new computer shit the bed. Just over a year old. Gonna be a hot minute before I can fix it.

1 hour ago, Doublezero said:

How are they going to sell mods for this game? The game is broken as hell.

 

Hey, here is an idea. Stop fucking around Skyrim and adding shit until you fix Starfield!  If you are fucking around with the code in Skyrim, don't you think you should fix the game that is currently fucked up!