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submitted 1 year ago by tymon@lemm.ee to c/elderscrolls@lemm.ee

If you had told 23-year-old me that the brand new copy of Skyrim I was holding would be the last mainline Elder Scrolls game I'd play until I was in my 40s, I would have kicked you out of my house.

There's always Blades, I guess...

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[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a little out of the loop, what has Bethesda seriously produced since Skyrim other than FO4, FO76, and Starfield?

It seems crazy that such a well known studio wouldn't have more successful releases in the past 12 years.

[-] baconeater@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Why release more games when you can re-re-re-re-release skyrim for the billionth time?

[-] seaneoo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Those are huge games (Starfield especially) to be fair and they only have a bit over 400 employees.

[-] tymon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure what the distribution of resources has been on the design-side of things at Bethesda, but they've had some kind of hand in the following games since Skyrim:

  • Elder Scrolls Legends
  • Elder Scrolls Online
  • Elder Scrolls Blades
  • Fallout Shelter
  • Dishonored
  • Redfall
  • A Million Different Skyrim Iterations

I know several of those are strictly under the Bethesda Softworks publishing side of things, but even on New Vegas the game design branch helped out here and there. I imagine they've been overloaded with working on how complicated Starfield actually is.

Still, it's a little bizarre that things have only been taking longer and longer as time goes by.

[-] Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Surely Redfall was produced by a team of three interns on a Pentium 4.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Should've handed Fallout 4 over to Obsidian after the success of New Vegas (which I will maintain is way better than 4) and put those resources into something new and interesting (which to be fair, Starfield sorta is - at the very least it's a new IP and a new setting for Bethesda).

[-] Galven@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I can't wait for Fallout 4: New Vegas, it's going to rock!

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh, I didn't know about that!

Haven't played New Vegas in a few years, will be nice to play it again!

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The Elder Scrolls (commonly referred to as TES) is an award-winning series of roleplaying games created by Bethesda Softworks. Set in the vast world of Nirn, The Elder Scrolls series is renowned for the level of unprecedented control given the player over his or her character's destiny, establishing itself as the benchmark in immersive, independently-living worlds for the RPG genre.

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