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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

Knowing Bethesda it actually went wood and it might never actually reach any precious metal state after years of patches.

[–] QubaXR@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Come on Bethesda. Show me you can surprise the world and launch an unbroken game for once. I really really want to be wrong about you.

[–] sarsaparilyptus 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, they're prepared. Bethesda already has the "We're doing our best, the patch is coming soon, all video games launch with bugs" statement ready. The "The bugs aren't even that bad, gamers are so fucking entitled" statement has already been written as well.

Naturally, they've also already written out the heartfelt "Please stop sending us death threats over this" statement, soon to be followed by my personal favorite: the "We were framed" statement, after people inevitably post screenshots showing how all the death threats each developer's Twitter account gets are identical except for the ones that say "as an AI I cannot send hateful messages".

[–] stormageddon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm already anticipating the articles about the inevitable launch-day patch and mountain of breaking bugs.

[–] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Game journalists' fingers worldwide are twitching in excitement!

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I think you mean ChatGPT's virtual fingers looking at the state of game media today.

[–] 47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given the quality of Xbox’s recent first party releases I’m not expecting great things from this.

Redfall and Halo Infinite are still very fresh in the mind.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

I liked Halo Infinite. The story really took a backseat for the world to just be a big box of combat puzzles, but I found the gameplay and addition of the grappling hook to be supremely fun. It also assured me that Bungie didn't make it and never will again, but I enjoyed playing it quite a bit

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want to believe Bethesda is gonna drop a good playable game on launch but I know they won't. I'm better off waiting a year or two for the GOTY edition and the modding community to make a great unofficial bugpatch

[–] GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@TerminalEncounter tbh, I played Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and 4 and Skyrim at launch on Xbox and had hardly any issues.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

I played Skyrim and Fallout 4 at launch on PC and it was all good. There were bugs, but nothing game breaking and I was able to just enjoy myself without getting bogged down in it.

[–] Razputinsgirth@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Skyrim on ps3 here. That wasn't great

[–] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is going to make me sound like a simp, but there is no chance this game launches bug free and I don't really blame Bethesda for that. Its going to be monstrously huge, and playable on multiple disparate platforms. They can't test everything. As long as they move quickly to fix the ones that break the game, I'm fine with that.

[–] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 3 points 2 years ago

Nah they'll do what they've always do and let modders fix the bugs for them.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, there's a new Bethesda game dropping tomorrow!?!? I'm proud of myself for just learning about this, I'm gonna have to check it out when I get home on Saturday

[–] Fuckass@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It honestly just looks like space fallout

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks, Fuckass, for hyping me up with your understated comment