>Washed RPG studio>No good games in over a decade>Recent failed sci-fi game>Development hell for a sequel to a beloved seriesHe's next isn't he?
>Elder Scrolls 6 fakeout at E3 2018>Actually makes starfield like a boss>It's complete dogshit>Elder Scrolls 6 earliest still quoted at 2028Todd needed to get the cane when he pulled this shit
>hired a Veilguard writerWhat is Slobb Coward thinking now?
I'm honestly kind of surprised it hasn't happened already
>>750164120Wasn't the new jeet foid supposed to "clean house" at MSGS? What happened to that?>>750165319>odd needed to get the caneHe did by tyhe public. But all complaints where challenged by Indians going "hurr wait for Saarfield, Timmy! Saarfield is gonna be better than whyte peepoos LAMOscrolls 6."And here we are.
>>750164120Starfield was actually a success. It wasn't Skyrim-tier, but almost nothing is. But it still did pretty well, especially with boosts from DLC. And Starfield alone is still better than any game Bioware had made since Mass Effect 2.
>>750165934>Wasn't the new jeet foid supposed to "clean house" at MSGS? What happened to that?It did happen. Zenimax and Bethesda both had lots of layoffs.
>>750165946>Starfield was a successFINANCIAL success maybe. But you as the player (or NPC retardedly pre-ordering the game) only got a soulless tepid nothingburger where nothing every happens except loading screens.
>>750164120Starfield is a great game and you actually see threads about it years later, thats the sign you made a good game more than anything else.
>>750166019Okay, but how is firing Bethesda employees helping ES6?
>>750166163Ah you're one of those NPC niggercattle that only play overwhelming positive games on steam.
>>750166019They weren't cleaning house tho. Just standard MS lay-offs.
>>750166227Yes.
>>750166175AHAHAHAHA
>>750166328No argument then?
>>750166175I also see threads about Veilguard years later. Must be an excellent game then.
i expect a retirement announcement soon desu.As well as a lot of other vets who peaked in gen 7.It's like what happened 20 years when vets who peaked in the 80s or 90s were floundering
>>750167070MS would pay him 7 figures just to have his name on future TES and Fallout games.
Yeah he's just filling out his retirement plans right now, of course he's not working on anything serious. He will suddenly dip out and hand a 2% finished project to an intern who gets blamed for it. Same song and dance from all upper management.
>>750165946>successGamepass padding and morons buying the premium "play 5 days early" slop isn't the same thing as people liking it. Skyrim is still being played because people actually want to be in that world. Starfield got memoryholed the second everyone realized the "NASA punk" universe was 3 cities, 1000 empty rocks and a loading screen simulator.Bioware being a corpse doesn't magically make Bethesda alive. It just means the retirement home has two wings.
>>750164120The RPG elements were gutted so much between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, and that had way less time between entries compared to Skyrim and whatever shit they put out next. ES6 is going to be completely unrecognizable if you've enjoyed any previous entry in the series, there's no way they can turn this shit around.
Not if he listens to mommy asha
TES6 is Bethesda's last chanceIf it sucks Asha will turn them into Bioware, with the IP redistributed among other Microshit developers
>>750166163The Star Wars mod might save it but Starfield has to come down to fifteen bucks for me to buy it.
Bethesda could have hired like the top 20 modders instead of 500 indians and they could have actually made Fo5 ES6 and had a decent Starfield game. The opportunity cost of doing what they have done instead of this in the billions. The fallout show came out and they basically had nothing to go along with all the hype. Pure retardation.
>>750170139They should have hired those Serana modders and the Bijin Warmaidens guyWe would have TES8 by now and Fallout 7
>>750168281>Cat poster>RetardedA classic.
>>750166019Not Maryland. Austin and Montreal branches that make online and mobile scams got culled. Maryland had around a dozen layoffs, with most of those being QA testers.
>>750167750Starfield is a beloved game that has a general on /vg/ for 3 years and literally gets threads everyday talking about it. You're retarded.
>>750170139But that's what Bethesda did? Bethesda is filled with ex modders. They dont use indians at all.
>>750164120>Washed RPG studiothat's nice of him. did he wax the floors too?
don't even care. and I doubt TES is even cared about except by decrepit uncs.
>>750171746Those are visitors, not employees.
>>750171929Bethesda has been known to hire modders to get them to work on the game, it's nothing new.
>>750171929They did hire the writer of Fallout: London, full time. Her job was mostly writing trash characters and quests for FO76. She was one of the subhumans fired by Shawarma this year.Elianora was a temporary contractor, and not just for the paid mods. She helped them come up with the disastrous idea of pack-ins for Saarfield and she was one of the level decorators. The reason why they moved away from lootable containers and have all the junk out in the open is none other than her mentally ill cluttering habits.Chesko (David Pierce) is permanently employed, they promoted him to a lead designer and he's still with them, working on TES 6 now.Kris Takahashi is another perma hire, one of the current quest designers.
>>750171746It still baffles me that Elianora is not a tranny
>>750176070Nerdy women exist but they're rare before trannies overwhelmed them anon.
>>750166175By your retarded logic, concord is a goty must play multiplayer to the likes of year one overwatch and tf2
>>750176209Concord is woke slop made by trannies that deserve to crash and burn. That logic does not even make sense.
>>750176263It does considering we still see 1-2 threads about it weekly.
>>750176334No concord is dead and buried
>>750176363You can bet your ass someone is gonna burn through tokens getting Claude to resurrect Concord just for shits and giggles. And it's gonna be funny as shit.
I think all the big studios should be shut down
>>750176650Bethesda and EA are honestly the ones who deserve to go down, and im whiling to giving a pass to EA since they are pretty much just for normalfags nowadays.
>>750164120bethshit has sucked for decades. he should be.
TES6 is Microsoft's GTA6. They will do everything in their power to get that game out the door, and only then will they kill Bethesda.
>>750166163No one's gonna buy four Starfield releases
>>750176070Why did you think a someone obsessed with making home mods would be a tranny?
>>750178282Bro just look at her in >>750171746
>>750178321Ugly women are quite common.
>>750165663I hope she accuses Emil of sexual misconduct
>>750164120>First Bioware?! Now Bethesda?! >Oh god! ASHA! put the gun down!>*BOOM*
>>750164120>No good games in over a decadeElder scrolls castle
>Retards think that a company whose decade old games compete with or mog, modern releases is in any dangerlol. Asha just handed Todd the keys to Obsidian, Bethesda isn't going anywhere.
>>750164120>hired the shitty woke writers that killed Biowareyep, Bethesda is next unless Naughty Dog and/or Rockstar goes "hold my fucking beer and watch THIS"
>>750164120Todd will trip and Josh Sawyer will offer his hand to help him back upIt's up to Todd if he accepts the help
>>750173445I'm kind of out of the loop here but starfield has no loot containers?
>>750179115Very few. They kept only ammo boxes, first aid kits and the final dungeon chests. Furnishings are not lootable like they were in Fallout 4. Can't search desk drawers, toolboxes, dressers, cabinets or various other compartments, they're all static objects. Everything is placed on tables, desks and shelves now.It's the decorating style of live-love-laugh roasties, they love to hang a million shelves and keep all their shit in the open, collecting dust.
>>750164120>>No good games in over a decade>>Recent failed sci-fi gameUh oh another Larian shill having a meltie!
>>750178585played it for several months and it's not a good game
>>750164120They spent too much to just off them, surely? They just gotta let them do their work without pouring thousands of unskilled workers in to the projects and we might have the old buggy but fun games again
>>750164120The only game he ever made that flopped was Redguard. 76 and Starfield were commercial successes.
>>750178604Laughing at woke troons like you trying to push wokeness into based companies like Bethesda and failing.
>>750180483?
>>750179492I mean... is that a problem? having decorated rooms and locations make them look more personable and lived in. Environmental storytelling is a good thing to strive for.
>>750180541Bethesda already did environmental storytelling without nailing every piece of clutter down.
>>750167750>money isn't the same thing as moneyHmm, interesting.
>>750171746s(he) cute!
>>750180541They had it right before Elianora and her roastie ways. All of it looks like spaces inhabited by slob women now. Many people don't leave all their stuff scattered around because it's just messy and it makes routine cleaning more difficult. That's why in previous games you could open the cupboards and they'd have all the pointless items like tableware.Workplaces also fall under basic OHS rules that say you shouldn't leave tools everywhere because it's accidents waiting to happen. Many industrial and research locations look like everyone was in the middle of doing something and had to drop everything and quickly evacuate.The lack of lootable furnishings also kills immersion in its own way. Can't go through people's dressers. Can't build your own dressers and wardrobes to store clothes, you have to build a generic chest or safe for that. If you wanted to make a mod about stealing and sniffing Sarah's panties, you'd have to also mod in proper interactable dressers and then go edit her room in the lodge instead of just writing a basic script that would place her underwear in some vanilla container.
>>750181169they cut down on lootable furnishings in order to solve the overweight limit problems due to people's kleptomania
>>750181235They imposed weight limits on all containers. They've cut down the variety because 3D assets were outsourced to pajeet sweatshops that can't properly animate opening the doors and drawers. It's a very disappointing direction, especially if you compare it to FO76 and the variety of interactable furnishings in the cash shop.
>>750164120To be fair, at least Todd is able to keep the lights on, Saarfield must have sold some 5 million copies, FO76 still has expansions and CC must earn them a few millions a year still. You need to completely demolish the faith of your customer to go under like Bioware did, Veilguard was the result of 5 years of them trying their best and it was pure fucking garbage, at least with Saarfield you can play start to finish without being completely disrespected by the writing, and there's some neat stuff in it despite being a 5/10 overall, like the ship builder and the loot shooter aspect.
>>750181387Starfield sold way more than 5 million, it's still getting updates and DLC and built a solid fanbase.
>>750164120YOU CANT KILL ME /v/I AM IMMORTALASHA WILL COME TO HER SENSES AND KNEEL BEFORE ME AFTER THE REMAKES DROP
>>750171746Jim Sterling lost a lot of weight damn
>>750181609I completely forgot about those remakes. Pozblivion supposedly hit 4 million sales across all platforms, it managed to outsell the original. And Fallouts should sell even better since they're marketed by the show. Saars would have to be insane to touch Todd before they come out.
>>750166736The real shit one must've been that Obsidian game where you have plant cancer, it totally disappeared in a month.
Unironically, is he as retarded as Emil? He comes across as an enigma in interviews, since forever really, but also possibly he's just a sociopath? Did he just straight up stop caring about video games after Skyrim? Much like Elon Musk, he seems like an insecure faggot that wanted to be a brainless chad fucking hot bitches instead of a nerd.
>>750183505absolutely bizarre you think like this
>>750184120Is it really that strange? What do you think of him and how many interviews have you watched? I haven't seen that much admittedly.
Todd is a con artist
>>750164120I think he talks his way out of getting fired. Just a vibe I get from this has-been.
i dont see any future where eso 6 can deliver 20 years of fan hype
>>750168281>>750185146It won't have Soule, Kirkbride, Kuhlmann, Rolston or Nelson. It might be kino vidya, but Elder Scrolls vidya it won't be.
>>750186240aye>>750186337double aye>>750184883he has this car salesman vibe and people call it charming when it actually seems sociopathic
>>750171746Why is Eleanora standing like the CIA?
they can probably take one or two more major failures before asha the reaper comes for them
>>750180541It is for loot goblins that were a primary audience for Todd and co. Cutting out like 75% of the gameplay to replace it with glorified static props removes the incentive to actually sniff around for stuff. If you're going to go with that route you might as well just drop Gamebyro and go whip up some vibeslop in UE5.
>>750186337>Soule will not be doing the OST for TES6
>>750173445Any news on /ourboy/ Trainwiz? Did he get the chop by the head bharat during her corporate mandate purges.
>>750186764He's only a verified mod author. The only credit you'll find is on the Skyrim edition that has all the paid mods bundled with it.If you haven't seen him around much, it's because he started his own indie studio making a bootleg Freelancer.
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>>750167156>MS would pay him 7 figures just to have his name on future TES and Falloutjust because you´re a retarded fanboy it doesn´t mean that MS is retarded as you. > would pay him 7 figuresTodd isn´t the icon anymore he used to be. Also, the Alpha gen seems so far more based than you retarded zoomer fags who gobble everything up whats served on your goy platter.
>>750164120Yah, probably. The only real cope left is that TES is the only good Bethesda franchise so TES 6 will be good despite over a decade of Fallout slop and Starflop.
>>750187328We must believe. Bethesda Fallouts were abysmal dogshit anyway, I really don't know how people enjoyed even Fallout 3, and I say that as someone that loves both Oblivion and New Vegas so it's not about the jankiness or setting.
western AAA is completely dysfunctional at this point.japanese AAA is also bloated and way slower than it used to be, but goddamn.
>>750164120His games make money at least. Microsoft also bought them out fairly recently, I don't think they'd be willing to axe him just yet.
>>750166163>No, no, you don't understand, corpos don't actually care about sales and profits, it's all about up-thumbs on Steam, that's what the shareholders really fixate onBethesda is in the DA2 stage of Bioware's crashout where subpar releases in FO4 and Starfield aren't enough to outweigh brand inertia. They've got a few more mid releases in them before Microsoft pulls the trigger
>>750164120>kojima gets put in charge of the next elder scrolls
>>750166175>Starfield is a great game
>it's 2028>Asha has taken Todds balls hostage since 2 years>the latest xbox just launched for the low price of 2999.99 >TES 6 will be an xbox only exclusive>if it doesn't end up being a system seller, he's not getting them back
>>750165934They did. They’re not allowed to make fallout games anymore.
>>750166218Big companies make shit games have you noticed this?
>>750187501>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>subpar releases in FO4Nigger there's a limit to delusions, you don't need to go that far to keep your mental model in shape.
>>750187938Holy goyim. Are you a ball & gun gamer?
>>750164120>He's next isn't he?You're underestimating his cunnilingus skills
>>750164120He's already buck broken now that Pajeeta Deleta forced him to let Obsidian make the next Fallout. It doesn't matter than Obsidian is under Bethesda, he still has to let them make the new game and won't be able to control what they do to Fallout since he's busy with Elder Scrolls other than maybe demand that they include some references to the show.
Skyrim needs 50+ mods to be a good game so there's no hope for future games
>>750188012He'll have the last laugh when Obsidian inevitably fucks it up given their recent track record.
>>750188203Cope Emil.
TES and Fallout are still yuge franchises, much bigger than Dragon Age or Mass Effect. I believe F76 and TESO do well, and there is little doubt in my mind that TESVI will be a hit. Starfield wasn't as well received but I believe it probably made enough money for it to be considered a success. I think they're safe, Asha Shawarma did force them to work harder on TES VI, under Phil they were hardly working and she wants them to work hard, but I don't think they'll be closing down anytime soon
>>750188203The only chance Obsidian had at fucking up was by making the game with unreal slop. Now that they're working with Bethesda, it will be in creation engine and even if the game is garbage, mods, erm I mean creations, will fix it, and you will get charged 4.99 + tip per creation.
>>750164120the Fallout show is single handedly keeping Bethesda alive for now
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>>750164120I'm gonna laugh so hard when Warhorse's LOTR magnus opus just btfos Bethesda and TESVI nigger edition completely.
>>750189062ENGOODENED
>>750164120Next for what?
>>750164120>>No good games in over a decadeYou have shit taste. They never had any good game period. Boomers like you just are accustomed to eating shit.
>>750171746Which one is trainwiz
>>750189251left side on the back with the full beard in the patterned shirt
>>750189273spooky
>>750189203TESIV is gonna come out right around the same time as the LOTR game, Divinity, and The Witcher 4. It's going to get absolutely mogged by at least one of them, possibly all 3.
>>750188072i wonder how many modder slaves will line up to save bethesda this time. i also wonder what type of paid mod schemes bethesda has cooked up.
>>750189626About as many as lined up to save starfield
>>750182947>it managed to outsell the original
>>750187938FO4 is mid, tho. All the Bethesda Fallouts (including new vegas) are. FO3 got away with it just for being new. Elder Scrolls remains their only kino franchise.
>>750189336true lol
>>750189626100% ES6 mods will be locked down af, probably tied to Xbox Live or GFWL accounts and hash checked every boot. Nutella is absolutely not allowing gamers to have fun without his cut.
>>750191064Fearmongering when Bethesda is still the only developer that openly supports modders.
>>750191194If anything I fear they will rely on modders too much again, instead of making a vanilla experience that is actually good
>>750164120>Skyrim sales 2023: 60 million >Skyrim sales 2026: 65 million 5 million in 3 years means that Skyrim is still outselling modern slop. Gears of war: Eviction Day sold less than half a million. Bethesda could probably survive on re-releasing Skyrim and fallout 4 for next few decades. They also make money with fo76, the TV show, merch, mobile games and paid mods. Bethesda and Todd aren't going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
>>750191573Starfield is still at full price and million more players have played it since then. With new DLC, it'll easily outsell every modern slop as well.
>>750191573>sales = goodlol toddgoyim aren't beating the pokesloppa fans but RPG allegations
>>750191710Thereohbeit Microsoft doesn't care about good game
>>750164120Not on the chopping block yet, but if he fucks up with TES6 it might be over.
Watch him bring Serana back and create an Asha waifu who becomes your follower
Bethesda has always been shit. Oblivion was a broken mess on launch, Fallout 3 was a broken mess on launch, Fallout New Vegas was a broken mess on launch, Fallout 4 was never good to begin with, Fallout 76 was a broken mess on launch, ESO was a broken mess on launch, Starfield was a broken mess on launch. The only reason why they haven't gone under yet is because the key demographic (retarded american teenagers) distort the market as they'll buy any old slop.
>>750191896and you are forced to be her follower no matter which faction you side with.
Bethesda is Bioware around the DA:I eraIf TES6 is dogshit they'll be the Bioware of the 2030sXbox mommy might have them on the leash and is probably whipping them but CEOs like her could get replaced at the drop of a hat and Bethesda could go back to their usual vibecoding lazy ways
gonna be hilarious when xbox buys mass effect from ea and gives it to bethesda only for them to merge it with starfield
say "washed up" instead of "washed"fucking zoomer
>>750164120Bethesda Game Studios has always been shit. They created one good game by accident twentyu five years ago (Morrowind) and every one of their products since then have been worse than the previous. Oblivion was okay but severely dumbed down from Morrowind. Fallout 3 was mind-numbingly boring and shallow. Skyrim was severely dumbed down from Oblivion, childishly simplistic combat mechanics, and overall shallow by design so as to be attainable by the most causal and low-skilled players. Fallout 4 instantly became BGS's worst game ever until Fallout 76 which is still one of the industry's worst games of alltime. And then came Starfield which has become shorthand for what is the most soulless video game ever created.BGS knows it's audience. They design games exclusively for the low-IQ, low-skilled, most casual of casual players who most recently played Super Mario Galaxy and Splatoon.
saarfaild kek
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>>750189336Ahem, Oblivion is and will be better than all this crap
>>750189239>the generation that popularized eating ass says this with no hint of irony
>>750186516She's a big girl
>>750181169>If you wanted to make a mod about stealing and sniffing Sarah's panties, you'd have to also mod in proper interactable dressers and then go edit her room in the lodge instead of just writing a basic script that would place her underwear in some vanilla container.Can none of you people just use your imagination a little to roleplay?
>>750193224>They created one good game by accident twentyu five years ago (Morrowind)Morrowtrannies treally can't help themselves huh? Actually peddling the lie that Morrowind is a good video game when the gameplay is ass, the RPG elements are ass and the world is small and ugly as hell. Not to mention their obsession with remixed jeet mythologies and sucking off Kirkbride
>>750164120im straight but doesn't anyone else think todd is like really hot?
>>750193286 Starfield had a total budget of $300 million to $400 million. It was a huge flop. Modders won't even touch that game
>>750196683>"im straight but">the gayest shit you've ever readTimeless
>>750196679Go back to playing your looter shooter slop faggot. Morrowind mogs every single "rpg" Bethesda has made since.
>>750196679You've now told us that you never played Morrowind. Try playing it, and play for more than an hour. Try to actually level up a little and then re-read your post to see how disconnected it is from the Morrowind experience.
>>750198324Morrowind is ass, the first major PC RPG series to be dumb downed for console kids. Imagine crying about one game being dumbed down whilst praising the game that started the dumbing down.>>750198487Played it for 30hr, it was shit. Tons of useless options, useless skills that don't work unless compensate it with something else entirely like sneak. Busted spell making that makes an already braindead easy game even easier, towns inhabited by glorified information kiosks. Stupid shit like merchants refusing to trade with you because they can magically sense drugs in your inventory, so you just drop on the table in front of them, trade and pick right back up with no consequence. Levelling is literally no different from Skyrim, except it's far less interesting because it's all bland number increases. And has stated before, the majority of the lore you faggots love to suck off is just remixed jeet myths.
>>750193224>morrowind>baby's first WRPG>the only good gameembarrassing
