re: I have the next billion dollar idea for Obsidian and Bethesda

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I have minimum expectations for Bethesda at this point. After Todd came out and said people didn't like Starfield because it was "too different" from Skyrim, I've lowered those expectations even further lol

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Like I mentioned in another thread, Bethesda seems to fundamentally not understand why people fell in love with Fallout and Elder Scrolls to begin with, which is why they can't seem to understand why people didn't love FO4 and Starfield.

People loved Oblivion, in spite of everyone looking like potatoes and combat sucking arse, because it told such incredible stories in an amazing world. People loved Fallout New Vegas, in spite of it being a bug filled game set in a desert fricking wasteland, because it told such incredible stories in an amazing world. You'd think that Todd and crew would do a little introspection over the fact that most people like FO:NV better than FO3 and try to figure out why that is (spoiler alert: it's the fricking stories and world). Instead, they keep insisting that if they make it shiny enough with gunplay close enough to Call of Duty, people will fall in love with their games.

They fricking won't. Tell impactful stories and build interesting worlds, you fricking moron, Todd.