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Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games

Just musing on the fact that Bethesda doesn’t care about making games and instead just cashes in on nostalgia. I also think their finance bros realized their upcoming big IP drop is going to be an objective POS and wanted to prime people’s expectations by re-releasing a 20 year old game with some lipstick on it.

It would be neat if they hired some people who actually had innovative ideas about gameplay, visuals and stories to maybe make a neat new game within an existing or new IP, but they haven’t done that in literal decades so I think its pretty reasonable to not be incredibly excited about anything they are putting out or planning to put out in the future.

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torrentialgrain@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Imagine if capital G Gamers actually enjoyed playing games instead of nonstop bitching on online forums.

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- Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  the internet would fall silent.
  
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- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  As someone with no kids and a work/life balance that allows him to enjoy video games, I wonder how much of this vitriol comes from bitter millennials who are mad at the world because they don’t have time to play games anymore.
  
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  - peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nah. The millennials would need enough time to play and beat the game and then come on online forums to bitch. We don’t have that time.
    
    This is nearly always Zoomers and teenagers.
    
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    prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Lol 9 times out of 10, they don’t actually play the games they whine about.
    
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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As a long time Bethesda game fan I agree with you on almost everything you’ve said about Bethesda… But the remaster is a terrible example of your points.

The remaster does exactly what it says on the tin and they’ve been very upfront about how it was made and why it was made in the launch video.

It’s hard to criticise them for cashing in on nostalgia when they’ve shown time and time again with Skyrim re-releases that do a fraction of what the Oblivion remaster does still selling like hot cakes.

Nostalgia is at the core of their business model. That’s why they march Skyrim’s corpse out every two years like clockwork; that’s why they picked Fallout for a new franchise after ES; that’s, frankly, likely why Starfield sucks so much.

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