Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!

• cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That seems a bit unfair to Obsidian. They were given an engine, they where unfamiliar with and had a very short 18 months of development time, very likely because of their deal with Bethesda.

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  • Lols@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i mean it explicitly was the deal they made with bethesda, they both agreed to a deadline

    the lack of focus on actual bug fixes and the overconfidence with how much content they could realistically finish in those 18 months was still absolutely on obsidian

    They did not treat us badly at all - even the Metacritic thing was something they added, not threatened us with… and if we’d been better with fixing bugs, we could have hit the score needed to prevent layoffs, but nope - FNV when it was released had a LOT of bugs.

    Unfortunately, the other interpretation made for a better story… but even Obsidian’s CEO clarified it. That said, FNV needed to be downscoped, and production should have ended and testing begun at least 2 months earlier than it was.

    Bethesda’s engine was the easiest to create content for, by far. Source control was easy, iterations were fast, the scripting language was pretty powerful – just easy to work in. Not necessarily easy to change, but if you wanted to do what we did on F:NV, which was make a bunch of new content and new features for the F3 engine, it was great.

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  • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The other person made a good point but QA before release is important and lots of bugs were dead obvious in all the games.

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• Lols@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this was more a result of them biting off more than they can chew than an actual lack of skill

  obsidian seemed like it had a hard time letting go of grand plans even when they proved to be unworkable

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