How do people assume games are screwed just because someone new is making them? Oh, sorry, the same old people aren't working on every tiny detail of the game, so that obviously means that it's going to be garbage. Of course, how silly of me.
Bethesda is a good company and they make good games. I find that the people that tend to oppose particular companies for whatever arbitrary reason they may have tend to have ridiculously specific tastes, and if some tiny little indeterminate detail isn't spot on, it's the apocalypse all over again. Morrowind was a fantastic game, and Oblivion is just as good and has greater potential. True, there's a bunch of people that disagree with the way things are done, but that's their problem simply because they disagree. There's no honour bound guarantee that a company has to make something to fulfill some kind of obligation to consumers, and some people just don't get it, like the complaints over the UI. 'Oh my god it's so huge!' is the biggest complaint from the early days of it's release. I have no idea what people have against it, or why they even care, except the fact that they're die hard PC gamers and they feel the need to complain about something that obviously wasn't designed specifically for PC.
The complaints continue with all sorts of pointless arguments over nearly every point of the game, and this seems to be a running trend in people. Series exclusive fans, in my opinion, shouldn't have their opinions taken seriously by anyone on the basis that these people are heavily biased towards their own preferences and choices, and if something opposes that they can get bent out of shape faster than a 24 karat gold baseball bat. It's these same types of people that complain about things like different companies making games in a series. I've only briefly played Fallout 2 (which I felt to be very slow and awkward to control), though I can already see that a game of this nature by Bethesda would definately be a winner, and regardless I'd buy it.
People need to stop nay-saying each and every change of hands that takes place unless they themselves can do a better job. You have no right to complain about something outside of your power to change through inaction or inability, so until you manage to assume a position of power in either game development or production, kindly refrain from commenting on other people's business descisions. I'm sure you should be lucky that these games even survive the closing of their company, let alone get the opportunity to be made again. If I remember correctly, Microsoft has the licensing rights to Shadowrun games, or at least did. I would love to see another Shadowrun game in a similar style to the Sega incarnation, but it's probably not going to happen.
