Company News Bethesda acquired by Microsoft

[DemonKing]

Seems to be a pretty logical move from Microsoft - given they can't seem to come up with any AAA games themselves to compete with Sony's exclusives they're going to swallow up as many studios as possible to add value to Gamepass/starve Sony of those titles.

 

[Wunderbar]

Seems to be a pretty logical move from Microsoft - given they can't seem to come up with any AAA games themselves to compete with Sony's exclusives they're going to swallow up as many studios as possible to add value to Gamepass/starve Sony of those titles.

Epic move

 

[rusty_shackleford]

It's same reason why you had to die in the ending of fallout 3.

wait what

Yep, to be the hero you have to die, so go on ahead and step right over here into this fatally radioactive chamber. Good luck and thanks for all the fish.

glad I quit playing every bethesda game like 10 hours in

 

[Wunderbar]

It's same reason why you had to die in the ending of fallout 3.

wait what

Yep, to be the hero you have to die, so go on ahead and step right over here into this fatally radioactive chamber. Good luck and thanks for all the fish.

glad I quit playing every bethesda game like 10 hours in

later bethesda made a post-game DLC where you character wakes up few days after his suicide and continues adventuring.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

well yeah, bethesda can't write, news at 11. At least you can ignore the bullshit main quest and just hike around the world, shoot shit, buy perks and collect rare guns.

Or just mod until becomes another game.

I actually really like to play modded skyrim sometimes.

 

[Bigg Boss]

well yeah, bethesda can't write, news at 11. At least you can ignore the bullshit main quest and just hike around the world, shoot shit, buy perks and collect rare guns.

Or just mod until becomes another game.

I actually really like to play modded skyrim sometimes.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Wow, Bethesda found another way to sell Skyrim to someone.

 

[Ninjerk]

well yeah, bethesda can't write, news at 11. At least you can ignore the bullshit main quest and just hike around the world, shoot shit, buy perks and collect rare guns.

Or just mod until becomes another game.

I actually really like to play modded skyrim sometimes.

Brazil. Not even once.

 

[Wunderbar]

It's same reason why you had to die in the ending of fallout 3.

wait what

Yep, to be the hero you have to die, so go on ahead and step right over here into this fatally radioactive chamber. Good luck and thanks for all the fish.

glad I quit playing every bethesda game like 10 hours in

later bethesda made a post-game DLC where you character wakes up few days after his suicide and continues adventuring.

Don't forget: His suicide where he becomes A PILE OF GLOWING GREEN GOO!

just a flesh wound

 

[Risewild]

In 3 you HAVE to sacrifice youself or your female companion even if you have a ghoul or super mutant (both imune to radiation) to go in a place with a shit ton of rads..

Don't forget the Robot too.

And it's even worse than that, the ghoul Charon has to do everything his contract holder tells him to do, even if he doesn't want to. Clover is your slave with a slave collar attached to her neck, after you order her to do it, she still refuses to go. Fawkes the super mutant that owes his life to you and is always talking about how he can never repay you for what you did for him, just tells you that he would not rob you of your fate (which he knows means your death). Star Paladin is a goody-two-shoes BoS cyborg, she can probably survive higher amounts of radiation where other humans can't, but she also tell you it's your destiny, go and finish what your daddy started. RL-3 is a military robot that calls you sir and has to follow your orders like you're it's CO, all of a sudden calls you soldier (instead of sir) and orders you to do it.

The only companions that would make any sense refusing to go there are Butch (asshole bully), Jericho (evil ex-raider) and Dogmeat (it's a dog).

And even after Bethesda released Broken Steel, which "fixes" some of this, the ending slides still say your character "refused to follow on the father's selflessness and instead allowed a true hero to turn on project purity" for sending someone else there, even if they are immune to radiation.

 

[Bastardchops]

To be honest I will admit I just bought the Xbox game pass subscription for PC just to try Crusader Kings 3 for $1.

 

[Bastardchops]

is microsoft going to be the megacorp that forces paid mods onto the masses?

The Xbox Series X will require you to shoot Bill's africa vaccine on startup.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Will never sell out Golden Era Games, bros.

All negotiators will be sent back to Microsoft crushed inside shoebox postage owing.

Gates is a supervillain and even the world's worst superheroes must never sell out to supervillains no matter how much they are offering.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Will never sell out Golden Era Games, bros.

All negotiators will be sent back to Microsoft crushed inside shoebox postage owing.

Have you reached out to Avellone to secure him as a writer for your next game?

 

[Cryomancer]

c. Did you, somehow, miss that godforsaken refuse they dubbed the "Gothic Playable Teaser" as a prelude to a remake? The absolute joke that is the Kingdoms of Amalur remaster? The dumbing-down of Destroy All Humans for the sake of shiny new graphics? The fact that their Darksiders and Red Faction re-releases remain just as buggy as the originals?

THQ nordic is AWFUL but at least the studios under his umbrella has more independence. Elex despite not being good as G1/G2 but is not a bad game. All that is being produced by USA is gear farming, cooldown managing unimmersive boring games. THQ allow his studios to produce complete BS like the G1 "remake"(why not a remaster?) but also allow their studios to produce games like Elex. THQ gives more freedom to his studios. Piranha Bytes declined far less than BioWare for eg. Elex is not good as G1/G2, but the difference between Elex and G1 is not the difference between DA:I to BG. And Bugthesda already declined a lot.

If PB was owned by M$/Soyny/EA/Wathever, I an pretty sure that no game like elex would ever be produced.

And JoWood damaged far more the Gothic name than THQ ever could dream.

 

[flabbyjack]

 

[Eirinjas]

So, the choice between the next Sony and Microsoft console you choose seems to boil down to the exclusives each system will be sporting:

Sony: Post-apocalyptic Tranny simulators
Microsoft: Medieval monkey-written walking simulators

Clearly, they each have their strengths.

 

[Flying Dutchman]

The problem stems from a lack of people physically assaulting the devs if they fail to deliver and not forcing them to consume amphetamines to meet deadlines.
I warned you about treating gamedevs like humans bro

Lashings in the town square never should have been abolished. Devs got complacent, one even dared to laugh, and a rare one said "drugs to speed up my work flow? No thank you."

Once Terry Tate: Studio Linebacker was fired, it was all downhill from there.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

US and China game industries are fucked. The only hope left is in Europe and Japan. And maybe some indie.

 

[Drakortha]

SELL OUTS

 

[VladimirK]

SELL OUTS

FALL OUTS

 

[commie]

well yeah, bethesda can't write, news at 11. At least you can ignore the bullshit main quest and just hike around the world, shoot shit, buy perks and collect rare guns.

Or just mod until becomes another game.

I actually really like to play modded skyrim sometimes.

The dude speaks true....IF they are referring to Enderal of course (obligatory shill for best Gothic game in FPS format).

 

[Kazuki]

China has a game industry? All I thought they had were gookazoids spitting our manga and MMO/Gacha bullshit and other kinds of weird autismo stuff that easterners aparently like. I don't get them, myself.

I keep asking those lovers of Eastern stuff: Where's the Eastern Fallout?

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...-historical-fiction-12th-century-china.80544/

 

[Narax]

 

[toro]

Seems to be a pretty logical move from Microsoft - given they can't seem to come up with any AAA games themselves to compete with Sony's exclusives they're going to swallow up as many studios as possible to add value to Gamepass/starve Sony of those titles.

Microsoft is no longer competing with Sony because this could be the last generation of physical consoles.

Their master plan is Gamepass + xCloud (games as a service) also known as Netflix for games 100$+ per year forever and ever.

Anything goes as long as they hook more people on Gamepass. That's why they will release exclusives on PS5 and so on. They don't care about that.

They will buy everything until most people will be left without options except of using Gamepass. This is the nuclear option for Microsoft.

They also just triggered another wave of consolidations in the industry which means that the landscape will be completely different in a few years.

I can only hope that they fail miserably but I doubt it. They are really throwing their weight behind this push.