Company News Bethesda acquired by Microsoft

[NJClaw]

Fucking Bethesda doing this move just to get us to stop talking about Baldur's Gate 3! It won't work, Bethesda, we see your motives!

 

[Glop_dweller]

So when do they buy 3DRealms?

 

[Riddler]

$7.5 Billion.

Jesus Christ

Are you aware of what Tencent paid for Supercell?

 

[EtcEtcEtc]

So why is Microsoft even funding Obsidian's Skyrim clone, if they were planning on buying the real thing anyway?

Only thing I can think is that this was a late breaking deal, and they had already begun & were well into Obsidian's game. Cause, yeah, it'd be really stupid to pump out a Skyrim clone when you got the makers of.

Honestly - I'm fine with this. I dgaf about Elder Scrolls, but I think this will be good for Fallout (or at least it won't be worse) Bethesda interviews always made it sound like they were pissy about the fact that New Vegas was a better game then theirs, and I always got the feeling that they wouldn't go for any other devs on THEIR BABY. But now, surely there is a chance for a New Vegas 2, and maybe maybe in a dream some isometric Fallout spinoffs.

Was Wasteland 3 a success? Maybe they'll see the money in extending the franchise that way due to development costs, etc. OBV not as a mainline title.

 

[DeepOcean]

This is so cool Josh could make another Fallout again!

I cant wait to see the content the writers that made Nyoka and Parvati are going to produce. Couldnt be more excited to see the asexual love between two legion strong wahmen warriors with pink hairs.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

So when do they buy 3DRealms?

No one touches Cosmo and lives!

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I wonder if Sony will attempt to appeal to the US government to stop/review the acquisition.

 

[toro]

Larian is next.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

MSM actually reported it.

I love that negative stock ticker. The market knows what just happened LOL.

INCLINE

 

[Swen]

Larian is next.

Hope so, want to buy my own castle and shit.

 

[toro]

 

[Shitty Kitty]

so is Pete gonna take Phil McKracken here to see the Lou

 

[Turuko]

So why is Microsoft even funding Obsidian's Skyrim clone, if they were planning on buying the real thing anyway?

Sony making countless 3rd person walking adventures
MS making countless FPS in all the settings you can imagine

 

[RobotSquirrel]

Real Jeb Bush moment right there. I especially love how Borderlands is there despite Gearbox not being owned by them LOL

 

[Daemongar]

As gamers, this is a big win. When Microsoft builds Gambryo into Windows 10, we'll have the last OS and game engine we'll ever need!

 

[RobotSquirrel]

we'll have the last OS and game engine we'll ever need!

The irony of Win 10 being built from Vista's base
The irony of Creation Engine being built from Gamebryo's base
Yeah makes sense.

 

[CappenVarra]

As much as some old grognards will resent it, Fallout games are still RPGs, and Obsidian and Inxile having access to the Fallout IP to make games (turnbased maybe? Fallout Tactics 2) is definitely RPG news.

obsidied or ineptile making a fallout worth playing?



you kids and your youthful optimism

i find it disgusting, hope it works for you

 

[baud]

Real Jeb Bush moment right there. I especially love how Borderlands is there despite Gearbox not being owned by them LOL

Perhaps Take 2 still own the rights to redistribute the Bborderlands games?

 

[FuckLiefeldGiveMeChew]

I must have gotten a cursed genie: I want more games based on creative classics, I get Deadly Premonition 2. I want GOG to get ports of famous 8 and 16 bit games, and I get Super 3D Noah's Ark. I want someone else to take over for Bethesda, and I get an even worse company. I want a great-looking return to classic Star Wars and Wing Commander, and Electronic Arts controls it. I want a compilation of 3D Mario games, and it is only available for a short time and my favorite Galaxy 2 is not there. I want a year with no David Cage movies pretending to be games, and get a year with virtually no games or movies. I want extremists like the Nazis on this site to die, and the creator of Turning Point dies from a virus that has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent men.

I guess the genie was not an entirely an asshole because I got recent fan translations of the Metal Max, Puyo Puyo and Ganbare Goemon games, and Legend and a good P.C. port of Grandia 2 came to GOG but I still hate him and hope he never touches Konami.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Cyberpunk predicted this.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Bethesda Softworks was established as a developer of sports games for the Commodore Amiga, turned into an RPG developer with the release of The Elder Scrolls: Arena (initially conceived as a fantasy sports game) in 1994, and found tremendous commercial success following the release of TES III: Morrowind in 2002, although this was enabled only by an infusion of money from new ownership and later resulted in the pursuit of broader popular appeal at the expense of the quality of their games.

RIP, Bethesda Softworks, 1986-2020

 

[Sobchak]

I, for one, welcome Bethesda's new corporate overlords. Certainly enough, an increasingly-nervous Pete Hines seems just as positive about it as anyone would be

Everyone now is talking about NV2 and whatever remake/sequel might be a reality but I would encourage everyone to think what this means for the future.

I still see people (even here) getting hyped and being ok/meh with Game Pass but think a little bit ahead... I am working in the software industry for years. Let me tell you that having software (games in our case) as a service it will cause numerous problems. Loosing total control and have no history preservation *especially* for games, is something to think about.

 

[luj1]

RIP, Bethesda Softworks, 1986-2020

1986-2006

 

[LizardWizard]

Fuck New Vegas 2, let Tim/Leo/Jason/Josh make a proper turn-based based Fallout. Bethesda seems overextended with Starfart and Skyrim 2 anyways.