Microsoft acquires Bethesda/Zenimax

[Morgoth]

Remember those rumors when Sony was gonna buy Bethesda?

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

 

[AdamReith]

They open the LGBTW bunker two hundred years later and find it empty.

 

[Prime Junta]

Why, yes! I always wanted my Fallout to be filled with dykes and queers!

Spoiler

Red alert! Red alert! There's a gay in my war crimes simulator! :runs around madly:

 

[FeelTheRads]

Imagine wanting the people who created outerworlds to make a fallout game

Weren't you white-knighting that game not long ago?

 

[cb.spike]

New Vegas 2 when?

Naive motherfuckers. Naive motherfuckers never change.

 

[Dramart]

The Elder Scrolls VI for the sexual perverts,
One Fallout for the nostalfags without gaming skills,
More Doom for the retarded Krunoes,
The Xbox game pass from the Dark Lord on his throne,
In the land of Microsoft where the shadows lie.
One Bill to rule them all, one Bill to buy them all,
One Bill to bring them all, and in the decline bind them,
In the land of Microsoft where the shadows lie.

 

[DalekFlay]

Spencer with that Big Dick Energy.

Not sure how bad a negative this could be. For all their bullshit, Bethesda (the publisher) made more singleplayer focused games than most other companies lately. Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online yes I know, but Activision ain't makin' Prey and The Old Blood and Evil Within and shit. Will Mirosoft? I dunno... they bought all these studios years ago and very little has been shown from it. Halo Infinite was supposed to be a 10 year "platform." Hard to nail down what their strat is when it comes to game genre types. Also how long until things become Game Pass exclusives? Ugh... still it could be worse, they could have sold to Sony and we'd see console exclusive Doom games *shudder*.

As for the console wars it's definitely a big dick move. Would have been more big dick if they could have announced an exclusive at the same time, or shown Starfield footage or something, but oh well.

 

[Butter]

Microsoft probably want more than one BGS game every 4 years.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Imagine wanting the people who created outerworlds to make a fallout game

Weren't you white-knighting that game not long ago?

gave it a meh
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...il-on-gorgon-dlc.130421/page-109#post-6382862

only notable aspect was the reactivity

 

[Dishonoredbr]

That's huge for Microsoft even if Bethesda is shit , they have some big hit franchises.

 

[Trojan_generic]

The Elder Scrolls VI for the sexual perverts,
One Fallout for the nostalfags without gaming skills,
More Doom for the retarded Krunoes,
The Xbox game pass from the Dark Lord on his throne,
In the land of Microsoft where the shadows lie.
One Bill to rule them all, one Bill to buy them all,
One Bill to bring them all, and in the decline bind them,
In the Store of Microsoft where the shadows lie.

Fixed for accuracy.

 

[RepHope]

Have you seen the fucking state of Obsidian recently? They are dead, frankly I'd rather have another abomination from Bethesda than give it back to Obsidian.

You are a funny guy

Didn’t say it would be good but it might end up happening. I’m sure Sawyer is asking about it. Damn poor Avellone.

 

[Mortmal]

Elder scrolls 6 now in VR exclusive to windows mixed reality and the new reverb hp2 g2 in it's full 4k glory . Can only hope...

 

[DalekFlay]

Yes MS now owns Deathlop and GhostWire: Tokyo two timed Playstation exclusives

Playstation and PC. I really wonder how those contracts are worded though. Outer Worlds had a rock solid publishing deal in place with Private Division they couldn't get out of, but Sony merely bought an exclusivity window.

 

[Quillon]

dafuq? how? did they buy zenimax or just bethesda?



LMAO

 

[Morgoth]

Yes MS now owns Deathlop and GhostWire: Tokyo two timed Playstation exclusives

Playstation and PC. I really wonder how those contracts are worded though. Outer Worlds had a rock solid publishing deal in place with Private Division they couldn't get out of, but Sony merely bought an exclusivity window.

Probably one of those hasty last minute deals concluded one day before pre-orders of the XS start.

Either way, all this monopolization will simply lead to more disinterest from me for AAA games. I hope Arkane can still knock out 1-2 good games before they become submerged into the Microsoft structures.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Wow. Bethesda might be shit but Microsoft got some huge good likes Disnohoredbr franchise, DOOM and Fallout.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

I remember how I was joking about every AAA company united into one evil publishing entity, but I never knew somebody from Microsoft actually lurking on Codex and will take this idea seriously and starts from Bethesda.

 

[KyivAfter12am]

Better MS than Sony. That said, money won't fix creative bankruptcy. On the contrary, good design requires constraints, and budget constraints work like any other. Just look at Ridley Scott, he made Alien on the budget of 11M, and given 110M he made Alien: Covenant.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Didn’t say it would be good but it might end up happening. I’m sure Sawyer is asking about it. Damn poor Avellone.

If Sawyer was on the helmet of project , at least the game's system and mechanics would be 10/10.

Btw Microsft has In-xile , Obsidian and now Bethesda. What's next? Larian ? lol

 

[Hellion]

 

[Dishonoredbr]

dafuq? how? did they buy zenimax or just bethesda?



LMAO

Zenimax and Bethesda as whole. So they got all their franchises.

 

[KyivAfter12am]

Not while Obsidian is busy with Avowed. In fact, they might just call it Skyrim 2 now that MS owns the franchise.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Not while Obsidian is busy with Avowed. In fact, they might just call it Skyrim 2 now that MS owns the franchise.

Elder Scrolls VI : Avowed