you never played morrowind did you?
porky...
That's an understatement. Even if I were to buy this argument, it still shouldn't allow you to go so high in the hierarchy by only knowing a one basic spell (maybe two, if I am mistaken). The Mage Guild in Skyrim is simply an excellent example of bad design (if there even was a design behind its implementation to begin with. It sounds like an afterthought, with fits the mage class getting the shortest stick out of all "classes").
To some point you can progress the Thieves' Guild storyline by failing quests, after you join the guild (yes, one guy actually tried this out). It's just as stupid as the situation with the Mage Guild. "You failed to accomplish our Very Important Tasks™ more than once, but have another one!". And "failed to accomplish" means "you completely wrecked everything", not just "you achieved nothing" kind of situation.
I think all of this comes back to one core issue, which seems to show through more and more the bigger and bigger Bethesda games get: committee design. The Mages' Guild stuff clearly was not all conceived by one person. Neither was the Thieves' Guild, nor probably any of the other major quest chains. Possibly one person did an outline and scattered note cards around like clouds of bats, to writers who did one quest each, and there wasn't enough communication or oversight to make sure it all fit together. Probably some lowly dink was assigned the task, "Make getting into the Mages' Guild interesting, there shouldn't be bums just walking in" and they were like, "Oh ok, well how about a test of spellcasting powers as a kind of hall pass?" without ever realizing that every warrior character also has to go through there as part of the MQ. Then once that was done no one bothered to review it all and correct it. Check the credits of 10000 names and I bet you'll never find anyone at Bethesda in charge of "Continuity".
He also claims that Morrowind has a "dead-feeling world because no voice-overs", even though there is in fact voice-acting for various idle comments by NPCs as well as a much larger number of greetings when the player-character approaches them (and also for combat or theft-related actions). UESP lists only a portion of them: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Generic_Dialogue_Voiced
Nice.
Who honestly cares about voice-overs?
>game has a time system where hours affect gameplay and days are gradually succeed by nights (plus a weather system to really sell the whole package)
Sure you do buddy.
Do NPCs leave their shops and lock them at night?
why would they, it would take a massive thieving skill to take items even when people aren't looking
As if you would not steal things in a Bethesda game.
Y'know, unless they can't look because you put a bucket over their head. NPCs don't understand object permanence.
The marketing for this game hasn't even really started yet. No way it's coming out before the end of this year.
No, that's unacceptable. Todd, I require you to advance your schedule and complete the game sooner. Next week would be ideal, but if you feel that's too hasty, I will allow an additional Next Friday until February 10th. Thanks in advance.
Am I remembering wrong? Seems like Bethesda never really does a ton of previewing.
Jokes aside, Todd's gone on record as preferring short publicity lead-ups somewhere in that recent Fridman interview and Fallout 4's blistering 6-months marketing was apparently the minimum the publisher would let him get away with. Starfield, what with the post-MS acquisition delay and all, has been out in public for a while now, so I could see Bethesda swing for a release date a couple of months out from Todd's upcoming showcase, though there is some wishful thinking on my part there.
Not yet.
I'm getting antsy, if I can't play Starfield, I want to at least watch Todd play Starfield. The moment he says to us "See that planet? You can colonise it" will get a better IMDB rating than anything Netflix will release in 2023.
