• BurgerBaron@quokk.au
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    16 hours ago

    Neither studio has impressed me in a long time, especially Bethesda, and that was before gutting the team and promising more layoffs of the next 12 months. Unhappy skeleton crew and they’re doing engine upgrades.

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      They’re not doing engine upgrades. They’re throwing in more graphics (visual effects, higher resolution assets) and bolting on some features, but the core engine has barely changed.

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        14 hours ago

        Assuming they are doing the work and haven’t outsourced it to an external company like they did with Fallout 76

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    14 hours ago

    I’ll sooner believe Star Citizen will be released than ES6 at this point

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    How about you do one thing at a time Bethesda before announcing more bullshit. you haven’t even released the new eldar scrolls yet and you’re already putting the next fall out into preproduction?

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      They aren’t Obsidian is. Microsoft owns both and put Obsidian back in the wheelhouse after canceling Obsidians current projects.

      As far as a remaster goes that’s not a full house affair for Bethesda and they will probably send that to the 76 studio to reskin. They already made a lot of assets that will easily be recycled.

      Id wager what will happen with 5 is Obsidian writes it and directs the major story lines while Bethesda provides engine and art support

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    18 hours ago

    And I’m sure it’ll be on the same old ancient engine with decades-old bugs and other jank, just with another layer of hacks.

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      Do you really think Unreal Engine has been completely remade every version? News flash: it hasn’t. No game engine has. They all get upgrades to meet new demands over time.

      But you clearly haven’t played a Bethesda game since the original release of Skyrim, or you’d have seen it.