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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

i genuinely cannot imagine that it'll be anything other than a continuation of the bethesda model: simplify and just add more environments to keep the players inside the basic gameplay loop of "go here, do thing, return, reward, go here, do thing"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Skyrim but no skill tree, too complicated. Player can buy every weapon and spells and skills level are just damage boost. Bethesda adds a 3rd person view during conversation and a weird standard male voice so that any chance of roleplay is dead. All cool spells are removed and players can only use destructions spells. No more illusion or alteration funny spells. Only fireballs and bolts exist now. All guilds quests have been removed in favour of radiant quests. Everything is randomly generated and sold as replayability and "every playthrough is unique". Main quest is 3 quests long because people didn't finish skyrim main quest. Everything is level scaled. They learned from skyrim and oblivion mistake so now every enemy is scaled but 10lvl below you so you never struggle against anything (no more oblivion sponges!). Every location can be fast traveled to from the beginning of the game because the world is too big. Spears have been added to the game but it's an official creation club mod only. The stamina bar has been removed for "faster paced" combats.

Anyway that's my prediction for TES 6

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

76 has actually made me pretty hopeful for the direction of bethesdas games- it includes a return to older style dialogue, introduced more skill checks and the like, featured a more cohesive world and generally seemed like it went back on the simplification a fair bit

starfield similarly seems to be more of a return to form for them, focusing more on character builds, an expansive trait system etc

it is also being worked on heavily by the lead quest designer for far harbor iirc, which is absolutely a good sign and is setting my hopes high for a deeper, more complex and more forked main questline than Bethesda usually goes for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah... 76, seems a case study.