Hear me out, Bethesda hasn’t made a really successful game since Skyrim. their new overlords are more than happy to shuffle them around, and who’s to say Todd Howard won’t retire after TES6 is launched?
I’m seeing a lot of parallels to Bioware, with game after game not doing as hot as the previous ones, and XBOX being very trigger happy with axing studios that aren’t pulling their weight, similar to EA.
It’s possible TES6, if it releases, will be the make it or break it of the company.
Is it? I don’t disagree completely, but I still think it’s a big improvement from Oblivion. Both for environmental design (holy crap, the copy-pasting in Oblivion) and for game mechanics. Yes, they’re still very dumbed down, but at least they kinda work.
Sure, I’d prefer they kept designing games like they did for Morrowind (Daggerfall is a complete other beast). But hard to consider one game in 25 years is representing the base level of the franchise.