5 Reasons Why Bethesda Softworks Sucks
If you love video role playing games, then you already know that on November 11, 2011 (which is this year; just a reminder in case you’re one of those people who lick windows) one of the biggest RPG franchises in history is rolling out with a new chapter in an award winning series. I am of course talking about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a first person, nonlinear fantasy RPG. There’s going to be allot of marketing hype in the next few months regarding Skyrim’s release, but you shouldn’t pay attention to any of it because Bethesda dosen’t know how to make a decent game anymore. Here are the top 5 most compelling arguments as to why Bethesda Softworks sucks.
10. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion sucked: I can’t think of a better way to get this trainwreck rolling than to point out that the last Elder Scrolls game, sucked giant moose c*ck wrapped in roadkill bacon. The in game dialogue was voiced by maybe (MAYBE) six people. So just take an entire country, fill it with people, and listen to them all talk in the same six voices (BRILLIANT!) The AI controlling the conversational dialogue between the NPCs was so broken that, whenever you wandered into a city, it essentially felt like the player had accidentally stumbled into a medieval hospice full of alhziemer’s patients. Oblivion also implemented a horse riding system that was clearly designed by someone who hates riding horses. Nothing like fleeing down the side of a monster infested mountain on something with the handling capabilities of a crashed airliner embedded inside a deep-sea volcano. And let’s not forget Gamebyro, the physics engine that has made every Bethesda-RPG a complete disaster. The worst thing about Oblivion was that the main missions, were boring. Here’s the entire game summarized. Go in a bunch of portals to hell, battle in a bunch of dungeons that all look exactly the same, beat the bad guy, the end. Of course there’s hours of extra gameplay, but since Bethesda screwed up practically everything about the interface, used a sh*tty game engine, and implemented some seriously poor mission and level designs, NOTHING IS WORTH PLAYING.
9. All the DLC for Oblivion was overpriced, and sucked: Instead of fixing any of the bugs players encountered in the main game, Bethesda decided to ignore those problems and release several low quality DLC packages. Half the packages were add-ons that added secret lairs for the player, each based on magic, thievery, and hand to hand combat(FINALLY; A BATCAVE I CAN CALL MY OWN). Problem is, since the main game sucked, after you built your super secret “who gives a sh*t” lair, there was nothing to do afterwards but sit in your chambers and twirl your mustache. They even had a “horse armor” DLC, which was an absolute scam. People bought it thinking, “Well, my horse is useless because it moves about as fast as a combo washer/dryer; if I give it some armor, maybe I can actually ride it around more without it constantly dying!” It’s only after you spend your money and download the DLC that you realise the “armor” is cosmetic.
8. Fallout 3 sucked: Bethesda also produced Fallout 3, the legendary sequel (obviously) to Fallout 2. Black Isle Studios made Fallout 1 & 2. Those were GREAT games, but when the company folded, production on the next game remained in limbo until Bethesda acquired the rights to the series, raped it, and aborted Fallout 3, one of the sh*ttiest games I’ve ever played. For all intents and purposes, it is Oblivion Part II: Wasteland Edition. Everything that was wrong with Oblivion was present within the gameplay of Fallout 3. Same six voice actors. Same terrible AI. Thank god there were no horses.
7. All the Fallout 3 DLC sucked: And it sucked even harder than anyone thought possible. First of all, Bethesda announced that the DLC would only be released on the 360, basically telling anyone who bought the PS3 version to go sod off. They actually signed a deal with Microsoft, saying that they would only release said DLC on XBLA(MAJOR DICK MOVE BRAH), and then everyone with a PS3 went out and bought an 360, and then a short time later Bethesda released all the content on PSN anyway. And all that for literally the worst DLC campains ever released for a Bethesda game ever. There were five in total, and four of them were non-linear, gamebreaking pieces of garbage.
6. New Vegas was shipped broken: Gameplay wise, Fallout: New Vegas was leaps and bounds ahead of any of the other games on this list. Unfortunately none of the bugs were ever tested, and Bethesda shipped out a broken product and then took everyone’s money, and then probably jumped into a big pile of gold coins and swam around in it like Scrooge McDuck. There were so many game-killing bugs present in New Vegas when it was released that it’s insulting to think a game developer actually thought they could get away with it. The save system didn’t work. The game crashed literally every 10 minutes, and the frame rate drop during big battles and dialogue scenes overheated and crashed systems. I was appalled by the amount of problems the game had in it. And forget the DLC, because Bethesda never bothered fixing most of the bugs. If there’s no way to play the main game because you released a broken game, then why bother buying the DLC?
5. All their other games suck: The fact of the matter is that while Bethesda has enjoyed success with the Fallout and Elder Scrolls franchises, all their other games are garbage. Examples include Rogue Warrior, WET, Brink, Star Wars: Legacy, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth, and Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. They’re a company that can’t get any game they make right, not even the game’s they’re known for.
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I agree with you completely, man, except I liked Oblivion. Fallout 3 was retarded, and if you took out the gore, based on it’s level of maturity and simplicity a small child could play it with even some of the most hindered parents.
Skyrim is going to be one of the most overrated games of all time, and the hype for it is disgusting and embarr*ssing. They’ve removed cl*sses, attributes and dumbed down the skills and brag about how they’ve killed several core fundamental elements to an RPG in doing so by claiming they’ve made the game “smoother”.
Bethesda has a prediction about YOUR future:
You’re going to buy Skyrim, play it, and then spend the next three years complaining bitterly about your buyer’s remorse. If only you would have saved your birthday money from Grandma and bought that remote controlled v*gina, you wouldn’t be so bitter right now.
I played Morrowind. It crashed so much i got sick of it and gave up. I bought Oblivion thinking, they must have improved the engine since the Morrowind days. Nope. Crashed every hour and loads of quest bugs. I was unable to finish it even with the “we will do your dirty work for you” unofficial patch that gamers made. Saw Fallout 3 in the dirt cheap bin and like a idiot i got it. Same deal. Crashes every hour. I honestly dont know how they can get away with such horrible support for their games. That company has never released a patch that addresses the main issues in their games. They should be sued but they have too many fanboys who love resetting their systems.
Wow,what a troll you are the most retarded person saying Fallout 3 and Oblivion sucked,go back to Call of Duty you 11-year-old who crapped his pants.
Oblivion and fallout 3 look good but the gameplay is sh*te, looks like its going to be the case with Skyrim also
Ok this is how it works. I dare u to find a single free roam (and I’m not talking about games u think are free rome like Uncharted) game that could be but a speck of the games that Bethesda has produced. They have made brilliant games that encourage a feeling of freedom and adventure. Sure, there are glitches, but for games of that magnitude it is understandable. WHEN u idiots buy Skyrim it will blow away any piece of sh*t toddler game u have ever played! And by the way, that is why Bethesda has made millions from producing quality games and has gotten a huge following and why u pathetic people are spending ur life in ur moms house with nothing better to do than play playstation 3 and complain about any game that has a glitch because of its sheer size.
Wow, what a big surprise companies put out as little as possible and ask as much as possible for it. Its not just bethesda, Most companies release crap bug filled games phones computers etc. Just realize that this is the society we live in. The “it’s good enough” mentality keeps the poop flowing pipes and all over our faces. Would you put up with a car that breaks down all the time. A phone that drops calls. Clothes that fall apart in the wash. Apparently we should all be thankful you can even get to the end of games nowadays without critical bugs or just crappy programming interfering or ruining gaming experience.
Be sure to thank the theater operator when he lets the movie go unfocused or forgets to change the reels. Maybe they need more money TO DO THEIR JOB.
Keep on paying these bastards, and keep on getting what you asked for, mediocre bland pieces of garbage. Sad sorry POSs.
LOL sugatits, but i know one game that I can not get to the end with, Fable 3. ok f*ck everyone, i liked it, but game developers are going the way of microsoft. their corporate policy being $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$f*ck the user&$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&f*ck the developers&$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&f*ck our employees, but mainly $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I used to love games, and i’ve spent thousands on gaming, but I’m getting 2 more games ever, letting my LIVE run out, and giving the industry what they are beginning to give us, nothing. Everyone shut the f*ck up, play what you like, or make your own game. Oh yeah, your all retarded. Leave.
and unless your 2 Nintendo is trash… save for mario. And dont say PSN is good. they got their security key handed to them like a big dumb b*tch. go ahead, support unsecured company’s like that.
do you forget fallout 3 was game of the year as well as oblivion so go suck c*ck
silly cod players everyone knows bethesda kicks infinity ward and treyarcs arse
Oblivion sucked? Ok I might have to agree with that one. Fallout 3? Dude, crashing games are part of a gamer’s life. Deal with it. DLCs? Fallout 3′s Mothership Zeta and New Vegas’ Old World Blues got mostly positive reviews. Fallout New Vegas? The company is banging themselves to slam out on throwing updates enough to please you and seam those bugs! Let’s not forget that Bethesda DID NOT develop Fallout New Vegas! Obsidian Entertainment did! And they made the original Fallout as Interplay!
You are reading a troll thread
Everyone, now that Skyrim has been released all of you will (if u haven’t already) buy it and this argument will be over. Bethesda’s 9.5 – 10 out of ten rated masterpiece on every gaming site has shut you all the f*ck up!
Owns 2 copies of skyrim, both on 50 inch led tv’s, Xbox version and ps3 version. Ps3 looks alot better but this guy was right. Its another masterpiece of pure buggery from Bethesda, glitches low frame rates the list goes on. Its a preview to what fallout 4 will be like, an orgy of bugs. The other guy was right too, you wouldn’t accept a car breaking down every 30 minutes but you put up with it on a game? To all those who think a glitch fest of a game is fine, grow a back bone you spineless cowards and ask yourself this, if your friend told you he knew someone you could give a piece of sh*t to and it would make him very happy what would you think of that sh*tty go lucky person? That’s right, so grab a mirror and tell him because you are that person and you should be embarr*ssed, why? because you openly admitted when someone is doing you in the back door you’ll still enjoy it, that speaks for itself.
Agreed
And wait till Game of the Year Edition!
I only purchased this game a few days ago, I saw the reviews so I waited and now its been patched I have a copy and yet I still agree. Bethesda are worlds number one for open world games but in the same breath, they are the worlds number one company at creating games that can be rendered unplayable from out of the box. They patched the Ps3 and the patch created more bugs than there were before. How is that possible? A patch that made it worse lol amateurs. Myself and about thirty others have agreed, the rule of law with bethesda is simple. Do not buy their games when they are released, instead wait at least 3 months. Bethesda are the only company I know who consistently release broken games that need patched before you can “get what you paid for’. My advice would be this, have some will power next time, all of us, restrain from having to have it on release day and when bethesda sales on release day plummet, they will realise they can’t get away with it anymore but if we roll over and say an unplayable game is fine for your hard earned money, then next time just send me your money as you like giving it away, I will spend it much more wisely. One last thing, justin biber won album of the year, how much does that mean to you? The game of the year award can be bought, its an award that means nothing and the proof of that will be if the ps3 version of Skyrim gets game of the year. Its impossible for it to get it without it being bought and paid for. For too many people it was unplayable, the patch to fix this introduced more bugs than the game had, if a game like that gets game of the year then with a wise mind you will know how little game of the year means.
Completely agree.
Oblivion + Fallout 3 are overrated. The games are boring: it’s a repetitive cycle of going into dungeons/dark areas where your screen is pretty much pitch black. The combat system is crap. I read a review somewhere that described Fallout 3 perfectly: “it is the only game where you can shoot someone in the foot and have their head explode.”
Major respect for pointing this out. Not many people have the guts to do so.
I love the graphics. That’s about it. These games just aren’t for me. I won’t go as far as saying the game sucked, becuase it does have some good qualities.
The first thing I do is to turn on all map markers with the cheat…why? Because I don’t want to run around on a horse for 2 hours to get to the next location. Horrible waste of my time. Of course, I did do that the first few times because the landscape is beautiful, but after that, it was insta-port for me.
Secondly, I have to agree with the writer here on the story, they do play to the dimwitted. I’m not 100% sure if it’s because they don’t want to make it complicated, or if they just lack inspiration.
I stopped playing this game after about 20 hours. I realized if I wanted to work smithing, herbalism and leatherworking, I would play a damned MMO.
Fact is, Bethesda makes horrible games, the same bugs that were present in Morrowind is present in the Fallout series and Skyrim, and I have NOT seen any attempt from Bethesda to correct these.
Sure there are a lot of arguments why those bugs/glitches are present, but that doesn’t matter when Bethesda don’t even try to correct them.
I would like to see a Fallout game using the Dunia Engine, because obviously Bethesda don’t know how to make nor update one [engine].
Bethesda sucks simply because they invest more $$$ in marketing (cheaper) instead of investing it in doing proper work to make a decent game (more work). And what you are left with is a bunch of 15 year old fanboys who rage whenever someone questions Bethesda’s games quality.
For your own and everybody else’s sake, there is nothing wrong with having higher standards to a sequel. And the only feedback companies like Bethesda should get (to improve their games) is constructive ~negative~ feedback (ex: bugs/glitches and if implemented systems work as they should, could they be done differently for a more user friendly and smoother gameplay). And address ALL issues, nomatter how small they may be.
Quality lies in the details.
god this website sucks! and so the author of those lists! Bethesda is an EXCELLENT studio, Fallout 3/DLC/New-vegas are the best games I ever played and, more recently, Skyrim! what a great game…so immersive! collegetimes sucks
Fallout 3 is awesome, there is no other game like it and non will ever rate as high for a long time. The author is just mad that he sucks at RPG games since they require intelligence and an open mind to play. New Vegas was not made by Bethesda, this alone shows the idiocy of the author.
The author is a f*cking idiot. Oblivion was awesome, and it came out in 2006. Bethesda creates some pretty awesome games, but they are a bunch of a-holes who can’t fix bugs. Fallout 3 was amazing. This douchebag doesn’t know sh*t about games, and is obviously 16 years old.
Jabber, try gaming on something other than your grandmas 486 and maybe you will enjoy stability like the millions of others.
Dispite playing Oblivion and Fallout 3 went for Skyrim, and it was good for the first few quests, but I can’t even finish it due to horrible lag and hell half the quests bugging out and being unable to complete them, I feel like I was raped without the lube on this one, wish I could get my money back but oh well no chance of that now
I was a fan of oblivion even with its obvious faults and the same goes for fallout 3 and New Vegas. Skyrim as a whole is a great game but as the games that came before it has the same problems that Bethesda has been plagued by for years with glitches, freezing, sh*tty voice actors but what people dont get is the big picture even with all the problems THE GAMES are still great. So either play it, sell to gamestop. GOTY nuf said.
I just beat FO3, and concur with the author. I couldn’t wait to be done with it. Too many little flaws to make it immersive. Poor dialog, story, voice acting, and animations. The combat tedious, and the game is very illogical.
BETHESDA sucks? Is that they keep winning GOTY?
While I do see what you see, I do agree at how Bad and Overrated of a company Bethesda is. They may make m*ssively open games, but they are awful at making them flawless. Sure it’s probably incredibly difficult to work on such a game and have it run right, but they never care to fix game breaking glitches that happen. Like the A-bomb glitch in Oblivion. No matter how many people complain about it they’d rarely ever get around to fixing it.
I just started Fallout 3 GOTY, and haven’t had any issues, other then one odd thing happen with a character, but I don’t expect it to last.
It’s sad that gamers are alright with constantly buying their titles when you know what to expect. Glitches, bugs, freezing etc…etc…up to wazoo. With all the time they spend on making their games they could actually try to put more time to find problems and remedy them before release, OR after releases with Patches, but no they care not to.
I don’t have much qualms on their games, but I hate how gamers think so highly of the company when they release half *ssed products every so often and no one complains about it, and when they do it’ll just be ignored most of the time.
I appreciate what they’re TRYING to do, but they suck at it and need to do better with it. Otherwise, I expect the same “Quality” games from them with their next release of Fallout and Elder scrolls. Probably the same with other titles from them as well.
I understand that Skyrim has had rave reviews etc, but most of the reviews came out before the reviewers actually played the game.
It doesn’t matter what product you make or what you put in the disclaimer. Bethesda made a game that doesn’t work. I get to Esbern’s quests, and the game fails consistently. I cannot play further. Map markers start failing. Some doors won’t unlock. Some people can’t speak. Some quests cannot be played because event listeners don’t fire. It’s absolute garbage. Anyone claiming this game is great is from Bethesda or Microsoft, or hasn’t finished the game, or went straight through the game without playing any side quests.
These guys should be taken to court for fraud. They sell a product that doesn’t work, and don’t refund it when you figure that out. Only problem is there isn’t anyone to sue them, except gamers, who don’t care enough to fight it.
“Like the A-bomb glitch in Oblivion. No matter how many people complain about it they’d rarely ever get around to fixing it.”[Quoted]
Why do people base the company on one of their worst games? Also I have never experienced the A-bomb glitch in skyrim. The game tends to run better when you don’t try to break it on purpose.
“I understand that Skyrim has had rave reviews etc, but most of the reviews came out before the reviewers actually played the game.”[Qouted]
Is that why they can give incredible detail of the game and describe what their character is doing during this “fictional” review game? Don’t base part of your argument on review’s before the game was released. Those are made to create hype, ever heard of it?
“1.Map markers start failing. 2.Some doors won’t unlock. 3.Some people can’t speak. 4.Some quests cannot be played because event listeners don’t fire. It’s absolute garbage.”[Quoted]
1.Unless you are deleting the markers yourself it would be your computer, 2.every door can unlock unless it needs a key, if you can pick it with a lockpick you can open it.
3.computer or damaged copy.
4.need to do another part of the quest or computer or cd-damage.
I’m starting to think it’s all your computer…
You entirely missed almost every reason Bethesda sucks. Your arguments are terrible and you’d been better off writing a strategy guide on being emo. Bethesda doesn’t suck because the games aren’t fun. They suck because they couldn’t program their way out of a paper box. Non-stop game crashes, insanely huge save files, glitches and programming errors abound and gameplay testing seems non-existent. There’s even a mission in Oblivion that is impossible to complete because of a programming error.
Bethesda sucks because they don’t care about quality. Bethesda sucks because they don’t have modern stellar graphics in their games. Bethesda sucks because they don’t test their games enough. Most importantly Bethesda sucks because their programmers can’t fix their enormous amount of problems. A word of advice to Bethesda, your ending credits should roll for 30+ minutes because you care enough to hire a strong development team like Rockstar who is known for flawless game design with very few problems throughout the campaign. (I’m not talking about rescuing Petrovic in multiplayer obviously)
its hilarious that you bash these games yet you still bought and played through all of bethesda’s main titles and have probably bought skyrim and you are playing it at this very moment…. just shut the f*ck up already with this nonsense and admit you love skyrim just as much as the rest of us!
Bethesda is only now catching up to the quality of gameplay achieved by Gothic, which was released in 2001. Skyrim comes sorta close to Gothic, although Bethesda ofcourse screwed up some game mechanics to make it easier for you braindead plebs to enjoy it. That’s putting aside the fact that it’s a buggy-as-hell console game ported to PC in 5 mins. Also, the artistic direction is mediocre and the soundtrack is mediocre. Ofcourse, you braindead plebs wouldn’t know the difference. Go play any of the Gothics to see what an open action-RPG should be like.
I have a number to call to Bethesda if anyone wants it, just email me and I will give it to you. We all need to call them and complain, Fallout New Vegas glitched so bad that it crashed my Xbox 360 and it’s hard drive.
Everyone second post on this site is a hate post……….the only reason im posting is in response to one i just read as follows
“Fallout 3 is awesome, there is no other game like it and non will ever rate as high for a long time. The author is just mad that he sucks at RPG games since they require intelligence and an open mind to play. New Vegas was not made by Bethesda, this alone shows the idiocy of the author.”……..
the author doesnt deserve a comment like that…….
real life requires intelligence video games require hand eye coordination……my 4 year old plays video games and pwns…….i play every game you can think of and guess what, whether you feel it sucks or not skyrim is broken…..on every platform…. plain and simple, if its not for you then you are lucky, because skyrim has every potential of being an amazing immersive game……except for me and a few million other users who are stuck with 15 un completable quests and get to do it all at 10 fps…….everyone should stop hating on each other and help bethesda patch one of the sadest sorriest excuses for a game ever (im not saying gameplay sucks just that not being able to play-game does)
This game’s little more than an automated babysitter.
Bought this game and dumped a sh*t load of hours into it. Now I regret listening to retarded little f*ckers like “Truth” who added to this game’s hype. I suppose if you’re a kid it’s good but as an adult, I want games that take a more mature/witty/serious approach to writing then the sh*t that Todd Howard puts out. Here’s a small example of what’s to be had in this game:
There’s a kid in one of the cities who’s trying to contact a guild full of *ss*ssins in order to have someone killed. Everyone knows about this, including the f*cking guards…………in other cities!! Why doesn’t anyone stop him you might ask? Good question but this p*sses as logic in Skyrim.
Game mechanics are also sh*t as well with the loads of hand-holding (wouldn’t want people to be penalized for idiotic behavior or poor decision making). An ever present comp*ss that shows where every location is depending on how close you are (we wouldn’t want to waist time actually trying to find something), unkillable NPCs (in case you’re stupid enough to get into a fight with an essential quest giver), and undroppable quest items (for those that can’t be bothered with paying attention to their inventories).
Also, you can become the head of every guild after completing a handful of quests because, you know, it’s a very sound decision to appoint someone who just shows up on your doorstep one day, to lead your organization. Even though their new “leader” will never be there to handle the more mundane day-to-day tasks of actually running a guild, tasks that would be expected of a guild leader. But what can one expect from a game that was designed to cater to kids, “Hey look mom, I’m the heeeerrrrrooooo!”
i hate turned based gameplay. the charecters, lore, weapons and armor are the only bits that beat fallout 3 from fallout 1&2. those games are dead and buried and bethsda revamped the game to meet a new audience. a few fat nerds pointing and clicking was not enough to keep fallout going. if you dont like bethesda stop playing their games. real time gameplay requires skill not luck like turn based gameplay does. i hate fallout 1&2 players thinking their superior and know best because “we played fallout first” (hipster tools ) there was a reason that fallout easily claimed the lisnece to make fallout and elder scrolls games beacuase those games dont sell as well as theres.
i agree bethesda sucks,tons of buggs. plus, skyrim can go to oblivion as it drags the rest of its games down with it.
but really, they take forever to get a game out and it still sucks.
And that’s why U should download (PC) games lol. Broken and/or sucky games might frustrate you but it wont influence your bankaccount
The latest fashion seems to be to like utter crap (see populair music, mobile phones and such that are being produced these days) so I dont really think studios that produce crap are gonna change their ways. Just make em go bankrupt..PIRATE THE SH*T OUTTA THEIR STUFF!!
aaarrggggg!
I agree with this article. I’m glad I pirated this sh*tty mod of Oblivion. It’s so obviously the same old gamebryo engine minus a few tweaks (none of the needed tweaks mind you) Gameplay is awkward, dialog and direction is terrible.
I would have been happy to cough up money for a quality product, but this sucks.
I looooove Fallout 3 and new vegas ..iffin they didnt freeze every ten seconds…..Dayyyyum Bethesda fix your stuff….Hell they are still selling Fallout 3 and it doesnt work….shouldnt we b calling the Better Buisness Bureau as they are clearly selling a product that does not work!
Loved Morrowind (PC) and finished it, thought Oblivion (PS3) got repetitious (never finished) and now on Skyrim (PS3) – and I realize it’s a big mistake to play on PS3 since I can’t console my way out of all the bugs and sh*t that Bethesda has created. What a total f-ck-up this game is (on PS3) – anyone looking to hire programmers should stay away from Bethesda idiots.
what the f*ck is wrong with all of you f*cking people like honestly the graphics in falloput 3 may not have been the best but in complete honesty it is my most favorite game i have ever played i have yet to find a better game. As for Oblivion i have no say in the matter but most people i talk to say its the best game they have ever played no exeptions. And let me say skyrim was the second best game i have ever played following fallout 3. Bethesda ( although not best graphics ) makes the f*ckin best games on the face of the earth. SCREW ANYONE WHO THINKS DIFFERENT
“Fallout 3 is awesome, there is no other game like it and non will ever rate as high for a long time. The author is just mad that he sucks at RPG games since they require intelligence and an open mind to play. New Vegas was not made by Bethesda, this alone shows the idiocy of the author.”…….. i 110% completly agree with this man
This really shows how oblivious you are to the game making process. The two of your points about DLC are completely invalid, as well as the one about New Vegas. To clear this up, in no way is this Bethesda’s fault. It is the fault of 2K Games, the publisher, forcing Bethesda to crank the DLC out in weeks. In addition, Bethesda Softworks did not create New Vegas.
f*ck all the bethesda fanboys you just want to be like the 99.9 percent of the people who like Bethesda an they are just just whiny little TEN year olds
This is most likely a troll thread. Of course the author is going to try to tear down something that has a a SHIT TON of support from the gaming community.
But to point some things out,
Games like Fallout and Oblivion are buggy because the world is so friggin huge. I would love to see the day that a game with a huge world will not have any bugs AT all.
Overpriced DLC? You should have waited for the game of the year edition.
And for the lair DLC’s, you shouldn’t have wasted grandma’s Christmas money on it.
Crashing every ten minutes? Either you are lying, or your Xbox/PS3 is a piece of sh*t. Most Bethesda Games run smoothly for me, but that might be because I have a slim 360.
Save System doesn’t work? Your sh*t is f*cked, not the game.
Oblivion DLC’s sucked?
They weren’t the best, honestly. I’ll give you that one.
Skyrim is going to suck?
Fuck no.
If this really wasn’t a troll thread, you fags need to go back to COD.
ahem fallout new vegas was made by Obsidian not bethesda, bethesda was just the publisher. The horse armor pack was not just cosmetic it added 250 health. Skyrim had a lot more voice actors. though is more of a sandbox game then a RPG. and ever heard of a patch? game studios make them to fix the bugs they have obsidian made patchs for all there glitchs for free.
man fallout 3 was one of the best games i ever played and if u dont agree sorry there is something wrong with u. p.s bethesda rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Now, I’ll admit, Oblivion wasn’t as good as all it’s reviewers seem to think – the landscape was copy-and-pasted, the characters has very similar voices, the 3rd-person looked horrible, and the cities were practically empty, HOWEVER – it was still a game that had 6 years work put into it, drew me in and, for the most part, immersed me in it’s world for hours on end. Fallout 3 was the same. It had bugs, the 3rd person was still horrible, and the voice actors were still few, but it corrected a lot of Oblivion’s failings because it had landscape with variety, places that were genuinely unique (Oasis anyone?) and the combat system was a lot better, as was the levelling. I didn’t play New Vegas, so I can’t comment on that, but seeing as Bethesda didn’t develop it anyway it doesn’t actually matter.
Skyrim (and I don’t say this lightly) is THE MOST immersive videogame I have ever played. The world feels huge and alive, the 3rd person looks good, and doesn’t detract from the experience, the soundtrack is epic, the voice acting is a lot more varied, and the quests are brilliant. I’ve put in 15 hours into it so far, and have encountered one game freeze and no bugs whatsoever. Now I’m aware that I’m a latecomer to the game, having only owned it for a few days, and some of you may have put hundreds of hours into it by now and encountered many more bugs, but even so, I can find practically nothing to criticise about Skyrim. It’s visuals are extremely impressive considering the size of the gameworld and all the tiny details they added into it. It really hacks me off when people call Bethesda ‘awful’ or say that they ‘suck’ when they make m*ssive games that take years and years to make, which in sheer scope and size far surp*ss any other open-world games on the market. Companies like Activision, cranking out a new Call of Duty game every single year, are really the ones who deserve criticism. You just come off as small-minded and ungrateful for the effort of the developers when you try to tear them to pieces over a few bugs in what is otherwise a brilliant series. Bravo Bethesda, you may not be perfect, but the games you make have been amazing nonetheless.
The truth guy is a f*ckin homo as is everyone else who pushed how great skyrim and every other bethesda game was gonna be. Because by no u realize how sh*tty it was and u probly are playing a good game, made by 2K or UBISOFT. if u disagree, it would probably benefit u to pull ur head out of ur *ss and hop OFF the bandwagon right about now..
This guy that made this post is a virg*n *ss faggot skyrim fallout 3 and oblivion all got game of the year!!!
the guy that made this post was also too much of a p*ssy to show his name
If you who think that Bethesda puts good writing into their games, I’ve got a suggestion for you, you should try reading “Magazines!” Yes, “Magazines,” as you’ll be totally blown away by the stories held within. When you become bored with those, you should then move onto “Books!”
@Erik.C
“Skyrim fallout 3 and oblivion all got game of the year!!!” Yeah, because there is no way that a game with substandard animation, atrocious writing, abominable AI, and a truckload of bugs would even be considered for something as prestigious as game-of-the-year. Since we’re on the subject, what exactly qualifies for game-of-the-year? What is the criteria a game needs to meet in order to even be considered? And who’s game-of-the-year award is it and why does their award even matter?
To everyone who wishes to complain about Bethesda:
I would like to point out that I – being inquisitive and exploratory – have been able to find several bugs in every single video game I have ever played. (I look for these, as I plan to be a game tester.)
Bethesda has a few minor glitches within their games, but none of you seem to take into account how difficult it is to program and code a video game. The few bugs in the extremely expansive content of these games is HIGHLY acceptable, and do not ruin the games at all. You people should do some actual research to learn a bit, then come back and apologize to the developers of these games.
P.S. COD has a lot more bugs and much less to offer.
I actually love bethesda’s games, but Skyrim’s lag is completely unbearablr
Bethesda controlled QA in New Vegas (as it was the publisher). Just for those who say that obsidian made a bug ridden Fallout as well.
Seriously? I realize that this is presumably a college website, but you cannot mistake this for anything close to journalism. Journalism is based on fact, which is what I was hoping to read here. Yes, Bethesda is moving towards a negative reputation, especially in their Playstation market given their many glitches in Skyrim, and the DLC fiasco with Fallout 3. I think those are the only two straight-up FACTS that I read.
Everything else is sheerly opinion, basically begging your reader to be offended. Personally, I’m a giant fan of RPG’s and I loved and played Oblivion to DEATH. I was captured by Fallout 3 and used most of my pregnancy beating the sh*t out of that game, as well. I was actually very disappointed in New Vegas, and all three of those statements mark a wildly different opinion from yours.
Skyrim was full of glitches, and they ultimately lost it’s normally reserved GOTY title to Batman, but that doesn’t make it any less of a good game. The story was good, the plot was enjoyable, and there’s enough to keep you busy for months if you wanted it to. I think you’re judging these games based on the entirely wrong criteria.
And also, suck it, Shivering Isles was amazing.
Elder Scroll’s games are free roam, action games, where you can level your character, they are not RPG’s.
In all Elder Scroll’s games dialogues suck, and the lore reads like it is written by a 12 year old child.
If one is looking for an RPG with an amazing atmosphere, an immersive story and character development, one should check these old titles:
1. Baldur’s Gate series
2. Planescape Torment
3. Fallout 1 & 2
Bethesda basically keeps re-releasing Daggerfall just changing the graphics and the world goes crazy with every other release of Bethesda and it becomes a game of the year.
Elder Scrolls = You walk around and kill things, maybe craft things with minimal and meaningless NPC interaction, with actions without consequences, through a terrible storyline.
Seriously get Baldur’s Gate 2 (you do not need to play the first one) and if you will be hooked up in the first 5 minutes and even more after you finish the first dungeon.
Bethesda makes high end games the people that complain about crashing need to upgrade their computer or if you are playing on a console blame the console manufacture cause every one of the Elder Scrolls games runs on my Computer without crashing. My n’vidia card from 4 years ago can barely run Skyrim these games are meant for high end computer gaming the fans that follow the games know this.
People always go on about how bug ridden all of bethesdas games are. All I’m gonna say is from oblivion, fallout 3 and skyrim I have never encountered a major bug which ruins the game for me. Yes there are of course some minor bugs which you notice but all games will have small bugs. The only one I have seen in Skyrim is textures loading slowly but wait a few seconds and they are fine and I’ve put many hours into all these games. BUT WAIT!!! I forgot that bad graphics for a couple of seconds ruins my gaming experience. Ah oh well I’ll just sell skyrim. The only major bug I have ever encountered was in fallout 3 where I jumped into a river from a bridge and I crashed. So yeah…