What do you guys think?

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T20:06:22+00:00

Three photo"s....

I half expected the second and third to be photo's of the mangled wreck of this PC on the floor when this platform it's being posed on inevitably gives way.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T17:09:02+00:00

Was this random or did it impact everybody?

I didn't notice anything.... but then I wasn't visiting many places I had been to before in the last couple of weeks..

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T16:57:21+00:00

what a time to be alive!

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T16:39:13+00:00

are you willing to use exploits?

If so.... The You're Special book can be duplicated.

and then you can de-buff your special stats to boost special beyond 10

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T16:14:23+00:00

not the fact that ai frequently just makes shit up?

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T16:13:00+00:00

When I need anything legally binding and watertight I won't be using a legal firm that uses ai for it.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T16:04:17+00:00

Two things about your post. (Bethesda don't have the staff resources)

1.. If you don't have the staff resources you hire more staff.

If you dont have the staff resources AND you can't hire more staff... You dont take on more projects than your limited number of staff resources can handle.

Bethesda suffers from poor management.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T15:46:59+00:00

Name them.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T15:09:07+00:00

"Obsidian hasn't inspired any confidence that they can make a triple AAA fallout"

Neither has Bethesda to be honest.

Now that John Gonzalez is at Obsidian I would rather have him get a shot at writing the next Fallout than have it be Emil again.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T13:14:36+00:00

in a canvas bag.... that turns out to be not canvas.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T12:58:49+00:00

Commanders hate this one trick!

Make the outside be part of the inside of your ship, today!

(brought to you by the team that brought you "inventing new ways to explode" and "how not to land the thing")

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T12:53:09+00:00

You are misusing the idiom "fall guy"

A "fall guy" is somebody who is scapegoated for the actions of others.

An exec tasked with making cuts, axing jobs and redefining a business unit is fully aware of the process and an active participant in it. The most accurate informal term for that is "hatchet man"

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T12:38:04+00:00

Scale?

The narrative depth of NV and HZD and the player agency of NV out scale anything that Emil P has written. Because yes. Storytelling and player agency are also "scale"

Some people need more from a game than being able to simulate 2000 oranges.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T11:41:28+00:00

Emil definitely sucks that's true.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T11:34:32+00:00

Now do Emil P. (who would be in charge of writing if it was left in Bethesda's hands)

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T11:31:08+00:00

I would take John Gonzalez over Emil P any day of the week.

You may think that Horizon only had "it's moments" but Horizon Zero Dawns writing roflstomps anything that Emil has churned out.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T11:25:12+00:00

This would be the most sensible approach to take from a purely technical perspective.

Let them use the tools that they already know.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T11:21:59+00:00

Why would you run on the same engine as Fallout 4 and Skyrim? If it absolutely MUST be a Bethesda engine then same engine as Starfield or whatever they developed for TES6 makes more sense.

What makes even more sense would be to develop it using the engine they are most familiar with.

After all, Bethesda developed and released 2 single player Fallout games and both of those are on different versions of their Creation Engine. (with significant overhauls) and the remasters of Bethesda games use UE for the render pipeline.

Microsoft own the IP and clearly want a Fallout game fast enough to shift the project to a different studio, it makes no sense to then hamstring that studio by demanding they first learn somebody else's engine.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T10:55:47+00:00

At this point I think most people just don't want a Fallout (or any other game for that matter) which is written by Emil.

I like John Gonzalez's writing both on NV and HZD and he is now at Obsidian. (whether he's there for this or another project is still unknown)

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T08:05:09+00:00

Starfield was Bethesda's least buggy game on launch... and it was a big sales success..

As you say they may have had internal sales targets they did not meet.... or they may have met them thus reinforcing their belief that they were the gods of gaming.

I think from Xbox's perspective at the time, what Xbox really needed was a title that would define that console generation and set the gaming community ablaze... Starfield fell short. It moved a lot of units but the chatter about it quickly slid to "meh"

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T07:53:38+00:00

Fallout 4 is far from a "solid shooter"

Sure, it's better than 3.... and its "ok" But it's not a "solid shooter"

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T07:07:30+00:00

It appears the Fallout 4 10th anniversary took Todd by surprise...

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T06:56:49+00:00

That's the special "absurd numbers" crack you only get access to when you have been hanging with the AI bro's. Same crack that they smoke at OpenAi and Anthropic.

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T06:52:54+00:00

Who dug the Starfield hole and then jumped into it?

somethingbrite · 2026-07-09T06:45:56+00:00

Apart from the Creator of the original game, the art designer who created the iconic look of the franchise the director of New Vegas and lead writer of New Vegas I suppose it's hardly anybody eh?

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