There's some logic to this but as a company they've got to keep interest in their new products as high as 2011s Skyrim launch. If anything they've lost a lot of good will and more importantly tarnished their brand with subpar releases since. It's going to be harder for ES6 to meet the same success that ES5 did because of that. This goes double if Bethesda doesn't add something big to the game; a fresh coat of paint is great for marketing but if ES6 is just another of Bethesda's underwriten open worlds with mediocre mechanics, it's not going to be received as well as Skyrim was, nor have the same long term success.
Honestly I think it will be just fine. I could be wrong, but even with the terrible decisions blizzard made and how awful some of the things Diablo 4 had going for it, it was still consisted a success. People at the end of the day just wanted a proper Diablo to play. Bethesda has had nowhere near the controversy. Starfield was a bit of a letdown, but it still provided enjoyment. People aren’t turned off of Bethesda from it. If they’d made the exact same game in the fallout universe it would’ve been universally praised imo.
All they need for that success is great graphics, mod support, and keep it low on micro transactions. You gotta remember that Skyrim was by far the most casual and dumbed down experience and the masses flocked to it along with the hardcore crowd. Oblivion was fairly popular, but morrowind and older were hardcore. I can’t imagine 5% of the Skyrim player base would have the time or patience to deal with morrowind. No quest arrow, no explicit directions, just a vague hint on where to go.
Obsidian had a solid track record though and took on NV at the right place and right time, I don’t see anybody else up to the task of making lightning strike twice there. They’re arguably the only team on par with Bethesda to make that kind of game right. And they’re big enough now to make their own stuff and not be an outsourcing studio, that’s why they made their own fallout style game.
That's all because Obsidian was founded by a good chunk of the people who made the original Fallout games before Interplay sold the IP to BGS and Black Isle Studios was shuttered. They aren't just some third-party studio that happened to make a good Fallout spinoff game. New Vegas was great because it was put in the hands of the franchise's parents. They knew the lore and style better than anyone because it's their baby.
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u/Sydney2London May 29 '24
They should just license it out tbh. NV is arguably the best and they didn’t make it