The Obsidian Fallout game that was just announced probably isn’t going to release for at least 3 years, tbh

1. Your assumption is completely incorrect.

it’s that it’s an iteration of an engine that is legendarily janky.

Pick 1, not both. Fallout 4 was stable. Starfield actually did have fairly few bugs, about on par with most AAA games on release. They’ve gotten a lot better over the years. Again, if you’d actually played any of their games since Skyrim you’d have seen that.

the GameBryo engine (or whatever they’re calling its latest descendant) can be used to make stuff that’s decent, but the open world RPGs that Bethesda uses it for are a terrible fit for it.

You have absolutely no fucking clue what you’re talking about. At all.

Could my notifications on here, for once, not light up with someone picking a fucking fight with me over dumb bullshit?

Then don’t say dumb bullshit that isn’t even consistent.

No, they didn’t. They have Obsidian making an additional Fallout game

Oblivion Remastered looks aweful, particularly the NPCs, most of which look like skincrawlers

Do you seriously think that Unreal Engine has gotten a complete rebuild with every version? Software gets upgraded and adapted, not thrown away. Get over it

Honestly, if they just ported a lot of their games into newer versions of the Creation Engine like they did with Skyrim Special Edition but with higher end textures that’d be pretty sweet

Bethesda is effectively 1 studio, and they all depend on Todd Howard to make creative decisions. A lot of their issue with output is based on how efficiently they can use Todd’s time.

Plus, a lot of the game since Fallout 4 was spent developing Starfield

The reproductive rituals of bedbugs.

Do you really think that Unreal Engine has been rebuilt from scratch for every version? Because it hasn’t, code gets upgraded and adapted all the time at every company.

Multiple studios can be licensed to work on the same franchise at the same time. This isn’t anything new

Agreed. I get that people want more Elder Scrolls and Fallout, but mods help with that

You say that as if Unreal Engine gets a ground-up rewrite for every single version.

Code gets upgraded and adapted over time. And the Creation Engine is no different.

First off, you clearly haven’t played a Bethesda game since Skyrim. Bethesda has actually been making a ton of improvements to the engine over the years.

Second, rethink what you said. Do you really think every other engine isn’t continually updating the same engine over the past several decades?

Unreal Engine 6 is about to release. Do you seriously think that Epic is completely rewriting the engine from scratch for each version?

Do you really think that Unity is getting a ground-up rewrite every few years? Or GameMaker? Or Godot?

No developer is going to throw away a giant body of software and start over from scratch if they can help it. It’s absolutely insane. You take what you have, and upgrade it and adapt it for what you need.

I hope they don’t try and cram the games through Unreal Engine like they did with Oblivion. The Oblivion Remaster looked terrible because of it, particularly with every NPC looking like a skincrawler

Looks like it’s got a lot of stars, so it’s probably solid

You’d be surprised. I’ve run into some really dogshit books that somehow get >4.5 on Goodreads.

I’ve been considering designing one, but I’d need to buy an external player

The Steam Machine is expected to be hooked up to your TV in 99% of cases. Why not add the capability to play Blu-Ray movies at that point?

Also, there’s an official dock for the Steam Deck, which is also intended to be hooked into the TV most of the time. It’s reasonable to want an attachment for that as well if you only have a Deck

Yeah, now that you mention it I remember finding snap on Discovery. It’s kinda nice when there’s no flatpak available tbh

“needed”

How would smart glasses be any better with any of these?