Yup. As insane as that crowd was and as big a mess as The Frontier wound up being, the drivable vehicles were a genuinely impressive feat on that engine given the constraints they had to deal with (i.e. no source code access, etc.).
The cattle that still sticks around for Starfield are the biggest niggers in all of gaming and only the most true and honest followers of Todd(so the same thing). They can get abused for eternity and they will still stick around like abused wives they are.
If it makes worthless bigots seethe it will be worth it alone, sweetie. Todd is the future, you are spluttering fools.
Will Shen gave an interview at GDC and pretty much blamed everything on red tape. Bethesda scaled up massively between FO4 and 76 and couldn't properly streamline their environment to account for a 400% increase in employees. Zero department communication, zero design document, Todd and Emil completely inaccessible (for better or for worse), everything was created isolated environments. Not really anything people haven't been suspecting, just nice to hear it from the horse's mouth.
Aside from the GDC video you got linked, Patrician's 9 hour epic goes over what he thinks went wrong during development as well, with proof for what he's saying of course.
It will never not be funny that when both Bethesda and Obsidian tired to make a standalone space RPG franchise, Obsidian still won.
There is no summary for his 9 hour video, you will just have to watch it in full.
Nobody else in the industry is retarded enough to hire Emil either except Todd "Chess Club" Howard and in an industry full of fucking retards that says a lot.
Same with the black woman who interrupts a philosophical chat between you and the religious guy as he talks about the existence or not of a superior being, she steps in to give her insight: "science brought us here".
Almost every companion character in this game spouts reddit atheism+ rhetoric.
Incompetence at Bethesda. The lead writer is an idiot, the devs barely know how their ancient-ass engine works anymore, they refuse to update or replace it (mostly because they don't know how), said engine is dogshit and completely unsuited for the game they tried to make, the only reasonably skilled people who worked there are long gone to greener pastures, the project manager didn't say "no" enough, etc.
I was hoping based on the fuel thing being a massive waste of time that we had a great game that got dumbed down a shit ton and they cut out everything. Like Destiny "I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain"
didnt MS forced them to start fallout 5 asap to take advantage of the shitty amazon show?
Unless they had shit ready to go there's no taking advantage of that, it's gonna take years, probably more like a decade even, and I don't hear people even talking about the show anymore, in fact, haven't heard it brought up at all after it was done. I think they got some shit out for Fallout 76 but there's very few people who still give a shit about either.
Ah, gotcha. Sadly, the truth really just comes down to laziness and incompetence. When I said "the project manager didn't say 'no' enough," I was referring to the fact that everything in the game is so watered-down. If they'd cut out a few parts/ideas they could have focused more on putting real meat on the bones of what was left. But it's a classic example of "wide as a lake, deep as a puddle."
