Original creators of Elder Scrolls are creating a spiritual successor to Daggerfall

[Seramore]

Are you saying there's nothing inherently wrong with DLCs?

Spoiler: you're currently posting on a forum based around a game that has had 7 DLC's in the past 12 years.

[haediff]

could never play a first person rpg with graphics like that.

[tru]

Yeah but does anyone even value Daggerfall now? Put it this way - would you rather play a game that came out in 2019 that was made by the people who made Warcraft 1, or one made by the people who made WC3: Reforged, SC2: Legacy of the Void or WoW: BFA?

It kinda reminds me of that Mark Kern guy - he runs around yelling that he is the team lead of vanilla WoW. Last time i checked his twitter, he had that before even the fact that he had his own games studio. You stub your toe and shout 'fuck!', this guy shouts 'i was the team lead for original WoW.'

Does anyone care? No. No one cares. No one buys his games, because his games are trash.

No one cares that you made Daggerfall.

Lost all validity of your post by mentioning BFA guy... See how opinions work?

[frogx]

Daggerfall? That some sort of boomer game I'm too gen-z to know?

I can think of very few games that I would trust to be amazing due to their lead dev's previous work, dev studios sure, I generally trust developers like Arkane and CD Projekt Red but Joe, lead developer of Minesweeper? No way man.

They are a game studio, in 1988 when Bethesda was founded it had 4 employees, 3 of which are making this game now...... in essence they are the original Bethesda.

[Akka]

Have there ever actually been any game developer phoenixes?

Black Isle => Obsidian is the go-by example.

[Vash The Stampede]

Spoiler: you're currently posting on a forum based around a game that has had 7 DLC's in the past 12 years.

DLC's or expansion packs?

[Caperfin]

This is great news! let the hype begin!

[Charge me Doctor]

You can't make an interesting procedural generated world. In the want to make a good RPG experience it has to be hand-made, all this talk about procedural generation doesn't give me an impression that the game will be any good.
And "endless quests" - yeah, just like "a pen-and-paper campaign", because we all know and love those soulless, endless campaigns with endless procedural generated quests and procedural generated locations!

[NatePsy]

a fantasy life simulator

But that's what Elder Scrolls has felt like for me? You are literally given choices for a loooot of the gameplay and storyline. Take Skyrim for example, you get to choose who to side with, Empire or the Nords throughout the entire conflict. Hell, you can even make your own house and if you want to take it one step further, they've allowed for mods to give yourself the fantasy house you've always wanted.

If you asked me who I'd entrust to build Elder Scrolls titles, I'd pick Todd Howard's team over 3 developers who have not been in the "major game" industry for a long time, basically washed up devs with no consistent track record throughout the years of creating successful games and you're here to tell me they can do something better than the creators of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim? Let's be realistic and refrain from being "dreamers"

[Seramore]

DLC's or expansion packs?

They're the same thing.

[Vash The Stampede]

They're the same thing.

Not exactly. DLC ranges from expansion like content to a pack of cosmetic skins and a few quests. Expansion packs are held to a higher standard because they're basically a whole game on their own. DLC's are just extended content.

[Seramore]

Not exactly. DLC ranges from expansion like content to a pack of cosmetic skins and a few quests. Expansion packs are held to a higher standard because they're basically a whole game on their own. DLC's are just extended content.

So what you're saying is that DLC is a wide variety of content and expansions fit under the category of DLC?

[Vash The Stampede]

So what you're saying is that DLC is a wide variety of content and expansions fit under the category of DLC?

Wide variety of crap content. An expansion is basically a whole new game that uses a lot of the assets of the host game. You don't buy a $20 DLC and get the equivalent of a new game, while a $50 expansion will.

[Seramore]

Wide variety of crap content.

And yet expansions still fit under that category.

Just because a bunch of companies make unnecessary and shitty DLC doesn't mean that it's inherently a bad concept

[frogx]

You can't make an interesting procedural generated world. In the want to make a good RPG experience it has to be hand-made, all this talk about procedural generation doesn't give me an impression that the game will be any good.
And "endless quests" - yeah, just like "a pen-and-paper campaign", because we all know and love those soulless, endless campaigns with endless procedural generated quests and procedural generated locations!

They want to use new techniques which were never used before in video games, learning algorithms and neural network to make a 'virtual game master'.

But that's what Elder Scrolls has felt like for me? You are literally given choices for a loooot of the gameplay and storyline. Take Skyrim for example, you get to choose who to side with, Empire or the Nords throughout the entire conflict. Hell, you can even make your own house and if you want to take it one step further, they've allowed for mods to give yourself the fantasy house you've always wanted.

If you are happy with the choices that Todd Howard gave you, then you will love choices in their game, because they want to make much much more.

If you asked me who I'd entrust to build Elder Scrolls titles, I'd pick Todd Howard's team over 3 developers who have not been in the "major game" industry for a long time, basically washed up devs with no consistent track record throughout the years of creating successful games and you're here to tell me they can do something better than the creators of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim? Let's be realistic and refrain from being "dreamers"

Check out this video and you will have the whole picture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46gaz6veVNQ

[Vash The Stampede]

And yet expansions still fit under that category.

Just because a bunch of companies make unnecessary and shitty DLC doesn't mean that it's inherently a bad concept

The name DLC is very broad term, but before you could Download Content, you bought expansions from your local store. Also, do you know of any DLC that gave you an entire games worth of content?

[frogx]

[frogx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw6CUVk4mn0

[frogx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw6CUVk4mn0

They want to have a 'dungeon master ai' that will react to what you do.

[frogx]