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In just not interested in anything Bethesda any more. I played a ton of FO3 and Oblivion back in the day. A good bit of Skyrim. New Vegas was pretty decent. But the engine just feels so incredibly stale and outdated. The dead eyed characters barking their lines at you. Everything just feels clunky and unimmersive. It feels more like a chore than a fun game.
I ended up getting Starfield on release day for about $30 off through some deal, and I still felt ripped off. Honestly cannot be bothered to care about the next Elder Scrolls or whatever at this point.
It's weird, playing fallout and starfield on their engine feels terrible but playing skyrim on it feels great. I don't know how to explain it but I think the new elder scrolls will actually be good.
Could be any number of things. Could be nostalgia, the people who were working there at the time/the studio's methodology, or maybe you just don't like how they make fps games in their engine.
For me, the big things are their lack of innovation and the lifeless worlds of their games from about Fallout 4 onwards. Starfield's procedural generation really showed just how average everything except for their environmental storytelling is. Without the little hand-placed tidbits to make the world interesting, everything else just kinda falls flat for me. Everything else about how they design games is outdated at this point and hasn't really changed since the days of Oblivion. Even their much vaunted spaceship builder turned out to largely just be a loading screen that you walk through between other loading screens.