A reader questions Bethesda’s post-Skyrim output and suggests games like Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 were a clear hint at Starfield’s quality.
and all the arguments amongst fans of which ones ‘count’ and which ones don’t, based on how personally excited they are about the game. The low scores form sites like GameSpot and IGN clearly surprised a lot of people, but not me. I felt it was obvious the game was going to disappoint for two reasons: the lack of hands-on beforehand and. That and the fact that Bethesda as a developer has been getting worse for over a decade now.
Fallout 4 was a bad sequel, with very few new features, a mostly non-existent story, terrible combat, tons of bugs, and a general lack of reason for being. It wasn’t necessarily a bad game overall – it was just Fallout 3 again – but it was the start of the decline, in my opinion, and a poor follow-up to Skyrim .
This wasn’t just the developers’ lowest point but a time at which the company in general was not doing well all over. I suspect this is when Microsoft probably started taking an interesting in buying them out. It’s always when a company’s not doing so good, and their share price is low, so this was the perfect time to strike.
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