With the money they got from Skyrim and the M$ buyout, they should have made a new one.
Like you said, Starfield really exposed how yanky this engine has gotten and I don’t expect TES6 to turn out much better, especially since their credo still seems to be “bigger, bigger, bigger”, despite that turning SF into a bland void with loading screens
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 5 days ago
A reminder that No Man’s Sky came out in 2016, and Cyberpunk 2077 came out in 2020, while Starfield released in 2023.
Yet Starfield feels like it’s a dramatically older game. Does Starfield seem like it’s a 3 year old game? Hell no, it feels like it’s over a decade old, and it felt like that the day it released.
Bethesda’s development team is larger and arguably more experienced than both CDPR and Hello Games combined, yet they have essentially abandoned Starfield while the other two completely salvaged games that had terrible launches.
Bethesda has absolutely no credibility anymore. Expect ES6 to be terrible, and require community mods to be made playable to modern standards.