I think I counted 6 quest designers in Starfield, which was a spot in the credits I was specifically looking for given how many quests they had and how many of them would have been better off not even existing. You can’t talk about having 1000 planets and then make quests that aren’t interesting to populate them.
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TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoThe real number is Morrowind had something like 10-20 writers that worked on it. Modern Bethesda games have 1.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
There’s a recent video that adds all of that up. Starfield had some crazy low number of quests, I think 50ish, and Morrowind had like 300+
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are more than 50 quests unless you’re getting creative with how you count. There are over a dozen in each major faction, and those ones are mostly okay, but the ones I really take issue with are the nothing quests that aren’t part of any faction; the ones that basically just have you go to a location and then report back. Those are awful. There should be zero quests in there that the quest designers themselves aren’t excited about.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Starfield has more quests than Skyrim (both somewhere around 200 or so quests). Morrowind definitely felt like it was twice as much as those.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
Michael Kirkbride counts as 15 writers-in-one with enough cocaine.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s a good thing that he definitely didn’t leave the company years ago then!
He released his Coda, he’s washed his hands of the setting.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Lol he’s definitely worth it