@MrEff@lemmy.world
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- on Obsidian Entertainment Is Officially Moving Under Bethesda As It Works On Its New Fallout Game - Kotaku in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
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on Obsidian Entertainment Is Officially Moving Under Bethesda As It Works On Its New Fallout Game - Kotaku in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Microsoft just butchered bethesda. More than anything this looks like obsidian is being rehoused as a life saving measure for bethesda. I would expect this to be less about anything against obsidian and more about something for bethesda.
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on Obsidian Entertainment Is Officially Moving Under Bethesda As It Works On Its New Fallout Game - Kotaku in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I know Microsoft gets all the hate for buying them, but I put the blame of bethesda’s recent failures on Todd Howard. He has squandered all the momentum the studio had and just put them into coasting mode. They had the high of releasing fallout 4 and skyrim, then did fuck all but milk them. Sure, fallout 76 happened -and what a failure that was. Then he had his big push for Starfield- and failed not only on the delivery but also the follow through with not addressing any of the fan concerns in the dlc’s. They squandered so many years that should have been spend continuing their two biggest flagships (fallout and elder scrolls) but instead fucked around for well over a decade. Now they are going to put the studio on crunch time for an entire development to try and get back on track and I am calling it now that it is going to show in the final product.
Edit: I recognize that in my rantings and rebuttals I have omitted Elder Scrolls Online. And I would give credit where credit is due on the success that it was. It is still being worked on after being released all the way back in 2014, and has generated over $2 billion in sales. I would also like to point out how Todd Howard had nothing to do with that one and isn’t on any of its credits…
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on New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
You had me at “not to be confused with…” but I’m pretty sure they made the batteries for them too.
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on New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
To be fair, solid state batteries went from being a pipe dream, to being only possible in perfect laboratory settings, to the current state of very real and possible -just expensive. And it has done all of this in about a decade. Just give it time.
Lol. Yes, I understand your comment and agree. But at the same time, when you look at how Todd executed his grand vision of starfield it was a mess of a game that seemed half baked at best. I support new IP’s, but he could have at least finished making the game before calling it ready. This is an AAA studio, not some indy early release.
And I’m not asking for some absurd release schedule like COD or BF. Skyrim came out in 2011. Fallout 4 came out in 2015 (glossing over the basically-a-multiplayer-mod-for-money of 76 in 2018).
But if bethesda had some real leadership, they would have pointed out “we have a TV show coming out” and should have also said “we should ride the wave of excitement and have a game ready”. They knew they had a show in development starting in 2020 and didn’t do anything. The show came out in 2024, and they didn’t have anything. It is now 2026, and approaching 2027 and they still have nothing. What a fucking wasted opportunity. At best they will start FO5 in 2027 with a projected release date of 2030, about 6 years after the show released and 15 years after FO4.