The long-awaited next generation of game consoles is all anyone can talk about these days, but is there really reason for it? Other than the automatic curiosity that new technology brings, Gamers Association editor Jay Curtis finds little excitement in what's coming in the next few months. Here's why.
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Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.
Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.
OMG! Says who? I'd say there's more excitement that the last gen / present gen console launches.
i agree, i think the nextgen feel like a contiuation of currentgen, no "HD gfx/online" type shock but still a bit exciting, the launch is lots better
btw, im excited most for
VERY EXCITED FOR....
GTA V, DCK:tropical freeze, super mario 3D World and CoD ghosts(X1 version because of dedicated servers)
second most excited for........
KZ:SF, Watch Dogs, BF4, Wonderful 101, Ryse
What? I'm extremely excited. A lot of others are too. This gen has been going on for a while. We want something new.
Super excited and why wouldn't anyone be. I mean the graphic detail is on a whole other level now. So many new features and the PS4 is $100 cheaper then when the PS3 came out 7 years ago. So we've got a 10 times more powerful console that's also cheaper. If you are not excited. You are either dead or trolling.
Look at AC4 BF, Watch Dogs, BF4, Destiny, inFamous SS, Killzone Shadow Fall. MGS5 and tell me those games are not beyond anything we've seen before on a console.
I'm more excited about the potential than the launches. Neither the X1 or the PS4 has anything that makes me want to buy the console anywhere near launch. I already own a Wii U and everything coming out this fall through mid-late next year (assuming Smash Bros is a big fall title) will have me plenty satisfied as a gamer.
I'm definitely excited for Destiny and The Division....and hopefully all of these new IP's everyone keeps yammering on about. If we end up with the same game with different skins again like we've gotten the past few years. I'm ready for something new.
I'm just waiting to see something that makes me say, "I NEED that console."