"It’s been two years now since the release of Bethesda’s grim stealth adventure game Dishonored, which was one of the few titles in recent years to really get people talking. It took stealth (something gamers were accustomed to with Assassin’s Creed) flipped it in to first person, and put you within engrossing missions with a welcomed level of freedom.
Though the overarching story was a point of debate, overall the game was critically acclaimed and in 2012 Peter Hines touted that the studio had just found its latest franchise.
Now obviously if something is a franchise we expect a sequel, but thus far not much have emerged to suggest it’s very far along in development."
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".
"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Bethesda will do as Bethesda does, tormenting us with talk of a playable build of TES 6 on the 30-year anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series.
Playable builds is always good to know sounds like they've started full production. Still BR awhile but good to know development is goin smooth.
Whilst Elder Scrolls VI might be good, I speak on behalf of the ENTIRE N4G community when I say we'd much prefer Starfield 2 first.
I won't want a Starfield 2 at all.
Give me ESVI and Fallout 5... on Playstation ofc
ES6 at 30 fps? Not really, thanks. Good thing the industry has evolved since Bethesda was great.
"Playable builds is always good to know sounds like they've started full production. Still BR awhile but good to know development is goin smooth."
It will probably be a launch game for the next gen Xbox.
Fingers crossed
I lost a lot of enthusiasm for Elder Scrolls VI after playing Starfield. It was interesting, but it was still a massive disappointment for me. Elder Scrolls is different from Starfield in many ways, but I can’t bring myself to trust Bethesda with anything anymore.
yeah i'm definitely going to wait a month after reviews and see what people really think of the game instead of it being day 1.
That one-two combo of Fallout 76 AND Starfield does not give me a lot of hope for the future.
I think it’s because some were hyping Starfield to be this ‘generational’ masterpiece when it just turned out to be an okay/good game.
Chris Avellone expands on his earlier claims that Fallout New Vegas dev Obsidian pitched Bethesda ideas for Elder Scrolls spinoffs.
Really Bethesda? Come on
We could have gotten to explore more of the regions or revisit old ones with another developer making them. Would have shortened the time between releases of the main games.
Just thinking about what could've been. Maybe they didn't wanna be showed up on their flagship title Ala new vegas compared to fallout 3 and 4
it's not that hard to show them up when they're like 20 years behind in terms of engine and development skills. If they had gotten the go ahead i guarantee it would have been better than anything they'd made recently.
The issue here was Bethesda was butthurt that obsidian managed to develop a better fallout game at the time (new vegas) than theirs (fo3) so they didn't allow it.
It's funny how they're both owned by Microsoft now. They should be able to work together now.
Take your time, make Dishonored 2 the best you can for each platform, I hate yearly franchises, looking at you Ubish!t
Dishonored was one of the funnest games I played last gen, i've still not played the dlc
I'd rather see Fallout 4.
A man liked Dishonored enough to platinum it but it could have used some serious polish as far as movement and presentation went. The combat was certainly lacking for a game that said it gave you the choice (seemed to heavily favor stealth). A man would rather they direct their attention to Elder Scrolls 6 (a man drools when thinking of this on PS4) and Fallout 4 or a spin off of those franchises (in other words doesn't have to be numbered).
Isn't the dev studio working on something else (rumoured to be Prey 2) currently?
Dishonored 2 will probably happened when they're finished, unless someone else develops it.
Maybe Arkane is not that big of a studio. I mean not all studios can make a big AAA game in 1-2 years time, unless they are as big as Ubi's studios or Acti's COD teams. Just look at Bioshock Infinite, that game needs 3.5 years to finish. Even Naughty Dog usually needs 2 years to make games