What if Skyrim is awful?

[NeoShinGundam]

If it does, the fanboy outcry will be SO intense that the Internet spontaneously sucks itself up into its own @ssh0le!!!

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104412/wall-mart-implodes

 

[Turigamot]

Except it won't, so your point is null.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I'll cry, just cry.

I will shed so many tears, the handkerchief industry will skyrocket.

 

[Sutter Cane]

For the record, by this point Bethesda would have to completely revamp the game in order for it to suck. If the various multi-hour demos remain true to the actual game, it should be fine (if they don't, then Bethesda had a pretty busy month).

Spoiler: This is a rant for people hating on Bethesda

For everyone talking about the numerous bugs of Bethesda games, I've played and beaten Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and New Vegas and have only come across one actual game-breaking glitch (in which a Deathclaw teleported several feet forward after I loaded a game, thus rendering it impossible to sneak past). Maybe that's because I don't actually go looking for them.

Again i must point out that FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS WAS NOT DEVELOPED BY BETHESDA, IT WAS DEVELOPED BY OBSIDIAN. therefore any praise or fault for the game should go to them and not Bethesda. Why did I get so angry about this fact in this particular instance? Wel that's because it had been mentioned on this very page.

 

[Apollo45]

Same thing I told my roommate when he asked 'what if Skyrim turns out to be like Dragon Age 2?';

Kill everything.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Impossible. The mod community will fix any problems that it has. If you own it for console, well, that sucks for you.

Actually Bethesda says they want to put mods on the console.

 

[teh_Canape]

turn it back in for saints row 3 or assassions creed.

You could do that? Just... turn it back in? No tears, no slit wrists, NOTHING?

well...
come to think of it

Spoiler

it's just a game

 

[HassEsser]

I'd not be surprised, have you played their other recent games? I can't figure out what went wrong, Morrowind was so good.

The last game they made was Fallout 3, but they published a ton of shitty games. Big difference, you don't say EA developed Mass Effect, do you?

Of course I don't. Mass Effect came out before EA bought Bioware. So I say that EA developed Mass Effect 2.
Fact is, when the guy who sign your paychecks tells you and your staff to make a game a certain way then you do it. They tell you have it ready by X then you have it ready by X. They may not be the ones actually doing the work on it but they get to dictate whatever they please about the game.

Uhh, no. A developer develops the game, while the publisher publishes the game. Argue all you want, but this is simply the truth.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Laugh all the merrier for buying Saints Row the Third instead. It's Bethesda--hope you like seeing the same four haircuts on women, same faces designed for men, and enough bugs to devour the entire planet's secret stash of sweets.

 

[HassEsser]

And the publisher tells them exactly what to develop. Argue all you want but this is simply the truth.

I won't argue with that, because that actually happens to be the truth. But the publisher is still the publisher, and the developer is still the developer. Go to ANY wikipedia page for a game, and it will clearly differentiate the developer from the publisher.

 

[WeAreStevo]

TBH I'm not completely sold on Skyrim. I only played Oblivion for the first time in August, and before that I never played an Elder Scrolls game. I do love Fallout 3 and NV though (the bugs were never that bad for me, so I didn't mind...) but yea. I'll probably wait for a GOTY edition if anything, if I even purchase it.

However, from what I see it at least LOOKS pretty. But I doubt it will fail. There's too much fanboy base for it to possibly tank. It's going to be like God Of War III. A horrible game that everyone swoons for because it's God of War.

 

[Kitten DeLux]

Nope, chuck testa

 

[spartan231490]

it won't. obvious truth is obvious. With all the info they've released, I already know it will be good. It might be buggy, which would be sad, but it will def be good.

 

[duchaked]

well I'm not getting it immediately so...guess I'll know by then

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Isn't that a chance we take with every game?

 

[captaincabbage]

turn it back in for saints row 3 or assassins creed.

Yeah, either SR3, or just ave myself the trouble of driving all the way back to the gasme store and commit Sepuku.

 

[dyre]

just wait for mods

that's pretty much it

in fact, I won't even buy the game until it has a decent amount of mods on the nexus, since vanilla bethseda games are never that great

 

[Bob_Dobb]

Same thing we always do mod the hell out of it and use an unofficial patch.