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FO3–4 have Badhesda's—couldn't find a better one—shitstain on them, of course they're bad. I'll go even further and say TES4–5 were far worse than TES3 story wise. Idc about anything Badhesta and any game corpos create anymore, I'll stick to my boom-shoots tyvm.
Same. I tried getting into TES4 but couldn't make it past half the game because I found it too boring and watered down compared to Morrowind.
In FO4 I made it past the beginning area before I got bored and quit.
I already know that TES6 & FO5 will be yet another Loot Hoarder Sim with a "You are the chosen one" Story and MMO-Tier Quests.
They've been making bad Morrowind clones for 2 decades now with no end in sight, and that's how they'll probably die lol.
TES4: Turd Howard watched LotR Trilogy and decided to recreate it with an underbaked story and a horrible engine.
TES5: Turd Howard read some Norse mythology and history and decided to recreate them with a little to no story and a passable yet still broken engine.
I let the others do this for the FO games. I didn't bother finishing 3 and didn't bother with 4 at all. All I know about 4 is it's yet another Badhesda slop that is used by coomers as a porn game engine.
You can tell how TES6 and FO5 will be by looking at Starfrick and TES4 Remastered. I also have no faith in GTA6 because of recent re-releases, and HL3 for some gut feelings.
Edit: Changed GoT with Norse myths according to @commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml's warning about GoT release date.
Game of Thrones season 1 released 7 months before Skyrim
You are right, mb. Still, it has a very similar concept but executed worse.
Lol, FO4 kind of replaced Skyrim in that regard since it's literally just the Skyrim build of Gamebryo with a facelift and some improvements.
They wanted Starfield to be the next big sandbox game engine, but nobody wants Oblivion in Space.
The only big-Name Game I have any amount of faith in is HL3, although I don't expect much.
Tbh too much stuff happened at the HL side.
First, Valve wanted a trilogy. Next, they wanted to make the second game a trilogy, like AC2.
Then, they returned to the trilogy idea; proceed to cancel the E3 and E4, which was starring the Corporal Adrian Shephard of HL:OF fame.
Last, they released a side game that only a small percentage of the players could play—which is based on the leaked story of E3; it is the story, let's not kid ourselves—and decided to make it the link between E2 and HL3.
And now, they are mostly baiting the playerbase instead of releasing anything solid. Even if it gets released, I don't believe it will be the HL3 I was waiting for.
I'm assuming you're referring to Epistle 3 by Laidlaw? In what way is HL:A based on that? I thought HL:A takes place before HL2 (minus the ending scene).
Personally I've come to terms with the fact that we'll probably never get a proper continuation of EP2 years ago. Like I said, I don't expect much from Valve at this point.
If the game comes out and it doesn't have bad writing and features interesting and innovative gameplay I'll be pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it not only has interesting gameplay but also continues to follow the Story that EP2 set up I'll be very pleasantly surprised.
If the game comes out and it's overall OK but they retcon a bunch of stuff and make it so Aperture and the Borealis are no longer relevant, or worse, abandon the storyline for something completely different, then it's time to forget and play some more indie games! :)
Right now I'm mostly interested in what their current Half-Life Project even looks like.
As I said, HL:A is based on Epistle 3, and in my assumption, other possible E3 scripts. HL:A and Epistle 3 have many parallel story events. It doesn't replaces the E3; it is an entirely separate game—just like OF, BS and Decay.
The Epistle 3 was a draft of the planned E3. Valve has a habit of constantly changing stuff in the board until the release of the games, so Epistle 3 is not the final E3 story.
Honestly, I'd rather have an E3 to conclude HL2 saga and a soft-rebooted HL3, like how HL2 is the soft reboot of HL1—same universe and story, but can be played separately from each other.
HL3 will retcon a ton of stuff because of HL:A's ending, so don't keep your hopes up.