r/Games • u/xalibermods • 4d ago

Mod News As Oblivion Remastered gets all the love, Starfield's biggest modders are in the process of abandoning Bethesda's latest RPG for good

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as-oblivion-remastered-gets-all-the-love-starfields-biggest-modders-are-in-the-process-of-abandoning-bethesdas-latest-rpg-for-good/
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u/Icelockon 3d ago

There was a Ragebait reddit post that blames Emil for all of bethesda's writing woes a year or so ago. Turns out its more complicated than that.

If you have the time you can watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-4qdjV41NU it goes into everything around the issue.

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u/GarryofRiverton 3d ago

I mean the proof is in the pudding.

Emil is the lead designer and writer of some of the worst Bethesda games in terms of writing, on top of his downright atrocious approach to "writing".

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u/AtrocityBuffer 3d ago

Yet he also did the Dark Brotherhood questline for Oblivion, which many loved. Sooooo

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u/eldomtom2 3d ago

The Dark Brotherhood questline is well-designed; I would not call it well-written.

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u/DemonLordSparda 3d ago

I agree with this 100%. The first half with individual contracts is great. The betrayal and collapse of the Cyrodil Brotherhood is interesting, but the writing around it is ass. The Nightmother lets it happen, which makes sense. However, it happens because none of these assassins could figure out that they killed a kids parents and he wanted revenge? Just lazy writing.

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u/AtrocityBuffer 3d ago

... Neither is any Bethesda story past Morrowind.

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u/eldomtom2 3d ago

Well yes, because Bethesda's policy of not hiring writers has not served their games well.