Todd Howard says Bethesda is focused on finding ways to increase its output
Todd Howard says Bethesda is focused on finding ways to increase its output
The company hasn’t ruled out partnering with external developers on future games…
and I assume it's going to be in the cheapest ways possible even though they have microsoft money.
Why let humans at Obsidian make Bethesda look bad when they can save money by using AI to make themselves look bad?
Tbf Bethesda has been making themselves look bad since fallout 3.
Without the use of AI. If they can use AI to make themselves look bad cheaper and quicker, that's just win win! 😀
(I still like Bethesda BTW, though my expectations from their next games are at all time low)
Yeah AI sucks but could you imagine they take advantage of it in a good way? Like full conversations with NPCs either by voice or keyboard input. Give a NPC a personality and provide what information they know and it's the player that needs to interrogate them and get the info out of the NPC. They don't need to give them a full AI but like if you want to play as a charming hunk you could sweet talk the NPC or if you are a brute you could threaten them and get responses based on exactly what you said.
Additionally they could add a AI level difficulty where the mobs could adapt. Tell the mobs to survive at any cost.
I want AI in NPCs
You want the holodeck but you’re getting ELIZA.
Maybe they could start using an engine that is more recent than the Cretaceous.
I like the quirky creation engine, sure it's old, there are plenty of old engines that have just been maintained better.
And yeah it's floaty in terms of controls and feedback but so is the frostbite engine and everyone seems to just love that...
Yeah I don't understand these pushes for "switch to another engine" without defending monopolization in game engine industry. I don't understand it even more do these years, when we are not praising or criticizing the graphics much and just want more intricately-written RPG games. Hell, even Bethesda must have broken their own expectations with how few bugs there have been in Starfield, which they are infamous for.
Even with the underlying mechanics, Unreal, for example, doesn't produce many games with any other feeling than the base, rather rigid processing that is fortunately not much janky, for now.
That would do the opposite
I'll copy my comment from another thread:
Imagine if they made a deal with Larian to make another installment in the franchise (not Fallout 5, just something like New Vegas by Obsidian). How cool would that be? They specialize in turn-based, top-down RPGs and would fit perfectly.
I know Larian also takes time to polish their games but if they started now and Bethesda some time after, then we would have two very distinct Fallout games with possibly not too much break between them.
It might not be the right thing to say publicly, but it's absolutely something they should be concerned about internally. It's fucking astonishing how many man hours went into Starfield for such a hollow final product.
So, ai
What does that even mean? Do they plan to make shorter games on the same old engine?
What would those external developers do? A Skyrim sidescrolling roguelite?Read the big book of science and keep a few programmer’s digest on hand?
Yeah with how starfield turned out this isn't the right thing to say imo. Nobody wants these games rushed out. Bethesda games were made with love and care, once.
So..... Water is wet. Great news.
Water. Water never dries.
