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This week on The Escapist Show, Nick and Jack talk about the games they've been playing and discuss Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda and what that overall means for Xbox.
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Clint Donaldson
15 өдрийн өмнө
Nick, I'm the same age as you and I've known about Qwop the whole time. This is a serious gap in your knowledge lol
Klax0n
23 өдрийн өмнө
i recognised qwop on seeing it but its not like the name is immediately familiar to me. only time ive heard qwop was when watching a tomb raider speedrun a few months ago and they had an exploit called "qwop-ing", which i guess looks a bit like that qwop game. also if elder scrolls 6 isn't on steam i will rage shit everywhere (don't care if they just have it on xbox for a year though)
Wombat
28 өдрийн өмнө
Playstation Studios if done right is gonna make awesome movies/tv shows... Destruction Allstars is almost there too. Could have been a Dreamworks flick honestly.
Wombat
28 өдрийн өмнө
The team behind DOOM/eternal is gonna save HALO
TheCreepypro
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in nick defense I didn't know what qwop was either even though I I've heard of games like it I just didn't know they were called that I just thought they were ragdoll games
Joe Blow
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I wanna hire a lip reader to tell me what he said when the audio went away.
DeebZ Scrub
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I cannot believe Nick didn't know about QWOP
Mateusz Myslicki
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I thought there is going to be a joke there somewhere about Nick muting himself for over 10 secs, but they just missed it :D EDIT: which actually makes it funny and kinda cute.
delusionnnnn
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Exclusives are probably a much bigger deal for people whose jobs it isn't to have every console and play every game. You know, your audience.
BoLoYu
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PS Access is already owned by Sony. And have you forgotten about PS Now? They will just have to make a non Streaming version.
A. Cooper
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Sony's base isn't concerned with game pass. And the ones that are will either get a Xbox Series S or whatever. Especially when they're the type of person who only buys one to two games every 6 months what use is something like Game Pass? Having a huge variety of shit to play is useless when you don't have time. My steam backlog is proof that having a shitload of stuff to play isn't always great.
Varnopolis
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and yet... Netflix, HBOmax and Disney+ seem to be growing subscribers every quarter. I don't necessarily see a slow-down for Game Pass growth either. Especially when you tell people, "wouldn't you rather buy each game individually for 70-plus dollars?" Like, was I really gonna buy Halo Infinite or Outriders for fullprice upon release? Nope. But now that I can try those games (and many others) for $10 a month... sure, i'll play 'em.
Adam P
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Bethesda is shit now; sorry their formula is dated and no longer interesting. Witcher 3 is a much much better game than TES.
Varnopolis
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Yeah.. Microsoft should have actually bought the other 7 studios in Zenimax too. Oh wait...
Simon Singh
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Bill Gates: “I wanna play Elder Scrolls 6!! Screw it, just buy the company!”
ScubesFTW
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Farrrrrrk. The final nail in elder scrolls
Jorae Reegers
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Slightly Civil War is officially over? :(
Night Cat
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The only thing MS need to do with this acquisition is whip the hell out of Bethesda when it comes to fixing bugs, but that likely won't happen a) because they've left it too late & will need to rush stuff out or write off another console generation, and b) because everyone knows Bethesda make buggy crap & they think people will give them a pass on it (doubly so if it's included in the Game Pass subscription). I wanna know why they're doing all these acquisitions now instead of at least a year before they launched the console. Everything points to them not wanting to release the Series Whatevers at all last year & having to jump the gun on it; lack of games, weird low level optimisation problems, the state of Halo Infinite & that entire presentation.. I wish somebody would look into that, because all this seems like reactive stuff rather than part of some actual plan.
DEATHrocket777
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Is there anywhere online to hear "Doom Splitter"?
Yazan Mowed
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I tried, nope.
Niall Gallagher
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12:12 is what happens when you don't watch over your videos. lol
Ash87
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Never get rid of Jack, he's amazing. I need more readily accessible midwestern humor.
Adam Kuecker
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Two Milwaukee references - the Milwaukee band and the Milwaukee (MKE) tshirt!
Gaias Rebirth
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As long its Xbox AND Pc I don't really care, but I won't get a x-box... I still haven't got a ps5 cause there are no games for it so why would I get a x-box with even less options...
Dreams
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Perhaps they’ll make a decent game again......
Paul Gurney
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Playstation game pass pretty much already exists. If you look into Playstation Now which is mostly known as a streaming platform, there are tons of games you can download and play instead of stream (including quite a few big titles such as Injustice 2, Until Dawn, Bloodborne) meaning it basically is just game pass since you can pay a montly fee to download and play a bunch of different games. I don't think Sony are pushing this yet though because they want people to keep buying games full price, but they basically already have an xbox games pass competitor set up, they just need to market it properly (which they'll probably do if game pass starts to pose a real threat to them).
Ace_sabo_luffy__
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I didn’t know what qwop was either nick. I don’t feel like we we are missing out
Ace_sabo_luffy__
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@Floppy_Bloom heh your not alone. Damn whippersnappers with their hipster talk ✌🏼
Floppy_Bloom
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Thank you! This comments section full of "how could not know qwop?!" makes me feel like I fell into a weird alternate dimension.
15awesomehighfive
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I'm not super well versed in Game Pass et al. Can someone explain the difference between PS Now/Plus and Game Pass? I'd think they're similar, but I know I'm wrong.
Stefan
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And yeah, Pro Gymnast looks like it's gotten a couple more pages from the book of Bennett Foddy.
Stefan
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I don't really believe Nick doesn't know QWOP. He's just being a stand-in for your 10 year old audience member.
Mr L
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I think any non online Elder Scrolls will be exclusive, they'd be mad not to leverage that. I think the non-exclusives will primarily be games that have a heavy multiplayer focus and that need large communities. Though, honestly, I could potentially see the Indiana Jones game going multi-plat if Disney specifically wanted that to be the case when making the deal. Then again, they've pretty Sony do what they like with the Spider-Man game rights so we will see.
Shiknobi
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Nice, a new Gameumentary
truetype80
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I don't like gamepass or microsoft.
綾瀬Tay
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On the Pokemon Legends video, I kept skipping Jack's arguments and kept watching Nick's. Curious if I'll agree with Jack this time.
Crazy JerryMouse555
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That 8th grade excuse that Nick is saying is incredibly offensive to me. I played QWOP in the school library and everyone loved it because it was a prominent meme game before that was even a thing. I am disappoint. But I still love you, Nick.
NekoiNemo
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Welp, now we know what Nick will have to play for the next stream. Seriously, how could you not at least *hear* of QWOP? That seems statistically impossible.
vamsi krishna krishnaraj
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12:11 to 12:25 There was no audio from Jack's voice .
Daniel
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Didn't they acquire Bethesda like 6 months ago tho?
Team Worm
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Bethesda's games will not be exclusive to Xbox. Bethesda's games will be exclusive to Game Pass.
Dorian King
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Yeah why was Jack muted for a section in the middle... Weird. And common nick... Never heard of QUOP... It's kind of a foundational game
Jordan Spencer
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It already exists. It's called PSNow
Max Power
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Omar deserves a raise for that montage/supercut alone.
Garrett Smelcer
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They say "qwop" so many times it doesn't even sound like a word anymore.
Norm Cavalier
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"I rule the supply!" As was long suspected.
alex boote
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12:12 jack has no for the section
Owen Norcross
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Can't wait to see how many people will lose their job thanks to this.
shortylickens69
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I sincerely hope they remake Morrowind and Oblivion. Also I hope the force em to move away from Gamebryo. Cuz it fuckin sucks.
DJdog
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12:12 _Jack saying nothing for fifteen seconds_ Nick: *"Yep."*
Niall Gallagher
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I thought my speakers broke lol
Arctic Ants
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@Chase Danychuk lmao!
Chase Danychuk
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"I rule the supply"
DJdog
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Nick never heard of QWOP, yet he's older than me, yet I feel old... what the fuck
rocko7711
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I wonder what Jack said when the audio cut out
mrshmuga9
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18:57 “With Microsoft behind them, Bethesda has to make sure their games are polished before they release them.” Are you sure about that? Microsoft can’t even quality control the studios they already have. A lot of their big games this gen were poorly received.
Sean Dominish
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Idea: nick streams QWOP on the editor's hour
A Al.Sharif
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Hay... It's the guy from that civil war show that is slightly .
JombilyWobbily
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If you don't think about the failure of representative government for allowing the conglomeration of services in a few corporations, it's exciting news and times as Nick says. If you do think about it...
Matthew St. Cyr
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@Eugor Um... I'm Canadian, and I don't know who you're talking about. Given that you're talking about having a political leader for 12 years, I'm guessing FDR? Wasn't he the one who got your country *out* of the Greaat Depression through his more Socialist-leaning policies?
Eugor
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@Matthew St. Cyr yeah and we didn't have socialist leader for 12+ years until his death. :D
Matthew St. Cyr
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@Eugor You could not make it sound any more ominous than by saying, "[before/after] WW1 a bunch of rich industrialists did [x]," as we all remember that (sarcasm from here on out) there was no economic disaster of any sort in the two decades following WW1; the Roaring Twenties were famously the party that never ended!
Eugor
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this is normal, same thing happened before WWI when bunch of rich industrialists bought off their competition and everything they can, when nothing to buy was left they decided to rob other countries, just human nature... we are going to suffer though.
Matthew St. Cyr
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I know. The most worrying thing is that this isn't just an increase in oligopoly, but it's also the owner of a media platform buying out companies that make said media; it's like if book store chains also owned the publishing companies or if movie companies also owned the theatres. Do I even need to say why that's bad?
bird3713
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Spoilers: Jack gets fired again. Almost.
Niall Collins
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Slightly Something Dark Souls! Make it happen.
bird3713
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QWOP? Come on man
Joost van den Heuvel
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''Jack repeatedly saying QWOP'' -Yeah this is definitely the weird part of the episode Jack: hold my butterchurner
Eric
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Microsoft Bethesda games will have fun mass market appeal with relatively fewer bugs, but they'll continue to whittle away all of the rough edges enjoyed by basement-dwelling losers everywhere
Danny Harrell
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I'm surprised Nick didn't mention OnLive and Gaikai when talking about how Sony was prepped to do Gamepass before there was a Gamepass.
BoLoYu
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They have PS Now, he is just being weird.
Novad selir
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I can't wait to see which Bethesda games Microsoft releases first, here's hoping for an Evil Within 3, Doom, or Starfield.
superkillrobot
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PSNow has been a thing for years? Right? How did they not mention that?
Varnopolis
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@slloom the day-1 releases is a big thing and a major hole in the PS now. PS Now would be a viable competitor to Game Pass if it got new Sony exclusives. But at the moment, its still missing some of the best PS4 exclusvies. So no one is gonna pretend to get PS now and think to get all of Sony's major releases from 2020, 2021 or onwards.
slloom
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it always annoys me when people talk about the xbox and sony and not mention ps now like wtf it has everything the xbox pass has and before it even except for day 1 releases
Jordan Spencer
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I thought I was crazy!! XD
Jimmyc
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21:16 The Jack Packard Patented Double-take, available now for $9.99! Seriously though, that was beautiful comic timing, love the chemistry :) .
D Walker
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Thank you Jack and Omar for challenging nick's dismissal of QWOP
9seed
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Wtf nick doesn’t know QWOP!? Does nick know receiver? He was in middle/high school when qwop came out, he didn’t play flash games during class like everyone else?
Joey Parkhill
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Kitty Cannon is a classic.
The Escapist
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Nah, that’s when like the iPod touch started coming out so we were playing stuff on there. Never really got into the flash game scene aside from stuff on like AddictingGames. Kitty Cannon comes to mind haha
Eddard Stark
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I caught myself watching this video, jaw agape, after learning Nick never heard of qwop.
Corbin Danger
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ms paint the game
Joey Parkhill
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I hope Microsoft buys the rights to Duke Nukem & save the Dukester from Randy Pitchford
mrshmuga9
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I doubt Duke Nukem will ever see the light of day again. Studios care too much about what journalists think and Duke is far from progressive, so it will be nothing but hit piece after hit piece.
Leo McLaughlin
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Nick is probably right, Microsoft didn't buy Bethesda to keep everything the same.
Dave Arse
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Hopefully they go out of business
helsin 97
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Why?
BlueAversion
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12:12 What happened there? Was that meant to be a joke, or did your video editor not spot that Jack’s audio cut out?
JombilyWobbily
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@The Escapist Whatever he said, you sure showed him, boss. j/k Take care.
Jake E
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@The Escapist Was not expecting that to be the response, take it easy!
BlueAversion
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@The Escapist Thanks for clearing that up. Hope your feel better soon.
Nolan Manning
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@The Escapist leave it in! its kinda funny.
Jimmyc
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@The Escapist oof, take your time with it, thats never fun.
Sora383
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Was the audio muting from 12:12 to 12:27 a joke or a actual audio issue? Cause I’m curious about what Jack said. I am a bit ignorant when it comes to game pass since I only have PlayStation 4 at the moment but is there something that makes game pass very different from PlayStation now streaming?From what I hear about game pass it seems a lot similar just the games are more recent on game-pass. So could Sony just build that up to become more competitive?
Soren Ingraham
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The guy said he missed it because he had food poisoning
Sora383
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@mrshmuga9 there is no renting persay just a fe3 you pay (1 month, 6 months and 12 months respectively for different costs). There are a lot of older games and a fair amount of relatively new ones, for example they have the original control (not the ultimate edition) until the end of April (don’t quote me on that could be end of March). I’ve only used PlayStation now for the past year but I have gotten a fair amount of value out of it myself.
mrshmuga9
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From what I know PS Now only has a handful of games, and you have to rent or buy them individually. I think they’re mostly/only PS3 games too.
Amanda Fletcher
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Wonder if he said something that someones lawyers thought was unwise?
BlueAversion
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I thought it dragged on too long to be a joke, and Nick responded normally so seemingly heard what Jack said.
Joey Parkhill
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By the way Nick I like your Red wings cap!
Joey Parkhill
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Nick, I'm curious to find out if DOOM & DOOM64 will be removed from PlayStation Network now that Bethesda is under the Microsoft Umbrella now.
mrshmuga9
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I doubt it. It’s probably more work/money to remove it than leave it. The majority of sales would’ve been made from those games anyway, so taking them isn’t going to draw people to buy it from them. Because they likely already bought it on Xbox already. And they’re either so small or irrelevant at this point, that it’s not any kind of power play to remove them.
Jimmyc
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I find it unlikely given other commitments that they are sticking to, but who knows. Only time will tell.
Not A Clever Man
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I would absolutely love to see Nick play QWOP
Chris Cjm845
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Frikin star field is going to be binned or a Xbox pc exclusive. Can’t see things getting better from Microsoft getting involved.
mrshmuga9
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@61 Cygni Maybe that’s why they haven’t shown anything after 5 years. You’d like to think it’s so they don’t show it too early before it’s ready, but it’s also Bethesda. It’s gonna be screwed up even after it launches.
Chris Cjm845
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@61 Cygni oh god why! That engine needs killing.
61 Cygni
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They confirmed they're reusing the creation engine for starfield. That killed any interest for the project a while back. Fallout 4 in space just sounds boring.
Highlander001
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Microsoft has said that the two timed exclusives are the last new games for Playstation. They said all new games are not going to any other system.
Mervyn Lan
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Why do everyone just immediately think Bethesda as a studio and not the mega corporation it actually is with ID tech, Arkane, Machinegames and Tango gamework.
Damian Yoss
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@Eugor There is no Blizzard anymore, it's only Activision-Blizzard. It's not like how Bungie had a partnership with them, Blizzard was absorbed as a whole by Activision
Brian Ott
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less a studio, more an invasive cancer to creativity
Eugor
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@Mervyn Lan because most gamers are dumb and don't know what Zenimax, Tencent or don't know the difference between Activision Blizzard and Blizzard. Bethesda they understand.
Mervyn Lan
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@Jan H. I’m saying that people in conversation use Bethesda as a studio and as Zenimax, I just don’t get why can’t gaming journalist use Zenimax and not Bethesda so we can have discussion of the future of Zenimax and not Bethesda the studio.
Jan H.
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Because Bethesda *is* "just a studio". It's Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax, that actually owns all the other companies. Though, ZeniMax was created by the founders of Bethesda, for the specific purpose of being a parent company to Bethesda.
Elior Lev
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Legit surprised Nick never heard of qwop
Madness1
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I pay attention to games, and I haven't heard of the qwop genre. Though, I have heard of Getting Over It. It's not really a genre that people pay attention to, imo.
Ica Rue
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I feel like a boomer... but I'm Nick's age!
Archangel
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Honestly like hasn't everyone heard of it?
AyyGuevara
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i challenge someone to name a game developed by Bethesda that has more compelling writing than an average Netflix original.
Tech-Ten Guys
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...Morrowind? Daggerfall? New story content in 76 (Wastelanders, Steel Dawn)
AyyGuevara
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@Novad selir Doom - id Dishonoured - Arkane Wolfenstein - id Evil Within - Tango (and wasn't very good) Elder Scrolls - utter shite
AyyGuevara
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@Danny Harrell yes, but they didn't develop it, might as well say any subsequent titles are developed by Microsoft
Novad selir
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Doom, Dishonored, Elder Scrolls, Evil Within and Wolfenstein.
Danny Harrell
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@AyyGuevara which is own by Bethesda
Chris Atkinson
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Whats next for Bethesda? More overrated mediocrity.
Michael-Paul Thompson
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That Maquette reminds me of Unfinished Swan in the visual design of the storytelling. Very pretty. Also for Game Pass versus Sony: they have PlayStation Now, which they have been overcharging for and underachieving in, which I think is the main reason we haven't seen them adopting the Game Pass angle fully
Loula
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Whats next for Bethesda? More buggy games
MightyJo
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@Tech-Ten Guys ok shill
Tech-Ten Guys
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@61 Cygni I would just like to add that the 76 story updates are actually really good and have a lot of dark humor to them that's reminiscent of the older fallout titles. The dialogue system has been completely overhauled to include several skill checks and variety of ways to solve problems- yknow... like an actual RPG. the point I am trying to make is that bethesda's current creative output makes me hopeful for their next games.
61 Cygni
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@Mervyn Lan sucks that you feel that way. There's plenty of games out there that don't have mts or limit microtransactions to cosmetics only.
Mervyn Lan
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@61 Cygni I guess you don’t play games anymore
61 Cygni
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@Mervyn Lan I clearly don't care about a game plagued with awful microtransactions