"Microsoft Buying Bethesda for $7.5 Billion"

[kane_magus]

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"Microsoft is set to buy Bethesda for $7.5 billion! We discuss this cataclysmic event and how it could potentially reshape the video game industry."

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My thoughts prior to watching the above video: God fucking damn it. Requiescat in pace, Bethesda. Fuck the modern video game industry. 2020 truly is the worst year.

My thoughts after watching the above video: I don't give a fuck about the nuts and bolts of this deal. My thoughts are unchanged. God fucking damn it. Requiescat in pace, Bethesda. Fuck the modern video game industry. 2020 truly is the worst year.

It doesn't matter, Ian, if I can still maybe play future Bethesda games on PC or PS5 or whatever. What matters is that, regardless of where the games end up, Microsoft is still now able to stick their grubby, diseased fingers into whatever pie Bethesda bakes from this point forward. (Not that Bethesda has been all that great even before this point, true enough. *cough*horsearmor*cough* But that kind of shit is not going to get better now that they've been bought by Microsoft.)

Also, Ian, The Orange Box was Valve and Half-Life, which has shit all to do with Bethesda.

And when Pat, around the eight and a half minute mark, began his "Microsoft has so much money!" thing and started singing the praises of Xbox Game Pass and displayed his apparent hard-on for Microsoft potentially buying Rockstar someday and him just straight-up giving a blowjob to the Xbox Series X and quivering with anticipation about how wonderfully devious an idea it would be if Microsoft were to really fuck Sony over and make all this shit exclusive to their console and how many people that would piss off, that's when my eyes started to glaze over and I started to check out of the whole video. Seriously, when did Pat become such an asshat? Or has he always been like that, and I've just had blinders on until now?

Comments

[owsf2000]

Personally can't say I care either way as I never particularly cared for either company involved. I had to check the wiki to make sure they were who I thought they were. I was like "Aren't they the ones that make those games that are fun to play but are bug ridden right to hell and usually it's the players themselves that end up having to do patches or otherwise complete the content?" And yeah that seems to be what they are...

They're responsible for Fallout 76 I believe. That alone speaks volumes for what they are today.

In short, if Microsoft were to force them to go xbox/PC(windows) exclusive, it wouldn't matter a lick to me as I wouldn't be buying anything they put out even if they were crossplatformed across the planet and handed out for free.

To be honest while the xbox console was dead to me starting with the Xbone and microsoft's attempts to gut and mutilate the console market, I really can't see myself at present giving a shit about the PS5 either. I look back at the PS4 era and while I do have a bunch of games for it, the number of games bought this gen hasn't even hit 60 between digital and physical combined. Compare this to the probably 200 odd games I've bought on the PS3 prior to that (LOTS of discounted digital sales make up over half of that.)

Consoles just feel less like consoles and more like underpowered, locked down PCs. And I don't have the money to buy a proper PC gaming rig which is why I'm only really buying indie titles here and there on PC.

The Rainy Day I bought all those old games for are probably going to arrive a lot sooner than planned at this rate if it hasn't really started already. Case in point, the MOST played game for m in 2020 has been Romance of the Three Kingdoms III - Sega Genesis version. Fun little game, even if I've killed like 3 controllers from the excessive button pressing. (And I think Minecraft has been played less than that game this year, although I've played that quite a bit too.)

[kane_magus]

Yeah, Bethesda games arewere usually pretty fun, but boy are they roach motels, especially at launch. I bought Skyrim at launch (like a moron, about a year or so before I implemented my policy), but I never actually played it all the way through until after I re-bought the Special Edition on Steam (which included all the DLC) years later, for like a quarter, if even that much, of what I originally paid for the base game. And even the SE version still has an enormous fan-mod patch for it. And I recently, finally, like five years after it was released, bought Fallout 4 GotY (which, of course, also has a huge fan-patch) for <$20, though I haven't played it much, yet. I have less than zero interest in Fallout 76, given that it is a MMO game, even if it somehow had been released in a pristine, bug-free state, which it definitely was not. Same goes for The Elder Scrolls Online.

I think the only Bethesda games I've actually played all the way through at this point are Daggerfall, Morrowind, Skyrim, and Fallout 3 (I still don't really count FO1 and FO2 as Bethesda games, even if they technically are, now). I did pretty much everything but finish the main quest in Oblivion, and I've only ever gotten maybe halfway through Fallout New Vegas the couple of times I've given it a real attempt, even though it's a better game than FO3. And I only played FO4 long enough to initially get the power armor and maybe dip a toe into the settlement building aspect of it before setting it aside to go back to the other games I was already in the middle of playing at the time. I have some of their lesser known games like Redguard and Battlespire on GOG, though I haven't touched them yet. And even though Arena is available for free now (same with Daggerfall as well, apparently), I never managed to play it long enough to even get out of the initial dungeon. I don't give much of a shit about any of their non-Elder Scrolls and non-Fallout IPs at all. I haven't touched a Doom game since Doom II or a Wolfenstein game since Wolfenstein 3D (neither of which were actually made by Bethesda at all, of course), and I have pretty much no interest in ever playing any of the newer Doom or Wolfenstein games. And Steam says I played Dishonored (published by Bethesda, but not made by them) for a grand total of 8 minutes, back in 2014, so... yeah.

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As far as consoles go... meh. I was only up to the PS3/Wii/360 generation when I sold the whole lot them. The only consoles I would even vaguely consider getting now, if I ever get any new console at all which is unlikely at this point, would be the Switch and maybe the PS5. I'm still not touching Xbox anything with a ten foot pole, not after the fiasco that was the X-bone. Most games these days seem to eventually come out for the PC at some point, anyway, and the ones that don't I rarely bother to pay attention to enough to care. Pretty much the only reason I might be even remotely interested in getting a console someday would potentially be to get some of the games that I'm otherwise avoiding on PC due to shit like Denuvo or whatever, but even then, the fact that the fuckers were vile enough to use Denuvo in their PC games makes me not want to support them at all on console either. In any case, I have way too many games on Steam/GOG already that I'll probably never get around to playing, as it is, to be overly concerned with any of those Denuvo-laden games or any other console exclusive games. *shrug*