@MigGui: I think that's actually on the author of this article since they didn't properly quote him and I didn't follow the link to the other article.
The Bethesda Track Record™ problem does still stand.
And there's nothing inherently bad about low expectations, that leaves you room to be pleasantly surprised which is important in this modern day of microtransaction riddled games released in early beta states that are rarely ever finished or fixed.
@sladakrobot: I've got a Series X, I subscribe to gamepass. I'm just tired of Todd's sweet little lies and have quite low expectations that it won't be another Fallout 76 tier disaster. Every Bethesda title released has been in a similar boat since Oblivion and Fallout 3, they talk them up excessively then it comes out, it's a fun game but it's shallow as all hell and dumbs down everything. Then Skyrim and Fallout 4 came around and again, fun games but shallower yet and even more dumbed down.
And then they say things like there's over a thousand ENTIRE planets to explore, but you can only land where they say you can land, and that the game is only 20% larger than their past titles and you think, how do you spread 120% of Skyrim across one planet much less thousands of them...
Keep your expectations in check. I'll be playing it, but I kinda doubt I'll finish it. Who knows though, maybe Microsoft being involved will shape them up and get them actually finishing games instead of letting the community do it for them.
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