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Re:Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game s... by Apocryphon on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @12:20PM (#40287699)
Bethesda is also notorious for taking forever to make Elder Scrolls games. Skyrim came out in 2011 and has not had a proper sequel since. First-person RPG also isn't exactly a glutted sub-genre. Neither of the examples fit the phenomenon they're talking about!
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Re:Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game s... by Night_Thastus on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @12:51PM (#40288210)
I wouldn't say notorious. It's only become that way with the latest games. Morrowind to Oblivion was ~5 years. Oblivion to Skyrim was ~5 years. Fallout New Vegas (Obsidian) to FO4 (BGS) was 5 years.

It's really only since then that game development times have skyrocketed as much as they have.

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Re:Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game s... by Apocryphon on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:28PM (#40288799)
That's fair. The ancestral post's claim of "every six months" is still ludicrous, just not as cartoonishly so. It's not like Bethesda RPGs are licensed pro sports games or Assassin's Creed.
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