Bethesda Game Studios has announced that The Elder Scrolls franchise is celebrating its 30th anniversary today, and with that comes a little bit of news regarding The Elder Scrolls VI, the next mainline installment of Bethesda's action RPG series that, despite being announced five years ago—in June 2018—still lacks a proper title.
Things I would like to see:
no gamebryo means modding is likely gone with it
the engine has some quirks but the platform is irreplaceably easy to edit and easy to use with its plugin system, and conflicts with other plugins are simple to handle unlike majority of games that get modded
without that all you have is a bland game with forgettable story and barely any rpg elements, but gamebryo is replaced by another engine and its own bugs and faults
The only reason gamebryo modding is “easy” is because the community has been working on tools for it for decades.
It uses weird proprietary formats nobody else is using and full of stupid quirks. Back when Morrowind released, officially all Bethesda provided along the construction set was their plugin for a thousand-dollar licenced product to make nif models. Nowadays they don’t even do that anymore because they know people have been making their own free tools for Blender etc.
As for the modding structure itself, other games support a plugin hierarchy like they do. Rimworld in particular, and it runs on Unity.
Yours is the only praise I think I’ve ever seen for their approach to conflict resolution. I suppose there’s always someone who hasn’t been bitten. :)
Mod support as good as (or better than) Gamebryo’s is always possible, assuming the studio is willing and competent.
Bethesda surely understand how much they have benefited from modding over the years. Skyrim’s Anniversary Edition content is built mostly of mods, after all. So it’s reasonable to think they would at least consider making it a priority in a new engine.
I mean yeah, remember when they wanted to start charging people for them?
Looks like they just reintroduced it in Dec.
Honestly I think they should go back an engine until they’ve proved they can handle a new one
I have lost all interest in playing any future Bethesda games because of their engine. It was pretty crap (but acceptable) back in 2011. Now it feels like a scam to pay for their games. Like one of those “GameStation 5” you can buy on Wish.
oooo, GameStation 5 is out? GameStation 460 was so good, i gotta get the new one
The one with 2,061 preinstalled games on it, right? I love Super Mario Bros 43, that’s when the series really took off IMO.