I will come back to this post in September to see if I was right lol
Biggest concerning signs:
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30 FPS lock on xbox, there’s no way to spin that positively, absolute fail
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Predatory pre-order bonus skins to get people to buy before they know what they’re actually going to experience (buggy shitshow)
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Countless attempts to hype up the game and huge random assurances from the devs
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Preemptively admitting the game has jank and trying to make it seem okay lol
At least the bugs will be absolutely hilarious I think.
Idk, for me it seems like they are really trying this time unlike with FO76. Like sure you can and should still absolutely be cautious, it might release in a bad state for lots of people but IMO we should just hope it does not.
IMO in terms of the actual content of the game it looks like what you would expect from a mainline BGS RPG. A giant version of Elder Scrolls/Fallout in space and if that’s the case the game will be fantastic. The only thing that could ruin it is bugs that make the game unplayable. There will be bugs either way, Skyrim to this day has many but as long as they’re not game breaking it should be fine.
I personally really hope the game is good and succeeds. Nobody in this industry makes RPGs like Bethesda and I really crave for a new one to sink in 100s of hours and then add mods to it to make it even better.