XBOX Breaking Megaton: MS Acquires Zenimax Media Owns 8 Studio's Including Bethesda Software (Existing Games Still Published by Beth Soft)

[Necrokiller]

Atleast somehow CerebralTiger has managed to reach the acceptance stage of his grieving process

Megaton!! Damn...

Metascores for Bethesda's output this generation:

Wolfenstein: New Order: 79
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood: 76
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: 87
Wolfenstein: Young Blood: 69
The Evil Within: 75
The Evil Within 2: 76
Fallout: Shelter: 71
Fallout 4: 87
Fallout 76: 52
Doom: 85
Doom Eternal: 88
Dishonored 2: 88
Prey: 79
Rage 2: 73

On second thoughts, it isn't thaaat big a deal for MS to have bought Bethesda. With the exception of Fallout 4, Wolfenstein II, the Doom series, and Dishonored 2, everything else has been mediocre. Fallout 4 was the only noteworthy GoTY award winner.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308506008097116161

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308509286994186241

Makes sense. Not that I cared about playing it to begin with. It'll likely be yet another case of:



lol

Valuable sentiments. Looks like I'm not missing out on much if Nintendo and PlayStation are my primary platforms of choice

Looking forward to CerebralTiger making a thread about Harvey Smith's new IP with Arkane

 

[Necrokiller]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1370079409118588931

Phil's statement:

"I'm going to try to be as clear as I can because that's what I, I just think it's fair. So obviously I can't sit here and say every Bethesda game is exclusive because we know that's not true. There's contractual obligations that we're going to see through as we always do in every one of these instances. We have games that exist on other platforms and we're going to go support those games on the platforms they’re on. There are communities of players. We love those communities and we’ll continue to invest in them. And even in the future, there might be things that have either contractual things or a legacy on different platforms that we’ll go do.

But if you’re an Xbox customer the thing I want you to know is this is about delivering great exclusive games for you that ship on platforms where Game Pass exists and that’s our goal. That’s why we’re doing this. That’s the root of this partnership that we’re building and the creative capability we will be able to bring to market for our Xbox customers, it is going to be the best it’s ever been for Xbox after we’re done here."