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Bethesda games are usually succesful, Bethesda releases are usually a pile of crap. I can get past the "release $70 garbage and patch it up" model, but I don't see anything here that makes me want to. I could totally end up loving it - not going to completely write it off based on trailers - but nothing I'm seeing here looks all that interesting.
I've never had a bad experience on release with any of the Bethesda games I've played. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4.
I didn't play 76, and like -- fair game.
But for the games I've played it's never been more than visual / physics bugs, or script events not triggering and doing a quick load to fix it.
Most importantly, I've always had a blast, even with the rough edges. As long as it seems like the devs gave it an honest go, are fixing bugs the players trigger, and the company didn't lie about the state of the game, it's just a much better experience to have a little grace around the launch of an ambitious game.
For about 10 years you literally couldn't play Fallout 3 on PC without a user created mod. Until MS bought them, they still had Windows Live which was broken and stopped you being able to play the game if you were on Windows 7+
To be fair Windows Live for Gaming (or whatever it was called) DID function on release. It was dropped after a few years and doesn't really count as a bad release.
Ah, good distinction! Yeah, I guess that's true and without a huge modding community Bethesda games would also be kind of crap or not as highly valued at least.
Don't ignore the fact that their games were still highly praised even before consoles got mods in 2016.