I for one, will not be purchasing another game from bethesda softworks for a long time. I no longer have faith in this company to produce games for me, they cater to an audience who is full of 10 - 13 year olds who see one screenshot and call it the best game ever, who cannot read anything without getting annoyed so they make everything voiced and shallow, like oblivion and fallout. Bethesdas last 2 games were terrible yet got good reviews. Of course when you buy a new game, it has its moments. I played Oblivion probably over 1000 hours easy. Fallout 3 comes along and its Oblivion with guns! They didn't learn anything, it was the same product recycled into a different universe with slightly diff mechanics.

Now of course people will say, what about the modding community, they make the game better! Check TES Nexus, the most popular mods are naked mods when all the women have perfect bodies with enourmous briasts. There are some good mods here and there, but its hard to really fix something that was broken to begin with. Most of the major and minor gripes people had with Oblivion, I have them too, so Im not going to go into it. I am a morrowind player.

Then theres where bethesda is as a company. Look at the addons they released for Oblivion and Fallout 3. There were a few that shine, mainly Oblivions expansion, Shivering Isles. But most of it felt like it should have been included in the game from the beginning. Bethesda is basically just milking us for our money, like all the companys are. My little brother liked Fallout 3 WAY more than I did. He however, after buying operation anchorage and being disappointed, wouldnt buy another one. Oblivion got one full expansion (thank god) and Fallout 3 got a bunch of mini addons, all of which except arguably one (broken steel) were not worth the money.

This comes to my conclusion that Bethesda is a far cry from the guys they were when they made Morrowind. The guys who played daggerfall were a mature audience, and they listened to the people who bought it. Morrowind came out and it was more accessible to the public, yet still remained hardcoe and had lots of diversity, and when you first bought the game it was really easy to get LOST in the world. Oblivion came out, I never got lost, someone held my hand the whole way, and took all the satisfaction I got from doing anything in the game.

Bethesda DOES listen to the people, but if most of the people telling them what to do and what to change are whiny teens how can any of you expect something stellar? Bethesda is just a cash cow like Blizzard Activision. Making something very mainstream that the laziest teenager can pick up and play means more money for them. I hope I am wrong and bethesda makes me look like an idiot, but for all the people getting your hopes up, I wouldnt just yet.