Why do Bethesda Games always generate such hype?

Perhaps, and yet while I know it technically shouldn't bother me and that I should just ignore the games if they don't cater to my tastes I can't help but feel a little bothered by the fact that they have the potential to be much better than they currently are.

Same reason CD Projekt Red does. Or RockStar. Or Naughty Dog. Or BioWare. Or FromSoftware. Or Nintendo. Or...

I have to agree about the open world thing. I don't consider myself a Bethesda fangirl, but I enjoyed Morrowind immensly back in the day. So much, that I just buyed the GOTY edition on steam in a sale. I like that you have absolute freedom. If I want great storylines and characters, I play otehr games, but for exploring, creating a character after your own taste and having fun in trying things out, it's great.

Mmmmmmhhhhh, let me think.

Because they're Bethesda.

Because of all the slooty mods that will follow. (not that I know anything about them... 😉).

Morrowind is bland and has the worst memes evar

The ability to customize your character's looks? Don't other games provide this feature? I can think of plenty of games that allow you to customize your character's appearance to a greater degree than what is allowed in the Elder Scrolls, also what freedom are we talking about? The Freedom to choose which questlines to do and the order to do them in? Don't most RPGs allow this freedom as well?

Do today's gamers have such a narrow field of view that they cannot see all the games out side of their periphery and falsely assume that the most hyped game is the only one that can provide these things?

The idea that Bethesda games are good because of mods always seemed fallacious to me. You’re not playing the Bethesda product at that point, you’re playing the third party mod.

It doesn’t help that theses has never once actually released a finished game at any point in their history. Everything is always so relentlessly buggy and technically flimsy that anything can break at the slightest provocation, to the point where with things like Dawnguard, Dragonborn, or Fallout 3, you straight up almost require certain mods just to even play the game. I don’t think I’ve actually completed Dragonborn on my primary Skyrim save because any time I try to travel through Apocrypha to face Miraak, the game gets really choppy with frame rate stutters and eventually crashes, I guess because of the stretchy hallways that expand and rotate as you walk through them (since that’s always the area where it happens), like the game can’t handle all of the extra rendering and morphing of the 3D space.

Bethesda’s games are ambitious and have a lot of neat ideas in them, but ultimately they’re technical failures and are almost universally terrible when it comes to any kind of narrative. They’re fun and the mods do make the experience more enjoyable, but that doesn’t actually make the game any better when I often need third party assistance simply to launch the game and not have it shit itself after 15 minutes.

In spite of this though, I do love Fallout. One of my favorite series, ever, and I will play them all. Except for Brotherhood of Steel, that one can go and fuck itself. Fallout 3 is the best in the series on the rare occasion it DOES work, and New Vegas is hilariously overrated, don’t @ me. The Elder Scrolls is generic fantasy that doesn’t especially do anything special or different to make it stand apart from any other stereotypical high fantasy setting, don’t @ me.

I don't disagree, though I love the games anyway. Makes me wonder why the bugs of MEA were so problematic when they've been in TES and FO games all along.

And my point is, without all of those add-ons, the experience wouldn’t be so good, especially if it’s something like basic UI functionality, like in the case of SkyUI for Skyrim, or any of the various compatibility mods for Fallout 3 for machines newer than 2008.

You yourself even say that you enjoy it after adding on to it. So, it’s not really the core game that you’re having the most fun with, is it?

Life simulators are dumb.

This is why I played Skyrim for maybe 7 hours, finished the main quest, and uninstalled that pos.

I am baffled by people that get fulfillment from living a mundane life inside a video game. It is horrifying really.