#oh bethesda

[cmishwrites]

Brahmin… inside RedRocket…

How????

#fo4 #brahmin #oh bethesda #how tf did it get in there??

[a-cosmic-elf]

Hi mum, look I went home! Always wanted to visit The Shard.

The rest of London must be under here somewhere, I guess I should have brought my shovel.

Not much else here, but I did find one of those tacky snow globes you like. Lots of love, xoxox

#starfield #starfield spoilers #oh bethesda #I very much doubt the shard would still be standing #lol #shitpost #starfield screenshots

[staticymaticyyourlifeisatravesty]

I think Hancock took a bit too much.

#hancock fallout 4 #fo4 #Oh Bethesda #you make the most entertaining of bugs

[slocumjoe]

Anyway do you ever think about how piper is given weight in the main plot only to be shoved into a ditch to make way for Nick Valentine Synth Detective, who has large presence in the main plot + a personal quest + a whole ass DLC

#shes there to introduce you to DC #she's implied to be a good lead/source of info #which she kinda is? just not utilized #and then nick is like (oh no kellogs dead. guess we have to go to piper) #then you go to piper and then she gets maybe one sentence out before nick is like (wait no actually we'll just use kellogs brain matter) #and then you never see her again #like Nick and Piper are very much set up as like. the main plot companions (everyone else is rogue or faction) #and piper is there for maybe 20 minutes #beth can you PLEASE let your characters DO SHIT #beths fallout and skyrim are similar in that sometimes i feel like im playing with barbie and ken dolls #and not participating in a world where shit happens beyond the player character #this is an issue with all of them but idk #where are my hijinks bethesda. #CAN WE GIVE THE OTHER COMPANIONS CONTENT. #COMPANION REHAUL DLC WHEN

[meowthiroth]

you’ve heard of Ancano, now get ready for

ancanito :)

#skyrim #tes #college of winterhold #ancano #shitpost #setscale is always so fucking funny in bethesda games dskdkgk #it’d be even better if the voice pitch changed with size. imagine him chipmunked i’d LOSE it #rhys sees him down there & he’s just like ‘‘OH SHIT A RAT’’ *FIREBALLS*

[nonagalleryart]

I recently discovered that Astarion's VA used to be in Hollyoaks, and now I can't wait for the modern day Hollyoaks DLC.

(Also shameless self insert with the hoodie, which will be one of many designs available when my shop launches this Saturday 23rd!)

#Baldurs Gate 3 #Nona Gallery #Fanart #Illustration #Art #BG3 #Astarion #What will have more bugs #A bethesda game #or my new website and shop #oh no

[strigital]

so a new yearly adventure 'bout to drop and half of the players are already simping for ithelia while another half is grieving her boring design. me? i'm more interested in the fact that zenimax gave us a lore-friendly way to make our own dardric prince ocs and uuuh lemme just grab a sketchbook real quick and cook up an opposite to mepahala and probably/possibly her twin whose sphere are energies of the afterlife, death and being the shepherd of the undead and the restless dead 👀 and maybe a babygirl of a dardric prince who is the opposite of hircine and oversees the wild beauty of natural world, shapeshifers, sentient trees and talking animals, and mysteries of wild magic and secrets of the untouched wilderness, who has the bottom half of a deer whereas hircine has a head of an elk🦌 ooh! maybe even some opposite to namira whose domain is beauty, poetry and all that is aesthetically pleasing and dreamy and nice who may look like one of those fairies with butterfly wings all over them 🧚‍♀️

anyways, feck the lore, i'm here to 100% milk herma mora's ability to just "conveniently hide" entire dardric princes outside of reality thus making any and all stupid little dardric blorbo ocs we make "technically lore-friendly"

#*scribbles down a sexyman and a babygirl* #hehe #but tbh i think this changes my own skyrim lore!!! #see the mentor of the last dragonborn was the last ayleid scholar whose entire immortal life was spent recording events on tamriel #and collecting a whole Librarium of books of his own writing that herma mora would reaaaally love to have #and so he just spent his whole existance chilling in a pocket realm of oblivion being hidden from herma mora #thats where he kept yollokmir too while they awaited for alduin to pop back into existence #since hurling the bitch forward in time was not a normal course of events he decided to intervene and help the last dragonborn #i SUPPOSED that him being under the wing of meridia made sence since before this damn cinematic dropped SHE was a supposed nemesis of herma #NOW it would seem that putting the boy into ithelia's side of the hood would make more sence since her domain os basically hidden stuff #mayhaps old man was at the moment of the spell being cast within her realm and thus avoided the amnesia? #I'll have to do some rewriting... #oh well... #*dreamily thinks about all the daedra prince ocs i can make now* #elder scrolls online #eso #zenimax #bethesda #daedra #daedric prince #the elder scrolls #tes v #tes 5 #skyrim #fanfic related #writing related #fanfic: Fronkriid #oc related #alasil the watcher

[rad-roche]

chit-chattin about voiced protagonist and pre-war stuff

i'm not big on the whole voiced fallout protagonist thing, don't get me wrong, it was an attempt to ape mass effect and that format had its problems anyway, but i think the actors are charismatic enough that i don't hate it on principle. the biggest problem arises in the 'four buttons for all options' speech system. to account for your psuedo-shep, npc and companion dialogue has to be scaled way, way back and be more expository and functional. there are a reason companions are far and away the most popular aspect of the game, and i'm saying that as somebody big in on a particular one because they conjured an interesting guy by what may be total accident. they get to be characters and have a distinct voice. everybody else either has to tell you, upfront, what their deal is or hide it behind a speech check so obvious that you can infer it yourself. the game isn't devoid of them, cricket for example, but there aren't too many

but i think the biggest missed opportunity, more than the valentine kellogg brain thing, is that the game picks up a person mired in a regressive, stagnant system, somebody who would know it intimately (lawyer) or enforce it through violence (soldier), dumps them in a future where these fixed points of their reality no longer exist, everybody dead, and forgets that this may in fact be an interesting vein to dig out. you're a soldier and the war you fought in killed BILLIONS of people and warped the face of the earth forever and, unlike the ghouls, it's totally fresh for you! and it sort of doesn't come up? you get a couple of offhand reactions but that's about it. your character isn't a fish out of water, they're somebody who got off at the wrong bus stop and has to stop a passing stranger for directions. oh wow, only center for learning left in the city is a ten foot cube in the baseball stadium teaching basic literacy, huh? I saw MIT at its peak two days ago! bye! you could blindfold anybody, tape them to a chair, spin them at centrifuge speed and make them throw darts with their mouth and i bet you nine out of ten times they'd hit something fascinating with that basic premise. let's try it with this guy. let's see here. 'find missing baby'. oh god oh shit it's john bethesda oh f

#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #i think part of why i'm so compelled by fo4 specifically over a game that's better in its execution #is that some of the things it presents are really interesting #but then you open the box and go oh... i wish somebody else wrapped this #fascinating to me. you know when you salt a fish and its nerves fire and you see what does what and moves whatever #that's what poking at that game does for me. endlessly fun. affectionate as well if you can believe it #far harbor fixed almost all of this. yet again i must go to bat for far harbor #she truly has it all #bethesda if you hire me for fallout 5 the protagonist will be pre-war but one dialogue option will always be 'screaming and puking' #sometimes 'puking and screaming'. i have the range. it will be a hard 3/10 and everyone else will hate it

[lanaevyssmoved]

very fun and interesting how bg3 completely obliterated any excitement i had for starfield

#fray.txt #admittedly i was already very sus of the game and not expecting great things #but i was still excited about it coming #(is unfortunately a bethesda fan) #and now i keep forgetting it even exists and i see smth and its like oh yeah! thats a thing .

[clarkes-and-god]

"Well then, the wedding is coming quick. Have you been looking at houses? Or a full-time job? Helping out at the church like you do is all good for an unmarried guy, but if Beth's anything like her mom, you'll soon have a lot of mouths to feed. I mean, I wouldn't mind bumping up your hours if you want to stay with the church. You could work towards being a youth pastor, we really could do with one for the teenagers."

"Oh, I haven't really thought about that. I've been organising our trip to Chestnut Ridge, but I guess it's a good idea to get a house and stuff. And yeah, I think more hours would be great. But how do I get a house?"

"Christ, you're getting married in what, a month? And you haven't had the initiative to find that out? Right, I'll get Esther to explain it to you tomorrow, I know she's a lady but she did rent out her house here while she lived in San Myshuno, she'll know enough about these things. Look, you need to get a plan together if you're going to be successful in your marriage. Your priorities are out of line, you're going to be the head of your household, not a travel agent."

"I'm sorry, I really swear I'm trying, it's just a lot of stuff that I've never done before. But I'm going to get it all figured out soon, and then we'll be fine. We can always rent somewhere for a little while or something, then buy somewhere when we're a bigger family."

"You could, but I think buying is better, then you've got a proper family home. But you really do need to "figure it out" very soon, this is all just part of being a man. My father taught me young, and I'm certainly doing a better job of teaching my boys than whatever your father was doing."

#oh the joys of getting married with negative amounts of life experience #bethesda #fundie sims #quiverfull sims #fundie snark #fundie simblr #modest sims #satire #homeschool sims

[morgan1413]

normal people:

listen to regular ASMR videos to help them relax and calm down

me:

😆🥰

#starfield #starfield bethesda #bethesda #sarah morgan #starfield sarah #starfield sarah morgan #starfield meme #if only there wasn't that random guy doing placeholder dialogue in this video as well #oh well #Youtube

[slocumjoe]

How do you think Nick's questline could have changed if all he found at the end was a skeleton inside that room?

lets go boys more reason for me to go off about

Nick and his purpose

So, Nick's purpose is to finish off the last thread of the guy he's a ghost of. It isn't, actually, but he thinks it is. He thinks he must tie up Valentine's loose ends so the guy can rest knowing that someone carried out his revenge.

Nick is not a man who cares for revenge. He isn't that cold, or eye-for-an-eye. This is not a moral he carries. Nick is not a "get them how they got you" kind of person. But Valentine is someone he feels he wronged by existing, fundamentally. This cop gets abused by the system he thought was supposed to protect him, which he thought was protecting others, and then they violate him further by scanning and copying his brain. Nick is the result of this ethical violation and betrayal. Nick could not exist without this. This is a guilt he carries.

Nick doesn't care for revenge, but he does believe in doing right by people. Valentine is someone he wronged; when Valentine died, he died never getting what he wanted, in a time of extreme hurt and trauma. He didn't get his revenge. So, Nick, a walking freeze-frame of all this pain and probably discomfort (Valentine was in a sketchy university, undergoing a sketchy procedure he didn't want to do), and he thinks this is what he has to do. This is what Valentine wanted, and he owes it to the guy.

Some people like to think Nick is an exact copy of Valentine, but I think circumstances, context, and experiences are what make a person. If I was put in different circumstances, I wouldn't be the me I am now. Valentine was not a robot in the post-apocalypse struggling with identity issues. Nick and Valentine cannot be the same. Valentine was the baseline Nick was built off of.

So, all this to say, Nick probably doesn't have the best, clearest idea of what he's meant for, or what he owes to the world. His idea is built off how he knows Valentine felt. But Valentine was going through it when his brain was scanned. His ideas of morals and justice were skewed. That's how anger and grief work.

Considering this, Nick walks into the bunker, and no, Eddie wasn't a ghoul. Just a guy who died God knows how long ago.

There is no thread for him to tie up.

There is no way for him to make it up to Valentine.

This is a wrong he has no way to right.

I think Nick is a lot more emotional than people give him credit for. He just keeps it all inside. Emotion you don't see is still emotion. Pain not expressed is still pain. I think in the moment, he'd try making it a joke. "Well...would'ja look at that. Something did the job for us and didn't even leave a note to save ourselves the trouble. I guess courtesy went out the window long before the bombs."

If Eddie Winter is already dead, Nick has nothing to do, functionally. He thinks that was his ultimate goal. His goal was done long ago. It was never something he needed to stew over. Valentine got what he wanted even if it wasn't by his hand or the ghost of it. But the thing with revenge is that it has to be you. If the person you hate most, who hurt you most, tripped on a weed and ate shit, is that revenge? Or is that just life not playing favorites?

Is it enough if life goes on?

Is it enough to say you don't have any obligations and can live despite someone else? Whether it's someone you feel you owe, or someone who owes you? Moving on without that gratification is not satisfying. You want an answer. You want "It's okay" or "I'm sorry."

Nick sees he has no end. There is no Eddie Winter. Valentine's only mark on this world, the only person who remembers him, is Nick. Nick is the only one to grieve him, or know his pain, or what he would think of all of this. Maybe, deep down, Nick wanted to find Eddie Winter not just to kill him, but to prove to himself that he isn't the only ghost. That it wasn't just him, keeping a good man from a good rest. That Eddie was what was really keeping that book open.

But if Eddie is dead, it's just Nick. Nick is all that's left.

You go in the bunker and Eddie Winter is dead.

From here, Nick has a different goal, whether he likes it or not; move on. Be Nick. Figure out who Nick is and accept himself as such. See that he is more than a copy of memories because he's made his own. That looks like a lot of things. Finding family in Ellie and the Survivor.. Finding community in Diamond City. Finding purpose in helping people. Finding himself in what he does now, how he does it, what he thinks of it.

Before he can do any of that, he has to accept that Eddie is dead, and so is Valentine, and just because they are doesn't mean he has to be..

His only path is to accept that he has no answers, and owes no answers. For someone who holds himself so responsible, who thinks he has to fix whatever he comes across, who hates that someone had to hurt for his existence...this seems impossible. To accept that he doesn't have to fix anything.

That there is nothing he can do for what he has of Valentine. That he can't take a dead man's anger away.

That he has nothing of the man he remembers being.

#nick valentine #fallout 4 #fo4 #this is so messy im sorry but nick had so much potential #great character but i think bethesda has a habit of striking gold and going #oh cool we can plate our plastic spoons with this #like no buddy theres a better use for this put down the smelter PLEASE

[victoryrifle]

lmao i started a new fallout 4 playthrough after the update and the vault billboard texture after getting out is not even there. bugthesda my beloathed

#there goes my gifset idea but oh well. LOL #also getting into the vault stuff was already rusty? and certain colors were gone compared to og fo4 #i hope bethesda are going to update things again and fix it but uhhh. didn't expect anything else tbh ahhsjfg #anna talks #fallout 4

[shatinn]

Starfield 10/?

#Starfield #Starfield spoiler #SF companion #Sam Coe #Abigail (Bee) #starfield polaroid #bless you Bethesda for the voice actor choice #shatinn plays starfield #pls don't drag my girl I know she is umm ugl... oh never mind

[cadene]

Heaven help me, I want to reinstall Fallout Shelter.

#love that game #but it's so addicting! #Bethesda added the show trio to it oh noooo 😭

[wildwildwasteland]

F4SE being so highly steam-specific is... stupid actually

#i actually hate when mods are like oh im convenient i work with steam and cant imagine a world of modded cracked games #like im not really abt to pay 20 dollars to bethesda just to maybe make modding easier am i?