Utterly Mad

All that matters is that we have fun with it, even if that fun is just killing random shit and tooling around in the wasteland.

No. I could still have fun playing with sticks and rock given enough time, but Bethesda really needs to start stepping up more in terms of game design and storytelling. You can't just keep cutting shit out of an RPG until it becomes a shell of what genre it used to belong too, since you'll end up alienatimg most fans.

I could have plenty of fun with it now, but if I don't have many stories to tell or usual RPG story debates, I won't come back to it. Eventually people will stop buying into it... like right now actually, but we just classify people with valid complaints as "hardcore gamers", "haters", or "people over reacting". All because no one can bitch about precious Bethesda.

Listen I love Bethesda as much as the next fanboy, but I'm not going to just give BS a free pass because Todd Howard had a hand in it. I want Bethesda to make great, complicated,  huge story-sandbox RPGs (with good writing). I don't want Bethesda to keep making Skyrim 2, AKA: as wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle.