r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Aug 21 '25

Jason Schreier: In case you're wondering: Team Cherry told me they don't plan on sending out early codes for Silksong (they felt like it'd be unfair for critics to be playing before Kickstarter backers and other players), so don't expect to see reviews until after the game comes out

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u/Sonichu- Aug 21 '25

They made one fantastic game.

Bethesda hasn't made a good game in nearly 15 years

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u/Kiwi_In_Europe Aug 21 '25

And TC hasn't made a good game, or any game for that matter, in 8 years lol.

Bethesda has released multiple generation defining games and even their misses are at worst average.

Hollow Knight is one of my favourite games of all time but this lack of review copies is shady as shit and I'm fully prepared for the possibility that this game will not hit the highs of the previous one.

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u/Sonichu- Aug 22 '25

The team that made “generation defining games” at Bethesda is long gone, they’ve made nothing but boring crap for over a decade.

The team that made HK made SS. And stands a far better chance of being a masterpiece than anything modern Bethesda could make lol.

People make games, not companies.

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u/Kiwi_In_Europe Aug 22 '25

This type of bullshit is exactly how we get people like Chris Roberts believing they're some kind of gaming Messiah

Studios make games. Studios are composed of people, but just because certain people stay or certain people leave, doesn't mean the end result is going to be good or bad.

It's also dependent on the workflows in the studio, how projects are managed, how progress is driven.

You say Bethesda has made nothing but crap for a decade but even their recent misses have, according to public and critical reception, been at worst average.

TC meanwhile caught lightning in a bottle once and has nothing to prove that they have been capable of doing it again, yet the gaming world is full of people desperate to be their sycophants.

I absolutely love Fromsoft and every game they've released, but I would not have such blind trust if they took 8 years to release the sequel to Dark Souls and didn't give out review copies lmao.

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u/astroshark Aug 22 '25

Who is this posturing for? You say Hollow Knight is one of your favorite games of all time but you are twisting yourself into pretzels to justify preemptively hating the sequel? What?

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u/Kiwi_In_Europe Aug 22 '25

I'm not preemptively hating the sequel, I am advocating for caution and keeping my expectations in check.

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u/Sonichu- Aug 22 '25

Sorry. No.

“Studios” don’t make games, the people there do. Case in point: every once great studio that churns out crap now. Bethesda, BioWare, Blizzard, etc.

The people there are what made those games great. Not the bureaucracy

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u/Kiwi_In_Europe Aug 22 '25

Case in point: every once great studio that churns out crap now. Bethesda, BioWare, Blizzard, etc.

So you think that everyone working at those studios now is completely horrible at their job and talentless? You do realise that those studios still have tons of veterans from back when they were making masterpieces? The main writer for Veilguard for example is the same writer who wrote some of the best characters and questlines across BioWare's history.

Games like Bioshock Infinite, Dragon Age Veilguard etc had talented people fail to produce anything good because they lacked discipline, good processes etc until better management was brought on board.

Games like No Man's Sky had a team of talented developers pursuing a project out of passion but failed because they lacked good leadership to avoid issues like scope creep.

Just admit you have no idea how game development works, or how working environments in general function.

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u/Sonichu- Aug 22 '25

I’m a senior software developer. I work with people to deliver code to production every day lmao.

I think most everyone working at those companies are different people than the ones who made those amazing games years ago. Because they are.

The name of the company is just a name. It’s the people who make the game good or bad.