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Bethesda doesn't need to die, it just needs to be reformed. Hire back the people who worked on Morrowind, Daggerfall and the Pitt and somehow make them independent from Zenimax. Todd Howard also needs to be demoted. And yes, gaming journalism is indeed corrupt, the whole ME3 thing showed us that. But it's not explicitly paying off people, just wanting the big companies to keep supplying them with premier stuff or whatever the hell.

Oh my God. That site seriously needs to be taken down. Unfortunately, people associate Obsidian fans with NMA people.

Last time I checked the mods at No Mutants Allowed were only banning people who said that NMA's almost obsessive hating on Fallout 3 is more pathetic than Bethesda itself and for daring to argue for F3. The last time was today, btw. Don't get me wrong, I don't really like F3 either, ignoring the MQ and focusing on TES style exploration and side quests in a Fallout title is criminal to say the least, but what NMA does is not only pointless (if they did it at the Bethesda forums I would say it wasn't since the devs actually read the stuff there) but also over the top. The attitude presented at NMA and in that petition as well will only cement the rest of the gaming industry's belief that we're just stupid whiners and they'll give Bethesda the go-ahead for dumbed down games with main questlines so cringeworthy that there's nothing salvagable about them.

Is this the petition that says Bethesda did crazy retcons? I assure you, the "retcons", which were pretty much only plotholes, were a lot worse in Oblivion, a lot worse. Michael Kirkbride had to work his ass off to provide a reasonable explanation. In the end he managed to make Oblivion's lore look like it was deep and stuff, when it was pretty much the FOBOS of TES. In Skyrim they were a lot truer to pre-established lore (not counting Dawnguard). Sure, the writing ended up being crap but that is mostly because the idea they had about giving you the Daggerfall feeling of random skirmish like quests. Too bad that with the incredibly linear and dumbed down dungeons of Skyrim and with the limitations of their terrible engine this idea was doomed for failure. But you can definately see that they took ideas from Obsidian, especially looking at the idea of the Civil War which was rather badly implemented, sadly. The true writing capabilities of Bethesda will be shown by this Dragonborn DLC, that's what I'm thinking at least. Still I would like Obsidian to have the Fallout franchise. I don't particularly hate Bethesda, at least not the devs and the lower ranking officials, I actually feel somewhat sorry for them. It must be terrible seeing all the corruption spreading in the place they worked at for a long time and having to suffer from terrible management. Looking at these facts and the rumors of the Boston setting, it's a gamble between F:BOS bad or passable. Also, did NMA really issue death threats? Wow, and I thought my opinion of that place couldn't get lower.