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Sure, I get the point about it wanting to make you feel small and what not. But it was still a dumb way to say it, PR speaking. Now all the headlines get to be "Bethesda says game isn't boring". That's not a good way to steer the conversation about your recently released to mixed opinion game.
And Emilio's reaction, regardless of it was surprising, justified, or whatever, is clearly him talking about the games reaction. So saying that people dont know why "it is why it is", it reads like he's trying to distance the conversation from "how it is", which again makes for terrible headlines and also sounds suspiciously like he is conceding that the negativity has merit.
It's cool you like it, you do you. But Bethesda's PR game has been hot garbage.
I wouldn’t say I liked it but I certainly didn’t hate it. It was OK. I’m hopeful they’ll fix it.
The PR has been fine. The reaction from people online, and the click bait headlines some gaming news sites have used, speaks more to their desire to shit on Bethesda because …. Well I don’t know, but I’d say it’s partly because Bethesda deserves a bit of shit, and partly because Microsoft own them and a good percentage of vocal gamers have a massive hate boner for MS.
The fact that Cyberpunk is being compared to Starfield is utterly laughable. That game was in a league of its own at launch. It’s not even close.