I like Bethesda's RPGs. Judging by their sales [4-5 million each for the two Fallouts, 20+ million for Skryim] so do a lot of other people. There's obviously a market for these games, but I can hardly think of any games released in the past couple of years that really try to do something in the first-person, open-world, exploration RPG genre. A few European games, although most are third-person and more likely to have more segmentation instead of one massive world, and the Ravensword series, although those are necessarily smaller and more compact since they were developed specifically for mobile platforms. And that's really about it, unless you want to throw Minecraft in there [but the simplistic graphics and greater focus on crafting put it way out in the tall grass].
It's not a devotion to Bethesda, or a love of their specific style, or even their level of quality, there just aren't any alternatives at all, and that's disappointing. I'd love to see somebody else come along and try some new things, push the envelope a little bit, and try a setting that isn't D&D or a post-apocalyptic desert. Maybe something like Mass Effect, or Blade Runner, some cool scifi world to explore. Prey 2 looked like it was going to be like that, before it got shelved forever.
So what's the deal? I know they don't care about genre saturation at all, otherwise we wouldn't have a dozen military shooters every year.
