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The music is all written by a member of ISIS, which is pretty heavy, but in an "atmospheric sludge/post-metal" way. So I can see how you'd think that if you're looking for something more death metal (which would fit in the fight scenes, although atmospheric sludge or funeral doom would go pretty well in the rest of the game)

I know right. He knew that was the best way to play Skyrim. This game looks bad ass.

Think we know why (this guy quit)

iGPU's can use system RAM to supplement VRAM. Might still be doable

There is a demo, so you can see if it will run well enough for you before you buy it.

Because making it not look like an unreal engine game requires an entire technical art department. Absolutely possible, but there's waay too many dials to play with.

Financing.

Marketing and distribution (physical copies)

You shouldn't dismiss someone's 14 year career, including a game of the year, because you don't like the studio he came from.

I understood it as "they were fed up with the henhouse and proved they could do better alone".

I don't blame the devs for bad AAA games, with like 300 people working in one game, if it becomes shit it's management fault.

if they were a lead game designer or writer I would agree. but I think this guy did environmental design, and Bethesda has had pretty cool environments in their games. though not all of them are very believable (in feeling lived-in), they sure do provide some spectacle, and memorability. in fact many of their games have been mostly carried by environments.

It's just you. That a company makes terrible decisions tells not that much about a dev. If a dev says he worked on multiple projects does tell something about the dev regardless of the company. Don't forget that Bethesda sold their soul to MS and now has a lot more "steering" at the top, devs don't participate in that.

Edit: a word

Everything but starfield seemed like a plus to me