Although Bethesda update their engine for each game release, the progress in slower than the industry in general. So while each game might be better technically than the previous they're actually looking more and more dated each time.

Obviously graphics and all that aren't everything. But they're really starting to fall short of what's to be expected from a modern AAA game, especially in regards to animations, facial expressions and voice acting.
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Bethesda is one of the cheapest, laziest, most poorly-prioritizing AAA developers in the business.

Their games sell a billion copies and all that money seems to disappear into some pit, because their very next game always looks like it was made on a budget.

Their developers seem to have absolutely no ambition and no drive to actually get better at what they do.

We can't get fucking shadows on the house furniture, but they spent time and money making a dumbass plastic wrist-mounted phone case that interfaces with the game?
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Although Bethesda update their engine for each game release, the progress in slower than the industry in general. So while each game might be better technically than the previous they're actually looking more and more dated each time.

Obviously graphics and all that aren't everything. But they're really starting to fall short of what's to be expected from a modern AAA game, especially in regards to animations, facial expressions and voice acting.
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Like I know graphics aren't everything but jesus christ the interiors look like complete crap and I was coming in with low expectations for the graphics.

There's no shadow on anything and the textures are tiny as fuck. It looks like an early 360 game. The fact that the characters are completely expressionless and stiffer than the erection that people have for this game doesn't help that feel either. Like they look like zombies walking around and talking and the voice acting isn't exactly stellar either. Hopefully the gameplay will be enough to put the game over but yikes...