"Where Skyrim may have aimed for the foothills and hit its target, Daggerfall had its eyes dead set on the stars. And though missing its mark, it left and impact whose aftershock resounds even today.

From everything I've experienced throughout playing the entire franchise, to all that I've read, listened to and watched, it seems to me that modern Bethesda is trying their best to make the most enjoyable game possible for the widest audience that will have it. And based on the immense success the company has seen over the years, I'd say Todd Howard and the team have done everything they were hired to do, and more.

But it's also clear, [that] whatever grand vision the creators of the series had those decades ago has been progressively walked back with ever entry. So it's inevitable that in the years that follow, newer, fresher and more ambitious games will try to take the crown of RPGs."

And that pretty much is the gist of it, and games like Witcher 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Cyperpunk 2077 over the horizon, are doing their best to do just that. Bethesda really needs to take stock and think things through, or they are bound to fall just like so many other giants have done in the past.

I have maintained for years, that if some studio and publisher released a game, that not only enabled modding, but was actually designed around the concept, and launched with a proper modern engine and solid modding tools, then Bethesda would find themselves so much outta luck. Their current games just do not stand tall enough in the crowd of other modern RPG titles. And with all the stuff happening with Fallout 76, and the things it entails about Starfield and TES6, the points made by the video are even more poignant.