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Mummelmann said:
I feel that their best days are behind them, Daggerfall and Morrowind were mindblowing in their day and still playable to this date. Overall, they're among the most overrated developers in the entire 7th generation as far as I'm concerned.

Even in their best days, they were crappy programmers at best. I still remember with utter disdain the shape in which they released Daggerfall, which had a rather massive number of game-breaking bugs as early as the starting dungeon (Rat or Bat corpses being unclippable and blocking complete doorways, starting with -1000 HP forcing you to rest for several hours or start all over again or the infamous shirt bug which broke the game graphics).
Alas, Daggerfall was the first videogame in which a developer had to issue FIXSAVE patches when they released the official tools because it was near unwinnable, plus they also released a couple of cheats for teleportation spells because it was a common issue to "fall off" the geometry of the game or getting into a random dungeon with no exit. 

And Morrowind was no better, having it's fair share of game-breaking bugs as well. Let's not even talk about the expansions, especially Bloodmoon which effectively destroyed the main quest of Morrowind and almost rendered Tribunal unwinnable as well. If it weren't for the fan community, Morrowind would have died a long time ago.

Don't get me wrong, I love both games, Daggerfall was my favourite TES game until Skyrim, but saying that Bethesda used to be better it's not entirely true. Their run has been spotty and shaddy since the start.



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