I think my problem with Fallout 4 is all the bugs in the game. I mean these are the same bugs that had been plaguing Bethesda's games since Morrowind. The exact same bugs......The ones that the modding community have to fix every game. Why can't Bethesda get their crap together when it comes to QA. All they have to do is implement the fixes that the community makes every time they release a new game.....
The final straw for me was Fallout 76. Once again the same bugs from Fallout 4, only this time it was much worse. Plus there's Todd Howard's claim of "16x the detail of Fallout 4" which was complete donkey turds.
I am not expecting anything from Elder Scrolls 6, when it gets released in 2035. Or this new IP they are working on Starfield. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Yes, Bethesda basically popularized and made the Open World RPG what it is today (I mean Morrowind is my favorite game of all time), but, with games like Witcher 3, Red Dead 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and heck, even stuff like Star Citizen (which is still in alpha), and Death Stranding, developers are pushing open world boundaries farther and farther, while Bethesda has been stuck in the mud for almost 10 years now.