[KrossX]

I just read about it. I still can't think if it's good or bad. =S

ZeniMax Media Acquires id Software

June 24, 2009 (Rockville, MD) – ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of noted game publisher Bethesda Softworks, today announced it has completed the acquisition of legendary game studio, id Software, creators of world-renowned games such as DOOM, QUAKE, Wolfenstein, and its upcoming title, RAGE. The acquisition by ZeniMax Media joins together two of the finest, most respected videogame developers in the world, combining the first person shooter (FPS) expertise of id Software with acclaimed role playing game (RPG) developer Bethesda Game Studios – creators of the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout 3, and the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Bethesda Softworks will publish the titles of id Software other than upcoming releases previously committed to other publishers.

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[Squall-Leonhart]

TES5 with the Doom4 engine?

 

[ozzgx4]

Well would it not mean that the games produced will be even better?

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

or the engine worse......

 

[KrossX]

I was thinking something like that, Bethesda games using Id engines....
or... Id games using the Gamebryo engine too... O_O"

I guess the first one is more likely to happen.
And cheaper perhaps?

 

[ozzgx4]

or the engine worse......

What do you mean?

 

[Radix865]

What do you mean?

Slaying plastic trolls, yay!

 

[ozzgx4]

I'm not trolling! I'm being serious

 

[KrossX]

So he was too... I guess.

Id Tech4 engine has a quite "plastic" look.
So you would be slaying "plastic" trolls on future TES games. =P

(at least that's what I think he said)

 

[ozzgx4]

oh I see....