The thing about videogames is that they allow us to experience and enjoy things, virtually, that we would never, ever consider doing in real life. Violence, agony, villainy, fear, and yes, even sex.

This is clearly something that a lot of people want in their video games. And we have it - unofficially. There are online communities of people - extremely talented people - who pour many, many hours of work into adding adult content to various video games.

And sex (not just Disney-level romance) in videogames is, slowly, starting to become more commonplace. The Mass Effect and Dragon Age series have been toying with it. The Witcher series has, too, and is a bit bolder. Heck, GTA4's dlc The Lost and Damned had (brief) full-frontal male nudity, something I would have thought would never happen in a AAA title. Yet there it is.

It probably won't happen soon, but maybe in 10, 15 years, we'll get a game where you actually can boink your followers on camera. Or Fawkes. Or the dog.

this podcast fell so fall from what it once was.

Bring back freedom with magic (even if exploitable it's fun). Bring back utterly bizarre and memorable characters (starfield felt like theirs were designed by a committee of wet blankets). Bring back actual consequential player choice ie different classes and guilds/houses/etc that can't all be done in the one playthrough. And update or replace that damn engine for more seamless streaming/traversal so dungeons, towns and buildings aren't segmented separate levels. And for the love of god don't dare do that shitty dialog wheel and voiced player again

First of all, they should replace Todd Howard for that to happen.

Starfield could have become an (Xbox) megaseller and critically acclaimed milestone in the Sci-Fi genre.

I would have never let them work with CreationEngine 2 for that, but scrapped it completely.

the Fallout 4 Anniversary edition is a JOKE.. way too expensive.. and its broken.. Bethesda is a joke now..