The fucking same engine since Morrowind, just gussied up with shaders and more polygons. What's inexcusable is the horrendous uncanny valley character design that never changed over the years. Worse than Source engine games. I really hate Valve's facial expressions though. Straight out of some DreamWorks movie. I hated all of the characters in HL2 and TF2 looks terrible.
The problem isn't the engine, there's been plenty of perfectly good games made on Gamebryo (en.wikipedia.org), in fact, for what they're doing Gamebryo is the perfect engine. No other engine can handle so many interactable items in the world. The problem is Bethesda themselves. Everyone in a position of power is literally Todd's High School friend, and they aren't going anywhere no matter how incompetent they are. The jank characters and animations are the product of a guy who's never had any education in the fields of 3D modelling and animation whatsoever.
And presumably the same five shitty voice actors as well.
Yeah, some games should never have been fully voiced, and massive games like what Bethesda specializes in are right at the top of the list.
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