Bethesda, Fail?

Buddy of mine was interested in the game Hunted The Demon's forge. It was a game, I'd not looked into much. It's published by Bethesda, which would make one hope it would be good. Well, had that issue with Fallout NV, and Brink. Two games not MADE by Bethesda, but published by. Hunted is the same way, it was made by iNXile, Bard's tale was their doing. Again this game seems to have failed in the same way that New Vegas and Brink failed. They needed just a bit more time to finish up and get more fully polished.

Now I have not actually played Hunted, but reading over 15 other critic's reviews of it, they all said about the same thing. Which is pretty much what was also said about Fallout NV. It is a fun game, but bogged down by some seemingly small, yet numerous amount of issues that should have been found and tweaked. I have seriously begun to wonder why Bethesda, a company who has made many a good game. Is allowing their names to be attached to games that are not finished, and thusly not "good" games.

I am wondering if it is either Bethesda themselves, or their parent company ZeniMax that is possibly pushing these games out before the developer's can fully finish the game. Making the developer stick to a static time frame window. Fallout New Vegas, Brink and now apparently Hunted, all have the same problem. They needed a few more months of actual out of house beta testing. Meaning needing someone or a group of someones who did not make the game play it through to find the bugs developers wouldn't notice.

This is making me quite worried for future games coming out of Bethesda, published by and developed by. The next upcoming games Rage and Skyrim are being made by more experienced companies. Although Obsidian is decently experienced, just not that old. Rage is being developed by ID, makers of Doom. Rage is a brand new IP for them, which already looks amazing, and all previews have shown it to be this as well. So here's hoping a 4th time.

Then of course we have Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This is actually being made BY Bethesda this time so, if the issue lies with Bethesda pushing the other developer's to know their time frames better, then we shouldn't worry. But again who knows, letting games come out that need help like the previous three. Really makes many on the fence or tight fisted gamers rather nervous.