The fact there’s people that will still defend Bethesda, even now, after EVERYTHING, is just sad. Buffoonery, the likes of which we’ve never seen

I enjoy playing starfield but the gameplay does get a bit stale. When I thought of space games with factions I was thinking big fleet battles and more spy’s or something like that other then the uc vanguard missions and pirate spy missions I was disappointed on that point, I also think that some of the dlcs from fallout have more story and better gameplay then the entire main story of starfield

“Microsoft will make Bethesda better!” Whats happening with Mechwarrior and Halo again?🤣

Starfield is a failure not because of procedural generation, but because bethesda failed to use this technology correctly. Hand crafted games (worlds, linear stories, etc.) should inevitably become a thing of the past.
Example of this in case of starfield is that they proceduraly generate environments (and poorly so), but fail to include procedural generation of points of interest. POIs just turned out to be a small set of identical buildings with very little variation.
My point is, game developers shoul utilise more procedural generation, but they need to apply all modern advances in machine learning and AI, as well as reasonable algorythms, to make worlds and stories look and feel dynamic and believavle.

Its a shame because i think the Fallout tv series was really good and it was insane they only had the flop that is fallout 76 on offer for any new fans that show brought in (in terms of new content) the tv series is like the best thing bethesda has done in 10 years and thats just sad because they probably didnt have as much input as they do with the games. Maybe they need to just let someone else handle their ip’s for a while 😂

I’ve seen what modders can do with skyrim. They don’t need a new game engine, they need to realize that their writting and work with starfield is shitty.

50 planets would’ve been more then enough 🙄 the game is to hard for something so simple. None of the venders can buy my stuff for what it’s worth, I can’t go to the planet next door cause I have to traverse the whole freaking galaxy first… can’t do that cause I don’t have the right hyperdrive. Can’t equip the hyperdrive cause my ship can’t handle it despite it being able to fit… can’t get the right ship cause my trait for piloting that ship hasn’t upgraded… can’t upgrade cause the activity needed to upgrade refuses to generate in the game…………. 🗿🗿🗿

I’m getting sick of all the hate this game receives, I love playing starfield, it’s even better now that we have mod support

The only good bethesda game was new vegas and it wasnt made by them

I can see where you’re coming from.

Okay. The DLC is like $30. And the length of it being like 4 hrs isnt that bad considering the length of Call of Duty campaigns. And their games are still full price, years later. So I dont think this is an entirely valid criticism.

Bethesda should fire Todd Howard. Literally the modders are carrying bethesda because their game are garbage out of the box.

Bethesda hit one “Bullseye” by accident and it held the company afloat for a while, until now. You can’t hide incompetence behind the luck forever.

“Not everyone’s cup of tea”

A space RPG is deadass my dream game. I love star citizen, not because of anything in particular except its just being in space and I love that (a whole other topic I could get into). When I saw starfield announced I was losing my mind thinking this would be the only game I would ever play from that point on. I ALMOST pre-purchased it, but waited because of my friends’ advice and when it came out, I watched countless videos on it and now I am SO glad I didn’t buy it at all.
So calling this not everyones cup of tea is nuts, because this is actually my DREAM cup of tea and you’ve just gone and spilt it all over the floor and broken the mug infront of me.

KCD2 !!!

What music was used at the beginning? That’s such a vibe holy

Starfield takes place in the least interesting time in the universe’s timeline, and took all the mechanics they put into F04 and made them worse. Boring setting, poorly written story, and frustrating mechanics. And they wonder why nobody likes it.
Their hubris will be their downfall

Emil Pagliarilo has decades of history showing his utter incompetence in everything. He is the bane of the Bethesda fanbase.

Auto generated quest ehh, I hated the minute men and dark brotherhood unending quests they became very bland.

I love Starfield. I have 355 hours in it and plan to put a lot more in BUT me loving it doesn’t mean it’s an objectively good game. There is so much room for improvement. So many flaws. Which really makes it suck that Bethesda doesn’t seem to be listening to their players and fans.

No man sky. Cyberpunk. Starfield.

It has now crashed on me 😢black screen with constant loading circle bottom right …

“The biggest, richest space simulation RPG anyone could imagine” Bethesda didn’t make no man’s sky though…..

8:40 fans didnt like it because it made ZERO sense if you had a mutant companion

I have 1000 hours on fallout games and on ESO games. Not for a SECOND have I played starfield

Can we get a game devs version of kitchen nightmares? I’m so sick of hearing “plenty of people love it”

Yeah? Then why is your studio hemorrhaging money? Why is nobody excited for your next project?

The two rats that will gleefully scarf down any slop or scrap you give them isn’t going to keep your company running.

The creativity and work modders put into this game is the only reason I’m still playing

I worry about your community. Not sure I wanna be subbed.

Seems like there is a lot of covered up bigotry. Ppl trying to edge you in their direction. To have a similar bigoted opinion.

I would hang with this community if that wasn’t so common… 🙁

I can’t stand them they just want money like when they said fallout is getting pvp I was like wtf that’s not fallout 😡🤦🏾 they should make fallout 4 co op and tweak a few things smh they don’t care they just want money we need to stop buying their games so they can change their ways 😑🗑

I didn’t even know the DLC released until this video showed up in my recommended. And here I am reacting to someone reacting to Bethesda reacting to the players reaction. I never saw any advertisements or gameplay before this lol

Still can’t access the DLC. I’ve completed the first story mission, reached level 35, and jumped to probably a dozen different uninhabited orbits and still no space station has popped up. I’ve officially lost all interest in the game and probably won’t ever play it again. Hopefully Elder Scrolls 6 isn’t such a heaping pile of garbage when it finally releases in 2035

Starfield makes me genuinely sad because the good parts are, in my opinion, at least, absolutely great. But the good isn’t nearly enough to justify the pile of garbage that the rest of it is

Loading screens that are literally 1 second unless you’re on some ancient drives..

It’s not that big of a deal.

And this SF is NOT Fallout Or TES. Why do people compare the two so much? This is why every one thinks its just awful.

It is also NOT NMS.

It’s space.. what did you think you’d get? Wild NMS aliens living in cities on every planet? Action packed mama murphy armies on all the planets? Guards yelling “STOP! YOU VIOLATED THE LAW!”

The game is fine as it is.

I actually really like starfield and hope they don’t let this one poorly received dlc stop them from expanding on the game further

That mods aren’t already doing for Starfield what they did by this time with FO4, much less Skyrim LE, is the most telling indicator for me of this game’s possiblilty of ever puting out this dumpster fire.

As an Ancient Greybeard I just want to the record to show we hated the orginal ending of Fallout 3 because nothing you did mattered. Have a Super Mutant bestie? Die, potato! Have enough rad away and rad X to buff an army? Die, potato! Have power armour with massive rad resistance? Die, potato. We hated it because there was no choice, you had to die. It felt like nothing mattered after 80 hours playing, no choice you made mattered, you were destined to die and that sucked. I will die salty about this, it was the day BGS died and this zombie started walking around wearing BGS’s flesh.

I wish they could fork UE5. They clearly have talented devs who work on Creation Engine, they just dont have enough resources to compete with Unreal. But if they forked Unreal and modified it to make it their own, it could be a HUGE step on the right direction.

18:50 real casual passing comment about your Todd Howard cutout living in your bedroom

So… I used to be an avid bethesda fan. I used to buy their games on release day no questions asked, I mean, I remember Bloodmoon and Tribunal, these were expansions in the truest sense, and The Shivering Iles was, IMO the best expansion bethesda ever created. I am saddened to see what was once released with pride and care has been rebranded to take more and more of the consumers’ money

the long butterfly effect of horse armor…

just wanna say, 59% is a passing grade in a lot of places outside the US. Canada, and many countries in the EU

The reason they won’t be able to meet fans expectations is because they’re not listening to the feedback. If what you say is true, they’re more passionate about money than making great games for fans, and by fans, I mean the general fanbase, not the 20% who thought Starfield was good. They should listen more to the 80% who think it was mediocre or bad and improve on their systems and world design based on that feedback.

If Starfield were the best game Bethesda ever made, Bethesda wouldn’t even be a blip on the map.

idk why…
but i thought this was a video on NoMansSky;
prob just cuz theyre both space games and NMS had a bumpy start, so i thought they had a really bad patch XD
Naw, just bethesda do its regular corpo shit.

I played this game for 5 minutes and immediately got a refund, diabolical.

Bethesda saying Starfield is a technological achievement and the best and biggest space RPG ever made makes me feel like they ever never played any other space games before lol. No Man’s Sky, Elite Dangerous, Outer Worlds, are all much better with more fun gameplay, better story and far less loading times. Hell Mass Effect is 100 times better and still had less loading screens.

Bethesda really is cooked. Sad to see. I recently went back to play Morrowind and wow is that game amazing. It truly is incredible that they can deviate so far from quality art in a few decades

Please don’t forget, STARFIELD is the first bethesda no first game ever (that I know of) to make you pay for mods MADE BY THE COMMUNITY, I’m not talking creation club. They locked just normal mods made by there community behind paywalls

Many still love this game. If you don’t like chill space exploration it wasn’t made for you…

I feel the same way Bethesda one of my favorite developers tbh I beat starfield and went to ng plus 10 for the powers and I’ve played shattered space but man I gotta tell you the game doesn’t hold a candle to the older games which is kinda crazy when you think Skyrim is over 10 years old for the first time ever I found myself playing starfield just to finish it so I wouldn’t have to play it anymore and when that realization hit me oh man Bethesda has fallen far

I don’t know how but somehow spent 200 hours on starfield 😭

It was 2012 I was mindless staring at skibidi tolier in genders ethinomics class. And over heard some hipstirs talk about Skyrim.
I got this erie feeling in my gut. Is this the same game as oblivion? Will I have hours of book reading like morrowind? More importantly is this going to make bethesda into q mainstream game?

This guy feels like a ludwig clone.

Someone tell Emil to take a week of PTO and play morrowind.

90% of the people talking shit on Emil are literally just regurgitating bullshit they heard other people say, and 90% of that is fake, exaggerated or misquoted. Bethesda definitely has problems and Starfield is by far their worst game but very little if any of it is Emils fault. This thread is absolute proof that nobody has an original opinion and spend most of their time jumping on bandwagons because someone came along and spoon fed them an easy talking point to validate their disappointment in the game. I bet most of you can’t back any of your Emil hatred with any substantial or verifiable proof that he actually did anything you claim he did. And for those of you talking about him not being able to take criticism, not replying to hate comments is not hiding from criticism it’s him not playing into toxic social media culture.

If you’re trying to convince people how awesome your developers are and how hard they work, then you’re not focused on the fan OR the product. Great craftsmanship speaks for itself.
And it’s great that workers at BGS are focused and hardworking. But working hard on a creative project like a video game doesn’t guarantee a great product. Making a great product requires great direction and leadership. So, to me, this tells me that there was a massive lack of leadership (him and maybe todd) or they made a game THEY liked and did not make it for the fan.
Finally, Id just like to say that Ive met many people in leadership roles who think the workers support the leadership. Uh-uh. They may answer to leadership but leadership’s job is to support the workers; help them hone their skills, grow in their profession and, ultimately, teach THEM how to be a good leader one day. Based on that devs quotes, he sounds like a terrible leader who is egotistical and dismissive. The only thing “leaders” like that are good at is keeping people working. Ill bet you anything the devs worked their asses off just to get away from that guy. Ive seen it all before and its sad.

So I’m a teacher and I wonder if this is similar to some of the bs we deal with. Like, I’d love to grade a bunch of tests but my boss said I have to “proctor a testing session” (aka sit there and waste my time). Maybe Bethesda’s corporate overlords have expectations for them but BSG is trying to CYA by spinning what they’ve been told

Honestly, Fallout 1 and 2 are better than 3 and 4. New Vegas was awesome too. Pretty much the Fallout games that Bethesda DIDN’T do are the best.

To think we’ve been imagining how cool TES6 will be. Thinking about the graphics, the gameplay, the adventure and immersion for years. Its like the magic of christmas slowly fading year by year as you get older.

Wow. 4-5 hours huh. I’ve got 400 hours out of my last three skyrim playthroughs. Of the same game.

No Man’s Sky exists. Elite Dangerous exists. Star Citizen exists. EVE Online exists. In what way is Starfield the richest, biggest space simulator RPG ever?

8:20 if they’re correlating shattered space and far Harbor in being the same maybe it’s in the size of the play area I’m not sure I haven’t tried shattered space in Starfield. Being a huge Bethesda fan in the past I bought Starfield with the shattered space DLC back when you could pre-order it I haven’t touched the game basically since😂 after like 5 to 6 hours of playing I was like no I don’t like how this game feels it didn’t even feel like a Bethesda game honestly I couldn’t tell you what the small details are though.

A 4-5 hour “expansion” should only come out at $9.99. The present cost is too much for the lack of content.

Even as someone who was really disappointed with Starfield, I find it strange that people are confused at the quote saying that “in some ways, this is the best game we’ve ever made”.

It’s true. They’re not saying it’s the best game they’ve ever made. They’re saying that some aspects of it are better than in their other games. The lighting, textures, even animations. They’re all the best compared to all their other games. They chose their words carefully there.

I played the game for 200 hours. I really loved and enjoyed. I felt like Skyrim – if you rush the storyline, youll finish it in some hours, but if you explore… Of course, maybe generated is not what people like. Ill give a try in that expansion, I feel if I listened all that hate, people entering in a game for find cons, I never would have the amazing experience I had, just being honest here.

I would like to say im a bethesda fan but the last game i enjoyed was skyrim, outside that new vegas was not made by them but i think its the best fallout and fallout 3 was only alright.

Crazy you can pick apart starfield but be bought for dragon age.

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I fell out of love with ANYTHING that Bethesda might put it’s gross hands on almost a decade ago.

Im not buying es6 ive lost all faith in Bethesda as a game studio

i am not the kind of person to watch videos like this, but clicked because i wanted to know what beth was saying. i have been a fan of bethseda since morrowind. i was looking forward to starfield, and i do actually like it. thats why the issues with it hurts so badly. i want to “live” in it like other beth games. but it’s so incredibly shallow that it makes it hard to do so. i want it to have a glow up because i love the aesthetic, lore and gameplay but this feels like something that came out way, way too early.

Starlink for switch has a better space exploration format than this game, you can go from dogfights in space an fly straight into any planet on any side. Fly yourself through the atmosphere to the ground and start playing on that planet without a single load screen. Then leave that planet by flying straight up into space an can fly to another planet and enter that planet still without any loading screens… on a Nintendo switch years ago… it may not be graphicaly as beautiful but thats how starfield should have been with how long they took an the budget they had…

the modern world sees: honesty=hate :/

I love Starfield. I’ve spent about 200 hours in it and I’m still hooked.

80%-90% of the people who say negative things about Starfield and Shattered Space cant name a reason why. At least this guy gives some plausible, if minimaly important, actual reasons. Not enough content doesnt make it suck, it makes it too short. Lackluster writing and the rest of his reasons though are all highly subjective. Including new game mechanics in a DLC is 100% not universally the way it’s done. Reasons like this guy’s are very debatable, and are totally not a reason to hate a game with the fire of a thousand suns.

Funny enough that “their” best fallout game wasn’t even made by them.

I still think Oblivion is their best ES game.

I think Starfield is a perfect example of what Bethesda actually is when they’re not being held up by the world’s created by the titans before them. Remember that the staff that runs it now did not create Elder Scrolls or Fallout, they’ve just been riding the nostalgic coattails.

It’s heartbreaking that we’ll probably never see a Bethesda published title with even half the quality of New Vegas ever again. I know Obsidian made it, but it was in the world that Bethesda unfortunately owns, and unless they sell the rights to ES or Fallout, we’re never seeing that quality in these games ever again.

“[…] they want to live in the worlds we create. That means their experiences never end, and the content […] works together as seamlessly as we can make it.”

And yet they decided to have players have to go through 5 loading screens if they want to travel from one planet to another:

– Board ship.
– Fly into space.
– Warp to the desired system.
– Land ship on said planet.
– Leave the ship.

Talk about being tone deaf 🤣

“We spent a lot of effort on this game” and “This is the best game we’ve ever made (technically)” is not the same as “We made a good game”. Emil seems to ignore that. To use a sportsball metaphor, if your local sportsball team is terrible, the reason may not be that the players are not trying hard or doing their best.

People still play this?

I honestly think starfield has the potential to be a great modding platform, but it isn’t a good game on its own. They should have waited another year or two before release and focused on improving the title.

Starfield sucks I got to level 75 game braking bug glitch a mission had to start all over. Charging for missions is absolute craziness when the game is so broken.

For me, the fact that Bethesda employees are talking so hightly about Starfield is quite alarming.

What i think of Starfield is Hoeward´s experiment: “How little work can we put into product for it to still sell.” From entire mechanics directly copypasted from older titles and slapped together so roughly that you can easily tell from which game which mechanic came from to random seed maps with so little unique assets youll find the same three bandit ouptosts on every planet every 10 square miles, not to mention all the missing features, it just feels like the game took 8 months to make at best.

And now that they consider it such a success im concerned what Elder Scrolls 6 will come to.

“Best” is completely subjective when presented out-of-context. It’s personal opinion. Maybe it’s the best optimized. Maybe it’s best looking. Maybe it’s the best team experience because it stretched the boundaries of what they thought was possible. Maybe it’s best use of modern technology. Maybe all the factors attributing the developers and designers to think of it as the “best” aren’t outward facing or tied directly to consumer sentiment. Factually, it was the “best” launch in Bethesda history. We still have 10+ years of data to collect to determine if it’ll be the best selling game.

People are just spoiled glorified haters anyway so no new games have a chance because they are stuck in the past

After watching Goblin slayer anime being treated childishly by games and shows hit much harder

17:41 HAHAHAHA GET a gun and it doesnt even reload! Are You kidding me Luke? 🙂

“Maybe it’s time to look elsewhere”, exactly.
I moved on from Bethesda, and have no expectations whatsoever, they’re lost.

bethesda fans are absolutely regarded and there is no way around it, and all ppl should thank them for giving bethesda money for their shitty broken games, congrats, what did you expect, it will only get worse, because of you.

The only thing Bethesda ever really “made” is the elder scrolls series and that took 5 tries to make it finally popular, just to make it into a meh MMO. Doubt elder scrolls 6 will be a banger.

Fallout isn’t their original IP, and they arguably changed a lot of what made the original 2 really great. The best of the 3d fallouts isn’t even made by Bethesda.

Now they made starfield, and it suffers from the same issues all their games suffered for decades.

Maybe Bethesda never was that great?

Change is also good. And being negative towards that is poor sportsmanship.

It’s a great game. And has a great foundation/idea. But it does fall short, although it has insane opportunity and is heading in the right direction. They needed more time and better management. But obviously their other games are better. Though their games are only getting worse.

Do better, Bethesda

Bethesda is only known for making shit games that is saved by the strong and dedicated modding community.

I honestly like Starfield’s setting, but yeah, calling the game one of the best is just outright delusional. The game is decent with a couple high points and a whole lot of lows. It’s in the same ballpark as Fallout 4 I’d say, but even then the main story is just *bad.*

The sudden realization that “the devs can’t be THAT stupid” is in fact, quite true.

I really need to go back and replay far harbor because my memory of far harbor is that it was mid. Also my FO4 save works just fine post next Gen update and ive got like 100 mods. So idk what you mean saying its just flat out broken.

Any decision made, judged. Do a quest a certain way, judged. Character development, nonexistent. World design, bland.

I get it…space is relatively dead…but even fallout takes place on a “dead earth”. But starfield, go to earth, there’s nothing. Literally nothing. No remnants of cities, no interesting locations…just landmarks you can find by picking up some item prior.

For an rpg to be succesful, choices need to matter. To have a decent “companion” in game they need to feel worthwhile, not condescending. They made an “RPG” without the RP, plain and simple. Eveytging about the game is just a messed up vision they had that failed to deliver.

And yeah, i bought the premium upgrade…to find that every weapon has skin options, but no skins to unlock/apply. It’s a single-player game…and the only skins you got were for a “specific” weapon variant.

Meanwhile, I’ve played Skyrim multiple times, Fallout games even more (except 4…that’s hard to stay in after a while). Those worlds feel alive, with companions you actually like having around. Cool places to explore, new things to find.

If they had taken that, applied it to a game in space, i wouldve loved it.

The “people wanted ES6 and got something else” comment really irks me because it’s so dismissive of people that wanted a Bethesda game in space and got a boring loading screen simulator instead. The game is worse than everything that came before it in every category except the guns that feel on par with fallout 4. He keeps trying to sell it as this technical marvel and it’s not. Maybe it is considering the engine they’re working with.

The solution to the vast majority of these recent issues across the industry is to force the developers to play their own game. Not “when you feel like” for “however long you feel like it.” No. Make them sit down and play it for an eight-hour stretch every day for a month straight. They’d finally get it.

“It’s because I’m a fan dumbass” 💀

The ONLY thing I found worth anything with this expansion was some of the newly introduced weapons and armor. The weapons are some of the most powerful in the game that I have found and the armor sets look great. Not much different in stats to the US Security armor which I wear most of the time but look way cooler in my opinion. But the weapons hands down are some of the deadliest ones to be found so far. They made quick work of the Starborn at the buried temple, to include the Hunter.

Pagliarilo is just coping. They have the stats, they see the numbers. They know that Starfield has a small fraction of the fan base and enthusiasm of TES and Fallout. Their 8 years and 200? 300? 400 million was poorly invested and I think BGS is just dead at this point.

Man as soon as he said the quote “its the best game we ever made i got an ad that said “what are you doing. We all know that stupid game isnt real”

I played BGS games until Fallout 76, which showed me the direction of BGS’s future. I would like to point out one thing new days: What Is that a good game? If a player thinks that Starfield is enjoyable, this is because they don’t have expectations from developers, and they will enjoy anything they realise, no matter how bad the game can be. I have played games for 30 years, and I can see if the game is innovative. Best game of RPG is BG3 and my is favourite of all time for now. I don’t think Elder Scroll 6 is going what it blows us, because I DIDN’T SEE in Fallout 76 and Starfied.

I will never understand these gaming companies that attempt to make their own engines while also trying to create major gaming titles. Every company that does this fails. Surprisingly 343 dropped their ego and gave up on their engine and are just gonna focus on designing games now (halo). Bethesda needs to do the same, they’ve been a failing company for so many years now they need to make a change. Unreal engine is the best of the best. Imagine the possibilities with the next elder scrolls game being on unreal engine 5… or at this rate it won’t be released for another 5 years so unreal engine 6! Haha

I hate the word “objectively”. There is no such thing as objectivity, only subjectivity with an unhealthy dose of arrogance and bias. That being said, Shattered Space is pretty bad, IMO. TES VI is doomed.

At one point when do you check out a d just move on with your life cause at some point you just become the problem

There is nothing wrong with being optimistic yall are iust overly negative

Being overly positive is bad tho

cringe

9:40 i disagree, Ili like thr continium factor

You will have your fallout and elder scrolls slop in the mc Donald’s bag soon

“in alot of ways”

Ppl just forgetting he said this part he didn’t say it’s overall the best game but in many ways

Anyway this is why devs don’t make new ips for y’all ungrateful gamers and why you don’t deserve them

Great video man! Really sucks watching your favorite studio just be consumed by the Soulless AAA game corp. I hope Bethesda rights the ship, but I don’t think its going to happen.

Sad, just sad. I remember games where i had literal tears in my eyes when brother Martin sacrificed himself… I was genuinely shocked. To whats left of Bethcrasda today. A money hungry criminal origination, thats out to scam people out of their money with plain lies and untruths. They swindled the same people that paid for their fancy houses, their big fat cars, and all the appreciation they could want.. and they turned around and plain scammed them. Misusing people who trust you in the way that they did, is utterly unacceptable, it’s plain criminal. They should do jail time for that. The people at Bethcrasda should be ashamed, deeply ashamed… and the fact that they are not, makes it all the worse. Face it guys, the Bethcrasda we all loved is dead..And we should never buy into their lying scams ever again. And hit them where it hurts… like they did with us.. in their wallets.

I didn’t even beat the base game, was to boring

They already lied with Skyrim back then and the game was good only because of modders and for being an open world.
Most overrated studio in the gaming history.

All of triple-A gaming companies are (just like Hollywoke) in the poop can. I for one don’t much care, as I’ve been collecting physical media for 25+ years. Besides, IF I purchase a game through digital, I’ll only by when games cost less than $20. Oh, and that dev must’ve never played either ES5 or No Man’s Sky…

lets make brian mitsoda the main writer for the next tes

It’s not even bad lol

Starfield falls short. It is a really cool concept game for sure. It’s like the story lines were written by experts but those experts were let go before they could refine and flesh out the details. While there were some cool things in the game, the stories are bland. It does not feel like a complete Bethesda game. It feels like the writers either got lazy, were rushed, or I don’t know what- didn’t complete satisfaction?

Just like the main game of starfield, wide as an ocean deep as a puddle, you’re given the illusion of freedom but you’re merely a puppet in their stale world. Unless you’re a exno, pirate or standard bounty hunter that’s the only way you’ll enjoy the game, anything else you’re just wasting your time.

I played Starfield for like 20mins. I could tell this was an entire nothing game. Just empty and boring

The problem with Starfield is it kinda bland when you start digging deeper into it! Characters outside of main ones are just too bland.

Oh, and, yeah, Emil’s position of prominence needs breaking. He seems capable of good ideas. Dragon Shout? Brilliant. But the broader stories seem to be way too much for him. And if the choice is a mechanic like Dragon Shouts but also a Fallout 4 quality main quest, or a better story without that kind of a USP mechanic? Bye, bye, Dragon Shouts, I guess.

In the case of Broken Steel, players wanted to be able to take their characters through all the DLC – that fans wanted to experience all the content – because there was a lot.

If you look at Skyrim, you can complete *both* main storylines and then play the DLC. It’s about not starting from the very beginning to play the additional content as it releases, and with having to retcon the character story they already played.

There is a reason the new-game-plus of Starfield didn’t work, because it still nukes the character to pretty close to zero.

Keep in mind that Emil was the lead writer of Fallout 3, so he 100% was in charge of an ending that STILL BERATED US FOR MAKING A LOGICAL DECISION. It wouldn’t be a problem if they had Ron Perlman record just one or two more lines to fit Broken Steel, but no, you continue the game at the cost of basically being told you should’ve died.

Might be good if we have to wait 20 years for Starfield 2.

I love Bethesda games and I genuinely enjoyed starfield. Got maybe 200 hours in my first playthrough. I have no desire to play the DLC and its far from the best they’ve made.

Big is NOT better, quality immersion is .!
Starfield has planet to atmosphere to space gameplay , just loading screens and a woke agenda driven by constellation.
I have no doubt the Dark Brotherhood questline in ES6 will be saturated down to an soft argument with a fairy god mother .
Fallout 6 will be be about a UN mandated french crossdresser tip toeing through the rainbow tulips .
Let the player friggen decide what is their moral obligations are and play how THEY want to play, instead of being railroaded by the useless woke nutjobs you’ve hired.

“Keep your hits in mind” the fact he can say this with a straight face whilst talking about the only bethesda story he didnt write (and the only one people have actually liked in the past decade+) geniunely boggles my mind. Ignorance is this man’s superpower fr

nice giant space marine, also is that the castle from castlevania in the background?

I love the candle on your right.

My guess, 30-50% of BSGs problem is their game engine. It’s DOG-SHYTE. If they’d spend the money on a new engine they’d be way more competitive. But they won’t and ES VI is gonna be even worse than SF mark my words.

Jesus Christ the complain Olympics continues. Maybe its time to sing a new tune yeah?

Possibly an unpopular opinion. I liked Starfield. Do I think it’s the best game of the year? Absolutely not. I think it was decent, and I enjoyed playing it. Now the Shattered Space DLC..was kinda disappointed. Like…sure it was “OK”, but at $30? It was more like $10 worth of content.

For me, Skyrim was when they started rocking the boat. When I bought Fallout 4 and got Skyrim 2.0 I was upset. I waited since 2013 for more TES but they made TWO Fallouts, then they said they wanted to create a cool new IP before making another TES because they don’t want to be “the studio that only pumps out Elder Scrolls”, and this new IP was just Fallout 4 in space, I checked out completely.

I’m no longer a Bethesda fan. I’m still a fan of Elder Scrolls and Fallout. But I want these IPs taken off Bethesdas hands and given to a different studio. Obsidian Entertainment, perhaps? They made Fallout New Vegas, the best Bethesda-era Fallout, that’s a good merit. They share parent company now, right? Take Elder Scrolls and Fallout off of Bethesdas hands, leave them with Starfield since they love it so much, and let us just get back to getting good installments of TES and Fallout again.

Emil and really Bethesda as a whole has a habit of talking out of their ass and it comes across as so tone deaf. Look I was a Bethy fanboy, but Starfield really has soured my opinion on them.

When the astronauts went to the Moon, they bought the DLC and weren’t bored.

No he’s not wrong that was one of the things I did not like about fallout 3 and I’m not the only one. I hear you say a lot of things that the quiet players would disagree with. Yeah starfeld needs a lot a of work but it’s not that bad. The dlc was fun I agree to short but the story was there

Bethesda is still doing better than hubrisoft or slactivision.

The best game Bethesda ever made is Morrowind, bar none. Everything after was rolling down a downhill slope, with that one single cliff you could stop at and enjoy the view (Skyrim), before plunging further down, into the valley full of thorny bushes and rattlesnakes at the bottom.
Other than that, i agree completely with statements and opinions in this video. Yep, the Bethesda management and even creative directors are delusional.

20:44 that pandering JuiceHead comment on the bottom kissing their ass lol

I gave starfield a serious go. I put almost 100 hours into it, NG+ etc. Did all the side content, hunted all the legendary ships. Everything i could.

It just wasnt that great. It was mid. Bethesda took a risk but it was a swing and a miss. I sincerely hope it doesnt get a sequel. If it does i hope its a complete rework from the ground up. The world is intriguing enough but its so shallow and empty.

Procedural generation in a bethesda game was the biggest mistake imaginable. It absolutely doesnt mesh with their usual design philosophy.

Heres hoping its a learning experience for them and not the nail in the coffin. So much more is now riding on ES6. If its not a banger then bethesda will fade into irrelevence.

Starfield is the richest space simulation.
100 solar systems of accurate moving planets.
It’s not the richest space flight simulation, world simulation, NPC simulation, companion simulation, or anything else the player would care about…. simulation.

0:01 That candle smells like skooma, tears and disappointment

Corporate greed is ruining everything in the world. It’s affecting every single aspect of our society at this point. Games are just one industry that is being hurt. We have a much bigger problem in this current system.

Agreed Luke, The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.

When you declared, “you know what you did, you know what you did!” that was great.

Emil is the exact definition of TOXIC POSITIVITY. Not one fucking person wants to “live” in their worlds. They want to play in them. They want to experience them in different ways more than once. Unless you’re talking about 76 or Starfield.

Yeah, replayability is why I played Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 so much, not to “live in their world”.

Notice player counts of Fallout 76, a “lived in” world experience, and
Starfield, a single player never ending game…

Emil is protected by Todd. Todd is protected by what he did with Skyrim. Thus the cycle will continue until Todd is gone.

Skyrim is what destroyed Bethesda, because they can never live up to those expectations again.

Bethesda has been a disaster since Oblivion when they retconned the entire game world because Todd saw Lord of the Rings. People have just accepted it thoughtlessly for over a decade because no one makes games like that, or they don’t realize that happened because they only started playing with Oblivion and never played the original Fallout games. I don’t know why they’ve suddenly becomes more critical, but I’m glad it’s finally happened.

I have 205 hours in Starfield, but I only played it on Game Pass cause I didn’t trust it to be worth full price.

If they would stop trying to make their IPs be like GTA we all would benefit greatly. Elder scrolls Tamriel , fallout 76. If those games weren’t made, we would have gotten Fallout 5 already, and a game that competes with Skyrim. They would probably be mostly done working on the next games. But they want these big MMOs that suck the resources of their studio dry and the player bases wallets.
Give me a fallout 4/skyrim singleplayer experience that i can play with 1 other person online or local co-op.
More studios need to enable co-op in some form or fashion. Not MMO.

I quite like ‘crunchy’ games, such as Fallout, so Starfield is my jam. It’s got a lot of repetitive mediocrity in it though. Too much for such a large design studio.

In some ways, it’s a bit like Destiny. It has some great bits, but they are surrounded by mundane filler.

Why did all the random locations have to be identical? Once you’ve discovered the same mine for the tenth time, it gets hard to love this game. Surely some sort of randomised location builder could have been used. 🙁

Handcrafted bro handcrafted

Man, after playing the vanilla, modded, and NG+ base game, reading review after review, watching video after video, each time hearing something from the honchos at the studio, it all really just shows how… just disconnected they are, and I gotta be honest… it’s made me pretty much lose any interest in BGS projects. I hope I’m wrong, but ES6 is probably just another middle-of-the-road rpg-ish over-promise.

didn’t KCD have massive studio issues

Rockstar Games in a way has become the new Bethesda, despite having some major flaws themselves. Look at how their AI functions. It’s literally Radiant AI with a different name on it. How come Bethesda can’t innovate like that anymore? How come they don’t actually do anything new to the scene anymore, nothing. Anything they claim is new and innovative has been done already.

Not even unique, No Man’s Sky is on Console

You can 100% be underwhelmed at the expansion (I was) and think its bad and short but to claim you “accidentally” finished it is pretty disengenuous. The entire final mission 100% feels like a conclusion to the dlc. Its not like the end comes out of nowhere. Theres a whole build up and big final battle and full blown ultimatum. You can totally think its bad (its pretty mid imo) but to say youre surprised it ended at that point is just lying basically

Hobestly at this point its just disgusting. Every company is throwing away money and loyal customers because instead of doing what the customers clearly state that they want they do whatever some rich twat wants to do without a secone thought. Theres no excuse to fail in an industry where you get instant actionable feedback. Imagine hells kitchen if Ramsey said ‘oh this needs this this and this done this way’ and they just said ‘nah its fine’ EVERY TIME. What? Why? are you insane or just dumb?

You name a product and there are people who will shill for it, no questions asked. The difference between CDPR and BGS, since they are Luke’s examples, is that CDPR didn’t latch onto the shills saying that Cyberpunk was perfectly fine at launch. They saw the avalanche of criticism and it motivated them to address concerns.

BGS, conversely, has latched (and latched HARD) on to the shills in their fanbase and are listening to them, and only them. That’s how you get Emil’s verbal diarrhea every time he speaks to reporters.

At this point I just want TES6 to be even just slightly better than Skyrim. Just bring back classes and improve quests and I’ll be happy. That’s all I want, can’t be that hard. I expect mods to carry the game anyways, but make the base game good enough to motivate modders to actually work on it.

I put 174 hours into Starfield, from the day of its release. I have put 1,100 hours into Skyrim (on just PC, and ‘lost’ hours from when the game released and I played it on console) and 500 hours into Fallout 4 (on just PC due to, again, ‘lost’ hours on console). I played Skyrim last week and Fallout 4 three weeks ago. The last time I played Starfield was October 22nd, 2023.

It’s a boring, milquetoast game.

I will never understand why this game gets so much hate. Like I get these vague explanations like lackluster story, or it doesn’t function well, but I just don’t see it. I absolutely love it. It’s Space Skyrim! Massively open world/s. I’m no pro gamer, and I’m not playing a game, sipping wine, critiquing every flaw like some professional. I’m just a casual player. But to come out with a game so multifaceted and complex and immersive just to see people shit on it like it was some two dollar indie game… I just don’t understand it. And I’m not speaking about the expansion, because I haven’t played that yet. I’m just talking about the game in general. Sometimes I worry companies will stop trying to make games like this because the consumers seem impossible to please. Reminds me of when overwatch came out with new characters that were free and people were absolutely raging because it’s not what they wanted. Like, it’s free?! If you want something different, go make it lol. Idk.

The problem with Fallout 3’s ending wasn’t that it was an ending like Emil says; it was because it was a stupid ending. What do you mean my companions who are immune to radiation refuse to go press the button for me? I wonder if Emil was the one who wrote that Fawkes line about destiny?

if starfield is their best game ever made, ES6 is cooked.

Luke did rushed it tho because i spent a whole week doing sidequests in shatered space. i’m not saying they’re great side quest but most of them were entertaining and funny at least. So yeah he kinda just rushed it to hate on it.

I honestly don’t know who’s lost their way more BGS or Ubisoft.

no man sky makes starfield look like a demo.

Luke, no one admits to the poor state of things because you youtube critics shit on them anyways with comments like “well if you have to come out and say that blah blah blah” like this very video. Why would devs admit and own up to anything when u guys use it as ammo anyways 🤦‍♂️

It is the year of our lord October 15th of 2024 and just want Fallout 4 to not crash. I still have never finished that game.

Playing games since 70s. Seen so many game companies with a good start, then growing big and going bad. Most of them don’t exist anymore. Simply because the owners were too stubborn to listen to their customers’ criticism. Nothing new in the gaming world. The company Origin also fell because Richard Garriott was too stubborn to listen to others.

this guy is making a living and feeds his family by trashing the gaming industry – what a time to be alive!

p.s. it won’t change anything, only money talks

Bethesda really doesn’t want to talk about Morrowind…The fact Skyrim is considered peek gaming in Bethesda’s catalogue, shows how easily fooled gamers can be when graphics are the main focus over gameplay.

This is also axiomatic of being owned by a company with Shareholders vs being privately held. If MS’s stock took a dip right after he gave an honest critical assessment of the game, he’d be fired.

Fans do because they are still playing Skyrim, they are still playing fallout 4 after what 13 years, 10 years ago… Skyrim is so old that people are still playing living in that world Starfield for me is my replacement for Skyrim if i want to go back to a game and relive in that world again.

Fallout I never played it just seems like a bore and crap their are way better games in that genre that does it better

There is a new group of fans coming from XBOX, they don’t accept the current status of the console, so they need to see everything as being positive, so they don’t accept criticism on XBOX titles, feeling about it as a personal attack. I’m also a XBOX user, but I’m in the opposite side, I don’t like how Microsoft is managing neither the console nor the titles for the system. I’m tired of this dogma that everything that Micorsoft is publishing is near perfection, if not, you are a PS fanatic or simply a hater.

Fallout 4 is their best game, even with Starfield on the list.

I am forever amazed that creators can be so high on their own kool-aid that they genuinely believe that when their audience gives them feedback that they don’t like must be delusional.

Especially when it’s backed by empirical data.

I wish the media (in this case, gaming) would take a look at themselves and ask why projects failing? It feels every company is pulling the same skinner line of “no its the children that are wrong” line.

As for my personal feelings, I don’t think I’ll be getting another bethesda product anytime soon.

My favorite game released by Bethesda in the last years between 2008-2024 is Fallout New Vegas… That should say a lot as it is not really a “Bethesda” Game.

The thing I absolutely love about FNV is that Choices matter, consequences are given, and player decision is the top priority in the game. The amount of replay ability of that game is amazing, as to even which perks you choose will directly unlock new and amazing dialogue and paths in quests that to this day I keep discovering. If you decide you absolutely hate someone, you can choose to kill them, and then just not be able to do any of the quests that person may have for you.

Instead in Fallout 3, 4, Skyrim, and so on. They fall down and do their stupid little limping around animation. I know you can fix the games with mods, but it just feels so sad that even Bethesda them selves have this attitude.

Mods should add to an experience. Not fix their games for them.

Bethesda is so cooked

I mean, they’re not wrong. Spending 1/3 of game time in loading screens and another 1/3 walking without content to spend the last 1/3 in 4 different repetitive dungeons is a unique gaming experience.

Outer worlds had me wanting to come back and play it till the end and I was sad it was over, starfield was ao boreing and I just gave up after a few days when it came out on gamepass

If you dismiss the criticism, the fans will dismiss your company.

Aight so, gonna be frank here for a bit, this’ll probably get buried, or it may be downvoted, whatever. I am a naturally positive person! I like seeing the bright side, talk about what I like about products rather than complain about what I *don’t* like. So I get the positivity angle. I also get that gamers and nerds in general are some *Whiny ass* people. Make anything and the loudest people are gonna be the ones shitting on it, so I get why they would ignore the criticism. And ultimately, one of the things about being a game dev lead, is that *acknowledging anything wrong about your product is gonna get you sacked by corporate!* . This are all things I understand!
Saying that, as a positive person, starfield has been dreadful. I wanted so much to like it, talk about the good parts! I love ship building! Ship combat is so so but once I understood it I had fun. gunplay is decent! The story touches some interesting aspects about multiverse theory.

that’s all my positivity. I played Shattered Space, and (*cough piracy cough*) for free? Excellent. If it ahd been a free update, I would be giving Bethetsda all of my money by upgrading Starfield to premium edition. If it had been 10 bucks, like automatron? worth every penny. If it had been 20 bucks? I would be a bit miffed but would think it was ultimately worth my time to money, but I’d be complaining to my friends.

For 40 bucks? For 40 bucks I could be buying a brand new game. I could buy Shadow of the Erdtree! With that DLC I got my money’s worth AND THEN SOME!

This is diablo ”don’t you guys have phones?” levels of heads up asses.

Just remember Chris Chan was passionate about sonichu…

Dude, Starfield is NOT for you, move on. Stop being an ego driven Troll. They didn’t make the game to please you.

I was one of the first people to talk mad shit about starfield. I was harassed brutally by Todd fanboys. Sad!

Xbox will be the end of Bethesda

If tes 6 is a flop its make or break for me ill never buy another BGS game if the writers cant cop on

Yeah they need better quests and writing for tes 6 nobody will buy it if its like starfeild

Bethesda is forcing people to like a game that everyone hates,

Bethesda fans are like wow or destiny fans. They love to eat the slop

no way they said that HAHAHAHA

It’s sad to see the state of Bethesda games these days, Honestly the 2005 to 2018 era of Bethesda was peak gaming, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fall out 3/ New Vegas, Fall Out 4, Dishonored, Doom, Rage, Wolfenstein and Evil Within to the garbage they’ve been pumping out recently is actually sad to see. As I teen playing those games I used to can’t wait for what they would do in the future scale wise and it’s honestly pathetic what they do now…. We just had a Fall Out TV show that was very well received by players a new people to the world and they haven’t even announced a new game like Fall Out 5. Like who’s running this company?

Even in a DLC sense some of the elder scrolls DLC were some of the best I’ve played growing up, the Dawngaurd DLC, Dragonborn DLC, Far Harbor, Nuka-World these are great DLC’s to what we get now, SO to do you a favour if you some random dude’s rant on a YT comment section after installing Starfield pick up your controller uninstall Starfield and Install either Fallout 3/4 or Skyrim and have an unreal time

Feel that Luke is enjoying himself too much tearing down shibboleths. He’s not unequivocally addressing the main issue: WHY has this happened to Bethesda? What happened after ES5 and FO4? My theory is Microsoft happened

Phantom liberty had 20+ hours of new, animated dialogue alone, excluding gameplay. That being the same price as shattered space really puts it in perspective

The dlc was so disappointing that I played it and then immediately closed the game

Did ppl actually think a DLC was going to make a significant difference? Wow, wishful thinking.

If they came out with Starfield online where everybody can build not just Outpost but settlements and have businesses come to their small Outpost that can become settlements and grow on that and actually have random shifts Just landing around your base and you have to defend against other people who land and it could be an absorbing amount of people a number of people coming to attack an outpost and it would be really fun because when you get to the Outpost limits or whatever it can trigger like a multiplayer situation why I think would be really fun but I’d be totally down for Starfield online if it was a massive MMO in the middle of Starfield big open space they have a mod now where you can land on asteroids so imagine if you can you know place an outpost on an asteroid sounds kind of cool

Before I even had a chance to play through the opening Mission I had a hatch glitch on me and I had to erase it clean from my system Read download and then play and then rearrange my load order on all my mods and I noticed that the Starfield spacers rescan mod that makes them look like something out of Mad Max what’s something that might not be compatible but all of a sudden I don’t know where it started to work after I removed a few Star Wars mods like the new foo fighter and all that those planes they don’t sit compatible with a lot of the other mods so I had to delete them I’m not worried about Bethesda putting out something in a year if they sold game design programs to everybody we’d all be making our own game

30s now. For the first time time, I’m just going to wait for a year after Bethesda puts something out to figure out if it’s even worth paying for. Why pay full price for something that needs a rears worth of patches to just be meh?

How many years did they put into this piece of shit game? It’s a game that at most could have taken a couple years at most to make. Nothing in it translates to 8 years of development time.

BGS, for a decade, has been that aging, average girl who still thinks she is a 10/10
The magic of Morrowind, then Oblivion, has long passed
I never thought I would say this, but I’ll probably skip ES6 if I live long enough to see its release

Nice comparison with CDPR btw.

About to play this, I got it given to me, got the dlc too , curious why everyone doesn’t like it, guess I’ll find out 😅

I’ve officially lost hope for the Elder Scrolls 6. And I was even saying “At least they got their one bad game out of their system, so TES6 will be incredible.” Now I realize I was wrong. As Dagoth Ur once said, “What a grand and intoxicating innocence”.

I enjoyed Shattered Space, but I enjoy Starfield, too. My main wish after finishing the DLC is that Bethesda made the New Atlantis and Akila City tile as big and full as Dazra. Bethesda made an effort to fill the outlying area of the Dazra tile with content while the area outside the UC and Freestar capitals is simple procedural generation.

Emil is delusional, as long as he’s there bsg is a walking corpse.

Wonder if Microsoft has something to do with all this, the way Bethesda has been lately. 👀

I hope CDPR can pull off what I believe I remember them saying that they want to planning making games at least 5 years or less, ideally 3-4. And hopefully other developers can do this. Not wait 10+ years, giving everyone FOMO.

The fact this released a year later and so mediocre is crazy.

You know the picture with the fire in the bar and the person saying this is fine. That’s Bethesda right now.

I enjoyed shattered space – took my time with it and did a lot of side quests on offer first. Even doing that, it was still short. I finished it in probably 15 hours or so. What disappointed me is that the city of Dazra was actually super tiny , but they keep alluding to thousands of people living there. Maybe fix the city at the end of the storyline? Couldn’t even buy resources in Dazra.

It also didn’t seem super handcrafted to me. The map where Dazra is had a lot of points of interest that were unique, but some of them never even come up in a quest, so I couldn’t get myself to go to them. On top of that, I was already level 55 with endless ammo and weapons… and if you go land at a random point away from Dazra, on the other side of the planet, its just the same empty procedurally generated stuff.

Could have been better. I will just say that the bones are there for great things with Starfield… need more questlines that are meaningful, more factions, bigger cities. Make it feel more like civilization is booming. Next DLC should be some kind of intelligent alien species invading or something, or the discovery of new star systems with different species… idk. I don’t do this for a living. LOL

Starfield is for sure Bethesda’s weakest title but the band wagon hate stuff is insanely unnecessary and overblown.

I just started playing Starfield and have appreciated that all the problem stuff that was there in the beginning wasn’t there. I really liked that about two weeks after I started playing the patch with the vehicle came out. I’d say that my favorite parts were the side quests. I wanted the main story to be better, but that really wasn’t the highlight for me so far. I’ve loved the shipbuilding and somewhat the outposts and I’m looking forward to getting to Shattered Space, but am worried about the experience with it because of what a lot of solid reviewers are saying. But having played almost all previous Bethesda games, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein, Dishonored and Prey. I’m hoping that Mod’s will bring it forward like they did with Skyrim, but if I compare it to Elden Ring or Ghost of Tsushima, Final Fantasy games, Cyberpunk 2077, I have to say it honestly falls flat. I like it, I like the space idea, but its just not what I hoped it would be. And frankly, it worries me as to what is coming for the new Elder Scrolls.

if they are happy with this, imagine what Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be like….

I’m so glad I didn’t buy this game to begin with.

Post the new video Luke

BGS are obviously biased. Their self-affirmations are nothing more than dong water.

bothers me a bit too that the dev mentioned “land mass size” as one of 3 bullet points from Far Harbor that they wanted to emulate.

Bethesda: we don’t want your tired 20 year old formula anymore. You and Ubisoft are examples of companies that keep trying to cheaply and unimaginatively iterate on decades old platforms and they can’t figure out why people aren’t as excited about generic Assassin’s Cell Creedlaws 27 of Fallout Scrolls 49, special super ultimate re-release edition.

It’s impressive how much lower my opinion about bethesda is getting.
Back when I finished the Starfield I assumed my hatred for the game and studio hit the most absolute low, but here we are :/

As somebody who was so incredibly eager for a new Bethesda IP and loved Starfield up to release…. it quickly faded. The first 5 hours were ok, but then it quickly got old and stale — i could see every crack and lost opportunity.

It just… wasn’t the same. I get it — it’s a new IP, engine features, etc…. but the design decisions…. are so obvious….

How aren’t y’all over talking about this bum ass game yet lmao move on

I just wish there was an option to destroy the unity in starfield. That wouldn’t even be the renegade option–it’s the most paragon thing you could do.

Fans were upset about Fallou 3’s original ending because it was badly written.

After instant buying Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and NV, but starting to see clear declines in quality from Skyrim and deciding not to buy FO4, I really don’t understand why people keep giving Bethesda the benefit of the doubt. It’s clear they don’t care about quality, and have no interest in listening to their fans. The company has been run by lawyers (Zenimax) for decades and people keep falling for the same tricks….

At this point, my buy-in for future Bethesda titles is for Emil to have never touched it, period.

It doesn’t really matter how long the next elder scrolls gets delayed… because it’s odds of being better than literally nothing are effectively insignificant.

My put the controller down moment was when I went to Neon I think its called and hearing about how its a massive den of vice and sin, only to walk into an empty club with weird people with ugly rubber suits and the game pretending it was someway erotic.

I like starfield. I work like a normal person. 40+ hour weeks, lately 50-60hrs. Im only able to play an hour or two a day and most days i dont want to do a main mission cause i don’t really have the time. Lvl 30 doing alot of side quests and not done with the main quest with 3 days of gameplay. If i was still able to play 24/7 i would probably understand why people dont like it though.

They need to get rid of Emil – he’s dellusional

I keep hearing about people complaining about “paying” for the expansion. I never paid for it,…one day it was just “there”. Maybe because I originally bought the premium version (or whatever it was referred to as)? Have I played it? No. Not all that interested. It’s centered around House Va’Ruun. I don’t like House Va’Ruun. I don’t like the CF Priates either, I don’t care about them or their society (or lack there of). Spacers? Same thing,…nothing interesting there. Had it been UC or Freestar based, then yeah, I’d consider it worth messing with. That would be a story line I could get behind.

Just look at 343 they didn’t listen to the fans and died

Emil is literal cancel to BGS, full-stop. If they keep him on, his malignant incompetence will eat them alive. It would be one thing to pull a Hello Games and go “shit dudes, we fucked up we fix we fix we fix plzdonthateus” whereas BGS is just like “well maybe it’s just *not for you*” Excuse me, who exactly is this slop for, then? Lobotomy patients?

one of the reasons Far Harbor was way better then Shattered Space and arguably base Fallout 4; is that Emil had no hand in it. Will Shen was the lead behind and looking at Far Harbor even compared to the other dlc for F4 its vastly better quality in every way possible, the story was way more interesting then anything F4 base game had going on and the world is much more iconic then F4 in my personal opinion. Starfield is just so frustrating and boring, that I feel like instead of doubling down on it BGS should have just let this boat sink.
Like with Mass Effect Andromeda where the game was so badly received Bioware and EA just let it die peacefully without shelling out DLC that wouldnt fix the core problems of the game. I wont be buying or playing any other dlc for Starfield because frankly im so disappointed in BGS that even if they do learn their lesson and do better, I cant trust them to not shit all over their own hard work in the future.

Something is going very wrong with Xbox in general. Same feel, it has had good moments in the past but the direction is off…way off.

5:12 Hm. If rich companies stop firing their staff and stop hiring lesser skilled replacements, I think they’d be capable of a lot better.
If that’s their best, that’s a pretty sad joke. Totally different? To what extent? Sci-fi games have been around for ages, and they’ve even made a few. What did they really bring to market space that was different? I mean I can’t even joke that they invented the concept of releasing a broken game, because that certainly isn’t a new thing. Starfield being a technical marvel is a fantastical delusion. Stating it’s the best game they’ve ever made is evidence of losing touch with reality of their past games.

I feel a change of leaderhip is in order. They aren’t releasing stable games, nor games that are truly unique. Being proud of that garbage is pathetic.

8:44 The ending could have been a lot better put together. Zero level of intellegence to the person who wrote that ended. If you’ve got allies who can withstand the ending situation, you’d be an idiot to not utilize this for everyone to survive. That’s just really bad writing what they did. They don’t even own up to it “fans don’t want to play our games”. That is so out of touch with reality.

… I am a fan of complete, and functional great games. I’m not a fan of potential of being great (like how it creates false hopes, and hype), and am not a fan of deaf/out of touch devs. I buy games based on if they are great, not before they are released, and not before they actually are fully functional/complete with very rare exceptions. Those exceptions are based purely on the game, not who makes it. I find people who follow blindly companies regardless of the slop they produce bad for the gaming space.

I’ll play it if they add it to game pass.

I’m gonna be honest bro but your inability to understand the concept of a “vocal minority” is astounding lol. Your takes are so cringe and one sided. Literally nothing Bethesda could do would make you make less negative videos. Bethesda could fix every single issue about Starfield and you’d still make a video about how Bethesda should have done it faster lol. You’re hate farming and it’s obvious my guy lol.

My time in Starfield is about 195 hours. Great game. Isn’t amazing and isn’t groundbreaking. Not every game has to be. But for what Starfield is, it’s a great game and I’ve enjoyed it immensely.

The one thing I never got around to playing in FO4 was Far Harbor. You mention it so much, that I really want to fire up my FO4 and play it. But Bethesda broke my game with their latest update. Womp womp. I am so done with Bethesda.

I’ve been a Bethesda apologist for over twenty years now. I stood up for Horse Armor, Fallout 4, and continue to extol the virtues of Oblivion’s highly saturated land of potato-people.

Starfield fucking broke me and I’m the kind of dude who was able to find hundreds of hours of enjoyment in a non-game like Noctis IV.

Hilarious that what they have been doing for years now, in trying to make a game appeal to more people (dumbing down quests, RPG mechanics, dialogue, simplifying combat, ect) it becomes more and more of a shallow and hollow experience, and then saying that “it might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but what is” is just icing on that irony cake.

Now, I don’t want to see the Elder scrolls and Fallout IP’s fail, but boy oh boy do I want to see Bethesda crumble, I want them to be a shining example to other AAA studios that think they can pull the wool over our eyes.

Sorry to the workers that really do have a passion for what they do, but maybe consider working for somebody who would actually appreciate your work and let you realize it.

I think Luke is absolutely right here about Bethesda, especially Todd and Emil, caught within their own bubble and not reflecting on any of the objective criticism of their games. It’s not a matter of taste, it’s a matter of quality.

The classic, once beloved Bethesda is long gone. All Todd cares about now is how to monetize their old classic games with paid mods in the creation club. I have ZERO faith in ES6.

I’m still a fan and I still think they have what it takes to make amazing games. But I won’t be spending a dime until I know for a fact it’s worth it.

People who had to pay for the game to play it: Starfield is just not that good, there are too many bugs that make no sense being there in a AAA full priced fully launched game, the paid mods are BS as you pay way to much for them and some aren’t even properly working, did they even play test the game before launch? The planets exploration is boring as there is nothing to see or do outside of the main quest area and it takes way to long to travel around for absolutely nothing. THe AI is dumb again, the Companions aren’t very interesting and why the heck is the texture of my planet gone and replaced with a “There should be a texture here” texture?

Paid Bethesda Employee: This is perhaps the greatest game we ever made yoh. People put a lot of effort in it to make it so great, so great, it is amazing, it is the best space RPG (right, we forget about Mass Effect?) made, I really don’t get why people are complaining. It’s simply not okay for people to complain cause other people said they love it so you guys really don’t know what you talk about.

I finished the DLC in 2 evenings after work, PURPOSELY making sure to do every side quest I could find to extend it as long as possible.
I really hate how the whole DLC went. They turned the Serpent into a complete lie, and it had so many possibilities. The character writing was terrible IMO. They didnt feel like a SUPEREMELY devouted civilization at all.
That said: I loved the ending running battle. That is something I wish there was a lot more of in SF

I think the procedurally generated content system has potential, a big issue with modded locations in old Bethesda games is finding places to put the modded location without conflicting with what’s already there or other mods, hell with Project Zomboid the situation has gotten so bad that a map showing the locations of where major modded locations occupy had to be made up and even then some modders had to get together and make compatibility mods for their locations so they didn’t override one another.

With procedural generation a modder could make unique locations and then have those locations or variants of them spawn in without risking compatibility issues but that’s the main problem here. The procedurally generation system is good but Bethesda didn’t put a lot of variation in their POI’s to begin with and there’s other issues with the game people don’t like the modders understandably don’t want to move over from Skyrim or Fallout the system won’t be taken advantage of it as they’ve already got a good thing going on Skyrim and Fallout

All in all good video but I frankly dont understand what do you mean about next gen Fallout 4 patch, how does it break the game? I’ve been playing it for last like couple of weeks, almost no mods whatsoever and nothing bad ever happened to me, not even a single problem? Am I missing smth?

So long as Todd and Emil are there I can’t trust buying another Bethesda game. It might not all be on them, but they’ve shown they are a huge part of the problem there and can’t be trusted to deliver, keep promises, or actually take criticism and improve.

Bethesda will never return to their former glory. They are unable to recreate what made their games so great to begin with, you can notice it with Emil’s speech about Shattered Space. He said he wanted to recreate Far Harbor. But its all watered down and so simplified and boring that it doesnt make you want to explore the DLC area that much. They tried to be good again, they simply lost it.

I am just gonna say that if you played fallout 1,2 and new vegas and also the wannabe fallout titles and compare them honestly. You will always come to the conclusion that Bethesda always went with the most lazy, superficial way of doing things and even the writing is horrible. Where games tried to deliver a believable world for the player and for the person playing to be able to be immersed. Bethesda never tried that, they rarely ever introduced new enemies nor did they care that the world was well stupid in itself (for example nobody cleans up rubble for hundreds of years and humans still live in rubble). Do you believe that?

Bethesda was and always has been garbage. Can their games be fun? Sure but as soon as you see how they approach fallout (to them is a wasteland nuka cola& power armor). Iirc the only game that even created new enemies was fallout 76.

yeah…I like Starfield but the dlc looks bad. I do agree with what the Bethesda guy said because everything he said is safe. Yes Starfield is one of big three because they are the only three and it sits next to Elder Scrolls and Fallout but on the kiddie chair. He leaves out the uncomfortable parts that a man who worked on previous RPGs likely already knows. I see one of two possibilities, for some reason if you talk shit about anything Starfield and you get canned or he doesn’t want to be the one to admit fault on the internet and take all the blow back. These are the only times I’ve seen people use this kind of half truth safe talk.

I love how they do their own reviews on their own games and give it a 10 out of 10 and expect people to fall for that.

That’s the reason why Bethesda has been falling down for a decade. They are completely immune to any criticism. You just CAN’T reach them. It happened with Skyrim. Skyrim was a great game but it had problems. And they have kept a decade pretending it doesn’t. As a consequence, Fallout 4 was not a great game. It was good, but nothing special. It was already outdated. Think that witcher 3 was released the same year as fallout 4.

And now we are here. Such a meh game is Starfield.

I read/heard a while ago that one of the main writers responsible for a lot of TES lore doesn’t work for BGS anymore.

I think this adds to the shallowness resulting from the Ubisoft-like approach to gamers and developing games and is at the heart of the problem. Greed basically. Do minimal effort to create a good, enjoyable game and fill it with cashgrabs to compensate for the lost revenue created by leaving fans.

Might work for now, but no way is it going to last long. The legacy they have is quickly dissipating and it is a matter of time before they fall off the wagon entirely.

I feel like the whole Bethesda is doing some weird Zack Snyder roleplay that they are so much up in their own ass that they refuse to see the blatant faults with their games and still saying how they are the best.

Emil is the same dufus who said “skyrim is a game about dragons”. He summed the whole game up with that definition. He’s also the one whom came up with fallout 4’s dialogue system

The best thing about Starfield is that all the modders are trying to make it a star wars sandbox

another mod solution lol

“Listening to the fans” – pathetic

Where’s the KCD video

That whole “space exploration is supposed to be boring like real life” probably ruined more potential buyers than anything else about this game I imagine.

Shame. This game had real potential but as always, ball was dropped.

Edit: wait what?! Richest Space RPG ever? What about elite dangerous, star citizen, eve online, no mans sky etc… Lol we will just ignore them then shall we BGS?

4:50 that little video frame right next to you got me interested, added to wishlist.

Are the “people who love it” in the room with us right now, Emil?

Sounds almost exactly like Ubisoft.

Wait.. the dlc came out? This is how I find out that the dlc came out?? Wtf

Any time I see Emil open his mouth I often see him eat those words later.
I hope Bethesda realizes this guy is a PR nightmare and not as talented as he is expect to be and clearly out of touch with the fanbase / gamers as a whole.
And its not like this mess started with Starfield, nor with Fallout 76 and not even with Fallout 4, the cracks started with Skyrim where, and I know this is not how people play or how its meant to be played but, the main questline could be done with 6 to 9 hours.
You could even go back to Oblivion with the horse armor and relatively wooden NPCs but id chalk that up to how games were at the time.

Slightly boring maybe, but short and shallow ? Dont be ignorant

Emil Pagliarulo: Fans didn’t like the ending to Fallout 3 because they want to keep playing forever.
Fallout 3: Enter this radiation area to win the game and just die. Even though you have many ways to deal with radiation at this point in the game, because you’ve actually had to survive radiation areas to get to the end in the first place.

Yeah. That must be it, Bethesda.

I didn’t even really like Far Harbor but its head and shoulders better than Shattered Space. Shattered space is better than Starfield but man. Starfield has a lot of mechanics i love, so many in fact, but goddamn its like they have you in an empty box and thats it, check out our SWEET lighting and SWEET mechanics, craft and mod all the things, mine all the things, YEAH BABY! but after that its like um ok um great mechanics. Why do i want to live in this world. Where are the insects? WHERE IS THE LIFE? If all of that was in Skyrim, i would _die_. Lifeless but excellent mechanics sim meets beautiful world sim = GOTY every year until the heat death of the universe.

Your video was longer than the Starfield DLC.

I consume more content on YouTube bashing Starfield than I care to ever put into the game itself. Wake up, Bethesda.

EDIT: Maybe i’m the problem…

the point made at the 9m mark, absolutely perfect. Replay in infinite combinations, not a single continuous character forever. Well done.

500 hours in Starfield. I tried. I really tried and really gave it a shot by playing multiple characters and role playing. The game is just not good. The main issues are the writing and questing.

I beat the DLC, and it wasn’t that bad. I think haters haven’t really even played it yet (0.7% of players have beat it). The person on Steam talking about insomnia is a liar, because the final Citadel mission was over tuned. I hate the new planet, but it was weird spending so many days on a single planet, ignoring my ship, space, and all other planets. Would love to see more of this concept, but which planets that aren’t dark 24/7 or looking like post apocalyptic. I’ve played more than 500 hours. Game is still far from perfect but still a million times more fun than NMS or Fallout 4. Still nowhere near god tier that Skyrim is

is this the broader gaming audience just learning what it’s like to be someone who’s been playing and complaining about Bethesda games for the last 20 years?

I 100% starfield my first time around and I don’t have any interest in ever playing it again. A lot like Skyrim one of the worst aspects of star field is that you can do every quest for every faction and no one cares. What makes Skyrim replayable though are the different races and play styles you have which are completely gone in starfield. So both have poor story and gameplay, but starfields lack of replayability through rpg elements make it way worse. Along with how the one thing bethesda does amazingly (exploration) is significantly worse in starfield because of how empty most of it is and how most of the areas are locked behind multiple loading screens to get too.

Way more content than Operation Anchorage as a first DLC for comparison

I think its great so far. Too many people being mad superficial over something only for pure leisure, thats free none the less. Im happy on very hard, realism. Knocks all of the console tarkov boxes, especially over level 120. Im on day what 4 of playing it for 4 hours a day and I keep getting wrapped up with sidequests and on very hard, max difficulties its honestly only that. Each “dungeon” or outpost has good gear, some new, and I end up getting my moneys worth finally fighting opponets that could one shot you easy if you’re not in your suit. id give it an 8/10 and honestly Bethesda DLC in the past used to be 40 dollars.

I truly don’t think you understand what objectivity is. Sure you can look at far harbour and say “it’s got more quests” “it’s got more potential endings” “it’s got more characters” “it takes the average person 2x longer”, “it’s got more dialogue” or whatever, but that’s basically it (apart from objective technical observations etc). None of that is actually enough to say it’s “objectively” better. You can maybe say it’s objectively bigger? And if you define value for money as size / cost you can probably say the designed content is objectively better value for money. But that’s kinda the end of the “objective” commentary you can make. You need to be subjective to determine that it’s better.

“X is better than Y” without some qualifier that makes it objective (like, “in that is was released more recently”) can’t ever really be an objective statement.

I’m sure most people would agree that Far Harbour is better than Shattered Space. I’m sure even I will when I play it. But you’re not being “objective” to say that.

At least Emil does not directly call his games fan Dumbasses.

ES6 and Fallout 5 is going to be dumb down so badly too the point a toddler could play it

Let me guess: They responded with corporate double speak?

I’m sure creating a procedural engine is extremely difficult. That being said, developers leaning on a procedural game just reads as lazy. You don’t want to spend the time carefully crafting an experience, you want to code a system that provides the experience for the player. We never wanted that, we wanted well crafted story we could experience.

Emil gets high off of smelling his own farts.

The only people that I personally know who have played Starfield and the DLC and liked it are people with very little time to game who, as a result, have very little to compare it against. I’m not saying their opinions are wrong, just that they might feel differently if they were able to play more games.

Can we get a video on the Star Wars reskin mod of Starfield? Looks extremely promising and in many ways could be what fans wanted from Star Wars Outlaws

The games story is just dull. Locations aren’t that great either. Neon is the only location that is sorta cool at 4k everything else is just “ok.” The idea of being able to team up with pirates to me was the coolest part but even that really has no effect

If you “Love” Starfield you are not a real BGS fan. 😉
This Starfield DLC was a waste of my time. Far harbor was great and I’ve made new saves just to play that before the main fallout 4 quest.

Best game ever made isn’t about the public reception but about the technical achievement they have managed to do. Comparing to their other titles is about the universe they created not public reception. this yt has no idea how to interpret answers and comes of as disingenuous.

I can remember every Oblivion and Skyrim play through i ever did but I can’t remember anything from my mere 10 hours in Starfield.
What does this tell you?

Maybe for an expansion priced at 10$ its ok but almost 50$ tax in for 4h gameplay common…

I started the DLC and was so bored. I stopped halfway through the first mission.

The fact that Starfield is STILL $70 right now is mindblowing. The game that is already a year old, has only 13k players right after a DLC release, and is currently sitting at a 59% mixed review score on steam. I went to go check it out the other day figuring that it could pick it up for cheap since it should be heavily on sale after its poor launch, only to see it was still at its original price point and thought, why… keeping it at that already high price isn’t going to bring anyone new in. No way im buying that game until it is AT LEAST sub $20, preferably lower but Bethesda is greedy so i doubt it would ever make it below that.

“Something completely unique on consoles” … mass effect creators are just laughing rn

Same thing with NMS I will always be a fan of hello games now. They seen they fumbled they listened and fixed the game above and beyond. And for them to claim Star Field is the premier space expiration game on console. They can f*** right off with that. It’s No Man’s Sky hands down.

15:48…. Yes.

I’ve lost interest in a lot of games I used to play. What I mean is, loved elder scrolls series, but am no longer looking forward to es6. Same with mass effect, we won’t get a real mass effect ever again..

We weren’t upset that Fallout 3 just ended. We were upset that Fallout 3’s ending was /badly written/. Exceptionally so, in fact. Broken Steel fixed one of the most egregious parts, that we couldn’t get Fawkes, immune to radiation as he was, to push the button.

Let’s face it. Gaming is an industry now. And everything absorbed by industry turns to crap in one way or another. Cars, food, money, health, fun. It’s all the same pattern. They are going for the profits only. Why would they make the effort to create outstanding products when the mass of their customers is happily accepting much less? They merely have to raise the bar graphics wise to make every me-too-dude fall for it. Is that so hard to understand? The only thing you can do as a gaming enthusiast is close this chapter of your life and move on. At least that’s what I did.

I’m one of those players that wants to use the same save for 5000 hours. With new mods and using the systems lol so that part isn’t out of touch

Bethesda seems to have outsourced their writing to junior high school students who have only ever watched TikTok and neve read a book or watched a decent movie. Give me a bottle of whisky and a weekend and I could come up with 5 main questlines better than the one found in the original game. Oh sorry did I say main questline? I meant endlessly repetitious same-same fetch quests.
WTF happened?!

I thought Starfield itself was okay.I played it to new game +++ and did everything possible quest-wise with every option and for each faction – in 286 hours. For most other single games that would be a normal or even long playtime.But for Bethesda? The game company that made single player games I played so extensive that my play time came close to some MMORPGs? The shortest one before was ~1500h (Fallout 4) The longest one nearly 3000 (Skyrim + its Special Edition). Of course that was with hundreds of mods.
In the end it’s just sad. The game had so much potential and for a while it was fun to play (even with all the bugs etc., as Bethesda players we are used to get the real patches from the mod devs.
What really pissed me off were all the PR lies they kept repeating, even after the release. And sadly it looks like they didn’t learn anythingfrom it and are following the exact same path further. NO TODD, THAT JUST DOES NOT WORK

the best game BGS made was morrowind

Bethesda. Bethesda never changes.

I appreciate that we take credit for 10s of thousand hours of dev work from a single person at a company, just because we wrote ‘cyberpunk 2077 sucks’

I think he’s high on the copium. Starfield isn’t anywhere close to being the richest space sim/rpg. Maybe in the ship building. But take that away and no man’s sky is infinitely better. Then to say its a technical marvel, of what procedural generation. Barren world upon world bioware did this in 2011 with DA2. Next as far as the best game they ever made no that was Skyrim for many. For me 8t was Morrowind. Lastly to compare Starfield to Elderscrolls and Fallout is insane as it doesn’t even touch the quality of those ip’s. This why I believe bethesda is done. They should all be fired restructured by Microsoft or closed and laid to rest. Twenty three years to make Starfield, 19 – 23 years for ES6, 15-20 years for fallout 5. Meanwhile ES3 to ES4 took 4 years and was an insane leap forward. Fallout 3 to Fallout 4 took 7 years and had the same giant leap forward. They lost the passion and are losing their fans with every day. Fail to listen or respect the fan base. Make changes that ruin modding community ever few years. Who’s keeping the company and games alive.

Who knew that Bethesda would be worse than with Robert A. Altman.

22:20 That is exactly why Emil Pagliarulo kept getting promoted, basically failing upwards and the games selling not because of his writing but DESPITE his bad writing… And as a typical western game dev, he thinks its all because of him! That guy’s ego is so massive i’m pretty sure he’s gonna replace Todd once he retires after the failure of TES6.

I played Starfield for 95 hours, went through most of the content, and uninstalled it. I’ve been playing BGS games since Morrowind and truly wanted to love Starfield, but I concluded that I don’t like it. The fishbowl gameplay loop is not for me. If I want to play a BGS game then I’ll go back to Skyrim. My expectations for ESVI are not high.

To be fair he said it’s the best in some ways. It definitely is the most technically impressive and big.

Tf y’all

Where’s Michael Kirkbridge rn

Ya’ll fucked up, get Kirkbride on the phone

If I was CEO I would put an immeasurable amount of resources into that man

All you have to do is look at the success of Disco Elysium. Some great outliers like Dread Delusion.
People don’t want safe in writing.
People JUST don’t want what ALL people want. And what I mean to say is, you can’t PACKAGE that. That’s just not how it works.

To come out and touch on that without the least bit of extrapolation, nuance even.
Just fire the guy. Why is he there? To make BGS look worse? I don’t get it. It’s all the guy does beyond mediocre.

There are so MANY TALENTED PASSIONATE WRITERS IN THE WORLD. Be fucking WEIRD it’s what makes the GAMES GOOD. Be PASSIONATE. Be REAL.

Ffs.

The more Emil talks, the more he digs that hole deeps until Todd bails him out once again…

Starfield is dull. Enemy AI combat is weak. Planets and their bases are copy + paste. The universe is not a space simulator when you spend most of the time fast travelling. Space flight is so restricted. The writing is just not compelling. Your choices do not feel like they matter. The 60fps update made a huge improvement in very limited areas, the rest of the time it feels like wading through treacle.

Starfield is nowhere near the same level as Elder Scrolls or the Fallout series.

If Bethesda leadership really thinks that “if someone believes their idea is good, it’s going to be good” we’re so fucked. Unreal delusion. It’s like they’re asking to fail

I’d like to hear more from the devs about *why* they chose to do certain things. Might help bridge the gap between player expectations and what the devs can deliver. For example with vehicles, they weren’t included in the base game at launch and there were some Todd interviews where he seemed opposed to vehicles in Starfield. What changed his mind? Was it player feedback or something they intended to do post-launch from the beginning? What sort of tech did they have to implement to make ground vehicles possible? How long did it take? I feel like if we weren’t in the dark on so many of these decisions it might help players to be more understanding.

BGS wants a perticipation medal for putting out an expansion

When financiers or their mindsets take control of a studio this is when game devs become hot garbage.

What I did not get is why they did not add serpent specific ship modules with such a “huge DLC” that everyone has been waiting for.

Microsoft bought em. They’re doomed.

Starfield literally has the exact same NPC’s as Fallout 4 and 76, morally it’s all shades of light gray, socially they’re almost all progressive Californians, everything in this “vast universe” is the same, it’s uncreative. At least Skyrim had strife, it had differences in its social order, Fallout 4 was way better in this regard than Starfield but you can see it happening already… That is my main worldbuilding critique, it’s all so safe, that’s what I loved about Cyberpunk 2077, it’s so real in comparison to Starfield and Fallout 4, not everyone is a Californian progressive portrayed with a white or slightly gray moral compass… Even the most “evil” companions in Starfield are basically a pirate/soldier archetype with the “things happen” mentality, and another pirate who already looks more judgey towards amoral behaviour, even Fallout 4 had Strong, X6-88, Old Longfellow, MacReady and Cait with far more dark gray and compromising moral tendencies, let’s say. Skyrim is full of followers that like chaos and destruction. I am a goody-two-shoes in games, but a complete lack of any real evil in the world devalues the efforts of my player character… How are you the hero if there are no real villains? Even in Cyberpunk, where everyone is morally gray in some capacity, you can make morally consistent choices one way or the other and they always have consequences and can make you into a hero to many people for having improved their personal lives. In Starfield, there’s no real exploitation or evil, the mid level of Neon is supposedly this abusive seedy underbelly, but it’s just a few warehouses with drug dealers that everyone can just avoid and it’s otherwise quite fancy bars and just people going about their business, there’s no actual criminal/evil element, no abusive brothels (even Fallout 3 had this with Moriarty’s pub in Megaton), no real active street crime (like I said, it’s just gangs contained in warehouses), no violent threat that constantly looms over the denizens of the area, like the gangs in Cyberpunk clearly are (you regularly see these violent encounters were gangs are about to ‘yeet’ citizens), and in many missions against the Scavengers more active in the outer parts of Night City, well, you see the worst humankind has to offer in that world… Starfield is just a bland, fake, hollow experience… Skyrim wasn’t fake and Fallout 4 wasn’t that hollow, they were sometimes bland, but Starfield really is a combination of all those three to a high degree. Complete lack of direction, it’s like action movies not showing blood to get a lower PG rating, but in this case losing your more intelligent adult audience in the fakeness.

all there game is, is a generated world that isnt even hand made except for the few set pieces they made and called it the day, oh and the quests feels like filler quests that don’t have any meaning, it just exists to be there and is uninspired. this is an example of trying to do the bare minimum and trying to make people believe that its a hard and difficult task. literally 1-2 people in a basement with real programming experience can do better, look at indie games.

If they’re so obnoxiously determined to give former fans the finger, I really think Microsoft should forcibly rip Fallout out of Bethesda’s hands till TES 6 is released, and license a New Vegas styled “Off-Chapter” game to coincide with Season 3 of the Fallout TV show.

Just test it once. See if it works. And when that money comes in, watch Bethesda sweat and have an internal revolution from how bogged down, and ludicrously out of touch their internal processes are.

Same guy who said Nate the mc of FO4 was the person who committed a war crime in the opening of FO1

these videos feel like the same kind of content political grifters make. where they just complain and make other people upset so they continue to watch and give the grifter money.

Space engineers is a nearly decade old game, and it’s already a bigger simulation game. It also (probably) about to have a better story.

They NEED this IP to be good because it’s THEIRS. They acquired Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Doom, everything they have that people like originated somewhere else.

”Luke you didnt rp walk everywhere and spend 100 hours on the dlc theres content there you just rushed passed it.” – a bethesda fanboy probably

I LOVE fallout 4, and i love far harbor. But hearing Luke say far harbor has nuance to the writing compared to shattered space really tells me all i need to know

Forget this game, play Skyrim 🙂

Y’all should have stopped supporting them as soon as 76 released. People only learn when there are consequences to their actions

I’ve got roughly 10 days of gameplay in Starfield and truly love the game. Are there issues? Yes. Are there things I would like to see changed? Yes. Do I believe it’s a trash pile? No. Was the DLC a little lackluster? Kinda but was still fun. This is just a single opinion that truly means nothing to anyone except someone who wants clicks and views. I could make a shit ton of videos blasting Bethesda for the Fallout Series because I hated it but does that make me wrong? No, it’s just my personal opinion and my opinion doesn’t mean a damn thing nor does this one.

We want to explore and be rewarded for it

Totally agree, the expansion is totally underwhelming. I thought the main Varuun family questline was just the introductory challenge to kick the expansion off!….turns out it was the whole thing!!

Everyone hates everything while thinking every thing was made for them, and I find it absolutely hilarious.

I’m a fallout 4 fanboy but elden ring dlc gave me 200+ hrs of content and is only ten more dollars than shattered space dlc

8:38 my man emil here realizing what the people that made Daggerfall (Todd included) were already doing in 1994 and calling it a pivotal point for the company.

silence is golden emil, silence is golden

Dismissing criticism and living in a bubble – This is exactly how I felt about Pokémon GO and Pokémon MSG and why I eventually walked away.

At this point, Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be telling players that they’ll need to make up their own stories while demanding you run radiant quests non-stop. It’s going to suck so fucking hard because Bethesda can’t be bothered to even try.

What is the most infuriating about them not caring what people think and lying to themselves is that most people who played shattered space on day one, paid 120 friggin dollars for that content, only to feel ripped off and then told “well its you who’s the problem”. I honestly believe Emil owes us an apology, for basically calling us too stupid to understand his shit writing. I love Bethesda, and its disheartening to hear the developers make us pay for them to drag their balls across our faces and when we don’t like it, call us the problem.

I spent 5 hours playing it, a paltry amount to any. But compared to their other games they drew you in at the first scene. I’ll never forget leaving the vault in Fallout 3 and seeing the world opening in front of us. Just staring at the screen and just so exited to explore. I just never felt drawn into the game from the start and lost interest in playing. I did find all of the load screens irritating but I was just not interested in playing it. So I got the 5 hours in and just uninstalled it.

no one is listening to feedback

05:50 “Fallout has its own unique personality” No, a unique personality is the exact thing it doesn’t have. It’s not even really bad, it’s just…nothing. You know, like Taylor Swift’s music.

I played Starfield for about 20 minutes and was bored I can’t quantify it. Like, I’m a fan of Bethesda and past titles they have made, shoot I like Fallout 76 even if it’s still considered a dumpster fire by most but starfield is just so generic. You have this massive universe where you can do so much, and it plays no different than a linear fps at times that takes no risks and can be often compared to Skyrim or Fallout.

People still trust this company? Bro