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I will not play this game again. It is the most boring, unsatisfying slog Ive ever played. Eventually realized everything is copy and paste and the characters are just as bad. Terrible writing, dialogue, missions.
Ive been playing bethesda rpgs since Morrowind on pc

Bethesda is dead, TES is dead, Fallout is dead – it’s done. Dont kid yourself and live in a delusional like the execs.

The bright side is that after a forest fire, the ground is more fertile than ever for new growth.

There is opportunity like never before for the next studio to come along and become the new Bethesda

I listen to a lot of starfield content, the balanced stuff at least & i do consider matty to be balanced.

HOW you play starfield is everything. You can rob yourself of so much enjoyment by rushing from objective to objective & also by focusing on the flaws (which every game has btw).

I get exactly the same vibe playing starfield as i did with fo4, skyrim & oblivion. Because of HOW i approach the game.

Can’t wait for Fallout 4.5 and Skyrim 2

Matty you can go to XBOX reviews, they’re not any better. Homeboy knows it’s just a buggy. I get his point, and that’s just a clip that should’ve been placed into a larger context. Bethesda has chosen to not step it up, again. I was like NG+ 4, started Shattered Space but have no desire to finish it after playing for an hour.

The people that buy their games have learned nothing.

I wonder if todd and the team will watch this video

One of the reasons I burned out on this games was their choice to not release the buggy until much later and then I was already into other games because Starfield was simply too slow for me. Unbeliavable.

spoiled child throws a tantrum on youtube, news at eleven lmao

Bethesda should take a hard look at Baldurs Gate 3. The characters in starfield feel so less alive and the story so much more bland in its delivery. No adult themes what so ever

I think a good story would have helped sell the DLC. But ultimately the space sim aspect needs some patching and Bethesda need to go with that to fix the game foundation.

This is the classic, “They didn’t address MY specific problems so this is terrible.” There’s no stopping to ask, “Hmm. Is he speaking in a particular context about a specific criticism rather than attempting to address all criticism with a particular statement?”

Was excited about starfield for many years. Never bought it. Not interested.

That ibtro was absolutely terrible, giving bethesda way too much credit
Being a bethesda fan comes accross slas some form of stockholm syndrom for manchildren.

Have you considered the game they want to make doesn’t have to appeal to you? Best you move on than to keep haggling for changes.

Starfield was a horrendous let down, elder scrolls will be no different, bethesda is killing themselves

Larian Studios and Owlcat games have already surpassed Bethesda with rpgs. Bioware is still better than Bethesda, not by much though.

Looting in Skyrim is awful, starfield and fallout4 have much better looting, and that’s why : in skyrim when you find a unique legendary weapon, you don’t need to loot anymore, everything what you find after this will be useless or just stuff for selling. 99% of loot is useless, meanwhile in starfield you can find something better on the every stage of the game, same goes to fallout 4. Yes it is always pleasure to find unique stuff but it breakes the balance, as in Cyberpunk where you use only unique weapons because if weapon is not unique it s**ks.

Bethesda have been dead since skyrim, and have been in decline ever since, their just like ubisoft producing Bearley passable games and praying on laymen gamers to buy their product

Todd: ohhhhhhhh we should’ve paywalled the buggie. THAT’S where we went wrong.

Skryim was the first game I was genuinely obsessed with for years and basically up until starfield dropped I still had wet dreams every night about ES6 but now they’re just nightmares 😔

As much as I and I’m sure many other ppl want to be optimistic…I feel like they’re just going to rush it out(the DLC), I hope TES6 will at least benefit from the rushing if they decided to go that route but I’m not so sure about that either sadly

Elder scrolls 6 for all thats good in life! Jeez! It better NOT be online OMG!

SOUNDS LIKE HALF THE PEOPLE MISSED THE INFORMATION THAT IS INCLUDED IN MANY OF THE DATA DISKS SCATTERED AROUND THE PLANET…THOSE FILL IN A LOT OF DETAILS THAT PEOPLE SAID WASN’T THERE. I think you’re off the mark with there only being one more expansion coming…personally I think there will be at least 2 more if not 3 more.

Hmm, interesting that you jet packed everywhere in Shattered Space when I stopped using the jet pack there and used to buggy almost everywhere. I thought it controlled better than the Hammerhead in ME but not as well as it could have been. I enjoyed SS except for the ending…and that they missed the boat in expounding on the fact that the founder of Va’ruun was actually insane…that there is no Great Serpent he only saw it in his mind. I’m guessing some people ignored the data pads you could pick up in the Citadel…those had some very interesting insight in the origins of House Va’ruun.

Starfield is the most soulless, uninspired, generic game ever made by BGS. Kind of wild that a potentially unlimited setting just seems like a standard BGS game with a sci fi skin slapped on.

The buggy sucks

I’m not going to be buying anymore AAA games unless things change.

I pray that when Bethesda fails, a good passionate studio gets Fallout…

If base game is better than the DLC this game is fucked. I felt the same way playing the DLC. Starfield over all is ass. You can’t even compare it to cyber punk 2077.

I wish Starfield was given a little more love then what it’s getting or got, honestly

Starfield is Bethesda’s sad attempt to commit identity theft on Star Citizen. I only get elderscrolls and fallout games anymore because the modding community is so incredible. But even starfield has me like “no, I’m done”. And the fact that you think skyrim ruined the games after? That’s like being with someone and they start doing drugs and your like “I thought they would get cooler. So I let them keep doing it”. When in the end we could help but they need to improve themselves.

People have to remember that due to the incredibly long development cycle of Bethesda, the teams that created Morrowind, Oblivion, Fo3 and Skyrim are long gone.

On the other end of the scale Todd has been there for decades and has spearheaded the simplification and streamlining of their games. He’s largely responsible for the crap they have been releasing. I’d argue that while Skyrim was a decent game for its time, it marked the beginning of the decline for Bethesda.

As much as it pains me to say this, TES6 will be terrible. Why? Because everything Bethesda has released since Skyrim has been that way.

Todd Howard isn’t a game dev anymore. He’s a grifter and a capitalist. Turning into Peter Molyneauxbut at least Molyneaux has tried to do weird new stuff even if it all has bombed

I hope todd and Bethesda see this video and make some changes

Todd Howard should be fired.

Bethesda’s public relations have really gone downhill since Pete Hines left.

I played 1000 hours of Starfield from release to Shattered Space. I played 3 hours of Shattered Space and haven’t played Starfield since.

all of you sound like a bunch of spoiled ass brats that didnt get what you wanted for xmas…starfield is pretty fuckin sweet tbh been playing on the rog its like fallout with space and planets what the actual fuck are yall even whining about it doesnt matter what a game company puts out some of you mfs will find an issue instead of enjoying traversing space and planets you wanna get on youtube talk shit and bash them then wonder why they dont fuckin listen to yall god damn people its a game have fun with what you got stop whining like little kids and GROW THE FUCK UP

I feel like as the gaming industry has grown, developers want you to play the game THEY want and not make a game they know the community wants. It’s almost like an ego thing. “We know more about gaming than you” vibes.

there wasnt a single character in shattered space that I was curious about. It was just clicking through these endlessly boring dialogs. How hard is it to make an interesting character I actually want to talk to? fnv it was like every other character

TES 6 is going to be better I feel like. Due to Bethesda’s experience with Starfield criticism. Whether they admit it or not. The criticism has been in their face and big. Also, the nature of a TES game is very different from Starfield, with a world space that doesn’t need load screens for example.

Todd Howard: but we did an interview together 😢

Bethesda needs to be reworked.

They learned everything they need to know in the last decade. As long as they keep making specific kinds of games they can get away with murder if needed.

We should boycott Bethesda. If they are going to bury their heads in the sand and produce boring games, then we should stop buying them. I was a major Bethesda fan after Fallout 3 but to this day, I still never purchased a copy of Fallout 76. I am almost done working on a huge perk overhaul for Fallout New Vegas and that has reinvigorated my passion more than anything Bethesda has done in several years

i always like that the captions always call him “Maddie”

Microsoft and sony need to listen to the fans charging extra for services, purting out bad games, and complaining when people don’t like your product is actually crazy

The problem is no one wants some bs space exploration game

We want fallout

Desolate
Despair
Post apocalyptic
Survival with role play so you can play however tf you feel like

I played starfield like 4 hours n said wtf is this

I really felt like the writing and voice acting in shattered space was pretty good. I wish they could have put more of that in the main game.

I for one, is looking more forward to trying Skywind and Skyblivion than TES VI. I’m pretty sure that Bethesda has lost its internal mechanism that they used to work with when they where designing Morrowind and Oblivion. It already showed in Skyrim that they were loosing the plot eventhough Skyrim is a fantastic game, it isn’t the strongest Elderscroll by far.

15:48 I was in the same mindset of “everyone stumbles” with choices from fallout 4 and even fallout 76. For me, starfield needed to be their redemption arc, and instead it just solidified my opinion that they’re not going to make high caliber rpgs anymore. With Bethesda leadership seemingly determined to not learn anything from this and instead push on with bland games and egregious monetization, I can’t justify giving them any more chances based on goodwill from 10 years ago. I’ll still check out reviews for the next elder scrolls when it releases, but it’ll have to be truly fantastic to get me to spend any more money after their embarrassing state of affairs.

They really do not care as long as the games are selling. I absolutely will not be preordering ESVI.

Every single one of these large game studios have become over-bloated bureaucracies where responsibility is so spread and segmented that nobody actually knows whose fault it is.

In my opinion there’s nothing Todd could have done to save Bethesda; it’s not private and he’s not the owner, he’s along for the ride as much as us. If he steps out of line, he’s just as replaceable as anyone else to Microsoft.

The “lifecycle” of a game development company is pretty set in stone outside of rare exceptions. They mostly all start out as small groups working on a passion project, which after success and sequels leads to studio growth, and at a certain point the growth needed exceeds what the founders can personally vet. By that point, if you have a whole HR department with “professional recruiters” that even mention the words “racial equity” it’s over. Your workforce will slowly (in some cases rapidly) be infested with ideologues with a false sense of value they glean from their vapid interactions with the other woke cult members.

Playing Phantom Liberty right now and holy shit, it is amazing! I’m also on Series X now. Hadn’t played Cyberpunk 2077 since launch, and it’s like a completely different game. Now it’s one of my favorite games ever. Wish Starfield gave me the same feeling. Skyrim and Oblivion are 2 of my favorite games ever. Bethesda has fallen so far off that it’s insane.

“Shill defends bethesda.” fixed the title for you buddy.

I’ve been a lifelong Bethesda fan, but Starfield never have I been more disappointed in a game .

Need on ps5

I think the bethesda we learned to love through morrowind, oblivion and skyrim is gone and they are not capable of releasing games that feel good to play any longer. I have no expectation that ES:6 will be any good for all the same reasons that starfield was lifeless.

Bethesda made a very small portion of Starfield, then just hit copy/paste over and over.

Nobody wanted starfield, not even Bethesda apparently.

Been saying it for YEARS and YEARS Bethesda is the most overrated game studio in human history. Blows my mind when people say otherwise smh

Starfield is a really fun game. Cyberpunk was really fun too. Both games got banged on hard by people but I don’t think those people know how to have fun.

In a decade, Bethesda is non existant

Im personally never going to buy any bethesda game again

I just gotta say, I think you’re letting them off the hook by acting like the base game has good story. It doesn’t. It’s poorly written and the characters are boring as ever. A far cry from even fallout 4. Companions are the worst in any BGS game. The loot is horrible. I could go on but I just wanted to point out, don’t give them credit for starfield as a base game. Because it’s the worst they’ve put it out in along time.

Between Emils response and now Todds, not only will i be skipping the next expansion for SF, but I’ll be skipping ES6 as well. This absolutley brain dead, tone deaf, head up ass approach to dealing with the criticisms is proof a plenty they have lost their way and aren’t coming back any time soon.

You cannot release a game that feels this downright dated in the market, charge full price for it, and then tell the consumer they are wrong when the chorus of criticims are singing valid ones.

I just think a lot of you Starfield people are hard to please. I came back to it after a slight dip in the water before and am enjoying myself. I use the buggy almost all the time. I’ll have to evaluate Shattered Space when I buy it.

I think this Microsoft purchase is a big part of the problem honestly. I hoped it would’ve added more resource for BGS to do what they do best. But if you’ve ever worked for a large corporation you know that they love to bog down your time with buzzy, meaningless corporate meetings, culture, and beaucracy. You see it in their PR responses too. (Sounds like a room full of lawyers and advisors..)

I think the dev’s in the trenches know exactly what’s wrong with Starfield. They likely want a better end product. But large cap corporations love having too many chefs in the kitchen. Too many layers of communication and approval. To much constraint on the actual artists. Seems like this trend will likely continue in gaming until the money tapers off enough for the higher-ups to notice. Or another sector of gaming steps in to pick up the slack..

If I were Xbox I would be livid trying to manage the ego on Todd Howard and Co.

If Bethesda fumbles the Elder Scrolls VI… Then there’s no hope of Bethesda ever learning their lesson and they will join the ranks of every other legendary game studio that has washed up and only produces mediocre products.

Maybe they knew es6 expectations were so high, they released starfield to temper them a little 🤣

I think It really summed up how dismissive and out of touch their management is towards the community when at the original release Howard completely dismissed the performance issue’s with the statement, “maybe you need to upgrade your PC for this one”, instead of saying we are aware of the issues and are working to fix them. I found it so patronising.

16x the buggy. – BGS probably

Blizzard 2.0

I am still upset that I bought the big edition with everything in it.

I got 35 hours into it and stopped. I ended up starting The Outer Worlds again because I prefer good writing to anything else.

Todd Coward.

I mean, Rockstar wasn’t bad

Phil Spencer called Dragon Age Veilguard “a total masterpiece, that could change RPGs forever.”

Xbox and all of their sub-devs are done. There is not a single redeeming quality about either, it’s over. Hence them heading towards no longer making actual platforms themselves, because they know they suck 😂

This dude is still talking about Starfield 😂

Thank you for being honest.

Well, i loved the base game. LOVED. But this DLC, oh man…. so so terrible….

I would disagree on one point, legendary loot. That’s one of my biggest gripes with fallout 4. Yes, have legendary weapons in the form of unique weapons that are objectively better than any other weapon of the same type. But, by having procedural generated “legendary” items with specific effect tags creates gear or loot treadmill where people will min/max and farm until they get it. WoW made the same mistake with the titanforging system where you could get an item that was great, but it wasn’t titanforged, creating a chase the dragon scenario where you couldn’t get BiS (best in slot) for everything. I do agree with them making uniques modifiable in fallout 4, but the legendary drops devalued the uniques. A better system is to have the unique weapon system from fallout NV but allow them to be modable. Deterministic loot has always gone over better in RPGs and was a lesson that even WoW had to learn and roll back on. The only way I can see random legendaries working is if you make the effects objectively worse than the unique version of the weapon. Would love to see your take on it, but I’m a firm believer in deterministic loot from specific sources or locations vs procedural generated loot. Great video

Why graphics stop improve in games?

Starfield consists of
1. Mind numbing procedurally generated areas.
2. Unrewarding loot
3. Braindead NPCs with bland dialogue
4. Unengaging missions full of loading screens.

Yes, Starfield has its enjoyable moments and can be gorgeous but at the core, it’s completely shattered. The game is a disappointment that cannot even be changed by modders and I don’t think Bethesda grasps this which is the most troubling part. If you’re looking forward to the next Elder Scrolls, you had better limit your expectations or wait for reviews before purchasing.

Until today, you still need to download a 3rd party mod to solve the fps acceleration thing for Fallout 4. Without the mod, the game is almost unplayable for people who can run game more than 60 fps. The game’s speed is locked with fps. Its fucking gnarly.

Move on to a new game, adding DLC isnt going to fix the broken core of the game.

Fine let the company crumble under its own hubris and finally Fallout may land on the lap of a company that can actually make a good Fallout game

Bethesda Games Studios are not moving forward, they are going backwards. Howard needs to go, and take his game design choices with him.

Starfield to this day is a game I got for free to my GPU and would love to return the free copy because of how garbage it is in every single aspect. Like I will not hate on any game that does something right, Veilguard has massive problems in terms of writing but as a game itself it is very solid and runs great except for a very few minor graphical bugs or technical issues and compared to inquisition it actually has a fun gameplay loop that’s why I am still sad so many people were giving it less than 5/10 because on paper the game is solid but act 1 is an actual garbage in terms of writing which improves but never gets great.

Meanwhile Starfield at release was running like shit to the point it was not working on GPUs it was promoted with during the first week, had no innovation of any kind and it actually have removed innovations they made in FO4, it was overall idea starved game that had ok writing at best but probably worst writing bethesda had ever have, and only thing that I can somewhat say is decent about the game is food models.

Todd has to go… he got his Job because of Morrowind. Which is ironic. Since all games since Morrowind get dumb down mor and more… let Todd go, bring back Morrowind vibes

If they don’t give a sh*t about the quality of their game or what players think about it, then why should I?

Sorry I’m usually the guy to say they’ll get em next time, but not for Bethesda.

With Sweet Baby being partnered with Xbox, I’m so excited for the future of the brand.

Hot take: Bethesda will never make another good game again. Not ES6. Not F5. Not even S2. Write them off and move on.

Todd is so far up his own arse he doesn’t realise that his views on game design are outdated and hated by the consumer.

Bethesda is Done ✅ Starfailed isn’t even successful as Obsidian’s Grounded.😂

Remember this quote: We want to answer ‘yes’ every time the player asks a question that starts with ‘Can I…?’ ? Well…

Can I upgrade my weapons? You can modify your weapons from a very small pool of attachments, but not really upgrade, you can’t make a base weapon calibrated, or calibrated to refined, so the answer is “no”

Can I fly my ship to go places? You can definitely land your ship on different places, but you can’t fly to go places. You have an animation to go to different planets, you have an animation when you land, but there isn’t any way to actually fly places, sure you fly your ship in space, but there isn’t any space travel, so the answer again is “no”

Can I choose to be who I want to be and act in which ever way I want? You can choose your background and have responses based on that, but you can’t refuse quests outright, you can’t make mistakes, you can’t fail. There is verbal role-play, except that it’s railroaded, your answers mostly are yes, yes but sarcastic, no but actually yes, I’ll say yes later, or question. You can’t refuse most things, so again “no”

Starfield has become the game where they tell you “Yes*, you can do that… except only in this specific way. Why? Because we want you to make your own choices, predetermined choices but choices nonetheless”, and it’s starting to rub me the wrong way, the more they try to acknowledge, sorry, “acknowledge” criticism, they more I realize they have their fingers in their ears going “lalalalala our games are always great and critical successes lalalala”

With the November update, I’m so close to not recommending the game to anyone, I really want to, but their practices are becoming EA pre-lawsuit. They are monetizing FOMO by just making paid mods achievement friendly, all mods allowing achievements worked in the past, so this is just redesigning the wheel into multiple parts to stick a price tag on them individually and then telling you that that paint you want on it is going to nullify your warranty unless you give them yet another $20. It just cements their priority: money, a priority that has executed (for lack of a better word) so many promising games in the past

at this point im just assuming “phoning it in” is a feature, not a bug

Oh i am so Tired of this.. a game-desinger Talks Over something and Streamer like you go ” thats not the Problem ” he did not twietet about Problems.. but hate creates more clicks.. one YTber more to not click.. this Kind of content is so boring

Ignorance, greed and simplicity are the problems that plague the industry.

The space combat sucked as well. This was the most boring game I’ve ever looked forward to.

I hard disagree, shattered space is the peak of starfield.
That is how desperate things are.

Hard to see this getting a NMS style revival if they can’t acknowledge what they did wrong in the first place…

Matty,

For years you’ve avoided politics and controversy, and I’m so proud of you and grateful for that. Watching your channel is a breath of fresh air because it’s 100% pure gaming….and I’ll always ALWAYS respect you for that.

With that being said there is a massive elephant in the room and frankly we have to discuss it. Most, if not all, of the gaming companies don’t care anymore. They don’t care about their customers. They don’t care about gaming or gamers. Hell they don’t even care about making money anymore…. They only care about one thing… The massive cult of pushing an ideology and frankly attacking gamers simply for being men, straight or white.

Game quality has dropped to zero over the past 10 years and now we finally know why. Companies like Black Rock and sweet baby inc are destroying the creative side of the industry.

My advice is we all take a long break from gaming, shower regularly, hit the gym, work extra hours, invest, save, and eat healthier….

Work on yourself and just hope that the game industry can pull itself out of this canyon of chaos that it dug itself into one day.

At this point I’m wondering if Howard even understands why we like his games.

You are a great example of someone who gives harsh but true criticism without lapsing into just angry screaming. Appreciate your insights MrMattyPlays

i think this guy needs to re-evaluate skyrim. chillrend was not a unique weapon, it’s yet another bog standard sword (in this case glass) with an enchantment on it. Skyrim barely has any unique weapons, the only ones I can think of are the daedric ones and Wuuthrad.

I don’t think I’ll end up preordering elder scrolls 6 at this point

People gave them the benefit of the doubt with Fallout 4, they did everything wrong with 76. People gave them the BotD with 76, they did everything wrong with Starfield.
How many times does Bethesda need to do absolutely nothing right for people to finally stop having faith in the company?
I thought the literal scam they ran with 76’s merchandise would be enough to shatter whatever trust they still had. How wrong I was.

I love the Bethesda games up to starfield, for better or worse. Starfield always looked pretty meh but I would have probably still bought it if it wasn’t Xbox exclusive.

Starfield blows

Matty Slowly turning on Bethesda, join the club. Don’t be afraid.

I agree with everything you said, except the Buggy take. I think the buggy is MILES better than the jet pack. It would be better if I could fly around with the jet pack but I can’t so it makes it tedious.

Bethesda-microtransactions= enough said😊

Starfields main story is one of the worst storylines ever made and that’s saying something. Stop making excuses for the game. Bethesda’s main writer is bad.

MATT, WHY DON’T YOU SHARE THIS VIDEO WITH HOWARD HIMSELF? That makes a lot of sense to me.

Been in love with BGS games since Morrowind. Microsoft ruined them. It’s a shadow of what it once was and I will not be hyping myself up for ES6

When I completed the main story of Shattered Space, I had no desire to return to Dazra. Even now the planet seems bleak and depressed, not a location I look forward to. What happened there was worse than Thanos’ finger snap; at least those people came back, but in Dazra they’re gone forever.
Depressing.

Which podcast was this one?

Lmao fraud Howard with another mediocre game

The issue is Bethesdas focus has shifted from quality narrative stories and gone to “wow look at the graphics/ look how textured this button is”, I’m genuinely convinced Bethesdas largest problem is many of there real developers who know how to do anything beyond basic have left the company, now it’s all marketing people and modders

institutional incompetance. they still want to use a 15 year old game engine. next.

I kinda miss when Bethesda used to go dormant for years without addressing the public and they would appear out of nowhere with an absolute banger. Now every single time any spokesperson comes out to say anything it’s always the hottest take and just stirs up unnecessary controversy, I’m actually starting to get sick of hearing from them. Please Bethesda just stop trying to tell us we’re wrong and take the L, put your heads down and just make a good game again.

I thought House Va’Ruun was going to be like the Klingons from Star Trek. Very aggressive and formidable.

“You can’t just check the boxes of your old games and expect it to work”… except they didn’t check those boxes. They barely checked a few of them. All Starfield had to do to succeed was copy Fallout 4, throw it in space, and write a tighter story. It did NONE of that. The only thing I’d say the game did right was the ship building, but that’s so inconsequential that… it doesn’t really matter.

I will you would have read the game file interview instead of the IGN article. Your opinion would likely be different.

I really held put for starfield but the sheer disappointment of Shattered Space and the poor performance finally made me delete. Maybe I will re-download when modders add a substantial amount of content to the game.

In other news…

Bethesdas success ruined them. It made them complacent and lazy.

Im not buying ESVI

Bethesda Game Studios in Alan Iverson’s voice: “We talking about a customer? Not an investor. Not an investor. Not an investor. We talking about customers?”

Yup time to tell everyone you know how trash Bethesda really is these days and stop playing there games and for damn sure don’t give them any money…

The fact that even modders say that this game can’t be saved is just hilarious and sad.

Skyrims _bard_ college was 90% dungeon running & you don’t get to play _any_ instrument, the signs were there from the start. They even had the spectral drum from the Dragonborn DLC yet they miss ALL THAT POTENTIAL all the damn time. (then sell it to you later for $5.99)

Dude, do we really need 18 minutes, to break down a statement from Bethesda?? Come on man , that’s just unnecessary

oof, we need a term for “rose tinted glasses” but for things happening right now. How many “you’ll get ’em next time”s can you give before you realize they’re just not good anymore?

Have Todd and Emil realized this game sucks cock yet? No? Ight cool just checking in.

They had the chance to introduce a multiverse devouring cosmic horror beyond our human understanding and just…didn’t use it.

Leftist pronoun woke people never take feedback maturely and that’s a literal fact. All that non sense is gonna ruin es6 just like it did starfield.

I love starfield. I don’t understand why people don’t like it. I do wish the interiors had more options

It happens when companies are so used to angry fanboys defending them at every occasion for years.

People aren’t going to be prepared for how bad the next Elder Scrolls is going to be.

The problem with this game from the gate was everybody wanted good story campaign. The focused on that. Not exploration or adventure. So the game is made to play through the storyline. That’s about it. Everybody got what they wanted. I figure they would at least keep the momentum in past games. Like Skyrim caves can last a hr. You can get through a cave in 3 min in Starfield. Base building in fallout 4 you can put as many gun turrets as building cap would allow. Not Starfield. What 4-6 turrets? Yea they might have got a good story, but definitely took away from adventure and exploration. I haven’t played shattered space. I have been dealing with real life stuff. Haven’t played any game in a few months. But the way the game is to be played is play through the main story and done. Pretty much where they went with this. Which is unfortunate. I assume by reviews shattered space is even worse. It’s definitely no 10+ year game. Maybe with modders. It’s not a playable game like Skyrim once you finish the main story or before you start the main story.

This is the cold hard truth. We expect excellence from BGS probably more than we do any other dev.

Why? Because they have given us what no other dev has before and when they are at their best, they are the best in this genre.

I dare you to name another dev that’s been making multiple A.++ games for 10,15, 20+ years that is currently trending up. You can’t.

Gaming is changing, and our standards have raised.

With all of that being said. Every single one of you will buy ES6 day one. Don’t pretend otherwise.

I hope todd watches this and takes notes for elder scrolls 6

Now I understand why Elder Scrolls Online has such crappy loot systems. 100% of the quest rewards are worthless.

Yeah, it’ll be real fun picking my pronouns in ES6 as well as probably having certain scars in a medieval type fantasy world because it worked so well for other games. Let’s make it extremely clear for these companies that the majority of gamers don’t want this nonsense in games by not buying them. If you make exceptions no matter how small you’ll end up with more and more of this stuff in games. Give an inch and they beat you over the head for a mile.

Bethesda needs less random items and radial quests, and more quests like Mantis. Mantis led to an awesome ship and armor with some awesome lore and it was a tough fight if you didn’t have good weapons and armor.

Let the AAA gaming crash continue!

Bethesdas writing team must be friends and family the way they avoid ever acknowledging any story criticism

Bethesda being Bethesda, what did you expect lol

Bethesda needs to listen to the feedback, and not just some. But a lot of it.

Turd-Field…err..I mean Star Field is a grey, unimaginative mess.

I was expecting something like No Mans Sky, but with RPG quests and tons of Sci-fi memes.
Better to pretend it doesn’t exist.

It seems like we’re more passionate about Starfield than they are about

Waiting for the game of the year edition.

matty i think your takn the cooment of perhaps we should of kept the buggy for the expansion wrong – what i believe todd trying say is fans felt that the expansion was lacking so rather than have not just the buggy but all the content thats been free added in might of made the impact bigger – he’s not saying a yeah if we just had the buggys in the dlc it would slapped

skyrim for example had less free content if you removed creation club it had like a texture pack but most newer content was dlc
so wuth that logic Todd kinda right if they kept all the free updates that came out it might of received better reception

Bethesda really becoming the snake eating it’s own tail, but at this point it’s eating its own shit and calling it gourmet

Most companies run on profitability, not customer satisfaction. I know this goes hand in hand in some ways, but nowadays the bare sale numbers of these games are so high that you can bassically shit on the fans and still be profitable.

The only thing these companies have done is made it so that I don’t buy the game “pre-order”, or “after launch”. Only after someone I trust tells me it’s OK to look at..

I think bethesda feels too safe under microsoft

I know this is an unfair comparison as they aren’t the same type of game exactly but I’m gonna go with it anyways. I’m just now playing SW outlaws on ver 1.4, this game shits all over starfield for me personally. Of course it has the SW universe/IP to help bolster itself but I’ve had more fun in this game in 5 hours than I did in 60 of starfield.

The space combat is essentially the same minus some systems, so it’s fine. The combat isn’t as engaging as starfield, no question, but the worlds and the characters are far and away on another level. I just got to the 2nd planet kijimi and got damn it’s beautiful, the vibe is so on point and feels like a real lived in world, contrast that with starfields endlessly repetitive and lifeless maps it’s no contest.

It’s time for new leadership at bethesda that can actually take criticism to heart and innovate their games, and new writers please omg. For now it looks like as usual obsidian is the real king of this space, and will remain so with avowed looking very promising.

The problem with all big gaming studios nowadays is that they act more like a money-hungry and driven stock company. If you consider that Starfield already brought in over 700mio dollars, this satisfied the investors, and the company earned their share, why spend more money to make the product better if it’s already profitable? I think that this is exactly the thought process in any big gaming company and the reason why Starfield is as boring and uninteresting as it is, they just said, “Aww that should be enough.”

I really feel that since developers are usually far left that their stories are getting safer and safer.. thats a big problem. Cant take any chances and they censor their own work

You really are full of yourself. Millions of people play the games and enjoy them for what they are. I’m glad Bethesda mostly ignores the likes of you, or everything would be Skyrim.

It honestly sucks so much that Bethesda has lost its mojo. Who else can you blame but Todd Howard? Just take the critism and get better. Fuck your feelings.

The people in charge are too Rich, and theres no real consequence for putting out mid games.. because of the first wave of initial sales
😂

I was coping hard that ES6 could be good… Not after starslop!

Wow. You actually made a CRITICAL video about Bethesda. Not gonna lie, that is raising your credibility in my eyes a lot.

I wish they would just drop starfield and get on with TES 6. Nobody asked for starfield and nobody cares about it. We’ve been waiting for TES 6 since fallout 4 came out

When yall realize that they rereleased Skyrim so many time bc they forgot how to make good games since then

😪…they are probably in some kind of waiting mode for what tends to happen after a year or 2 when they release a game. At first people hate it…but eventually grow to accept its charm. So, they’re not listening to us cuz they think they know better than us what we’ll enjoy in the future. ES6 is probably in a whole lot of trouble because of this mentality…it may be time to Old Yeller the situation…they’ve gone a bit rabid with delusion

When your clients (the players) wait for a specific product (Elder Scrolls VI) and you provide something that was not asked and not working properly, you can’t blame the clients.

The problem with BGS is that they’re high on their own supply. They think that because it’s a “Bethesda game”, that in and of itself MAKES it a good game, by definition. To put it bluntly, they like the smell of their own farts.

Bethesda is just completely out of touch at this point. I have no hope that we’ll get an ES6 that doesn’t disappoint.

Hey shout out to a fellow Lexx fan, Matty 😂

When you say that an Indy fan might give it a higher score I would actually disagree. Keep in mind that these games that are built around a IP with a big fan base. They hold those stories pretty pretty high so it’s more likely that they might ruin the character or not live up to the Indy fantasy.

Old Bethesda games worked… 15-20 years ago. Just going through the motions isn’t enough nowadays, game design has evolved and you need to innovate to keep up. Bethesda is a company that designs its games like it’s still 2006

why isn’t bethesda bankrupt?

I think the Shattered Space DLC finally put the nail in it for me. I still go back to Skyrim, I beat Fallout 4 but never really go back to it, never touched Fallout 76, I did 100% Starfield, but at long last I’ve come to the realization with Shattered Space that Bethesda may just be out of touch anymore and doomed to never return. Unfortunately, that’s the case for a lot of amazing developers. As I get older it’s getting more and more difficult for me to have anticipation for a release. Maybe it’s all this DEI BS and what Dragon Age Veilguard has done making me lose confidence in any game development, but at least the latter seems to be a dying trend. Bethesda has done what any business has done, cycled creativity in and out and deluded it.

And then came Stalker 2, which isn’t perfect. But man did they stay true to Stalker. I love it

Starfield was planned to be less a game, and more of a gaming/content platform, and Shattered Space is a direct reflection of that

Lmao, puttig the buggy into the DLC wouldn’t have saved it at all… I’ve never even used it to this day because I know it would just slow me down actually.

Honestly in shattered space I lost my drive to play when I got access to the special armory and it had worse guns than the general store that I had access to at the beginning of the dlc

Playing a little devil’s advocate here, but didn’t this happen with Skyrim and Fallout 4 also? First expansions were a bit lacking but second and third grew each time?

A very important video, hope they see this and deeply reflect

Its not worth having good expectations of any company acquired by Microsoft. Your just going to be disappointed.

Wrong lessons or different opinions

Yes, I finally picked the master lock, now let’s see what’s inside…
Great it’s yet another cheap plastic toy gun…

Nope, sorry I see nothing wrong at all with the loot in the game.
“It just works” 😇

What are the people saying…
FIRE TODD

Thx for the vid

No faith in BGS. Would rather see an indie company pickup the ES and FO IPs, it’s the only hope for it.

[4:30] Putting the buggy in is what happens when you give in to community pressure. Gamers don’t know what they need or want in a game. All Bethesda needed to do was improve the JetPack so that you could boost forward and fly-fly, similar to DaggerFall.

“The customer would have liked the undercooked chicken better if we gave them the flat soda at the same instead of before the meal.”

If they are going to learn from these mistakes, TES6 is the time to do it.

I was looking forward to Starfield thinking they’d have the usual secrets and rare/legendary armor and weapons to find and putting that content out and boy was I disappointed. I really feel like they were scared to offend anyone and take any risks and that left the story, choices, and dialog really bland. I do feel like a pre Skyrim time what if of Starfield coming out then would be a greatest of all time type of game.

As Matty said it is really sad and I don’t expect much from them going forward.

idc about this guys opinion like the rest of you but i loved this studio. Its all turned to shit

A lot of the commentary on Bethesda talks about them “learning there lesson” based off fan reaction, or choosing not to implement changes fans have been asking for, or not being able to take criticism from fans. I recall hearing this sentiment as far back as fallout 4.

Why are we all collectively ignoring the fact that their games are selling well. Why would they need to make improvements when the games are selling better than ever? Why would we assume they care about our reactions? They just want us to be curious enough to by the game right?

Honest questions here, I was pretty disappointed by this game, I felt justified in sailing the seven seas in order to play it.

Lmao… in what way is it like morrowind?!

Honestly really disappointing. I’m getting older now, have a family, and I can’t justify spending time playing garbage games. If I’m going to stay up late and/or ask for some personal time…it better be for a good game.

Starfield is missing that deeper exploration you found in their other games. In other bethesda games you’ll get sent there for Mission A -> whilst there you might find another mission completely unrelated so now you have Mission A and B to complete but then on top of that that location has a history for you to uncover through environmental storytelling, it was just much deeper than starfields exploration, it’s devoid of it.

there is a couple of good locations in starfield 1 is the colony that didn’t want to forget the old ways, it was really unique and you could learn so much about the world there. was really well done. another was “the platform” you know the one with all the critters and it was like a horror movie, you find out they’ve come out of a whole, did they dig too deep? was done really well……….. and then they went and stuck that exact platform story and everything on about 50 other planets as RNG content…. like dude… it’s good content because it’s unique, don’t make me hate it by seeing it a 1 00 times over.

From the get go, Bethesda came out with the “we always wanted to do a space game” nonsense instead of contiuning with a great story ES6 and Fallout. Its like when bands put out great albums and then say we are doing a different kind of album expecting it to do as well as previous albums that fans wanted. Bethesda made a game (Starfield) they wanted instead of the game fans wanted (ES6).

Todd Howard needs to be put to pasture, plain and simple.

“We should have held back the buggy” is truly a Don Mattrick-level take.

The only game I was happy to finish. Boring and soulless. I was thinking about giving it another go with the DLC, but I don’t hate myself enough.

I like Bethesda and I want themto do better. I think Todd just take a moment and stop thinking that te fans are just hating him and Bethesda for no reason and listen to the criticism of Starfield and try to improve it in ES6.

I have shattered space and can’t even get the quest to start it to pop up.

Bethesda taught me never to pre order a game ever, even from a studio you trust.

I mean no offense but it’s wild to hear Matty say this is his favorite developer. It’s just insane to think anyone in 2024 can say that about BGS with a straight face. Not trying to be a dick, just it’s wild.

The WRITING is the no.1 problem they have. Along with the fact that Bethesda’s general vibe does NOT suit ‘clean’ environments, i.e. scifi, bars, offices, labs etc. The atmosphere feels sterile and all wrong. The music of Starfield is IMO not up to standard either. I understand what they were going for…it just doesn’t quite hit the mark.

Kid just said Bethesda can tell stories… No, Matty, they can’t.

I have a million credits and now there is literally nothing to do they need to make more money spending options

Wonder when people are just going to realize it is not just Shattered Space story that is bad? It is in fact the entire game of Starfield story that is bad. What I have to write an essay for this low effort game as a response? Seriously?

I don’t play Starfield

Bethesda seems to always find a way to remind me not to play their games

Moved on from Bethesda they where a great company one of the best but with starfield and shattered space has shown me that they’re Turing into a Ubisoft company minus as many micro transactions but poor quality bad at taking customers feedback at this point I rather another Skyrim remaster with starfield graphics, elder scrolls is going to be horrible if they can’t listen to feedback and they drop a horrible buggy game again, buggy games are common now but there difference is some companies care to fix them such as cyberpunk and NMS, been enjoying stalker 2 and death stranding moved on from starfield deleted it for better games thinking of redownload Skyrim for the millionth time.

When I see child behavior like this by a company I quit and move on, note that your time is of most value. Don’t invest it playing trash

I gave up on Beth and just went back to new vegas. Never looking back.

I personally believe that you aren’t critical enough of Bethesda. Just goes to show that no matter what you say, no one will be happy with you lol. Bethesda fans have been so toxically positive that they allowed bethesda to get to this point. It is fine to love the games, but you needed to call out their bad aspects and decisions more firmly year ago. Skyrim with 50 different releases? Paid mods over and over? Bad writing? Fans rewarded Bethesda for bad behavior at every turn. Now we are here.

Let me guess they blame the players

It’s like BGS has dementia and they don’t know what they’re doing any more. 😢

“They learned nothing” – Starting to sound VERY familiar in our culture isnt it?

I don’t think Bethesda are capable of making good games anymore unfortunately. Hopefully the new elder scrolls proves me wrong but I won’t get my hopes up.

Stop buying games and I bet you they’ll listen

these games where at best, mediocre. But with DEI and wokeness, it really put it over the edge. To pretend otherwise is a sign of that very mentality and thought is what’s harming the industry. How many classic IP’s must be destroyed due to this till people finally figure it out (aside from the real gamers themselves)

Could you please say, FORward? FOward is not a word. Ok I’m cooked.

I have zero hope for ES6. They clearly don’t want to listen to fans and criticism, so I won’t buy their games 🤷🏻

It must be hard being Matty trying to stay positive in this bleak gaming market. I get it dude. You genuinely want games to be good because that’s your passion. It’s a shame that where the AAA industry isn’t greedy they often end up being mediocre.

I was happy with the game, it was exactly what I thought it would be. Think they made decent money as well

I’ll agree with their potential for storytelling. Back when I played Bethesda games, their strength was worldbuilding and story. I stopped playing their work because they are bad at making games

As an open world (worlds?) game Starfield fails in the way that Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3/4 succeeded. In those games the journey from point A to B was as interesting as the objective of the quest. In Starfield you quick travel around the galaxy or you would spend the journey jetting across the terrain to and objective point but there was little of interest to encounter along the way. No surprise encounters, no uncovered secret locations stumbled upon. While in the Fallout and Elder Scrolls game traveling to an objective location was rife with opportunities to find unknown structures or meet an NPC with their own story to tell.

Keep shilling

This rant ended up being longer than i intended, and I could honestly keep going but tldr version; it’s frustrating being a BGS fan right now

You know, I think the reason I get so frustrated about Starfield is because every time it comes up, I can’t but help but think about how much better it could’ve been. Like, a BGS game set in space, with faction tension, space combat, planet exploration, and outpost building? That sounds amazing on paper, but when I play, it feels so lacking.

I genuinely believe that if they made the game more like FO4 instead of Skyrim, it would’ve been a much better game. Because to me, it feels like they took everything that made FO4 fun and just made it worse. Weapon/armor customization was miles better in FO4, and features like layered armor and scrapping junk, which I thought were gonna be new BGS staplepoints, were completely scratched for no reason.

The buggy was buggy. Man the jokes write themselves here

lol i allways steal there games first. i bought fallout 4 and skyrim like 3 times love that one. but starfield SUCKKKKED played it through once and i was like…. im good haha

Yeah I agree with you, I would have love more dialogue with Andreja or more of the serpent dialogue if you chose the great serpent religion. I felt like it was rushed to a point that they left almost no plot to the whole story. I mean with mods fixing some issues for the game especially the loot but yeah I was expecting more out of it for shattered space. But I’m still going to play Starfield without the expansion and pray that the next release is going to bring back our expectations.

I bought starfield in good faith due to being a fan of morrowind, oblivion, skyrim, but I was disappointed due to the reasons you mentioned, I would return it if I could and will think twice before buying a bethesda game next time as it seems they have lost their way.

Yes! Shattered Space should have added shit tons of poi, new map styles, etc that would add to base game mechanic of exploring with the idea that you’ve put a buggy (faster way to explore) into these maps as well. The story of Shattered Space should have been using the “altered dimension” mechanic of that other mission combined with more detective mechanics to create a proper scary/mystery story. Instead this is just a bland and REALLY boring story that really adds nothing to Starfield universe as a whole

isnt this old news? i could have sworn you covered this already

Any developer can tell a good story. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Bethesda cooked with some of their questlines over the years and back in the Morrowind days the world building was excellent.

The issue is that they’ve totally lost their ability to consistently tie this writing together and it feels like there’s a disconnect between the world we hear about vs the world we see. Show, don’t tell. They love hyping up their factions and locations but the actual presentation is often meh. Characters love talking about their backstories but then they act like another radiant NPC with filler dialogue while they’re actually following you around. Nevermind the lack of interconnected choices and consequence.

I like legendary loots. BUT NOT if they take away the UNIQUE loots.

You’re wrong. The funding is there, but the talent isn’t and that’s the problem.

Ya i am done with bethesda, what a shame. This reminds me off the fall of bungie.

Bethesda needs to be under new management because Todd doesn’t more harm than good and Emil is just a massive shit head and can’t write a compelling story to save his life

Just put starfield to bed and put your man power into the new ES. Take when is good and bad from this and make elder scrolls one of the greatest games of all time!

Trash company making everything except the game people want.

Nobody ever wants to acknowledge that Skyrim is actually where BGS started dropping the ball. It’s not as good as Oblivion or Fallout 3.

Looking at Todd’s words a while back. Shattered space was no Far Harbor. Not even close

I’m really not excited at all for es6

The reason they learned nothing and will continue down the same path is that they are no longer a company that has to struggle to survive in between releases.

So, for the buggy: My 1st experience with the buggy was purchasing it then flying off to explore.
My character is primarily an explorer and scientist build.
I want to feel like the 1st person landing somewhere. That never happened.
Every planet or moon I ever landed on had remnants of people.
Old trash, old hab units, old equipment… always signs that you’re rediscovering what others have already found.

Anyhow, the buggy. I landed on a planet and exited my ship. I ran to the buggy and I had to stop and truly marvel at it.
Not because it was anything special.
As I ran up to it, my character punted the vehicle like a beach ball on the moon.
My character literally kicked the buggy off planet.
I stood and watched as the buggy tumbled through space and slowly drift off into space.
I uninstalled.

I really and hearty disagree with this video. Shattered Space was phenomenal, the buggy is a great addition. I think you are off and are doing a true disservice to a community of 15 millions players. Really sad to see this video from you. Very very disappointed in you. Sorry. You lost a viewer

Bethesda’s biggest problem is the same one that is contributing the collapse of Triple A Entertainment.
Everyone who made the big studios what they are, aren’t there anymore minus a couple leadership people. This added with the toxic positivity and the slow strangulation of true creativity is why you get what we currently do.

Bethesda is very lazy and just care about money.
Thats why they released unfinished games.
Look like Balders gate 3. Barely any bugs. Look on Vault 76, unplayable.

bethesda was lucky with morowing and skyrim and thats all

I don completely disagree Phil in the sense that people were disappointed that the expansion for example didn’t have new ship parts from the Varun and like only 2 armor and 5 weapons there was a lack of content in the DLC

Instant Gaming is where I shop ALL my games these days! <3

I’ll revisit BGS games when a good one comes out.

That is why its called StarFAILED!

Bethesda is so ancient old and cranky, they have lost their ‘gamer spirit’ they should have closed down years ago. Microtransactions and 27 million skyrim re-releases was life support for them.

Damn… Todd really does think the reason Starfield is failing is because he rushed Buggies…

I think they dropped the ball as far as combat for it to be compared to Skyrim. For instance, the star born powers probably would’ve been better used like spells instead of shouts. I barely use them honestly because it’s not as easily accessible. Also Skyrim had dual wielding. We could Be dual wielding our powers or have a pistol/ melee weapon in one hand and power in the other. Plus there’s only 3-4 melee animations which limits our creative process

Bethesda got old and stopped caring about why they develop games. It use to be for their fans now its for the money from their fans.

They still responding to the criticism lmfaoooo

At this point I hope ES6 flops and Microsoft shares ES and Fallout between their other studios to give us a half decent game ever few years instead of waiting forever for mediocre

Bethesda have a TON of work to do if they expect ES6 to not be completely destroyed online. Especially after playing Stalker 2 which is done by an indie dev, has better weather, no load screens for interiors etc…

Almost sure actual Bethesda like actual Bioware will not fulfill ur expectation with theyr next title relases , so since u gave space to old bioware memberswith Exodus u should do the same with the old Bethesda members talking a bit about The Wayward realms.. i think u will be intrigued

The buggy sucks. It’s not faster than the jet pack and I do more damage when I’m not in it.

In my opinion, every criticism about the stories and lack of meaningful choices apply to Skyrim as well and yet players barely mention how bad these parts are when they talk about Skyrim. I get Skyrim has a charming world to explore but when they make the content for exploration less dense, that’s exactly what Starfield is and suddenly it is considered bad. Sometimes I feel it is hard for Bethesda to not get ruined by Skyrim when everyone’s praises on the past success are more or less missing the point.

If I had to condense it into one major critique, I think their primary takeaway should be that more content, more hours one could log, does not equate to a better player experience. Tons of procedurally generated encounters/spaces is not a worthwhile experience for someone who has limited time and could be playing a rich, hand-crafted experience. I don’t have a problem with being overwhelmed with lots of content (Act 3 of Baldur’s Gate is incredible). It’s not that Starfield is overwhelming tho – it’s that it’s empty. A bland novel with a great deal of AI generated text might help pass some time, but no one is going to seek that out when there are far better, quality, books out there.

I’m playing PoE Deadfire right now in preparation for Avowed, and it’s one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. Tons of great dialogue, unique side quests, intriguing loot, etc. Even in Deadfire, sometimes the random encounters start to feel a little tiresome. However, they are mostly presented in clever ways, and the amount of rich, hand-crafted material far outweighs any of the stuff that has the potential to feel like it is wasting your time.

What I mostly miss about Bethesda games is the handcrafted stuff, Skyrim might’ve had several flaws but dungeons were usually varied, loot felt great to find and exploring was rewarding as well. You arrive at the Bannered Mare and the npc tells you to take a sit and you’ll be tended to shortly, soon, another npc asks you what you want to eat or drink… It’s scripted stuff like this that made Skyrim felt alive, like the world around you was breathing and to be a part of it was not only a privilege but that your actions actually mattered. People have routines, they eat, drink, tend to their shops and sweep dirt from the floor with a broom, the amount of lore that was in it too, I remember reading a book about that Ancestor Moth cult and spend minutes trying to gather my thoughts around it. All Bethesda wants nowadays is the easy way out, shallow worlds and randomly generated unfulfilling junk stuffed in a “AAA” “next-gen” “it just works” type of game.

Even if the complaint was a lack of features, the solution isn’t to hold off on features for an expansion, it’s to add more features in the expansion. But like you said, that’s not even the main complaint.

It’s maddening in Starfield that all the cool plot and lore happened before you get to play, galactic civil war, snake cult war etc. Looking for ancient space relics would be much more exciting with either of those events going on around the player.

Let’s be so fr, Betheda has rode on mods making their games “good” and got an ego

With Bethesda’s attitude these days….Tod SAYS , “it’s nice to miss things.” You know what I don’t miss Elder scrolls or Fallout. I’m OVER them AND have accepted that I have seen the BEST they ever will be. Thanks for the PAST but nowadays? You SUCK. Yeah, yeah the buggy messed up allll your other “work”. The buggy YOU NEVER gave a thought to for the EIGHT years you were “working” on it. Yeah THAT’S the problem. Nothing but a bunch of zombies walking around, “Grrrrr it just works, it just works.”

It’s evolving BACKWARDS! Is Modern gaming summed up in one sentence

They are distilling the game to provide as little as possible and maintain sales

Indeed, raise your standards. The writing is objectively poor

I’ve written off Bethesda since Fallout 76, specifically when they released fallout first.
Good to know I haven’t missed out on anything. I’ll probably never purchase another Bethesda game again.

I’d be happy if Bethesda just put out a game that was only as good as their past ES and FO games, even if there was nothing new or innovative. FO 76 was so-so and Starfield just missed the mark in my opinion. I thought it would be this giant never ending exploration with an awesome story. The planets did actually check the box of never ending exploration, but after a dozen planets or so, you had seen everything there was to see. The story fell flat and never really sucked me in. I’m actually jealous of people who love Starfield. I really wish I could enjoy it more.

The buggy didn’t even bring me back in the first place. Some of the worst writing in a game. Ever.

Did you ever expect that someday BioWare and Bethesda would both abandon us like this?

the problem is that the majority of western devs, especially in management positions, do not play other games. ain’t no way todd howard is taking time out of his day to play someone else’s game; he’s too busy nursing his micro-celebrity status

alternatively, the overwhelming majority of Eastern devs, even in management positions, actively play alot of games and ingest other forms of media, which is a big reason why the East is obliterating the West in damn near every entertainment medium

the reality is that Skyrim is dated now; its story and gameplay would not hold up to today’s ‘masterpieces’, however companies like Bethesda don’t seem to understand how progress works and they continue operating like their previous work is still the peak, when it’s barely the foot of the mountain now

For me personally, and I know this might be harsh and unpopular especially in this community…but I’ll weigh in anyways. I actually ended up refunding this game about an hour and a half or so in. I love sci fi, and I loved Skyrim….this game had me pretty excited, although I tempered my expations due to Bethesda’s recent track record and the initial release of Cyberpunk (which I did not refund and enjoyed after the initial issues were fixed, luckily I gave CDPR the benefit of the doubt bc their track record was much better) I just could not get into Starfield. My first impression was that the scope and size felt fabricated, like I could feel the smoke and mirrors….I just didn’t get the sense of exploration that I wanted. I didn’t really get invested or immersed. I thought the art direction was honestly kind of uninspired…I thought the mechanics were derivitive. Idk, I just thought a lot of the areas I was hoping to have fun with let me down and I didn’t want to slog through to find the good parts. I will probably give it another try some day, but I don’t know….based on reviews and where it’s at now I’m still not feeling it. I’d rather watch a playthrough.

Starfield needs to look at no man sky for it reference because they are clueless.

I love Fallout 4 – I didn’t start playing it until 2018, but I’m ‘still’ playing it avidly. One of my favorite things about FO4 is the storytelling and the lore. Especially what I call “incidental lore” – the little stories on the sidelines like the Raiders, Lily and Red Tourrette or the separated family from Westing Estate. You find fragments of these stories throughout the landscape and piece it together through normal play and it just gives the rest of the game and main story so much more depth. I find that severely lacking in Starfield on top of the repeated identical POI’s from planet to planet and system to system, which makes it “Ho-hum, well back to Fallout 4 or Skyrim.”

Greatness comes from the ability adapt and learn from our mistakes.

I have said this time and again, I got burned on FO76, I gave Starfield a chance however, I did not buy it until after the release. And still time and time again there are continously bugs, lack luster content, and what I term as unfinished content. Frankly there is one problem with Bethesda, and that is Todd Howard. Why Microsoft doesn’t get rid of him, I don’t know. But until that happens, Bethesda will continue to put out crap, and waiting for modders to fix the bugs and add decent content. Elder Scrolls 6 will be no different.

Starfield is just boring, that’s it, that’s all. Just boring

It’s a special talent to tell absolutely nothing in so many words.

Smelling their own farts foe too long o er there at Bethesda. Time to wake up and smell the trash they are putting out!!

They need to rip the band-aid off and stop any further development of Starfield and move on. It is a dud, stop wasting time on it. It’s that simple.

Microsoft should shut down BGS and sell the IPs to studios who will do it the right way. There’s dozens of game dev teams who could make better fallout and ES games. Hell just give obsidian the rights make a fallout game.

I know it’s a long time from now, but I am rapidly losing hope for F5 when it eventually comes out.

What’s the problem with steam reveiws???

Bethesda needs a total change at the top. Howard and his failed crew must be fired.

Avowed is pronoun-filled woke slop. Be warned.

I think the thing you enjoyed about Starfield is the Bethesda magic nostalgia which quickly wares off with some of the worst dialogue known to man

I fired up Starfield to get back into the groove before diving into the new DLC. Played for about 30 minutes, got bored, and turned it off.
A week later, I realized I completely forgot why I booted the game up after so long in the first place.
To try the DLC, which I didn’t.
I think that speaks volumes. lol

I have come to believe Bethesda has no clue about the core problems of Starfield. They will not address anything.

It’s crazy to me that 14 months from release they haven’t fixed the boring loot. Combine that with the near complete lack of unique places to explore, makes it feel as if the game actively doesn’t want you to explore anywhere beyond the main quest.

***SPOILERS***

I did not trust Anasko THE ENTIRE TIME and was extremely disappointed that there were no options to act on that distrust. Also, the ending was honestly so predictable. I honestly hated that Andreja had zero things to add to literally anything. She being Va’ruun was the only reason I took her with me and the only meaningful thing is how pissed she got when told them all to F off lol.

Starfield being Todds passion project, which he always wanted to make is like the last nail in the coffin for ES6. I only anticipate PatricianTVs 20 hour analysis of this next disaster

Odd, I really liked the buggy and thought it controlled well, personally

How are there people who are this naive who think they’re actually watching these videos or listening to feedback? They’re gonna keep fucking up all the way to bankruptcy because that’s how they roll

Skyrim is not that great. It’s not bad either. It’s just “enough”. Yet gamers poured money into this game for over a decade. Buying every release, making YouTube videos, Reddit forums. You told them this is what you wanted. And they listened…

Todd Howard should play Tainted Grail. He might remember what a handcrafted, single-player rpg looks like. We all know this won’t happen, though.

People say they want constructive criticism. They actually don’t—they want validation. It’s easier to call people haters (BioWare) or talk about buggies (BGS) or say some nonsense about some games being too good than it is to admit you’re making substandard games that the core audience doesn’t like.

Bethesda is absolutely listening to its customer base which continues to reward it with massive sales.

Whether you love Shattered Space or otherwise, it’s pretty telling to hear Matty say, “Starfield checked a lot of boxes…” and then he goes on to note that it hits all the consistent high notes the customer base says they want.

He then goes on to caveat that with, basically, “I thought it was boring…”

This is all just subjectivity. And I’m not taking issue with Matty’s opinion. It’s his, and I share the *general* sense he has about the quality of the writing, narrative, type of exploration, etc.

I enjoyed Starfield, but I definitely bounced off of it in a way I did not with Skyrim or FO3…or even FO4.

But his commentary here is indicative of basically ALL of the criticism that I keep hearing about Shattered Space specifically but Bethesda more broadly. It’s not that Bethesda is like choosing to be antagonistic toward THE FAN BASE™!

That’s not what they’re doing…at all, really.

It just so happens that for a game like Fallout 76, the vast majority of hardcore criticism dovetailed with the *general public*. That’s how you end up with a game a half decade or so on that reflects (overwhelmingly) something that approaches a more traditional Fallout game with MMO elements rather than an MMO with Fallout elements. But Starfield, as a huge single player game, fits the template perfectly.

Perhaps a timely analogy would be that Starfield is a perfectly plated Thanksgiving dinner. It hits all the high notes — turkey, gravy, stuffing, sweet potato pie, mac & cheese, etc.

But most of it isn’t seasoned properly and the turkey is good but the skin isn’t properly crisped.

But it’s still THANKSGIVING.

They have destroyed all hope and hype for ES6.

As the kids say, Bethesda fell off. I was skeptical and LEGALY accuired a copy early… For free. I trial played starfield for 25 hours… The stuff that made Bethesda games great has been fading since fallout 4. They don’t have an easy job, but they hit great heights in the past. I just want that again.

The first gaming crash in 1982 was heralded by ET. The second gaming crash will be heralded by TES6

matty is auch a garvage channel. sponsors suck ass. takes suck ass. what a virgin lol

whats sad about this isnt just starfield. its bethesda over all. I used to love this developer. Their worlds that they created were Alive and full of Lore and full of novelty things to do. Then for them to release Starfield as a brand new IP their first in over 20 YEARS and it be This? Its embarrassing. Starfield has great systems in it, but none of it is complete. The faction quest lines are the best. Though once you get those done theres nothing more besides doing a ton of temples over and over and over and over and over. Warframe has more varied content and interesting storylines.

I love space games i thought that if BSG made one that you had meaningful space combat with their world building…. it would be a Dream. The reality? the space combat sucks IF YOU CAN FIND IT. Super poor mission boards, no real trading, Nothing to find in space. There isnt a special weapon one or a ship hidden in an astroid. You either get ambushed in a couple of systems or find nothing for 100s of hours. Building the ships was cool out of the 2k hrs i have in the game 1500 of it is in ship building.

Outposts sucked. The builder for those are nightmares. Just trying to get basic resources for those is Tedious and convoluted. stealth game play is trash. science skills seem cool then you realize its just for your research lab Only. Getting elements for mods? LOLOL Loot was a complete let down who puts a digi pick and 1100 credits behind a master lock? and how did they end up with so many special abilities and None of them be tuned to be relevant?? Like How. They created Skyrim and cant make meaningful Spells?

I personally am sending them on their way just like bioware and several other studios. The audacity to blame customers when what they are putting out is such crap, nah not worth it. When they are ready to make games again instead of impress their ADMINISTRATIVE class. Im here for it. Till then they can shut their doors for all i care.

In Bethesda’s case, they will never take accountability, because Todd Howard KNOWS, whenever they release a new game, the traditional media and the new media of content creators, will kiss his ass and give him softball questions in order to “get the scoop” or maintain that access. This dude has not ONCE had legitimate pushback in ANY interviews I’ve seen about “76’s” terrible launch, the mundanity of “Starfield” or the games continuous use of an antiquated game engine. Instead, Todd spews word salad, the media nods like good little boys and girls, and the same old charade continues. Bitching about Bethesda’s choices in a compliment sandwich after the fact does NOTHING. Somebody man up and put that dude’s feet to the fire. But y’all won’t.

After playing stalker 2 i realized how horrible starfields exploration is. It is so bland. Less than basic. Just feels like early ai generated slop. Stalker 2 makes me feel like i am in a world thats alive. Every where i go there something going on.

BGS and most company’s have shown me that gaming is no longer worth it. I watched my passion for gaming get shit on more by the company’s that are just too greedy and don’t listen to us, the customer base.

Bethesda have the resources but not the vision or ideas.

OnceLostGames have the vision and ideas but not the resources.

I’ll say no more…

Shattered Space was an awesome piece of DLC and really well made. Just because you don’t like it because ??? then that doesn’t mean no one “learned”

oh Todd, you snake oil salesman… I’m glad that I’ve skipped the starfield all together. I’m sure 10 years later some modders will turn it into something special. But not the bethesda obviously. I just wish I was this smart when the Fallout 76 came out.

Starfield is an excellent game! Anyone with gamepass is appreciative for Bethesda and what they bring to our subscription service. They just released DLC for free on top of giving us the base game for free. Thank you Bethesda and thank you Microsoft!!! 💪🎮

Many, many years ago, there was a mod that added motorcycles to Fallout 3.

Despite literal decades between that ancient mod and Starfield, the buggy feels almost exactly like that motorcycle mod. Tacked on, not integral, with tetchy interaction with the environment.

The environment is not built with vehicles in mind.

bunch of hypocrites..They love the DEI money so now they sold you game 80$ made by bunch of juniors hired for their ideology instead of their skills..How much in bonuses these so called dev get to create garbage?

Starfield is a Dead Horse that is not even worth a horse DLC.. Shoot it and move on Bethesda.

Im no longer a Bethesda fan as I used to be, Im all on board CD Projekt RED now.

People still holding out that bethesduuuuuuh will stop shitting the bed.the studio and people working in it our totally different from when they made successful good games.elder scrolls six is gonna suck balls sadly 😂

30 dollars ? Uh no.

I desperately want to believe that this is PR more than anything else. I would love to live in a world where a AAA game studio had the integrity to say “you know what, yeah we could’ve done better with this one. We will take the criticism to heart and make changes to ensure our next release in more in line with what our fans want.” But we don’t live in that reality. I assume that there are discussions behind closed doors about why the reviews are so bad and I don’t really expect them to come out and agree with the criticism of their game.

That said, Todd and Emil especially seem to have this public persona of being completely unwilling to accept constructive criticism. In Todd’s case, it’s his insistence on implementing streamlined and dumbed-down game mechanics topped with outdated game dev technology (see their 20-year old game engine for reference). In Emil’s case, he’s too pretentious to see that he’s either a bad writer, a lazy writer, or both.

It’s past the point of me being worried about Elder Scrolls 6, I’m just assuming it’s going to be bad. They’ll make a mediocre, buggy game that would’ve been decent by 2016 standards but brandish the public persona that they gave us the second coming of Christ.

I used to buy everything bethesda on preorder, did the same thing with shattered space, but from now on they will have to wait for my money until i see the reviews because it has gotten ridiculous. And not just them but anyone putting out games will have to wait

Scared for es6 😞

Random take… Liberal progressives are just bad at making video games.

Cyberpunk 2.0 + Phantom Liberty is honestly what I was thinking Starfield would be like with how much Bethseda was hyping the game up before launch. Boy im sure glad I never got it, but it sucks too because a game like that is something I’ve been wanting for ages, its such a shame it fell flat. Least Cyberpunk does a great job of satisfying my big sci-fi rpg hunger.

There’s not one great thing base game starfield does. 😂

I’ve been playing Bethesda games since Morrowind (2003 for me), and looking back over the years, I’m certain that with the stratospheric success of Skyrim, Bethesda lost its way. And this has been confirmed year after year, with each decision and each project, against the advice and interest of their public, isolating themselves more and more from it. To a point where a guy like me is no longer hyper and can’t and won’t play a single one of their productions in the future… for me, they’re dead, and that makes me sad.

Do people really think the digipick system is awful? That’s crazy.

I’ll never purchase a Bethesda game again after starfield. I didn’t purchase shattered space. The base game left a foul taste. Unless the base game gets overhauled I’m through. Loved the elder scrolls and fallout games. Put hundreds of hours into those. Only played this garbage for 40 hours trying to like it. Haven’t touched it in 10 months. Edit: wanted to add that I purchased the master chief collection and am loving it. Basic gunplay but for some reason it’s fun and it has an engaging story. These games must be 20 years old.

Simply not listening, not caring and blaming everyone and thing but themselves. Most of you are to blame though for giving Todd a god complex for Skyrim which is so watered down and not a great game it’s just an ok game pretty good but not great

Microsoft needs to make Bethesda great again. Todd created something amazing but the dude has been at it for so long. I’d say keep Todd but put someone like Matty next to him. Hell, put Matty himself next to Todd to create a fresh vision for the company. Someone who clearly understands what fans love about The Elder Scrolls and Fallout games.

If they keep going like this Bethesda will burn out or worse, turn into current Bioware, another company I loved so much.

Matty, great job on the video!
You’re pretty good at voicing our problems, hope they listen.

I’m still annoyed that this special faction doesn’t make their own ships. Why do they buy from Stroud then the port guy doesn’t understand that.

Toxic positivity can ruin society. For those working in office, we understand office politics and how management are basically infallible ego maniacs surrounded by brown nosing.

2011 “‘We have this brokend & dated creation game engine, not changing it to unreal”… and epic gets all the money from fortnite and develops unreal 5…2024: and bethesda has their creation engine. But hey, they make “retro” games that are brand new, game engine that was old in 2004, “but it is so easy to use” extended its life for another 20 years..

The problem I see is they seem to have followed the Borderlands route, except, even in borderlands there’s a ton of UNIQUE weapons that do things literally no other weapon has or can do, and on top of that is filled with randomized loot! We went from having lots of unique things that reward your time, to everything including “unique” stuff just being a variation of a random weapon. It sucks and it makes looting worth nothing after you’ve got something good. In skyrim I would collect unique things for memories of my quests etc, same in all games up to FO4. In fallout 4, I could just find a random weapon that does the same effect, rename it and bam it’s 1/1 identical to the “unique” version.

Started watching you because of those unique weapons and armour guides from skyrim

Bethesda is a dying studio. Instead of taking in feedback and improving they just close their eyes and plug their ears. It’s sad and there is no hope for ES6 so long as they stay the same. Reality check people! If the consumer is unhappy then listen to them not tell them they are wrong. Customer is always right so just listen to us and change so we can love you again and happily give you our money

I pretty much instantly lost interest in Shattered Space when I learned the Va’Ruhn don’t have unique ships and ship parts. Add to that what I’d learned in the main game which is that literally nothing you do changes anything or matters in any way I just didn’t bother.

Bethesda like BioWare has lost me. I haven’t played starfield just like I haven’t played veilguard and I honestly am not interested in playing either one. This is coming from a classic Bethesda and BioWare player. It’s so sad how my two favorite game studios of old are no more. Enter Larian.

Ah Beteshda, the company that will go bancrupt before launching what would have been their biggest game, Elder Scrolls 6. Good riddance.

I don’t understand the ongoing disconnect between these AAA Studios and how we keep discussing them. They do not REMOTELY care about Gamers or what we think or want. We keep beating the dead horse about this. SHAREHOLDERS is the only thing they care about. Honestly, they all deserve to crumble. They brought this on themselves.

I’m just gonna go out on a limb and say if you only have around 100 hours on a Bethesda game and are a real gamer, you probably didn’t like it that much.

Once you watch a video about “How Bethesda has continuously dumbed down their games” You will understand why real Bethesda fans don’t D ride Skyrim like that

When did Bethesda start going downhill? Horse Armor.

RIP TES VI 😔