Good video but I do disagree with a few points or feel they aren’t entirely accurare

*>”Bethesda had made Starfield in their usual creation engine, which 15 years ago was able to match modern standards, but that’s no longer the case…… Animations are basic, and enemy AI is shallow. The creation engine has clearly held Bethesda back.”<*. Firstly, I will argue that Creation is integral to the feeling of Bethesda games that people like. To quote the Escapist: " So maybe the solution is to throw away the creation engine and license a modern, stable, feature-rich engine like Unreal Engine or CryEngine? Except, Bethesda games have some rather particular needs that aren’t covered by the typical off-the-shelf engines. Bethesda games need to store the state of the entire world. Players expect that if they slay the Underking, loot his tomb, and pose the Underking’s twice-dead body with his face pressed against the seat of his throne, they should be able to come back days later and find the tomb exactly as they left it. If they toss 400 cheese wheels on the ground in the town of Whiterun, then those cheese wheels better still be there the next time they visit. The game needs to be able to handle large-scale AI behaviors that have agents roaming all over the world and going through a daily routine, even when their part of the world isn’t loaded. Most importantly, the game needs to be very open to modding so that end users can make sweeping changes to the gameplay, art, sounds, music, animations, and interface, using self-contained package files. These aren’t impossible-to-solve problems, but they do run against how a lot of modern game engines are designed. If Bethesda wanted to use one of the big-name engines out there, it would require extensive modifications. That would just lead them back to where they are now, with buggy games based on an engine that’s been twisted in ways it was never designed to go. " Secondly, people argued Bethesda's engine was limited even back from F3-F4 compared to games of the time like GTA4 and RDR1. But their RPG mechanics were strong enough to compensate. Moreover, stuff like Fallout London and Frontier added stuff like vecihles to older Creation games showing this engine is more than capable if properly updated. *>“Another limitation of the creation engine is its lack of modern polish. Games like Cyberpunk and Red Dead Redemption 2 use motion capture to make NPCs feel alive. Characters move naturally, interact with their surroundings, and use the environment to immerse the player. “<* That's not a limitation of Creation Engine. Bethesda games have used mocap before for animations. As an example, all of the killcams and cinematic takedowns in Skyrim and Fallout 4 were mocapped. *>“The Witcher 3 even added cinematic camera angles to dialogue. By contrast, Starfield’s NPCs just stare blankly at the player, which quickly kills interest. This static interaction style was outdated years ago, and Elder Scrolls 6 must find a fresh approach.”<* Fallout 4 had shot/reverse shot dialogues/conversations. And the reason why it and Witcher 3 had it and not Starfield was because both the Fallout PC and Geralt actually talked and had voice acting. Most first person RPGs with silent characters have static cameras because there's nothing else to show during conversations since the PC isn't talking. *>“but not now. Bethesda must ensure towns and their inhabitants feel genuinely alive. Other games have made their open worlds feel real, whereas Bethesda is still making Skyrim Towns in 2023.”<* The thing is, this is an area Bethesda arguably is still ahead in but haven't made use of. Their radient AI is far more advanced and capable than Witcher 3 or Cyberpunk. Skyrim may have small towns and few NPCs but said NPCs have entire day/night schedules they follow dynamically. You can pickpocket and cast illusion magic on any NPC. Hell, you can marry any random NPC. A Skyrim town NPC has more going on than a Witcher 3 of Cyberpunk NPC. And Bethesda essentially downplayed it. *>” In Mororrowind, you could kill main quest NPCs, faction leaders, even essential characters, and the game adapted to your choices”<* To be fair, a lot of MW main quests, if you killed certain essential NPCs would throw the "With this character's death the thread of prophecy has been severed. Reload a previous save or persist in the doomed world" message. It's not like New Vegas where the main story was actually completable even if you kill everyone. Plus, even RPGs you praised like Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk don't let you kill essential NPCs either. Even new Souls games like Elden Ring now no longer let you kill certain friendly NPCs. Most players don't intentionally kill essential NPCs. And since in recent games, NPCs can move around and get into dynamic fights with other NPCs, you can have scenarios where an NPC dies without the player realizing it (see that one NPC in Obvlivion that physically walks between cities can can die in the process without the player realizing). Essential NPCs, on paper, just save the player the time from reloading their save after killing an Essential NPC. *>“Emil’s number one rule in writing is keep it simple, stupid. But gaming fans are no longer willing to accept that. “<* I commented this before on another of your videos: To be fair, the point Emile was making was more along the lines of "If you give players a carefully constructed story in some games, they will ignore it favour of other activities". And there is an element of truth to this. Depending on the context and the amount of freedom in the game, players may ignore the story requiring the writer to "Keep it Simple" so even those players can follow along. We have a few examples of this in other games: When Gearbox was working on Borderlands, originally they wanted more elaborate cutscenes for story sequences. But they found that since the game could be played up to 4 players coop, players would tune out the story or focus on their own stuff. So they intentionally kept the story to brief audio logs and kept cutscenes sparse so they would be impactful when they were there and didn't disrupt the coop experience. Blizzard noticed that many World of Warcraft and Diablo players would skip through a lot of the dialogue when accepting quests since they were just in it for the loot and XP. This is in contrast to games like TLOU or God of War or RDR2. Games who are mostly story focussed and don't really have other stuff for you to get distracted by. Hell, RDR2 literally mission fails you if go off script. So Emile has a point. But the issue is his takeaway. He believes "Most players will ignore your story, therefore you shouldn't even try". Rather than a "Most players will ignore your story, try and find a way to accommodate both those that don't care and those that do". This is what CDPR actually did for Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk. They also pointed out that some players will just play for the loot and/or rush the main story. So they designed the main quest/throughline to be quicker to thumb through but let there be options for additional dialogue and story content through side quests. So players that wanted to rush through could rush through. And players that wanted to soak it all in could do so with more detailed quests made for them. That's why you can beat Cyberpunk's main story in like 15-20 hours. The main main story is super short (by RPG standards) but you miss out on all the other characters' stories since they are technically "optional".

I agree with large amout, but not all criticism.

Guy who likes Witcher 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Kingdom Come Deliverance

Internet hate is a waste. Best to do shadow drops else the narrative of hate clicks burry quality for soul slop.

I dont even care for bethesda games anymore. Unless their games look like the oblivion remastered, im not playing their games no more. This 2025, no reason for games to look like shit

The most important thing for ES 6 is compelling story

17:32 I don’t believe they don’t get it. They simply LIE. Let’s be blunt. They would have to be idiots not to see this. They know it’s a problem, but they REFUSE to say so cos they’re talking to make their shareholders think everything’s fine, not us. They CANNOT, and WILL NOT admit Starfield is a fail until many years later.

Its called deflection, he deflected the question he didnt want to answer and instead hinted at something people wanted.. this is a common public speaking tactic.

And it worked, you made a video about ES6 and not SF.
Everyone is falking about ES6 instead of SF.

Fire Emil and get new writers!

I kinda wish Bethesda would just be upfront and tell us now if TES VI will be a smaller, hand-crafted world or endless procedurally generated slop. Then I can know if I should have the even slightest shred of hope for the game.

Also regarding your point on radiant quests, I think what helped a lot in Skyrim and Fallout 4 is that these quests might at least send you to a memorable, hand-crafted location. In Starfield, two back-to-back radiant quests will end up sending you to the exact same location that has been copy-pasted.

They’ll faceplant hard. Tons of YouTubers will play it because money, a moderately-sized community of people will still love it. A few months of mocking the game worldwide ensues followed by no further f to be given.

They can’t make deep games anymore

Player number dropped by 86% a month after release? For a single-player game? That um… yeah, that sounds correct. People finished the game and moved on. Like they do with single-player games. That’s how single-player games are. I agree with most of the points you made in this video, but come on. That metric doesn’t prove anything.

At this point I think it’s fair to say people aren’t really interested in it anymore. Skyrim is gone, a 14 years old game who had its time, played now only by those who are really into it, new generations interfacing with the disaster that it was Starfield, no news about ES6, why should people even care? I feel like ES6 launch will be much like Avowed, some streamers play it because paid to do it, some leechers joining the bandwagon, it will be forgotten in 5 months.
Bethesda is 6-8 years late to catch this train.

Well done analysis; too bad no one from Beth will see this which they really should.

it’s actually ridiculous how many “WAAH it gonn be WOAK” crybabies are in these comment sections.
gamers try realise that the real problem is unchecked corporations and late stage capitalism, not “woke” challenge level: impossible.

Elder Scrolls goes more and more simple with every new game.

Crazy thing about the whole npcs having their own lives and schedules thing is Bethesda basically pioneered that with Oblivion and did it pretty damn well back then, but for some reason, massively paired that back in every game after.

I think that people look upon Skyrim and Fallout4 with rose tinted glasses. The commentary on procedural content is bang on and it’s extremely pertinent to understand that it cannot replace curated content.
With Starfield I also think it was pretty insulting and frankly lazy to have Earth in the game but it’s a generic wasteland except for a handful of husks of buildings from the 20th and 21st century – what so we’re expected to believe that in the Starfield universe nothing of note architecturally happened between about 2020 and 2199? A bunch of 20th and 21st century skyscrapers persisted another 150 odd years and didn’t get torn down and rebuilt?
And it’s this philosophy which really hurt the game IMO. It’s described and built up as an effectively limitless cosmos of 1000 inhabitable worlds yet the the vast majority of humanity is concentrated in a handful of locations?
But tangents about the poor worldbuilding aside, a lot of the issues laid bare in Starfield exist in FO4 and Skyrim, they just get a pass a lot of the time because of a difference in expectation.
And my biggest concern with TES6 is that they’ve only been moving in one direction with these features and if that continues I expect TES6 to have an extremely weak and non-sensical main story and be otherwise a slopfest of fetch quests, procedural content, and non-functional RPG elements.

I love how 10 year old Witcher 3 is considered a modern game lmao

As long as they don’t change the game engine, it’s gonna suck…

Taking his comment as charitably as possible, he could be stating that much of the criticism of Starfield was from people judging it as if it were an Elder Scrolls game, and they never intended to make Starfield to be that to begin with So none of it would apply to ES6. But even interpreting it this way, there are three major problems:
1. It ignores all the valid criticism of Starfield’s design an story that DOES try to meet it on its own terms.
2. If fans were expecting something completely different than what you released, that’s entirely your own fault. You’re the ones who set those expectations with how you marketed and promoted it.
3. It’s also just blatantly untrue. Starfield isn’t “its own unique kind of game”. There’s a pretty clear continuity in how their design philosophies have changed over the past two decades. Their games have been slowly slipping in this direction the entire time. Even reviews that do go out of their way to try and evaluate Starfield as a completely separate thing have no choice but to make comparisons with older Bethesda games, because Starfield goes out of its way to make use of similar design choices.

And this all really just illuminates various internal problems at Bethesda as a company.

no man’s sky came out 9 years ago & bethesda learned the wrong lessons from that game’s design & use of procedural generation

Bethesda is too entrenched in their ways and their diehard fans would buy literally anything from them with the justification that anything wrong with it is “Bethesda jank” which is actually a positive. These same people will unironically say their favorite game in any of the Bethesda series is the game not made by Bethesda.

Not sure I care anymore. Which is the most damning thing I can say.

So what you’re saying is you want Elder Scrolls 6, I see.

Starfield was shit and i honestly dont give a shit about ES6. Its obviously going to be terrible anyway.

Emil pagliarulo should be stripped of any responsibilities as a lead writer on all Bethesda games… Guy’s a clueless hack

Tldw, i want tes6

9:49 you forgot that even in 2011 if you drew a weapon near a guard or even random npc’s they will react to it and say lines that appropriately match the scenario. not only this but the npc’s would also react to your skills of choice and if you were sneaking around them. bethesda just seemingly forgot how to make npc’s react to the player because instead they would rather create a bunch of randomized npc’s to fill a city. we know that its possible to have npc;s that are random and not essential react to the player because kingdom come 2 did this PERFECTLY

The gaming journalists are honestly complicit

Emil is a fucking melon, and we’ve known it for a while now. As for TES6, it’s gonna suck. I’ve moved on, and I have a feeling a LOT of other people have too

“Modern games thrive on nuance, and morally grey areas that respect players intelligence.”
Premodern games say “Hello”.
RPGs have always needed good writing and worldbuilding. Players haven’t changed.

I find it hard to believe that Bethesda spent 20 years working on Starfield.
It *should* have been the best game they ever made, their centerpiece accomplishment.
Not sure what’s going on at BGS, but they better figure it out.

I blame emil for everything wrong at bethesda games

At 8:21 the saddest part is the loading screens could be DRASTICALLY improved easily. I use a mod for fallout 4 that literally removes the loading screens. A 30-45 second loading screen is now a 2-3 second black screen. I couldn’t imagine playing without this mod. I’ve got over 2500 hours in game so imagine how many hours of that would have been loading screens of i didnt have this mod. Thing is, if some random kid make a mod to fix the loading screens why were they bad in the first place? This is why Bethesda is the worst RPG creator ever. I love there games despite them not because of them

I won’t be buying TES6 until I see reviews and gameplay. With the Nolvus mod pack for Skyrim I’ve been sucked into that and having a blast. It honestly looks like a new game with the original quests and new added.

EXCELLENT ESSAY!

Im excited for tes6 but only because I’m tired of listening to starfield critiques. I need new Bethesda slop to make fun of

Bethesda has never understood that their games have always worked in spite of their choices, not because of them. Modders, nostalgia, and gamers’ imaginations save every Bethesda game. Gamers’ imaginations are not as necessary in a world with deeper and bigger games. We have other options we can play.

Edit: saying we will play es6 for 10 years on the base game content proves my point.

No Mans Sky came out 7 years before Starfield. Not 3. Dingus.

0:47 Silksong reference.

I got like 50 hours into starfield, and I’m on my second new game +. This game lacks any direction, Some of the quest lines are fun but I have a hard time remembering where to go to even start them. I have to google every time I want to find a planet I’ve already visited or really do anything. The outer worlds wasn’t great because the storyline was subpar and the game had no replayability but at least I knew where everything was and the cities/settlements weren’t impossible to navigate. While I think the generated planets suck and shouldn’t be included in the game, the galaxy map makes them an absolute hinderance for gameplay. There should have been a small amount of solar systems (2-8) that were fully fleshed out and easy to identify on the map but instead they sprinkled half baked solar systems with dozens of generated systems so it’s impossible to tell the difference between the two. I don’t care too much about the loading screens, they wouldn’t seem so bad if there was quality content between each one. They clearly spent a lot of time developing this game but lacked direction from anyone who actually enjoyed previous Bethesda/Obsidian games. This game wasn’t supposed to be no mans sky and shouldn’t have ever been compared to it and the only reason it ever was was because it was so bad and the RPG elements got weighed down by directors who don’t play video games. Todd, this game absolutely sucks and I have no faith in Bethesda going forward.

Honestly, the procedural generation is fine, the problem was the extremely limited number of dungeons and the inability to procedurally generate them. If they had 500 of them, you’re unlikely to see two identical ones in close proximity.

Fallout 76 has improved some but I find it really boring overall and I don’t want to play with strangers. It’s the same reason I don’t like Diablo IV (I know, different studio) and when I had the chance to find Starfield, I played for about half an hour and was bored out of my mind. I would rather play Morrowind again than play an Elder Scrolls VI that is as boring as Starfield. Not that Bethesda really cares anymore.

Building a lackluster world and relying on mods ( from unpaid modders) to liven and fill it up proved a bust.

I love both Oblivion and Skyrim, and although it’s too old for me to play, I understand the value of Morrowind. I don’t plan to buy ES 6, not on release anyway, and not unless it’s at 80% sale.

Bethesda is a lazy developer. The only way they will learn is when they loose money.

No Man’s Sky did not release three years before Starfield, it released seven years prior.

Why would they think that us wanting a good space game turns into us wanting a fantasy game? That makes no sense. I love Skyrim. But I also love Fallout 4. But I did want something that was not those. Starfield needs to be more mature. Needs to let us have mature language, like we can take insults. I am not trying to play Hello Kitty island.

Todd Coward arc

A TON of people bought Starfield *with* the promise that it was going to be radically different from Fallout and Elder Scrolls. It could have been really anything Bethesda wanted it to be. It doesn’t seem like they had any idea what they wanted it to be, or else their ambition outstripped their budget by a factor of at least 10.

yeh the loadingscreens and soulless npc are the biggest turnoff for me.

Games already have a major bloat issue imo. Every game has too many side quests I rarely finish the story now. People really fucked the “open world” concepts introduced by Final Fantasy, etc.

Starfield is the ultimate evolution of Bethesda’s game design theory: A game that squanders it’s promise, offers the illusion of depth, NPCs whose depth is measured in Microns and a complete lack of concern for QA because legions of morons will fall head over heals to mod the game into a functional state for them.

Great analysis. I did not buy Starfield, but have Morrowind, Skyrim and even did Elder Scrolls Online. Plus Witcher 1, 2 and 3, BG 1,2 and 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and more and your points are very valid. I would like to add another consideration though. From the videos I have seen, Starfield is cowboys in space from a combat perspective. To truly claim the SciFi label, combat has to feel, well, SciFi. The problem is that the actual war in Ukraine has more advanced combat than Starfield. When reality is more advanced than something that pretend to be SciFi, for me at least, immersion is broken and interest is lost. The visuals may look SciFi, but that’s about it.

12:26 Starfield writing was bad, because writers needed spread so thin.
Too few writers/too many planets and to think that this must be very good idea.. NOT.

One of my biggest examples of Bethesda losing what is special was their “every map is the size of skyrim design.” As in, when you land on a planet, the area thats loaded is about the size of skyrim.

Skyrim is pretty small, all things considered. “Oh, but it’s a giant map, I was lost for hours!”
Ya, because it was designed well, they used mountains to block views and used trees effectively to draw eye lines in circles. Cities were always at the edge of the map and were always pointing their gates inward, so when you left them to explore, you’d I’d so toward the content. Etc, etc.

Skyrim will be the last ES game to me if ES6 is shown to be anything like Fallout 4/Starfield

RiP Julianos

Telling that Emil clings so tightly to a literary “rule” we were taught in middle school

1:12 Ah, yes,. Emil pagliarulo. Our favourite man-child. (If you’re confused why, remember his 15 post tweet rant)

Forthcoming characters with hidden agendas taking advantage of my willingness to help for gold and xp. People with noble intentions who think they are the good guys but maybe they aren’t. Gods who travel the world in disguise, influencing it but never reveal themselves or their plot to the player. Just a regular-ass Epic RPG. It’s not like we don’t all recognize a great game when we play it.

Procedural generation is fine for trees and grass… But not good for much anything else.

Starfield felt more like an experiment then an actual game and show’s what not to do. If it were up to me, I would have several unique destinations and a few recuring dungeons, caves, ect. that act as a buffer or random encounters. The travel system would be similar to Fallout 1 & 2 in the sense, that rather than traveling around all around a scaled down DC like in Fallout 3, your given the illusion of traveling around California like in Fallout 2.

Keep it simple stupid – is one of the most misunderstood and thrown around phrases by people who think they are clever, doing incredible damage in the process

Starfield was aiming for realism in a universe with the dominant intelligent species only being humans. Obviously the majority of the explorable planets would be barren. And have very few habitable earth likes. Realistic space flight would take many many hours to get anywhere. So it was all cut down with just doing loading screens. There was madness to Todd’s method.

Starfiels is polished turd. No matter how much lipstick ypu apply, it is still shit. Glosy, shit!

It does not have a soul. It is about nothing. Just about Tod craving and relativelly easy to modify Creation Engine that allows you to change sanctuary from F4 for stationary building representing your ship, that you can customize. Although it is worse experience than with F4 settlement.

Starfield is also creatively bankrupt. Quests are boring, the whole setting is pathetic. You enter this universe after interesting period of unrest, wars, expansions, discoveries and what now remains are stupid fetch quests in that universe.

Oh, and there are dragonborn powers you can unlock.

People want to feel something, like with Metro Exodus, crying like a little girl through ending when you drive a van.

Or when you are glued to the screen when cello version of revel song accompanies the heist and assault of Arasaka in CP2077.

Modern Bethesda is out of ideas and does not want to accept criticism and learn.

TES6 will be absolute shitshow.

Yall still crying about Starfield? Go play Cyberskunk or whatever.

Emil is and always has been a complete hack.

Starfield managed to 100% kill my hype for TES VI.

People say Skyrim is wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle. But it is still a world so many people immerse themselves into because simply being there and exploring the map is a mood.

Fallout 4 isn’t the deepest RPG either. But again, exploring the world is the thing.

Minecraft has a procedurally generated world and no story. But the entire world can be taken apart, rebuilt and changed to your liking. That is the whole point, it’s a sandbox on purpose and nobody expects anything else.

Daggerfall has procedurally generated dungeons on a map that is insanely huge. But key locations are hand-crafted and you don’t have to interact with the massive areas at all. The filler is just that, filler to give it a real-life size world that still has story where you expect it.

Cyberpunk 2077 started as a glitchy, buggy mess. Something we basically expect from Bethesda. But the writing and story was still there. The jank was a purely technical issue, and that got fixed.

Destiny has a similar low-tech scifi vibe while giving soft scifi gameplay. And Destiny is an MMO, so not really the game to give you a personalised story in the first place. It doesn’t attempt to be a deep RPG, but instead looks at the coop-multiplayer aspect.

Starfield’s world is just boring, without the worldbuilding, writing or lore.
It doesn’t have the overly complex RPG mechanics that border on a medieval life simulator like Daggerfall.
It doesn’t have the vibe of Skyrim or Fallout 4
It doesn’t have the writing of Cyberpink

It doesn’t have the “meet random other players” aspect or lore of Destiny.
It doesn’t have the player freedom to be creative and rebuild the world to your liking like Minecraft.

I have very low expectations for ES6. I will wait to hear everyone’s reviews before I make any buying decision.

Bethesda could make a comeback, but they’d have to stop producing games and shift to funding studios that would care about their IP.

Im more excited for Skywind than anything Bethesda is working on

Trying to comprehend Bethesda’s mindset actually makes my head hurt, because it genuinely doesnt make sense. I want to meet someone who actually likes Starfield and thinks it’s good. For all their faults Skyrim and Fallout 4 (which both are over a decade old)have some appeal. But Starfield has 0 appeal, because it’s not a good RPG, action adventure, or even a good space game

I had no interest at all when it comes to Star field. TES6 won’t be different. After hearing Todd saying that they did optimize the game and that it is a next gen game, “you might need to upgrade your PC” is such a ridiculous take.

Starfield retroactively ruined all bethy games for me. I just can’t anymore. I won’t support a company that won’t support it’s games. I can’t even go through downtown in FO4.

Elder scrolls 6 is going to be full of microtransactions and mini DLC’s.

Yah what’s the point, they are just a failed studio at this point.

I am never buying another Bethesda game, turns out that’s not such a big ask as they have maybe one game left before they are closed, or pull a George RR Martin and stop making games to focus on tv and movies.

modular parts for generating the locations deeper and wider would have helped but each should have some sort of base story attached that effects the layout…

mining stuff = there should be a mine attached and ore processing
medical facility = labs and clean rooms
…
and every location needs a purpose…those grain elevators/tanks scattered randomly around with one lootable box made no sense …make it a landing area for trade or better attach it to its own facility

Fallout 4 story was shit the dialogue was shit. fallout 76 was a disaster and starfield was more boring slop, its clear this studio is a shell of it’s formers self if it ever had any talent. Skyrim was the most barebones RPG in history and somehow got away with being game of the year, they learned all the wrong lessons from their previous games and now are a studio built on false truths and shit games.

Mods can’t fix poor writing and a broken game studio.

Bethesda (after watching a minute of this video): “TLDW: Fans want Elder Scrolls 6.”

Skyrim was good despite all the flaws of Bethesda focus, and it’s been downhill since then. don’t expect anything from ES6, it will be huge and bad

to be fair starfield did have “cosmic mysteries”, it’s just that they never answered any of them, and just kind of limply shrugged their shoulders and said “yeah we don’t know either lmao”

I personally can’t wait for Elder Scrolls 22.

I think Bethesda really thrived from the fact they were one of the first to make grand scale western styled RPGs. Nowadays though they have some pretty severe competition, Like Baldur’s Gate 3, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, Cyberpunk 2077, or even something like Elden Ring, though that’s more action than RPG. These games still probably aren’t up to scale like Elder Scrolls yet but there’s so much polish put into what is there (well maybe not cyberpunk) that it makes up for a lesser scale and honestly showcases how scale isn’t everything. They took so long to release Elder Scrolls 6 or even Starfield that they got left behind while the rest of the industry moved ahead.

> Looks at Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Skyrim and Starfield.

Yeah, I don’t want anything coming from Bethesda, sorry.

I have zero excitement for anything released by Bethesda or Bioware today

They won’t learn anything as long as the game sells well.
It will sell well because there’s too many low IQ people out there that will buy it.
Nothing will change.

I agree with almost everything in this video but the Witcher 3 is one of the most boring games I’ve ever played , I can’t finish it: it puts me to sleep 😂

I dont understand this, Bethesda has always had its unique style of game. Starfield was as pure a Bethesda style game as it could have been. Maybe stretched a bit thin thanks to trying to emulate no mand sky but never the less what anyone could have expected.

The way it was described i got exactly what i expected of starfield. I enjoyed it.

For me Bethesda games were always outdated and I never enjoyed them, Starfield was a test for me, I wanted to see what they’ll release after Skyrim and F4 and I saw exactly the same sh*te as before so no matter what, I won’t buy games from them anymore

8:22 No Man’s Sky released 7 years before Starfield actually…

this is a chatgpt video

The Starfield procgen isn’t even good. Take the instanced bases, very item in them is exactly the same. The could at least randomise that. A better firm would randomly generate the structure from modules. There’s indies out there generating entire dungeon crawlers like that.

Yes I want the Elder Scroll 6, but I was willing to give Starfield a fair shot. It fell flat on SO many levels, it just seemed ill concived and ill executed. A game that was fundamentally restricted by its engine form truly shining as a big open space game and yet ignored the hand crafted rich exploration and discovery gameplay that the engine was capable of doing well. It should have been set in a single system, maybe even just a system of moons around a gas giant. Then each world should have been hand crafted. It could have been great, but in the end I was left wondering how it ever made it passed concepting. The opportunity loss is staggering for Bethesda when that time could have been spent on ES6, or even Fallout 5.

Huh that’s just reaches into the realms soulless doesn’t? I mean all that press all these people bitched about Starfield and all we get is (people want Elder Scrolls 6) no dip S%%% we want the money we spent means something.

I haven’t had any interest in a Bugthesda game since Fallout 4. Was beyond let down by it, Starfield, and I haven’t even bothered to buy the new doom.. and I’m hearing and seeing I haven’t missed anything.

That company is being held up by super thick rose tinted glasses and after the final fantasy 7 “remake”… I took them off a long ass time ago, and feel like Bethesda isn’t going to survive much longer.

I hope tes6 bombs so that Bethesda can finally close down

Since when ES 6 is most anticipated? We saw slopfield we don’t want ES 6.

Fallout 4 was the last decent game Bethesda has made, even with how much worse it was compared to new vegas.
Bethesda, after this long in the industry, should be juggernauts that create amazing games after building up decades of experience, but what we get instead feels like amateur trash filled with current day politics and sanitizing.

I want to highlight one part of BG3 I think is funny RE the dialogue all being the same choice. The one instance where that is actually the case is played as a JOKE.

There is a guy in the third act who, regardless of what you choose, used it as an excuse to call you a cuck. And that shit is hilarious.

I was one of the people who were immensely hyped and was saying that Bethesda’s new IP would be announced in that one event. I was even going to get the collector’s edition. But then I saw the factions revealed and I instantly knew that something was wrong. And now after seeing everything like in Synthetic Man’s review I wouldn’t even want to pirate Starfield.
If Epic Games gave it out I wouldn’t even want to waste storage space to try it out.

Nothing they do will fix Starfield except for completely overhauling everything and making it what it should have been.

I do not want TES6, couldn’t care less. I want a good Starfield. All the things Starfield marketing said it was going to be, done well.

8:24 more like seven years.

The thing that really blows my mind is that I gave the game something like 30 hours to prove itself, and the only mission I even recall was the generation ship one, which had a childish set of end of mission dialog options. And I don’t remember one open world random find. Even in Fallout 4, there were a few memorable ones. My first Bethesda game was Fallout 3. I know it has a lot of flaws, but I find it endearing and memorable to this day. I absolutely adored digging in and finding secret areas that the developers left for me to find.

It was an open world that truly felt alive! And as many others have said, Mass Effect had better writing, and New Vegas had better mission and faction design… but Bethesda’s strength has always been hand-curated worlds that are just fun to explore.

I don’t care about the loading screens, or the flawed fast travel, or the dated engine. I want to explore a world that feels real and authentic, like Fallout 3, Skyrim, and even Fallout 4 provided. What’s crazy about the space part in Starfield, to me, is how poorly thought out it is. You can customize your ship to a fine degree, which is genuinely awesome! I love collecting things in the world and scattering them in my ship. But the only thing you can do is combat pirates and loot and board their ships, which gets boring and repetitive quick. There might be more interesting random encounters. But if they couldn’t be bothered to fix the “everything has to fit into one cell” problem in the 8 years they built that game, I kinda doubt it. Here, I’ll try, off the cuff. Imagine this: random people contact you with some sketchy story about a derelict vessel that you could go and investigate, so you warily agree to dock with it and are predictably ambushed. But as you start to slaughter the denizens of the vessel, they immediately surrender, and claim that they are slaves for the delusional and sociopathic captain of the ship. So you go meet him, and he tells you an alternate version of the events, that they were the captors of him and forced him to fly the ship because he had killed their pilot when they raided his ship. If you take him to Luxor III and dispatch all of the captors, he’ll let you have the majority of a cache of illegal black market weapons he knows is stored there.

Emil, I wrote that whole thing in one pass, with no revisions. If I can write intrigue-filled side missions like that, offhand, in the YouTube comments section, then I would expect that one of the hundreds of people who worked on Starfield for 8 bloody years. I’m sure you have good money now. You’re set. Just retire, for the good of the games industry.

Starfield is the only game where i never past the tutorial in…. nuff said.

If Starfield had all the same gameplay and the story was as deep and varied as the initial promise after the first loop of slowly losing your humanity and becoming Starborn rather than Human, and slowly treating the world as more and more like a game, going down this route similar to No Man’s Sky where you realize that the world IS artificial and how your character handles that idea, maybe even incorporating the weird parts of the setting and the mechanics into the story, I think people would’ve said that it was a triumphant return to form for Bethesda and been eagerly waiting for TES6, but they didn’t, and they just proved that they don’t have the passion they used to.

People often say “I don’t know what IT is but they have it” and the “IT” is always passion. Always.

Starfield? I thought it was already dead! 10:30 so accurate

How does Emil still have a job??? It makes you wonder what he has on Todd that his a$$ hasn’t been canned yet…

Elder scrolls 6 will be woke garbage

When they say ppl will play ES6 for the next ten years, I personally expect every play-through to be different. I shouldn’t have to see everything in one playthrough because they’re afraid we’ll miss out on content, that’s kinda the point of replayability with these games. If I’m an assassin build, I shouldn’t be able to join the mages guild or rank high enough and vice versa. I want real choices and consequences and no overly streamlined systems

There is not a single likeable or memorable chracter in any Bethesda game besides Fallout NV which isnt even a Bethesda game really. Ive played them all and I cant think of any more than 3 memorable characters or stories from the other games that stuck with me. NV I still think about randomly.

There’s only two ways Bethesda can get rid of the loading screen one get talented people to actually do their jobs this is not going to happen because Bethesda are a bunch of cheap skates and higher the cheapest people possible two stop using the Croatian engine and use the unreal engine but again cheap skates

Todd needs to go back to only having power over marketing because quote frankly he’s a good idea is man to give people some ideas but everything else is talented is in the speech skill an email the head writer just needs to get removed

I mean, they KNOW why people didn’t care for it, they’re not misunderstanding, they’re deliberately telling you what they hope you’ll believe so they can get away with it. Like the guy who killed Sears got people to believe it wasn’t his fault somehow, and instead blamed the customers. Mind, he also owned or had interest in all the media outlets to send that downwind. Meanwhile, Game Media is more…well you and other channels.

That said, TES6 is still probably not into full dev yet. If it were, details would have leaked. I think they’re going to give one final push with Starfield before they call that one quits.

I have it on good authority that load times will be significantly reduced when flying to different planets in elderscrolls 6.

I did 273 hours on my first playthrough of Skyrim a month ago. I must say as a fallout fan trying Skyrim for the first time, i get it. I get the hype. but i dont have faith in Elder Scrolls 6. even though I now can be a fan of the franchise, actually playing a game, I still know how they have handled fallout and i’m not optimistic. TLDR: I want Elder Scrolls 6………to be good.

I think you’re missing the true writing force behind starfield… chat gpt. I preordered the deluxe version of starfield and it’s the last game I preorder and probably the last game from Bethesda until the front office is let go.

I have a bit of a hot take on them needing to go back to a hand-crafted world, which is that I don’t think that’s actually the thing that people liked about these games in the first place.
What I liked about the older Bethesda games, was ultimately the immersion that came from emulating a fantasy world. I could become a wizard, join a guild, read books, make my own spells, decorate my house, etc. And the systems were deep and interesting. The lore of the world (Morrowind) also felt deep and interesting, with the more in-game books I collected and read through. It was the first game I actually felt like _I_ was a wizard, and not just _playing_ a wizard.

That being said, I think having a hand-crafted world does help with immersion, because generated worlds often feel very shallow by the very nature of being randomly generated and glued together. But my point, is that just going back to a hand-crafted world isn’t enough, I don’t think. I think they _also_ need to bring back some of the depth from the old games that they’ve thrown out, like the spell-crafting system, and more interesting background lore and branching quest lines. At the end of the day, if they keep making shallow games, even if the landscape and dungeons are hand-crafted, I still think it’ll end up feeling boring and generic.

10:49 Correction: Ladder climbing was introduced to F4 in 2022 and not made specifically for Fallout London as they just used a lot of premade mods in their foundation. Sorta like New Vegas vehicle mods came before the Frontier. This code later became the DNA for Starfield’s vehicles, that said I am surprised ladders are not in Starfield, maybe a year was not enough time for them to implement it. 🤷

The people who made the games you love were all fired or laid off years ago. The only ones left were the office politicians and brown nosers behind all of your least favorite parts of older games and the newly hired parasites who dragged other studios into the dirt.

Ok, i will get hate for it but i say is; The outer Worlds (1) was the better Starfield! NO, i´m not an Obsidian Fan! But looking back the Outer Worlds was what bethesda should have done for Starfield. Is the game great? No, its ok but it´s so much better than starfield. And please don´t write “but the outer world 2 trailers are shit”, i just talk about the first game vs starfield.

calling witcher 3 a modern games is funny, especially when it came out in 2014

Elder Scrolls Six will launch when the Moon turns into a Death star. lol

Most anticipated game? Hah! Good one 😂

Very good points! I just hope Bethesda will listen to this.

By now I believe that Bethesda’s claim they preserved the buggy game engine for Oblivion Reimagining(!) for nostalgia reasons was just an excuse and that it was about saving dev effort by basically running the old game with a modern paint job. And once again the customer is willing to do Bethesda’s job and they are making an inofficial version that is aimed to be refined.

It’s concerned the song It Just Works is becoming less and less like a joke

Starfield has killed any faith I have in Bethesda.

They are dead set on being as lazy as possible and innovating their design is a happy accident if AI and RNG allows it.

There buisness is no longer making RPGs it’s making workshop platforms for daddy Microsoft to monetize.

It’s quite remarkable how someone like Todd can in the same sentence say “Skyrim is 11 years old and people still play it” and then immediately think “We should change our game design philosophy so that the games can last a decade”. He’s completely lost his mind, just make a game like Skyrim again, different province, better graphics and I bet people would be happy but no he wants a guarantee that people will play it for a decade so everything has to change for the worse.

No man’s Sky didn’t release 3 years before Starfield, it released 6 years before Starfield.

“Modern games thrive on nuance, morally grey areas that respect players’ intelligence” Bethesda hasn’t respected the playerbase since post-Skyrim.

Give up on it, u don’t make a game like starfield then make a masterpiece. Everything about starfield was mediocre including the story

What’s wild is Bethesda created the standard for NPC’s having homes and schedules in Morrowind and Oblivion and then just abandoned it

I was ready to receive Starefield. While it was empty, I saw it for a project that could grow. The issue began however when the team that worked on this began berating their consumer base, attacked and deleted anyone that dared to change their trope ideology and made it infinitely more difficult to introduce a working better body mod. Seemed as though they worked more against their modding community than with them. They even jammed their modding monetary system that everyone rejected down their throats regardless and silenced anyone who spoke out about it.

ES6 is gonna be dogmess. Zero hype for that title.

How to fix Bethesda games

– create a modern creation engine
– fire emil

I wont go into all the reasons Starfields writing was bad but will only give one example: Starfield was supposed to be a new world, a new universe not Fallout or Skyrim. When I first played it and made my way through the mine I was wondering “Ok how does this world work? are these all basically slaves working for big corpo or is it more of a lawless wild west kinda deal with a scrappy mining op?” then we went outside and we suddenly get attakc by Pirates and I was thinking “Oh so is this common? They dont seem to have any guards so they probably werent expecting to be attacked.” All of the miners instantly draw their guns, none of them panic or scream they just start opening fire on the pirates. After a short firefight several pirate and miner corpses lay around but nobody is really fazed. They put away their guns and proceed with their work. Nobody cries or mourns any of their colleagues that just died even the chief mining lady is just kinda annoyed. “So are pirate attacks that common that nobody really cares … in that case why are ther no guards if pirates can attack at any moment?”

the question is of course pointless to ask because nobody even considered that in the writing because its in fact NOT a new and interersting world its just the same shit Skyrim and Fallout did but pasted into space.Of course bandits … eh I mean pirates … just attack and nobody cares because thats how it always was. Of course nobody reacts to that. Maybe the miners could have been angry because the mining corp was to cheap to provide guards or maybe they could make a comment about how they werent expecting pirates in that region …. nah pirates attacking and your coworkers getting killed thats just another tuesday. Why hire guards if everybody carries a gun and is an emotionless soldier when the time comes to fight.
“Oh hey you lured the pirates to us that was mildly annoying I am gonna give you a firm talking to ” instead of “what the hell dude you led them here? half my crew is dead and its your fault!”

I regret so much that I bought starfield at launch. Played it for 30 hours, that was enough for me. Like I’m convinced that if todd just forgot about his boring nasa punk idea and did a star wars rpg with fewer more detailed planets the game would have been 10x better than the soulless game that starfield is today.

After all bethesda fuckups i don’t want them to release TES6, because it will just be disappointing. Please just let the elder scrolls rest in peace and allow modders to do their job.

That writer has a helluva shame-prevention defense mechanism.

Todd Howard is obviously making Elder Scrolls 6 alone in his basement, hence no leaks.

people literally just love to hate starfield

3:29 It isn’t procedural generation that’s the issue, it’s how lazy the ground work for the generation it was. You could handcraft pieces for and code for procedural POIs, but they handcraft 18 pois and force world to procedurally plop them in. Or since ES5 and F04 had hundreds of pois and dungeons, you’d have to handcraft even more and have them populate procedural worlds. they took the easy route when they had two good routes the drove the car into the lake because they only saw that is was a shorter road even though it was a pier with a dead end, not a bridge.

Bethesda no longer has the flexibility, creativity, or talent necessary to make a good game. Each new game they make is more lazy and greedy than the last. They are a soulless corp now, just a parasite till they die.

I guarantee Elder Scrolls 6 will flop. I bought and played Morrowind on release day, and I remember how disappointed all the OG Elder Scrolls fans were. Morrowind still managed to find new fans. The same thing happened when Oblivion released: Morrowind fans were thoroughly disappointed, but Oblivion found a new audience in the 360 crowd. Skyrim also let down older Elder Scrolls fans, but this time it reached the actual mainstream. The whole world discovered Elder Scrolls, and for most players, Skyrim was their first experience with the series. When Elder Scrolls 6 comes out, it will once again disappoint the older fans. Only now, those fans are the mainstream. Bethesda did this to themselves by refusing to listen to their core audience and constantly relying on attracting new players. This time, I don’t think that strategy will work.

3 mins in, lets get into it!🤣😂🤣

My god can we seriously go over the planets though….

Like you have a pool of what I’d estimate is 18 POIs to randomly generate in a world….a good mix of those are dependent on certain biomes so it’s really like ten at any given instance. if I don’t like rocky lunar moons because they’re boring by default then I’m probably limited to like, being generous, 14-16. I saw every single possible POI in a few hours. I if there were more, anything above that 18 were all locked to being incredibly rare. So after the Bounties and other semi repeatable quests run out (which they shouldn’t but do) you’re stuck with exploration and base building for replayability and base building is semi dependent on exploration (for example half the fun of it in FO4 was all the unique locations you could come up with whacky ideas for how maybe a colony would repurpose the drive-in as an entertainment district with hookers and blackjack, pardon the futurama reference) so you’ve killed extended play and your story mode is short as fuck and boring overall when there is something to do. Skyrim was great because you could practically just play a whole non story RP (with a select few mods) and still have fun…that’s why I never finished it. It’s like they thought “Procedurally generated” meant less work and it doesn’t. and the one place they should be using procedural generation (the bounties and minor side quests) they didn’t. Give me like a collection quest with a procedurally generated POI not premade and plopped, actually procedurally generated with a randomly chosen loot to grab with procedurally generated stories within these locations (similar to a Project Zomboid mod). Give me a procedurally generated pirate to hunt down with a procedurally generated ship with different weaknesses. It’s like they built a framework for a game with what could be Amazing Emergent Story Generation and said fuck that the second they figured out it would take more time to code.

Even without the RP aspect (with mods) of skyrim there was still over 100 handcrafted POIs what was it, 11, handcrafted cities with most of the building accessible. Starfield had half as much or less in side quests, and even though you had the ability to make an endless line of minor quests ya didn’t. the main story is boring, confusing not because it was clever but because it was inconsistent and honestly something I finished in like three days so like 8 hours, nowhere near the marketed 60 which I’m guessing they counted by including the “canonically integrated New game plus and filling out the skill tree entirely, which is a lazy and cheap excuse to call it a 60 hour story, because I can tell you right now, the second it showed me I basically have to replay that entire dogshit main quest a further 8 times I got out of the tutorial and immediately enabled console commands typed in the FO4 level up and gave myself every perk and all the money I could find so I could make the coolest ship possible. And the ship building was THE ONLY good part of the game…..not that you could fucking do anything cool with them.

Oh and the animals on these planets….there’s like 8 total. sure they’re ugly as sin and there’s not allot of parts for the procedural generation to pick and even then they glitch out giving one animal of a bunch the wrong head half the time, NMS actually does have proper procedurally generated animals. in starfield outside of the forced hand crafted ones, there are 8 and they “make them unique” WITH FLAVOUR TEXT ALONE nothing else. that’s it “oh well this one looks and behaves like every single one that looks exactly the same but this one eats rocks and has tartar sauce for blood….not that it changes the blood effect at all) FUCK ME I HATE WHAT THEY DID WITH THIS GAME.

I’ll give you all a heads up. It doesn’t matter how good or bad ES6 is, you hate Bethesda and therefore, you’re going to hate ES6. Go back to Pokémon.

bethesda doesn’t report to you.

Starfield and especially Shattered Space are the reason that I will never again buy early.

#fireemil

We are never getting the TES6 we want and I’ve come to acccept that. I will not buy any new Bethesda titles unless they change and start being actually good again.

I am convinced that TES6 will be 90% AI generated radiant quests at this point.

Holy shit I just realized that KCD 2 doesn’t have loading screens

Any Starfield enjoyers?

Bethesda hasnt fired Emil from his leadwriting position so they haven’t learned their lesson. Todd should be on notice at this point, too, but i feel like the show gave him several extra lives. Emil though… the stories these days of bethesdas games are not good. The characters aren’t good. The side quests aren’t good.

many gamers might not know it – because they weren’t alive – but those loading screens… they were already considered outdated in Morrowind.

What struck me most about Starfield was the cultural change in direction. I wondered after more than twenty years what the new crop of designers and programmers were like. The most frustrating part of it is that nearly all the problems are still fixable, yet after two years there is no meaningful attempt to do so. Add at least one unique location to every planet. Fix or complete the ship fueling metric. And whats with the wide-eyed citizens? They look CRAZY!

It is the most beautiful space screensaver, 0 thought into the lore though.

no one asked for this game.. amen 😊

There is a recent video on Youtube called “Starfield is a fake game”, you can find it if you want it. And dude is dead on point – Bethesda is not a game developer company, they are a cargo cult that mash together pieces that work and act really surprised when end result is not working.
“It just works” – it really says everything about their understanding of what they are doing.

I genuinely think Emil has brain damage.

Bg3 is better than starfield in every way

I personally don’t care about loading screens as long as the world is believable. The main problem with Starfield is lack of good lore and true exploration. Empty planets are fine with me, that’s what space is – empty and uninhabitable. The problem is the abundance of “earthly” planets with 0 civilizations on them. If they stuck to a few livable planets with RICH content and had 1000 repetitive fetch quest barren planets with random encounters that would be much much better.

I’ve said this on other Starfield videos, but I’ll say it again: Most of us WANTED TO LIKE THIS GAME. We knew going in it wasn’t an Elder Scrolls or a Fallout. We EXPECTED something different, something new. What we didn’t expect was a notable downgrade in the things that make us give Bethesda’s bugfests the time of day: Exploration, character, customization, and a sense of immersion. I wouldn’t have even minded the “long uneventful walks” if it lead somewhere kick@ss. There was plenty of nothing in Daggerfall, and plenty of repetition, but the overall world still felt somehow just as unique and alive as Starfield if not moreso, and it came out three decades earlier when games were under 1GB. If they move forward with an ES6 that takes a page from Starfield, we won’t want that game either.

10:13 bro, the engine is not restricting Bethesda as much as Bethesda is restricting themselves.

If Emil is so selfillusioned, who cares? I personally just won’t buy their game if it receives a bad mark on steam and from some gaming bloggers I trust.
So if its only numbers they trust, so be it, let them lose moneys😂

Never ceases to amaze me how human can fuck this up SO BADLY. Completely ignore all the feedback and take away the absolute wrong lesson. It’s HILARIOUS because so man people do this.

I think one of the main things is the hubris of assuming that because people wanted to play skyrim 10 years after release, that must mean they made 10 years worth of great content for skyrim and therefore everything in their future games will by default be up to that standard.

The actuality is that like you said, it was riding the coattales of the former game’s successful writing and design, and then propped up by the modders.

Why are they calling us fans? We just want a next Gen ES, we don’t play because we love Bethesda.

You guys are playing Starfield wrong. Hire a bunch of females for your ship’s crew, buy hats, equip your all-female crew with hats, fly around with a harem of half-naked women around the galaxies and pirate. The main storyline for each faction is very entertaining. I liked it. I do agree that they rushed it and did not think it through.

Starfield bombs.
Bethesda releases a bunch of updates for Fallout and Skyrim to ruin everyones mods.

I got a Mirror of Kalandra while watching Cowboys vs Aliens on discord with friends

What i find to be ironic is the one thing they “listened too” was the removal of the Fallout 4 style of Voiced characters, Which butchered Starfield lol.
They dont know what they want to be, an Rpg, or a character action game with Rpg elements. Fallout 4 worked for me, even tho i grew up on Morrowind etc. Starfeild needed to be more like fallout 4, instead of more like an Rpg. They simply need to stick to one design philosophy instead of trying to make a game for everyone.

if ES6 does flop i hope someone can revive the IP in the future

My levels of excitement for Witcher 4 and ESVI are night and day at this point.

Well its actually possible emil straight up follows through with when he said ignoring the reviews. Food for thought

My last playthrough Fallout 4 I gave myself infinite carry weight at the cost of no fast travel but I installed a mod that gave you a boat so I could go to 5 specific spots along the coast and 1 in the Inner River. I mainly installed it because I wanted to use spectacle Island as my base but obviously wasnt going to swim there. It was so much fun and so immersive, i remember i started traveling on the broken highways and finding new paths across skyscraper catwalks. You cant do anything without fast travel in starfield. I loved the pirate questline tho thats all i remember liking.

Mannn. Elder scrolls 6 is gonna suck, isn’t it? So depressing to think about.

I’m not paying $70 for a game that will likely be buggy, broken crap

Not only does fallout london have ladder climbing, skyrim has parkour with clambering. It’s not the engine, it’s the developers.

I’m done with bethesda.

After the lies they told about SF Bethesda will never get another dollar from me, even if they miraculously manage the greatest game of all time.

Considering how much Emil resents the gaming audience he works, why doesnt he just quit game dev and write books?

TRUE!

The oblivion remake is crap the code degenerates over time the more you play the game the less likely loads will load without crashing

Emil Learns Nothing At All: Lack of Film at 11

The main issue is that we are taking a company that peaked in 2011 and expecting them to do better, when they absolutely cannot. The best thing that can happen is that they sell the rights to fallout/elder scrolls and keep making their passion projects like Starfield until they go out of business.

If I was to design a space game without procedural generation, I’d at least have one open space map whereby the exospheres of celestial bodies loads you into one of many hand-crafted biosphere region maps. The only time you’d encounter loading screens is when you travel from region-region or region-space. Smaller asteroids and such can behave like giant “buildings” in space. You won’t be able to fully explore a planetary body but who cares as long as the individual maps are all unique & immersive enough to give you the feeling of being in a multiplanetary society. Earth’s regions would have various indicators of a utopian type I civilisation while asteroid regions would be cyberpunk dystopias. The Kuiper Belt could be some no man’s space filled with free peoples & relics from humanity’s earlier attempts at colonisation.

Seriously, someone hire me & let me cook.

I don’t want elder scrolls 6, I want them to fix the clusterfuck they call Starfield. If they can’t fix Starfield I can just imagine what a nightmare Elder Scrolls 6 will be. Loading screens, ugly characters, boring story, repetitive quests. Rinse and Repeat seems to be their new model.

Bethesda as we knew it is gone. They’re dead. I have no hope at all that TES6 will be a worthwhile experience. I actually look forward to watching Microsoft shut them down and give their IPs to someone else, hopefully someone who will respect the fan base more.

We really live in the messed up world where they took Hi Fi Studios and not BGS.

There is absolutely no way that bethesda has what it takes to make a good game anymore

There is no TES6

Over 60% of Starfield’s credited devs were outsourced Indians, there’s a reason it sucked.

TES 6 just hired Veilguard’s lead dev or whatever to design it’s quests.

It’s unironically over, the game is gonna be trash guaranteed

Why are the NPCs in starfield mostly DEI?

The saddest part about lack of schedules and reaction of npc,
Bethesda had that in all their titles since FO3 and only got rid of it for Starfield.

What you said about Bethesda’s hand crafted locations is why I love Elder Scrolls and Fallout. I was so excited about Starfield because I thought it would be like that, only in space. Then when I started playing it, so disappointed. The most cliche companions I’ve ever seen in a game. And boring. I spent half my time in the menus trying to figure them out and figure out how to get to places. No maps in the cities was the worst. I nice little map in the corner would have been really nice. Or at least make it an option. Do this in every game please. I don’t want to have to stop traveling to look at the map. Anyway,, that is all I remember. I just got bored and stopped playing. They probably have maps now and I just haven’t bothered to check back in on the game. Just give me a Fallout 3 remaster for now and I’ll be happy. It should do well because of the TV series.

Bethesda is wrong… there fixed the title. Hope everyone enjoys Bethesdas amazing next gen game: Loading Screen Simulator.

The Failure of Starfield has completely killed any interest for Elder Scrolls 6. It will just be another Starfield with Swords and Magic. 🙂

Bethesda makes their games with a checklist and no testing. You can twll theyre so delusional that they think as long as they hit all the stuff they did before then it will obviously work.

Can you just… you know, STOP EATING TODDS SHIT?

Emil is one of the main reasons why Starfield sucks. He hates writing scripts and somehow he is Bethesda main writer.

TES6 is going to be garbage… Bethesda died when they decided to make fallout 76

Many people are criticizing Emil for his writing, but at the same time ignoring the fact that Todd is equally guilty. And many people seem to forget that Todd explicitly stated that Starfield is his dream game, his “magnum opus.”

And as the director, he has the final say of what the game should look like and how everything should tie together. And it’s pretty clear that Todd is a horribly mediocre director who banks on nostalgia, name recognition, and meme recognition.

And lastly, for true changes to happen three things need to happen:
1.) Todd gets fired
2.) Emil gets fired
3.) Creation gets retired and abandoned.

Fallout 76 and Bethesdas behaviour around that game and its merch has completely wiped away any enthusiasm I had for new Bethesda products. I still play Skyrim and older Fallout games but Will not buy another game from them until it is proven without a doubt they have changed their way.

Writing needs to improve at Bethesda, “Bethesda hires Veilguard writers…” such a fucking joke….

Ever since Starfield dropped, my hope for ES6 has fallen lower than Tesla’s stocks.

NPCs in particular haven’t stagnated, they’ve actually regressed. The lifeless stare each NPC exhibits in Starfield is not present in their previous titles.

I will not buy ES6 unless they can completely blow ESO out of the water with actually interesting quests and a lived-in world of choice and consequence.
Unfortunately, the original team that dreamt up this enchanting setting are all long gone and/or have passed on. RIP Julian LeFay, you handcrafted my childhood.

Morrowind after Daggerfall proved that fans want hand crafted open worlds, not procedural ones. I guess the old Bethesda team who learned that lesson have left already…

What’s the point of this video? You already know Emil Pagliarulo remains the second most influential person in Bethesda, in other words: he calls the shots and NOTHING will change. And despite all of this, TES VI and Fallout V are STILL going to achieve record sales. The future is already established and all we can do is wait for it to happen. You can cut your wishful thinking and stop wasting everyone’s time.

The only reason I may ever buy Starfield is because of the Star Wars Genesis mod… Which promises to replace all quests and everything by 10.0, meaning… I don’t need to interact with Bethesda stuff. That should tell Todd everything…

The problem isn’t the Creation Engine in and of itself it’s the philosophy of game design and greed of the corporate overlords that is holding back the engineers and designers from doing their job to properly updating the engine to add the features it desperately needs to compete in the RPG space. moving to an engine that CDPR or warhorse use won’t solve their problems. Bethesda is now a company that is creatively bankrupt and trying it’s darndest to milk it’s IP’s adding sandbox elements while removing RPG elements and writing creatively dead narratives and stories.

RIP Julian LeFay 11:13

Bethesda can return to form, they just need to fire Todd and Emil and get someone that actually cares about these universes and doing their job well.

Why does Emil use KISS for writing? Isn’t it a principle for Design and UX-Design? Why would I want a simple Story? I want immersive and complex world-building paired with thrilling narrative and complex characters. That he refers to this formula made it clear for me, that Emil has no idea what he’s actually doing.

Just gonna point out. You stated Skyrim had over 200 unique dungeons. It had 7 dungeons. Copied and pasted multiple times.

As long as Emil fails upwards, it will never get better. He’s the downfall of that studio.

Bethesda’s writing philosophy – Keep It Stupid. Simple.

BGS release times are a joke i mean like 10-20 years between now?

Who gives a f at this point.

It’s funny and tragic that Bethesda never takes any criticism and just double down on their dated backwards approach to modern gaming. That and that hack Emil as head writer 😂

This video lacks depth. Just a bunch of surface level critiques paired with “this game did it better” as if elder scrolls 6 should try and be those games instead of an ELDER SCROLLS GAME which is not the same thing at all.

It’s been years since I played Elder Scrolls Online, but I enjoyed that game at the time and I don’t remember the dialogue being bad. I noticed that you didn’t mention that game on this video.

I had serious hype for starfield: 50 hours in game
I didn’t know baldursgate, only bought it after seeing clips from astarion: 751 hours to date

It’s not a matter of wanting Elderscrolls VI, it’s that starfield was just a big steaming pile of dogshit.

What did they do now? Oh well here we go again 😂

Imagine thinking players would enjoy visiting 1000 planets with 20 unique dungeons.

What were they thinking?

Skyrim only lasted 10+ years with the huge playerbase it has because of the modding community. They should not take that for granted.
The same modding community jumped on Starfield and abandoned the game within a few months. They should REALLY not expect their fans to carry them again.

The Hunter you meet in the bar at New Atlantis is the player, sick to death of multiverses and level scaled loot.
And the Oblivion remaster was just a 100GB graphics mod for a game I was over 17 years ago!

Don’t forget all the glitches that never got fixed. Just can’t get those rescued people off your ship, dead or alive.

I haven’t wanted another Bethesda game since Skyrim, because of what a complete meh it was after the awesome Oblivion

Fallout? Only good ones are 1, 2 and NV

The entirety of the problem lies in the fans who keep buy slop

It’s so funny to me to see all the ‘omg oh no AI slop’ hysteria, as if you all weren’t gobbling down handcrafted slop for decades by the time AI arrived

I don’t want any big studio releases. Everything good lately has come from the smaller studios

If you feed the slop machine, you get slop, and that revoke your right to complain

Emil’s logic is to be a crowd pleaser, “just give them what they want” mentality without actually reading between the lines. We don’t just want ES6, we want a good elder scrolls, we want a good fallout, Starfield had the potential to be good but it ended up being a compilation of everything we dislike about Bethesda’s game design

LLM driven NPC dialogue

the god damn colour filters

you can procedural generate absolutely fantastic space maps hand place all the planets and have an a.i tie it all together with near unlimited quests, the issue is not a single company is willing to put the money forward for these handful of specialists that exist in the industry to develop that for them or care if that mark has been reached or done well

I’d only ever consider getting starfield once the Star Wars Genesis mod/modlist thing is more fleshed out, and even then only on a massive sale. Fallout 5 and TES 6 won’t interest me until the writing improves, let alone the gameplay.

Honestly most factions in the Old World Blues Mod for HOI4 have better writing than FO4’s main story.

If Starfield is a indication of what ES6 will be, then we don’t want Elder Scrolls 6. Just release Skyrim again after remastering it like they did for Oblivion.

Starfield is kind of a dead horse at this point.

I’m not optimistic that they’ll actually improve on Skyrim with TES 6. Looking back every new game has been a step back from their RPG roots and closer to “broad market appeal” slop.
Sure, modders might eventually fix it, but at this stage I’m tired of letting Bethesda get away with mediocre because unpaid fan labour will eventually patch it into something memorable.

We’re getting Skyrim: Remastered before TES6.

I disagree about radiant quests in Skyrim… Pretty much everyone I know had this experience at least once, where they do the same quest a few times, look it up, realize it’s radiant, get annoyed and move on. I don’t think radiant quests enhanced the experience. They just annoy people or make them feel tricked. Agreed they were a small-ish part of Skyrim, but I still think they were a negative mark against the game, not a positive one.

I don’t necessarily agree that the market has shifted away from more standard action RPGs, rather the problem is that the modern action RPG market requires a lot of things that Bethesda have just never been that good at designing. They’ve never been able to design things like complex and engaging combat systems or movement/exploration mechanics, they can’t handle systemic elements, or cinematic storytelling, and they’ve always struggled to make a varied array of truly engaging and impactful characters that are more than one off quests.

Bethesda’s strength as a studio has always been in creating an interesting sandbox and granting the player the ability to choose how things play out within it.

I love that you refer to Witcher 3 as a ¨modern rpg”, a game released 10 years ago, 6 months before Fallout 4! 🙂

Hot take: arena and daggerfall which used huge procedural generated worlds are still the most fun elder scrolls games (though to be fair that’s mostly for the deep character creaton).

But seriously. Starfield is bad because it’s badly designed, not because it uses procedural generation. The manually crafted parts were also crap. Not to say it needs procedual generation or anything. It’s just that procedural generation is a tool. You use it badly, it’s bad. You use it well, it can be good.

Your other points are spot on though!

I don’t think there will be an ES6

It’s textbook cognitive dissonance. They haven’t admitted—and probably won’t ever admit—to themselves or each other that their work is deeply flawed and outdated. So consciously, in one very strong and very compartmentalized part of their brains, they truly believe that that their poop doesn’t stink. This is a shared delusion and what they say out loud to each other. At the same time, in a deeply repressed, subconscious compartment of their brain, deep down they know that they’ve peaked and that whatever the next ES is, it will disappoint everyone. That’s why they’re kicking the can so far down the road… if they actually make and release the game, they’ll have to admit to themselves and each other that they’ve been left for dust.

Fire Emil now. He and his design/story philosophy has been incredibly destructive. If he’s at the helm for TES VI, it’s over.

the problem with bethesda is NOT the studio, it is the coinsumers. if you DO NOT give them money unless they match the standard set by BG3, they will quickly change everything for the better.

Starfield fails to achieve what previous Bethesda games did. ES6 will be terrible.

I said this in 2012 There is NO WAY a new Elder Scrolls will be good if it is made at all

ES6 used to be the most anticipated game but since starfield flopped so hard, myself and others fans just aren’t hyped for it

I don’t get how their riding will have any effect on the next tidal

Bethesda really only ever made 1 good game, which was Morrowind. And seeing how they went downhill from there, that sucess was mostly by accident apparently.

“People are going to play ES6 for a decade” translation “We want to make this a live-service game filled with monetized content”

After how long we’ve been waiting for tes 6 I just get more and more afraid that it will suck. Will be the dissapointment of my lifetime

Bethesda gets it. They just don’t care. They were shown that *they don’t have to care* to make money. They fed their fans Fallout76 and they learned *NOTHING*! The entire company is run by the Sweet Little Lies guy, his “Broken clock writes good twice a decade” friend Emil and a bunch of yes-men that do nothing but put more and more layers of lipstick on a game engine that should have been retired decades ago! Their existence is based on load-bearing lies and bold-faced disregard for constructive criticism. If TES6 turns out well enough I’ll gladly pirate it, but I’ll never, not in a million years, buy their product.

I love starfield lore. There was a war. Its over now. Pirates are mean. Scavengers are mean. Mercs in it for the money alone tend to be mean. Religous zealots are mean. Dont bother looking into why. Prolly money i guess. Oh, and the dragonborn. Thats you but there arent dragons sooo….sttaaarrr?.?.?.born?

What’s befesda

Emil and Todd are beyond tone-deaf. Get them out and start listening to customers again.

the fact ive had bg3 crash on me, making me start from an hour before, and i still had fun and wanted to keep going. vs the fact i can die from enemies in starfield and it’ll put me back five minutes and I groan over having to run through the small building again. because ive ran through that same building 40 times before

Emil’s storytelling capabilities peaked at Skyrim, and that game’s draw was being one of the first open world RPGs that people could casually explore, with enough flair to carry through the industry’s wonder at such a novel concept. It is 2025, and walking around game spaces to is no longer novel.

Over the past 14 years, Bethesda’s lead creative has shown himself incapable of absorbing any meaningful advancement that the industry has put forth. When paired with Bethesda’s only mechanical advancement, that Starfield’s gunplay feels like a basic first person shooter rather than the mess of Fallout, it’s clear they have nothing to offer to the industry. Unless they literally hired another studio entirely to develop The Elder Scrolls 6, I do not expect it to be anything other than an expensive disappointment.

The random dungeons could of work if there was like 300 of them as well as handcrafted dungeons

I jumped back into Starfield like two days ago and jumped right back out again. Game still has the same bugs, the outpost system still hasnt been fixed, and traveling is still a flood of loading screens. Bethesda has completely lost their passion/skill.

Fanboys are cursed, no matter the tribe.

>in the past you were guaranteed unique content for exploration

No, you were nearly guaranteed draugr crypt or bandit fort #35483 for exploration, Bethesda has been dead for decades now and people still pretend Skyrim wasn’t trash with nothing good but music and mood building

With the news that a lead writer from Dragonage Veilguard is joining the ES6 team, and this whole “we only learned fans really want ES6 and nothing else!” crap, I have very very VERY low hopes for ES6 being good

This game coming out right after BG3 really highlighted its flaws. BG3 is a masterpiece with dialog that feels real, choices that matter, and a beautiful and complex world to explore. Starfield meanwhile felt like it was released well over a decade ago. Games from 2008 feel more modern by comparison.

Bro get to the info, overly long not funny crap tier attempts at jokes sucks hard

I really think TES6 will fail so hard the studio dies. I want that but also i don’t, i wish Bethesda kept up with gaming but they fell behind. If they die i hope a new studio picks up the slack and makes great game but these days i think that is to big of an ask. So i don’t want them to fail but i don’t think they will change they are to stubborn.

nowadays bethesda games look like garbage, Oblivion remake is outdated, buggy and laggy – same as orginal. And no, we dont need elder scrolls 6 of fallout 5 knowing its gonna be same creation engine crap as before.

10:49 Starfield has ladder climbing, no?

Let’s be real, Bethesda doesn’t care about modding, they care about the creation club. It’s basically free money for them. Plenty of other games support and encourage modding, Bethesda is the only studio I know that outright sells mods for singleplayer games. At least the modders are getting paid, that makes this practice a tad better than Ubisoft style singleplayer mtx.
Still, I am willing to bet that at least part of why they’re so unwilling to ditch their rapidly aging engine is that they know that many of those modders making CC content would likely not be able to create mods for whatever engine they pick. At least not immediately. And with the way Starfield turned out, it seems Bethesda is actively designing their games to be a platform for endlessly adding paid content, content that they conveniently don’t have to make themselves.

Narrative driven games are made in the writing room, and it seems like that is what most of ES fans want. Hope Deathesda gets the message.

Bethesda has been consistently wrong/out of touch ever since Oblivion’s success. Their games are propped up entirely by the modding community.

I am somewhat surprised you are not mentioning The Wayward Realms at all.

I just recently jumped back in a few days ago. 70 mods downloaded with some gems that have made me enjoy a little more. But there’s far too much bad in this game. The player dialog options are far worse than Fallout 4. I’m doing the Strikers V Disciples quest line, and while talking to Briggs, he asks if I can handle the job? My only dialog option was “I’m with Constellation”. I HAVEN’T JOINED CONSTELLATION YET! I immediately shut the game and will wait another year. It does have some great stuff. I absolutely love the Crimson Fleet. I genuinely love all the characters from the fleet. Entangled quest is Bethesda at their very best. But it mostly ends there.

Fantastic video
keep up the great work 🙂

I assume ES6 will be built on the same platform as Starfield and so it will suck just as bad.

I happen to love the direction Bethesda is going in. In fact, I bought every single quality title that they have produced over the past 10 years, and the best part of it is it didn’t cost me a dime.

The sound design in Skyrim was immense, thanks to Mark Lampert and Jeremy Soule. It added to the experience massively. In comparison, Starfield’s soundtrack was entirely forgettable.

I don’t want ES6.
And I want Bethesda to no longer exist.
And I want Todd + Emil to be flipping burgers in McDonalds.
Most of Bethesda devs in 2025 are “theoretical game devs”. Rich kids that took a course in game development. No mods to their name, no portfolio, no passion. They just wanted the status of being a “game dev” for popularity.

Unique dungeons in Oblivion and Skyrim….really?

I disagree on several things, first I’ve spend almost 200 hours on Sarfield and had great fun with it. Shure there were some things like the maps that felt empty and repetitive, in comparison to say ‘Skyrim’, but I’m not even shure you should compare it to that just because it’s from the same creators. It was an attempt to create a completely new setting, a vast world with a whole new lore. I can respect that and find that maybe even a little brave to do it amongst all those other space games.
Also the facial animations are certainly better than the witcher 3 which is a great addition imho, loading screens? come on, everyone has an ssd these days, the ‘loading screens’ don’t even last 2 seconds. To compare the repetitiveness with No man sky (a game I do like very much), but it’s completely procedural generated, as for the quests, those shouldn’t even be compared to the extensive dialogue choices and stuff of Starfield.
Yes the game hasn’t the same feel and features as ‘Skyrim’ or ‘Fallout’, but it shouldn’t be called ‘bad’.
Looks more like the expectations were too high, whose fault is that?
All I know I’ve been entertained by Bestesda for (Im ashamed to say) thousands of hours, why scold them when they make something less after, have we become spoiled kids?

I played Skyrim for 50 hours and it was fine. Then a cousin told me to try Witcher 3 and I did.
Afterwards I never managed to go back into Skyrim. It was so boring and stale in comparison.

Maybe I’m insane, but I love Starfield. Just finished Skyrim, now began NG+ in SF. And you know… I think if you are truly Bethesda fan (though I really hate Oblivion) there are 2 obvious differences from all previous installments.

This is corporate. Disagree with the party’s artistic vision? Shot. Say anything negative during playtesting? Shot. What you’re left with is clapping monkeys saying how wonderful and brilliant Cuckliarulo is and the first to stop clapping will be shot. Bethesda lives in an echo chamber. Starfield had so much potential and they fucked away all the goodwill acquired over years

Since it will be STEAM only, needing internet to play and “subscription”, plus NOT be able to play without internet, or the player owning just the right to PAY, i do NOT care about it!!! 😡

The creation engine isn’t the problem. The issue is Bethesda not wanting to actually improve it. Just look at what modders can do for Skyrim. There are modders who are completely overhauling the gameplay to play like elden ring or Witcher 3 with animations. It’s Bethesda refusing to change for the time and thinking they can get away with leaving the engine 10 years in the past.

TSE6 improves the levitate spell, and you are sent into space to explore other planets.

They learned the procedural generation wasn’t to be relied on when making Morrowind. They just dont care anymore they are so big and have enough fanboys that they can do little as possible and make a great amount of money.

Problem is the writing was always bad. Especially compared to modern standards where games like BG3, RDR2, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, etc exist. The writing in Oblivion? Absolutely forgettable. Those games of Bethesda only work becaus of their interesing open worlds. The lore and backdrop of Fallout 3 was better and helped the writing i guess. But even in Skyrim.. the writing was always.. i mean.. “there” i guess, but nobody hailed the writing! People loved the open world and what you would find!

Going to disagree hard on your point about random generation. My issue with Starfield is that it DOESNT have random generation. It has PREMADE dungeons and locations that are only placed randomly. If the dungeons and landscapes themselves were truly random more like Daggerfall, it wouldnt be nearly as repetitive. Its like Bethesda intentionally chose the worst way to do it

I have already commited to not buying TES:4 until reviews and gameplay are available. No pre-order. No day one purchase. I want someone to finish a sizable portion of content and tell me it is worth buying before I will even consider buying it. Bethesda has lost all hope at this point, for me, that they are capable of producing a game comparable to the new standards set by BG3, Cyberpunk 2077, or the Witcher 3.

The loading screen argument is tough for me to work through. For starfield, I definitely think that there should have been a more tactile travel system, making the interface in-universe and hiding the loading behind animation. For the elder scrolls however, I think having a fully seamless world with everything on the world map would make it feel less like a elder scrolls game. The door load zones are literally part of the elder scrolls aesthetic imo. Doesn’t mean Bethesda shouldnt pre-load indoor zones you are near before you interact with them.

Bethesdas cooked.
If they can’t listen to criticism and their lifeblood(the fans)there is no hope.

no need to worry, i’ll tell you right now. ES6 will suck ass

I’m done with Bethesda. Didn’t even finish shatter space. Game is now uninstalled and I can’t ever see a reason to change that.

Is anyone really excited for ES6?

I’ll play ES VI no matter what because I’ve been emotionally invested in that series for a lifetime. Another Starfield will be the death of them though and I really think we have another Starfield coming once the game is finished. It sounds like they’re doubling down and not learning at all.

I think there is no risk of the next game emulating Starfield as that would functionally make Elder Scrolls VI into a new Arena/Daggerfall with procedurally generated content in an enormous world, and that would ironically be giving the most hardcore fans what they want.

Also Bethesda will probably not fundamentally change how they are evolving their design until a game tanks, and unfortunately I think that means at least two more underwhelming releases are likely first (this plus Fallout 5?) as the enthusiasm of fans of the series still means the games sell in huge numbers only to potentially then fall off an excitement cliff like Starfield.

Incidentally everyone I know who bought the Oblivion remaster, myself included, stopped playing after a month because we beat the game. Surely this is factoring in?

“With Witcher 4 being built in unreal (5) engine…” And *THAT* is the exact reason why I’m not particularly interested in it. I have watched Unreal 5 kill every single game it’s touched. Games with mid graphics turned into studdering, laggy messes even on a $1700 pc. No thank you. Not gonna buy Witcher 4. Just flat out wont just like I didn’t buy Mafia the Old Country and the MGS3 remake.

While I agree that loading screens suck there is good reason that Bethesda need them, it all has to do with the fact you can drop Weapons/Items and the engine will always load exactly how the Weapon/items hit the floor. Not a lot of games do this and it just doesn’t work well when you get further away from 0.0.0 so it doesn’t scale very well, so they need to shrink the world space.

While loading screens are not that imersive, going back to a cave to find an item you dropped and it being how it was left all that time ago is imersive, and it just wouldn’t feel like a Bethesda game if that didn’t happen.

At the point of boycotting Bethesda with how horrible their games have become.

Bethesda is the most suicidal company in all of gaming lmao. They make horrible companies like Activision-Blizzard and EA look good.

This is simply a extension of Todd Howard. He has a reputation for not liking criticism and always knowing what’s best. He’s known as being arrogant where he knows better than everyone what they themselves want. So when he got criticism on Starfield and found out that his fans didn’t want what he gave them, he twisted it in his mind to become “They just want Elder Scrolls 6”. It just doesn’t compute with him that we loved the IDEA of Starfield, but the execution was done poorly, and that the only reason starfield is still being played is because of modders who understand modern gaming better than he does. He’s a dinosaur that refuses to go extinct because he makes games that can be modded. He makes mediocre games with great modding potential then thinks because people are still playing his games, it’s because his games are great, not because the modders are making them great.

I really hope that Witcher’s release is close to TESVI so that there’s a measure of comparison between RPG games.

Be honest, this game was overloaded with unlikable, unattractive, diverse Mary Sue girl bosses. Every quest. Every planet. Every faction. It’s insulting. Go look at the character design in The First Descendant if you’re not sure what I mean 😊

8:22 Correction: No Man’s Sky came out in 2016, 7 years before Starfield, not just 3.

Starfield sucks. ESO is trash. Their only saving grace now is Fallout, and Wolfenstein at this point. We’ll all be dead by the time ES6 comes.

Emil is a hack and anything he is involved with will suck

Shit video

Bethesda does not need to ensure anything. TES VI will be the most sold part of the franchise even if it is a hot turd.

The fans are the problem not Bethesda. If someone doesn’t treat you well stop buying their games.

Emil’s KISS of death for their games.

They should sell the ip

All publicly traded tech/software companies will turn to shit. Going public upends the customer dynamic:

The customers become the consumer.
The shareholders become the customer.
Cue the race to the bottom.

Privately owned > Publicly traded.
All day, every day.
(Unless you’re trying to retire *_as_* the government devalues your currency…)

Starfield was one of my least favorite new games. I actually had trouble getting through it once, and had no interest in continuing as a Starborne. I haven’t gone back to it and don’t plan to.

The Oblivion remaster was fantastic, the only reason Im not still playing it is that I’ve literally played that game for thousands of hours in my youth and there’s not much for me to see that I haven’t already. Basic stats don’t tell everything. I know there are others who feel the exact same as me cause I’ve talked to them. That being said I agree on most everything else.

No man’s sky with realistic concept art would be a god send. The cartoonish feel ruins all of it’s amazing feats.
Imagine no man’s sky, but with starfield concept art…

It all comes down to Women. Remove them from development and especially management and the quality will return.

I don’t think the loading screens are an issue, specially if the price we have to pay fro removing them is losing the ability to interact with all the objects (like in most modern games). I think the remaster proves this. If the game is good, the loading screens are not that big of an issue.

Also, I’ll say the biggest issue with the remaster is that it is using UE5 for the graphics, making it run like shit while being a blurry mess. Between UE5 and the Creation Engine, I’ll pick the second any time XD.

Emil pagliarulo is one of the most brain-dead, incompetent writers in history. The fact that after Fallout 4 he’s still on top of the ladder at Bethesda is baffling to me.

Trump and epstein

As long as Todd Howard is employed by Bethesda the company will never be successful. From the minute he got on stage and lied through his teeth about how great Fallout 76 was going to be the company has completely failed. The only things Bethesda developers are able to do with any degree of expertise is break their own games and find more ways to add microtransactions to the dumpster fires they create.

Not using aliens on starfield was such a bad move

Wait we’re people actually mad oblivion remastered had loading screens?

The funny thing is that their newgame+ mechanic would have worked insanely well if they just made your decisions matter. Why would I play the exact same game multiple times if there are no stakes to pushing the story in a different direction? Scale back the size. Increase the quality.

I mean to me from what ive heard since its beginning it was sold to us as a Nasa-Punk game, a more grounded approach to a space game and they could of done so much stuff with it, but they didnt and yeah the planets are empty which is okay for a “nasa punk” game but what is there at the moment, is just copy pasted everywhere and i havent finished the dlc yet but, the first things you see are phantoms and you get them everywhere appearing out of nowhere to shoot you, it was a bit, out of nowhere and you know each dlc they made in fallout, they added to the base game too but the whole point of the game is to make your ship and correct me if i’m wrong but the DLC offered NO Varuun ship parts, i mean what is that? and i wish they would go the no man sky way and just develop the game further but its pretty much radio silence

I had a more immersive feeling of exploration and much more satisfying and fun combat from ME Andromeda than Starfield by a significant margin. You could say, yeah but the story and characters are awful and you would have a point, about both games.

At this current rate we’re going when it comes to Bethesda, Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be a low effort mess, low effort in the sense that they will over rely on their game engine (Their excuse being need it for mods despite other engines having modding capabilities). For Elder Scrolls to succeed, Bethesda will need to go back and remember what we liked about their games in the first place. HAND-MADE quests, towns, npcs, environmental story telling, and that sense of wonder when you step out into a world filled with life and no matter where you go, you’re in awe about having discovered something new you haven’t before, even if it’s your 10th or 1000th playthrough of the game.

Personally speaking, I’m not looking forward to TES6 mainly because after seeing what happened with Fallout 4, 76, and now Starfield. I think TES6 will end up being not only a buggy mess that they’re known for. But also just a completely procedurally generated game where they will over rely on what they call “Evolutionary AI and scripting” for their everything. Oblivion was at one point hyping up the fact that NPCs actually had lives in the game, schedules to follow and stuff to do. (Which they did!) Now they forgot that they were actually excited to make that happen through care coding and scripting (Albeit buggy it is still a bugthesda game after all)

Over the years fans didn’t mind the bugs as the games were unique enough in their own right where we could get lost in them for thousands of hours. But now? It feels like they’ve ran out of ideas or are just so tired of being forced to make the same kind of slop each release. They’re going through the motions and forgot that games should be fun, making them should be fun! Easter eggs, random little events or details devs put into their games even though they didn’t have to, adds just that extra bit more flavor and helps tie everything together.

My biggest critique about Bethesda games now isn’t due to their bugs (as that’s a given staple at this point), it’s due to the lost creativity and the feeling that the devs that actually care are forced to put in procedurally generated slop that actually takes away from the people working on the game, making it feel like the higher ups no longer care about their massively creative and talented team of devs, artists, musicians, and everyone else that are on the ground floor. If they did they wouldn’t be trying to get AI to make their games and actually allow their team to show off how awesome they are.

they need to add a lightweight LLM to the game to make all characters truly talk to each-other and to the player freely – that would be the real breakthrough innovation we need

TES6 basically needs to be KCD2 with magic or it will fail spectacularly. I don’t think they have it in them, which means I’m probably done with Bethesda games.

What annoys me most about starfield is there’s like 10% of a game I could really love it they put as much effort in everywhere else, ship building is great, the vanguard/crimson fleet quests are really good but it’s like tiny islands in a big empty sea, game is so empty

It could have been extremely cool but truth be told I just don’t think Bethesda have it in them anymore

When it comes to the loading screens it is SOOO dated, even back in March 2007 the original Stalker game(s) only had loading screens (long and slow back then) between large map areas. You never got loading screens just to enter a building or cave. The original Oblivian released exactly 1 year earlier has at least one loading screen for every building, cave or town. Many caves have two or three areas that all require loading screens and even some small houses have 2 or more to access the different floors.

Back in 2006/7 there were still a vast number of PCs that even if they had an AMD64 capable CPU were still running 32bit Windows that limited applications (the .EXEs) to just 2GB of user space per process.

There was a 32bit Windows XP special boot mode that split the 32bit (4GB) address space in a 3:1 ratio, but most software was not built to make use of it, only things like SQL Server were built to used it, with 64Bit becoming a requirement soon after the AMD64 CPUs were released. The default was always the 1:1 ration with 2GB of address process space designated as ‘User’ space and 2GB for ‘System/OS’ space.

Note: The term “Address space” relates to the virtual memory that a process can access, it does not mean that the computer has GBs or RAM, that is what the Page/Swap files on disk are user for.

I remeber reading in a review for skyrim, that it’s probably the last game players will be ok with the limitations of bethesdas’s engine.

In the end Bethesda games were never really good. The best new Fallout is Fallout New Vegas, and Bethesda didn’t make that.

Bethesda is too lazy, greedy, and stubborn to change

The thing that sucks worst about Starfield is that it can still be saved. If it got the NMS treatment..

Mainstream industry has adopted the min-maxer mindset where everything now revolves around efficiency; namely on how to make the most money with the least amount of effort possible. Videogames used to be a creative endeavor, now it’s like they are being made by corporate husks that only understand spreadsheets. It’s like they replaced all creative talent with people from the HR and marketing department…

This industry loves machines so much it’s starting to become one; replacing human talent and creativity with artificial intelligence and procedural generation. Visual and gameplay design feels feels so bland and formulaic nowadays it’s like they are trying to mass-produce games likes shoes in a factory. Art doesn’t work that way. Remember, min-maxers are an analyst type, not a creative type – they shouldn’t be in charge of anything creative.

Finally someone saying something about how boring the cities are

“No Mans Sky released 3 years before Starfield” doesn’t sound right to me. Could have sworn it was out earlier than that 8:21

Keep in mind, that Skyrim was a MASSIVE disappointment, it was a dumbed down, easy-mode, rehash of Oblivion.

Oblivion was a big disappointment, it was a dumbed down, easy-mode rehash of Morrowind.

Gamers have now been waiting 23 years for Morrowind 2 to come out . . . .

All we keep getting are Morrowind’s special needs cousins

starfield criticism might not be the most innovative, but it at least comes from the community

The modding community made Skyrim and Fallout 4. Bethesda just renamed and resold a buggy engine.

Check Out Tes Online side quests if you think that Bethesda and their owners, Zenimax, forgot how to make some good stories.

9:45 “in Red Dead Redemption and Kingdome Come Deliverance NPCs follow real schedules and realistically react… while Bethesda makes Skyrim towns in 2023.” Um… did you play Skyrim? Like, at all? That’s just a bunch of nonsense. Skyrim and Oblivion NPCs also follow schedules and stuff. Looks like you don’t really know what you’re talking about.

“In Starfield NPCs are unaffected my gunshots and grenades” — again, what are you talking about? Once I snapped out because of some glitched quest and started shooting at NPCs in the middle of New Atlantis. NPCs were affected alright.

4k+ hours in Skyrim. Almost 200h in Starfield. Exploring every single planet and loving the gameplay. And I try to take the long route while travelling. Usually it looks like this: “finish exploring the planet => physically get back to the ship => Launch to the orbit => travel to new planet => land”. Somehow it’s a little bit more immersive than just fast travelling from Jupiter satellite to the Constellation Lodge. I mean, I don’t fast travel in Skyrim at all because it murders the immersion. I tried to start fast-travelling at the end of my first Skyrim playthrough in 2017-2018 and it basically murdered my experience.

Yes, Starfield isn’t ideal, but hating it so much? I don’t know, folks… maybe oversaturation of the audience is a thing.

If you guys can’t stand renerated locations that much, you probably never played the Total War series, where you basically besiege the same town every time. I mean, the landscape is generated from the strategic map, and it’s an awesome unique Total War feature, but situation with settlements is different (Medieval II as an example): there are 6 levels to both types of settlements, to each of 3 European architecture types (North European, South European and Muslim for the North Africa and the South-East) and each of them is handcrafted and looks different. So, for Europe you have, like, 36 variations of settlements. But that’s it. No unique settlements or different variations of the same settlement levels of the same cultures. If you besiege 2 villages or 2 towns of the same level and culture, one right after another, they will look literally the same. And you know what? I can live with that.