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Song list:

00:00 – momentum formula
1:00 – New Habitat
1:26 – can we give it more space
2:00 – Felicitade
3:13 – A deep breath – carvine
4:13 – across the miles – gudappan
4:53 – rosary – Mykola Lemeshko
5:30 – upbeat countdown to space
7:09 – chromatic nights – the odyssey
7:51 – can we give it more space
9:06 – ready to meet my maker – puremusic
10:26 – shaman (short version)
10:44 – floating through space – audiocalm
12:00 – space funk city – Easy Vibe Sounds
14:00 – space age – Anitek
14:45 – dark villains – monument music
15:19 – heavenly love – synthezx
16:38 – dawn in the hills – hey audio
17:31 – Hollywood dreams – Giuseppe Vasapolli
18:22 – never been this happy
20:00 – space walking
21:00 – dawn in the hills – hey audio
22:37 – flower meadow/Ballad to Sarah – Oleg Kashchenko

18:54 literally fallout 76

Not sure why anyone than bother going back and playing or reviewing this POS game

Tell me lies tell me lies todd

Absolutely crazy they are charging $30 for this, the same price as Phantom Liberty.

I wish starfield was good…i really wanted it to be but im not sure it was even as good oblivion or skyrim hell fallout 4 was even better

that sam coe part was so fucking funny lmaoo

4:51 “Consida det a divorce”

My goodness! I tried playing StarField again the other day, started again from scratch and trying to ignore the main quest. I stumbled across some space station and poked around it for a bit before getting bored and just leaving. It wasn’t until this bit of your video that I even realised that was the new DLC. Man it sucks.

Why use AI…

Nah, Emil probably really thinks this is a good game – i mean he also believes he’s a writer, so …

7:26 That sounds like a really good premise. It’s reassuring Bethesda finally improved in their story writing. I was worried the story might be about you being the chosen one and then you proceed to do mindless fetch quests for the higher ups, before meeting their god, who betrays you and has you fight him, because that would suck.

This shit looks worse than the first release of NMS.

I’m not sitting through 23 minutes of this. Does he ever put some clothes on, stop yelling or fix his hair?

should have made fallout 5

Please do the next expansion when it comes out! Your vids are highly entertaining!

Emil Pagliarulo’s position in the company must be restored to what it was when Oblivion was made, which was probably proofreader.

Guys…

Bethesda design has ALWAYS been like this, this boring, repetitive quest loop has always been their method. You were just younger and unable to see passed the gimmicks. Fallout 4 writing is bland and the main story is outshined even by some free mods, Skyrim was uninspired and predictable, and absolutely does NOT hold up people need to stop kidding themselves, Fallout 3 was.

We just have to come to terms with the fact that Bethesda hasn’t ever actually been all that great.

hang on…

Fallout 76 was Redeemed?????

I still have no interrest in star field

Andreja❤

Bloody ell you’ve shot me in tha ead

The engine a game runs on is literally the foundation you’re building the house on.

Unless you’re a god tier programmer, you just can’t make an engine do things that it wasn’t meant to do. And even if you can figure it out, you’re having to bend over backwards to make it happen.

Bethesda has a particular style with their games and so they should have their own engine that is purpose built to run the kinds of games they want to make exactly as they should run.

And they did that. And it worked, for a while. Unfortunately their engine was not very WELL constructed, which was fine up until around Oblivion, but even in Skyrim you can see the stark limitations it has. Trying to expand their worlds as we can see with Starfield just increases the amount of loading screens players have to deal with in locations that pretty much EVERY other developer has scrubbed CLEAN of dedicated loading screens. Bethesda games are some of the only places I still see loading screen after loading screen while I’m playing a game. And the reason is because of how they built their engine. It’s just TOO simplistic. It would work perfectly if they were making dungeon crawlers, but they’re not. They’re making vast open worlds, and their engine is BAD at that. Not only could they not figure out how to allow the player to walk into Whiterun without a loading screen every time, they also had to make Whiterun, which is supposed to be a city, smaller than most towns with a population smaller and less fleshed out than fucking Schedule 1’s, which was made by ONE DUDE.

The Creation Engine worked great, for a while. But it’s far too outdated now and needs to be retired.

I doubt that Bethesda still has the capital to stop making games and build a new engine though. That’s kinda the point of making good games, they let you grow and develop better tools to make more money. Bethesda missed that memo apparently.

It’s one of the best dlc bethesda ever did.

This youtuber is a clown

Todd touting 25 million players “in our games” is so transparently deceptive lol. I wonder how many millions of those are just people continuing to replay Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, New Vegas, etc. I’d bet at least 60% of Bethesda’s current playerbase are playing games released over a decade ago.

To be honest though I really don’t have any problem with their engine. Yes, it’s buggy, but it’s efficient for them, and I’d rather they make a janky game full of well-written sidequests, interesting locations, good faction questlines, and actual RPG mechanics than have them make a pretty action adventure game in UE5.

I just don’t believe it’s the most pressing issue, and of course if we make it that, then Bethesda will probably ugrade their engine and continue to make a lackluster action adventure game with a hero complex where you can do every single thing in one playthrough, except wooo this time it’s got better animations yippee

Hey renn, whats the song at 4:22 ?

the gun brand in starfield with the multi shot barrels is far too cool for this game. Wasted design.

only Factor tries to make TV Dinners seem gourmet. lol You can buy frozen meals at the Dollar store way cheaper

Starfield is so much wasted potential. The idea is really good but man it just feels like skyrim npc’s after lobotomy.

I tried to get back into Starfield recently after a 110 hour playthrough and it crashed (I shit you not) 5 times in the 2ish hours I played. Uninstalled.

Shattered Space was pretty good. This whole “it sucks” view is getting old. Y’all are too picky.

oh god the next elder scrolls is gonna be terrible.

I don’t have many problems with glitches and crashes, the game just got boring, it didn’t help that Constellation talked like they were out of some Disney scene. Where’s the grit of Fallout, and no I’m not comparing the games, i’m comparing the character, Fallout wants to murder you, Starfield wants to hug you.

You know starfield is bad when ESO looks more convincing and their expressions actually feel more life like

I read the title hearing Reys “somehow, Palpatine Returned.” it has the same energy.

This whole fucking game is trash. It’s not even worth $20 WITH the expansion.

I dont hate starfild i do hate the dlc tho its shit after the spacestashon

such a shame, i wanted to play this game but its all for nothing, forget about the money, its a waste of time..

Emil Paliwhatever is still coasting at Bethesda because he wrote the dark Brotherhood quest line for Oblivion, and nothing of fucking note since. Todd protects this guy to the detriment of every game post Oblivion. It’s fucking absurd.

Greta video, although as a general rule I would advise against using someone else’s voice in an advertisement like that lol. It’s always weird to put ads in someone else’s mouth, if it’s a real person.

It’s crazy that Bethesda has been making the same game for over 30 years but every iteration gets worse and worse. It’s sad

Todd just wanted everyone to blow him. Hence the candle 😂

Tod Howard is such a dork

Tod will still be laughing; straight to the bank from skyrim sales

Are you using AI generated voice lines of Todd for your sponsorship? I hate that. That’s so garbage.

I dont mind games not being very long, but thats because then they can focus on quality. This is basically the worst of both worlds.

76 redeemed itself? Ive never heard anyone talk about that game after its launch.

Who in their right mind is looking forward to the next game- a big golden turd crushing our fondest memories?

He says the game sucks but all he shows is clips of him having fun wih it

Of course he’s going to say he’s playing his own game…

Games like this only live thanks to the modding community. I wouldn’t have reinstalled if not for learning of the new creations hub.
Real sus af that there are paid mods that don’t negate achievements.
I was always annoyed by the size limit and power limit for ships, mods changed that despite hab connecting still not being quite what I’d like.
I didn’t like the design of some weapons. Mods changed that.
I always wanted more clothing options that were both simpler and not ugly af. Mods changed that.
Mods are king.

I liked this video, funny stuff! But your take on the engine (just switch to Unreal or completely start from scratch) tells me you know very little about the technical side of making games. It’s a bad and completely unrealistic take. General design issues and lack of QA is the true issue here. But yeah, still enjoyed the video, so thumbs up!

The ad integration made me audibly laugh, good stuff

This happens when devs yell wile their head is still up their arse.

hahaha, I auto-dislike any video with acsponsorship segment then watch the whole rest of it anyway

19:25 i almost passed out from laughing so much to the running guy.

There’s FACTOR adverts in Starfield? Hell no

No Jeremy Soule, no soul.

Grav drive technology goes horribly wrong.
*Looks at Earth*
Eh it ain’t that bad.

Honestly, in regards to engine discussions, I think the Creation Engine is perfectly fine. I mean, even the Oblivion Remaster is still built on a foundation of Gamebryo bones. It is still janky as all hell just like the original game was, it just looks like a UE5 game. And it is STILL fun. It is STILL entertaining. The Creation Engine is just a big overhaul of Gamebryo. Fallout 4 is still fun, even to this day and it’s a decade old. The issue with Starfield is not the engine. It is the bizarre design choices Bethesda made which directly contradict every major pillar of gameplay they’ve delicately crafted in all of their previous titles.

A key element in all of their previous games was the gameplay loop: explore, fight, loot, repeat. Every aspect of the game world synergized with this game loop perfectly. In many of their games, fast traveling is actually a bad idea, because it can potentially cause you to miss out on genuinely good side content you may have otherwise missed. It is very encouraged to just wander around from A to B in all of their older games because you will assuredly stumble into something exciting. Like, Fallout 3? 10 minutes after leaving Megaton you will be approached by a kid telling you about gigantic firebreathing mutated ants. I took a 3 hour detour to become an exterminator. That was cool. It was fun.

Starfield of course has a lot of glaring bugs, but many Bethesda games do and they are honestly funny. We think they’re funny because, hey, at least the game is FUN, right? Starfield lacks this fun element because the game is not designed, in any way, like their other games. They want you to explore, fight, loot, and repeat. But there is nothing to explore, the only things to fight are horribly scaled enemies that either go down in one shot or take your entire ammunition pool to eliminate, and the best part here is the loot. The loot SUCKS. I can’t believe people playtested this, spent 10 minutes taking down a legendary pirate, just to get rewarded with a space-adept sword that does 12 damage. I refuse to believe their playtesters did this and said “wow, I can’t wait to do that again!”

But even going beyond that, the deeper issue with Starfield is how disjointed the entire game is. All of their older games had one seamless, cohesive overworld. You could genuinely walk from one side of the map to the other and not pass a single loading screen. You’d only encounter loading screens when entering dungeons, certain buildings, etc. This design decision is what made the gameplay loop work so well. It made exploring possible because everything was seamless, it made fighting and looting fun because who knows what you might run into while exploring, etc.

Starfield’s issue is it doesn’t do this. There is no seamless, cohesive overworld. The overworld is that atrocious star map. You pick a star system, you pick a planet in the star system, and you hit a button that says “Jump” or “Set Course” and fast travel there. The reason this game is SO BROKEN with the gameplay loop is because there is no real exploration. Every time you fast travel, which is 99% of the travel in this game, it’s no different than what would happen in all of their older games if you fast traveled everywhere. Yeah sure, you can “explore” a crappy loot dungeon on a random planet, but how did you get there? What did you encounter along the way? Nothing, because the game was designed in a way to make it that way.

I think Starfield would have been far more entertaining if the overworld were designed to be seamless. They could’ve done what Bioware did with Mass Effect 2/3 and make the overworld a simple galaxy map a la Mass Effect. In those games, you physically move your ship on the map from place to place. This consumes fuel, too. Imagine moving your ship on this map to get to some planet, and along the way you suddenly get pulled out of a jump by some spacers, or some pirates, or what have you. Maybe you could even spend skill points to upgrade your sensors so you could detect these threats before you encounter them. The point is, they tried to build the game like all their others, while simultaneously eroding a core pillar of what made their other games work to begin with: a seamless overworld.

Indie games blow away AAA titles, not even close

Factor is a garbage tv dinner..

Such a fucking chore to get through this game. Bethesda outdated mechanics, soulless characters, boring world, shit dialogue…oblivion remastered was not much better so dont try and say it was.

21:20 you could do it before the dlc. Anyway th8s game sucks…

20:18 fkn liar, he doesn’t care anymore… that’s his job. After the release of the elder scrolls 6 you will not see him again, guaranteed.)))

20:00 you are hugely mistaking…

19:09 he have became a capitalism npc lol))))

16:59 ahahha that is everything that must be said about this game lol)))))

You know stuff is crazy when you can actually tell what studio made the game, I can stiff out a game like this from Bethesda from miles away

When your game is made entirely by 65,000 Indians phoning it in from the ghettos of Delhi

Claiming larger and larger player numbers as an example of success is really dumb.

The industry is getting bigger. In the last 9 years it gained a billion new users, and Bethesda games are really the only ones in their genre. Open world, classless, personal protagonist RPGs.

The only reason their player counts are this high, are because they don’t have a competitor, and they have thousands of modders turning their B grade games into triple A titles.

I like Bethesda games, they were all very formative for me and my interests. But the ego of the company is so tone deaf its infuriating.

Even the modders dipped out after the paid mods so the game is dead af

Fallout 76 did not have a Phoenix moment where it rose from the ashes in order to achieve wide appeal. It introduced NPCs that nobody talks about, and it introduced multiple new seasons of quest chains with stories that were mid at best but nobody talks about.

Starfield is just a polished space version of Fallout 3 essentially. Bethesda making the same game and selling it with a new coat of paint, and the industry wonders why its dying

I’m so sorry for all actually creative people in bethesda who are stuck working under Todart and Pedrilio. Creative vision and the script is always the weakest part of any of their games.
Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout, Starfield – it’s always the same: shit main story, 95% quests are boring copypaste of one another, and gameloop is nothing but “go to X location and kill someone” or “go to X location and bring a McGuffin from there” .
Sure, every game have a couple of memorable quests but they are mere islands of hope in a sea of shit.

Too bad oblivion remaster did good, I was hoping that after TES6 they would go bankrupt and fallout rights will be given to better studio. Oh well.

You guys would be surprised at how name brand computer components alleviate alot of the bugs in these games. I rarely encounter any bugs in games on day 1 releases so it’s either that or something

Jesus christ this just means we can expect expansions for fallout and elder scrolls. There go our complete games from bethesda now, goddamn greed kills so many potentially great games. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good add on to the complete game I paid alot of money for like that far tide or whatever it was for fallout 4 but what I’m saying is now they’ll intentionally hold out huge sections of the game that would’ve otherwise been there only to release it as a dlc 6 months after release which is a parhetic and fucked up money grab. Maybe since this one failed, as I’m sure it did, they’ll learn their lesson and won’t do it again.

Shittesda is cooked. Elder Scrolls ? haha pass

Lol, lost faith after F76. You people are just delusional fanboys.

I am honestly just wanting another Starfield DLC for the humour of seeing how bad Bethesda has become and for another video trashing this flaming dumpster fire.

Bro, every – and I mean, like, EVERY – fucking clip has some sort of texture, model, or animation bug. Insane that this game exists.

Somehow, Starfield returned

Any AAA game company not using unreal engine 5 is just being delusional. Its the future, and bethesda is the past.

Todd is like Ronald McDonald without makeup.

Best Factor ad I ever seen

anti white games are horrible

Everything that Wallstreet parasites touch, turns into crap…

This is what happens when you have 20 different teams reporting to Todd alone rather than a competent and experienced management team that sees a win

I think they were expecting modders to take over and finish their game. I gave up on it but heard modders don’t care about it either.

I bought an Xbox x for this disappointment

nah, Bethesda fanboys will slurp up any slop Todd has for them. so in the end, I will be the one laughing at their cope

The loading screens are ridiculous, precisely on the generation we all finally got SSD drives on consoles. It doesn’t make sense.

It’s strange, starfield, in theory has everything to be an awesome game. But almost everything is bad executed. The open world and traversal is boring, the quests are boring , the loading screens are boring, the story is bad, The gun play is ok, but not the enemy AI and to be a science fiction game the guns are really boring and generic.

yeah we were way too harsh on mass effect andromeda.

“(optional) sacrifice your burdens” sums up this game for me

After my first play through, I was so disgusted I put it down for a year. I came back to it and I did new game +10. I’ll never play the game again. I beat Skyrim again three times this year fallout four twice new Vegas once I did not even bother buying the DLC I will never entertain playing this game if Elder scrolls six is a steaming hot plate of garbage that is completely the opposite of fun and immersive. I might just quit gaming altogether.

lack of mods on console

DUDE the engine is not the problem! Why do people still say this stupid take

For a Rated M game this is the most PG 13/ Barely scratching the T rating feeling game I’ve ever played

Most of the time I get Bethesda confused with Ubisoft or EA or any of the other “diverse” consumer-hating corporations.

Ill be waiting for reviews for elders scrolls 6…

7:28
This is like, what a child would think of for a science fiction plot.

That was a damn smooth transition into the sponsor holy shit lol.

TODD FOR THE LOVE OF GOD FIRE EMIL RETIRE HIM BEFORE HE DESTROYS YOUR ENTIRE LIFE

The irony of you complaining about slop while eating and promoting literal slop…

And Todd has been working on Starfield for over 2 decades.. think about that. There are intervjues from the 90s even where he talks about Starfiel.

edit: play through RDR2 after playing starfield and compare the cutscenes, the writing, the quests and everything else to starfield

20:51 Todd has become those bullies or whoever hes talking about.

Bethesda is the most pathetic studio out there. Ive seen it for decades and now yall finally realizing it. Theyre an old relic that needs to get a complete overhaul its rotten to the core and it is never changing until you start from the foundation

What happened to expansions from Bethesda like Shivering Isles or Tribunal?

Hey now, an NPC wearing a ladder on its head did pique my curiosity…

Bethesda have no skill anymore

Sad part is that the starting quest wasnt case of IGN misinformation, but standard case of Bethesbug. The distress call should trigger once you hit any non-quest orbit, but Toddie did an oopsie so It Just Doesnt Work.

The game is awsome, and i am not joking around. It has so much potential, for mods, for more DLCs. And a haven’t yet found a buh (200h+ hours, heavily moded). Fallout 4 is much more instable.

I gave up on Elder Scrolls 6 when I played Fallout 4 – the last Bethesda Game I bought. And nothing I’ve seen or heard from Bethesda since has convinced me to reevaluate that stance.

To be fair, mods disable achievements, so you can’t use achievements as an accurate metric to engagement

That product sponsorship was smooth

okay that sponsor section was clever

I hate shooting games with health bars. Bro if you shoot someone one time they are permentslly handicapped . So annoying they act like it’s ok to be shot a couple times

The funeral part was comedy gold

19:24 even I as a newbie in game dev felt very embarrassed by this.

The fact that we still can’t remap POV is ridiculous. Every other Bethesda games allowed the binding of RS for camera. EVERY. SINGLE. BETHESDA. RPGS.

1:55 That was a top tier product placement, good shit

That song goes so hard, I am hoping for another starfield video just to hear it again

Starfield is the best game ever. Is there room for improvement…..yes. Has Bethesda been improving it, yes. Can they please everyone….NO.
Should you shut your pie hole and play the game for a few thousand hours so that you know what you are talking about….YES!!

to me the biggest fail of this DLC is that our Varun companion is completely irrelevant to this quest, no special dialogue nothing, you could leave her behind and nothing would change with this DLC.
I didn’t think she would be involved in the “main quest” of the DLC but I was hoping that going back to Varun space would trigger a personal quest for her, that we would learn more about her and her family and even better resolve the issue of her personal quest in the main game and be able to accuse her handler of betrayal something like that. But nope, nothing.

Maybe you could pull a Ripley and see what happens. Put yourself in cryo then randomly drift in some direction. See if they catch you before you disappear into the vastness of space. Start, then come back in 20 years.

Bethesda game studios titles are all fetch quests in regards to fetching information. From others. Because mobody knows how a radio works and csn cleamly broadcast information.

This is the result when stock lovers and people with ties make games. They have no idea what PLAYERS actually want. They’re only interested in the next quarterly result. And are even too stupid to listen to players.
and why does Todd Howard still have this JOB ? The guy is a liar. and EVERYONE knows it.

Hell, I just started it and the ship glitched out on 3 different quest markers so it took forever and then I died from not finding the damn battery in the compactor which makes you restart from the very start so you have to find all the keycards again. Once I got to planet I didn’t get any andreja dialog like you did, it was just dead silence from her. I got quest to save some people that were taken hostage which took 10 times longer than it should have because it gave me a floating blue marker 30 ft off the ground in the middle of the cave that wouldn’t update and had to re load the mission . I Played through to the point where you need to go investigate a cave, had to kill some teleporting spiders and hadn’t realized andreja had not even entered the cave. I guess the quest glitched again saying I investigated the cave but I still need to talk to some person but I have no clue who the hell that person is or where she is at. No indicator at all. I have over 600 hrs in the base game but coming back after a year and finding this boring glitchy pos is driving me crazy, I mean the expansion has already been out over 4 months and I have spent the majority of my time redoing what I just did because it bugged.. This is pathetic. Forget using the creation too, I started a new character because I didn’t want my old game to be modded and used the creation to add some mods and all they do is fuck up the base game even worse..You end up with key members like Sarah and half the people walking around out in public with No legs. I give up.

20:50 it’s wild because your correct but people should already be at that point, not fooled again in five years.

I never gave 76 a chance and gave up on starfield but skyrim is still fun. I now get to watch my 17 year old daughter screw up and piss every one off in Whiterun. She locked herself out of most of fallout 4 due to her unusual playstyle.

I just re-started oblivion again; gonna probably do Skyrim too.

I have zero desire to touch this title after 2 hours, I probably never will again.

Bethesda isn’t making what they used to.

Thabk God Gaben for Steam library sharing, i got to play this game and give it many hours and several fair tries and still got disappointed, would’ve genuinely hurt me alot if i had paid for this garbage, Starfield is the kind of game you won’t play even if it’s given to you for free 😂😂😂

Todd Howard sounds exactly like Michael Scott from The Office

Dude is hilarious.

Bethesda think they’re Hello Games.

I could honestly get past the bad writing and repetitive gameplay if only they added more meaningful content. I was well aware playing starfield for the first time that most of the content would be procedural slop but I was expecting bethesda to add and deepen the gameplay mechanics like maintaining your ship, outposts and cities. Instead, things like customizing your ship only changes the damage and carrying capacity of your ship. All the hab rooms are useless. Even clinics and weapon Smith rooms since most of your resources are on a desolate planet cuz your ship can only carry so much. Armor, guns and melee weapons especially feel like a step down from fallout 4 with less opportunities to use em since most planets are just empty. I was hoping they’d release more content but seems like they’re just focused on a ps5 port 🗿

18 years of elder scrolls and fallout 3d modding I didnt buy starfield nor gamepass launched it, even for free I didn’t, I really like some of the graphics and rooms but…I know it’s an empty shell where both the dialogs and voices seem ai generated

People keep buying it so lets keep putting out slop …. PS6 Starfield complete edition …. remastered

where did they got 25 milion players?

Cute dog! great vid!

Would it kill Bethesda to hire a few more voice actors? 🫤

I appreciate those brave YouTubers who play this crap so I don’t have to

Built my current pc in anticipation to play starfield. Welp it ended up for kcd 2 instead.

I would say they’re technically right in saying this was their best game to date. Problem is that their base game design is outdated. It’s Skyrim in space. The clunkiness of the standard gameplay architecture was masked by it being in a medieval setting and exposed when put in the space setting. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, ES VI is cooked.

sayin’ this now: if they can add a rover car, they can add in a tank.

What– when you said to like the video at 11:50, the like/dislike button lights up? New YouTube feature? Insane. What was this video about again?

It’s not the damn engine, it’s the fact that they refuse to fix their backend after modders have fixed them for YEARS. Skyrim can be one of the best looking games you can play and with sse engine fixes it’s even pretty damn stable. The engine is not at fault its their refusal to fix the shit that IS broken or unoptimized.

Even IF they did switch to Unreal it would not fix the underlying issue of them not fixing age old bugs issues. Fallout 4 and Skyrim can both run very well and play much better than their vanilla selves just by downloading a few fixes, not even overhauls that actually change things, just fixes, backend shit, reduce the crashes, frame drops and general bugs.

If this same development team starts using Unreal at best you’d have a better looking equally terrible game but now you get the bonus of horribly implemented Lumen, forced upscaling or TAA with no way to not have either, having to recompile shaders every fucking patch and so on and so forth. Oh and possibly modding would be worse but who the fuck knows because if they make another shit game no one’s gonna mod that one either.

Could we stop with the “Unreal” buzzword mr reviewer? It aint magically gonna fix shit.

I beat it and I can’t even remember anything about it

7:15 that pop-in

Emil must GO

Starfield made me concerned for Elder Scrolls 6. Shattered Space made me _terrified_ for Elder Scrolls 6.

My hope is that this was merely a case of promising DLC too early, and after the game flopped there was no passion so they just churned out something functional so they could bury this corpse. And that they will take these lessons, _learn from them,_ and make an Elder Scrolls game that actually just works.

….I still can’t believe that this is the same studio that made Morrowind……a game that (despite its many flaws) I still play 20 years later……

Not knowing how to start an expansion is a Bethesda classic. I had to look up every fallout and elder scrolls dlc

BRING BACK MICHAEL KIRKBRIDE

Legit Question, what is with Todd and the number 16??

If starfield is a massive game, and skull and bones is a complete and massive aaaa game, what is GTA 6?

Imagine if gta 6 came out on 60-69 USD, it’ll put other studio to shame on what little they’re offering for the prices they charge

It’s incredible how Bethesda dropped the ball on the one thing that truly made them an industry name, the one thing that almost no other studio could replicate, the thing that’s named after them, _the Bethesda open world formula,_ the magic of exploring a rich _hand-made_ world.

Anyone know the song name starting at 6:00? Kind of a banger

I did not realize Todd Howard speaks like he is AI til I heard AI speak exactly like Todd Howard.

Brilliant.

I got through half of the whole section at the beginning of the dlc and just deleted the game.

If people still expect anything from Elder Scrolls 6 then they deserve to loose their money.

Anyway you can Finish the dlc without becoming the promised?

This is what we get for buying into the hype again and again. We’ve told them they can do no wrong because they’ll make a ton of money no matter what they do.

Is that boredom over the hill?! Oh yeah Its boredom you guys 0:51

Did you really use Todd Howards voice to be used as training data in an AI voice program without his consent?

“ I want do it with a person that makes me expand. As a person” 🤣

I like that they still dont have good facial animations after well over a decade

“Curiosity what’s over that hill”
Machine generated slop, Todd, that’s what is over almost every hill in Starfield.
Starflied is the perfect outlier of the games industry. It’s dull feed for the piggie you are in their eyes and the industry mouthpieces will do their best to gaslight you into thinking it’s a good game – or call you a hater or a bigot if you dare to critisize the quality of it or objectivity of the media coverage.

for god sake allow us to land in a planet in a realistic way and to flight on the planet like a planeeeeeee Jesus look by the window galactic storms discover treasures

can they put a super alien race and some mystery pleaseeee ?????????? a massive galatic war that attack all those planets someethingggggg ,???? a dangerous space aliens ??? massive space battles ?? ??? Jesus

Bethesda: “N-no, it’s actually good, y-you don’t understand”

“I wanna share it with someone who makes me expand…..as a person” dear God, my sides

Todd “seagull” Howard

The faces of the characters look decent, until they start moving lol

Game’s got over 10 million sales, $700 million from said sales, despite having mixed reviews, because dumbasses exist.
Maybe you should be laughing at the consumers. Todd is just reacting to numbers – dollars. And they’re still rolling in, why expect them to learn when morons still pay?

Fraud Howard

Guys, I don’t think Elder Scrolls 6 is gonna be worth the wait.

You are no funny anymore

If there is a Oblivion remake/remaster coming I hope Bethesda doesn’t absolutely ruin it

So basically the devs played destiny before making this “dlc”

First Bioware, now Bethesda. Sic transit gloria mundi. Who would have thought that the better gaming devices get, the more simple games made with few resources by enthusiasts shine.

Wow, starfield is boring who might have guessed

House Va’rune already annoyed me. For one thing, a creepy cult with a snake theme and purple motif is hardly thinking outside the box. And why is it media makers keep making evil stuff purple? It’s my favourite colour.

Bethesda is trash and not sorry but if you like Bethesda made rpgs then you unironically have garbage taste in games

this game is so lame its not even interesting to watch or even make fun of.

this map is so handcrafted that you can actually see the procedural generation lineas in the map screen

That factor sponsor, best way to turn off someone from a video. With Ai Todd Howard and the awful looking food.

My heart goes out to the many youtuber who took factor as a sponsor before all the dirt came out 😩

How comes that both Crysis 2007 and Dead Space 2007 had better Zero Gravity fights than Starfield?

Bethesda purchasers are getting what they deserve. They have been buying digital dogfood for decades, so at least have the dignity to not looked surprised

i remember when i used to like bethesda

1:10 fallout 76 did NOT redeem itself, not by a long shot 😂

This shovelware was so boring I couldn’t even sit through the whole video

yes, they should use a new engine but unreal? god no, it stutters and worst of all we won’t be able to mod the games.

There’s are a number of channels that I don’t skip the sponsors but this is the ONLY one I actively look forward to it

I genuinely thought Todd was sponsored by Factor

Ah, yes… Todd… Mhm.

Factor: We sell fresh high quality meals. Reality: looks like any other microwave slop and probably tastes like it aswell.

Why should they improve the game? The modders will do it for free… or will they?

I torrent and play this game when I need to be productive, not because it inspires me or anything, but because it reminds me of how shit gaming can be and I get so bored I do work instead

Just think about it… this shit exists in todays age next to games like the witcher 3

I’ve never played this game, but it’s amazing that the NPCs literally look like they belong in a game from 2014.

11:13 Is that a cliffracer?!

Starfield is so detailed, you can see every grain of gravel on a planet’s surface and if you enjoy looking at gravel this is truly the best game ever!

the amount of times you just wake up with full consciousness standing up after “blacking out”, in this game, is astronomical

Microwave removes vitamins and proteins. Gg genius

Bethesda is going the way of ubisoft. But at least ubisoft chose quantity. Bethesda has neither quality nor quantity at this rate 💀

As cringe as thus game looks I have to admit thr gun designs are beautiful. The nasal pistol looked so sick. Probably the coolest unique design I’ve seen yet, but to be fair I’ve done no research on this game and there might be other cool designs I’m unaware of. That said mad credit to those who designed the firearms

This game looks ridiculous and not fun to me but the fallout show has successfully made me want to play new Vegas and 4. I’m sure 3 is great but I hear the aiming is cancer and I don’t think I can handle the bank for hours on end

Who should ever take Todd Howard seriously after FO76? And you left out the worst part of Shattered Space: {SPOILER WARNING}>>> The two choices you’re given at the end result in the same outcome.

“We have 25 milion players.” Steamcharts: 330,597 all-time peak,
7,024 24-hour peak.

I don’t think elder scrolls 6 will sell as well as they hope, better than star field sure, but they might realize they can’t get the numbers they want.

If it’s on game pass, i might give it a shot to give it an honest review.

And I still can barely even run it lol.

If TES6 comes out and it’s bad, I feel like I’d just die. Imagine waiting over a decade for a game only for it to be… worse than mediocre. What is there to be excited for in this life?

Your humour is a masterpiece

Looks like Bethesda is going to going the way of Interplay soon.

Todd Howard has SOMEHOW surpassed Randy Pitchford as the most arrogant, delusional, and incompetent leader of an American video game studio or studio group. I think it’s because Randy finally shut up.

To think that even now, Starfield still uses what is essentially Oblivion’s NPC dialogue system

Rectum-crafted

AAA games. Oh wait “AAA” games, I mean. Wow, people no longer know how to create games WITH ALL THE TECH at their fingertips.

Please tell me that was A.I doing The silver tongued Lizards Todd’s voice

I’m terrified for Elder Scrolls 6. Looks like it’s time to replay Oblivion with mods. I was super excited for Starfield and manged to beat it. Read online that you should play it a second time to get the full story or something, started a new game plus and turned it off about 30 minutes later to never touch it again.

That Emil guy will doom bethesda and they think he is like a god, lame

The Creation Engine is dated, yes, but the problem isn’t the engine itself. Modders have proved time and time again that the issue is with Bethesda’s lackluster scripting. It’s like the entire company is stuck in 2011 thinking the same thing will work over, and over, and over. Their writing team is dated, their programs are dated, their everything is dated. They caught lightning in a bottle once or twice and think everything they produce there after is gold.

Yep, eldersxrolls 6

If they jump on unreal for next game then theyre totally cooked fr this time

Such a pure slop game

Starfield feels very corporate. Bethesda got a lot of money from investors that are uncomfortable taking risks.

This ‘play it safe’ strategy is what kills creativity.

It is equally infuriating/sad/funny just how much of that “Bethesda experience” is unintended. And that part that everyone loves about their games is the part that Bethesda has been trying to automate with procedural generation. 8 years of effort _wasted_ on a creatively bankrupt UNIVERSE that, Ironically enough, is too afraid to explore some of those deeper questions and possibilities. I hate what Bethesda is now because of what they’ve set up for us, and then they blame us when they believe their own lies and say ridiculous things like “Well the _astronauts_ weren’t bored!?!” OF COURSE THEY WERENT BORED YOU DUNCE, THEY WERE SOME OF THE FIRST HUMANS IN SPACE!!!

And that Todd quote near the end about Bethesdas technology in combination with him saying “maybe you just need to update your pc” makes me want to grab him by that stupid leather jacket and yell “YOUR CUSTOMER BASE CANNOT AFFORD TOP-OF-THE-LINE GAMING COMPUTERS, TAKE YOUR OWN ADVICE AND AIM A LITTLE LOWER TODD!!!”

Two words. Private Equity. Once you get a private equity firm leading a game dev company, they go bankrupt trying to copy paste whatever is trending, Starfield is another perfect example of “morrowind with guns” mentality. I’m surprised they haven’t started layoffs already.

“In 2023 the top 10 played games were on average 6 years old and fallout 76 is now 6 years old”
This level of copium ;–;

Fallout 76 is still garbage

this game was the best Cyberpunk2077 commercial

So, it all boils down to skill issue = bad game

I enjoy starfield still after 1700 hours, still plan to for many years to come.

Good luck riding the Bandwagon sheep o7

hopefully this video gets you at least 30$ lol.

I can’t believe a DLC costs as much at multiple small games. What a waste of money.

you know, quite clever to get sponsored by bland slop, for a video talking about a game thats bland slop.

Wait what? A small team didn’t make Starfield, they had 6x the Bethesda employees working on Starfield than they did Skyrim. In fact it’s likely that they had so many
people working on it that all individual creativity went away

i dont want elder scroll 6 anymore

Shattered Faith good song that one

They need to fire the entire Starfield team…and then delist the game.

Using Todd’s AI voice without disclosure for your sponsor segment was highly unethical.

ES6 is gonna be so bad.

Just check out the starfield subreddit. They got some sort of a victim complex over there or something, constantly having to explain why they love the game

todd is like 5’1 seeing him at the game awards was so funny

Fallout 76 is redeemed? 😂😂😂

I already wrote TES6 off as a loss and every time Todd or Emil open their mouth’s they just bury it deeper…

At least starting it isn’t like Artorias of the Abyss DLC, how literally anyone figured that out I’ll never understand.

I also remember this one time in Fallout New Vegas where there was like this drug ritual thing you did and had to fight a giant flaming bear, and your reward was its hand as a weapon.

I really wanted to like Starfield because it ticks off all the boxes of what I wanted in a space game. The game is just not fun, I kept progressing the story and everything was just repeating, the landscapes, the enemies and the planets all bled into one. Not to mention the limited inventory and you always need to pack around a clunky drilling laser…. After the fifth or sixth time having to fly back to a planet to buy back the mining laser I was absolutely done with this game.

And thing is that Bethesda doesn’t seem to realize what their biggest strength actually are and that is how open their gameplay loops are. Bethesda’s games makes you feel like you can do anything, almost the point that even they didn’t realize a player could do that. If TE6 had a look at what Breath of the wild did and had a main quest that you could beat in like 3 hours, but the game keeps distracting you with the side quests. And the side quests takes totally advantage of that open gameplay by just focusing on getting cool loot or exploring fun dungeons and so on. There should be some sort of plot of course that doesn’t feel like the worst AI in the world wrote it. But it’s in service of the gameplay and the roleplaying comes from you shaping your character and your stats, rather from the story.

8:25 the voice actor sounds like they read the dictionary and then edited the words into the correct order later

I tried, I really tried to play Starfield. Because I like science fiction and space games like no other. And I didn’t even have any expectations because as a Bethesda fan I know how much you can’t count on any quality here. But this game was such a painful and frustrating experience that I just had to let it go. I have no problem that there are people who have fun with this game, but all I found was heartless and super irritating. And what’s probably the worst. Everything is so very stupid. These NPCs would have been considered boring and uninteresting 20 years ago.

“handcrafted” as in….”we actually had to do some work in this esoteric, little known skill called….Game design”

You ponies will nitpick at anything smh

That berserker entity sounds like someone having a bad time on the toilet

Writing was so bad. The game was very boring. Especially when Baldurs gate came out around the same time, it showed how trash Bethesda was

11:07 “Now we can appreciate the visuals and soak in BOTH of the colors Bethesda used” 💀

I refunded starfield on steam after I got to the first city and saw how much the game sucked

Starfield is good as long as you remember it’s a Fallout 4 mod & not a standalone franchise

pagliuro is even more of a joke than tood howard. nothing will improve as long as they stay.
Sales need to keep dropping

Factor now made by Tod Howard!

Idk why but why does Bethesda have a ritual fetish I swear one is in every game of theirs

20:15 dude they don’t need to change their engine… they just need to make it better. Unreal engine 5 games run horribly and have disgusting stutters. Bethesda would make a unplayable mess if they tried using UE5. They need to fix their writing and gameplay

Mods make this game tolerable-but not fun. It’s as though the game was made as cake batter, they preheated the oven and put it in for ten minutes expecting a baked cake. It’s slop. And the DLC is no different. They made the Va’ruun a bunch of uninspired edgy Pagans that believe in space jormungandr. The vortex shit is bafflingly shallow and the end game boss is no more than a zealot with a fancy blue ghost skin. It’s bollocks.

That factor thingy looks disgusting

1:50 not a fan of factor but that was a clean transition

Also, for the 2 hours i played that game i also made my character fat and old so if you ever want to chug space beers and sumo belly bump with our shirts off in public, we can totally.. wait, no nevermind, theres no co op. i guess our characters beefy belly bromance shall never be 😢 😅

Ive played tons of indi space games made by less than 20 people that not only have way more soul and beauty, but graphically look better, play better, somehow are way more polished and dont have even ¼ of the janky ugly immersion breaking bullshit. There is zero excuse for this bullshit. GET RID OF THAT GAME ENGINE AND GIVE TODD A WAKEUP SLAP UPSIDE HIS HEAD..

A.I Todd Howard in your sponser ad got me fucked up lmao 😂

They will keep turning out garbage if dumb people keep giving they hard earned money for garbage..

Todd really has lost his marbles. He’s so out of touch with reality

The thing ive always noticed is that Todd and his team are perfectly capable world-builders, but when it comes to creating a system for how all those pieces come together they just always drop the ball

Fkin space civilization doesn’t have a thruster?

Amazing

“… be redeemed, like fallout 76”
This is for EVERYONE
If that was redeemed in your mind, you deserve bethesda treating you like the dumbass you are.

fucking scummy way to shove in your commercvial. i stopped watching right there.

They improved the detail by 16 times!

They spent money on Starfield visors — probably the worst kind of hat.

I still can’t understand why they made Starfield the way they did..
stripping it completely from the things people love & play their games for and then the seeming confusion as to why I it does not resonate with players..
Its outright baffling..

Disliked for that trash ad placement

Levels and healtbars on enemies killed the game for me

“Got worse”? It was never Average. It was already worse. It just never got better. The Steam Reviews are now filled with people who have Common Sense and are not the Cult-like fans that backs them up. The Jaded Eyes faded away over time.

no QA that deserves that name.
sorry if somebody from QA reads this. some of you probably wanted to test it more thoroughly but you were not allowed to.

Two things

One I think Bethesda forgot how to make a Quest

Two I think they just made this game expecting people to find their own fun like they did with Skyrim, But then vastly overestimated the amount of shit people would put up with

That was one of the greatest sponsor transitions I have ever seen.

the sponsor segment was nice lol. good job

they dun goofd again

I married both of them at the same time!

Whisper the lies softly in my ear TODD.

I actually think it’s a good thing the dlc doesn’t slap you in the face with how to start it, feels more organic and properly integrated

I tried Shattered Space, and it’s the first and only time I literally gave up on a game so hard I deleted it.

There was only one quest that jumped out as better than mediocre, and that was the duel quest.

It’s really sad to see a company i respected so much for there ambition become the least ambitious company in gaming

New writers a new gameplay director a few new level designers and there good to go

I’ll just stick to replaying fallout 4 or Skyrim until Bethesda can maybe one day pull themselves out of there own asses

Love how people say starfield is trash while claiming stalker 2 is a masterpiece 😅😅

This video was randomly recommended to me and god is everything spot on….i truly fear for the next fallout or elder scrolls. They really lost that magic.

Why the long boring, slow talking NPCs? to kill time. why the annoying enemies that are simply dragging the fight out? to kill time! and then BAM! you realize this game has no soul, and you look at your time in game is 2 hours and 5 minutes, and you can no longer refund it. THAT was the true point of the game taking so fucking long to say ANYTHING

Emil is the type of guy who would spend a bunch of money on a paint job for a car that barely runs and is a death trap, just so he could sell it for top dollar because all he showed you was the new paint job and talked about how fucking shiny it is, and then tell you “oh it runs like a champ, you wont have any problems AT ALL” and then when he gets your money, you almost die in the car and say he sold you a POS, he would get online, post pics of how shiny the paint is and claim you are lying because “does this shiny car look like it has anything wrong with it?”

SOOOOOOO MUCH BORING DIALOG, EMIL THINKS PEOPLE YAPPING AND YAPPING ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT POINTLESS DICKING AROUND IS “GOOD CONTENT”

The moment I saw “Shattered Faith” you got a new subscriber, because Fallout 76 broke my heart, and Starfield killed my soul. THANK THE GODS I didn’t pay $200 for FO76, or $120 for Starfield. And Emil owes us an apology, ya know, the people who made them FILITHY RICH.

Factor full of plastic to put in microwave? Brilliant

When you complained about the zero g gunbattle I could hear a developer scream out into the void “OH COME ON!!!” 😀

BGS has turned into a group of people who aspire to find something to do other than make the game.

Layers and layers and layers of corporate beurocracy thats suffocating the industry’s most creative ideas.

I don’t understand how people keep buying Bethesda games.

A truly revolutionary tale that will stand the test of time 🤣

That food looks like it tastes like how Starfield feels to play

After playing something like Cyberpunk or Stalker 2, both games that have such massive open worlds filled with interesting characters and interesting stories, Bethesdas really just falling behind.

Like, really Bethesda. If the game that’s been in development hell for years, was constantly delayed, and made while their country at war is more gripping and entertaining than the games you make while…not in development hell, in a country that’s not at war, that says something. Bethesda needs to do a LOT better.

That Emil Pagliarulo is Bethesda’s terminal cancer.

2:00 “which is the sponsor of the day” RENNS 😂😂😂 WHAT. That’s wild.
7:52 “this entire 15 secs of video is more engaging than the game itself” 💀.
9:28 I can’t believe it. Renn was unburdened by what has been.
17:34 an interview with an ex lead dev at Bethesda. That’s awesome.
18:00 “hubris”, basically, overconfidence, hmm? Interesting. The overconfidence of success.
20:20 Bethesda has so much technical debt it’s insane.
22:12 “it is in this way that I will pay my respects to you” 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
22:30 I sure hope you hit a balance between good and bad games. For yourself. I forced myself to play Octahedron and it was a horrible mistake. 5 levels in, I knew what was good, ok and bad, and it only worsened from there.

Wow fallout 76 had 16 x the detail and so dose Starfield . How does he do it lmao

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

Isn’t that quest to like get high and grab a statue to initiate in another religion like exactly the same as a quest in Far Harbor

Tod please just release the fallout 4 group let them go

Love your sense of humor

Has Bethesda ever played fallout 3 or New Vegas? They should try it.

Starfield is just what happens when you spread one Bethesda game’s worth of content across an entire galaxy instead of like,, a Manhattan sized plot of land lmao

Honestly pretty wild that No Man’s Sky has basically become the game everyone wanted Starfield to be, given that it released in 2016 on the PS4 even less functional than Starfield. Only like half of the promised features were in the game at that point. Impressive how well they managed to recover tbh, I doubt Starfield will manage that.

I appreciate pretending to feed the dog that tv dinner, and not actually subjecting anyone to that microwaved mess.

I enjoyed the video though! Great editing and good take on the state of the game!

What is it with Mericans needing to shoot everything and everyone?
Genetic mental illness?

“Tonight I press F so that we can F.” A Shakespearian quote if I ever heard one

I dont understand “FACTOR”. We are told to not eat tv dinners everyday because its bad for you, but then this company comes along selling tv dinners in bulk, telling us to eat them daily. Seems like a scam

Starfield is Human resources employees and reddit mods in space simulator.

Sneaky unlabeled sponsor? Great, unsubscribed and ill never buy factor crap in my life.

Honestly, after the disaster that was Starfield itself, anyone that was excited for Shattered Space deserve to be made fun of.

I’m sure DEI and wokeism have nothing to do with it. lol

Todd Howard has become the new Peter Molyneaux

The planet was procedurally generated, that’s just how making stuff like this works. You generate it them adjust and expand on it, they just didn’t do much to adjust it

Layoffs, sure. Bankruptcy? Nah. They have enough Skyrim cash for days. Plenty of morons will buy TES6 no matter how bad it is. Just look at D4.

Did 76 get better? Or did you folks just lower your expectations because you were so tired of being disappointed?

Homestuck music at 2:55

I thought if I put a Star Wars conversion mod on Starfield, I would like it more. I was wrong.

this game is miserable to play

Why do you people hate that game so much?

Someone PLEASE fire Emil pagliarulo, he couldn’t write a shopping list and yet he thinks he’s a writing god

You know what makes it worse, they take forever to make this content while not improving gameplay every single game. They have an engine and the same formula for every game, yet somehow its takes like 8 years to come out with their crappily written games

Starfield is just badly written woke crap. It’s sad but that’s the truth.

Ayo was that Moonsetter in the ads? Homestuck review when? 👀👀

‘Shadow of the Erdtree’ is $40 . . . Just let that sink in. These people are hacks.

Best thing is Starfield is the ship builder, and Bethesda didn’t even develop that part of the game.

Its the complete dead face “it feels like my heart has been ripped out of my body” for me

I feel like procedural generation in a bethesda game *could* work, it worked in Daggerfall for the time. However, if you’re procedurally generating something, you need to have enough ingredients to have the generation feel varied and interesting. No Man’s Sky is a perfect example.

Dam that sneaky promotion had more thought put into it than all of starfield.

Toad hotwad needs to retire and Bethesda needs to get some old school devs out of retirement, and fire all the dei idiots that can’t write or design worth a shit.

0:30 yes like a dream ever fleeting

I don’t think they actually NEED to move on some new engine. Skyrim was a success, AND Starfield did fix a lot of problems of BGS’s previous titles. For instance, if in earlier games you glided over earth like some kind of ice skater, then in Starfield walking feels and looks (from third person of view) more natural.

In my opinion, Starfield could have been and amazing a game if they weren’t so inclined to cut corners. How great would it be for a game to create itself? Well, probably sometime in future it would be a thing. Now, however, I would like to play a game created by people who care for it, thank you.

hope one day i will see Tod in real life…..

“Dragonborn in space” is so aggressively derivative, it’s like Bethesda is trolling it’s fanbase.

For that price I could get a couple of good indie games that give me more time.

As for that question, who’s laughing now? No one, everyone will be sad. Bethesda will be sad for being bankrupt, gamers will be sad for having lost one of the big, good companies.

@10:54 WHY DOES THIS GUY SOUND LIKE TODD HOWARD

The only thing saving Bethesda right now is the community (modders), I’m comparing folon to Stanfield right now, the later is joke lol