Ok Bethesda you wanna start improving fans feedback, then this will be a start in the right direction, these things were already stated by Todd Howard to already be in the game, but weren’t because Todd Howard lied to everyone about it… background loading screens where we would be landing our ships in all places while the game loads in the background… now for other improvements give us panel while sitting in the pilots sit to access the star system map and the galaxy maps for better immeriveness and make our 4 companions less annoying and add more different floorplans to the POI’S, make Core and Sam use the co-pilot chair, so they can fly the ship when we fast travel… and improve outpost building and to allow us medium sized Settlements would be nice and pretty cool… These things wouldn’t be hard to apply because these’s functions are already in the game, and would improve relationships with the Fan base

Bethesda will always be stuck in the pass as long as people keep buying their garbage games.

I’m just calmly waiting for Starfield Online. Todd Howard will assure me that it just works.

Feels like the Bethesda team have taken a back step and let Chat-gpt take over. None of their recent games from fallout 3, fallout 4 and maybe even Skyrim have any consequence, good or bad. So what is the point in playing them?

People get to wrapped up in an IP and think they know better then the multi-million dollar game studio. Don’t like what they do don’t buy their games. Simple vote with your wallet.

And I responded by putting my wallet away and telling them to eat one…

DEI hires have ruined video games and movies.

We need to hear from all the Starfield fanbois who said the game was better than Cyberpunk even after version 1.6. Where did they slither to?

It was a good dlc for a house vanuun playthrough but other than that it sucks.

I’ll go as far and say it’s emil making a meal of it

Emil says “ Nobody at BGS is patting themselves on the back while ignoring our players “ while………… patting himself on the back and ignoring the players

I think you hit the nail on the head – the content is there, but its bottled up in three areas (now four), and we also got the ‘open world’ to explore, but the content isn’t THERE – those areas are boring. We want all that content as PART OF the exploration, and they have completely lost that aspect. And also as you’ve said, the characters (thus, the writing) makes you not care about the NPCs, at all. Not even the companions.

One of my biggest gripes with Starfield is the lack of radiant AI and unique named NPC’s in cities. Watching NPCs travel around going about their days, completing specific tasks, stores opening/closing, etc, goes a long way toward making the world feel “alive”.

The game also needs more handcrafted dungeon locations to draw from. It murders immersion to walk into the same exact abandoned science facility for the 6th time on 6 different plants. I would gladly pay $20 for a DLC that just adds an additional 50 or so of these type of locations to the game.

Honestly, I think this game would have been much better off it was scaled way down in size instead of having “1000 planets” just to serve the idea that “bigger is better” which is definitely not always the case. Why not just have the whole map consist of Sol, Alpha Centauri, Cheyenne, Volii and kryx with a total of 50 planets/moons? It would still be massive and would be much easier to pack with content.

Shattered Space was a lot of fun for me. The story was interesting. The new content was good enough for me. Starfield is one of my favorite games and I do hope they continue supporting this game for many years

I hate Emil

Wanted to play starfield. It crashes so often I can’t get out of the tutorial. So in my opinion, starfield is a completely failed game

It’s fine to respond to bad reviews if you’re trying to correct the problem. It’s not fine to respond to bad reviews if you’re trying to change the opinion

Bethesda: we have to monetize 10 years that a player spends playing the one-time purchase offline game😂😂😂 unrelated question – what torrent mirror would you recommend?

Bethesda used to be the king of DLC horse armor aside when they put out a game he usually came with four DLCs and those four DLCs would more than double the size of the original game making it well worth it

I don’t know if anybody does this anymore. DLCs are tiny little extra add-ons so they can get more cash out of you

Not everyone’s cup of tea is what you can say if it does moderately well, if it’s failing hard, it’s apparently nobody’s cup of tea

Apparently, 8 years wasn’t long enough.

That, and the game needed more writers.

It is my opinion that Starfield was pushed before it was ready. There are a number of features in the game that feel incomplete.

I have zero hope for the next elder scrolls

A fan of your videos for a while, but kinda feel like the narrative you were pushing here was a bit disingenuous. I mean…sure…they still hold the title of horse armor peddler…but now its in the hands of modders, not the Bethesda team. Just a bit of a caveat…that’s all.

As much fun as I’ve had with starfield, I think BGS needs to move on. Their little pet project wasn’t what they wanted it to be, and they should go back to what they’re good at. I loved playing starfield and will probably keep playing it off and on for several years, but it is far from bethesdas best work. I feel like they had too many ideas and it honestly held the game back trying to fit them all in. They should go back to the ways of fallout 4 and Skyrim, a largely handcrafted area with lots of little details to discover.

The biggest canary in the coal mine was Will Shen, lead for Far Harbor, the only part of Fallout 4 which feels immersive and compelling, quietly left the company after Starfield. He knew all his efforts would be squandered by this hack.

We want starfield to succed. But they wont take criticism

It just sucks cause I love them and Todd

Sadly, many people are no longer enraged over Bethesda’s direction, but rather apathetic, and that is much, much worse. If someone is raging about your game (or media in general) that means they still care enough to be angry and you can course correct and get fans back, whereas once fans just shrug and move on, then that means your project has largely failed and not many people will return. I believe Starfield is pretty much cooked and if they don’t do better with TES6, then I believe Bethesda is cooked.

Hardly, the Constilation has only good and that’s it, roleplaying has it’s problems.. 😔 feels like a ongoing trend

As much as it pains me to say, Bethesda is no longer the same that brought us Oblivion, morrowind, Skyrim.

Starfield isn’t that bad, but it’s just not that good.

Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle really is the best way to explain Starfield.

And anytime you argue and fight with fans, it’s not going to end good for you.

I think it’s silly to watch two guys in spacesuits hack away at each other with swords… Just seems a silly concept.

Lol people don’t play Starfield lol

You cut Emil way too much slack. Watch the speech he did some years back. Combined with all his comments over the last year he has dug a big hole for himself. The only way out would be some serious introspection, a sincere apology for his arrogant condescending attitude toward gamers in general and taking player feedback serious and working on something the customers actually want.

I predict he will never do it. Dude is way too proud.

Being almost completely devoid of character does count as unique personality, I guess.

To Reiterate my Steam review, “It’s got a lot of good content, but it’s almost equivalent to the amount of bad content. So you’re just eating a burnt steak that’s smothered in BBQ sauce.” 300+ hours I’ve spent and it’s meh out of meh.

The full response to the response is actually garbage

If bethesdas management cant acknowledge their mistakes they wont learn from them expect the same quality

This is what happens when ego is attached to the project

If Bethesda doesn’t want to work on, or be know for, fallout and the elder scrolls it may be time for Xbox to clean house.

Daddy Todd must be melting down over his personal passion project. Perhaps Bethesda shouldn’t have sold out to xbox

The base game is so boring…. Space exploration is pointless, star citizen did it right

The guy’s name is Emil, not Amil.

“There is nothing more inimical to intelligent planning or more conducive to wild and impractical vanity than the assumption that because one has done well in the past one must of necessity continue to do so in the future.” -Belisaurius

Bethesda is such a letdown now.

played it twice in vanilla mode and dlc once. sure there is some little issues with the game but in general its a pretty good game . i beleive many ppl criticizing price of thing like dlc simce to forget that inflation is everywhere and making a game it very difficult and costly. unfortunaltly many creations bring bugs to the game . i only download free cerations i don’t buy any. i compare it more to cyberpunk 2077 that for me became a realy cool and good game now , hope starfield gets better in the same way.

I love Starfield, but I agree that there needed to be a lot more attention to the small details and the fact that mechanics that were in their prior games were in this game is an oversight. I feel like, since they were making this game from scratch, the overlooked a lot of things that will eventually be added/fixed. Honestly, my biggest issue with Starfield was the huge open world and the boring, generic, repetitive RNG locations.

The level of tone deafness that this studio possesses is frightening. Sad to see all the OG companies that started with nothing have all grown to become incompetent.

Starfield does not need a big overhaul. Comparing Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 is apples and oranges. Cyberpunk 2077 was completely UNPLAYABLE for many many players. Starfield is not broken people don’t liike some of the design decisions but that could be said for 90% of all AAA Games.

We went from deeply written lore you could find and analyse in books scattered all across Skyrim, to excerpts from real world books with no relevance to world building that’s just there just for the sake of filler. It’s like they stopped caring. Bethesda used to be a small studio whose games won us over because of its charm, because lets face it, they were always behind from a technological standpoint, it was those other ‘things’ that kept us hooked that’s just not there anymore. Or is it just me?

The NPC’s are the worst in gaming history.

Mmm… Crazy how that works. Starfield is meant for those who like it. It is like expecting BG3 to get an action combat update for those who like that.

Where can I get what this Emil guy is smoking?

Cuz I’m avoiding that dealer like the plague.

You could have had more people play it by default if you didnt alienate a third of your playerbase but really you did the sony boys a soild

Shartfield: Shattered Sphincter – Mining the IP and customers wallets to deleption.

I’m not buying the new elder scrolls. Everyone needs to move on from bethesda.

Bethesda says this is their best game ever. I’d say that it had the potential to be, but they missed the opportunity. They could learn allot simply by checking into the mods that people create and download. Like take just the top 20 or top 50 mod ideas from Fallout 4 and incorporate them into Starfield. My first disappointment was in character creation. You can create your character many ways, but it always looks like a pathetic generic wax figure. The outfits and bodies look like they were designed at a church function. But you can choose your favorite pro-noun. No body sliders or physics? Then the fact that all the alien life is animals and your just supposed to shoot them or harvest them for resources. The only intelligent life is humans in one form or another and they’re just doing what they’ve always done. Mostly killing each other. I’d like some creative mind, like mine, to imagine a few races of aliens that are completely different non-humanoids that the player can interact with. Not just space battle aliens with ships to blow up. The ship building is pretty weak honestly with most of the hab units lacking any real function. The little mining bases you build can just sit there and crack out resources, but you can’t attract settlers to them so there’s no incentive to expand your build. I could go on all day. I’ll just say, I played it through, got all the achievements, did every quest (I think). I even ran all over almost every planet and surveyed everything. I appreciate what they did with this game but it’s in the rough. People want a polished product not a rough one. I haven’t played Shattered Space at all and that’s why I probably won’t.

Toddy Boy has made Emil the Pug his new meatshield. Emil is even starting to look like Petey Hiney.

Sometimes I wonder if Bethesda just tries to put out the game. Get it mostly working and kind of right. Make sure we throw a couple bugs in there because that’s kind of our signature. Todd Howard enjoys watching the YouTube videos about the bugs. And then they decide okay we’ll just leave the rest for the creation kit release and let the modders deal with it. Cuz I’ve noticed that’s when a Bethesda game even though they actually are pretty good, start to get really good. Once the mods release that’s when it gets great

If they move to the Unreal Engine for Elder Scrolls 6, that will be the end of Bethesda. Their modding community is the only thing keeping them alive, and Unreal Engine will destroy that.

I think Emil is a very poor spokesman for Bethesda and they should keep him out of public conversations.

A good example of a living world is Read Dead Redeemation 2: Your free more or less do what anything you want in the world as the story moves forward. The player encounters fix points, but how you get to those fix story points is up to you as a player, and you can feel the cause and effect of your actions as the game on folds. The game is balanced.
Starfield, the game out of balance, the worlds all feel like an empty blank canvas ready to be finished by modders ? and why RDR2 well it example of everything that starfield needed and lacks. The story arc starfield is a best-fetch quest, and as ti the a side missions, they are all on rails; you go from a to b, then B to C; no cause and effect, and in the end, nothing matters. This is what let Starfield down; it needs a great story.

The thing that makes me the most disappointed is the fact i still love the Bethesda titles i grew up with. I honestly want starfield to be an awesome space rpg but it just is lacking too much to keep it engaging.

BGS is stuck in the past, literally. While it’s great for employee moral to have people who’ve been with the company for 30+ years, this also makes them vulnerable to not evolving with the industry and the fans who play their games. SF is the epitome of outdated game design, yet they can’t really change the core of the game because that’s what it’s built around. All of the responses and updates have been to smaller issues, but not the core game itself because Bethesda can’t change that to be a more modern, lived-in game similar to Cyberpunk, or even No Man’s Sky.

Bethesda is making money off of paid mods ESO and 76 with minimum effort required so they don’t have to care about the fans that are mad

In Fallout and Skyrim, once you finish the story, or even if you don’t play the story, you can just walk out into the world in any direction and have hours and hours of fun content. In Starfield, once the story quests are done, there’s no fun.

If they want to add fun to the game, they need to add a few hundred more locations with lore that will spawn on planets. These need to be different and have fun, cool stuff to get. Their habit of tying a boring quest to everything in this game, like they did F76, should be left behind. All I really want is to land on a planet and set out excited for what I might find. That’s what they give us in Fallout and the Elder scrolls, not here.

Bethesda with never peak past skyrim.

The development environment has changed too much for anything to top skyrim now.

Space simulation 😂😂😂😂, yeah alright.

I really enjoyed the expansion. Did the whole main quest and some sidquests. Still have a bunch of side quests to go and haven’t finished exploring the new world, but it’s been pretty cool. My only complaint is that it was shorter than I would have liked.

Blueprint for Starfield success. Aliens, populated worlds, flying between locations. If you can’t do it don’t try. And especially don’t say you’re doing it or try to rebrand it as a space “simulation”. Multiverse? Let’s hammer out the universe first, Bethesda.

Bethesda Derangement Syndrome is a sad but real thing. I mentioned liking Fallout 4 at my work and one of my co-workers got all pissed off and went on a rant about how Bethesda sucks and NV is better. I’m just sitting here enjoying life and having fun playing a game and there’s grown men who find that offensive and get all mad about it, It’s so pathetic 😂

Starfield is a 60-70 hour game priced at $70. Shattered Space is a 7 hour DLC priced at $30. With the monetization of Fallout 76, the official mods they create, and this DLC…it’s safe to say it’s over.

Bethesda should just remake Skyrim with Starfield’s engine and give us more space to mod this new remade Skyrim.

not ignoring players?!?!? fallout 4…. the update to break the game…

i hit “the wall” after 10 hours

starfield is boring. i will not play it.

Don’t ask questions
Just consume product

I have huge issues with the term ‘technical marvel’ describing anything they’ve made, their animations still look like they belong in a ps2 game

all we wanted for the past decade was just es6 and fo5 😭

Unity is broken af. No-one playing a Bethesda game wants to lose everything they’ve built over and over and over.
Fix that one thing and game will do much better

what if instead of ingame digital goods store, you’d have an actual ingame gift shop (which is inside the actual game) where you can buy items which would be shipped to your house irl

I think the key to this debacle is here: Starfield was made for Xbox and ported to the other platforms. Recipy for disaster, and particularly weird since MS is probably dropping consoles altogether. Good riddance. Unfortunately, they sunken BSG on the process.

I can tell you exactly why no one really likes Starfield. It’s because it’s not able to scroll six. We have been waiting forever.! this is the game that pushed the development back so much farther and it’s such a disappointment

If Bethesda actually cared about their fans, they’d have already dropped support for Starfield and announced that ES6 is almost finished.

I’m one of the weird ones who actually enjoys playing Starfield. Even I can’t justify paying the amount Bethesda are asking for this DLC.

Skyrim released 2011, it’s now 2024, and we have yet to see a new TES game, and now you expect people to wait even longer? It was really hard to wait while you switch between TES and Fallout, and now you’ve added a new game into the mix that quite honestly, most people hate, but at the same time that same game helped many of us give up on Bethesda completely, you will never actually release a good game again. Your writers suck, your engine sucks, and your greed is beyond pathetic and disgusting. Congratulations Bethesda, you’ve played yourself, people would’ve bought TES 6 without batting an eye, but after seeing Starfield, half of us will refuse to even look at it, while the other half will be extremely careful about the reviews etc. And this comes from a huge TES fan that to this day still plays Skyrim.

Take everything Emil and Todd say, run it through the Trump voice AI.

Its the denial i am the best there is type of bubble they live in.

There so ignorant and proud of their “worst kid in school”. He’s my every he’s an Angel 🙏🏿. My kid would never do anything wrong if you have a problem with him you’re the problem.

Bethesda needs new talent

I have no doubt the team worked hard. I will also say the first play through is a lot of fun. Shatterdspace felt like just cut content. I’m still a fan.

Emil just need to go, if Elder scrolls6 will have a chance. And they need to make game 18+, starfield should have been. Bethesda should not create game for kids.

Please fire emil and todd

Emil’s gotta go. Starfields biggest weakness is that every single character is a passionate liberal explorer with very wordy long winded things to say.

Starfield literally does have the deathclaw canyon effect, its the space deathclaws, dont even remember their name but I know it was something spectacularly generic. But that whole thing was an ongoing problem for colonists. Its just the deathclaw threat was something you could take seriously and was written better.

Terrormorphs. I just remembered. Which Im pretty sure just means “planet creature”

1:00 that’s not even true and if that was their goal, they still failed. No man’s sky is larger with far more variety and a better space simulator than Starfield is and I don’t even just mean right now I even mean back it it’s release I mean, it was disappointing sure but it was still in near infinite universe you could explore, and it actually had more procedurally generated content and Starfield dead, but also remember that it came out with technology that was 10 years older than what Starfield had to work with for its current day release. Oh wait actually no it didn’t. I forgot they refused to abandon their creation engine, which was obsolete over 10 years ago, so I guess technically it was an even playing field.😂

If your still a Bethesda fan, you might be gullible enough to buy this dehydrated water I’m selling.

The comment about them being the most conscious about DLC content in the industry is further proof that Bethesdas headquarters exists in some kind of reality bubble, completely cut off from the outside world. They literally have no self awareness and no perspective on the industry, other games, or how their own game is being viewed.

One of the best things to show how much worse today they are than the horse armor debacle. Is the one gun they cut out of the game and then added back for $7 and didnt even bother to check of the reload worked until literally months later. Not only did they not change their stance on reselling minor cut content, But they’re now scamming people for overpriced BROKEN content.

“Its a technical marvel what we’ve done with this game”

Objectively speaking, No. What modders do with their games are technical marvels, What Bethesda does with their own games, are the bare minimum to be functional, and sometimes, no, often times, they dont even clear that bar. Something that the modders have to then come in and clean up for them, some thing that Bethesda has both implicitly and explicitly admitted and corroborated with their own actions.

The bleed over from the STILL horrible Fallout 4 upgrade issues WILL be applied to Starfield. Thus, the fans reactions are being “fueled” by the failure and worse, the continued failure of BGS to fix the doggone is NOT a good face for BGS.

The few %points of the Grumpy Fan Syndrome can be ignored as they do not have a realistic appreciation for the game.

The only thing out exploring stars is Bethesdas delusions of the quality of their own product.

I will say its ballzy for Emil to put himself out front of the defense force for this game.
If theres anything to respect about him, theres that. Cause it certainly isnt his writing.

Space Flight, What Space Flight, the Space Flight in the Game Was Very Hollow, and Very Little Was Shown and it Felt Like I Was Going In Slow Motion. Plus there was NO ATMOSPHERIC FLIGHT, NO SEAMLESS TRANSITIONING!!!! To Me the Space Flight Felt Like A Cut Scene, Waiting To Get To the Loading Screen…. Worst Game Engine To Create A “Space Game” With……

The dlc was on par with far harbor dlc from fallout 4 with an ending as epic as the end of main quest of Oblivion. I just wish they would give the industrial bench native categories to sort through so modders can play nice with eachother and not have a ridiculously large list. Still waiting for crowd body slider tools, lip sync tools, and more ship parts. They should make New Atlantis and Akila city the same as Dazra. Those two cities arent big enough for main settlements.

I have no issue with Starfield I mean it has its moments but mods do help it

This Emil Dude is quite cringe…

So what do the sales figures say?

IDK, Never played Elder Scrolls and see no reason to start. Haven’t played any Fallout games since Far Harbor and never started ’76 so I kinda agree about Starfield being part of the Big 3. I can’t put it down.

13:38 …Gustavo Valencia, Inevitable, Roach, Agent No. 1, Delgado, Qisrani Dul’Khef, Mujeen Ka’dic, Brother Onamide, Anasko Va’ruun.

My interest in Bethessda games dropped off a while ago… Unfortunately they have been making games that are less and less RPGs, and more and more sandboxes for modders. Even in Fallout 4 it was getting bad, almost nothing you do matters, and your build has no impact on quests outside of having a high charisma sometimes lets you talk someone down instead of fighting them… This and more and more empty sandboxes lead to games that wind up quickly boring without the extensive modding their designed for… buuuut their aging engine then makes these heavy modded games highly unstable.

I never got Fallout 76, had no hopes for Starfield and never got it… and frankly what I’ve been seeing last year or so I have no hopes for ES6… it’s just going to be another massive sandbox that modders will be expected to fill *ESPECIALLY* paid mods.

dullfield

You’re wrong on Emil’s attitude. Yes, they will never please ALL the fans, but any fandom will gradually diminish unless you work to actively grow it. Do you seriously think that ANY games company thinks “Oh well, some people won’t like our stuff, so we’ll only create for people who are fanboys?”

Skyrim was got me into PC gaming (and building) in the first place, and Starfield have made me really scared for how TES6 turns out. It’s such a shame that Starfield didn’t 3-10 really well designed planets when it launched, with seamless travel between, in stead of its heap of mostly uninteresting 🙁 Imagine how much better it could have been if they could add another well-crafted planet thorough DLCs instead… But they tossed this opportunity out of the window.

I have played videogames since 1984.

Starfield is an awesome game. Haters gonna hate.

Some people say this is the best game ever! and no one can regrow and ear as fast as Todd Howard!

Cyberpunk2077 doesn’t have a NG+ and I’ve put over 700 hours into it with multiple character and different builds. The world feels lived in and the lore and quests are exceptional. Starfield feels artificial and like everything is just set dressing instead of having a real purpose. It’s sterile and uninteresting, there’s no mature subject matter to any of the quests or lore.

Honestly, the constant outrage is just getting annoying. Games media is increasingly dominated by hot takes on hot takes on hot takes. Not every game is for everyone, studios don’t always do their best work, and life moves on. Maybe try one of the thousand quality indy games out there rather than joining the throngs of moaners who feel personally attacked when they don’t love the latest AAA game…

It’s literally just Fallout in space

All the content in the world can’t make up for how shallow and boring and DEI it all is

If I had to sum up my 40+hours on starfield in 3 words.
Underwhelming
Monotonous
EMPTY

Emil Pagliarulo needs to get a thicker skin, or actually learn how to WRITE GOOD STORIES.

When I heard the comment about Game Developers have been working on this since Morrowind my immediate thought was that is probably because newer developer aren’t interested in working at Bethesda, due to the game engine not being what their used to working with, so Bethesda can only muster their long time employees and maybe a few adventurous developers will to learn how to code/use Bethesda’s proprietary game engine. That thought made me think that without “new blood” there aren’t going to be new ideas shared and implemented and that is why gamers are seeing the same/worse quality of game from Bethesda.

I do appreciate the comment in the article, I believe, that talked about not working with another game engine because they want their game to look apart from other games. Many games do have a similar style, particularly Unity games, so that comment is understandable, but I think its clear that thinking isn’t getting them the best result in terms of gameplay, which players are complaining about significantly. However as Emil stated, a game engine doesn’t improve the story elements, and that is certainly true. Perhaps that just highlights that the writers didn’t get it right.

I remain convinced that Todd and his team aren’t good managers. They appear to not be able to work productively and I think there needs to be more changes within mid-level corporate/development management and even perhaps Todd himself needs replacing.

Sure wish they’d respond and FIX MY GD GAME NOT SAVING WITHOUT CRASHING!!
BETHESDA? B E T H E S D A. FIX THIS.
I started Sharted Space, got the first mission done and now, AND NOW, Everytime I fast travel or try to save, the game locks up.
I even turned off all the auto save settings. Manual save…LOCKS UP!! This is beyond ignorant. This is blatant EFFING your customers and laughing all the way to the bank.
I’ve since moved this UN optimized trash heap to an external drive. I’ll check back in a few years and see if anyone has bothered to give 2 shites in the interim and FIX THIS GD MESS!!
Suffice to say, after 30 years of playing and living every minute of The Elder Scrolls, I will NOT be playing Elder Scrolls 6.
You can’t manage Starfield in 2024, there’s ZERO chance you’ll have your heads screwed on straight in another 10 years. I’m out.
Thanks for the good years. Take rest and stick it in your t rump

And also, is Starfield more fun than Star Control: Origins on an Xbox?

We need to do a petition to fire Emil.

Is it better than No Man’s Sky on Xbox, though?

They built the biggest Barren Walking Simulator that just happens to take place in space. Sure maybe there idea of content in million worlds. But if 99.9% have no content on them then it’s just boring. Also No Man Sky has more content they still add tons new content every few months for free.

I stopped playing SS because it kept crashing and the so called hand crafted content was a lie.

They’re delusional

of course we as consumers re so fkng angry with bethesda. they have everything to do an amazing game but they dont care, the dont want to or i dont know
the game is emply doesnt matter how many pay mods or dlc re out there and bethesda doesnt care about it, they re focused on fallout 76 and elderscrolls online

Them saying it’s the best game they’ve made highlights their priorities. I’m so sorry Bethesda, I’m so happy you learned how to randomly generate empty planets, and put vehicles in your video game. But the IP isn’t just a tech demo for a Dev to play with, it’s for the fans. Though they are right, it may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Which is why between all the Skyrim editions, their Steam 24 hour peak has 16,683 more players than Starfield. That’s with the added attention of a 2 week young new Starfield dlc, verses the soon-to-be 13 year old Skyrim..

It just seems like Bethesda is making an overly ambitious world forced by Microsoft and filling in the blanks later since it worked with FO76. Ugh RIP the day when we got narritive story driven RPG and DLC’s

Starfield is just a massive shallow puddle, No depth just a lot of mostly uninteresting areas

This is what I don’t get about these new age devs….we have absolutely LOVED your games for so long. Compared to modern games, they were fairly basic, but still extremely immersive and fulfilling! Why totally change the formula that everyone already loves, then say it’s your literal customers fault your game fell short?! Obviously we knew a space game wasn’t going to be for everyone, but even I don’t like it, and I LOVE everything about space! And I love Bethesda games. So clearly it isn’t the gamers fault. Take accountability, listen to criticism and fix it!

“Every fix can break something else.” Yeah we know. You still haven’t fixed the Fallout game you broke.

You know when Juicehead is bashing Bethesda its bad.

It’s a bad game, they need to learn and move on. End of story

I truly believe if they had given us proper map transportation and made planets land-able like in NMS(even use cloud to cover/load the next area), then a lot of ppl would’ve loved Starfield.

The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one..

“I’m sure there’s hundreds or thousands of people working on this”
And by ex-employee accounts, that’s exactly the problem.

I cant even play the game let alone the DLC because even after the performance patches starfield turns my series x into an oven and just shuts it off

“The richest space simulation RPG anyone could imagine”?
Dude, No Man’s Sky has been out for almost a decade at this point. It’s not personally my cup of tea, but it has considerably more content than Starfield. It’s so funny that they’re trying to pretend their game is “richer”.

starfield feels so lifeless. The cities are full of nameless people. You cant kill anyone because everyone is essential. its just boring

I don’t know if the Bethesda execs are truly delusional, or just bet too big on “every game lasts $10 years” and are suffering from Sunk Cost fallacy.
But hopefully if they go down this road of meh too long, MS/Xbox will give the IPs to someone who’s more competent. New Vegas showed how well these IPs can work with a new perspective, and while it could get worse, we’re already at a point of “well this isn’t really worth my money” for a lot of folks.

They’re doing the right thing. I sincerely doubt there’s enough talent or even will inside of Bethesda to make Starfield a good game. If they want to keep monetizing it, they have to lean into the people who will accept any slop they vomit out, and so that is what they’ve done. Shattered Space sucked, but it was the best thing the game has done, if all you expected was more of the same bad writing and ugly action “spectacle” that Bethesda has been trying and failing to make work since Martin Septim awkwardly wiggled in front of Mehrunes Dagon and we were supposed to think it was a cool final battle. Now pack it full of low quality micro transactions that Bethesda don’t even need to waste dev time on and milk the poor dads who just buy Bethesda’s name and don’t know any better.

yeah, i’m on the side of ‘you shouldn’t call a failure the best game you’ve made’

If Bethesda is ever going to make a Starfield 2 they should allow Obsidian to do it as they also did the Outher Worlds and KOTOR II as well as Fallout New Vegas.

We didn’t want ESO. We didn’t want Fallout 76. We didn’t want Starfield. We’ve been waiting 13 years for TES6.

Shattered Space also shatters any sense of grounded realism the world somewhat hung on to by a thin string … completely torn with the introduction of fucking ghosts and planets that look like fantasy not just science fiction.

Listening to the manchild that is Emil Pagliarulo is a bad idea, considering his own personal history in and out of the game. Though it’d be unfair to place all the blame on him, he is the basically lead designer on most if not all Bethesda games. There seriously needs to be a discussion in the industry if Bethesda should still be considered a triple-A studio anymore. Maybe double A at most but no longer AAA…

Does this guy even play (other) video games???

Bethesda’s response? Here it is: 🖕 They already got your money.

Ah yes starfield, a technical marvel.

Emil is the embodiment of confidently incorrect

I think them focusing on the longevity of a game by feeling it with meaningless content is the issue. they didn’t focus on making a great game but one that will last forever. People play Skyrim over and over because they love the game not because it was made for them to keep playing.

To be honest, yeah they are somewhat right. It is the players fault for purchasing their garbage, After the fallout 4 fisco for me I have not bought another Besthesda game, I wait till I see if it is worth it and if not then do not buy it simple. people should learn their lesson with this DLC fiasco.

Is it really that hard to make fun, AAA games now a days?!

“It’s the best game we’ve ever made”

*the whole fan base hates the game*

Man, you gave the same take every other gaming YouTuber gave lol how is your take on this any different.

Exactly. Starfield is missing the strong and deep mythology and backstory of Elderscrolls and Fallout. In Starfield, when I briefly played it, I felt like I was on the set of a television show, like a space-based Truman Show. Uncanny and not fun.

They went from creating an adventure, to creating a comunity, to an enviroment, to a playground and now finally a marketplace. If the trend follows, TES VI will be pure advertisement.

17:35 Basic components are still broken or incomplete. Just watch the animation when you get up from the pilot seat in some of the cockpits. The clipping is there since launch. I thought it would’ve been one of the first things patched, better yet not broken in the first place. I don’t even know how no one at Bethesda caught this bug years before release.

What ISP have they created they bought Fallout and I do believe elder scrolls was limited… but as far as maps fo3 had wide open areas. I like the game not love it, I love to make critics play the original pong.

Emil is now a design director… the next promotion can and will only be game director… What a time to be alive when we’ll have Emil as game director while Todd either retires or becomes official CEO.

They are in complete denial of their creation. But hey, to them it just works.

People need to stop playing along with Bethesda’s extremely dishonest marketing. Bethesda doesn’t make RPGs, they make subpar looter shooters and dishonestly market them to gullible fans of their previous entries as “open world RPGs” even though there was zero player agency regarding quests or dialogue in Fallout 4 just as there is none in Starfield.

This is my game

o yes . we cant copy paste from others game. so we needed to do some work on it and it was HARD 😀 welcome to modern gaming

I look at every other Bethesda game and I’m very interested about everything related into it, I’m now in process playing new vegas

When I see starfield, how do I say it, it looks generic. Even seeing some gameplay, it’s just meh

I look at halo, I immediately interested, I bought the collection but have not yet played it

I’m very new to gaming, so yeaa

i dont even wanna live in the starfield world there is little interesting things in it unlike the elderscrolls

How do you make a game with a billion planets and not have a mission where you blow at least one of those planets up?

The only fan ‘review’ a company will understand is not giving them money. If people keep giving them money they will keep making garbage and gaslighting the critics. Personally, I bought Starfield on release but I won’t buy a Bethesda product again until the reviews come in. This is after putting thousands of hours on Bethesda games since Morrowind. They lost their way; I don’t expect them to find it ever again.

dunno why everyone is surprised. I played new vegas then fo4 and knew bethesda was cooked.

here is a thought this emil guy might be Todd Howard replacement, if that happens bethesda games are dead to me and my wallet.

This DLC would be great IF
– It did not cost 30€
– It introduced more content. 5 new weapons, some really oddly designed, dozen of side quests, rather annoying planet (mountains everywhere + that sky color makes my eyes hurt)
– actually covered more features – no space combat? Rly?

Overall, this DLC introduced whole new set of problems to the game.

So many F LOADING SCREENS

More and more Oblivion-in-Starfield mods are appearing, so it seems that the fanbase is playing the wrong game and hating Spacerim for not being an Elder Scrolls joint.

not even mods can save this game anymore.

Pagliarulo is the #1 reason Bethesda can’t succeed anymore. He’s too deluded and narcissistic to take any feedback constructively, he just cries on social media about getting negative feedback, instead of learning from any of it. They need to get rid of the schlock jock.

In terms of visuals, it is 100% the best game they’ve made.

i enjoyed shattered space, eve n if it was too easy for level 270

It does not matter how hard or passionately you worked on something if it’s bad in the end. Emil keeps conflating their view of the product from the inside, with the only view that matters: that of gamers. You’re not making a game to marvel at the technology behind it, to pat yourself on the back for working so hard. You’re making a game to entertain gamers. If you failed at the latter, then none of that other stuff even matters. You worked hard for nothing.

technical marvel? are you fucked? UE5 is a technical marvel. this is just bland.

The Game Still Crashes after a year!

Part of the problem these days is the overall lack of objectivity. When there are people openly campaigning to review bomb a game before it’s even released, it’s hard to draw anything useful amongst the noise. If this was just about Bethesda and this game, it might be understandable, but it’s not. It’s almost as if there is a vocal minority just looking for reasons to hate anything that comes out, from games to movies and TV shows. I find it sad overall and counterproductive to making things better.

Pissing away multimillion-dollar hit franchise: a Bethesda astory

Bethesda doesn’t even come close to deserving to have fallout on their “big 3.” All they did was purchase and butcher a fantastic original franchise with their efforts.

The negative hateful people are the loudest most miserable people. You dont hear from happy people as much, period. Explain to me how you make SPACE exploration seem more lived in. And explain how any game developer makes a game everyone will love. The majority are not posting negative comments and videos hating on games there enjoying them. There not running to Steam to make hate post either. If I made something I love and was proud of I wouldn’t change it for people who hate it. And just as many if not more will love it. If Starfield is not from you grow up and move on. Trying to demand they change it for you is childish. What about all the others who love it as is? There wrong right lol such dumb hateful logic.

Please please stop assuming Bethesda in 2024 is the same as Bethesda in 2015. 3/4 of the team that made games like Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrum, Fallout 3, Fallout 4… have resigned, retired, or passed away. Bethesda is not capable of repeating it’s past successes. Microsoft should, and probably will ultimately close Bethesda Game Studios, and or replace it’s management, in order to reboot these IPs rather than continue to allow Bethesda Game Studios as it stands now to continue to do damage to those IPs. The ZeniMax purchase was one of the largest ever buyouts in gaming studio/IP history. BILLIONS were spent. The investors are going to both expect, and demand a return on their investment in that purchase.

Compare the love Bethesda put into Morrowind with what they put in this garbage and you’ll have a great understanding how far downhill this company has gone.

If they are waiting for Elder Scrolls 6 to be a massive flop to make some changes… it’s gonna ruin their reputation… beyond repair this time

I never played Starfield and may give it a go so I can have my own opinion on the game itself. But only when it goes on sale. It definitely does not look like a $70 game

8 years is an incredibly average ammount of time for Bethesda to spend making a game actually.

Emil will never admit the writing felt like script approved by committee

Top comment is an unhelpful, reductive “Emil/Todd bad” comment. I shouldnt be surprised, modern gamers think empty whining and directing hate at [insert employee who the community has decided doesnt deserve to be treated like a person anymore cause their fake videogane has issues] is criticism

This is the first Bethesda main line release that I haven’t bought.

14:25 I’m pretty well read (I’d like to think) and I’ve never seen “oppositive” used in any sentence ever, AI be gorging on dictionaries.

I love starfield to the core honestly but to put it up there with Skyrim and Fallout. Ummm. I DON’T KNOW ABOUT ALL THAT NOW. THAT’S A STRETCH. and I support starfield.

If this is the best they can do then ill wait to buy TES VI. The ganing industry is so trash man…

One of the things I love about Skyrim is that it’s a curated world; there was very little waste in Skyrim, every cave had something at the end, almost every NPC had a quest, it felt like there was always something more to do. Compare this to Fallout 76, which was initially supposed to be all player driven content with no NPCs, and Starfield, a massive universe with multitudes of empty, procedurally generated worlds, and you can see how Bethesda is going the exact opposite direction that a lot of us were hoping for.

We know what the fans want!
*sells tango games*

There is only one reasonable path forward. Acknowledge the failings and abandon starfield. Anything else is not profitable or even desired by anyone. Learn from the mistakes and just go full steam ahead on ES6.

A technical marvel with lots and lots of…

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Emil ignoring criticism? Nooooooooooo waaaaaaaaaay

“devs worked on games, dlc all the way since morrowind ” …. hoo STEVE !! you mean STEVE did most of the work as it was pushed on him … AGAIN !!
the thing with fallout3 is that many followers were imune but refused to enter which was nonsense, emil always takes home THE WRONG lesson

As long as the money is coming in (and sadly it is) Bethesda never once will apologize for something they’ve done wrong they never even fully apologize for Fallout 76 from what I know.

I can’t fathom how Todd and Emil still have jobs.

Don’t argue with the opinions of the customers, it’s a no win situation.

Emil needs to be fired and black-listed from the industry

I have to admit, I was incredibly disappointed by this game. I was really hoping for a good game, but it’s just… dull. Like you said, there’s no life around you, it’s just you going from point A to Point B with a lot of fast travel.

The best game they’ve made quite frankly I think it ranks as one there worst, it is all rinse and repeat, building are all the same when exploring there is no originality at all, and I fear for FO5 and ES.

I was really hoping for a mass effect type game from Bethesda. Jeez I sound like my grandad but they really dont make them like they used to

Guys, making games is SOOOO HAARD! :,c

cuts to New Vegas
>10 MILLION USD
>50-70 people
>18 months

Starfailed is Beth’s CP2077, except I don’t think they are good enough to pull a Phantom Liberty. Only NPC I could name from memory was Sgt Yumi. Being a part time cop was fun 😁

BGS is synonymous with diarrhea slop in 2024

play no man’s sky instead

I’ve said this many times and I’ll say it many more. Starfield felt so close to greatness. Those first 10 hours of the game were absolute Bliss and exactly the type of experience I was looking for in that game. Anything beyond that is just AI generated slop and I am so sad that it happened like that

Stop letting community managers interpret our complaints and concerns for us….

I’m going to have to wait a month or 2 after ES6 comes out to make sure the reviews are true or not.

Emil gives me peter molyneux vibes lol

“Best game we ever made”??? Um.. NO.

I think we’re missing the most important piece: what are the sales numbers?

Companies operate on quarters and fiscal years. Fan feedback and reviews aren’t as important as sales figures. If Starfield, shattered space, and the micro-transactions are generating good profits according to their internal metrics, then they’re “good games”.

Yes, there’s a risk of losing fans but that’s many quarters and years away. You can make that up with marketing and new customers. If making a quality product like New Vegas or Skyrim again would be more expensive than Starfield without a significant change in profit, as projected by their analysts, then it’s never going to happen.

I pre ordered 76’s Tricenntenial edition and thus got to play the Beta. That game was not even remotely close to being ready for launch. Until Concord came along 76 was the most disastrous launch of any game from an established AAA studio. I have never played Starfield, because to me it just looks so uninteresting. It doesn’t look like a game that Bethesda spent 8 years working on it looks like it was 8 months. Why do all of the NPC’s look like the overly obsessed girlfirend meme from like 15 years ago bug eyed creepy mfers.

We keep shitting on Starfield and Bethesda will break Skyrim next too.

Spot on! It lacks depth. and that is why it feels empty and I never felt invested. I don’t understand why they cannot see that. I never really cared. Not like Cyberpunk where I felt so much. I cared about the characters, I cared about V. Here it just felt like I was fast traveliing around doing a lot of chores. None of the characters meant anything to me. Not even the closest crew.

Bethesda should address the glaring main problem of the game: The crazy, maddening repetitiveness of the game world.
This is caused by bad, very bad procedural generation. PG can be awesome, but it depends on the input. Bethesda just did a very, very bad job. This could have easily been prevented.
How many times do I have to raid the same base, with the same enemies and the same loot in the same places on all the planets? It drives me crazy.

My first bethesda game was morrowind when i was 11 and I loved it. I feel like they’ve been behind the 8 ball ever since oblivion. I wrote a post around 2007 on their forum criticizing the way they were consistently telling not showing with oblivion, a lot was happening on menu screens and their lack of animations made the world feel super static and broke immersion even back then. I feel like they addressed a lot of that in Skyrim, they spent a lot more on animations etc and it showed. But they’ve always been missing fun gameplay loops. I feel like every game would be a lot better off if they created mockup games first, using just mechanics. I.e. space combat simulator but use mock assets etc, and design a fun gameplay loop- same for combat. Their action combat has always been trash and nobody is really into that in 2024, we can have immersive roleplaying experiences with fun combat, see Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, etc. Its not easy but I feel like if they don’t start with the GAME portion of the game before building assets, concept art, etc it just ends up feeling tacked on.

Have they ever had an overhaul? They just add story dlc-s and workshop items.. IF they had EVER done any overhauls then our bethesda games wouldn’t still be broken 😀
The only reason anything ever gets fixed or improved is the modding community or when bethesda steals from them since they were lazy or not creative enough themselves.

I think it would be absolutely foolish to wait for them to have some major features and mechanic overhauls added. The engine just ain’t built for the things that would make all this space they “created” useful or engaging.. There’s around 10-ish major areas where there is life/a town/city in the whole game.. and rest of it is just empty, bloated, random generated space.

So it’s roughly a similar amount of content than past games but it’s all de-attached from eachother.. And that makes it feel smaller and more empty than ever.

You go somewhere do something.. and go like “that’s it?” And rinse and repeat.
While in past games every little thing was a piece of a grander puzzle of the story, world, relations and theme.

So besides of the fact that it’s a base to use for modding, I don’t see how this would ever be a good or a great game. The binding theme and atmosphere and immersion just isn’t there. And the random planets remind you of an early access indie game.

Couple that with all the loading screens whenever you go literally ANYWHERE and you won’t get any enjoyment from all that artificial “space”. It amplifies the loading screen syndrome as well since in the past games you could actually travel on foot to the areas you wanted to go to. But here you are locked into the loading screen travel because you HAVE to go to space to find all the content that is now spread out in the galaxy. While it used to be in a fairly dense and immerssive map.
You just end up with a whole lot of nothing that kills the enjoyment of the little bit of something you sometimes stumble onto.

If they just focused on one planet, this game would’ve been 1,000 times better.

the game looks good, has tons of assets, and style. It’s just lacking in meaningful content. EDIT: Juicehead is wrong the game was not worked on for 8 years also he sucks and so does his channel and all it’s content.

I like Starfield but I did not like Shattered Space. While I have not done some of the faction quests in Starfield, they simply do not appeal to me, the ones I did were very good and had a good storyline which is why I like Bethesda games and Starfield. Shattered Space storyline sucked.

The problem with Starfield imo, is that much of the game is pointless time wasting. So many conversations with NPCs don’t move the story forward. In both Skyrim and Fallout 4, I found most of the conversations were to do with a quest plot or the main plot. This is also reflected in most of the planets. Planets in Starfield are like caves/dungeons in Skyrim. They should be unique and fun to explore. Starfield planets and mob bases are all the same. The game has fun elements, I did have fun. But it’s not a universe I want to spend more time in than necessary.

7:46 There’s this concept called “Junk food entertainment” It refers to media which is low quality entertainment which you simply shut off your brain and enjoy it for what it is understanding that it’s poor in quality. In gaming playing trash games is akin to this in a way. I play plenty of trash games, I’ve played and finished Anthem, Remnant from the Ashes, Xbox 360 Sonic the hedgehog (as much as I could until bugs broke progression) I’ve got nothing with people playing bad games, I find enjoyment in it actually, and you are right people shouldn’t have to justify playing a game. But they should absolutely be called out when they start calling those games great or masterpieces. A person is allowed to take in and enjoy anything they want to within reason, meaning as long as it’s not harmful to others, but they don’t have a right to muddy the waters by acting as if trash is somehow amazing. Should you play Starfield? Yes. Should you enjoy Starfield? Yes. Should you tell people Starfield is an amazing game? No.

As reluctant as they are to receive the critical element of players’ constructive criticism, the refusal to hear the *constructive* element is even stranger.

Even when Bethesda’s games were good, fans were concerned about the increasingly strip-away design philosophy Todd kept gushing about. Todd continually dismissed the feedback, so here we are. Bethesda hit the inevitable wall that was coming.

Emil Pagliarulo sniffs his own farts.

I don’t think the DLC problem stems from the MS purchase of ZeniMax. Considering it only happened in 2020. The creation club has been around in Fallout 4 since 2017 with Patch 1.10. It’s clear Bethesda leadership want to push in a micro transactions direction.

The base game was decent to me but the fact that I was getting a 3-5 fps difference in some areas between a 3060 and a 3090 TI, was really frustrating. Have a 4090 now, but haven’t gone back to try it. It was just anther game that I mindlessly played because I didn’t actually feel the story or quests were enjoyable. The reviews for the DLC don’t make me feel like spending $30, is worth it to me. Will wait and see what happens in the future and maybe I will pick the game back up or even finish the base game for that matter. Going back to Fallout 4 to play the DLC I never had the chance to play, is turning out really fun tho.

Juice you are the best when it comes to Bethesda. You and Mr Matty are my go to

I think most of you people have lost the freaking thread here. It’s just a video game and on top of that it’s a Bethesda video game unless you’ve never played a Bethesda video game before then you wouldn’t realize that they are full of bugs and full of quirks and full of weird stuff happening all the time. It’s almost a feature not a bug. So on y’all need to get over it and realize it’s not earth shattering or life changing. It’s just a video game.

Bethesda will never make a overhaul of Starfield, they have never done it in the past and never will.

Emil is a clown and has been a detriment to Bethesda for years. Terrible person, terrible writer, no talent at all.
Howard needs to retire or go away. his time is decades past. Bethesda is trash, they are dead. ES6 will be a total trainwreck GUARANTEED.

There shouldn’t be a “Big 3”.

“Oh we feel we were the Elder Scrolls company!” YEAH PROBABLY BECAUSE YOU KEPT REMASTERING AND PORTING ONE GAME FOR LIKE 10 YEARS.

I always felt Bethesda like 10 years ago and earlier was a pretty varied studio. DOOM, Wolfenstein, Prey, Dishonored, Quake, Evil Within, Rage, etc etc. Saying “No no, we are varied because we have THREE BIG SERIES!” does the exact opposite to your reputation in this context.

If you want to make a new series, fine. Starfield isn’t my thing but if you wanna be proud of it, awesome. But don’t erase like 90% of the reason I even liked your company and pretend you’re doing me a favor by doing so. Especially if you are then going to treat the 10% left like this.

Bethesda: “We have this DLC thing down”

CDPR and From Soft have entered chat

Bethesda is dead

Bethesda is about to be the studio i associate with going out of business. Say hi to ubisoft

are they trying to gaslight us?

It’s the classic “inch deep and a mile wide” problem with Starfield. There’s SO much literal and metaphorical space in the game, but there’s nothing more than a sip of water for us to drink.

Even if Shattered Space was a free update it would not be worth the time playing it imo

Emil, you’re fired! Go home to Mommy.

No one asked for starfield could have had fallout 5 in early develupment now. insted we have to wait 10 years for that.

I get the feeling, listening to Bethesda responding to criticism, that they must be living in one of their own fabricated worlds.

I have over 7k hours in morrowind… way more in daggerfall….

*Enter loading screen*
They made it so we have base building, but with NG+? AND make it so our saves die if a single play through lasts too long? Heres some meaningless faction quests. Oh, and half my perks still dont work. Oh, but here, its a DLC that takes place on a single planet, and a CAR, in a game about SPACE TRAVEL.
*Exit loading screen*

Starfield was a waste of money.

I really liked starfield

Starfield is basically the worst parts of daggerfall without the good parts, only on a massive and even worse scale
I’m sure it was difficult to make, but it was also an incredibly out of touch series of decisions that led to starfield. It’s hardly an rpg, and it’s hardly a space exploration game.. It’s more like a procedurally generated dungeon crawler except there’s nothing at the end of the dungeons and the combat is nothing special

I and many other former Bethesda fans have been saying bigger does not equal better for over a decade now, and Bethesda keeps ignoring us and making their games bigger with less meaningful content.
For the love of God Bethesda; just give us a mid-sized open world game with meaningful questing and hand-crafted world design
Oh and fire Emil and hire a good writer

10:47 games as a service studio bullshit. WE don’t want that. WE want GOOD RPGs, HANDCRAFTED, WELL WRITTEN, LOW COST RPGs.

They are stuck in a corporate bubble. “This is what we do and how we do it. Period.”

“Starfield is the best game we’ve ever made” is honestly sad, my god they are huffing copium and refuse to admit that eight years was completely wasted. Your “best game you made” can’t even reach the player count of your older titles, which by the way people still talk about way more to this day.

“Starfield is the hardest thing Bethesda has ever done”, so why try to do that instead of focusing on what players want, something that can actually be accomplished?? We’re not looking for game studios to do the hardest things they can, just make a good game!!

“biggest, richest space simulation RPG anyone could imagine.” So Bethesda never heard of a little Spacegame with a small budget over 700.000.000$ made by Cloud Imperium Games. Bethesda is just living in their own Bubble.

I miss the Morrowind’s handling of the players characters. Unless you completed a significant chunk of the main quest to become known as reborn Nerevar, you were nobody. In Skyrim you have became special after 3rd quest and in Starfield during tutorial.

I think the problem Emil has is that because so much of the criticism is levied toward his writing ability (or lack thereof) specifically he is predisposed to minimize the importance of a lot of feedback because if he acknowledges it as substantive, then he also must acknowledge that he is unfit for his current role. Nobody likes admitting they’re bad at something and because he’s in a position where he doesn’t have to, he doesn’t.

Dude I can only assume the people that are shi&&ing on Shattered space, dont like Skyrim, Its DLC, Fallout 4 or It’s DLC, and Oblivion and the dlc that did more than add player homes or horse armor. And in defense of those dlcs for oblivion. That was literally the first ever time you could get dlc. Before that, you had to go buy expansion packs that were priced like full price games.

Starfield is fallout 4 in space. All the people expecting NMS space exploration, go play NMS. All the people wanting Elden Ring combat. Go play elden ring.

Let Bethesda lovers enjoy our game.

On my first playthrough of fallout 3, fallout NV, Oblivion, Skyrim, and even Fallout 4, once I got to a certain point of familiarity of the gameplay flow, I would binge it for hours and hours, some days off of school or work I would wake up and play these games all day, never getting bored. They were all constantly fun and with the content involved it would have that effect through multiple playthroughs. With starfield, it’s just boring. The gameplay loop, the quests, the dialogue, it’s just not fun. From the intro to the last quest to halfway through the new game +1 I couldn’t bring myself to play it for more than 2 hours at a time. I don’t know what it is but it feels uninspired and it just does not hold my attention.

Holy shill 🤣

THANK YOU!!! Starfield is vast like an ocean, but as deep as a puddle!

biggest richest?
did this dude dont see no man sky?

The story is written by a blind monkey they can’t write good stories anymore DEI hires rule gaming now

Bethesda has been getting worse since Morrowind every game becomes lesser then last.

They “SOLD” Shattered Space as a “Massive Expansion” on pre order.. I don’t need to say more..

Fire Emil now, completely delusional

I expected a much more tempered response from you Juice, you’re usually a lot more responsible with your investigative journalism and opinion pieces. I don’t know exactly what people expect, but I’m deeply saddened to see you hop on the rage bait train and become another voice in the anti-Starfield echo chamber, especially after you spoke so positively about it on release. I’m sure you’ll change your tune back once it becomes profitable to make positive videos about Starfield again, but until that day I’m gonna be unsubscribing.

They literally rereleased the horse armor in Skyrim. They learned nothing

Who cares what they say at this point? sf is a failure, dlc cemented this failure, and showed the level of beth competence, we can move on.

Marvel, never done before: like what? Seriously, what did BGS do that was so technically marvellous?

Starfield is the best they CAN do. It’s mid, bland and soulless. TES groundwork has been laid in the early-mid 1990’s. Fallout wasn’t even Bethesda, but an acquired IP of which all the ground was laid in the late 1990’s. BGS will never get better. They peaked 13 years ago.

Emil is so odd to me. He wrote my favorite questline in Oblivion, The Dark Brotherhood, and then when in charge of whole games he makes some of my least favorite stories and questlines. Hes not the single problem at Bethesda, but he is the most vocal.

Great video! I loved the 1st play through but something felt off. I couldn’t explain why I didn’t want to keep playing Starfield or the pre ordered DLC. You summed it up perfectly. The game doesn’t have any memorable quests, factions or non companion characters. I played and replayed Fallout 4 for 5 years straight.

I’m not touching ES6 until wks after relaaed lul

i delered starfield and never coming back to it.. 100$ in the can, i’ll remember.

Honestly. If that’s their best then they need to go back to what they are good at

I hate when games make cities that are a bunch of pointless walking screens with nothing to do in them and are just simply there to make the city seem big(just boring time waste) and Starfield is guilty of this

They have fallen so far behind the times it’s not even funny anymore. Graphics, storytelling, dialogue, characters, gameplay… It’s all about the sandbox and mods now.

I like Emil’s enthusiasm, I just don’t believe he makes good design decisions. If bethesda has to work so hard to bring such mediocre gameplay and experiences, they need to rethink their studio and workflow.
To me, all you have to do is look at the concept art and then look at the final product, to see how far they missed the mark. It looked so promising, and the design just fell short.

Mediocre developer that makes mediocre games makes another mediocre game. What’s the controversy?
Bethesda no longer has a lock on these kinds of games, as better entries in this game type show.

Something to note: horse armor for Oblivion wasn’t even the first DLC they made. It was the first paid DLC. They made half a dozen little DLC plugins for Morrowind that they charged nothing for. So the big pushback wasn’t that horse armor was too expensive (though that was part of it), it was this belief that Bethesda would start nickel and diming its fans. Which they have.

The older you get the more Benson’s speech about excuses becomes relevant.

holy cope batman

Emil is fantastic at saying things that are technically true while addressing none of the fan’s concerns or game’s criticisms.

crazy how pathetic emil is

Bethesda is dead on arrival. ESO the only game I’ll play from them, and that’s mostly because zenimax is over it. But even them, have gotten worst over the years.

Bethesda turned into Donald Trump..
It’s a MASSIVE game.. We worked so hard.. No one works harder than these guys.. a real technical marvel.. our best game..

it’s the studio you used to associate with elder scrolls, then elder scrolls and fallout
now it’s the studio you associate with a trashbag !! a canvas one

“we’re all proud of shattered space”… yeah, and that’s the problem.

Also just wanted to add, that I think Bethesda/Microsoft is setting up Emil to be the fall guy.

I think the best way to describe these guys would be “poor craftsmen with big ambitions”.

Their games are like gargantuan sculptures that are still blocks of marble in certain places.

I had every elder scrolls/fallout game on my xbox at the time of starfields launch. Once i watched the character creation in starfield before downloading it. I noticed something during the video (if you know you know) and instantly deleted ever bethesda game from my library. It will remain that way till they walk it back. Starfield is just a mediocre game anyways. Nms > starfield.

The take is simple. They either are very incompetent on the top (the devs are just following the lead, they could’ve learned a better engine easily in a single year then develop something better) OR they’re count because they don’t want to be responsible for a big flop right after the studio was bought.

Bethesda has turned into Ubisoft.
They have developed a factory formula for their open world games and are implementing it to all their games without any thought.
Unless they change this then TES 6 is at best going to be Skyrim 1.5.

I think what Starfield needs, and perhaps what the developers want, is a large community of modders to fill those empty, generic planets with life. This struck me as such untapped potential. Imagine how many small sub-factions and how much lore could fit in this universe. I’m actually a little surprised no one’s doing anything like this. With a game like this, a talented modder has the opportunity to contribute to lore by creating a mod so awesome that even Bethesda will acknowledge it. On the other hand, I hope there are still people who create things like Project AHO was for Skyrim.

Shitefield – Shattered Reputation :/

It is 2024, Bethesda shouldn’t rest on their laurels, and begin to innovate again.

They just need to fix their half baked design. Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky overhauled their games. Doing that changed plenty of people’s minds about those games and their disastrous launches.

Some people were worried when they got to Starfield.
I knew what was coming since 76….
RIP ES6.

It’s becoming a common theme nowadays that when something, be it a game, movie or t.v. show, proves to be unpopular with those playing or watching it, the response from those making it or starring in it is to blame the players or the viewers rather than accept that what they’ve made is not up to an acceptable standard.

I question your statement that Starfield was in development for about eight years when Bethesda’s announcement about the game didn’t come out until 2018. How much was done in development is debatable. I love the idea of Starfield and to some extent the game itself but in the hands of Bethesda, this game is going nowhere and will never achieve its full potential.

100%

I miss the days when people would just enjoy something, without thinking they are owed something that they thought in their head.
Bethesda built a game. Like it or leave it. No one owes the consumer a explanation.

And they did learn from the horse armor.
They wanted to find a way to charge for little added content like the horse armor.
They did as the narrator outline in this worthless video that said nothing and co tributed nothing

Tin foil hat time but a part of me thinks Shattered Space didn’t land because Bethesda didn’t really care to make it land. I mean this DLC was part of the special edition, there was already a decent amount of people who’d have access to the DLC the moment it launched. Maybe in their eyes it was a case of not investing too effort into a DLC that a lot of the fanbase would have access for free?

They don’t care about what fans think. They pretend to care so it’ll ease some fan’s anger or resentment.

In reality this is just another corporate game company wanting to churn out unfinished games and DLC in order to make more money. Shattered space is only worth 10$ in my opinion.

Watched this entire video and yet no one can say exactly what isnt very good about it. What didnt fit your expectations? What didnt you like what would you lile

This video was a waste of my time.

When they released FAllout 76 , it was a masterpiece for Bethesda Games , and they were so proud of it

Unfortunately you can’t just manufacture a 10 year experience, just as you can’t manufacture the success of a live service game, see what happened to Concord. Success happens when people resonate with a game. The fans keep playing a game for 10 years because they love it. You can’t know that before launch…you can’t expect a game to be successful just because you think it will. You can’t make a game expecting it will last for years, that’s just not how it works, and it will only makes you lose focus on what’s important, making a fun game.

All of that’s nice but they made a game with a narrative that makes zero sense. If you pull at one thread the whole thing unravels secondly there’s nothing to do in a game. The fact that modders pulled out speaks volumes. You can make new IPs but it actually needs to be a game not a tech demo.

With this attitude we might as well go ahead except shat from ES6 !

They could make the game better by simply adding a 3rd person view.

Now that I’m really thinking about it…it almost feels like Starfield is taking a Sims-like approach. Like they released a blueprint sandbox with plans to just keep adding to it. Like there’s just a lot of stuff that is missing and maybe a few years those gaps might be filled and it will start to feel like a more complete game. Who knows maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s wishful thinking. I guess only time will tell. I’m gonna try to continue to ignore the negativity and attempt to enjoy any content that they put out in the future.

I think BGS’s biggest problem is their games used to feel cool and novel and the charm of that alone made people overlook how janky, unpolished a lot of the other aspects was. But now they are doing things that other games devs have done before and quite honestly a lot better than them and that just mean people are not going to be willing to overlook those aspect.

What “content” is he referring to in the video? The base game is empty & the planets are just pallet swapped versions of each other.

No way to exit the REV-8 without console “disable” “enable”. Shattered Space isn’t activating at all on my Steam game. I still love the game overall. I’ve just come to hold BGS with quite a bit of disdain.

Bethesda is dead the best fallout was 4 and Skyrim will never get a Skyrim 2 the next elder scrolls will fall flat and the next fallout will never come starfield is their coffin let them rest

It feels like bethesda game that thay make now are a coin flip but the game thay publish and ather componys to make are good wich is disapoeing

I think something that also makes the game feel less “alive” is the sudden lack of NPC schedules. They don’t eat sleep or relax anymore. Vendors stay behind the counter 24 hours a day. I’m sure it’s for “player convenience” but it feels lazy

Hey Microsoft, time for RIFs! The arrogance of not listening to the customers that actually play these games is not something that is sustainable.

I think I agree with a lot of the internet that “starfield isn’t great” but often disagree with the why’s and to what extent. This video hits a lot of good points and I do think starfield is the best game they have made in a technical sense and has all the systems that people who like Bethesda games like but I think everyone can agree the problem is a little uncanny valley where starfield just feels disconnected from its own universe in that it is so difficult to connect to it.

I honestly wonder if the disconnected feeling is almost intentional in that your starborn is above and outside the universe they traverse but even if thats intentional it doesn’t feel *good*.

THREE DOG OUT!

Sorry haters, Starfield IS the best game Bethesda ever made and Shattered Space is awesome.

They should probably fix fallout 4, make starfield more like no mans sky, release remastered oblivion and morrowind, and release elder scrolls 6… then we might be ok.

I find it funny you all paid full price for this game that won’t happen for me, if it isn’t at least 75 per cent off I won’t touch it. Even then I don’t know if I’ll buy it. I did pay full price for all the fallout games. Not this one.

3:15 but my dude that is not what he said you literally quoted him 5 seconds earlier, he says it’s the best game they made in certain aspects and that is just true, for example it has the best feeling out of the box combat of any of their games so far and at least from my experience it’s also the least buggiest one (not that that means much for a Bethesda game lol). So he is correct in saying that and this comes from someone like me who does not like the game at all, I even refunded it after buying the deluxe edition to play it early. Then bought the normal version again a few weeks later, played around 60 hours and never touched the game again.

I cannot believe that their takeaway about the Fallout 3 ending debacle is that people were mad that the game ended

I would be significantly more upset with BGS is they forced players to purchase the Rev8.
It feels like I’ve gotten to procedurally generated quests now, and honestly, I had hopped for more.

Starfield in VR would be EPIC.

Deny reality and just humble brag – excellent strategy, Emil.

I think the Horse Armor comment is even worse than you’re giving credit for, to me it sounded like he was saying that Horse Armor was an example of a good DLC, and that they’ve only continued to make bangers from there.

I am a todd defender but i really dont like emil

Starfield is boring and a DLC that makes one somewhat interesting location doesn’t save it.

Starfield was a good place holder. Past that it’s not a great game. Like fallout or skyrim it just isn’t. And as for the shattered space dlc. I have no interest in playing it. Why would I want forced into a religion? Also for the price NO sorry. It is not a big enough dlc to justify that price tag. Seems Microsoft is just getting more greedy as the years go on. No real surprise though considering the way humanity is these days.

Can’t they just do the smart thing and replace Emil with someone that has the know how to be a main writer. Than a new engine is needed. More and new programmers. That they do good prodjects that does not rely on mods to fuction and exist for a decade. Because so far Bethesda peaked 22 years ago and has not made anything better than mid products. I really what Bethesda to do better and I what the people that did FNV to make a Fallout game. They know what Fallout is about. Starfield is a bad game and it is for the best for them to just write it off as a failed product, learn from it and move on, something they have not done in ages. Learn something new.

Microsoft should put a Gag order on emil hes tone deaf arrogant and a troll.

I’m on the other side of the fence, I love starfield and the shattered space dlc. It not the best but second best game they’ve made in my opinion. I don’t get bored with starfield like I do with the fallout games. Elder scrolls is the best franchise starfield number 2 and fallout number 3 for me personally.

sooo… they make content for the people who like their games, not for the people who dont

Shattered Space wasn’t as good as main Starfield. There are quest that I love like Entangled, Unearthed (great environmental story telling), Starseed, MANTIS, Juno’s Gambit. High price to pay really shocked me on the first play through and the follow up In Memorium was generally touching. Shattered Space was just BORING. The quest were meh. It felt like a throwback to Morrowind without all the fun of Morrowind.

The problem is that Starfield didn’t come together. I know everybody loves Skyrim but the best Bethesda game I played was Fallout 3 and the quests generally felt like one continuous story, Your story. A good writer/team can make any setting work. Elden ring is very character centric so you don’t necessarily need a lived in universe.

Emil is that kind off guy who removes a couple of ribs so you have easier time to smell your own farts while sucking yourself off…

EMIL OUT

Funny how some content creators who don’t like or enjoy are StarField, are still covering the game.🤔

Emil needs to go, Todd needs to wake up, Everyone who worked on Starfield needs a Slap in the Face. Of course mainly the people who think their work was acceptable. Literally nothing about Starfield was. Its a game that screams “I had no Script and i must yolo”

If ES6 Is Garbage I’m probably not ever gonna buy another game from them

In that same vein though. Other devs have done way better games in less time.

It’s an unearned title to put Starfield next to Fallout and the Elder Scrolls

Just because something is hard to make or takes a long time to make does not mean it’s the best thing you have ever made that’s just low iq thinking