How To Fix Bethesda From MrMattyPlays - Luke Reacts 

“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took a loading screen to the knee” - Starbored

I'm on the belief that you can't fix Bethesda because their current staff doesn't understand anything. They are truly out of touch with everything. The only thing you can change is who will remain fans with them going forward.

The fact you cannot heal on your ships own medbay should tell you everything about this game...

Bethesda feels like your grandma these days. Noone makes her cookies quite like she does but the dementia is starting to get to her baking skills and the store bought strawberry creams are starting to taste better than old mam's farm butter sugar cookies

The problem with MrMattyPlays recent attempts to diagnose Bethesda's problems is that he already proved that he can't look at BGS objectively. He had an advanced copy of Starfield and 70+ hours to playtest it before it got into peoples hand, and he called it "Great game" and insisted that it got better after "20 hours". MOST players could see through smoke & mirrors in the first few hours of the game, yet a person who built his entire channel around discussing Bethesda titles couldn't identify the core problems with Starfield (until other RU-vidrs did, apparently). It's just baffling to see someone release a video titled "So... About THOSE Starfield Reviews" where he attempts to delegitimize the criticism surrounding the game, then 3 months later act as though he has some novel thoughts about Starfield's problems.

8 years since the last Fallout game, 12 years since the last Elder Scrolls game, I wish they would stop wasting resources on this dead horse.

He’s like the abused partner, in a violent relationship, who keeps coming back😂

Bethesda will never change their ego, they won't let them.

From Software made Elden Ring with a team of 100 people.

It was my fault for paying 100 dollars for early access. The first pit in my stomach was felt when I tried the melee combat(horrible). The second pit was when I saw my first repeated point of interest on a planet. The third was when I got sick and tired of walking 5 minutes from ship to POI. Then loading screens....then bugs...then NPC faces....Then ...oh you get the point. 250 hours later I just said eff it I'm done.

Matty please wake up, This is Bethesda. The company where they only update the game for paid mod not for fixing. They will do everything they can to break mod so you can buy it from them.

The cities in Starfield feel smaller than the Citadel or Illium in Mass Effect despite having larger play areas. The thing about Mass Effect is it makes you feel like you're playing on a small section of a big place. You can look out in the distance and see buildings and people in an inaccessible area. In Starfield, you can run laps around the entirety of New Atlantis on foot. There's no illusion of grandeur. It just feels like Whiterun slightly upscaled. This type of presentation for cities in a scifi game doesn't work. It works in a game like Skyrim because it feels smaller scale due to the fantasy setting. In a game set in our own universe's future, cities should be MASSIVE to accommodate literal hundreds of millions of people. Obviously that is completely unrealistic for developers to create so they need to use backdrops to create this illusion. You do not get that sense of scale anywhere in Starfield. For a game with over 1,000 planets, it all feels smaller than the real life street I live on.

They had about 700 additional developers through the contractors. So they had 1000 developers. Not including artists sound etc. Just game devs.

My issues with Starfield is almost none of what was discussed, and I feel the game could still be a masterpiece with the loading screens and etc... but it`s lazy, the game itself is lazy, let me expand: - Writing, one of if not the worst writing that I`ve ever seen, and I read some weird $h1t online, Berry just "gives" you the ship 5 minutes into the game without knowing you, main and side stories are all bad written and bad implemented, like it makes no-sense why am I making decisions that could wipe the entire human species, my character is a nobody that is good at killing scary alien monsters, that`s it, although is nice to have some player agency, they straightout ask "what should we do", writer should be fired honestly, the guy has no idea what he`s doing. - Lazy programming and effort in both combat and quests/npc interactions, so melee weapons, you have 1, they all do the same movement and attack speed, get the biggest damage one and you are good. Perks, you select to have your parents alive and they don`t even show at your wedding, the wedding itself is a lazy implementation, there`s no fantasy in thinking "oh how`s wedding evolved with humanity over the many centuries", oh okay it evolved backwards and has no meaning, so much so that your own parents don`t talk about it, gotcha. - Space skyrim shouts, why did BGS thought that was okay? please fire everyone involved with the decision making process and whoever looked at it and said "Awesome ship this", everything from the minigame to the powers itself, they are SKYRIM SHOUTS, 1 to 1, no variation, nothing "new" or unique, they are literally the same with the worst minigame possible, there are no "dungeons" and you get the shout/power as a reward like in Skyrim, you go to a planet, walk 5 minutes, get to the temple, fly in zero G hitting some sparkly dust a couple of times, a really loud noise and you get your power, whoever design this F you, please quit gaming development, you don`t know what you are doing. - Laser weapons with recoil? really? - What`s the point in creating a settlement again? keep in mind that the game is created around you speedrunning the campaign to improve your Space Shouts and get better rewards each time you finish, meaning all progress is erased, alongside your built settlements, so, whats the point? - Litteraly zero reasons to have the thousands of systems, you are going to explore maybe 100, maybe 200, there`s nothing to explore by the way, in 1 system you can see and do everything you need "exploration-wise". - So quests have essentially 2 variations for each end, but clearly one is the "correct" one and the other is the "bad" one, since your companions will keep-on talking $h1t to you, like you have to be morally correct, then give me some immoral companions please. - Lack of companions and improvements in companion interactions, okay so this sounds weird but Skyrim had better companions and a better interaction system, although more primitive, it had more depth than Starfield, the only thing Starfield has that is "new" is voices, there are plenty of voices and this is awesome, but is it really better if everything else was sacrificed for it? I would accept AI voices if my parents would actually talk anything new other than the same 5 dialogues for the rest of the game, or hear Cora talk about books everytime I land my ship. - Okay I can steal ships but the Crimson Fleet don`t buy stolen ships? Wait I need to buy a license to modify and sell my stolen ship? Who the F invented this? please fire this guy. - I can`t make my own fleet? I can`t design a ship bigger than 50 or so components? I can`t design my own Staryard? I can`t make my own pirate faction? What`s the point? Steal the biggest ship you can, and you are good for the rest of the playthrough, at least until you hit the endgame and everything gets erased and you start over. - Space combat is clunky, uninspired and lackluster, expected to be fair, it`s fun for the fist few times but you realise that there`s no "depth", you can`t do much, there are a few maneuvers that I`ve learned you can do by maintaining a certain speed, turning back and shooting at enemy ships without receiving fire yourself, but other than that is too basic, its easier to just sit and shoot your enemies until they die, full power guns and shields, zero power engine. - Armor, why we only have a helmet a suit and a backpack? there are no environmental hazards that we need to worry or special suits needed for special planets? Lazy. - Clothing? why we are so limited? - Crafting is hidden behind leveling perks? Okay so this is interesting, because Fallout IV had similar issues, but we could craft a few things and learn more crafting recipes if we invest in crafting perks but in Starfield it`s way more punishing, like you can`t craft at all if you don`t invest perks, so this kind makes me not want to interact with crafting since perks are a very valuable commodity, like the ship perks that allow you fly a better class ship ? or booster perks ? damage mitigation and auto healing perks? weapon damage perks? sneaking perks? I feel this would be much better if it was like skyrim, you get better at it the more you play with that, use a sniper get sniper perks, makes sense, while in Starfield you can be collecting rocks and upgrading sniper perks, dumb. - No city maps, this is crazy, Fallout and Skyrim all had maps, why we don`t have maps in a game released in 2023? F you Todd and Bethesda, you all need to be fired to be honest. - 5 minutes walk to every POI? Seriously? and this is "fun"?

I regret buying this game at full price. Bought day one and haven’t touched it after the first week. It’s such a letdown compared to all their other games. Maybe in a few years it’ll be better. I also think that there could be the possibility of Microsoft giving ES or FO IP to another team. They own so many gaming companies now, whose to say they couldn’t get another group to build their games. They didn’t buy BGS for their ‘amazing programmers’, they spent 7B for the IP.

LOL ! His argument is "poor Todd Howard just doesn't have the bandwith to do ALL of the things they need him toooooooooo"... I can't stand this dude.

One thing contributing to delayed negative reviews is some of us are working adults with limited time. We love and grew up with this studio and wanted to give this game an honest shot, but it literally just took several months to do so, because of demands outside of the game.

Swapping engines means nothing honestly. The biggest problem is the writing. Give this engine to so many other studios and they make an awesome game.

I really like Matty, but jesus he is such a fanboy for Bethesda lol.

I wouldn’t mind if bgs made a slightly smaller game and just really focused on writing, character customization, and meaningful choices. Basically baldurs gate 3 but with bgs dna.

I would also argue that they need to change most of their writing team as they're starting to focus more on their stories AND their companions but both of these things just fall flat and end up being extremely average or barely good;also their world building with starfield was way too bad for the people that made the elder scrolls so a refresh in that department would be for the better

There's still too many groups defending the game on reddit too though.. the issue there is they don't realize they're part of the problem.. if they act like Bethesda only shits gold they will never change or learn... :/

the real problem with star field is the lack of space travel it really hurt the game bad imho

Neon feels like a small part of a mall lol I can’t believe there were hardcore fans trying to compare it to cyberpunk

Recent reviews currently sit at 29% positive. The Day Before had 16% positive. Those numbers are uncomfortably close imo.

"Bethesda Game Studios is an extremely small company of only about 400 employees." So? id Software is even smaller than that, yet every single game they release is super innovative and polished. See? That's what happens when you use a good game engine and have legitimately passionate devs. Something BGS doesn't have anymore.

The problem is that these problems aren't new. Bethesda apologists have been defending their crappy engine. And ancient methods of game design for years now. If gamers had taken a stand a decade ago. Bethesda might of just changed engines by now. Or just used Unreal 5.

But the ingame shop is up to date and working 😅

Main problems with Bethesda are: 1. Gamebryo engine 2. Emil Pagliarulo and his hatred of design documents 3. Todd Howard's idea of "if it doesn't work, don't fix it, just cut it" 4. Aversion to making a usable user interface, since oblivion forward.

It's important to remember that the people who made Bethesda what they are today no longer even work at the company, they left decades ago. Elder scrolls was created by three dudes (Ted Peterson, Vijay Lakshman, Julien Lafey) No Todd did not create the elder scrolls, he didn't have any real involvement until Morrowind. Fallout wasn't even made by Bethesda, they simply bought the rights to the IP. Starfield was Modern Bethesda's first real attempt at world building and making their own game completely from scratch, and well look at what the results of that were. They've been coasting off of the good will from their fanbase and the laurels of their betters who made the company what they are today. IMO the writing has been on the wall for ES6 for a long time, even before Starfield. Bethesda have been on an observable downward trend in terms of their game development quality since at least Skyrim. Every following game since then has been more dumbed down, more diluted, an overall more bare bones experience than the last game. Whatever we end up getting with ES6 is probably not going to be good.

You know what one thing I really loved in Skyrim that has been missing since that game are cosmetically unique items, like instead of the legendary star system they have employed now, I miss getting unique looking armors and weapons for quest rewards or finding them is unique dungeons.

My first interaction with a terror morph was undoubtedly awesome. It was in the first hour and it made me hallucinate people screaming from a distance and telling me to hide and run. It legit made me confused, as I'm sure was the intention. I looked for people and couldn't find them. Very cool indeed.

I’m worried about Elder Scrolls 6.

Didn't need an hour long video- Tod Howard should be asked to step down from his position at BSG. It's time for a new director over there.

IMHO what happened with starfield is a catch up and wrap up, ie their initial idea had gone down in flame late in development and they had to salvage a product at the last second, hence a very weird marketing cycle with dropped episodes of pre released unveiling of gameplay. Someone tallied people who worked on the game relative to content and found that, compared to oblivion, it had the lowest ratio of content produced per person by magnitude order, ie highly inefficient. Some development catastrophe happen, all sign point to it, and they had to cobbled something last minutes to save face.

When people started calling this the Star Citizen killer. I laughed so hard, for they really do not understand what engine development is at all. If your engine is not built to make a space game you get Starfield. The negative reviews are due to the issues with the engine. The dialogue system, the map system, everything in that game is based on their engine design.

BGS is really milking the customer base and their development for what it's worth. Back in the days, SP games used to feed you new and new content as you progressed through the story, and it was all handcrafted. Could it be better or nicer? Yes, but ROI goes down the toilet really fast for marginal gains. Now with all the tools and procedural generation one would imagine you would get more for the price of an AAA game 15 -20 years ago. But no, you get less for almost double the money and it took them less resources to do it. BGS if they had infinite food generator, they would instead drive the farmers out of business instead giving it to the starving.

Having starfield in your top 10 games should come with a mandatory wellness check by your states emergency services.

I think it is unfair that people critisize Ubisoft for their Ubisoft Formular and some bugs, while they make the prettiest worlds and at least entertaining stories, and when it comes to Bethesda they think bugs are funny and this is just the "Bethesda Magic" and they are just not good with stories, but this is ok, this is not their "style". People say they are good at the side content, I don´t think so. Even in Skyrim you have simulated freedoms but you cannot really play as you would like to. I played Skyrim just recently the first time after playing the witcher 3 and you cannot compare these games. But just compare Anvil Next or Unreal with the Creation Engine...holy shit. The Only good thing is that Bethesda has no microtransactions, but I really don´t mind them, if they are just cosmetic. I am also freaking out that my 2.500 Euro gaming PC is not able to run Starfield without freezing every ten seconds. Somehow all other next gen games run perfectly

Was Bethesda even as good as people remember?

Matty is a little off these days, in the past he has been pretty on point, however as of late...yeah can't really say the same anymore.

It's easy. Gamers (as well as everyone else) need to stop this brand loyalty. Poor Matty is over here crying about how to fix Bethesda? Who cares, let Bethesda flop.

The excuses of "well, you only played it 5 hours so you didn't play it enough to give it an honest review" to "Well, you played it 70 hours so you must have enjoyed it" is the ultimate Bethesda fanboy cope. There never was or will ever be a minimum or maximum hours you could have put in to satisfy your opinion of the game. It was never about giving the game a fair amount of time but rather making up *any* excuse to ignore an honest review. It's pathetic.

The most hilarious thing is literally loading screen your way across the universe to turn in a quest in person. I got so used to just calling npcs in CP2077 this oversight hurt my soul.

-"Bethesda is shooting for the stars". True that but, they are not using rocket. They are using a Boeing 747. So no wonder why their shit ends up in flames every time.

Starfield isnt playing to the strenghts of the creation engine i think. They never modified it to be able to create a vast star system. But i also think it would be sad if Bethesda moved to Unreal. I think the gaming industy needs a good variaty of engines and i think the better way would be for Bethesda to create their own engine after the standards of the modern era. I thought actually they did that with CE2..but they only modefied it to generate terrain procedurally on the fly and incorporate various modern graphical effects like PBR marterials , real time rasterized GI , volumetrics, motion blur and stuff like that. They should have changed the way the engine is streaming in assets or refined the pathfinding for NPC's (wich could have lead to new stealth opportunities) ...there is so much they should have changed at the core but they figured they did not need to. Graphical effects make for better trailers i guess. :(

I play Bethesda games because of the look and feel of the creation engine. Designing games that more seamlessly fit around it will do wonders for BGS game design

On the note of marketing teams and coordination: One thing people tend to not consider (understandably) is that marketing teams are not such an “direct” part of development per se. Obviously there may be input and marketing considerations with some things but everyone’s kinda doing their own thing. Now if (and when) the communication isn’t optimized to a neccessary degree, just due to the amount of time it takes to prepare a campaign of such a huge scale, marketing can easily work from outadet sources. “Oh we decided to scrap x feature due to a lack of whatever resources” yeah great, but did anyone check to see if the marketing material has them? I’m actually a huge supporter of studios not showing much about games until they’re like a few months or a year away from being released. Cause even if there was no intention of any false advertising, it’s bound to happen sometimes the earlier you start promoting something

To be fair, CDPR released 5 significant hot-fixes before the end of 2020, & had 2 major patches out by mid-2021, despite a major hacking incident. By January 2022, they'd released 2 patches that added lots of new, free content as well as being a free Next-gen upgrade. Whilst CDPR definitely made mistakes, like Hello Games they seemed more focused on fixing the game than about talking about the fixes.

They are NOT going to switch engines. There are things the Creation Engine does that no other engine can do. For example, it's not a BGS game if all the objects are not interactable, if you can't pick something up and place it somewhere else. No other engines can handle that, at least so far and not to the degree CE does. .

21:55 I laughed at this part "and then their body stands up somehow..." lol

What they should have done was have to hub planets that have maps the size of Skyrim where the players can explore and do missions . The the other planets could be used for bounties ,resource gathering and base building. So when you get bored of doing main missions you could go gather resources do a few bounty missions to break up the gameplay loop.

I don’t get why games are harder to make…? Way more people play games then they used to. Games sell way more which makes more money… so even if games cost more, they make way more money as well. Especially depending on how you do it. GTA5 has made like 7 billion dollars 😂

Starfield also launched the same year as Tears of the Kingdom. A game that takes the sandbox Beth were kings in and ran circles around them. And it did it on a mobile chip.

People think that changing engines will miraculously fix the game... maybe it will help with bugs (i doubt even that since most bugs seem to be function of an open world that is freely interactable and i rather have hundreds of bugs than trading interactability and moddability)... but changing engine wont change their design mistakes or their bad writing... bethesda has other problems - they focused to much on "systems" and making a huge world that can be filled later by modders but forgot that the world needs to be interesting in the first place... they just need to use their system, focus them more, make them more intersting instead of bigger and focus on writing

I'm not sure if we need to be able to seamlessly travel between worlds. Of course less loading screens would be better. However, in Bethesda's older games we can see when they added new maps like the shivering isles, solsteim, far harbor, and nuka world, you couldn't seamlessly travel between different maps. However, I think one big difference is these regions were packed with stuff to do, had interesting landscapes, and had tons of unique assets. Generally you would spend a lot of time in these regions, so the one loading screen to go from skyrim to solsteim wasn't too bad. In starfield, the planets are relatively pointless. Often the landscapes are flat and empty. There may be 1-5 alien creatures, to scan. The AI may drop in a few points of interest, some of which you've seen identical copies of. Its just not enough to keep the player interested for long play sessions, so you leave more often, and face the dreaded loading screen.

The problem with switching engines isn't just that it's a mammoth undertaking, depending on how different the your best choices are from what you are using now, but in Bethesda's case it would most likely kill one of their biggest assets and advantages: the modding community. Even if they are lucky and can find another engine that's perfect for their needs AND it's similarly moddable, it would STILL require the Bethesda devs AND the modders to either learn a new language or walk away.

The problem with Starfield is Bethesda. And Bethesda's problem is they are run as if they are a studio of only 20-30 people instead of hundreds. A small team that can directly talk to each other regularly without disrupting each other can do a 'no Game Design Document' approach because any 'teams' will only be one to three people and a 'team lead' can ask questions and take notes. You can't do that when you have hundreds of people and ten or more teams. The GDD is a way for teams on large projects to indirectly communicate any and all changes without needing to keep calling 'all team leads' meetings. Related to that, Bethesda team leads don't sound like they are acting as team leads. In the video that revealed that Bethesda doesn't like using GDDs, it's mentioned that when they tried to used them they were always out of date; and it's said as if it's a great mystery as to why. Well, they're out of date because _team leads aren't doing the entirety their damn jobs_ for some reason. Team leaders are a form of manager who is supposed to keep their team on task, keep any and all GDDs up to date for their team, and when the first and second tasks are done then they can sit down and code. But Bethesda's team leads just sounds like someone that does more coding than any other task. The lack of a GDD and playtesting is why recent Bethesda games have felt so disjointed and half-assed. It because no one knew what the eff the game was supposed to be. The entire settlement building should have been a major plot point in Fallout 4, for example. Instead it's mostly a side activity. It's even worse with Starfield. There is no damn point to building an outpost unless you have zero intention of following through on the game's main plot mechanic: going to a different universe. Outpost building is just there because they spent hundreds and likely thousands of manhours on the base system and they might as well use it here too. They're at the point of making games almost purely by routine. Look at the designs of the NPCs ffs. Those faces are every bit as bad as launch-day Mass Effect Andromeda. Bethesda is stuck in a bubble of ass-kissing praise and they're high on their own farts. Also, executive producers don't do shit. They're the money people. Their entire job is to get money for the project but they themselves have no hand in the project itself.

Through the years I've realized I'm in the minority here. Before FO4 I didn't really know about Bethesda. I watched E3 the year they had the big FO4 presentation and that's what got me hooked. I pre-ordered it, waited at the mall until midnight and I went home, played it until 4am even though I had to be at work at 7am (Man, those were the days). And to this day, FO4 is still one of favorite games of all time. Everyone who knew about Bethesda told me that if I liked FO4, then I would like their previous titles and guess what, I didn't. They didn't check the boxes that FO4 did. You see, I don't play these games so I can pretend to BE the dude and RP. No, I play them so I can experience THAT character's story. This is why I enjoy voiced protagonists and I overwhelmingly prefer 3rd person games over 1st person. I was so shocked when I realized that none of the previous main characters were voiced. I was coming from DAI and FO4 to New Vegas, FO3 and Skyrim. They felt so dated and clunky and I remember thinking "Omg, this is terrible. Why do people like these games?!". Aside from FO4, Bethesda hasn't made anything that I would want to play and SF was no exception. I've probably watched every SF video on RU-vid and honestly, I'm glad I sat this one out also. I'll just watch SF crash and burn from the top of the Trinity Tower back in Boston 🙃

How to fix Bugthesda? Start by demoting (or firing) Emil Pagliarulo and Todd Howard. The performance of Borefield should justify this alone.

If Starfield had an incredible story with great npcs, I wouldn't care about the rest (to be fair it runs well on xbox); it would be my GOTY. The WRITING for me is the biggest issue. I also agree that the creation engine isn't the biggest problem. If you have played Skyrim fully modded, for example with the Novus pack, it looks great and plays great. With the creation engine. I agree that the engine isn't the primary issue. If you consider the resources needed to change engine, of those resources were applied to fixing the writing and game design and all the other issues, you could have an incredible game.

When I first heard about Starfield before any info was released I was hoping it would be a completely fresh property from scratch. Didn't want it to even be possible to make accusations like Skyrim in space. Perhaps originality is the most unrealistic thing of all to expect from them.

You were perfect on explaining how the core BGS fans do things with those games. 150 hours is a drop in the bucket for them (me included), I tried and I tried so hard to love the game but it glares back at me revealing flaws on its own without me even needing to look. Hopefully BGS really learns and does a good job in the future.

I have a feeling that the current engineers at Bethesda probably don’t fully understand parts of code base as they were written poorly many years ago by different engineers. And for whatever number of reasons, those parts haven’t had a full rewrite

13:40 people didnt just forgive bethesda bugs for no reason. It used to be that if you wanted a vast open world RPG where you could do anything and be anyone, only Bethesda really offered you that experience at such a easy to access premium. The bugs were excused then on the idea that it was the 'coding tax' you paid, that such vast open worlds couldnt be patched or made easily, and that even with the bugs, you were still getting an overall experience that was worth it. That isn't the case now, as Bethesda has essentially only learned to make the same game but worse over time and extract more money from it.

That bit with swapping software had me giggling a bit, "Pro is not working great." "Get a mac then." Like there is other programs 😂

It doesn't matter how difficult and complicated it is for a game studio to adopt a new game engine. It NEEDS to be done. It's as simple as that. All game dev studios that have been around for decades adopt/create new game engines as time goes on and their current engine begins to show their age. From Rockstar to id Software. All studios evolve their game engine. Bethesda Game Studios needs to bite the bullet and do it. Yes, it's going to be a great difficulty for them. But again: it NEEDS to be done.

This is the natural cycle of things. Devs get old, they age out of the market because they lose touch. It's fine, it's whatever. A new company will fill the void in time but Bugthesda has seen their peak. I been gaming for decades. This has happened to most of my favorite devs, publishers, what have you.

Windows to mac analogy really sucked because you can own a pc and a mac and send files between them esp in the same house on the same network. Even with no network you could physically move your unedited video files on an external storage device between the two.

Personally I feel Bethesda is heading down the blizzard path. Mediocrity while everyone else outplays them

the creation engine was made for the ps3 and xbox 360 generation? It was still based on a previous iteration of the engine. Ultimately it's an heavily modified and upgraded Gamebryo engine.

Luke was the only person I seen calling out all the red flags..

Haven’t bought star field. Not interested in procedural generation at massive scale

I spent 500 hours on it and have no desire to go back. I would love to see Larian Studios remaster it.

Considering the first NPC in Morrowind managed to achieve legendary meme status, Starfield is the antithesis to Morrowind. It took me 40-50 hours of Skyrim on PS3 at launch for me to realise the game was not what I was expecting and I never played it again.

My biggest red flag with starfield was when Todd Howard said, "It takes place 100 years into the future of our REAL UNIVERSE." From then on, I knew that it wouldn't be fantasy in space.

1:08:00 "We will make fun of people that are being irrational" *immediately turns around and starts yelling at cardboard*

No way, i think they are balls deep in TES 6 with th creative engine

Whenever a studio switches to Unreal it just shows that they lack talent to develop their own engine, which also means their use of Unreal will be highly suboptimal - e.g. that is why many Unreal games run bad, look bad, as working with and customizing Unreal requires the same kind of knowledge as making your own engine - in fact it can require more, as you need to customize an engine you have not written, and fixing your own code is always easier than fixing other's code.

When Todd said "it just works" he wasn't talking about the player experience. He was saying they make bad games and it just, works. They sell.

I like how MMP say "Todd Howard is not going to be around forever" against an image of Todd still looking like he's in his 20's.

Exploration and navigation are the two main biggest problems but the even bigger problem is the world itself.

Its funny to see Bethesda retread the same issues they have before. When they released ES2:Daggerfall they did the same thing with precaudal generation(a map so big its 3/4ths of the uk) and the problem they had there was that much of it felt empty and you just fastraveled most places, this caused the response to be that although the game is good it can feel empty. Then they made ES3:Morrowind completely handcrafted world the only autogenerated stuff being the respawning NPCs in the open map because all NPCs in cells were one off including the bandits in hideouts and they continued that handcrafted world in Oblivion, FO3, Skyrim and FO4 but you could see the slow rise in reliance on procedural content with the radiant quests that got more and more aggreges as time went on. Aaaaaand now were back in the same place with starfield. It isint that they don't learn from their own past, its more like they forget what they learned after a while. It would be nice to see them combine all the best things of those past games. The super interesting open world of morrowind, the great sidequests of oblivion, the atmosphere of FO3, the guilds of skyrim and interesting companions of FO4(while also maybe improving a little bit because some of them were a bit illogical or wasted potential... Im looking at you mcreedy go back to your dying son with the cure you dead beast shit. And nick got done dirty with the kellogg thing)

Another thing about Starfield, vs Elder Scrolls and Fallout... There are RU-vid channels dedicated to the lore of the latter two. But Starfield is just the future, and a really boring future. There are no supercars, the people look kinda strange, and honestly I would rather live in a real-life city than live in Starfield because the setting just feels lifeless.

I see in Matty what i was before fallout 76. I needed that gut punch.

The main problem with Bethesda is that they literally don't have any good Devs. They're leadership is nonexistent, the programmers either don't give a shit or can't code optimized engines, The gameplay team barely understands what makes compelling combat, the writers have been dog water since Fallout 3, the artist come out with textures that look terrible and are bloated to the point it effects performance, the model team can barely pump out more than 12 armor sets, NPC's have been a laughing stock forever. The only parts of the team that we can even praise are what? The environmental artist? The composers? This studio needs to be completely gutted, there is no saving it.

A big problem for me is they tied themselves to x box console specs. No matter what they do. A pc focused game like Star citizen can stomp them in capability almost every time with a little effort

Dude I love your mouse and keyboard! What is your keyboard?

The reason why people have over 100 hours in the game is because 50 hours of it was load screens Side note: am I in the minority that liked voice protagonist in RPGs like fallout 4/cyberpunk? For some reason l connect more to the character when it’s like that instead of a non voiced character I have a harder time getting into character

what is matty even talking about the engine not hampering Skyrim, the civil war was notoriously cut down significantly because the engine could not handle it, decade prior engine bugs from morrowing are still present in skyrim without he community patch, FPS tied down to physics of objects is an egine issue, and that was present in fallout 4 too, i don't know about 76 or starfield i did not played those. these couple of examples are just some i could remember but these are not small things, and we knew about this a decade ago.

Ahh good ol MrMatty deafening BSG games to the death can always count on him

Is it weird id love to see a creation engine 2... Like rebuilt for modern engines but keeping the philosophy and allowing for ease of modding with a purpose built built-in modding system

To be honest: I deleted it from my console. First play through, as a die hard Bethesda fan, was entertaining. Now, I can’t even get passed the crimson fleet captain without getting bored. Kind of want to play Skyrim again kind of don’t, I don’t know how to feel at this point 😢

I think it would worthwhile making a comparison of starfield (2023) and Mass Effect Andromeda (2017), both games launched with massive justified backlash, but I bet the 6 year old game was much better (and I didn't play it, so I have no horse in this race) PS: On the hype, I was fully skeptical about starfield from the start, I did fully believe the game will be mid at best from all the Todd talks and just thinking about what was promised and what bethesda could deliver with Fall of 76 to give some perspective, still, weeks leading up to the launch I fell to hype, I was excited to try the game out, just to find out it was soo much worse then I initially expected when I was negative about the game's prospects.

You know what they say, "hype makes you ripe"

How many of you guys are also watching this coverage and aren't even interested in playing the game at all? I've loved these games since the original fallouts and morrowind. Starfield? Wasn't really even interested from the concept.

Technically speaking, Daggerfall was the largest Elder Scrolls game. I haven't actually played it but I doubt anyone would say it was the most immersive. Bigger isn't necessarily better.

"Oh you only have 15 hours, how can you judge the game? It gets good after 30 hours!" "Oh you have 150+ hours, how can the game be bad if it kept you hooked for that long?" Can't win with some people.

I don’t watch Marty but dude has to get off his knees and stop sucking Bethesda this hard. Bgs clearly is stuck in the past and refuses to move into modern times where games can be truly insane works of art.

57:45 George Bush moment 😂