I played the new Starfield 'Shattered Space' expansion... 

I filmed this last night and have since finished more of the side content and quests. My opinion is unchanged. It's a very low effort DLC, and calling it an expansion is a stretch, especially when considering the competition like Shadow of the Erdtree, Phantom Liberty, or even Far Harbor. I don't know how this took them a YEAR to make, and charging $30 is only a good value when you remember they charge $5-$7 for individual quest DLCs through 'Creations.' Some people are claiming there are 2 new habs and at least one new follower to be found, but I haven't gotten any of it to work for me. I don't know if this is a bug or if they're just mistaken about those being in the DLC. Regardless, it's clearly not a major part of the DLC if there's debate about their existence, even for those who have finished it. But don't just believe me, check out their own Subreddit and see what Starfield fans are saying about it: www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/1ftf9rw/this_is_a_surprisingly_lukewarm_reaction_to/

But the Astronauts weren't bored when they landed on the moon. You must be doing something wrong.

Until Bethesda has a change in its staff, we can expect more of this going forward. I never thought I would say this, but I'm not that excited for TES6 anymore.

Having the ship technician say “it’s been a while since I’ve worked on a ship from the settled systems” and then seeing his entire stock black painted stroud ships from the settled systems has to be one of the biggest let downs. I literally stopped playing as soon as I saw that

This took a year?

We don't need dlc, we already have 1000 planets to explore

I can't tell if its really funny or really sad that this is what Todd was dreaming of for 30 years..

I got bored just watching you play in the livestream. The quality of Starfield has certainly adjusted my expectations for Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5.

30 dollars is crazy. Shadow of The Erdtree was 40 dollars and was essentially a new game in terms of size and scope. Remnant 2, one of the best ARPGs last year was 40 bucks for the entire game!

Actually baffled how many people give bethesda a pass for a low effort boring repetitive game.

Cyberpunks only expansion Liberty City adds: -new dense playable area -skill tree and combat overhaul -new exciting story about president and being a spy -new cybernetics -new missions Starfield: Shattered Space: BUBBLES

Should I cancel my piratebay download ?

The whole game is so bland and this DLC is no exception. It's a sci fi universe whereby there's only humans (without any interesting mystery/politics), and Earth has been destroyed by human hubris. Makes me want to fall asleep man. I got baited and bought the deluxe version but even I just can't be bothered playing the DLC, nothing about it at all seems interesting. Looking at the player numbers i'm not alone, there was about a 5k player spike, compare that to Cyberpunk which had a 250k player spike after its DLC.

One thing about this game is the NPCs dont shut up, they keep on talking forever with nothing of substance being said. Add to that the fact that bethesda treats its playerbase like literal children with its "family friendly" dialogue. I mean seriously, the big majority of bethesda fansbase are middle aged man

To be fair, the main plot of the DLC feeling forced is pretty on point, because that's how it was for the main story too. "You touched a rock! Take my ship and my robot!" "Why?" "Because I said so! OK BYE!"

The starfield subreddit is in full copium mode rn, i called out bethesda for releasing 5 "new weapon" with literally 4 of them being reskin and some bethesda dweebs fanboy accused of not having played the DLC, you cant make this it up lmao

It just so funny that Starfield takes place in an entire galaxy but the cities have like 5 houses in them 😂

Wow you know marketing isn’t working when you see a review before any trailer.

I'm not paying 30 bucks for a 4 hour mission.

Not a good sign if you can't enjoy a game without "turning your brain off." That's a sign of slop.

I (loading screen) love (loading screen) this (loading screen) game (loading screen)

Literally every questline/ area in starfield is just some other scifi story DONE WORSE. It's unbelievable that a billion dollar company can't just hire a couple of writers to make the entire thing 100x better. Did Emil Pagliarulo earn his job for life by saving a bunch of files from a burning building or something? What the fuck

This DLC took a YEAR! to put into perspective, skyrim had all it's expansions within a year...

Event horizon is one of my favourite movies 😊 This game however is not

It’s obviously a faction quest line that was cut from the main game

I was hoping Andreja would have more dialogue in this update because she's my favorite companion. I was hoping it would be something like Far Harbor with Nick Valentine. I haven't finished the dlc, but I've gotten pretty far in, and I have been really disappointed at the lack of extra lines besides a few here and there. I feel like coming back to your homeland where previously you never thought you could return would be a huge moment for most people, but apparently, Bethesda thought otherwise.

I think BGS have just lost the ability to 'worldbuild'. Sure, there's been more technical and core game mechanic improvements since Morrowind and Oblivion, but it seems like they're struggling to actually make the worlds actually compelling or worth exploring. Fallout 4 was pretty bland (apart from the Glowing Sea) but Starfield is just downright boring.

I’ll just get back on Skyrim for the hundredth time. Back when Bethesda meant something.

*Spoilers* My biggest issue with Shattered Space isn’t the just the retextured guns and outfits even though that’s just lazy and the ‘expansion’ only took a few hours to finish it. My biggest issue is what Bethesda told us, we will be faced with CHOICES that determine the fate of House Varrun. We don’t determine anything because if we choose the bad ending we die and guess what… we have to reload to our latest save! So we can’t choose a bad ending or anything. We have to choose to stop House Varrun even if we would like another war. Well once that is done, they need a new speaker and laugh at us if we would like to be the speaker. And we can also determine if they will have a second serpents crusade, but guess what happens if we choose that option… nothing again. There’s no big choices or consequences at all. There is only one ending. And they let you make these ‘big decisions’ like who will rule over them and if they will go to war again, but those big decisions don’t impact anything at all.

We wanted Far Harbor but they gave us Automatron. Couldn’t even give us a Nuka World…

Luke, no one cares about spoilers for this crappy game. Just tell us and be over with it.

And we have Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty for the same price that has 10 times more hand crafted content, an interesting story, compelling and deep characters, cool sidequests, new vehicles, new guns, new gameplay mechanics, new ending to the main game etc. And look at Starfield that looks like it just came straight from 2011.

Event Horizon is a Masterpiece!

What in the hell happened to Bethesda? Did most of the talent leave? Was Skyrim and Fallout simply lightning in a bottle? The captivating writing, rewarding exploration, quirky NPCs, as well as the goofy or morbid quest designs we have grown to love from this company are completely GONE.

It's Bethesda what else did people expect? To this day SKYRIM of all things is still not 100% finishable or even close to a bug-free experience without community patches and that after what? 14 years and 3 or 4 re-releases! Starfield is and never will be a good/compentent game and now comes the shocker, TES6 and FO5 will also be trash because it's still the same incompetent development team and still the same sh**ty old, broken to the core engine that limits what can be done gameplay- and graphics-wise.

"Why bother?" -Bethesda's motto.

Bethesda is a glorified AA studio at this point. I’ve never seen such a successful studio become so susceptible to crippling stagnation. They have fallen so far behind that even Obsidian will soon surpass them.

Bethesda quests are like stage plays, the script is already written, it tells you where to stand to trigger a scene and you move from scene to scene, you can add lib some lines (the in game dialogue “choices”), but the overall narrative doesn’t change.

Do we meet the Great Snek? 🐍

I can’t shake the horrible feeling that this was rushed out, they focused on one location, but they still just threw it together as fast as possible trying to get people back in. Also that is absolutely the “summon” effect from Skyrim.

"So this morning Bethesda dropped Shattered Space" ... They did? I honestly forgot Starfield existed.

Compared to Phantom Liberty for Cyberpunk2077, which is a good example of a hand crafted, narrative driven XP, this is an absolutely overpriced rip off. Heck its even poor compared to Far Harbour.

'Just more Starfield' might be the strongest condemnation possible XD

All the fanboys making excuses why this is amazing and makes starfield playable again it's lazy garbage should be free it's nowhere near worth 30 euro or dollars.

BABE get in here Luke just dropped another starfield video

I'm playing Fallout London as well as Starfield, Starfield fells like a slog, just completing that list of missions, that i care nothing about, the characters i've already forgotton, , for loot that's all the same. Where Fallout London is how these games should be, it's seriously one of the best Bethesda games there is, oh wait, it's not Bethesda , i think that explains why :)

Event horizon is a great movie lol

It's pretty clear at this point that Microsoft bought a lemon.

I wonder how long Luke Stephens is going to find a way to bring "Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League" into every single video he makes...

And there were people who believed that this DLC could fix this game.

Can't say I'm surprised. I mean, it's Bethesda. You need to set the expectations low.

Very disappointed after finishing the main story…ZERO new powers/mechanics/ships parts/etc. We didn’t learn anything about the Great Serpent. A bunch of reskinned weapons. Yawn. Rip BGS

I can tell that they tried to emulate Far Harbor from Fallout 4 in this DLC. But, well, whatever made Far Harbor interesting isn't present here. It really is just the classic "Oh please player, please save us from the calamity that unfolded recently and navigate milquetoast politics!" that you'd expect from Bethesda at this point. In Far Harbor, it was made interesting by you having the ability to shape the future of the island, and tying a few loose ends in the plot, like why the fuck Nick Valentine even is. There was also a clear "us vs them" aspect between the factions and it delved into more existential themes with the synths. But Shattered Space? None of that shit is present here. You're just paying for more of the same fucking game.

Event Horizon was one of the best cosmic horror films we ever got. Aside from some heavy censoring from the studio at the time to keep it R rated, it was fantastic, and I don't think 90s reviewers really understood how good it was. Watch it ffs!

"if you turn your brain off and go through it "... yeah, bgs games in a nutshell lol

3:00 That map looks so dreary. No shaders or anything, just a high contrast tan. And you can even see the squares around the points of interest that weren't blended into the surroundings

I can't believe there are no new outpost buildings and ship parts(which is arguably the best part of the game), two of the only things that I somewhat enjoyed in the game. It's like they don't know their own game

The fps character does not have a shadow. A video game problem that was rectified decades ago. Nitpicking, but it's there

Definitely NOT a Carbon copy of Event Horizon btw, a movie i know very well. The only thing that's similar is an abandoned space vessel with "something" strange going on inside, and thats only the first 45 mins of the dlc. Literally everything else is nothing like Event Horizon. Very false representation.

I played it for 2 hours, was bored to tears and I couldn’t take it and quit. BGS games have no soul.

I was under the impression this was a free update and was still never going to try it. The fact that they haven't even polished their mediocre product and now want $30 (?!) for more buggy mediocre slop is embarrassing. I have very little hope for Elder Scrolls VI

2 big Bethesda games in a row passed now. Guess I’ll just forget about elder scrolls 6.

I’m glad I didn’t spend $30 on this last night because I was high. I can’t wait to play BG3 with mods Xbox. We’ll see bout dragon age.

Goddamn, this game is boring even as background footage.

The number of times you said 'expansion' got me thinking about how phenomenal this game could have been if it were based on The Expanse. Bethesda wouldn't have to do any heavy lifting in terms of world building, there're different factions with distinct, well-defined characteristics, there are only a few key locations where plotlines/quests could be concentrated, and the 'one thousand planets' could be locked behind a mid-plot point so people don't get bored and overwhelmed right away. Hell, I think the whole 'cowboy Martian' thing was fully ripped from The Expanse, and the voice actor for Sam Coe even had a part in the show. Huge missed opportunity, if it was ever on the table. Hopefully someday someone will make an incredible space RPG based on The Expanse because it will kick ass.

"Keep it Stupid Boring" - Emil Pagliarulo, 2024.

3:40 So it’s basically just the Companions questline from Skyrim again.

BGS is obviously a shell of what it used to be. It seems all the beloved studios we love in name have completely changed with new staff.

It blows me away how disappointing this game has been

I cant believe I waited so long for TES 6 and its probably gonna suck..

9:42 Nope! The choices you make don't matter!

14:30 It seems like there's no background music playing? Many great games have long dialogue scenes but they're always paired with gripping background music that makes you want to pay attention to what the characters are talking about. It seems like Bethesda didn't utilize the power of background music in this dlc?

It's possible that Elder Scrolls Six won't have any expansions/dlc.Why you might ask? Simple answer paid mods are zero risk. If you don't buy the paid mods it doesn't hurt their wallet but if you do buy the mods they make money from it. Why would they spent money to fix there games when they can have someone else do it for free and make money from it. Ps. I understand these modders get a large cut. Just think for second would you rather spend a large amount of money on making a expansion and take the risk of not making a profit or allow modders to make paid expansions/dlc where you invest nothing but still get paid for it.

4:11 "If you turn your brain off and go through it, you can enjoy it." Every Bethesda game ever.

Baldur's Gate 3 mods are on console. I aint even finish half of Shattered Space yet. That's just too damn bad 😂🤷🏾‍♂️

11:42 “BGS is pretty confident in what this game is” That’s the problem, they really really shouldn’t be. It’s the worst parts of fallout 4 in space.

I dont think theres a single thing that could bring me back to this game

"Starfield is supposed to be an RPG" Someone forgot to tell Bethesda.

Was anyone else even aware that there was a dlc?

I will never understand why, with most players absolutely hating bug filled games and outdated gameplay mechanics, people just gave Bethesda a pass for the longest time until now, any other studio made the same mistakes and they get blasted for it

Honey come quick, Luke made another video about Starfield. (We loved it)

Bethesda 100% forgot how to tell stories or make rpg's after dumbing down their formula every new game for 20 years.

I’m really pushing through it.. it’s sooooooo boring. It’s rare I feel this way with video games, believe me. I’m still slogging through, but the dialogue man.. it just isn’t doing it for me now. I stupidly replayed Phantom Liberty, so it just doesn’t hit for me. I actually am one of the people who enjoyed the base game too 😢

I foolishly paid extra to play this game early when it was released so i have shattered space paid for. I still have no desire to play it.

you are brave

The funniest part for me is when they make the 'speech' in front of the gates - just like in oblivion there are like 7 NPCs there and it is classic underwhelming bethesda

I fell asleep during your stream playing it, what else did I miss? xDD

I have to defend Event Horizon: even though it may have been a commercial flop, it developed a cult following after home video release

Bethesda: Creatively bankrupt since 2013.

Idk what you were expecting lol it’s Bethesda. It’s true that Event Horizon was a box office flop but it actually went on to make a ton of money in dvd sales and was the direct inspiration for Dead Space making it a cult classic. Don’t throw that movie under the bus for Bethesdas sake. The expansion is trash and anyone who thought it was gonna be different is part of the problem.

Starfield doesn’t make rpgs anymore don’t ya know? Just sandbox games like Minecraft

Fully agree with you there Luke, BGS, Ubisoft and the likes are all stuck in their ways. It's a leadership problem, not the devs. The good thing is, if we want to stay positive, other studios have more room and are using it to innovate and reinvente themselves, CDPR, Larian, etc. My expections for ES6 and Fallout 5 are gone, let's move on to studios who actually don't dumb down their games and provide bland content. Cheers.

Shattered Space, Shattered Expectations for TES6.

Feels like a lot of content creators are overly negative because it gets clicks. It's like I can't trust what anyone says anymore

You walking around, it looks like the just recreated Big MT in Starfield 😂

Played this for ten mins. Downloaded a star wars mod after I got bored and that broke my game so I said fuck this and went to no mans sky. About 8 hours in and I'm loving it. Highly recommend playing that

For a relatively new IP starfeild seems creatively bankrupt, games need to be i don't know....fun

Dont know why people expected more when we already got the release of Starfield as it was and still is. For 30$ you can probably get Witcher 3 with all DLCs and one other GOTY with DLCs, like wtf are they thinking at Bethesda

Aaaand….it’s even more shattered!

"It Just Works🎉" speaking of reused assets. I'm still 100% certain one of the POIs is just a futuristic scfi reskin of a location in fallout.