Starfield's Worldbuilding: A Galaxy of Wasted Potential 

Perhaps because they were launched into the cold, hard vacuum of space on a pillar of fire strapped to the tip of a missile, landed on and returned from the surface of the moon with only just enough fuel for the task and did all this themselves without a single load screen?

They never went to the moon. You CANNOT leave footprints in a substrate without water, any tracker knows this. Moon landing was a bad fake

Meme comment, I know. But in all seriousness. Its because those 3 gentlemen were engaged in their task. Real space travel is deadly. One wrong move, and they're dead. Space travel in starfield is not only safe, ita boring and unengaging.

You cannot leave foot prints in a substate without moisture. WATER. Any tracker knows this. Unless there's water on the moon the "landing" was ...

@@DJWeapon8 You can't leave footprints in a substrate without water. It was not real

Yeah. That is absolutely hilarious. Why have a "reset universe" mechanic in the game if the reset doesn't even matter. You should be allowed to fail at every single point. You should be allowed to be serious or outright messing with everyone. It is the central selling point of such a game, and yet they refuse to do it. Players are not harmed by being given limits. You actually get better games by giving limits than just removing them.

@@EcardEcardianI kind of disagree with that assessment. It is simply because that isn't how Bethesda design their games. That is the classic Fallout three cornerstone design, but that design isn't isn't implemented by Bethesda. The three cornerstones are the following: 1. Diplomacy. Talk your way through a problem. 2. Violence. Path of least resistance, just shoot your way through. 3. Stealth. Sneak your way through and do the mission without a shot being fired. Every main quest should include all of these options, and every side quest should at least have 2. This is why the classic Fallouts have the premade character that suit each option. Bethesda do not use these options, or this design. They mostly just have set pieces with some of them, but they are heavily restricted. Take the Thalmor Embassy quest in Skyrim. This is a main quest and is a pretty important one. - You start out with having all your equipment removed. - You get are forced to join a party where your job is to cause a distraction to slip away. This is no way to fight your way through and this is no way to sneak out of sight when no one is looking. You can not even go into the party dressed as a member of staff and avoid the whole party. - You then get some of your gear back and is told to find some documents in the embassy. You can do this by sneaking your way through and you can go all in blazing, but you can not talk your way through. - When you find the documents your plan will have been discovered no matter how sneaky you have been until that point. Your partner is always caught and they always find you in the prison. In this quest they follow none of the cornerstones. They have all components but they invalidate them all at some point in time. During the party they invalidate violence and stealth. During the search they invalidate diplomacy and stealth as being stealthy doesn't matter much. You can talk to people. You can have skill checks. But they do not actually implement them in a way it matters. Bethesda do not follow these three options. They pretty much only have violence and then they have the other two when they want to basically skip some parts of the violence.

@@EcardEcardianI don't think that quest is an exception. There is literally no diplomacy in the quest were you get the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller. Or in the quest to find Esbern. In both of those quests there is only violence. And Stealth isn't stealth. It is just another facid of combat mechanics. I am pretty sure you can go down the list of quest and find that all of them pretty much always rely on combat over everything else. This is the way Bethesda design their quest. It revolves around violence and then have ways to skip segments of it.

@@Cloud_Seeker But it safes time in programming if you can't fail and the quest runs like on railroads. That was probably more important than the risk of frustrating players who fail at a quest.

@@elmercy4968 Apart from that there is one problem here. You are playing a RPG, a Role Playing Game. The player is supposed to have a level of autonomy in a RPG where what they do and say matters. I am sure that it is safe and easy to put everyone on rails and force a quest to play out exactly like you want it to. But you also remove the player from the equation when you do that. There is no point in even pretending that I have a choice or any autonomy when you put me on rails for your convenience. If I did this in my D&D campaign, I should expect that my players should leave. At that point they are just viewers to my fanfic stories and can't really participate in it. There is a game that has done this just fine without any issues. It is actually highly regarded to this very day. Its name is Fallout New Vegas. There is very few NPC's that can not die in that game. Yet people had no issue with that fact failing a quest is possible in that game. It is even a joke that you fail 10 quests by killing some random NPC. It is often a very active choice and there are ways to redeem your actions to a point.

which shows how stupid and toxic gaming community is shame on you

I was literally just thinking this lol I love videos shitting on this game in particular for some reason

There is a nice schadenfreude to be had from Starfield, lol.

Agreed. Bethesda deserves the criticism for making such an uninspired game.

We never run out of people willing to take up that cross. Those videos will outlive Bethesda

For real.

There is no way that that this game was developed in 7 years worth of actual development time lol. They say that though.

@@Rpgreat There's apparently evidence that the entire game got scrapped 2ish years before launch. A modder was talking about it on a post explaining how difficult mod development for Starfield is. Still doesn't excuse how bad this game is though.

It may have been in development for 7 years, but I'd wager most of that time was spent fucking around with their engine. There is no way the actual game (Story, content, missions, etc) got more than 2-3 years.

​@@SirMacNaughtYeah that sounds about right. Respawn made Jedi Survivor in 3 years and while that has only 6 planets it has around 50 hours of content and none of that is procedural generation. It's also about 5 times more advanced on a technical level and the story is also much better thought out.

That is a very good point. It is almost as if the consumers know exactly were the limits of Bethesda are, and how they ignore anyone trying to tell them what their limits are.

I just don't see how they could launch a game with this many loading screens in 2023. The main selling point of the Series X and PS5 was the lack of loading screens. It was the entire selling point of the most recent Ratchet and Clank and Bethesda actually thought that people wouldn't care.

@@ArcAngle1117 it's not a hardware limitation it's the Creation engine which is over 20 years old now. Sure they keep updating it but it's still fundamentally the same core engine as evidenced by the fact that there are bugs in Starfield that are identical to ones in fallout and skyrim (and still aren't fixed). Oh and they've already confirmed Elder Scrolls 6 will be using the same engine..

it's also not the engine issue as well. They can get away with all those bugs in Skyrim and Fallout because those are good games. First 5 minutes of this video describe it pretty well. They have a good concept, but they can't pull it out. So they made up everything along the way with hope that people will like it. This game is all about themselves, not the players.

@@AntASurvivalWe need to stop excusing bugs. Skyrim is good but I don't think anyone would say it would be worse if they fixed the bugs. But they don't. They've re-released the game multiple times and have never bothered to do any bug fixes beyond stuff that would make the game unplayable. Fuck it, good enough is their mantra.

the sad thing is people tried to warn then against this stupid idea, nobody wanted more of NMS at the time because NMS was shit at launch and had an endless sea of pointless exploration, actually i would say in many ways it's still worse than starfield, however the only thing it has going for it that is better than starfield is the fact that you can fly your ship in and out of planets and it's not being separated via constant load screens. i suppose bethesda deserves some credit in the load screens, in past games the load times were very long, but in starfield they are really quick, it's just annoying that it's a load screen simulator.

​@@user-tp5yb4hr4wNMS also has multiplayer so there's that, and Vehicles to traverse the landscapes of the planet's.

@@thelizard556 yeah but you have to get passed so much damn grind of the main mechanics to get to these features from a new game that it often feels monotonous and pointless. i suppose if you have put in 500 hours into your save, maybe that's a good deal, but damn dude that takes forever before you can access that shit, also the game is confusing as hell, i suppose starfield is also confusing as hell too when it comes to some mechanics. look i have tried multiple times to get into NMS and i have had the game since it was in early access, and though it's got a lot of features added onto it, the game is so damn hard to get into though, the gameplay loop is mindbogglingly bad, like i make this point for bethesda games as well, but damn near everything is all about resource extraction and procedural generation, like i just can't get into that kind of thing because it's just too annoying and the game also has no story at all, like that stuff wouldn't be all that bad if it wasn't so damn monotonous all the time. i feel like people with autism are making these games, they fill their games with a bunch of pointless shit that only offers value for people who have that disability and are prone to like such monotonous trash. both games are trash in my eyes, they have some good mechanics but both suffer from some of the same issues when it comes to being confusing as hell or they have too much grind or they are too procedural, what's funny is starfield's procedural stuff is nowhere near as bad as NMS, i still believe they should have focused on a far smaller planet list in starfield, because a 1,000 really seems like a dumb idea, and in NMS if i remember correctly it was something like a billion planets, like that's just too damn much overkill. starfield at least has a story and combat, granted not a very good written story but it has a story where you sort of role play, it has far higher potential in that area but that would require bethesda to find a damn good writer on their staff lol.

Problem is, that those procedurally generated worlds are only useful if the focus is on exploring. But Starfield's focus is on quests.

As someone who was black pilled with Bethesda some time ago I never considered this was going to be good. If you look at how they make their games you find that each game is a lesser product of the previous one. They already were not great at writing so it will not improve.

16 time the detail...

@@yahya_elistinsary 25 years in the making, 16 times the detail, it just works lol.

I think 20 of those years was "we want to make a space game"

16 times the sbi employees

That's not even the craziest part. What's crazy is that Starfield has like 20 dungeons that just keep repeating... Skyrim had 198.

Or downgrade the graphics to fallout 76 levels. Pancuronium talked about it in one of his videos and I completely agree with him

size doesn't matter... bigger teams more complex communication and logistics = slower and messier development. Few companies can actually take advantage of a massive work force, most just throw numbers at the game untill it's finished, then wonder why it didn't work out and lay off most of them after the fact.

@@ThisIsGlitchand compound on top of that the fact that Bethesda is proud to not have centralized documentation…

Bethesda is a large company that thinks they are a small company. They think they can get away with stuff just because they are still “small”.

I forced myself to complete every mission in Start Game, then forced myself through the Unity 4 times... 200+ hours sunk into this. And apart from one quest line (that had wasted potential) and one or two quest sections (again, wasted potential), the whole mess was boring. 200+ hours... and I bet some muppet out there would tell me that "once I get to NG+10 it 'gets gud!'" A game should be "gud" from the first moment. You shouldn't need to put more than an hour in for it to have grabbed you. This game is boring - technical issues aside... it's BORING.

I had the same issue. It felt like "fun" was right around the corner, but I could never get to it.

I created a melee build on my first playthrough because I wanted to make some kind of Sardaukar warrior type character, but that was a huge mistake. Never been so disappointed in my life with a game. Why is the melee system even in this game, it's so barebones and boring 😭

Something I don't see talked about much is that Bethesda has kind of always had fairly uninteresting loot. The legendary effects in Fallout 4 did manage to spice things up a bit, but what actual interesting loot was there to find in Skyrim? Fallout 3? Even supposedly legendary Daedric quest rewards all had really boring enchantments (outside of a couple exceptions). You'd go through an entire dungeon in Skyrim just to sell all the loot you found in the chest (or hung it up on the wall if it was somehow unique). Dungeon diving in Skyrim always bores me pretty quickly specifically because it quickly becomes apparent how there's nothing to find that's any more useful than what you're already using. It kind of hides this fact by letting you refine and enchant equipment yourself, but with how much they limited the enchant system after Oblivion, there's also not even a whole lot of interesting enchantments you can put on your equipment.

what do you mean up until now, they have been flawed since the beginning of bethesda.

And if we are being honest...one of those worlds they didn't actually create. The world of Fallout was already done. They just bought somebody else's IP

@@user-tp5yb4hr4w the OP said the previous games were flawed. They just had interesting worlds. Starfield lacks the interesting worldbuilding that makes the earlier games interesting and gives a reason to bother modding it in the first place.

@@somethingbrite8484 And all the people who created the original lore of the Elder Scrolls have been gone for 20 years at this point. Nobody at current Bethesda has ever created something original.

@@-tera-3345 They should fire Emil, but we all know they won't.

Oh hell, they've been bankrupt for quite some time. Skyrim was probably their best product. That's why Todd keeps going back to the damn thing. It has the same level of awkwardness as Homer harping on is 300 strike score at bowling in that one episode of The Simpsons.

@@EcardEcardian There's a reason why Morrowind has had renewed interest in players over the two decades since its release, whereas Skyrim hasn't been relevant for ten years now.

The thing that gets me about this setting is that it doesn't have a cohesive vision to unify it the way say Mass Effect did. The different faction quests all feel like very different types of science-fiction. The UC Vanguard is Aliens, the Freestar Rangers is Firefly, and the stuff with Neon feels like Cyberpunk.

@@amanawolf9166 Their best product was Morrowind. Skyrim is extremely washed out compared to Morrowind. Bethesda didn't make the mods that make Skyrim great.

@@amanawolf9166best selling, but far from their best work. Their mainline IP hierarchy is Morrowind>Oblivion>Skyrim>FO3>FO4>FO76>Starfield, if I omitted anything it’s because I haven’t personally played it.

some of that is due to what the fans wanted, like the example is the non voiced protagonist, some people hated it in FO4 so bethesda did the silent protagonist with no other choice on the matter and people liked the idea of the Oblivion camera making a comeback, so bethesda added that, sadly the FO4 camera was still far superior to what they used in starfield, then people wanted more facial animations for NPC's and they added this but it's even worse looking than FO4 because the animations are way to exaggerated, especially the eye brow animation, when you notice it you can't forget it lol. then there are other issues that every bethesda game suffers from, the issues that always exist as bugs that were patched out, my guess is, by not having a design document they were always going to run into these issues in every new game they release which is why we are seeing many of the same glitches and bugs that have existed for decades of their passed bethesda games showing up in this new game.

@@user-tp5yb4hr4w the issue runs deeper than simply opting for silent protagonist and archaic dialogue system. The whole game design approach feels old af. Gameplay feels dated. The writing is pure garbage. There's no edge or soul. It's a soulless game.

Power armor would be insane in starfield. But I assume Vasco and the mechs used to be humans who decided to upload their brains into mechs. Like cyberpunk 2077 to the extreme. Current nasa iss research shown 3 days ago in the news shows cancer loves space. Picture it: turn into a cyborg to save money on food. Upload your brain to a cpu to prevent cancer growth. People who decided to do so, those in cities loving their phones. As opposed to others who refused.

@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yoPretty sure they did not because that should have just been hitting the players over the head with "This is a fallout clone".

@@Cloud_Seeker bro they had power armor in Stargate.

@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo Stargate has nothing to do with this. Also. Why are you make up strawmen?

@@Cloud_Seeker stargate had power armor

💀

Large tits. on everything. The cred sticks will have large tits. with jizzle™ physics. The companion robot? Large tits. My rifle? A small pair of large tits. Women with large tits already? Tits front and back. Large.

None of Bethesda's games have economies that make sense. BGS's FO uses the bottlecap system (even FO:NV introduced other currencies) when it makes no sense for them to use the currency of a different country on the other side of the continent, and TES series has a bunch of NPC dialogue contradicting statements about how their economy even works in the first place. It's a nitpick but I think it's a really funny trait all their games have.

That's not how virtual currency works. You can't tank an economy by generating more, any more than you could with counterfeit physical money in real life. Virtual and cash currencies go through a very difficult, traceable process of creating them. Only a single regulatory body can print or generate a specific currency. For Starfield to work that means the credits would be capped at a certain amount like real life, so it has a value, (like land and real estate markets) and would have to be generated and protected by a neutral banking system/military. Galbank, (an apolitical group, so theoretically immune to coercion) is exactly what would need to happen. Comstar from Battletech is the same thing, only they created the C-Bill system, not the Credit system. Cost of transmission would be huge over interstellar distances. This is because capitalism, finite resources, supply and demand, and bandwidth are still clearly limitations they include in the game. Cred sticks are probably the local way of transferring money and making purchases in a single system without interstellar transmission cost. Think prepaid mobile phone card as opposed to a much more expensive bill pay plan. Bethesda doesn't think much further beyond the first layer of any onion for their concepts, you shouldn't either being honest. That whole paragraph above is just hypothetical bullshit, but it's more effort than Bethesda put in.

@gavinpowell4607 Your wrong. Article 1 section 10 of the US Constitution, money is defined as gold or silver coin. What you call money is counterfeit currency. What is bound to happen is hyperinflation. The US is technically bankrupt and has been since 1933.

You’re aware that all economies are held by the imagination. At anytime we could all say 100 bucks isn’t a 100 bucks and that governments could print money indefinitely until resources are dry

@@Tate_THG you're just wrong.

While it can be seen as harsh to allow entire quest chains to fail and factions to hate your character forever, it's an issue that has had a solution for years: save scumming. Bethesda games already auto save every 10 mins, so if you accidently kill a super important npc you wouldn't lose much if you load your last save. Morrowind even had a pop-up that would let you know that your game is broken because you killed the wrong person. If someone doesn't want the consequences of their mistake, a quick load of a save fixes it. Or if they prefer they can let it play out and reset the universe later on.

@@atomictacco You could EVEN still complete the game if you got that pop up if you tried hard enough and found what you needed to. They made a fail safe.

@@AbstractTraitorHero And more recently, Larian did the same thing with Divinity: Original Sin 2, and later Baldur's Gate 3, both to extremely high praise. I get being afraid players aren't going to want to bother starting over or having to load a much earlier save if they didn't realize they'd fucked something up, but I'm not really seeing people actually complaining about it. Or if they are, they're complaining about their own fuck up, not about the game fucking them over.

25 years in the making of "keeping it simple stupid" lol.

The mastermind behind creative short quests and boring short quests. Definitely found the balance between making you feel fun for a while and then taking it away from you with the lazy writing.

It's very good advice in a lot of contexts. Game development in this genre is not one of those contexts.

It would fit perfect in a children's book, but definitely not in a videogame where deep, mature issues can happen. @@sambeckett2428

Then having a rant on Twitter when people criticizing his magnum opus.

if they gave a shit about it this game wouldn't exist. Bethesda has ridden a popularity wave that realistically is more to do with the popularity of the Xbox 360 and quality of Obsidian's New Vegas than it is anything they as a company personally created (even including nostalgia for Morrowind). I'm 100% sure they just assume people will come regardless, and they will continue to monetise other people's mod work, and keep raking in the cash from their crippled MMO games.

@@LomographyTromographylmao that first sentence is so fucking succinct and just beautiful my man

It's so funny to me how they're constantly paying lip service to how important their modding community is but are also so completely out of touch with it. They spent so much of the pre-release talking about all the great things modders would be able to do with Starfield, only to release their most mod-unfriendly game ever. (And then, as if to drive home the point even further, nearly immediately afterward released a sudden Skyrim update that broke many existing mods.)

damn if communication was that slow, they might as well use gravdrive speeds to communicate lol.

​​@@user-tp5yb4hr4w they would use ships to hold data. The more ships travelling between systems, the faster the communication and data. The grav jump speed seems to be almost instant.

Want to know where this is also common? BATTLETECH. Want to know the solution of battletech? Neo fucking feudalism. You have government effectively compartmentalized, to where the nearest allied system or planet will help. You don’t have to wait for high command to receive the message. Additionally, they had a pony express setup going on for communications.

@@user-tp5yb4hr4wafaik that’s exactly what happens in the dune universe. Couriers become essential because they can’t transmit data super luminal. Although it’s kinda grating imo to think that If a ship with mass can be super luminal that somehow abstract data cannot. However it does service the plot well in some settings. Edit: not that Emil knows anything about sci-fi. I’m not sure he’s ever read a book at all

@@russellg1473 you know it's kind of weird, Emil seems to only be good at narratives in the Fantasy settings, not so much sci-fi, i mean his own logic is to follow what he's best at, and that seems to be Fantasy , although some didn't like the story of FO4, i liked it, but i did find some holes in the story here and there that didn't quite add up, but i did mostly enjoy the game's story and some of the gameplay aspects. and i don't mind his style in the Fantasy setting games, because games like skyrim are set back in a time of mystery and a lot of unknowns exist that stuff is communicated through rumors and text from a lost civilization and architecture of a lost people who were far more advanced than you would think for their architecture used. but yeah sci-fi really isn't his strong suit, i also get the feeling they were bribed to make a certain game during it's development and these things that were added possibly made the story worse because they didn't really belong in the story, but it was added for modern audiences reasons which made the whole story just poorly written trash as if bethesda were taking the safe route keeping their game as sanitized as possible so nobody is offended. meanwhile they offended everybody who cares and who matters the most as these same people are the ones who purchase their games on mass in the first place, not the people who they are pandering to.

It has been some time since release so i had a look at mods for the game to see what is available. It was a sorry sight to be honest. Everyone was banking on mods fixing this pile of garbage but i don't think even they can from the stuff i've seen.

They changed AND got way worse. Comparing Starfield to Morrowind is a horrible thing to do lol. Morrowind is 10/10, Starfield is 2/10 if lucky.

@@Rpgreat No question about it. I absolutely love Morrowind you could never ever pay me enough to play Starfield.

It's been almost 10 years since Fallout 4 (what I would consider their last halfway decent title), and even that game was shaky on release. It's only made a comeback over the years because of how poorly Fallout 76 was and now the failure of Starfield has pushed even more people to Fallout 4. The gravy has been dried up for a long time for Bethesda, they just never realized because they were too busy trying to sell everyone another copy of Skyrim.

nothing to be proud of, really

@@Kris.G I sense Sweet Baby Inc is strong in you. The dark side you are.

@@OrbitalShell that literally makes no fkn sense, but tbh I should've expected it from someone like you

Crazy how the cultists are everywhere

So do I, and the latest Bethesda game I've played is Oblivion!

Oh that has already been the case for over a decade. Your favorite game was most likely also made for the lowest denominator. I started to play TTRPGs in 2017 because of all bad games.

Made for the lowest common denominator by the lowest common denominator.

Sarah threw this grenade into a room hitting a captured pilot. After the fight she dressed me down for harming an innocent, this can happen anytime the follower hurts a non-com npc. Have not fired up the game since a week before Phantom Liberty.

I’m happy they released this mess sandwiched between Baldurs Gate and Cyberpunk’s soft relaunch. The sheer quality of those titles really puts a spotlight on Starfield’s pitfalls. People, now more than ever, are seeing the dated, aimless, and creatively bankrupt design decisions of Bethesda.

Bethesda still thinks they did a good job

The sad part is how hard they are trying to defend this steaming pile of garbage. Emil has been trying to gaslight everyone into thinking they are playing the game wrong or that they don't understand science fiction. They should just admit their mistake and fix the game like CP2077 or No Man's Sky. Won't happen though because it's Bethesda.

@@atomictacco you are 100% correct sir

Doubt it. Some design decisions are strange if the outcome was planned from the start.

It's not sus, they are there for those comprehend the themes.

@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo Hey, thanks for the insult cloaked in unsolicited feedback.

I honestly thought forbidden mechs were going to be the start of a major game quest, especially when you go to the junkyard guy building effing mechs. Here we go. Bethesda has mechs hiding in the game. We are going to get a mech and freak out all the factions. But no, whomp whomp. Just more lipstick on the pig.

Yeah, it surprising that the 1st of Freestar doesn't have a mech boss considering they are camped in a mech base or none of the criminal gangs use mechs either. It is very strange considering you can collect banned mech parts which makes you think you could potentially build your own repurposed mech.

Would also explain why there is such a rampant pirate problem. Frontier garrisons would likely be few and far between and understaffed, so they can't properly patrol most places except the most critical of shipping routes.

Another piece of evidence that shows that people are either morons or awards are rigged.

Yes! The comparison with New Vegas is absolutely important. To not have your actions affect other factions in any meaningful way is shite.

i figure all the good stuff is still being worked on and won't likely come out for a long while, so they release a bunch of shit almost nobody cares about in these updates because the big shit that everyone cares about is still being worked on or troubleshooted. my opinion is that the game won't be a good game up until the next 3 to 5 years from now.

It doesn't need maps.

@@user-tp5yb4hr4w I seriously doubt it will ever be a good game. It may become more entertaining but at the core there are to many backed in problems for the game to ever be good.

The outer worlds? Ew

It’s a constant insult to your intelligence. It patronizing and disrespectful, frankly. And they think I’d pay for that? Thank god for library share and whales

As I played the game, the one phrase that kept playing in my head was, "This doesn't make any sense." My brain still hurts from trying to find logic where there is none.

Its disgustingly corporate as well.

The rule of bethesda games (except oblivion and before): is you can't use your brain, or you'll lose enjoyment.

Honestly, most worldbuilding issues could be resolved by jsut saying "we're in a distant region of space. First colonists got here 20 years ago through a wormhole that has soon collapsed". This explains absence of Earth, tiny cities, space cowboys, lack of progress, pirates having fleet comparable to a nation, disabled mechs (they jsut ran out of spare parts) and so on.

Went back myself to play FO3 and FONV which I had never done (FONV is a gem of a game!). Imagine my surprise to find myself swimming underwater! What a concept. Why can't we swim underwater in Starfield with so many planets with oceans? So lame. How are oceans not explorable in a game supposedly about exploration?

yeah it pretty much becomes a pointless slogfest of the same shit at way too a repetitive rate. like as much as people praise NMS, it's still very bad in it's use of proc gen, hell it's worse than starfield in many ways, the only thing they did right in that game in my opinion is the flight in your ship from planet to space to space to another planet without a stupid load screen.

It gets stale because you're waiting for someone to cut your food and shove it in your mouth.

@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo there's a difference between wanting to be spoon fed and not wanting to grow a wheat field to make the cereal. I don't mind making my own bowl of cereal and feeding myself.

@@grimvisionz91 your great grandparents got their land stolen by the bank so that you could have your cereal...

@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo lol real cute

that's pretty typical when splicing textures together with another texture, it doesn't exactly play well and ends up doing that shit.

@@user-tp5yb4hr4w good old bethesda magic

a creation engine classic

When the two pirates fought the first time I entered The Key, the one that gets shot spaghettified. Classic Bethesda.

@@juvenilia_in_hell that is not something exclusive to ce lmao

A good example is the traveling merchants in Fallout 3. They eventually cross the path of high level enemies and are bound to be slaughtered. But the Protected flag has existed since Skyrim and solves this problem handily.

Yeah, that is true. IE make it so, unless its relevant to a quest or the like, having it so only the player can deal the final blow.@@PancuroniumB

Classic. They refuse to acknowledge that all art is political and end up writing a horrible dystopia of blandness out of their attempts at "not offending anyone".

I did raiders already, I'll go through other factions one at a time.

It's ok. I'm expecting to be dead of old age by the time Bethesda get round to another Fallout. Which I'm sort of happy about. Looking at their trajectory it's probably a mercy that I wouldn't ever see it.

@@somethingbrite8484 Sadly we will probably see another Fallout before Elder Scrolls 6. TES is the last title Bethesda hasn't pissed on yet. They probably don't want to ruin the last thing their fans are holding on for. Most likely they will release another half baked Fallout or even a Starfield 2 as their next game. Or maybe they have lost all respect for the games they once made and will desecrate TES just like every other title they have released in the last 10 years. Can't wait to find out!

If you believe most of what this guy said you're a moron lol

A perfectly fair opinion. It has never been necessary for something to be perfect or even good to be likeable. Unfortunately too many people tend to defend the things they like to the point of absurdity.

Same.

They won’t waste anymore money on DLC. They’re only putting out the one they are legally obligated to put out due to pre-purchases. They have lost way too much money on this I believe.

i'll buy it once the modder add more life to the universe. its like bethesda purposely left the universe empty for modder to fix it for them

I think that waiting has probably been the only rational approach with Bethesda games for a while now. However, I also think a lot of people might be expecting a little too much from the release of the mythical Creation Kit. After all the CK is really only a database management software, it's not in itself a mod creation tool. All the main tools for modding are actually third party tools like 3dsMax and Paintshop. Community developed tools to unpack/repack archives or get mods into the game (xEdit) already exist. To be fair the only category of mods that truly need the CK are really map/cell edit mods and possibly navigating the Story Manager. (But if you wanted to script a quest you could already have done so in a third party tool because scripts are still basically "if this > then that" arguments and I've never used the CK to edit or create papyrus scripts anyway) In short the CK isn't some silver bullet that will magically make modding possible. It's already possible. The truth is, the majority of mods for most games are really just re-skins or asset imports anyway and you don't need the CK for any of those. Deeper, more complex mods where the CK as a tool really comes into its own are much less common and also take a while to emerge. The is also a class of mods that stands alone. These are the very technical mods like the script extender - these don't require the CK either because they work on a whole different level.

The fact that there isn't any substantial clothing or weapon mods this long after release is concerning for the future of Starfield. No one is even making super simple "silly" mods. Skyrim had exploding chickens near day one lmao. No one wants anything to do with this game. I'm not confident that the Creation Kit will fix the lack of interest.

Hey, good to hear you had fun at least.

I can't wait for them to release a steaming pile of crap for Elder Scrolls 6 and then wonder why they are facing bankruptcy.

i don't remember Apotheosis getting that much talk, however skyblivion and skywind i have heard of over the last decade straight, and of course the beyond skyrim series.

Oh I'll definitely be covering Fallout: London. I''m not sure how, maybe I'll do a challenge run, or just a first impressions video. I bet there will be a lot of content in FOLON, it'll be tough to get anything out in a timely manner.