A Post-Nuclear Post-Mortem Of Fallout 76 (The Jimquisition)

[@Carnyzzle]

That one guy cheering in the audience for battle royale has his family held hostage

[@JimSterling]

From what I hear they pumped that audience full of liquor (and they had quite a few staffers in the crowd).

[@Carnyzzle]

@@JimSterling I wouldn't be surprised, I drank vodka right before the Bethesda show to prepare for the disappointment LOL

[@murciadoxial8056]

@@JimSterling You being serious or is that a funny joke?, because I wouldn't be surprised either way

[@JacobMcBaggins]

@@JimSterling Of fucking course they did

[@daltonwilliams1723]

I thought he was just doing a bit and dicking with the audience. It genuinely looked like the announcers were uncomfortable with how often the cheers interrupted them.

[@Tidus5005]

"We don't expect a high metacritic score" Says the company that denied Obsidian a pay bonus because their metacritic score was 1 point off 85/100.

[@gavinl1565]

Besthda did that on purpose. They wanted obssdein to go bankrupt.

[@theultimatefreak666]

@@zachj19991 he didn't say that they went bankrupt, he just said bethasda wanted them to

[@Random30276]

They shouldnt expect a high metacritic stores given how much of a buggy nightmare their games are

[@JimSterling]

If you develop games with the intent of them having low Metacritic scores, you never have to pay a bonus again. Think of the savings!

[@TheWizel]

If you miss your target you don't get the reward for meeting that target. Otherwise their is no point in having a target because then your target has just become "less than the target"

[@Starman_Dx]

I loved that small group of fellas who stood up and applauded Todd as he walked out. Those brave souls would do anything to protect the lives of their family Todd holds hostage.

[@alexsmith2910]

Maybe they were cheering for him to leave? :)

[@megalomaniacalHalide]

I mean considering the exclusivity of E3 and the fact they're probably journalists whose tickets live and die by their enthusiasm? Yeah, he probably IS holding their paycheques hostage in a way.

[@skullnsuit7808]

I love this comment XD

[@williamwallace1815]

Those were all the dedicated players of fallout 76 who said "The game is fun if you have friends!"

[@djoakeydoakey1076]

Todd works in mysterious ways.

[@Marscow]

Turd Howard LITERALLY admitted he doesn't like the model of making a game, giving it to players, and going away while they enjoy playing it. Because that model worked just fine for decades, let's just stomp on it until it dies. Thanks, Turd. Thanks.

[@MitchellTF]

You engage with players. By selling DLC, and possibly even Microtransactions. Not MAKING A GAME THAT SUCKS.

[@krusher181]

I know it sounds like that, but I honestly think he was just making shit up on the spot. Like... he’s fucking atrocious at his job.

[@Timmay-yy6ej]

Not to mention the fact Skyrim has been re released 568 times. Isn’t that enough money making out of one game?

[@Eatmydbzballs]

IT JUST WORKS

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

@@krusher181 Hes good at the job of smiling at the camera and sounding inviting. His actual job is what sucks.

[@therealkillersavage]

If you keep mentioning Bethesda and talking about 76 Randy Pitchford is going to get jealous.

[@YouDonkeyfu]

Ya, he is gonna throw a fit on twitter again that Jim no longer has a hard on for him and start pouting again.

[@KassFireborn]

"Great big guy, British, used to have a hard-on for me. ;_;"

[@Azariachan]

Jim is a virile man, he can have a hard-on for more than one shitty CEO.

[@MartinOlminkhof]

Was going to say that maybe they should hire Randy Pitchford......

[@Fubukio]

Randy doesn't want Jim to have a hard on for someone else.

[@Eguzky]

Do you think the crowd would have cheered so loud if they knew they were being paid in Atoms?

[@metalc.s3170]

Hell no 😂

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Maybe if they gave us enough atoms for an in-game Canvas bag...

[@capthavic]

Light Wood Laminate! Light Wood Laminate! Light Wood Laminate!

[@markwheeler4245]

Eguzky Lol. Chasing the live service multiplayer trend has hurt not only Fallout 76 but Bethesdas reputation as the single player gamers saviours imo. That crowd was paid for or friends and family of Bethesda employees, either that or they are completely crazy fanboys who whoop and holler at anything Bethesda say?!

[@mrscross8948]

Didn't you see the guns in the row behind?

[@TheYurpman]

Holy shit, I wish I got applauded like that for doing the bare minimum at my job.

[@ichisirus]

There is an rumour going on that Todd Howard got piss off about the " Yelling Guy" in the crowd and curse him, not knowing that his headset wasn't muted. Not knowing is true or not, its funny too know that it's due to Bestheda lackeys.

[@easyHoax]

The applause are only from Bethesda employees

[@kuros-ov]

Get a job as the guy who pushes the applaud button on a crappy live TV show and your wish will come true. Sure it's a little more effort than adding NPCs to fallout 76 but at least you don't have to deal with the aftermath of sober people watching online.

[@rwalker0130]

TheYurpman 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@klonvomhaus]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJqbhJt3pNiksKs

[@XRXaholic]

Fallout had NPCs and branching dialog trees. What great progress we've made since... *squints*... 1997.

[@haroldsparrow881]

You don't like you"re dialogue wheel. Fine no dialogue or story at all.

[@AvariceOverlord]

Couldn't agree more with this comment. I had fun with Fallout 3, but none of Bethesda's Fallouts could top the original twos story and freedom.

[@autumnmiller5675]

Or new vegas

[@AvariceOverlord]

@@autumnmiller5675 That's probably cause some of the people who made the first two worked on that.

[@rock7343]

@@AvariceOverlord The lead people, The guys who originally created Fallout.

[@superchickenlips1]

Todd: We need to be more engaging. Bethesda Customer Support: We aren't planning on doing anything about it.

[@Harbinger-lx6rt]

Your profile pic is terrifying

[@silvianbruno7512]

Todd uses "engaging" like darksydephil uses "support". Are you actively giving him money? No? Then fuck off

[@MY-se1jf]

Quest which work, having no bugs... those would help. There is one quest in Fall out 4 I cannot play because my screen goes black every single time I try.

[@voidvev]

bethesda will continue this bullshit while they continue to make money from it FACT unless the fucking world boycotts them and other triple A game producers for this same bullshit shit like this will continue for years too come and everyone knew it was going to get bad before 2007 because people still buy games from companys even if they've proven to fuck the users over and over again

[@andrewjensen1146]

Customer Support and Q/A are usually ignored. This was most definitely a top down corporate vision. It's not like Todd Howard wanted to give you a revolutionary amazing experience, but he was just handcuffed by customer support.

[@Slysheen]

Coincidentally started a new modded Skyrim playthrough. I distinctly remember thinking. "Thank god this game was made in 2011 instead of 2018. And thank god for Jim of course."

[@thekageryuu776]

Only one word: Enderal

[@kyotheman69]

well if these companies to continue to make this shit they will continue to lose more and more fans and players so don't care I"m waiting for game industry crash because we need one, Nintendo will survive, the rest won't well MS because they sitting so much money still.

[@domscards]

@@kyotheman69 You have no idea how wrong and stupid you are.

[@LordYorric]

@@comfydragon8139 Morrowind Rebirth is not the sort of mod that's good for new players. It's much better to look for patches and graphic changes for a first-time playthrough.

[@HatsuneMiku3D]

And they still nearly screwed it up...TWICE.... Horse Armor?? Paid Mods?? Im seriously worried for TES6

[@JackDanger99]

“Fallout 76 should’ve been 86’d.” Alright, take your like, Jim.

[@slaughterround643]

I don't understand, explain

[@grimwatcher]

@@slaughterround643 Eighty-six, eighty-sixed, 86, 86ed, or 86'd is American English slang for getting rid of something by burying it, ejecting someone, or refusing service I had to wiki that too, such an old reference, Steve Rogers might get that

[@slaughterround643]

@@grimwatcher ty

[@BboyPringle]

The term 86’d is still used in the restaurant trade for items that are removed from the menu for one night or permanently.

[@LdyVder]

@@grimwatcher It's from restaurant jargon meaning you're out of something, needed to throw it out.

[@Snairster]

Almost rendered. West Virginia. Buggy servers. No texture on the rivers. Life is glitchy there. 2D paper trees. Younger than their engine. Here comes another freeze. See-through roads. T-pose me home. To the lies. That I know. At Bethesda. Howard Papa. Glitch me home. See-through roads. All my memories can't build up here. Stuck Mole Miners, standing on the water. Dark and dusty, glitching from the sky. Misty taste of Skyrim, from the .ini. See-Through roads. T-pose me home. To the lies. That I know. At Bethesda. Howard Papa. Glitch me home. See-through roads. I hear his voice. Every time when he lies to me. The conference reminds me of old titles in my day. And listening to him talk I get a feeling. That I shouldn't have paid him yesterday, yesterday. See-Through roads. T-pose me home. To the lies. That I know. See-Through roads. T-pose me home. To the lies. That I know. Take me home, Todd Howard. Take me home, Todd Howard.

[@TheFriley4]

This deserves more likes, well done lol

[@nickzakrath7080]

ENCORE!!

[@Faelocke]

This is fucking GOLD.

[@Robert3785]

Brilliant mate!

[@Rokkoasas]

Just. Beautiful.

[@luckyjosh7]

Randy Pitchford: I'm the biggest liar in the video game industry!! Todd Howard: Hold my nylon canvas bag.

[@ll-js7iq]

Sean Murray: Hold my multiplayer.

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

*Peter Molyneux* : Glad it’s not me these days.

[@luisalbertosolisvillagomez6986]

Peter Molyneux: Hold my Godus!!!

[@hockeater]

@@ll-js7iq I mean.... To be entirely fair to him and his team, they eventually made it right to such an extent people unironically tell me the game is good now. People who legitimately hated it before. That's more than can be said for those other guys.

[@umbaupause]

Uh oh, calling Randy a liar. There is a chance he will have another meltdown and rant about you on twitter now! Pathetic manchild that he is...

[@skavossis5377]

That was the most hand picked crowd I have ever seen.

[@Haan22]

So many employees.

[@aaron5508]

Yes. I bet even paid. They're so out of touch I'm surprised they didn't pan to some 49 year old guy tearing his hair out screaming "you're my God Todd Howard!"

[@kyotheman69]

E3 got paid people, no way in hell people will be cheering to 4 mobile games or even cheer when howard came out i would of boo him off the stage

[@tsurokigaarai]

It sounded like a crowd of nothing buy parents and friends. Those 10 people in the front row certainly earned their paychecks.

[@pyrodontcutoffsoldiershand2746]

More handpicked than the Sportpalast speech.

[@sugoisniper459]

Everyone on twitch chat was saying "Todd Coward" and that was the best part of their conference

[@SavageGreywolf]

Slaad Howard

[@amitgabay3721]

I really hoped when Todd entered they would put on "little lies" maybe they did I donnu I didn't watch it

[@NickPoeschek]

Amazing what a difference a year makes, last year when he was announcing 76 twitch chat was full of people saying “God Howard.”

[@David-ni1pg]

Fraud Howard

[@AlphaladZXA]

I just say Hod Toward

[@Psychosmurf5471]

Watching people cheering the Fallout76 reveal was like watching people cheer the Hindenberg as it took off, or the Titanic as it left port.

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

I swear all the people who cheered, especially that crazy shouting lady, were Bethesda employees.

[@a_decent_name_goes_here]

They just had hope lol

[@Sonichero151]

@@PanzerVII-df8hg at the time that's kinda what Fallout 76 was. A fallout mmo sounds great on paper....... But then we saw the disaster.

[@Darkstar1484]

The difference was that there was genuine effort but into the Hindenberg and the Titanic

[@AndragonLea]

@bennies fried chicken My soul died in Fallout 76. >_

[@ftrwrwbg]

I was legitimately shocked and confused confused over all the applause during the Blades and 76 portions of the conference

[@Elc22]

Not too shocking if they reserved the first few rows of the theater for Bethesda employees... Which is likely what happened.

[@DMKA94]

@@Elc22 the rest being youtube shills and game journalist's

[@tgreaux5027]

They were mostly Bethesda employees cheering like that with the standing ovations and what not

[@seanfield1329]

Jack Emerson all crowd members where lip service ants lol

[@pkmntrainerlilly5]

I heard on the grapevine, so take with a grain of salt, that Bethesda had an open bar available so people would be rowdy in the crowd for the stream. But the guy that was yelling was an obvious plant. That made the stream hard to watch.

[@ratholin]

Bethesda could only hire one Woo guy and he couldn't figure when to woo.

[@GFMarine]

There were two, half way through one of them probably blew out his vocal chords....maybe.

[@David-ni1pg]

They couldn't even finish a sentence without him screaming

[@andrewboyko8304]

It’s a shame, they could’ve got the diablo mobile game crowd guy for half the price.

[@DinosaurSatan]

I’m actually a bit unsure whether that guy was heckling or if that enthusiasm was meant to be read as genuine. I mean, he kept interrupting even if the noises he made were positive.

[@xMehL]

pretty sure the entire front row was paid actors and bethesda employees

[@Peasham]

Imagine clapping for NPCs and Battle Royale. The shit modders could cook up in like a month, even less than a month with NPCs.

[@Peasham]

@@loveblanket6512 Except this isn't a wholly original game made from scratch. Most of Fallout 76 was re-used content from Fallout 4. Modders could LITERALLY have made this themselves. I don't know why they'd want to, but they still could've, and it'd still have had less bugs and better content!

[@MrMind5]

Basically the first 2 weeks after the current CK comes out, there are shit like that on Nexus already.

[@MrLunithy]

@@loveblanket6512 You colossal fucking noob Modders are far better at what Bethesda do and have made there own games only to have Bethesda stop it let alone the fact that they have fixed most of the worst bugs in the game and made more content than the entire game itself ..... any of them.

[@Peasham]

@Yes, This is Tig Well, the creation kit would give you access to premium items (most of which you could've gotten for free in F4), so that's a yikes from them, I'm guessing.

[@lop90ful1]

Also modders did make countless game mods from scrach

[@Ch35h1r3C47]

I always have to remind myself that despite this game being: 1) Something no one asked for or really wanted 2) a game playing AWAY from the studios strengths 3) Horribly and horrifically monetized It's not EAs fault. EA didn't make Bethesda do this.

[@mkzhero]

They have strengths? :o

[@nannerdunlocke1231]

Not unless Todd stole EA's manual on "How to Make a Monetized Game and You".

[@hazukichanx408]

EA is the root of all evil. Even if they didn't order it above ground, their infernal messengers still sent word below.

[@Ch35h1r3C47]

@@hazukichanx408 EA: Evil, Actually

[@mahmoudyounis6029]

Eh just wait till EA buys them out then tries to squeeze their audience dry by making games that are only ever purchased because of brand loyalty and because they blew 80% of the game's budget on marketing.

[@Reoko77]

You all have to remember the main point in all this: *IT JUST WORKS.*

[@Spacefrisian]

It works 16 times better right?

[@oliverbooth2872]

KINGU CRIMUSON

[@thelindenhour2598]

It erases time but what does that mean?

[@Freedomerider]

King Crimson needed to erase Fallout 76

[@Ratta212]

it took me a minute to realize this wasn't a jojoke

[@funoff3207]

Fallout 76 enters Alpha stage of development. *applause*

[@manictiger]

*prealpha Alpha implies the game is engaging enough to not completely abandon. Pre-alpha means it's a game (with a win condition and a lose condition).

[@vocalcalibration8033]

@@manictiger Well then it's not even that. Everything is a lose condition.

[@manictiger]

@@vocalcalibration8033 Damn, Todd created a new type of... something. It's so bad it is its own category!

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

WOOOOOOOO YEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

[@tehpickle1250]

If any of you haven't watched Internet Historian's "Fall Of '76" video yet, you should change that. Detailed and very funny. Bethesda are quickly becoming the biggest joke in the gaming industry.

[@AngyIronman]

Yeah it's this video but made a few months ago, glad someone else is recommending it, it's a damned modern classic of a video essay.

[@Arcon1ous]

They've been a joke since the PS3 version of skyrim debacle, hell, at one point Ol Todd there said that if players didn't stop complaining about not getting the DLC for months and months, they would just shut down the project trying to fix their shoddy code to get it to work with the PS3 at all. They've been anti consumer garbage for a long long time, but it took a bad game coming out to convince people to actually look for it.

[@mkzhero]

I think it always was, 4 just cemented it and 76 took it to an impossible new level not even seen before.

[@Turbo_Phoenix]

NPCs are being added to Fallout 76, so I guess it's finally entering pre-alpha

[@joshuaanderson1712]

Actual People NPCs or just more robots that suck?

[@Omphalite]

"I didn't waste my time wandering through your digital oblivion" No no. That was a good game.

[@asterixobelix20]

Arguably...

[@mr.kittysavestheworld695]

There is nothing remotely "arguably" about Oblivion. It is an excellent game, one of my favorites of all time, and I have consistently held the belief that it is superior to Skyrim.

[@TurboNemesis]

@@mr.kittysavestheworld695 yes, arguably because there are people like me who see Oblivian as an almost entirely worse game than Morrowind. Imo, removal of "attack accruacy" tied to weapon skill and manual blocking were the two purely good changes, and some would still argue that they weren't positive.

[@naoway336]

Funny I hold the belief Morrowind is superior to oblivion.

[@benjaminmenken5693]

Oblivion in MY opinion is a good game but opinions are subjective.

[@irkmcspamtroll2556]

I believe this is the week the canvas bags will be shipped out, according to B. Its taking so long because Todd Howard has to personally fart into each one.

[@Cook-by-the-book]

IrkMcSpamtroll argh! Just go to chili’s and you’ll be farting in those bags in one day.

[@shama6394]

I'd give you a like but you're currently on 76 and this pleases me.

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

@@Cook-by-the-book But that would cost money!

[@Cook-by-the-book]

@@barleysixseventwo6665argh! who says tod has to pay with his own money?

[@ytnukesme1600]

@@shama6394 he's currently on 176 now, 100 times better.

[@karlsangree]

And who could forget that 80$, well packaged, plastic bottle full of delicious $12 Nuka rum?

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

Cant belive he missed that one

[@richardhealy]

Pepperridge Farm remembers...

[@natsume-hime2473]

Considering the rum maker's rum here normally sells for well over 80 bucks... Yeah fuck off with that. People got a nice prop and $100 rum for 80 bucks, that's not a bad deal. But anything to be seriously outraged over

[@TheRealColBosch]

@@natsume-hime2473 Hush. Stop shilling for a company that gives no shits about you. You don't get to tell people what they should and should not be angry about, and I'd be plenty fucking pissed if I'd bought that garbage.

[@autumnlotus6250]

@@natsume-hime2473 multiple alcohol experts drank the stuff, and said it was piss rum you can buy at the store for 10$. It was apparently massively over flavoured, making one guy almost spit it out

[@eldenvedetta635]

22:50 What really irritates me, is they DO have a touchpoint with the Skyrim and Fallout community, even though they've implimented it TERRIBLY, the Creation Club COULD have been amazing, where they didn't TOUCH free modding, and nothing would change about modding, it could still all be free, but Bethesda themselves could or hire people that could create AMAZING DLC Sized Mods SPECIFICALLY to sell ON the Creation Club. Having a DLC JUST like the Dragonborn and Dawnguard, or even somewhat smaller sized but coming out more regularly, I mean they don't even have to come out regularly and people would buy them if they were QUALITY and didn't take AWAY from the already allowed features.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Basically they could have helped to produce some higher budget mods? That would be awesome.

[@crossthreaded6867]

I watched the Polygon stream and they got real tired of how blatantly the crowd was likely paid for

[@dirkstrickland135]

They relocated the entire Bethesda Austin to E3.

[@Reiderreiter]

It was pretty much the same on Easy Allies. That crowd was not popular whatsoever with the group or the chat.

[@mitkitty]

Admittedly i was there for Pat furiously telling the others to ignore that audience amd not meme them, because thats what bethesda wants

[@orangeoctober.]

Yeah, it was pretty god damn over the top. Like standing ovations for random developers when they walk out? And standing ovations for an announcement about NPCs? give me a break

[@SeanStrife]

I doubt they were paid. Jim may have actually hit it on the head when he commented that they were probably drunk; as I've stated in another comment, a buddy of mine went to their 2017 press conference at E3 and he commented that, yes... they offer free food and booze.

[@jetfire851]

"We aren't planning on doing anything about it" should be scrawled on Bethesda's tombstone when they finally go under.

[@Gotz_the_iron_hand]

Makes me sad. I really was a huge fan of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, even Fallout pre 76. I used to love them because despite their flaws, they made games that I greatly enjoyed. Now they just manufacture crap and expect us to swallow it.

[@beardedgeek973]

@@Gotz_the_iron_hand Skyrim is Bethesda's Thriller (the album). The thing they will never reach ever again.

[@XShadoWPaws]

I have a buddy that works at a textile factory, and he says that while Bethesda was claiming shortages of canvas, canvas prices were globally plummeting because of a massive excess of canvas!

[@chlo_3]

I've read a bit about textiles, is it true that 20 yards of linen = one coat?

[@XShadoWPaws]

How would I know, I don't work in textiles haha

[@katatat2030]

@@chlo_3 one might say that 10 yards of linen = 1 coat and that the coat is worth twice as much as the linen, in order to demonstrate the twofold character of the labor embodied in commodities

[@tunatallica]

I stil can't get over Bethesda patting themselves on the back for adding NPCs, an engaging storyline, and consequences for actions and decisions aka the bare minimum for ANY goddamn rpg...

[@madhackrviper]

NPCs and engaging storylines yes, but to be fair consequences for actions depends on the subgenre. WRPGs, yeah, thats part of the core experience in all the ones I'm aware of, JRPGs though usually go for a linear narrative that is meant to be engaging for the story it tells on its own rather than player input. That said, Bethesda is a company that makes WRPGs and Fallout is a WRPG series, so its certainly the bare minimum for the type of game Fallout is meant to be.

[@Manic.miner2077]

Bethesda: we have ebola for everyone and its available now for FREE! Audience: WOOOO! WOA YEA! WE LOVE YOU TODD!

[@CommanderTato]

Todd know da wae

[@WastelandSeven]

Pretty much. Whole audience was probably paid corporate "influencers" (read shills)

[@BlueGreyWolf]

@@WastelandSeven - Paid in Atoms, just like a *"true"* *"long-time"* *""fan""* would!

[@theblackbaron4119]

@@BlueGreyWolf 500 Atoms for each ;)

[@K.P.Alexander]

Alternatively, black mold for $150.

[@CodecrafterArtemis]

And hey, remember when basically right after the duffel bag controversy, Bethesda got themselves into a Nuka Dark Rum controversy? Also Jim, thank all the gayest gods, for you.

[@arkhamcreed4326]

Anybody that thinks Bethesda itself had anything whatsoever to do with either that god damn bag or Nuka Dark clearly has no idea how marketing and production works. Let me ask you the question I've asked hundreds of times since November; do you think they have Todd Howard locked in a closet somewhere with a sewing machine? Bethesda makes games. That's it. And contrary to what people think their involvement with either the bag or whatever else begins and ends with signing a check to a third party. And speaking from experience those third parties WILL fuck you over and there is NOTHING you can do about it. You can't "quality control" somebody else's business, and you can't spend all your time in a warehouse individually checking the contents of every box before they ship. Sooner or later you're just going to have to trust that the "professionals" you paid to produce your ancillary product aren't going to fuck you over. And the culture of big corporations fucking over their customers for short term profit or out of apathy doesn't go away just because said customer happens to be another corporation. They can be and should only be blamed for the content on the disc. That is all they are actively involved in. The CONTENT on the disc. Not the bag, not the rum, not the case, not the booklet, not even the disc itself; just the ones and zeros. Period. If there is a problem with literally anything else then guess what; Bethesda got screwed over with that well before you did, and probably didn't even know about it until the complaints hit twitter. Bethesda didn't screw you over; that was just a side effect of some third party screwing THEM over.

[@theALTF4]

​@@arkhamcreed4326 ehmmm... billy, you're wrong. if, for example FOX gives aproval to a 3rd party toy manufacturer to make the simpsons merch... AND the product is a shitty lead painted homer...FOX, indeed is responsible (or IRRESPONSIBLE in this case) for allowing a crappy company to take care of their licensed product... and damaging their brand. Disney is extremely careful with who they're giving licenses for their products. Nintento (after lot's of awful 80's shows damaging their reputation) became extremely careful of who they allow to use licenses of their products. YES, it is also bethesdas' responsability to make sure their lisenced products are UP to their brand standars EVEN if they didn't made em'... because that may damage their reputation (despite the crappy bottle fiasco, well, being up to their standards😓) >You can't "quality control" somebody else's business, and you can't spend all your time in a warehouse individually checking the contents of every box before they shipstop stop being pathetic and a corp-apologist, because the aforementioned disney & nintendo INDEED send corresponsals to check how their 3rd party lincensed product are being made. or at least ask for the product (or prototipes, as a way of testing that the 3rd party is capable of) weeks before it ships to the average joe en-mass. yes, responsible corporations DO THAT.

[@CodecrafterArtemis]

​@@arkhamcreed4326 If Bethesda indeed was "screwed over by a 3rd-party", why would they respond with something like "we're aware, and we're not going to do anything"? Surely, if Bethesda contracted the manufacturer for canvas bags and received nylon bags, they'd have grounds to sue for breach of contract?

[@themagictheatre2965]

@@theALTF4 The original creator always gets a say in products and marketing. George R. R. Martin has talked about how every time someone made a board game or toy line etc from A Song of Ice and Fire he got to see the products, use them and had the final say on whether the products got shipped to consumers. Bethesda certainly did that too.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

If they were smart "business people" they would have at least put something at the bottom saying product subject to change or not representative of final product or something like that. The idea that people don't control the products related to its properties is ridiculous.

[@p4riah]

remember that time bethesda banned the only players who were actually playing it for having too much ammo and exploring and finding hidden areas

[@cw1424]

Yeah.... It's was just as stupid as the time Bioware banned that Twitch player because they used a glitch in a game that has no PVP and as far as I know, doesn't have any plans for it... What the heck is wrong with these developers and publishers?

[@jejeakle]

C W there’s not enough paper to fill that book

[@randomforlife861]

The ammo was actually duped

[@pseudonayme7717]

No book required. One word - GREED

[@maxwaltham5853]

C.W. you wouldn't happen to be referring to the me3 rocket glitch would you? Fun fact I wasted a whole bunch of my youth on me3s multiplayer maps. They used lootboxes of course so a common trick was to use this glitch to get infinites of an overpowered loot box consummable, go to the most difficult maps and use the infinite rockets to farm lootboxes. Course bioware started banning players for using the glitch (to my knowledge it never actually got patched) however as long as everyone on the team had a certain online privacy setting unchecked, they couldn't find you. Moral of the story is me3s multiplayer sucks.

[@MWBalls]

Bethesda: You know how the longevity and, at times basic functionality, of our games is heavily dependent on the modding community? Yeah we are gunna make an always online game that can't be modded.

[@fumothfan9]

Yo Modding actually made and even fixed all their games. So yeah without it like 50% of the potential of bethesda games go out the window.

[@drs4983]

That definitely not paid for crowd sure loved the show

[@1R0QU012]

Yes, they paid a crowd of thousands $1 each... More likely people are just less intelligent than you give them credit for.

[@planescaped]

They're mostly industry people at E3, it's also a heavily shill-like environment. There was never going to be any backlash at E3, it's not the crowd that would ever give them grief for anything. It's like expecting people to shit all over Donald Trump's business practices and shitty behavior at a trump rally. It's not the crowd that would care or even know. It's a "I'm just so happy to be here" crowd.

[@ruolbu]

@@1R0QU012 seemed like a crowd of a couple dozen people at most who really made noise and exaggerated at every occasion. The rest quietly and politely clapped along if at all.

[@Tobi638]

Or maybe these people were actually genuinely excited and hyped for these things. Fuck off with this stupid nihilism bullshit. Things are a lot better than you think.

[@YEs69th420]

@@Tobi638 yeah, stop it with your non-belief of god!

[@DoodleThis]

All Bethesda helped prove was why it’s a bad idea to pre-order or buy games Day one in this day and age

[@army6669990101]

I thought No Man's sky already proved that. Oh well. Gamers, Gamers never learn.

[@DoodleThis]

army6669990101 You would think they’d learn, but nope

[@kayohwai]

As against pre-orders as I am, I may still pre-order cyberpunk 2077. But Bethesda? I think the only way I can stomach anything from them anymore is through a mean, sarcastic-sounding British voice. Thank God there's a decent one to handle that painful job.

[@phillip2169]

@@shadowspider9 *people are sheep. Not just gamers right

[@NittanyTiger1]

If Aliens: Colonial Marines, No Man's Sky, and practically any modern title by EA, Activision, Ubisoft, WB, etc. didn't prove that already.

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Q: Did Bethesda pay their audience this year? A: *WOOOOOOH YEAHHHHH*

[@afrog2666]

lmao

[@jasonc3a]

Ha. Nah man, E3 is what circle jerks look like once they get so big they need to rent convention space.

[@samualwatkins]

More like they were just drunk, and the kind of people who would get drunk at a press conference.

[@TheNikoNik]

There's still people buying FO76 microtransactions, do they even need to?

[@midnitehighways]

​@@jasonc3a Except E3 used to be exciting, and video games used to have some semblance of soul left. This one is like a funeral. Blindly praising these companies in 2019 is stupid on a whole other level.

[@Faebiebot]

🎵It Just Works, It Just Works, Little lies Stunning shows, People buy, money flows, It Just Wor-orks!🎵

[@Mae-Muki]

Bethesda: You think you want a single player Fallout, but you really don't. Everyone else: Keeps playing New Vegas

[@themilkman9451]

How did you guess!?!? ARE YOU A WIZARD!?

[@Mae-Muki]

@@themilkman9451 The wizennest!

[@alaeriia01]

I'm still playing Fallout 4. It's no New Vegas, but it's also no 76.

[@gizmo12055]

@@alaeriia01 that was there plan all along,make a worse fallout than 4 XD(i still enjoy 4 though)

[@Arlyon9999]

Gizmo I mean to 4s credit, it definitely had by far the best gunplay of the series. Now if only it had more... fallout in it.

[@Foxflarep]

Wow; mailing Todd actual bobby pins is so delightfully petty.

[@benambrose8895]

It's fucking hillarious but.

[@hazukichanx408]

Yeah... or, I don't know, a bullet lovingly engraved with his name. Maybe a little note that says, "There's only this one, I swear on your honor."

[@The.Nasty.]

Hazukichan X wow, don’t cut anyone on all that AuTiStIc EdGe you have there!

[@infinitycabbage3984]

Ha! Releasing a game in this state is delightfully petty

[@TheNekoGentleman]

Fallout 76 was doomed to fail for a single, simple reason: Asking your playerbase to be the NPCs of your games IS. NOT. SUSTAINABLE. You can't ask people to help other people get invested if they themselves aren't given anything to be invested in the first place.

[@Warmaker01]

I was one of those dudes that got FO76. Day one even. Matter of fact, I was one of those dumbfucks that bought the higher priced edition from the Bethesda store. The game had a lot wrong. Regarding the lack of NPCs it's quite jarring. FO1, 2, 3, New Vegas, and 4. They all got NPCs. They were all part of the charm that help make the setting, even in FO1. FO76 was strange because we got mountain loads of Raiders all over the place and not a single holdout of friendlier NPCs. Everything is hostile, there is no Good & Bad because everyone out there is Bad, i.e. "Red is Dead" and you need to kill it. Map design for FO76 I felt was nice, but the world was dead. Even if you get a cluster of players to work together and build a community, you can't. Not the way the servers, the game works. *It's not persistent.* There's lots of other things wrong, but this stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. The only relief was getting a refund, but I had to do it via the financial institution because Betheseda was refusing it because "I downloaded the game" from their fucking store.

[@TheNekoGentleman]

@@Warmaker01 I have to agree. I don't like the Fallout franchise (the world doesn't appeal to me.) And yet, I seriously enjoyed Fallout 2 and New Vegas due to the quests and NPCs (Play Fallout 2 with the lowest intelligence possible. Seriously. It's AMAZING.) No player is into roleplay to that extent... Unless some "fun" is involved.

[@thefatt1988]

Wow, I never thought NPC's can be materialized in E3 auditorium

[@Drocksas]

And yet they're still barely present in 76. Huh.

[@josephmurdock5549]

TheGospelgamer They spent too much time rendering them for E3.

[@Exidius07]

"We ship the game , we do some mod stuff" You don't even patch the game let alone "do some mod stuff". I mean skyrim has a COMMUNITY patch, which is a patch/mod made by *shocker* the community. On a second thought I think he meant the absolute abyssmal experiment the creation club and monetizing mods was.

[@Peachrocks5]

I think the pain as Jim rightly pointed out here was that it wasn't that 'we have no way to contact/connect with these players' it was the blatantly obvious fact that they were bemoaning that they have no way to milk these players playing something they already released and get jealous/angry at other companies who rake in millions doing this and they wanted some of that while having no ability to do so. You know what Todd? There is a way to do this. It's called STORY BASED DLC. You know Far Harbour? Nuka World? I mean sure those sort of things have love hate relationships with some people but I'd rather have it. But no, like many people he wants the easy low effort, lazy route. Which they don't have the base ability to do. I'm so done with live services at the cost of single player, even from the few who do them to a relatively acceptable level. I do not want other little douchebags able to screw with what I'm doing just for the giggles. I don't mind cooperative stuff but only with people I know, thanks.

[@montague4931]

Something tells me that if Jason Schreier should ever get around to investigating Bethesda, we're gonna hear some very interesting and very...familiar stories from within.

[@metalc.s3170]

Like crunch and worker abuse ?

[@krspaceT1]

Id rather get answers on EA a d Switch support first. But I would be interested in the inside look

[@Sebastian_A_Var_Herman]

@krspaceT1 what do you mean with Switch support? Did I miss something?

[@krspaceT1]

@@Sebastian_A_Var_Herman Basically the FIFA 20 on Switch this year is a legacy edition. Nintendo fans are not happy.

[@SuperArppis]

What if they got awesome development environment? And because there is no crunch, the quality is what it is. 😁

[@atlantiswolf]

Awww. You didn't mention the Nuka-Rum bit.

[@KassFireborn]

The man only had so much time and 76's sins are lengthy indeed.

[@Andulvar]

Can't copy Internet Historians video wholesale I guess.

[@samuelcolt7034]

In fairness, Nuka Dark wasn't Bethesda's fault. The production of the rum and the bottles was entirely outsourced to Silver Screen bottling company, so Bethesda didn't really have too much of a say until it was too late.

[@TheBigAEC]

@@samuelcolt7034 that's not how this works, if you give a company a part of your IP you should watch them like a hawk, that's what most companies do. They were fully aware of this and had every ability to control it but the company, or Zenimax let's be honest about this, said "hey custom glass bottles are a little expensive, plastic isn't though".

[@Sturmfall1]

@@samuelcolt7034 Who's decision was it to outsource the production of the bottles though? Bethesda had all the say...it's their IP, they had the approval/veto rights on all the decisions made by Silver Screen so...

[@mythraisrad3677]

The humiliation conga line isn’t stopping Jim. I’m scared

[@erlanddrow7950]

Don't worry We are too 😓

[@Rubberman202]

"You don't get to make the jokes about this, Bethesda, you ARE the joke." I feel like that line alone is worthy of a slowclap.

[@krishan8735]

Deserves actual applause. Unlike Bethesda's E3.

[@thomas77539000]

don't forget about the players that got banned for going in the developer room that they left WIDE open instead closing it off.

[@masonawsomepants3861]

Superslug0 The players had to exploit their ways in with external modified scripts. Technically not WIDE open. But still a colossal fuck up. (Just making sure your fact checked for more Bethesda mockery.)

[@Bossu]

I don't want to engage with developers. I want to engage with the game and other players.

[@MaddTheSane]

Engaging with developers is fine. Engaging with the publishers, on the other hand.

[@chrissheppo]

I remember 15 years ago reading a PCPowerplay magazine interview with a mmo developer on the subject of microtransactions, who offered to buy items for players to increase ' company engagement with players', needless to say it was a creepy readthrough, and seeing what road the industry is on now.... I will agree with you. Leave us alone, let us play in peace.

[@RhysTuck]

Well they don't really want to engage with you either. Just your wallet!

[@Bossu]

@@MaddTheSane It's not fine when they interrupt my gameplay with "OH, THIS BOSS BATTLE IS EASIER IF YOU BUY THIS FOR 5 MILLION INGAME CURRENCY!"

[@steadymobbin191]

2018: this game can’t get any shittier 2019: hold my beer... 🤣

[@sinw88]

2020 Bethesda should abandon starfield and 76 and deliver es6 in a playable state otherswise they will turin into konami by 2020

[@sir.roe-say]

@@sinw88 2021 says it all

[@Solitude102]

People still play Skyrim & Fallout 4 because of their stellar modding communities. I used to think that expansion packs where a way for companies to stay connected to their player-base (fallout 3 had five of them), but I imagine that format isn't as profitable as 'live service'.

[@jeremyvanauken5011]

That, and the base games were still very very good and enjoyable. Not perfect technically, but vibrant and enjoyable.

[@valiroime]

Fallout 76 is what happens when they cut the modders out of the equation. The very same modders who actually fix the bugs, add decent content, and generally make the games playable.

[@ninjacreeper48]

valiroime All Bethesda games are horrible without mods

[@leifanderson3487]

Cut out the modders? Ya'll know this is an online game... right?

[@TheGouzy90]

@@leifanderson3487 Precisely. That's why making an online-only bethesda game is stupid.

[@Jeanmigus]

And the only reason why people are still playing Skyrim and FO4 to date is... you guessed it... MODDERS!! But of course Bethesda doesn't acknowledge that!

[@selechesh]

And aren't we looking forward to the next Elder Scrolls now... I just know they'll do it right...

[@sound285]

love how they announced NPCs as a feature... a year later 76 gets a "feature" that has pretty much existed since gaming. Todd!

[@Nxtl68]

Given that they couldn't stop hackers from literally stealing other people's inventories, the opening monologue is extremely poignant

[@Zortakable]

Can't believe that Jim would risk a Copyright strike/takedown by singing a perfect rendition of the Police Academy theme

[@chris9650]

Zortakable he usually uses a few different companies music or images that means many different companies end up launching a copyright strike that they all can’t win so nobody can’t take the money or win a strike.

[@123dannyboy100]

@@chris9650 that's really smart. Why arent more people using this?

[@prismstudios001]

Sounds like a singing chicken. I approve.

[@emperorfaiz]

@@chris9650 Ahhh the copyright deadlock technique!

[@protoroc]

It was a cover

[@noterictalbott6102]

There's a reason people still play Skyrim and Fallout 4...because they were made as games,that people could play,and enjoy.Not constant revenue streams.

[@geraltofrivia4936]

Fallout 4 was broken and shit i had to sell it to buy another game.

[@kenirainseeker539]

@@geraltofrivia4936 Not really any more or less broken than any other bethesda game

[@TerrorBlades]

Please dear god get Fallout New Vegas

[@ninjacreeper48]

Skyrim was buggy as hell. It can only be functional with mods.

[@leifanderson3487]

People bitched about New Vegas when it came out. People bitched about Skyrim when it came out. People bitched about ESO when it came out. People bitched about Fallout 4 when it came out. And now people are bitching about Fallout 76. One day, people will start talking about how great Fallout 76 is just so they can bitch about Fallout 5. Because bitching... bitching never changes.

[@Macgyverthehero5957]

I was watching Bethesda's E3 Press Conference yesterday and all I could think was: "Why are they cheering?" EDIT: Holy damn, this is my most liked comment ever.

[@Deform-2024]

As incompetent as Bethesda is, people get excited at the bare minimum Bethesda does in the right direction.

[@murciadoxial8056]

From what I've heard, they gave the crowd a lot of alcohol and also a lot of the people in the audience were bethesda employees

[@thechugg4372]

This is what fanboyism does to you, next stop : blizzard fans!

[@zanahernast4071]

Let's be real, they probably bought the loudest "enthusiasts" in the crowd.

[@murciadoxial8056]

@@thechugg4372 The same ones that openly booed at blizzcon?

[@Ripper2509]

I really think Jim Sterling should do a sequel to this review, considering just how much worse it got. A post-post nuclear post-post mortem if you will!

[@madhackrviper]

Vivi pfp, nice.

[@TotalJophes]

Fallout 76: *Fails* Literally nobody: Bethesda: *"BATTLE ROYALE!!"* Still nobody:

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

Totally Legit and Not-At-All Plant-Infested Crowd: WOOOOO!

[@jeffthepig0679]

Actually the new mode is pretty good

[@leifanderson3487]

Seriously, it's better than Fortnite's and Apex Legends'. I'm fucking shocked how good it is. And the entire mode is free. But everyone here is still on that hate-wagon, so they don't give a fuck. They're having too much fun hating a game they haven't played recently, or even at all.

[@sweetpoison8403]

@@leifanderson3487 dude just go home and shut up , i bought the game for 69,99€ and isntead of fixing the countless bugs like most of the challenges so you can't get atoms , daily quests bugged to oblivion I'll do 1 quest today and it only triggers again 1 week after ... not even gonna start on the ps4 textures not loading so you can pretty much shoot people trough walls in PvP but hey let's add a battle royal that will appease the sheep .....

[@makathebaka8768]

@@sweetpoison8403 ps4 textures not loading? Sorry calling bullshit on that one as I never experienced that nor heard anyone else complain about it. Honestly I dont know why I still watch sterling. His videos have been nothing but hate mongering on every game he reviews lately. Just another Game Journalist cashing in on the hate fuel.

[@KR-vc9ol]

Jim, I've been really enjoying these slightly longer-form Jjmquisitions lately. Thank you and thank God for you!

[@VashdaCrash]

Idk, this looked to me like it was a very long rant about Bethesda's conference and fallout 76, as opposed to well fleshed out news.

[@HappyBrontosaurus]

You guys see Todd catch himself from saying monetization, and quick switch to "touch point"? x'D

[@DonF72]

Engagment too

[@forcedtohaveahandle]

Zaraphawn eksdee

[@NShomebase]

GOD JUST MAKE NEW DLC FOR FALLOUT AND SKYRIM PEOPLE WILL BUY IT PEOPLE STILL PLAY AGE OF EMPIRES II UPDATES FOR CHRIST SAKE

[@AvariceOverlord]

@@NShomebase This is true, I actually bought AoE II on Steam the other week lol.

[@GerudoRamirez]

But Jim, What about Nuka Dark Rum? That went really well! Oh wait.....🤣

[@TBone-bz9mp]

“Huh wonder what that’s about” Googles “THEY PUT $80 RUM IN A PLASTIC BOTTLE WHAT THE FU - THIS IS NOT OKAY! YOU DON’T DO THAT TO RUM!!!

[@Kwatcher100]

"Why is the rum gone?"

[@TheMrVengeance]

But RavenCrossguard, what about the $99 a year Fallout First subscription model? 🤣 ..It just keeps going.

[@labehr3549]

@@Kwatcher100 because it flows into the space between the bottle and the cosmetic casing so you need to tear the casing off to drink more than a sixth of it. And yes, I know that this is a Pirates of the Caribbean 1 reference.

[@LESTR97]

@@TBone-bz9mp And the rum apparently sucks, especially bc of the strong af coconut flavor. You can get good rum in a nice bottle for way cheaper

[@Beafypotato]

Despite watching Internet Historian's and Matt McMuscles's recap of 76's events, I watched this anyway to hear some Jim Sterling angry ranting.

[@petesperandio]

LIGHT WOOD LAMINATE

[@dillonpanarello5242]

@@petesperandio Thats going to be Internet Historian's lasting legacy wont it? XD

[@simonorourke4465]

Same I haven't watched Mat McMuscles's video but I did very much enjoy the Internet historians take on the whole thing. But er couldn't very well miss our weekly dose of Sterling magic now could we.

[@nolives]

The rants have always been better than the actual game.

[@mthsdcs]

Now watch Joseph Anderson's 3 hour compilation of all the bugs he personally found

[@Dojan5]

7:05 - "Because they expected the players to build it all for them." To be honest, we have been doing exactly that for almost 20 years now. Bethesda releases a game, it's buggy and utter crap, players come along and fix things, extend it, add storylines and quests that are actually good, etc. The problem with 76 obviously being that there is no mod support, so players _can't_ fix this one.

[@XenobladeNerd]

Dojan5 fair point

[@bimboification]

That kinda shit makes me furious. Fans have been doing all the hard work for decades (with no pay, purely for the fun and dedication of it) and somehow, at the end of the day, people praise Bethesda instead. People who create skyrim and fallout 4 mods are underrated heroes that deserve so much more than fucking Fallout 76

[@theblackbaron4119]

Agreed, there were more talented, creative people playing their games than Bugthesda having anyone remotely being as good at their own engine.

[@BuzzaB77]

I think we can all agree " the fall of 76" by internet historian was the best recap of this cluster f**k but I still come to Jim for genius phrases like "Bethetic"

[@merphul]

I pretty much like Internet Historian's explanation best of any fiasco he chooses to bless us with.

[@metalc.s3170]

Jesus Christ that video is so god damn entertaining

[@TiStardust]

That video and this one are legendary in their own ways. Time to rewatch them both again!!!!

[@Karou812]

"They can always find another way to screw things up" ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR SUBSCRIPTION

[@TheMrVengeance]

It's better; One. Hundred. Dollar. Subscription... That's. Broken. 🤣"You're not using that scrap for anything right? And oop.. It's gone."

[@LaughingNabashin]

That conference was sixteen times the disappointment.

[@yorkieratproductions]

Sixteen times the *facepalm* 🙄

[@metalc.s3170]

Sixteen times the shilling (frontrow)

[@MFuhry]

funny how they dump their old modding community that kept Skyrim and Fallout so long alive..... without modding those games would have died after a few years....

[@wendyvinshlikapoltz8211]

True without mods both games would have been forgotten a long time ago

[@_Bjornfot]

That's why they dumped them. They WANT those old games to die so people can move on to play games that make them more money through scummy micro-transactions.

[@WraithMagus]

Oh, don't you know? Bethesda is now giving away Morrowind for free just for signing up for their stupid store (you can also get Arena and Daggerfall free), and the Morrowind modding community is working on their Tamriel Rebuilt mod where they quintuple the size of the original map, add several times as much content to the original game, hacked the code and managed to fix all the bugs that Bethesda never fixed not only in Morrowind but continued to leave in every single game they made since Morrowind, added new assets that make the game look better, and rebalanced the game to fix all of Bethesda's mistakes back in its good games (including the notorious "missing a mudcrab 20 times in a row" problem). For free. But sure, look forward to paying actual money for their garbage new games with pay-to-win mechanics.

[@brothermaleuspraetor9505]

Glad to see someone else realising the truth as well. Todd really has NOT got a fucking clue.

[@Sheldezare]

A very limited amount of players use mods compared to the whole Skyrim player base so that's hardly the truth.

[@Keondo]

"Police Academy 76" - Thank God for Jim!

[@OnlyTakk]

He killed me at that joke

[@bluespaceman7937]

That was great.

[@rebeccaholt644]

Your continued coverage of the shipshow that is 76 just confirms my ‘wait and see’ was totally justified. Thank you for saving my time and money for me!

[@jimmyelkordy3752]

Hello from the future. It’s now free on PS4 Plus and it’s still probably not worth it

[@ParasiteDelta]

For the love of *GOD,* say it with me: If you can pay real-world money to get an advantage over non-paying players, then it is Pay-2-Win. Full-stop, no 'but's, end of story. People keep skirting around the term and idea, but it truly is that simple.

[@phosphorus2740]

I swear there were genuinely paid actors in that crowd. People were more hysterical than after TESVI's reveal.

[@metalc.s3170]

There must be

[@TheVivapinsam]

"And now you can play blades o...." *WOOOOOOOO* *YEAHHH!!!*

[@KotsarisGR]

Dude, in all audiences there are paid actors. E3 is a huge commercial...

[@ChimeraArts]

Maybe not paid, but given free shit like the canvas bag situation.

[@jimmythornseed8605]

You could actually hear at one point the larger crowd laughing at the smaller crowd cheering for basically nothing. Swear on my left foot.

[@Ray2Jerry]

Glad he thinks his total failure as a leader is sooo funny... What a charming guy!

[@ConsciousnessisRough]

He's a fifty year old rich guy who thinks he's cool. He's a giant asshole

[@SnobbyLion]

0:58.... Little did he know "Fallout Pay $100 a year First" was coming

[@vraska8799]

Maybe Bethesda is "engaging" itself with a bit of Bioware's magic!!! right... TODD!?

[@T0asty-]

Welcome to the TRIPLE AYYYYYYYYYYYY industry. Beware, they're gonna try their best to engage your wallet.

[@googolplex928]

"Fallout" - "YEEEEEEEAAAAH" "Dragons" - "WOOOOOOOOOH" "The" - "YYYYEAH WOOOOOOH OH MY GOD"

[@lpsoldin3162]

Those guys were the only thing that kept me watching Bugthesda's E3 this year.

[@gtabro1337]

Paid crowd and re-selling their old and worst-rated games. A new low for Bethesda.

[@KotsarisGR]

E3 only has paid crowds...

[@theALTF4]

at this point... bethesda is the bottom (can you believe that the day has come... when konami ain't the lowest of the low?) EEEWwwwwg

[@lovofofo]

Hardly a new low, paid mods is still the worst thing they've done.

[@lovofofo]

@@theALTF4 Bethesda have been at the bottom since they ruined Fallout

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

*_stands and loudly applauds for stating the obvious_*

[@JPRO87901]

Todd: We're adding NPC's. Audience Hank Hills: I'm about to bust.

[@SageofStars]

Always remember about the repair kit situation, they nerfed abilities that slowed item degradation just before implementing them without telling anyone.

[@rfonseca9625]

ya rly, never needed black titanium before to repair my combat armor, but now all of a sudden?... and in such quantities?

[@redmoon383]

@@rfonseca9625 or ballistic fiber for the trapper armors. Main reason I chose that armor as my end game kit and then suddenly I needed ballistic fiber again

[@rfonseca9625]

@Long duk dong i wouldnt say the game is complete garbage but theyre def using trash tactics in designing (gotta love them timers lol!)

[@XSniper74184]

500 atoms might be little in the atom shop but Jim... Light wood laminate. Light wood laminate! LIGHT WOOD LAMINATE!

[@tonichan89]

Fuck yeeeah! I'm gonna get 18th of the whatever power armor!

[@DammitSinged]

_Todd : NP_ _Bethesda's Troglodyte Fans : _*_*intense clapping*_* _Todd : C's_ _Bethesda's Troglodyte Fans : _*_*LOUD SCREECHING*_*

[@capthavic]

They were referring to the audience ;)

[@professorhaystacks6606]

Watched a bit of the live stream on Twitch. The general vibe from the comments there was that the audience was packed with Bethesda employees.

[@buttemountain9047]

I'm convinced they are Bethesda employees

[@battyflaps5410]

Whats a troglodyte is that like a pokeymon?

[@tHeInEvItAbLePaRtY]

@@battyflaps5410 Yep, they evolve into NPCmon. The sound from the audience was their mass evolution (devolution?)

[@esper6119]

The transition to megalovania was so cursed good job

[@josuearriaza3952]

Nice keep calling out the lies. Like why even lie if the product doesn't fit there claims. People always find out.

[@jays2551]

they're not concerned with people discovering their lies. they're completely enamoured with profits and potential profits, it's really that simple. they rushed the game out the door because they knew it was garbage and their window for the most profit was in the first week or so, now they're just adding stuff to entice people back to the game so they can slap new players with microtransactions. they're such a shit company

[@Raikeran]

it's basically a disguise to get you to buy the game, because once that's done they pretty much have your money, the game itself using in-game purchases to keep you paying them for doing essentially nothing.

[@Itdoesnotmatter100]

"Engaging storylines, clever writing" Jim, you do remember that Fallout 1-2 and New vegas were made by Obsidian?

[@guapocgisawesome994]

Actually only New Vegas was made by Obsidian. 1 and 2 were made by Interplay, later known as Black Isle Studios.

[@khristian625]

Not even Obsidian. Black Isle, the remnants of which later formed Obsidian. An even better version of Obsidian

[@leramar]

@@guapocgisawesome994 many of which went on to form Obsidian.

[@Kaarl_Mills]

Skyrim and Fallout 4 were shit to begin with, why do people hold them up

[@coolsenjoyer]

Not to mention that "meaningful choices" in a Bethesda game made after Morrowind would actually be pretty groundbreaking.

[@gf1917]

"Meaningful choices in a Fallout game!" To be fair, FO4 didn't really have them.

[@NoBodysGamer]

FailOut 4 started the downhill

[@andreasmuller2437]

Settlements... those are Fallout 4.... with mods....Settlements with the Simcity mod, and you got yourself a postapocaliptic simcity game with survival elements.... Thats pretty cool i guess.

[@LAZYB00GiE]

@@MattG-mw7zi not to buy it?

[@alzahranihamod3433]

@@LAZYB00GiE No, it's which mod would i install next, you can't say that about 76

[@kenirainseeker539]

Fallout 4 kinda had them, the game had multiple endings, kind of At least Fallout 4 can be great with lots of mods though

[@seanmcclure]

It is genuinely sad how many Fallout 76 players get angry at the absolute truth of its failure. It’s called justification of effort and it’s what people with buyers remorse use to feel better. It’s cult member like behavior.

[@Sonichero151]

I mean I got it now that it's a finished and descent game...... That him still shits on because like he has admitted in the past, he is very fucking petty and holds onto slights for years........

[@Slann88]

@@Sonichero151 lol....

[@fumothfan9]

Decent maybe but finished Lmao

[@NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois]

@@Sonichero151 Well this is just my opinion, but I don't think games should be forgiven for being released as a buggy glitch-fest sold at a full price. Because they could have always, you know, released it after it was actually a finished product and worth the cost. It's just slimy to sell a broken product with the pretense of it being a fully fleshed game.

[@jazz0710]

I didnt know "professional screamers" are a thing

[@cl1cka]

It's an old tradition that dates back to ancient Rome. You could pay for people to cry and scream at funerals in order to show how beloved the dead was.... We see the modern equivalent :)

[@OlympusHeavyCavalry]

Hollywood and other movie studios have hired women sreamers or "Scream Queens", mainly for Horror films over the years &/or overdub the women actresses who couldn't scream/shout very well in other movies too. Jamie "The Body" Lee Curtis can scream very well as the director of the first Halloween found out, subsequently having to dismiss the scream queen he hired to dub Jamie's voice. Ironically Jamie has a good set of lungs on her too.

[@smokedoubt1262]

It’s the same as “professional protesters”. Paid alliances.

[@Manic.miner2077]

Aparently breeding your own fanboys is still legal.

[@r0bw00d]

@OHC: I don't know what you think "ironic" means, but you're wrong in thinking it.

[@IamHat]

"I fell in to a burning ring of fire" Me: oh neat. I have never seen a battle royal trailer in four months that has used that exact same song its soo unique. Soo... Innovative.

[@TheRealTHD]

Just here to mention how Bethesda did my boy Commander Keen dirty.

[@MamaSymphonia]

At least the art's nice? xD

[@pyrojinn]

They did Commander Keen dirty indeed. The predecessor to Doom, now reduced to a mobile game.

[@tehbeernerd]

It’s amazing, every single time a mobile game is announced by these scumbags they get no or negative reaction, but they keep announcing them

[@hubguy]

David E. In Bethesda’s defense (cause they do it somewhat decently), we know there are actual games (debatable but you know what I mean) coming in place of them soon. TES6 isn’t replaced by Blades, and Fallout 4 wasn’t replaced with Fallout Shelter. It wasn’t an EA Command and Conquer scenario They also didn’t make it the finale of the show like Diablo Immortal

[@WinterMadness]

Look at how they massacred my boy.

[@uljk5699]

The "fallout" that made ESO 1.0 look like a masterpiece.

[@boiledelephant]

Is ESO worth a look now? The gf tried it years ago and (like many people) said it was crap. But I gather a lot has changed.

[@loreknight5612]

@@boiledelephant ESO is marvelous nowadays

[@LiquidfirePUA]

@@boiledelephant it wasnt as bad as most people portrayed. its a very good MMO now

[@coreylineberry8557]

@@LiquidfirePUA We can only hope that 76 does that... Doubt it immensely.

[@sean8102]

@@boiledelephant As someone that has played since PC beta, it's crazy how massively it's improved. It should have never launched in the state it was in, but they have done quite a good job fixing the faults and complaints. You can often get it for 10 bucks or so on steam (which is a shit ton of content for that price) and its easy to play without the optional sub or ever interacting with the "crown store" aka cash shop. Only time I ever sub to ESO plus is when they release their yearly "chapter" / expansion

[@MoarCookiesMonster]

Todd Howard 2019: "People Will Buy Anything"

[@BlueGreyWolf]

He sure proved that with the Fallout series! 😂

[@StrazdasLT]

999 dollar monitor stand.

[@theblackbaron4119]

23:00 Our fans are utter and complete idiots- Todd Coward

[@serenedoge9920]

“It was Minecraft, without the Minecraft.” 🤔 Minecraft - Minecraft = 💩 The math checks out.

[@Avi2Nyan]

The only thing remaining from Minecraft after you've removed Minecraft itself is the distant cries of the salty, bigoted QAnon man who goes by the mystical name of Notch

[@angrymushroom26]

But they are adding a Battle Royale mode, it fits so with in the setting and is so novel! Certainly a bolted on battle Royale mode will fix 76.

[@metalc.s3170]

Oh god no

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

anything to add content to the game is acceptable at this point.

[@Spiffo0]

people playing it right now are saying it's surprisingly good

[@1001pierre]

@@Spiffo0 people playing it now are paid to promote this shit..

[@saintmayhem9873]

Fallout multiplayer should never be more robust than 1-4 player co-op.

[@jakewiley6866]

thats all anyone ever wanted... too bad we live in this alternate reality where games are now meant to extract money from you as quick as they can be programmed to do

[@alyssinclair8598]

skyrim borderlands would be amazing.

[@nickzakrath7080]

@@alyssinclair8598 Hell yeah.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

It shouldn't exist, at all.

[@sean8102]

Could you imagine how buggy and fucked a game would be if Bethesda tried to do the type of scripting in FO3, Skyrim, Oblivion etc that often breaks in single player (even with giant fan patches) but in multiplayer, with no ability to count on modders to fix the thing? Probably a big reason for 76 having basically nothing to do.

[@Deviibara]

Jim and Genna's stream made the Bethesda conference bearable

[@nottoday9182]

I'm still afraid to watch it. (The Bethesda show not jim)

[@JackgarPrime]

Where can I see it?

[@StegoAqua]

The only good games that come from Bethesda now are the ones not made by them

[@NathanCassidy721]

JackgarPrime At the moment, Gen’s Twitch channel.

[@JackgarPrime]

@@StegoAqua Are you counting Id? There's some wiggle there.

[@philippklanschek1148]

man jim you forgot to talk about the battle royal mode with 52 players when having more than 10 players in fallout 76 in one location makes the game bug out due lag

[@metalc.s3170]

Was the battle royal thing an actual feature in the game or planned to be?

[@Aturtlewizard]

@@metalc.s3170 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2Wxk4OYoLOImMU

[@oldaccount9190]

imagine then these DOOM helmets ships and it turned out to be cartboard box for 120$

[@solepula]

Nogardtist they just repaint the FO76 helmets and ship it

[@oldaccount9190]

@@solepula or plastic helmet with decal stickers that will come off in less then a day

[@markcobuzzi826]

To be honest, a cardboard box still sounds like a better deal than a nylon trash bag. At least a cardboard box would be more durable and probably longer lasting, plus you can use it for storing other merchandise you have or cosplaying as Solid Snake.

[@NathanCassidy721]

The funny part is during the conference they cut to a guy wearing the DOOM helmet as if to prove, “Yes, it’s real.”

[@europanzer3929]

... you want someone dead don't you?

[@iliketotame]

I know this an older video, but I just had to say: the reason this game was truly as much of a dumpster fire as it turned out to be is entirely due to the fact that it did not have the support of the modding community, a community that Bethesda, as much as they loathe its existence, has relied on time and time again to repair the broken messes they continue to shell out.