Nobody likes Starfield Shattered Space + Microsoft reboots Halo | This Week In Videogames

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[@willyword3413]

D4 suks period ....

[@DreadfuII]

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[@MacGuffin1]

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[@bananatubeOG]

"343 had their shot with the halo franchise" they have had an entire magazine, my guy.

[@jubbalubby]

drum mag even, and they missed every single one

[@wanderingwobb6300]

Halo infinite and 5 multiplayer was pretty good though

[@Caspeaon]

@@wanderingwobb6300true. 343 has fucked up a lot but I actually like H5 multiplayer and infinite, both those games were good imo

[@stanislavkimov2779]

@@jubbalubby they critically failed, shot themselves in the foot, broke their arm, and then it exploded.

[@chillhour6155]

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[@03dashk64]

343: “this the end of how we were making Halo games. We are going to try a new tactic….making good Halo games.”

[@Saufzwergin]

even if they make a new halo game, idk if it will ever have the hearts of its previous fans that have been captured from bungies era of halo games. I mean I was literally a hard core fan but with 343 and how infinite flopped so hard face down with its story it made me switch to PlayStation and I've been enjoying new titles that I couldn't play before.

[@RS-ry4lp]

Great joke, but it’s literally impossible for them to make a good game which makes it pretty sad.

[@Disconnis]

​@@SaufzwerginI'm sorry to hear you're still stuck on consoles man. PlayStation does have some good games, but as an ex-Sony fan, they'll disappoint you too. For me, it wasn't until I bought a Steam Deck did I see the PC light.

[@janky477]

3 years later: It Didn't work. $500 Million wasted. Layoffs incoming.

[@stanislavkimov2779]

@@Saufzwergin yeah many things died for the fans recently. Almost everything, in fact. Star Wars dies and causes no excitement or interest. With Halo it's the same.

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[@bestsnowboarderuknow]

how much is it? I want it but not if it's like 200 dollars... Edit: it's 140 Euros or some weird ass currency no one with money has ever used. (jokes, keep your shirt on) You're advertising on an American site, but selling your products in Franks? Shillings? Buck skins? Idk...Also, the 3D model is made out of paper and you have to fold it yourself lol. And it's not even releasing until Q3 2025...

[@brandonburton5928]

(pin this comment Ralph/Austin!)

[@billybobaggins2192]

I bought the deluxe bundle! It looks incredible!

[@prw56]

I got interested, but was sad to learn that the deluxe actually isn't a hard cover book. I'm not interested in the other doodads in the package, but I would have bought a good hardcover book for a game I enjoy (I actually buy the hardcover prima guides just to collect). Hope you consider doing hardcovers and selling them on their own.

[@Big_Dai]

No one likes ads and sponsors..

[@hihihi1q23]

It feels like Todd and company have forgotten why people play their games. No one plays Bethesda games for procedural generated, Minecraft style sandboxes. They play it for hand-crafted open worlds full of weird NPCs, environmental storytelling, and hundreds of unique locations to discover. They made Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim - some of the biggest, most successful games ever made -.....then just kind of pivoted to making fps's with crafting and settlement building?

[@deschain1910]

Well, the worst part is that this pivot probably would have been fine if the writing and characters weren't terrible...

[@hihihi1q23]

@@deschain1910 I disagree. Their games have always had terrible writing. They've just had interesting lore. Starfield could have had the best characters and writing ever made and it still would have been a huge disappointment to fans.

[@LogicalError007]

They tried something different and for some it worked and for some it didn't.

[@deschain1910]

@@hihihi1q23 Not this bad. From my own personal experience, if the writing and characters were more interesting, I would have played it much more. I enjoyed playing the game otherwise, but I found the writing and characters to be insufferable. The gameplay was simply better than Fallout, which was also an FPS, and those games have lots of fans. This was the difference. Their past games had bland writing and characters. This game is actively distasteful.

[@johnlocke4715]

This is why I started playing Kingdom Come Deliverance in 2018 and never looked back. It’s not sci-fi/fantasy but it’s reminiscent of a time when Bethesda actually gave af.

[@TheDungeonDive]

It's wild to me that Bethesda didn't have anything Fallout related ready to go with the launch of the Amazon show. Talk about a massive blunder. If they had launched a brand new Fallout game to coincide with the show, rather than Starfield, they'd be sitting on top of the world right now.

[@der_peevmeister]

Ubisoft is now also the target of a class action lawsuit alleging that they illegally sold user data to Meta. lol, the Guillemot family’s incompetence is just astounding.

[@taylorblom4323]

GameLinked/TechNews gang

[@Mediados]

Incompetence implies that they didn't turn the company into a husk on purpose. They knew 100% where they were taking it, they just didn't expect it to go wrong.

[@reka10]

*Malice and greed. Incompetence suggest they don't know or understand what they're doing.

[@peachy_lili]

@@reka10 yes, this is some kind of Reverse Hanlon's Razor situation where the presumed stupidity is, indeed, malice

[@razvanzamfir1545]

@@reka10 Well, they certain don't know and/or understand why and how they got caught :)

[@ChaosRaych]

"It's not how it launches, it's what it becomes," is (of course) the wrong lesson to learn from F76, Cyberpunk & NMS. Studios have learned that they can sell us a buggy mess, which we won't know until we've already parted with our money, as long as they fix it at some point, weeks, months or even years down the road. Unacceptable! No other industry does this to consumers. You wouldn't buy a PC with the promise that it'll work properly sometime in the future

[@makasete30]

BG3 was buggy and incredibly unfinished on launch, but the game was so good, people,overlooked the thousands of bugs down-played the big ones, or pretended they didn’t exist. They can indeed sell us buggy and weak performance games, if the quality is very good.

[@HollowKnight21]

@@makasete30 Same with Elden Ring and the massive stuttering on PC on release.

[@luckerooni1153]

@@makasete30 People would've tolerated the Cyberpunk bugs too but the low end consoles couldn't even load the fucking game. It was a game built for next-gen that Sony and Microsoft forced on old gen. I upgraded my PC from 1070 for it. I had basically the same level of buggy experience with BG3 as CP77, where launch was horribly buggy, then every day a patch came out massively reducing bugs until it was playable within a few days.

[@dr_diddy]

​@@luckerooni1153It was CDPRs decision to sell on last gen consoles. It's 2020 with 75% of players being on PS4/XboxOne. Even in 2024 50% of playstation players were on PS4 😭

[@paluckisteven]

@@luckerooni1153the initial release date was April 2020 the next gen consoles weren’t supposed to release until December. This means that this game was NOT designed for next gen consoles because those consoles weren’t even available until after the expected release date

[@Giferis]

'' biggest, richest space simulation RPG anyone could imagine. '' What a load of shit.

[@MrInsiipid]

Yeah, this quote was a joke the whole way through. There are MANY space simulation RPGs with more meat on their bones and more interesting gameplay than Starfield, It's very strange of him to pretend like they made something that outclasses things like ED, EVE, etc. Some of which started over 20 years ago..

[@Zastrutzki]

Thought you were talking about Outer Wilds.

[@Disconnis]

​@Zastrutzki Outer Wilds is not a space sim lol

[@dudeguybro]

There are things I definitely liked about Starfield - namely some good story lines and visuals - but there are so many other issues with it. Luckily for me, I have two great SSD's in my PC alongside some top of the line hardware. The amount of loading screens consistently broke immersion for me (that includes the "space travel" and other things akin to it) alongside the procedurally generated content. Their cognitive dissonance excuse of "most planets are empty" was genuinely weak and sad. This is a video game, dude. We want content and not endless, empty planets.

[@enaishike]

I don't doubt it's the best he could imagine, but that says more about him.

[@residentevil4onps2]

Bethesda's Studio Design Director earlier this week said their biggest takeaway from Starfield was "The fans really just want The Elder Scrolls 6" and that could not be further from the truth. Every fan of BGS is scared shitless about what ES6 will look like..

[@Arrestedrabbit]

On the bright side they only have until 2030 to live in that fear :^)

[@selectionn]

I really want TES6.... I just want someone not named "bethesda" to make it. Literally any one but them.

[@residentevil4onps2]

@@selectionn i still want BGS to make their own games, but i think they need to massively overhaul or just switch their engine, and rethink their design philosophy from the ground up.

[@BasilAbdef]

@@selectionn MSFT really should just strip them of their main IPs and give them to another studio.

[@toptiertech7291]

I’m trying to figure out why anyone would be a fan of a game studio 😂😂 that’s why we are in the position now. People started to go fanboy over studios and those studios realized they didn’t have to try as hard to get your money. They could release elder scrolls 6 today with zero gameplay or information and 10s of thousands of people would buy it

[@GageOnFire]

Falling for the Halo being revived again meme is just embarrassing at this point

[@simpson6700]

i reeeealy disagree with todd's quote... sure bad games can redeem themselves if their updates are incredible, but you'll never get those first impressions back. i bet there are still a ton of people who haven't given no mans sky a 2nd chance after the atrocious launch. it's far easier to release a game in a good state than to get back on players' good side after an awful launch.

[@Saufzwergin]

Even with cyberpunk 2077, I saw plenty of comments saying they won't get it still cause of the horrible state the game came out at launch

[@Behaving_Golem]

I played Starfield on launch. Spent the first 20 or so hours trying to figure out if I liked it. After about 50 hours I put it down and concluded I don't like it and probably won't look at it again until the DLC starts dropping. Given the reception to the DLC I can confidently say I probably won't pick up Starfield ever again.

[@OneRandomVictory]

@@SaufzwerginYeah but they already sold more than 25 million copies so I doubt they are that worried. I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if the controversy surrounding this game made it even more well known than it would have previously.

[@KickinRadTopHat]

@Saufzwergin Those people are missing out on a really good game. The better move is to just wait a few days to see how the release goes and come back later after some patches and a sale if it seems bad. Nobody is making you preorder or buy day 1 without looking into it. Sucks that so many games have bad launches these days, but it’s the people who won’t stop preordering and buying day 1 who “let devs get away with it”, not the people who wait a year and buy after it’s fixed and cheaper.

[@helloill672]

Despite loving the Witcher books, I didn't pick up Witcher 3 when it was on sale for 5 bucks because I don't trust CDPR

[@MacDaddySnuggles]

People who are optimistic on elder scrolls 6 are living in a fantasy world. Bethesda hasn’t released a decent game in over a decade. The only reason they still get so much support is because of nostalgia.

[@TheSwayzeTrain]

"People optimistic waiting for Elder Scroll 6 are living in a fantasy World" ...pun intended?

[@luckerooni1153]

I'm just confused what happened to Bethesda. They aren't suffering weird DEI woke shit like everyone else. They're rich as hell. They don't hate their customers. Why can't they just make the games good like before?

[@blinkq_530]

i mean fallout 4 was good and the saying Bethesda hasn’t released a decent game in over a decade is kinda stupid since thats pretty much one game

[@aravindpallippara1577]

​@@luckerooni1153perhaps woke DEI isn't the cause of bad games inherently? It's just poor storytelling, game design, and bad management?

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

​​@@luckerooni1153 my theory is the creation engine. I can't imagine the investment they poured into this engine over the years to keep it current and yet it looks average and they couldn't avoid having to use a bajillion loading screens on starfield. It also looks like the teams have to work around the engine to make their quests and events works, which is probably very time consuming and bug prone. On top of that the added onboarding time for new developers and the struggle to recruit new experienced developers (who would want to get experience in a doomed engine ?). Imo they have to transition to UE5 for their next games but they might have to fight through the sunk-cost fallacy for this

[@MacSmithVideo]

It wasn't unfair or taken out of context at all. It was idiotic corporate drivel and people are right to beat him up about it.

[@FluxCrush]

Saying it’s the “best” gunplay, graphics, and technical performance “for Bethesda” is not a good argument either. The bar is on the floor for Bethesda, doing the bare minimum should not be praised.

[@Henez89]

It was taken out of context by those who ran off claiming he said something else. Call me a pedant but it is never useful to misquote someone. We're waist deep in deceptive tactics already, best not to join in when the plain truth is ugly enough.

[@darrenfleming7901]

I think what he meant is that since Starfield was such a hard premise to deliver (having an entire galaxy of rpg exploration), then even if it didn't turn out great it's still the most "impressive" things they've produced, because of how hard it was to make. So there's some sense to that, but just because something is impressive doesn't mean it's fun to play and marketable. It's almost like he's saying "we worked really hard on it but the fundamental idea of the game was just too hard" which is like, my guy, you are a director of the game, you chose to make this game with this unrealistic premise that is holding your team back, if anything that's an indictment of your failure and not an excuse for why the game is so rough. From the very first trailers I've thought that Starfield was an unrealistic pipe dream of an rpg cooked up by some disconnected executives who don't understand what Bethesda is good at and what they can deliver. It is the absolute extreme of the open world buzzword marketing which overpromises and underdelivers. That shouldn't be an excuse for why you didn't deliver something good, in fact it's the root problem that leads you to having such a disappointing product despite putting in these resources.

[@toptiertech7291]

I mean Starfield is the best game they’ve made 😂 just because a couple nerds like fallout or elder scrolls more doesn’t mean those are better games

[@zix1257]

@@toptiertech7291 Why do morons always spam the laughing crying emoji? Look at steam, especially the dlc. more than "a couple nerds" don't like this objectively trash game. But lemme guess, its some sort of conspiracy! people are getting brainwashed by big youtube!

[@haruhidaso]

To put it to perspective, last “great” Bethesda game, Skyrim, came out the same year Dark Souls 1 came out. Since then Fromsoft made DS2, Bloodborne, DS3, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Armored Core 6 and Shadow of the Erdtree.

[@metagaminguniversemgu2240]

Wow! That gives you some perspective. I think Bethesda is a little dated in their games. They don't feel like they've evolved much.

[@toptiertech7291]

Skyrim wasn’t even great. Mods made it great. Also what are you trying to say about fromsoft? They can make the same game over and over and people will buy it?

[@YCJYgames]

Hey, thanks for the shout out about Keep Driving!

[@Scarecr0wn]

Players: "Your game is medicore, it´s definiton of MEH" Bethesda: "Our game is phenomenal, the best piece of art we ever made, thank you"

[@cyprus1005]

starfield GOTY edition coming soon™

[@TheNotSoLoneWanderer]

​@@cyprus1005Includes 1000 creation club credits 😂 and Sharted Space.

[@mechanicalmonk2020]

Players: passes out from the concussion that was causing them to hear things that haven't been said

[@KrustyJoe]

@@TheNotSoLoneWandererThe fact that you commented this and added a “😂” as if what you typed was creative or funny is insane. You’re a mental derelict.

[@Quanxi7]

​@@KrustyJoe what the fuck

[@GeremyG]

Exactly what Halo needed, ANOTHER reboot. The last few they've done have gone so well.

[@0uttaS1TE]

"Just one more reboot, bro! One more and we'll be back! It'll be like the good old games!"

[@mitchellbrinkerdp]

Reboots aren’t inherently bad. The last ones weren’t bad because they were reboots, it’s because they just weren’t well done. What if this reboot is fantastic?

[@russellcarey3568]

I recently saw one of the devs showing off a new character model for Master Chief, all I can say is.....oh dear.

[@duerf5826]

The likes/dislikes ratio of that new Halo video is proof why companies spend so much on marketing.

[@mitchellbrinkerdp]

@@duerf5826 What do you mean? its 45,000 likes to 6600 dislikes.

[@buffywasright]

I got all the achievements on Shattered Space. Did every quest, explored and looted fully 50 locations. It’s EXACTLY like the base game. 6 uninspired story missions with choices that don’t matter. 8 Fedex side quests. Took me two days to do it all for a 30€ yearly expansion and that’s including 100% research on the planet. A few new weapons but not a single yellow except melee weapons (all the same). No house or decent vendor until the story is over. Music mostly the sane as a year ago. No boss fight of any kind (edit I completely forgot about Anasko as pointed out in the comments, there’s one actually). Last mission pits you against 300 enemies which is insanely difficult if over normal difficulty with a lot of modifiers. The original faction quests are still by far the best content in the game. Oh apparently there’s 2 new companions but I didn’t even notice you could recruit them. In my defense it’s really difficult to know where people are on the map and you probably have to find them again somewhere when it’s all over. It’s not bad per se, it’s just the same. Zero improvements.

[@ArnoldJudasRimmer..]

What I was most annoyed about was melee combat tbh....it sucks after playing Cyberpunk 2.0.

[@TheNotSoLoneWanderer]

I'm no fan of Starfield or the DLC, but the final confrontation is as much a Creation Engine/Gamebryo boss fight as anything else that's ever been made in those engines. Guy with extra health and damage, set in a locked combat arena, recovers health even when defeated until background objective is complete, taunts you as you fight them. The game is also trying to telegraph that you should run at the end. My completionist tendencies and strong dislike of the faction made me stay to kill them all, which was a waste of time because the building explodes anyway, but I understood they didn't necessarily expect you to kill them all.

[@cog9389]

What a shame, especially since everything about house of varuun was interesting on a surface level. Like im genuinely concerned at this point with future installments if BGS keeps pumping out generic crap.

[@goodtaste2185]

Uh oh, someone skipped The Redeemed fight! There is new music as well.

[@jesc2072]

My game got bugged and every time i melee someone my character gets stuck and becomes super slow for like 5 seconds 😂 i cant even play with the new melee weapon

[@59hawks]

27:27 Correction: This is Atlus's old persona team who made 3,4, and 5. Who formed a new studio in atlus Called Studio Zero. P-Studios the current Psrsona team is not involved I know this is a small technicality. But it is important to highlight that there are 3 Studios in Atlus Studio Zero is a new studio dedicated to making new experiences and P-Studios is dedicated to Persona. And the studios do not effect each others development. At least in the surface

[@darrylaz3570]

Double correction: Studio Zero is not a recently formed studio, they actually have been informally around since 2010 as "Atlus 2nd Creative Production Department", They released one game, Catherine, also directed by Hashino for the PS3. That game's engine would later be the basis for P5. After P5, P-Studio's devs and leads including Hashino, Soejima, and Meguro left P-Studio to fully commit with this team, which now formally becomes Studio Zero. Studio Zero would later release an enhanced version of Catherine in 2019, before committing fully to their next project, Project Re:Fantasy which would later become Metaphor.

[@novalinnhe]

@@darrylaz3570 Wow, thanks for the additional lore!

[@Gerry484]

How is it possible that nothing good has come fron halo in the last 10 years ? This used to be a top selling franchise for Xbox 🔥🔥 Who is giving all this power to incompetent people ...

[@BlaBlaBla-76]

Hi Phil!👋

[@zanasLTU]

Infinite's campaign is alright

[@dogshake]

Why use fire emojis? It makes the comment look l like it was written by a 12 year old.

[@Gerry484]

@@dogshake I'm 11 years old :) shut up 🔥🔥

[@cwj2733]

@@zanasLTUalright isn’t good, and nah it was bad. it’s open world halo that copied far cry with a grappling hook. laughably bad

[@mr.incredibilis4549]

At this stage we shouldn't trust 343 with anything they do or say. Microsoft had more than a decade to nurture the studio into the new makers of halo, but instead every entry they've made has been either highly divisive or an outright disaster. The only reason they are switching to unreal engine is because their upgrade to their previous engine was made almost entirely of temporary contractors. Had they kept all those workers to work on future updates to the game, the engine switch would be but a thought in a developer's head.

[@StarchieHalo]

343 is such a shit show, they are incapable of making a good game

[@montypython5521]

@@StarchieHalo Directly as a result of microsoft.

[@LogicalError007]

Disaster as they reviewed better than most studios best game. Bruh, don't overreact.

[@NotTheGaslighter]

​@@LogicalError007 a drop-off of over 90% of Infinite's active playerbase, a drought of content, and mismanagement problems up the wazoo do a lot more to spell out long-term effects of the game than a review made by IGN in 2022

[@LogicalError007]

@@NotTheGaslighter 2021*and they changed everything from lower level employees to kk leadership. Even everybody got angry at them for doing that too. It's a loose loose situation. Damn if they change the studio and damn if they don't.

[@kunimitsune177]

"People hate shit game" - cheers Geoff.

[@Lucax97]

I said the same under the Halo announcement, and that it's sad Halo is only at this point in 2024. Over a full decade after the Xbox One launched, we're still seeing 'concepts' and 'going back to the roots.' I don't think Halo is anywhere near as big as it was, and until the use of contractors is changed, I'll stay wary.

[@Saufzwergin]

Definitely stay wary, it's modern gaming after all, nothing from Xbox will be as close to the 360 era of quality

[@Christaphah21]

I think Halo’s ship has sailed. The only people holding on are now in their 20s-40s who played the original when they were younger. I can’t imagine a single teenage gamer wanting to play Halo

[@toptiertech7291]

It’s no where near as big as it used to be because there’s other options. There are A LOT more games now. There were about 800 video games published in 2001. There were 14,532 games released on steam last year. Halo was never that good. It was better than the very few games that were out back then

[@TheRogueWolf]

"It's not how it launches; it's what it becomes." And that's when I'll give you money for it, Todd- when it becomes worth the asking price. _Starfield_ is not _remotely_ there yet.

[@toptiertech7291]

I mean the game is free😂 it’s worth well beyond free

[@xkpm]

Everyone: Guillemot Skill Up: Gillmore

[@tubensalat1453]

The Gillmore Guys

[@OneRandomVictory]

Ubisoft is my fav Gilmore Girl

[@kjj26k]

Ubisoft is not Glorious.

[@Mediados]

I don't think Halo fans are "hungry for more". I think we're just hungry for anything story-related.

[@Baghdad_Bill]

I'm not hungry anymore

[@zoneVgroup]

Yes and stop with the cliffhanger. Also I truly hate the story from infinite.

[@SimonSays288]

At the time I was heartbroken by the ending of Halo 3. Master Chief and Cortana stranded in space, the trailers heavily implying he was never found. Now I wish he was left out there, drifting in the void. His duty done.

[@Mediados]

@@zoneVgroup I think the main problem is that 343 has/had commitment issues. They couldn't just go with one storyline, they did a full 180 twice in 4, 5 and Infinite. They should have just stuck with Cortana from Guardians as an antagonist and made the best of it, instead they resolved all of that off-screen.

[@iRemainNameless]

That's what all these new studio's - movie and gaming studios - don't seem to understand. Good stories need stakes and teeth. Twists and controversy. They should push the medium forward, not regress. Nothing groundbreaking was ever safe.

[@Altheion]

Im surprised that people are okay paying 40 euro for 1 class and some story in diablo 4. Seems more like a 20 euro dlc at best.

[@peachy_lili]

the same person in my life who gave Starfield way too much of a chance paid the 40 euro and came back the next day to tell me how predictably disappointing it was. I'm just flabbergasted he willingly pays for games he KNOWS will be terrible. I don't get it.

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

Didn't get the DLC because of PoE2 being right around the corner but I read the story of the DLC is 12h. I personally hated the campaign of D4 because I feel like it was artificially made longer by unlocking the horse at chapters IV. I spent the whole campaign spamming movement abilities to go from quest marker to quest marker but the horse is already unlocked in VoH so I'm not sure how they could do that

[@stanislavkimov2779]

5-10 even.

[@coopstain1728]

@@zilliq-qz5uw ASMONGOLD BEAT THE DIABLO 4 DLC IN 2 HOURS.

[@TheMrDewil]

Nah, bro. Make it 15. And throw in some heavy discount while you're at it.

[@marccreation1052]

343 mostly needs writers above sad fanfic level and leadership.

[@emlyndewar]

Unfortunately fanfic writers is all any of the bigger names will hire these days.

[@stanislavkimov2779]

@@emlyndewar these studios should just switch to producing yaoi visual novels. Will fit the talents perfectly.

[@selectionn]

@@stanislavkimov2779 uhh they did bro. go watch the Halo TV show. they cant even write quality smut.

[@ecbrown6151]

Bethesda fans: We want exploration, interesting quests, choices that matter and something original feeling if it’s going to be a new IP Todd Howard: I hear you. Dragon born in space it is!

[@lordmolag45000]

@@chromesucks5299 Sounds like we've got a Morrowind fanboy here.

[@donhi1526]

'clenches fist in anger' Dante doesn't have a grappling hook, goddamnit.

[@GeltBalthazar.]

I really don't think better graphics are gonna save halo

[@UpperKS]

Unreal engine doesn't just mean better graphics. It means not having to spend as much manpower on maintaining your game engine.

[@Wnick1996]

I feel bad for fans of Starfield (if there are any left). When prominent modders refuse to work on a Bethesda game because "it's trash," you know it's in a very bad state. I would love to try the game, but only if it's discounted heavily.

[@Count-THICCula]

As a starfield enjoyer, its rough but the key to enjoying starfield is not being on twitter thank fuck for that

[@SawdEndymon]

Only one modder left.

[@LogicalError007]

It's already the 2nd most modded game on Nexus mods. There are plenty of mods and modders.

[@Deliveredmean42]

What about people who stop playing without ever using social media and still think its not as good as other bethesda games?​@@Count-THICCula

[@SB777Fum]

Hahaha, "when modders refuse to work on Bethesda games." when did that happen there are more then 1500 mods you are delirious.

[@jubei7259]

Bethesda's biggest issue by far is they seem to have forgotten why we play games. We play games to have fun. Where's the effin' fun Todd!!!

[@toptiertech7291]

People don’t have fun playing games anymore 😂😂 everyone is a streamer or playing a game just to say they completed it. So few people actually play to just have fun. Not caring about winning or how well you do. How many people do you think play games and don’t watch videos or guides about the game?

[@kangarutan1915]

Ya know, Epic probably could've saved a lot more money and became "financially stable" if they had just fired the two executives that decided hiring so many people at once was a good idea. And 798 less people would've had to lose their jobs!

[@Keithustus]

Or if they weren’t spending millions to try to wreck the entire Apple ecosystem.

[@NotTheGaslighter]

​​@@Keithustus wreck the Apple ecosystem? walled gardens benefit nobody but Apple in terms of monetization, this much is true

[@toptiertech7291]

It’s so insane when you losers think CEOs don’t deserve money but easily replaceable game devs do. Also. You think the 2 CEOs make more than 798 people? 😂😂 let’s say for instance. Each CEO made an overwhelming 30 million a year. That’s 60 million total. If they split that up each person would have made 75k before taxes. Which is a huge pay cut. The CEOs don’t even make even 10% of that. Money goes by really fast. And most CEOs are paid in percentage of the company

[@kangarutan1915]

@@toptiertech7291 How's that boot taste?

[@toptiertech7291]

@@kangarutan1915 how’s that copium taste? You guys call anyone who says stuff you don’t like a bootlicker 😂😂 is math your weakness ma’am? Let me guess. You’re upset that managers make more than employees huh? I guess you’re a retail worker 🤡

[@junglesucks965]

Hi team skillup, this might be too much but I would like to request you guys to add the "releasing this week" to the description. Sometimes I remember I want to check out a game from this weeks "this week in vidgam" and then have to scour the video for a while to figure out which one I wanted. Thanks in advance love your show

[@dumat100]

Why are they even making an Until Dawn movie? The whole point of the game was its a cheesy horror movie but you're in control. Take away the control, it's just a cheesy horror movie.

[@ssjbargainsale]

I thought the same thing about the last of us tv show. It was good but, why?

[@OneRandomVictory]

I mean, what's wrong with a cheesy horror movie? Those are the best kind.

[@MightyManotaur22]

easier to adapt something that already exists than it is to write something new

[@chillhour6155]

It may surprise you to learn this but the developers never intended for they're game to be cheesy, they took themselves very seriously, you were supposed to be scaredu

[@selectionn]

@@chillhour6155 err sure, but anyone whos played it (or watched it) knows its not really that scary. its a schlocky 90s horror movie. it has a few scares but so do cheesy horror movies.

[@darrow_andromeda915]

Little miffed about Pierre’s quote about consumption habits. THEY decided to go to live service. All I want is a $70 complete game. This mAkes me doubt them even more.

[@marcusclark1339]

yup, never feel bad about people losing jobs when they made it this way to begin with, they could of done better and chose not to

[@NotTheGaslighter]

to be fair, whether or not Halo turns out to be another live service is not up to Pierre's or any other management at 343's best intentions, Microsoft is slimy when it comes to monetization, especially through Minecraft's Marketplace or through all of the times they've introduced new concepts in the gaming industry solely to nickle and dime the consumer (Xbox Live and Game Pass anyone?)

[@urazz7739]

@@NotTheGaslighter One thing I learned from AAA publishers is that a lot of them don't flat out tell the devs to make really crappy monetization, but have such demands on how much money the games have to make that the devs are pretty much forced to make greedy monetization models to even get a chance to make those demands.

[@toptiertech7291]

⁠@@NotTheGaslighterXbox live and gamepass are the same thing😂 but atleast you get stuff with it. Gamepass has so many games on there that it’s easily worth the money

[@KahranRamsus]

People are just becoming worried about Elder Scrolls 6? Ive been worried about Elder Scrolls since Skyrim. My concern was about how much "RPG" was being cut out of their games. If they keep going on this trajectory, Elder Scrolls, one of the deepest and technical RPG series, might end up just being a shooter without any "RPG" left over. Like Mass Effect 3.

[@valinur4328]

Agreed. I had thousands of hours in Morrowind, hundreds of hours in Oblivion, tens of hours in Skyrim, and an hour in Starfield. I'm going to guess that I'll play ES6 for a minute before I refund it. I was worried about ES with Oblivion because that game felt like such a step down from Morrowind, and it got even worse with Skyrim due to the oversimplification of the games. I don't have any hope left.

[@Dovakinskywalker]

Skyrim was really a step in the wrong direction as far as rpg mechanics but the gameplay was fantastic. Once Fallout 4 came out the copium had no effect on me anymore.

[@KahranRamsus]

@@Dovakinskywalker I enjoyed the story of Skyrim and sunk a lot of time into exploring the world, that's what Bethesda used to be good at after all, but I never felt the need to go back and play it a second time. I explored the game once, magic is gone. Now Bethesda can't even do that right, and they're making their RPG Mechanic intensive games basically not even RPGs. Hard to be excited for that.

[@lordmolag45000]

I enjoyed many, MANY hours into both Skyrim and Fallout 4 (which I'm a big defender of btw, come at me if you dare). So, imagine how excited I was when I played Starfield, only to find out it's as fun as eating stale bread while watching paint dry on a wall. Yeah, to say I was disappointed would be an understatement.

[@lordmolag45000]

@@Dovakinskywalker Fallout 4 had fantastic gameplay as well. Really, it was Fallout 76 where people started to hate Bethesda more than ever. Trust me, I'm one of those people, and Starfield only made it much worse.

[@_gungrave_6802]

Still baffles me that its taken this long for them to greenlight an Alien Isolation 2. The first one is one of if not the best scifi horror games ever released.

[@Endorsememe]

7:42 "Starfield is a technical marvel" the COPIUM

[@mateusgreenwood1096]

Playing darts gets you persecuted with lethal force lol.

[@chaoswraith]

It IS pretty amazing charging to just mod the hell out of your skyrim game..... and it isn't even the best overhaul available

[@toptiertech7291]

@@chaoswraithpeople who say the game is just a Skyrim mod or skin are parrots 😂😂 like what? “These games are the same because the same company makes them”. The gameplay loop, gunplay, movement, music, and visuals are all different. But yeah. Just a mod. I guess Madden is just a fifa mod 🤡

[@alexforce9]

Halo studios are already dead, they just dont know it yet. To rename your company to one of your products is like poking Fate with stick in the eye and not expecting to get smacked. Corporate version of getting a tattoo of your gfs name.

[@iRoppa]

They didn’t reboot Halo. They changed the name of a studio. That’s all. The same incompetent people are still there.

[@andrewjazdzyk1215]

No, they aren't? Like what. Leadership was entirely sacked. Plus they lost a ton of their employees

[@Robbay363]

Did you miss the bit about the leadership changes and new talent?

[@marcusclark1339]

yup, only way it changes is if the core devs and creatives were improved and it hasn't they don't understand Halo cause they aren't the audience for it and it shows in the mindset

[@iRoppa]

@@Robbay363 they've promoted internally. Same people.

[@christianclyne3851]

@@iRoppathe dude who fixed Master Chief Collection is the head now. He also made Infinite way more playable since it came out

[@EdibleClown]

Last of Us got like 3 or 4 versions before Red Dead Redemption got one PC port

[@GameoftheYear-fx4mq]

Nope, only 1. TLOU remastered on PS4 was just a port that released only a few months after the PS3 version. The only real remaster was the recent release on PC.

[@cwj2733]

@@GameoftheYear-fx4mqtlou on ps3, the remaster on ps4, tlou 2 on ps4 and ps5. so yea, there’s 4 versions of tlou before red dead got ONE pc port. that’s ridiculous. sony loves milking naughty dog for all they’re worth

[@aussieseal9979]

@@cwj2733tlou and tlou2 are two seperate games. Unfair to call them 4 seperate versions

[@GameoftheYear-fx4mq]

@@cwj2733 dude they're 2 different games. TLOU 1 and 2 don't count. Only the rerelease which is PS4 and PS5 so that's 2, not 4.

[@cwj2733]

@@GameoftheYear-fx4mq tlou game out on 3 4 and 5

[@snivels]

It ain't the biggest, richest space simulation RPG anyone could imagine, Chief.

[@robbedoflife1828]

Considering NMS has 18 quadrillion planets I would have to say there is no way Bethesda will ever top that

[@oromab]

It's cool that Lost in Cult are sponsoring you, I remember finding out about them through you years ago

[@Muhammad-Jacobs699]

4:25 Wait, there seems to be a massive elephant in the room with that statement. "It's not how it launches, it's what it becomes.", then you go on to reference NoMansSky, Cyberpunk 2077, FF14. These are all games that launched with a strong enough foundation to build off. Starfield cannot become a masterpiece if the entire foundation is the main issue. The game was built in a way that is restricted by their outdated game engine, so main issues, Exploration, The procedural Planets, The Gameplay loop, NPC interactions are literally impossible to fix. The only way to do that would be to change their game-engine or restart Starfield from scratch. Starfield cannot be fixed, period. Even modders gave up trying to figure out Bethesda's convoluted game design methods.

[@Romapolitan]

But he did point out how the problems are fundemental

[@HollowKnight21]

Agree. It was such a huge disappointment when Cyberpunk released broken in 2019, but even then I can see the game's potential to eventually be good. Not the case with Starfield. It is fundamentally bad. It is rotten to the very core. They can go the route of FF14 which is to nuke the entire game, and basically release an entirely new game with the same title. But I doubt Bethesda will do that.

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

Agreed, the loading screens is the real problem and it's inherent to the creation engine.

[@peachy_lili]

@@HollowKnight21 if only Todd and Yoshi P were even in the same solar system as far as love for their supposed passion projects was concerned. Yoshi P would walk across hot coals to give players good FF14 content. idk what is going on with Todd, the leather jackets might be getting too tight these days.

[@arglebargle5531]

FFXIV did not have a strong enough foundation to build off of, which is why they built a new foundation.

[@jimmymaher6778]

I've lost all hype for elder scrolls six unless there massive changes with bethesda it will be a failure as well

[@callmeivan2064]

Correction: The sonic dancing segment was actually in Taiwan, not japan. It was a event day between Wei Chuan Dragons (a taiwanese baseball team) and Sega Arcade to promote the team as well as offering gaming booths to try out the new Sonic X Shadow game with exclusive merch.

[@akinigiri]

Thanks❤ was looking for this comment

[@Philosophical24]

31:28 Gris made me WEEP when I reached its credits, yes I will be purchasing this one

[@novalinnhe]

Still haven't played it (Gris), but recently got it in my library so I'm gonna have to sit down with it at some point! It does truly look incredible, your comment reminded me that I've gotta get around to it ASAP!

[@sindri1447]

Nah I'm sorry but 343 deserves to get sacked. The fact that this studio still has sole access to the Halo franchise means that Xbox leadership is filled with nothing but brain rot. It's so freaking stupid.

[@dragonflight2468]

32:07 This is how you know Skill up never played Devil May Cry since this is A) Doesn't have a sytle meter B) Not a hack and slash/character action C) DANTE ISNT THE ONE WITH THE GRAPPLE HOOK, CLOSEST IS NERO. THEY GAVE DANTE ONE ONLY IN THE AWFUL REBOOT.

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

Movement felt like dishonored to me

[@gustavo.lampert]

@@zilliq-qz5uw The character movement bounce is very similar to Dishonored, like an exagerated version of it, yes!!!

[@gunnarschlichting9886]

Yeah, I got 0 DMC vibes from that, a total "WTF" from me there. I would have compared it to Neon White myself.

[@Scruntus]

5:07 I've already been feeling this way leading up to Starfield's launch. Todd kept talking about this game and how it was going to be a return to form, a game like Morrowind. That this is a game he's been wanting to make for a while. Starfield just isn't that, not even close. It's somehow worse than Skyrim. I am not optimistic for TES6 at all. But I'd love to be proven wrong somehow

[@KickinRadTopHat]

Can’t tell if it’s just empty corpo speak or if Todd is genuinely that delusional.

[@LogicalError007]

Return to form? Wasn't their last game Fallout 4. Loved my many and rated highly.

[@johnson24811]

Have you seen the creatures that are in control of Halo now holy shit

[@slainetroyard9004]

No. Cyberpunk updates free. No mans sky updates free. FF14 a realm reborn free. These updates that made the game better were all free. Bethesda shipped a paid update that did not improve.

[@SageOfLimitlessHands]

Cyberpunk DLC is not free. Yes they had updates but none of that was story content. FF14 was a compete shift for what was a complete failure of a game and all expansions have been paid for. This was not just an update for Starfield.

[@slainetroyard9004]

@@SageOfLimitlessHands Your very first sentence. DLC. Did I say DLC or did I say updates? fk off

[@toptiertech7291]

Updates and DLC are different

[@orbpondererer]

am i the only one starting to get burnt out on the samey looking unreal engine 5 games like dont get me wrong they look good but they look the same everytime

[@sleepfgc]

They do look all the same 😢

[@garyhall2344]

are you really complaining that unreal games look good?

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

I wouldn't say Nightingale, Fortnite, The Finals, Satisfactory and Black Myth Wukong all look the same yet they all use UE5. Don't blame the engine, blame the designers

[@dr_diddy]

​@@garyhall2344graphics 📈📈📈 optimisation 📉📉📉 UE is trash 😭, I'm sick of these shader comps

[@sleepfgc]

@@garyhall2344 Personally I dont think they even look good, all of them have that hyperrealism baked into them that I find very unappealing.

[@garythecyclingnerd6219]

Ubisoft should go private. It seems arts companies don’t do well as public, shareholder driven companies.

[@toptiertech7291]

I mean private isn’t better because the goal is always money in business. Unless a company is ok with not making as much money as they could then it’s going to have the same problem. Also video games aren’t art. They are business

[@garythecyclingnerd6219]

@@toptiertech7291 it’s orders of magnitude easier to get a long term goal done in private companies

[@toptiertech7291]

@@garythecyclingnerd6219 the long term goal for every company private or public is to make money. Look at Bethesda. Someone talked about in this video. They are a private company. Are they making better takes than Ubisoft? Not really

[@garythecyclingnerd6219]

@@toptiertech7291 The objective of a public company is to maximize shareholder value. This is the first lesson of business school. Cash flows can be entirely divorced from shareholder value. Look at Tesla, their price to earnings ratio is an order of magnitude greater than GM. However, GM takes in significantly more revenue, and their fundamentals are vastly superior, yet they’re valued less. Large public companies are now engaging in very short sighted behavior in an effort to drive hype and stock value. Ubisoft believed they could do this by hyping investors on games as a service, on predatory DRM, and other anti-consumer behavior. The hype didn’t work because their game suck, their fundamentals fell, and investors bailed to the next company. There were probably hedge funds who made a cool profit off Ubisoft’s failing too. It’s become difficult to convince a board and voting investors to stake $150M on a new IP that won’t have a guaranteed mechanism for ongoing revenue like a large single player game or complete multiplayer experience. A private company can have a 5 year plan and not answer to shareholders looking for a 6-12 month 2x ROI. Bethesda sucks because their leaders have too much power internally and suck at their jobs. They’re owned by MS now and they should kick Todd Howard to the curb.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Eh, I don't really get any context of "Starfield in many ways is the best game we've ever made" It doesn't look all that great visually, gameplay is laughable, story is forgettable, and its just as buggy and glitchy as the rest of Bethesda's catalogue. I genuinely don't know why anyone would use that phrasing for any aspect of this _product_ There's got to be an idiom even more aggressive than "Tallest kid in Kindergarten" because the praise they're trying to damn this game with is fainter than the most distant stars in our universe.

[@TheNotSoLoneWanderer]

Yeah, it's wild that people are praising the graphics. They're serviceable and possibly the best Bethesda graphics, but judged against its peers they're not worth mentioning. The art direction is incredibly bland. They don't have a single piece of apparel that can share the same room as a suit of Desert Ranger armor from New Vegas.

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

They probably spent millions on the creation engine to make starfield "work" and now they have to justify this investment. In a technical way it's probably the best game they made, but it's still far below the level of any competitor using UE5

[@Sanzen]

huh? the texture work is some of the best in the industry and it's the least buggy game in BGS history by a long shot. you can tell by the miniscule changelogs in the patches that modders make. i swear it's like half of the people parroting these critiques haven't even played the game

[@rioplats]

@@TheNotSoLoneWanderer I think the NASA-punk aesthetic for ship design is actually pretty remarkable - interiors look fantastic. And the UC heavy marine spacesuit is pretty standout in terms of armour design, with neat details like the asymmetrical plating. But overall, yeah, a lot of the other stuff looks kind of thrown together and bland - I think a lot due to the massive amount of outsourcing done for assets, with lack of a clear creative direction for the IP.

[@selectionn]

@@TheNotSoLoneWanderer "the best bethesda graphics"... the jokes write themselves. I dont even need to say anything more

[@maxramos6590]

Just one thing in 29:25 sparking zero is not a spiritual succesor is the forth entry in the saga, it just chage his name to the japanese one budekai tenkaichi was the american name.

[@Evanz111]

“The Guardian were a little kinder but still gave it a 2 out of 5 stars” is a WILD statement. Do better, game devs 😅

[@mysteriousfox88]

keep defending bad devs and theyll keep churning out shit followed by mass layoffs

[@rd-um4sp]

Unless these devs are self publishing, it is bad publishers! Those who hold the money control the launch! Stop blaming devs for bad publisher decisions

[@Arrestedrabbit]

​@rd-um4sp stop shielding people from their own bad decisions. Management sets the scope and budget which the publisher approves. That these people can't handle project management is not the publishers fault.

[@rd-um4sp]

yes, because publishers are such wholesome and generous people that they see a cool project and just throw money at it. Still their fault for throwing money into the unknown. I know there are devs that are bad at financial management and keeping deadlines. Heck, If i was a publisher that'd be my default assumption until proven otherwise and if I want any sort of success I have to keep tabs on everything that was promised. It is called due diligence and market analysis and feedback and follow up. It is called project management and if you are dealing with an unknown team you, as the owner of the money, need to do those things. There are cases where the blame lies with the devs, no doubt about it. I think Starfield is the perfect example: There is some responsibility on MS$ side but I'd say most of the blame lies with BGS. That is an exception, not the rule. But we are in an era of lack of accountability and _limitation_ _of_ _liability_ and publishers will do anything to avoid that. No deal for me: release too early, too many bugs, excessive monetization, overbudget, underperformed: that is all on the publisher.

[@proy3]

Alcohol poisoning speedrun: Take a shot every time ShillUp says "mighty".

[@kiros2032]

sudden death extra rule: take an additional shot when he says "...below the like button"

[@TheMitcher707]

Every time he says "bar switch". Liver failure incoming.

[@wishYouTubeAccount]

lol “mighty” is a rating category on open critic; it says more about the number of good games coming out than skillup’s script writing

[@Faust_YT]

Rebooting Halo while keeping everyone especially the heads who made the joke what it is today is crazy.😂

[@LogicalError007]

Those people are gone. Want the whole leadership removed with many layoffs?

[@NotTheGaslighter]

​@@LogicalError007 343's contractors will be gone just as quickly as leadership could possibly be shuffled up again at that godforsaken company, how Microsoft thinks staff morale and a cohesive game can be produced through a majority of non-employees who will only inevitably be laid off 18 months after they've been onboarded, idk

[@LogicalError007]

@@NotTheGaslighter You think only Microsoft uses contractors? Everyone in software development uses contractors. They aren't hired but contacted. State law stated that either you hire those contractors or let them go off their contractors. Even Nintendo users contractors. It's the stupid state law that forces them to lose their contacts after 18 months. 343 have around 400 plus employees that's more than enough to make a AAA game. Contractors are just used to speed up the process. Ofc, Microsoft doesn't want to hire more when the studio itself is that big and they already have 220k people employed.

[@seymorbuns5363]

26:22 Cats and Dogs living together, mass hysteria!

[@AfroMozes]

Thank you guys for always making a satisfying show ...

[@susss60]

A name change and an ad to attract talent for future projects. That's what it took to get many hyped for Halo... why? No players should care what engine a game is made in so the UE announcement shouldn't make people excited. It's still the same people at the studio, minus a few higher-ups. Hopefully they attract good talent so future games are better than what we have gotten the last 12 years.

[@samreddig8819]

Unreal is a popular engine. Meaning there's more devs who know how to use it. Halo has been using a proprietary engine since the Bungie days. And after the overhaul for infinite (I think that's a whole new engine actually), it made it harder to hire new talent. As nobody knew how to use the engine.

[@daftpunk672]

@@samreddig8819the only issue with the slipspace engine was the high turnover rate of the contract devs. If they hired actual employees then it would have been fine. The environment in UE5 looks great but the mk5 armor they showed off at the end looked terrible though so hopefully that can get fixed with different material shaders.

[@ALDO_GOODENS]

The Halo rebranding taught me that if any company wants to change their reputation, just slap a new logo sticker on the door and all will be forgiven! See EA and Ubisoft! Just change your names to AE and Sobiuft, and your entire history will be forgiven and forgotten, like magic!

[@dr_diddy]

​@@daftpunk672yh alot of people don't understand a big issue with 343. They hired contractors, their engine was primarily made by contractors so when they left they took the knowledge with them. They moved to UE5 which just means contractors won't have to relearn so much. I really hope they aren't keeping this mentality or we'll just get the same trash

[@tweda4]

​@@dr_diddy They'd have to be insane to think that their ridiculous contractor scam system proved to be a good idea in the long run, so I'd hope they've seen the light and will treat their employees properly. Emphasis on hope. (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠;⁠)

[@onemorescout]

It’s funny because Halo has been so bad over the last decade that Halo fans dying during the next game’s development is a legitimate concern for 34- I mean, Halo Studios. It’s not like they’ve gotten new fans when a full generation and a half of new gamers have grown up without a popular or well-loved Halo game.

[@Saufzwergin]

Yeah, which is sad to think about it, not just halo but all the 360 era of gaming will probably not be touch by the later generations.

[@toptiertech7291]

Are you at risk of dying before 40 ?

[@Ghostbody]

Was thrown off when I didn't see the Shill Up update yesterday, glad to see it today.

[@jeagerkej3171]

“You are probably a Japanese baseball fan” *shows footage in Taiwan*

[@danieljohn9257]

Steam review for This Week In Vidyagames: A smart, matter-of-factly written tubecast that hits the bullseye when you agree with what Skillz is saying and how he is relaying it. Which thankfully is the vast majority of the time, but quite insufferable otherwise. One of the best videogame-centered tubecasts you will find! 🤙🏼

[@toptiertech7291]

Thank you. Someone who gets it 😂😂 he’s a good guy. Good voice. Reads well. But if you don’t agree with his points then he can sound overly opinionated. I still love watching this show

[@Viridye]

Is Sony allergic to money?

[@Ender11037]

No, allergic to kindness.

[@saschaberger3212]

They still make profit. There's something you don't see in the background. I doubt a company successful over decades just decides one day to play amateur hour.

[@Badmunky64]

It's going to take a LOT before I get my hopes up again for Halo.

[@FlammableAirFreshener]

Sony's biggest fear is a first party game under 30$ or without a subscription fee.

[@FlammableAirFreshener]

Just to add - xbox's greatest fear is a studio they can't shut down, and Nintendo's greatest fear is leaving a single dollar they could make even by abusing KZbin's takedown systems unmade.

[@toptiertech7291]

Why would they release a game under $30? Do you know how much they spend on those games? It’s 2024. $30 would make zero sense. I feel like you just said that because you couldn’t think of a real downside for Sony first party games 😂 The Last of Us, God of War, Spider-Man, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, Demon Souls, Horizon Zero. They are amazing single player games with good stories, gameplay, no live service, no microphone. Just good games. And you want those to be $30?

[@MarigoldAW]

Am I insane or can it really be this hard to make a good game? It can't be this impossible for these well funded studios

[@wol_ves]

"MLB The Show from notable Xbox publisher Playstation Studios" haha this actually made me laugh. I love the little bits of comedy/snark you sneak into these videos!

[@1000Tomatoes]

32:21 Ah yes, Dantes famous grappling hook.

[@tiagocosmos]

"Starfield has it's own unique personality"? Yeah it's called BLAND. The blandest, most boring Sci-fi setting ever put into a videogame, or in any form of fiction media, ever. The only thing more boring than Starfield is the real life dystopia we currently live in. WTF is that guy on?

[@toptiertech7291]

Dystopias would actually be the complete opposite of bland and boring 😂😂 maybe learn words before you throw them around

[@lengeyart]

Best game Bethesda have made was Fallout: New Vegas... *OH WAIT!*

[@icantthinkofagoodusername4464]

4:25 There's a key point missing here for the whole "You can patch it until it's good" argument. Cyberpunk 2077 post-launch got small bits of additional content that acted as a sweetener but, by the time Edgerunners created the positive sentiment required to convince people to retry the game, it was the base game that they enjoyed now that it was uncompromised by bugs and performance problems, plus enough time had passed for people to judge the game separated from what pre-launch marketing promised. The surrounding issues needed addressing, but under all that there was a good game. No Man's Sky changed it's public perception through post-launch changes entirely and at launch wasn't enjoyable for most regardless of bugs, but a lot of its issues at launch were due to time constraints that didn't allow Hello Games to execute on the core vision for the game that was promised. Today, while it's almost entirely transformed from what it was at release, No Man's Sky is still built upon that original vision and concept. The game was flawed, but the vision was good and there was at least a foundation and design that once built upon could eventually realise it. Final Fantasy 14 as it released was bad, full-stop. It took a lot of support for the game to keep the players it still had and required the creation of an entirely new game in a different engine to replace it before more players would return. You can't fairly expect that kind of self-reinvention from Starfield; the development task is absurdly large and the game doesn't have the revenue streams an MMO or live service has that'd justify development costs. An attempt at reinventing parts of the base game could maybe be possible, but from what's been said by Bethesda leadership like Todd Howard and Emil Pagliarulo in interviews it seems like they wouldn't want the game to be any different in the first place. That'd be fine if the base game's flaws were purely bugs and performance or its core vision and design were sound enough to allow for a better game to be built upon it, but neither is true. Bethesda can't patch it like Cyberpunk, can't build upon it like No Man's Sky, and leadership are willingly blind to the fundamental problems. Leadership's ignorance of problems specifically is the most concerning part. That statement made by Emil has not been misinterpreted to be worse than it is. The statement that Starfield is in certain ways the best Bethesda game made can be considered true for graphical features and procedural generation specifically, but that excuse doesn't cut it. I'm sorry but Assassin's Creed 3 had a global illumination system for its open world in 2012, PBR shaders existed in games at the same time Bethesda struggled to approximate just the PBR workflow for Fallout 4 and, even if you ignore how the focus on procedurally generated worlds has damaged the over all design and UX of Starfield, the game's procedural generation is matched or even outshined by what was seen in No Man's Sky's original launch in 2016. They were falling behind the industry's standards for these things and more a decade ago but there was an element of exploration to their games that made them more than the sum of mediocre parts. Their refusal to admit to the flaws caused by the removal of that element and those mediocre parts now revealed makes hopes for improvement seem pretty dire.

[@actionboy3221]

1:26 what are they possibly going to do to fix AC: Shadows? Those games have a formula that everyone is tired of. They’re going to change all of that in a few months? Unless it was about to launch with crazy bugs and they need to fix that, I think the delay is pointless.

[@Unf0rget]

Starfield so bad that I actually worry if es6 will achieve even half of skyrim's modding interest. Simplification and broad appeal have limits before you start to have no appeals or discernible gameplay to enjoy and boy howdy, Bethesda has fucking leapt over that line. Cross your fingers guys. In the meanwhile time to start brainstorming how more of the already lean design of skyrim can be trimmed down. Having to choose a stat to raise with each level? New players might not understand that! It's gotta go!

[@marcusclark1339]

yup, combine with mod sites that take an agenda stance it there's no real hook for it anymore they took it for granted and it shows

[@toptiertech7291]

Bethesda doesn’t make games. They make platforms and hope that people will mod the game to the point people want to play it

[@pixelfodder]

"Best game Bethesda has made" I'd agree, but when you're the one in class that just got a D+ instead of a D-, I wouldn't call that a win.

[@LogicalError007]

No way you're saying that even they inspired the whole industry.

[@pixelfodder]

@@LogicalError007 you're saying starfield inspired the whole industry?

[@LogicalError007]

@@pixelfodder Do you read what you write? You said, "I'd agree, but when you're the one in the class that just got a D+ instead of D- , I wouldn't call that a win." Are you saying their old games are D-? Cause that's what you're implying there when their other games have inspired the whole industry. How would Starfield inspire the whole industry in 1 year? That's an illogical statement.

[@pixelfodder]

@@LogicalError007 the irony of your name 😂 Not the old games, they were great. But they've stopped pushing the boundaries and other game makers have caught up and surpassed.

[@LogicalError007]

@@pixelfodder Your comment literally means they have made bad games.

[@AndrewsDaveAU]

Todd Howard also said it We have a totally now IP. When in fact, it was just a poor reskin of an old product

[@KeyboardSavant]

I cannot believe that Backyard Baseball '97 didn't get a highlight reel here. Truly devastating.

[@Scyths1]

Bethesda coming in hot with zero innovations and the same facial and character animations as Oblivion lmao. Color me surprised that people have zero expectations for the next Elder Scrolls game.

[@toptiertech7291]

Yet middle aged nerds are still going to buy the game on release day because they want to feel how they did when they were 15-16

[@ImogenSimmons-ow4ej]

This soundtrack is fire, great choice!

[@xSkail]

honestly star field was like a prime example of brand loyalty it released and all the bethesda fanboys spread the good word online and like 3 weeks later everyone hated the game cuz it turns out to be pretty mid if u take the bethesda brand away

[@toptiertech7291]

Then that’s on people buying it after only listening to fanboys 😂

[@iamtrunks0426]

Missed ya Ralph! Hope you’re feeling better!

[@WilliamCSalt]

I don’t usually care for ads, but that outer wilds thing at the start looks so cool i want it!

[@jyphelballet7569]

FF14 was not an update or dlc, it was a complete new game, having being labelled ff14 . But they add reborn, because it was complete new game, made from scratch. And by the way, what in a "technical marvel",was bad interpreted...stop defending the undefendable. As Bioware.And take a look, as if the graphism was the problem of Halo. You can make mediocre game with good graphism.

[@TyaColo]

It’s always hilarious to me how Atlus has creative and interesting monster designs on a regular basis and then almost all of their human characters for the past decade + have been the same 3 faces with different hairstyles and they even repeat the hairstyles in other games like 😭😭 the contrast lol

[@marcusclark1339]

yup

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Silent Hill 2 remake being better than it was ever possible, Alien Isolation getting a sequel, Ubisoft going down faster than player numbers for Concord, it's like this timeline is trying to heal itself and I am all for it.

[@Pestigirioso]

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero is an actual successor of the Budokai Tenkaichi saga. Thing is that in the western world it was named as "Budokai Tenkaichi", while in eastern world is always was "Sparking".

[@Ghosthacker94]

Seeing an ad for Lost in Cult just as I'm on the way to 5hr middleman courier's office to get my parcel of their magazine, lock-on issues #2-5 is funny but also good to see

[@boydthames1460]

0:44 I would be broke if any GOOD games came out this month

[@Disconnis]

For real 🤣

[@nathanquinn8273]

Yeaaah exactly what i was thinking lol😅

[@KahranRamsus]

Just Metaphor for me. Everything else is bargain bin or less at this point.

[@reapersasmr5483]

Yeah I bot buying any of those . Cod is on GP and the others are not worth 20 bucks but might try them when they are 20 or less

[@toptiertech7291]

Everyone is different. I’m not a fan but people really seem to like Sparking Zero

[@Zarsz9523]

I personally really enjoy Starfield, and I have been enjoying Shattered Space. It's just not gonna be for everyone. It's become my confort game, though

[@novalinnhe]

Glad you're enjoying it! :)

[@shadowofnoc5760]

Wanna know why Starfield is boring? Because I instantly recognize and know all the layouts of every single POI you (and other youtubers) show whenever they talk about the game while footage plays in the background.

[@TaIlonIV]

U don't wanna hear about it? Don't watch a video about gaming news.

[@shadowofnoc5760]

@@TaIlonIV Huh?

[@SuperAlatreon-2]

​@@TaIlonIV when the guy who thinks he had a "gotcha" reply comment actually failed to understand the original point 😅

[@Frayme11]

20 hours into the base game a year ago ...same

[@LastRookie]

​@@TaIlonIV I think you need to reread shadowofnoc's comment again, carefully this time.

[@mambomasterK]

What an amazing sponsor to this videos! Gonna browse their store right away

[@trishamiller7859]

Ty for the vid. Got this while sitting in the dark, sweating, waiting for power restoration in Tampa.

[@Nayrock]

Too bad Halo Studios is being ran by the same kinds of idiots that ruined Halo in the first place. I suspect the next halo game will be even worse than Infinite judging by the new management...