Starfield Revealed | A Procedurally Generated Walking Simulator

After years of hype, speculation and waiting, finally the gaslighting has arrived. Starfield is coming out next year apparently, and so far it looks like No Mans Sky crossed with a woke walking simulator. I will let you be the judge. Just make sure to wait a few weeks after launch before buying it.
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[@thekotabear3262]

This aged like the sweetest fine wine. I keep checking your channel for the starfield review.

[@13skiba]

You and me both. Had to watch this again.

[@Starspecter1]

Same. Starfield is cheeks. Can't believe the hype had me going man. Uninstalled after 40 hours of wasted time.

[@thekotabear3262]

@Starspecter1 you're a strong willed person. I refunded after an hour and a half

[@jimjohnson6944]

Turns out, the best Starfield review came out a year before it got released.

[@1786crafty]

Spot on

[@BungieStudios]

It looked like a more boring ripoff of Space Engineers, and Space Engineers got boring fast.

[@VentureCAM]

Lmao fr

[@sharkusaurelius1591]

Amazing. You basically reviewed the entire game a year before it launched based on the trailer. This has aged like a fine wine

[@BungieStudios]

Anybody that played Starforge or Space Engineers could have told you Starfield was going to suck.

[@1786crafty]

It is actually truly outstanding how accurate 21Kiloton was. Breaking down what he says in the video, He is spot on with almost everything.

[@mavseveneightnine7379]

you can feel the fo4 frame drops through the trailer lmfao

[@Jinrou_Yumeno]

Exactly

[@kova1711]

You would think they would learn after all this time…

[@Grobut81]

Someone once told Howard: Why fix what ain't broken. Sadly, he did not hear the "ain't" part.

[@kova1711]

@Kia El I could never bring myself to finish it

[@OoO-rf2gt]

Feeling frame rates lol.

[@negan2714]

As long as Emil Pagliarulo has a say in the writing just plan on crap stories. We can just expect paper airplanes as the story.

[@toolshedvideo]

Considering that Fallout 76 is still missing promised features, anyone who believes anything Todd Howard says about Starfield is a gullible fool.

[@21Kiloton]

Damn straight mate. If Todd Howard told me I was on fire I would wait until I could smell burning clothes before reacting. Good to see you fella. I hope all is well in Toolshed land.

[@Archangelm127]

Sound words as usual. We miss you, Coach!

[@tjroelsma]

Evere since the fans started patching and improving the Fallout games, Bethesda seems to have adopted the style of "why bother making it good from the start? The fans will solve all the problems." They must be one of the most lazy, no f***s given game developers out there.

[@TheRestInPeace]

Cant believe you´re here....why stopped uploading vids?

[@johankotze727]

Its like you people only read what you want to read. The reason Fallout76 exists in the first place is because the shareholders at bethesda saw what other online games where making and decided fallout is the perfect game for that shit. It is also widely claimed that none of the devs and pronect managers actually wanted to make the game in the first place because thats not what bethesda does best. Well those same shareholders then sold Bethesda because it wasn't making the profits they wanted to, they basically squeezed fallout 76 out to get their money before selling. Fallout 76 would never have existed under ms. And you can call me a shill but it is facts and you dont have to look far to find these facts. So how do you blame todd Howard for making a game he didnt want to make in the first place and now say all Bethesda games going forward is going to be shit? Like they are not even under the same ownership anymore. So basically everyone is saying a game Bethesda and the devs at bethesda realy want to make is going to be shit due to their last game that they didnt want to make being shit.? Like explain that. And before you say but fallout 4 was shit, just go back and play it again, because its not at all, its the best sales a fallout game has ever gotten and its realy such a fucking goof game. And i dont realy care about bugs because thats why modders exists. Noe people are gonna say but modders shouldnt be the ones fixing the issue and to that i say why the hell do you care who fixes it if it gets fixed? Like should i not buy a game because modders had to fix it? I wish more companies where as modder friendly as bethesda games. Maybe cyberpunk wouldnt have bombed. I also expect the next witcher game to be insane btw, so this is not just love to bethesda. Its like you people dont understand that mistakes can happen. I dont think we're being overpromosed by bethesda aswell since we really know very little about the game at this point. Its also like we ignore the fact that game development has gotten much much harder over thr last 10 years, teams are much bigger than in the past and details arr so much higher and easier to get wrong.

[@TheJudge1933]

Re watching this for the Nostradamus predictions

[@davedogge2280]

Using a 2008 game engine with a new sci-fi video game skin ..... "It just works !!".

[@OriginalStachuJones]

Softworks (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

[@Mirthful_Midori]

Morrowind came out in 2002. This engine is over twenty years old now and it really shows.

[@Grobut81]

@@Mirthful_Midori Many engines are about that old, that's not unusual. However, those engines are not the same engine anymore, they have been continually updated and upgraded over the years, their data streaming methods completely redesigned, how they handle terrain has been updated and optimized, new technologies have been implimented, new and better ways to do things have been discovered and incorporated to boost both performance and expand their capabillities. Except for Bethesda's engine... it is fundamentally still the same engine today that it was back in 2002, and it wasen't even a good engine back then. What in the actual hell!? Why are they still using this thing? Why have they never fixed or upgraded it? They have done almost nothing to this engine. There have been some minor updates to the animation system, new effects have been added to the renderer, the script-engine has been replaced with an even worse script engine (Papyrus!?!? Really!?!?!? This is what you went with Bethesda? In a videogame engine? PAPYRUS!?!? WHY!? Ok... deep breaths... it's just a post traumatic flashback to modding Skyrim... it will pass... find your calm...), and that's pretty much it. They haven't even added basic functionality to this thing like climbable ladders. Forget about data streaming optimization, they haven't even gotten to ladders yet. Of course, that should shock no one, because they haven't even fixed critical bugs with the engine which have existed since Morrowind. When Bethesda adopted the Gamebryo engine to make Morrowind, they were on the verge of bankruptsy, so Morrowind had to be rushed out, and many many shortcuts had to be taken, so they created many a bug in their rushjob to adapt the engine. Ok, that's understandable, but of course, when you then use the engine again to make Oblivion, you fix those problems, right?.... no?.... But you fix it when you use the engine again to make Fallout-3, surely? .... no? And not for Skyrim either? Fallout-4? ....Still nothing? Ohh but obviously you'll fix it when you take the engine Online for a multiplayer Fallout game, right?.... no? ... Still not fixed in 76? Ohhh... Ok then. :( But this time they will do it right! Right?.... yeah no, i don't belive that for a second either. Starfield is going to have all the same problems, and then some. I garuentee it. We've already seen that the game runs like crap, just like Fo4 and 76 did (because it's 2002 tech being brute-forced to run on modern hardware), they coulden't even get smooth-60 gameplay for a pre-recorded gameplay teaser, dispite the game's graphics looking like it'd be at home on last-gen Consoles. Now that should scare you.

[@whateveryousaygroomer131]

All game engines are from even earlier than that. COD is made on an engine that's 20 years old. "New" game engines are never new.

[@whateveryousaygroomer131]

@@Grobut81 I mean, the game has a year before it launches, I assume they are not just going to sit around and do nothing for that long. But Each game is progressively less buggy, FO4 had no major and hardly even minor bugs that I know of and I put in 1500 hours in that game. Every game as big as a BGS game has way more bugs. Although it did need more polish for PC. No game has no bugs these days and nothing the size of these games has less bugs, so..

[@Melmullo1992]

aged like a 15 year Macallan, praises be to the distiller

[@gregstacy4498]

It looks interesting, but my expectations for really any new games on the horizon are miserably low

[@blakbear6528]

I'm looking forward to indies and re releases of old games more than new games nowadays and that's just sad

[@johndodo2062]

Two words.... Atomic Heart

[@johndodo2062]

@@blakbear6528 I think you might be looking at the wrong games then

[@Yarblocosifilitico]

I have high expectations for Kenshi 2 and XCOM 3. But that's about it.

[@blakbear6528]

@@johndodo2062 ok, tell me what new games that are not indies, elden ring or remakes that came out lately are good ?

[@Sgt.ArchDornan]

Hey you called it, the game is exactly as you said it would be but its even worse than you imagine

[@deralbtraumritter8573]

At this point, can we honestly believe anything Todd Godd "Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies" Howard says? I'm waiting for the video that says: "Unlimited dialog, 16 times the detail, dynamic weather recreation".

[@-plskn7327]

I feel you, still it won't be on playstation 😁

[@agent01soul]

So much playstation butt hurt.

[@bricaaron3978]

@@agent01soul So much XBox yeast infection.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

He wasn't lying... within 6 months the modders DID make that happen for him... 🤣🤣🤣

[@EQOAnostalgia]

@@bricaaron3978 Both suck, get a PC. Join the master race BIOTCHES!

[@Label07]

Starfield = 1 part - Cyberpunk 2077 combat 1 part - No Man's Sky gathering 1 part - Mass Effect Adromeda jumping All bad things, will definitely wait for reviews for this game.

[@kluafoz]

I can't fucking wait for your official after launch review❤❤❤❤

[@michaelnapper4565]

I think he's already done I here. He would literally be saying the exact same thing lol

[@90lancaster]

I'm sorry but the little imaginary Marinette Dupain-Cheng that lives rent free inside my head is having kittens at the state of the woman's outfit right now !

[@21Kiloton]

Frame this comment in the context that I think Sarah Bond is possibly the most attractive women in the gaming industry, and I interupted a session of writing love poems to her in order to respond to what you said ..... but yes .... If she rode on to the stage on a donkey, wearing a gingham bonnet, humming the theme tune to Little House on the Prairie, I still dont think anyone would have noticed the donkey because they would have been too busy staring at that fucking dreadful denim fashion crime. It worries me that a tripleA publishers wardrobe department might think "this will resonate with gamers". I cant say with certainty if me and Sarah Bond will ever get married, but if we do, I hope she understands why I reported her denim dress to the police. You are also kindly invited to be an usher.

[@MrScratch69]

@@21Kiloton I'll work the bar for you 👍

[@greatgameplayswalkthroughs660]

38:36 - LIMITTED base building ??? See : "Outpost Airlock 1/2" , "Small Hex Hab 1/2", "Hydroponic Hab Round 2/2"

[@r390gt1lm]

@@21Kiloton Sarah Bond? You got very low standards lol

[@90lancaster]

@@21Kiloton Thanks dude, Oh and when I momentarily couldn't recall Jade Redmond's name and put in "Assassin's Creed developer hottie" Mr. Google to refresh my memory the search engine knew exactly who I meant :) So yeah she springs to mind as someone hot in the games industry... but I swear I read somewhere she used to be a spokes model - no idea if that is true or an urban myth though.... I do know they used to like advertising the franchise with her pleasant face as much as possible when she was part of that set up .... Though I have hear the odd thing more recently about her recent activities - sometimes from you. She's still a fine looking woman though I note - however she got the job and however good she is at it now compared to when she was hired... In a way it might be worse if she was always qualified and they just made use of her face as she was a looker.

[@Gorbz]

In terms of worlds, they have said there will be 1000 worlds, and 4 cities. This means there will be 4 quest hubs, and 996 procedural maps.

[@XIIIStefanC]

underrated comment I see this problem in every procedural generated maps or planets ...

[@BlueBD]

This is a lot about what people are complaigning about but you know the fanatics will defend literally anyhting. We want the game to be good, but these numbers and ALL of bethesdas past history does not make this seem good and seems more like "16x the detail" part 3 space boogaloo Can you really expect 1000 Hand crafted worlds? If your going to be Really Realistic, and i Mean Realistic in the sense of Actual Dev abiltiies. then 4 Handcrafted worlds are too much. 4 worlds BTW out of 1000 is 0.4% thats less then 1 percent of all the worlds in the game

[@Gorbz]

@@BlueBD Infinate quests, with the depth of a puddle. Go to [planet] and kill [faction]. Well done! Now do it again.

[@Ghst-hl8fl]

My god you know nothing

[@prezzeruk4054]

Cant believe how quickly fans are believing the drivvel he spews. Again!!

[@beCoCOi]

Buyer regret incoming.

[@TheMrDewil]

I feel you, bro. But alas, not everyone can be smart, patient, skeptical and most of all reasonable.

[@40proofbleach81]

Todd is the modern snake oil ceo

[@kizoaoy7423]

1000 planets Press x

[@kevinthecleric]

@@40proofbleach81 unfortunately, Goop already exists on this planet. It seems to be filled with more bs than Todd Howard

[@justaclone7439]

The only part of this game I am looking forward to is watching Todd "tell me lies" Howard and Pete "snake oil" Hines try to spin this disaster of a game after launch.

[@Grobut81]

I've already bought tickets to see the Internet Historians video on this game. It's going to be amazing.

[@mobspeak]

Can't wait to watch this Titanic sink.

[@ZorkasIshmael]

Ah Pete "snake oil" Hines A.K.A Pete "not the lore guy" Hines

[@mw2605]

The only thing sadder than watching games quality tank while the technology to play them on gets better is watching people still hype themselves up after being fooled so many times.

[@jager9633]

My prediction: Todd is counting on modders to populate the other 999 planets churned out by the generator with actual interesting shit. Not only will modders fix the game, they'll finish it too.

[@MrScratch69]

Yep as usual.

[@Assassin5671000]

I wonder when will the modding community have enough and don't bother with fixing Bethesda games or make content for them since their previous efforts haven't been implemented in the games or gave Bethesda ideas how they can fix their games

[@marc-andrerenaud1394]

Then once the mods are really good, they will be folded into a Creator's Club and the game will be patched to block achievement progress if mods are active...

[@OrbitalShell]

...it's always been.

[@Grobut81]

@@Assassin5671000 A lot of us jumped ship when they did that whole "paid mods" fiasco with Skyrim. Many more walked away over the Creation Club breaking our mods in Skyrim:SE and Fo4. There has already been a decimation of the modding community, and i doubt this game will fix that.

[@realLINKON]

the only channel on YT that made me watch 1+ hrs and love it. Funny and anti woke? Subscribed!

[@titolovely8237]

my thoughts when i first saw the demo was that the game was still 5 years away from being ready. it looked like a pre alpha from a kickstarter campaign.

[@21Kiloton]

Well said. During editing and after reviewing the video before publishing, I also noted multiple micro-edits. Even the "gameplay footage" segments are spliced together. If you look really closely some of them have almost indetectable cuts where a few seconds of footage is spliced to a few more seconds of footage. Check out the scene where the player character opens the door..... its not contiguous.... the door changes colour as it opens. Its an edit.

[@davelanger]

clown

[@titolovely8237]

@@21Kiloton yea for how extremely edited and overproduced the demo was, it still looked worryingly undeveloped.

[@lucifer0247]

@@21Kiloton cause they had 15 minutes time. Of course they have to cut stuff, if they wanna show as much as possible in 15 minutes lol

[@bricaaron3978]

@@lucifer0247 *"Of course they have to cut stuff, if they wanna show as much as possible in 15 minutes lol"* Read again. This time Eyes Open and Brain On.

[@hunterkiller1984]

Hello. I come from the future. The game is mid tier load screen simulator. Kind regards.

[@DamoBloggs]

I'm sorry, but I simply can't believe a single word that comes out of Mr. Howard's mouth anymore. He is a spent resource. Nice one Kilo, yet again proving yourself to be a skilled game industry pathologist with a keen eye, a steady hand, and a wickedly sharp scalpel!

[@brownpleasure9320]

kilo is a pessimistic twat, sad depressed person. OK, you dont believe tod howard anymroe cause they made 1.....just 1 game that didnt follow the fans expectations. fallout 76. wow. that 1 game really destroyed your whole world huh ? even though they have a list of 15 game of the year trippl AAA games before fallout 76

[@arc00ta]

Somehow I'm reminded of one of the Star Wars novels (I want to say it was a Rogue Squadron one) where they talked about mapping the Unknown Regions, and one guys says "You know, if you keep mapping them you're going to have to call them something else, right?".

[@OriginalStachuJones]

But why? It's just a name - Pacific Ocean is by no means quiet, calm place

[@kyle857]

@@OriginalStachuJones It is compared to the north Atlantic

[@terminalspeakers]

It almost looked like Howard was filmed with a Dutch angle, until I realized that his head was slightly tilted in the opposite direction. Totally frickin weird. He would align his head straight with his body, then go half lizard brain and tilt it to the side again like he was looking at a tasty snack. Either way, it’s probably a good idea for someone to reset the invasion clocks.

[@DivinityOfBLaze]

SkyUI is required for skyrim. StarUI will probably be a thing we'll need for this.

[@jonathangregorio4189]

Can't wait for Starfield's YUP equivalent. Also for all the mods which'll make your characters look not terrible.

[@FuckTheSimulation]

Indeed 😅

[@cmdrclassified]

I couldn't have said it better myself, Sir! And remember folks, no pre-orders! o7

[@21Kiloton]

Thank you Commander.

[@rocketmagnet427]

why would you preorder when its on gamepass?

[@GameSuenden]

I have to fully agree to your perspective on this one. But I also noticed that they did not have shown any loot in the Game. Only a lockpicking reward gun, but no loot on dead enemies or inside that building. Keep up your fun videos.

[@Assassin5671000]

Pretty sure there will be loot and I don't think it's that big of an aspect to show that you can loot a corpse ,there were far more concerning aspects of the trailer like the 1000 planets that would become pointless after you see that there mostly the same or pointless to explore ,or the bad frame drops

[@atreyulannom5112]

Um it’s a game demo and they had an inventory bar… Use the noodle behind your eyes

[@sebastianpizxa1553]

It literally showed loot pirate after he died

[@bennygerow]

That's a good point! I'm going to use my vast Bethesda games knowledge and guess that the body would have had some very small trinket, amount of ammo, or currency 😉

[@Ravix0fFourHorn]

Everything might be woke and politically correct but im still gonna roam the Starfield in a spaceship full of bikini babes i downloaded from Nexus mods.

[@alphatrion4365]

I have absolutely zero faith in a Fallout 76/No Man's Sky clone. Talk about 2 of the most disastrous releases of all time. Complete with massive amounts of hype and lies before launch. Nah, I'm good no thanks.

[@EisernerBaer]

It's nice they named the planet after the fat black lady on the syrup bottle. She deserved some recognition for her work.

[@Lundarian1]

All I know about Starfield is that it loves lasagna and hates mondays

[@FirstFamilyCharger]

I’m glad you mentioned these “””futuristic””” conventional cartridge guns. Cyberpunk actually had some pretty innovative stuff and it wasn’t supposed to be nearly this far in the future.

[@THISISLolesh]

Cyberpunk sucks

[@TruthIsKey369]

Cyberpunk is made on a very poor game engine and overhyped beyond belief which was its downfall. I played it and the only thing keeping it alive where I put it down before the end was the storyline and cutscenes. The freeroaming stuff was very bad, BUT now after several patches it is somewhat playable and you can call it an actual game. Sadly the game engine sucks and the optimization is impossible where low fps is a given if you don't have a good pc rig. There is a huge reason why CDPR scrapped their RED engine and moved on to Unreal Engine 5. The next Witcher on UE5 will look gergous, BUT I haven't seen an UE5 game feature physics and mechanics that makes it next level in that department, or planet procedural tech. This will most likely come over time, but sooner the better.

[@Wookienator]

Star Citizen also has many original weapon designs (Both energy and ballistic).

[@nunya_bizniz]

Cyberpunk shouldn't be compared to Starfield. One is an rpg, and the other is just an open world action adventure.

[@bricaaron3978]

@@nunya_bizniz *"One is an rpg, and the other is just an open world action adventure."* **Tee-hee** You think Bethesda still makes _RPGs?_ You realize that Fallout 4 is not an RPG? But of course if Howard says that Starfield is going to be an RPG, then you better bet it is!

[@RTLB207]

You have the best sleep voice. I constantly put on your videos when I go to bed. Lol don’t take that as a dig, when I’m not sleepy your entertaining too

[@21Kiloton]

I take that as a complement mate, although the very thought of people falling asleep listening to my videos invokes imagery of soviet style brainwashing. If in a few years time you suffer from some form of psychosis, please dont mention me in the interviews.

[@Iznoful]

*you're

[@kevinthecleric]

@@Iznoful it's really hard apparently

[@ArmiaKhairy]

@@21Kiloton I'm also a victim of this lol!

[@MisterNightfish]

I'm just going to pass on Starfield. Engine aside, Bethesda's writing just never grabbed me at all. Their worlds always feel rather lifeless to me. I don't care how big you make your open world, if it's all so bland and procedurally generated it doesn't do anything for me. I'll take an actually compelling 10-20 hour game over this. That said, there is no doubt in my mind that Starfield will sell like hotcakes in at least a dozen different editions.

[@fafnyr2537]

I recommend age of decadence, if you like actual rpgs.

[@kyle857]

Skyrim and Fallout 3 had pretty amazing worlds for their time. Lots of secrets and funny little things ro discover to encourage exploration. Procedurally generated shit will never be interesting.

[@Solidfreeman01]

No you won't. You will play starfield. Everyone will. Yes every single human being. 🤣

[@Solidfreeman01]

@@kyle857 You do not understand how much procedural generation was responsible for exactly that. Also you can expect a lot from Bethesdas skills with procedural generation.

[@kizoaoy7423]

Yeah this game is a 'wait on release and see reviews' to me

[@chap248]

they really just reskined the (already horribly designed) institue laser rifle and reused some fallout 4 animations. Wtf bethesda

[@21Kiloton]

Good spot mate.

[@infinity1323]

"The face of no fucks given," made me laugh so hard that I fell out of my chair after I spat my tea all over my monitor and keyboard. Fucking classic.

[@21Kiloton]

That was the moment when I realised why there were so many psychological profilers in the FBI, who pore over every detail. I was literally mid-edit and ended up on that frame of his face by pure chance.... but there it was .... the face of a man who is tired of lying, but getting paid enough to keep going. Thanks for watching mate, glad you are still here brother.

[@infinity1323]

@@21Kiloton That's hilarious. I was wondering what made you pause the video at that spot. Thanks for brightening up my day.

[@21Kiloton]

@@infinity1323 You are very welcome mate.

[@peckneck2439]

It is literally impossible to diliver hundreds of exploreable planets and make them all meaningful. Its clear as crystal that like 5 or so planets will have meaningful content on them and the rest will be just there for you to gather resources and maybe build a base on.

[@bricaaron3978]

It should have been -- at best -- a game that takes place within one single star system.

[@flying1dead155]

That was about my general idea.

[@wabberjacky9951]

You should play Noman’s sky , yes not all planets are meaningful but the game nails space exploration , with so much to do you find yourself in conflict on which one you should do. This looks boring and dull.

[@bricaaron3978]

@@wabberjacky9951 *'You should play Noman’s sky"* Isn't that the dude who attacked Cyclops?

[@BlueBD]

@@bricaaron3978 This is what Iv been saying, Space is BIG, but they are going to make it feel so so small. Some people thing a single star system would be too small but its all about how you use the space and how fast you move between locations. A single system, with dense amount of content can feel larger then all the openworld games in the past 4 years combines. Wide as an ocean but as shallow as a a bowl of soup.

[@Martial-Mat]

I'm by far the most cynical person I know and you make me look like a Teletubbie of perennial optimism. I'm gonna have to up my game.

[@patrickgreene934]

While you have a slightly more pessimistic outlook than I do regarding Starfield, I have to agree with almost everything you said. At this point, if people still preorder games from ANY publisher (except maybe FROM soft) - there's no helping them. In the days of digital access, there is zero need to preorder - the preorder bonuses are almost always crap and more times than not you end up getting a shit game anyways. So yea, don't get on board the hype train, wait a few weeks and see. Cheers mate.

[@medovk]

i do agree about preordering and everything…but isn’t it on gamepass? cost me nothing to try it out.

[@Ravix0fFourHorn]

The pre-order bonuses are given for free later on so theres no point in preordering.

[@johndodo2062]

There are plenty of developers that always make quality. Not just from. It takes about 20 seconds of thought to come up with 4 or 5 more. For the most part I agree, although I say never pre-order anything from anyone ever. There's never a shortage of discs and there's definitely never a drought with digital copies either.

[@magisterrleth3129]

Don't pre-order even from FROM. They're good, and the only way to keep them that way is to not tempt them with easy money. I imagine that having your project pay for itself before you even finish takes a lot of pressure to be good off the the publishers. With no pre-orders, the publisher has to listen to the developers when they say there's too many bugs, the reviews will be bad, and the game will flop. With a good pre-order campaign, they literally don't care, the project has already made a modest profit, and thanks to momentum and FOMO, they know they'll be able to sell even more release day, at least until the reviews come in. And that's why you insist it be a live-service game, too. Because no matter how bad a game is, it will always have it's fans, and those few fans are more likely to spend money than your average bear, they're yet more potential revenue to be extracted. If you don't believe FROM would sink this low, you must not know they're a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kadokawa corporation. They do what their overlords say, and the execs at Kadokawa couldn't care less about quality video games, they care about the market that pays for them.

[@R1ddles93]

@@magisterrleth3129 amen 🙏

[@TheMorbidAsshole]

almost everything you said about Starfield is true hahah

[@2BachShakur]

Love how there’s absolutely no blood from a point-blank double barrel blast. These devs are clueless.

[@chillhour6155]

I love the Jurassic park like music that played throughout the reveal to try and make everything feel and look more epic

[@ZuluZizo]

"There will be 1k planets!" And they will all be lesser than the ONE state in FO4

[@chrisvanalstine8136]

Hodd Toward looks like he has shriveled up into his hair. Also I wonder how many animations will be ported from Fallout/Skyrim, like the scorpion crab things being Rad scorpions. Or Bethesda reusing creature meshes with a different skin like the Gatorclaw turning into a Deathclaw skeleton when killed in VATS.

[@Solidfreeman01]

23:33 " He looks different. " Yes. I noticed that too. I think he might have had surgery. Under his eyes. Where they remove the skin under the eyes, which starts to hang down with age. That might also be the reason the IGN- Interview next day was done only using the telephone. So he might be using makeup to cover up the hemmorage from the op here.

[@zombehnashun]

There's a glitch in the freaking trailer itself. At one point a NPC's head turns completely backwards as they are walking towards a city gate. Bethesda, WTF is wrong with you?

[@dankeykang4576]

A glitch... or a feature???

[@zombehnashun]

@@dankeykang4576 Todd Howard's Explanation: "That isn't a glitch, it's just that a lot of people are possessed by Space Demons!"

[@drabent99]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ancientsnail6360]

can't wait for the video on this shit

[@Ozzyozzysheesh]

When they said a bunch of planets, thats when I lost interest. Also the frame rate looks really rough.

[@GeorgHaeder]

24:00 "He's more orange than usual." OMFG, Toad "I lie for a living" Howard is drinking the self tanning lotion like that other orange dude. *cough* *cough*

[@ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

"Toad". Haha. Never heard that one. I like it.

[@tomasz9429]

Eh, it's going to be another Todd Coward exclusive, with 200 endings, 1000 planets, 50,000,000,000 bugs, modders will have to fix, while Coward and his creatively bankrupt circlejerk laughs in big money.

[@pak4k4]

Well this take aged like fine wine.

[@ThePdeHav]

I think the presenters upside down denim dress symbolizes what we can expect with Starfeels. Great video.

[@realkekec4028]

8:42 16 times the orange :)

[@crueldeity]

Just looking at the logo alone, this game will be called "Arfie" if it has too many bugs.

[@OmegaF77]

On the "yes, you can fly it" part: I'm thinking Destiny where you can customize your ship but you can't really fly it. It's just a fancy loading screen.

[@miketike3246]

...is it just me, or are all the NPCs in this game cross-eyed? It's like they couldn't align the eyes inside the sockets correctly. I guess this is a universe where everyone has been hit on the head with a ball peen hammer.

[@miketike3246]

Oops, I just realized that 21 mentions this very thing about half way through the video. Lol, sorry. I made my comments earlier on in my viewing.

[@darkholyPL]

The most sci-fi thing in that trailer was that shotgun, with square bullet holes that load round, not shells, but rather rifle rounds, which btw get ejected in whole, the bullet tip included, after firing. Now that's some fucking sci-fi voodoo magick right there!

[@mc_sea]

I was thinking that as well. The logistics behind that must be insane 😆

[@user-cs5up9qx8s]

OMG YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND YOU KNOW WHAT I NEVER BOUGHT IT !!!!! XD HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@eightlights4939]

I am so sick of hearing "Our most ambitious game ever"

[@miketike3246]

Ah yes, just when my 21kiloton deprivation meter was reaching critical levels, he shows up in the nick of time with yet another witheringly honest review! God bless you. Wow, I gotta say this game looks very, very underwhelming. I was so excited for this game. I've been craving a new, good epic space adventure game for the longest time. I guess I haven't learned my lesson quite yet in falling for AAA marketing hype.

[@bennygerow]

They only thing Bethesda is good at is hype, and Todd is their hype man for a reason.

[@BillClinton228]

I'm still playing Valheim, everything else has been pretty mediocre. Even Elden Ring that had so much press around it bored me to tears.

[@miketike3246]

@@BillClinton228 Valheim is a great game, and has so much replayability. Definitely one of the indie sleepers that came out of nowhere!

[@Spiffo0]

I genuinely cant imagine being this braindead stupid. Confidently saying a game is awful when we've seen less than 5 minutes of gameplay and it isn't out yet.

[@lordfraybin]

$50 for a game just doesnt seem like much money to me anymore. I'm bound to get 2 hours of "oooh and aaaah!" Before I get bored. When you consider: a single night taking the kids to the movies costs me 2x.

[@CrunchyTire]

You've managed to conquer space but you still can't conquer a daily calorie intake wtf

[@baadsheep7828]

You can tell when Todd Howard is lying his lips are moving

[@fmo94jos8v3]

post release: haha good idea I make a big ol' mushroom tip for a ship 😹 what you think now 21kiloton? you were mostly right

[@vangelisgru7271]

23:50 he held two copies of fo76 too close together

[@joelellis7035]

Actually, the brass wind instrument at the beginning is a French Horn or Mellophone. Yes, that is a Star Trek reference because it is tradition now with their themes to have that kind of instrument. It's the most unique instrument in that it's the one that produces the most "human-like" tones. Learned this a long time ago in band class. The "it's not our story, but your story" bit is literally saying, "we plotted several different pre-planned outcomes in this game, but in the end only one of them is correct for follow-on releases." Same shit, different day.

[@erraticuk]

We've gone from "its ready when its ready" To "its ready when the cash shop is coded"

[@georgeh4171]

The most exciting thing about Starfield is the new Internet Historian video that will inevitably be released to go over the complete shit show this game will be at launch.

[@21Kiloton]

I am a great fan of his work.

[@Paranomalous]

Weird seeing a double-barrel shotgun in space. Just, why?

[@Mirthful_Midori]

It gets substantially worse when you really look at it. Why is it so insanely bulky, why are the barrels square and why does it have a release on both sides? Most important of all though is, why does it eject unspent rifle cartridges when it's reloaded?

[@Paranomalous]

@@Mirthful_Midori Because it’s a reskinned FO4 double barrel shotgun.

[@fab2take22]

Absolutely agree. DO NOT buy either pre order or at launch. But wait a couple of weeks to evaluate to see what general reviews say about it. So far all past Bethesda games have proven this.

[@dopesteeloe8934]

Todd looks like he's aged 10 years

[@WhispersOfWind]

You are like the proverbial Thunderf00t of gaming.

[@_SimpleJack_]

People who buy Bethesda games get exactly what they deserve.

[@Solidfreeman01]

40:02 The background behind this, is that there was a huge conversation within the fanbase if starfield will be like outer worlds, or you will able to actually fly in space.

[@thomasloney612]

It looks like The Outer Worlds, which to be fair was merely Bethesda Fallout in a space setting. Still, when is the last time Bethesda has innovated in the gameplay department? 2003, with Morrowind? Are they lazy, or just afraid of not following the same formula for every game?

[@Paranomalous]

They’re controlled by china.

[@Grobut81]

The Outer Worlds had an art-style. It wasen't very unique, kinda looked like a blend between Borderlands art style with Fallout's, but it was there, and if i showed you a random screenshot of the game, you would likely correctly guess that it came from The Outer Worlds. Can someone point out the artstyle of this game? Something unique looking? Anything particular stand out? Yeah i can't either. This game looks so very bland..

[@thomasloney612]

@@Grobut81 Agreed. I would probably guess from a random screenshot the game is Mass Effect, Anthem, or any number of other games that have come out in the last few years. Still, it could be a good game. I'll wait and see, but certainly won't be buying it on day one, or even the first few months.

[@bjrnhalfhand2258]

@@Grobut81 yes. Totally agree. It's very generic sci-fi

[@sijul6483]

Bethesda is just lazy. They don't (or at least didn't) keep design documents because they were apparently too much effort.

[@yourmaninlondoncollecting5749]

"StarCrash" The game that Fucks you over the Bethesda way 😎👌

[@MasticinaAkicta]

Not surprised, Procedural was the buzzword for how long? So easy to make so many locations without any real work. Sure if you love the same "kinda" dungeon with slightly different maps and routes that is. It probably is a decent 6/10. And gaming websites and "journalists" will hype it as a 9/10. LIFE CHANGING, SO NEW SO FRESH SO WOW! While bethesda fans be like "Sure it is nice, but 9/10?" And the average gamer will be like "Average, not bad just average"

[@Paranomalous]

It’ll be a big fat zero.

[@TyphonNeuron]

9/10? Bro this is already game of the year, decade, century, life, time, ever, etc. 9/10 will be the starting point for these troglodytes. Sad is an understatement.

[@Jacky_man542]

IGN 10/10

[@lucifer0247]

Procedural was used by Bethesda since Oblivion, they even used for ES 4 procedural generated landscapes.

[@gavancorrigan8813]

I didn’t get caught by No Man’s Sky I didn’t get caught by Battlefield 2042 I ain’t getting caught by this

[@icthulu]

Anticipated: Is Bethesda's cancer treatable or malignant? I'm not seeing anything redeemable here. I'm hoping for a new company to grab the RPG singleplayer crown.

[@sbutler860]

How can you sit there and say that “Fall Out 76” was ‘a historical injustice’! Have you no respect? It’s AN historical injustice! x

[@rickytan7101]

Yes! Thank you!!! Someone speaks the truth about how Starfield looks and how Bethesda studio works!

[@Spiffo0]

"speaks the truth" about a game we know nothing about.

[@deceptionswrath3710]

@@Spiffo0 Companies usually follow a pattern. Look at Ubisoft or EA for examples. Can I take a wild guess and say the next Ubisoft game or Fifa will have microtransactions?

[@Spiffo0]

@@deceptionswrath3710 And yet the latest starfield gameplay released actually looks miles better than the past couple of Bethesda games.

[@Mirthful_Midori]

You just have watch Emil Pagliarulo's 'Talks From Story' presentation to see how Bethesda "works". The biggest takeaway is that Bethesda doesn't follow design documents, but the whole thing is just hilariously bad.

[@FuckTheSimulation]

Critical thinking and logical deduction. Something you severely lack. @@Spiffo0

[@kurecore7501]

Toad Hogwarts... Anyway , love your cuts and how you put game buggs pictures over BGS PR talks literally made me laughs :D

[@debapriyosarkar700]

As a gamer myself, the problem I see with most gamers today is they either passionately love or passionately hate. You passionately loved Bethesda. Now you seem to passionately hate them. You were wrong then. You are wrong now. Never love or hate anything passionately because it blinds you from the reality. I am not saying that Starfield is guaranteed to succeed. It may fail. The truth is we do not have enough information to draw big conclusions

[@rydz656]

Shut up.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

This is the biggest bs I've ever heard. It's ok to love a company, game or franchise passionately as long as you don't shill for them and support them even after they screw you over. The fact that he is critical of Bethesda after loving them like many gamers (inc me) did literally shows that he is NOT blinded. If he was he wouldn't be criticizing them in the first place. Bethesda deserves the hate and more. It's 100% of their own making and incompetence. Sht Todd even bragged about how he NEVER ever thinks about what new stuff they can add to their game or franchise. He says they exclusively focus on what they can remove, combine and simplify. The guy got all the cred for oblivion etc when he had little to do with those games and how they turned out aside from holding back the devs. Bethesda hasn't made a good game since oblivion. Skyrim was a long fetch quest simulator with zero consequences to any of your actions, zero interesting quests etc. The Witcher 3 made Skyrim look like a kid's school project. Bethesda is a mess. Their games suck. Their leadership is incompetent. Their devs are hired contractors. And everyone with a drop of talent, everyone that made the original TES, morrowind, oblivion etc they all left the company. Every philosophy pr idea Todd has on gaming is crp. He ruined oblivion and kept it from being way better, pushing the devs to make it.more like the horrible redguard game or the arena game. If he had his way oblivion would be a linear experience about a pirate or something. He told DICE that they should NEVER care about the fanbase and that fans or their opinions don't natter. That all that counts is that the devs follow their passion.. Which is why we have "great" games like bf2042 today. The devs followed their passion and even told th fans to "just not buy the game" (bfv) etc.

[@mc_sea]

Here's the thing. Drawing big conclusions is exactly what trailers and gameplay presentations are there for. How else would be able to judge the game without needing to buy it? The marketing is a big factor in determining whether or not a customer gains any interest in buying the game. Given how much Bethesda has screwed over their fans and lied to them about various games, it's no wonder Kiloton has such a poor impression of Starfield.

[@koostopyy]

makes perfect sense for this company. skyrim and fallout 3 were incredible games for the time period despite being buggy. So of course people will be appreciative for such games. now 10 years later you cant even run skyrim at 144hz with out mods even though they manage to re release the game a disgusting amount of times. fallout 76 made so many promises, but they were non existent upon release and the game was unplayable at launch. if it was a bad game that would be different, but it didn't even work. After releasing a product like that there is no reason to show any good will for this company, and especially not for a game with the scope starfield has.

[@tsdobbi]

@@godofchaoskhorne5043 "He says they exclusively focus on what they can remove, combine and simplify. " So he is Bizarro Chris Roberts, lol.

[@llouck7962]

"Starfiled might be as boring as dried toast." No need to offend dried toast bruv.

[@borasraven7584]

Gonna be honest it’s on this is on my steam Wishlist… not to pre order, been burnt there and not to buy day one, been burnt there too… it’s basically a reminder and so that 6 months after launch I’ll get the email that it’s on sale and I can check the consumer reviews and real reviews on KZbin and make an informed decision…

[@jordonlee9162]

Why is everyone complaining about the graphics I think its perfect

[@YeOldeMachine]

Todd's overlord jacket and matching shoes are just beautiful. Looks like such a tool

[@bobbyscott2123]

😂👍 Than the lord this awful looking shit is for Xbox

[@wootle]

Wow. He gave us Skyrim. One of the greatest games ever.

[@taterc229]

he's very sharply dressed and knows about what's supposed to match what...... which shows where his priorities are!

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@wootle Skyrim is far from being the greatest game ever if there is even such a thing as greatest game.

[@tommikoistinen2321]

@@wootle Skyrim is the worst mainline TES game. Such a dumbed down excuse of an RPG.

[@thel1355]

It's not a walking simulator! You can walk for miles without even getting tired, but walking in real life is sweaty and exhausting. It doesn't even simulate the regular stops to find a tree to take a piss behind.

[@magisterrleth3129]

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it looks like shit. Bethesda made all my favorite games; a decade ago. Since then, they've been declining like they have a strange case of AIDS that only harms creativity and attention to detail.

[@docrock3234]

“It’s not what a game is, it’s what a game becomes” IT…. is what I paid $60 for and what did I get?

[@Alduizard]

Bethesda games are all about the organic storytelling and the dynamic interactivity within the game world. Stuff that just happens, uniquely to you, making these games immersive as hell. There isn't much comparison to them, especially in the AAA sphere, outside of maybe Kingdom Come Deliverance, and parts of RDR2, and its indeed a unique subgenre of its own. Starfield's world seems to be a mix of curated/handcrafted areas, and procedurally generated areas. Exploration and roleplaying in the curated sections will likely be similar to what we expect from previous bethesda titles. But as for the procgen areas, Im really curious how they will facilitate roleplaying and exploration there. Mind you, ES2 was also a procgen world and its fans and devs provide a lot of really good arguments/ideas in favour of procgen worlds. Adopting procgen they have so many options they can look into for creating immersive experiences. Vastly evolved radiant systems maybe? Only time will tell.

[@DauthEldrvaria]

Oh man get me through work buddy! I love your long form content! Always worth it! We have been conditioned for cynicism as every angle of this industry. Anyone calling you a hater at this point is being purposely ignorant. Todd is magical I know he’s a bullshitter but as her spoke I wanted to believe him but then him spouting his crap about planets worried me! That leather jacket Like he’s the maverick of the gaminng industry. You wanna trust Todd. But he’s not maverick and this isn’t top gun…

[@21Kiloton]

Nailed it mate.

[@brendanlucero8585]

Ill play Starfield 10 years from now when all the mods, bugs, dlc and a hefty discount are all in order.

[@benjaminloken1999]

*Fallout 76 walks in* *" Are you sure about that ? "*

[@MrScratch69]

The last time I bought a game on date of release was RDR2. Others I give at least two years for the publisher to unfuck the game IF I decide to purchase it.

[@chillhour6155]

Or you could play no man sky right now, not personally my cup of tea though, I'm not much of a fan of procedural generation

[@MinoriChie]

10 years from now there will be 16 different editions of starfield.

[@theblackbaron4119]

@@MinoriChie No, probably 50 more Skyrim editions, an oblivion "remake" , a daggerfall remake and maybe elderscrolls 6

[@ijamesedit]

Always a pleasure to spend an hour+ with you. AAA gaming is going places I'm not sure i want to go. Too many shopfronts and hand holding. Even in the games I enjoy everything is marked on your map and it's just go here, do that, go back, get reward. I say this as someone who's first console was a sega master system that I got brand new at 19yo, gaming has lost so much in the pursuit of money.

[@BiggDickman]

I don’t think every game should be designed like elden ring, exploration wise. It’s good from time to time, but if everyone was doing it, it wouldn’t be the same. I love dark souls, I’ve played nearly all souls games, but I don’t want every game to be that way cause then where’s the magic? Sometimes I like playing elden ring, other times I just wanna lay back and play something chill and braindead like skyrim.

[@shinobismoke1466]

@@BiggDickman Skyrim isn't brain dead , all the hidden items and vast open world with things still after years that everyone hasn't discovered yet? KZbin is part of what makes gaming dead because that kills the exploration part through content creator videos.

[@TheSiameseDreamer]

Games are decades away from a scenario where your choices actually influence the world/story/characters. The fact that choosing 1 of three factions and a few optional dialog choices or a few unseen NPCs is not writing your own story. Choices in games are meaningless.

[@stuglife5514]

Yea, it’s probably why I’ve gravitated to games like Project Zomboid. Because fuck your rail roads. There are some games that really give you actual freedom of choice. But these are never the AAA games. It’s stuff like Project Zomboid, Stalker Anomaly, stuff like that that actually gives you freedom of choice

[@theguylivinginyourwalls]

@@stuglife5514 There's something so refreshing about not being the main character in a world where there is no real happy ending. You're not the hero. You're not gonna save the world, your not saving anyone. You likely won't even be able to save yourself Just like real life, everyone is the center of their own stories, but reality is always there, looming above you to remind you that the universe doesn't give a fuck about you or your story, and it can and will murder your ass on a whim.

[@Yarblocosifilitico]

"over a thousand planets", "you can land anywhere" yeah, Starfield is doomed. I don't get why those things are supposed to be good. He said it as if expecting the crowd to go wild... but we know what it means. Tbf, the cities did look good, big and busy, so if there's four of those and a decent story, it could be a good game.

[@TheNexDude]

I saw a tweet of the gameplay looking near Identical to No Man's Sky. Not only is it a hyped to heaven's Bethesda game but it is so derivative that it is incredibly laughable.

[@Renegade1100011]

Never trust a man whose shoes matches his jacket, advice that's never failed me so far.