Starfield is Creatively Bankrupt

[@talespinner4515]

Gaming in the 2000s: I can't believe Todd Howard did it again! Gaming in the 2020s: I can't believe Todd Howard did it again.

[@pandamonium9255]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Doge10YT]

Lmao

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

XDD

[@nothanks9503]

@awardwinningcritique6895 no there won’t be internet because our orbit will be filled the blown up satellites blocking our access to space forever we probably won’t even have electricity and you won’t have time to game while trying to survive this was the best time humanity will ever have and we squandered it

[@sexylazercatwizard]

He's just a salesman, he has no hand in actually making a game, just like elon musk with his companies

[@kirshak7007]

I find it Hilarious that when you kill an NPC that is sitting, that same NPC need to stand up because it NEED to be out of sitting animation before dying

[@justinchin0]

Wow that's lazy!

[@KopperNeoman]

You couldn't kill sitting NPCs in Mass Effect either... if you turned friendly fire on with a console command. Which the game waa not designed for. And it works AS WELL as Starfield.

[@eightleggedanarchist]

​@@KopperNeomanI really hope that's irony.

[@RazorsharpLT]

Are you serious? Mass effect is over 14 years old by this point. Have you... ever played mass effect: Andromeda even? @@KopperNeoman

[@Canaris3]

Best part is that it wasnt like that in Skyrim/F4.. They actually go back technologically on that on top of lack of gore and dismemberment..

[@kinghomer6134]

The fact you cant kill npcs after they threaten you is crazy least immersive game ever

[@kukipett]

But but do you realize that this game will be played by stupid children who will later cry because the quest npc is dead and who will never accept to pay for their mistakes. Well we live in a world where parent never say no!

[@dominicdeluca6378]

They're essential to quests that don't really matter to the story. Plus they could be killed and replaced with another npc who will serve the same purpose but that doesn't happen either.

[@kukipett]

@@dominicdeluca6378 This happens in good games only never in Bethesda games, making them immortal is goodenough, Bethesda is the goodenough company.

[@mossa216]

@@kukipett Could also be a way to ensure missions can always be completed, unlike some quests in Skyrim where assassin guild could send you to kill someone you than needed for another quest later on... And killing someone cause they "insulted" you is quite the immature reaction.

[@aligmal5031]

@@kukipett imagine if a game has multiple options to complete quests even after you kill every living thing in the map crazy right !!?!??! oh wait this already exist in other games that were made by ppl who actually care about choices

[@WontStopMeNow]

The next Bethesda game will just be the Creation Kit and they'll tell you to make your own game.

[@spatrk6634]

still better than starfield

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

Also upgrade your PC.

[@Healthy_Toki]

Honestly I would prefer if they put all their resources into a project like that instead of asking us to sit through this game first. The whole appeal of Bethesda games is seeing how far modders can push it.

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

They'll sell you the creation kit for $150 and it will "update" every week and completely break.

[@Dorito_Djinn]

You joke but that might be the best thing they could do at this point to win back trust if they made it user friendly enough.

[@saturn580]

Gamers refuse to accept that most AAA studios age like milk, not wine. Great development teams make great studios, not the other way around.

[@AWESOMEX711]

Dev teams are like sports teams. They are only as good as the people currently are working in the team. Anyone who saw the Starfield direct and saw the people who work at Bethesda today should be able to know what to expect from the game. Today the people who work there are the soyboys and the dyed hair feminists so of course its super woke.

[@WackyIraqi777]

Bingo. All companies are just a group of people. If a bunch of those people move on, the company is no longer the same. On that note, Todd needs to retire. He has no clue what he's doing.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

huh and i thought diversity was our strength.

[@efxnews4776]

What Todd tried to do it in Stafield, Bioware have achieved with Mass Effect, more than a decade ago... The tech isn't inovative, the story is bland and boring, Bethesda rpg elements, as much folks like it are being replaced by emergent gameplay in other games, in other words is, outdated. NMS despite the broken launch already born a better game than Starfield, and today is something way better than when it was launched.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@efxnews4776 one lone turkish man achieved it with spacebourne 2

[@GroovyBabyYeah]

If Blackrock and Vanguard made a game

[@Sagi.Baten.Kaitos]

I too hate the Irish bankers who rule over us (Mortimer J. Buckley)

[@goestheboom5211]

So weird how we all know who those people are

[@TonySopeano46]

>If

[@ISHIDDEDANDFARDED]

YOU VIL PLAY ZE JANK AND YOU VIL BE HAPPY

[@glockel4308]

hahahha, great comment section

[@commandertoothpick8284]

Its insane how there are people who actually defend this game. They're probably lobotomized zombies.

[@The_House_Always_Wins]

yes

[@Smokeyourselfstraighttohell]

You literally cant even discuss the game without them reeing

[@eduardobenassi3072]

Normies and leftards are the loudest and sometimes most influential in the entertainment business. This is what you get when you tolerate those imbeciles.

[@JuJuLa__]

They are bunch of redditors stay out from that echo chamber of platform

[@pompeythegreat297]

SHILLS

[@KingBuffo]

At this point, I think it’s amazing that there’s no loading screen to skip dialogue.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

Yo dawg, we heard you like loading screens, so we put a loading screen into your loading screen! And it just... works!

[@Trivial_Whim]

How is it that New Vegas managed to have six different types of caves but Starfield only has one?

[@charlyb.9406]

8 years is a too short amount of time ...

[@xaikken]

Not only that, but i didnt even realize it was only 6. Felt like more since their interiors were unique and done better.

[@Trivial_Whim]

@@xaikken It just goes to show how much better a designed experience is over a generated one.

[@wisewolftony]

Crazy thing is imagine what the game would have been like if they released it when Todd thought it was good to go. Pretty sure Todd told Microsoft that it was ready to launch back in like 2021.

[@FaethorFerenzcy]

Cause Fallout NV was done by the team that worked on the original Fallout 1 and 2. Sadly Todd/Bethesda never got the idea behind the fallout universe. I mean cmon, just look at Fallout 4, People living with skeletons and corpses in their homes, nothing cleaned up. As if the nukes bombed away everything including the idea of cleaning.

[@spnked9516]

Starfield feels like it was explicitly designed around the mantra "modders will do it later". See those vast wastelands that encompass 95% of the game? Modders will fill all that space out later. Bare-bones, copy-pasted quests? Modders will flesh them out later. Meaningless factions? Modders. Basic QoL options? Modders. This entire game is Bethesda throwing their hands up in the air and admitting that anyone with a lick of talent or vision at the company left years ago and that the people on payroll now are less competent than Moe Modder who does their job better than them in his spare time.

[@megamax898]

But how dare the modders remove the pronouns.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

That's Bethesda to a t. The only people who like this game are the modders.

[@gdl9362]

Except modders won't save this game. Shit cannot become candy.

[@Nevirate]

@@gdl9362Cyberpunk fanboys were dumb enough to fall for modding just because they can “date” fictional characters. Modding ruins games more than it helps them.

[@Marcara081]

Imagine a far off future where everybody looks normal when in modern times we already have extreme body modification. It's so lazy. Hell, nearly all sentient races in Fallout are technically human so it's not like it's unprecedented.

[@CritBolganone]

Starfield is like a microcosm of what all modern big games are like. Every big game feels bland, inoffensive, tasteless, soulless. Nowadays I simply play older games, smaller niche games and some indies. My brain naturally filters out all the AAA gaming media and 'reviewers' by now because I just know nothing out there is worth it and the vast majority of it is shills getting paid to deceive you (sometimes they aren't even getting paid, they are too psychologically attached to their favorite companies which might be worse). It's depressing.

[@CozySER]

I am the same way. I think the last major AAA game I bought was Red Dead 2, and before that was GTA 5. Everything else is smaller stuff. Why tf would I play games like Starfield when I have Warhammer40k Darktide?

[@drifter4534]

It's definitely the latter. It's obvious that the intelligence of consumers and just the public in general has taken a sharp dive over the past few years. The customer dictates the market in any field and naturally this is going to carry over into the gaming scene. You can see the results. The bar is now extremely low, and there is little to no quality control because people have no standards. The inability to accept that something you like is now trash, even when presented with some of the most crystal clear, in your face evidence possible is 100% an intelligence issue. I can pick apart just about anything I enjoy. That's called being rational. Most people are mentally conditioned npcs now and because of this it will only get worse.

[@wurzelbert84wucher5]

Most of the time I am doing that as well, but BG3 for instance was pretty enjoyable, even though it has too much woke agenda in it.

[@OrgusDin]

I dunno about inoffensive, this game is unsettling and almost demonic in its conceptualization of the future, this is rancid slop and Todd was a mistake. I hope if this is what space flight looks like 'humanity' never leaves this rock, they don't deserve to skinwalk actual humans in space.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

​@@OrgusDin ikr? This feels like the universe was hand crafted for the meta commentary. Literally if we just had some NPCs questioning the slob, it could've fixed everything. Imagine an NPC just asking you the player "Wtf is going on in those cities? New Atlantis feels so sanitized, so... inhuman. It's like they're robots" the game would've worked if some NPCs and factions actually commented on sorry state of their universe but nope 😢

[@barkonius3264]

It’s wild how many people still defend this game.

[@ryman1933]

fanboys gonna fanboy

[@YouCanMakeFireOutOfIce]

It looks so fucking goofy. Why every game nowdays has to look life a Fortnite ripoff. I guess the beta males game designers and nerd wannabe females are trying to make it look realistic, but instead, the shit turns out to be an oversaturated trash that tries to appeal to the younger generation.

[@aoihitori]

They probably saw their faces on these NPCs.

[@aceclover758]

People say this game is better than Skyrim lmao And even Skyrim dumbed down quests and rpg mechanics like dialogue

[@Superdosis]

Fallout 4 still has "very positive" reviews on Steam despite it being dogshit gameplay and plot-wise from the get go

[@canine_delight]

Starfield dialogue was written by an AI who's only data source was the Reddit home page.

[@-pressxtostart-]

Believable

[@RedWolfenstein]

Sounds right

[@NamesPhimble]

I believe that more and more

[@jw6588]

*Grunts in agreement*

[@NamesPhimble]

@@margerald1 Reddit tier

[@Bacon56ful]

It's funny that New Vegas, a decade old game, developed in a rushed schedule - managed to avoid the immortal essential NPC crap for the vast majority of its important characters

[@rottingpotatoes2483]

You can kill anybody in New Vegas, you can even kill Yes Man. He does come back, but there’s actually logical reasons why he can keep coming back. He’s a computer program and can load himself into any securitron.

[@CyroTheSpider]

Yup - two things. First, you need passion. Big studios just don't have it. When your team is super passionate, they will work hard on making their vision work. Baldur's Gate 3 is proof of that. Elden Ring is proof of that. At the end of the day, you need people behind the game that really care about it. Second, great writers are hard to get and are super underappreciated, something that is becoming more and more obvious looking at the AAA gaming industry.

[@robotron1236]

You could feel the love the developers had for Skyrim. It’s why I still play it, to this day. BGS has really lost its way, hopefully they get back on track for TESVI and FO5.

[@superplayerex2431]

@@robotron1236 Nope, they won't. Skyrim was already a massive downgrade in terms of RPG mechanics compared to previous iterations. Ever since then, their games have gotten more and more simplified. Fallout 4/76 and now Starfield are all first person looter shooters with perk systems that are replacing any and all meaningful RPG mechanics from the past, and that's all Bethesda can churn out now.

[@paulw5039]

Skyrim had better NPC interaction and immersiveness. Guards would warn you about shouting or having a weapon drawn, NPCs would pick up and even fight over an object you dropped. In Starfield they do nothing. You can fire a gun all around them and they stare blankly at you. Did Bethesda forget how to program in the last 12 years? Freelancer, a 20 year old game, did interstellar and planet-planet travel (jump gates and trade lanes) way better than fast travel ping ponging all over the galaxy. And don't get me started on how lazy and simplistic obtaining powers is in Starfield vs shouts in Skyrim. Yet fanboys still defend this utter disrespect and disdain that Bethesda has for them.

[@StrongStyleFiction]

This is the game where Bethesda writers truly gave up. They didn't even bother this time around. There are questlines in Starfield that make Skyrim's Theives Guild look good by comparison. Everything is just dull and lazy.

[@Flyon86]

Yeah, when you compare it unique quests in Oblivion like the painted world one that was just a random sidequest you can stumble across you can see how much less creative they've become.

[@rickybindahoose6193]

It wasn't just the excess fat Emil shed, it was his brain as well.

[@FoxyFoxlyn]

​@@Flyon86That was one of my favourite quests! I remember the first time I found it. I had so much fun.

[@ci7210]

​@@Flyon86or that pirate ship inn one.

[@ci7210]

Ugh Theives Guild was always my favorite guild and they are such a bunch of losers in Skyrim. But the Nightingale armor is badass. Feel like Batman in it

[@benjaminkohl]

Why is it that all these modern games have the most terrifying human faces? It's like a nightmare. Stop making eyelids that retract all the way behind the eyeball.

[@zilvoxidgod]

starfield really gives you the freedom to do anything, as long as it wouldn't affect the plot or allow you to roleplay in any way.

[@paul22180]

So, like The Witcher 3 then?

[@Immopimmo]

​@@paul22180At least Witcher 3 had a competent team of writers and an amazing open world without a loading screen every 5 minutes.

[@paul22180]

@@Immopimmo It is pretty easy to write something when you know everything that the character can do and say. It is a single player game where you play as a Witcher called Geralt of Rivia; it isn't an RPG. As a writer, you don't have to take any other consideration into play other than that. Nothing the player does affects the world; you're basically writing a novel or a film the player is witnessing, rather than participating in. An open, empty world. Huts, all empty; caves all empty with maybe a bit of water in them. Ruined castles, all empty. The problem with a big open world, even an empty one, is that it uses resources. When you want to take the player to a whole new area, with new assets, enemies and have it full of loot; you need loading screens. Otherwise, you're left with the empty world of The Witcher 3 and Read Dead Redemption 2, where everything is just background and empty save for an occasional container or drawer.

[@zilvoxidgod]

@@paul22180 Witcher 3 isn't a roleplaying game to begin with, it's a story game with a set plot and protagonist.

[@King-Omega-]

@@zilvoxidgod Yeah that's an RPG mate

[@akatsukicloak]

Never underestimate Todd's ability to make things as mainstream and as boring as possible. He's the man you go to create a demo instead of a game.

[@toothgrinder2760]

Todd may not be know for his ability to make games interesting, but he’s definitely known for his ability to wear the same brown “members only” jacket for the past decade.

[@orbit1894]

​@@toothgrinder2760he has the never changing NPC outfit.

[@arx3516]

@@toothgrinder2760 he only wears that jacket when presenting a new game, that's why it lasted so long. Now it's practically a ceremonial garment.

[@groyperfuhr4871]

I remember the good old xbox 360 days when all the games I even owned were demos@awardwinningcritique6895

[@White_Tiger93]

remember that demo of radiant ai in Oblivion? wish todd would improve upon that concept further instead abandoning it completely from their game development but who cares since todd no longer doing coding nor designing, he's better PR than pete tbh.. he's like studio face like miyamoto bc everyone love that bc its iconic to have someone being the puppet of the studio. man what a joke todd, you could start coding video game again instead PR talk crap..

[@RedWolfenstein]

These people are the definition of simulacra in their writing. All their experiences are derived from media and not real life. The knowledge base being reddit and marvel movies.

[@Marcara081]

Yup. Luckily you're not the only person who has noticed. These writers write about their experience of media instead of writing media about their experiences. There just isn't a clever meme yet to express this sentiment.

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

The worst part is it's fiction, completely sci-fi space crap. Its writing doesn't need life experiences, just a bit of doggamn imagination

[@ericg34]

Simply pathetic 😒

[@mikeexits]

​​​​@@Marcara081Ahh good old storytelling self-referentialism. Shallow as a puddle, vacuous as their own experience of life. Only truly boring people could've written this sort of stuff. Both the first two comments here are really well said, I heartily agree.

[@Marcara081]

@@mikeexits Hence why 'millennial' writing is typified by commentary on the events of the story as though it were a story, complete with criticizing the cliches and comparisons to other media.

[@Hal_2189]

"And the random gay dude is an essential NPC, imagine my shock" Gaming in current year.

[@Timoshemperoni]

idc about that perse. Nobody should be essential, except children obviously. FNV and Morrowind done it no problem so why are we going backwards? Far too many were essential in Skyrim and fo4.

[@karpai5427]

​@@TimoshemperoniChildren shouldn't be essential either.

[@The_House_Always_Wins]

@@Timoshemperoniwhat do you mean “except children obviously” children especially 🔫🔫

[@totalrko]

@@Timoshemperoni Because people have become more stupid.

[@Navigator-h9j]

2016's No Man's Sky let you take a walk on a planet, board your ship, go out of atmosphere and deep in the space, reenter the atmosphere of another planet, land on it, all without a single loading screen. When i saw the cutscene of the ship takin off in Starfield, i just lost it. GG Todd "thousand planets" Howard

[@esotericjahanism5251]

16 Times the Loading screens!

[@Gamerealm976]

Got it last week... it's amazing honestly.

[@kingrhys9445]

There’s a PS2 game called HAVEN: Call to the King that did the same thing.

[@GETTHATNIGGERBITCHOFFTHEPLANE]

defending no man's buy even when it's STILL a bad game. lmao.

[@rorrim0]

Retodd has dunnit again.

[@Vert_GreenHeart]

Starfield story felt so freaking obnoxious, no high stakes, no dark humour, no dark outcomes... Its just happy people doing happy things for the greater good of the multiverse.

[@toothgrinder2760]

Yep, everyone is a goodie two-shoes, and when you go to be a “bad guy” by joining the Crimson Fleet, it’s just a snarky ghey gurl boss who’s annoyingly sarcastic; and mean spirited. And after you beat the Crimson Fleet side missions, the Fleet intersects with other missions where they’re supposed to be the enemy, but since they’re your allies they don’t see you as an enemy.

[@masterofsloth4349]

Modern gaming be like

[@engagingbus7991]

​@@toothgrinder2760"Make her a chick, and make her ghey, AND LAME"

[@aoihitori]

Modern Writers who only care is their paycheck and agenda. Players? They don't care cuz they knew you will buy it no matter what.

[@TheFailedmessiah]

Good, BAD, I'm the guy with the gun.

[@kitwood4610]

It's worth mentioning, the Fallout world & lore is good because it was written before Bethesda got involved :D

[@masterofsloth4349]

You mean tim Cain?

[@trekrl2327]

Yeah all the worst parts about it were parts that Bethesda felt the need to retcon to fit their newer narratives.

[@concept5631]

​@@Mr.Fernandes. Are you sure? I feel like comparing anything to Brotherhood of Steel is crossing a line, even 76 because *_at least_* it has playable content now.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

bethesda retroactively ruined fallout lore with ever game. God i hate them.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@Mr.Fernandes. Even in that game they got the broterhood insignia right, in fallout 3 they mirrored it until someone pointed out and they patched it, this is how much they cared.

[@nordbjorn3283]

I've watched like 40 different videos that dunk on starfield to quench my disapointment with this game and modern gaming in general, but feels like I can still watch like 100 more of them.

[@PadaV4_old]

The critic videos are more entertaining than the game.

[@FinnsFenian]

Same here.

[@Dekipoo]

this game looked like a 5/10 from a mile away.

[@ummerfarooq5383]

It's goty, hated by far right racist neo-nasties. It gets 87/100. The same as the goty Spider-Man for the ps4.

[@ChoppedBananas]

I am the farthest thing from a right wing neo nasty. I am pro choice, pro universal heathcare, anti nazi..etc the list goes on. The reason I hate the game is people like you who defend this lazy barely last gen game marketed as a next gen game. Alls it does is perpetuate the cycle of corporate greed going left unchecked! Guess what, being a lefty, I am pretty pro workers/consumer rights! Can't help when consumers are blindly loyal to corporations though. Hey, if you have fun with the game, great, but it is dishonest and utter horseshit to call this next gen or GOTY. BG3 stomps this Fallout 4 reskin right into the ground. No, I am not a "sony pony." I am a PC gamer.@@ummerfarooq5383

[@Doge10YT]

​@@ummerfarooq5383God of War was much more GotY in 2018, not Spider-Man

[@wardvandecotte9253]

This game is trash.

[@lupitalomeli7128]

​@@ummerfarooq5383🤣rofl bro

[@bananasean5145]

Right out the gate when the NPCs asked me what happened when I touched the artifact I said I don't remember anything then then the Barrett dude ask me if I saw anything I said no and then proceeded to tell me I had to go see people to help me understand the visions and music I saw and heard. I LITERALLY SAID I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING!

[@Sorain1]

Yeah.... that's a writing problem. He has no reason to know what you saw, because you refused to tell him. If you aren't going to support a choice, don't lie to the player and give it to them!

[@Mirthful_Midori]

57:25 is where he shows a couple good examples that player choice doesn't matter. They literally imply that you can kill them with dialogue, but the game won't let you. Bethesda doesn't care about giving the player choice, but rather making sure you see their set pieces. Essential NPCs are obviously pandering to idiots, but having NPCs be essential just so the game can have you kill them later is egregiously asinine.

[@Marlboro-lights1]

You didn’t THINk you saw anything. That’s what happened.

[@helltarrist]

​@@Mirthful_MidoriEssential NPCs are "good" in the sense that the mechanic protects your savefile from fucking up due to other random factors (like NPCs getting stuck taking damage and eventually dying, etc). But why can't they make it so that player damage doesnt care about an NPC being essential? Or more importantly, why are these bugs that the essential mechanic protects you from still in the game at all after so many iterations of games exactly like this? It was goofy funny in Fallout 3, but that was more than a decade ago.

[@Johnnyupside]

They can sus out your protagonist aura. There's no hiding

[@wendyhotchkiss7772]

The honeymoon period with this game has ended for me, and now I’ve been binge watching negative reviews of it lol

[@Doge10YT]

Lmao.....

[@m3c427]

I never was a fan of bethesda, I only enjoyed skyrim, but after fallout 4 I could already see were this company is going, it only went downhill from there

[@toothgrinder2760]

“Just spend 20-30 hours on the main missions to get to NG+. ThATs WhEN tHE gAMe GeTz gUD.”

[@Daddyo145]

That's how I got here too.

[@brycedonelan1937]

Same and almost finished the story till I found out about this, IM PISSED !!!

[@dreddmau0257]

Starfield felt like playing D&D with a DM who is aggressively trying to keep all the players from derailing the story.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

hey at leats dnd has lore, this game does not and this come from someone who hates medieval fantasy and dnd but loves ci fi, holy crap this game is bad.

[@kingjaffe9339]

How did people not see this coming after the disastrous game that was fallout 76. As soon as Todd started making this big promises about the game should’ve been a red flag for everyone 😭

[@voidimperial1179]

People hate patterns. Especially when those patterns contain inconvenient truths.

[@AC-hj9tv]

🚩

[@LisaMarie042]

I did, and the FO76 disaster was the reason I waited for it to come out, and so glad I did.

[@gavingreensmith1110]

I saw the fallout 76 disaster looming and waited before buying. I have played every fallout game except 76 (including the originals). I wont ever buy another bethesda game again.

[@Pigness7]

fallout 76 was made by a completely different studio doofus

[@-cams.]

the "essential characters" thing is really abused in Starfield. Its like when the DM basically says that an NPC is going to flip on you, and when you and the party retaliate and try to kill him, the DM says: "no, no guys please, he's gonna important, you can't kill him." Hell, the NPC doesn't even have to be antagonistic, the DM just wants you to basically not kill anyone that is named. I hate it.

[@Assassino275]

You speak from experience

[@PootisPenserPow]

Thankfully, console commands are the same as Skyrim. So, we set then to nonessential.

[@exactly1176]

But what if i identify as a frog ? What is my pronoun ? Bethesda is racist !! They didn't include me into their diversity !!

[@amadeusagripino6862]

@ZoomerStasi lol nice reference

[@KonoGufo]

@ZoomerStasi Nah, BG3 gives you plenty of opportunities to break the usual flow and be violent with people, especially if you choose Dark Urge.

[@CC-ru8pi]

Does Bethesda just not know how to write villains? Truly, of all the disappointments Synth mentions, this is the biggest one for me. These villains are... awful. Like, pathetically bad. Pirates that don't loot and plunder? Gangsters that don't break the law? "I was alive the whole time and orchestrating everything from prison" with no effort to explain how any of that was possible? Space slug diabolus ex machina? Can Bethesda just not write a compelling villain? One with gravitas? One who exploits human weakness for personal gain? One with a motivation more complex than "the good guys say he's bad, so he's bad?" This is writing I would expect from amateurs. Not a big video game publisher with hundreds of millions of dollars of budget.

[@crazychase98]

Liberals think they are the heroes, but we all know their actual villains they put their logic as to what a hero should be into the game. Which is why the "heroes" are so villainanis.

[@dielo943]

You are not allowed to write a good villain because they would necessarily become a compelling indictment of your deranged agenda, which is way too fragile to endure that.

[@SyndicateOperative]

@@dielo943 That doesn't make the slightest lick of sense. You should think before you speak, not just blurt out whatever comes to mind and hope that it makes sense.

[@BWMagus]

@@dielo943 Typo; it's THEIR deranged agenda that would crumple.

[@DelinquentDemon]

​@@SyndicateOperativeQuite to the contrary, your belligerence to the ignorance is in the eye of the beholder, but bolder is the boulder who wears his heart on his shoulder, as it were. 😌💯

[@slayerd357]

Man I miss Morrowind's COMPLETE lack of hand holding.

[@frauleinhohenzollern]

And unique art style. Everything was so alien yet somehow believable. The monsters, the mushrooms, the giant silt striders that had those loud lonely calls echoing in the distance.....

[@kaidorade1317]

We are all gathered here today because we wish to answer the greatest question of all: why is this game just ok at best? Thanks Synth for your honesty!

[@punishedmatteson7108]

​@ZoomerStasihe could've fixed it with a tink tink tink gentleman

[@exactly1176]

But what if i identify as a frog ? What is my pronoun ? Bethesda is racist !! They didn't include me into their diversity !!

[@LuisSanchez-by7mh]

I guess Cyberpunk 2077 is okay too.

[@blackRXrider]

Every American RPG is just OK

[@shalindelta7]

​@LuisSanchez-by7mh nah that's worse lol. Bethesda made no bold claims about this game being something crafted by Jesus Christ himself, those were the BGS fans and xbox fans since it's not on PS. CP2077 devs talked hella shit and completely underdelivered. Everything is dogwater in that game from driving to shooting to physics to map. Even the story i found to be super meh in it's presentation.

[@kurisktan]

Todd is a genius he makes his sheepeople fix the game for him while he earns unlimited money.

[@SolonGaming]

Exploiting low IQ people is the most profitable business

[@Marcara081]

Except with the Nexus going woke modders are going to play close to their chest and start gatekeeping the hell out of their communities. So sheeple can cry about the mods they want but they're never getting them on the Kosher site anymore. It's only a matter of time before modders monetize their work in a more effective means, cutting out the middle man entirely.

[@danielyoungblood8525]

I just talked to godd Howard. He wants you off KZbin, & start making mods that make the game playable!!!!

[@ElDrHouse2010]

Basically. Nexus mods are Todd's b!tch

[@Sarah.J.Jacobson]

Total Todd Victory

[@gametime2473]

How is it possible that Bethesda hasn't improved their face modeling in decades?

[@PeteBaldwin]

It'd be very, very easy to blame it on the Creation Engine but then you have a look at what modders have done with Skyrim and Fallout 4 and you realise that can't be the case.

[@Brandelwyn]

They did, but devolved back to oblivion

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi]

​@@Brandelwynoh please, that would be a compliment

[@Brandelwyn]

@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi I liked many characters in fo4, actually

[@Thungoid]

Devs still don't know what humans look like. At least in the elder scrolls they had the excuse that most of the races weren't human.

[@matrix3509]

Remember, this is Todd Howard's dream game. This is the game Todd had (allegedly) wanted to make since before Oblivion. Let that sink in.

[@danielyoungblood8525]

Apparently empty plants were only possible on the series X. 😂😂

[@DebasedAnon]

How easy it is for so many people to get dragged by the overton window into defending absolutely moronic bs is one hell of a black pill, doubly so when you realise it applies to much more than just politics.

[@jw6588]

This. Dear God, this point here exactly.

[@chunkymilk]

over.

[@TheChosen1inc]

Feel the same way. This game and its support from gamers legit has me questioning if i should just stop playing games cause its only getting worse 💀

[@smallestgoober9399]

It'S 2023 brO GEt WiT Duh TImeS BRo!

[@DS-po6zd]

The same for a certain... Adaptation of a certain popular recent japanese series.

[@CrniWuk]

It's always something I found absolutely astonishing. Bethesda manages to create a game with the highest amount of obnoxious, annoying and repulsive NPCs. And then make them "unkillable". Not because they are overpowered. They just "fall" to the ground unconcious. Adding even more to the insult. And with each game they seem to make more and more NPCs unkillable.

[@slyrixz8147]

Its called having a woke creative team & a broke system developing team. I find it crazy theyve created this game on a 10 year old game engine.

[@orionxtc1119]

Diversity hires has regressed games back to Xbox 360 graphics

[@mitchellbirkhead9214]

When woke leftist are the ones creating these NPCs they create them after themselves and there friends who are all awful people for the most part so that explains it.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Lol reminds me of Bully but at least that was funny and made sense

[@GARCIIIAmonster]

and now half of them look like howard haha

[@TheVikingbob]

If the "center" of your ship is empty space because you add a large L bracket of struts to the top of your ship, most enemies can't hit you in space combat. It just works.

[@Mirthful_Midori]

From what I've seen of it enemies can only hit if they accidentally shoot from an angle that puts a piece of ship between the AI and the center point.

[@disgaealikerasapOG]

The gummi ship method lmao hilarious in works in other games

[@Marcara081]

Imagine if the game AI always targeted center mass so you made your ship into a giant hoola hoop.

[@Flutterdark_]

whats even funnier is that this exploit is 18 years old. because kingdom hearts 2 HAS THE SAME STRAT. people usually do a square there tho and make it look like a donut to get a little bit more hp for the few things that can damage you, like collisions and bombs.

[@LordFinkenstein]

​@@Marcara081Good news, you don't have to imagine it.

[@williamr.c.4168]

This game made Fallout 4 look like a masterpiece

[@artemislogic5252]

fo4 was a masterpiece imo, but only when played on survival

[@synergygaming65]

Fallout 4 was pretty great, but people love to bitch about everything so I consider that first and foremost when it comes to criticism.

[@Veldazandtea]

@@synergygaming65 Fallout 4 was good in terms of gameplay mechanics but bad in terms of structue and pacing. You don't earn power armor. You get it given to you. Plasma weapon and a certain handgun is also overpowered. Deathclaws are dreduced to solo jokes as well. They don't threaten the player anymore because they're too isolated. And plasma weapons kill them in a matter a moments. Even on survival. It's just too easy. And you know Fallout 4 is too black and white with it's story. The factions are too on the rails. Other Fallout games tend to have the player manipulate the factions more somehow. You're just bitching about bitching. Maybe there's good reason people bitch in the first place. You ddin't consider why. You didn't mention context. You lied about how it's about "everything" when you made a snap judgement devoid of context. All that shows is that you didn't think and use your brain and consider reasons with context about why people bitch. New vegas had it all done better. RPG, pacing. No big enclave fights (unfortunately) but it gets so much done right. This is an example of context with criticism. Specific reasons. Too many people make blank carpet statements devoid of context and that's likely why people can't address the problems in games. Little wonder devs can improve on them then.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@artemislogic5252 no, enough with that crap, enemies were still bulletspongy even on survival.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@synergygaming65 fallout 4 sucked it had godawful story, ruined the lore and it playes like a looter shooter with elite bulletspongy enemies barely any rpg mechanics whatsoever, its mindblowing to me how starfield is worse than fallout 4.

[@LoreliaDeMildiane]

Don't forget they also extensively talk about how "no one leaves the crimson fleet" yet they just let Mathys go for no reason

[@negativezero8174]

Or the guy that works on the cruise ship that Delgado casually fired.

[@dirkdisco2316]

Or Lt. Toft

[@arkgaharandan5881]

bethesda doesnt have a core design document, meaning that when you got hundreds of people working on a game there is no document to consult on wherever its ok to do something in the game's universe or not, bethesda's side missions are made up on the spot.

[@DieEineMieze]

​@@arkgaharandan5881Bethesda can't make a good and Interesting RPG with a great story, good mechanics and story even if their life dependents on it. They have been hyped much more than they ever deserve. Their best game, fallout new Vegas wasn't even made by them. Now these delusional fanboys slowly wake up or are just bored with these boring games. And there's still enough people which will defend Bethesda.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@DieEineMieze imagine how good this game would be if they hired a good writer to writer the story.

[@Beanskiiii]

This game shows you who the real life NPCs are

[@vilxxblack2472]

And you arent

[@liccasinocomfreespins7337]

​@@vilxxblack2472you have extra chromosomes

[@ZrvZaza]

​@@vilxxblack2472Nuh uh

[@ocinprofession]

Animal life is a game and we are all just the npcs for the main character spider.

[@Pigeonbutt]

@@ocinprofessionfuck that game would be sick

[@reviewspiteras]

The funniest thing about this game is when you kill every soulless monster that the devs try to convince you they are good NPCs.

[@TacticaIPuke]

I suppose the schizo tangent would be that that is on purpose.

[@Marcara081]

I disagree. The funniest thing is that Todd managed to fix the ugly character tech in Oblivion only to use the latest tech to make the characters ugly on purpose this time. Wrap your head around that one.

[@scubasteve3032]

“Random gay dude is an essential npc.” In fallout 76, the only items you can’t scrap are the communist items.

[@LordCohliani]

Real?

[@ethanbaileylol2283]

“communist items” like what? is it only “communist items”?

[@OmniDan26]

@@ethanbaileylol2283 Why are you putting Communist items in quotes? They're literal flags, posters, books, and mugs with the hammer and sickle, mao, and stalin on them in game.

[@ethanbaileylol2283]

@@OmniDan26 what does these items being in the game change? a big theme of Fallout is how dangerous unfettered capitalism can be. a corporation literally starts WW3… if you it took a flag to understand that then you might wanna check your mental faculties

[@OmniDan26]

@@ethanbaileylol2283 You're shifting the goalposts now, and that reveals all I need to know about you.

[@nemesis8131]

In Poland we call Bethesda games literally a wood. Something what was once alive but it is no more. Also they have wooden animations, wooden expression, wooden writing ect. Still I love Morrowind, somehow Oblivion and Skyrim. These games have fun factor and quite big immersion. *Starefield* is soulless, untasty soup without veggies, meat or atleast noodles. It is just a bland salty broth.

[@honeybadger6275]

That is a fantastic analogy. You made me chuckle.

[@j0nnyism]

Hey I like bland tasteless food. Starfield is great lots of planets to walk about on and people to talk to and look at the choice of ammo types endless choice of ammo to use. Lots of choice

[@HueghMungus]

​@@j0nnyism😂😂😂 what a joke

[@GenocideLv]

starfield what happens when you follow of a checklist of "what makes a game" and ignore everything inbetween. Oh, and modern agenda to help the medicine go down with a spoonful of battery acid.

[@krisiluttinen]

Well, its either immersive or LGBT, cant have both.

[@skyrimisforthenords8312]

The single worst thing is the absurd amount of essentials. Even when it gives you an attack dialogue. Even when they have nothing to do with quests.

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

"Even when it gives you an attack dialogue." That is either a bug or the people working at Bethesda have lost it. One would think not being situated in California would help but they all are connected to their smartphone.

[@skyrimisforthenords8312]

@Varangian_af_Scaniae i hope its a bug. My theory is that in early development you could kill, then some suspect people came in and changed it. Kinda like my theory that the aurora place used to be a strip club, then for esg, they changed it to dudes in funky outfits

[@johnvoices4087]

Some devs cannot STAND the idea that some people might skip or ignore the parts of the game they wrote/designed.

[@mrmagoo-i2l]

I disagree, the single worst thing is there being no “bigness”. Mass effect Andromeda had the same problem, just sort of playgrounds that you knew the limit of. The other mass effects were pretty much corridor shooters but the world felt bigger. There was no ships in the mass effects or exploration but they had this huge implication of scale. Set pieces, story moments, huge battles. Its a space epic it needs the wow factor. Starfield is like a non alcoholic beer or a veggie burger. Just no good.

[@skyrimisforthenords8312]

@lesserspottedmugwump.363 this game has other problems too but there was nothing more frustrating to me than. Someone has a key, ill sneak asttack and loot. Nope, i wanna be a pirate, betray the vanguard. Nope, do a quest creatively nope. Everyone is essential. Theres almost no point to open world if your still forcing me onto rails

[@jerinsaldana4663]

Synthetic man’s brutal honestly is something this world needs more of. Keep up the solid work

[@Fuchsfeuer]

a man the world doesn't deserve, but needs!

[@xSpooKee]

@@mooonn-jb6tuyou ain’t wrong.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

Is he not aware of actual bad games this kind of stuff the angry Joe and James Rolfe used to review such a sonic free riders, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, mindJack, Winter Olympics, Lord of the rings Gollum, and all the CDI games

[@Belmont1714]

​@@maxmazzotti6651Yes but games like Gollum doesn't have a secure fanbase that's why it's "universally" hated. But games like Starfield or any other soulless AAA game have a fanbase. That fanbase are also KZbinrs. He is simply not shilling and aslo exposing the game for what it truly is. I hope you understand now🙏. What I hate most is that these fans come into this channel and come harass people who agrees with him. Humans are stupid.

[@nolimits9776]

Your honesty got me. Subbed.

[@themagalanium9491]

in a game which has a FUCKING multiverse where the lives of anyone but you is insignificant, you still cant kill any NPC

[@lezardex6335]

Imagine in the real world, if you do a world tour and visit all country, you find the same people, same culture, same food everywhere. How boring that would be? Look no further and see it for yourself in Starfield then. Diversity at this point where everything merge is not always good.

[@raph5402]

I'd argue it is never good. When you go to another country it should be for the people living there, for the food, for the culture. If its all the same, why go there? I see no reason to visit places far abroad that are completely similar to the place I am living at. For that I can stay in my own country. And I don't understand how American companies can't understand that themselves. They always say "oh LA is so different to NY its like another world" But it never reflects in their products they ship internationally.

[@the11382]

This game would be better if they made humans of various planets more exotic. I would given humans various features related to genetic modification and prosthetics to make up for the fact that there aren't any aliens.

[@Noperare]

Starfield is peak globo homogenous, the ultimate melting pot, the convergence point where all cultures and etnicities became one.

[@RayoSombrio78]

Globalism wants that for us.

[@OrgusDin]

You make it sound like I wouldn't prefer to never see anything but my own people and culture or something. "Boring" more like a coherent safe society with nearly all of its problems absent.

[@fr0zen1isshadowbanned99]

My Slob List with 48h in: No Vats - No Gore - No diving - Can't open Doors, defuse Mines, use Items... when in Scan Mode - Can't control jump height. NPCs can do that. A Charge up Meter is really needed on some Moons, or you fly off like a Rocket - Boost Packs not really suitable ever/meaning that you need different kinds of Boosters for different Situations but also you need Resistances against Korrosion, Air, Radiation, Bio, and somewhat level conforming Laser, EMP, Bullet Resistance = you need 12+ Boost Packs - Crafting and Building Copy Paste from FO4 but with worse placement control - Awful Controls overall. The game works on GamePad but you need your whole Keyboard if you choose to play on the Keyboard. Make ready to rebind 50 Keys and ignore Conflicts - Very few and lackluster Feats - You should start with level one on each Skill - Skills need to be way more "Exotic". ATM they are mostly "more DMG, can Craft, can buy, can fly - Item Feats are mostly useless and are Copy Paste from FO4 - Skill progression is mostly forgettable and unimaginative - EXP from discovering, Hacking, building, crafting is nearly not existent - Item Notifications gone after 1.5sec = can't check Stats = open Inventory - Carry Capacity sucks - You can't mark individual Items to look/track for - You can't undo all tracking Items - Inventory Menu sucks! StarUI Mod needed = modding mandatory or wasting hours unnecessarily - Can't use Cure Object in Affliction Screen. Again StarUI Mandatory - Not showing "Weather(Corrosion/Radiation...)" Conditions on Planet before landing- Map is awful - Quests send you to places you can't reach - Lifeless Planets are useless - Copy pasted Bases/Caves... no sign of prcedurally generated Locations - Often looking to Scan "Natural Wonder" that I already Scanned because it's not identifyable from the Picture - Planet Map shows 100% scanned even if it's not because of "Costal Area" - Escort Quests that have you travel 1000m+ for low reward - You can't ban Useless Items from Scanner - Rare/Legendary/Epic Items cause 2sec Game Freeze when Equiped and changing to Scanner or cyceling through Weapons - Space Combat at least unskilled at early Levels is pure Stats Game and often undoable because 3v1 - No feeling of actually flying through Space - You still get Stuck and can not jump when on angled Ground as in FO4/Skyrim/Oblivion... - NPC Money should be infinite or at least increased by 4x - Items you pick up/have in Inventory show the worth they have when you buy them from a Merchant, but they should show what they are worth to you, when you sell them - NPC standing on Pilot Seat so only 3rd Person Space Flight or piloting through gap between NPCs Legs - Enemies/Animals on Planet stacked in a Heap, so you think you will fight 3, but it ends up being 12 or more all stacked into one tiny Spot and into each other - Melee Combat as bad as it was in any other Bethesda Game (look what modders did to Skyrims Combat Animations) - Reloading gets Canceled by running and jumping - Typical Bethesda Bullet-Sponge Enemies - Typical run around/jump over Obsacles and slowly chip away their Health - In Ship flight you need to be able to make custom Presets for "Full Power Weapons, Grav Drive, Engines, Shields..." and bind them to F1-F4 or any other Key you choose - Needs City/Outpost/Other Listing on Star-Map to find the Locations + placement of own nameable Markers - Needs Button to stop Quests from coming in. I get 5 new Quests when running around doing one Quest. I don't know how I got the Quests. I don't know who the Quests are from. I have no connection to them. - Finding Quests is a Nightmare. They need to be Structured much better. Time when Quest received/Location of Quest Giver/Nearby Quests/Location of Quest/Radiant Quest... - Still can't go from Sneak to normal Mode whilst doing any other action / meaning Stealth play feels Crap. Sneak to someone with a Melee Weapon, hit them 1 time, wait for Animation to finish, press "Crouch" Key, wait for your Character to stand up, engage in Comabt. 1995... 19 F*cking 95!!! - I have been playing the Game for 50 hours now and am Level 25 and I still find the same Fire Axe I found on Level 3 over and over 21 DMG - When on the Map Screen, there has to be a Warning that you can not travel at this moment - I am SEETHING because I activated a Mission but the Game decided to not show me that Mission at all, but two other Missions I do not want to do - I decided to do one of the Missions to see what happens... I now have FOUR Map markers. WTF! And I am not allowed to activate even two Missions - Buy Back Disabled as soon as you leave Shopping Window - List Updated :)

[@fernandokmps9346]

I miss the old days when blood and gore were in the game and not a feature from a mod.

[@fr0zen1isshadowbanned99]

Thanks for the likes, everyone :) Sorry for Eye-Cancer xD It is how it is, right?!

[@mistaando9741]

you can diffuse mines, not sure if youre lying or trying to be critical based gamer guy

[@AaronWOfficial]

Tbh I never liked vats anyway, I always thought it felt cheap. Its basically aimbot for disabled people.

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

@@fernandokmps9346 "old days" I must be getting old! Fallout 76 has gore and to me that game isn't from the old days. It's even from the same bast#¤%s as this game, what ever they say. Many from the main studio worked on F76.

[@Ceeed100]

About the G0re, I really hate that they got rid of the damage models for robots. I loved that you could visibly damage the robots in F4.

[@Vert_GreenHeart]

I swear I noticed that yesterday... then I remembered Todd saying this game is next gen in technology... seriously so many little details missing what made Bethesda great.

[@Shieftain]

They should've gotten idtech to do the gore system considering how well the gore in the last two Doom games are. Instead, they get id's engineers to work on their... Wait for it... MOTION BLUR! What a game changer, wow!! /s Calling bugthesda incompetent at this point would be the understatement of the century.

[@HonkHonkler]

This IS by far the worst game Bethesda has ever developed lol.

[@xertiasstrat8957]

that's sad to see some denying it, they probably never really played games or just random shit.. like i mean, why do they deny reality?.. this game is so disappointing..and still not just the woke pronoms stuff which dont make any sens btw, but the game itself.. JUST LOOK AT IT, this is so empty, and slow.. Fallout 4 is so MUCH BETTER. I'm really sorry for people defending this, they're lost really

[@HonkHonkler]

@@xertiasstrat8957 It's sad to see A LOT of people deny A LOT of things. From problems men face, issues in women's beliefs/thoughts/attitudes, defending Anal Woke 2 and Spiderman 2, that Islam ISN'T a intolerant religion, that communism is bad, that the CCP is bad, Trump wasn't a decent president especially in comparison to the current senile puppet we have in office, that pizzagate was real, that the 2020 elections were rigged, that MeToo/Feminism hasn't completely ruined gender relations between men and women, that the Red Pill is good for men, that George Floyd died of an overdose etc. I'm just so fxcking tired of life at this point...

[@jdrok5026]

I mean they never developed good games

[@HonkHonkler]

@@jdrok5026 Yes they have, pretty decent games, just buggy AF lol.

[@HonkHonkler]

@@jdrok5026 And yes I know New Vegas wasn't developed by them and is my favorite they've published, but 4 is fun for what it is, Fallout 3 is more flawed than New Vegas but a classic, Skyrim is awesome, Morrowind is decent and Oblivion is great and hilarious.

[@PurpleLEANKrabs]

A game by corporate drones for corporate drones. Just do the missions as they are presented and don't do anything involving testicles

[@arkgaharandan5881]

aka all quests

[@KingEgyptian]

The amount of people, especially KZbinrs that praised this game was mind blowing. At least it makes it easier who not to trust.

[@bdleo300]

Todd's adoring fans...

[@EverSoSlightlySolidSnake]

I still can't believe that its fans and defenders aren't just endless waves of bots.

[@Akira-Strider]

tbh they might as well can still be considered bots with how NPC they are@@EverSoSlightlySolidSnake

[@fernandokmps9346]

I subscribed to Synth Man after the review of Gman, that guy have the evidence of a bad game and he didn't care. Is he legally blind in IRL or what ? Because the"Bug will be fixed" almost cost me a new PC lol. But Todd will say "Just buy a new PC, lonely salary man"

[@naxitodarker]

@@fernandokmps9346 the thing is that , you cant praise a game for being mediocre and call it a masterpiece LMAO, we have to be critical

[@pitshoster401]

The greatest trick Todd ever pulled was convincing the world his games are better than they actually are.

[@laisphinto6372]

its so funny that he got away with that shit again because he just springles some """represantation""" in his mid game and all these dumbfuks try to run defense for it

[@perfectenrager]

He convinced no one.

[@orcckaa]

Skyrim is the prime example of this

[@topsgaming4266]

16 times the detail. I knew at once this man only spits bull

[@deangregoric4735]

@@perfectenrager he proved everyone. 👍👍

[@orange_turtle3412]

When fucking lego star wars is a better space sim than your triple A space sim game, you know you’ve fucked up.

[@ghhn4505]

"The starborns are humans who have visited the center of the universe" Wait didn't they do that in Spore?

[@zwenkwiel816]

And no man's sky

[@artemislogic5252]

the ending is pulled straight from dragons dogma

[@ziephel-6780]

@@artemislogic5252 And Dragon's Dogma does it a trillion times better than Starfield.

[@KopperNeoman]

​@@ziephel-6780A bit hilarious when your level 200 Arisen onetaps some poor bastard's level 53 Senestral though.

[@ziephel-6780]

@@KopperNeoman Too accurate.

[@MistahJay7]

The fact that almost everyone that talks about this game on KZbin never discusses how many Essential NPCs that you can't kill is insane. You are literally one of the only people to point out this glaring flaw in the game.

[@MrSiloterio]

Can you kill essential NPCs in the witcher 3?

[@MrSiloterio]

@@nepalskilouda so the killing essential npcs only apply to certain rpgs?

[@MistahJay7]

@@MrSiloterio Im comparing this to Fallout games. Even Fallout 4 had way more killable NPCS this. Haven't played Witcher 3 in forever lol I enjoyed it but never get obsessed with it. Pretty sure even that game lets you kill more NPCS....

[@MrSiloterio]

@@MistahJay7 what is the number of killable npcs in the fallout 4?

[@MrSiloterio]

@@nepalskilouda so how many killable npcs are there in their previous games?

[@mrbigglezworth42]

Starfield seriously makes me think that modern game writers should've gone on strike as well. It's not like their absence would've detracted from the game.

[@Mr_Mistah]

This aged well given apparently there's an actual strike happening in gaming

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

ChatGPT does exist and perhap a way better job than bethesda at writing a compelling story,

[@PhenoDubs]

ChatGPT is not capable of writing an actual story with depth, detail, and nuance. It also doesn't have the ability to be creative so it can't come up with its own ideas and will instead just plagiarize from other stories.

[@NexusFantismo]

​@@PhenoDubssounds like writing nowadays. Every mainstream movie or TV show is a remake , spinoff or knockoff of the next...so just go ahead and put the boys in charge 🤷🏾

[@GARCIIIAmonster]

game writers are complaining since early 2000s that most publishers think text is cheap.

[@davidwelchert264]

Imagine being able to swim underwater in Skyrim over 10 years ago, but cannot now? Imagine being able to assasssinate an NPC in varying positions in Skyrim ie. Dark Brotherhood. But in 2023 not so? Like what the fuck

[@jadams2289]

I expected nothing after FO76 and they still managed to do worse than I expected.

[@aceclover758]

The thing is, FO76 now or since the last two years when it started it’s dedicated roadmap is far more fun

[@АлексейСвиридов-у9о]

​@@aceclover758Begone bruhthesda drone. This hot garbage will always be irredeemable.

[@aceclover758]

@@АлексейСвиридов-у9о huh?

[@Chris-we7hh]

​@@aceclover758Fo76 is fun if you're starting fresh or have friends to play with, but once you reach the endgame with quests completed it's just korean mmo farming style of boredom.

[@jay-d8g3v]

Yeaaaaaaa after FO76 I witnessed that dropped I'm like welp their games are done for now

[@skezeksskybreaker5425]

Considering you can NG+ they really should be more flexible in letting you kill named NPCs. In Morrowind they would let you kill essential NPCs but give you a warning that it was one so you might want to revert.

[@infernaldaedra]

You make a good point but the main quest isn't actually always the same with ng+

[@homertakizakura1988]

@@infernaldaedrawhat changes about it because he literally displays in this video how it is exactly the same you just keep some of your stuff

[@Lethal_Spoon]

he said that in the video

[@Christmas_Johan]

I got into gaming because of that in Morrowind, imagine if People's introduction to games is seeing how restrictive gaming was through Starfield And the awful facial animations

[@danielsurvivor1372]

​@@Christmas_Johan Tbf, many games are restrictive in terms of you letting you destroy NPCs. But it's bad in Starfield because it's supposed to be Roleplaying Game, the whole point of those games is player choise so it's insulting when this game has Essential NPCs and not say, Zelda games or whatever.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

It reminds me of how you can't kill Maven blackbriar in Skyrim despite the fact that she is going to be one of the most evil people in the game.

[@hellatze]

dragonborn is just evil

[@canadianbeef1958]

But at least you can send her to jail for the rest of her life by temporarily giving Riften to the Imperials, making her Jarl, then taking the city back later for the Stormcloaks. Doing this sends her to the Solitude castle dungeon for the rest of the game with the other Jarls. Starfield unfortunately isn't that creative.

[@gavinlorenz6837]

This is the guy we should be watching... Actually makes good point. Gman is probably getting paid.

[@xcharlesbronsonx]

Gman shills Shill up Yong yea (the fruit who shilled cyberpunk by not telling anyone how broken the game was before it become "cool" to hate on it) Act ma'am who defended star slop So many fake game reviewers

[@godofdead2]

I absolutely love this angrier style of reviewing that really scratches that AVGN sized itch I've been having. Phenomenal.

[@mrmagoo-i2l]

Yeah he should go extremely overboard with maybe a chudler type character. With some sort of costume.

[@ultramagnus1275]

I also like this style. 🤝

[@SammEater]

"What were they thinking?!"

[@zoron8952]

and with more hair

[@MistahJay7]

The Angry Synthetic Man

[@Mamiya645]

Roses are red, violets are blue, Bethesda hit their peak with Morrowind and Blizzard with Diablo 2.

[@simon6157]

Morrowind is in desperate need for a Remake.

[@connorodum6710]

Morrowind is absolute peak Imagine a remake of Redguard with the technology we have today

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@simon6157 skywind and yes morrowind was the best game bethesda ever made.

[@simon6157]

@@arkgaharandan5881 for it's time yes but sadly it aged pretty badly imo.

[@dw_bh5009]

For me Bethesda is Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. Even tho this games became more and more casual they still had a lot of great quests and slapping a ton of RP / Hardcore mods on top of them still gives them very good RPG flavor to this day. And for Blizzard their peak absolutely was Warcraft 3 and countless genres and games born from custom maps made for this game.

[@pilotmanpaul]

Did Bethesda hit every NPC with the ugly stick or something?

[@ethanwright752]

something something diversity something representation lmfao

[@TheFailedmessiah]

Lol they gotta be procedurally generated to be THAT ugly.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

Nah They used the California stick Alongside some "representation"

[@aprilmeowmeow]

I don't think it has anything to do with diversity... how moronic are you guys? LOL. Even the characters that are supposed to be attractive have that look to them. Clearly an artist and engine issue.

[@AR15andGOD]

People need to be ugly, otherwise it will make ugly people feel bad.

[@SammEater]

Gotta love how they had to destroy Earth in the story because Todd and his team couldn't render cities bigger than a couple of buildings. So just the entire planet on a wasteland.

[@mafiamike02]

"And the random gay dude is an essential character imagine my shock " I'm weak😂😂😂😂😂

[@led-0185]

Starfield is what you get from continuously lowering the average IQ of a dev team over the course of two decades.

[@DmanDice]

And the customer

[@jasonlawrence360]

And being a diversity ridden team.

[@Sukhoi_Su-25]

Not just collectively lowering the IQ of society (much of which is accomplished via replacing the original members of a society or encouraging them to breed with invasive species), it's also disallowing anything other than safe topics socially. To be mainstream is to be safe. You can't explore anything uncomfortable or unsafe lest you have the jewish defamation legion I mean anti defamation league, SPLC, NAACP, and more beating down your door.

[@DmanDice]

​@@Sukhoi_Su-25 Might want to rethink that first half. You can fight every black or Mexican boyfriend (or whoever youre talking about) that your daughter brings home, but thats not going to protect her from the years of lowered standards and trash propaganda theyre teaching her in school. Kids of all races are being dumbed down all at the same time.

[@RedWolfenstein]

The two usually go hand in hand @@jasonlawrence360

[@MrData47]

If this isn't a complete dismantling of a game I don't know what is. Remember that this game got DOZENS of 10/10's from the press.

[@SWOTHDRA]

They need to be investigated, thats just being corrupt to the bone, getting paid from microsoft

[@user-iu6sd8su3e]

The press is the enemy of the people

[@jl3114]

I'm sure Bethesda has a good ESG score from the Jews at the SEC, that's what's really important here guys. Quality should come secondary to diversity and inclusion!

[@velocitygod2]

Phill Spencer payed all of the review the paychecks were crazy

[@lumbagoboi1649]

​@@jl3114lmao Jews?

[@stinkfinga4918]

1:05:54 - this is why I will never unsub. You have the best resolutions to problems even of the future.

[@Vert_GreenHeart]

To think Todd dared telling people to actually upgrade their PC ? Has he no shame at all ? He made not only a poorly optimized PC game that doesn't even have precombined feature which is the basic of basics of Creation Engine optimization, he says this game pushes the boundries in technology ? Where you can't even explore a planet with bounderies ? Where you can't fly your own ship inside planets ? So much innovative tech indeed...

[@TyphonNeuron]

No he doesn't. During the FO76 presentation he called players degenerates. And the audience applauded and cheered not realizing it was them he was referring to. Bethesda fans are some of the stupidest amoebas on the face of this planet.

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

It's the worst game yet for me. I had a RX 6700 XT but it went bust so I had to go back to my old trusted 1070. But I had like 20 fps with everything on low. Not even Cyberbust 2077 was that bad with the 1070, got 45-55.

[@amadeusagripino6862]

It doesn't even have vehicles, and even after modders successfully making it

[@PaladinHD]

Right? I can play armored core just fine with my old pc lol

[@iammac5813]

Loads of sheeple will still defend their daddy Todd Howard so no matter what shit he gives them , they will devour it like it's gold

[@amadeusagripino6862]

Also for the record: we've been demanding Emil Pagliarulo's firing since Fallout 3 was launched in 2008

[@BoleDaPole]

Does he have compromising photos of Todd or something? How is he still employed??

[@Chaoszwaihander3434]

@@BoleDaPole he probably takes merit he doesn't deserve for the games success, because I don't think anybody that is literate can praise them for the writing

[@amadeusagripino6862]

@@BoleDaPole did you know the main 3d animator for Fallout 3 failed at 3d animation class but was hired because he was Todd's friend?

[@GeneralProfessor]

To put into perspective the character writing: Imagine if the next Mass Effect had Conrad Verner return for a small reference / joke. Now imagine if that was the best character in the game.

[@xiriusthesoulwatcher3955]

I mean.... Andromeda

[@Spillow-C]

damn i just realized conrad verner is inspired from the adoring fan lol, he's blonde too

[@Marcara081]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@xiriusthesoulwatcher3955]

@@YeniuOjiak Well, obviously. Not to imply Starfield is somehow better(as it very much is not), but you have to appreciate the pit's depth.

[@PhthaloGreenskin]

​@xiriusthesat least with Andromeda you can still have fun in that game. It's not a good mass effect game but it's a fun b tier game when you just wanna mess around. oulwatcher3955

[@sigmaprojects]

I think the oddest part of the whole not being able to take out "essential NPCs" was a seriously missed opportunity in this game because *spoilers ahead* you get to jump to a parallel universe with your character and try again. This would be the perfect situation to allow a more open ended gaming experience.

[@subutaynoyan5372]

That would mean they'd need coding and actually make the game workable with more writing for sure. People call Cyberpunk linear but your decisions really matter in that at least. Bethesda has been dumbing RPG's down so that they can sell it to wider audiences

[@deathmetalcakefarts2751]

I haven’t played a Bethesda game since Skyrim and thank god cuz I have cherished memories and wanna keep it that way - if I played starfield I’d somehow find a way to permanently delete that Sarah or whatever her name is from the game. Can’t stand her idc if I’d have to become a coder to do it. Just a disgusting bloody shart of a game.

[@sigmaprojects]

@@deathmetalcakefarts2751 it honestly feels like a big tech demo. So, here's hoping under MS management they do something different than what they've been doing with FO4, F76 and Starfield. ES6 probably won't see the light of day until 2026 or 2027.

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

Honestly yeah, essential npcs makes no sense in the storyline. The game can keep going as long as you get the artifacts and just-reset the universe? A player can't easily softlock themselves & can ussualy just reload.

[@sigmaprojects]

@@AbstractTraitorHero exactly, they had the perfect situation to allow a return to the older no hand holding and give players a bit more of a unique game experience. Instead everyone basically plays out in similar ways.

[@lootskywalker3008]

You know a game sucks when you'd rather do a genocide run on your first playthrough but the game won't let you.

[@kendo2377]

😆

[@michaelgualtierijr5434]

I found this out when I tried to kill moara on his ship. I said to myself "thanks for the info" [2 12g shots to the head]. "I can't kill him...why?"

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

I wanted to liberate the people in Far Cry 3. But Far Cry 6 made me want to kill every single one of my own so-called allies.

[@kittydaddy2023]

Baldur's Gate 3 lets you.

[@TacTyger]

War crimes are best crimes

[@naokeksura3251]

I have a really Strong Feeling they created the game in less than a year.

[@naokeksura3251]

The Charakters look like Metahumans and it looks like they use plugins like the Quest and Dialog Framework thing. I saw some strangely similar things they put in the game that i saw in some tech vids.

[@zombieslayer02gjustzombies85]

Even though they waited 8 to release it when they could’ve actually worked on it to make it much better like they said it’d be

[@henkhenkste6076]

I think this is an AI created game

[@naokeksura3251]

@@henkhenkste6076 Hot take but it could be 😂

[@IronIsKing]

they didnt develop elder scrolls 6 because of them working on this game, just remember that

[@lizardpeople]

I found a coffee mug in the game that says "never apologize for being a powerful fucking woman" I almost cringed into oblivion

[@jong2359]

I bet that "sandwich" bitch from the Starfield trailer put that in the game.

[@dantecurry207]

Beyond cringe.

[@Aa_ron__]

remove "never" and "powerful" 😂

[@categorialimperative4182]

Yeah, that's what really makes Starfield a piece of turd. Oh, my God, gamers really are a special case. Incurable.

[@youarealwayscorrect]

Oh my god, it's not like we can find shitty feminist products in real life 😱

[@scientificidiot4165]

This is why I wouldn't even pirate the game, a waste of network bandwidth, disk space, and processing time.

[@Gameboynitro]

If there wasn't any other game that exposed alot of Shilltubers this game certainly did.

[@Jezza_One]

It also exposed the hatewatchers.

[@LowResLeafa]

@@YeniuOjiak How are you guys just now Realizing ActMan is shill? He shilled for that New World game made by Amazon like a year ago.

[@gronndar]

​@@Jezza_Onehatewatchers?

[@lucienhaulotte4049]

​@@gronndarpeople who warch something only to spite on it later

[@yuukimasamura5143]

It’s unfortunate I like act man and G man was alright for the most part.

[@ashamahee]

Starfield takes my number one issue with Fallout 4 to the next level, which is that it is too sanitized.

[@zachrohler1047]

Modern gaming in the nutshell.

[@ashamahee]

@zachrohler1047 exactly, dont get me wrong I do enjoy the game for what it is but I worry about this trend as it is clearly not getting better and only going to get worse.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

and the story sucks, and it has no choices and its empty and it has bullet spongy enemies.

[@ashamahee]

@@arkgaharandan5881 the story is subjective as it always will be but it surely is not a great story but certainly not the worst either however the bullet sponges, yeah that seems to have been taken to the next level as well.

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@ashamahee there is barely any sci fi in it, i saw someone saying that some sidequest when some guy aims at you and says "you much the description" and you respond with the extrovert perk "no you match the description" and this idiotic juvenile "no you" back and fourth goes back and fourth, well i read some guy saying this garbage dialogue written by a 5 year old is better than the main story. That proves the main story sucks.

[@oliverstianhugaas7493]

My biggest problem with the game is the actual mongrels who inhabit it, the NPC's look like monstrocities.

[@Darker7]

They look like "aliens impersonating humans" from a really cheap horror game :Ü™

[@Estelle2007]

They say mongrels like everybody isn't mixed with some now extinct ethnic subgroup. But yes, the npc's are hideous.

[@andrewsneacker1256]

lol dude, look at your own face. You would fit perfectly in this game.

[@CaptainKMan]

DEI at its worst.

[@mesterjess]

@@andrewsneacker1256 You Chud

[@rustyshackleford6534]

When someone asks me what's wrong with Starfield, I just link to this video. It's so thorough in everything wrong in a way nobody else is that I'd just be wasting my time trying to summarize it otherwise.

[@DamianOchramowicz]

The fact that a major AAA release causes a PC to bluescreen is wild. It is like 2004 and Windows XP all over again

[@Hectorogents]

Don't make fun of XP, not cool bro

[@The_House_Always_Wins]

classic Bethesda

[@TaRAAASHBAGS]

Any programmer born after 1993 can't code. All they know is crash, bad optimization, gargantuan file sizes, reintroduce bugs, and complete tech regression.

[@ohamatchhams]

@@The_House_Always_Wins Not "classic", even other previous Bethesda games' bugs aren't that level of horrid Isn't there consumer protection policy in America for that level of botched software quality or something

[@The_House_Always_Wins]

@@ohamatchhams No lol

[@shaunage6841]

The Creation Engine has always been ugly, even since Oblivion, Todd Howard is the biggest and best snake oil salesman in the game industry.

[@The_House_Always_Wins]

That wasn’t the creation engine oblivion used the gamebryo engine

[@shaunage6841]

Essentially the same thing@@The_House_Always_Wins

[@KamleshMallick]

I have done some Skyrim modding using the Creation Kit. Making NPCs essential is a lazy way to ensure you don’t have to put in the effort to design a quest to take care of alternate scenarios. They took it to the extremes in Starfield.

[@kyleharry6758]

I started with oblivion. Good atmosphere at least. Skyrim was a step down but still good. Last good game.

[@Somewhat-Sinister]

Atleast they didn't try and sell us Starfield brand canvas bags, helmets, and "food bits/chunks" or whatever the food was called in this game.

[@Trivial_Whim]

Honestly the NPCs look like primitive AI models to me. Like they were generated by AI and the humans all went: “We’ll adjust them later.” Until suddenly it was launch day and they just let it ride.

[@WK-47]

Right? Given the state it's in, it would've been embarrassing had they released on time last November, but at this point it's just shameful. They had almost an extra year (which many devs would kill for) and still seemingly forgot to finesse or even finish whole areas of it. I sure hope Todd doesn't actually consider this his magnum opus, because overall it's a passable product at the very most, not something to retire and sleep comfortably having done it, if you can even call it finished. I'd already been managing my expectations, but SF is keeping the bar verrry low for TES6/F5.

[@AVX512]

“We’ll adjust them later.” is Besthesda's motto now

[@Morfe02]

Fun fact: there is a book called somethimg like Kjjadaaaaaaaaaaaaa Yeah they forget the text and is just a test book xD

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@AVX512more like "modders will adjust it later"

[@banksuvladimir]

Nah I don’t think they look ai generated. They all look too much like woke dysgenic body types that are pushed as positive. There was some black woman with alopecia the first time you visit new Atlantis, because of course there was. They’ve gotta make sure to push that everywhere, for the 7 people on earth that look like dalmations. Seriously, I’ve lived all over the place, traveled everywhere, I don’t think I’ve actually seen any black people with that yet for some reason were pandering specifically to them? Why not people with cleft palates and burn victims at that point?

[@ex_S1N]

Watching this makes me so sad for Elder Scrolls 6.

[@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989]

Don't buy it.

[@innerarts4091]

So you are telling me, that despite the fact the creation engine CAN'T handle vehicles (hypothetically), Bethesda decided to use this stone age engine in a game about exploring fuckin planets... What a wonderful idea, truly a next gen experience!

[@jacobely6826]

i honestly dont understand why bethesda are clinging to the creation engine... they should've ditched it a long time ago and either rebuilt a new engine from the ground up, or simply traded it for a slightly less unique, but a thousand times more functional engine like unity or unreal... most of bethesda's problems in their games stem from their engine... and yet they just keep chugging along barely keeping it in working condition like its some sort of fucked up Stockholm syndrome.

[@alexortiz7842]

@@jacobely6826You have 0 idea what you’re talking about

[@denishrg9843]

@@alexortiz7842 1000* you must have brain damage if you think that glorified PowerPoint+ engine is even good!

[@slyseal2091]

@@alexortiz7842 Then it's a good thing he can just skip the knowledge part and make his mouth say what his eyes see: This engine isn't up to the task. There's been games that did what people expected of Starfield. That's where their expectations of Starfield came from. From the far older games that could handle everything people wanted. I have to repeat words because this isn't even a line of conclusions, it's just a standalone fact.

[@honeybadger6275]

@@slyseal2091 Yeah at this point the techdebt on their engine is probably 12 years now.

[@rwln]

The only good that has come from starfield is it helped me realise which reviewers are shills and through recent controversy how stupid the defenders of this game/normies are. It’s all just been one massive black pill

[@Gonboo]

ACG was the only one I was subscribed to that lied about this game, so disappointing.

[@FoxyFoxlyn]

​@@GonbooLuke Stephens was honest about the game. He didn't enjoy it either. He only enjoyed the ship building. He said the main story was meh. He always says, hype makes you stupid. He is also a proud skeptic. I only watch his and Synth's reviews now.

[@shadekerensky3691]

Well Mack from Worth A Buy was honest about it thankfully

[@blackRXrider]

But you have to play at least 100 hours 😂😂😂

[@blackRXrider]

​@@FoxyFoxlynLuke defended mediocre Eldenring. GTFU

[@fdk7014]

It's interesting what you say about discrimination being an important factor. That's one of the elements that makes Morrowind so intriguing. You come there as an outlander that everyone distrusts and you have to work to prove your worth. It's what makes the ambience of Morrowind so interesting. The game itself has some issues with the mechanisms for sure but that's an entirely different thing

[@mathtonight1084]

I've been addicted to the 'Starfield Hate' genre on youtube lately, and this is the best video I've seen yet

[@karpai5427]

Wish there was more of it. Seems like there is nothing left to say about it. I am excited for TES 6 hate videos now.

[@kielbasamage]

Bankrupt implies they bothered to open an account in the first place. Star field is the video game equivalent of warm Fiji water being drunk out of a sci fi themed bottle.

[@PreeSpunky]

Fiji water is too good for Starfield - it's not pumped with lead, flouride, estrogen, and microplastics like the other brands

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

@@PreeSpunky It's an experiment on how much sawdust you can put in a ricecrispie cookie or how many brown logs in a fruit puch before people stop complementing your offerings.

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

Like that super expensive StarWars hotel that got closed after 12 month?!?

[@ejscorp]

​@@PreeSpunkyThe plastic bottles they come in are leaching plastic into the water

[@r.e.z9428]

Warm Dasani water….

[@alansilvero]

I think the lack of gore is due to either performance concerns or laziness. Undoubtedly contributes to the overall blandness of the game.

[@garbearfar1394]

It seems like they wanted the game to be for teens. No gore, no killing important people, all your bad choices have your companions bitch at you in a conga line of shame. You can’t be evil, you have to be a good boy who can sometimes be a lil crazy tee hee.

[@ar9rnr]

I think there is no gore because 99% of the NPCs in the game are Afro. Otherwise it would be racist.

[@Project2457official]

@@ar9rnr Yeah, obviously. Good job you definitely cracked the code 🙄 Btw, how is Wyoming treating you? Just a reminder, the human species is diverse so maybe don’t expect everyone to look like you and your tiny forgotten racially homogeneous hamlet?

[@Project2457official]

@@garbearfar1394 So true. I hate this shit so much, especially since neon security literally followed me to my ship and boarded my ship when I randomly had a bounty for stolen goods (I never stole anything?) and they were still on board my ship when I had jumped all the way to Piazzi. They tell me I’m under arrest and I say “no lol” like we’re not in freestar or uc territory, fuck off. They start shooting me. I shoot one but I can’t kill one of them because they’re an essential NPC. Sarah begins declaring that I’m a murderer. I reload. I try to use nonlethal weapons on them and incapacitate both of them with a disrupter. Sarah still calls me a murderer. What the fuck.

[@garbearfar1394]

@@Project2457official I just pray for Elder scrolls 6 and GTA 6 to be good. I’ve already lost a huge amount of enjoyment from playing video games so those will probably be the cap stones but if both of those suck it’ll be sad. GTA6 looks amazing tho 🤞🤞🤞 but hopefully BGS does something cool for Skyrim 2(cuz that’s all it will be more than likely)

[@super321able]

To the people who defend this game I feel sorry for you. You deserve more than whatever starfield is.

[@RandomWandrer]

Why? If people are having a good time (obviously alot of people), isnt that what games are for? The performance is clearly inconsistent across certain rigs, but cloud gaming is excellent. Either enjoy the game or refund it, like any other media.

[@PeteBaldwin]

It's a bit like going to a really expensive restaurant and having a world-famous chef give you burned food. You can cut off the burned parts and say "Hey, I still enjoyed my meal" and there's nothing wrong with that but if you then say "10/10 meal - absolutely perfect", it tells the chef that what they are doing is acceptable and leads to more of the same. There are lots of people out there who love Bethesda RPGs but think Starfield sucks. WIth ES6 coming next, that means some will want their voices to be heard so we don't get more of the same next time. I think that's partly why there's so much argument over this game - the more people claiming Starfield is brilliant, the more likely it is that ES6 will be very similar and for some, that would be a disaster.

[@cammandveil]

Maybe it is what they deserve...

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

People still hang onto those shitty ips like Sonic or Bethesda trying to salvage things and hoping for a brighter future, it’s depressing

[@MrWert1978]

I can't comment on the game, don't own it. After FO4 and 76, won't buy a Beth game until I read reviews. There was a time, I think most would agree, all Bethesda had to do was announce a game and we couldn't wait for them to take our money. You buy a game based on the companies past history and those older games, over time, are getting replace with shallow watered down games that aren't very appealing. FO4's success was based on fans that loved FO3 and FONV. Like Synthetic Man, I was so excited when it was announced. Turned out to be a big disappointment. Is it greed? Don't care about the fans of their games? How they treated their fans with 76 was shameful. It's like Bethesda sold out and money is the prime objective, selling the same shit under a different name and package.

[@DylanPWN]

I don't understand why big companies just can't provide good games anymore. I mean... I DO... DEI, terrible talent, bad writers, bad ideas all around. I just don't understand why they continue spending and wasting money with no return.

[@Canaris3]

Because its not about money but about tainting the culture forever.

[@DylanPWN]

@Canaris3 also that.

[@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989]

You know.

[@TheJarlofWhiterun]

All these companies have got rid of the old guard and replaced them with milquetoast ideologues with no originality.

[@HansKlopek]

All the good games we remember were made by White and Asian men. That's no longer acceptable and diversity hires run the industry. Triple A gaming is done.

[@Otherwise_1]

@@HansKlopek Such guys should create their own games, the main thing is not to end up selling to companies that will again turn the studio into garbage

[@troypowers750]

Sometimes the old guard allowed shit like Battlefield 4 to release the way it did.

[@TheJarlofWhiterun]

@@troypowers750 But that's not the old guard!

[@raskolnikov6443]

@@troypowers750how is that the old guard?

[@jakesoros2376]

Truly the greatest review this game is ever going to get. Thanks Synthetic Man.

[@maxpayne930]

Shit i almost download this tard ty really

[@jakesoros2376]

​@@maxpayne930KZbin shadowbanned your comment (likely because of the curse word you used). I can only see it in my notifications box, but not in the comment thread itself.

[@maxpayne930]

@@jakesoros2376 Well being weak is right shame

[@aaronsandman749]

Never trust a synth.

[@Giga__Chud]

It has been both fascinating and depressing to observe content creators who used to rag on SJW efforts to co-opt gaming now defending that said co-option just so they can signal to their normie audience that they're not like the outrageous soyjak man.

[@spimpsmacker6422]

Never idolize big youtubers man, they always turn face and fold on their principles when it's a convenience to them.

[@kongzillatoho4558]

The thing that I learned here on youtube is that 90% of content creators are fullblown shills. Not even exaggerating.

[@Jarl_egbert]

@@spimpsmacker6422 Like Idubbbz....lmao

[@Loner762]

Sellouts have always existed chud, Unfortunately most KZbinrs would rather turncoat to keep their channel than stay true to their principles and risk being banned.

[@niggardlylad2008]

They're all liberals,az included

[@n1lknarf]

your channel is the only place where the comments feel like they're real people interacting with each other

[@RyanC__]

It’s really eerie when you say it like that

[@wurzelbert84wucher5]

Let's be fair, 90% of the social media is bots talking to bots. Fucking matrix we live in...

[@hellatze]

other channel comment like chat GPT and whoring for likes

[@vee-bee-a]

Fucking dystopian night-mare, man.

[@MSpotatoes]

​@wurzelbert84wucher5 Its finally happening! Jk I'm a real person, but yeah most of the internet is now bots, pretty much heading towards the internet of cyberpunk 2077.