As much as I love Bethesda, I’ve accepted the fact that the people behind the magic of Fallout 3, Skyrim, and Oblivion are just not there anymore. Sure each of those games had goofy bugs and lifeless npc’s, but at least the world was fun and exciting. Everything they put out now is completely lifeless top to bottom
Yep, certainly not getting a BGS game at launch anymore. They really need to prove their worth after F76 and starfield. I doubt I'll buy ES6 unless it's on sale if ever
The funny thing is that, unlike most other studios, Bethesda still retains most of the people that worked on those older games. The issue isn't the lack of talent. But more the style of development. Bethesda operates in a much more casual and laid back approach to development where individual devs and designers have a lot of freedom and flexibility to make whatever they want. This helped those older games because Bethesda was small enough that individual designers could better cross-check with others on various aspects. Like, we know from ex Bethesda dev interviews that during the development of Skyrim or something, it was easy to flag down someone like Todd and ask for feedback on what they were working on. And Todd would know enough about what others were doing to help fine tune that idea to better mesh with other aspects of the game. For a hypothetical example, lets say you were working on a quest using a magic item and you asked Todd for his advice. Todd could point out that "hey, x dev is working on a magic spell that does y thing. Your 2 ideas would mesh well together". Stuff like that. However, with Starfield, because Bethesda is a lot more massive now, that tight knit approach isn't feasible anymore. It's much harder for a dev to flag down Todd or any producer to get feedback. And any Feedback they do get isn't likely to mesh well with other aspects of the game. This is why, for example, Starfield has procedural generated outposts, and base building that feel like completely separate systems designed by entirely separate teams that had no idea the other system was being worked on. Because that's likely the case. Same for how underutilized Zero G Gunfights are. It's entirely possible a good chunk of devs had no idea that was even a feature in the game until the game released. Even Todd has spoken out against this. Saying how he laments this style of development. Individual devs and designers say that despite everything, they have no complaints against Todd specifically. So the better approach for Bethesda would be to have more producers/directors who have a much more solid understanding of what's going on so they can help liaison between the different individual designers. Have a team whose whole purpose is updating documentation, keeping a central design doc, and helping to keep the design a lot more cohesive. Essentially, Bethesda is a company of 400 people operating like they have 100 people.
@FredericoASousa Larian gets 1 GOTY after bethesdas like 5 and its now more of a leader than bethesda? CDPR after the botchfest that was cyberpunk? Are fromsoft games even considered RPGs? I thought soulslikes were their own whole genre now. Really poor argument.
I have full confidence in Bethesdas upcoming loading screens. When it comes to loading screens, Bethesda are ahead of the game. Minutes at a time. And frequently. Fantastic stuff!
Todd has regret for showing the TES6 trailer too early. Where is the regret for letting the cultural phenomenon that was Skyrim rot on the vine. 15 years without a AAA single player TES release is too long to maintain excitement. I hope that lightning will strike twice with TES6 but I won't be holding my breadth.
I mean, they went on to make Fallout 4 which wasn't a bad choice at all. Business wise, I mean. We can debate its quality all day. I think 76 was a byproduct of Bethesda as a whole being on a major decline where they forced MP games, then Starfield was the stopgap game they "had to get out of their systems." So, in a sense, ES6 would've always taken a while, especially since Bethesda wanted to wait for some sort of specific tech to make ES6 whatever it is they wanted it to be :/
@@MrMattyPlaysWaiting a while is fine, but the amount of time that's elapsed is staggering. 15-18 years for a follow-up to one of the most beloved and best-selling games of all time that captured the cultural zeitgeist is just mismanagement to the highest degree. An entire generation of kids will have been born after Skyrim released, raised, and potentially graduate from school before the next game comes out.
Imagine if they never made starfield… we’d be playing ES6 rn. Imagine if they also never made fallout 76. We’d be playing fallout 5. Coming up on elder scrolls 7.
@@infinitysynthesis dude there are so many space sims out there, star field has nothing on them. The only good part about starfield was the concept. Terrible execution. Plot wasn’t for me.
@@infinitysynthesis a space sim where you’re hardly ever really in your ship unless you’re fighting something? I’ve been a diehard bestheda fan ever since I fell in love with fallout 3 but starfield really just doesn’t come close to any of their other games. It’s sad I really wanted to love starfield, I really tried.
TES6 was announced primarily to boost the studio's valuation before its sale to Microsoft-that's all it was. The announcement essentially froze development because everything had to be evaluated for the sale, and no major decisions could be made during or immediately after the deal. That so-called 'release list' is just bait to make it seem like progress is being made, but the real focus was on selling the studio. This also explains why Starfield turned out so poorly-no one was allowed to make significant changes for two years. Keeping this in mind and looking for 2025 - i would not have the high hope to see anything big from Bethesda.
Starfield was Betheada's final chance and they failed by default because it wasn't Fallout or Wlder Scrolls. Bethesda is not "under pressure" as much as they are in a death spiral with all the alarms going off while they just turn off the alarm and sip champagne
Well why wouldn’t they sip champagne? Since 2023 Starfield has earned nearly $600 million. And that’s a game with only one dlc and no multiplayer. It peaked at about 12 million players. That’s hardly a death spiral.
@VRmission38 it's the very top of the death spiral, only reason why it got those numbers where due to the prestige if the Bethesda name, after people paying 600 million for it and the quality that it gave us that name ain't so prestigious anymore, now people are scared to even trust em with the flagship games if star field is going to be any sort of representation of the direction that they move forward with their flagship games, they did the same thing as the past games with nothing new to add after 10 years since Skyrim and fallout 4
Your mistake was thinking that announcement was for gamers. It wasn't. It was to raise the Bethesda price while they were looking for a buyer, and it worked.
I think Bethesda is too far gone, their writing has been going downhill game after game, as has their choices. Their freedom do whatever you want in their games. It's just all got worse and worse some of the years, I have no faith in Todd Howard or Bethesda anymore. I do not believe they will have a redemption ark.
IMO Bethesda's writing hasn't been good since Morrowind. "I'm gonna k*** you and r*** your corpse!" hah what a great game that was. Oblivion quests are way overhyped and the writing imo actually kinda sucks. Even the quests touted as amazing in Oblivion are poorly written, it's just the gameplay of what you have to do that is fun. But you're right, Skyrim was worse. FO4 was even worse than that.
Todd is a liar and a car salesman. The worst kind. Every big promise in every game was a lie. Now without Gamebro it will only get worse because the teams cannot go back to trusted solutions. And no modders to fix it
Todd isn't the core problem here. It's baffling that the same guy who directed Starfield also produced Indiana Jones, a top-tier game from start to finish. That alone proves Todd isn't the weak link...it's the rest of the leadership, especially Emil. He's the real problem. The only problem with Todd is not dismissing the weak links in the studio.
The game has been in production, it's just that it's been a bit over a year that the game is in FULL production. Meaning, everything is virtually mapped out, the team just has to make it. I think it's like 40% done at this point. They said the whole first starting area is done and the game is in a "playable" state (just, not *really* playable).
Starfield is the absolute biggest waste of time. It's been over a year with ONE DLC that was mediocore at BEST! To already be saying they're going to be taking people away for ES6 is Wild. They knew they had a lame duck, but we had to pay a premium price for their mistake.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo okay, I put like 300 hours into it, I don’t hate it but…. This console war delusion goes way too crazy if you are unironically believing its a 10/10. Its a 7/10 on a good day.
@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh You can be a contrarian if you want but that's objectively untrue and you know that. They used to be a leading studio for open worlds games, that's a fact not an opinion.
be real! bethesda games were going down the toilet since morrowind... only thing holding together the box of bugs and glitches are moders Tod and Emil cant make half decent story to save their life, gripping tightly to engine runing for more than 3 decades... if you think anything else you are just dilusional
Who cares, move on to new games from a better developer. I was their biggest fan but I just don't care anymore. It's been 10 years since the last real Fallout game and 14 since the last TES game, and if Starfield is an indication of what's to come then they can just keep it. Other games will fill the voids.
10000% this. Even then it'd going to take 5-7 years per release, they can't be doing these massive games one at a time when they have three franchises on the go. Absolutely insane.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx it's funny you say that like it's a ridiculous request but that's what most of Bethesdas fans want. A new elder scrolls and new fallout every 3 years or so. Look man I just find it ridiculous that people who played skyrim as a kid have literally grown up and had kids of their own before the next elder scrolls came out.
@@ulrickrieger8243 didn't say it's ridiculous, but now that you mention it, gamers can be the whiniest most entitled little shits out there. Bethesda doesn't fucking OWE you dick, much less that. At least we're getting ES6. You know how many games don't even get a fucking sequel? 'its been too long' boo fucking hoo. Look, want whatever, just don't act like it's some travesty they, or any dev, can't do shit according to your will...
@@KeithElliott-zd8cxyes that’s what the general audience wants. Much like rockstar does only rdr and gta bc that’s what people actually want. Starfield was bound to fail bc people were pissed it took precedence over es6
@ wasn't really questioning that. I made a comment about 'gamers are entitled shits, bethesda doesn't owe you a fucking thing', but either it was elsewhere or didn't take. Also, nah. Starfield was kinda meh, and hardcore fans didn't have the 'but morrowind/oblivion/fo3/nv' wool clouding their judgement.
ES VI won't live up to the hype much like if Valve were to release Half-life 3 Bethesda had their time in the sun for many years, let's just remember them for what they used to be a lot of the future of games is not from AAA gaming companies anymore, it's from the indie devs now or hell even modders.
Valve can't count past 2, that's never going to happen mate. But I agree, ES vi won't live up to the hype, it'll release in a broken state like all Bethesda games...
Es6 story will be, you escape prison, get rescued by mysterious person, turns out they are the blades member, say you are the descendants of ebony warrior, big bad thalmor boss appear, slay your blades partner (turns out he is uriel septim V), fetch quest here, bring the amulet of kings back, gain power of sword singing, unite hammerfell, kick out thalmor, fetch quest again, alduin appears, dragonborn helps you, thalmor ded, dragonborn returns to sovngarde, the end, Tiber septim appears at the end of the questline and says the protagonist are the tenth divine
That secret game from the developer direct better be a glimpse at the Oblivion remake, you've put as through enough pain Bethesda give us something good!
Star Field is half baked at best. fallout 76, i'd only play an offline version. Elder Scrolls 6, i have next to no faith Bethesda cares enough to pull it off any more. Bethesda is content on delivering halfass titles these days, while hoping the modding community can rescue them from "Oblivion". (see what i did there?) they don't deserve the benefit of a doubt no more like 99.9% of all triple-A developers who can't keep their word. people need to stop pre-ordering from them. wait for non shill reviews, only!!!
People realize Indiana Jones and the next Doom game are also under the Bethesda umbrella right? You shouldn't preorder any game without reviews, but people talk about being excited for doom and can't wait for Indy to come to PS5, while bashing Bethesda and forgetting those are Bethesda games too. Like bash Bethesda for the crap, they definitely deserve it. That said, they also deserve credit for the praise Indy has gotten and the excitement for Doom which may be pretty good as well.
@@aizentaicho82 There is a very big difference between developing and publishing a game. One you create, one you sell. Indy was a great game, even if it was super short, so I agree with you there.
@@YazzPott I agree, there is a difference, but they are still Bethesda studios. They all fall under that umbrella. Just like all the studios under the Xbox gaming label are Xbox studios. They own them, they aren't just independently operating studios. For example when redfall turned out to be trash, everyone said Bethesda sucked (pun unintended lol). No one said there's a big difference between publishing a game and developing a game when that happened. They said "what's wrong with Bethesda?" So if they are going to get the blame for games under their umbrella that are terrible, they should also get the praise when they're good is all I'm saying.
@ I agree with you there! I think Starfield, FO76 and FO4 (yeah I dont love 4) are BGS responsibility and fault! However, stuff like RedFall is not. I think people need to be more clear on the difference between Bethesda Game Studio and Bethesda Publishing. I think the reason is exactly what you said, people choose what fits their current narrative for the moment, and thats a wrong thing to do!
Probably a restructure, iirc they still run the studio like they still have 90 devs (they now have 400) and even CDPR were proactive after CP77s awful launch and changed how they make games. We got Phantom Liberty thanks to it.
Ik this is random but if anyone is looking for a level headed take with the issues going on with KCD2 look up The Abysmal Critic. She's so intelligent and wonderful. Great community down there ❤
@@dr_diddy Ya I agree. I certainly can't imagine that things stay the same if Rockville bombs a third major release. So what would change? Layoffs and transfers would be the start of it. Microsoft would probably put tons of pressure on Todd, Emil, and the other senior devs to retire. Unlikely they'd resort to closing the studio simply bc they wouldn't want to lose that location. But I could see them shuffling the IPs. Frankly I wouldn't be at all surprised if Fallout were to 100% fall into Obsidian's hands. And I could see Rockville being renamed, "Elder Scrolls Studios," and either Michael Kirkbride or Kurt Kuhlmann being hired as Game Director. Honestly, if ES6 does bomb I of course would be devastated, but if the above is how Microsoft responds I'd be hopeful for the future. 🤷♂
I know bethesdas past 2 games flopped but i dont think they will fk up elderscrolls as long as they stick to the formula, lore and keep it realistic, unlike what dragon age did
The only game that has financially flopped was Elder Scrolls Blades, there's no way in hell TESVI will flop when people still buy their games en masse.
Used to be my favorite studio but they haven't put out anything ive enjoyed in 10yrs now so maybe they should just cook some more cause unless theres some complete overhauls the Bethesda glitches, bad animations have lost their appeal.
I’m a huge fan of Starfield loading screen simulator, it’s actually a fun hidden game to do a playthrough and count how many load screens you endure, I got up to 100 in 20mins play time I think it’s a record
@@chiefwellington27 As the others explained unfortunately I just don't have the talent to make such fine crafted loading screens, I really tried but I couldn't pass the interview, I only made 5 loading screens per minute falling short of the minimum.
Stop trying to HYPE TES:6. Bethesda had disappointing their fans for over a decade. They them selves admitted that they will be reusing their creation engine that was upgraded in Starfield for TES: 6 development, they also stated that they will re-use the fast travel system present in Starfield. The new elder scrolls will be exactly the same if not worse then Starfield, and that is an undeniable fact. Bethesda had been sitting doing jack shit, milking Skyrim for over 14 years and re-releasing that game for the 17th time, they have gotten so lazy and incompetent that majority of their talent had left the studio this includes developers, lead writers and lore masters, in fact there is only a single writer who doubles up as a lore master currently present in Bethesda, he is also single-handedly responsible for the worst game in Bethesdas history, Starfield! As we all know the story and lore are easily the worst thing in Starfield. If this is all they had to show after 8 years of development we are beginning to see the "END OF BETHESDA"! PS: Elder scrolls is the last game Turd Coward will be working on, before he is gone, one hell of a way to leave the company, by destroying the very legacy that helped put Bethesda on the map in the fist place, by more capable and talented individuals then him self!
I love how Matty's thumbnails have devolved to him looking at either us the audience or the subject of the video with a face like if we just did the nastiest fart.
5 years is an acceptable gap in a Franchise, 15 years is not. The lack of a mainline TES release since 2011 is absolutely fucking insane to me. The fact that Todd and Emil still have a job is absolutely disgusting to me, they needed fired as soon as Microsoft absorbed them and maybe I'd have some faith. But with Todd, Emil, and Creation Engine 2? It's gonna be a piece of shit.
Matty, we need you to make a video on Bethesda shutting down the Elder Scrolls Legends servers at the end of this month! It's an absolute gut punch to the small loyal community that adores this game! There isn't even an offline mode for the community to play!
@@duncan4325 I gave it a chance when it was ported to the Switch, but its just pure mobile garbage timewaster with every predatory tactic you can think of. Its fun thing in concept, like Fallout Shelter, but more gameplay focused around the whole dungeon raiding... but being free and made for mobile fully killed any potential it had.
no amount of dlc will make me like starfield, they need to severely overhaul EVERYTHING for me to even tolerate that game, minimize the loading screens, the amount of star systems, let us scrap weapons and armor for parts, let us take off parts to later put on our weapons and armor, remove the godawful fucking "do this to unlock next tier perk" crap, and stop releasing lackluster CC content, that doom one was so boring and lackluster i uninstalled the game right after, also please ffs improve or remove the NG+ and add more power temples so i dont have to do a hundred replays just to get fully upgraded powers, they shoulda taken the good stuff from fallout 4 and skyrim but no they dumbed it all down even more.
With them breaking Fallout 4's mods menu with the "Next Gen" update, I'll take a Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition of the game, the game is turning 10 this year. Which could turn the mods menu into the creations menu. I think that's what caused the Fallout 4 mods menu to break, they definitely meant to introduce a creations menu and because of Microsoft possibly rushing them to do the Next Gen update to capitalize on the show's hype, there's probably unstable coding that's conflicting with eachother.
My most blackpilled conspiracy theory is that they skipped Morrowind for a remake because it would utterly gobsmack everyone who never played it and put to shame all their subsequent releases, raising expectations even higher for TES VI. Better to do Oblivion and not rock the boat.
Feeling rather burnt out by Bethesda. It's only the modding community that stops me placing them in the archive. If they go the route of 'Procedural world' and 'AI generated', I'm out of here.
the pressure is highest its ever been. and they did it to themselves. in 2010 if you had told me Bethesda was teetering on a needle point, i would never have believed you. i would have believed you even less if you told me it was because of their own games. crazy.
But to be fair, nothing beats a good new IP. Many fans of video games are tired of constant sequels and remakes so limiting a company to just a couple of franchises is not good for the industry
@TheDJMeyer85 speak for yourself. The best games are the ones that takes generations to master and innovative. Look at super mario, look at metal gear solid. If studio learn lessons from previous games and then innovative on those game things should be better. But Bethesda learned wrong lessons from successful games and they're games become watered down into nothing. They really think people want less RPG elements in a RPG. No VATS in Starfield is just silly.
What annoys me is you can barely do anything with the character creator. Every new game it's the same barebones thing with less in it. The fact in Starfield I could only add 1 facial scar says it all. Even in Fallout 76 you could add every scar, blemish and make up option available at once... they keep taking out features every new game lmao
Bethesda has been seriously mismanaged for a long time. Now theyre just floundering. The focus on creating a cash cow instead of a quality experience has made them a joke.
It's crazy to think FO: NV was made like in 18 months! They have all the fallout assets and used it to make 76 halfassed. In that time they could've assets flipped like 3 FO games.
Obsidian has also used the "CG announcement trailer early for hiring" style reveal in the past, so if they are going to be working on a Fallout project, would be an easy marketing W for xbox during the summer showcase. I don't really think it will happen this year but kinda like matty said, i feel its a coin toss
Theyve had 14 years to give us another elder scrolls game and 10 years to make another Fallout and theyve only just begun working on production. Boycott Bethesda!!!
We are in remake and re-release hell. Games are all about profit and nothing makes money like changing a couple things and selling it for $60 again. God gaming sucks right now and only getting worse
I'm a huge Bethesda fan and I am honestly very worried about ES6. Starfield was passable but not great. If Bethesda doesn't want to improve their game making process then I think their efforts are best spend remaking the classics like Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc.
I know its a touchy subject on Matty's channel, but I really don't see any future for Starfield, even with new DLCs, even with great modding support, its just a very flawed base experience which cannot be altered or evolved in any meaningful ways.
I don't think it's a touchy subject. And I agree, except I'd say Starfield can have a future as Starfield 2, i.e. back to the drawing board and make a new game from scratch, instead of making DLCs. The base experience has potential in my view, but the implementation wasn't good enough, but there are some good ideas there that can be grown and developed into a good game. I wouldn't discard Starfield outright. I think some things can be salvaged to make a good Starfield 2.
I’ve played every elder scrolls game Morrowind. For YEARS I’ve eagerly anticipated the elder scroll 6… but lately that anticipation has died down almost completely. BGS has lost my confidence and at this point there are simply much better games to look forward to like KCD2. BGS has done a phenomenal job alienating their core fanbase to the point where many of us are expecting the worst and are losing excitement.
@@PassTheSnails i respectfully disagree. I think he is 'playing dumb' and generating false hype. I'm a fan of his and enjoy his content, but he has a role to play in what's happening
If Fallout 3 Remaster ends up being on Unreal Engine 5 I will actually cry because it would mean that I could use UEVR to inject VR support into the game day one. Also I really hope they remaster and bring the old assets into the modern age. I want the old 2000's Sci-Fi grunge look again. Not the rounded edge colorful aesthetic that Fallout 4 and 76 have.
You don't want obsidian doing another game All those developers that developed New Vegas They are not even in the studio anymore. They're filled with a bunch of LGBQTX community now 😂 every character would have some type of "special" backstory And would want to be called by their pronouns😂
@AthosZ92 I did not say that they were doing well. Obsidian now is not the same studio that made NV all those years ago. The outer worlds 1 was a huge disappointment, Avowed is shaping up to be a woke disaster, so yeah. Fallout's future looks grim...
@badwolverinex17 All because of greed and laziness. Obsidian even offered to make another game for Bethesda back in their prime. The game could've evolved into a better rpg instead we got a looter shooter/settlement builder. (Fallout 4).
To be honest, i care about fallout and ES, and maybe what Obsidian is up to, and that's pretty much it. And, unfortunately, I'm ready to be disappointed, because that is what Beth have been doing best, lately. We shall see.
Its crazy how such big studios like bethesda and ubisoft rely on decade old formulas that they dont try to innovate in any real way. They are just making a product to reach a deadline. Thats why they are in the shitter and players dont care about them. Hell, some of us are even cheering the downfall. Its just sad bc there are indie and double AA developers who make actual masterpieces but are seldom praised.
12:35 I think it was more, new players that were tricked into buying 76 because it was the newest game relative to the show when they should have just bought 4, rather than drawing in actual OG fans
Bethesda, Bioware, Bungie, Blizzard, Naughty Dog. None of these studios excite me anymore. I'd be more shocked if they made a game I actually want to play at this point.
@@jr6366 there are similarities between bg3 and dos2 but have you ever asked yourself why change a winning formula? Bioware changed the formula after origins and all the seques sucked so Larian obviously learnt from that
@@DriniVula why change a winning formula? Everyone is bitching about bethesda not changing formulas. After playing all the divs then bg3 Larians formula is already getting old lol.
Every time I go to one of my old favorite fallout or ES channels to see what's new in the scene I'm always disappointed by the same things. Every year its like I'm hearing the same thing on repeat, "this will be the year for ES6", "Microsoft is pushing for a new Fallout game this year", "Bethesda is pushing forward all their big titles", and its always not true at years end. I feel like everyone is just accepting that ES6 will be out in another 5 years, people are ok with remakes of old games, and I feel like its too late for them. Especially when with mods there is so much you can update and change already to have the exact experience you want. We saw it with the Skyrim remakes, like its cool to see updated graphics for the general public, but I already had that and many also did so it was just like a neutral update. These constant neutral updates to their resume has made it almost impossible for me to get excited for anything new Bethesda, like even if ES6 is great I don't think I will have the same enjoyment I would of if if it was a worse game like 5 years ago, they could of already been on another big game toto make up for their failings. I feel like they don't want to risk anything any more and are ok with just being bland after their big successes. I spent countless hours in all Bethesda games starting from fallout 3 and going back to play oblivion to see more of the ES, and fallout worlds but now I think its too late for anything Bethesda, I've lost all hope for the future of my favorite series' and don't know if I'm the only one who feels the way about this, and want to hear what people think.
This is not the same Bethesda anymore. Current Bethesda is full of crazy activists and talentless DEI hires who has zero love and passion for art and video games. That's without even speaking of the corporate greed that completely rotted this company. There will not be another good Bethesda game.
The only good thing with Starfield, is the shipbuilding... I sunk alot of hrs, until i realised, the best way to play the game, is not to use the ship you have built, at all... TESVI is a deflated baloon... And the game should have been released atleast 7-8 years ago... I swear, Bethesda was something i looked forward to, but now, i feel a distain, disgust and disapointment when the name or its people gets named...
So I’ve spent the afternoon playing Starfield. I have about 6 hours into it before today. And I really liked what I had seen. But I have to admit, it’s a really fun game. I’m really getting into it. I’m feeling like an adventurer who’s has the entire universe to explore. It’s super intuitive. The dialogue options are spot on. I don’t get where the hate comes from. I just find some of the criticisms to be very petty. It’s too bad because this is a great game.
Right now I’m on my second play through of the game. I’ve finished the main quest and three of the faction quests. Still have the shattered space story and Ryujin(I don’t wanna play that one because I have a good character). That all being said, overall, Starfield is a good game. Solid 8/10. To this day, I do not understand the frequent hate it gets. It feels so forced and immature at times.
I like Starfield a lot, but compared to a game like Cyberpunk the character interactions are extremely stiff. I don't think the game deserves as much hate as it's gotten, but I can acknowledge there are key areas where Bethesda has fallen behind other modern developers.
@@KyleS.1987 this comparison to cyberpunk is extremely confusing. Mainly because it’s like comparing outer worlds to red dead 2. Or comparing Fallout 3 to Mass Effect 3. My point is that both games have different art direction when it comes to being an RPG. Outer worlds fallout, and Starfield, having a bit more of a old-fashioned stiff RPG approach(which is perfectly fine), while the other RPGs I mentioned having more cinematic style. A more accurate comparison would be outer worlds and Starfield. Those game releases are not far apart and both are very good. On top of that cyberpunk is not better than Starfield in every way.
@@DylanAnthonyy I have played many RPG’s: Fable 1-3, KOTOR 1-2, Mass Effect 1-3, Dragon Age 1-3, Fallout 3, FNV, F4, Skyrim, Dragons Dogma, Outer Worlds, Star-field & Final Fantasy. That being said, I still don’t understand why some gaming groups are dragging Starfield through the mud. So far I’m on my second play through and it’s a good game. Same level as outer worlds and even doing better in a lot of areas. Again, I think steam and other gamers are really overreacting about the game.
After playing single player games for 40+ years, I can't get into that anymore. With AI going to be designed into NPC's in games, I am looking forward to what games like Fallout 76 will morph into. Nothing replaces gaming with (and against) real people, but adding AI npc's into the MMO mix will make that part of the industry wildly amazing.
@@chettlar212 it's so weird when someone makes a joke about another joke and then someone tries to point out the original thing is a joke when their response to it was also a joke
Starfield is dead. I hope they cut their losses and abandon it. It would require so much work to make that game interesting that by the time they got it to that point, no one would care about it anyway. Starfield is the gold standard for why you shouldn’t rush a game out if it’s not a complete package. Shattered Space was the final nail in the coffin.
They're now pretty much putting ESO into maintenance mode with Seasons now replacing Chapters (massive yearly DLC). New Project is probably soon to come.
@@bodacious117 they lost all their og fans and potential new gen fans with starfield, well deserved L for bethesda, i knew starfield would be bad the second i saw theres no manual docking
@@bodacious117 the gameplay loop is highly outdated. Main story and dlc lacks originality. They still rest on their previous successes. The golden age for them is long over. Only hardcore fans still play Starfield only one year out. If it weren't for Microsoft owning them and the studio reselling Skyrim for the tenth time they would have folded years ago financially.
I just want a Fallout New Vegas Remaster... Like up to date graphics and the ability to sprint. At this point, I'm more excited for The Outer Worlds 2 than anything Bethesda is currently planning to develop and release, tbh.
When Bethesda announced Shattered Space DLC in June 2023, it finally arrived FIFTEEN MONTHS later. Since there's been no official word about "Starborn" or whether it's even a genuine project, it's fair to say that even if it does come to fruition it won't be until mid-late 2026.
Expecting Bethesda to make a good game in the past 10 years and the next 10 years is like expecting insurance companies not to screw over their customers.
I’m rooting for their failure Ik it’s horrible bc we all just want good games but honestly can’t stand their decisions the past ten years. They’re now just another greedy tech company that doesn’t care abt the fans and has zero pride in what they make.
I quit caring. 76 and eso are not for me. Fallout 4 11 years ago was the last fun game. So I'm only watching this because you have a good delivery. Bethesda hype is dead
The mystery showcase at the developer direct is said to he "a brand new game" which would be an odd thing to call a remake. I'm fairly confident that it will release some time this year, but we might not hear about it until shortlt before it releases.
@@DorgpoopI agree with you. We don't even have confirmation that the remake is even real at the moment do we. Wishful thinking on my part maybe. Hopefully we get a nice surprise on Thursday.
calling it no oblivion at the reveal. not even hopeful for the existence of an official remake. even less hopeful about skyblivion releasing on schedule
Eh, I’m not entirely sold on remakes. If Morrowind was remade, it would probably lose all of the great things we love about. A “lost in translation” type deal. OpenMW was all we really needed. The idea seems incredible, but the execution is practically impossible to get right. Even great remakes like REmake2 and 4 could never replace the original games.
Starfield ruined their reputation. And thing is, I enjoyed the simple gameplay and even the simple ship combat. But it is the most boring game I’ve ever played because the story, characters and side quests were so damn soft and uninteresting.
So they walk away too soon from Fallout 4, but choose Starfield to not walk away from "too soon"? Even though Starfield has nowhere near the amount of consistent players on it? Sounds like a giant waste of money....again.
they didn't really walk away too soon from fallout, though. were they supposed to have like, 6 new area expansions or else 'they didn't do it justice'? they also made like, 'a' dlc for starfield, so far.
@@KeithElliott-zd8cx Yea but with Bethesdas current track record of inconsistence, it's going to take a giant W to win gamers over again and have them get back into Starfield. You saw how long it took No Mans Sky. Still isn't my cup of tea, but they kept at it and turned that game completely around.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx as much as I hope you're right, I have my doubts brother. Who knows though, they might be able to revive it like NMS did. All it takes nowadays is a real solid DLC lol
@ you do realize that i said theyre not going to do that... Also, nah, it needs more than just a dlc. Dlc is fine when the base game was good already. It needs an overhaul, like nms had. Otherwise its not the same revival.
Skyrim Ultima and Nolvus mods are every bit as impressive as anything I think Bethesda could create for ESVI. Truly passion projects creating those amazing mods bringing Skyrim next-gen and shows just how much more those engines are capable of. Excited to see what they come up with but dont feel impressed by what Starfield ended up being. The new Doom looks incredible!
As much as I love Bethesda, I’ve accepted the fact that the people behind the magic of Fallout 3, Skyrim, and Oblivion are just not there anymore. Sure each of those games had goofy bugs and lifeless npc’s, but at least the world was fun and exciting. Everything they put out now is completely lifeless top to bottom
Yep, certainly not getting a BGS game at launch anymore. They really need to prove their worth after F76 and starfield. I doubt I'll buy ES6 unless it's on sale if ever
@@patrickwilliamson29 Sail the seven seas.
@@Deusaga Not even a pirate would find worth in going after cow dung
The funny thing is that, unlike most other studios, Bethesda still retains most of the people that worked on those older games.
The issue isn't the lack of talent. But more the style of development. Bethesda operates in a much more casual and laid back approach to development where individual devs and designers have a lot of freedom and flexibility to make whatever they want. This helped those older games because Bethesda was small enough that individual designers could better cross-check with others on various aspects. Like, we know from ex Bethesda dev interviews that during the development of Skyrim or something, it was easy to flag down someone like Todd and ask for feedback on what they were working on. And Todd would know enough about what others were doing to help fine tune that idea to better mesh with other aspects of the game. For a hypothetical example, lets say you were working on a quest using a magic item and you asked Todd for his advice. Todd could point out that "hey, x dev is working on a magic spell that does y thing. Your 2 ideas would mesh well together". Stuff like that.
However, with Starfield, because Bethesda is a lot more massive now, that tight knit approach isn't feasible anymore. It's much harder for a dev to flag down Todd or any producer to get feedback. And any Feedback they do get isn't likely to mesh well with other aspects of the game. This is why, for example, Starfield has procedural generated outposts, and base building that feel like completely separate systems designed by entirely separate teams that had no idea the other system was being worked on. Because that's likely the case. Same for how underutilized Zero G Gunfights are. It's entirely possible a good chunk of devs had no idea that was even a feature in the game until the game released.
Even Todd has spoken out against this. Saying how he laments this style of development. Individual devs and designers say that despite everything, they have no complaints against Todd specifically. So the better approach for Bethesda would be to have more producers/directors who have a much more solid understanding of what's going on so they can help liaison between the different individual designers. Have a team whose whole purpose is updating documentation, keeping a central design doc, and helping to keep the design a lot more cohesive. Essentially, Bethesda is a company of 400 people operating like they have 100 people.
they know what people love about elder scrolls and fallout ;(
Bethesda's not a leader in the RPG genre anymore
Who are the leaders then?
@@chiefwellington27 CDPR, FromSoft, Larian
Larian, War horse studios, believe it or not Rockstar
Definitely not CDPR
@FredericoASousa Larian gets 1 GOTY after bethesdas like 5 and its now more of a leader than bethesda? CDPR after the botchfest that was cyberpunk? Are fromsoft games even considered RPGs? I thought soulslikes were their own whole genre now. Really poor argument.
I have full confidence in Bethesdas upcoming loading screens. When it comes to loading screens, Bethesda are ahead of the game. Minutes at a time. And frequently. Fantastic stuff!
I want Bethesda to top the 3-5 minutes on PC it takes to load downtown Boston. I want to play less
SAVAGE 😂😅
No loading times on PS5 so that's great!
Yes, we need more
Helldivers 2 loading screen is better.
Todd has regret for showing the TES6 trailer too early. Where is the regret for letting the cultural phenomenon that was Skyrim rot on the vine. 15 years without a AAA single player TES release is too long to maintain excitement. I hope that lightning will strike twice with TES6 but I won't be holding my breadth.
I mean, they went on to make Fallout 4 which wasn't a bad choice at all. Business wise, I mean. We can debate its quality all day. I think 76 was a byproduct of Bethesda as a whole being on a major decline where they forced MP games, then Starfield was the stopgap game they "had to get out of their systems." So, in a sense, ES6 would've always taken a while, especially since Bethesda wanted to wait for some sort of specific tech to make ES6 whatever it is they wanted it to be :/
@@MrMattyPlaysWaiting a while is fine, but the amount of time that's elapsed is staggering. 15-18 years for a follow-up to one of the most beloved and best-selling games of all time that captured the cultural zeitgeist is just mismanagement to the highest degree. An entire generation of kids will have been born after Skyrim released, raised, and potentially graduate from school before the next game comes out.
Wow, it’s been 15 years already?! I feel so old.
@@VEGITAS4Nov 2011, so a little over 13 years, still crazy as hell
@@VEGITAS4 Not yet, but by the time TES6 will release, probably. It's insane. Means I will be double the age playing TES6 compared to skyrim.
I’m so disappointed that I am disappointed in Starfield. I wanted to love it so badly. But it got so stale. It hurts my soul.
Imagine if they never made starfield… we’d be playing ES6 rn. Imagine if they also never made fallout 76. We’d be playing fallout 5. Coming up on elder scrolls 7.
You need to play it like as a space Sim game, not a traditional elder scrolls/ fallout game. You'll have more fun it you think about it that way.
@@infinitysynthesis dude there are so many space sims out there, star field has nothing on them. The only good part about starfield was the concept. Terrible execution. Plot wasn’t for me.
@@infinitysynthesis a space sim where you’re hardly ever really in your ship unless you’re fighting something? I’ve been a diehard bestheda fan ever since I fell in love with fallout 3 but starfield really just doesn’t come close to any of their other games. It’s sad I really wanted to love starfield, I really tried.
I’m in the same pitiful leaky boat
TES6 was announced primarily to boost the studio's valuation before its sale to Microsoft-that's all it was. The announcement essentially froze development because everything had to be evaluated for the sale, and no major decisions could be made during or immediately after the deal. That so-called 'release list' is just bait to make it seem like progress is being made, but the real focus was on selling the studio. This also explains why Starfield turned out so poorly-no one was allowed to make significant changes for two years. Keeping this in mind and looking for 2025 - i would not have the high hope to see anything big from Bethesda.
Indeed. People forget the basic premise: "Follow the money."
Starfield was Betheada's final chance and they failed by default because it wasn't Fallout or Wlder Scrolls. Bethesda is not "under pressure" as much as they are in a death spiral with all the alarms going off while they just turn off the alarm and sip champagne
Microsoft for sure has a Survey team on site to watch over Todd and his idiots
Well why wouldn’t they sip champagne? Since 2023 Starfield has earned nearly $600 million. And that’s a game with only one dlc and no multiplayer. It peaked at about 12 million players.
That’s hardly a death spiral.
@@VRmission38 earned $600m on a budget of what?
@VRmission38 it's the very top of the death spiral, only reason why it got those numbers where due to the prestige if the Bethesda name, after people paying 600 million for it and the quality that it gave us that name ain't so prestigious anymore, now people are scared to even trust em with the flagship games if star field is going to be any sort of representation of the direction that they move forward with their flagship games, they did the same thing as the past games with nothing new to add after 10 years since Skyrim and fallout 4
The free fall started in 76, they are almost on the ground now.
Dear developers,
Please stop announcing games a FULL DEVELOPMENT CYCLE, OR MORE, BEFORE they are ready for launch.
Dear gamers,
please stop pressuring devs into making announcements for games years ahead of time because your impatient, whiny bitches.
Bethesda has nothing else in the pipe. Todd isn't a story teller.
Your mistake was thinking that announcement was for gamers.
It wasn't.
It was to raise the Bethesda price while they were looking for a buyer, and it worked.
@@arenkai 100% this
@williamyoung9401 no one on that team are, certainly on Emil pagliarulo
After shattered space I got zero confidence in ES6. They managed to put out the worst expansion I’ve ever played with that one
You're part of the problem. Stop buying you clown. The only language Bethesda understands is money.
They said this expansion took a year to make and they poured more time and money into it then any other expansion before. LOL
@@PrinceoftheVioletFlameThis studio made dragonborn and shivering isles in the past now took a year to make this? They are truly cooked
I think Bethesda is too far gone, their writing has been going downhill game after game, as has their choices. Their freedom do whatever you want in their games. It's just all got worse and worse some of the years, I have no faith in Todd Howard or Bethesda anymore. I do not believe they will have a redemption ark.
They just like many other studios have gone woke, feminine, and beta cuck all together and not fitting to the lore of any games!
IMO Bethesda's writing hasn't been good since Morrowind. "I'm gonna k*** you and r*** your corpse!" hah what a great game that was.
Oblivion quests are way overhyped and the writing imo actually kinda sucks. Even the quests touted as amazing in Oblivion are poorly written, it's just the gameplay of what you have to do that is fun. But you're right, Skyrim was worse. FO4 was even worse than that.
Todd is a liar and a car salesman. The worst kind. Every big promise in every game was a lie. Now without Gamebro it will only get worse because the teams cannot go back to trusted solutions. And no modders to fix it
They need to realize that size for the sake of size is not a good thing, a lake the depth of a puddle sucks
Todd isn't the core problem here. It's baffling that the same guy who directed Starfield also produced Indiana Jones, a top-tier game from start to finish. That alone proves Todd isn't the weak link...it's the rest of the leadership, especially Emil. He's the real problem. The only problem with Todd is not dismissing the weak links in the studio.
...did you just say this year is the FIRST year of production for ES6?! Seriously? Dude, we arent gonna see that game til like 2032.
its been in production since 2023
The game has been in production, it's just that it's been a bit over a year that the game is in FULL production. Meaning, everything is virtually mapped out, the team just has to make it. I think it's like 40% done at this point. They said the whole first starting area is done and the game is in a "playable" state (just, not *really* playable).
@@LiamCuthbertso2031 then 🤣
First FULL year, not first year in total. Sorry if it was unclear!
@@MrMattyPlaysWill we get FO5 first?
Starfield is the absolute biggest waste of time. It's been over a year with ONE DLC that was mediocore at BEST! To already be saying they're going to be taking people away for ES6 is Wild. They knew they had a lame duck, but we had to pay a premium price for their mistake.
Starfield was better than Skyrim
Im never playing starfield again. I really dont give a shit what they do with it with how bad the base game is
So glad I didn’t give them my money you should try it sometime instead of just buying every BGS games
@@crappycrane7325 or any companies game
The base game was 10/10 nevermind what the ps5 gaming terrorists said
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo okay, I put like 300 hours into it, I don’t hate it but…. This console war delusion goes way too crazy if you are unironically believing its a 10/10. Its a 7/10 on a good day.
You do care if not why comment? No one asked for your opinion. The game is still going to do great
Bethesda is trash now Matty, face it.
@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh You can be a contrarian if you want but that's objectively untrue and you know that. They used to be a leading studio for open worlds games, that's a fact not an opinion.
Used to be but no longer
@@TheShezarrinetheir last 2 games were objectively subpar products and ruined their already wavering public perception.
be real! bethesda games were going down the toilet since morrowind... only thing holding together the box of bugs and glitches are moders
Tod and Emil cant make half decent story to save their life, gripping tightly to engine runing for more than 3 decades... if you think anything else you are just dilusional
@@HowdyYT objectively
Who cares, move on to new games from a better developer. I was their biggest fan but I just don't care anymore. It's been 10 years since the last real Fallout game and 14 since the last TES game, and if Starfield is an indication of what's to come then they can just keep it. Other games will fill the voids.
Agreed
Agreed
Preach
Yup.
Or mods. There are Fallout mods which are well above Bethesda quality.
bethesda needs to be split into 1 studio per franchise
10000% this. Even then it'd going to take 5-7 years per release, they can't be doing these massive games one at a time when they have three franchises on the go. Absolutely insane.
It's like a government and became too big and bloated to be managed effectively. Now nothing gets done and everyone is frustrated.
Like Rockstar Games, i love that... That would put Bethesda back on the map entirely
If Bethesda looked like a person, they would look like Jimmy Carter in late November
omg yesssss
Starfield was the fecal release upon death, anything that comes out of Bethesda now is just gasses escaping.
lol
Perhaps there is something undigested that can be retrieved from the carcus
Does anyone remember Starfield? Feel like its a decade old already, no one talks about it
They just removed gore in it that upset what was left of their fanbase.
@@Homes23wait, what?
@@ariyanadumon4549latest update removed gore effects in starfield
Woke trash that’s why
@@Homes23It...never had gore
I’m about as excited for the next Bethesda game as I am taking a 💩 after a midnight T Bell run
Nothing like some Taco Bell to supercharge your bowels movements.
@@MTG69 you go to bed light as a feather
💩 is way more exciting better out than in
It's literally midnight and I'm eating taco bell. Am I really gonna poop this late?
@aliyamarah7796perhaps not, but ur morning will be…. Explosive
Dude it's been 14 years since skyrim and 10 years since fallout 4. Bethesda has failed.
and 76, and an engine change, and starfield...
people keep bringing it up like they were supposed to only make fallout and ES every 3 years.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx it's funny you say that like it's a ridiculous request but that's what most of Bethesdas fans want. A new elder scrolls and new fallout every 3 years or so. Look man I just find it ridiculous that people who played skyrim as a kid have literally grown up and had kids of their own before the next elder scrolls came out.
@@ulrickrieger8243 didn't say it's ridiculous, but now that you mention it, gamers can be the whiniest most entitled little shits out there. Bethesda doesn't fucking OWE you dick, much less that.
At least we're getting ES6. You know how many games don't even get a fucking sequel? 'its been too long' boo fucking hoo. Look, want whatever, just don't act like it's some travesty they, or any dev, can't do shit according to your will...
@@KeithElliott-zd8cxyes that’s what the general audience wants. Much like rockstar does only rdr and gta bc that’s what people actually want. Starfield was bound to fail bc people were pissed it took precedence over es6
@ wasn't really questioning that. I made a comment about 'gamers are entitled shits, bethesda doesn't owe you a fucking thing', but either it was elsewhere or didn't take.
Also, nah. Starfield was kinda meh, and hardcore fans didn't have the 'but morrowind/oblivion/fo3/nv' wool clouding their judgement.
I'm pretty confident that I will be disappointed.
ES VI won't live up to the hype much like if Valve were to release Half-life 3 Bethesda had their time in the sun for many years, let's just remember them for what they used to be a lot of the future of games is not from AAA gaming companies anymore, it's from the indie devs now or hell even modders.
Valve can't count past 2, that's never going to happen mate. But I agree, ES vi won't live up to the hype, it'll release in a broken state like all Bethesda games...
@@Threesnap never say never like they said
Es6 story will be, you escape prison, get rescued by mysterious person, turns out they are the blades member, say you are the descendants of ebony warrior, big bad thalmor boss appear, slay your blades partner (turns out he is uriel septim V), fetch quest here, bring the amulet of kings back, gain power of sword singing, unite hammerfell, kick out thalmor, fetch quest again, alduin appears, dragonborn helps you, thalmor ded, dragonborn returns to sovngarde, the end, Tiber septim appears at the end of the questline and says the protagonist are the tenth divine
Idk if I agree about HL3, Half Life Alyx was AMAZING I truly believe if Valve puts their all into it HL3 could actually live up to the hype
Let me guess, the woke mind virus ruined bethesda?
That secret game from the developer direct better be a glimpse at the Oblivion remake, you've put as through enough pain Bethesda give us something good!
I have little hope in Oblivion remake. I am putting my hope on Skyoblivion.
I'm hoping so! I'm still riding with my Nintendo Direct pick.
I think Oblivion gets revealed later in May on the anniversary but I hope you're right. I think the mystery studio is Square Enix.
Star Field is half baked at best.
fallout 76, i'd only play an offline version.
Elder Scrolls 6, i have next to no faith Bethesda cares enough to pull it off any more.
Bethesda is content on delivering halfass titles these days, while hoping the modding community can rescue them from "Oblivion". (see what i did there?)
they don't deserve the benefit of a doubt no more like 99.9% of all triple-A developers who can't keep their word. people need to stop pre-ordering from them. wait for non shill reviews, only!!!
There is an offline version of Fallout 76. It's called Fallout 4. Fallout 76 was just a Fallout 4 port.
People realize Indiana Jones and the next Doom game are also under the Bethesda umbrella right? You shouldn't preorder any game without reviews, but people talk about being excited for doom and can't wait for Indy to come to PS5, while bashing Bethesda and forgetting those are Bethesda games too. Like bash Bethesda for the crap, they definitely deserve it. That said, they also deserve credit for the praise Indy has gotten and the excitement for Doom which may be pretty good as well.
@@aizentaicho82 There is a very big difference between developing and publishing a game. One you create, one you sell. Indy was a great game, even if it was super short, so I agree with you there.
@@YazzPott I agree, there is a difference, but they are still Bethesda studios. They all fall under that umbrella. Just like all the studios under the Xbox gaming label are Xbox studios. They own them, they aren't just independently operating studios. For example when redfall turned out to be trash, everyone said Bethesda sucked (pun unintended lol). No one said there's a big difference between publishing a game and developing a game when that happened. They said "what's wrong with Bethesda?" So if they are going to get the blame for games under their umbrella that are terrible, they should also get the praise when they're good is all I'm saying.
@ I agree with you there! I think Starfield, FO76 and FO4 (yeah I dont love 4) are BGS responsibility and fault! However, stuff like RedFall is not. I think people need to be more clear on the difference between Bethesda Game Studio and Bethesda Publishing. I think the reason is exactly what you said, people choose what fits their current narrative for the moment, and thats a wrong thing to do!
I used to be such a big bethesda fan but every game since fo4 has been dissapointing to me personally.I really hope es6 is good
BGS is not the same team that made those old classics. Starfield is representative of the new team, hard to have any optimism.
Yes ES6 is absolutely top priority rn. What do you think will happen to Bethesda if it flops?
Probably a restructure, iirc they still run the studio like they still have 90 devs (they now have 400) and even CDPR were proactive after CP77s awful launch and changed how they make games.
We got Phantom Liberty thanks to it.
Ik this is random but if anyone is looking for a level headed take with the issues going on with KCD2 look up The Abysmal Critic. She's so intelligent and wonderful. Great community down there ❤
@@dr_diddy Ya I agree. I certainly can't imagine that things stay the same if Rockville bombs a third major release.
So what would change? Layoffs and transfers would be the start of it. Microsoft would probably put tons of pressure on Todd, Emil, and the other senior devs to retire.
Unlikely they'd resort to closing the studio simply bc they wouldn't want to lose that location. But I could see them shuffling the IPs. Frankly I wouldn't be at all surprised if Fallout were to 100% fall into Obsidian's hands. And I could see Rockville being renamed, "Elder Scrolls Studios," and either Michael Kirkbride or Kurt Kuhlmann being hired as Game Director.
Honestly, if ES6 does bomb I of course would be devastated, but if the above is how Microsoft responds I'd be hopeful for the future.
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I know bethesdas past 2 games flopped but i dont think they will fk up elderscrolls as long as they stick to the formula, lore and keep it realistic, unlike what dragon age did
The only game that has financially flopped was Elder Scrolls Blades, there's no way in hell TESVI will flop when people still buy their games en masse.
Thanks for bringing us the news 🎉
Always appreciate it.
Used to be my favorite studio but they haven't put out anything ive enjoyed in 10yrs now so maybe they should just cook some more cause unless theres some complete overhauls the Bethesda glitches, bad animations have lost their appeal.
The Outer Worlds team would be the Obsidian Fallout team, not the Avowed team. You want Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarski.
This.
It's like people forget that nu-Obsidian isn't what made NV
Only the Name is there over at Microsoft, not the heart
I’m a huge fan of Starfield loading screen simulator, it’s actually a fun hidden game to do a playthrough and count how many load screens you endure, I got up to 100 in 20mins play time I think it’s a record
Why weren't you there helping them make it? Oh that's right, you're not able to contribute to something that complex or do anything better yourself.
@@chiefwellington27 Not everyone is as talented at loading screens as Bethesda, go easy on the guy.
@machinedieselx4767loading screens is a difficult job ngl
@machinedieselx4767 how many times did your parents drop you upside down?
@@chiefwellington27 As the others explained unfortunately I just don't have the talent to make such fine crafted loading screens, I really tried but I couldn't pass the interview, I only made 5 loading screens per minute falling short of the minimum.
Stop trying to HYPE TES:6. Bethesda had disappointing their fans for over a decade. They them selves admitted that they will be reusing their creation engine that was upgraded in Starfield for TES: 6 development, they also stated that they will re-use the fast travel system present in Starfield. The new elder scrolls will be exactly the same if not worse then Starfield, and that is an undeniable fact.
Bethesda had been sitting doing jack shit, milking Skyrim for over 14 years and re-releasing that game for the 17th time, they have gotten so lazy and incompetent that majority of their talent had left the studio this includes developers, lead writers and lore masters, in fact there is only a single writer who doubles up as a lore master currently present in Bethesda, he is also single-handedly responsible for the worst game in Bethesdas history, Starfield! As we all know the story and lore are easily the worst thing in Starfield. If this is all they had to show after 8 years of development we are beginning to see the "END OF BETHESDA"!
PS: Elder scrolls is the last game Turd Coward will be working on, before he is gone, one hell of a way to leave the company, by destroying the very legacy that helped put Bethesda on the map in the fist place, by more capable and talented individuals then him self!
I love how Matty's thumbnails have devolved to him looking at either us the audience or the subject of the video with a face like if we just did the nastiest fart.
Fr matty be making that face judging me for letting one out 😂 like chill I know you do it too bruh
5 years is an acceptable gap in a Franchise, 15 years is not. The lack of a mainline TES release since 2011 is absolutely fucking insane to me. The fact that Todd and Emil still have a job is absolutely disgusting to me, they needed fired as soon as Microsoft absorbed them and maybe I'd have some faith. But with Todd, Emil, and Creation Engine 2? It's gonna be a piece of shit.
I saw the Skyrim trailer when I was in 8th grade with the boys I’m almost 25 now 😭😭crazy
Matty, we need you to make a video on Bethesda shutting down the Elder Scrolls Legends servers at the end of this month! It's an absolute gut punch to the small loyal community that adores this game! There isn't even an offline mode for the community to play!
I hate to say it, but I thought that game was gone for a while! I'll look into it a bit :)
Is that the mobile game? I played that for a short while but never got too into it. Why are they shutting down servers for it?
@@duncan4325 I gave it a chance when it was ported to the Switch, but its just pure mobile garbage timewaster with every predatory tactic you can think of. Its fun thing in concept, like Fallout Shelter, but more gameplay focused around the whole dungeon raiding... but being free and made for mobile fully killed any potential it had.
I thought that game got shut down ages ago. Was pretty fun when I played it years ago.
@@SilencedLamb69 I believe the servers are shutting down due to revenue not meeting the costs to maintain the servers.
no amount of dlc will make me like starfield, they need to severely overhaul EVERYTHING for me to even tolerate that game, minimize the loading screens, the amount of star systems, let us scrap weapons and armor for parts, let us take off parts to later put on our weapons and armor, remove the godawful fucking "do this to unlock next tier perk" crap, and stop releasing lackluster CC content, that doom one was so boring and lackluster i uninstalled the game right after, also please ffs improve or remove the NG+ and add more power temples so i dont have to do a hundred replays just to get fully upgraded powers, they shoulda taken the good stuff from fallout 4 and skyrim but no they dumbed it all down even more.
you got to love how every damn channel keeps showing skyblivion as if it were the bethesda remake lol.
if you have any footage from the remake you're welcome to make a video showcasing it
With them breaking Fallout 4's mods menu with the "Next Gen" update, I'll take a Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition of the game, the game is turning 10 this year. Which could turn the mods menu into the creations menu. I think that's what caused the Fallout 4 mods menu to break, they definitely meant to introduce a creations menu and because of Microsoft possibly rushing them to do the Next Gen update to capitalize on the show's hype, there's probably unstable coding that's conflicting with eachother.
Bethesda set the bar real low recently so no one is expecting much from them as developers anymore but disappointment.
Bethesda is going to be amazing in 2025.
Well no, they're not, but Skyblivion is!
I think if they're going to do a remake of anything, it should be Morrowind.
Exactly
My most blackpilled conspiracy theory is that they skipped Morrowind for a remake because it would utterly gobsmack everyone who never played it and put to shame all their subsequent releases, raising expectations even higher for TES VI. Better to do Oblivion and not rock the boat.
Feeling rather burnt out by Bethesda. It's only the modding community that stops me placing them in the archive.
If they go the route of 'Procedural world' and 'AI generated', I'm out of here.
Wait, didn't Doom 64 already get rereleased back when Doom Eternal came out?
It’s on steam for sure. I’d assume it’s available on console too
Yup. It was free with preorders
yeah there is Doom 64 on Game Pass, it has been there for few years, so not sure if tha'ts a "new" Doom 64 Matty is talking about
Exactly. Already out on Xbox and Playstation...so what are we doing with releasing it again?
the pressure is highest its ever been. and they did it to themselves. in 2010 if you had told me Bethesda was teetering on a needle point, i would never have believed you. i would have believed you even less if you told me it was because of their own games. crazy.
Elder Scrolls 6 "news" at 9:09 It's still years and years away.
The only thing we care about is the fallout or elderscolls, If they don't want to make those games anymore cool I'll take my money else where.
But to be fair, nothing beats a good new IP. Many fans of video games are tired of constant sequels and remakes so limiting a company to just a couple of franchises is not good for the industry
@TheDJMeyer85 speak for yourself. The best games are the ones that takes generations to master and innovative. Look at super mario, look at metal gear solid. If studio learn lessons from previous games and then innovative on those game things should be better. But Bethesda learned wrong lessons from successful games and they're games become watered down into nothing. They really think people want less RPG elements in a RPG. No VATS in Starfield is just silly.
their character creator will tell me all I need to know about any new games they make
Agreed, it was good in Oblivion, decent in Fallout 3, good in Skyrim, trash in Fallout 4, a Dumpster Fire in Starfield.
If there are more than 2 genders it’s over lol
@@ariyanadumon4549the only thing good about the Character Creator is making your characters looks
Id give props to Fallout 4's character Creator on how you can make your characters appearance, wished it was in the older titles
What annoys me is you can barely do anything with the character creator. Every new game it's the same barebones thing with less in it. The fact in Starfield I could only add 1 facial scar says it all. Even in Fallout 76 you could add every scar, blemish and make up option available at once... they keep taking out features every new game lmao
Bethesda has been seriously mismanaged for a long time. Now theyre just floundering. The focus on creating a cash cow instead of a quality experience has made them a joke.
It's crazy to think FO: NV was made like in 18 months! They have all the fallout assets and used it to make 76 halfassed. In that time they could've assets flipped like 3 FO games.
Obsidian has also used the "CG announcement trailer early for hiring" style reveal in the past, so if they are going to be working on a Fallout project, would be an easy marketing W for xbox during the summer showcase. I don't really think it will happen this year but kinda like matty said, i feel its a coin toss
Bethesdas best game is Terminator: Future Shock. Way ahead of its time and set the blueprint for Fallout and Elder Scrolls.
Theyve had 14 years to give us another elder scrolls game and 10 years to make another Fallout and theyve only just begun working on production. Boycott Bethesda!!!
you say that like they didnt work on anything in that time
They keep wasting resources on garbage no one wants. They need to stick to the franchises that people want and make money from
Oh god it already has been 10 years, hasn't it? Jesuuuuus
We are in remake and re-release hell. Games are all about profit and nothing makes money like changing a couple things and selling it for $60 again. God gaming sucks right now and only getting worse
Doom Eternal was March 2020, not April.
I'm a huge Bethesda fan and I am honestly very worried about ES6. Starfield was passable but not great. If Bethesda doesn't want to improve their game making process then I think their efforts are best spend remaking the classics like Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc.
I know its a touchy subject on Matty's channel, but I really don't see any future for Starfield, even with new DLCs, even with great modding support, its just a very flawed base experience which cannot be altered or evolved in any meaningful ways.
I don't think it's a touchy subject. And I agree, except I'd say Starfield can have a future as Starfield 2, i.e. back to the drawing board and make a new game from scratch, instead of making DLCs. The base experience has potential in my view, but the implementation wasn't good enough, but there are some good ideas there that can be grown and developed into a good game. I wouldn't discard Starfield outright. I think some things can be salvaged to make a good Starfield 2.
@@octavianpopescu4776 Hah yeah it's only touchy because the minority that is bethesda shills are very loud when you criticize their beloved trash xD
8:12 Never making Starfield would've been acceptable.
I’ve played every elder scrolls game Morrowind. For YEARS I’ve eagerly anticipated the elder scroll 6… but lately that anticipation has died down almost completely. BGS has lost my confidence and at this point there are simply much better games to look forward to like KCD2.
BGS has done a phenomenal job alienating their core fanbase to the point where many of us are expecting the worst and are losing excitement.
can we start holding people like you accountable when we get lied tto again and again
Absolutely not? Matty has nothing to do with what bethesda chooses to do, he literally sits in front of a camera and speculates
@@PassTheSnails well said
@@PassTheSnails i respectfully disagree.
I think he is 'playing dumb' and generating false hype. I'm a fan of his and enjoy his content, but he has a role to play in what's happening
If Fallout 3 Remaster ends up being on Unreal Engine 5 I will actually cry because it would mean that I could use UEVR to inject VR support into the game day one. Also I really hope they remaster and bring the old assets into the modern age. I want the old 2000's Sci-Fi grunge look again. Not the rounded edge colorful aesthetic that Fallout 4 and 76 have.
Todd's enormous ego is not letting Obsidian do another Fallout game, seeing how New Vegas is considered to be way better than Fallout 3 and 4...
You don't want obsidian doing another game All those developers that developed New Vegas They are not even in the studio anymore. They're filled with a bunch of LGBQTX community now 😂 every character would have some type of "special" backstory And would want to be called by their pronouns😂
As if Obsidian is doing well.
@AthosZ92 I did not say that they were doing well. Obsidian now is not the same studio that made NV all those years ago. The outer worlds 1 was a huge disappointment, Avowed is shaping up to be a woke disaster, so yeah. Fallout's future looks grim...
@badwolverinex17 All because of greed and laziness. Obsidian even offered to make another game for Bethesda back in their prime. The game could've evolved into a better rpg instead we got a looter shooter/settlement builder. (Fallout 4).
@@badwolverinex17b-b-but the outer worlds 2 will save obsidian!
Bro, such a blessing to have you be so consistent! stay well my guy! 🙏✝️💯
To be honest, i care about fallout and ES, and maybe what Obsidian is up to, and that's pretty much it.
And, unfortunately, I'm ready to be disappointed, because that is what Beth have been doing best, lately. We shall see.
Count on obsidian releasing slop aswell ,they arnt the same devs that released fnv
I already own Doom 64 on PS4, why are ppl acting like it being re-released is a big deal? It was JUST re-released.
I'm so desperate for a spin off elder scrolls game from anyone
Tainted grail fall of Avalon comes out this year! I’m very excited, you should check it out. The demo is available.
@@internetperson8224 Awesome game
Its crazy how such big studios like bethesda and ubisoft rely on decade old formulas that they dont try to innovate in any real way. They are just making a product to reach a deadline. Thats why they are in the shitter and players dont care about them. Hell, some of us are even cheering the downfall. Its just sad bc there are indie and double AA developers who make actual masterpieces but are seldom praised.
12:35 I think it was more, new players that were tricked into buying 76 because it was the newest game relative to the show when they should have just bought 4, rather than drawing in actual OG fans
Agreed, they arent understanding a true Fallout game going straight to the online one.
I have zero trust that Bethesda will knock TES6 out of the park after how disappointing Starfield was.
Matty you deliberately don't do timestamps so it increases your watchtime
And?
Bethesda, Bioware, Bungie, Blizzard, Naughty Dog. None of these studios excite me anymore. I'd be more shocked if they made a game I actually want to play at this point.
Let larian borrow fallout. Let them cook.
We don't need 10 gd barrelmancy games. They make 1 game and just reskin it.
@@jr6366 there are similarities between bg3 and dos2 but have you ever asked yourself why change a winning formula? Bioware changed the formula after origins and all the seques sucked so Larian obviously learnt from that
@@DriniVula why change a winning formula? Everyone is bitching about bethesda not changing formulas. After playing all the divs then bg3 Larians formula is already getting old lol.
@ bethesda’s writing sucks, games are empty with only procedural quests mostly! So its not a good formula
@ lol complete bs
Every time I go to one of my old favorite fallout or ES channels to see what's new in the scene I'm always disappointed by the same things. Every year its like I'm hearing the same thing on repeat, "this will be the year for ES6", "Microsoft is pushing for a new Fallout game this year", "Bethesda is pushing forward all their big titles", and its always not true at years end. I feel like everyone is just accepting that ES6 will be out in another 5 years, people are ok with remakes of old games, and I feel like its too late for them. Especially when with mods there is so much you can update and change already to have the exact experience you want. We saw it with the Skyrim remakes, like its cool to see updated graphics for the general public, but I already had that and many also did so it was just like a neutral update. These constant neutral updates to their resume has made it almost impossible for me to get excited for anything new Bethesda, like even if ES6 is great I don't think I will have the same enjoyment I would of if if it was a worse game like 5 years ago, they could of already been on another big game toto make up for their failings. I feel like they don't want to risk anything any more and are ok with just being bland after their big successes. I spent countless hours in all Bethesda games starting from fallout 3 and going back to play oblivion to see more of the ES, and fallout worlds but now I think its too late for anything Bethesda, I've lost all hope for the future of my favorite series' and don't know if I'm the only one who feels the way about this, and want to hear what people think.
The words "shame" and Todd in the same sentence. The man lies , obfuscates and misdirects.
true but also you are a jaded moron if you think Todd doesn't want to make good games
You know people keep saying es6 will be set in hammerfell but no one says it could also be set in elsweyr
This is not the same Bethesda anymore. Current Bethesda is full of crazy activists and talentless DEI hires who has zero love and passion for art and video games. That's without even speaking of the corporate greed that completely rotted this company. There will not be another good Bethesda game.
Source for DEI hires please.
@@jahjoeka he wont find one
The only good thing with Starfield, is the shipbuilding...
I sunk alot of hrs, until i realised, the best way to play the game, is not to use the ship you have built, at all...
TESVI is a deflated baloon... And the game should have been released atleast 7-8 years ago...
I swear, Bethesda was something i looked forward to, but now, i feel a distain, disgust and disapointment when the name or its people gets named...
So I’ve spent the afternoon playing Starfield. I have about 6 hours into it before today. And I really liked what I had seen. But I have to admit, it’s a really fun game. I’m really getting into it. I’m feeling like an adventurer who’s has the entire universe to explore. It’s super intuitive. The dialogue options are spot on. I don’t get where the hate comes from. I just find some of the criticisms to be very petty. It’s too bad because this is a great game.
Right now I’m on my second play through of the game. I’ve finished the main quest and three of the faction quests. Still have the shattered space story and Ryujin(I don’t wanna play that one because I have a good character). That all being said, overall, Starfield is a good game. Solid 8/10. To this day, I do not understand the frequent hate it gets. It feels so forced and immature at times.
I like Starfield a lot, but compared to a game like Cyberpunk the character interactions are extremely stiff. I don't think the game deserves as much hate as it's gotten, but I can acknowledge there are key areas where Bethesda has fallen behind other modern developers.
If you haven't played many rpgs then that explains that
@@KyleS.1987 this comparison to cyberpunk is extremely confusing. Mainly because it’s like comparing outer worlds to red dead 2. Or comparing Fallout 3 to Mass Effect 3. My point is that both games have different art direction when it comes to being an RPG. Outer worlds fallout, and Starfield, having a bit more of a old-fashioned stiff RPG approach(which is perfectly fine), while the other RPGs I mentioned having more cinematic style. A more accurate comparison would be outer worlds and Starfield. Those game releases are not far apart and both are very good. On top of that cyberpunk is not better than Starfield in every way.
@@DylanAnthonyy I have played many RPG’s: Fable 1-3, KOTOR 1-2, Mass Effect 1-3, Dragon Age 1-3, Fallout 3, FNV, F4, Skyrim, Dragons Dogma, Outer Worlds, Star-field & Final Fantasy. That being said, I still don’t understand why some gaming groups are dragging Starfield through the mud. So far I’m on my second play through and it’s a good game. Same level as outer worlds and even doing better in a lot of areas. Again, I think steam and other gamers are really overreacting about the game.
After playing single player games for 40+ years, I can't get into that anymore. With AI going to be designed into NPC's in games, I am looking forward to what games like Fallout 76 will morph into. Nothing replaces gaming with (and against) real people, but adding AI npc's into the MMO mix will make that part of the industry wildly amazing.
I feel like once you played one boomer shooter youve played 99% of them
Boomers don't like change..
@user-ne9sd4ow1o you know the boomer shooter name has nothing to do with boomers right. It's just a joke
@@chettlar212 it's so weird when someone makes a joke about another joke and then someone tries to point out the original thing is a joke when their response to it was also a joke
@@KeithKillingly but the second joke doesn't work...
And they're still better than 95% of the trash that comes out these days.
Starfield is dead. I hope they cut their losses and abandon it. It would require so much work to make that game interesting that by the time they got it to that point, no one would care about it anyway. Starfield is the gold standard for why you shouldn’t rush a game out if it’s not a complete package. Shattered Space was the final nail in the coffin.
Zenimax Online can't stay hidden for much longer. 7 year dev cycle is nuts
I agree! They have to show something in June showcase at least!
They're now pretty much putting ESO into maintenance mode with Seasons now replacing Chapters (massive yearly DLC). New Project is probably soon to come.
I was 13 when Skyrim came out and looking to be 30+ when es6 comes out, damnnn I wonder how old ill be when es7 comes out💀💀
Starfield is dead and Bethesda deserved it
Why do they deserve it?
It’s not tho.. new mods drop every day 😂your not very educated are ya?
@@bodacious117 they lost all their og fans and potential new gen fans with starfield, well deserved L for bethesda, i knew starfield would be bad the second i saw theres no manual docking
@@maxwellsmith1578 mods don't sell units
@@bodacious117 the gameplay loop is highly outdated. Main story and dlc lacks originality. They still rest on their previous successes. The golden age for them is long over. Only hardcore fans still play Starfield only one year out. If it weren't for Microsoft owning them and the studio reselling Skyrim for the tenth time they would have folded years ago financially.
I just want a Fallout New Vegas Remaster... Like up to date graphics and the ability to sprint. At this point, I'm more excited for The Outer Worlds 2 than anything Bethesda is currently planning to develop and release, tbh.
Maybe I’d be more encouraged if I had played Indiana Jones.
Its good
When Bethesda announced Shattered Space DLC in June 2023, it finally arrived FIFTEEN MONTHS later.
Since there's been no official word about "Starborn" or whether it's even a genuine project, it's fair to say that even if it does come to fruition it won't be until mid-late 2026.
ESO was ruined when they made everything your level. That was when I stopped and never went back.
Expecting Bethesda to make a good game in the past 10 years and the next 10 years is like expecting insurance companies not to screw over their customers.
I’m rooting for their failure Ik it’s horrible bc we all just want good games but honestly can’t stand their decisions the past ten years. They’re now just another greedy tech company that doesn’t care abt the fans and has zero pride in what they make.
oh blud they won't fail. Microsoft will bail them out.
I quit caring. 76 and eso are not for me. Fallout 4 11 years ago was the last fun game. So I'm only watching this because you have a good delivery. Bethesda hype is dead
Hopefully confirmation of the Oblivion Remake on Thursday.
Oblivion and FO3 remake/remaster in the same year would make me forgive BGS and hand them my money day one for TESVI.
pls todd 🙏🏼
The mystery showcase at the developer direct is said to he "a brand new game" which would be an odd thing to call a remake. I'm fairly confident that it will release some time this year, but we might not hear about it until shortlt before it releases.
@dr_diddy It doesn't mean they will be good remasters. I want them to be done too, but remain skeptical.
@@DorgpoopI agree with you. We don't even have confirmation that the remake is even real at the moment do we. Wishful thinking on my part maybe. Hopefully we get a nice surprise on Thursday.
calling it no oblivion at the reveal. not even hopeful for the existence of an official remake. even less hopeful about skyblivion releasing on schedule
Saying that playing as a ghoul is like playing as "other races" is crazy considering they are just people are irradiated 🤣
I wish it was morrowind being modernized
Hopefully if the Oblivion Remaster/Ramake does well enough, we could see Morrowind get modernized
Eh, I’m not entirely sold on remakes. If Morrowind was remade, it would probably lose all of the great things we love about. A “lost in translation” type deal. OpenMW was all we really needed.
The idea seems incredible, but the execution is practically impossible to get right. Even great remakes like REmake2 and 4 could never replace the original games.
Starfield ruined their reputation. And thing is, I enjoyed the simple gameplay and even the simple ship combat. But it is the most boring game I’ve ever played because the story, characters and side quests were so damn soft and uninteresting.
So they walk away too soon from Fallout 4, but choose Starfield to not walk away from "too soon"? Even though Starfield has nowhere near the amount of consistent players on it? Sounds like a giant waste of money....again.
they didn't really walk away too soon from fallout, though. were they supposed to have like, 6 new area expansions or else 'they didn't do it justice'?
they also made like, 'a' dlc for starfield, so far.
@@KeithElliott-zd8cx Yea but with Bethesdas current track record of inconsistence, it's going to take a giant W to win gamers over again and have them get back into Starfield. You saw how long it took No Mans Sky. Still isn't my cup of tea, but they kept at it and turned that game completely around.
@ entirely fair, but starfield's a wash. They're not going to take a decade off making games to polish a turd that doesn't have a strong fanbase.
@KeithElliott-zd8cx as much as I hope you're right, I have my doubts brother. Who knows though, they might be able to revive it like NMS did. All it takes nowadays is a real solid DLC lol
@ you do realize that i said theyre not going to do that...
Also, nah, it needs more than just a dlc. Dlc is fine when the base game was good already. It needs an overhaul, like nms had. Otherwise its not the same revival.
I would have loved Starfield back in 2012. Everything about the game feels outdated and it got old really quick
Skyrim Ultima and Nolvus mods are every bit as impressive as anything I think Bethesda could create for ESVI. Truly passion projects creating those amazing mods bringing Skyrim next-gen and shows just how much more those engines are capable of. Excited to see what they come up with but dont feel impressed by what Starfield ended up being. The new Doom looks incredible!
I’m hoping you do a Bethesda games tier list next. It just makes sense.
Starfield has less than 5k concurrent players as of this post. Let that sink in