Why mention you will leave a link to something the video refers to and then not do that? Just asking... Also how many cum/ass fucking references does a critical review need? I'm out.
@@Synical02 cuase this man is a genius and video game journalists are bought out BS shit spouters and generally fake .This man is a True Video Game Journalist , what they should be, not todays: TLOU2 is good cuase there's no penis attatched to the main charchters
Despite game awards just being a glorified E3 marketing gimmick, it was comforting to see Todd sitting in the audience. Not on the stage. Godspeed Skyrim modders, it's your ship now.
Bro I’ve been watching and liking for years, since the beginning of for honor. Gotta day you’ve definitely grown out of that and have branched out to new horizons that will help you grow and to help others do the same. Please keep making more thought provoking content because it resonates within anyone with enough common sense to go against the grain and question the machine. Much love
Bethesda has always been a mess, the fact people were hyped for starfield baffled me, the fact people were taking off work and preordering it stunned me. This is a company that has put games out in an mess of a state, that are filled with bugs as far back as TES: Arena and kept, doing so till Fallout 76. Like, Skyrim for PS5/XBSX/Switch has the same, notorious game breaking bugs that the PS3/360 version has. THey never fixed their bloody game! They never do. And cut to 3 years after this vid when Todd gets called out for his game not being optimized he lies on camera saying that it is "You just might need to upgrade your rig" then weeks later a patch comes out optimizing the game to notably improved performance - and modders STILL are saying the game is a mess under the hood. I get people liking Skyrim, it's a nice comfy game where you can wander around, run into interesting things and enjoy. It's still a mess of a game and I don't think anyone can deny that given how many bugs anyone (including myself) could run into in 1-2 hours of a session- nevermind more than that.But the game is a mess! ALL of their games are a mess for different reasons. I used to think because they pushed the open world more than others, that it was just how it was, you can't tidy everything up, but their games have not changed. They keep kicking out messes that are not finished, filled with bugs and . . . for some reason people say "It's a bethesda game" and then buy the newest game for $70. We mocked horse armor and now they're pushing practices that are far, far, far worse and people still lap this crap up for $70. WHY? Fallout 3, NV (I know obsidian), 4, Skyrim,etc- you have to go into an ini file to turn off mouse smoothing and edit to get a wider FoV. Total Biscuit was still alive and foaming at the mouth about FoV sliders and this is something that they never, ever, fixed.
That I have more faith in the Beyond Skyrim mod team than people making games for a living says a lot to me personally. The modding community have been carrying Bethesda's games like mules, but there must be a limit.
A lot of mods gave up on Starfield. A lot of players have given on Starfield. The meme community has never touched Starfield. There's no "arrow in the knee" or "another settlement is under attack" mene.
I just started playing through New Vegas for the first time and I have more than a few things to say about it. The amount of factions in the game is incredible, the amount of NPC dialogue interactions is incredible, the amount if depth to trivial characters is incredible, the strip is better than any city in fallout EVER and the fact that Obdidian is the one who wholly made this game and not Bethesda's just shows their incompetence with their own game and universe.
I am playing this game too, I pirated it because fuck Bethesda. The game itself is great but there are flaws thanks to using the buggy engine given to them by Bethsucksda, and the 18 month limit that they had.
If you didn't know, some of the folks who worked on Fallout 1+2 (Josh Sawyer, Chris Avellone, among others), were at Obsidian when they made New Vegas 😁
This is the content of yours I like. The long winded points you have are great. This is what I subscribe for. I enjoy how articulate you are when making an argument.
Tried playing fo4 today.. what a mess. Can't even play it without googling and setting up for half an hour. Can't imagine how these people even make money.
I wouldn't say developing games back in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's was simpler. In fact, it was quite a bit harder to do because you were constantly bumping up against extremely tight performance thresholds and had to invent clever solutions to overcome these hurdles. This naturally separated the wheat from the chaff in terms of programming skill, so those who made the games were actually highly talented individuals on the whole. Modern game development may be far more expensive and expansive than it was before, but you're essentially working with no limits to what you can creatively do - and most games run on third party engines that have plugins for functionality or can pull from a wide knowledgebase. What ends up happening is that as Bethesda's staff was forced to scale up with the workload, they cut corners on talent - and this has lead to a downward spiral of creative and engineering vaccuacy - to the point where quite a lot of their game's production was outsourced to Indian and Chinese code-sweatshops. They no longer have the talent in-house to actually update the engine, or create the games, the way they need to be - and they're mostly just coasting on reputation and marketing at this point. This eventually circles back to stymie them creatively/narratively as well - because as older fans who knew what Bethesda could produce in their prime start to get fed up with modern offerings, Bethesda has to keep seeking new audiences who are easy to dupe with their legacy. With new audiences comes new expectations, or rather - low expectations - and they have to pander more and more to the mass-market non-fan, dumbing down game systems, simplifying narrative, and inserting current-day political pandering in order to please the casual market. Either Bethesda has to turn things around really damned quick, by hiring on talented coders, writers, and taking gameplay risks - using Microsoft's wallet as a safety net, or Microsoft just bought themselves a creative and financial timebomb.
It's crazy how this started out as a logical and sound comment then quickly devolved to a nonsensical and completely biased conclusion lmao. Also Starfield absolutely bangs, I like alot of what it does idk about yall
@@ArchWizardCjI didn't read that big ass comment up top. But damn man you liked starfield? Makes my mind go 180 hearing your praise for it. I'm personally not trying to buy their future games and super skeptical around ES6. After hearing all of what you reported, idk if I could look at Bethesda the same way. I got lvl 876 in FO76 and they still constantly break the game. We will see if Microsoft dumps on ES6 too. It doesn't matter if starfield was good they already got paid big time. Imo starfield looks like hot garbage, I've already spoiled it for myself.
Shit Arch, you really are a wizard. Despite everything else going into your video's I could sit here and listen to you talk for like a whole day man, very well spoken and it goes to show how well both proper and extended speech/grammar can positively effect an individuals presentation. Besides that, despite my attachment to For Honor I've ALWAYS watched your channel primarily for your personality, silky deep voice, and humor, along with what I said about your presentation, keep it up man its straight up gold what you're uploading.
The main reason morrowind was such a great rpg was becouse todd had litteraly no say in the development ever since they put their trusts in him the games started to suffer
Bro, you had me crying from laughing so hard. Your delivery had me pausing multiple times to regain my composure. This video definitely aged well, because Starfield looks like spit-polished ass, especially some of the "child" character models. Yikes! Like that feeling you get when you get a chill and it makes you shudder. All of the bugs are still there, just layers upon layers of rattle-can jank that modders have to fix for free. "Bethesda level quality" XD
@@NeedleDeedle69 I haven't seen anything else from him, but my point still stands that Bethesda is still the King of Jank. He is more than capable of defending his own opinions I assume?
i just tried skyrim for the first time two weeks ago, and before that i never played a bethesda game; only rockstar. I purchased the Proudspire hose in Solitude, and now I cant leave the house without the game crashing. Im sure I probably dont have enough drive space for how fucked up the coding is, but you would think you could at least complete the story - but of course: NO. Is there a game like Skyrim that is made by a good game company? Because Im done fucking with the scrub bethesda
funny that i got to the part you mention "consumption of prey & dishonored(arkane studios overall)"... now, today, after redfall massive fuck-up, you don;t know how true those words were!
Late comment, I know, but this is great research and presentation. This video feels like a true expose done by a former fan wanting this company to come to justice. Hopefully now, years later, after the latest scam sold by BGS, people will stay aware of their failures and grifts.
I would argue that even fallout 3 is actually a bad fallout game, if you were a fan of 1,2 you got a extremely simplistic take on the series, and no similar game until new vegas. They always been hacks that somehow got free with simplifying their games and also not beta testing them
Same could be said about skyrim really. The thing is that morrowing narratively is great, but the gameplay same as oblivion sucks, skyrim might lack mechanics from those games but they made it not horrible to play. I would have preferred a direct evolution of those with gameplay upgrades.
Only good games Bethesda ever made were Morrowind and The Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion. Everything else is crap. For what it's worth Bethesda ripped off Jhaerik's Archery Mod (For Oblivion) when they did Skyrim's archery. I know because I made the damn mod and the number changes are identical. Sadly most of my mod's were from the pre-nexus days and are long gone. Only one still around is the Fog Remover.
fuck it's been 2 years already? I'm just sprinting towards my grave... I got white hairs on my balls now, yo. fucking white hairs on my balls. that's my membership card to the old club. fucking fuck bro
What you said about God/Universe was some real shit. Faith isn’t just praying and expecting it to happen. God helps you help ya self. If he did everything, you might as well be a robot or an NPC
26:00, after Red-Fall i have no doubt Bethesda did the same thing to Arkane as they did Human Head. I have zero faith in the "Blade" game made by Marvel + Bethesda; Elder Scrolls 6 might as well not even exist since bethesda made that game completely by total accident.
Interesting stuff. One thing I don't think you covered in the video was my biggest issue with Bethesda games. They aren't really very much fun. I miss the rush that I would get long ago when I finally beat a really hard video game. You won't get that rush with Bethesda games.
Mate it took me trying to make skyrim fun through countless (over 255 mods) and similar things for Oblivion and Fallout 3 New Vegas and 4 before giving up entirely. Their gameplay loops all suck and trying to mod it to be fun to play and less cheese brings out more and more glaring issues about movement and aim (specially in fallout 4) that makes modding these games into fun to play action RPGs a futile effort. Everytime you improve something it only unveils the next completely broken ass mechanic in the game.
35:40, word. Even now this still rings true. Id love to hear your thoughts on Starfield, I believe the archive of Bethesda critique videos has started to breakdown Bethesda's blind attempts to deflect all valid criticism. And if Bethesda keeps chugging down this path then the Elder scrolls six will be the most anticipated game of all time; I can feel Todd Howard writing his wicked lies as I live and breath. I won't preorder. I need to see just what answer Bethesda gives to the community for a decades worth of banned mods, shit updates, nonsense re-releases and failed expectations. Day one, looking at Todd right in his eyes
Prey was really good (other than the death mechanic). It had changing gravity and portals which really made the gameplay interesting. It sucks it's been removed. It sucks about the sequel.
Id argue Bethesda was a good (maybe not great) game dev back when they made Daggerfall. Never played their Terminator or Gretzky games but apparently they were good for the time. Id say they went downhill around the time of Morrowind.
Still pisses me off what they did to Prey 2--every time I get a chance at a good Bounty Hunter game it gets snatched away from me. As far as I'm concerned Bethesda is as scummy as EA and Disney, and will take every chance to laugh at their blunders and whenever their greed catches up to them. Their idea of standards is a joke. Overall, a good video.
I have read it elsewhere that it is actually Pete Hines who is the issue more than Todd. Apparently, the dude thinks games can't be too complex as they have to be accessible to women. Ouch.
Learned a few things I didn't know about Bethesda's business practices. So not only are their games shit, but they are too. FO4 was the final straw for me and I swore an oath then that they'd never get another dime of my money. I just double down on that. Thank you for the video.
I will never forgive them for fallout. In 3 they ruined the lore and world building. New Vegas is the nail in the coffin though. After new Vegas they could've just started a partnership with obsidian and had them make the fallout games, but nah they had to hoard the IP for themselves even though they can't keep consistent lore or fucking have any creativity whatsoever. NV shouldn't have been the exception, it should have been one of many arguably equally well written games, but Bethesda stole that from us
This is kinda poorly worded I'm trying to say NV is the best 3D fallout and they didn't even make it so they should humble themselves and contract it out.
I think it’s important to separate zenimaxs and Altmans shady business practices with Howard’spoor game dev direction at Bethesda two very different issues at two companies
Was recently playing Skyrim again, having a fun ole time...then bam I get a bug which prevents me from saving. Can't save. In an RPG I cannot save...I have no interest in this game now. "Bethesda Quality Standards."
Who watching before the premiere?
Me I'm genuinely exited
What have you exited, your house?
Todd just proved all your points with his magnum opus Starfield
Just fallout with a outer space paint job yawn.
moar like fagnum blowpus, amirite?
Grateful for the 2k atleast. I'll take what I can when I can
Dude why arent you a video game journalist or reviewer etc whatever you make content beyond the bounds we've been subjected to.
3k getting to 4 🤷🏾♂️
@@loosenuplockz4219 4 going on 5k now. If all of those views shared it with two others itd have double at least.
Why mention you will leave a link to something the video refers to and then not do that? Just asking... Also how many cum/ass fucking references does a critical review need? I'm out.
@@Synical02 cuase this man
is a genius and video game journalists are bought out BS shit spouters and generally fake
.This man is a True Video Game Journalist , what they should be, not todays: TLOU2 is good cuase there's no penis attatched to the main charchters
Despite game awards just being a glorified E3 marketing gimmick, it was comforting to see Todd sitting in the audience. Not on the stage. Godspeed Skyrim modders, it's your ship now.
My favourite thing is how Bethesda fans retcon history "oh 76 was their only shitty launch"
This is actually the funniest informative video I’ve seen all year, TH-cam got me fucked up not putting this on my dash immediately.
Starfield: He's right, you know
Bro I’ve been watching and liking for years, since the beginning of for honor. Gotta day you’ve definitely grown out of that and have branched out to new horizons that will help you grow and to help others do the same. Please keep making more thought provoking content because it resonates within anyone with enough common sense to go against the grain and question the machine. Much love
I was trying to tell my friend that bethesda was never good, but im to dumb to get it across. Then this video came out, and solved all my problems.
Bethesda has always been a mess, the fact people were hyped for starfield baffled me, the fact people were taking off work and preordering it stunned me.
This is a company that has put games out in an mess of a state, that are filled with bugs as far back as TES: Arena and kept, doing so till Fallout 76.
Like, Skyrim for PS5/XBSX/Switch has the same, notorious game breaking bugs that the PS3/360 version has. THey never fixed their bloody game! They never do.
And cut to 3 years after this vid when Todd gets called out for his game not being optimized he lies on camera saying that it is "You just might need to upgrade your rig" then weeks later a patch comes out optimizing the game to notably improved performance - and modders STILL are saying the game is a mess under the hood.
I get people liking Skyrim, it's a nice comfy game where you can wander around, run into interesting things and enjoy. It's still a mess of a game and I don't think anyone can deny that given how many bugs anyone (including myself) could run into in 1-2 hours of a session- nevermind more than that.But the game is a mess! ALL of their games are a mess for different reasons.
I used to think because they pushed the open world more than others, that it was just how it was, you can't tidy everything up, but their games have not changed. They keep kicking out messes that are not finished, filled with bugs and . . . for some reason people say "It's a bethesda game" and then buy the newest game for $70.
We mocked horse armor and now they're pushing practices that are far, far, far worse and people still lap this crap up for $70. WHY?
Fallout 3, NV (I know obsidian), 4, Skyrim,etc- you have to go into an ini file to turn off mouse smoothing and edit to get a wider FoV. Total Biscuit was still alive and foaming at the mouth about FoV sliders and this is something that they never, ever, fixed.
Bethesda wants to know your location
your content is fucking amazing. You sound so apathetic but its not just monotone or boring. Beautiful
I like that compliment lol thank you
Also I did not add any of those ad roles TH-cam did that i am sorry lmao
ArchWizard CJ 🧢🧢🧢🧢
Is this your voice permanently this deep?
@@randomcontent2247 nah bro I just recorded 40 minutes of audio while clenching my throat
Ads every 2 minutes, thumbs down
@@livetorek4723 you realize that's youtube and I have 0 control over that right you look kinda slow there friend
That I have more faith in the Beyond Skyrim mod team than people making games for a living says a lot to me personally. The modding community have been carrying Bethesda's games like mules, but there must be a limit.
Modding community can't do a damn thing on console
A lot of mods gave up on Starfield. A lot of players have given on Starfield. The meme community has never touched Starfield. There's no "arrow in the knee" or "another settlement is under attack" mene.
@@vxicepickxv Yea so what I thought 3 years ago proved true xD
I just started playing through New Vegas for the first time and I have more than a few things to say about it.
The amount of factions in the game is incredible, the amount of NPC dialogue interactions is incredible, the amount if depth to trivial characters is incredible, the strip is better than any city in fallout EVER and the fact that Obdidian is the one who wholly made this game and not Bethesda's just shows their incompetence with their own game and universe.
I am playing this game too, I pirated it because fuck Bethesda. The game itself is great but there are flaws thanks to using the buggy engine given to them by Bethsucksda, and the 18 month limit that they had.
I’m replaying oblivion and I’m having a blast.
If you didn't know, some of the folks who worked on Fallout 1+2 (Josh Sawyer, Chris Avellone, among others), were at Obsidian when they made New Vegas 😁
I like these kinds of videos. Definitely down to see more.
This video is aging like a fine wine
This is the content of yours I like. The long winded points you have are great. This is what I subscribe for. I enjoy how articulate you are when making an argument.
Phenomenal work bro, and what a way to end it! Stay blessed man!
This video aged like wine
Not even the modders want to "fix" starfield lol
CJ went in. Thorough and complete work as always.
this channel deserves so much more love, but you knew that already.
Thank you man. For now of you could just share vids man I would be so grateful
CJ’s voice being deep still catches me off guard sometimes. Mans hit puberty twice.
I am glad obsidian now was free to do their own thing
they deserve the fallout IP
E/Aids. Genius
Matrix herpes 🤣
Love this stuff bro, please make more like this! it could be about any game really
Arch spent 2 months drawing the thumbnail.
Fastest 37 minutes of my life, keep up the goated work CJ
Tried playing fo4 today.. what a mess. Can't even play it without googling and setting up for half an hour.
Can't imagine how these people even make money.
I wouldn't say developing games back in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's was simpler. In fact, it was quite a bit harder to do because you were constantly bumping up against extremely tight performance thresholds and had to invent clever solutions to overcome these hurdles. This naturally separated the wheat from the chaff in terms of programming skill, so those who made the games were actually highly talented individuals on the whole. Modern game development may be far more expensive and expansive than it was before, but you're essentially working with no limits to what you can creatively do - and most games run on third party engines that have plugins for functionality or can pull from a wide knowledgebase. What ends up happening is that as Bethesda's staff was forced to scale up with the workload, they cut corners on talent - and this has lead to a downward spiral of creative and engineering vaccuacy - to the point where quite a lot of their game's production was outsourced to Indian and Chinese code-sweatshops.
They no longer have the talent in-house to actually update the engine, or create the games, the way they need to be - and they're mostly just coasting on reputation and marketing at this point. This eventually circles back to stymie them creatively/narratively as well - because as older fans who knew what Bethesda could produce in their prime start to get fed up with modern offerings, Bethesda has to keep seeking new audiences who are easy to dupe with their legacy. With new audiences comes new expectations, or rather - low expectations - and they have to pander more and more to the mass-market non-fan, dumbing down game systems, simplifying narrative, and inserting current-day political pandering in order to please the casual market.
Either Bethesda has to turn things around really damned quick, by hiring on talented coders, writers, and taking gameplay risks - using Microsoft's wallet as a safety net, or Microsoft just bought themselves a creative and financial timebomb.
It's crazy how this started out as a logical and sound comment then quickly devolved to a nonsensical and completely biased conclusion lmao.
Also Starfield absolutely bangs, I like alot of what it does idk about yall
@@ArchWizardCjI didn't read that big ass comment up top. But damn man you liked starfield? Makes my mind go 180 hearing your praise for it. I'm personally not trying to buy their future games and super skeptical around ES6. After hearing all of what you reported, idk if I could look at Bethesda the same way. I got lvl 876 in FO76 and they still constantly break the game.
We will see if Microsoft dumps on ES6 too. It doesn't matter if starfield was good they already got paid big time. Imo starfield looks like hot garbage, I've already spoiled it for myself.
@@CornThaddieusThy3rd Starfield is a good game idk what yall want me to say
@@ArchWizardCjStarfield is the greatest loading simulator of all time.
what you want from it is not what I want from it sir@@NeedleDeedle69
This is criminally under watched
Go easy on the bass please, i can feel my teeth shaking
you dropped this 👑
God damn. Insightful and entertaining. Liked and subbed.
Shit Arch, you really are a wizard. Despite everything else going into your video's I could sit here and listen to you talk for like a whole day man, very well spoken and it goes to show how well both proper and extended speech/grammar can positively effect an individuals presentation.
Besides that, despite my attachment to For Honor I've ALWAYS watched your channel primarily for your personality, silky deep voice, and humor, along with what I said about your presentation, keep it up man its straight up gold what you're uploading.
The main reason morrowind was such a great rpg was becouse todd had litteraly no say in the development ever since they put their trusts in him the games started to suffer
Why did Todd have no say in that game? Also, Morrowind had plenty of technical problems.
@@Ergeniz So does New Vegas, both great games.
This some amazing high quality work
Bro, you had me crying from laughing so hard. Your delivery had me pausing multiple times to regain my composure.
This video definitely aged well, because Starfield looks like spit-polished ass, especially some of the "child" character models. Yikes! Like that feeling you get when you get a chill and it makes you shudder. All of the bugs are still there, just layers upon layers of rattle-can jank that modders have to fix for free. "Bethesda level quality" XD
Hate to tell you but dude who made this video loves Starfield 💀
@@NeedleDeedle69 I haven't seen anything else from him, but my point still stands that Bethesda is still the King of Jank. He is more than capable of defending his own opinions I assume?
Weird that you say that as CJ seems to really like Starfield going by his other comments.
Can we get a 10 minute bethesda quality standards montage?
Happy to see you divert from FH my guy. Keep pushing! Glad to see you back.
That kobe reference made me sad.
Ice Cube's Aint Got No Haters didnt age well either
Oh shit you delving into more retrospective commentary content?
Yuh
Fallout New Vegas was actually developed by Obsidian, not Bethesda. That's why it's come to be considered one of the best entries in the franchise.
I know
I've been saying for years that Obsidian Entertainment deserved better...raises
Fantastic vid man, consistent quality.
Thank you man
i just tried skyrim for the first time two weeks ago, and before that i never played a bethesda game; only rockstar. I purchased the Proudspire hose in Solitude, and now I cant leave the house without the game crashing. Im sure I probably dont have enough drive space for how fucked up the coding is, but you would think you could at least complete the story - but of course: NO.
Is there a game like Skyrim that is made by a good game company? Because Im done fucking with the scrub bethesda
funny that i got to the part you mention "consumption of prey & dishonored(arkane studios overall)"...
now, today, after redfall massive fuck-up, you don;t know how true those words were!
BUT CJ!!!!
it just works
Great vid, nice to hear your voice again bro.
Stay well.
you're music choice is fucking bomb.
Lets goooo! Hope all is well CJ!
i thought it was called sock em boppers, did i change parallel universes again?
Shit, I bought nuka world when it first dropped but I was never actually able to play it because the radio station to access it was bugged.
Thats return worthy. I hope you got a copy of 76 for that. Since theyre about the same amount of content
Why in the fuck did it take so long for TH-cam to send you my way?!
Late comment, I know, but this is great research and presentation. This video feels like a true expose done by a former fan wanting this company to come to justice. Hopefully now, years later, after the latest scam sold by BGS, people will stay aware of their failures and grifts.
You should definitely make more videos like this.
I would argue that even fallout 3 is actually a bad fallout game, if you were a fan of 1,2 you got a extremely simplistic take on the series, and no similar game until new vegas.
They always been hacks that somehow got free with simplifying their games and also not beta testing them
Same could be said about skyrim really.
The thing is that morrowing narratively is great, but the gameplay same as oblivion sucks, skyrim might lack mechanics from those games but they made it not horrible to play.
I would have preferred a direct evolution of those with gameplay upgrades.
I regret not watching this sooner.
Only good games Bethesda ever made were Morrowind and The Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion. Everything else is crap.
For what it's worth Bethesda ripped off Jhaerik's Archery Mod (For Oblivion) when they did Skyrim's archery. I know because I made the damn mod and the number changes are identical. Sadly most of my mod's were from the pre-nexus days and are long gone. Only one still around is the Fog Remover.
Did they seriously rip a fanmde mod?
@@lantizeldaappeared5993 yes like it was said in the video they do it quite often
Well CJ keep this up you’ll go far! I believe it!
"matrix herpes" lmao
fuck it's been 2 years already? I'm just sprinting towards my grave... I got white hairs on my balls now, yo. fucking white hairs on my balls. that's my membership card to the old club. fucking fuck bro
What you said about God/Universe was some real shit. Faith isn’t just praying and expecting it to happen. God helps you help ya self. If he did everything, you might as well be a robot or an NPC
God suck
@@robinmetge no u
Wow, that's a really pathetic God. Good thing he's not real.
@@belland_dog8235 it’s a good thing _YOU’RE_ not real
I feel like Bethesda was genuine when they made Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but that was the end of it.
Oh hey, it's Yong Yea!
Skyrim is a master piece though, even today without any mods. Can't talk about any of their other games cuz I've not played any.
It’s not a masterpiece
@@mayonnaise3959 lmao, ok boomer
@@thepaidninja6077 how to tell if someone is too young to be on TH-cam.
26:00, after Red-Fall i have no doubt Bethesda did the same thing to Arkane as they did Human Head. I have zero faith in the "Blade" game made by Marvel + Bethesda; Elder Scrolls 6 might as well not even exist since bethesda made that game completely by total accident.
Hell yeah CJ’s back!
Never knew about the manipulative shit they did, ill always treasure what ive played but they aint bein cool
Skyrim was the game was the straw that broke my camel's back.
Interesting stuff. One thing I don't think you covered in the video was my biggest issue with Bethesda games. They aren't really very much fun. I miss the rush that I would get long ago when I finally beat a really hard video game. You won't get that rush with Bethesda games.
And now I'm subscribed
27:53 You f***ing DESTROYED them.
This gonna be spicy
man seeing this footage of prey 2 really makes me sad it was never released. Looks amazing
Mate it took me trying to make skyrim fun through countless (over 255 mods) and similar things for Oblivion and Fallout 3 New Vegas and 4 before giving up entirely. Their gameplay loops all suck and trying to mod it to be fun to play and less cheese brings out more and more glaring issues about movement and aim (specially in fallout 4) that makes modding these games into fun to play action RPGs a futile effort. Everytime you improve something it only unveils the next completely broken ass mechanic in the game.
Oh yeah also in fo4 Nuka world there is an area you can softlock yourself if your wearing power armor.
Jesus christ, the quality of this video is impressive. There's no way you wont go far if you remain committed :)
35:40, word. Even now this still rings true. Id love to hear your thoughts on Starfield, I believe the archive of Bethesda critique videos has started to breakdown Bethesda's blind attempts to deflect all valid criticism. And if Bethesda keeps chugging down this path then the Elder scrolls six will be the most anticipated game of all time; I can feel Todd Howard writing his wicked lies as I live and breath. I won't preorder. I need to see just what answer Bethesda gives to the community for a decades worth of banned mods, shit updates, nonsense re-releases and failed expectations. Day one, looking at Todd right in his eyes
Prey was really good (other than the death mechanic). It had changing gravity and portals which really made the gameplay interesting. It sucks it's been removed. It sucks about the sequel.
"Bethesda Quality Standards" is a CRAZY oxymoron LMFAO
Finally the vid I’ve been waiting for lol
is it just me or does his voice sound way deeper then normal lmao
You said you'd link the relevant video but it's not in description nor pinned comment! wth?
changed my description with a mass edit tool, my bad. link the part you're referring to
The half life music fits so well
You should do video game essays
great vid!
I liked yo vid, so im commenting just so the agro rythim treats you well
Thanks man 🙏🏾💖
Id argue Bethesda was a good (maybe not great) game dev back when they made Daggerfall. Never played their Terminator or Gretzky games but apparently they were good for the time. Id say they went downhill around the time of Morrowind.
Still pisses me off what they did to Prey 2--every time I get a chance at a good Bounty Hunter game it gets snatched away from me. As far as I'm concerned Bethesda is as scummy as EA and Disney, and will take every chance to laugh at their blunders and whenever their greed catches up to them. Their idea of standards is a joke.
Overall, a good video.
You dropping the bag CJ, your stuff transcendent. Stop playing and get back out there.
A truely excellent point of view CJ, Have you considered other companys and games in this area of shady practises such as Cloud Imperium games?
I have read it elsewhere that it is actually Pete Hines who is the issue more than Todd. Apparently, the dude thinks games can't be too complex as they have to be accessible to women. Ouch.
Good shit lmfao subbed
Learned a few things I didn't know about Bethesda's business practices. So not only are their games shit, but they are too. FO4 was the final straw for me and I swore an oath then that they'd never get another dime of my money. I just double down on that. Thank you for the video.
this is a great channel, keep up the great vids. sub'd
I will never forgive them for fallout. In 3 they ruined the lore and world building. New Vegas is the nail in the coffin though. After new Vegas they could've just started a partnership with obsidian and had them make the fallout games, but nah they had to hoard the IP for themselves even though they can't keep consistent lore or fucking have any creativity whatsoever. NV shouldn't have been the exception, it should have been one of many arguably equally well written games, but Bethesda stole that from us
This is kinda poorly worded I'm trying to say NV is the best 3D fallout and they didn't even make it so they should humble themselves and contract it out.
AND they made it as hard as possible for obsidian to even make NV, permanently leaving it with MORE bugs and LESS content.
I remember the "bethesda quality standard" comment, we all agree that they meant that the game was too good for them
Gamebryo is even older, traces back to NetImmerse in the early 90's.
I think it’s important to separate zenimaxs and Altmans shady business practices with Howard’spoor game dev direction at Bethesda two very different issues at two companies
I was ignorant to the nuance of these things back then I have to admit
Was recently playing Skyrim again, having a fun ole time...then bam I get a bug which prevents me from saving. Can't save. In an RPG I cannot save...I have no interest in this game now. "Bethesda Quality Standards."