Bethesda Doing The Most Bethesda Things Imaginable
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Todd talked so much about how they wanted to make starfied for 20 years but never had the tech for it, and then its just a loading screen simulator
Modern day George Lucas.
Starfield was stuck in development hell for the good bit of 6 years, no progress was made.
Todd was just too busy to handle his dream game so at some point he handed it to his right-hand man Emil Pagliarulo the incompetent doofus.
And so they spent too much money and time to just outright cancel Starfield they decided to just make do with what they got and released a basically mediocre rpg.
@@Vert_GreenHeart Imagine handing over your dream project to an incompetent hack writer to butcher it. Who does that?
@@Olter_ Todd Howard is now a full-blown CEO instead of director, even devleopers within BethesdaGS said that they cannot simply meet with Godd Howard anymore.
It just works!
Emil Pagliarulo is an absolute hack.
If you're ever in need of an aneurysm, watch his speech on writing Fallout 4.
If the fallout community wants to have hope for a great game either Emil needs to be removed or another studio needs to produce the game
Emil has all his points on luck and negative points on charisma and intelligence.
@@KA-vs7nl Yeah, not gonna happen. They don't give a shit about reviews and criticism (self-admitted) and the numbers prove them right every time.
Too many people are satisfied with the dregs they push out and keep buying it all.
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID
Emil should be working night shift at a McDonalds. Dude has no place in gaming.
All I can say is Rest in Peace Elder Scrolls. ES6 is gonna be nuclear levels of cheeks.
I am already processing my grief by going back to mod Morrowind.
@@ambds1975i reached 701 mods in Skyrim. I can finally play instead of mod. I don’t need no ES6z
People saying "I wish Bethesda had made a new Fallout game instead of Starfield"
The quality would've been the exact same. I have negative expectations for the next Elder Scrolls game
Nobody cares what you expect, goofy 😂
especally since it just fallout but in space lmao
Cry extra hard, dorky 😂
@@CHRIS-fs4qy okay chubby, lose some weight
@CHRIS-fs4qy I'm 6'1, white and jacked. You'd look at my shoes if we ever met face to face. Sad but true
The reason for the "writing"? Emil said It, nobody cares, they'll just make paper airplanes out of it. Way to MOTIVATE the team there. I'm sure they're ready to give their...best.
that's not what emil was saying. you misinterpret what he said.
@@Benjamin_Starscapesaw the whole thing. That was exactly what he said, and what he meant.
@@Benjamin_Starscapethats literally what he said.
@@blacktemplarbrotherlucius1935 it is, but it isn't what he was *saying*. seems you can't even comprehend a basic CZcams comment.
The synth protagonist idea is fucking brilliant. Someone should make a mod out of that.
There are mods who let you do that, not only let you spawn In the Institute but also your character looks like synth. Plus various other things that enhance the experience.
Edit: obviously it's still the base game with no extra story's and so on. So it's just a visual mod plus a different spawn.
@@HahsJeje yeah I meant something closer to Richard's idea. And I don't even think it would suffer from the plot twist being kinda telegraphed (otherwise it's hard to explain what the mod even is), since it'd still let you see the entire game through a different lens. And most of Beth's story can be left unchanged - only specific quests would need to be completely redone.
yeah I'm kinda blown away by how more scifi there is in that one idea than most of entire Fallout 3 and 4
It's already hinted to at the end of the story, but they haven't comitted to it.
Lfg Bethesda shit talk. One of my favorite past times
Sure
rdpw.
I hated the voiced protagonist in F4 ruined the whole thing for me.
Well every other game before had fully blank playable characters, their backgrounds, skills and full of roleplay for players.
But fallout 4 = you are a preset character a family guy who has settled and have 0 survival skills and experience to live in wateland.
Especially if you play as Nora. Nora would canonically not even get past giant radroaches in starting area.
She was literally pregnant just a while back and was a lawyer and had 0 combat skills.
But in game well she has same skillset as Nate lol.
All they had to do was add different voices but nope everyone had to be a middle aged white man/woman no matter how black how Asian how Chinese u are you
Yeah, someone tell Beth is isn't 'roleplay' if you are a very particular person (or two) with a prebaked motivation.
01:00 I think its remarkable that something like Enderal which was built on Skyrim's engine by two people working in their bedroom is infinitely more interesting than anything Bethesda is capable of creating. People talk shit on the creation engine a lot but I don't think its even the main problem, its like their games are designed by committee to be as bland as possible. I can't think of a memorable NPC they've written since the effing Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion.
Mainstream devs like to focus on objective things like higher quality textures and whatever the new light transport method that 90% of players will need to turn off by default because subjective things like narrative and gameplay are too hard to grasp and may take more time than predicted to get right.
Too many cooks. If Bethesda just realized the potential is has in it's hands to empower small teams to push out their own creative enterprises, they would likely have stuff like Enderal pushed out in 2 year cycles instead of 10 year cycles for games that are miles wide and 1 inch deep
Go open some cases and leave the Bethesda discussion to ppl who are actually competent.
Bethesda truly is racked by a blind ambition problem.
So nice of Emil to finally put a lid on the box he put Nate in.
This is how BGS works. Come up with a bunch of cool ideas, and then fail to implement most of them and dumb it down.
Their motto is basically "it works, just." Like their UI. It works, just about, so leave it alone.
ONE guy can cook up an incredible inventory/HUD mod in 1 year, but Bethesda with 400+ people, 7 years and unlimited money just copy paste the UI from the last game. Starfield also has recycled animations and sounds from Fallout 4.
Pathetic. I used to think Gearbox was the most embarrassing AAA developer, but Bethesda took that crown a while ago.
I don't even think the issue is the "chosen one" style story they go for. It's just that it's so boring. There's no heros journey. You don't ever feel like you're building your power and legend. It's "here you are. Oh look you're a mundane person. *BAM* Now you have to save the world"
Let me build to that. Ironically a game that does it right is RuneScape which is ironic given it's an MMO. You start off helping a cook make a cake and doing very mundane things but at the end of it you've slain a dragon. It FEELS like you're building things. That's the issue with Bethesda games. They don't build you, you just are
I agree that. Lets take the BOS questline in f4. You come in and help Danse and after one quest youre already a fucking knight, something that BOS members have to work years for no matter how fucking good or genius they are, it needs to be earned. Now i dont think i need to go on a grind spree of 30 quests to get my knight title but at least let me prove myself PROPERLY to get rewarded somehow. And its like this with all the ufcking factions, you barely enter the faction and you get rewarded inadequently. Oh btw im dying and ure gonna become the institute chief now(wtf did i do to deserve that???), first they set up father as this calm and rational scientist and now hes a fucking nepotism freak and/or mega retarded?? I dont think the BOS questline in FNV is anything special either(sure we can talk here about lack of time/budget etc) but at least you feel more appropriately rewarded compared to what youve done, you get the power armor only at the very end of the questline when youve fully joined the BOS as a member, it makes SENSE.
It doesn’t help when all their games are scaled to the player level so you never feel like you are getting stronger
Hell it can feel like you are getting weaker because the ttk gets bloody longer for the exact same enemies you fought at level 1
@@basedsneedclave175 TRUE
@@basedsneedclave175 For this exact reason i dislike scaling in 95% games. Theres a place and a way for scaling but most developers dont know how to implement it wisely to make the game feel rewarding. Its just "we are lazy and dont know how to properly design the areas and balance the game, SCAAALEE".
Watching a games journalist come up with a more compelling story than a AAA company's entire writing staff could manage: it just works
2:00 speaking of not committing, it dawned on me that in starfield they basically tried ripping off a lot of popular sci fi works. The UC is star trek, Freestar is Firefly, Neon is like a mini cyberpunk with an Arasaka at home faction, House Varunn is Dune with a religious holy war and everything, the MQ seems to be an amalgamation of Star Wars and 2001(?). It has no identity unlike ES and Fallout, although they seem to be well on their way to losing theirs. Its all over the place and that seems to be representative of bethesda as a company in the current day.
Please remember these company's live of your money.
So please don't pre-order and/or buy their new products :)
Yes, you don't HAVE to buy these games if you know they're going to suck. Save the $70 for something else
Yes but that's the game isn't it? They feed the machine by continuing to buy their products and criticize them which to me - when is enough enough for you to just check out?
Maybe you're no longer the audience that the Studio, or franchise is meant for, and that's fine - just move onto something else.
synth story is actually an amazing idea
Yeah, 100%, but doing a story like that justice requires someone like Yoko Taro, not Todd Howard.
Too smart for bethesda
It has certainly been my head canon the past 8 years, failed experiment is only way to explain odd dialogue and player ignoring the urge to find their son, exploring instead. Generation 3.5 might not require a control component, and is a stepstone to 4.0 that can finally be used by Father and the Institute for mind copies to rejoin the surface.
Emil Pagliarulo is the issue. He said he wants his writing to have no consequence, here we are.
Great in theory, terrible execution.
"It's never cheeks on purpose with Bethesda".
Getting that tattooed on me when the next Fallout breaks my heart again.
Totally agree, your Fallout 4 storyline is infinitely better.
My premise for the story is that YOU take the place of Shaun, it follows the vibe of FO3 opening, you grow up in the safe, comfortable Institute, never knowing the outside, you find out Kellog is your parents killer and all the evil experiments and you can ether escape for a fresh start in the Wasteland out of guilt and vengeance or take over as the head of the Institute.
It makes the dynamics of the world and relations with the factions far more intense.
Emil Pagliarulo couldn't forgive himself that he not only had the main character be a white straight man, but that he was a respected Veteran. It must've been eating him up inside for years and now that eyes are back on the game thanks to the show, he decided to 'right the wrong' by making the completely docile main character a turbo giga fascist.
So edgy
Fo4 came out before ESG/DEI initiatives were implemented. He is the worst.
Also I wonder if this is Emil lashing out because microsoft told him he is not writing or working on the next fallout game? So he's retroactively bashing his own work and ADDING CONSEQUENCE (which he hates) because that's all the control he can exert over the situation? Just food for thought, hopefully fo5 is great.
@@J77199
Your response doesn’t even make sense?…
I see im not the only one who misses obsidian writing for fallout
And ghouls looked like body horror
And the brotherhood of steel was bad ass
… Um, Badass Brotherhood is a Bethesda invention. Every (mainline) non-Bethesda game the Brotherhood are a bunch of useless dicks hiding in their bunkers waiting for the player character to fix their problem for them
Bro everyone says they miss obsidian you're not special. And ghoul designs in NV were from 3, which was Bethesda. At least be an accurate dick rider
6:10 It's pretty much the same idea Joseph Anderson suggested. I think anyone with a penchant to analyze and really understand stories comes up with something like this once they play Far Harbor and the game itself teases this. It was so close to being an actual serviceable narrative, I've no idea how they missed it. lol
I wish we were a synth I pondered that idea playing it the first time, it felt like it was gonna be the case but yeah emil should not write anything.
Emil pagliarulo is the issue. He said he wants his writing to have no consequence, here we are.
5:50 you also have Tabitha's tribe of Mutants that will attack you on sight, but that's an exception because she is a crazy ass nightkin who cares for her robot.
EA and Activision Blizzard enter the chat
For 20$ extra bobby himself will show up and shit on your chest
Blizzard being part of activision is crazy sad.
We Know 🤚
"it's never cheeks on purpose"
Good IP in bad hands sadly. Everytime they release a half baked game and the community has to fix it themselves. They should finally drop their creation engine. i think it's been at it's limits at Fallout 76 already and Starfield has proven it.
The Creation Engine isn't what's holding back such things as writing though. It'll still be the same just maybe a few less bugs and most likely less player freedom depending on the engine they choose(probably Unreal 5 like everyone else).
That poor, poor ...engine. It's been soooo FRAKENSTEINED IT doesn't KNOW what's going on any more. It doesn't know what an FOV slider is. It doesn't know what a ...WIDE SCREEN TV is. And 61 fps?....Cap'n she canna take it, you'll DESTROY the laws of physics. Poor ...thing.
based opinions from rich as usual. I remember preordering fallout 4 and I was so disappointed after installing it. New Vegas and 1 and 2 were so much better, and will forever be the real fallouts
Hope you learnt the lesson and stopped preordering games (especially Bethesda games)
Sooo... we're just gonna pretend Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel doesn't exist?
My man, you accidentally pitched Prey
I'm glad they haven't updated the gog version of fallout 4 yet. I got it drm free backed up on my hard drive with all my mods. Don't trust tech companies with your digital licenses, they WILL find a way to fuck you over my friends.
Nate being a war criminal is unironically better than any story point actually written in Fo4
i was ready to roll my eyes but your fallout 4 idea is so fucking good lol
Fallout 4 should have either went with the synth idea or focused on settlement building and actually let you rebuild the commonwealth.
Codsworth could be a double experiment and explain why he "feels" emotions compared to robots before. Take a Mr Handy from somewhere or add them to the institute and reprogram it to match up with Nates backstory.
If you spend enough time with codsworth you could find inconsistencies between your prewar experience and his
It's really quite frustrating seeing all these hacks cruise by on past glory days, sometimes not even their own. On the other hand people are drawing increasing attention to it and some old gems receive rejuvenated attention. Would much rather just not have hacks everywhere though.
I remember playing F3 for the first time and the first things they make you do is gun down a supermutant. I was fresh off playing F1 and F2 and was expecting something similar to rats or radscorpions. I didn't play very long. Same thing with F4 where one of the first thing you do is gun down a deathclaw. How can you have any sense of progression after that ? I remember morrowind when my lvl1 character was missing the weird worm again and again but at the end of the playthrough I was jumping mountains and one shotting everything with my legendary hammer.
It’s way too easy to get overpowered in 4. I don’t understand people saying Deathclaws are still hard in it, they’re made of toilet paper.
Great work Editor.
you gotta love how incompetent these bethesda guys are,they are literaly unable to make ultrawide work in 2024,when mods did it fine in 2015
No kidding! It reminds me of a youtuber talking about how Bethesda just doesn’t have any pride in their work anymore.
“All they needed to do was write the opening scene as an implanted memory which makes sense because it’s trash”
That made me laugh out loud
Funny thing about the censorship of children on Fallout 2 they just make the sprites invisible so in The Den you still get pick pocketed just now by basically ghost children
I'm a pc er and that PATCH for CONSOLES did nothing for me. Glitch Gulch STILL exists. NPC s appearing on roofs. In their "patch" notes they said NOW settlement resources will be displayed correctly. Well how nice since the EIGHT years I've owned it , that NEVER worked. I walk so far from a settlement and I would then get, "your settlement has no water, food, beds." No it's got TWICE the amount they want. Go back to the settlement and everything is fine. Now? I KNOW I got 15 beds in Sunshine co op, go to sanctuary and my pip boy tells me 13 annnddddd 3 food when I got 24. For some reason playing Simsettlements 2( THERE'S a GAME. I don't consider it a MOD) That DOES display ALL info CORRECTLY. Liethesda had it day, now? I FEAR for what they're going to do to Elder 6 and Fallout 5? The future AIN'T looking bright. You'll notice I DIDNT mention SLOPFIELD. THAT'S right, I...didn't.
Seeing starfield was a massive gut punch. It essentially set in stone for me that there is no conceivable way that Elder Scrolls 6 will live up to the enormous expectations.
There was a ghoul in Fallout 2 that was buried alive for months without any food or water and he still survived. There was another ghoul (Again in Fallout 2) that slept for so long that people thought he was a mummy. So no, Bethesda didn't actually retcon anything, Ghouls have always been inconsistent.
5:30 almost every mutant on black mountain attack on sight
Synth story sounds like Prey
I am so glad I started playing 76 pre-Wastelanders. That was a nice experience. I still play it now, but I was able to see the evolution of the game which is... Well it's the best you can hope for with Bethesda.
richard: make the protagonist a synth to make it less boring
reality: the male protagonist is a war criminal, kthxbye
We criticize Bethesda not because we hate them, but because we want them to be better.
And because it’s way too easy to criticize Bethesda
Ayo Richard! Any chance of a Fury - Usyk review after the weekend?
Great fight, the heavyweight division has actually been exciting for the past several years.
your fallout 4 synth rewrite goes hard ngl
The synth story would be good and it reminds me of Prey by Arkane Austin. You play as an alien and are fed memories of a scientist who had a former girlfriend and brother. You work on a space station that's actually a simulation designed to test whether you can develop emotions and feelings towards humans in disaster situations. All your actions on the station, whether you helped or killed people, and the manner in which you did so, are highlighted at the end. It's an absolutely amazing game. However, Bethesda seems to be running on old ideas that are poorly executed.
Yeah but have you considered how great it is that Bethesda is owned by Microsoft? 😂
Cheeks On Purpose is my favourite synth pop album
i'm pretty sure this is exactly what they did for FO4's story, you are a synth, i have played the game many times to come to this understanding, i will admit it took me some time to consider it because the game makes you really feel like you were the only survivor in your vault, but when meeting Dima in far harbor, he brings up the question of memories and how your memories could be manufactured as for some reason you only remember the day the bombs dropped with no memory prior.
i think the synth story is intriguing as it's never been like this before, not only this, but Shaun tells you releasing you was an experiment of sorts, meaning you are not really his father, you are a representation of his father, the memories may have been real but like the synth Nick Valentine, these were downloaded or uploaded into your mind, or the synth body and everything from the moment of waking up was all programmed into you to follow the bread crumbs back to him.
IT JUST WORKS!
I like this new content from you, having known you from cs basically I love that you are now talking about fallout, and yes I agree that bethesda is throwing out the window what the west coast fallouts were about, being 2 and new vegas the best games in my opinion. Additionally the series reminds me a lot of fallout tactics in the vault 0 regard.
TES online, Fallout 76 and Starfield completely destroyed my faith in Bethesda the developer and the publisher.
last i heard there are a few documents in the institute insinuating that you ARE a synth in fallout 4. sorta implied since your only memories are of before the bombs dropped. could be a conspiracy but bethesda wouldn't be smart enough to do anything with that anyway
im personally cool not being a synth in 4.
Since the so called next gen update my game is unstable. It now crashes constantly. That’s literally all that’s changed
Emil Pagliarulo's level of writing is too weak to handle deep writing like that, he likes to "Keep it Simple, Stupid".
Emil seems like a nice guy but it makes sense because when you hear him talk, everything he says makes him sound stupid, like in a low IQ kind of way.
Fallout 4 is basically a mod platform.
Bro wants to play Caves of Qud so bad
Does anyone know if Manor Lords is now available?
It’s still absolutely hilarious that Microsoft and 343 are like the only ones in recent times to make one of these video games shows and unlike every other recent one
They fucked it so badly it managed to lose players unlike every other one that saw a massive increase
Witcher 3: highest player base ever from the show
Cyberpunk 2077: edgerunners had cyberpunk sell so well cdpr had their best 3rd quarterly profits ever
Tlou: massive player base increases
Fallout: massive playerbase increases
Halo tv show: their current live service f2p game lost players
The writing in Fallout 4 would not be fixed if they made a single change lol
Hey kid in the fridge is ridiculous buuuttt , pretty sure he didn't say 200 hundred years. Just said he jumped in there when he heard explosions. One theory is that was the Quincy battle. Still , in game , that happened over a month ago so still he was in there waaaay too long.
A smarter way to do that quest would've been he was captured a day ago by the slaver who comes looking for him, and you free him while the slaver is away hunting. Solves a lot of the quest's problems.
I'm loving the fallout video's.
me: Clicks on video
fallout 4 in the background: crashes to dashboard
Me: whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I literally just watched a video proving you're a synth in fallout 4. I've never played a fallout game and I'm waiting to get my VR setup to MOD it and get the best quality experience I can.
You know, I have observed the gradual increase in bethesda's reliance on radiant systems and proceduralism every single new game they put out (granted procedural design was always part of their games, in different implementations and scales), but what really grinds my gears in starfield is not the barren landscapes and repeated flora and fauna assets across thousands of planets, but the fact that there's a total amount of like, 3 interior layouts for outposts and caves. I was p*ssed when I entered a cave in a godforsaken planet and it was the EXACT SAME CAVE you find Andreja in the main storyline.
Like, why they didnt do procedural interiors for caves and outposts? I really wouldnt mind all that much if 90% of these interiors werent all that brilliant if at the very least they were different from one another.
the funny thing is if they make a fallout with the graphics of fallout 3, but a decent story, the same mechanics, and impactful narrative choices the shit would probably sell like water... with minimum cost too... they basically just have to make a in house story mod team... holyshit...
Would we perhaps name this mod team after a volcanic glass of some sort maybe
@@MiskyWisky good idea, something like volcanic black glassy rocky stone or something
One of Bethesda's issues is your choices don't matter the majority of the time. Fallout 4 has you siding with 3 out of 4 factions to get the same ending. Only siding with the Institute gives a slightly different ending.
As for the voiced protagonist I get why some dislike it. On the other hand as many people like having their character with a voice. What we need is some way tell your character what to say and have the character say it via something like text to speech.
Imagine if they could have a FNV remake ready for the tv show
oh just so you know, FO London will now be released on GOG, not the nexus or on steam, bethesda and steam kind of screwed the pooch on that.
Seeing so many other people pointing out Bethesdas shit game writing and creation skills is motivating me more and more to get into modding, and just completely redo all of Fallout 4 from scratch with some of the assets from the base game. To see how much they massacred the lore of the universe and just casually saying through Pete Hines “we don’t really give a shit lol”(paraphrasing I know, but that’s basically what the dude said), and how much thought and creativity were in the West Coast fallout titles, it bothers the hell out of me, because the entire story, settlement system, factions, lore, the WRITING, the weapons and armor, it’s all just a spit in the face by Bethesda themselves
Synth Nate is alright but to be honest they could have just flesh out the story while putting up more reactionary interactions in the world like fallout NV. The roots might be the start. They could just pulled another Courier and let the player get shot too but survive somehow making us amnesiac then Shaun will guide us in the back ground to Kellogg and the Institute then giving the twist and his memories back.
now i do agree with you on the whole update thing, but most people who mod their games, knew bethesda would screw that up somehow.
It almost seems intentional, like they were thinking “People don’t enjoy the vanilla experience enough and want to mod it a ton, let’s reset that for a while to show em”, but then again that’s too high iq for them so probably not
@@josephthevenot6543
to be honest that seems more like a low iq idea, because that would mean they did this to destroy their own reputation, when they were attempting on doing the opposite.
they want to make money, but if their product is shit due to incompetence on their part, they end up losing out on that money because the update screwed them.
i think it was a mistake to not test the update first on PC, because from what i hear, it works perfect for all the console users, there are some PC users who have noticed improvement's, but the vast majority are feeling the pain of this update causing the game to be worse.
bethesda are more than likely being lazy, they don't beta test themselves so they turn their user base into the beta testers whenever they release an update.
of course, they never tell users they are beta testers, but this is what it more than likely seems to be.
Soma is crazy good. Recommend to everyone, voice acting is also excellent. Takes half a day to go trough. Do it.
There is so much wrong with the narrative and synths themselves, simply being a synth would not solve the problem.
BALDERS GATE 3 is a game full of rampent degeneracy.
That's a great story rewrite for FO4, rather than 4's story just being the shockingly stupid inverse of Fallout 3's "find your father" story.
Maybe Todd is a synth.
I think Todd should step down or let other people direct games in Bethesda. He’s kinda like Vince McMahon in the sense that he did great business in the early days then stick to the same formula for decades and become creatively stagnant and out of touch with it’s target audience
I'm a big fan of F1 and F2 and didn't like F3 and F4 but I have to say I tried to play FNV because everybody told me I'd love it but I stopped my playthrough after a few hours, mainly because of graphics. It's very outdated and I don't have the nostalgia effect like F1 and F2. I have to find a way to power through and get the story started
I've been playing Kenshi these last few weeks and it's amazing how a game made (for the most part) by one guy is miles better than any crap Bethesda has shat out these last 20 or so years
Even in FO4 these a settlement of ghouls farming, enen in their own games they contradict themselves.
ok, look, i'm a PC user i mod my game to all hell and back, and the other day i had a look at someone playing FO4 on console and i hate to admit this, but their game looked better than mine and they had the update, i was jealous that their game played and looked better than my setup, however at the same time i know this is only temporary, eventually bethesda will fix their fucked,update for the PC's and we will have a superior experience once again.
i prevented the update myself because i didn't want to be the beta tester of Bethesda's poor track record.
Emil couldn't write instructions on how to leave his own fucking house let alone a compelling, cohesive well written story.
I'd also like to note it took bethesda 2 FUCKING YEARS to shit this "update" out, what the fuck were they doing???? modders do this shit in literal days.... bethesda took 2 fucking years to get this little done? christ almighty. and with 2 YEARS advance. they still couldnt release it WITH the show, it came out a few days after, maybe a week after.
this company continues to prove it needs to have the fallout license taken off them because they seem to be good at making one fucking game and thats it. make elder scrolls, don't make it shit, don't take 11 fucking years to shit out an already decade old game.
basicaly the story of Prey 2017
This was a damn enjoyable rant
Bethesder rexperience.
Just wait till Fallout season 2 comes out and half the community realizes the writing in that show is also cheeks just like everything else by Bethesda.
Please talk about Bethesda's predatory marketing practices regarding the Fallout 76 Atom Shop.
Almost half of the assets advertised in the pictures of the "Everything Pink" bundle aren't even included, which is quite ironic for the name.
They are taking advantage of all new players who don't have the time or energy to google the name of every item that's listed in these bundles to calculate whether or not its worth their money.
Imagine a starfield 2, i bet you everything will be 10x bigger and better
The singular thing which I think Bethesda has handled well in their stewardship of the Fallout IP is I think they handled the Fallout Vault Boy type aesthetics/symbols really well. They kind of correctly elevated it/made it the focal point of all fallout related marketing and merch in the real world, but they don't shove it down people's throats in the actual games/try to do the stupid thing and canonically justify the character/overexplain it.
That's about it really, Bethesda's marketing team gets a thumbs up from me.
Let’s basic guys the new elder scrolls six game is probably going to be spoiled eggs
Dude did you play Fallout 4? Even before I tried Far Harbor where they blatantly explored the possibility that you've been a synth this whole time, there was this question in the back of my mind that there was at least a chance my character was some kind of avenging angel ala Luv in Blade Runner 2049, sent from beyond the grave to take the place of Shaun's dead parent, and ultimately to take his place as well - and to find my own place in the world of the future which was mine to shape. It's meant to be a lingering question. The possibility is right there, and the game is actually written well enough to not smack you in the face with it (at least until Beth listened to someone like you and shoehorned it into a DLC). That is precisely what makes the game good and leagues above any other Fallout plotline. There are subtleties to the game which most people simply don't pick up on and so they think it's bad. Yes, there's no page in your pipboy telling you you're evil, and this is a GOOD thing. You have to actually stop, take a step back, and look at what you're doing to realize when you're being evil in this game, and you can be extremely evil, trust me. Even rebuilding the minutemen and doing all kinds of good in the Commonwealth you can be incredibly evil.
Guys you don't get it, Bethesda is not a video game company, it's a university for modders and game devs, where they release a shit buggy game and they give "home works" to enthusiastic gamers so they can become actual pro game devs so they can work in video games companies not named Bethesda.
it was like that until they started to bring "patches" that fixes nothing just to brake free mods so people can forced to buy their paid mods. so they even spit on the modders's face
While the game has its merits (best gameplay in the series hands down), its unmistakable "distinctiveness" sets it apart from its predecessors imo. Even if someone came up with the perfect narrative fix, this unique character would still remain. Whoever is currently in charge of the IP should really consider bringing back some of the original writers, even if it's just as consultants or advisors. They'd bring valuable insight into the franchise's lore and tone that is very much needed.