Ah yes, not me watching my 12th video shitting on a DLC I haven't played for a game I don't own, from a company I wont ever buy from again. Things is seemin' alright.
THIS. As for your homework, please write a 10 page essay on this DLC and how it reflects societal trends over the past years and your predictions on how things will move on forward from here.
The phrase I heard somewhere that I liked was that all the dialogue sounded like there was an HR manager with a clipboard looking at them while they said it, and thus nobody says anything interesting.
Exactly! And the only reason the Crimson Fleet are even the least bit crude is because they're the Human Resources training video example of the bad employee. Like you see the guy kill the other guy when you land on The Key but then for the rest of the faction quests all they do is create a hostile work environment for the player with passive aggressive comments.
@@asdadsgsaadasf6043 it is partly the corporate nature but also partly emil. that guy has an ego more bloated then my stomache after visiting my grandma. dude is out there claiming shattered space and starfield in general is one of if not the biggest game even though it is heavily overshadowed by elden ring and baldurs gate 3. the company leadership is oblivious to the state of the industry and still trys to crown itself king of DLC even though the witcher 3 ripped that crown off with blood and wine changing forever the expectations of players towards dlc. Someone that refuses to acknowledge the current state of the Industry is a problem to it and emil does it the entire time. as does todd and the rest of bethesda leadership.
In regards to getting gifted a spaceship within the first 5 minutes of the game they did the same thing with power armour in Fallout 4 where you can acquire a set at like level 1. I remember playing Fallout 3 and coming across random encounters with the Brotherhood of Steel and literally following them around looking at their power armour thinking how much I can't wait to get my hands on a suit. It added so much value to the game because it was a massive motivation to level up and progress and that experience has been stripped away in the past few Bethesda titles which is a real shame.
I prefer it because I spend the entire playthrough in the armour and upgrading the armour. I didn't mind not having it in the previous games because they didn't meaningfully change the feel of the gameplay, but in FO4 I just want to stomp everywhere, all the time.
There is absolutely NO conflict in the universe, no moral quandary, no depth of characters or factions. Elder Scrolls and Fallout both had factions that were borderline irredeemable, and you could join them- you know, because they're RPGs and that used to mean something. Now, your choices are: >Good boring faction >Good cowboy faction >Good cult faction >Good pirate faction The entire universe feels like it was written by a first-time DM that was afraid to offend any of their players. I'm surprised this game doesn't have you sign a consent-form beforehand, waiving any liability for the player getting offended. It's so weak, condescending, and lazy.
They might as well have gone full Roddenberry-ian and made humanity completely united and the crux of the game would be scientific exploration with more missions like the Entangled mission. But nope, Bethesda wanted their Space Empire and Space Stormcloaks and Space Thieves Guild (Ryujin) and Space... other Thieves Guild (Crimson Fleet).
Ryujin is clearly evil and the ending has you manipulating the execs to fulfill your wishes. The heat leach twist was pretty neat. The pirate faction is clearly not "good" and are a constant annoyance in game if you don't join either sysdef or the fleet. The cowboy faction is "good" but I would not say that the freestar collective is good at all. As a polity, it's literally a hyper-capitalist libertarian oligarchy. On the otherhand, the UC seem like a militarist democracy(?) (Like you said the UC is boring, so I obviously didn't gravitate toward them). The UC also continue to keep a war criminal alive against space law just for strategic reasons. The UC questline is a really good questline with a completely dubious choice to make at the climax. The wider UC faction is boring bc it just feels generic. The problem with the game is there isn't a connection between the factions. Widely, what one faction does isn't relevant to another and quests don't usually (if ever) intersect in some fashion aside Ig with the Sysdef/Fleet. I wish Bethesda would take whole chapters from New Vegas' book on world building via quests.
@@Kevin-zv6ds you put it perfectly when you said "constant annoyance". that is not evil that is annoying. and compared to the deeds of factions in previous bethesda titles even the most evilish faction of starfield looks like goddie two shoes. and just to point out "the ending has you manipulating the execs to fulfill your wishes" that is a sidequest in riverwood. this "ending" is basically any skyrim sidequest with dialog that gives you the "(lie)" option. if thats as deep as it goes than bethesda really downgraded their faction games. manipulation and cruel tactics where the norm for any faction quest in every bethesda title that isnt the skyrim werewolf faction and even they have dirty laundry.
@@Primarch19th because he had expectations that werent met? dude have you never bought something thinking "thats gonna be nice" just to then find out "shit. nowhere near as nice as i thought"? thats what happened her most likely. plese do us a favor and get your smug, salty ass outta here. people can like what they like and play the games they like. if you cant understand this you lack something crucial for human society and instead of writing Dumb comments on youtube you should figure out how tor regain it.
Phantom liberty was also 30$ and I make that in an hour and a half at mcds. the value of the dollar isn't as much as it used to be, yall are starting to sound aged
10$ MORE than blood and wine.. 10 DOLLARS MORE.. i mean literally there is nothing in it thats worth the price tag, i feel scammed by what was once my favourite game devs
@@spencerdowd9737 "i MaKe tHaT mOneY aT mCdS iN aN HouR sO iTs OkaY iF i SpEnd iT oN sOmeThIng ThAt doEsNt prOviDe EveN HalF tHe ValUe." thats how you sound. just because you can make the money easily doesnt mean that companies can give us products that waste it. the only one that sounds aged is you because you sound exactly like the boomers that say "you millenials are snowflakes! back in my days we worked for college and didnt have to go into debt. you are all just lazy"
I don't have any way of proving this, but it feels like rather than doing face-and-body mocap like Cyberpunk did, the BGS instead built up a library of facial expressions and animations and have the characters move algorithmically according to word-shapes and in-scene emotions. So with Cyberpunk it looks like you're talking to a person, and in Starfield you're gazing into the Uncanny Valley and it's gazing right back at you.
Having this expansion set in one area is so odd to me. I feel like they misunderstood peoples desires for more handmade content. What wouldve been better was an expansion of points of interest that generated in landing zones and a couple new factions to interact with and do missions for, and expanding the arsenal, ship building, armor/clothing, and mechanics.
I think you summed up why I can't stand Starfield's universe so well. It's not just that the art direction is all-around painfully sterile and bland, nor is it the fact that humans are seemingly the only intelligent life in the entire galaxy, but it's also the fact that nothing of real note is actually happening in the Settled Systems and there aren't any stakes or galaxy redefining events going on. If I think back to previous Bethesda games, I remember there were overarching plots that ultimately impacted everyone who lived in that world: - Oblivion opens with the Emperor and his heirs getting murdered by a group of cult, who are also trying to usurp the world by staging a pseudo-demonic invasion. - Skyrim was in the midst of a civil war that fractured the country and dragons returning after a long slumber. - Fallout 4 had the Institute and other hostile entities terrorizing a ruined Commonwealth, stunting all efforts for them to rebuild anew in any meaningful way. - Fallout 3 gave you a motive to go out into a dangerous world (find your Dad), which eventually snowballs into determining the fate of much of the DC wastes. Nobody ever brings up any sort of galaxy-redefining antics regarding Starfield in these reviews I've been watching, and you've basically stated why; because there are none. The overarching plot seems to revolve largely around you, the Starborn, and maybe that nerdy club that most of the galaxy is indifferent to. I guess Shattered Space tried to remedy that by allowing to decide how things end for the snake-worshippers, but even then it seems like the game railroads you into only a few very specific choices that amount to very little in the long run. Like... what happened here? What happened to this company? How did things get this bad at Bethesda so quickly?
id say "BURN!" but BGS creatively already burned to the ground at the release of starfield. suffice to say there is nothing left that could catch fire.
The writing is painfully PR friendly. Its been this way since day one though, so people who enjoyed the base game enjoyed this hot turd shat onto their plates.
using a mod to give myself more skill points really highlighted how shit the skill system was, I put alot of extra points into the skills that give you more resources for mining/biology and such and dear god, by the time I had points to put into skills I barly had enough resources to research a few cheap things let alone craft, then needing multiple crafting to get 1 item, then needing to do the thing I hate in games, why am I being forced to make 100 shitty guns, just to make the gun I really want. Reminds me of the ship building, why am I attaching 100 shitty modules I will never use, just to be able to use the good stuff.
Maybe try playing the game to see why that's the case? Oh, nah, you'd rather let idiotic grifters on RUclips form your opinions for you. You sound like you have the mind of a child.
If I was mrmattyplays, I would have put a 20 second delay with a picture of myself doing different things after a question I asked Todd, so he could see how annoying playing his game is
Bethesda is singleplayer sandbox forced pay to win. They stopped making sense a while ago. It's hard to see the outcomes are from bad decisions. It feels more like Bethesda is a company bent on trolling their fans while gouging their wallets. Like their mission statement has become "To take the most from our fans with giving the least amount of effort."
What gets me is the fail on extended game play features: No new ship parts, no unique resources (Serpentis is still a WAY better option), no new space encounters......... again Bethesda selling half finished (this should have been in the launch) games then selling us the other half and fixes, and if that fails leaving it to Mods.........
I’m on the exact same page as you. I so wanted to love the base game, but was so insulted by its lack of intelligence, logic or even story. I love the idea of building up a ship to be my home, hospital, science lab, romance pad, crew quarters, smuggling hub, etc. Shattered Space feels like Bethesda’s way of telling us, “We’re not listening.”
Really how hard would it be to make a big robot, slap a human NPC to the side of it and call it a space bandit mech boss? According to Bethesda: impossible.
@@Brandelwyn 12 262m (40230ft). someone removed the manhole cover of the kola superdeep borehole and toddy toddler led the entire company over it single file like ducklings.
Bethesda is just a talentless company at this point. The fact that they have two beloved IPs and are okay with players going years and years without anything new is just poor management. Skyrim was one of the most successful games of all time, you'd think they would have developed an Elder Scrolls plan similar to how CDPR is with their IPS.
I really just want them to use UE5 already. It's really stupid to keep using the Fallout 3 engine basically, still. Much less probably the Morrowind engine...
@@SetariM the engine isnt even their biggest problem, its their crappy black and white nonsensicall writing and gameplay that seems to be stuck in 2011. just look at stuff like fallout london and how that experience is leagues above what bethesda has put on in recent times
@@SetariMThe engine is just one of their problems and by far not the biggest. They just can’t seem to make a good game(especially gameplay-wise) since forever. The lost the sauce, period. But this problem seems to affect large swathes of the industry, not just Bethesda.
@@SetariM Bethesda's engine is the best engine out there to make the kind of games bethesda makes. Using UE5 would neuter the modding scene. A low interactivity world full of invisible walls wouldn't make for a good bgs game.
All Bethesda do is pat themselves on the back for failing. They heard people saying "this isn't an RPG this is trash" and thought "We'll include more dialogue in the expansion" despite the fact that they have no respect whatsoever for the art of writing and do not even recognise "writer" as a job title - and then they act surprised when everyone complains about the shit dialogue and try and tell us it's what we wanted. I look forward to warming my hands over the dumpster fire of TESVI
They do not respect player's time. Dialogues feel bad mostly becouse they all are just an equivalent of Morrowind style wall of text, but this time fully-voiced. I takes ages before an NPC gets to the point.
4:03 I hate the backstory of your character. If they're gonna force us down a path what if we start off as a pirate or something and we rob a mining settlement, you touch their little artifact and steal a ship, on the ship it has your mining gun thing. After this you make choice to either continue down that path or choose a path of redemption. lots of ways you could play imo rather than a random miner lol
Shattered Space feels like Bethesda decided to play to their weaknessess instead of strenghts. I actually enjoy the base game a lot, but am very disappointed with the expansion. They turned a faction of bloodthirsty crusading fanatics into a bunch of nice guys from your neighborhood, killing any of my interest into the story before I even started exploring it. And the dialogues (monologues?) drag and drag and drag for so long.
Dude I got scammed into pre-purchasing the game to get to play it on the actual release day (vs. 3 days later when "regular edition" became playable), due to overly positive youtube preview-reviews. Followed by a complete and utter disappointment. Bethesda is never again getting any of my money, or my time. I technically have this expansion, I will never even touch it. Fk them. Starfield was a game made by people with nothing to say.
lol they are disconnected. Its hard to see within the tiny thumbnail but the bits of circle within the magnifying glass are supposed to be rounded outwards
@@jesterofjuice5132Ahh, now I get it. Unsure if I’m just dumb, but I didn’t even realize that it was a magnifying glass at first glance. I feel like a different magnifying glass graphic that would make it aesthetically stand out much more in contrast (literally) to the rest of the otherwise beautiful thumbnail would make it much easier to parse at first glance. That said, I clicked on the video almost immediately upon seeing you as the uploader, so I mentally processed the thumbnail as some slick pattern incorporating the concept of a Venn diagram, and not a literal Venn diagram. Perhaps the red edges of the circles should be more prominent within the magnifying circle? Sorry, it’s 4AM so I might just be out of it and your thumbnail is just fine. Or it’s the touch of the ‘tism kicking in. Either way, thanks for the vid and for sharing your thoughts.
If this is their response to criticism, I genuinely wonder how the quality of ES6 will be. Maybe they're putting all their eggs in that basket, and it'll turn out fine. With their recent track record, though... I doubt it.
Sounds like it was written by Becky who got the job at Bethesda because they had a female quota to fill and also she knew a few of the guys already working there.
Don't do it. I bought the premium starfield so I already had it, and I regret playing it. I didn't even choose the evil ending so I luckily avoided that disappointment but damn.
Oh, for real. Personalising the ship and seeing it become lived-in and functional was the best part of the game. Everything else it offers is offered in a better state in a previous BGS game. I didn't even know how short Shattered Space was because by the time I'd finished the initiation I'd already lost interest in Va'ruun'kai and the snake dudes.
I found the ship-play to be very boring, even with all the important skills and after crafting a few optimized ships. Is there even anything to explore while flying - I never found anything other than a series of fishbowl combat encounters.
there really is no space flight in starfield, it just fish bowl with pretty PNG's borders. Terrible writing, boring repeating structures, bad quest designs, dead eyes NPCs who walk around like animtronics(don't even have 'home' to path find to at night )
This is completely unrelated to the video, but would you be interested in making a video about Ninja Gaiden Black? Based on your other videos, it seems like something you would enjoy.
Can't believe they fumbled the story of Va'Run so fucking badly, its almost like they didn't give a fuck. This was a game big daddy Microsoft asked Bethesda to phone in as fast as possible, and phone in they did, at every instance.
Yeah, they had committed to making it because of the modern strategy of forcing people to buy dlc before nobody bought the game. So they made their obligatory dlc and can now pretend the game never happened
The expansion was made for me. I told them it has to be free...But they ask for 40$. So i said , hell no MF the base game not worth 70.😂 Yall got me Fd up.
Should people have to, “work,” at their, “game,” to make it playable at all, though? Isn’t that just the gamers doing the heavy lifting for Bethesda, in all the places that matter? In all the places that, “should,” be entertaining you? That seems way wrong.
Bethesda tagline at this point should be disappointment. No matter what they introduce it will always end up being in the most uninspired boring manner. Whatever boomer writers they're keeping at Bethesda who thinks the height of storytelling and character depth is the dad jokes Sam constantly makes needs to be fired. Because said people should not be writing stories like this. These incompetent world builders had the vastness of space to work with how do you come up with absolutely nothing engaging in the universe? We should have had all sorts of alien cults, cthulu shit. Instead we got a indifferent space god who just sends random people through basically ground hog day for eternity for no ultimate reason. They dont even give reason for the powers, guarantee a dev just added it to be like skyrim shouts and that was it.
@@NeverUseAnApostrophe None of these simpletons have, they have their opinions formed for them by idiotic grifters on RUclips. It's a sad state of affairs it really is.
Actually bro the Vortex Phantoms are not Zealots, but rather regular Va'Ruun soldiers. You'll notice they have regular Va'Ruun and Va'Ruun Assault armor and the Zealots have Zealot Va'Ruun and Zealot Va'Ruun Assault armors , with the new white Zealot paint all over.
Good review of a game I really do like, and the DLC criticisms are largely good even if I'm enjoying the DLC rn Wish you went harder on the ship part point tho, literally recolored normal ships. Bethesda could even be fucked to make actual reskins. I will say tho, that there's gameplay ideas in the DLC that if they were fully worked on it would've been fun. I was so disappointed by the dam bossfights only bc you can easily cheese them by leaving the room. The end where you're running out and being attacked over and over was neat, disorienting, and a good use of backtracking. However, for the most part it feels like their games have continued to be "streamlined" or I would just straight say made for the dumbest person. Bethesday needs to fully realize their gameplay ideas and stop thinking their players are at the left side of the bell curve. One problem with the video is that the difficulty options do allow for a level 2/3 character to clear the content alone. I've seen the level criticsm before, but I ran the DLC blind with player/enemy damage set to easy (and most of the other features set to the hardest) until about level 15-20. I think that enhanced my enjoyment of the DLC and made the fights pretty fun.
Played it trough family share because my borther bought the deluxze eddition of the name, however that is named. It was more of the parts of Starfield i enjoyed, but wouldn't have payed 30 bucks for it. If you liked starfield, wait for a discount before getting it.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo Personally i have no interest in the gta series. But i'd rather re-play skyrim or do another factorio run than making a second starfield playtrough.
"starfield is a great game but a terrible product" lolol all credibility out the window there bud, there is absolutely zero sense in which starfield is a great game
People are just coming around to the fact that Bethesda hasn't made a good game since New Vegas and that wasn't even developed by them. Skyrim was incredibly overrated and boring and the engine it ran on was already outdated then. They are not even worth talking about anymore, its a giant waste of everybody's time.
It WAS an Expansion for a lot of people. A LOT of tubers, like yourself, who bought the game so you can create a video on it and try to make money. However, you are WAY late on publishing the video. It has been reviewed to death. We all get it. But, you bought it, because you, like every other Todd fanboy, can't help yourselves. Bethesda sells it YOU have you buy it. And Todd knows that. I pity you when ES 6 is sold. Thousands will buy it, so they can complain about it. And Todd knows that too!!!!! "The Emperor Protects"*
Another hack reviewer trying to justify an initial glowing review for starfield base game and desperately trying to claw back credibility by giving the dlc a bad review. So many reviewers been waiting a whole year for this chance.
What a dumb take. Is it impossible to like the base game then dislike the DLC? The answer is obviously yes, and a million reasons why before you reach being a hack reviewer lmao. Touch grass.
Me and 20k people enjoy playing it. I bet that really upsets you. People eventually will figure out that hyper criticality drives engagement and triggers their inert tribalistic instincts. I was the same way, I’m glad I quit listening to people like you and decided to be my own person and not let another persons dialog dictate my enjoyment. If it’s so bad quit making videos about it 🤡
So go have fun with it lmao. Just as you enjoy the game, there's also people enjoying things that you hate (like this video). It's just this dude's opinion on why HE HIMSELF doesn't like it.
20K people. When over "13 million players" as Bethesda put it played the base game. You do realize that's a laughably small number of people who bought this DLC, right? No one came back to this game lmao.
You have been brainwashed by the 100 million active sony playstation users who review bombed starfield. Them and their indignant appeasers. That you started to imagine how the game could be to appease the review bombers. But falling into the appeasement cycle only turned you indignant against starfield for making your pony cry. Screw your pony, let it cry. Don't let haters, bigots and the like control you. Don't advocate for haters and bigots and the like.
Gods, have you played the game for 140 hours? I have. And I gave up. The game needs a whole rework from ground up. Remove senior management and replace them with skilled project managers like Josh Sawyer.
You have been brainwashed that everything you like can't have negative reviews. What year is this that you still have console wars? With all the valid criticism from PC and XBOX players, do you really think PlayStation's players need to review bomb lmao. Also, many people own variations of all the consoles. Why am I even typing this, you're just a child with a delusional view of the world.
How is someone a bigot for disliking a game, and leaving a review? Are you stupid? Also are you 12 years old? Console wars are stupid, you're the only brainwashed person here with your console wars coping.
Unfortunately Bethesda has become so reliant on its modding community's hard work that it no longer knows how to create its own content just look at skyrim 2016 was the last time it produced anything of note. Unfortunately I have zero expectations for elder scrolls 6 Bethesda is a lazy company living off the backs of its community
Ah yes, not me watching my 12th video shitting on a DLC I haven't played for a game I don't own, from a company I wont ever buy from again. Things is seemin' alright.
World is healing 🙏
i have bought the DLC ..so you dont have too.. i could not believe how bad it is and WANTED DESPERATELY to find good stuff about it
THIS. As for your homework, please write a 10 page essay on this DLC and how it reflects societal trends over the past years and your predictions on how things will move on forward from here.
I feel called out
It's like looking in the refrigerator every 5 minutes, thinking you might find something you actually want to eat this time.
5 mins into Shattered Space and I’m already “the chosen one” who has to “perform a ritual.” 💤 😴
5 hours and this mans got only 177 views. bro fell off
@@ПётрПавловский-щ1х thank you for such a necessary comment, we're all very grateful
Said someone who never played the game nor cared to remember that it takes more than an hour to complete the first station.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo Dude, enjoy your slop and stop bothering people with a working brain.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo why do you keep crying? Stop whining, no one cares.
The phrase I heard somewhere that I liked was that all the dialogue sounded like there was an HR manager with a clipboard looking at them while they said it, and thus nobody says anything interesting.
Exactly! And the only reason the Crimson Fleet are even the least bit crude is because they're the Human Resources training video example of the bad employee. Like you see the guy kill the other guy when you land on The Key but then for the rest of the faction quests all they do is create a hostile work environment for the player with passive aggressive comments.
@@asdadsgsaadasf6043 it is partly the corporate nature but also partly emil. that guy has an ego more bloated then my stomache after visiting my grandma. dude is out there claiming shattered space and starfield in general is one of if not the biggest game even though it is heavily overshadowed by elden ring and baldurs gate 3. the company leadership is oblivious to the state of the industry and still trys to crown itself king of DLC even though the witcher 3 ripped that crown off with blood and wine changing forever the expectations of players towards dlc.
Someone that refuses to acknowledge the current state of the Industry is a problem to it and emil does it the entire time. as does todd and the rest of bethesda leadership.
@@asdadsgsaadasf6043Emil is proud of his work and very publically reveals that he does not understand the problems with his stories.
@@asdadsgsaadasf6043why would HR have ANY input in creative decisions? Wtf?
In regards to getting gifted a spaceship within the first 5 minutes of the game they did the same thing with power armour in Fallout 4 where you can acquire a set at like level 1. I remember playing Fallout 3 and coming across random encounters with the Brotherhood of Steel and literally following them around looking at their power armour thinking how much I can't wait to get my hands on a suit. It added so much value to the game because it was a massive motivation to level up and progress and that experience has been stripped away in the past few Bethesda titles which is a real shame.
I was a bit unfortunate that I did the dlc as my first mission in fl3 so got the Russian winter thingy power armour lol
I prefer it because I spend the entire playthrough in the armour and upgrading the armour. I didn't mind not having it in the previous games because they didn't meaningfully change the feel of the gameplay, but in FO4 I just want to stomp everywhere, all the time.
@@db5094you cant tho so stop öying cunt
Watching my brother get power armor at the start of Fallout 4 made me never play the game.
There is absolutely NO conflict in the universe, no moral quandary, no depth of characters or factions.
Elder Scrolls and Fallout both had factions that were borderline irredeemable, and you could join them- you know, because they're RPGs and that used to mean something.
Now, your choices are:
>Good boring faction
>Good cowboy faction
>Good cult faction
>Good pirate faction
The entire universe feels like it was written by a first-time DM that was afraid to offend any of their players.
I'm surprised this game doesn't have you sign a consent-form beforehand, waiving any liability for the player getting offended.
It's so weak, condescending, and lazy.
They might as well have gone full Roddenberry-ian and made humanity completely united and the crux of the game would be scientific exploration with more missions like the Entangled mission. But nope, Bethesda wanted their Space Empire and Space Stormcloaks and Space Thieves Guild (Ryujin) and Space... other Thieves Guild (Crimson Fleet).
Ryujin is clearly evil and the ending has you manipulating the execs to fulfill your wishes. The heat leach twist was pretty neat. The pirate faction is clearly not "good" and are a constant annoyance in game if you don't join either sysdef or the fleet.
The cowboy faction is "good" but I would not say that the freestar collective is good at all. As a polity, it's literally a hyper-capitalist libertarian oligarchy. On the otherhand, the UC seem like a militarist democracy(?) (Like you said the UC is boring, so I obviously didn't gravitate toward them). The UC also continue to keep a war criminal alive against space law just for strategic reasons. The UC questline is a really good questline with a completely dubious choice to make at the climax. The wider UC faction is boring bc it just feels generic.
The problem with the game is there isn't a connection between the factions. Widely, what one faction does isn't relevant to another and quests don't usually (if ever) intersect in some fashion aside Ig with the Sysdef/Fleet. I wish Bethesda would take whole chapters from New Vegas' book on world building via quests.
@@Kevin-zv6ds you put it perfectly when you said "constant annoyance". that is not evil that is annoying. and compared to the deeds of factions in previous bethesda titles even the most evilish faction of starfield looks like goddie two shoes. and just to point out "the ending has you manipulating the execs to fulfill your wishes" that is a sidequest in riverwood. this "ending" is basically any skyrim sidequest with dialog that gives you the "(lie)" option.
if thats as deep as it goes than bethesda really downgraded their faction games. manipulation and cruel tactics where the norm for any faction quest in every bethesda title that isnt the skyrim werewolf faction and even they have dirty laundry.
So why did you buy it Todd fanboy?
@@Primarch19th because he had expectations that werent met? dude have you never bought something thinking "thats gonna be nice" just to then find out "shit. nowhere near as nice as i thought"? thats what happened her most likely.
plese do us a favor and get your smug, salty ass outta here. people can like what they like and play the games they like. if you cant understand this you lack something crucial for human society and instead of writing Dumb comments on youtube you should figure out how tor regain it.
This DLC is $10 more than Phantom Liberty or Rising Tide, and $10 less than Erdtree or Future Redeemed.
yet provides content equivilent to two times skirim heathfire wich was like 5$ i think.
@@imperialspacemarine1539please don't give Todd Howard those kind of metrics. The madman will conjure up 50 more planets just to stretch that metric
Phantom liberty was also 30$ and I make that in an hour and a half at mcds. the value of the dollar isn't as much as it used to be, yall are starting to sound aged
10$ MORE than blood and wine.. 10 DOLLARS MORE.. i mean literally there is nothing in it thats worth the price tag, i feel scammed by what was once my favourite game devs
@@spencerdowd9737 "i MaKe tHaT mOneY aT mCdS iN aN HouR sO iTs OkaY iF i SpEnd iT oN sOmeThIng ThAt doEsNt prOviDe EveN HalF tHe ValUe." thats how you sound. just because you can make the money easily doesnt mean that companies can give us products that waste it. the only one that sounds aged is you because you sound exactly like the boomers that say "you millenials are snowflakes! back in my days we worked for college and didnt have to go into debt. you are all just lazy"
why do all the facial animations in this game just look so creepy
I feel like most indie devs would do a much better job.
I don't have any way of proving this, but it feels like rather than doing face-and-body mocap like Cyberpunk did, the BGS instead built up a library of facial expressions and animations and have the characters move algorithmically according to word-shapes and in-scene emotions.
So with Cyberpunk it looks like you're talking to a person, and in Starfield you're gazing into the Uncanny Valley and it's gazing right back at you.
High res textures + 2005 game engine is why
Having this expansion set in one area is so odd to me. I feel like they misunderstood peoples desires for more handmade content. What wouldve been better was an expansion of points of interest that generated in landing zones and a couple new factions to interact with and do missions for, and expanding the arsenal, ship building, armor/clothing, and mechanics.
I think you summed up why I can't stand Starfield's universe so well. It's not just that the art direction is all-around painfully sterile and bland, nor is it the fact that humans are seemingly the only intelligent life in the entire galaxy, but it's also the fact that nothing of real note is actually happening in the Settled Systems and there aren't any stakes or galaxy redefining events going on. If I think back to previous Bethesda games, I remember there were overarching plots that ultimately impacted everyone who lived in that world:
- Oblivion opens with the Emperor and his heirs getting murdered by a group of cult, who are also trying to usurp the world by staging a pseudo-demonic invasion.
- Skyrim was in the midst of a civil war that fractured the country and dragons returning after a long slumber.
- Fallout 4 had the Institute and other hostile entities terrorizing a ruined Commonwealth, stunting all efforts for them to rebuild anew in any meaningful way.
- Fallout 3 gave you a motive to go out into a dangerous world (find your Dad), which eventually snowballs into determining the fate of much of the DC wastes.
Nobody ever brings up any sort of galaxy-redefining antics regarding Starfield in these reviews I've been watching, and you've basically stated why; because there are none. The overarching plot seems to revolve largely around you, the Starborn, and maybe that nerdy club that most of the galaxy is indifferent to. I guess Shattered Space tried to remedy that by allowing to decide how things end for the snake-worshippers, but even then it seems like the game railroads you into only a few very specific choices that amount to very little in the long run. Like... what happened here? What happened to this company? How did things get this bad at Bethesda so quickly?
Shat in space has worse steam reviews than LOTR:gollum. Enough said.
id say "BURN!" but BGS creatively already burned to the ground at the release of starfield. suffice to say there is nothing left that could catch fire.
Emil Pagliarulo strikes again.
knowing that emil is in charge of writing for tes6 does Not make me excited for the future of bethesda
The writing is painfully PR friendly. Its been this way since day one though, so people who enjoyed the base game enjoyed this hot turd shat onto their plates.
How have I missed this channel? I hope you're making fun of the eternal shill; "JuiceHead". Subbed.
using a mod to give myself more skill points really highlighted how shit the skill system was, I put alot of extra points into the skills that give you more resources for mining/biology and such and dear god, by the time I had points to put into skills I barly had enough resources to research a few cheap things let alone craft, then needing multiple crafting to get 1 item, then needing to do the thing I hate in games, why am I being forced to make 100 shitty guns, just to make the gun I really want. Reminds me of the ship building, why am I attaching 100 shitty modules I will never use, just to be able to use the good stuff.
But the AsTRoNaUTs wERenT BOrEd
Its better than gta 6
Pass me a beta key pls
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo Your parents are proud of you. Are we just telling bold-faced lies?
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yoI feel sorry for your parents
You're an outsider who can somehow speak to the varun god? So its just *that* Dark Brotherhood plot twist again?
Maybe try playing the game to see why that's the case? Oh, nah, you'd rather let idiotic grifters on RUclips form your opinions for you. You sound like you have the mind of a child.
If I was mrmattyplays, I would have put a 20 second delay with a picture of myself doing different things after a question I asked Todd, so he could see how annoying playing his game is
Bethesda is singleplayer sandbox forced pay to win. They stopped making sense a while ago. It's hard to see the outcomes are from bad decisions. It feels more like Bethesda is a company bent on trolling their fans while gouging their wallets. Like their mission statement has become "To take the most from our fans with giving the least amount of effort."
great video.
What gets me is the fail on extended game play features: No new ship parts, no unique resources (Serpentis is still a WAY better option), no new space encounters......... again Bethesda selling half finished (this should have been in the launch) games then selling us the other half and fixes, and if that fails leaving it to Mods.........
I’m on the exact same page as you. I so wanted to love the base game, but was so insulted by its lack of intelligence, logic or even story. I love the idea of building up a ship to be my home, hospital, science lab, romance pad, crew quarters, smuggling hub, etc. Shattered Space feels like Bethesda’s way of telling us, “We’re not listening.”
Really how hard would it be to make a big robot, slap a human NPC to the side of it and call it a space bandit mech boss? According to Bethesda: impossible.
Woah woah, simmer down now. What you're asking for there is effort, and effort is a dirty word at Bethesda.
What makes you think you know any better? Personally I think your idea sounds like a load of shit.
@@Grobut81 Also, it's established that using 'Mechs is baaad and even the worst bandits can't THAT baaad, right? Right?
I'm sure this was planned as a dlc to suck more money out of us.
Fully agreed about the ship. When I got it it was like "What? At least in F4 I had to actually DO SOMETHING to get Power Armor..."
How low have we fallen if even f4 is better than this
@@Brandelwyn 12 262m (40230ft). someone removed the manhole cover of the kola superdeep borehole and toddy toddler led the entire company over it single file like ducklings.
Even the F4 power armour felt so disingenuously cheap. If this is worse than F4, I might as well play some mobile games
Bethesda is just a talentless company at this point. The fact that they have two beloved IPs and are okay with players going years and years without anything new is just poor management. Skyrim was one of the most successful games of all time, you'd think they would have developed an Elder Scrolls plan similar to how CDPR is with their IPS.
I really just want them to use UE5 already. It's really stupid to keep using the Fallout 3 engine basically, still. Much less probably the Morrowind engine...
@@SetariM the engine isnt even their biggest problem, its their crappy black and white nonsensicall writing and gameplay that seems to be stuck in 2011. just look at stuff like fallout london and how that experience is leagues above what bethesda has put on in recent times
@@SetariMThe engine is just one of their problems and by far not the biggest. They just can’t seem to make a good game(especially gameplay-wise) since forever. The lost the sauce, period. But this problem seems to affect large swathes of the industry, not just Bethesda.
@@SetariM Bethesda's engine is the best engine out there to make the kind of games bethesda makes. Using UE5 would neuter the modding scene. A low interactivity world full of invisible walls wouldn't make for a good bgs game.
@@Niyucuatro Well now they have a game so bad that barely anybody wants to mod it so we have the worst of both worlds.
For a game that's all about large scale and exploration, why are the cities are the size of towns from Skyrim?
All Bethesda do is pat themselves on the back for failing. They heard people saying "this isn't an RPG this is trash" and thought "We'll include more dialogue in the expansion" despite the fact that they have no respect whatsoever for the art of writing and do not even recognise "writer" as a job title - and then they act surprised when everyone complains about the shit dialogue and try and tell us it's what we wanted.
I look forward to warming my hands over the dumpster fire of TESVI
They do not respect player's time. Dialogues feel bad mostly becouse they all are just an equivalent of Morrowind style wall of text, but this time fully-voiced. I takes ages before an NPC gets to the point.
4:03 I hate the backstory of your character. If they're gonna force us down a path what if we start off as a pirate or something and we rob a mining settlement, you touch their little artifact and steal a ship, on the ship it has your mining gun thing. After this you make choice to either continue down that path or choose a path of redemption. lots of ways you could play imo rather than a random miner lol
Shattered Space feels like Bethesda decided to play to their weaknessess instead of strenghts. I actually enjoy the base game a lot, but am very disappointed with the expansion. They turned a faction of bloodthirsty crusading fanatics into a bunch of nice guys from your neighborhood, killing any of my interest into the story before I even started exploring it. And the dialogues (monologues?) drag and drag and drag for so long.
Dude I got scammed into pre-purchasing the game to get to play it on the actual release day (vs. 3 days later when "regular edition" became playable), due to overly positive youtube preview-reviews.
Followed by a complete and utter disappointment.
Bethesda is never again getting any of my money, or my time. I technically have this expansion, I will never even touch it. Fk them. Starfield was a game made by people with nothing to say.
STARFIELD is basically Francis Fukuyama’s THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN: THE GAME.
That’s not a good thing.
Love how little walking through that laser affected you 9:39
BGS Industrial Smoothing: We Don't Care And It Shows!
If this is really made for no one, then a venn diagram makes no sense. The two circles should be entirely disconnected
lol they are disconnected. Its hard to see within the tiny thumbnail but the bits of circle within the magnifying glass are supposed to be rounded outwards
@@jesterofjuice5132 Oh fuck, okay comment withdrawn you win haha
@@jesterofjuice5132Ahh, now I get it. Unsure if I’m just dumb, but I didn’t even realize that it was a magnifying glass at first glance. I feel like a different magnifying glass graphic that would make it aesthetically stand out much more in contrast (literally) to the rest of the otherwise beautiful thumbnail would make it much easier to parse at first glance.
That said, I clicked on the video almost immediately upon seeing you as the uploader, so I mentally processed the thumbnail as some slick pattern incorporating the concept of a Venn diagram, and not a literal Venn diagram. Perhaps the red edges of the circles should be more prominent within the magnifying circle?
Sorry, it’s 4AM so I might just be out of it and your thumbnail is just fine. Or it’s the touch of the ‘tism kicking in. Either way, thanks for the vid and for sharing your thoughts.
If this is their response to criticism, I genuinely wonder how the quality of ES6 will be. Maybe they're putting all their eggs in that basket, and it'll turn out fine. With their recent track record, though... I doubt it.
Sounds like it was written by Becky who got the job at Bethesda because they had a female quota to fill and also she knew a few of the guys already working there.
Don't do it. I bought the premium starfield so I already had it, and I regret playing it. I didn't even choose the evil ending so I luckily avoided that disappointment but damn.
Hopefully you learned a lesson for the future, and not buy premium-whatever editions and preorders (not just from Bethesda).
the best thing about Starfield is that is that it introduced me to Fallout 76 and that's not really saying alot
Oh, for real. Personalising the ship and seeing it become lived-in and functional was the best part of the game. Everything else it offers is offered in a better state in a previous BGS game. I didn't even know how short Shattered Space was because by the time I'd finished the initiation I'd already lost interest in Va'ruun'kai and the snake dudes.
No, no it's made for someone; Starfield fanboys!
All 2 of them.
All 7 of them.
i haven't finished the video yet i just wanted to post how much i laughed at your character looking just like you.
It's supposed to be Ryan Gosling. But I guess that makes sense because he's literally me lol
Shattered "fate"? BARS! 🔥😮💨
Tried to get through the video but you speak with the enthusiasm of a dead house cat.
Which is appropriate for the subject matter
The ship building just looked so ugly no matter what you built
I found the ship-play to be very boring, even with all the important skills and after crafting a few optimized ships. Is there even anything to explore while flying - I never found anything other than a series of fishbowl combat encounters.
What is a fish bowl combat encounter? Is that an idiotic term you've come up with yourself? There's a good little idiot!
there really is no space flight in starfield, it just fish bowl with pretty PNG's borders.
Terrible writing, boring repeating structures, bad quest designs, dead eyes NPCs who walk around like animtronics(don't even have 'home' to path find to at night )
You sound like an idiot.
Guys wait till he finds out about no mans sky
This is completely unrelated to the video, but would you be interested in making a video about Ninja Gaiden Black? Based on your other videos, it seems like something you would enjoy.
Very well said 👍
Can't believe they fumbled the story of Va'Run so fucking badly, its almost like they didn't give a fuck. This was a game big daddy Microsoft asked Bethesda to phone in as fast as possible, and phone in they did, at every instance.
Yeah, they had committed to making it because of the modern strategy of forcing people to buy dlc before nobody bought the game. So they made their obligatory dlc and can now pretend the game never happened
Simpleton.
Funny how Bethesda actually lead me here. Which is just another design flaw when I think about it.
8:48
"Space Muslims" 😂
Was about to be surprised that a big channel would say something like that before I chanced a look at the subscriber count 💀
Im in a similar position where on paper I should really like this game but I just dont because the execution is just so mediocre in all aspects.
The expansion was made for me. I told them it has to be free...But they ask for 40$. So i said , hell no MF the base game not worth 70.😂 Yall got me Fd up.
The best part of Shattered Space was when i decided to go play Spiderman 2 😂
lmao, SM2 was pure trash, lmao
Me when I lie. @@corwinsmith1502
I played it and liked it. Girlbossing is turned up too high. My only complaint. Looks great, plays great.
Waiting for Starfield New Vegas 😎
This is the most accurate take ive heard. Getting the ship is like getting the power armor in fallout 4. still like this game tho.
Should people have to, “work,” at their, “game,” to make it playable at all, though? Isn’t that just the gamers doing the heavy lifting for Bethesda, in all the places that matter? In all the places that, “should,” be entertaining you? That seems way wrong.
Giving money to bethesda? Fo76!
Todd is COOKED. There's no hope for Bethesda.
good video
Bethesda tagline at this point should be disappointment. No matter what they introduce it will always end up being in the most uninspired boring manner. Whatever boomer writers they're keeping at Bethesda who thinks the height of storytelling and character depth is the dad jokes Sam constantly makes needs to be fired. Because said people should not be writing stories like this. These incompetent world builders had the vastness of space to work with how do you come up with absolutely nothing engaging in the universe? We should have had all sorts of alien cults, cthulu shit. Instead we got a indifferent space god who just sends random people through basically ground hog day for eternity for no ultimate reason. They dont even give reason for the powers, guarantee a dev just added it to be like skyrim shouts and that was it.
I’d be interested to see you review Cyberpunk 2099
Grinding repetitive content is not an answer. That's the Elden Ring solution to an unsolvable empty space problem.
@@NR-qb8eh Your comment proves you haven't touched the game lmao.
@@NeverUseAnApostrophe None of these simpletons have, they have their opinions formed for them by idiotic grifters on RUclips. It's a sad state of affairs it really is.
lisan al gaib of the space muslims doesnt work great bc the fremen were space muslims
The biggest problems in this game shitty levelibg up system, shopping, weapons side quests unik weapons ect. This game is unfinished project
You're an unfinished project. You clearly still have a long way to go in the critical thinking department.
Actually bro the Vortex Phantoms are not Zealots, but rather regular Va'Ruun soldiers. You'll notice they have regular Va'Ruun and Va'Ruun Assault armor and the Zealots have Zealot Va'Ruun and Zealot Va'Ruun Assault armors , with the new white Zealot paint all over.
im playing it and some parts are okay.
We get it. Low intelligence and short attention span.
That's not a statement that should be made when the DLC is $30.
@@gtfokthxbyecya well, luckily i saved up my peanuts and it don't bother me. I got a J-O-B.
@@RachelLouren28 So you're proud of being dumb with your money? Poor mentality.
Good review of a game I really do like, and the DLC criticisms are largely good even if I'm enjoying the DLC rn
Wish you went harder on the ship part point tho, literally recolored normal ships. Bethesda could even be fucked to make actual reskins.
I will say tho, that there's gameplay ideas in the DLC that if they were fully worked on it would've been fun. I was so disappointed by the dam bossfights only bc you can easily cheese them by leaving the room. The end where you're running out and being attacked over and over was neat, disorienting, and a good use of backtracking. However, for the most part it feels like their games have continued to be "streamlined" or I would just straight say made for the dumbest person.
Bethesday needs to fully realize their gameplay ideas and stop thinking their players are at the left side of the bell curve.
One problem with the video is that the difficulty options do allow for a level 2/3 character to clear the content alone. I've seen the level criticsm before, but I ran the DLC blind with player/enemy damage set to easy (and most of the other features set to the hardest) until about level 15-20. I think that enhanced my enjoyment of the DLC and made the fights pretty fun.
I think a lot of these comments on the grifter videos, including yours, does in fact prove that you indeed are all idiots.
They really need to stop with the chosen one storylines. Its so lazy and boring.
if you need a guide for you to enjoy a game, that's just a shitty game.
W vid
I am nobody, so this addon is made for me.
Played it trough family share because my borther bought the deluxze eddition of the name, however that is named. It was more of the parts of Starfield i enjoyed, but wouldn't have payed 30 bucks for it. If you liked starfield, wait for a discount before getting it.
The game is better than gta 6. Because a single player, it's got a lot more play and replayability.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo Personally i have no interest in the gta series. But i'd rather re-play skyrim or do another factorio run than making a second starfield playtrough.
I loved it.
"starfield is a great game but a terrible product"
lolol all credibility out the window there bud, there is absolutely zero sense in which starfield is a great game
Its better than gta 6.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo no, it definitely isn't. gta6 will at least be competent.
Yet it launched Starfield into the top 10 most played games on Xbox, and it's the only singleplayer 💀, so much for the dlc is for nobody, bullshit
People are just coming around to the fact that Bethesda hasn't made a good game since New Vegas and that wasn't even developed by them.
Skyrim was incredibly overrated and boring and the engine it ran on was already outdated then. They are not even worth talking about anymore, its a giant waste of everybody's time.
Nah, Skyrim was great. Fallout 4 quite the disapointment. And Starfiled a complete fumble that did a few things well.
It WAS an Expansion for a lot of people. A LOT of tubers, like yourself, who bought the game so you can create a video on it and try to make money. However, you are WAY late on publishing the video. It has been reviewed to death. We all get it. But, you bought it, because you, like every other Todd fanboy, can't help yourselves. Bethesda sells it YOU have you buy it. And Todd knows that. I pity you when ES 6 is sold. Thousands will buy it, so they can complain about it. And Todd knows that too!!!!! "The Emperor Protects"*
I uninstalled. Boring
What's up with that cringe reverb in your voice? Is that what the kids tune into these days..?
You wanted the game to succeed because you wanted your purchase justified and you are a Bethesda fanboy is what I see is the truth :)
Another hack reviewer trying to justify an initial glowing review for starfield base game and desperately trying to claw back credibility by giving the dlc a bad review. So many reviewers been waiting a whole year for this chance.
What a dumb take. Is it impossible to like the base game then dislike the DLC? The answer is obviously yes, and a million reasons why before you reach being a hack reviewer lmao. Touch grass.
Its so boring
How come that all the youtubers shitting on Bethesda talk as if they're three weeks dead?
THIS.
Me and 20k people enjoy playing it. I bet that really upsets you. People eventually will figure out that hyper criticality drives engagement and triggers their inert tribalistic instincts. I was the same way, I’m glad I quit listening to people like you and decided to be my own person and not let another persons dialog dictate my enjoyment. If it’s so bad quit making videos about it 🤡
I hope you have fun. You might want to invest into jingling keys and FTX while you're at it.
So go have fun with it lmao. Just as you enjoy the game, there's also people enjoying things that you hate (like this video). It's just this dude's opinion on why HE HIMSELF doesn't like it.
20K people. When over "13 million players" as Bethesda put it played the base game. You do realize that's a laughably small number of people who bought this DLC, right? No one came back to this game lmao.
You have been brainwashed by the 100 million active sony playstation users who review bombed starfield. Them and their indignant appeasers. That you started to imagine how the game could be to appease the review bombers. But falling into the appeasement cycle only turned you indignant against starfield for making your pony cry. Screw your pony, let it cry. Don't let haters, bigots and the like control you. Don't advocate for haters and bigots and the like.
Bigot? Read a book, kid. The game is bad and Bethesda doesn't deserve your bootlicking.
Gods, have you played the game for 140 hours? I have. And I gave up. The game needs a whole rework from ground up. Remove senior management and replace them with skilled project managers like Josh Sawyer.
You have been brainwashed that everything you like can't have negative reviews. What year is this that you still have console wars? With all the valid criticism from PC and XBOX players, do you really think PlayStation's players need to review bomb lmao. Also, many people own variations of all the consoles. Why am I even typing this, you're just a child with a delusional view of the world.
How is someone a bigot for disliking a game, and leaving a review? Are you stupid?
Also are you 12 years old? Console wars are stupid, you're the only brainwashed person here with your console wars coping.
Unfortunately Bethesda has become so reliant on its modding community's hard work that it no longer knows how to create its own content just look at skyrim 2016 was the last time it produced anything of note. Unfortunately I have zero expectations for elder scrolls 6 Bethesda is a lazy company living off the backs of its community