You have absolutely NAILED the problem with almost all media and games these days. Pandering to an audience that doesn't even purchase your shit. They're just the loudest of the internet and unlike normal people, will go VERY out of their way to get you fired.
Almost like pronoun people only care about compelling speech, and not about games. Almost like we should've never bent the knee to them in the first place...
And Act Man still hasn't apologised and to this day pretends that the incident never happened, yet is still deleting comments from people asking him to apologise to Az in all his videos - hilarious.
Act Man was on the Unsubbed podcast a couple of weeks back (shame, they normally have interesting guests). The comment section was an absolute rout. "Hey, it's that guy who owes Az an apology" as far as the eye could see.
@@theUnknown-oz9dh The Tamrielan Empire did abolish slavery. (In Morrowind, that's "eventually" but still) Much like a certain real-life Empire they hate.
My normie husband was so excited for Starfield, even bought a new XBox to play it. Played 30 hours in a month and hasn't picked it up again in a year. He said it was boring. He really, really wanted to like it...
30 hours to call it boring? He's a warrior, trying to stick to that thing. I was also excited for it but i'm quite careful about games nowadays so i waited to see the reviews, i have 0 regret not picking it up for myself.
People don't want to not like these games. Despite the narrative. I once kept playing a game, my friends and I didn't like, telling them that there will be a content drop and the full game will be playable soon. It took me three months to wake up and realize, that was the game.
Perhaps what hyped up Starfield the most was the fact that Elder Scrolls was less important to make than this thing. I feel sorry for everyone that wanted this one to be good. All they had to do was make a new Mass Effect since Bioware can't make a good game.
Starfield pulling in less players than Fallout 4 and Skyrim after a new DLC dropped. Meanwhile a Bethesda dev claimed that Starfield is their best game ever. 🤣
It is their best game, since all the games before it were actually just stolen lore, world building, toolsets, and fully fleshed out plans for games like oblivion. By the time they got to Skyrim they had to bite the bullet and beg Michael kirkbide to come back literally coach them and the main quests narrative, (which he did) seeing as how they had no idea what elder scrolls was about. Every single person working for Bethesda's world building, narrative design, and story aspects are literally just the incredibly talented level designers who were sitting in their chairs assembling random dungeon tile sets when everyone got word the entire creative design teams quit. Todd literally just looked around and said "cool, all of you are now promoted to quest design" they literally had to learn that while still level designing (something they are good at). This is why they don't storyboard or even make design doc for the story, Emil didn't even know what they was when he was asked about it. Then the oblivion quest Emil designed became very popular in the community and so he was hired to work that magic on all future games. That was the end of it all. Fortunately they still had enough low level side quest designers and design docs they could copy off of to make Skyrim. It was one of the greatest games ever made and suddenly these homework theifs started thinking maybe it was them who made good games. That when they made starslop. That is 100% Bethesda, that's what they are absolutely at their planets and empires with their most passion could make lol
it actually had more players than FO4 when the DLC came out. also an important factor that it's not brought up. A lot of players are playing it on GP/Xbox. Whereas FO4 has been on sale only for the majority of its lifespan.
@@ronwatford7331 Agreed, it makes sense to sell at the highest possible value preferably just before you engage in the inevitable decline, Microsoft did a big mistake though, it was obvious that Bethesda best years were behind them and that they were running out of steam.
@@ronwatford7331 I genuinely think this is why they sold to Microsoft! After the disaster of FO76, they really needed another hit like Skyrim. However, BGS lost a lot of talented devs after Skyrim, & also due to F076. The leadership would have realised during Starfield development it was seriously mid & they didn’t have the time, money, tech, or talent left to make it a great game before launch. However, they also knew there was a lot of hype for Starfield (their first new IP in 25 years & a return to single player games). So they decided to cash out with Microsoft before launch.
There’s a few apparently. MrMattyPlays said he still plays the game, but even he was disappointed by the Shattered Space DLC. Personally, I haven’t touched the game for almost a year, not even to check out the new vehicle, because it just has no depth or replayablity, so what would be the point?
@@blowfish1702 Yeah, pretty much. He is a Fallout fanatic who I think started his channel covering Fallout, and has even interviewed Todd Howard before, so I suppose if he gave Shattered Space a thumbs down, it’s definitely bad.
To be fair, Bethesda is currently doing everything in their power to kill the Skyrim community by continuously breaking mods in their fifth failed attempt to monetize user generated content into their own pockets alongside Microsoft.
People are still playing Morrowind 22 years later and Daggerfall 28 years later. Hell, Morrowind especially has seen a bit of a cultural resurgence thanks to memes about Dagoth Ur and the like.
@@SkylineFTW97 Autism Cat turned me onto Oblivion more than any other good reviews had, simply for the silliness of the videos. There's still great treasure to be found in those old titles, and it shows in how the players are finding the fun themselves, if not out right modding it in.
I’ve bought Skyrim at least 4 times, and I don’t regret it. I haven’t played Starfield at all, but after all the half-assery and pronouns, I regret buying it. If Oblivion got refurbished I’d happily buy it again.
Had to quit his assassin creed shadow vid cuz he defended the game for the same thing he criticized battlefield 5 about. "Historical fiction =/= Historical accuracy" , but with double standards
Two more they/them (including a was/were due to a case of particle ammunition discharge for one of the two) moments. Ugh... It was free since I got suckered into the premium a year ago, so I tried it out just to see what they did due to morbid curiosity... Yes, it was dumb and boring. The only interesting things were three new weapons (the rest were re-skins) and five new grenades. Oh, and two small sidequests with decent writing about a grandfather and his granddaughter (literally only thirty minutes of the whole thing being somewhat well written). If I had to pay for it, I wouldn't have played this "expansion" at all. ... I'm going back to playing my heavily modded Skyrim that plays like Dark Souls.
@@galmekarch-fister1240 I mean if Destiny 2 calling the shit they released expansions I think Shattered space is 10 times any expansion destiny 2 had released xD
@@cyberash3000 I would have done the same thing, except I avoid as many Microsoft products as is reasonably possible and therefore didn't bother buying it.
As a Bethesda fanboy who literally has over 2 thousand hours in Skyrim, Starfield is absolutely a disgrace. I cannot believe I was hyped for this game well I can but what we got from starfield wasn't even 20% of the game i wanted and most of the community wanted. I have zero hope for elder scrolls 6, it's obvious Bethesda and Lord Todd Howard do not know how to make games anyone.
I’m not sure how much time I’ve spent playing Skyrim since I play on a Windows 8 machine not connected to the internet. But it’s probably about 1200 hours as my current character is 300 hours in. And I’m almost afraid to mention how much I’ve played (modded) Fallout 4. If your guess is lower than 7000 hours, you lose. In Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas I clocked around 1200 hours each. Bottom line, I saw the writing on the wall with the (disastrous) launch of Fallout 76 (which I never got), so I assumed Starfield was going to be worse.
@@madmantheepic7278 didn't claim i was. I gave up on Bethesda during fallout 4. Im saying tons of casuals play skyrim. That wouldn't be the best way to protest being a big fan if skyrim (the most watered down, fake rpg) is someone's go to.
Starfield is probably the first game I've seen modders go all "We know we said we would be working on Starfield Together since people loved Skyrim Together, but Starfield is just so boring we won't work on it anymore", if the people responsible for the longevity of Bethesda games are passing on your game, maybe not only it's not the best game you've ever made, but it's the most boring game you've ever made
@@117Ender Exactly, say what you will about mods, if they are hypersexualized, or incredibly immersive, there's a little bit for everyone. Whatever people's opinions, these guys are doing more for Bethesda than Bethesda itself has ever done
@@Vecna but Bethesda was on this road. They saw Skyrim make bank, and then said let's monetize mods. And ppl went no. Bethesda hurt their fan base for a quick buck, their fan base left.
@@117Ender I'm just gonna say it, Morrowind wasn't that good and only has exploration and player freedom going for it. Bethesda the dev has never made a single great game, like Witcher 3 is for example.
Several years ago I saw a measure of about $1 per hour of play to be considered a decent exchange. $30 for 8 hours is around $4/hour, which is absurd. Even at@@chrisabraham3830 's 16 hours, $2/hour is very high. Especially when I can compare to Skyrim and FO4 time I've played, which is more like me paying _pennies_ per hour of game time.
They charge $7 for a single mission and were the reward a sniper rifle IIRC has been broken since the mission was released in their in-game store. A Bethesda made "mod" is bug ridden 6 months after release, who would have thought.
If I can't get my money back for buying the premium edition of _Starfailed,_ I'll accept the equivalent value in flesh carved straight from Todd Howard's and Emil Pagliarulo's hides in exchange.
The expansion was advertised by taking over the xbox. When I turned it on I had to click through the advert to even get to the home screen for the first time. Insane.
I just checked Steam store and here in Aussie land Starfield was an absolutely insane $119.95, and now the expansion is asking for a further $49.99. Id actually forgotten it existed not long after it released as when a game is asking north of $100 i am waiting for reviews and weighing that purchase very carefully, obviously this one didn't add up and i have no hope whatsoever for ES6.
Given that Starfield has dramatically underperformed compared to earlier BGS titles and now the DLC has only a few thousand downloads, the writing is on the wall: listen to your fans, i.e. the source of your financial prosperity, or keep making the same mistakes, get ratioed into irrelevancy, cut losses and lay off staff, and inevitably fall into fiscal ruin. It’s wild how fans have been telling, nay, YELLING what they’ve wanted from BGS for YEARS and somehow they still end up making things worse and then throwing their hands up in feigned shock.
@@DarkZodiacZZ They made a Spacestation, and their Dock Engineer can change your ship parts, so probably. Not to mention they have the Tech to Harness Grav jump energy and firing it with a huge cannon.
He's a level designer that accidentally hit promoted due to the actual quest makers quiting. He has failed upwards to this point. Ppl always used to say "Bethesda games are great accept the main quests" that was Emil lol. It's so weird to me that Todd can hear that his franchises are the only ones where everyone agrees the main dish in every game isn't worth eating ...like why wouldn't he fire him I don't get it
You're talking about a game that's literally known the world over. 15k for Bethesda is abysmal, in the same way that 2 million watching Doctor Who is abysmal, even though those exact numbers would be considered a fantastic success on an indie game or a mid sized studio.
What you are talking about is resume in one single word. Interpretation. People are pretending that Bethesda is dead, but Bethesda did create more then 1 game for more then 25 years you know and this analyse around just 1 of those games on Steam is irrelevant since the compagnie got many games on many consoles, not just on Steam. Basically, you don't have access to their profit or financial situation, that's private. Last interview Todd made, he was gladly telling us that over 20 millions people were still playing Skyrim on every console and computer together, this is only for Skyrim and not all the games they made...
Back when the game was about to release, Grummz took a good look at that fugly starting screen and tried to warn us. Some people owe him a big apology. Excellent video Az, just please give us a trigger warning next time you try to sing 🙂
This is the same shit Bungie pulled with Destiny 2, the first expansion was a small POS to fulfill the Special Edition buyers of the main game. Not surprised in the least. This is what you get when you PREORDER. You bought the premium edition thus to preorder the first expansion with literally no details on it's content.
The sad part is, Fallout 76 is infinitely more fun and playable than Starfield is! That's really saying something! I would _MUCH_ rather play 76 than Starfield!
@@Frontier_Rifleman Ever heard of... sunk-cost fallacy, Stockholm syndrome and some other psychological coping mechanisms? It is always online live service TESV/FO4 multiplayer mod in perpetual alpha/beta (real beta not BS corporates and shills pushed/-ing) state with in game store. Only the store is in state of RC/release...
I was playing Tarkov with a buddy when Starfield first dropped. My cousin who always played with us was a huge Bethesda fan. He preordered and all that. Saw he was playing and sent him a message in the discord “How is it?!” He said “idk. I’ve been playing for five hours and feel like all I’ve done is talk to people.” That coming from him immediately told me what this game was.
The pushback in the days of Oblivion's Horse armor wasn't enough. Then again Bethesda will sit on such ideas for years and quietly revive them like with paid mods.
@@SkylineFTW97 To be fair on Bethesda it was actually the modding community that came up with the idea for "paid mods" because there are many mod creators that have put their mods behind a paywall on sites such Patreon and Subscribestar.
@@SkylineFTW97 Ironically, even though Horse Armour gets a lot of crap for being paid cosmetic DLC, it's not actually cosmetic - the armoured horses have, bizarrely enough, more HP rather than a higher armour rating.
And you know what's sad? Hearing whenever Bethesda hires modders who made great mods and dose nothing with them most recent example they hired some of the guys who made Fallout London which despite it's own issues is leaps and bounds superior to Pronounfield.
@@xSilentVeterenx those modders deserve to be unhappy. Elianora(sp), the maker of all the prominent custom home mods for Skyrim, went to work for Bethesda and their job was to "decorate" the environment of Starfield. That's the job that they went to Bethesda to do. One of the first mods that came out for Starfailed, and one of the only mods, was a declutter mod that literally removed everything that that modder did. All the items were useless items with no value. They compromise their ability to make mods for the game, potentially compromising their ability to make mods for the game into the future because of non-competes Modders that go and work for Bethesda deserve to be unhappy. A Faustian deal to feel cool is not a good look.
@@hardbrocklife Can't believe they hired Elianora, her houses look pretty but is some of the most lore and immersion breaking houses there is. Even though they look normal from the outside, the amount of weirdly placed useless clutter that is there to replace character, mechanics, skill and actual design language makes them all feel out of place and ultimately very samey. Her mods never got support after a few months of them being out and have always been some of the most game breaking mods you could add to your game. Maybe they hired Elianora because they saw how toxic she was/is against the fandom.
nah. that was the world's first ever paid cosmetic item in a video game. the very first one. it took one straw to break the camel's back. it can never be forgiven.
@dextersynesterformerlysorb5334 You're right, I checked the wiki and it says it does even though while playing it never felt like it added anything but the wiki says it doubles your horses health.
Every time new news about the failure of starfield has come out, the more that chalkeaters song 'it just works' is further solidified as the truth for how bethesda run their company 😅
"were bethesda incentivised to make anything good" this is actually a really good point. selling the DLC as part of a premium edition, means they got the sales for the DLC before it even came out, and i dont know why this didnt dawn on my until now. they are 100% NOT incentivised to deliver something good, as the have already got their payment for the DLC, before it even came out, and we know that bethesda has lost its integrity of delivering on promises.
Well that's always been the issue with pre orders well for the last 10 yrs. Ppl would put up with a mediocre game that has interesting points to refine and build on, look at Skyrim. It's been a 10+ and ppl still play it. What ended Bethesda is that they are boring and being woke makes them boring and preachy.
@@117Ender theres people saying that Shattered Space feels like cut content from the base game, and that makes so much sense and explains how lackluster it felt. Cut content, that they then got players to pay for, this is pathetic.
They lost their integrity with delivering on promises during the many scandals of Fallout 76. They had to be threatened with class action lawsuits multiple times over multiple incidents to reluctantly keep their word. And everyone brushes it off because they """made things right in the end.""" I say fuck that, their past behavior is a strong indicator of their future behavior.
@@R4L14N if it was cut content than why not polish it and the game itself to make it good? SS came and went, and no one cared. bethesda is a dead company. they lost their fans, with all the bad faith they burned, starfield which was gonna redeem them, and show they can sell free mods to the customers, ended up being a first to have modders say this is so boring we wont fix it. and now bethesda went from the cool kid who can get away with bullying the customer, to now being the nerd in the locker who everyone ignores. its like a saying goes, you can be the best employee and an ass, and while ppl hate you they respect you, but if your an ass and a terrible employee, then ppl hate you, you can be imperfect, but have something to redeem yourself, having nothing redeemable is just going to be ignored
@@SkylineFTW97 facts and selling skyrim but this time you pay for mods. fallout 4 being mediocre, bethesda went from it just works cause modders will fix it, to losing modders and players. if es6 is anything like starfield, ppl will preorder it, and they will be burned and finally stop trusting bethesda. they have 1 last chance to turn it around, but chances of success are low. if it flops 10 yrs from now bethesda will close its doors.
Starfield is a perfect example of how appeasing explicitly to casuals is a death sentence. Todd and Emil are far too complacent in relying on the community to finish development, but as many Modders have said, they just don’t care. It’s too boring to work on. Not only do I agree, but it’s utter madness to believe it’s a good thing to pay full price for the privilege of functionally building your own game as Bethesda is trying to con consumers is.
Bethesda declaring that Starfield is the best game they've ever made and Ubisoft declaring Skull and Bones to be the first AAAA video game. These people truly are delusional.
I’ve got a weird take on this. It likely was the best game a majority of the devs team has ever made, because 90% of the team from Skyrim and fo4 is gone and the team was roughly 5 times the size of the old team. Was it good? No. When there are no good things to compare it to it’s the best by default.
I've heard people say that even the voice actors sound bored during their performances. But remember, as Juicehead stated as a positive for this DLC "We have new accents" XD
The "BIG" Reward for completing the DLC is an Elite Rating Equinox, Not even a Legendary. And Equinox are amongst the worst weapons in the game. You don't even get any Unique Items or gear.
I think all the bug fixes in the world won't fix the issues with this game. It's so boring. Who in their right mind would think "Let's make a sci fi game but the hook is...there's no aliens races. It's all humans!" You have games like the Mass Effect franchise, Freelancer & Rebel Galaxy, to draw from. They have no excuse!
The people behind that trash are really determined to die on that hill, it's player count has dropped below the laughable numbers of what that dumpster fire Concord had.
Western game companies seem to have forgotten how to create compelling gameplay and tell captivating stories. I hope all that Blackrock ESG money was worth it.
Let's add the graphical downgrade for Xbox users and the complete removal of the 60fps visuals settings for Series S users who literally just had it added to the game in June and actually worked very well.
At this point, the best thing Bethesda can do is hand Emil Pagliarulo a gold watch, thank him for his past work, and put him out to pasture. All the signs were there back in Fallout 4: A main story writer who can't write a compelling main story and a lead designer who can't design and refuses to lead.
Shattered Space is the equivalent of Mr. Krabs hyping up the new Krabby Land at the Krusty Krab and then when he pulled the curtain Krabby Land turned out to be a ramshackle piece of garbage.
Remember that they are still using the creation engine, It will feel the same as skyrim, fallout and starfield. The modern gaming audience is going to be able to see and feel the age
I am not buying Starfield I am not buying. Elder Scrolls 6 Black Lives Matter. I am not buying anything. I am not buying The Wiccan game. I am not buying CyberCuck the Trans edition, I am done.
A mouse cursor in the video of the trailer? Gives me flashbacks to pokemon sword and shield where gamefreak left the mouse cursor into their pre-rendered intro cutscene.
Sadly that’s most game studios these days. All the people that made the great games of the past are no longer there and all that’s left are people infected with the woke mind virus and brainless greedy shareholders.
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They/Them Arent even playin it
Shouldn't it be "they is not playing it" since they use "they" as a singular noun?
You have absolutely NAILED the problem with almost all media and games these days. Pandering to an audience that doesn't even purchase your shit. They're just the loudest of the internet and unlike normal people, will go VERY out of their way to get you fired.
Almost like pronoun people only care about compelling speech, and not about games. Almost like we should've never bent the knee to them in the first place...
@@jonzilla5209 the pronouns of the current player base are No/One
They aren’t!? Oh, I mean “they/them aren’t!?” Well that inclusion really backfired…
Forgot that Starfield even existed
What are you on about?
@@Zetirix forgetting that Starfield even existed
@@jikke9400 I honestly did. I mean, I bought Skyrim like, 4 times, but I think I'm just done with AAA studios...
Starfield is temporary, pronoun rant is forever.
Same
The Starfield Rant is the best thing that came out of this game. God bless Az. The reveal of Act MA'AM's true colours was a bonus.
He was never the same after QuantumTV broke his buck
And Act Man still hasn't apologised and to this day pretends that the incident never happened, yet is still deleting comments from people asking him to apologise to Az in all his videos - hilarious.
Act Man was on the Unsubbed podcast a couple of weeks back (shame, they normally have interesting guests). The comment section was an absolute rout. "Hey, it's that guy who owes Az an apology" as far as the eye could see.
That guy really is a full-grown abortion.
classic az
If this is "The best game we have ever made" then ES6 is going to be dog 💩
Ho boy, can't wait for the black nords, latino bretons, queer Dwemer and gay dragons
@@obliviousicarus Yup, Hammerfell the land of the brown peoples, here we come. Ugh.
@@obliviousicarusNot to mention they'll try to convince us that the Thalmor were the misunderstood good guys all along...
We all know tes 6 is going to be about redguards and strong black whamen
@@theUnknown-oz9dh The Tamrielan Empire did abolish slavery. (In Morrowind, that's "eventually" but still)
Much like a certain real-life Empire they hate.
My normie husband was so excited for Starfield, even bought a new XBox to play it. Played 30 hours in a month and hasn't picked it up again in a year. He said it was boring. He really, really wanted to like it...
30 hours to call it boring? He's a warrior, trying to stick to that thing. I was also excited for it but i'm quite careful about games nowadays so i waited to see the reviews, i have 0 regret not picking it up for myself.
People don't want to not like these games. Despite the narrative. I once kept playing a game, my friends and I didn't like, telling them that there will be a content drop and the full game will be playable soon. It took me three months to wake up and realize, that was the game.
Ah, when you put on the rose colored glasses, they fit at first, but then they pinch the nose...in not a good way.
Perhaps what hyped up Starfield the most was the fact that Elder Scrolls was less important to make than this thing. I feel sorry for everyone that wanted this one to be good. All they had to do was make a new Mass Effect since Bioware can't make a good game.
You married a normie? LOOOL!
Shattered Pronouns.
Shartfield: Shattered Sphincter
Pronouns Shatted on Space
Starfield pulling in less players than Fallout 4 and Skyrim after a new DLC dropped. Meanwhile a Bethesda dev claimed that Starfield is their best game ever. 🤣
maybe it´s a dev from their SpEcIaL DiViSiOn
It probably has multicolored hair and metal stuck in unmentionable locations.
Worse it's Emil their lead writer and creative director dude is an idiot
It is their best game, since all the games before it were actually just stolen lore, world building, toolsets, and fully fleshed out plans for games like oblivion. By the time they got to Skyrim they had to bite the bullet and beg Michael kirkbide to come back literally coach them and the main quests narrative, (which he did) seeing as how they had no idea what elder scrolls was about. Every single person working for Bethesda's world building, narrative design, and story aspects are literally just the incredibly talented level designers who were sitting in their chairs assembling random dungeon tile sets when everyone got word the entire creative design teams quit. Todd literally just looked around and said "cool, all of you are now promoted to quest design" they literally had to learn that while still level designing (something they are good at). This is why they don't storyboard or even make design doc for the story, Emil didn't even know what they was when he was asked about it. Then the oblivion quest Emil designed became very popular in the community and so he was hired to work that magic on all future games. That was the end of it all. Fortunately they still had enough low level side quest designers and design docs they could copy off of to make Skyrim. It was one of the greatest games ever made and suddenly these homework theifs started thinking maybe it was them who made good games. That when they made starslop. That is 100% Bethesda, that's what they are absolutely at their planets and empires with their most passion could make lol
it actually had more players than FO4 when the DLC came out. also an important factor that it's not brought up. A lot of players are playing it on GP/Xbox. Whereas FO4 has been on sale only for the majority of its lifespan.
Bethesda are lucky Microsoft wasted all that money buying them or they'd be absolutely fucked.
Maybe they knew they were running out of good ideas and recognized the need for a golden parachute.
@@ronwatford7331 Agreed, it makes sense to sell at the highest possible value preferably just before you engage in the inevitable decline, Microsoft did a big mistake though, it was obvious that Bethesda best years were behind them and that they were running out of steam.
if i was microsoft owner i'd as for a refund
Not so sure about that. Microsoft is probably in part to blame for shoving them their woke and DEI policies.
@@ronwatford7331 I genuinely think this is why they sold to Microsoft! After the disaster of FO76, they really needed another hit like Skyrim. However, BGS lost a lot of talented devs after Skyrim, & also due to F076. The leadership would have realised during Starfield development it was seriously mid & they didn’t have the time, money, tech, or talent left to make it a great game before launch. However, they also knew there was a lot of hype for Starfield (their first new IP in 25 years & a return to single player games). So they decided to cash out with Microsoft before launch.
How can they be disappointed? Nobody is playing.
There’s a few apparently. MrMattyPlays said he still plays the game, but even he was disappointed by the Shattered Space DLC. Personally, I haven’t touched the game for almost a year, not even to check out the new vehicle, because it just has no depth or replayablity, so what would be the point?
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@@EyeOfMagnus4E201MrMatty is a Bethesda shill or close to it 😂
@@blowfish1702 Yeah, pretty much. He is a Fallout fanatic who I think started his channel covering Fallout, and has even interviewed Todd Howard before, so I suppose if he gave Shattered Space a thumbs down, it’s definitely bad.
not according to the Steam stats, people are still playing it. this game us not a disaster, find another narrative.
It's amazing how quickly Starfield was forgotten considering that tons of people are still playing Skyrim 13 years later
To be fair, Bethesda is currently doing everything in their power to kill the Skyrim community by continuously breaking mods in their fifth failed attempt to monetize user generated content into their own pockets alongside Microsoft.
People are still playing Morrowind 22 years later and Daggerfall 28 years later. Hell, Morrowind especially has seen a bit of a cultural resurgence thanks to memes about Dagoth Ur and the like.
@@SkylineFTW97 Autism Cat turned me onto Oblivion more than any other good reviews had, simply for the silliness of the videos. There's still great treasure to be found in those old titles, and it shows in how the players are finding the fun themselves, if not out right modding it in.
I’ve bought Skyrim at least 4 times, and I don’t regret it. I haven’t played Starfield at all, but after all the half-assery and pronouns, I regret buying it. If Oblivion got refurbished I’d happily buy it again.
Starfield should never have been a thing. Bethesda needs to stick with what they are good at. Single-player Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
*Waits for Act Ma’am to throw another fit*
ActMale is on lady hormones.
Had to quit his assassin creed shadow vid cuz he defended the game for the same thing he criticized battlefield 5 about. "Historical fiction =/= Historical accuracy" , but with double standards
I unsubscribed from the Act Ma’am bc he is a shill and I just can’t stand anyone who shills for bad companies
Waa waaa waaaa! Sexism racist far right fascist!!!
Don't worry, as soon as he gets his check from his BlackRock/Vanguard owners he'll shill like the regime's puppet he is
What exciting pronouns will you encounter now in the starfield expansion?
Two more they/them (including a was/were due to a case of particle ammunition discharge for one of the two) moments. Ugh... It was free since I got suckered into the premium a year ago, so I tried it out just to see what they did due to morbid curiosity... Yes, it was dumb and boring. The only interesting things were three new weapons (the rest were re-skins) and five new grenades. Oh, and two small sidequests with decent writing about a grandfather and his granddaughter (literally only thirty minutes of the whole thing being somewhat well written). If I had to pay for it, I wouldn't have played this "expansion" at all.
... I'm going back to playing my heavily modded Skyrim that plays like Dark Souls.
Maybe a zim/zir or a xer/xhe?! So exciting! The possibilities are _endless,_ and the future bright!! ( *Heavy* /s )
New pronouns are being unearthed every day in the pronoun mines!
Bank/Rupt 😂
SHE/IT
Wait Starfield had an expansion??? And it released????
Bethesda needed to launder more money.
@Thomas20Smith Calling this an expansion is being reallllyy generous.
And it sucked.
Exactly my thoughts
@@galmekarch-fister1240 I mean if Destiny 2 calling the shit they released expansions I think Shattered space is 10 times any expansion destiny 2 had released xD
Bethesda asked for my pronouns so I asked for my refund
surely no one is that much of a bigot?
Wow.. What a snowflake
@@cyberash3000 I would have done the same thing, except I avoid as many Microsoft products as is reasonably possible and therefore didn't bother buying it.
well said f@@k dei
@@cyberash3000you can be bigoted towards pronouns now? Think about how stupid your position is.
As a Bethesda fanboy who literally has over 2 thousand hours in Skyrim, Starfield is absolutely a disgrace. I cannot believe I was hyped for this game well I can but what we got from starfield wasn't even 20% of the game i wanted and most of the community wanted. I have zero hope for elder scrolls 6, it's obvious Bethesda and Lord Todd Howard do not know how to make games anyone.
I’m not sure how much time I’ve spent playing Skyrim since I play on a Windows 8 machine not connected to the internet. But it’s probably about 1200 hours as my current character is 300 hours in. And I’m almost afraid to mention how much I’ve played (modded) Fallout 4. If your guess is lower than 7000 hours, you lose. In Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas I clocked around 1200 hours each.
Bottom line, I saw the writing on the wall with the (disastrous) launch of Fallout 76 (which I never got), so I assumed Starfield was going to be worse.
Oblivion/Morrowind > Skyrim
"fanboy"
@@Jason_Lee93 Yea at this point trying to one up being a Bethesda fanboy is just embarrassing
@@Jason_Lee93no they ain't. Retard.
@@madmantheepic7278 didn't claim i was. I gave up on Bethesda during fallout 4. Im saying tons of casuals play skyrim. That wouldn't be the best way to protest being a big fan if skyrim (the most watered down, fake rpg) is someone's go to.
Starfield is probably the first game I've seen modders go all "We know we said we would be working on Starfield Together since people loved Skyrim Together, but Starfield is just so boring we won't work on it anymore", if the people responsible for the longevity of Bethesda games are passing on your game, maybe not only it's not the best game you've ever made, but it's the most boring game you've ever made
Facts. The reason why Skyrim is popular is due to modders. Without them Bethesda games are mediocre.
@@117Ender Exactly, say what you will about mods, if they are hypersexualized, or incredibly immersive, there's a little bit for everyone. Whatever people's opinions, these guys are doing more for Bethesda than Bethesda itself has ever done
@@Vecna but Bethesda was on this road. They saw Skyrim make bank, and then said let's monetize mods. And ppl went no. Bethesda hurt their fan base for a quick buck, their fan base left.
If Bethesda had any integrity they would have incorporated co-op themselves, after modders proved it was possible.
@@117Ender I'm just gonna say it, Morrowind wasn't that good and only has exploration and player freedom going for it. Bethesda the dev has never made a single great game, like Witcher 3 is for example.
SHARTED SPACE!
Shartfield: Shattered Sphincter
I got a credit for a "free" copy of this game, with a graphics card....
I couldn't even be bothered to redeem it, much less download or play it.
I bought a new PC and got codes for Starfield&DLC as a bonus. I wonder if these copies are included in their "copies sold" stats.
They absolutely are.
Its ok. Its a bethesda game.
I'd still ask for a refund.
That really is very expensive. You can't add 8 hours to an RPG and charge 30 bucks. That's nowhere NEAR enough.
Weren't the mass effect story add-ons like $10
Actually 16hours
Several years ago I saw a measure of about $1 per hour of play to be considered a decent exchange. $30 for 8 hours is around $4/hour, which is absurd.
Even at@@chrisabraham3830 's 16 hours, $2/hour is very high. Especially when I can compare to Skyrim and FO4 time I've played, which is more like me paying _pennies_ per hour of game time.
They charge $7 for a single mission and were the reward a sniper rifle IIRC has been broken since the mission was released in their in-game store. A Bethesda made "mod" is bug ridden 6 months after release, who would have thought.
@@chrisabraham3830ppl are beating it in less than 5
'Retired managers doing the bare minimum' sounds about right
Act Ma'am still crying about it though 😂
I wont even bother putting Sh*tfield back on my system.
MS needs to ditch Todd.
You can’t live solely on memes.
Never found the memes funny. He's a pathological liar, and the meat riders are finally taking note.
"You can't live solely on memes."
Meanwhile at Ubisoft, investors consider a Tencent buyout lmao
@@iro6758 Ubisoft has been dead dead since Valhalla
@@AncestorEmpire1 valhalla sucked
@@KA-vs7nl it sucked more than Syndicate.
Though Randvi is best girl.
I'm just curious how many new pronouns they managed to add in this new expansion.
Afterall, the list is ever-expanding.
Hot take: Bethesda outsourced most of Starfield to India.
I was wondering how much was outsourced and what they were doing instead?
Do no redeem the game!!
That's on them.
If I can't get my money back for buying the premium edition of _Starfailed,_ I'll accept the equivalent value in flesh carved straight from Todd Howard's and Emil Pagliarulo's hides in exchange.
Option 2 please.
Best solution I've heard yet.
The expansion was advertised by taking over the xbox. When I turned it on I had to click through the advert to even get to the home screen for the first time. Insane.
Yeah that is how I found out it was even out.
AGATHA IN SPACE!!!!
GAAAAAAAY ALL ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
Bethesda should have stuck with Fallout and Elder scrolls or at least put some effort into the galaxy
The Bethesda you're talking about no longer works there.
I just checked Steam store and here in Aussie land Starfield was an absolutely insane $119.95, and now the expansion is asking for a further $49.99.
Id actually forgotten it existed not long after it released as when a game is asking north of $100 i am waiting for reviews and weighing that purchase very carefully, obviously this one didn't add up and i have no hope whatsoever for ES6.
IGN called it boring. Az is vindicated!
Can’t say that I’m shocked.
More modern and lazy AAA releasing mid - terrible products. Expecting their “charm” to have it sell like crazy.
Given that Starfield has dramatically underperformed compared to earlier BGS titles and now the DLC has only a few thousand downloads, the writing is on the wall: listen to your fans, i.e. the source of your financial prosperity, or keep making the same mistakes, get ratioed into irrelevancy, cut losses and lay off staff, and inevitably fall into fiscal ruin.
It’s wild how fans have been telling, nay, YELLING what they’ve wanted from BGS for YEARS and somehow they still end up making things worse and then throwing their hands up in feigned shock.
The Didn't Earn It hires that fill the payroll at Bethesda absolutely HATE the customer base you're talking about.
30 dollars is insane. They should be giving the damn DLC away to those who bought the base game as an apology for how bland and awful it is.
No improvements to ships, no new exciting gear, reskinned weapons, ROFL. Buh bye!
The DLC reward is an Equinox... not even a Legendary one either.
Do Va'ruun even have the necessary infra for making ships?
@@DarkZodiacZZ They made a Spacestation, and their Dock Engineer can change your ship parts, so probably.
Not to mention they have the Tech to Harness Grav jump energy and firing it with a huge cannon.
Emil Pagliarulo is the reason Bethesda games have turned to crap
We've been saying this since 2008's Fallout 3
He's a level designer that accidentally hit promoted due to the actual quest makers quiting. He has failed upwards to this point. Ppl always used to say "Bethesda games are great accept the main quests" that was Emil lol. It's so weird to me that Todd can hear that his franchises are the only ones where everyone agrees the main dish in every game isn't worth eating ...like why wouldn't he fire him I don't get it
Don't forget Todd "5ft" Howard who is a total clown too.
Wow. They still have 15k still playing that?? I'm impressed they still get that
Crazy huh
You're talking about a game that's literally known the world over. 15k for Bethesda is abysmal, in the same way that 2 million watching Doctor Who is abysmal, even though those exact numbers would be considered a fantastic success on an indie game or a mid sized studio.
What you are talking about is resume in one single word. Interpretation. People are pretending that Bethesda is dead, but Bethesda did create more then 1 game for more then 25 years you know and this analyse around just 1 of those games on Steam is irrelevant since the compagnie got many games on many consoles, not just on Steam. Basically, you don't have access to their profit or financial situation, that's private. Last interview Todd made, he was gladly telling us that over 20 millions people were still playing Skyrim on every console and computer together, this is only for Skyrim and not all the games they made...
Investing more money into a game that's already a flop seems like one of the dumbest business decisions these companies make.
It "worked" for cyberpunk 2077 even though the game is still a bad RPG so it makes sense for Bethesda to try.
Back when the game was about to release, Grummz took a good look at that fugly starting screen and tried to warn us. Some people owe him a big apology.
Excellent video Az, just please give us a trigger warning next time you try to sing 🙂
This is the same shit Bungie pulled with Destiny 2, the first expansion was a small POS to fulfill the Special Edition buyers of the main game. Not surprised in the least.
This is what you get when you PREORDER. You bought the premium edition thus to preorder the first expansion with literally no details on it's content.
Act-Ma'am coping with Ghost of Yotei's discussion. Starfield DLC is a reminder.
So did everyone forget the dumpster fire that was fallout 76?
Did people honestly expect anything else from them?
People are dumb
From what I've heard, the game is now in an OK state, but why should i give it a chance when it's taken this long to get to this point its at?
The sad part is, Fallout 76 is infinitely more fun and playable than Starfield is! That's really saying something! I would _MUCH_ rather play 76 than Starfield!
@@Frontier_Rifleman Ever heard of... sunk-cost fallacy, Stockholm syndrome and some other psychological coping mechanisms? It is always online live service TESV/FO4 multiplayer mod in perpetual alpha/beta (real beta not BS corporates and shills pushed/-ing) state with in game store. Only the store is in state of RC/release...
Yep, and they will forget this dumpster fire as soon as TES6 is announced...
I was playing Tarkov with a buddy when Starfield first dropped. My cousin who always played with us was a huge Bethesda fan. He preordered and all that. Saw he was playing and sent him a message in the discord “How is it?!” He said “idk. I’ve been playing for five hours and feel like all I’ve done is talk to people.” That coming from him immediately told me what this game was.
I am so shocked they're charging $30 for it, I could have sworn it was free DLC?!
This is the same company that charged $7 for a single quest line.
They should be paying $30 to the players just to download it.
The pushback in the days of Oblivion's Horse armor wasn't enough. Then again Bethesda will sit on such ideas for years and quietly revive them like with paid mods.
@@SkylineFTW97 To be fair on Bethesda it was actually the modding community that came up with the idea for "paid mods" because there are many mod creators that have put their mods behind a paywall on sites such Patreon and Subscribestar.
@@SkylineFTW97 Ironically, even though Horse Armour gets a lot of crap for being paid cosmetic DLC, it's not actually cosmetic - the armoured horses have, bizarrely enough, more HP rather than a higher armour rating.
It turns out hiring on the basis of diversity instead of merit is disastrous for a company! Who could've seen this coming?????
Thanks, Obama
I love how passionate the modern audiences are...
On Xwitter.
Wait... _Starfield_ is still kicking?
Will there be more pronouns added to this expansion?
they are there from day one when u create your characther
And you know what's sad? Hearing whenever Bethesda hires modders who made great mods and dose nothing with them most recent example they hired some of the guys who made Fallout London which despite it's own issues is leaps and bounds superior to Pronounfield.
@@xSilentVeterenx those modders deserve to be unhappy.
Elianora(sp), the maker of all the prominent custom home mods for Skyrim, went to work for Bethesda and their job was to "decorate" the environment of Starfield. That's the job that they went to Bethesda to do. One of the first mods that came out for Starfailed, and one of the only mods, was a declutter mod that literally removed everything that that modder did. All the items were useless items with no value. They compromise their ability to make mods for the game, potentially compromising their ability to make mods for the game into the future because of non-competes
Modders that go and work for Bethesda deserve to be unhappy. A Faustian deal to feel cool is not a good look.
@@hardbrocklife Can't believe they hired Elianora, her houses look pretty but is some of the most lore and immersion breaking houses there is. Even though they look normal from the outside, the amount of weirdly placed useless clutter that is there to replace character, mechanics, skill and actual design language makes them all feel out of place and ultimately very samey.
Her mods never got support after a few months of them being out and have always been some of the most game breaking mods you could add to your game.
Maybe they hired Elianora because they saw how toxic she was/is against the fandom.
Man, that $3 US Horse Armor cosmetic DLC sure seems like a deal after nearly 20 years.
It wasn't just a cosmetic iirc
nah. that was the world's first ever paid cosmetic item in a video game. the very first one. it took one straw to break the camel's back. it can never be forgiven.
@arostwocents
It was just cosmetic, it didn't give your horse more health or any protection.
@@Adromelk yes it did.
@dextersynesterformerlysorb5334
You're right, I checked the wiki and it says it does even though while playing it never felt like it added anything but the wiki says it doubles your horses health.
Every time new news about the failure of starfield has come out, the more that chalkeaters song 'it just works' is further solidified as the truth for how bethesda run their company 😅
I reckon Skyrim will outperform is successor. That game is going to go until the engine collapses, then some modders going to drop a new engine on it.
I will never play Starfield.
I knew it was crap when they delayed TES VI for it.
You know what?.....
Starfailed...plain and simple.
"were bethesda incentivised to make anything good" this is actually a really good point. selling the DLC as part of a premium edition, means they got the sales for the DLC before it even came out, and i dont know why this didnt dawn on my until now. they are 100% NOT incentivised to deliver something good, as the have already got their payment for the DLC, before it even came out, and we know that bethesda has lost its integrity of delivering on promises.
Well that's always been the issue with pre orders well for the last 10 yrs.
Ppl would put up with a mediocre game that has interesting points to refine and build on, look at Skyrim. It's been a 10+ and ppl still play it. What ended Bethesda is that they are boring and being woke makes them boring and preachy.
@@117Ender theres people saying that Shattered Space feels like cut content from the base game, and that makes so much sense and explains how lackluster it felt. Cut content, that they then got players to pay for, this is pathetic.
They lost their integrity with delivering on promises during the many scandals of Fallout 76. They had to be threatened with class action lawsuits multiple times over multiple incidents to reluctantly keep their word. And everyone brushes it off because they """made things right in the end.""" I say fuck that, their past behavior is a strong indicator of their future behavior.
@@R4L14N if it was cut content than why not polish it and the game itself to make it good? SS came and went, and no one cared.
bethesda is a dead company. they lost their fans, with all the bad faith they burned, starfield which was gonna redeem them, and show they can sell free mods to the customers, ended up being a first to have modders say this is so boring we wont fix it. and now bethesda went from the cool kid who can get away with bullying the customer, to now being the nerd in the locker who everyone ignores. its like a saying goes, you can be the best employee and an ass, and while ppl hate you they respect you, but if your an ass and a terrible employee, then ppl hate you, you can be imperfect, but have something to redeem yourself, having nothing redeemable is just going to be ignored
@@SkylineFTW97 facts and selling skyrim but this time you pay for mods. fallout 4 being mediocre, bethesda went from it just works cause modders will fix it, to losing modders and players. if es6 is anything like starfield, ppl will preorder it, and they will be burned and finally stop trusting bethesda. they have 1 last chance to turn it around, but chances of success are low. if it flops 10 yrs from now bethesda will close its doors.
And think I was actually disappointed when I heard Bethesda games would not be coming to PS5…
Starfield is a perfect example of how appeasing explicitly to casuals is a death sentence. Todd and Emil are far too complacent in relying on the community to finish development, but as many Modders have said, they just don’t care. It’s too boring to work on. Not only do I agree, but it’s utter madness to believe it’s a good thing to pay full price for the privilege of functionally building your own game as Bethesda is trying to con consumers is.
At this point, what does Bethesda even do besides breaking all of Skyrim and Fallout 4 mods?
This 'game' is so unbelievably boring, it could be used to torture prisoners for information
No. Thats what those banana games are for. 😁
The only game I fell asleep
We had morrowind, oblivion, and skyrim. And somehow it devolved to this slop. Its almost enough to drive a man to drink.
I remember when I spent $1400 on a new PC so I could play Starfield and then never bought Starfield
Bethesda declaring that Starfield is the best game they've ever made and Ubisoft declaring Skull and Bones to be the first AAAA video game. These people truly are delusional.
I’ve got a weird take on this. It likely was the best game a majority of the devs team has ever made, because 90% of the team from Skyrim and fo4 is gone and the team was roughly 5 times the size of the old team. Was it good? No. When there are no good things to compare it to it’s the best by default.
7:44 The only pride they have is in their bio, it isn't in their work
Shattered space? More like Sharted space...
TES 6 is going to be awful. God damn it.
Bethesda's pronouns are broke and fail.
people are soooo forgiving with Bethesda, after Fallout 76 they should have gone bankrupt...
I've heard people say that even the voice actors sound bored during their performances.
But remember, as Juicehead stated as a positive for this DLC "We have new accents" XD
The "BIG" Reward for completing the DLC is an Elite Rating Equinox, Not even a Legendary.
And Equinox are amongst the worst weapons in the game.
You don't even get any Unique Items or gear.
Act Ma'am will love this game
I think all the bug fixes in the world won't fix the issues with this game. It's so boring. Who in their right mind would think "Let's make a sci fi game but the hook is...there's no aliens races. It's all humans!" You have games like the Mass Effect franchise, Freelancer & Rebel Galaxy, to draw from. They have no excuse!
Starfield is like the Act Maam, both sucked at release and still suck now
man, that rant has aged like wine, just keeps getting better and better
i'm amazed Starfield still have this much players in game, while Sushi Squad are basicaly dead
The people behind that trash are really determined to die on that hill, it's player count has dropped below the laughable numbers of what that dumpster fire Concord had.
FOURTY DOLLARS!? Weren't Dawnguard and Dragonborn only $10 each when they were new!?
It's nuts that a game they made 13 years ago is doing better than their brand new IP.
YeAH buT oNCe tHE MoDS CoMe OUt Da GaME be g00d!
Meanwhile, Tencent is looking to buy the beleaguered Ubisoft, apparently.
Why am I not surprised.
Wouldn't you want to own the IP that Ubisoft has and make actually good games? All you gotta to is fire all the shit employees.
I'm calling it - Bethesda's done with Starfield after this. They'll cut their losses and let the game die the quiet death it deserves.
If i have to tell my pronouns or i find any homosexual/trans propaganda from the elder scrolls 6, my wallet stays closed.
Western game companies seem to have forgotten how to create compelling gameplay and tell captivating stories. I hope all that Blackrock ESG money was worth it.
I hope Actmam should apologize to Az for that stupid take
Microsoft is in a meeting right now going "Fuck... We made a mistake..."
They've been fucking up for years. Still can't even run their servers for a week without fucking up
Bethesda : let's DEI. We'll save money. NO....
Let's add the graphical downgrade for Xbox users and the complete removal of the 60fps visuals settings for Series S users who literally just had it added to the game in June and actually worked very well.
At this point, the best thing Bethesda can do is hand Emil Pagliarulo a gold watch, thank him for his past work, and put him out to pasture. All the signs were there back in Fallout 4: A main story writer who can't write a compelling main story and a lead designer who can't design and refuses to lead.
Shattered Space is the equivalent of Mr. Krabs hyping up the new Krabby Land at the Krusty Krab and then when he pulled the curtain Krabby Land turned out to be a ramshackle piece of garbage.
Remember that they are still using the creation engine, It will feel the same as skyrim, fallout and starfield. The modern gaming audience is going to be able to see and feel the age
Dude, I knew there was an incoming expansion, but fuck me, it was released more than a week ago? That is a major absolute failure
And that's only the Skyrim: Special Edition. There are another couple thousand cosistent players on the original Skyrim as well, making it even worse.
More like, Shattered Expectations
Wanna make Bethesda work again? Fire Emil Pagliarulo, he's the source of 80% of Bethesda problems
I am not buying Starfield I am not buying. Elder Scrolls 6 Black Lives Matter. I am not buying anything. I am not buying The Wiccan game. I am not buying CyberCuck the Trans edition, I am done.
I literally just pirate it all from a Russian site called csrin
Nobody cares kid.
@@Danickas0 Apparently you do otherwise you would not have responded with a comment.
CyberCuck? What? I don't remember Cyberpunk 2077 having even a smidgen of cuckoldry in it
A mouse cursor in the video of the trailer?
Gives me flashbacks to pokemon sword and shield where gamefreak left the mouse cursor into their pre-rendered intro cutscene.
Nice Agatha thumbnail... It went away quick...
5:36 To summarize, it is a lack of standards in Bethesda's process.
Firm handshake, brother AZ!
Imagine being at your shitty job and your co worker turns to you and says "as long as the paychecks keep rolling in, lifes good"
The studio that brought you all these great games.
But not the minds. Those all left long ago.
There is only inclusivity.
Sadly that’s most game studios these days. All the people that made the great games of the past are no longer there and all that’s left are people infected with the woke mind virus and brainless greedy shareholders.
All the old guard who made our childhoods is gone. But what they created still remains. Like artifacts from better times.
Shartfield: Shattered Sphincter
Now with more pronouns!!