Emil Pagliarulo is an absolute hack. If you're ever in need of an aneurysm, watch his speech on writing Fallout 4.

All I can say is Rest in Peace Elder Scrolls. ES6 is gonna be nuclear levels of cheeks.

Todd talked so much about how they wanted to make starfied for 20 years but never had the tech for it, and then its just a loading screen simulator

The reason for the "writing"? Emil said It, nobody cares, they'll just make paper airplanes out of it. Way to MOTIVATE the team there. I'm sure they're ready to give their...best.

Lfg Bethesda shit talk. One of my favorite past times

People saying "I wish Bethesda had made a new Fallout game instead of Starfield" The quality would've been the exact same. I have negative expectations for the next Elder Scrolls game

I hated the voiced protagonist in F4 ruined the whole thing for me.

This is how BGS works. Come up with a bunch of cool ideas, and then fail to implement most of them and dumb it down.

Watching a games journalist come up with a more compelling story than a AAA company's entire writing staff could manage: it just works

2:00 speaking of not committing, it dawned on me that in starfield they basically tried ripping off a lot of popular sci fi works. The UC is star trek, Freestar is Firefly, Neon is like a mini cyberpunk with an Arasaka at home faction, House Varunn is Dune with a religious holy war and everything, the MQ seems to be an amalgamation of Star Wars and 2001(?). It has no identity unlike ES and Fallout, although they seem to be well on their way to losing theirs. Its all over the place and that seems to be representative of bethesda as a company in the current day.

The synth protagonist idea is fucking brilliant. Someone should make a mod out of that.

I don't even think the issue is the "chosen one" style story they go for. It's just that it's so boring. There's no heros journey. You don't ever feel like you're building your power and legend. It's "here you are. Oh look you're a mundane person. *BAM* Now you have to save the world" Let me build to that. Ironically a game that does it right is RuneScape which is ironic given it's an MMO. You start off helping a cook make a cake and doing very mundane things but at the end of it you've slain a dragon. It FEELS like you're building things. That's the issue with Bethesda games. They don't build you, you just are

Please remember these company's live of your money. So please don't pre-order and/or buy their new products :)

"It's never cheeks on purpose with Bethesda". Getting that tattooed on me when the next Fallout breaks my heart again. Totally agree, your Fallout 4 storyline is infinitely better.

synth story is actually an amazing idea

I wish we were a synth I pondered that idea playing it the first time, it felt like it was gonna be the case but yeah emil should not write anything.

My premise for the story is that YOU take the place of Shaun, it follows the vibe of FO3 opening, you grow up in the safe, comfortable Institute, never knowing the outside, you find out Kellog is your parents killer and all the evil experiments and you can ether escape for a fresh start in the Wasteland out of guilt and vengeance or take over as the head of the Institute. It makes the dynamics of the world and relations with the factions far more intense.

I see im not the only one who misses obsidian writing for fallout And ghouls looked like body horror And the brotherhood of steel was bad ass

6:10 It's pretty much the same idea Joseph Anderson suggested. I think anyone with a penchant to analyze and really understand stories comes up with something like this once they play Far Harbor and the game itself teases this. It was so close to being an actual serviceable narrative, I've no idea how they missed it. lol

based opinions from rich as usual. I remember preordering fallout 4 and I was so disappointed after installing it. New Vegas and 1 and 2 were so much better, and will forever be the real fallouts

"it's never cheeks on purpose"

Sooo... we're just gonna pretend Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel doesn't exist?

My man, you accidentally pitched Prey

Good IP in bad hands sadly. Everytime they release a half baked game and the community has to fix it themselves. They should finally drop their creation engine. i think it's been at it's limits at Fallout 76 already and Starfield has proven it.

5:50 you also have Tabitha's tribe of Mutants that will attack you on sight, but that's an exception because she is a crazy ass nightkin who cares for her robot.

I'm glad they haven't updated the gog version of fallout 4 yet. I got it drm free backed up on my hard drive with all my mods. Don't trust tech companies with your digital licenses, they WILL find a way to fuck you over my friends.

EA and Activision Blizzard enter the chat

Nate being a war criminal is unironically better than any story point actually written in Fo4

That poor, poor ...engine. It's been soooo FRAKENSTEINED IT doesn't KNOW what's going on any more. It doesn't know what an FOV slider is. It doesn't know what a ...WIDE SCREEN TV is. And 61 fps?....Cap'n she canna take it, you'll DESTROY the laws of physics. Poor ...thing.

Emil Pagliarulo couldn't forgive himself that he not only had the main character be a white straight man, but that he was a respected Veteran. It must've been eating him up inside for years and now that eyes are back on the game thanks to the show, he decided to 'right the wrong' by making the completely docile main character a turbo giga fascist.

i was ready to roll my eyes but your fallout 4 idea is so fucking good lol

Great work Editor.

Fallout 4 should have either went with the synth idea or focused on settlement building and actually let you rebuild the commonwealth.

It's really quite frustrating seeing all these hacks cruise by on past glory days, sometimes not even their own. On the other hand people are drawing increasing attention to it and some old gems receive rejuvenated attention. Would much rather just not have hacks everywhere though.

I remember playing F3 for the first time and the first things they make you do is gun down a supermutant. I was fresh off playing F1 and F2 and was expecting something similar to rats or radscorpions. I didn't play very long. Same thing with F4 where one of the first thing you do is gun down a deathclaw. How can you have any sense of progression after that ? I remember morrowind when my lvl1 character was missing the weird worm again and again but at the end of the playthrough I was jumping mountains and one shotting everything with my legendary hammer.

Codsworth could be a double experiment and explain why he "feels" emotions compared to robots before. Take a Mr Handy from somewhere or add them to the institute and reprogram it to match up with Nates backstory. If you spend enough time with codsworth you could find inconsistencies between your prewar experience and his

Synth story sounds like Prey

Ayo Richard! Any chance of a Fury - Usyk review after the weekend?

you gotta love how incompetent these bethesda guys are,they are literaly unable to make ultrawide work in 2024,when mods did it fine in 2015

Does anyone know if Manor Lords is now available?

5:30 almost every mutant on black mountain attack on sight

“All they needed to do was write the opening scene as an implanted memory which makes sense because it’s trash” That made me laugh out loud

I'm a pc er and that PATCH for CONSOLES did nothing for me. Glitch Gulch STILL exists. NPC s appearing on roofs. In their "patch" notes they said NOW settlement resources will be displayed correctly. Well how nice since the EIGHT years I've owned it , that NEVER worked. I walk so far from a settlement and I would then get, "your settlement has no water, food, beds." No it's got TWICE the amount they want. Go back to the settlement and everything is fine. Now? I KNOW I got 15 beds in Sunshine co op, go to sanctuary and my pip boy tells me 13 annnddddd 3 food when I got 24. For some reason playing Simsettlements 2( THERE'S a GAME. I don't consider it a MOD) That DOES display ALL info CORRECTLY. Liethesda had it day, now? I FEAR for what they're going to do to Elder 6 and Fallout 5? The future AIN'T looking bright. You'll notice I DIDNT mention SLOPFIELD. THAT'S right, I...didn't.

I like this new content from you, having known you from cs basically I love that you are now talking about fallout, and yes I agree that bethesda is throwing out the window what the west coast fallouts were about, being 2 and new vegas the best games in my opinion. Additionally the series reminds me a lot of fallout tactics in the vault 0 regard.

Yeah but have you considered how great it is that Bethesda is owned by Microsoft? 😂

IT JUST WORKS!

Emil Pagliarulo's level of writing is too weak to handle deep writing like that, he likes to "Keep it Simple, Stupid".

We criticize Bethesda not because we hate them, but because we want them to be better.

Bro wants to play Caves of Qud so bad

your fallout 4 synth rewrite goes hard ngl

Funny thing about the censorship of children on Fallout 2 they just make the sprites invisible so in The Den you still get pick pocketed just now by basically ghost children

Seeing starfield was a massive gut punch. It essentially set in stone for me that there is no conceivable way that Elder Scrolls 6 will live up to the enormous expectations.

Cheeks On Purpose is my favourite synth pop album

I am so glad I started playing 76 pre-Wastelanders. That was a nice experience. I still play it now, but I was able to see the evolution of the game which is... Well it's the best you can hope for with Bethesda.

i'm pretty sure this is exactly what they did for FO4's story, you are a synth, i have played the game many times to come to this understanding, i will admit it took me some time to consider it because the game makes you really feel like you were the only survivor in your vault, but when meeting Dima in far harbor, he brings up the question of memories and how your memories could be manufactured as for some reason you only remember the day the bombs dropped with no memory prior. i think the synth story is intriguing as it's never been like this before, not only this, but Shaun tells you releasing you was an experiment of sorts, meaning you are not really his father, you are a representation of his father, the memories may have been real but like the synth Nick Valentine, these were downloaded or uploaded into your mind, or the synth body and everything from the moment of waking up was all programmed into you to follow the bread crumbs back to him.

There was a ghoul in Fallout 2 that was buried alive for months without any food or water and he still survived. There was another ghoul (Again in Fallout 2) that slept for so long that people thought he was a mummy. So no, Bethesda didn't actually retcon anything, Ghouls have always been inconsistent.

richard: make the protagonist a synth to make it less boring reality: the male protagonist is a war criminal, kthxbye

I'm loving the fallout video's.

Since the so called next gen update my game is unstable. It now crashes constantly. That’s literally all that’s changed

This was a damn enjoyable rant

Soma is crazy good. Recommend to everyone, voice acting is also excellent. Takes half a day to go trough. Do it.

Fallout 4 is basically a mod platform.

im personally cool not being a synth in 4.

The synth story would be good and it reminds me of Prey by Arkane Austin. You play as an alien and are fed memories of a scientist who had a former girlfriend and brother. You work on a space station that's actually a simulation designed to test whether you can develop emotions and feelings towards humans in disaster situations. All your actions on the station, whether you helped or killed people, and the manner in which you did so, are highlighted at the end. It's an absolutely amazing game. However, Bethesda seems to be running on old ideas that are poorly executed.

It’s still absolutely hilarious that Microsoft and 343 are like the only ones in recent times to make one of these video games shows and unlike every other recent one They fucked it so badly it managed to lose players unlike every other one that saw a massive increase Witcher 3: highest player base ever from the show Cyberpunk 2077: edgerunners had cyberpunk sell so well cdpr had their best 3rd quarterly profits ever Tlou: massive player base increases Fallout: massive playerbase increases Halo tv show: their current live service f2p game lost players

One of Bethesda's issues is your choices don't matter the majority of the time. Fallout 4 has you siding with 3 out of 4 factions to get the same ending. Only siding with the Institute gives a slightly different ending. As for the voiced protagonist I get why some dislike it. On the other hand as many people like having their character with a voice. What we need is some way tell your character what to say and have the character say it via something like text to speech.

last i heard there are a few documents in the institute insinuating that you ARE a synth in fallout 4. sorta implied since your only memories are of before the bombs dropped. could be a conspiracy but bethesda wouldn't be smart enough to do anything with that anyway

me: Clicks on video fallout 4 in the background: crashes to dashboard Me: whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

oh just so you know, FO London will now be released on GOG, not the nexus or on steam, bethesda and steam kind of screwed the pooch on that.

I literally just watched a video proving you're a synth in fallout 4. I've never played a fallout game and I'm waiting to get my VR setup to MOD it and get the best quality experience I can.

The writing in Fallout 4 would not be fixed if they made a single change lol

Bad writing and Toddler Howard ruined Bethesda. God miss the old days of Bethesda

Synth Nate is alright but to be honest they could have just flesh out the story while putting up more reactionary interactions in the world like fallout NV. The roots might be the start. They could just pulled another Courier and let the player get shot too but survive somehow making us amnesiac then Shaun will guide us in the back ground to Kellogg and the Institute then giving the twist and his memories back.

Bethesder rexperience.

BALDERS GATE 3 is a game full of rampent degeneracy.

Even in FO4 these a settlement of ghouls farming, enen in their own games they contradict themselves.

Emil couldn't write instructions on how to leave his own fucking house let alone a compelling, cohesive well written story. I'd also like to note it took bethesda 2 FUCKING YEARS to shit this "update" out, what the fuck were they doing???? modders do this shit in literal days.... bethesda took 2 fucking years to get this little done? christ almighty. and with 2 YEARS advance. they still couldnt release it WITH the show, it came out a few days after, maybe a week after. this company continues to prove it needs to have the fallout license taken off them because they seem to be good at making one fucking game and thats it. make elder scrolls, don't make it shit, don't take 11 fucking years to shit out an already decade old game.

Hey kid in the fridge is ridiculous buuuttt , pretty sure he didn't say 200 hundred years. Just said he jumped in there when he heard explosions. One theory is that was the Quincy battle. Still , in game , that happened over a month ago so still he was in there waaaay too long.

ok, look, i'm a PC user i mod my game to all hell and back, and the other day i had a look at someone playing FO4 on console and i hate to admit this, but their game looked better than mine and they had the update, i was jealous that their game played and looked better than my setup, however at the same time i know this is only temporary, eventually bethesda will fix their fucked,update for the PC's and we will have a superior experience once again. i prevented the update myself because i didn't want to be the beta tester of Bethesda's poor track record.

Dude did you play Fallout 4? Even before I tried Far Harbor where they blatantly explored the possibility that you've been a synth this whole time, there was this question in the back of my mind that there was at least a chance my character was some kind of avenging angel ala Luv in Blade Runner 2049, sent from beyond the grave to take the place of Shaun's dead parent, and ultimately to take his place as well - and to find my own place in the world of the future which was mine to shape. It's meant to be a lingering question. The possibility is right there, and the game is actually written well enough to not smack you in the face with it (at least until Beth listened to someone like you and shoehorned it into a DLC). That is precisely what makes the game good and leagues above any other Fallout plotline. There are subtleties to the game which most people simply don't pick up on and so they think it's bad. Yes, there's no page in your pipboy telling you you're evil, and this is a GOOD thing. You have to actually stop, take a step back, and look at what you're doing to realize when you're being evil in this game, and you can be extremely evil, trust me. Even rebuilding the minutemen and doing all kinds of good in the Commonwealth you can be incredibly evil.

That's a great story rewrite for FO4, rather than 4's story just being the shockingly stupid inverse of Fallout 3's "find your father" story.

Seeing so many other people pointing out Bethesdas shit game writing and creation skills is motivating me more and more to get into modding, and just completely redo all of Fallout 4 from scratch with some of the assets from the base game. To see how much they massacred the lore of the universe and just casually saying through Pete Hines “we don’t really give a shit lol”(paraphrasing I know, but that’s basically what the dude said), and how much thought and creativity were in the West Coast fallout titles, it bothers the hell out of me, because the entire story, settlement system, factions, lore, the WRITING, the weapons and armor, it’s all just a spit in the face by Bethesda themselves

Imagine if they could have a FNV remake ready for the tv show

I'm a big fan of F1 and F2 and didn't like F3 and F4 but I have to say I tried to play FNV because everybody told me I'd love it but I stopped my playthrough after a few hours, mainly because of graphics. It's very outdated and I don't have the nostalgia effect like F1 and F2. I have to find a way to power through and get the story started

It could be easy to just say that those people at Bethesda are idiots but it's a big mistake. Fallout 4 writing was quite bad, Starfield writing was just awfull but so many people play those games and don't complain. Our dear Emil said once that players don't want complicated quests and advanced dialogues, they just skip them and want to kill npcs and blow things up. And unfortunately this is true, even with the simplified dialogue wheel in Fallout 4 people i watched playing this game on youtube mostly skip them, they don't read the texts they don't listen to quest givers. And then taking this in account Emil just do what "we" want, a quick and dirty job on writing to just send the player on a simple radiant quest. And in Starfield this went to a complete perfection, the most idiotic dialogues, the most meaningless quests, the most nonsensical stories that they have even achieve. And people still buy those games, many of them even think that writing is great that the quests are the best they ever done and so on... So what's the conculsion, well it's just that Bethesda thinks "we" are idiots, that we like simple stories and just grinding on collecting legendaries, doint the same dungeon 50 times, killing the same ennemies over and over. I just watched a video yesterday that was showing that players have lost interest in complex games that need strategy thinking, short attention, the need to get satisfaction quick, all this leads to simple games for idiots and you can add microtransaction to make it pay to win so their brain does not get overwhelmed.

basicaly the story of Prey 2017

Maybe Todd is a synth.

I think Todd should step down or let other people direct games in Bethesda. He’s kinda like Vince McMahon in the sense that he did great business in the early days then stick to the same formula for decades and become creatively stagnant and out of touch with it’s target audience

now i do agree with you on the whole update thing, but most people who mod their games, knew bethesda would screw that up somehow.

Imagine a starfield 2, i bet you everything will be 10x bigger and better

Based rant 👍.

TES online, Fallout 76 and Starfield completely destroyed my faith in Bethesda the developer and the publisher.

You know, I have observed the gradual increase in bethesda's reliance on radiant systems and proceduralism every single new game they put out (granted procedural design was always part of their games, in different implementations and scales), but what really grinds my gears in starfield is not the barren landscapes and repeated flora and fauna assets across thousands of planets, but the fact that there's a total amount of like, 3 interior layouts for outposts and caves. I was p*ssed when I entered a cave in a godforsaken planet and it was the EXACT SAME CAVE you find Andreja in the main storyline. Like, why they didnt do procedural interiors for caves and outposts? I really wouldnt mind all that much if 90% of these interiors werent all that brilliant if at the very least they were different from one another.

Love the rant, have to think the TNG shirt is a conscious choice in regards to the pis poor writing of Bethesda Fallout. Soong-type androids like Data are handled so much better than the synths.

At least the gameplay and gunfight is fun in Fallout 76 and 4

I've been playing Kenshi these last few weeks and it's amazing how a game made (for the most part) by one guy is miles better than any crap Bethesda has shat out these last 20 or so years

Please talk about Bethesda's predatory marketing practices regarding the Fallout 76 Atom Shop. Almost half of the assets advertised in the pictures of the "Everything Pink" bundle aren't even included, which is quite ironic for the name. They are taking advantage of all new players who don't have the time or energy to google the name of every item that's listed in these bundles to calculate whether or not its worth their money.

the funny thing is if they make a fallout with the graphics of fallout 3, but a decent story, the same mechanics, and impactful narrative choices the shit would probably sell like water... with minimum cost too... they basically just have to make a in house story mod team... holyshit...

There is so much wrong with the narrative and synths themselves, simply being a synth would not solve the problem.

I like fallout and elder scrolls i have accepted that its gonna be mid if its made by Bethesda. i just don’t have high expectations. I play mostly for the exploration and gameplay.