>In Fallout 5, we'll play as the VaultBorn and we'll rebuild the Wasteland with the help of the even uglier ESG compliant NPCs and the Sweet Baby Inc. faction!!! >Emil Pagliarulo will be hailed as the God of the Writing arts.

It's legit hilarious that the player is actually called the starborn I really cannot believe it.

yeah the funny thing about Delphine is, it's not bad writing to make an unlikable character. Unlikable characters can be very compelling. The writing failure with Delphine is the huge shortcoming in ways our dragonborn can respond. So she's a total prick, but the dragonborn just rolls over for her. And that's where the frustration comes from. Take Nazem in comparison, everyone hates Nazeem, but they LOVE to hate Nazeem, because they can respond to him however they want.

A plot about the player unknowingly opening the way for a cosmic horror and finding out the starborn hunter was trying to stop the player from doing so but he or her had done this loop so many times they don't even try to talk to player they just go for the kill but are too late to stop you. Then this opens up the hopping from multiverse to multiverse trying to find a way to stop or kill the cosmic horror as emissaries of the entity try to stop you. That would have been a better twist to the story but I guess that is too big brain for today's Bethesda.

So TES has the Dragonborn, Starfield has the Starborn, so what will the next Fallout have, the Nukeborn?

The worst part about Starfield is it's so PAINFULLY bland. You can see that Emil's stink has ruined the interesting concepts the story brings forth. Emil has been doing this since MORROWIND. Mechanically,the game could use some fine tuning,and some adjustments. But Emil HAS to go,but Bethesda will NEVER get rid of him,even though he IS the problem. He wanats you to be ALWAYS good no matter what.

I did not see that comment about Delphine coming... Thank you for torturing yourself through Starfield for our amusement.

I've taken shits that were more memorable than StarField

40:44 this is really sad to see from Todd... to see they have such a clearly defined intention, but lack so much fundamental understanding that they don't just miss the mark, they miss the planet. It really shows how much of their success was an accident.

"Write what you know" is perfect when explaining Starfield writing. Most writers feel like amateur interns who watched a lot of Marvel movies and spend their time on social media 24/7. It shows specially when it comes to Crimson Fleet characters writing. All bad guys are just plain rude. They are childish and immature. The leader lacks any witt or charisma. The writers wrote the villains as if they were rude internet commenters cause they don't know anything else to write about. The only thing they couldn't include is swearing. Otherwise it would have been like Forspoken.

When starfield dropped I had just come off a tears of the kingdom playthrough, w very minimal dialog, Cyberpunk 2077, w intricate plot lines, w a little valheim sprinkled in which had almost zero dialog, a d having to sit thru starfields dialog felt like punishment. Every. Single. Time. It was sleep inducing brain rotting garbage, and I read comic books in the 80s. I couldn't stomach any of it. Bi turned it off and Uninstalled. Then went to play baldurs gate 3. My mind was blown at the difference. And to be clear I WANTED TO LOVE STARFIELD. I PAID 100 DOLLARS TO GAIN EARLY ACCESS. I'M NOT A BETHESDA HATER I JUST HATE BAD GAMES. F U TOAD HOEWAD

I do think that exploitation and an exploration into neoliberal, NATO-esque, world orders were far better explored in actually political games like Disco Elysium, in response to 21:42. Hell, most of the cRPG / strategy genre that goes below the radar have extremely good explorations on specific mature topics. Want a more nuanced take of a man simply existing within a military dictatorship? Tyranny, Rogue Trader, and Highfleet will scratch this itch. Not only does each have a great premise, but they enhance the core themes via mechanics that feedback into the narrative. Such as Highfleet's POV allowing the player to feel a stretch removed from the conflict, as if he were viewing his actions from a drone camera, as he fights for survival. Naturally, the player accrues war-crimes along the way as there are villages dotted around the map that present as small little markers on your window. In the heat of battle, you must quickly gauge as either threats to your ship (as enemies combatants will fire from these markers) or harmless. Small things like that actively pull the player into an intriguing narrative. And hey, even if the player isn't receptive to the story (as-in he's literally not paying attention), well, at least he'll have a good time trying something different.

oh my god..... "Starborn" is a knockoff of "Dragonborn"..... I can't believe I never noticed..... are they THAT starved for creative innovation????

While Todd is is stuck being a CEO, I believe Emil is the current game director.

I instantly had the same thought about the totally original non-xenomorphs. Based on Emil's past and that presentation about writing he did, I imagine that he must have watched Jurassic World, and so was exposed to the militarized dinosaurs idiocy and thought "Wow that's a cool idea!" and then added it to his own story.

Ah, Starfield's factions. They present me a conumdrum; on one hand the faction questlines were some of the most fun I actually had in Starfield, but on the other you can actually tell which scifi franchises the writers liked: you've got 'Starship Troopers' land, the 'Firefly' themepark, etc. Decades and this is what they give us? I was saddened by the statement that Bethesda will never make another Morrowind; barring a major shakeup in Bethesda's creative team, a spiritual successor to Morrowind ain't happening; I don't even think they could pull off a sequel to Skyrim at this point. I don't feel good about typing that, just saying outloud what a lot of Bethesda's fans are thinking, giving the conversations ive had on various forums. You could *buy slaves* in Morrowind. (You could free them as well, of course!) With the ESG-soaked morass we got in Starfield, I cannot imagine Morrowind getting greenlit today, I'm genuinely worried about TES VI. I'm going to buy it, whenever it releases, and im going to play it, but Starfield has me VERY concerned about where TES is headed. I suppose we'll see. Thank god we've still got (free) modding on Morrowind and Oblivion.

Delphine is a better written character than most if not everyone from Starfield. As someone who thinks Skyrim is pretty bland and shallow, that thought is mind-shattering to me. Maybe Starfield is worse than I thought.

They tried to avoid all the cliches and realized their wasnt anything fun left and still pushed this crap out. Guys were gonna avoid all cliches and make a "realistic" space exploration sure dead planets are boring but go run across em any how.

Current day writers: all the skill and ability of a ground up piece of wet tissue paper with the emotional maturity of a 3 year old and the hormones of a mid-pubescent, all suffering from delusions of greatness because at no point in their childhood and youth did their parental authority love them enough to put limits on them and tell them: "no."

Nick Valentine cannot be allowed to continue!

mauler, spaceballs, and big lebowski cuts? oh we def on the same page!

When I first started playing SF I was shocked at how bad the dialogue was. The "romances" are an embarrassment. I finally quit listening or reading and just kept hitting the key to get to whatever non-choice my character was allotted until I finally couldn't play it anymore. Unless someone does a total conversion mod, this is simply unfixable. Last night, I went back to play some Witcher 3 that actually has decent dialogue. I have been a long-time Bethesda fan but unless I see rave reviews on their next game, I'm done with them--that's how burned I feel by the poor quality of this game.

Starfield is revealing of how incompetent Bethesda has become in recent years especially in writing without the years of lore building that Elder Scrolls and Fallout have. They don’t know how to build a interesting world and story without retreading their own stories the Dragonborn/Starborn connection is the most blatant it feels like they realize without magic powers the game would’ve been Fallout in space so instead of improving the gunplay without VATS or giving the player interesting gadgets to shake up gameplay they just shove in magic and give them a unoriginal name.

2:30 On a side note, walter and his everlasting love both got sucked into the wall slowly during their romancing. Made it slightly less annoying.

Multiverse is almost always a terrible idea. All it does in most instances is eliminate stakes.

I was so bored and angry wandering around aimlessly and lost I never got much further along than the first city so I never got into the "story". Maybe that was a blessing.

The look on that guys face when Todd is talking about replaying Starfield is just perfect, he looks in physical pain.😂

New Atlantis looks more like Abu Dhabi. That wouldve been cool though, an entirely Arab city with futuristic Arab culture... not the crude entho-salad it is now.

great work and love the editing! cant wait to see more

I love your vids my man! I can't wait to see what you cover next

I was going to listen to this, but your prowess in editing is just too good not to watch so I did * chefs kiss * Thanks for the laughs. Starfield is my telenovela that I'm following with morbid interest from the comfort of my hundreds of hours playing BG3. Great content, subscribed😉

Woop woop, part two here we go!

1:21 NO WAY. This brought back my fucking childhood within just a few seconds. On a different note, ASDF Movie unironically might have better writing than Starefield. It certainly has better build up and pay off.

It definitely was weird to look back at fallout 4 so positively.

This whole game looks like it was made for teenagers, and not very bright ones at that. Embarrassing dialogues, infantile characters, relationships that amuse with their lack of maturity, a scenario like from cartoons from the 80's, mechanics simplified to the minimum. ZERO consequences of choices. ZERO skill requirements. And that, after all, is just the narrative side. On top of that, the technical side is some 20 years out of date. Complete crap made by people who stopped mentally decades ago.

Amazing videos, both of them. Thank you for great entertainment :)

Love how the video thumbnail kinda says "SOLD" with Sarah in front of it making that weird angry face (i really hate facial expressions in Starfield to my core). Thats the only thing Bethesda cares about, sure, its the goal of every game company, but that doesnt mean their product has to be shit.

The game should have been at most 100 planets, would've been better to be 12. Ending by traveling through the unity, with a fallout style montage ending

I can't believe it took them 7 years to make this abomination. The entire Starfield feels like a combination of Skyrim and Fallout's basic functions, with space ships instead of horses.

I will note that you CAN tell compelling story in a "multiverse" but first you have to have an idea what you actually want to acomplish. Hell my favourite story right now technically has a multiverse but it's not "infinite" and the alternate worlds are like fleeting bubbles in the sea that reflect and distort the proper world. It's also written by people who understand what complications "multiverse" brings so they've reigned it in hard.

ENTER THE TRASHFIELD AND BECOME THE TRASHBORN UNITY IS A RECYCLE BIN TO FIX YOUR GAME

Your point about just who the hell is making all these Starborn ships and spacesuits is spot on. That, more than anything, ruined the whole Starborn thing for me. The fact that this was not explained just made my head implode. I couldn't take the game seriously after that.

I don't think even mods can save it. And the main reason is performance and loading screens. Bethesda games already run like crap. Modding in a more advance city, NPC's, etc. will just make it worse. And the loading screens. My god are they infuriating. It was barely tolerable in skyrim, but here? Heck no. Bethesda had a very good chance to make a realistic game. Just set it to 1 planet thats orbiting a red dwarf (as an example) so it has a red sky, dark colored water, dark flora and fauna. The planet could be windy to transfer heat because its tidally locked and thus no day/night cycle. Maybe you can have the planet have permanent rain storms in certain parts due to the hot side of the planet and cold side of the planet meeting in between. I can tell you this would've given them a truly unique setting. Perhaps this is the human's first foray into interstellar travel and they are just starting to colonize the planet, which would explain why there's only just towns and maybe like 1 city. And its your job to help colonize the planet, thus you gotta set up towns. Maybe have the player raise funds, gain favor, etc. with other NPC's so that they can create the towns faster/better. To be even more realistic, you can remove perkpoints, skills, weapon upgrades, etc. for the most part since its not very realistic. Rather, have the player naturally level up the skills which get used most commonly. Powerful weapons are gated behind massive amounts of money you have to gather. Thus, using less powerful weapons or modifying them to improve them would make more sense. Or if you do get a powerful weapon, you have to modify it and buy the mods to fully use it. Etc. This would let your loot and sell gameplay loop shine a lot brighter. Another aspect is the enemies. Stop having so many enemies. Have players resolve differences via speech more often. Or make the fights actually hard. Have a proper reputation system. Jail system. maybe even a court system. You've done some of this already bethesda. Their ancient engine (because they can't update it for crap) would be able to handle this FAR better than what they currently have.

"Space California and Space Texas, but worse" - lol.

now they synchronized their update system so when they update this vacuous space 'game' skyrim mods break. they cannot stand it that people play their old games. stop giving them money.

Just a head's up, around 4:52 at the beginning of Sarah's chapter you have 'an euphemism' instead of 'a'. 😊 thanks for making me learn which it was. I actually forgot/wasn't 100% sure lol Really enjoy your humor and style! 😃

Fallout though you cannot attribute to Bethesda, They haven't done anything new in the story, they just re-hash/re-package stuff from fallout 1 and 2, the only bit of originality came from new Vegas (again not Bethesda) You could argue Liberty Prime, + some of robots are the only new thing they actually added to the setting. Oh and Lovecraft stuff. So no originality to be found story wise.

The first mod I installed was the "skip dialogue" mod, and then I uninstalled the game as I couldn't stand the copy paste of everything.

Tim Curry desperately trying to keep himself from laughing his ass off as he says that at 22:01 will never not be amazing.

Love the commentary, Looking forward to more content!!

Multiverse is like the director or budgeter saying; "where milking the franchise and we now have lore authority to make up shit as we please with little effort, and if something goes wrong its multi-verse." to the fans.

In Mass Effect, at least you feel like a charismatic, badass marine who fights cosmic monsters. In Skyrim, Dragonborn is cool because you're prophesied hero part of Nord culture and son of Akatosh. Starborn..is just so bland and uninteresting.

The first Jurassic World is the only 'board room checklist' movie I give a pass... because the checklist is essentially just "Over the top shit that would be cool" it was almost a parody of the original and the acting and directing seems self aware of this.... Then again I thought the Waller Bridge Driod in Solo was satire and it wasn't. Poe's law is a bitch.

Traditional multiverse concept (every choice and even non-choice splits the world into multiple realities) by itself is quite problematic. That's why you need either a REALLY good writer to handle a story set within such a multiverse, or you need to think of and use a different kind of multiverse that is less problematic.

RIP Bethesda. MS will not allow to improve on anything. MS interested on one thing only - to fill game subscription library with differently colored goo, just about good enough so consumers (not gamers anymore) will not cancel subscription. Anything above - just increasing expenses.

Mod idea. Kill Matteo quest.

Great and totally entertaining analysis. I used to love the Fallout universe.... but Fallout 4 added lots of inconsistencies and made all the factions so unbelievable with their only motivation being to kill everyone else. It killed my interest in all future Fallout games. The Starfield world lore had some promise when they released the history of events. But just like the main story mystery ... nothing delivers. I just didn't find the factions and the destruction of Earth believable or immersive. I was excited to go to the hospital that started the colony wars. But I could not find any details on why it was built in a location that would start a war. I expected some intrigue or secret motivation. But I found nothing. The different parts of the world lore should support eachother. Instead Starfield world lore is a fragmented list of ideas that often contradict eachother. At the most basic level the Starfield story is flawed. The human race completely 100% leaves Earth due to radiation & lack of atmosphere to set up bases on planets that often have radiation and no atmosphere. How does that make any sense? And there is nothing in the terrible main storyline that makes you think about religion or faith. They totally oversold how "deep" the main story was going to be. The main story is as shallow as a puddle. The only mystery left in the game is House Varuun. I am very curious about them.... but at this point I have zero faith left that they can deliver good story about this faction. I too have been pushed past my breaking point. The world lore, writing & quests are just too weak, inconsistent & shallow to waste time playing their new games. So I am now a PREVIOUS Bethesda fan as the games they make now just make me want to cry ! The only Bethesda thing I am excited for is the Oblivion remaster if it is true.

The companions are so bad that I assign the ones on my ship for specific RP reasons, leave them there (in my way half of the time), and solo everything unless it is close to my ship and Vasco attacks. The crew and stations need functionality. I really don't like the game my cool ship building game is surrounded by.

Enshrouded already has a better intro sequence and worth more of my time than Starfield gives lmao

I don’t think it’s impossible to do an alternate time and universe well, I mean Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross did it well. I’d say it’s impossible for Bethesda to do it well.

Emotional relations in a game are amazing, when its not obnoxious and just throw in their in the players face; it must be presented in a way a player has to dig to find out the real reason why, that's what makes it engaging. adding a golden steak to the game is nice; slapping it the player face at each possible opportunity makes the steak not so golden anymore and much less tasty; when adding emotional., it must be set up in bread crubs so the player wont lost interest, and then near the end an entire bread; and then the end a golden steak. not it should be with variety instead of a golden steak, you got premium bread with some butter; not everything need to be juicy, neither spicy neither sweet, some can be sour and still taste good; especially for villain arcs, or in morale fetish, a response doesn't have to be inline, it could even be a random whim; but it must be done right. That how writing is, bread crumbs, a piece of steak, and then barbecue sauce, that escalates to toasted bread with butter, and a dash of olive, that later descends into a settle nice pinch of salt; cook up so nice story basically, whip up some nice fun backed in the oven, and hot.

Lol. You brought Tim Curry from C&C Red Alert 3! The silly and goofy time travel storyline from that game is a masterpiece compared to Starfield.

Starfield is the type of game that screams "written by committee" (and HR ladies).

That Ron Hope re-write was simple and perfect

3:11 me am strong independent wahmen who need no man, me am onlz want them. This is getting so damn boring.

The descend of a human into madness

"Sense star stuff" bruh

The most shocking thing about Starfield is how many people actually thought it would be good. They didn't market the game, they marketed a fucking watch. That was your first clue something was off.

Yeah, it's a Bethesda game. They all have shitty writing.

- Got the game on Xbox Game Pass. - Start Game. - Character creation asks me what are my pronouns. - Sure that it only gets worse after that. Close and uninstall game. - Play another game, not developed by smoothbrains.

the return of the king! well made rant

top 10 first world problems lmao

Bethesda has had god awful writing since Kirkbride, whats the surprise?

It just works 🥴

Guy sounds like Mrdoctor IYKYK

Calling it now elder scrolls six is going to suck balls. Sigh better play Skyrim again !

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Laughing my A$$ off and just started watching….the characters are sooooo EMO.

I'm going to voice an unpopular opinion here and say Starfield will never be fixed, and Elder Scrolls VI is going to be hot garbage. With that being said, I will probably play Elder Scrolls VI at minimum 100 hours just to make sure I don't like it.

It's ok to make unlikeable characters, but you must allow people to kill them as well, otherwise it's just annoying

The fact you only have 937 Subs is some weird Multiverse What Not shit.

Fallout 4 does not produce a good example of the fallout universe fallout 1,2 and new Vegas are good fallout games

But Bethesda game always have bad writing? It is just funny 10 years ago but become unfunny today

There is nothing realistic about the game's space imagination, so claiming they tried to make it realistic is the same as you saying you think it is realistic. What is realistic about a multiverse, like it is some MCU nonsense, and then you have planets with nothing but rock and there are silly insect looking aliens on them, what do these animals eat? Rocks? Then you have warping through space, this also is not scientifically valid, it's literally star wars nonsense. And then you have humans on baron worlds struggling for resources, yet they have an entire galaxy of planets which the game already makes clear they can easily travel to any of them. Also not finding any half intelligent life, or even fossil evidence of intelligent life, instead everything is a silly insect type enemy is also like something out of Starship troopers. There is nothing scientific about this game, it is a bunch of nonsense made by Emil Pagliarulo, who claims his religion of Catholicism is his inspiration, lol.

its means little to nothing when the titles Just became literally anything + Born, it really shows the lack of effort put into the game writing; really shallow; At least in Skyrm even if there are multiple dragons born, where the only one alive and our significant actually matter in the grand scheme of thing. it Bethesda's Garfield it's just another useless pointless pronoun to just have a sticker in your forehead that says your special

Honestly I hope the failure of starfield does not make them do away with the idea off new game+ because ignore the story and lore around it. That's a good idea. Imagine a game with the complex guilds like morrowind with the story but something like shouts. Every new game+ you grow stronger you can experience stuff you you didn't have the skill to before. Imagin you kill alduin Delphine shuts her mouth and partonax tells you "By killing him something ripped across time. I fear alduwin is alive but not here." where? "Another time? maybe place? It's unknown." how do you know? "I am.. unsure. Look to the scroll one last time. it may lead you dova." Then you look at the scroll and a voice tells you alduwin lives in the echo of time. You can chose to chase him but will lose everything. But your power and knowledge will grow. life a new life and grow." Minimum story link it's time not dimensional so it's more of a groundhog day and you get to make the guilds complex again with a multi branching story. Can even bring back spell crafting so if something broke hey no worry ng+ cleaned it up because your effects got removed.

I HATED that game. The ship builder is super cool, but there’s no way to play the hero. The good guy. There’s no way to reject the bourgeoisie and unite all the outlaw factions in an attack on the formalized classism keeping people living in squalor in The Well. The criminal class obviously manipulates a fiat currency for their own benefit at the expense of the poor. I know, I hacked their banking system and tested them. Nope, if I can’t play Robin Hood in whatever reality anyone wants to dream up, I’m out. The Western town is pretty ok. People there live rough, too, but those are flippin’ pioneers. You couldn’t corral them in a nice apartment if you tried. Cool ship builder. Scrap the rest.

Are people still making salty videos about Starfield😂 that's sooo sad 😢😢

Whoa. Is this guy homophobic? Seems like this guy is homophobic. Why does he keep bringing it up? That's completely irrelevant.

capitalism is just a glorified feudalism. You can't pick both between helping ppl and making money out of them.