One of the things that excited me most was that the traits were full of role-playing implications, not simple stat effects and numbers. Gives me the good feeling of a RPG focus on the narratives. Also, insect shaped spaceships are kind of awesome too.

Starfield builds?

Being a huge elite dangerous and skyrim fan, the game sounds perfect for me. In elite, I love just flying around and exploring random planets, but I do miss some depth in settlements and storylines. Hoping this turns out good, I can see putting in hundreds or even thousands of hours.

If you ever played Outer Wilds, some of the seemingly empty planets hold ancient cities/structures containing lost history beneath the terrain. I hope the more barren planets in Starfield have something similar to this and they can reward the player with unique or legendary items + lore.

I know many of the “dead worlds” will be just that, but imagining a dead world that’s loaded with labyrinthine ruins and puzzles just really gets me stoked.

I think the reason you can't seem to pick up spacesuits in the showcase is that it was inhibited. In the shots where we are given a good look at the looting, they hide it, but in instances where we get only a fleeting glimpse of the loot menu the spacesuits are there. They probably did this so as not to spoil the different spacesuits you can get in the game.

For me the melee combat looks like a big step up compared with their previous games. It way more punchy and impactful. Definitely something i would wanna try.

I think a must have feature will be abandoning Quests. If every colony gives me a fetch quest that I ignore, and there's 1,000 planets... Quest log is going to be horrendous.

This is the best analysis of the gameplay preview/interviews so far. I'm glad someone is finally pointing out that this game needs true lore and culture to make it interesting, and not just a bunch of new game mechanics. I'm hoping this will be a true BGS single player experience and not a spaceship simulator.

The recent interview with Todd sold me on being hopeful for deep lore and character creation role playing possibilities in Starfield. It will be really cool if they deliver on that and we get Fudgemuppet build videos for this game too while we wait for TES6.

I cant wait for the modders to get going. I would like to see someone make Xenomorph and Predator mods

I hope there's an Inigo companion mod for Starfield. Imagine he just pops through a random Oblivion gate and now he's stuck.

high fantasy scifi (alien races and such) are neat, but honestly, I much prefer the chilling effect of "we are alone in the universe" that games like warframe or starfield give, the way that these settings create more variety in humanity as opposed to just giving super generic stereotypes to aliens (ie, these aliens are pirates, these aliens are smart, these aliens are soldiers, just gets boring af tbh)

A T posing npc floating around in zero gravity would be the funniest thing EVER 😂

Starfield is a dream come true for me. Hard-ish Sci-Fi, focussed on humanity and humankind's place in the universe and a Bethesda Open World. As much as I love TES and as much as I like Fallout - they pale in comparison. I see myself playing SF for decades.

I believe that the built in incentive to collect the artifacts is that they work like Dragonstones, giving you more of the powers with each one found.

So I didn't exactly hear you say this when talking about the planet randomization but what BGS did was make a bunch of hand crafted random locations and then put those on "tiles" that can randomly be shuffled and randomized on those planets. So while no two players will have the exact same things on planets it sounded like those random locations were have crafted, just not hand placed. Hope that helps.

I really liked the part where Starfield kicked Odie off the table.

The more I see it, the more it looks like they mashed 'The Outer Worlds' & 'Mass Effect Andromeda' together. I like.

The fact that they added huge modding support to an already massive world means this game literally cant fail

The best news is now they are officially working on ES6! PS. We need the trio back doing podcasts now.

I've not had such a longing to play a game for more years than i can remember, the press releases, content and depth of the game, expansion, DLC and mods, all make for a deep and immersive experience, with lots to explore and never playing the same game twice. Sure there'll be initial hiccups, bugs and gradual implementing of content, adding to and building on a strong foundation. I am focused on Base Building, Ship Customization, exploration and finding my niche within the Starfield verse. I also enjoy the build up to release of quality games, it just adds to the immersive experience and allows time to take it all in, so exciting. PS: Never Pre-Order, yet i was just motivated to grab a steam copy, also grabbed ''Armored Core''.

I was going to buy this game no matter what but now im actually looking forward to it.

I'm hoping the RPG mechanics will be good. A thing I usually do in these games is the basic warrior/soldier type guy who is just a good fighter, but I would be really interested in a crafter/engineer/magician/mechanist/summoner style character where I mostly try to make things and research rather then fighting myself. If I could build an android to fight for me that would be wicked!

I haven't enjoyed procedural generated gameplay since Shadow of Morder's nemesis system. I hope Bethesda made some major innovations in the industry.

I'm genuinely excited for the shipbuilding and customization as well as the outpost building.

Finally! Please make more Starfield videos and builds and lore in the future! Y’all are my favorite channel

Always a pleasure to hear your well-constructed and honest thoughts, thank you Fudge

My big fear is the procedural generation. I won't be able to be 'invested' in a random planet enough to explore and build a base there? Like there's no _'This place has this worldly/lore significance; the single white tree that grows there is said to be were the goddess Mara shed a single teardrop etc etc', and it's also next to the Temple of the Ancient Dragon Priest, and there's an inn nearby that sells unique sweet rolls',_ y'know? And like, just as a human, how many of these biomes are going to be actually appealing? Like I could wander around forests and mountain wilderness IRL forever, but what about a planet covered in nothing but 4 types of giant mushroom, y'know?

I think the looting armor thing is because the different shots might have been from different builds of the game

Can't wait to binge watch Fudgemuppet Starfield builds 👍

0:00 Honestly, I prefer Starfield's nasa-punk theme over a super sci-fi one with tons of aliens. That's been done so much, and this stage of relatively early human space exploration hasn't been done enough. Exploring the universe would feel so much less interesting if it's already full of aliens wherever you go, you see that with NMS all the time. 9:30 My money is on this actually being a human infected with a parasite, possibly main story related. We've seen references to aliens across various planets being "diseased", and they show one infected with something called "brain sprout", which appeared to be an animal infected with some sort of parasitic organism with lots of tentacles not unlike the humanoid we see here. My guess is this will serve a major plot point in the main story. 12:38 The thing about those vaults and many locations in Fallout and Elder Scrolls, their exact locations don't really matter much. They have excellent stories, themes, and lore in these locations, and are often a blast to explore. But they often would have played virtually identically if the entrance was half way across the map. Sometimes they have tie-ins to nearby locations, quests, or NPCs, but by far in the majority of cases the interesting parts come from in the location itself. Far as I have heard, the locations themselves are not randomized, just their placements. They are still Bethesda locations, you just don't know exactly where they will be now. I don't know how well they will be pulled off, or how many quality locations there will be, we'll just have to wait and see. But I see no reason to think they will be terrible just because they are placed randomly, since exact placement is not really an important factor in most Bethesda locations.

I as soon as I saw all the traits and skill I though FudgeMuppet's going to get another five to ten years of content out of this one. Looking forward to your back stories and skill plans.

This is the video I've been waiting for, and once again, I find myself agreeing with everything you've said about this game. After the showcase I definitely became more excited, because before I was very skeptical. I still am a bit skeptical but now I see what Bethesda is going for with this game. Hopefully they produce something we can enjoy.

11:06 Well now that you've called it that; I will be SORELY disappointed if when we come across that structure we dont have our comms overridden with a booming voice saying "A NEW HAND HAS TOUCHED THE BEACON!! HEAR ME AND OBEY!!"

Regarding the culture lore, there's pretty compelling evidence that the crimson fleet are ex-uc veterans that started doing there own thing. I personally think they'll be kinda like the OPA from The Expanse series.

Seems like we'll get a handcrafted Bethesda experience on top of a Daggerfall-like procedural experience. So when you go "outside" the handcrafted experience, there are still infinite things to do. I like this idea a lot, but let's see how it works in practice. I am optimistic.

Can’t wait to see what content comes from this channel when Starfield comes out! This channel is my go to channel when I tell people how a BGS game is supposed to be played. I point them to this channel’s Skyrim playthroughs where each custom character has its own unique backstory and fits in with the lore. It’s all about immersive role playing.

Crashes onto an unknown planet, knocked unconciouse. Screen fades in - Hey you, finally awake... Modders, you know what to do.

Honestly I haven't played Skyrim for years and never even finished it. But all this time FudgeMuppet has kept the wonderful world and lore alive. Thank you so much.

I personally prefer NASA punk over fantasy sci-fi, like sentient aliens similar to Star Wars. It just breaks immersion for me. I want to feel like this could actually be what our future looks like. Don’t get me wrong, I love Star Wars, but I wouldn’t like a Bethesda rpg set in a similar universe

I'm really hoping there is going to be some deep lore and plenty of it as well. Would love to hear the stories, discussions and experiences on the channel and podcast.

I totally agree with you on the lore part. That's what this game needs to be about if it's going to be worth playing.

Deadspace markers taught me that finding alien artifacts isn't always a good thing.

I know why you're wary of randomly generated content (I agree I wish it was the same world for every player) but I think it really fits with the space setting. Elderscrolls 6 however, I have a strong feeling that will be mostly handcrafted since they would have limited space to play with. (I guess we'll wait until 2028 to see)

I love what you guys do in your build videos! It's a shame there aren't more games that let you make builds THAT detailed, than Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. Don't get me wrong, I love those IPs, but I think we were all disappointed when Cyberpunk wasn't even remotely the same. Here's hoping Starfield is another platform for awesome build content!

I can easily see the magic powers to work essentially like the shouts, but you go around finding small pieces of alien artifacts to fuel the magic/tech to unlock more abilities.

My theory about planets: Things like large pirate bases that are handmade can possibly be on a procedural generated planet. It could be anything, a town, a cave, a giant magic crystal. They will have quests attached, like radial quests

I'd like to see more of the fringe or "bad " guy type of companions you could have in your crew, a serpent cultist and a red mile member could have interesting interactions.

A skyrim planet and all fallout locations on earth would be a sweet mod 😅

the main skepticism i have heard from people is about how much life on planets their will be. Howard has said there is about 10% of life out of the 1000 planets. and since he mentioned "goldilocks zones", Life will probably be in those planet zones alone. This makes sense and is more realistic than if life were on every planet, after all, 10% of life out of 1000 planets is a hell of a lot more life than what we have found in the real galaxy/universe

The game is going to have a massive amount of content. More than any previous BGS game so if you like those I can’t imagine you’ll be disappointed.

The lack of gore is something that bothers me a little, it doesn't have to be Dead Space levels of gruesome combat, but the fact there's little visual impact with weapons and explosions feels rather..dull. Another thing I noticed is that planets seem to have the same sort of layout? By that I mean there's hills, some mountains and lakes depending on the planet, but we didn't see any significant changes in the terrain, such as big canyons or insanely massive mountains or lush forests/jungles. But I'm sure mods will fix that eventually if that's the case, over all looking forward to September!

Idk what is with me but I have no hype, I feel like this game is the evolution of everything I dislike in previous games and a mediocre action game replaced a deep rpg I loved in their games. Also the setting and the esthetic just do not speak to me, It looks boring to me. Wish I was exited for it.

Ill say it moved me from cautiously optimistic to just full on optimistic.

I've got to say, I like the look of this. I am reserved - but being a Skyrim veteran from day one, I am sure it's going to deliver on most fronts. Soa pre-order is almost certain :)

I have two major concerns: 1. The AMD partnership and how that will affect the performance on Geforce (especially considering the dreaded 10gb vram of the 3080) 2. The state of the modding scene, since the idea of putting every single thing behind a Patreon paywall has exploded in popularity recently.

Im glad you can see what hasn't been shown and hear what hasn't been confirmed in your optimism. Through all the hype, BGS is still in the business of selling us recreational pixel distractions. Hopefully The company has learned a bit of the community since the last offering. We could however, end up with 1500 NPCs individually voiced, all trying to convince us they sell treasures, not junk. By the time you realize the truth and are left feeling ripped off, the modding community will have released the unofficial patch and created some simple tweaks to make the experience worth the expense. I am apprehensive of BGS but I have every confidence in this community that has already committed to the game. We know it's neither junk nor treasure until it's worked into a gem.

I would love to see a Fudgemuppet style video from you guys about some of the insanely awesome 1st person camera mods that have recently come out! No one tells it like you guys.

I really hope starfield will be a good game

It will be the best game ever

I'm not really worried about the FO4 thing where there's obvious blank spaces for settlements because there's entire bloody planets you can put them anywhere on. And imagine all the minor locations in Skyrim where its just a small fort with bandits or whatever, imagine variations of those spread all around the world tiles. That seems to be what they're going for. That content is as handcrafted as everything else. 🤷‍♂️

4:30 Completely agree, I hate having to explain the obvious to people. I'm not saying literal realism, I'm saying there should be an in universe explanation, it could be just magic if the universe has magic but, the magic still needs some limitations or actual logical function rather than a lazy plot device for bad writers.

The 30fps is embarrassing

I’m hoping they don’t actually do unique planet generation from game to game, I’d much prefer pre generated but standardized barren planets, that way Mordred can more easily use “empty” planets as canvases

I thought the complete opposite. Seems like they’re going for a story game more so than exploration game. I mean, most planets are generated and they also said that it has the most handcrafted things out of any other BGS game. So definitely seems like less focused on exploration of generated planets

I believe the best way to describe the procedural creation is Lego’s. Bethesda hand crafted a bunch of content(legos) and the generation will randomly place these legos. Some places are truly placed in specific places, but a lot will be randomly placed. Side quests and things like that. Main mission stuff will be set pieces.

I appreciate you guys waiting and formulating your thoughts for this video

Having the storytelling, exploration and world interaction of Skyrim paired with the vastness and cosmic aesthetic of EVE Online into one game is gonna be epic!

As someone who doesn’t even like sci-fi, Bethesda has managed to get me excited for Starfield.

honestly I feel the "omg 1000 planets there will be so much empty, why not hand crafted content!" complaints are the result of playing games that throw a POI out at you every 10 feet.... I LIKE the fact that I can explore and won't come across POI every 10 seconds, most planets in the real universe are barren with no pit stops or alien structures on them lol, its ok. I'm an oldschool gamer though who is use to being able to travel for long periods without needing a POI, so take it for what its worth,

This drops 2 days after my birthday! Really looking forward to diving into it & experiencing what BGS has to offer in it. Have high hopes!

Touches the door for that one building “ANOTHER HAND HAS TOUCHED THE BEACON”

When the devs showed all the different playstyles, i instantly thought of Fudgemuppet builds 👍

Just throwing this in for the "Can't loot enemy armor" debate. In older games, there were times when you couldn't loot the enemy's armor. The Dark Brotherhood assassin and the random thieves in Riften are some easy examples.

I wonder if you’ll be able to set the seed used for generation, that way there can be an ‘official’ seed for the world so people who want can have the same universe and people who want a unique play through can use a random seed.

I never buy games at launch so I know wether it’s worth it. I just really hope Starfield will be good! Todd has become a meme for the sweet little lies but we all know it’s the people above making the decisions. Of they tell him to push out an unfinished game there’s not much he can do...

Can't wait for entire planets of CCC

My original thought when I heard about the “desolate planets” was “great, so its like all those the other planets I visited in Mass Effect 1?” But then I heard about Starfield’s version of settlement building & my thought changed to “Its free real estate.”

I'm so thankful there's another Bethesda content creator out there that holds a healthy amount of Skepticism and not just outright saying "this is going to be the greatest game ever!".

the fact this game still hasnt come out is just hilarious. I legitimately forgot about it entirely...

You know what I don't want ? Unique gears stats to be crap if you happen to pick them up early. Having to delay getting an unique weapons so that it's viable long term is absolutely awful imo

"I’m going to the *ONE* place that hasn’t been corrupted by the Daedra yet. Space!" 11:04 "Same goes for this large, Meridia's beacon looking structure" *Damn it!*

The locations themselves are handcrafted. Even if they are procedurally *placed* on planets, that’s different from being actual procedurally generated content. That’s an important distinction. So the locations should feel like what we expect from BGS

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before (constellation is starfleet)

I really hope that some of the barren planets have signs of old civilizations and ruins from old explorations. Perhaps they have a mystery you have to quest through to unlock something amazing and useful that can help your ship to be faster / more powerful. Think of like the first Mist game but in space.

The gunplay straight up looks like COD in space I can get behind that

I just noticed that at 2:35 the sign on the left says "Coe Plaza", probably referring to Sam Coe our space cowboy companion, which means either he is a bit of a big deal in Akila city or his family is! I haven't seen anyone note this yet!

20:51 I feel like I've seen a lot of people say they want to have life paths in games that determine what content you get to interact with, like the beast hunter quest that's locked unless you chose to be a hunter. I think a big problem with that style of game design is that you just end up like "oh it's neat that i can be this thing because of a choice i made 7 hours ago when making my character" and don't think most sandbox rpg games do that too well. I'd much rather have the option to take a quest on any playthrough and just take it upon myself to either say "nah, my guy wouldn't do this beast hunter quest, he's never even been in the woods!" Or "my guy hasn't been hunting, but maybe now's a good time to learn!" and provide myself with the option instead. Intrinsic motivation used to be one of the main drivers of these games and it seems like everyone just wants to be told where to go now.

My ideal scenario for handcrafted vs procedural, is that there is dense handcrafted areas, like New Atlantis, but when it comes to resources, its kind of up to you how and where you want to go. I love the freedom to discover for myself a beautiful alien landscape and decide that is where I want to set up my base. And I think that would fit well in their idea of realism. Most of space will not have that many people, and that is okay, I think the number of planets is there so that every playthrough is unique and exploratory, and the bones of the game, the story, is set.

This video definitely has me feeling much more confident in Starfield's release Thank you, Michael, for the positivity and optimism!

Like apparently everyone, I was really skeptical and the direct blew me away with the level of detail and the improvements. We will see. However, I am really happy that they finally went back to their roots and gave a modernized Daggerfall generation system.

One thing about Skyrim and Fallout is the fourth wall meta hints that can be found as an easter egg or even as small part of the lore. I wonder if Starfield will have any of that.

I would like to see a huge focus on systems. What I mean by that is minigames/mechanics that are extremely well designed. I want the level of resources that went into the ship building/management system, the base building, the economy of the game, the planetary research, etc. to rival the quality of an indie game on it's own within the greater game.

Fudge I have returned from the dreaded universe of 40k to hear the news

Shoots laser beam into bandits head. "What was that? Its nothing"

I agree that I hope the exploration and settlement building is legitimately optional and not Fallout 4 level "optional" where yeah its technically optional but a lot of the game is built around assuming you're doing it (and finishing the main story requires you participate in it at least once)

I really hope there's actual depth to the factions in this game, and that you can join a lot of them. One of my main disappointments with Cyberpunk was how all of the gangs were so visually distinct, yet they all ended up just being more dull bad guys to shoot.

The loot could be more percent drop based instead of a set drop bc they might want to encourage revisiting and recreating hostile locations multiple times for a set or two of armor specific to a faction

Looks very scalable, modular, like a blank canvas that isn't really pushing the engine to its limits from the get-go and I've seen some cinematic settings in space that you can witness from a ship or station, which is all I am looking for in this game.