Starfield - Todd Howard's latest masterpiece

[KnightoftheWind]

I'm now angry after reading that, it was one of the very well written quests with a tough choice and they ruined it.
They did the same exact **** with the one where your companion dies, because it's all meaningless: you get them back in NG+.

What's your revised rating for this game?

6.75/10
Not happy with 6.5 or 7

Has some decent quests

What happened Rusty, I thought Soyfield was supposed to be the greatest game ever made?!. That's what it seemed like.

[rusty_shackleford]

What happened Rusty, I thought Soyfield was supposed to be the greatest game ever made?!. That's what it seemed like.

******* & women

[Segata]

. Starfield was supposed to be the game he always wanted to make

I doubt he wanted to make the wokest game ever

[wndrbr]

https://www.gamesradar.com/starfields-l ... orld-game/

"Will Shen, Starfield's lead quest designer, leaves Bethesda"

[wndrbr]

That's two high ranking veterans in less than a day. Is Bethesda imploding?

[maidenhaver]

That's two high ranking veterans in less than a day. Is Bethesda imploding?

Is Will Shen the one they credit with Far Harbor? He probably wants to make one good game before he leaves vidya.

[Shillitron]

Pete Hines (marketing guy) leaves Bethesda.

Overall it's good because pete is kinda ******** but it won't have a single impact on anything of substance this guy did diddly **** all.
To quote one Bethesda leaker "Nobody actually knows what Pete does.. after the acquisition I don't think even he knows anymore".

That's two high ranking veterans in less than a day. Is Bethesda imploding?

Nothing of value lost. Just old timers who had cushy nest eggs. Quite frankly a shake up in their management / marketing strategy / writing & quest design can only be a good thing.. it literally can't get worse.

[wndrbr]

Quite frankly a shake up in their management / marketing strategy / writing & quest design can only be a good thing.. it literally can't get worse.

in that case they should've kicked Emil.

[Shillitron]

Its interesting to me that they keep Todd, but I guess the most charismatic hobbit on the planet can't be fired. Starfield was supposed to be the game he always wanted to make. I remember MK sharing at Temple0 that he and Kurt Kuhlmann even drafted some space pirate stuff that became Redguard. They've all wanted to make a space game for decades, this was supposed to be a masterpiece.

It's wishful to think that pete was pushed out by Microsoft. (Although if he stayed around for a few more years on his bloated salary while bringing zero value, it's very likely he would of been retired by force)

Post Release is the natural time for people to leave a game company. It's generally considered bad form in this industry to leave mid-development or during the launch window. Not that he is useful in any way.. but he probably thought waiting til Starfield released was a noble sacrifice / gesture for his team or some ****.

[Shillitron]

Quite frankly a shake up in their management / marketing strategy / writing & quest design can only be a good thing.. it literally can't get worse.

in that case they should've kicked Emil.

Oh 100% but I honestly don't believe anyone was forced out.
Was that Will guy any good?

[wndrbr]

Well yeah, doubt anyone was actually "kicked". Kicking people out means the management actually wants to do reforms.

Those two (actually more) have left by their own volition, probably realized that the jig is up. Maybe they already wanted to leave after Bethesda was bought by MS, but couldn't due to contractual obligations.

[Emphyrio]

https://www.gamesradar.com/starfields-l ... orld-game/



"Will Shen, Starfield's lead quest designer, leaves Bethesda"

Bethesda, Obsidian and Bioware, the triumvirate of RPG excellence!

[Vaako]

"Will Shen, Starfield's lead quest designer, leaves Bethesda"

No loss then quest design was horrendous. A shame for that other studio tho.

[Red7]

Wonder what its like to be beaten by an isometric rpg after declaring 15 years ago they're outdated, meanwhile your latest game is basically Morrowind with ladders.

if morrowind was lobotomized, gay, jewish, ***** lesbian bulldyke and part of ai inflitrated nazi sabotage program.

and made by bunch of 8 year old vaginas during their 30 min breaks from goat ******* orgies on epstein island
with 1 indian guy making all the coding

[Red7]

"Will Shen, Starfield's lead quest designer, leaves Bethesda"

No loss then quest design was horrendous. A shame for that other studio tho.

lol wtf u think is gonna happen they will put fat bulldyke in his place making his writing look like nietzche

[Red7]

Was that Will guy any good?

good is always relative term.

[Red7]

I finished starfield, didn't finish fo4

u cant finish f4. there is always somewthing u can add to your luxurious complex filled with synth sex slaves. and companions are good which makes harvesting resources actually pleasurable.

[BENEFACTOR]

Wonder what its like to be beaten by an isometric rpg after declaring 15 years ago they're outdated, meanwhile your latest game is basically Morrowind with ladders.

if morrowind was lobotomized, gay, jewish, ***** lesbian bulldyke and part of ai inflitrated nazi sabotage program.

and made by bunch of 8 year old vaginas during their 30 min breaks from goat ******* orgies on epstein island
with 1 indian guy making all the coding

You're a ******* idiot.

[Red7]

Wonder what its like to be beaten by an isometric rpg after declaring 15 years ago they're outdated, meanwhile your latest game is basically Morrowind with ladders.

if morrowind was lobotomized, gay, jewish, ***** lesbian bulldyke and part of ai inflitrated nazi sabotage program.

and made by bunch of 8 year old vaginas during their 30 min breaks from goat ******* orgies on epstein island
with 1 indian guy making all the coding

You're a ******* idiot.

my geometrical iq is higher than you, your dad and your biological negro dad combined

[Havitner]

Wrong. The third option ruins the quest's ending by being objectively the best one

Is the timeline split localized to that facility alone? If not, doesn't merging two timelines effectively kill an entire universes' worth of people? Or... half-kill two universes' worth of people?

If the split happened 'many days ago', I'd certainly consider Steve-A and Steve-B two different people.

[wndrbr]

Wrong. The third option ruins the quest's ending by being objectively the best one

Is the timeline split localized to that facility alone? If not, doesn't merging two timelines effectively kill an entire universes' worth of people? Or... half-kill two universes' worth of people?

If the split happened 'many days ago', I'd certainly consider Steve-A and Steve-B two different people.

it's Bethesda, I doubt they thought this through.

[maidenhaver]

Do they lock you into the facility so you can't run around in a doomed universe?

[Rand]

"Will Shen, Starfield's lead quest designer, leaves Bethesda"

Given how **** they were, him leaving means nothing of value was lost.
The quests in Oblivion were (generally) the best. FIGHT ME!

[wndrbr]

Emil Pagliarulo's twitter thread:


Some excerpts:

In a lot of ways, Starfield was me pushing myself to the limit. Pretty sure every other dev on the team would say the same thing.

Having now had time to properly reflect on Starfield, goddamn am I proud of what we achieved. A new world to live in. A brand new IP. The beginning of a new dream. We pulled it off!

not really

Well, I'll tell you one thing about Starfield - the game's reception has reinvigorated my love of world creation and game development. And I'm so honored to be making games for the very studio that showed me, so long ago, what it is to truly enter another world.

**** I was hoping he's gonna retire. TES 6 is finished.

A lot of it still feels surreal, to be honest. God, I was stressed for 2 years straight.

Emil is credited as a writing director and design director, important positions he likely occupied since the beginning. Did he just admit that Starfield was made in two years???

[maidenhaver]

It fell apart during covid and got taped together by a million poos.

[wndrbr]

[Shillitron]

Well, I'll tell you one thing about Starfield - the game's reception has reinvigorated my love of world creation and game development.

Delusional.

This guy has the most rose tinted blinders on possible. The reddit is on fire, the steam score is in the can. If you google Starfield it's 20 youtube videos like "Why do we keep letting Bethesda get away with this" "Worst game ever?" "The story is awful" with millions of views and likes.

This is "success" to him?

A lot of it still feels surreal, to be honest. God, I was stressed for 2 years straight.

That "stress and fear" you were feeling for 2 years.. it was justified.. it was the small part of your barely functioning brain crying out "THIS **** IS GARBAGE - REDO IT!!"

[Shillitron]

Emil is credited as a writing director and design director, important positions he likely occupied since the beginning. Did he just admit that Starfield was made in two years???

It wouldn't surprise me if that's when *he* started working on the game.

Up to that point he was just ******* around "working from home" during covid doing nothing at all, finally a year before the original release date he realized he had a triple A game to write. Fast forward 2 years later and we have space ghosts and magic stones.

Nice.. can't wait for Elder Scrolls 6.. probably gonna be a Scorpion Born and have to collect the magic aeylid stones and find our foster father who went to the store to get cigarettes and never came back (he's redguard) also we start in prison (we are redguard).

[wndrbr]

Nice.. can't wait for Elder Scrolls 6.. probably gonna be a Scorpion Born and have to collect the magic aeylid stones and find our foster father who went to the store to get cigarettes and never came back (he's redguard) also we start in prison (we are redguard).

it's gonna be mother this time around.

[Rand]

Emil Pagliarulo's twitter thread:


Some excerpts:

In a lot of ways, Starfield was me pushing myself to the limit. Pretty sure every other dev on the team would say the same thing.

Having now had time to properly reflect on Starfield, goddamn am I proud of what we achieved. A new world to live in. A brand new IP. The beginning of a new dream. We pulled it off!

not really

Well, I'll tell you one thing about Starfield - the game's reception has reinvigorated my love of world creation and game development. And I'm so honored to be making games for the very studio that showed me, so long ago, what it is to truly enter another world.

**** I was hoping he's gonna retire. TES 6 is finished.

A lot of it still feels surreal, to be honest. God, I was stressed for 2 years straight.

Emil is credited as a writing director and design director, important positions he likely occupied since the beginning. Did he just admit that Starfield was made in two years???

Emil is known to be a no-talent midwit and part of the problem at modern Bethesda.