Why Bethesda DESERVED Starfield

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Bethesda makes rpgs for people who don't like rpgs

the best argument against Starfield is realizing you can't heal on your ship's own medbay

Bethesda is the toxic boyfriend who keeps saying he’ll change, but we both know he won’t. And for some reason, we keep pretending that one vacation he took us on is still worth the last 12 years of hell.

I mean we have: - A near infinite pool of the same copy-pasted bs that feels machine generated. - An RPG without a single good character - A main story with zero stakes - A multiverse hopping adventure where you can't make any radical changes or kill protected NPCs. - A sci-fi where the writers think that the vacuum of space is some kind of cold substance. Man, remember when console exclusive use to mean "big system selling games" and not "minimum effort they'll play it anyway"?

Bethesda is so complacent. They stopped trying because they didn’t feel like they had to innovate. People buying Skyrim five times sure doesn’t help. Stop it people!

They completely fucked the exploration. Nothing else really matters. The fact that I found the same set of datapads 5 times in 1 day on 4 different planets will tell you all you need to know.

After playing Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 (after CDPR fixed it), and Baldur's Gate 3, I cannot bring myself to go back to Bethesda's library of mediocre slop.

Original fallout: Bleak, apocalyptic, rich environment where you don't live, you just survive. A mixture of comedy and bleak borderline horror. Established lore's, and not so much a good-faction, rather the faction you align the most with, seeing as everyone in the wasteland is kinda bad in their own rights. Bethesda fallout: WEEEE it's so Whimsical and silly! Hahaha, pack the world full of rejected quirky borderlands characters. We'll just do whatever we want with the established lore and story! Not like anyone pays attention to THAT, oh and THIS faction is the baddies and the brotherhood of steel are always the good guys, they're basically the military, right?!

I simply disagree. If you look at the changes in game design from morrowind on you'll notice a pattern. I knew fallout76 was inevitable. It was the culmination of every single decision made since morrowind. Starfield was their attempt to bring people back, but far too late as at this point they dont know what makes their games good. They probably believed, like cdpr, bioware, and other studios, that because theyre bethesda it'll just work out. Bethesda has taken a hammer to every single good thing they've had, including mods (with their insistence on forcing paid mods) and blame for their current situation rests entirely on their lack of imagination, inability to change, refusal to learn or take responsibility, and their greed.

"Minimal Contractual Obligation" is the phrase you are looking for. You see, when you own your own company, got investors and become CEO you have a major problem, a problem that comes with success: you cannot retire without tanking your own stock. When a company is recognized for having a "winning team", you cannot break up that team without investors reacting. So as the meme implies the only way the senior management can retire and keep their stock option value is to be bought out. That's right, after 30+ years the senior management were ready to retire, and who was walking down the block looking for something new for Game Pass? After 30+years in Bethesda and 7yrs going nowhere with the game, with Microsoft funding a year's deadline, with RETIREMENT within sight, the management at Bethesda provided the Minimal Contractual Obligation", they produced the legal definition of a "game" and then retired, cashing out their stock options, the moment the game released and cleared Microsoft's legal department. Go check, everyone retired one week after the game came out. "Bethesda" isn't there anymore, Todd Howard is no longer a CEO but a Microsoft employee, and I hope Microsoft fires his (censored).

Easiest way to distinguish between a "hater" and a disappointed long-time Bethesda fan? A hater says "Lol it's just Skyrim/Fallout in space." But a disappointed fan, like me, I say, "I WISH it was Skyrim/Fallout in space."

I remember when Starfield came out because I got Outer Worlds the week before. Everybody called "the Poor Man's Starfield" but now I'm the one laughing and enjoying a $40 investment instead of decrying my $70 investment.

One of Bethesda's mistakes was to make Emil Pagliarulo as a lead writer.

I think nakeyjakey said it best- the game design was outdated 10 years ago

Bethesda is the old saying “If you try to please everybody you’ll end up pleasing nobody.” And starfield is THE culmination of that. Is it a space sim? Barely. Is it an RPG? Barely. Is it a survival game? No. Is it action adventure? Barely. It wants to be everything but it can’t just settle. Even a fundamentally good narrative and world building can be enough to save a game. Morrowind and New Vegas are really good examples of this within Bethesda lol. Although those games knew exactly what they wanted to be, which starfield doesn’t. The opposite can also be true. Fallout 4 has pretty terrible story but is actually a genuinely good dungeon crawler, I literally only play it to shoot and loot the vaults, military bases, etc…

My honest issue with them Is todd. His entire stated design philosophy is "To look at a game and where others are adding mechanics to their game Im looking to Find mechanics to remove." Also the fucked up the tone of fallout and i hate them for that two reselling skyrim 30 times didnt help either.

They lost Michael Kirkbride and gained Emil Pagliarulo, that was never gonna end well.

What makes this hilarious is that modders rejected Starfield cause it was so boring

Heelvsbabyface was right, and only proven moreso as time goes on