NEW Todd Howard Interview - Starfield To Have REAL LIFE SIZED Planets, Fallout 5 Confirmed, TES VI
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Brand new interview with Todd Howard that reveals some very interesting things about Starfield, The Elder Scrolls VI and FALLOUT 5!
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00:00 - Intro
01:07 - No Leaks
01:14 - Procedural Generation & Real Life Scale Planets
02:36 - Most Hand Crafted Content Than Ever
03:54 - Planets = Dungeons
04:54 - Spaceship Gameplay Mechanics
05:52 - Character Background & Role Playing
07:06 - New Atlantis Biggest City Ever Built
07:49 - Constellation Earth & Alien Artifacts
08:32 - Longest BGS Main Quest Ever
09:11 - DLC, Modding & Creation Club
10:37 - Elder Scrolls VI & Fallout 5 - Ігри
Brand new interview with Todd Howard that reveals some very interesting things about Starfield, The Elder Scrolls VI and FALLOUT 5!
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00:00 - Intro
01:07 - No Leaks
01:14 - Procedural Generation & Real Life Scale Planets
02:36 - Most Hand Crafted Content Than Ever
03:54 - Planets = Dungeons
04:54 - Spaceship Gameplay Mechanics
05:52 - Character Background & Role Playing
07:06 - New Atlantis Biggest City Ever Built
07:49 - Constellation Earth & Alien Artifacts
08:32 - Longest BGS Main Quest Ever
09:11 - DLC, Modding & Creation Club
10:37 - Elder Scrolls VI & Fallout 5
I think it's a big stretch to claim that real life planets are confirmed. I don't think that's what he implies in the interview at all. He talks of their size in "game concept" being really big, so it's definitely more of the feel/impression/illusion that they are huge when you play, not about the actual square miles of a planet. I think it's gonna be more like how Skyrim is a representation of a big country and feels like it when you traverse it, or the Imperial City being a large city, but that they are definitely scaled down representations of "the real thing", and Starfield planets will definitely be scaled in accordance to that philosophy.
Agreed, he did not say "real world size" at all. That seems like a huge misinterpretation to me, setting false expectations.
agreed; a false interpretation here; if I was cynical, I would say that this is click bait.
Plus, whether it's trully real life sized or not doesn't matter. Once you have the procedural generation running, it works for any size. It's like saying "Minecraft worlds are real life sized", it's not wrong if you get rid of the artificial 30M x 30M blocks limit but it doesn't have any impact.
I think it's somewhere in between the two ideas - I think they're trying out the scope of Daggerfall again, or something similar. Daggerfall was about the size of the entire UK iirc
@@Deltium5683 It is. Clickbaiting is basically a necessary evil for UA-camrs these days.
That boy Todd said the empty ice planets don’t always have to be fun
Just noticed alot of the planets shown in the demo are named after real world astronauts
They said in a previous interview that they were going for a "nasapunk" theme for Starfield, so that makes sense.
if this game becomes the game we want it to be, I can see some of those empty planets being future DLC content and course Modded planets.
True. The modding community is -hopefully!- going to have a field day modding and/or remoddeling all those planets. Lots of potential. Well, worst thing that could happen is we get Starfield 76 with planet-sized lootboxes to unlock new armor for your hors.... errm, robot.
_Laughs in Fallout 76_
The iceballs, or fireballs, i'm sure there's many of them. Exploring them, knowing you probably won't find much (if anything), is just that, exploration. It's quite literally exploring the unknown, which can be fun if the rest of the gameplay mechanics are on point. I'm not worried either, not about this anyway. The things I'm worried about is NPC interaction and combat.
it makes me wonder if there will be planets that are wastelands but we will see lost civilizations architecture dotted across the landscape and maybe as the player we can uncover that the people of the planet attempted to do an mass migration to underground tunnels that lead near the core of the planet to survive the planet becoming colder and discover a civilization living in the core of the planet as a sort of paradise, like the center of the earth novels.
and maybe the people who survived have little to no knowledge of where they came from because many of the elders died off during the migration in protecting their young, causing a situation where the knowledge was lost to the significant population, but then finding out that the core of the planet is also in a stage of dying and it's up to the player to save them from what would be their ultimate demise if they don't leave and relocate to another planet.
but then say while people are being saved, pirates attack your ship in orbit and it's up to you and your crew to save the people and survive the onslaught, but perhaps the game offers other options to resolve the situation based on your rank within that system or perhaps it's another alien race who attacks who do not negotiate and it becomes a dogfight.
You repeat the "the planets are REAL LIFE SCALE" thing through the video, but I don't think he really said that.
I think Todd tried to make more of a point of reference about procedural building adapted to the idea or feel of "real life planets", not that they are lifelike size or anything like that.
the reason we can't seamlessly go from space to inside the atmosphere means alot it's gonna be really big like huge 🤗
@@THESLICKNESSEDM Hate to breake it to you mate but the need for loading screen is just Creation Engine thing. Both Skyrim and Fallout 4 had locations/shacks 4x4meters that needed to be separated from the world via loading screen.
And we propably wont be able to fly in atmosphere even after landing (at least untill modders do their thing) propably also because of general balancing etc [if you can shred enemy grunts to pieces with your anti-spaceship canons then why would you even bother investing into a rifle skills etc.]
@@heliosdik1931 ships can't go into buildings or caves that's what the robot follower will be a mobile turret the planets are huge if we can't fly around them then we will get rovers or somthing I'm sure
@@THESLICKNESSEDM True, but all enemy encounters in the world map would be meaningless with a ship shelling them - and thats propably half of the encounters.
I really wish you are right my friend, but i personally do not hope to get a rover or other land vechicle - it would be great but something tells me that not going to happen.
Still I think Starfield will be one of the gratest games in last 10 years simply because of its scale, comprehensiveness and moding potential.
But in the end we both might be wrong and all we can do is just wait for the release and maybe do a friendly wager - who's predictions were closer to the truth ;)
Why would the planets not be huge? Todd said you can land anywhere on them they are massive
Some empty planets can provide modders the base to build stories like Enderal . Also I hope these reveals won't ruin the first time seeing whiterun experience.
no
Also worth mentioning, the Interview with Todd was over the phone so the audio quality is actual dog shit
Dude please for the love of god unlist this video or pin a comment or something. Make a corrective video. Todd never claimed the planets were real life sized. He said if you look at a planet irl, with all its diversity, it’s effective infinite. And that’s true, no one person can walk the entire earth. He was saying the difference between that and a bunch of small planets isn’t that much. Please don’t spread misinterpreted statements as confirmations to your audience, many blindly believe it and now have incredibly stupid expectations or think the game will be horrible because they “put the focus on real life sized planets”
Last time we took todd howard literally we thought there was gonna be 16x the detail, im not saying hes lying on every front and starfield will be terrible but we should take things with a grain of salt
16x the detail, a map 4x the size, 200 endings. Todd's just full of it. Yet we all love him.
It just works
I think those are just exaggeration. But the planets do feel somewhat massive, so I still hype about it.
More like a small dump truck of salt lmao. Better to go in with lower expectations. It seems like it'll be a Bethesda game and if that's good enough then it'll be good enough.
@@arkachivanagand9915 Why does that matter though? It's not like they'll be packed with hand crafted locations. It's the whole "wide like an ocean but as deep as a puddle" thing taken to the extreme. Play some no man's sky and you'll see what I mean.
That's the second or third time I've heard Todd Howard say "I know our games take a long time to make and I wish there was a way to get them out faster." I'm glad to hear him at least recognize the fact that there are insanely long gaps between games. Especially now that BGS has came out with a new IP (Starfield). I do think that BGS needs to expand so they can get their games out faster but at the same time there are already several studios within XBOX that BGS could hand off one of the IPs to. Especially the Fallout IP, since Obsidian, Inxile and Bethesda are all sister studious under Microsoft Xbox.
It's a no-brainer. BGS is now Xbox's de-facto number one first party studio. Phil Spencer must surely realize that he can not let an IP as big as Fallout or Elder Scrolls just rest for 10-15 years. He should do everything in his power to expand BGS from around 400-500 employees to around 1000 employees within the next 2-3 years. Then they can split BGS into two AAA teams of around 400-500 and work on two AAA projects at the same time.
@@The_fahadkhan More employees doesn't automatically mean faster release though.
Not to mention I think they shouldn't rush their games any more than they already have. We get buggy piles of shit like cyberpunk 2077 and fallout 76 because devs rush the games.
@@olivercharles2930 Im not talking about rushing games. Also, when im talking about more employees, i dont mean that there should be one team on 1000 people. They should slowly expand the team and their long-term goal should be to have two big core BGS teams which can each work on separate projects. This way the fans wouldn't have to wait 15 years between elder scrolls and fallout games atleast. Yes, the game development time would still be the same (around 5-6 years per game) but atleast they'll have two games in development at a time rather than one.
@@The_fahadkhan You seem to be under the impression that throwing more people at the games will help them release faster, which I don't think is true.
Famous thing Tod has said in the past
"Fallout 3 will have 200 endings"
"You can climb that mountain"
"Fallout 76 will 16x the detail"
"It just works"
I mean technically when you think about it he has said more true things then wrong things in interviews before, albeit core features and the like.
The first three aren't lies though, they're taken out of context. xD
Last one isn't a lie either. He was talking about connecting stuff to power sources in Fallout 4's basebuilding.
You could in fact climb that mountain at least
its all fact but its also, all cap. He is "technically" correct but the quality of it is ass
He didn't say that the planets are real life scale. How did you manage to deduce that basing on his words?
Agreed.
I appreciate Camel staying up until 6:30 am to make this video but maybe he should've gotten some sleep instead.
You hearing "real life sized planets confirmed" from what Todd said is surprising enough, but I am even more surprised at all the people here who also interpreted it that way (or just didn't even bother to listen and only read the title).
Here is what Todd said:
"We do a lot of procedural generation but I would keep in mind that we've always done that. And a planet by itself - if you think about it it - is sort of in a game concept: just one planet is infinitely big if you're gonna do it in some realistic fashion. So once you're dealing with scale like that in procedural systems the difference between, say, one planet and a hundred planet or a thousand planet is actually not that big of a leap, if that makes sense. Once you have good systems working for that."
(I wrote down what he said, grammar and cohesion is on him)
So yes, planets have to feel "infinitely big" if you want to make it feel somewhat "realistic". No, he did not literally promise real life sized planets.
Thank you. Yes thats exactly what I kept saying. He didn't say you could fully EXPLORE life size planets. Im sure scale wise it’s life sized, but after the cutscene when you land the game drops you in a sandbox the way Mass Effect 1 did. Just a bigger sandbox i’m sure lol
@@JoeBuk724 'over a 1000 planets you can completely explore' - Pete Hines
@@Safetytrousers Thanks, I stand corrected lol. I'm curious to see how this all turns out.
We shall see. I think they will be life sized. The planets will be massive either way
*Todd* : New Atlantis is the biggest city we ever built
*Daggerfall* : Are you sure about that?
Daggerfall is procedurally generated so he's right on that, biggest city *they ever built*
It's been 4 years since TES6 announcement, how is it still under pre-production?
Treebeard is the lead programmer.
I'm still replaying Skyrim once a Year since it came out and words cannot describe how hyped I am for the next Elder Scrolls game!
Same . Kinda sad too admit that I'm scared they might fuck this up by not adding a multi-player or guild related online experience. A decade is more than enough time for them too know what we want since all we do is play skyrim.
@@madudebrouchiha2509 TES 6 single player ONLY. Are you insane? Why the hell would you want to infect my BSG RPG experience with multiplayer fetching quests & the inevitable micro transactions? Go play Roblox buddy, you’re clearly too young
@@madudebrouchiha2509 no multiplayer please
Same.
What surprises me is I'm STILL finding stuff I hadn't seen or played thru.
I recently started a survival playthru with no mods (not counting CC)
It's been like a whole new game, I never realized how much of a crutch fast travel is until you have to walk halfway across the map
@@CHlEFFIN I'd pay $60 for working co op in skyrim.
The host would be the only one who can start quests or talk to NPCs.
And player 2 would take the slot of a companion.
I like that the spaceships seem to have something like blasters on them, similar to Star Wars. For realism, I'd expect more physical ammo, like explosives or 50-caliber bullets on the vehicles, but the blaster, with heated gas plasma-like shots, doesn't seem like a big stretch for a game 300 years in the future. That comment on "old Earth" sounded like a hint to me, implying that the reason for humanity leaving Earth is that the world was either destroyed in some way or badly depleted, necessitating leaving the planet. This would make sense when you consider that in reality, colonizing other worlds is mostly agreed upon as not allowed, but if Earth stopped being habitable enough, colonizing and potentially terraforming other places would be a solution. This would lead to humans spreading across many worlds for survival, and Constellation is probably going to be a very powerful organization, with so many people wanting to know what's around, for curiosity, safety concerns, or whatever other reason.
Realism?
Wow take some more acid bro.
The only legal arrangements about bodies outside Earth are a treaty that countries cannot make territorial claims on bodies in space, which was ratified by the US, and another which says extraterrestrial resources are the "common heritage of mankind", which the US Senate has (wisely) NOT ratified. Technically, there is no law against colonies on other planets (in the sense portrayed in science fiction, in the historical sense of a "colony of France", for instance, the first treaty mentioned would have to be renegotiated), and the laws on resource ownership need to be updated to something like a corporate "homestead law", if only to allow for Earth/space trade, but also to put investment on a sound legal footing. Almost everybody who thinks at all about colonies in space or on planets is for the idea, I don't know where you got the idea it was forbidden "in reality". There are some who think it can never happen (there are always folks like that at every stage of development), but I have never heard of it being illegal, or even frowned upon by consensus.
He never said real life sized, which by it self doesn't mean much. he said that once you get the right systems and generation going, the difference between making one, a hundred or a thousand it doesn't become that hard to scale it.
I think this interview has put *some* of my qualms about Starfield to rest, tbh. It sounds like the 1000 planets thing is mainly just to make the universe feel more 'real', and since they're going with a NASA vibe, it's natural to have a bunch of basically empty planets. I think you missed mentioning it in this video, but at some point in the interview he says something to the effect of "once we developed the technology to make a whole planet, it's not that much extra work to tweak the numbers and generate a thousand more", which is fairly understandable. (He's also said in previous interviews that they're very aware of the fact that people are still playing Skyrim even a decade later, which they never really expected, and that they've been designing Starfield with that sort of longevity and replayability in mind. If that's true then it sounds like they've really taken some of the fan feedback to heart).
I think as long as they can put one or two interesting things on the *not-barren* worlds and kinda nudge you to land in the right place to find them, then I think it'll be fun to be able to fly off the trail so to speak. Having the main story and the majority of the game will take place across only a handful of locations and planets is the right choice, in that regard too. I think what I was most afraid of was the radiant questing system being combined with the thousand worlds to create infinitely boring content. It does at least leave a huge open canvas for modders to fill, but I hope they don't lean on modders too much to sell their game.
Having said all that, it's probably still going to be a *buggy mess* on launch, even with the delay!
Camel’s content is always the highlight of my month and any Bethesda play through
Vivek or Mournhold would probably be the biggest cities Bethesda has made.
Love the videos keep up the great work
I'm not too worried about the procedural generation. You have your map of your location like the closed maps that we've had so far, but you have the edges plug into the procedural map allowing you to walk off of it into the rest of the world. You outline the basic geography of the planet, where the mountains are and such, and then pace your points of interest and theoretically you can just walk from one point to the other, even if they are opposite sides of the continent. I'm just curious if we will be able to place procedural generators inside the generator. Using a system similar to Sim Settlements I wonder if we could mod in procedural generated settlements/outposts/hideouts/towns as we cross the landscape.
But the thing I'm going to be happy about is that we will be able to mod places everywhere. You just know that as soon as this game comes out, somebody is going to try to mod in the planet Nirn.
Would be funny if modders put in the other bethesda games.
What I'm worried about is that the procedural generation will be really glitchy and used as a crutch to substitute for handcrafted environments
Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
2:00 I'm a big backpacker and I can tell you most of the Earth is pretty random and boring IRL. It's the reason folks like me will sling a heavy pack over their shoulders and walk dozens of miles up thousands of feet of elevation gain to catch a glimpse of rare beauty from some elusive vantage point. Personally, I couldn't be more stoked at the prospect of Starfield mirroring that experience.
With the scale Bethesda is striving for with Starfield a lot of possibilities are open for their other franchises
Like if TES: 6 had a Daggerfall size world map or if Fallout: 5 spanned large portions of the U.S. like in Fallout & Fallout: 2
16 years between TES V and VI. That's not what I had expected when Skyrim came out...
"Which would make Elder Scrolls 6 in 2027..."
I'm going to go outside and scream.
Starfield: ...
Elderscrolls VI: LETS GOOOO
Fallout 5: ...
3:12 They're inviting us into a massive dining hall, cooking up a full buffet, offering an open bar, and also letting everybody use the kitchen.
I was really worried about the ambition at first. But I’m slowly getting more excited as I keep thinking about it.
Can’t wait to pull up to Earth and Nirn
So many questions can not be answered with only one review.......we need more!
I love that Todd said he wishes the games came out faster, at least there's some acknowledgement that the wait for mainline games is unbearable and frankly ludicrous in Elder Scrolls' case but I wanna know what they're planning to do about it. I personally think they should start building a 3rd support studio, now that they're backed by Microsoft they can afford to do it and this would result in mainline games coming out faster.
Idk about you but I just don't have enough confidence in Dallas or Austin to feel comfortable with them taking the reins of a franchise.
I won’t bite. I don’t support people who force their opinions on people.
@@photofinish8607 This is a comments section where we all share our thoughts and opinions…
@@PepeLa_
I meant, I will not play the game.
Wow.... why am I not surprised.
@@photofinish8607 How does Bethesda force their opinion on us? In my time playing their games, watching showcases and interviews I've never felt that once. Had you said you don't support developers who bare face lie about their games I'd have known what you meant.
However I read your reply not even 5 minutes after waking up this morning and thought it was directed at me because I was sharing an opinion. xD
@@PepeLa_
Yeah, I saw how easily it could’ve been mis-interpreted.
I stand by my statement though, and I don’t think it’s necessary to explain something so obvious.
The clock just changed to 6:30AM for me the second you said that! (0:42)
He had me at "steal the ship." I can finally be a space pirate!
I think people just don't understand what procedural generation is so everyone is worried that some planets will just be impossible messes.
No, the opposite in fact. They'll get boring real fast. No man's sky went all in on procedural generation and even then it gets repetitive after maybe 10 planets with less than an hour on each. Even with a massive budget not much would change because exploring isn't fun when it's just done for explorations sake and not because something piques your curiosity.
@@1810jeff i think people are focusing too much on the 1000 planets thing. If you don't want to explore the you don't have to. Theres still a traditional BGS game in there.
But instead everyone's got their britches in a bunch over stuff thats optional
@@vulkendov5210 So did you learn nothing from fallout 4? Game devs have limited resources and if those resources are being used on "optional content" then the non optional content suffers. Fallout 4 is the perfect example of this.
@@1810jeff idk what you mean. I enjoyed the main story of fallout 4 quite a lot
@@vulkendov5210 The main story is shallow and the RPG elements are almost non existent. The factions are not fleshed out at all especially the institute and you could see the twist a mile away.
I'm starting to feel like there will be a handful of handcrafted cities for single players, but most planets and areas will be Online, and maybe over the period of a few decades, players will start to fill some of these planets out with their own outposts.
I don't think Todd meant that the planets are actually real life sized.
The planets aren’t going to scale 1:1. But he did say during the showcase that we can go anywhere on the planet.
honestly, bethesda is really lucky they have an amazing modding community, not many games can last 7+ years if it just the base game. Even if the "1000 planets" or the "real life sized planets" end up being a disappointment, at least the modding community can fill in the lack of content.
Any large game that is suitable for modding will have a modding community. It's not lucky, it's smart ;)
"there's gonna be a Thomas the Tank Engine space ship, and a lightsaber mod within the first 24 hours - here is the biggest reveal"
clearly, intentional transition.
Also, I think while technology that allows you to speed up game development might allow you to put more content into a game more quickly it doesn't necessarily allow you to craft solid plots any more quickly.
Basically, for all the technology, humans like good storytelling above all else and that is something that no technology can truly replicate so the games will always be limited by the rate at which good stories can be crafted.
Technology can't replicate good storytelling yet, but that's fast approaching
@@KodasGarden I did recently see reference to a new radiant storytelling system which was explained as a more advanced version of the radiant quest system (which was notoriously boring).
This information excites the imagination with possibilities. No doubt I'm excited on what mods and DLC could do, but more so the future of TES and Fallout games. I hate to get ahead of myself and I know this is a leap, but it's hypothetically possible that TES 6 could have largest map since Daggerfall, and possibly a game space of all of Tamriel, and if so at what scale. Even though I've never played 76 I'm still impressed with the size and detail of its word map. Starfield blows my expectation of scale out the window.
2:00 thats not what Todd said at all.. He did NOT say the planets in Starfield are real-life scale.
He literally, verbatum, said: 1:20 "a planet in a game sense is infinitely big, IF you are gonna do it in some realistic fashion"
He didnt say they WERE doing them in scale 1:1, he was just demonstrating that making 1 planet or 100 planets in a game with procedural systems, makes little difference, because you'd already have developed the planet generation systems to make that 1 planet.
personally im excited for it, i expect only like 10 or 20 planets to be really hand touched and the other 980 or 990 to be just baren resource worlds i can build on.
i want most of the planets to feel like im the first to really go there, space is alot of empty, not every rock in the galaxy is thriving.
edit: also it seemed more like he was using the real life planet scale as an example not really confirming them as such
Procedurally generated environments could come with random dungeon drops as the environment is generated. I can see planets with a set number of dungeons that appear randomly on any given planet while the player transverses the environment, as the dungeons themselves are not attached to any given point on a set map.
How this plays out in multiplayer I have no idea
I believe the style of procedural generation that is used in this game isn’t a “generated as you play,” type of procedural generation. The style used here is more of a “we used procedural generation to build the world, and then added on top of that, but the world that is there is the same content for everyone.” Think more like Skyrim and fallout 4, and not so much like Minecraft or no man’s sky. In Minecraft and NMS the worlds are individual to the player and are generated on the spot. In Skyrim and fallout much of the landscape itself was generated procedurally during development, and then the world was saved as such, and then added on top of from there. Thus Creating a world that is locked in, and the same for everyone, but some of the events that go on in game were at random due to the systems set in place. I’m not sure if Bethesda has ever used on the spot procedural generation to insert things like dungeons or not, it could be cool, but my understanding is that this was more so just to build the slate that they had to work with, and that we have to explore after it has been touched up by Bethesda.
There is no multyplayer.. or did I miss something
@@Cold_Cactus right? that what I was thinking lol
@@Cold_Cactus who knows with Beth. ESVI could be released on mobile devices..
To discount a MP aspect simply because there's no press release confirming or denying that eventuality when game release is 5-10 years away is to be in possession of a DeLorean
I believe this is like the steps of High Hrothgar.
The artifact looks like the Eye of Magnus.
My son was 2 when Skyrim came out and by the time TES 6 comes out, he'll be graduating from high school.
One thing I’m pretty sold on is the music. Every time I hear that theme I feel some type of way…
Cant wait to find the Tamriel system land on Nirn and...
To be fair, even if 994 of the planets are mostly barren, that'd still be a higher % than we have in real life.
Great video, new subscriber here!
We’ll be expecting CCC videos on all 1,000 planets.
So something we WONT see but that I would love to see is a city exporter so I can build a colony/city and export it so my friend can import it into their world. Like MAYBE mods can do it, but I doubt it.
Hope they incorporate the whole procedurally generated dungeon or "planet" into their next Elder Scrolls game with a few fixed rooms like the starting room and a boss room with a few other set rooms in between but a lot of randomly generated rooms and hallways linking the locations so you get a different experience with potentially different threats each time.
While there advantages where you can have more land and create it faster, you lose some big advantages as a developer. I am a world builder for my own small studio team, and procedural generation can really take away from your own game’s uniqueness and look. Sure, it’s easier, but if you handcraft a world, I can tell stories with the world itself. I don’t just fill the world with my stories, but both are one and the same! 😁
So for the elder scrolls, I personally hope that they handcraft their world if it means a world with focal points and design choices that cause it to stand out - consider the greybeards’ mountain in Skyrim which acts as a sort of beacon to figure where you are, or in real life, the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, where you can always tell where you by seeing the mountains
@@KingBuffo All for the open world being designed. So the whole Throat of the World thing wouldn't happen as that would be built from the "ground up" as it were and the same for everyone. I'm also all for some dungeons being designed from start to finish. But there are some dungeons that just sort of there with no real story to tell other than dungeon with monsters outside of maybe a few items left here or there. So when designing a "just there" dungeon and only dungeons the location for a few dungeons would play out differently every time.
For instance take the Barrow across from Windhelm where the one son of Ysgramor is buried. Imagine the opening room, the final room, and the riddle room being the same, but there's several new rooms and hallways each time with slightly different threats as you proceed.
@@cstains5543 in the case where dungeons aren’t super unique, I am of the opinion that you can put some really unique gear or have some resells interesting encounter waiting on the inside to make it seem more unique.
"Youre going to see what you kinda expect from us..." aged like fine milk.
Really looking forward to some mods of old earth.
I would love Nirn as a to scale planet mod.
I'd rather have tightly-controlled environments with lots of stuff to do, than a real-life scale planet (let alone over 1,000 of them) that is devoid of interesting content.
Todd mentioned in an ign interview 7 months ago that they had a 1 page document on fallout 5
So it's like star citizen but real 🤣
Nexus will be my friend for this game. Can't wait to get my hands on it.
Although im not getting too hyped just yet, I think some ppl are getting very concerned over the 1000 planets with no content thing. I think ppl are assuming that there is 15 planets with a ton of content handcrafted and the procedural generated planets have no content, but i think in reality its more like 15 content dense planets, 500 with procedurally generated content like quests and encounters and a small amount of handcrafted sprinkled in, and 500 dead/resource worlds.
Just because the majority of the planets are procedural, and wont have handcrafted content, doesnt mean necessarily that they wont have any content at all, you can procedurally generate content too, not deep stories of course, but with a handful of quest templates, 50 ish encounters, a bunch of aliens and a bunch of pirate outposts and possibility for variation in each of those things all this combined and interacting with each other would create quite a lot of stuff to do on the procedurally generated planets.
15 content packed planets seems very generous but I'd love to be proven wrong.
gonna be an amazing game can't wait
hes like "hold my beer and watch this"
Don't know if I'll play it or not but I personally think it looks like it's going to be good! :) Roll on ES6! :)
Oh snap, it's the big homie cameeeeelllllll!!!
See that mountain...err, I mean...planet?? You can go there!
as someone who genuinely wants Starfield to live up to the expectations they've set for us with these interviews and the showcase, 1000-ish planets to explore & life sized planets does more to worry me than anything else.
at this point, it seems like they're just setting themselves up for another "16x the detail" meme.
I hope it's all true, 'cause Todd is right, doing 1000 planets with procedural generation but still worried regardless.
I know this was a month ago, but I just wanted to give my input
I can understand the worry you have with he is just exaggerating or something, but I kinda don't have any worries about if the "1000-ish planets to explore" will be true simply because if Hello Games, a company with less than 30 people, can create a galaxy with procedural generation that is entertainable enough for at least 10 or so planets, then I'm pretty sure Bethesda with their 200+ employees can do the same quality at the least, and probably better, especially if it's on a scale that isn't trying to account for a million or so planets. My only worries are pertaining to the bugs and performance issues the game could have, which the fact Bethesda is actually delaying should give a bit more confidence they are really trying, but I still worry about it
I can already see a Firefly class, ship mod, IF the parts aren't there to begin with.
And, of course, Star Wars and Star Trek. But, I'd love a Firefly.
Cant wait for Fallout 5
This looks 1000% like an updated and realistic version of the systems in Spore.
The problem with the statement "we have done more handcrafted stuff then ever" is spread over how much? I think ideally there would be a few planets that are almost entirely hand crafted and a bunch of size padder- I mean procedurely generated planets
"Drops the onion"... Guess its a first time for everything.
16 times the planets. HOORAY!!
I just want Bethesda to stop having super vague perk descriptions.
"Has a chance, has a better chance, has an even better chance to do (blank)." Just say the percentage if it's 10%, 20%, then 30% damn it.
We're not children, we understand percentages.
They really seem to have forsaken the rpg systems. They stripped 80% of the role playing parts of fallout 4 and turned it into an open world "action adventure" game with RPG mechanics.
I’m hoping there’s a screen kinda like in the pipboy or in Skyrim where you can see the active effects and the specific stats behind it like when you take a sweet dose of jet or get a new daedric blessing
Is there only certain places you can land then what’s the point of full scale planets
It just works
This game is going to be a moders paradise
Do not know if you were misleading on purpose or not but Todd did not say real life size he was going by comparison. Example planet to planet the sizes are not as big a challenge as you would think. That doesn’t mean real life size.
Earth 2 CEO needs to talk to Todd.
To be honest I don't mind the game release Gap that much I have enough time to upgrade my rig and do stuff without having to worry
I wonder if they'll keep making sequels to Starfield, or if they'll do something MMO-style and keep filling all of that largely empty procedural landscape with DLC content. I might prefer that, myself; I probably won't live to see Fallout 5. I doubt I'd live to see Starfield 2. It'd be cool to occasionally get something new.
IMHO Todd has 100% been laying out what to expect based on everything that he has said so far. I think people need to lower their expectations a bit. Because we all know at launch that people are going to complain that many planets will be empty with barely anything to do in them. But Todd, nor any video or any person at BGS has ever said that EVERY planet will have a lot stuff to do on them. I completely agree with your theory of having planets be treated like dungeons. Land on a planet, clear the hostile area or dungeon, gather your resources, do your scanning and get out. Just like any other dungeon in Elder Scrolls or Fallout.
Are the spaceships real-life-scale too, with all the quarters accessible?
Looks like it, since they're modular
At least the modding community will likely be able to completely transform boring ice planets into something like lush forests.
Maybe even have something like Skyrim on one of the planets where they just use swords and arrows, then you come and and start vaporizing people with lazers. That'd be fun
Todd Howard - "make your own adventure!" = "Sorry, we have no content." Remember 76, dix out
Real life scale? Gods! I don't think my current computer can handle that 😂 😭
Look at the graphics of that game. That thing will require heaps of RAM to run.
On the flipside, I'm sure LowSpecGamer (or PotatoMode, or someone like that) will come up with a video on how to run everything on a mini-PC, on Intel HD graphics or some other sorcery. We'll probably have to tinker the configuration file to get something workable.
They aren’t real life scaled. This video is misinformed. Todd never said the planets are real life sized. Please don’t just blindly believe what a UA-camr tells you
@@xcalium9346 they are planets why would they be small? Todd said you can land anywhere on them. They will be massive
@@nanashi5139 There is a MASSIVE gap between small and real life size. They can still be large and not even close to real life sized.
Cant wait until they make a multiplayer mod for this game in 10 years
Im not sold on the "more handcrafted things than ever before" line. How do you quantify something like that? They could have just counted the amount of unique assets and it would still be technically true
Yeah for all we know most of the handcrafted stuff is in the main story planets and not the 900+ filler planets. I feel like these people never played no man's sky so they think that procedurally generated worlds are limitless when in reality they are very limited.
Because in his position it is extremely easy to gauge whether there is more or less handcrafted content in this game compared to previous titles. Also just think about it, not only has this been his dream game and half the reason 76 did so poor but they’ve been working on this straight after fallout 4 and trademarked the name in 2013, simply put it would be a challenge not to include more handcrafted work then previous titles.
I think he could gauge it based on man hours spent in the studio on handcrafting content. If it was more by a significant margin, itd be pretty obvious
Well 5 years of work with 4 times the staff of Fallout 4, it makes sense when you break it down.
Starfield feels like a proper spiritual successor to Freelancer, which imho the industry has been severely lacking. I am not going to get to hype but I definite think this game has potential. Can't wait to see what kind of economics the game has since he did mention smuggling? Does this mean some form of a Trading system? Perhaps we can mine and sell ores? Could be cool to go to some back water planet in the middle of god's forsaken nowhere and mine some rare resource, fight your way back through a bunch of nonsense to sell it at the markets in New Atlantis.
I wish I could find a COPY of Freelancer. I'd love to play it again.
@@Redtail45044 it wont run on modern systems without some work, but copies of it definitely exist ;)
@@MouldySponge True, true! Would you happen to know where I could find one. And I know it'll take work. That's how I got Heros of Might and Magic to play. Eventually.
But seriously, the places I know didn't have it, so I've been hunting since I'd love the kids to be able to try that one.
@@Redtail45044 torrent
I don't want to see a thing about fallout 5 until we get an official trailer for Elder scrolls six.
Sure Todd, sure
"Tell me lies tell me sweet little lies"
If you read between the lines, that's not what he said.
12:27 it is so odd that even after being brought by Microsoft they still have the same issue of long development lifecycles I would have thought since being brought by Microsoft they can expand grow their existing teams into subsidiary studios that really does not seem to be the case huh and if you can't grow those teams from within then at least get some of the other support studios to help them develop those games like Halo Infinite who had not only 343 industries working on that game but also Certain Affinity and Skybox Labs or games like COD where there had at least 6 different studios working together on the last few cod projects!! I feel like there should be some proper communication between the Microsoft and its subsidiaries like Bethesda in creating new games and allocating sufficient amount of resources in the creation of said game but it doesn't feel like that is the case.
They were already making the game pre buy so they might not want to change stuff until it’s out just to make things simpler.
@@KamiEneru okay perhaps maybe not with starfield I am more or less fine with that but tes 6 and fallout 5 for sure right? Like all they need to do is run support for the game making process anything is Bethesda can do on the day their own like for example story, lore and game elements..
I’m just hoping you can manually fly your ship through atmospheres and travel to the next planet. That’s imperative to me. The feeling of entering or leaving a planet is so unique … if we cannot do that, it won’t feel like a space game to me.
its been confirmed that you cannot manually fly between the planet and space
Big empty maps are not fun. BGS has always been known for large, dense worlds. The density is what makes the exploration so rewarding. You’re not walking for hours in a desolate landscape without seeing something of note.
Daggerfall had the biggest world map in gaming before Minecraft came out. Bethesda only started doing smaller, denser world's when Todd Howard started at the company and made TES Adventures: Redguard and even then they didn't prefect the formula until 2002's TES 3: Morrowind released
They at least need interesting landmarks and secrets to find.
Thank you for staying up and making these videos with all the information I need. Your theory of planets being dungeons makes sense ❤