“Any Bethesda developer who has been around since the horse armor days knows that by this point, if we understand one thing, it’s DLC,” Emil Pagliarulo says of Starfield Shattered Space
“Any Bethesda developer who has been around since the horse armor days knows that by this point, if we understand one thing, it’s DLC,” Emil Pagliarulo says of Starfield Shattered Space
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Yeah and the best DLC that has been made since then (Far Harbor) was one Emil didn’t design. Crazy, huh?
I am seriously one of the biggest BGS apologists, I love their games and I really want them to succeed. Hard to see how it is possible with him designing narratives. Their storytelling has been boring, safe, uninspired, and dumbed down to childish levels. We have such amazing narratives being crafted by companies like CD Projekt Red and Larian. You can’t trot out this cheap YA nonsense anymore.
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For context, Shattered Space is reportedly a Comercial flop and is sitting at ” Mostly Negative ” review score on Steam
Horse Armor was the first thing they released in the Fallout 4 creation club.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Horse_power_armor#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20Horse%20Power%20Armor%20is,content%20%22Horse%20Power%20Armor.%22
“Haha everyone, remember that dumb thing we did? You’re gonna buy this too, aren’t you you stupid fuck?”
Really? I felt like there’s one thing bethesda has been doing a good job screwing up since the days of (And including) the horse armor DLC. Their obsession with profiting off of microtransactions hasn’t felt like it’s added much that the free modding community wasn’t surpassing. Far Harbor as the big exception.
Shattered space’s reception seems to support that.
I bet there’s a lot of Beth employees that wish this guy would keep his mouth shut
Emil is just trolling now. The guy must have stumbled upon some dirt on Todd Howard during Oblivion’s development and blackmailed his way into a promotion.
Man, I hope they get their shit together for the next Elden Scrolls.
I was playing Skyrim VR a few months ago (Using FUS Wabbajack list) and it’s a really amazing game.
There are a lot of things I don’t like in Starfield, but the worst one is the story, dialogue and quests. Everything is so boring, dull, flat and conventional.
Compare that to Cyberpunk 2077, that game has such identity, personality, edge…
Has Emil Pagliarulo contributed anything of worth to any game he’s worked on since Oblivion’s Dark Brotherhood?
Just wonderful, DLC is the norm. They say the consumers shape the market… well, the “gaming” consumers shaped the market like a big pile of shit
He has to be trolling, right? No one can be this out of touch with reality. Is this the same guy who reportedly claimed the other day that Starfield was the best game Bethesda ever made? Because that also struck me as a wildly out of touch thing to even think, let alone say.
Horse armor days? Emil apparently forgot that Morrowind had some free DLC.
This is why I have zero faith in them anymore…they are way up there own butts.
Bro, a good starfield dlc would be a complete remake with someone who actually knows game design at the head.
I was properly pissed when I saw this article. As an amateur writer, there’s no other individual on this earth I hate more than Emil Pagliarulo. Todd keeping him around despite him failing at almost every possible metric is beyond me. How has nobody at BGS realized that *this guy* is the reason why they’re flopping so hard? Did Emil get Todd to fire all the sane individuals or did all of them just collectively decided to apply his ass-backwards and lazy approach from now on?
For the love of God Todd please, fire the guy and save yourself all the embarrassment.
Who let this clown out of his caravan again?
Say what you want about Oblivion DLC, but Shivering Isles was a banger
(yes I know that’s technically an add-on, not a DLC, but who cares)
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Bethesda is done for. I will be very surprised if ES6 isn’t a huge disappointment
On my god emil please just stop talking.
That could have been a joke, had he delivered that as a joke we’d all respect the introspection.
Instead…
Absolute horse shit, considering Fallout 4 had SIX DLCs and all but one of them sucked
Pagliarulo is the guy who thought it made sense for your radiation immune companions insist you needlessly die punching in a code on the water purifier.
He’s also the guy who has said they don’t have a design document for development because it’s too cumbersome. Showing he fundamentally misunderstands how they work and what their purpose is.
you know the emperor has no clothes Emil, do you… really know…?
You haven’t understood anything except money-milking since after Shivering Isles.
Starfield was such a crap game. I’ve never bothered to return to play it, and this crappy DLC ain’t changing that. I don’t care what Bethesda does these days. They are an average studio at best.
Anyone who thinks the next Fallout or Elder Scrolls games are going to be good are deluding themselves.