I'm an old school gamer, in my time the side stuff was not side stuff. So I had to adapt to the modern approach at games with time. So what I do is this: -> I do a bit of main story -> Then I do some side stuff -> I start jumping between both -> When I feel like the story is gong to end I start doing some more side stuff. -> If I feel like I'm getting burned on the game I immediately go and finish the story. -> Then if I'm still interesting in the game I continue doing side stuff until I'm bored.

@derickrisner2601

Жыл бұрын

That's almost exactly what I do.

@sostrongineedmoreofyourmon974

Жыл бұрын

I’m a little different. I go with almost entirely side quests and storylines while exploring and leveling. Then when I feel I’ve done everything I can, I’ll finally delve into the main quest story as a powerful and capable character.

@kylesmith8383

Жыл бұрын

I have a similar app. In some games it feels really natural to do side stuff as you go along the main story, and those are the games that tend to hook me most. Where the 2 start to blend together naturally and i don't need to plan out a gaming session with how much of the story i want to do

@shakeNbake0617

Жыл бұрын

This is basically the same as what I do for sure

@hotbuger

Жыл бұрын

This!

I just like that they showed so much gameplay and seem so transparent VS last game where they hid behind marketing

@Danker19991

Жыл бұрын

The gameplay still looks very cherry picked so far

@lukewithann7256

Жыл бұрын

i think they understand that they need this game to be good or they could be in trouble

@JazzzRockFuzion

Жыл бұрын

@@Danker19991Yeah, gameplay from a massive 1,000+ planet, galaxy spanning action rpg with factions, spaceship customization and settlement building is going to be cherry picked. They gave us a 45 minute feature presentation with a TON of raw gameplay. What more do you want?

@nielsw7892

Жыл бұрын

@@Danker19991 compared to other game developers, I think they showed how it should play out, and not your pre rendered shit

@Scr33d

Жыл бұрын

@@JazzzRockFuzion He means that the 45 minutes we saw was the cherry picked parts of maybe 30 hours where the the game looked good and ran well for once. or maybe they recorded the same part several times just to get a good clip where everything worked for once.

The Alien DNA trait may actually be referring to alien creatures rather than intelligent alien life.

@MN-vz8qm

Жыл бұрын

it sounded obvious to me after watching the starfield presentation. Why would they spoil intelligent alien life right at character creation?

@jbdds.9727

Жыл бұрын

The distinction between "alien" and "intelligent alien" seems to be missed by so many people. All squares are rectangles. Not all rectangles are squares.

@LordAmmolds

Жыл бұрын

Well they actually showed monster aliens briefly in XBOX showcase video. And space magic.

@Venenata

Жыл бұрын

@@jbdds.9727 lol what a weird saying ive never heard haha i like it

Maybe I'm weird, but I try to sprinkle in side quests as I progress the main story for the sake of leveling my characters and getting cool equipment along the way

@scalpingsnake

Жыл бұрын

Definitely not weird. Most questions like this are posed with one 'extreme' to another but that doesn't mean the stuff between is weird or not relevant. I do the same too, I like the spread things out evenly, jumping from side quest, to main mission to faction quests, repeat.

@BigCowProductions

Жыл бұрын

For sure! This game makes me actually want to make distinct characters that do different questlines in different ways, or do or don't do the main questline. Some characters wouldn't even go to some of the main premade planets with the big cities.

@davidbrow3086

Жыл бұрын

"Maybe I'm weird, but I do something that pretty much everyone else does."

@iLikeMelk

Жыл бұрын

@@davidbrow3086 I bet you're fun a parties

@PermadeathHD

Жыл бұрын

I think this is actually how most people play

A weird small thing I really appreciate about this game, the NASApunk aesthetic. Most sci-fi ships are either blindingly shiny or drearily grimy. This is just... NASA. Practical yet appealing in an unobtrusive way. It's kind of refreshing.

@jimbeaux89

Жыл бұрын

Bingo! I agree entirely.

@ToddConnell-os3ih

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it

Right off the bat, I could already see the passion and excitement Todd had to talk about and show off this game; and that gives me more confidence in the state and quality of Starfield

@davidintel

Жыл бұрын

The Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout games are why I trust Bethesda and Todd. I have been playing Skyrim every year since it came out. I want nothing to do Fallout 76 or Elder Scrolls Online.

@Ziraseal

Жыл бұрын

@@davidintel ESO is actually very good, it's just not the same feeling as BGS games. It's also made by a completely different studio, so Todd had nothing to do with it.

@cory99998

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think that's the only metric that matters. Is the lead truly excited about it? If yes, then while it's not a guarantee the game will tick every box for you and might leave you disappointed in some way or another, it's ultimately a game that's made of passion and that will show through. That means they go the extra mile on things.

@randomthings1293

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm sure this game will have 16 times the detail too ...

@MisterK-YT

Жыл бұрын

Idk man. Not only do I not sense the excitement from Todd that you do (I sense some excitement of course, but not _exceptionally_ high excitement), but I think that EVEN IF I did sense that exceptional excitement from a game director, it wouldn’t necessarily give me any more confidence in a game. Specifically in regards to certain devs like BGS. Because I think there are fundamental things that I care about or see as a big deal, that Todd doesn’t. Even things like “the acceptable state to a release a game in” or “tolerable number of bugs” or “the right amount quality-of-life features” or “acceptable concessions” or even possibly “satisfactory frame rate”… are all examples of things that I tend to disagree with Todd (and perhaps some other devs too) about. It’s all just my subjective opinion of course. But because of that, I can see a situation where Todd is SUPER SUPER HYPED about something, and it ends up being “meh” or even disappointing _TO ME._ That said, I’m incredibly excited to try Starfield. Someone gifted me an Xbox just because they knew how badly I wanted to play this game. So hopefully whatever concessions they did make will end up making sense and being worth it to me. (And the thing that I am absolutely NOT OKAY with and I can’t even believe people use it to excuse certain things is “it’s okay, modders will fix that.” Don’t even release a game on consoles if that’s part of your strategy, cuz that’s lame.)

I like doing a lot of side stuff first because I want to feel like I completed the game (for the most part) when I complete the main quest. It's a personal preference of feeling as accomplished as possible lol

I am a side stuff first player 99% of the time. There has been a few games that the main story just sucked me in so much that I couldnt stop, that was my first playthrough of the Witcher 3. The urgency of finding Ciri was just so well done that i genuinely felt like I would get a different ending if it took me too long to circle back to. I still think it would be cool for that to be the case, but thats probably controversial

Life is all about balance. Being overly excited about something can lead you to overhype it while being over-sceptical about it can make you cynical.

I like to do chunks of side missions with main missions sprinkled in-between. I'm usually just paranoid side content will be skipped and not obtainable anymore when a main mission alters the world and its events.

Trait: you have parents Luke: you can get rid of traits

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

Quest: Kill your parents (stop paying out weekly support); or Keep paying (+10% added onto your payments)

I do the main story and allow myself to get pulled into side quests naturally. I always make an effort to not stray too far away from the story but also allow myself to get involved in other things based off the head canon I create for my character

@jayg.2066

Жыл бұрын

Yeah same here. The most recent game I've played was AC Odyssey and I did exactly that. The quests were great. Just wished all the cool outfits weren't behind a paywall

@ricardo_lavra

Жыл бұрын

Same here. That's why, for me, it's so difficult to explore F4 and The Witcher 3 for example, 'cause there are plenty of side stuff to do and see, but the main story is so urgent and focused that feels weird doing so. These 2 games I only could explore them a little more in a second playthrough and third playthrough.

@nloadergd9193

Жыл бұрын

Yo this is what I do, in Skyrim I finished the story at the same time I finished the thieves guild storyline

Definitely a sides stuff first player. I find it hard to do the main story if I haven't done all the side stuff first. Sometimes it's actually detrimental to play this way, because I can get burned out on a game before I've beaten it, or, it can make what's supposed to be an epic finale trivial because I got too overpowered by doing all the side stuff first. Can't tell you how many final bosses I've smoked in seconds because the game let me get too overpowered. Very anti-climactic, and it's largely self-inflicted lol.

@ScottyDnB

Жыл бұрын

Same for me mate

@iindianajones4482

Жыл бұрын

Ohhhh, THAT’S what my problem is… 😂😂😂 Good to see it put into words!

@vernonbrown5168

Жыл бұрын

I like being the final boss that's why do all the side stuff

I usually like burning through the main story and then doing side quests, it feels so much easier to be immersed in the world when there’s not a constant threat pulling me towards finishing the main quest

@ImanQuest

Жыл бұрын

Opposite for me. I make sure I do everything that I can before moving on with main story. Because most of the time after main story i don't really touch the game.

@Tate_THG

Жыл бұрын

Given the main plot sounds like just exploring ruins and discovering artifacts it won’t be galaxy dooming tension

@Viper-dz2kw

Жыл бұрын

@@Tate_THG tbh I haven’t finished the video I just saw all the comments about how people play Bethesda games and thought it was generic enough that I could weigh in without finishing the vid, especially since I don’t really see anyone else in the comments that plays the way I do

@MisterK-YT

Жыл бұрын

I tend to do the opposite. Usually, once I’m done with a game’s main campaign I don’t come back to it. So I try to do it earlier. In fact, it kills me to admit this, but even in my (overall) FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME… RDR2… I haven’t finished the epilogue. Which is nuts cuz I adore that game more than any other. Initially I stopped playing the epilogue cuz I didn’t want the game to be over. I wanted to know that there’s more there for me. But I ended up never going back to it lol.

starfield is basically the vision todd had as a young man that inspired him to become the goat that he is today. the fact that he is taking that vision and turning it into reality should excite anyone.

Main story vs. side stuff depends on the flow of the narrative for me. Open world games are all about immersion in my mind and if it makes sense for me to have a break and venture out and live the life of the character given what just happened in the main storyline, then I’ll wander and live that life. If things feel imperative that I move the next big plot line right away or I’d feel guilty as that character for ignoring it, I press on.

I have a tendancy to do a lot of side quests before I move on with the main story because of my experiences with old PS1 RPGs. Their format was usually, do side quests when you can because if you move the story along you may move past those side quests and fail/miss them. Also it was rare to have games continue going after the main story was completed, so its now ingrained in me to make absolutely sure I am done with everything else before I finish the main story.

I do side content interspersed throughout my journey through the main quest. I try to make it feel as natural as possible EI, i try to do must side quests as i pass them along my journey so i don't back track a ton. This feels best in games like the witcher 3. Pass through new town on way to main objective, stop and fullfil local contracts to make some coin, talk to people and help them solve their stupid human problems, maybe make some new gear, move on towards objective again. When i start a game with a long story and lots of side content, i usually try to only do one main quest at most per play session until i get further into the game and either want to just finish, or start to run out of side content if I'm still so into the game i wanna do it all

I like to do all the side stuff before I finish the main story but I do it in batches, I'll progress the main story a bit and then do a big chunk of side stuff until the only thing I have left is the end of the main story. If I focus mostly on the main story I tend to lose interest after and move on to the next game on my list. I'm the kind of gamer that likes to 100% a game (or as much as I care to depending on the title) and then move on to the next one and never look back!

I generally start the story because a lot of the time you will get some important item or ability within the first few missions and then I go all out doing/ collecting side quests until I feel like progressing the story a bit more. So usually like a 4/1 ratio of side quests to main story depending on how many side quests there are vs main story length. It makes games take a super long time to complete.

@DarkEnigma1115

Жыл бұрын

I usually go side story until I get a soft-block where I need a power unlocked in the main story to progress.

i'm particularly excited about docking and stealing enemy ships

I like hearing you spread some positivity. It's necessary from time to time. These games are hard and take years to make. And people like to shit on shortcomings even though just making the basic systems that nobody notices takes years.

@sibusiso2841

Жыл бұрын

Lets not act like people are shitting on a poor indie studio that has a great recent track record

@tomsmarkovs1946

Жыл бұрын

@@sibusiso2841 It doesn't matter if it's an indie studio or not. What I'm saying is it takes hundreds of people and tons of dev time to make a basic AAA game. I'm personally a bit tired of people who don't make anything be so harsh on people who make stuff.

@avelonzx

Жыл бұрын

@@tomsmarkovs1946It doesn’t matter how long and hard they worked on a game. All that matters is how it turns out. Only accept excellence, if you accept shit products because “oh but they worked so hard man, here have a participation trophy!!” then you will continue to get shit products. If anything, people are not harsh enough when criticising games.

@tomsmarkovs1946

Жыл бұрын

@@avelonzx I disagree . . mostly

@NJX247

Жыл бұрын

@@tomsmarkovs1946how can you disagree…

I honestly forgot that Skyrim has a main quest. I’ve never attempted to follow it past the first little village it dumps you in. I’ve played hundreds of hours and I don’t even know what the main story plot is about.

Fun fact: whenever I ask people to tell me the lies Todd has said they never really have an answer outside of a short phrase. "16x the detail" referred to landscape distance and lighting "See that mountain, you can climb it" He was referring to the tallest mountain in the game which you can indeed climb Every lie that people mention have always been taken out of context and no one actually knows what they're talking about. They just reference reddit, twitter or a random KZreadr

@AusSP

Жыл бұрын

Well, the "200 endings" line given in the video is a highly-dubious statement. It's not wrong, but it's just combinations of 29 slides, less than Fallout 2's number, and far less than New Vegas' 190 slides. It's not lying, it's manipulative phrasing and specific interpretation (while hiding the actual problems well away from the public eye). It's the old "What I said was true... from a certain point of view." I'm more concerned about Bethesda's questionable grasp of narrative.

Being skeptical is too easy. Too easy to have your dream game with features in your mind and then criticize if those features aren't present. Makes it too easy to overlook how much fun you can probably have based on what's there.

@BoolyK

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it also then easier to fan boy?

@JayRNaylor

Жыл бұрын

@@BoolyK False alternative.

@NightingaleBrawlhalla

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I love this comment. I agree, people have expectations with what a game SHOULD have and expect so much random small things that when the game comes out and it isn't there they will get frustrated. Like his first point for example, Tod has even said already that you travel through using boots, so why do you NEED mounts? Would it be cool? Yeah so would raygun.. but we ain't getting one.

@KratosisGod

Жыл бұрын

Sure don't be wary about anything and accept everything at face value, that's how people got duped into buying fallout 76 and cyberpunk 2077 time and time again it has been proven that trusting blindly in marketing will let players down.

@kalebcassidy7981

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry that's literally the exact opposite of what being sceptical means or at the very least the opposite of how Luke interprets Scepticism. Being sceptical is waiting to see what the game actually is and judge it on its merits. Not getting over hyped by the games marketing then expecting it to be more than it is only to be let down when the game under delivers on your over hyped expectations.

Im one of those thats averse to taking the main path. I think its because early on in my gaming years ive been trained to understand that you can and most likely will be locked out of further exploration, loot, interactions, etc. If you advance and sometimes you can miss out on some really neat stuff. Not sure if thats a big game design thing anymore but i havent really tested it.

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

It's interesting from a design standpoint. Some designers let you explore the map right up until the final mission where they say starting it will lock the map. Others let you hoover up what you missed after the story ends. I don't mind either because I will play again if I want to see what I missed.

I will never understand why people pre-order. The only exceptions I think would be: 1. If you get a limited edition physical item 2. You get to play the game early (for streamers this would be nice) 3. You're supporting a struggling company who earnestly are trying to make a good game I once heard someone argue "There is no scenario where I will not buy this game, so I might as well pre-order". There is no benefit to pre ordering (apart from what I mentioned above), you are literally just excluding options and locking yourself into a position you cant back away from. That said, judge the game based on it's merits when it comes out, not on what we were expecting.

I always feel like I have concluded the game when thr credits roll, and have this sense of “I’m done playing the game now, I’ll go play something else or start a new game” so I start with side quests first then main story last. In that way I always have something to look forward to. And have that sense of direction that I have to take.

The idea with weekly in game payments and the possibilities that provides dare I say I’m hyped either way 😅 many of the systems they seem to be incorporating makes me feel as though this maybe the most compelling title for me since red dead 2 if they actually pull it off. I love in depth systems of managing resources and income to be able to progress through the game. I love no man’s sky for that but the idea of doing that while having an underlying narrative and storylines to follow has definitely got me pretty excited for September.

@StoneAgeWarfare

Жыл бұрын

This game is such a huge gamble. If it succeeds, it will be incredible. If it slightly falters in what it promises, it'll probably sink the ship.

Fallout, Elder Scrolls and now Starfield being built off of the foundation of GURPS is so cool to me. Always loved how much freedom there is in that TTRPG system so having big games somewhat like it is wonderful.

@jarod317

Жыл бұрын

What is GURPS?

@Katie-hj5eb

Жыл бұрын

@@jarod317 probably the most prevalent dead TTRPG system ever. It has well over 400 books covering every scenario you could think of but its pretty rare to see people actually play it. A summary of the system would be that it allows for any kind of character, monster, item, robot, or other object to be built with the exact same ruleset making it possible to play in any setting with any character. Honestly though its probably more accurate to call GURPS a TTRPG engine that you build a TTRPG from because the game master needs to pick which rules to use and which rules to ditch, no one would ever use all the rules unless you absolutely wanted the most realistic game ever and were willing to remember hundreds of pages of rules.

3:40 In Skyrim, my friend was constantly complaining about dragon attacks and I kept telling him I hadn't been attacked once by dragons.. I was level 30+ by the time I eventually got around to doing the quest where you fight (kill and absorb) your first dragon and discover you are the dragonborn.. I intentionally avoided the trigger area and went to 30+ without having any shouts.. I knew ahead of time what the mission and location was for the first dragon fight after watching my bro for a few min, so I wanted to be prepared ahead of time for it.. After I got the dragon to land, I promptly punched it to death.. Khajiit are OP..

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

I always liked getting the shout that throws your voice so that you could use it to kick someone off a ledge/cliff 😂😂

When I play a game like this I just play whatever catches me, whether it’s main story, side quests, or finding a cool road to walk because it looks like a fun adventure

The ending of a game is a perfect cap to most games. Any time I do the side stuff last, the game just fizzles out. But if I do the ending last, then game tends to end with the peak content story wise.

The ship building looks awesome. I like the sound of it taking time to so we see progress over the course of a playthrough. For me it's the fact it's also effectively our house/base. I have dabbled in modded Minecraft and my absolute favourite moment was building a mobile base to fly around explore, with a safe place that I can sleep in and store my stuff. With starfield the fact we can also steal ships, board them. Upgrade our ships over time. Just sounds so cool.

It depends. I tend to follow the main story in order to unlock features/events I want to explore. The more content that is locked behind the main story, the more quickly I will pursue it to completion. But in FO4 for example, I spend most of my time building and managing settlements, and pursuing mod storylines (eg. Sim Settlements 2). For Starfield, I think I will spend most of my time on ship building and outpost building/management, so it really depends how much of that content is locked behind the main story. I typically do finish the main story as I get curious - but I could see myself spending 60+hrs before I even start work on the main story. Mind you, Todd did seem to indicate the things I am most interested in are more late-game content, so I may end up pursuing the main story in order to get the revenue streams up to do that stuff.

I've put hundreds of hours into skyrim, and I've never finished the main quest, and the same with fallout 4. I enjoy exploring and finding side quests to do. I'll probably never finish star fields main quest, though the story does intrigue me more than the previous games.

Hopefully the jetpack makes traversal interesting and enjoyable. Otherwise this space game may end up feeling very grounded.

@360tailslidfaceplant

Жыл бұрын

My theory on why there's no on planet flight or rovers is because the traversable worlds are actually a little smaller than we think. So if you could fly over everything and the game would be too easy so to speak. And how would combat work if there were rovers? It'd be like that rage game from several years ago. Kinda take away the shooter aspect of it, and make it way less fallout like

@LiveEnd06

Жыл бұрын

Tbh I kinda think it will no matter what. 1000 planets is way too big a promise, even for Bethesda, and frankly I'd be willing to bet that 600-800 of those planets will be boring and empty copy-pasted repeat planets, and I doubt even 50 or 100 of the planets will be interesting. Past that, sure not having a river or vehicle isn't a big deal, but only having the jetpack to hop around here and there doesn't seem like it's gonna last for hundreds and hundreds of hours because of how much there is to explore. I get the counter-argument of "well fallout and Skyrim don't have vehicles so hur-dur" but just because they didn't, doesn't mean vehicles wouldn't be a nice addition, and even past that, it's not like players would have to use the vehicles if they were in the game. You could still very well play it like you would Fallout and let the other players who want to use the vehicles just have fun. That's like saying Elden Ring players who don't like using summons, sure you can make your game harder, but people who just want to have fun can use the summons or vehicles in Starfield.

@veryrare432hz

Жыл бұрын

@@LiveEnd06it’s an engine issue

@ElderSnowball

Жыл бұрын

You have to keep in mind that it’s Bethesda though. They make traveling on foot in game’s very enjoyable. I didn’t even use mounts in Skyrim lol.

@LiveEnd06

Жыл бұрын

@@veryrare432hz Prolly tbh, I know all the fanboys argue that it's now Creation Engine 2, but that doesn't mean the engines better or even all that different from the original, it's just "upgraded"

I do the main and side stuff in turns so i don't get to far ahead with either

I personally like to prolong my game as much as possible. Sort of “get my money’s worth”. The last part is, of course, just something psychological for myself. If I burn through the story and am disappointed, I don’t feel like doing any side-stuff. I am doing as much side stuff as possible and then do Main Story sporadical in between. This is also because some side stuff is repetitive and I like to change up my gameplay with story in between so the side stuff isn’t as boring or feel like a chore. The other reason for me to do side stuff before is also because some maps change depending on the story, e.g. some parts of the map changes, gets destroyed, you get to a different part of the map without getting the option to go back etc.

I'm pretty bummed about the lack of vehicles in starfield. I hope it's a design choice and not a technical limitation

@LiveEnd06

Жыл бұрын

Personally I don't see why it'd be a design choice. I get that Skyrim or Fallout kinda relied on walking around, but those aren't games where your supposed to explore hundreds of planets. And sure we have a little booster pack but frankly that doesn't seem good enough for long term traversal. I also don't like the argument against it because if you don't want to use vehicles and just walk around everywhere, then don't use them yourself and let people who use them enjoy it. It's like summons in Elden Ring; if you want the game to be harder then don't use them, but if you want to have fun then go for it and use summons or in this case vehicles in Starfield.

This is something many don't realize. The base building mechanic + ship building mechanic + user created mods=endless possibilities. That's what I'm most excited for. Not to mention the mods for guns, clothes, space suits etc. It's my favorite aspect of any Bethesda game.

@lukaspumo3498

Жыл бұрын

That shit was only in fallout 4 and 76. Not really what the big B is known for lmao

@roundearthshill248

Жыл бұрын

@@lukaspumo3498 uh wut? Maybe you play on console or something but I can assure you, every single major RPG release from Bethesda in the last 15 years has had heavy mod support. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3, FO4. It's literally what Bethesda games are known for.

I always go back and forth between main story and side stuff. It keeps it from getting stale and helps prevent that feeling of a short story when you fly through it from the get go.

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. The more money I've sunk into buying the game, the more I'm gonna want it to be a time sink to balance out my ROI

“If something were to happen to your in-game parents, presumably you just wouldn’t have parents to visit anymore” Too real

I have hundreds of hours in skyrim both versions on console and PC and I have seen the ending exactly once lol

Bethesda did not make 76, they formed a new studio for it. It's like saying that Bethesda made Doom or Redfall. Did they have a hand in it? sure.. But its not a BGS game. Another example of this attitude is Fallout NV. No one gives BGS credit for NV because people like it. But you will give them all the credit for 76, huh?

@MondoMurderface

Жыл бұрын

​@@mastah39 I hear 76 isn't bad.. Its just not a traditional BGS game. The original studio had very little to do with it besides training the new guys to work the engine and helping out in the early design phase.. at least according to leaks from angry ex employees who blamed Todd for pulling his team away from 76.

@AusSP

Жыл бұрын

@@MondoMurderface It was terrible at launch. Now... It's not exactly great, from my perspective. There's enough to enjoy in terms of exploration, and there's certainly more objects than Fallout 4. Load times are hugely improved. Narratively, it's pretty bad - the plotline where there's people now sits on top of the plotline where everyone is dead, and constantly get in each other's way. The final boss happens every hour or two. Depending on what Event is on, magical bullshit could be happening every hour on the hour. There's half a dozen powerful, technologically advanced pre-war secret societies that still exist, somehow. And so on. The size limit on your storage is extremely small. Can't carry much. As a shooter with vaguely Fallout-like mechanics, it's fine, and it has Co-op, but if you're interested in it's plot, or setting, or anything like that, then don't be worried.

for me to be interested in a game, i have to feel immersed. there are many kinds of immersion and i enjoy almost all of them. side stuff becomes why the game is even worth playing. i hope i can make my ship really big and man it like a star fleet vessel. i wanna explore and help people and if a quest gets in my way, its not side stuff, it IS the game.

If the game doesn't have any in-planet flight, not only do I think that's not a big deal, but I also think that it might bode well for the kind of game that it will be. I personally want this to be a role playing game first and foremost, with character building, interesting quests, and interesting locations, world secrets, etc. If the mechanics of gunfights, space fighting, or flying your ship are only supplementary to that experience, then more power to them.

So awesome seeing Scott Manleys channel get some recognition. Have been watching him since I started playing Karbala space program

Will you do another skeptic discussion with Matty again now that there's been a new showcase I think that would be great!

when it comes to vehicles for the game, i could see modders doing asset flips of older bethesda games and creating mounts for starfield with them. for example, they could take the animation from skyrim of the horse riding animation and make it work for starfield, and then they can tweak it to run smoother, i have seen this done with mods made by modders. i have also seen people backport assets from fallout and bring them to skyrim, the one i saw was the vault opening sequence, it was used in a dwemer mod and it functioned very well. so i could see a modder take the animations of how it works in skyrim and make it work for starfield, however it could be further tweaked to work like a vehicle instead of like the vehicle is a horse it will function much like your ship, but with limited capabilities.

@mrmm1110

Жыл бұрын

have you seen vehicles in Fallout: Frontier? I wonder if it could work here too

@user-tp5yb4hr4w

Жыл бұрын

@@mrmm1110 i honestly haven't played that mod, but it sounds cool, how did the vehicles work in that mod?

I actually like to try to get a mixture of both main and side content at the same time. Depending on the game, i try to pace myself on the main story and treat it almost like living in the game. Youd most definitely get distracted by other shit thats going on in real life with "sidequests"

I put so much time into Skyrim on my first save and I thought, “Man, I want to restart the game with a ton of new mods, but if I don’t complete the game now I never will.” I did a huge story rush and finished the story. Ever since I’ve put like 3000 hours into it, and I’m not sure I’ve ever completed more than 3 story quests in each save I’ve played.

I agree with your complaints about starfield.. walking around clicking on the map and warping around vs being able to drive or fly around is seriously going to be weird sidenote you not being subscribed to scott manley is a crime LOL

@ambiguouszenithar

Жыл бұрын

That's still under the assumption (who I've only ever heard Luke himself say) that these are planet sized planets.. I think it's FAR more realistic that it'll vary from the size of oblivion's map to all of the landmasses for fallout 4 combined, if not a bit bigger than that But i think it's silly to assume these are full scale planets

@SnarkyBoi

Жыл бұрын

​@@ambiguouszenitharthey are. While exploring, the game makes a huge tile of land and seamlessly combines it with the one you were on. They gane then generates hand crafted locations onto those tiles.

Starfield seems like a cool game, I just wish it was made in a different engine.

@JazzzRockFuzion

Жыл бұрын

It literally would not be the game it is if it’d been built in a different engine - look at the issues RPG devs have had over the past 10 years with “leet” engines like Frostbite and even Unreal. Sure it ain’t perfect, but Creation is ideally suited for these types of games

@Prototype-357

Жыл бұрын

From history it just looks like Bethesda favors this engine because it lets them abuse the goodwill of the mod community to fix bugs cause they don't want to give their devs time and money enough to clean the game before shipping it out. Why else would they use Creation for Fallout 76 if not for that? As if an engine that old could handle a multiplayer game. I'm not saying let's boycott Starfield, I'm just saying pre-ordering is a very stupid idea considering their track record.

@lilkakarot3072

Жыл бұрын

​@@Prototype-357their track record is banger after banger! I trust Bethesda, bugs and all. I have enough hours in all of their games to know that I will have many more with starfield.

@Prototype-357

Жыл бұрын

@@lilkakarot3072 Just saying the last time we trusted them enough to pre-order stuff people got doxxed.

Your comments on in atmosphere travel are very relevant and i for one agree completely. Keep up the good work! A fellow sceptic

showing the inspirations and how it was a dream honestly makes me more excited for todd howard because i know i’m gonna love this game

30fps intrigues me.

@Pixeleyes

Жыл бұрын

I finally picked up a PS5 because I was under the impression that console games were past the days of 30 fps. Good thing I still have a PC, because I was mistaken. If my primary gaming machine was an Xbox I would be losing my fucking shit.

@nhkk2893

Жыл бұрын

0 Fps sounds even more intriguing

@thegrayvapour

Жыл бұрын

Because it won’t bottleneck your eyes and brain?

@samdixon3719

Жыл бұрын

Fr, that shit is not bad

@maruf7956

Жыл бұрын

As a PC player this not the issue for me but no land vehicles are kinda red flag for me

Bedevilment....

I am a completionist and I like to make good with all factions that i can - in Mass Effect I had Rachni, Geth, Quarians and all other major races in my armada. Having said that, I do the main story in parallel with the side stories, and also companion stories too. I like to time it so that by the time I get to the ending of the main story I have completed all the side content as well.

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

I remember siding with the Geth at one point and, consequently, p/ssing off the Volus I encountered for the rest of my playthrough 😂😂

I like to play a bit of the main story upfront and then I usually peel off and do side content for awhile. Once I get a little tired of that, I hop back on the main quest until I can tell I’m on the last or close to the last quest and then I do all the side content that’s left before finally finishing the game.

30 fps is acceptable imo

@maruf7956

Жыл бұрын

acceptable for peasants

Oh wow. I’m 1st

I like doing the main quest then taking a break and doing some side quests. it always helps and it keeps it refreshing

I’ve put at least a few thousand hours into Skyrim at this point, both modded and vanilla, and I’ve only completed the main quest once, on my first character back in 2012. So it’s all side stuff for me.

Bethesda will never be the same. Cheap ass gready corporate company lost his souls. Starfield is gonna be a flop and they don't even care. Cyberpunk all over again

@user-db6gf6co1g

Жыл бұрын

Gamers are so weird man lmao. It’s like one of the only mediums where people hate the people who create for them. I’d rather die than be a game developer lmaooo

@Mr.Badoogle

Жыл бұрын

You can’t compare the two

@yourmom9200

Жыл бұрын

Haters gonna hate I guess, Bethesda could release the best game ever made and morons like you would still wish they failed.

@JazzzRockFuzion

Жыл бұрын

Okay, edgelord. Go play Spider-Man 2 this fall, and let the adults enjoy Starfield.

Also as someone thats has been lied to before i find the best way to counter that and get honesty is through undisclosed speculation, because you get a more genuine reaction from folks, than if you speculate as a question, because the trolls love to feed others bullquack, and yet said trolls love to be right in the face of obvi speculation when its stated as a fact

The 5 Day early access window gives game developers enough time to start on the Day 1 patch before September 6th. Also, the embargo process of 5 days early gives enough time for journalists to do a partial review .

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the character in this game who is clearly an homage to Sheogorath from Elder Scrolls?? I posted about this right after the Bethesda Starfield Direct. Look at the guy's outfit and color pattern at time stamp: 19:51. It IMMEDIATELY made me think of Sheogorath, particularly from Oblivion Shivering Isles

My first playthrough of Skyrim was a main story first, side stuff second. But that first playthrough i also played through a lot of other stuff as well and it only lasted about 150 hours. Since that playthrough i had another 5-7 others that were either build-themed, or mod-driven and i'm quite sure i amased another 6-8 hundred hours in it

When you realize how mechanically similar some RPGs from the 80s and early 90s are compared to newer flashier games, you can realize how little the genre has actually moved forward.

what I often do with games like Skyrim is during my first play-though, I’ll more-or-less rush through the main quest / story arc because of the sense of urgency I feel concerning it. Then, my during my subsequent play-throughs I’ll focus much more on the “side” content. For Skyrim specifically, I’ll progress the main story up to getting summoned to High Hrothgar by the Greybeards, and then I’ll go complete a bunch of other non-main story things

I do both and depending on the game I can get all side stuff done just when I’m about to finish the main story, or get anywhere from 60-75% of it done then finish after. And that can depend on the amount of side or just doing it so I can get as much XP and upgrades to help me in the main story a bit easier and faster. If I really dig the game I will go for 100% completion

The best thing about Skyrim and Oblivion's main questline is that you can completely ignore them after tutorial dungeon and just roleplay as not chosen one

Depends on the side/main quest. What can I say, if I see two roads to go down, if I notice "this is the main road to the MSQ" I turn back to clear the other road before going back.

When it cones to side stuff and main story I kinda do it in turns - a little bit of story -> break for side quests/activities -> story again -> side stuff. And when I'm close to the end of the main story - I'm starting to finish up all side quests left so I can have everything done once the end credits roll. Sometimes I leave myself some side activities for later, but it's mostly the most unimportant content (crime activities in Cyberpunk, questionmarks in Witcher, animals/fishes/bones in RDR2 etc.).

I wonder if he'll ever get over 76 lol Its like being mad at Arkane Lyon for Redfall

I tend to try and complete as much as I can before moving on with main story. It's like I have a compulsion to "finish" an area and everything in it before moving on to next.

Customization and modularity goes a long ways and is always awesome

I typically do side quests/exploration as much as I can between story missions to keep my character as powerful and leveled as possible throughout the story

I tend to spend more time on the side stuff... but I also tend to really like the beginning part of games. The building up of a new character. I'll start a new playthrough several times without finishing my main save.

Every time you said “this gets me…” or “this gets me really…” and you pause I swear to God I kept think you were going to say “hard” not “excited” which had me dying lol.

My main focus are the side quests but I tend to do them in a way that I can fall on a mission of the main quest from time to time

I'm one of those people that really tries to split my time up evenly between main story and side quests, but I always end up front-loading the main story to get all of the upgrades so I can explore more. Happened with God of War, Legend of Zelda BotW and TotK, Obilvion, etc. I hate running into an area I can't explore because I don't have the gauntlet or the pickaxe or whatever, so I do the main story to get all of that, then do side stuff afterwards.

They way I do sidequests is I'll do all the sidequests in the area in which the main story is and kind of ignore any other areas until the main story takes me there, but I will always do the main story stuff in each of those areas last to keep that big end goal to work towards. I find that as soon as I finish the main quest and story and lose that big character motivation and narrative goal I drop the game regardless of whether I've finished all the side content or not because I feel like the story has ended and so has my character's arc.

In terms of mods, what I want the most for the game is a Halo themed overhaul, as well as a Star Wars themed overhaul. Halo & Star Wars weapons, enemies, armor, locations, ships, etc.

Love your breakdown videos, Luke. You're an intelligent individual, and your approach that is focused on logic now, excitement later after the game has released, is something everyone should take note of. I also 100000% agree with you that the Ship Builder system is probably the thing I'm most excited about, I want to build a fleet of custom ships, spend hours just detailing every module, features and paint job, go out in open space and mine resources, build a network of outposts to help transport and divide resources for my ships and weapons, explore derelict ships, taking ships after dog fights.. all of that is why I want to play the game. And even though there are already some games like that, they don't have the story, characters, side quests and freedom that BGS games usually have (some of them, anyway...)

@Variableh

Жыл бұрын

....what games are there like that? I 'd love to know lol. Just depth of the ship building alone kinda puts Starfield on an island by itself.

I’m surprised more people aren’t disappointed by this game having far less romance options than previous Bethesda games although being so much larger

@connorspeaks3841

Жыл бұрын

No one plays Bethesda games for romance

Definitely an even mix of main quests and side quests for me. If you do too much of one you ruin the other, in most cases atleast. Like you'll be overpowered and end up blasting through the campaign missions if you do to much side quests/ adventuring in open world games.

One thing I’m worried about is the difficulty. All the enemies seemed mindless and did almost no damage when shooting the player. I don’t want to be able to just steamroll every hostile NPC I encounter

@debbiegilmour6171

Жыл бұрын

The gameplay demos are usually always played in god mode which would be why it looks like you take no damage.

side stuff main quest, depends on the game, but usually side stuff if it helps my character level up faster. I really like when games make an effort to reward players for doing the side quests, like in horizon zero dawn, the final mission gives you a warning before starting. And there's actual changes (admittedly minor) to the final mission depending on choices.

As a general rule, I always try to "clear" a location before going onto the next step of the main story. For instance, I have recently gotten around to playing Mass Effect 1, and I did my best to do clear up the entirety of the Assignments before moving into Virmine, and then again before going to Ilos. Since it's pretty easy to keep track of all the missions, I feel comfortable going about the game that way. For Bethesda games, however, I usually mix it up a lot more, doing a bit of sidequests and bit of main story interchangeably. Due to massive scale of them, I feel overwhelmed trying to do everything before moving on, and usually the quests are a bit of a nuisance to go around. All in all, I feel that Starfield (like most Bethesda RPG titles) is right up my alley when it comes to gameplay mechanics, and if it works as intended, it might well become my favorite game of all time (unless ES6 fixes combat and magic from Skyrim or an extremely unlikely, highly innovative pokémon game hits).

- 250 hours in Skyrim. - Did not start main quest. - What are dragons? - What are shouts? Skyrim is a wonderful feeling…

I prefer to do everything at the same time, the main story along with the side stuff, but giving more priority to side stuff. When I finish the main story it gives me a feeling that the game is finished. And, I've been playing Skyrim since July 2nd 2014.. I have over 2.000 hours (which for me is a lot) and I've never finished the main story.

I tend to do main story in my first play through with a little bit of side stuff to take a break from the main mission, but 2nd+ playthrough I play the sidemissions as they becoming available in the story

As someone whose beeen playing since the early 90s. Games always directed me to do side quests first, because once you finished the story, thats it the end, you couldnt go back, and considering doing side stuff helped make you more powerful. Yea. Probably why regen mobs and grinding irratate me so much. Ive gkne and cleaned that area of gobbos for the village to be safe, not for them to alive 5 minutes later, it breaks the sense of accomplishment and progression and reinforces that everything im doing is pointless in the same way mobs are always around the same level as you, so if they were annoying to begin with, they will be just as much later no matter how many more skills or trained ability youve gained unless youve commited hours into muscle memory, which no one has time for

I try to focus on main story in a first playthrough because i know I'll never finish it again, getting lost in the world, doing side quests and making new characters to roleplay

"Hello my Adoring Fan. Would you mind helping out and cleaning the airlock walls? Thank you so much." WOOOOOSH as the air lock accidently opens. "Oppsie. How did that happen?"

I am one of those players that played ES III, IV, and V and never finished the main quest line because I was so busy doing all manner of side quests! 😅 There are some quests that won't be available if said quest giver dies, or if I finish the main story and certain quests are no longer available.

3:03 until a year or 2 ago I hadn't gone to see the Greybeards. Once I figured out the dragons don't spawn until you give the Dragonstone to _jarl Balgruf's top guy,_ I stopped going to Bleak Falls Barrow as well in new characters. Instead I like to start with some of the guilds depending on the type of character. In Starfield I intend to find out how much Helgening the game does along a "main quest" intro, before I can get in a ship and become a space trucker, pirate, ace, explorer, miner, etc.

3:40 I'm a mix, I play them simultaneously, I focus a bit on the story quests and when I get to a part in the story where there seems to be a hold of sorts (whether it's discovering a new city, town or area, accomplishing something or after a big event in the game...) then I start doing some side quests, and after that I get back into the main quests, I think that's the most balanced gameplay experience you can have, at least in Skyrim since the game doesn't force you to hold onto one or the other, you don't feel like you're grinding or missing on to the plot of main story since the side quests are just as good, if not better (sorry for my shit grammar)