One thing Starfield is really good at, is making us appreciate other games.

@anthrax2413

7 ай бұрын

There is one more thing. I never slept better in my life while I was playing Starfield.

@MrWert1978

7 ай бұрын

Every Fallout and TES fan should be very worried!

@AMarin221

7 ай бұрын

Accurate

@precisionleadthrowing4628

7 ай бұрын

the wokeism is just to repulsive. Go woke - Go broke

@nonyabiz3874

7 ай бұрын

yup ive gone back to Witcher 3 and loving the freedom of uninterrupted movement

Starfield can be summarized by this sequence: fly (load) into a planet, walk for ten minutes, get to an NPC, have them say "hmm yes, interesting, you should go talk to X on another planet", turning around, and going back to where you come from to repeat the sequence. Starfield is the game that could have been an email.

@AverageJoe1006

7 ай бұрын

Well said I am pretty done with it after 200+ hours , don’t really see the point in building more ships or bases. Next game + is worthless also

@AverageJoe1006

7 ай бұрын

The quests are literally forcing players to use fast travel all the time. 70% fast travel 10% walking and the rest boring dialogue with some uninteresting npcs

@gsustime

7 ай бұрын

😂

@thedoomslayer5863

6 ай бұрын

​@@AverageJoe1006I do wonder what held your attention for 200 or more hours though

@AverageJoe1006

6 ай бұрын

@@thedoomslayer5863 the exploration not that there’s much variation , wandering around on small planets to steal some ships. doing some quests to see if there where any outstanding ones. 200 hours was a real long time I am still thinking how do I got there lmfao

The audacity of Todd to call this next gen with the amount of loading screens will never stop being funny to me

@joelhodoborgas

6 ай бұрын

And 2017 graphics

@grrfffGdeee-ev8nq

6 ай бұрын

2007* Ofc its not that bad but come on, there are games that are literally 10 years older that are looking way better and even better optimised. The “next gen technology” is obviously a lazy excuse for not optimisiging the game what it feels like at all.

@stirlinggerbic-forsyth3345

6 ай бұрын

​@@grrfffGdeee-ev8nqgotta try and get everyone to shell out for vastly overpowered PCs so the optimization (or lack thereof) doesn't matter

@daniellittle3249

4 ай бұрын

Yeah and look at CP 2077 4x the detail with 16x less loading screens

@schalitz1

4 ай бұрын

"16 times the loading screens." 😂😂😂

8:10 I noticed something. Whenever a publisher or developer says "We focused on X to make the gameplay more interesting" it means they never even considered Y and could not make Z work so they gave up.

@TheGallantDrake

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, after tackling a couple projects of my own Todd comes off as an “ideas guy” who never actually did any real design.

Watching reviews of Starfield has been more entertaining than playing it. We want better.

@ziephel-6780

7 ай бұрын

true

@justinrisen1929

7 ай бұрын

Lmao been watchin nothing but them for days after giving up on SF 30 hours in. Worst game BGS has ever put out themselves.

@mechwarrior13

6 ай бұрын

I rather it was the other way around yk

@muhammedalitoya1505

6 ай бұрын

I have to admit, I have sinked over 10 hours into starfield reviews.

@skeptiker1907

3 ай бұрын

@@ziephel-6780 Bro, why do you have my profile pic? 💀

I don't think we need a new PC upgrade, I think we need a new lead developer for bethesda games.

@SuperGirl-tf2wn

6 ай бұрын

It makes money, why would top brass replace him. That's how business works..

@Bach_Treebane

6 ай бұрын

@@SuperGirl-tf2wn what like redfall and fallout 76? 🤔🤣 Starfield isn't the norm for Bethesda anymore. It's also unusual that it's gotten so much hype and praise. I'm not saying I hate bethsoft. I loved morrowind, point lookout, and the shivering isles. But a game studio is made up of its developers, and as devs are removed and replaced, it becomes Theseus' ship. It's senior leadership is to blame for that. Bethesda isn't the same Bethesda.

@kaarekleven3341

6 ай бұрын

Stop using the old engine, creation.

@mattyjames81

6 ай бұрын

or a new engine for bethesda!

@RickMoren477

2 ай бұрын

​​@@kaarekleven3341 A new engine while good is still never going to fix the cancer that is todd howard and the team half assing everything to rely on modders because starfield problem is that there's nothing interesting to do, fallout 76 is a mess but at least there was something interesting to do (even if few)

The loading screens are the most surprising part of Starfield. They improved so much between Skyrim and Fallout 4, with the latter having quite a few buildings you could go in without a loading screen. How did they take such a step back?

@yazmeliayzol624

7 ай бұрын

It's a way bigger game... like it could run without load screens... lmao...

@morganmariex

7 ай бұрын

@@yazmeliayzol624 There's a difference between needing some loading screens and needing ones to go to a galaxy, go to a planet, leave your ship, board your ship, use an elevator, enter a building, exit a building, traveling just to get to different spots in one of the main cities, etc. It's obnoxious and they need to get a new engine. The reason they need immersion breaking amount of loading screens is because they've been scraping by with a nearly 15yo game engine.

@yazmeliayzol624

7 ай бұрын

@morganmariex look I don't disagree but we knew it was an old engine and that it was way bigger than skyrim... so it's to be expected... as with the small crafted spaces... the load screens will get shorter eventually... just like skyrim and fallout 4... is it disappointing there are now more load screens we have to deal with... absolutely... but it should have been entirely expected...

@Narangarath

7 ай бұрын

@@yazmeliayzol624 No, it absolutely should not have been entirely expected when the game was touted as a "next gen PC game" and the ridiculous system requirements were justified by that. It's pretty fair to expect "next gen games" to be better in pretty much every measurable way than the ones that came before, not worse.

@yazmeliayzol624

7 ай бұрын

@Narangarath I guess that's why you're disappointed huh..? You set your expectations too high... lol... starfield isn't star citizen which will be in alpha for who knows how long still... its an actual completed game... and yes... it has load screens... which for lazy or rushed players ends up seemingly taking up most of their play time... but if you don't fast travel everywhere it really doesn't feel like a lot... spend 2 minutes landing in SC or ED vs a 15 second load screen... lol... people will complain about anything...

At 160 hours in, I’m done with it. One of the most infuriating aspects I noticed was the corner cutting they did with the extensive use if copy paste cells. If you’ve been to one abandoned mine, military base, research base, and so on, you’ve seen them all, right down to the same loot in the same place, even the NPCs are in exactly the same place. First time I ran into it I thought I’d already been to that particular site.

@sizzlebuzz

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, I paid 15 dollars for this game and only got 200 hours out of it. What a freaking rip-off. I was looking for a life changing experience.

@JakeRivers

7 ай бұрын

@@sizzlebuzz my God, right? I personally hate this game, but complaining after 160 hours…

@RabbitWatchShop

7 ай бұрын

That’s what irritates me the most. Same loot and weapons, too.

@bruhtholemew

7 ай бұрын

​​​​​​@@JakeRiversI hate this way of thinking. You can spend a lot of time in something and still dislike it. That's typically how reviews are done, otherwise you'd have fanboys saying, "you only spent 30 hours and didn't even give it a chance". There are people with hundreds of hours in Skyrim who'd say it's "unplayable boring trash" without mods of any sort.

@morganmariex

7 ай бұрын

@@JakeRivers People can have criticisms of games that they've put an extensive amount of time in. You have this so backwards lmao.

Another example of why everyone should ignore the hype and never pre-order games. Make these lazy companies earn your money.

@beCoCOi

7 ай бұрын

most "gamers" will never learn. Most are hype whores.

@wither5673

7 ай бұрын

unless its fromsoft, they just keep giving.

@DigitalPsyche

7 ай бұрын

I preordered Starfield, played less than two hours, and returned it. Bought No Man’s Sky instead. Way more fun.

@Viggo3000

7 ай бұрын

I preordered it and i have no regrets. I really like this game but i see why it isnt for everybody.

@Isengardtom

7 ай бұрын

I think I made this mistake now with Cities skylines 2

The writing is also lacking in the small details. For example, they wanted a monster whose name sounds scary and also sounds a bit like xenomorph. So they called it "terrormorph". It sounds like a first-draft placeholder that they never got around to changing.

@vladbat4050

7 ай бұрын

It’s like how in Borderlands 2 there’s a side quest to rename “Bullymongs” into something more unique but it spirals down to a point where Hammerlock calls them “Bonerfarts” even that name is more creative than merely “Terrormorph”

@robustdelirium9277

7 ай бұрын

Hey at least there was no “unobtainium” :P

@imademyname11yearsagosonowthis

7 ай бұрын

It'd be cool if the terrormorph was originally like a biological method of terraforming a planet, which then got way out of hand, hence the name. But aint nobody got time for that.

@billywashere6965

7 ай бұрын

They also tried really hard not to offend anyone, so -- like yamiks said -- everything had to be named, conversed about, and handled with kid gloves to the point of being pointless.

@imademyname11yearsagosonowthis

7 ай бұрын

@@andrewryan8507 Nah man, it's close enough to get the picture, and stupid naming is why I made that comment in the first place.

seeing phil spencer laugh when the journalist asked why tod didnt optimize the game will never not make me laugh.

The funny thing is, Starfield proved to me that Outer Worlds really was the Starfield Killer, years after its release.

I like starfield for like 80 hours, then i tried baldurs gate. I havent opened starfield since and one of the first things i noticed when i spoke to a dog in BG3 was that even the animals had better facial expressions than the NPC characters in starfield.

@adawg3032

7 ай бұрын

Baldurs Gate 3 is a fucking masterpiece. No other release this year even comes close. The depth of the characters, the narrative driven story elements, the nearly flawless implementation of the RPG style combined with the dice roll system that always makes every playthrough interesting... Its definitely one of the best games of the modern age.

@antonyapostolov8252

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, it doesn't even come close. In my instance it was Diablo 4, then I bought BG3 and the difference between both games is just so staggering.

@robinsonarboleda1223

7 ай бұрын

I did the same but with Cyberpunk 2077, 100+ hours in Starfield and I feel dirty to expend so much time there, Cyberpunk is incredible in almost every way, the dialog alone is incredible. Starfield is mediocre at best 6/10 for me.

@randylahey1232

7 ай бұрын

I love my scratch🥰....never played starfield cuz I knew better

@Delvien

7 ай бұрын

Next you should compare Remnant 2 to Madden NFL 23 lol.

Next gen game = We put MORE loading screens :)

@kaollachan

7 ай бұрын

maybe Todd was speaking of PC2 ?

@proggz39

7 ай бұрын

We were waiting for technology to advance so we could make an outdated game

@Isengardtom

7 ай бұрын

Those loading screens are really next level though 😂

@Rifky809

7 ай бұрын

​@@Isengardtomone of the loading screens of all time

@PricelessBinkey1337

7 ай бұрын

​@@Isengardtomnext gen game = more dlc and pay to win cash grabs

The biggest problem I have is none of the dialog choices reflect anything someone with even a room temperature IQ would say. The responses tend to be outright stupid or shows a lack of what the player has already learned. "Terramophs, what are those?" - Actual dialog option after completing the UC storyline and becoming head of the TDM (or whatever the hell it's called). I've slaughtered more than a hundred of these things already, what are you doing having an option for "WhAt'S a TeRrAmOrPh?". As Critical Drinker would say, "fuck off, game."

The game actually punishes you for exploration on foot by giving you hypothermia every time you venture outside your ship

@abrahambobst4602

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, them "space suits" aren't very protective for the environments they are supposedly meant to protect you from.

@HANKTHEDANKEST

6 ай бұрын

Getting hypothermia in a full spacesuit on a planet with conditions *less severe than normal winter where I live* was the beginning of my "WTF is this bullshit??" journey and my, it's been a ride since then. Ugh.

I had so much fun scanning the same plant 🌱 five times before the scan was complete that I uninstalled the entire game and started playing Red Dead Redemption 1 instead as it’s also on game pass. What a glorious gaming experience that is compared to Starfield even if it’s 13 years older.

@TheYamiks

7 ай бұрын

yeah.. i didnt even bother making comparisons to rockstar games and how much more "alive" their open world feel I'd feel like punching down.. even with something like GTA3

@Lizards_Lounge

7 ай бұрын

I recently got RDR2, after all this time.. PREFERED THE FIRST RDR... not into interactive movies.

@BlackJim

7 ай бұрын

@@Lizards_Lounge I love the first more aswell

@HarryDuBois616

7 ай бұрын

RDR 1 is such an amazing game

@justinrisen1929

7 ай бұрын

​@@Lizards_Lounge100% agreed. Have no clue why RDR2 gets raved about so much when the original is far more fun to actually play. RDR2 is a technical and artistic masterpiece without a doubt but games are meant to be fun and that one puts me to sleep. RDR1 however i couldnt put the controller down and UN pushed it to even higher levels of badass.

The constant loading screens did it for me,, the sheer never ending number of them for what feels like every single action made me close the game and uninstall. They used SSDs as a crutch

@TheSocketshock

7 ай бұрын

Hell even with a fast as hell ssd the loading screens are insanely long. Like 2-3 minutea sometimes. I pc takes like 10 seconds to boot.

@imademyname11yearsagosonowthis

7 ай бұрын

@@TheSocketshock Mine were taking that long until I cleared all my old saves except for one and started NG+, I think it was my house with thousands of decorations in it... thanks Todd.

@Dustygoodz

7 ай бұрын

Same! After 50 hrs of loading screens i dropped the game and uninstalled as well! I couldnt take it anymore. Id start falling asleep after playing for 30-45 mins

@xaikken

7 ай бұрын

Make sure to give the game an honest review, we need to voice our dissatisfaction where microsoft and bethesda get the info. We know theyre not learning from what we say on youtube. 🤦‍♂️

@BoidGaming

7 ай бұрын

That was my main issue too, even with ssd

imagine how cool it be if they had dismemberment and seeing limbs float around after a battle in space or coming across an abandoned ship slowly discovering floating body parts

@Narangarath

7 ай бұрын

I mean, sure, if the game was made on a different engine. No way the creaky old Creation is going to handle that kind of stress.

@rioplats

7 ай бұрын

@@Narangarath Fallout 3/4 already had dismemberment (even Skyrim had decapitation), and Starfield's engine handles large numbers of zero-g objects extraordinarily well. It definitely could have been done. I suspect the omission was down to either a lack of imagination, or more likely imo the fact that the devs weren't allowed to add any more features in the last year of development (which is generally when devs add in the coolest little touches) in favour of polishing/making sure the game doesn't crash all the time.

@Narangarath

7 ай бұрын

@@rioplats True, but I couldn't even begin to count the times I've seen dismembered bits not behaving properly (in various ways ) in Fallout games. I can just imagine how meme worthy all that would be in zero G, but I guess they could have performed a miracle this time.

@TheGallantDrake

4 ай бұрын

If only Bethesda actually planned anything they would've realized that the engine needed some foundational reworks to actually work with the game they wanted to make

Vehicles would only highlight just how small (and yet somehow barren/devoid of interest) these procedurally-generated planets truly are. What a galactic disappointment...

Hey, the 10/10 reviews are super useful. It is great to know which exact reviewers should be permanently put in the "knows next to nothing so their entire outlet becomes a freakin' joke" pile. It's so useful that the minute one of these people get a new job, it instantly invalidates their new company.

@cdeford2

7 ай бұрын

You have to wonder how many of those early 10/10 reviews were bought. Because they came out very quickly and there's no way the reviewers could have played much of the game.

@Danceofmasks

7 ай бұрын

@@cdeford2 I mean, sure that's an interesting question, but at the end of the day does taking a bribe make them better or worse at their job, here? I reckon actually thinking their 10/10 review was legit is much worse, because they'd be like a violin player who couldn't tell the difference between a 6 year old's first recital and an international soloist.

@kirshak7007

7 ай бұрын

One of the reviewers is even own by the parent company of Bethesda lol

@Mr.Canuck

7 ай бұрын

Paid off.

@gideondejongh838

7 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Canuck Of course just like the trash that comes out of Disney and other companies now like all the woke shit.

Nothing about Starfield now or in the marketing campaign made me want to play it.

@aries4378

7 ай бұрын

That's because you're an intelligent human being who has standards. Also being able to remember how Bethesda handled the last game they made also helps.

@davidhujik3422

7 ай бұрын

​@@aries4378fuck you he's a Sony pony also a nintendtone who hates Xbox and gaming! Starfield is the best thing since halo infinite where hundreds still play it! I'm joking and apologize now for acting like an xbot. I thought about getting it but I waited for angry Joe btw great video of his.

@HughMansonMD

7 ай бұрын

The marketing made me want to buy it even less. "Twin games" are scummy, especially in cases like this or Dead Space. Despite what Todd says, this was just a reaction to Outer Worlds, which in turn was a reaction to Obsidian not being allowed to make another Fallout. The Dead Space remake was just a reaction to Callisto Protocol, which itself was just a reaction to Dead Space 4 not being green-lit and the studio being canned.

@davidhujik3422

7 ай бұрын

@@HughMansonMD Xbox best known for liquidating dev studio's.

@lioraja9951

7 ай бұрын

then dont play it dude ... such a poor comment LOL? Seems your life is such a wreck hahaha

Correction @ 27:03-27:10 = The first Bethesda game to use this engine was _The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind_ in 2002. It was rebranded from NetImmerse to Gamebryo in 2003, and Bethesda expanded upon it for _Oblivion_ in 2006, and still more for _Fallout 3_ in 2008. Bethesda then used the _Fallout 3_ codebase (basically Gamebryo with all Bethesda's refactors and proprietary tools, libraries, and other add-ons) as the base for Creation Engine and _Skyrim_ in 2011.

@TheDeadfast

7 ай бұрын

For all intents and purposes, Creation Engine is just Gamebryo with a new rendering layer. That's why it looks better (though I would argue not so much any more nowadays), but all of the core logic is still the same, hence the need for loading screens.

@StudioFocus-hh7dx

7 ай бұрын

That's like every other game engine it gets upgraded over time dumb ass lmao

@TheGallantDrake

4 ай бұрын

When other studios upgrade their engines they actually refactor the code base. What the hell, Bethesda

@HickoryDickory86

4 ай бұрын

@@TheGallantDrake Very true. And my impression is that Bethesda has never done much beyond just piling more and more code on top and only rarely ever touching the foundation. At this point, I think it would be a great idea for them either to spin off a fork of id Tech to use going forward, or fork a fairly full-featured free and open source engine like Godot or Stride (formerly Xenko) and customize it to their liking (removing unneeded features, adding desired features, rewriting things, etc.). Either way, it is blatantly obvious that Bethesda Game Studios will not and/or cannot do what needs to be done with Creation Engine to get it where it ought to be. They just need hit the restart button with something new. And the good news is they don't necessarily have from scratch; my recommendation for id Tech is because it is the proprietary engine for id Software that was also a ZeniMax studio now owned by Microsoft, and so there would be no licensing fees (plus, it's a phenomenal piece of technology). Aside from that, a free and open source engine would be the way to go. They could do anything and everything they wanted with it and would never have to worry about licensing fees like they would if they went with another, outside company's proprietary solution.

Building ships is or rather was my favorite part of the game Until you realize that there is no point in ship building because all you get for space ships is random encounters and loading screens for loading screens

Funny you mention the Skeleton found in the river in Skyrim, this is part of a Quest where you must find Narfi's sister, Raeda. There is a 4hr15 KZread video about this very murder mystery that was made just a few weeks ago, 12 years after the release of Skyrim. Name one mission from Starfield that anyone will be making 4hr videos about in 12 years?

@userequaltoNull

7 ай бұрын

It... Was more than a few weeks ago lol, more like a year or two haha. Unless someone else made a video about it, in which case sweet.

I'm full-on Stockholm syndrome as far as Bethesda games go, but Starfield is definitely like 40% fun, 60% boredom, and 100% frustration at every turn.

@fartdonkey8290

7 ай бұрын

50% of the game is half mental

@Falicon

7 ай бұрын

I'll add an extra 10% of politically correct nonsense, too.

@imademyname11yearsagosonowthis

7 ай бұрын

@@Falicon Maybe. If you mean the pronouns, I barely even noticed it. I wonder it the guy that ranted about it was upset when you could have a dick _and_ tits in Cyberpunk, though.

@Ssshrugs

7 ай бұрын

@@FaliconGame made me choose pronouns, literally unplayable. Cope harder snowflake

@tsrmmercy836

7 ай бұрын

​@@FaliconEXACTLY. Can't even escape reality without this company reminding us!!!!

Todd is a monster. It just hit me, all the dialogue is framed like Todd's conference shots, all (almost all) animations during convos are Todd's fake almost-smile (very punchable) with brow action and occasional arm movement, Todd's tone is also prevalent in the dialogues: stoic to the point of being eerie. Todd, why are you so narcissistic?! It's far fetched but I imagine working at Bethesda is a nightmare where uncle Todd is strolling about and showing you "hows't done". Like an attention predator and control freak with almost no emotion on his face.

@m0-m0597

7 ай бұрын

Yet another zucc person

@lalolanda8458

6 ай бұрын

Lmaoo

@7thsealord888

3 ай бұрын

Thinking .... If Bethesda produced a simple game that solely entailed punching Todd in the face (maybe throw in gut punches and crotch kicks for variety), that'd probably be a big winner.

@batonnikus

3 ай бұрын

@@7thsealord888 annoying Todd companion with ragdoll physics and punching minigame. That would be rad

The biggest contribution of Starfail to the gaming industry is how much more we appreciate other games now.

@sizzlebuzz

7 ай бұрын

Which games?

@grrfffGdeee-ev8nq

6 ай бұрын

Cyberpunk for example which was mentioned in the video. Also probably games like No Mans Sky or Star Citizen too since they’re fairly similar but with the difference being that they’re not as bad as Starfield at all.

As a writer myself, I'll give my opinion (TED talk) regarding Starfield's story (bad) and Cyberpunk 2077 (great). First: Starfield has trash motivation Consider Bethesda's other recent games, Fallout 4 and Skyrim. What was the inciting action for both of these games? In Fallout 4, after escaping to the vault, your child is kidnapped and your spouse murdered by random people. When you thaw from cryo sleep, your goal is clear: find my kid. In Skyrim, as your head is placed on a chopping block, a dragon that might as well be Satan himself, swoops down and destroys the village you're in. After you escape, you learn that dragons are not normally around Skyrim, so you have one goal: figuring out wtf just happened and why are dragons appearing. Meanwhile, in Starfield, you grab a mcguffin. Then a guy just randomly gives you, the mcguffin toucher, the keys to his space ship, and tells you to go to his club. You make it there to learn about the mcguffin, and all they have to say is: we don't know what the mcguffin is, we just want to find more... engaging, I know. Where a game like Cyberpunk stands out as a fantastic story is this: first, you pick a background that has you complete a short mission where you meet your bestie. Then, time passes and your bestie has a big job in mind that will make you rich and famous. You come up with a perfect plan, carry it out, then unexpected sh*t hits the fan, turning everything after into a complete clusterf*** where you narrowly escape, only to be shot in the head and wake up later to learn that the long dead remnant of an edgy punk rock terrorist is in your brain, while you're told you are slowly dying and must find a way to survive. Not only do they give you a believeable motivation, but they serve it up to you with a helping of memorable backstory that helps you learn who your character is, what their relationship is like with the world around them, and a cinematic action sequence to really emphasize the high stakes game you're playing. Second: Starfield's world is fake and it shows. Starfield's world is pathetic. It is unbelieveable in many ways. First off, every random person feels the need to tell you random bs you don't care about. Like honestly, have you ever been walking down the street and some random guy goes: don't you hate it when you make a sandwich upside down? It might be funny the first time you hear it, but when it's repeated by twelve different voices one hundred times, it sucks! Like, just shut the f*** up! No, you wouldn't have killed me random pirate if I didn't join the fleet! I'd have caved your skull in and used it to drink canuck maple syrup soda out of! Meanwhile, Cyberpunk npcs only randomly address you if they have a reason to, like threaten you to get away, otherwise they'll attack you. You know, a bit more realistic. The former breaks immersion regularly, while the latter aids it. However, that might be a nitpick compared to the other things. One thing that is clear is the way people talk in Starfield. They talk exactly the way you and I would. They don't use any slang we don't use, and any references that come close to showing its world are weird space references, i.e. sea shanties being sung with new atlantas in them. It's almost like everyone forgot about Earth and what happened there (and even that scenario is completely unrealistic considering Mars took billions of years to lose its atmosphere to what it is today. But apparently Earth could lose it in a few decades). Basically, the world has no history short of the recent colony war. Even on that end, the factions are pretty much the same. The only real difference is that one is just cowboy and the other police. Otherwise, they all speak the same language, they all do the same things, they seem to have the same values, etc. Meanwhile, in Cyberpunk 2077, each gang has a unique appearance, culture, and lore. The world itself uses slang and references we don't, that make sense, as in, there us a clear reasoning behind them that you can see language evolving into: Eddies from Euro Dollars, or the shorthand ED; Preem from premium; klept, from kleptomania, the condition where a person steals on impulse; or choom, which could be chum but spoken phonetically in spanish. Even words like gonk or nova just make sense in their context. Plus, these are memorable. Meanwhile, the only thing I remember from Starfield is dust, as in, I'll dust your ship. The world itself, the way it appears, makes sense. For example, why does a spacefaring superpower have a capital city with roads made of mud and feces? In Cyberpunk, the parts of the cities with said roads are where you'll also be able to throw a bag of crack attached to a rope over a bridge and be able to pull up a junky like you're fishing. But, the areas with the powers that be, are clean and have a real sense of order. The billboards showcase weird, dystopian, things like "real water" or "%70 real meat, meat." The news casts talk about things like the discovery of animals thought to be extinct like the western cotton tail. Meanwhile the ads in starfield are boring, and the newscasts about stuff you did. In short, the world of Cyberpunk feels unique and like it goes far beyond the bounds of the game, while in Starfield, it revolves around you and feels just normal, but in space. Third, and last since this comment is already a small novel, the characters. Oh my freaking Lord, are the characters in Starfield BORING. The first thing I felt when I met Barret was: this guys gonna be Bethesda's Jar Jar Binx, isn't he. Then, my first mission with Vasco was just me pistol whipping him nonstop for saying pointless, stupid things every ten seconds. The characters lack depth, substance, and just feel... well... like NPCs. You can literally understand most of their life by interrogating them for ten seconds and nothing more builds onto them after that, unless they're romanceable. Even after that, it's pretty shallow. Meanwhile, in Cyberpunk 2077, the characters don't talk unless they are talking TO you in a conversation. No stupid quips, no stupid random I'm-so-unique dialogue. Then, slowly, and naturally, characters will open up to you as you interact with them in a way that shows them you can be trusted. Judy doesn't tell you about her childhood town until you do quests for her and show her you have her back. There's no "noname liked that" or "noname disliked that" bs because you shared your opinion on space lsd. It's just you and a character talking and getting to know one another, or butting heads. I guess I could also say the dialogue options in Cyberpunk 2077 don't read like they're from a preschool text book. It's clear the writers went to great lenghts to consider the possible options your character could use to respond, and made them sound as realistically as possible. In Starfield, why can't I choose to use both the microbe and the Aceles for handling terrormorphs? They both have their pros and cons that complement each other, not oppose each other. Why can't I fish an answer like that out? Meanwhile, Starfield npc responses sound like someone who's pretentious, someone who believes they're smarther than they really are. Meanwhile, in Cyberpunk, they sound... well... like real people. To summarize everything, Cyberpunk is a game that feel like the writers wanted to tell a story for every mission. They had a vision, a goal, and ultimately, the game could have been set in any number of time periods and settings and still had the impact it did. Meanwhile, Starfield just seemed focused on... how cool is space, while everything else was an afterthought. It seems like there was no planning; no end goal for a story. Tod Howard himself said that during an entire game's development, it's only about in the last year that Bethesda begins to really figure out what kind of game they're making. They have no clue what they're doing because they don't know where they want to go. It's why everything from gameplay to the story seem like a confused mess because Bethesda had no idea what they were making until it was almost done. Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

@TheYamiks

7 ай бұрын

hell im not a writer and often about 90% of the shit goes over my head.. BUT when a game has such BAD story and writing that EVEN I engage my brain to analyze WHY it's bad : you've fucked up hard!

@angryvaginasfromspace7718

7 ай бұрын

"In short, the world of Cyberpunk feels unique and like it goes far beyond the bounds of the game" Thats because it does go far beyond. Aint defending Starfield here (haven't played it yet, but boy does it feel boring af even after like 2 lines of dialogue from some video, really just at a glance), but Cyberpunk does have an advantage of like 30+ years of lore development prior to the game even being concieved. Not to diminish it's writing which gets damn stellar at times, or dev's hard work of sticking to the source material and not retconing stuff left n right cause they kNoWbEtTeR. Just all in all good and respectfull job they've done in lore department.

@chrisblack4836

7 ай бұрын

I think this is a case of them setting the game after all the interesting bits already happened. Game would have been far more interesting if it was set during the colony war tbh.

@timothy1701

7 ай бұрын

Even the camera mode draws a sharp contrast between the two games. In cyberpunk you have like a hundred different poses, some of them anime references and literal power ranger poses along with about every mood imaginable. Starfield? There's like 10? Only one has any personality, and as a result is the ONLY one people use for EVERY thumbnail. (Arms spread open pose)

@ziephel-6780

7 ай бұрын

So Starfield is the game version of Disney Star Wars then?

You made a good point that I noticed while playing that took me out of the immersion. EVERY SINGLE PLANET AND MOON had random buildings and people landing on them. It's not really exploring if every planet you go to is already explored

@jonathanwessner3456

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, when i mentioned that sort of thing, i got told that fast travel worked because all the planets were already explored

@timothyarnold1679

7 ай бұрын

Every planet in no man's sky already has people on it. No exploration?

@jonathanwessner3456

7 ай бұрын

@@timothyarnold1679 NMS hhas aliens on every planet. They have not been discovered and charted by YOUR species. You awaken on a strange planet that isn't your home. Only "fast travel" is between systems, and then, it isn't really fast travel.

@Cessna172SNavIII

7 ай бұрын

I found one planet that had no one and had primordial life, but yeah I agree with you

@billywashere6965

7 ай бұрын

​ @timothyarnold1679 That's not actually true. Some do, some have nothing on them. I was on a radioactive planet with toxic gas clouds as my starting planet, and other than the single abandoned settlement to help me get the crafting parts to leave, there was nothing on that gosh-awful planet. The fact that single settlement was abandoned fit nicely with the lore that no one would ever (or should ever) go to that terrible planet.

Thank you for making this intensely necessary video about the reality of Starfield. The best thing I can say about Starfield after 45 hours is that it turned me on to Cyberpunk 2077 which I think I’ll buy this weekend, while uninstalling Starfield. After that I think I’ll just start pretending it never happened.

@eyewin85

7 ай бұрын

Cyberpunk is absolutely terrible

@thedoomslayer5863

6 ай бұрын

You'll enjoy it way more than shit field. Especially phantom liberty

@GoatBoat22

6 ай бұрын

@@eyewin85found you Bethesda fanboy do you slurp Todd’s tip daily???

@eyewin85

6 ай бұрын

@@GoatBoat22 Got something to say? Come say it to my face in the yard. Glove up or shut up.

@eyewin85

6 ай бұрын

@@thedoomslayer5863 Cyberpunk sucks Starfield is better, case closed.

Loading Screen Simulator was really good, but when they decided to add Menu Mechanics to the mix it really peaked.

Nothing is next generation about this game even the engine is old generation

Best thing about this game is how vindicated I feel after not giving bethesda any money or even pirated time since OG Skyrim. Each game we stray further from daggerfall.

@twosox3648

7 ай бұрын

How do you know if by your own admission you've never played any of them?

@antonioperestrelo986

7 ай бұрын

​@@twosox3648 Because trend spotting. The stuff that turned me off about Skyrim, popular as it might have been at the time, was the direction Bethesda insisted on going: - Excessive Streamlining into the real of dumbing down. - Moving away from RPG into more shoot-y action - Similarly the moving away from sandbox play into almost force feeding their quest lines down your throat when you simply wanna loose yourself in the world freestyling. - Not last, but enough end it with my unwillingness to continuing to accept a product that is widely considered incomplete without a full suite of mods. The general reviews of the post Skyrim reviews pretty much corroborated my observations. So I made what I believe to be fair and well informed assumptions.

Dude, Star Wars Galaxies loaded an entire planetary map with complete interiors. You could literally walk from one side of the planet to the other, stop in every building in the game and explore everything. Not a single loading screen unless you entered a dungeon. It just loaded assets in when you got within a certain distance of the location.

I was playing Phantom Liberty yesterday. I was done talking with a character and as I'm about to leave through the doorway, the other character starts talking to me again. I turn around and had a small conversation in the doorway, like it might happen in real life. It felts so good and so natural.

@chris5947

6 ай бұрын

Then go play that game and stop playing Starfield and have a cup of STFU

Yeah, I was so hyped for Starfield. Played it the second it was available. Forced myself to sink 50 hours into it. Took a break to play Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty and holy shit, the difference is night and day. Immediately immersed in a world, having a blast, no loading screens, graphics, gameplay, progression, audio, literally better in every measurable way. Starfield just makes me sad now for what it could have been. You made so many good points and really summarized my experience with it

@timothy1701

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, cyberpunk 2077 really spoiled me. All of the cities in starfield put together are like a single city block of Night City. And there's nothing to really do in any of them. If you took cyberpunk and merged it with Elite Dangerous, you'd have a masterpiece.

@Yeebok

7 ай бұрын

Same.. bought cyberpunk when 2 was released and resent starfield because it's so awfully average. Have not touched starfield since but have played punk constantly.. The stories are amazing

@jean-marcplante5411

7 ай бұрын

« forced myself to play 50 hours » Lmao sure pal.

@simonhowell4486

7 ай бұрын

​@@Yeebok So let me get this straight, you bought cyberpunk at launch and you resent starfield? Man are your priorities screwed. Cyberpunk didn't work. Nothing they promised was delivered. The game was so bad and unplayable PS removed it from the store and offered refunds. But you resent starfield. Yeah yall some liars who love bandwagons. Anybody and everybody who bought the DLC for Cyberpunk are complete idiots. Project Red lied at every turn. And it took 3 years and a multimillion dollar lawsuit for them to get it right

@davidhujik3422

7 ай бұрын

​@@jean-marcplante5411forcing means he was hoping to get his moneys worth out of it. Not like you'd understand.

Just can't believe this was praised as the Elite and Star-Citizen killer. Despite the fact that ED manages just fine killing itself and SC never being alive to begin with this sound soo stupid right now.

@svendtang5432

7 ай бұрын

never heard that .. its a total differnt game .. its an rpg none of the others are that

@BlakedaBull

7 ай бұрын

it is sad that people will read things written to be provocative lies and even though the lies are dismissed the echo or memory remains. When one doesn't get continual access to truth, the ring of lies of the world tighten. Best learn now there are many who only read the headline and communicate with others to learn nothing. One truth for you is there is only the present and eternity, other states of time are unhelpful illusions that we in vain in our hands rolling for hours, stressing over loves made of mud.

@ziephel-6780

7 ай бұрын

@@svendtang5432The Bethesda fanboys would prefer the term: framework. They'd rather have a mediocre turd that they can modify with their ingredients, spices, and sugar than an actual 70$ AAA game. Doesn't matter how much you modify it, it is still a turd. Just a more polished, and modded turd in the next few years.

@billywashere6965

7 ай бұрын

​ @svendtang5432 I keep seeing people say this, but it's NOT an RPG... there is no role-playing, even as Yamiks points out. You have no agency or control over the direction of the story or the fate of the characters within the story. It's all fixed. So you're right it's a totally different game, but it's certainly not an RPG.

@MrNickpeck36

7 ай бұрын

Literally no one called it that... People like to add to the story, so when they talk down on it, it sounds a lot worse that it really is... Then again, it was probably from some garbage youtubers headline lol...

BGS fans don't deserve good games because they'll always make excuses for Bethesda instead of holding the studio accountable for its laziness. So the studio can be written off as a net loss, and I'm 90% certain that I'll never bother purchasing another BGS game for the rest of my life.

17:01 Actually Fallout 4's camera moves when you are having a conversation to show your character's reaction like it does in Mass Effect. It's also usually at an angle rather than pointed directly at the person you are talking to. The NPC look straight at you is true for Oblivion, fallout 3 and New Vegas tho

@Kserijaro

5 ай бұрын

Fo4 Conversation options are a cancer for Fallout series

This game scammed me ... $70 for a loading screen simulator with terrible dialoge and shitty graphics.

@williamjoseph98

7 ай бұрын

lmao *plays worlds smallest violin*

@scifrygaming

7 ай бұрын

@@williamjoseph98 says someone with the lowest expectations for a AAA game

@williamjoseph98

7 ай бұрын

@@scifrygaming I never expressed that point of view anywhere. You are literally pulling that out of thin air lol I was simply laughing at the fact that you and many got bamboozled by this dogshit game 😆

@fvallo

6 ай бұрын

😂Wow you're an idiot

🤣 I was all poised to drop £800 on a new GPU for this game, and then I watched the reviews. The moment I heard, "You do not land, or take off in your ship", I saved myself a lot of money! 🤣

@RazielTheUnborn

7 ай бұрын

Still get that GPU then get Cyberpunk 2077. Without mods it looks amazing. With mods it looks beyond insanity.

@pigpuke

7 ай бұрын

Nor do you fly in space - sure, you can buzz around and shoot asteroids in a tiny sandbox above the planet, but that's not proper space flight.

@SurvivalGames1

7 ай бұрын

bought a 6950xt for starfield ,at least i got the game for free , my 6950xt justcollecting dust now...

@savaloy666999

7 ай бұрын

@@RazielTheUnborn Not my kind of game, tbh. My old GTX 1060 6gb is happily running the games I do play; Project Zomboid, Rimworld, Kerbal Space Program, etc. KSP2 was the last bullet I dodged; I was all ready to upgrade...then watched the disastrous reviews! I'll spend the money when they start making games I'm interested in.

@Delvien

7 ай бұрын

@@pigpuke With "proper" space flight, it would take hours due to the slower speeds of starfields ships to travel between planets, very exciting. Since they don't have true wings and are clearly not designed for in atmosphere flight, take off and landing would be fun too since you wont have much control, not to mention the ships would break up if you maneuver poorly, and retro/launch rockets aren't really ment to fire indefinitely so the ships can't hover.

7:50 Corpo speak for “We tried, we could not add the feature without destroying what works of the game, give us money and live with it”

I’ve never uninstalled a game so fast that I looked so forward to.

All I ever wanted was a cabin on my ships (not carriers) in Elite Dangerous.

@Frank-os6gq

7 ай бұрын

Star Citizen Buddy, it has everything you want, and will continue to add content until the servers die

@leslieviljoen

7 ай бұрын

​@@Frank-os6gq will Star Citizen ever start fixing bugs at a higher rate than adding them? That game is pure comedy.

Passionate devs create a great game franchise Great game franchise leads to a successful company Successful company attracts lazy un-creative devs and greedy investors Lazy un-creative devs ruin the great franchise and create bad cash grabs

@Atelierwanwan

7 ай бұрын

People in marketing get all the credit for successfully selling the game so they are the ones who get promoted and start making decisions based on money instead of a good game because that's all they know and often don't even play games themselves.

@Jangocat

7 ай бұрын

The un-creative devs come from management. A few recent failed franchises fired all their original devs and hired inexperienced kids straight out of college to save money. Not only are these inexperienced devs not creative they bring all the weird woke ideas that everyone hates instead of just telling a good story.

@brothermaleuspraetor9505

7 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@eduardobenassi3072

6 ай бұрын

Let's not forget about the leftard epidemic in the US. It's ridiculous. It is exactly what's ruining entertainment, not only in games. They're everywhere... everything they touch it turns into shit. No respect for original material, no talent, no writing, no creativity.

My view on Starfield is pretty simple. If you've never played a good space sim before, you'll probably enjoy it. If you've played games like Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, or even Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, you'll be greatly unimpressed. As far as graphics go, if you've played any game in the last ten years, you'll be really unimpressed.

@nikelas6

6 ай бұрын

If you've played any good RPG in the last 5 years you won't like it either.

@TheNeonParadox

6 ай бұрын

@@nikelas6 Truth. Skyrim is one of my favorite games, and I still play it to this day, but RPGs have gotten better since. Bethesda can't seem to adapt

Starfield already has "DLC" set to release a month after launch too... which we all know is actually just cut content that they removed just to resell as DLC.

Not gonna lie, the Starfield reviews have been so much more entertaining than the few hours I actually spent in the game. I just can't comprehend how people ate settling for this mediocrity from a massive game studio.

@Thomas-uz3zf

7 ай бұрын

People will defend anyone. Everyones easily amused. Its only the people getting upset that are fed up

@billywashere6965

7 ай бұрын

If you look at the rest o fthe AAA market, there aren't even mediocre games to play. So a lot of people are over-hyping Starfield because design wise it's competent enough to provide A-to-B mechanics and storytelling, even though it doesn't do anything particularly well. If Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Metal Gear Solid V, orGears of War 2 released next week people would swear they were the best games ever made compared to today's releases.

@pimsbury5155

7 ай бұрын

@@billywashere6965 I can see that, especially on Xbox where from what I can tell, it doesn't seem to have a lot of unique games releasing lately. People should really just look at titles they missed from a year or two ago, there's plenty of good stuff out there.

@morganmariex

7 ай бұрын

I've never seen the equilvelent to stockholm syndrome, but for a game company, until this release. Like come on, even if you yourself like the game, you have to objectively realize and acknowledge what Starfield is severely lacking in.

@HarryDuBois616

7 ай бұрын

lots of people who paid full price for the game and bought the special edition etc are still in denial about the money they've wasted

There was ONE quest that elicited emotion out of me. On the first moon you go to to kill that random pirate captain theres a POI that spawns that had a bunch of dead miners in it and on one of them is a tablet with a father recording his final thoughts and saying goodbye to his family. You get the quest to deliver the tablet to his now widow in New Atlantis. Literally the only quest in my 100+ hours of playing that didn’t bore me or piss me off.

@BlackStar250874

7 ай бұрын

Interesting, because I have taken Starfield with a slow and delibrate pace (around 50 hours) and never seen a boring quest. But opinions are like assholes... Sure, the main quest is the silliest shit I have ever seen, but I will skip that, like I did it Skyrim. Btw, there is no need to kill the pirate captain. I just said that there is no magic treasure inside Frontier.

@ceshmate1953

7 ай бұрын

@@BlackStar250874 the main story is so bad that I didn't get spoiled while I did get spoiled for the dlc of cyberpunk 2077. That tells you that there is nothing interesting to even talk about.

@robustdelirium9277

7 ай бұрын

Some people can handle bad quest design. Once I realized that 90% of quests were fast travel to a person to either “Convince them” of something with the god awful speech check system or failing that just bribe them, the illusion shattered. Its amazing how terrified Bethesda is that you might fail to gain information in a conversation and how lazy they are to not build in other ways to obtain it that damn near every conversation that advances quests has a bribe option. Once you notice it you’ll never unnotice it.

Elite Dangerous has what Starfield severely lacks, which is ironic since many people had always wished Elite Dangerous had that bit of depth Bethesda games were known for, which Starfield also lacks... Starfield fails as a space game, it even fails as a Bethesda game, a monument to modern Bethesda's lazyness...

Starfield is NOT an Open-world RPG. It is an overglorified Loading Screen/Running Simulator.

Makes me appreciate Elite dangerous that much more, the openness and mostly VR.

@torrb420

7 ай бұрын

And nothing to do on it while on a planet...

@ratstar4102

7 ай бұрын

same

@ratstar4102

7 ай бұрын

@@torrb420 false, you either look for a Bacteria or a plant and you can also Raid settlements on planets if you want to be criminal.

@joseph1981

7 ай бұрын

You know shits bad when elite dangerous is looking enticing again

@lanceobe6801

7 ай бұрын

@@torrb420 mostly yes it depends on where you are if you're looking for Exabology, guardian ruins or? Thargoid stuff... But there's plenty of other things to do and I agree with you. I wish there was a lot more out there but also rare not overwhelmed like no man's sky. Every planet has abundant life which is kind of ridiculous. I don't think it would be too hard for them to create a windy dusty planet with maybe rare, unknown minerals, snowy or rainy would be nice as well. It definitely has its complaints

Starfield made me a huge fan! Of Cyberpunk which I played afterwards for the first time.

@TheYamiks

7 ай бұрын

yeah it's weird HOW STARK the difference is... and cyberpunk is not even GOOD. (it's OK and mildly positive today)

@Immopimmo

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, having Starfield release between BG3 and Phantom Liberty really shows how bad it is in comparison. Have fun playing Cyberpunk, it's become a great game!

@pupinpupin9307

7 ай бұрын

Me too..

@gamefinders4133

7 ай бұрын

@@ImmopimmoI’m replaying Cyberpunk after a year and I am so amazed at where it’s at today. Don’t even need mods to feel powerful anymore (but I did do a few glitches for perks)

@efxnews4776

7 ай бұрын

​@@gamefinders4133the bugs and glitches are a funny thing, because before the update 2.0 it seems that the bugs were almost gone. After the update a lot of bugs start to popping out everywhere. To be fair they are most of the time just some random whacky sht, and for what the update 2.0 adds its a decent trade of.

I think the biggest flaw is that they managed to not make it fun. Even with all the flaws, I think we could've played with hopes of fixes and changes, and bettering the game the way no man sky did. But they skipped out on the fun, the way a college lecture would be hahaha

You underestimate the number of people who are easily amused and will happily play shitty games for hours.

@thomaspaine7098

7 ай бұрын

Elder scrolls 6: jingle keys

Yamiks, I am SO GLAD I never bought this game. Just confirms that Bethesda isn't worth giving my money to.

@intuitivelogic5159

7 ай бұрын

I'm happy I got it , but it's definitely a let down

@mykeETx

7 ай бұрын

I pre-ordered, then before launch applied for refund. Used the money to buy cyberpunk and phantom liberty. Best decision ever

@sheffield8184

7 ай бұрын

​@mykeETx I've got both games an you made the right choice

@PainCrashDaGPuff3000

7 ай бұрын

@@mykeETxdoes Phantom Liberty make the game that much better? Have had Cyber Punk since launch, have come back to it about 4-5 times since then to see if better and it’s just not fun and never seemed to fix any of the issues

@mykeETx

7 ай бұрын

@@PainCrashDaGPuff3000 The reviews say it does. This is my first time playing cyberpunk and am finding it amazing.

It is shockingly scary how much more immersive dialogue is in cyberpunk. That game is simply quite beautiful interacting with people.

@ummerfarooq5383

7 ай бұрын

Skunk dialogue stinks

@billywashere6965

7 ай бұрын

Compared to Starfield? Yes. Compared to say, Deus Ex, LA Noire, or Mass Effect? No.

@user-ok8yq6nc6x

7 ай бұрын

Most of the npcs are pretty pointless and dumb in both

@wvknn2709

7 ай бұрын

@@user-ok8yq6nc6x Yes but it’s immersion, the way they move, the eye contact, fluidity of movement, random mannerisms. The game feels great

@Idontreallyknowwhyi

7 ай бұрын

Our standards are getting lower lol. Cyber punk immersion is absolutely terrible but this game makes it look okay.

If you meet someone who legitimately enjoys this game, ask them what other games they've played in their life

@TheYamiks

7 ай бұрын

i notice that too.. it reveals some interesting....conclusions

@markomarkovic5729

7 ай бұрын

Have you even played Starfield? And why are you so triggered if someone likes the game?

@rioplats

7 ай бұрын

I'm having a lot of fun with this title. Don't think it's perfect by any means, and I have many of the same criticisms of it as this video, but my first playthrough topped out at 350 hours. I see what you're going for with your question, and I do admit that my most played game is Skyrim by quite some margin, but I've also played and loved a plethora of the other great western RPGs - KotoR, FO:NV, TW1-3, ME1-3, Dragon Age: Origins, Pillars of Eternity, BG1-3, Wasteland 3. Played plenty of mid RPGs too, like Two Worlds, Mass Effect: Andromeda and Kingdoms of Amalur. I don't think the takeaway is that you have to have poor taste or a limited repertoire of gaming experience in order to enjoy Starfield, but moreso that the gameplay formula of BGS titles just isn't utilised very often and for many it has an evergreen appeal, even if the implementation is flawed. Even people who think Starfield is a failure must be wishing that it had captured some of that earlier BGS magic in a more contemporary-feeling form.

@lalolanda8458

6 ай бұрын

You have to be one of the "fanboiest", blindest, most docile demographic to please. That's what Bethesda were going for, and believed the entire market had as little respect for their time and attention as you @@rioplats

@rioplats

6 ай бұрын

@@lalolanda8458 Yeah, sure, buddy. Have a good life.

I dont think Bethesda are even capable of conceptualizing the very idea of optimization.

The most offending thing about Starfield is the PRICE tag, it is one of the most expensive games in my library 😥

@npc1822

7 ай бұрын

a major reason i didnt buy it, i feel really bad for people who pre ordered the game for $100 and diidnt like it.

@bobbyboyderecords

7 ай бұрын

Gamepass is about 1 dollar a month if you get it with a vpn from a poor and dirty country.

@eramires

7 ай бұрын

well I like owning the games sooo yeah, I know about xpass, I just don't like it.@@bobbyboyderecords

@D3athAng3l1977

7 ай бұрын

why do you feel sorry for people? Pre-orders are one reason why the companies work the way they do, the money still comes in. If those who pre-ordered stopped and at least waited for reviews and gameplay videos before the release, the gaming industry would look better again within a few years.@@npc1822

@1wandersmann

7 ай бұрын

you paid money for this?

Starfield is boring? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! ...well, not that shocked.

@kaollachan

7 ай бұрын

middly shocked? ( add picard meme gif here)

What baffles me is that this game won the innovative gameplay Steam award.

21:37 Oof. The Battle of Whiterun actually brought up bad memories for me. That quest ended up breaking for me as soon as I entered Whiterun and ruined my save. 12 years later, and it's still the same stuff from Bethesda. Never disappoints lol. Great review btw

@AverageJoe1006

7 ай бұрын

With those games , corrupted files ,crashes etc. I now make new save games every time I save the game and have at least 10 back up save files.

@fuzzball297

7 ай бұрын

@@AverageJoe1006 Yup lol. I'm already on like manual save 300 of starfield because I trust no one.

I went from Starfield to playing vanilla Skyrim. Skyrim is so much more engaging, right out of the box. It's surreal.

@SimmerCK

7 ай бұрын

I was playing Vanilla Skyrim while waiting for Starfield to come out. How much I was enjoying the game without mods was surprising. I thought I this was my final play of Skyrim because of Starfield, but there is no way I am uninstalling Skyrim. I am going to mod it all over again because The Elderscrolls 6 is a long ways off. Starfield needs more hands on space flight within a solar system, along with more reasons to do so, and land vehicles, but I doubt we will get them.

Starfield falls into a uncanny valley between science fantasy (like Star Wars) and hard sci-fi (like the Expanse) where the celestial mechanics, planetary science and physics explanations are half assed and mostly make no sense, but doesn’t let you suspend disbelief like Star Wars let’s you do. That, and somehow they forgot to even add a calendar to the game which is the most basic, easy to implement way to help you feel like the universe exists and time flows through it to get immersed in.

imagine if starfield was a starwars game, thats made by respawn. No where near the amount of defending from the fans, I guarantee

The only mission which gave me a sense of “oh cool , this is actually good” is when you had to teleport through universes to advance through the mission. It was a great mechanic n I feel that they could have had something if they added it more to the game.

The planets that had no life should’ve had hazards and resource gathering should have been challenging/ dynamic. Honestly should’ve been more of a survival game. They designed this game on purpose to waste your time just so you spending a bunch of time in the game might make you think it’s good

@morganmariex

7 ай бұрын

Instead you get to land on another barren planet to scan the same 2 types of plants and collect some space material over and over lmao. Exhilarating!

Honestly they should have made max 3 star systems and fleshed them out. Had all the aliens on like 3-4 planets max. Instead of having alien creatures a dime a dozen on every other planet.

@grrfffGdeee-ev8nq

6 ай бұрын

Wasn’t there even a developer who suggested multiple times to keep it a dozen planted but make them as detailed as possible? Todd wanted to keep the big number with the 1000 planets and stuff and the dev left Bethesda. I don’t remember exactly but I think it went similar to this.

I'll say one thing, Todd is basically the Shady Car Dealer of the Gaming Industry with the way he can get away with the things he says and how many people buy into them. And as for 13:12 some people call this "The Bethesda Effect" in a nutshell

Starfield made me buy CP2077: Phantom of Liberty. Starfield I could not skip dialogs fast enough, CP2077 - I enjoy every conversation, im interested in characters, I wonder why I like them, whether I trust them or not. CP2077 looks better, flows better, provides better AI and environment AND YET, CDProjekt announced they are done with this engine. EDIT: I also, found out I dont even use fast travel in CP2077 - I enjoy driving.

The only good story I found in Starfield was the grandma who was traveling alone. We had a nice little conversation over some tea before I left to grind loading screens once more.

@xaikken

7 ай бұрын

It was nice the first time i found her. Every other interaction feels so bland and overused.

I couldn't tell if it was the story's that were boring or if it was just the voice acting and dialogue that was delivered in such a bland way that made it boring. I think it is the latter, even something that is exciting in starfield is presented in such a boring way that it brings everything down with it

@jasonbow1926

7 ай бұрын

I imagine one of the voice actors really put emotion in their lines, and was told "no, no, no, your character on screen will look bored! you can't out act what's on screen! do it again!"

@craighustlervoice

7 ай бұрын

I don’t think the voice acting is bad. I think it just feels bad because the character and facial animations are so poor. And the writing and dialogue are probably not great…

@sigmachud9092

7 ай бұрын

it's both

@ravenwda007

6 ай бұрын

@@craighustlervoice the facial animations in Bethesda games haven’t improved since 2011 Skyrim

@craighustlervoice

6 ай бұрын

@@ravenwda007 True.

It could be a legal requirement that whenever you bought a Bethesda game that Todd Howard himself was personally going to burn down your home and there would still be people defending Bethesda games. I don't get it. I just... don't get it.

cyberpunk, you can walk into a shop and look outside and still see NPCs doing shit other than being a glorified roomba

Hopefully the modders don't abandon this game without them theres nothing to look forward to in it

@TheXboxSux

7 ай бұрын

I hope they do. I'm tired of modding creation engine. Bethesda doesn't deserve being bailed out yet again. They either get their shit together or leave the market. My expectations for ES6 (you know, an actually interesting franchise) are rock bottom. Bethesda doesn't try as hard anymore now that MS is footing the bill to put their crap on GP day one. No shareholders to answer to anymore, no financial risk, nothing. They have no motivation to produce a good product, when MS will just lie to the public and tell everyone how great the game is and how many "players" are playing it. Starfield will forever be remembered as yet another FO76 and that's not a good look for Bethesda. They're not the kind of dev that would dedicate their time to making SF the best space game they could, like NMS. I'll bet you money there will be no follow-up to this game ever. It's a one and done idea from them.

@rainervogel4012

7 ай бұрын

I also hope they do. Modders shouldn't fix already broken, lazy and unfinished cash grab games anymore. Being a Bethesda game shouldn't be an excuse for bad and lazy game design, which modders should fix. BGS already expects this at this point.

@rioplats

7 ай бұрын

I can't speak for others in the modding community, but I'm looking forward to sticking around. Not because I believe I owe anything to Bethesda or Starfield, and I do think this game has major problems, but primarily because we make mods for ourselves, not for others. We add in the features, NPCs, content that *we* want to see in the game, where the vanilla game is simply the canvas for us to fill and colour as we want. And as much as Creation Engine or Bethesda are derided, they are the only ones who offer anywhere near this level of modding flexibility and capability to enable that (even if on the modding/backend side, the engine is more borked than it has been for a long time). This may be disappointing to many in the sense that it provides little incentive for BGS to up their game or actually produce a contemporary-feeling product, but frankly to them: go play another game. I don't mean that in a vitriolic or sarcastic way and apologise if it comes off that way; just that anyone who thinks mods "bail out" BGS games aren't really the target audience for said mods anyway, and there are loads of good RPGs, sci-fi games, open worlds out there that probably suit those people better.

@TheXboxSux

7 ай бұрын

@@rioplats Exactly. On the same line of thought, we don't make mods because we feel we need to either. We owe BGS nothing and likewise with them to us. If we want to see improvements we vote with our lack of interest and time. They either continue improving or sink under the ocean of progress in the industry. I'll be damned if any dev company thinks it can hide behind its faithful community though. That's just me though.

I have a GTX 1070. Cyberpunk it looked like i had a 3080. Starfield looked like I was playing on xbox 360 again

I actually enjoyed the quest you get when Walter Stroud first joins your crew. When you have to meet his ife then do a bunch of prep for a business meeting, then do some sneaky spy shit in a rival companies building ending with you choosing th fate of the thief thats responsible for everything....it was fun

The most depressing part of all of this is the general tone deafness of Howard and Bethesda. They have their heads up their asses if they and aren’t even willing to acknowledge the criticisms of this game and say “We hear you, we are listening, we are taking your feedback and will be putting in the effort to make this the game YOU want to play” Instead they want to force us to like the game THEY want us to play. They should have gotten this game into early access as soon as they had something even remotely playable. They would have gotten feedback that all of their loading screens, lack of space travel and empty planets were not what the players wanted and pivoted to making it something people wanted.

I had thought about buying an Xbox for this game but decided to wait. Saw a review today that sat through the loading screens in real time and crazy looking NPC's and no. It felt really old and cheap. How lazy of them. They deserve all the crap they get for cheating their fans even if they still want to defend it. Like a wife with 2 bruised eyes telling everyone how amazing her husband is because he bought her spa day gift certificate

The NPCs very strongly remind me of the ones in Wing Commander 1 (1990), they are more or less static except for their mouths moving... 🙄

@kaollachan

7 ай бұрын

wasn t that some FMV game?

@lordflashheart3680

7 ай бұрын

@@kaollachan Not originally, the first two games were graphically driven, after that they became FMV (Wing 3,4,and 5).

@nunyadambidnis

7 ай бұрын

F'n love wing commander. Bought a snes jus to replay

I really wanted to like Starfield, so I put many hours into it, but man... endless menus and loading screens is bad enough but the dang inventory management is crazy. I found myself actually falling asleep when managing inventory! Asleep! This game literally put me to freaking sleep. Hot damn.

If some random studio made this game and just released it with no hype, no one would give a shit about this turd and it would be forgotten about in the dustbin of shitty games. The only reason people even pretend to like it is because of the years of hype and the fact that Bethesda and MS were behind this and admitting the truth is too painful for some folks because it is an acknowledgement that we all got hustled, and well that isn’t a good feeling at all.

“Its a next gen game” Loading screens : 👀

@xaikken

7 ай бұрын

Warframe is a better next gen game and its 11 years old

I had no desire to even try StarField.

I agree with pretty much everything here, except this. The fast travelling. In previous games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 one of the most common gripes people had was that they were forced to walk everywhere, they whined and complained about not be able to fast travel from inside areas, about being forced to discover an area first before you could fast travel there and so on. Now they've given you the option, and get that, the OPTION to fast travel as much or as little as you want, people complain about that too. Seems they can't win. Why wouldn't people use it? Because they choose not to? For the sake of immersion? Because they feel that fast travelling everywhere is lame? Because they're able to show some restraint? You can just as easily choose to walk back to your ship, board it, use the navigation console to set a destination, sit down in your pilot seat, take off, then jump to the system, scan the planet, lock on to your location and land. If you choose not to do that, don't blame the game, blame your own lack of self-restraint and attention span.

@TheYamiks

7 ай бұрын

sooo.. don't blame the game for including bade structure, design... JUST DONT USE THEM. are you seriously going to shift the blame from the game onto the player for simply playing the game in intended way!? no. Allowing so much fast-traveling is a detrimentto the game structure and most of all immersion. It's a cheap and lazy bandaid in place of clever and proper level-design.

@ChadeGB

7 ай бұрын

@@TheYamiks That's one of the intended ways, not the only way, you talk as if you have absolutely no choice but to use it. It's an option, you can decide to use it or not, by design. Giving players options is never a bad thing, in this case they gave you the option to use it or not. Or in your case, use it and then complain that it ruined the game for you, when you're the one choosing to play the game that way. So yea, don't purposely shoot yourself in the foot and then complain that it hurts.

@sigmachud9092

7 ай бұрын

but it's not an option, if your other option is, board ship and THEN fast travel. there is no exploring. there is only fast travel

@ChadeGB

7 ай бұрын

@@sigmachud9092 No. See my 2nd comment above. If you choose to fast travel everywhere, that's on you.

Starfield is an insult to intelligence.

Skyrim's facial animation mods are better than Starfield's.

Starfield played it safe, I'm sure by Microsoft command. They didn't want such a big release to be plagued or memed by bugs ie. No Man Sky and Cyberpunk. The end result is mediocrity, even though Bethesda games have been trending toward mediocrity all on their own, I'm sure the extra push from Microsoft didn't help. Doesn't help that they keep reusing a 20 year old engine, at this point it's a zombie engine on lifesupport.

Starfield is like construction in USA: cardboard and plywood, styrofoam and thin sheet metal; it's simply made on the cheap to empty the customer's wallet and adios!

This game suffers from about 98x too much meaningless dialogue. Todd thinks more dialogue makes for a better game.

@Battleneter

7 ай бұрын

Yep although I enjoy Starfield I agree, I found myself skipping a lot of the dialogue where I felt it was likely pointless.

I usually wait a year before I purchase a new game so the devs can work out the kinks. Cyberpunk is a great example of this. A year later and the game is fantastic. I didn't wait with starfield and I regret it dearly.

@fartdonkey8290

7 ай бұрын

A year later? Didn't it come out in like 2017?

Why doesn’t someone (the gaming community maybe) take all the things we know to make a good space game from elite, star field, star citizen, etc…and make a game we, the community, actually want? Just a thought…

@Thomas-uz3zf

7 ай бұрын

Yeah easy! You go first though right your idea...

@ziephel-6780

7 ай бұрын

one word: funding

I kind of think that starfield needs to really be almost like a development platform and allow people to sell modules. They should be really promoting that and that should take up the slack on a lot of stuff.

This game should have been like 15 planets at most, the engine, story and gameplay had no need for anything else

The comparison with elite dangerous and no man sky for the space sim, and BG3 for rhe narrative hit hard on this one.

@efxnews4776

7 ай бұрын

Don't forget the one about gameplay with CP77

@rolletroll2338

7 ай бұрын

@@efxnews4776 I have still not played CP77 yet, but obviously.

Fast travel is always a bit immersion breaking, but RDR2 did it really nicely

It's crazy watching Todd in this weird dimension where none of the issues ppl are experiencing exist. He is either such a shameless liar or he deludes himself to the extent he actually believes his own bs.

@user-ik6oc2un7r

7 ай бұрын

it feels like somebody writes his speech for the con meanwhile Todd himself never saw the game

@m1garand164

7 ай бұрын

@@user-ik6oc2un7r It does seem that way right? Like he's involved in the concept only but the execution is totally out of his awareness and he just acts as a figurehead, a marketing guy.

God. Imagine making a space exploration game and having it come out already more outdated then no man's sky, a game that came out 5 plus years ago.