For clarification this video was made before the recent updates of starfield. So if something i mentioned got fixed that’s probably why

Ive been on and off watching this video and when youre making a straightforward point that Starfield isn’t very good, I quite enjoy what im hearing. However the instant you start comparing it to Cyberpunk I can’t help but roll my eyes and start disregarding everything you say. I’m sure as it is now, Cyberpunk is actually a pretty fantastic game. However with the amount you constantly reference it, it feels less like a good comparison and more like, and take this as politely as you can, sucking Cyberpunks dick. It doesn’t help that you go from mentioning Cyberpunk everyone once in a while to seeming mentioning Cyberpunk as much as possible. Comparison can be done without constantly buttering up Cyberpunk and this video would be immensely more enjoyable if that were the case. Hopefully something you’ll take with you in the future if you happen to read this comment.

14:30 nah I’m siding with Bethesda on this one. NASApunk was already a thing before (though it might not have been named that) and the principle is taking design inspiration from… NASA. The point is the designs are based on actual space travel equipment that actually exists rather than completely made up sci-fi bullshit.

You can also see this in Prey, which combines both the realistic Nasa-punk style with art deco. Living and walking areas of Talos-1 have a BioShock esque art-deco design, while the inner guts of the ship are NASA influenced instead

I hate you Devin I hate you

I had some fun with it but it wasn’t something I would return to, in fact I didn’t even beat the game

why…. would ANYONE.. want Skyrim in space.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the time a reviewer asked Todd Howard why the game was poorly optimized and he said it wasn’t, their computer was just bad. And then they released an optimization patch the very next day.

I FUCKING LOVE FTL

What’s even more funny is that everything in Starfield is ripped out of something they already made, be that 76 or 4 or even Skyrim. Music is basically the BOS music from 76. Many of the legendary effects are in 76, jetpack feels exactly like the 76 one, building is from 4. Weapons are just reskins of Fallout ones. The only unique thing they have is the ship building.

You have a voice that can probably be a great youtuber some day but I am only 15 minutes into your video and can already tell it should be half the length. Your intro sounds like two intros smashed together with the only interesting hook I have heard in the video so far, the thesis that starfield is a fake game, and even after that I can tell by this pre-ambling marketing section that this video is going to tell me everything I have already heard about starfield before you get to the actual point you are trying to make. I think if you made a 20 minute video and limited background and introduction info to 5 minutes it might be interesting. As it stands, this video is the Starfield of Starfield videos.

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this or not but you mentioned bethesda responding to the bad reviews… there’s actually pretty strong evidence that all of those replies were ai generated 😂

I think they used AI to make the entire game.

A lot of the combat mechanics are also very similar to Elite: Dangerous, another game that did them better and has existed since the early 2010’s lol

STAR CITIZEN ?

The note about Nasa-punk style is unjust.
While it is a newly invented term – it clearly describes what it stands for. It is an aesthetic of NASA spaceship tech.
NASA – White-yellowish dashboards, dedicated knobs and buttons with yellowish backlight, old school monitors with limited graphic interface and simplistic diagrams. Generally utilitarian design.
Punk – modern twist and iteration of in game starship tech companies.
Starfield went for the look of modernized NASA tech. Preserved the vibe of aforementioned points yet refined it to what-could-have-been design. Closest thing would be retro futurism.
The fact that NASA is governmental institution might have strongly influenced the look of the tech itself, as every penny had to be saved, so the whole user interface is of no-thrill utilitarian design. It has a distinct look and it’s okay to acknowledge it, no matter who created it.

The game never came together. Instead of canceling it, they betrayed their fans and tried to recoup their losses. Selling them an empty broken, boring game. They new it was bad. The stockholders just didnt care.

It’s like the Disneyland ride version of an actual game.

10 times each??!?

the problem with calling something NASA-punk is that it has to deal with taking power from government institutions (You know, like NASA) and giving it back to the people. I don’t think Todd Howard or Bethesda know what that means and frankly I’m going to insult them where you chose not to because frankly at best they are idiots and at worst they are soulless corporate jerks

One thing I didn’t hear said.. The temple system is just Breath of the Wild’s temple system but gutted to the worst thing ever.

Action space adventure game. Not a single word in that sentence is true or describes anything about this product.

Another Johnny come lately to the culture vulture grift. Glad YouTube still allows me to get rid of hot trash like this off my recommended videos. 😂

Starfield had to have melee because star wars because dune

Great job! You put more work into this video than Bethesda did with their game!

At least it released, unlike Star Citizen

I just realized that the starfield game logo is meant to show the cycle of you playing the game repeatedly.
I “borrowed” it the week of release and still felt like I was ripped off. I’m one of the people who liked the ship builder, but then I realized that i was pretty much just building my own loading screen and messing arounf with it felt like a waste of time..

It’s so jarring how mind numbingly quiet Starfield is. There’s little to no background music, no random chatter, no ambient noise, very few sound effects when you’re interacting with the world, no music to set the mood in conversations or cutscenes. It’s the video game equivalent of walking around in an empty building with a bad echo and hearing nothing but your shoes squeaking

99% of my starfield play time is Star Wars Genesis

It’s not the first time I’ve said it, and it won’t be the last: Todd Howard is a fraud.

PS
The only fault on gamer side is weak spine – not sticking to the stance hard enough to send the message, letting be appeased by mere small gestures instead of properly keeping in memory that you should not trust certain people, no matter how much they say that “they’ve changed”.
I ain’t mixin words, some gamers are like addicts, letting anyone satisfy their drug cravings even when the dealer already hurt them before.

Ya should learn to harden your hearts towards corporate pleading and promises.

I played the first run (bored out of my mind), decided to do a NG+, I didn’t get a different NG+. I got exactly the same one… and I quit. I was NOT going to do another run.

I will admit that some (a lot) of the dislikes this game got were made by weaklings who were sensible that pronouns other than she/him were a thing. This drowned the actual issues this game had.

Basically- Starfield is an end point (or close to end point) of buzzword games.
Bethesda banked on this sorta thing for a while, out of all the studios and publishers, they banked on this in practically all their games- even the good old classics, tho in the “good’ol days” they at least tried, because they didn’t have the banked reputation yet.
Fallout 76 should have been a far more hard hitting wakeup call- even since it was done by the “secondary division” it was still done by Bethesda, with still their usuall shtick of “overpromise to gamers and then let the modders fix the game”.

But well, not we seen the Oblivion remake- done by other studio, and I seen some folk having speculations that it probably lit a fire under Bethesda’s ass far more than being acquired by Microsoft. In short, the speculations go that Bethesda now might be panicing because Microsoft found someone who delivers Bethesda games better than Bethesda, which sets Bethesda to getting shot in the head behind the shed, if you catch my drift

PS. on the ballistic weapons in sci-fi settings- it could work if there was a thought through in world reason. Unfortunatelly writters at bethesda have one hypoxic braincell between them so there is no thought.

Also on the energy/space combat point, energy management on action space combat has been done by elite (and maybe even before that but idk) all the way back in 1984, pretty much the exact same thing, and in the most recent one Elite Dangerous they have a much simpler but I’d say better for a more “action”, faster type combat where you only change between Weapons Shield and Engines that works perfectly fine, and that one was released in 2014, so them acting like it’s a big innovation is even more pathetic really

what a boring game

Calling starfield a fake game is an insult to fake games. It’s an unfinished project that’s a platform for modders to fix what they’re too lazy/incompetent to do.

This video did a great job of making me just want to play through Cyberpunk again for the 3rd time.

I KNEW you were going to mention Kerbal Space Program. It absolutely capture the dream of space flight.

My dream space game is KSPs orbital mechanics + Aurora 4x’s autistic detail + Distant World’s empire management + X3’s trading system (but with an AI that knows how to keep it running).

Id argue it practically asset flipped the whole creation engine

You know what I love the most about this video?

The fact that you said there was not much you could say that hasn’t already been said, then proceed to said things no one has said about this game for the next two hours xD

I’m amazed at how bad this game is, since there are tons and tons of videos talking about why they think it’s bad and each single one of them comes from a quite different angle and most of the complaints aren’t nitpicking.

Give me one planet with enough quest please. That will be 60gb for planet. Give me 1000 planets.

Its odd that my mind could hear someone praise starfeild for 2 hours or slag on it for 2 hours and gain practically the same enjoyment
Telling

Tod Howard projects a lot of used car salesman energy when he’s promoting his games,IMO.

I agree with most of your criticism about Starfielfd, but there are some things that I need to say.
-First, term nasapunk continue a tradition of styles as cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk of presenting futuristic technology with a visual appearence of steam engines or diesel engines. Which mean that is a visual style to represent a mostly futuristic world where the tech seem like the tech the NASA use today, similar of the retrofuturistic style of Fallout. I prefer the style of tech in Mass Effect myself, but that is subjective.

-Second, the NASA was not the culprit of the destruction of Earth, and it was also not a glitch. It was something intencional. A starborn appear in the universe when the technology was to primitive to have ftl ships, so it was force to live and die as a normal dude instead of being the cosmic multiverse traveller that he wanted to be. So the dude created an experiment with the embryo version of the gravity engine, to destroy Earth and force humanity to create the full tech to gain the ability to travel to unity again. Still dumb, but it has good ideas.

-Third, the multiverse thing is barebone, and poorly executed, as everything in the game, but is fun as a concept. The story and the narrative in general is the problem, is bad, completely undercook, it seem like a placeholder story that never get develop. The main concept could have work if it was done right, and then the multiverse loop would be a fun thing to do, smart and without that much extra work for their part.

The Kyle Verse has expanded.

You didn’t mention the stupidest part about the whole _’destroying Earth’s atmosphere’_ thing:
Someone went back in time to warn about the bug that would destroy the Earth _BUT_ The guy who made the space drive decided *_NOT TO FIX IT UNTIL IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE_*

@33:00 The potted plant is probably a reference to the hitchikers guide to the galaxy

That’s also how I read my own Steam reviews.

What game is actually real it’s all just pixels on a screen. You only see what needs to be loaded.

Every two years or so, I forget about starfield, and then something happens that reminds me that the game isn’t out yet. 😂

Bethesda: ”Our game isn’t boring. It’s YOU, that’s boring” (mic drop)

“but star wars has space magic! so we NEED space magic!” …also, 7 factions? really? i mean i believe you, but i don’t really even remember any of them. i thought the outposts were… well, much like the rest of the game, a neat idea, somewhat poorly executed. i don’t really agreee with “fake game” (as you intended it), it’s just a mediocre execution of a great idea, relying on the reputation of a big, well regarded developer to get by. “just enough to get by” is very accurate.

lmfao 1:57:30 “i can’t be a part of this! …don’t leave any of that behind.” mixed messages much, sarah? xD

The Outer Worlds is a better starfield than starfield. Gottem a second time with a smaller scale scope of a project and probably way less dev time, and a way better end result.

Join me! Collect all the artifacts and fly through the unity!
No! Don’t listen! He’s evil!
You need to collect the artifacts and fly through the unity!

Todd do you think we should give them different goals?
No ones going to play this far.

I put a few hours in and decided I would rather have the space on my HDD. I deleted it and haven’t thought about it until now.

Cant believe Starfield ripped off a soviet film from 1986 called Kin-Dza-Dza! where the main characters were transported to desert alien planet which the whole water supply was completely drained to make spaceship fuel, the film was satirical of the wasteful shortsightedness of humans, the game plays it straight.

Starfield just existed to push the creation club to it’s maximize monetization. Now allowing achievements/trophy for them and every update just been to add more or fix them as oppose to improving the base game like Cyberpunk did.

I literally spent 200+ hours on starfield at launch to distract me from the fact that my wife was going through chemo for her cancer and I absolutely had to burn time.
This thing being a complete turd made it easy to use the game to compartmentalize all the negative feelings I went through.
Sadly She didn’t make it though.
up yours Starfield, always a 3/10 game (being generous here)

Elite dangerous does the FTL system vv well. It’s possibly what starfield should be as an entire game 😭

The “Space cowboy” was a ripoff of Serenity/Firefly, just like the other worlds were ripoffs of CP2077 and Star Trek. I guess if I wanted to see a crap AI sequel to Serenity, I could just play Starfield

“this game wishes to be cyberpunk” CP2077 was utter trash when it came out, not even starfield was that bad.

NASA Punk is real its not “government punk” if youre going to criticize it at least research if its real or not

01:32:00 If you mean powerbar juggling mid-flight as a gameplay system, the earliest example I can think of goes at least to X-Wing, first released in 1993.

Jeez, I guess you really liked Cyberpunk 2077.

Lol. No judgement from me.

lolelol

Join me as we “DELVE” into – instant AI slop radar going off. Sorry bud, but I’ve got thousands of hours of this game under my belt and it’s fantastic.

1:31:15 oh, you mean like death loop?

Yeah the marketing even momentarily got me, and I’ve grown to despise them beyond most people’s capacity for hate. I just had to say “this is all a lie” when the hype train tried to pick me up, and I can’t describe how pleased I was to see I was right and things were even worse than I could have imagined

I’ll take a handfull of well made planets over an endless number of procedurally created piles of nothing any day of the week.

Remember how excited we were for this? LOL Before the first trailer…. i miss those days of optimism.

and its all built on the same outdated game engine as skyrim and fallout 4.

There’s an older, more analogous version of the weapon/shields/engines power distribution thing: Descent Freespace from 1998.

I hate Sarah Morgan. She is the only NPC in a game, ever, where a NPC voice caused physical revulsion in me. Not the actress by the way but the NPC itself. She is a gaslighting, shit talking, know nothing know it all who is never happy no matter what you do. I cannot stand her.

Starfield was one of my most played games at 400+ hours behind BG3 last year. I enjoyed the first play through and mods allowed me to enjoy my second play through. But if not for mods I probably would have only locked maybe 120 hours on it. The game feels childish, hollow, and frankly empty. The lore is terrible and there is no real reason to feel immersed into the game. I enjoyed the game play loop, and used mods and commands to get perks and just enjoyed the game play loop of looting, leveling, and building ships. But other than that, ya I wish it was more of a space sim and less of a Bethesda load screen simulator.

No Man’s Sky meets Cyberpunk 2077 but when they were at their worst states

The Starborn are individuals that can cross multiverses and can meet up with other Starborn, but mostly travel solo? THAT IS LITERALLY THE TRAVELLERS, THE PLAYER CHARACTERS, FROM NO MAN’S SKY

I have been watching hours of hours of people mocking the game instead of playing it 😂😂😂 and remember they stopped making fallout and tes for this game 😂😂😂

When I first reached the temple for space magic and getting to theses hoop and stuff I though to myself: I guess there is gonna be an alien boss fight or something for me to beat in order the get this power… No, turns out they forgot the actual gameplay aspect of this quest, either that, or Starfield should be called loading screen simulator.

Starfield is No Man’s Sky without the redemption arc

Hell Divers is the same shit, repetition disguised as excitement by simple minded single celled organisms

the first AI coded Game lol

Does anyone actually play Starfield still?

To be fair, ballistic weapons being mainstays makes a lot of sense to me. Manufacturing must be trivial at this point, and most ammo even today isn’t exactly made from the finest quality material. Ballistic weapons are cheap, known, generally reliable, and deadly. Shooting “heat” or lasers or whatever looks cooler, but I can’t see how they do enough damage to incapacitate the enemy without a heavy force behind it, IE, a bullet.

Tldr, “future” setting games using ballistic weapons is practical, immersive, and highly likely imo

Watching this has me convinced loading screens are someone at Bethesda’s kink.

I think this guy likes cyberpunk

The Terromorph sidequest should have been the main storyline. Kind of the zerg/tyranid/bug story. It is cliche, but it would have been way more fun than this metaverse thing.

I can’t believe someone has so little in life that they created a 2 hour video to trash a game that’s been out for 2 years. Move on. Wars have been won in less time.

Wow this is sad. Not Starfield, this video and comment thread. Why spend so much time and energy on something you don’t like? You know how to really make something you don’t like go away? You stop talking about it. You know how many shitty movie, games, books, shows, come out and then disappear seemingly overnight? It’s because people don’t give a shit about them.

52:28 ON4️⃣FN😛

42:14: to me it’s obviously a nod to the Firefly franchise, which is about… cowboys in space. and also probably trying to invoke some kind of familiarity and nostalgia for american gamers.

Dragon’s Dogma did the rebirth new game+ system 100x better

Something something randomly generated dirtball something something dumb writing something something effectively one melee weapon..

1:32:40. This Bethesda video is so cringe. This rotating camera, and the actors on the couch pretending to being there naturally, all while the guy describes the most dumbed-down, bland gameplay imaginable.

The vitriol against this game still bafles me to this day

People try to use the moddability as a selling point, but the reason people enjoyed modding Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim is because those were already good games that could be massively improved with mods. Nobody is interested in building the entire fucking game FOR them, which is what trying to fix Starfield with mods feels like.

Multiverse story line is a plot hole waiting to happen. Competent writers never touch that sh*t for a reason.

I’ve logged about 100 hours in Starfield and still feel there’s so much left to discover—I haven’t even tried the DLC yet. It’s genuinely fun and, in many respects, a clear evolution over Bethesda’s previous RPGs. Yes, it has flaws—every game does—and some design choices will please some players and frustrate others. But all the hours spent watching complaint videos strike me as pointless. If you’re not enjoying Starfield, play something else; dragging it through the mud online won’t change a thing. No one at Bethesda is combing through endless negative clips—at best they glance at Steam reviews or major-media coverage. So play what you like, let others enjoy the game, and move on.

I’m still pissed that this is a space game that has no intelligent aliens in it whatsoever. They imply the Starborn are aliens the entire game until revealing the alternate universe aspect.

Nice vid! The Russians won the Space Race btw. The US pinned huge importance upon the moon landings because that was the only area where you were first. The Russian beat you absolutely everywhere else. Mickey Mouse told you otherwise, but he’s full of shit.

Guy casually drops the most legit new dogma since Buddy Christ. 2000 layers of hell and their all procedurally generated. That would also make an incredible game!

8:45 this steam review is giving @TheLittlePlatoon vibes

I really wanted it to be amazing. I think that made the let down harder.

A shitty game made by talentless hacks.
Aka Tod Howard 🙂
Fire him, he’s shit

I remember in Skyrim finding dragon shouts was always cool and rewarding – you could find them all over the place, guarded by bosses, some of them actually hard to beat.

What are you talking about a fakechanic?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Mass effect already did this with its choice system. Letting you think your choice is mattered over three entire games when they actually didn’t. And this was a advertising point to sell the game.

alright putting aside your main point about the game having no substance etc can somevbody please tell me why bugs/ glitches/ broken quests etc from a triple A $70+ game is aceptable. its like buying a new suit seeing it has a huge rip in the back of the jacket and pants and still being happy cause you got a new suit, why is this not something we complain about? more to the point why do we accept it as “Bethesda’s bug” but throw a gamer tantrum when other games to it. Cyberpunk is a prime example as it was broken on relase and they did a recall to fix the issues but we let Bethesda get away with it? why?

The amount of cyberpunk glaze in this video gave me diabetes

I believe Elite also does that power rationing thing

Made by Bethesda a fake video game development company

The Hunter weirdly feels like a Soulsborne NPC.

you are fucking regarded bro, that whole nasapunk argment is just vile and braindead. you can fuck off alongside todd and all the other opportunistic liars in the gaming space

The “narcissistic injury” from this game would kill Gabe Newell ten times over.

This video sold me on Cyberpunk 2077.

Gods, I wish they’d made this a better game. I absolutely love the ships and building them, but the story and planets were absolutely garbage

And the game is still at close to full price… Not going to bother with it. Waiting for cyberpunk sale👌🏼

3:37 were talking to you base building defenders. Almost all the glazing of Starfield i see is about the base building….

I never played starfield and never will, but “why startfield is bad” is one of my favourite youtube video genres. It’s genuinely fascinating how shit this game is.

Bro people forget there already is an exploration space game. Star Citizen, it’s actually playable. It’s been a long time coming but Star Citizen is so much fun.

Todd didn’t say the ‘bored’ thing. It was another guy at Bethesda, Anthony Chang I think.

It amazes me how similar modern NASA is to Bethesda: Did something amazing _years_ ago and hasn’t done anything good since, still riding off the success of that even today.

pathetic video, pathetic channel, pathetic headline. It is in the top 100 rn. Not every game has to be starfield. Not every gta was liked by everyone. Thinking starfield is not a good game is 90% based on sheep brain following botted steam reviews. competition destroyed the review n one can clearly see how botted they are. Bro literally only spoke about one questline lmfao pathetic click baiting bch ass channel

Another Youtuber, Another video Shitting on Starfield ? Im all for it

I played this game for about 35 mins before I said this sucks ass and quit never to try again

I’m glad I didn’t spend money on it… I hope the Expanse game will be good.

Watching this video I truly got the feeling that Starfield is in fact not a real game
Perhaps even a fake game
Don’t know why

One of the best videos out there!! 😅😅 I watched it twice already haha

I played this for 6 hours and quit. Never went back. It’s boring as hell. Plus, it’s basically just every other Bethesda game with a different skin.

even Destiny 1 from 2014 could hide their loading screens via hyperdrive animations or flying in the atmopshere of a certain planet. and Banji didnt bother with space dogfights since it would be terrible and they knew it

very good review btw!

Emil is a bad writer or writes stuff bad on purpose and needs to actually try, Todd bait and switched everyone and he knew it.

The most poorly written stories and quests, terrible factions with inch deep lore, the worst ai created unnamed npcs, terrible story characters, shallow cringey unlikable followers, the worst speech check system, the worst lock pick and terminal hacking system, tiny cities with barely anything to explore or immerse the player, no music radio/ a very limited generic news radio in the game that you can’t even tune in to without mods, no gore, no usable music players, no watchable TVs, no cell phones, ai generated planet surfaces and dungeons, barely any unique loot, insanely buggy ship builder, avg ship combat, avg regular combat, cars that the game was never designed to accommodate but they just got clumsily thrown in, an awful story dlc that was just cut content, but sold as a dlc, and the list goes on.

It takes work to make someone look at Cyberpunk fondly.

It’s like showering someone in diarrhea and they yearn for piss instead.

‘NASA Punk’ is a real term which they didnt invent. It refers to shit like the Venture star from avatar, or Fpr All Mankind.
Generally some sort of spy thriller or warmovie mixed with golden age of space exploration style design language, a hard scifi setting, and presence of the various bonkers cold war space technologies like orion drives and nuclear salt water rockets. Its oy tangentially rwlazed to nase, and it iant punk, but what can you do. You might also notice Starfield is not an example of it. If I had to give you a videogame example, Terra Invicta would probanly be the most well known one.

1:50:27 the idea of the story is the same story in essence as NMS, but it tries too hard.

I don’t think the Hunter is accidentally amazing. I think he was the point. He is always meant to be you in the end.

Pure irony. Not because Starfield is good, but because your video is everything you criticize Starfield for.

what i realized is that, starfield is a series of rooms.
you load into rooms, to load into rooms, to load into rooms.
space? a room you are in for a bit, your ship? a room. any area you go to? a room with invisible walls.
adn thats what ruined it for me, that i was moving from room to room.
edit: i wonder if perhaps they didnt get enough time to make the game, maybe the overlords demanded they focus on skyrim 2/elder scrolls 6 and they had to do their best aobut star field? cut lots of corners? i dunno

The power management system was likely swiped more so from Elite Dangerous. Elite has a billion issues in how it’s been developed and run post launch, but I’d argue offers one of the best “action”spaceflight experiences in gaming. Anyway, they implemented a power management system that looks visually identical to the one in starfield, essentially. It’s likely they are the ones who took inspiration from FTL, but despite being realtime first person combat, the system works really well, allowing skilled pilots to boost shields, engines, or weapons when needed.
It also flows better as you only ever tell the system which system to boost by a pip, with power taken being averaged away from the others, and a reset button that evenly balances power.

There’s also more intricate power management with you being able to disable individual weapons or ship systems, though this is usually relevant only to people fitting out ships with a very tight power budget (for example, you can run with your shields on or your landing gear active, but not both simultaneously). The only time you may need to touch those systems in combat is if your generator takes damage and drops output to the point you have to switch off stuff to stay operational.

I think there are some.. admittedly minor.. things we can do: spend out money buying smaller games from smaller independent studios and join communities about those games when you like them so they thrive. Sure, when they become successful they’ll most likely be bought by a big studio and things get a bit bleaker again, but at least we will have tried.

Hey, just meant as constructive critcism, I am 21 minutes in and it feels like you have repeated yourself like 5 times already on multiple points. It really drags the pace of the video down _a lot_. You don’t need to keep saying things are shallow, I am aware. You don’t need to keep saying the entire game feels “off” or “weird”, you have made your point on that like 2 minutes in. There is no reason to mention that reviews started off mixed and then got very negative twice in the span of 10 minutes without adding anything or making any sort of point. It’s all very repetitive and quite boring to listen to.

I got so bored of loading screens, boring dialogs, people & empty planets in the game that made me go buy Elder Scrolls Morrowind for the first time & I’ve playing it ever ever since.

dont forget that you need 10 runs to max out the space powers 🙂

edit: aah, apologies, you do mention that later

There’s a term for it, I don’t know if translation did it properly. Viscerality. Cyberpunk nails it (the club for example: Booming, dirty, intensifying, shady, foggy), while everything in Starfield looks like the cleaning ldy just left. No authenticity to it, everything feels like a facade.

The power allocation was part of x-wing from 1993. There was only 3 systems, engine, shield and weapons. But the concept is not new.

God i hate them soo much for ruining such a good premisse with a shitty game.. I wanted to love it, i really did.. but its grotesque..

this is literally 3d starbound, but at least starbound has mods

7:09 man really started out on the Volleyball planet

Even back in Skyrim, elements were added that were designed to be cool… once, with no consideration to how annoying it would be the 5th time the playr experiences it… like Skyrims iconic intro sequence… that can’t be skipped (also i love Skyrim and i still play it once a year, haven’t played Starfield, have no intention to play it, very worried about ES6)

I think the actual tragedy of this is that Bethesda had so much promise. It feels like they started out with the best of intentions, trying to make awesome games and just falling short, taking short-cuts to get to the finish line.
Then the next game was due and they did it again. They did it so often that the short-cuts and compromises stopped being last resorts and started becoming part of their design philosophy.
Instead of trying for amazing quests and settling for “radiant quests” because they ran out of time and had so much more map to fill, they decided to skip the effort on quests and put it on automation to begin with. Instead of trying to improve on the Creation Engine or learning a different system when the defects became apparent, they decided to keep it because it was more convenient.
Like watching an athlete who could have broken world records settling for being mediocre because he refuses to let go of the crutches he used to get where he is.

Instead of trying to do better than their bug-ridden, glitchy “mods will fix it” previous games, they embraced it and are cutting corners specifically because they know the community will buy it anyways.

I really wanted to keep being a fan, but I just can’t accept this. It would’ve been understandable from an indie, but Bethesda has the money to do better – they just refuse to.

there in hell 🙂 the starborn are stuck in there personal hells with no escape just the illusion of attempts

what’s better?
Starfield + 1500 mods vs
Mass Effect LE + 300 mods vs
No Man’s Sky vs
Elite Dangerous + Odyssey vs
Spacebourne 2

It’s so mediocre and a minimum viable product because it was made for gamepass day 1.

Good luck with TES, folks. It’ll be more lazy crap.

The first inkling I had of how much of a disaster this was going to be, was when they spent an inordinate amount of time and effort in the pre-release window talking about….sandwiches. Anyone remember that?

Im sorry, but Emil 100% deserves the hate. He did great with his brotherhood questline. But hes the epitome of “fans loved it the first time, ill just give it to them again.” Also his reaction to criticism shows hes immature and unable to change as he dismisses it with prejudice.

1:03:31 When I worked for EA, we used to call them “neproducers”, a word play on “nepo” and “producer”, which worked perfectly because it literally meant that said individuals did nothing useful for the project. Just like you said, they were the kind that played some completely unrelated game in their spare time, saw some cool interface, overlay or mechanic, and then they came in the office and wanted it implemented in our project. It didn’t matter to them if it didn’t fit, they wanted it. And this always cost us time because we had to argue with the idiot until someone with more authority and brains than them came and convinced them it wasn’t doable. And even then they would still hold grudges.

Starfield, or how to make a shitty Mass Effect.

Actuaaly it has a philosophical teaching. The wold is a hamter wheel. Everything repeats. Nothing has any point.

make multiplayer support, from the start, like Fallout, like, No Man’s sky, that way you have player interaction and it wont end up as a game that you play for a week or two then forget it installed on your pc

Please research LLM transformers…

Bethesda somehow gets such big fans that even when they are haters, it still gets 2-8 hour reviews lol. I don’t get it. Any other game company would get a 15m “this game sucks wtf” but no not bethesda, big ol documentaries lol.

I think the video idea is interesting, but I made it about 20 minutes in before I had to give up. At that point all I had heard about was the marketing tactics which felt kinda disappointing considering throughout the first 20 minutes you mentioned multiple times that starfield is a “fake” game but you had yet to delve into any real criticism or analysis of features to prove that was the case, much less given me a sound definition of what you considered a fake game to be. I understand you have to give the viewer context and I’m sure you eventually get to these points, but in the future I think your video would be better served to start talking about that kinda stuff sooner, or at least give the viewer a few breadcrumbs to work with.

I realize that this comment probably comes off as me disliking the video but I think there was a reason I originally clicked despite never having played the game. I was interested in hearing someone’s analysis and breakdown of what a ‘fake game’ is, and the material was engaging enough for me to stay through 20 minutes, I just personally wanted you to get to the point sooner. I hope the next time one of your videos slides across my feed I can make it all the way through. Also sorry for sounding like an ass, video creation is much harder work than critique, so I wish you the best of luck if you ever see this o7

Bethesda is such a joke that it isnt even funny anymore. Its just embarrassing that people are huffing the copium so bad

I think many forget. The first few days Starfield was praised by everyone. After a few weeks opinion shifted dramatically, and to this day remains incredibly negative for most. I think the game is alright. It’s pretty much what I expected except I thought there would be more diverse locations and creatures like No Man’s Sky, and you’d be able to land anywhere on the planets. I think in a few years the game will be looked at as just “good,” and not as hated as it has been. Sort of like how Fallout 4 was seen by many as a horrible game the first year or two and now it’s seen as pretty goo

It’s not that bethesda refuses to learn, it’s people who continue to buy their games.

38:00 uh… you might need to fact check your history..

As a Game Dev here is something that a lot of the critiques of modern games I see on YouTube miss, not that it’s their fault because this is mostly insider knowledge but it explains exactly why despite looking “modern” you feel this game is an empty shell of creativity almost like it was made by AI, and it’s not that Todd or “Bethesda” whoever that might still be, doesn’t care.
The main reason is that all the good developers from the previous generations in these big companies have been pushed out or left (for reasons you can guess) and they have been filling all the positions with college graduates from these recently created “Game Development” courses which barely teaches you the basics and mostly focus on producing “good looking, photoreal” but terribly optimized assets, or doing very basic scripting for the most famous engines and just pushing assets around the engine to do some sort of “level design”, specially in companies like Bethesda who uses their own engine and not Unreal which is what most students learn the actual coding heavy lifting is mostly done by the few old guard devs still there who just don’t have the drive to push the limits for the reasons I’m gonna outline next.
Now the problem with most of these students is they have nothing in them, they don’t know what is good art, they haven’t read the great books, watched the great movies and a lot of times even played the great games of the past, they know nothing about the world, have no life experience and most of the time are filled with “changing the world” ideologies which you clearly see matter more to them than their craft, the craft is just a tool for those ends, and the actual good developers mostly gave up on pushing any excellence because they have to walk on ice with all the new people or they can easily be pushed out because they will band together and make up stuff about you to HR to push you out of the company, it has happened countless times, they practically cleared the floor of the big studios from anyone who cares about the product and has any talent and drive for excellency, so yeah if we’re lucky in a few years we are gonna start hearing the horror stories some of the great dev’s of our generation went through and how their careers were destroyed once their NDA’s start running out.

Atarfield is deggerfall. With no evolution in 30 years.

An instant classic? An instant crap in reality

I was gifted a copy of Starfield and after 60/70 hours in I needed to stop playing out of boredom and tedium.

I decided I wanted to play what to me felt the perfect Starfield experience. Jumping between a playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 and one of Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Even facial animations in Mass Effect feel much more advanced than those in Starfield and that freaking game predates Starfield by 16 years. What the actual fuck.

Starfield is anti immersion. The whole plot of the game is that it’s a multiverse and the more experience you get in the game (going ng+) the more gamified you make it. That’s the whole point of the hunter is that he’s “played” over so much that he is a speedrunner and just kills everybody in his way. It’s a weird meta experience that actively punishes you for taking your time and trying to enjoy the story

All Bethesda games are like this imho, i feel like im taking crazy pills when i see people praising their games so much.

1:35:14 Bethesda’s idea of ‘character design’

I just realized that there is no soundtrack in Starfield. For a final mission, being totally silent is so bizarrely flat.

Those npc look like they agree with you….poor guys stuck in that world😞

Love starfield. Let the haters hate.

CEOs, Team Leads and generally a lot of people in similar positions have not only completely lost touch with their fan-/consumer base, but often times with reality as a whole and it shows.

Also, fun fact: New Vegas wasn’t made by Bethesda, but Obsidian, which is why it’s so much better than Fallout 3 and 4.

they made a husk and expect the modders to fill it with mods, but the husk itself is rotten

Honestly i think the real problem is the fan base that refuses to see the games actual poor state, hyping it up and arguing with anyone who says anything negative about it, practically worshiping Bethesda as if they cant ever do wrong.

If the developers mess up and make a bad game then it is what it is an we just have to hope they keep working on it, we didnt have to buy it, they didnt force us, people got refunds for it or theyre waiting it out, but its the mega fans blinded by bethesda love creating actual issues – they dont have to be the way they are towards people yet they crash out any time someone mentionsthe game in a negative light, you cant even criticize the game as a fan without other fans dog piling you for it. They are the real problem here

14:21 so actually at first I was super taken in by “NASA punk” the idea of utjlity first bulky yet clean designs really appealed to me and then Starfield looked… fine, at least until I finally got to playing Death Stranding and the tech and armor in that game looked exactly like what Bethesda thought they were cooking with “NASA punk”

i’ll be honest, i only jumped at the bit for Starfield BECAUSE of the ship system. there’s some primal, deeply-rooted part of me that just lives, breathes and, at the lack of it done well in games, seethes over a maneuverable ship. Warframe’s Railjack, Sea of Thieves, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, a pseudo indie title called Pixel Piracy, referenced IN TERRARIA OF ALL THINGS (the pirate staff from the pirate event), and if you like friendslop, Void Crew all sorta scratch that itch. i need more of it. i need to feel like i’m in a domain entirely under my own command. if it’s got a vehicle, and you can walk around on it while it’s moving, that ancestral part of me is absolutely creaming. and so, i was really looking forward to Starfield’s ship system.

did you know, if you destroy an enemy ship’s thrusters, you can board them? you get tons of stolen shit, including contraband. it goes to show your point on systems you’ll just not ever engage with, because if you’d tried to engage with that content, i’m absolutely sure you’d have mentioned it because it’s just stupid. and yet, i love boarding enemy ships. call me Edward Kenway, because i’ll be invading their property and their ribcages. if Starfield wasn’t so maliciously boring and drove off all the serial Bethesda game modders, i might try my hand at overhauling it out of sheer appreciation for the ship system. total conversion style, like Enderal was for Skyrim… but nobody cared enough to put much effort into making the game fun because it’s hardly a game. in fact, it’s not a real game. it’s a fake game. if i tried, i’d just run into issue after issue with no idea how to move on because nobody else has made unofficial mod tools or guides for it

I have Long Starfield Teardown Essay fatigue

39:21 Honestly I’d say that even then, the destination is still part of the “fun”, because in real life it would amazing to go to the moon. I’m not sure exactly what it is, if it’s the danger it poses, maybe it’s experiencing true reduced gravity, or maybe just the fact you’re in raw space, no atmosphere. In a video game, you don’t experience any of that.

Cyberpunk bored me

Worse than not understanding any of the things they were putting in their game, Bethesda didn’t understand the tools they were using. The Creation Engine gets a lot of flak, but it actually has some very strong points. It also has its share of weak points. And Starfield was designed in such a way that it was built on those weak points and utterly discarded the strong points. And the strongest of those points is the game’s ability to track player-created and player-modified objects in a persistent world. None of which Starfield emphasizes. Also, the territory size issues? Those are because Bethesda did a lazy job implementing Havok in Oblivion. And kept the same implementation ever since. Because they needed Oblivion on the consoles…

If I were in charge of using the Creation Engine for a space game that would involve a decent chunk of procedural generation, I would do proc-gen planets and put a lot more time on them. But the focus of the game would be based around an exploration fleet. Persistent ships that the player could interact with and do things with. And any outposts that get set up for supplies or similar would also be persistent. And MUCH more heavily focused on that persistence. And that would be the foundation I’d use. Not sure where I’d take it, but that would be a better starting point than what they did.

And the New Game Plus feature actually has a (theoretical) use. After a while, your save file will get clogged up with stuff being tracked, and not getting cleaned up properly. That eventually leads to save file corruption. What’s the fix? Exactly what happens when you enter NG+ in Starfield. You keep your character progress. But you sacrifice the universe you had for a new one. Did they do a good job with that? I have no idea. I saw the warning signs when they started bragging about the focus on procedural generation and how they were using the Creation Engine. So I bought popcorn to prepare for the entertaining launch.

While the game is awful, I do think “NASApunk” isn’t as useless a descriptor as you imply. It gives a pretty good idea of a general vibe and aesthetic. You treated it kind of like seeing steampunk and then going “oh so like boiling water punk.”

1:50:06 DOMAIN EXPANSION: INFINITE VOID

holy shit

I love this game. It disappoints me so.

37:10 Ehhh… Not really. That was only one reason. Maybe the reason normies would want to explore space and go to the Moon. But there were plenty of other reasons. Scientific reasons, militaristic reasons, existential reasons, etc, but yeah the Todd Howard quote is pretty embarrassing…

while I think the term “Nasapunk” is fucking stupid, I also think it’s the only decent aesthetic choice this game makes. If it kept consistently going for the pseudo-realistic modern space exploration that looks like a sciencey version of tacticool, and then adapted that to different areas, the game would least have a consistent artstyle. Hell, that’s why the Mars city is one of the better ones because a space mining colony is a tried and true space location.

Instead of, like you said, whatever fucking focus group or generative AI monstrosities Neon and the Freestar capital are, even the space pirates and the not-UNSC have some sense “Nasapunk” consistently. Also why the FUCK do the guns look like that.

Eeeexcellent. Now do a similar video for Star Citizen.

So is your editor okay? Should I send the SWAT? 😂

Todd must watch this video at least twice a day

I really wanted this game to be good. So much so I bought the premium version of the game. After 60 hours I can confirm it is a fake game.

With this video alone, you have now officially made yourself an enemy of Bethesda who will be blocked by all the big names in the company, regardless of how valid your points are. And for that reason. Elder scrolls 6 is doomed.

Wokeness the game! 😂😂😂

Has PatricianTV and Private Sessions seen this video cause I’m sure they would totally agree with your claim that Starfield is a fake video game. This is so funny yet so true.

“Because it’s not a Game,
It’s a fake Game.”
Has become a permanent part of my vocabulary.

The game was clearly made to be a platform for paid mods.
They essentially outsourced the completion of this to modders.

I forgot this game existed…

I played and beat Starfield using hardly any of the powers. It was meh.

The real nail in the coffin for me was that after I spent hours fine tuning my custom ship (you know, trying to figure out where the ladders would be), O gave up after not being able to fly my ship freely.

At least NMS masked the loading screen.

1:16:40 that pirate bit was hilarious

the most unnerving part of the game is how everyone makes direct eye contact with you in crowds or passerby, its so completely alien to actual humans moving through crowds, its almost horrific, if it werent.. Starfield.

People weren’t upset only because this game is bad. They were upset because their excitement for Elder Scrolls VI was stomped on.

Starfield being a high budget asset flip describes it perfectly. There’s basically nothing new, it’s all stuff from other, better games blended into a boring grey amalgam that’s completely forgettable.

Step 1) Pre-order latest bethesda game
Step 2) woow this is so bad im never preordering again!!1!
Step 3) Pre-order latest bethesda game
…

Will they ever learn?

0:33 That’s actually a pretty terrifying concept of hell.

Okay but other than all that, how was the game?

lmfao, shadowheart (or whatever she called) fun. Only one type of person more stupid then starfield fun

I still can’t believe bethesda made a game that really doesn’t have a plot, or real antagonist, or real problem to solve. One of the few highlights was the UC questline which SHOULD have been the main story rather than whatever the hell that unity shit was that they barely explained. Idunno what they were thinking making a first installment of a game with such weak and loose lore pretty much giving it no reason to have a sequel.

great review but there is something I think could be mentioned. Power management/system targeting is not a system unique to starfield or ftl, and has actually been around nearly as long as space games. you can find similar elements in games like the original elite from 1984 or x wing from 1993. these systems have continued through and can still be found all over the place, for instance Elite’s modern successor, Elite Dangerous. TLDR: no, starfield did not rip off ftl, instead they did something arguably worse, in trying to convince everyone that one of the core systems of space games was a new invention by them.

1:33:21 hey if you like ftl you should try void war its a spiritual successor to ftl that has their explicitly permission so they just have 90% of the ground work from ftl but in a war hammer esq universe its really fun and recaptures ftl’s charm

Fake game is right, good conclusion. The entire game was designed so it would look good in an E3 showcase. Gameplay systems created so they could be in a trailer montage with no thought toward cohesion or enjoyment. Scale for the sake of scale and a back-of-the-box quote. ‘Dream game’ because it all only works in concept. A game designed for its trailer and not the other way around.

This video is like Starfield, nothing original to say and others have done it better.

Seriously dude you just did a worse version of Patrician’s vid

Holy shit a door monster skit

“You imperial basterds!!” 😂 That old woman screaming during the execution at helgen was hilarious.

THANK YOU! You seem to the the first YTer who finally pointed out the FTL energy management system! I’ve been spreading the good word for FTL ever since SF stole it!

1:45:12 Great DW Quote.

For me, I’ve had the same “everything is pointless” feeling playing Rimworld, after playing it for a long time. Just, all of a sudden, I paused and went, what am I even playing here. If the story that is being created as you play stops feeling unique because you see through the fabric of what makes it, Rimworld loses all its magic. I went from playing it… a lot, to never touching it again in just one random little moment. Never felt quite like this about other games before, it was weird.

And about getting decent products from corporations… Pokémon. They’ve had decades by now to do so and, chose, not to.

Bethesda hasn’t made a decent RPG since morrowind.

Edit:

And most of their game design and methodology hasn’t evolved since 2003 either.

Space Ship power destribution gaming mechanic was found in one of Todd Howards favorite games he played in college, Wing Commander….FTL was about ~20 years after that and likely borrowed that mechanic from Wing Commander or Privateer at that.

I coudln’t get myself to get on the ship, in the intro sequence. I was already bored out of my mind. Guess I made the right choice lol

I had really high hopes for this game and it ended up being 60 percent cutscenes

Ty

Ship combat in Starfield wasn’t a rip off off FTL… it ripped off SunDog, released in 1984. But I guess FTL ripped that off too, so…

took a lil too long for me to realize this wasnt about star citizen

Power allocation systems were in the X-Wing space simulator. In 1992.

intturupting the review response with the door is amazing this video has more direction than starfield

TES6 could be one of the most hated games in history and it’ll still sell a 100 million copies. Most people just don’t give a fuck, they just want something to zone out to after a hard days work.

the TARDIS ambience activated my almonds omg

Starfield is great, Todd living rent free in your almost empty degenerate head lol

I actually felt some kind of discomfort on my forehead listening to this games’ opening sequence; I don’t know what Inon Zur, the composer of Fallout 4 and Starfield’s soundtracks, did while he was stringing up this theme but it just sounds wrong and feels *pointless* when listened throughout. It’s a good production song but like it just feels wrong, it feels silly sometimes like clown circus music… I really need some time to think about this.

Fake game, real scam.

Sped through the story ten friggin’ times to get a version of Constellation that was even mildly interesting to me…never saw anything but the default.

38:18 remember yall, this was only possible because at the time rich people were paying their actual fair share of taxes. The sky was the limit until Ronald Reagan sold America to corporations. FDR served three terms and right after he was done the 21st amendment was ratified, why? Because he was too popular with his socialist policies, so the rich gathered together and waited until the time was right. They bought who they could buy, they put the chess pieces where they needed to be, and eventually Ronald came along and sold all of us to a handful of people.

Todd Howard ruined Bethesda just like John Riticello ruined EA.

It’s strange I hear you and I wanted to defend this game so badly, I still play it from time to time, but it’s not Skyrim at all, and I can’t help but think it was simply half-baked woke trash in the end and that hurts.

I finally understand now. Bethesda employees do not like or care about video games. It’s a 9 to 5 job for them and that’s it. It explains everything.

I don’t think Todd Howard is so bad he’s actively screwing his games up. Emil though, has proven that he’s so far up his own ass he can only hear his own echoes, and it reflects in his writing.

Watching the video made me realized that in the cities all the NPC are Asians or Black’s

This game ruined my Hype. Cyberpunk started it. Starfield ended it. 😢

Starting to gget real boring with these viedo essayist attempting to miscontrue the game just to garner viewership, the only thing i find funny about it is that most of us are using adblockers looll

It reminds me of those fake grocery stores built in North Korea to make it seem like they have an abundance of wealth. Like those old Hollywood western movie studio towns with the front of the building held up by raw wood from the back.

The space cowboy stuff is literally discount firefly, but with out vision and Nathan Fillion

1:05:39 the outpost system was supposed to be more developed and tie into exploration to go deeper into the system. You were originally not supposed to be able to reach the farther planets without enabling the outpost system. You can see the remnants of it in some of the ship building, there is clearly a vestigial system for deep space travel

Bethesda threw away their lore with Fallout 76 and then made a new game with no lore and called it Starfield.

This game is so forgettable that I just realised I have no idea what playstyle I used when playing 😂 I remember getting to ng+ cycle 8 or 9 but thats it. I dont remember the story, characters or anything else

Meanwhile I remember exactly what happened on my first playthrough in Skyrim all those years ago, crazy

The amount of people here deflecting to ‘Cyberpunk bad, actually’ in this comment section is hilarious with how all of them completely miss the point

I remember playing this right after playing baldur’s gate 3 and man that was the worst palette cleanser ever. Not being able to shoot through windows in an office is absurd.

Applying shrinkflation to a digital market is not how shrink works.

Everybody who bought a Bethesda game before reviews or after is complicit to the fast decay of gaming. Bethesda was already known for all there crap and most reviews where clear about the game. Just stop buying crap like this and thereby stop supporting this company taking you for granted.

This game made me not give a f about elder scrolls or fallout its gonna be trash slop

There’s a much simpler rebuttal to Todd’s “the astronauts weren’t bored” comment. Hey Todd, the astronauts were walking on the fucking moon! They weren’t sitting in front of a fucking screen simulating what walking on the moon might look like. Much in the same way a scenic stroll through nature is awesome in real life but (generally) boring as hell in a videogame. What a stupid comment

I thought the ship building could have been really cool but they even screwed that up. The size requirements suck and by the time you have enough money to build a cool ship you have to go to new game + and you lose everything.

I can’t believe how I completely forgot starfield existed. What a useless game

I gave up on most Bethesda games quite a while ago. They regurgitate the same game over and over again with a different coat of paint. Assassins Creed does a better job, and that’s not a compliment to AC.

Man you nailed this…

I was so hyped for Starfield for so long. I knew it was going to be buggy and have bad dialog… It’s Bethesda. But man, was it a letdown.

You articulated the way my brain couldn’t. Good video brother.

Brightest Minds they could get “Nazis” lol. It was a bunch of Nazis pretty much.

I find starfield extremely cathartic!

I’ve been screaming from the rooftops for YEARS that Bethesda makes bad boring games and all their IP should be handed out to competent developers who can do them justice.

So to see this game flounder instantly and everyone enjoying the fuck out the oblivion remake makes me feel so justified.

The last good game that came from Bethesda was new Vegas and guess what?

They only published it! Which they still fucked up by rushing it out the door.

I paid for this game respected price it deserved, which means I pirated it. I am actually surprised you were able to complete the story without falling asleep, I have 3k+ hours in Skyrim, something close to 1k in Fallout 4, but Starfield? There is nothing in it, I’ve uninstalled it without finishing main story it was so boring, I though I can finish it at least seeing as side quests were garbage – but I couldn’t, I am glad I’ve played “extended demo” first – before wasting money

1:43:01
The fact they accidentally created Flowey from Undertale is crazy

The future is full of fat people, mostly whom are non white. What did Bethesda mean by this? Was Ozempic outlawed in the great war?

I think starfield will benefit from oh, wait for the door

i only played this game for 22 hours it just felt so clean like hr was int he room when they amde this game but man it just that good to me i went back to playing skyrim and im having WAY more fun im worried about es 6 because they gotta start trying for real with that game or beth is done i think

In the short time I played it (on game pass, mercifully), Starfield felt like a bad TV sitcom that I had to keep clicking on to get it to buffer.

Tears of the Kingdom: “This game cost seventy do—”

Starfield: “Starfield isn’t a game. It’s a fake game.”

My current list of repeated quotes from my favourite critiques on both games so far!

I hated how bland and shallow storied was but this video sucked ass.

I called in sick the day this came out. Don’t think I even put in 20 hours

The funny thing is that Starfield rally is just Skyrim/Oblivion but in space. That’s exactly what it is and if you hate it, you probably hate Skyrim and Oblivion. Bethesda made 1 good game, maybe 2. Daggerfall and Morrowind. That’s it. The fallout everyone loves is Obsidian, and they infamously hate that game because it showed people how awful Todd is at directing a game.

This pngtuber thing is so autistic, how am I supposed to take you seriously when your demon eyes deviantart OC is the one narrating the video at .25 fps

People actually believed that this would also do everything Star Citizen does.

What’s funny about trams is that IIRC after that animation of tram riding off the station there’s still a loading screen. They couldn’t hide it in that animation? Did they even tried?
It might actually be a game made by AI. Because I refuse to believe that for how many employees Bethesda have there’s so many defect designs and just dumb choices made.
Or maybe they have authoritarian work environment in which only Todd can speak his ideas. Bethesda is an enigma to me. How it survived for so long, technically degrading since Morrowind.

Remember that meme comic where boss ask a question and the guy who gives a good advice gets throw out the window? I think that’s how Starfield was made.

I’m currently playing Mass Effect 3 and it’s just crazy how games from 2007-2012 are leagues ahead of this.

1:11:00
Are you being serious right now? That’s so obviously a joke that I don’t even know what to say. Even if it wasn’t, one dude saying that doesn’t stand for the entire company. This is such a baffling flub that it makes me question your legitimacy as a critic. That along with the harping on Bethesday’s use of the term “Nasapunk”, you’re obviously either looking for things to complain about and deliberately misunderstanding to make things look worse than they actually are, or you’re genuinely that lacking in critical thinking skills. Nasapunk obviously refers to the aesthetic of space travel in the 60s, the metallic, jutting design of the probes and rockets. It has nothing to do with calling a government agency “punk”, what are you even on about?

I really don’t like Starfield, and I very much like Cyberpunk, but the constant sychophantic praise for Cyberpunk 2077 gets very, very tiring and it becomes clear you just want to dunk on a game you don’t like and praise one you do rather than actually examine the topic. You’re more focused on supporting a narrative than actual analysis of the game itself.

Mass Effect 2 back in 2010 did a better job at immersing you into a vast galaxy even though it was smaller than Starfield’s…

Sometimes, you dont know if a game is going to be good. But you definitely know when a game is going to be a shit.

16x times more load screens! yuippie!

off everything wrong with the game, the only thing that really killed for me, that made me look at it and ask…”why would i ever want to do that?” was the temple for the “space magic”…not because i don’t like the fantasy of it, on the contrary, i think what this game really lacks is to be more fantasy and less “real” cause as u said in reality space is…well empty (most of it) and 99.9999999% of all planets are nothing but rocks or gas, in fact we have never found another planet that wasn’t one of those 2, lol, aside ofcorse our own, so…the temple…jesus….they REALLY didn’t want to put that in the game, lol and it shows.

The unskippable cutscenes are actually loading screens.

I never bothered with the main Quest, that seemed boring just from what I saw at the beginning. I did the Pirate Questline, and it was mostly okay. But (SPOILER!!!) what is that ending to that Questline?! If I remember correctly, you basically defeated the whole security force, captured their leader, and… Just nothing happens?! No explanation? No consequences? Just nothing. I was so disappointed, I just closed the game and never played again..
And yes, this infamous Tod quote about the Moon tells just everything that is wrong with Starfield.

This game broke me completely of pre ordering things. So, thanks, Bethesda.

“Shadowheart is the best BG3 companion” 🙄my favorite flavor is vanilla ass take.

W😢what is the w the other one on the left and the

A game without clear and strong direction start to finish… well, you FEEL it. It feels hollow and… fake. Bethesda is a huge studio now, and huge studios tend to dilute any direction a game may have had through these massive pipelines of middle managers and hundreds of employees. It’s happening all over the industry, and only recently have games like Expedition 33 started really breaking through the homogeneous AAA schlock to remind everyone that Hey, Games Are High Art, Remember?

Bethesda has a bad habit of really liking other people’s games and just stealing chunks of them and shoving it into their games

Ehh, I think it’s just a mediocre game. 🤷🏾

Starfield is the reason I will never pre-order a game ever again. Not only did it cost over $100 for the version I purchased, but also hundreds of hours of copium. I kept thinking it was going to get better. “it gets better after about 10 hours” “it gets better when you complete the main story.” I wish I never pre-ordered, I wish I never spent that time and money on it. It took me away from a BG3 playthrough, my friends and I were so hyped for it that we all dropped out mid Act 3 to fly around in an empty space box for a couple hundred hours. Sorry Bethesda, you’re done in my book.

Maybe you are wright, still…. I played it a lot and I had a lot of fun. I just like space operas 😁

Like bro. The power system? I love FTL but do you remember a small game called freespace? 1999. And it has this system which like you have to absolutely use.

Ok bro, I disliked Starfield more before I watched up to 1:02:24, you have managed to compare it to a worse game enough that I’m calling BS on you. You will set here and hold up cyberpunk like it wasn’t released as unplayable garbage, then compare it’s current status with its DLC against base game Starfield. Base game Starfield was 10 bucks on pc game pass, cyberpunk cost 70 dollars. Ya both are trash but at least Starfield was cheap

The framework was there, but it was mind numbingly boring and empty

The following sentences are the first review conclusion that gave me goosebumps. Thanks for the great work.

“…. Cyberpunk is a game with a soul and a purpose. Starfield isn’t! It has no purpose, it has no soul. it goes on forever and ever…just because. It’s a game that promises the universe. Promises infinity. And it delivers. It gives you an infinity. An infinity of nothingness. It can’t give you fullfilment. It can’t give you a conclusion.
BECAUSE ITS NOT A REAL GAME. STARFIELD IS A FAKE GAME.”

And thank you Bethesda for being XBOX exclusive. Saved me 80€ and going through the same BS 240times ❤

#PlatinumCollector

1:56:49 is probably one of the best moments of comedic timing involving a running gag that I’ve seen in a long while. Great video.

I had a vague thought while you were talking about The Hunter and then when you asked the question about how could you improve Starfield it crystalized into a kind of idea. We’ve had time loop games before, some really good ones, but this cycle of running on a treadmill, doing the same thing over and over again, the idea of reaching unity at the end of the game because it’s all that’s left to do. I think you could make a pretty good game centered around that, but you’d have to strip out probably 90% of what Starfield is: a Bethesda game.

I think you should still keep the combat, but make it perhaps a more central focus, make a wider variety of builds, but the exploration is played in reverse. Instead of going to already explored locations, you explore the planets, get the settlements started, pick names and themes for them, but then be forced to leave it all behind, idk, make Unity time sensitive or something. So you do this same kind of universal reset, but rather than doing the normal Main Character thing of going everywhere and solving everyone’s problems, you create the problems, determine how the new settlements react to each other. Do you do a total ‘peaceful’ playthrough by quashing dissent, or do you do a chaos playthrough and leave civil war in your wake. Something to spice that up. Or… by the time you get to loop 3, are you even going out of your way to accomplish any of that? Are you just racing to reset the loop?

And when designing the game you do make an effort to make ‘seeds’ that do have significant differences in the loops. Maybe a planet doesn’t exist in this version of the universe and you’re forced to settle on a moon instead, but that’s a very low effort kind of change. But you do seed that though in the player’s mind that *something* is changing through the loops, so their big goal is to find that final thread.

I’m not sure how much effort it would take, but I’d say you create five solidly different loops, and then after loop 6, things start to go strange. Introduce rogue AI versions of the player into the world that can make choices off screen and reveal that there isn’t just some sort of already existing vast enigmatic group of Starborn just like you, but that you have created that group through the Unity. You’re the one with all the super advanced tech, running around and dealing with all these little chaos gremlins that *you* created. You would, of course, need to get the player to care about locations, companions, etc. that the gremlins would be messing with, or maybe not, maybe let the player revel in the destruction they’ve unleashed. And then I’d say around loop 8 or 9 you reintroduce The Hunter as a character, have them talk to the player as an equal, challenge them on their moral flexibility. Do they really care about the people they help or do they just want to see what’s different this time? “Is this… just a game to you?” type shit.

Idk, I haven’t played it, but Undertale or something already did that, but I think it’s a neat idea for a long-form RPG. Really lean into that idea of the looping universes, but don’t be lazy about it, make it somewhat bespoke so that it doesn’t feel like a random bunch of darts on a board. Probably a lot more work than it’s worth, tbh, but it seems cool.

In the bit where you’re talking about npcs just walking around and into eachother, I realised that all the npcs are the same height, and they all walk exactly the same. It’s like a city of different skinned iRobots. Eerie

When the entire game is a radiant quest, Todd you did it again

While I agree with the thesis in it’s entirely, this review has exactly the same as the problems it’s describing the game has. I kept fast forwarding to see if there was any depth or cleverness to this opinion piece, but it is as flat as the game was

1:33:00 The bones of that system are also found in an even older flight sim series set in the Star Wars series called X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, etc. They are quite fun if you would like to see a better take on that energy allocation system in a space flight combat setting.

ES6 is doomed.

I will defend space cowboy by simply saying cowboy bebop

Allright you recommending cyber punk destroyed your credibility

I did like the lockpicking it made you think.

Starfield definitely has a style. If you look at a starfield screenshot, you can tell it is starfield. It has a visual style, but it does not integrate that visual style into the gameplay. The gameplay is anything but Nasa punk. That’s kind of the problem. When you make something that looks pretty crisp and classic, but then there’s no nasa level of sophistication in gameplay, thats what forms the basis for these critique videos.

Is the space suit sections a creative choice, or is the mic just messing up and you ran with it? Cool choice just made me think my speakers were going out.

I wanted to love this game so much 😢

Space Cowboys? You mean like “Firefly”?
Why include melee combat in a future game if they don’t have “lightsabers” (the generic term for COOL FUTURE MELEE WEAPON)?

240 times 💀

Watching this while playing NMS and doing the exact same thing everytime the complaint was brought up 😂 Combat, flight, docking

This is probably the definitive Starfield analysis video.

TBF the earth was destroyed because of THOUSANDS of jumps being done from the moon destabilizing the EM fields and blahblahblah. I do believe the majority of humans survived. Biggest issue was a single scientist who was working on it knew what would happened and chose not to do shit because humanity would get space travel a few years later?????

38:49 I do want to vehemently disagree with this point. Well it is true that there is no life on the Moon, it’s an extremely interesting place to study!! We can answer all kinds of questions now about “Why do we have a moon? What was it like when Earth was born? What is it made out of? What’s on the side of the Moon that we never see from Earth? How hot or cold is it up there? I would be totally down for a game about planetary science where you go around and learn about the geologic history of a planet, and (if it has life) piecing together the story about how life evolved there. I am under no illusions that this is a game that would have a broad appeal, but at least it’s something you know? It would be a game that is all about rewarding curiosity about the universe with answers, and you could use it to showcase all kinds of different planets and satellites and the different ways they might form! You could probably even marry that to the idea of procedurally generated plans if you *really* wanted to. But to me that’s a huge appeal of space exploration, which is learning about our universe and Earth. We only have the one planet, but the universe is our laboratory there are thousands and thousands of planets out there, each of them slightly different from each other. And all of them tell us something about ourselves and how we came to be here.

You really put your finger on an odd feeling I couldn’t quite pin down when I was playing it.

The game isn’t just bad. It’s surreal. I’ve played 6/10 games and quite enjoyed them because they had personality under the flaws. Somehow Starfield’s entire ethos, not just its NPC dialogue or graphics, fall into the uncanny valley. It’s like it was not merely written but fundamentally conceived by an alien intelligence that has observed humans for years but still can’t emphatise with them.

I certainly hope in 2025 that anyone actually belives we went to the moon haha! It was a masonic mission full of lies! We never went and that is the exact reason we never been there since!

The thing about the weight system on items and the overemcumbered system that gets me is that it’s meant to simulate carrying too much stuff like in real life where you can’t lift much more than your limit.
But in real life you can still run and walk while punching above your weight, it starts to really fuck you up if go overboard.
So why not use a movement speed/stamina penalty instead of locking the player of running?, a 5% penalty for every extra 10lbs/kg of carry weight limit sounds reasonable, loot goblins can loot longer for less pain and the reward for inventory management is still there

People still think of Bethesda games as RPGs? I considered Skyrim to be a subgenre of immersive sims that trades mechanical depth for a wide open world. After Skyrim’s immediate and escalating disappointment I haven’t checked out any of the later Bethesda games but from what I’ve gleaned from videos they only doubled down on their particular design philosophy so buying a modern-ish Bethesda game and expecting an RPG or something that could be described as nebulously good is setting yourself up for disappointment before you’ve even installed it.

Then again I don’t understand why people keep falling for hype when every single time a project is hyped up to be amazing it either crashes and burns spectacularly or fizzles out pathetically. The AAA gaming industry openly loathes its customers, but apparently its customers are too dumb to notice and keep falling for the same BS every time so honestly the state of not just Starfield but AAA gaming as a whole is 100% the fault of the players who keep buying and even pre-ordering this trash. We get the games we deserve, and according to a majority of gamers we deserve naught but bottom tier effort slop and lies.

Give it time, it’ll get worse. Soon everyone will be developing AAA games with AI…

It’s a sad day when star citizen, that mess, beats a Bethesda triple a game that was built from the ground up on an open world game engine is hilarious.

You can traverse not one but two solar systems now in sc with zero loading screens, and yes qt isn’t a loading screen, you can stop any time, with 600 players, in multiplayer.

In my personal experience, Ryujin, while vaguely visually based on factions from other games, seemed more like a parody of big tech in general and Microsoft in particular.

Smoke and mirrors in a game like the original DooM are endearing. They only had so much to work with. But when a studio has almost unlimited resources and IP rights, it gets hollow quickly. Great episode on this channel

it’s worth nothing that the power allocation system is also done in Elite: Dangerous, a game dedicated entirely to flying ships and therefore better at it than Starfield in almost every way

As someone who jumped into the game early on I was immensely disappointed with Starfield, the game isn’t the worst out there it’s just made me sure that I HATE procedural generation as a main aspect in games.

When “the Starfield at home” _is_ Starfield

the line “there are 2000 layers of hell and all are procedually generated” has no right to go as hard as it does

Yeah I’m so glad I got game pass for the first month of this hot garbage. I paid $20 so I could know yeah this is not even worth giving a second shot. The fact that just stealth didn’t work was enough for me.

Half of new games are fake Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is just another example. These games are nothing but MTX shops disguised as video games.

A lot of the arguments you used in this video could also apply to Path of Exile 2.

youre just “umm ookayyy” attitude to the concept of nasapunk is very stupid

For all the faults and simplicity of Skyrim, it had 1. Godly soundtrack 2. attention to details and sandbox interactions and real conflicts and spite of the races and factions. Starfield is empty and shallow in EVERY aspect.

That club feels like a copy of the ones in Mass Effect mashed together and with all interesting unique details removed. So weird.

Cyberpunk sucks as well… Why did you even buy this game starfield, it was clearly going to be awful? I can’t trust your opinion.

I understand what you’re getting at with the comparisons to new Vegas, but they didn’t make new Vegas, and I’m sure they don’t know what all is in it.

Starfield is a sad version of elite dangerous. If you want a game that doesnt just pretend to have the complexity, but actually fully has it, then please give elite dangerous a shot.

Your review voice sounds like that guy that does book reviews. Dom or something.

Starfield is one of the most unc games ever concieved

The car DLC note was likely a reference to Elite Dangerous, another game they failed to copy.

Never played the game, never finished watching even a 20 minute review. But everything you repeat over and over in the intro feels true. Don’t see why you feel the need to prove it, it’s self-evident.

The thing is a self-licking ice-cream: nobody asked for it, there’s technology in it that doesn’t need to exist and the whole thing feels slightly gross.

howard being surrounded by YES WOMEN doesn’t help anyone make a good game. The golden goose died after Fallout 3. just looking at some of the blue hair bethesda employees i can see why. Once Microsoft buys an IP, you can fucking kiss it goodbye.

I have over 200 hours in this game and, while people can have varying opinions on the gameplay, I didn’t see anything like any of the bugs shown here. The only time I have seen bugs like that in modern games is when I’ve tried installing on an HDD. Now that I’m installing all new games like this on SSD, no issues.

This game is like watching a bad magician failing simple tricks. it’s all illusions, and bad ones. Just good enough so you don’t thru see them until it’s too late to refund. MVP – Minimum Viable Product.
The main thing I hate about Starfield is the fact I fell for it. I could tell F76 would be garbage from the announcement and I was right. I knew nothing about Starfield, watched Cohh play it and it looked good. I don’t hold it against Cohh, but it reminded me I should take streamer opinion with a grain of salt. I should have known. I don’t remember enjoying a single game from Bethesda. Thank to Starfield, I’ll just avoid everything that is remotely linked to Bugthesda and I don’t expect thing to get better under MS. Bugthesda, ActiveLizard, Ubislop, EA – It’s in the store. All garbage.

OceanGate is what happen when you let someone like Todd lead the project.

As for TES VI… my premonition is that you will play the Sandborn, with djinni powers, going from procedural cave to procedural cave along the nigh endless Alik’ri desert, with an endless timeloop to redo time and time again (I have a vague memory of it being written that the god of time was involved in the story, so…)

Bethesda didn’t “put” melee into Starfield. It was a leftover component of them recycling their 4/76 creation engine. Removing it probably cause more problems than it fixed.

I really liked starfield. And then i figured out how shallow it is, and got bored.
Then, the mods came out… and really reignited my passion for the game. That is the bethesda experience.
The modders will fix it lol

😂 how is 8hrs a “quick” retrospective 😂

First time I saw the power allocation system was actually in 1993. X wing for PC.

If Starfield is a fake game than anything that Bethseda has released since Morrowind are also “fake” games.

Concerning the ship combat. You could say Star Trek Bridge Commander did it first. its very similar to this and that game came out back in 2002.

My biggest gripe was the main story philosophy – exploration. Yet you land on world after world with outposts, already explored, and in the end you have to go to a copy pasted “other reality” to explore the same already explored worlds again. That isn’t exploration, that is hell. Also, the repetition – seeing the same alien beasts on a dozen different worlds? THere should be a backstory to that. Who spread these things everywhere? Why? So many questions… byt yes, I agree with your assessment at large. Fake game. Hm. Yes.

I had a feeling the game would be bad when everyone started getting hyped, but nobody could say what the game was about.

I’m glad I followed my instincts and didn’t buy this game 😂

Todd gave the thumbs up & said put this game out just like it is.There’s plenty of FOOLS who will buy it?Just give them some old BS just like we/l did with Fallout 76.

I only got the game because my friends got me hyped… and I had no clue it was a Bethesda game

Genuinely convinced 80% of this game is AI

just another lame gimmick channel

I should’ve known better but I too fell for those sweet little lies…

I put like 200 hours into Oblivion and Skyrim. When Starfield came out I made it about 4 hours in and couldn’t stand it anymore.

I would prefer alien technology augmentations with explanation to search each tample in new game+ sort of like this:

In every reality alien scientists prioritized different root of technology to develop. And hopping between realities *isn’t* some kind of space magick but peak of technology which is so difficult to understand it *almost* like actual magick from child’s fairy tale. Interdimansional travel allows you to keep your powers – all the alien gadgets and augmentation – because device that allows it can identificate it but can’t identificate unsanctionized “primitive” human weaponry. And more you find upgrades for your “space shouts” it let your chosen faction understand alien technology more and more – to the point it can reverse-engiener interdimensional-travelling device. And when it can finally be understood you encounter actual aliens and they destroy you, your faction and this time you don’t just teleport into different universe – you run for your life. Aliens don’t wanna some “space orks” aka humanity spreasing chaos in the multiverse. And this finale time you make decision to bring humanity together and lead it into new era by prepearing and crushing alien fleet – and later conquer another worlds because NOW with human-made multiverse-travel device you can lead to another universe entire fleet. Or sabotage exploration of alien artifacts because “humanity isn’t ready” or some other bullshit.

ITS ALL THE GODDAM MENU’S

They genuinely never learn stagger effects on weapons is broken in every Bethesda game and trivializes combat but they keep adding them 😂