Yes, I am back to Starfield. God save me.
I hope you enjoy this look over the updates that have released since launch, and a taster for the massive Part 2 coming later this year.

I was more impartial here, and that’s because the updates are a step in the right direction for the most part (but no where near enough to make it worth it).
The vanilla game we’ll cover in Part 2 though, does not deserve me being so… forgiving.

51:48 these faces represent evrything bad with a starfield: its a game that aged 80 years literally in a day of its release

Still insane to me that Starfield only has human characters in it. Even Fallout at this point has more alien and anthro species than Starfield, and that’s a post apocalypse setting. Being a furry I’m obviously biased but like damn

Todd’s philosophy for building systems-based games is totally fine. A lot of really great games are systems games with emergent behaviors and mechanics. Rimworld comes to mind, as does a lot of older BGS games. His problem is that they didn’t do what he was explicitly talking about. Starfield’s systems AREN’T robust. The content generator doesn’t take into account whether or not a planet has a breathable atmosphere when it places food items outside, the crowd generator doesn’t take into account that the crowds of nameless NPCs don’t react at all to anything except the stimulus of taking damage, the loot system doesn’t take into account what NPCs have equipped, etc and so on.

Be honest, everyone bailed on this game because it was more woke than Snkw White 2025. Endless hordes of insufferable diverse girl boses. Hard pass.

54:20 really nice to see people who find it easier try viewing things positively. It’s not like I can’ t be extremely negative about things but I find it more intellectually satisfying to my particular worldview to attempt viewing good sides.
It doesn’t mean giving cruel behaviour a pass when it needs to be confronted however

Todd is an interesting person. In some ways I can’t understand his perspective at all, but I share a love of wandering places in games.
It’s always better to have meaningful activities to do, yet i’ve spent an hour walking along a stream in Fallout 76, simply enjoying the sun, plants and cheerful songs on my radio.
It’s so easy to lock onto someone’s mistakes and tear into them but there are frankly so many of them in the world, it’s just more interesting trying to understand his tastes in gaming and I appreciate the thought he puts into certain aspects of the games.

Hearing Todd talk about deliberating dumbing down areas so no one needs a map because literally a monkey could find their way through blindfolded is frankly disgusting, but it also explains how so much of this has neither rhyme nor reason. It just “is”.

Starfield was great 500hr+ thanks Todd ❤❤

The way todd talks about game dev, makes me feel like he just wants to do a systems based game design a la Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, or Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, in which gameplay comes from the concert of intricate game systems.

But the expectations and technology and tools of which Bethesda has nurtured over the years favors more handcrafted accessible games, like Skyrim and Fallout 4. What an interesting game development studio Bethesda is.

I was very much DE-impressed with Starfield between when it was announced – when it looked like it was going to have a lot of immersive meat on its bones – and when it launched, showing almost all of that had been a facade.

Nothing I’ve seen since has recaptured that original teaser-trailer excitement, and as a result I’ve bought and played none of the game itself. Nor has any of the gameplay I’ve seen to date encouraged me to do so. So, absent a total overhaul including a LOT more content – like, about twenty TIMES as much as the reveals showed – then I’m just going to keep playing and enjoying my modded-to-hell version of Fallout 4.

No matter the flaws of this game, which are numerous, I can’t play it again until at least the first and second act of the main quest is rewritten. The story just sucks; lame and condescending. Also, this would include giving the player actual choices, which as it stands right now, no where near an RPG.

I love your Bethesda videos. These the most realistic and doesn’t spend a crazy amount of time on the bad points. it highlights Starfield’s obvious flaws while still pointing out the good things it does. Also I agree with most all of your takes in this video

I hate the “fuck it we’ll give you a million sliders and you make your own difficulty” type of difficulty setting, because most of the time it shows the developers couldnt be bothered to balance the game themselves and is just 1 degree less lazy than the normal “you do 0.2x damage and the enemy has 5x health” difficulty.

I want difficulties to have intention and care put into them, I also think its completely fair to expect that from a multibillion dollar studio backed by microsoft lile bethesda is…

Also, I dont think its fair to judge this game as “still in development” its not marked or sold as early access and to make it even worse its 70 dollars with a DLC out another one on the way.

CDPR had the decency to NOT release dlcs until the game was fixed and they even had to cancel 2 of the 3 dlcs so they could finish the game, these 2 examples are not even comparable

8:00 Game difficulty is always hard to balance but Iam baffled not many games have a working dynamic difficulty system that reacts not to a players level or stats but to how good hes actually playing the game.
Kinda like a rubberbanding in racing games or loadout preference to the loosing team before the next match.
Or making enemies harder ( better smarter enemies not bullet sponges) or lighter when you die alot in a certain section.
The level scaling in BGS games never really worked that well to adjust the actual challenge the player faces.
However its great that they atleast put in all these sliders for the option to adjust difficulties individually, great feat for a studio that forgot critical stuff like an FOV adjuster at launch again.

I heard theyre gonna update the store. So the game is gonna be awesome now.

I uninstalled Starfield after 30 hours, did another 10 hours with the great Star Wars Genesis mod.
But I must have watched over 50 hours of Sarfield review and critics videos by now 🙂

TES6 and FO5 is screwed. They need a new head writer and their engine is still crap

Aside: Unfortunately, Starfield can’t be fixed. The core mechanics, design and story are bad. What a disappointment (in a consistent series of increasing disappointments). Content is king. This project, as is, shouldn’t have been greenlit. I blame it on Bethesda management. From what’s been reported, specifically two people.

35:00 The idea of surveying feels weird because it feels like you are the first one to be there, see these plants, rocks and animals…. but then there’s an abandoned refinery 1km away and a small scientific base. Everything makes you feel like you are far from being the first one to be on a planet or moon, you are told by characters that you are exploring, that you will make the first step. Good luck getting somewhere that doesn’t have whole ass factories, refinery, outpost or any other variant possible.

Hey wait a minute, that’s just the old-school Mako but with the console command for the flight boosters. Well, it handles better, but it has the same janky GTA tank flying vibe. I like it.

The expanded options menu actually looks pretty nice, and I really don’t have an issue with tuning difficulty or spending time in menus whatsoever. Never cared about the whole notion of “well that’s not the player’s job, it should just be good from the start” because there is no objective standard of difficulty, and pretending otherwise is very silly.

But my actual issue with the game was just that lack of well-distributed content. The cities are packed to bursting with points of interest despite the often samey aesthetics, while everything outside them is barren. No Man’s Sky has added so much content over the years that its maps would take hundreds of hours to completely exhaust of new things to do, but Starfield hasn’t even put in NMS NEXT levels of new things to find and engage with. If I wanted to really get lost in a vast open galaxy I’d… Just go back and start a new file there, probably.

I hated how every choice I made had zero impact.

“Welcome to Starfield where the systems are made up and the choices don’t matter.”

God I love this channel 😂 up there with Ahoy imo. Glazing done

Plz attack

Through all the interviews I’ve gathered that Todd is now too old to correctly interpret what the audience wants. I turn 39 this year and have accepted that most mass media isn’t made with me in mind and I think Todd was so obsessed with making something HE would like he forgot the much younger paying audience he needs to attract might not want the same experiences as him.

I play Bethesda games on very easy. Only difference between the difficulty is the damage output/enemy health ratio. At least I can feel like the terminator or Robocop.

25:00

To be fair tho, CDPR never fixed Cyberpunk. They improved it but as long as it lacks the features from the 2018 demo and all the mechanics they shown in the promo material it will never be was it was supposed to be.

both cyber and starfield had rocky starts…but once cdred made cyber actually playable there was alot to enjoy plus good dlc. starfield even if they optimized it there is nothing there story or game play.

Starfield basically needs better ‘anchor’ planets, the same way malls have anchor stores, places that are basically the Elder Scrolls/Fallout-like experiences, but the game lets you go out and do the space stuff too. Basically, it needs 4-5 planets where the settlements are built out and the explorable area is completely fleshed out at about the 1/4 size of FO4. That’s it, that would be the fix. Outside that, it’s just too disconnected. No one gives a shit about power leveling, or how laughably broken it is, in any of their other games because no one cares, no ones showing up for a beth rpg thinking … man I hope I dont become an op arrow sniper again or become a walking nuke launcher, they are thinking … I wonder what zanny shit I am going to happen upon?

Starfield, worse than any other critique of it, is just boring. The worst part is that it isn’t the concept of it that is the problem, it is almost entirely down to execution. I suspect Bethesda has got away with being ambitious in the past because they had extremely competent and talented people at the lower levels to execute it, but at this point have churned them all out, and expanded to the point of dilution. Todd and the people at the top that have stuck around at the top will still have a good vision for their games, but they will be relegated to poor implementation.

Sorry… I only watched a few minutes in the vid and no its not! Bethesda is just a shadow of its former self and takes your monwy for granted. These people are leeches… thats all they are!
Do not buy games from these companies until they put in some soul/work/love again!!
Fuck Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft and all the other so called AAA producers!

Sodomfield—why can’t the Player complete a companion quest without the exwife of the companion suggesting sodomrelations, when they really should be repairing their marriage for the sake of Cora.
Bethesda as we know it fell after 76 + sold their soul to Microsoft

TES 6 will be such a shit show. I’m already sad over it.

“Updates”

i really liked Starfield at first, but with time its many glaring issues started to annoy me more and more. also it was the worst TECHNICALLY BROKEN game i’ve ever played. not even kidding. I’ve had so many big game breaking bugs and little annoying bugs and everything in between it stopped being funny. i had spent more time trying to fix damn thing than playing it. the longer i played the worse it got, towards the end the game was literally imploding in front of me. it was so bad i wasn’t even able to finish the game and had to watch ending on youtube. bugs RUINED this game for me!

Re; difficulty. I have a hard time understanding why open-world shooters just don’t follow in Borderlands 2s footsteps (which was basically a shinier version of Halo 2). Everyone was happy regarding mobs; higher difficulty meant more elites and maybe more normal enemies. They’re trying to fix a problem that has been solved more than a decade ago so I just fail to see why this is so hard to iterate upon. Everyone ia trying to tweak sliders ad infinitum but sliders don’t make people happy.

The only reason I considere picking it up when there is a 75% sale is because of the Star Wars Genesis mod being made for it…

yeah, I also think that Todd didn’t test planet exploration personally. It’s a terribly stupid mechanic. It doesn’t work at all! No one tested it at all.
I couldn’t explore a single planet. It takes days and weeks. And what do they reward for that? Todd, get up from your chair now and explore your planet. Please. And then sell your game.

The difference between cyberpunk and Starfield is that cyberpunk was a great story with great characters and great writing marred by bugs, but Starfield is a crappy story with crappy characters and crappy writing, the end.

Neat.

The author confused me with his complexity system.
Strangled me. Threw numbers at me.

Love the idea of exploring distant planets and space travel which was the reason I bought this. The problem however is that the game at times feels like it was made for kids because some of the dialog is so ridiculous. It also seems that white men have gone extinct in this universe with 80% of all characters are mostly people of color and asian women who on top aren’t even visually appealing.
This is simply ridiculous and obviously forced by DEI and woke agenda.

0:42 the poor 700+dev team😢😢😢(heavy sarcasm)

All the NPC’s look like they’ve come out the film weapons.

Bro, just stop. Starfield was irrelevant ages ago.

Usually I’d cut devs some slack by getting a feel for their game’s pros/cons, but I really struggled to find the pros that stood out enough for me to like this game.

I liked the idea of ship building for example, but it is a real shame that you hardly spend any time with your ship in the game. On the contrary, I was really disappointed that most of the travelling in the game was done via a sloppy map UI and most of the combat is on the ground.

I can keep going but I think most people can say something similar about pretty much any aspect of this game, whether it be the story, combat, RP elements, base building… etc There is so much ‘nothing’ in this game.

After playing Oblivion and Skyrim, my favorite BGS games, I just can’t help but think that the devs at Bethesda really did not get the opportunity to showoff their real strengths through this game. I am a huge sucker for sci-fi and exploration so I really want BGS to take a serious re-try with Starfield.

40:55
We are Wequired

I had high hopes for this game. So many content creators shilled on pre release.

I still wish I could like this game but sadly I don’t know if I could ever go back.

I think the biggest issue of Starfield is that it is not an improvement of any gameplay systems BGS had, and more of a a few steps back. I dont think it is a bad game, honestly, i just think that it has very bad writing and not enough “spice” put into it. It feels bland and generic, like a game your grandparents would like so to speak. It’s hard to describe whats wrong with it, but game feels like developers were never interested in making it in the first place.

56:19 you’re way out of your depth here.

The only positive thing I can say about starfield is the united colonies questline was amazing, everything else about the game was dull or mediocre.

Can’t wait for the inevitable “Starfield was a hidden gem/over hated/forgotten masterpiece” in 2033.

Good lord, Star Field again, stop reminding me that Bethesda is actually worse than all the haters claim

Todd has no idea what fun is, let alone what makes Daggerfall fun to this day.

“If a player has to look at a map, we’ve failed”
Todd that’s my second favorite thing to do. what the fuck are you talking about?

The writing in this game is just so awful that it makes it unplayable for me. I could look past alot of things but the writing brings it all crashing down.

As for scanning flora and fauna, players do not need to scan. Just harvest organic resources from plants, they get scanned automatically. Hunt down animals and they get scanned automatically. In my view, this mechanic is quite well thought out.

Whenever I see gameplay from this game, I find myself just really wanting to go back and play Prey!

Bethesda made a profit on the game. In the end, that’s all that matters.

Unfortunately for Tod the rod, he saw too much success. So he probably has zero contact with whatever programmers they have. On top of that, success makes you soft.

You give way too much good faith to these slop bgs devs. They’re spitting on the giants that made the games before them.

You will be played the fool if you buy their next fallout or elder scrolls game because it’s going to be lacking in depth and mechanics like this game is then they’ll blame you for their lack of creativity and follow through

Those clown-show facial animations are straight out of a nightmare.

Scanning and surveying are all boring in No Man’s Sky, SF and Elite Dangerous, I have yet to see a AAA game’s answer to make them interesting…other than Scavenger SV-4’s rover mechanic, you control it from your ship at the orbit, you can only grab a numbers of samples each time, then you need to send the samples to your science station on the ship to research because you have no clue what they are, you can use some of the sample to upgrade the rover, you can sell them for profit, and some of the samples are…very interesting, and some of them you want to throw out of the airlock, and it is a horror game.

Aight time to replay Cyberpunk

Love the intro very self aware and poignant. Thank you for vindicating those of us with taste by pulverizing the rotten carcass of this game.

That fucking cryolab. I got lost in it, then across the universe I found another with the exact same layout, enemies and loot zones. Near enough quit there and then.

A hard game where every inch gained is always gonna be remembered well. The difficulty in starfield is just boring same as most of their games , what they did well for me was exploration and seeing new places , but compared to skyrim starfield just feels like a VERY big puddle that goes 2 inches deep

Why place so much effort and time into analyzing THIS game? It sucks. Move on. This is lame

I think since Morrowind, people have put up with Bethesda’s foibles because, with every game the whole was always greater than the sum of its parts & how mod-friendly they all were. One look at Nexus tells you just how insanely popular modding Bethesda games has been. However, since Zenimax bought them out their decline has become increasingly obvious to anyone paying attention. Each iteration seemingly offering less than its predecessor, to the point that ‘Midfield’ has become a testament to just how far they’ve fallen – stuck in the past, overly reliant on the loyalty of a fanbase whose goodwill has long since been squandered by Bethesda’s ludicrous greed & litany of broken promises. Who on Earth thought that making a Bethesda game that was not particularly mod-friendly was even remotely a good idea? While their competitors have evolved, Bethesda have not. Their games are decidedly underwhelming, stale, seriously lacking in innovation & to exacerbate all this, a vast bulk of the modding community appears to have finally waved a white flag & abandoned them too. As a result, I don’t hold out much hope for ES VI. I still hope I’m wrong & they somehow manage to surprise everyone, knocking it out the park but sadly, I just don’t believe they have the talent necessary to accomplish it anymore.

HELL YEAH, I LOVE ME SOME STARFIELD CRITICISM VIDEOS. IT’S BEEN TOO LONG

The skill system in Starfield is the worst it’s ever been and it’s not even seperated in trees that make sense. Why are outpost skills in multiple trees? if you want to properly engage with them you need so many skills you basically criplle your combat or spacefaring abilities and that all for a mechanic that interacts with nothing else. Why bother with outposts to create resources when you can just buy them in stores with all the money you’ll never use for anything.

Also all the survival mechanics have clearly been implemented and then severly neutered. As you mentioned the food is one aspect, the afflictions another which is just annoying as the medicine to heal it is abundant and found everywhere and doesn’t really affect how you play cause you can just heal through it.

They should definitely add a manual landing option. Change the static loading screen to the atmospheric reentry from Star Wars Outlaws and let the player start from high in the air. How hard can it be?

I still haven’t played Starfield and I never will

I am listening to this while playing Powerwash SImulator and the comparison is vile! Come on, man! PW Simulator is what it says on the label and excels at it! Starfield is a case study of what not to do when designing open world space games!

I did enjoy some of the questlines, but the gameplay was jarring in the end.

However, I’ll wait for a year or two more, and if these fixes trickle in, I will go back and play the game. Same as I’ve been with No Man’s Sky.

Also I want to play the game unmodded (For some strange reason)… 😀

It would have been so simple.
Every areas of the main quest + major side-quests : hand-crafted.
All the rest procgen.
There, best of both worlds.
Add in Daggerfall-size procgen dungeons, and it would have been perfect, for me at least.

Ok, perfect is way too strong of a word, since the issue of the gameplay and UI and writing and and and, but with what we have, this would have put in out of the low-mediocre range.

It is funny hearing Todd talk about the idea of being the only person to land on and survey a world, yet in Starfield that is almost never true. Load new chunks of a world, and every time the computer may just decide to put a mine there, or an outpost, or a pirate den, or a crashed ship, or even just spawn in a pirate ship landing for you to fight.

Part 1 and part 1.5 were not needed, part 2 is not needed. I did not watch part 1.5 and did not watch part 1. I did not need to do so. Everything here has already been said 200 times over the past two years. There is some engagement for your algorithm farming, I hope the extra few cents helps!

I waited almost a year, so I never tried the game as released. It’s a Bugthesda, after all.

Honestly it’s not a terrible game, if it was released in isolation rather than pretending it was Skyrim, it would be a yawn and move on, but the hype set the bar so high that it turned mediocrity into hatred. And rightly so, I think.

I do miss just exploring. Wandering to see what I find was the best part of Skyrim and Fallout.

It’s actually been longer than when cd fixed cyberpunk lol. It released in dec 2020 and it was actually pretty much fixed in like Jan or feb of 2022, that’s just over a year, and then of course they did even more with 2.0 later, and Starfield is 2 years old already in 2 weeks.

Funny enough that Todd said the Fuel stops the game/fun aspect. I play with the Real Fuel mod and it makes it so much more fun for me.

I don’t even want to watch another whining about the game, which for some reason I came across in the recommendations. I predict another whining about mining minerals, scanning and DOWNLOADS (most of which can be allowed using the world map and most of which can hardly be called loading at all). I’ve been playing the game since the release and due to its freedom and modularity, I just haven’t been doing what I don’t like for a long time. I don’t have a cutter in my inventory, I buy resources, I don’t get in the way of loading, for most of them I manage to take only one sip of coffee, I don’t do meticulous scanning of planets. Do I see the resource I need? – I set up an outpost and mine it, I don’t see the point in exploring the planet 100%. For me, planetary exploration ends up admiring beautiful landscapes and outposts wherever I like. I go through quests, the plot, pump up the character, put mods for weapons, test them in the field, enjoy the atmosphere) this is what most of those who really play do)

things i hope they add/change that they probably wont from someone who still hasn’t bought starfield but has played other BGS games:

1. motorcycle/atv vehicles. just more vehicle variety. let us store loot in vehicles too.

2. physics to static objects. while chairs or other objects that npcs interact with might be a problem to add physics to, they can still add physics to things like trees, posts, rails etc. also make them “breakable”

3. bring the 3d interior maps to every interior. crazy that its a thing but to only a few interior spaces.

4. fix the first expansion, at least improve the story/dialogue/choices. i heard a companion in starfield had ties to the expansion like nick valentine did in fallout 4s far harbor dlc and they fumbled it in starfield, so yeah fix that as well

5. let me fly my ship in a planet and let me go into space seamlessly

6. bring back the fuel system but as an optional thing you can toggle, and not just for your ship but for land vehicles as well

7. Let NPCs/Enemies ride vehicles too

8. Add a BUNCH of new, fun random encounters and more unique procedurally generated locations to planets, overall just more variety so that going from one location to another is less boring. this could also tie in with 7, let enemies with vehicles encounter the player too

im fully aware that non of this would happen but i like sharing my ideas, who knows maybe Bethesda will do some of these and modders will add some too lol

The only reason I can see people still hating on Starfield with the exact same remarks that have been made continuously for 2 yrs is because they are just salty that Starfield exists, and these haters are just tryna feel better about it by hating….. It’s a classic move, hate on something you are jealous about, hey if that’s how y’all cope, go ahead 😂, anyways keep the hate going , that’s what is really marketing the game to the world and more people play it

I have finally played through this game and honestly I found it incredibly frustrating that I could not find a single planet in the entire universe that was actually solitary. Why is there some kind of human building on every solid surface in the universe? I understand we are enterprising and have a reason to look for all the planets in this game story, but the universe is a big place and with in infinite possibilities I should run into at least one planet or moon where there’s nothing but me. Why did every single planet in this game feel like a trip to my local corner store where I had to look out for unexpected social interactions?

It hurts to say… since i love Morrowind…but Todd has to go!

no loading sceens, seamless launching into space, better stories and character reactions, more loot and spacehips and vehicles, handcrafted key planets with a lot going on. actually not too much. on the plus side we got great graphics, physics and the very cool faction quests

Well you didn’t talk about any changes to the trash that is the “story” I’m loath to even use that word with this “game” so none of the improvements even matter.

About combat difficulty, i remember Todd saying that they had to turn down combat ai because it was to difficult? What combat ai was he talking about? I mean there is no enemy flanking the player. They only take cover at where they spawned in more or less. And a lot of the times enemies get stuck because proper pathing is an issue. Well i ques there combat ai model just sucks.

32:15 ooohh sweet, you can collect hood ornaments! Bethesda really nailed the customization, didn’t they?

The game lacks quite a bit, but something it lacks that I don’t hear people talking about often is the hook in the beginning that really tells you what the setting is about.

Think of the first time you saw a Mass Relay. Or the Tantive 4 running from that Star Destroyer. Or that triumphant trumpet heralding the Starship Enterprise. What does Starfield have? A slow, boring descent into a mine, an esoteric cutscene that tells you nothing.

YES! I love watching videos like this. Starfield was SUCH a disappointment.

Gotta farm those Starfield views. The game is trash and here we are 2 years later still talking about it.

My biggest gripe with Starfield has always been how thin they stretch skill points between things that really should be gated by credits or other systems instead. You want good gear? Skill points. You want basic combat functionality? Skill points. You want social mechanics? Skill points. Housing? Skill points. Better ships? Skill points. You want to use gear mods? Skill points. You want to carry more? Skill points. You want to be able to move around the map properly? Skill points.

Finally a review of this trash on YouTube.

Hey! I think you might have forgotten to add an end screen. 😉

I think Starfield is pretty good. I play it 2-3 times a week. And have 100s of hours of gameplay time. I play every aspect of it though. I might do some large deliveries. I might scan some planets for l.i.s.t. i might work on an outpost. I might play a side quest. The list goes on. I think i like this game because i didnt have any expectations and wasnt hoping for any certain features.

Todd isn’t even technically wrong when he said that running out of fuel is just a fun killer, but he’s missing the reason why. The game lacked the underlying systems to support a real fuel system and the consequences of running out. If the planet exploring aspect was fun then running out of fuel and being stuck would be a fun role playing experience. But it’s not fun because there’s nothing to do on planets and they’re all barren. Fixing this would require fixing multiple underlying systems because the whole foundation is rotten.

Imagine you screw up and run out of fuel and have to land on a nearby planet to find or make more. This could involve setting up an outpost, building the necessary structures to manufacture the fuel, gathering the resources to refine into fuel, fending off wild life or pirates. Maybe there’s a small chance of nearby ships hearing your distress beacon and lending you some fuel. But of course none of Starfield’s systems work together in this way. Every system works in isolation of every other system so the friction of each one was sanded down until it was meaningless. It’s why outposts are pointless, it’s why shipbuilding is pointless despite being well done, it’s why hazards like hot, cold, and toxins are just flavor instead of actually doing anything meaningful. On and on the whole game is like this.

The thing is, the buggy is also terrible on generated planets — most planets have ditches and rocks and ledges and flora that constantly get in the way of the vehicle and the vehicle controls are so clumsy it becomes a pain to try to wrestle it around every obstacle without it flipping over or tipping sideways or getting stuck

The starfield steam forums are really interesting.

Bethesda made a framework that the modders have made much better. It’s a shame Bethesda does not take responsibility and improve things. The best balancing mod is Darkstar and I’ve enjoyed it way more than vanilla.

Holy shit! Your video is nothing but appeasing review bom💣ers, and complaining that the game is either too hard or too easy. 😂🤣 wtf. If you wanted to make the game play, which most people found too hard in the beginning because it was so complex, other than those who beelined it to the credits like a horse with blinders, then all you had to do was beeline it to ng+10 which takes 10 hours an makes the game level much harder.
Oh wait I remembered, sony ponies can’t experience ng+ 😂 so they wont be able to tell you their experience.

Bethesda is to games what AI slop is to art.

Todd is the epitome of an idea guy. A lot of really great ideas, but practically no ability to implement them.

Cyberpunk was a diamond buried in a turd, Starfield is just a turd dressed up like a diamond. A diamond can be polished but a turd can’t.

Starfield 10/10 game. If you hate it, you have a serious problem.

Your video starts off with you mentioning the steam review replies by the company stating facts against review bom💣ers, ie gaming terrorists, which primarily are three types:

1. 100 million jilted sony ponies ie the jealous evil step mother
2 & 3 her two ugly daughters – fascist racists & arrogant ignoramuses

Starfield is literally the Cinderella game. Her haters have brainwashed gamers into stockholm syndrome so that they at first appease soft faced teary eyed gaming terrorists, then end up with prisoner of war syndrome when the gaming terrorists didn’t get their way. A syndrome that leads to hate against something that is loved.

So let me add to that developer’s reply to the game play fearures found in Starfield :

Mining, dungeoning, persuasion conversation, object persistence, looting, literature reading books & slates and records, outfits, lockpicking, thieving, fps, outposts, building outposts, space suit, space suit modifaction, weapon modication, gravity mechanics, boost packs, boost pack modication, variant terrain, biomes, fauna, flora, item harvesting, item crafting, fauna farming, flora farm outposts, caves, weather hazards, horizons, variant atmospheric conditions, sky planetary motions, planet mining maps, space ship building, ship fighting, ship boarding, ship decorating, ship cargoing, ship passenger, ship crew for stat effects, ship weapon module placement, object drop persistence in ships, space station docking, zero g gravity mechanics, space activity, ship to ship trading, space ship piracy, ship to ship communication for tips, space ship random events, space ship power management, capital ships, jumping between star systems, variant factions, variant faction story missions, companion npcs, relationships, divorcing mechanics, companion affinity, faction affinity, imprisonment mechanics, grenade play, object hazards, tank canister explosion types, object physics, ragdolling, outpost takeover, item stat boosting, magazine collection stat boosting and iten unlocks, a newgame + that carries on the story mechanics and skills, skill point management, background roleplay, trait role play, character selection, character customisation, cooking, robots, passive mechanics for control over npcs, fauna hunting, planet scanning, fauna and flora logging, rescue hostage missions, bounty missions, … I’m sure there’s a few more. And lot more with modded stuff, like Screen Archer Menu by Maxie for photomode.

I count 102 individual unique game play features, each that could on their own be a single game.

Either way, you need therapy. Or Robocop to land in your cyberpunk and get rid of all the punks.

Look… I hate to say it…. but having beaten the game…. Starfield isnt worth a minute of your time… or mine for that matter

STANSfielders huffing that copium saying it’s a good game now… 🤡

14:00 agreed. Limited inventory is something I enjoy in games, it makes roleplaying more immersive and promotes inventory management

Again this argument of Starfield having procedural generation. Starfield doesn’t have procedural generation. It has noise maps with assets evenly separated (you can look at the stupid thing from above and see how lazy it is).

No Man’s Sky has procedural generation. Starfield doesn’t.

God it looks so damn bad when you’re driving in Atlantis lol.

Put it down after about 50 hours. I enjoyed their previous games and I love sci-fi, so I fully expected to fall in love with this game and be engrossed. Instead I wasn’t really engaged, didn’t care about the characters or story, and found myself waiting for the “hook” that never came. After about 50 hours, I just accepted that Starfield just wasn’t it, and threw in the towel. May try again someday. I don’t know.

When they said space was fake and ghey; I didn’t know this was what they meant

Starfield aka the Star Wars mode platform

At first I thought; “Why is Elon Musk on the Thumbnail?”

You can’t unsee it now.

You can update and put many dlc’s in as you want and they may fix some issues but the main issue is Bethesda being arrogant and incompetent.
Even talking the Critique away and patronize people that don’t like it.
Bethesda’s has not produced a good game since over a decade. You can only rely so long your previous work.
There is no reason to play star field instead of other RPGs or even Bethesda’s old one.
I have seen this coming since a decade and m believe it’s too late for Bethesda.
They won’t produce any relevant game anymore and surely lose their Legendary Rank in game studios as they already have.

the best update was the customized difficulty settings. awesome feature. everything else 👎

Starfield is so so so bad but I have 1000 hours in pure vanilla. Such a horrible game.

You didn’t mention the ability to customize ship interiors, which was a huge quality of life update. You didn’t mention a lot of stuff like that.

An issue I have with modern bethesda skill systems (starting with skyrim and only progressively worse with each iteration after) is that the perks aren’t an addition to your game to make it more fun, it’s something that makes the game less shit to play.
The starts of these games tend to be so dull, it’s no wonder why players use exploits to skip to higher levels so that they can actually enjoy themselves. Like, why do I need to get to like level 17 and put two ranks into local leader on top of having 6 charisma just to be able to place down a weapons bench? It honestly feels like they put in all these mechanics and just cut them from the player’s arsenal arbitrarily. Rewind to Oblivion, the perks were just that. Perks. With the exception of magic, they’re all new gameplay enhancing things like disarming opponents, a buggy dodgeroll, and what have you. This is on top of the skills improving the functionality of things increasing attack or potency. Now days, it’s like “do you want to build a base? you’re going to arbitrarily need to reach x level and put y perk points and z skill level” and some of it is literally cut features like in skyrim you can’t learn any more than 1 attribute from an ingredient unless you get to level 70+ alchemy and put 8 levels into crawling up the perk tree, making it require either you just use a guide or getting to that point and once you’ve eaten everything you just open up the ol’ black book and refund yourself and put your points into something *actually* useful.

26:22 JFC That explains why every dungeon in Skyrim is just a line from A to B. It’s good design for early game, but when EVERY dungeon is like that, it showcases how the just how stupid the devs think the playerbase is

Strongly disagree. Thanks for the video though

Starfield like most AAA games are fake video games

I’d still be Bethesda’s bitch if they fixed the repetition. That’s all I really care about. Fix the damn exploration. I can live with loading screens and fake space.

Alright I’ll see you in another 12 months for part 2 hopefully. 👁️👄👁️

I hate to do this, but at the 10 minute mark, on 2x speed, I realized I just don’t care. At all. I don’t even know why I clicked. This is a bad game. I forgot it even existed.

Todd talking about the need for fuel being a “fun killer” is such a depressing insight into modern BGS.

Fuel wasn’t going to be a fun killer. It’s a game about space exploration, so adding some depth to that system is the fun of the game, not a fun killer.

i forgot that that interview with todd was on lex fridman’s podcast. two powerhouses of spewing total bullshit in the same room 💪 love to see it

43:07 so a quick tangent about this: I have some friends who worked QA at Bethesda and were put on Starfield during the months leading up to its release. The consensus was “everything is awful and this game isn’t ready.” The biggest issue seemed to be that Bethesda’s company culture is biased against QA as a whole, with developers frequently ignoring feedback and pushing out features, just to end up shocked when the player base would prove them right and tear it apart.

Tl;dr: they hated scanning too

Just let it die already…

Starfield is just Todd Howards infinite field of rakes. Step anywhere you like, still gonna get hit in the face.

God save you Jwlar for the Devil (Todd) will not.

It’s crazy to consider that the failure of Starfield might be the reason why Xbox quit the console war

Why make this video before Gamescom next week? This might age really badly. I feel like you havent kept up to date with whats been mined in the recent updates, with planet to planet travel looking very likely to come

I forgor about this game and YT just keeps reminding me it exists and that I bought an XBSX to play it and wanted to just dump the console afterward.

I really dont want elder scrolls to turn into arcanum tech wise. I like fantasy, low tech fantasy. We have enough high tech rpgs lately.

👌

So, do you want to spend ten minutes traveling from one planet to another, or not? You should decide what you want before offering a critique. They could place all the planets within five feet of one another, like in No Man’s Sky, I guess, but is that necessary? Why is it such a problem to simply choose a planet and load it? It’s not more immersive to fly from one planet to another in less than a minute.

Also, no, a flat, top-down map would absolutely not help you in the cryo lab. It’s a multi-floored building. Interior maps would be pretty useless in this game, just as useless as in Fallout 4, in finding your way around. And if you want a 3D interior map that you can float around and zoom in on in order to find your way around… just find your way out of the building. It’ll take just as much time.

38:00 And you shouldn’t, because that’s the point of Bethesda games. To have activities for all kinds of players. I never ever cared about surveying, or building, I got my exp and cash from looting, but I appreciate their existence, and I appreciate not being forced to engage with any of that.

Making mods for the game is more fun than playing it

Starfield deserved better.

Ah yes, long enough to fuel my workout. Thank you, good sir.

Why dedicate your life to writing on this game. It’s not worth your breath

Hot dang do i love beating dead horses! Lets do this!

Bethesda leaning too hard on modders to fix their games, so Bethesda has been conaistently complacent in their work quality.

Todd loves automated systems because it’s lazy.

Y’all ever watched Big Bang Theory? Y’all know how they hollywood up all those science things in big long speech’s, talks and random frantic run around to do them???

Attach stats, levels, and guns to that nerd shit in spaAaAaaAce….should have been Starfield. I don’t know I’m gonna go play Chrono Trigger again.

No matter what they do, the game will always be BS as long as the twat waffle DEI remains on it, and it’s taken to the root…

the average gamer has spent more time listening to starfield video essays than playing starfieldd

17:10 it seems that Todd played No man’s Sky for 20 minutes and realized, yep, this is bad. Let’s not do that, guys. And I completely agree, having to play Minecraft but in space is not fun at all.

He has returned!

That face in the thumbnail freaked me out. 😂

Bethesda fixing a game???
HAHAHA, IMAGINE!
Even the 20yr old oblivion remaster was unplayable for me at launch!

But hey, maybe I’m being unfair?
They’ve only had like 20 years to fix it. Clearly they needed 30

The time between videos was pretty accurate to the time it took me to play through this. After 1 hour I lost interest for a week. Had to force myself to keep going because mama didn’t raise a quitter. Sooooooo boring

yay! I watched part 1 just a couple days ago, and it was bad. Let’s see if this is better

Morrowind & Oblivion are two of my GOAT, and I also really enjoyed Fallout 3. Starfield and basically all their modern output is pure trash. I’m so glad I stopped buying Bethesda stuff after Fallout 4.

Thanks for youre works

I would watch the part whete you tweak Starfield through modbto be the experience it could be or should be 😂 as closevas possible

The cyberpunk dig at the beginning was uncalled for, I need a full critique of it so it gets it flowers now 😡😡😡 (love the vid keep up the good work <3)

Lets gooooo. I realy like your videos. Light comedy, soothing voice and no annoying Edits

Starfield is truly a sad forgotten game, it might’ve been Todd’s dream game, but in reality this is Emil’s game through and through.

How will they recover from a 15+ year drought of TES games when your most recent game was so bland that even modders started to pass. TES 6 has gotta be amazing or I don’t see Microsoft keepin them around.

I’ll wait for the Lord of the Rings mod

7 months for a monetisation patch

You mean from Garfield to Starfield ?… 😏

30:00 “the addition of ground vehicles is impressive!”
Is it? It’s 2025, not 2005. Adding ground vehicles shouldn’t be any more impressive than adding in anything else.
“Driving a vehicle seems like it’s not designed for it. Like you glitched into an area you aren’t meant to get into. Nothing knows how to react and nothing has physics. But I love it.”
Shill detected.

Starfield reminded me that people make games, not studios. Bethesda has had a couple of klunkers over the years, but now they’re in a spiral down, clearly because the talent has moved on and now they’re left with the Accounting and HR departments designing their games.

Thank you for adding subtitles

Great, now I have to watch Part 1 video again first, so I remember what this game actually is like
I’ll be back in 2 hours or so.
I hope this does not wreck your average watch time on this video

I reinstalled this game when the DLC came out and I uninstalled it before I even got to it. I was tired of all the loading screens, uninspired RPG mechanics and much more that’s already been talked about. I have about 100 hours in the game with multiple new game pluses, and all I remember is just being disappointed and bored.

Honestly the biggest disappointment I had with Starfield was the procedurally generated planets, literally none of it was worth exploring. The contrast between the real handcrafted quests and the randomly generated bs was so vast it felt like a different game.

The DLC planet showed especially just how much better an experience the game is when 90% of the map isn’t randomly generated and each dungeon (ideally) has its own story and reason for existing other than filling your inventory with garbage.

Would love to see:
1. Codex / Bestiary of our *discovered* flora & fauna (with images). 👀
2. New full companions & romance options! (with evil/ neutral morality & loyalty missions).
3. Optional cinematic finishers, stealth kill animations, & optional gore / dismemberment. 🤘
4. Interesting / wild space POI’s outside of orbit in DEEP SPACE between the stars! (giant asteroids we can land on, space temples, twisting wormholes we can fly through, black holes, space horrors!).
5. Expansion where we encounter less advanced (non-technological) societies that were seeded by the Creators. Where WE are the advanced aliens landing on their planet.
6. Settlement / LIST overhaul. Temple puzzle overhaul. & new (more interesting) powers.
7. Ability to swim underwater, submersibles, & a secret underwater city / faction in an expansion. 👀🐠
8. Option to purchase (instead of craft) the outpost buildings / city furnishings. Why do I have to build my bed in my penthouse apartment 😅
9. Starship Troopers crossover BGS creation (like the Doom one).
10. Expansion of the Creators lore – don’t make them future humans, or AI. Let’s get creative, original & weird.
11. First Contact DLC! – even if it’s lovecraftian entities instead of humanoid aliens.

oh, they stole even more stuff from Mass Effect 1. Now a ground vehicle too

You should put up a content warning every time you present an interview clip of Todd Howard, because I feel like I’m losing brain cells when I hear him talk.

So starting to watch this video made me think of Daggerfall Unity and OpenMW.

Is there a way on either of those to easily get every mod your need in one sitting, or are we still stuck with manually downloading and installing 100+ mods in the correct order?

I still feel like Starfield has potential. I actually find the game decent, I liked the game. But I didn’t love it. My biggest gripe with the game is its level design.

I feel like if the game wasn’t so big, the game wouldn’t be so half-assed with its level design. If the game just had *one* solar system with 8+ planets in it. We wouldn’t have bland, wasteland-looking planets. That’s my opinion anyway.

I bought a Backbone and gamepass just to play this game….lasted 2 hours and I never touched the service or Backbone again lmao

I really do love listening to people hating on shartflop

I forgot this game existed, honestly.
I wish I could go back to 3 minutes ago

IT’S HAPPENIIIIIING

inject every hour-long slopfield video directly into my brainstem

my critique: never played it

when you said you gave starfield nearly as much time as cdprojekt red gave to fix cyberpunk, it couldn’t have been more on time, as i was playing cyberpunk last week and just had about 50 npcs run away to the same spot in front of my house (I had started a shootout) and just stand there while i shot them

Oh Starfield

FIRST!