Scope killed the game, they would have been better off narrowing down so instead of an ocean as deep as a pudle we got a pool as deep as the ocean. A good fix for this would have been containing the game to our solar system. Its still a very large setting, allows for the hard sci-fi elemants, and been small enough to focus on depth

I’m on my 3rd retrospective/long-form analysis of this game (I haven’t played it yet and most likely never will). The thing the keeps sticking out to me is that this game is quite literally Skyrim… in space… but worse.

How this game got an M rating is beyond me. I’m currently on my first playthrough of Cyberpunk and that game earned its M rating. It feels like its actually made for adults. SF reminds me of an old movie that’s been censored for network TV with all of the swearing, nudity and adult themes removed. The game is just so bland and boring.

As for the writing, there is no tension whatsoever. Everyone gets along and no one gets mad at anyone else. It reminds me of the writing in DAV, like its made for kids and to be as unoffensive as possible. As a writer myself, I find Emil’s view on writing, the “keep it simple stupid” mantra, just plain dumb and lazy. There is nothing wrong with writing what one knows as long as you recognize that the more you know the better. Telling people to keep their storytelling simple as possible is ridiculous, especially when you are worldbuilding. This view is also notorious for creating plot holes in story lines. As with everything else, with writing the more effort you put into it the better it will be.

2:39:00 I don’t believe is just engine limitation. Not in a strict way. As far as I know Gamebryo would handle some high quality LOD geometry in a distance, in the background, to create illusion of sprawling metropolis. You know, how Mass Effect did it 15 years ago with Citadel.
I believe Bethesda was too afraid to deviate from it’s mantra “if you see it you could go there” to go this route.

2:39:38 This shows how Bethesda is unable to write ouside of its experience (something Emil dosen’t approve anyway). Who other than US citizen would refer to Washington only as “DC”. And who other would put it alongside Paris and Shanghai. Don’t get me wrong USA has some epic cities. If I would remember anything from my Earth history lessons it would be LA, SF or NYC.

Their issue was not taking even longer and building a brand new engine that had the same Bethesda feel but allowed for much more. Instead they close to be lazy with their potentially best IP to date. An original IP at that. Yet they failed monumentally due to refusing to let emil go so they can bring back a design document for the game as well as creating a new engine capable of what they needed from it. They could even rip code from the creation engine and slightly modify it to allow the new engine to be more familiar. But no. They didnt bother, they just modified an existing engine that was never capable of the scope of their ideas

*Starfield made T W O B I L L I O N*

Stop doing this please you will destroy the gaming world if we attack them over and over Starfield is 4 games inside 1 game but it’s also a giant space sandbox we need to have some patience and understanding of the process and system before complaining and as far as I have seen none of these content creators understand

I’m glad the game gave you a chance to free roam, right about an hour into the game if you make it through the first mission fast. I refunded the game with little issue. It was terrible.

ngl this was a good video until you ended it by gassing up EFAP and their band of buffoons 💀

2:47:50 This is the most succinct criticism of Starfield’s writing. HR writing is the bane of modern games.

dude putting RDR2 and Bugthesda in the same sentence is pure blasphemy 😀

I appreciate the comparisons to Elite: Dangerous. Half the subreddit was saying “as soon as starfield comes out I’m quitting this game” or “starfield is going to be what Elite was supposed to be,” and I caught all sorts of flak for pointing out that it was going to be the usual bethesda game. I stopped using reddit a long while back, but being vindicated feels great. A bethesda game was _never_ going to hold up to a game with an engine designed from the ground up to be the best space game it could be. You know, the series that started with fitting 8 galaxies with 256 planets each into 32kb of memory.

I try to play S(arfie)d every once in a while, and every time I’m in space I think “I’d rather be playing Elite right now,” and every time I’m on foot I think “I’d rather be doing literally anything else right now.” You can pick pretty much any game in the world, and somebody will say it’s their favorite. For whom is starfield a favorite?

what a bunch of whiny haters, either in the comments or in the video 🙂

4 and a half hours to say it sucks 😂

Dude it’s crazy how much that combat music improved it, I was actually shocked

42:56 way better

I mean the biggest thing is that you don’t [space-]travel anywhere, you’re just teleporting between rooms. Very unsatisfying

Beautiful game but could have been so much more and unfortunately once again proof that DEI/wokness destroys everything….

Was it a mistake? No. Was it a missed opportunity? Absolutely. Bethesda was lazy with this game. Just recycling the same topics from other games (Dragon Born, Fo4’s settlement system) all hidden behind procedurally generated low-effort slop. No aliens, no dead civilizations to learn about. Just space-Starbucks. The only thing they got mostly right was ship building. That I enjoyed.

300+ mods later and it is playable. Adding the Ricochet and Idiot Savant perks really made it feel like home. Zing and derp never gets old.

¿4 horas y media para explicar por qué no te gusta un juego? ¿Y hay quien se traga todo eso? Felicidades. Tendrías que hacer una tesis y sacarte un doctorado en marketing o en empresariales. Obviamente, yo no lo voy a ver, pero valoro el esfuerzo.

Super hateful! I love this game! It allows us to see what can be and what could be. I believe, you believe everything is dull simply because you are dull. You sound like an over compensated blow hard with too much time on their hands. Get a job, or rather get a life!

Four and a half hours?

I would have had more fun if I could be a faction leader.

Emil has failed upwards his entire career. He’s terrible.

I’m just happy that there are actual multiple dialog options.

I honestly think this game with the procedural created maps was just a test run on how much they can get away with for the upcoming TES6.

And when NV fans point out the heap of trash this company became all we get is hate, it’s insane that people still defend bethesda after all they did.

The theme of indifference that you speak about comes from the writing itself. The story and characters feel indifferent because the writing was indifferent. The writer neither understand story-craft nor cares to learn of it, mistaking prior sales success as talent.

I was less disappointed with metal gear survive than Starfield tbh

Almost 5 hours to talk about something that isn’t good and you don’t like… I don’t get it.

It wasnt a mistake, it gave us countless hours of content criticizing it

Bad AI isn’t capable* the AI used for FEAR was rather capable, and almost 2 decades old when this came out…

Unless your town is Salem then no that is not town music, that is music from one of the connecting scenes of a horror movie…

I’ve spent more time watching documentaries on why starfield is bad than playing starfield now,
each time i revisit Skyrim I play it for longer than i have ever played starfield,
starfield was a game that feels like it was designed by committee, forced onto the wrong engine for a game like this
the two things that kill me MOST about starfield is the UI and the constant loading screens,
one beauty of playing Skyrim so many years later is loading screens are incredibly short now compared to release, but there’s a lot less of them generally as you play

I came back here in 1 Year…. Videos shitting (by right) on loadfield are such an entertainment… Game still shitty though

You’re new to my feed, this video took a lot of work and you did a great job. New sub.

I personally loved starfield. The main story wasn’t great but being able to do what you want felt great. But the performance and bugs years later plus lack of updates kinda left a sour taste in my mouth. I personally found it way better than No Man’s Sky though and the ship building is amazing.

Bethesda and Todd make it seem like the tech for this was so revoltuionary and not there before when it has been there for at least a decade, just they did not have it with their engine and they seem unaware or clueless to the development in gaming stuck in their own bubble where they act like what they do is so revolutionary when other games have done it better and evolved their formula like witcher 3, cyberpunk etc.

lol love how in the description he names their money grubbing shit game sonly lol, no mention of tes 1-5 or f3 and f4 lol.

The “jump pack” animations appear as if the player is FARTING himself into flight, which is totally G@@@@@EEEEE!

Bethesda seems so hyper focused on mass appeal, that they do things like making space mechanics optional in a space game. They are so afraid to have their game be anything specific. They undermine a concept of a fun game itself and erode creativity in the name of being bland and generic. There was likely many brilliant ideas durring the creation of this game that were thrown out the window for not being simplistic enough, which is just such a shame. The whole game should be a wake up call, they became so greedy with their desire to attract mass attention, that they failed at making an appealing game in the process.

I Know about how shitey the Game is But you know what …. I Been having fun with it Hours of fun … Everyone is dumping on the Game …if you dont like it F*ck off and play something else innit like Kerplunk or something … really i didn’t like Dragon Age Veilguard ….at all not one bit i got tired of loads of people dumping on it on t’ internet ….Me couldnt be bothered didn’t buy it didn’t play it didn’t even F*cking look at it and if you ask me if everyone didn’t buy shit games we wouldn’t get shit games …simples.

Starfield wasn’t a mistake, it’s exactly what they wanted to make, after years of gamers telling Bethesda they were ok with dumbed down, low effort RPGs this is the result.

That lock picking game looks like fucking hell.

Neon was the first time in my life I genuinely had to pause and take a look at my own life in reality. Sitting around on my day off playing a video game with people wearing bubble spandex and dancing like puppets. I was alone in my home and still felt embarrassed.

Your music choices are overpowering your voice and have weird emotion to whatever point your try to get across

Starfield is a terrible game. But its the one game where you can play boring star trek scientist man that gets down on a planet to catalogue flora and fauna

Todd’s little spiel about tone and how you can feel how, for example, Lord of the Rings feels different from Game of Thrones…he’s right on the money, but blind to his own shortcomings in facilitating all of that.

The thing that bothered me most about the experience was the lack of unique POI’s. After maybe 10 hours of play, it started to settle in that the perception of “hugeness” was never going to happen. It’s a small game with a ton of empty space between content.

This video needs more depth. Only four hours.

15:00 something I just had to think is that the “watch the sunrise” audience was at that point already satiated by No Man’s Sky. Especially once NMS had base building.

really didn’t expect a cameo from my favorite musical food schizophrenic historian/gaming youtuber in this video.

42:35 my god, not only is the music making you feel more aggro, its making the gameplay more fun to watch.

They could have had some bomb ass futuristic punk like music in this game, and instead, they chose a full-on orchesta… 🥴

I am actually sad this game was so boring. I love space. I absolutely adore it. I love how pretty the skybox is, and the thought of walking on Venus drove me nuts, but alas, here we are.

I just wanna know why they didn’t put any sentient ALIENS in the SPACE GAME

Sadly, there was so much potential for Starfield. It could have been the ultimate space game. A world class action RPG where the player is taken on a journey through out the solar system and even beyond. But not empty, instead full of galactic marvels, civilizations and more to interact with. Bethesda has the money , and resources to do it. But if they weren’t as lazy as they appear to be, it could have been done. This company seems to lack ambition. If they had at least a third of ambition that for example Fromsoftware has, they could have done something much better for Starfield than what the finished product was

I guess I’m the only person who liked starfield. The ship builder especially. *Shrug*

Starfield was a waste of time. ES6 would’ve out by now, instead of this…nothingness.

Andrezha? Wtf Andreya….

I liked a couple of Bethesda’s earlier games, but I was never a die hard fan or anything. It seemed pretty clear to me that the studio was mismanaged and they were on a steep downward trend after Fallout 4 so I stayed away from their games. I still have absolutely no desire to ever play Fallout 76 or Starfield and I think Elder Scrolls fans are going to be in for a massive let down if Bethesda can even finish ES6 in the coming years. They have basically set themselves up for failure because I don’t think they have the talent/skill or inspiration to deliver on the hype of surpassing Skyrim. When you look at how FromSoftware has innovated on their action/RPG formula over the years, how Nintendo created new and creative ways to play a Zelda game with TotK’s ultra hand and fusion abilities, how Rockstar created such a detailed and immersive world in RDR2 that often feels like a living organism… Then you look at something like Starfield (which is supposed to be “next gen”) and it’s just so lackluster and unimpressive. That’s not even to mention how they are clearly neutered by leftwing politics and afraid to add any real grit or take risks with their gameplay/storytelling. I think they are going to fail and its unfortunate because we’d all like to see more good games come out.

Fall out 4 killed my hope for any Bethesda game going forward.

One must imagine Bethesda fans happy

After Fallout 76 …. I just pretend that Bethesda doesn’t exist.

commenting on my rewatch bc Youtube made it so if you dont interact with a video the view doesnt count

At least with Skyrim, we all know why it blew up in popularity over the other titles despite having weaker mechanics and such, it did add trade-offs the other titles didnt have in the freedom of playing any way you wanted. And added in unique interactions and transformation abilities on top of a gorgeous setting and ambient game with tons and tons of hand crafted beautiful dungeons and areas that were NOT in short supply of fun and interesting side quests and ridiculous interactions.

You add that to the sheer level of beauty the game and AMAZING lore it has in the ambience and scenery, and it was the perfect struck gold moment in modern gaming history.

…And bethesda called it quits after that, and were never going to recover from suffering from their own success of that one game. It dwarfs all the other titles and starfield proved they didnt even understand why.

Torches and pitchforks

It’s an unfair comparison because – despite all of the people who mock this game because they’ve never played it – Minecraft is an absolute BOSS of an Exploration/Survival Game. An hour in, after some enjoyable giggles at the Sheep, and you basically forget that it is a Wireframe Blocks Game. And then the most unexpected thing happens – you are struck by the natural beauty.

You also learn very quickly that Minecraft Survival is not a “kid’s game”. Too many times I’ve heard new players exclaim that it’s a Horror Game. And I’ve also heard some POG gamers that Minecraft has been the most unsettling game they’ve ever played.

So, Minecraft is the high water mark for vast, procedurally generated Exploration Games. In this case, it is actually the best selling game in human history for a reason.

Star-Crud couldn’t aspire to be a small fraction of the quality of Minecraft. Not even close…

I like to hope it wasn’t a mistake in the sense that it allowed them to better see what makes their games good, the perks system and shipbuilding was probably the two good parts in this game.
It was honestly better than this game being lukewarm and then them experimenting further in this direction come tes6

It would have been better for them to bring in the scope a whole lot. One solar system but make it way more dense and detailed. That was the thing that killed my interest right off the bat because I Skyrim it’s very much “every screenshot a painting” full of details and something interesting to look at, or at least it really felt like it was trying to do that. Starfield just has the same repetitive empty landscape that stretches on for way too long.

I remember in elite dangerous I got too excited while exploring and flew too far away from civilization and ran outta fuel I couldn’t jump forward and couldn’t jump back. I only had half an hour of air left and no friends who could fly to my rescue. My hand hovered over the self destruct button as my mind raced to try and figure something out but in the end I looked at how far I had to the nearest system and with no other options I hit the button. I legitimately almost cried it was a beautiful gaming moment that starfield will never have

As soon as I got in space and went to change my keybinds, it was all over that very moment.

Starfield makes one worry about the next Elder scrolls…

The game is just so boring. Aesthetics, quests, writing, story, lore – it’s all boring. And this was a so called “passion project.” Fucking lol! Baffling how they fucked up this bad. Total absence of creativity and talent at Bethesda rn.

17:30 Tell me you haven’t played No Man’s Sky since launch, without telling me..

I actually liked Starfield i loved the ship buliding and not going to lie Andreja was hot

I think it will be a great game, when I buy it on steam sales for 10 bucks.

I’m going to criticize your choice of replacement soundtrack for Starfield’s combat. OXTO is designed to keep the player in the “dead heat” feeling that the driving electronic score creates. Starfield is way too slow to justify that kind of music. Even in your demonstration, you have to edit out time between kills and action moments to make it flow together.
It’s a fun compilation, don’t get me wrong. I see some of the vision here. But you may as well say every FPS would be better with DOOM music in it.

……. Duh. Anyone who played it beside the bethesda game is great fans. It was a Mega dungeon skyrim, with a space fight mechanic. It’s fun if your in the roam around for hours and find nothing mindset. But it was lazy, badly written, semi well built. End of.

Bethesda’s mistake was going with 1000 planets. They should have limited it to three or four solar systems, and actually hand crafted points of interest on each planet. This would also had the side effect of better possible missions. I actually really like Starfield, things like loading screens and the inability to go from planet to space seamlessly, doesn’t overly bother me. Most games have technical trade-offs. But I do only give it a 7. I also liked Fallout for the most part.

jesus 4 hours

Boring. Learn 2 edit

I played Starfield, I know what’s wrong with it. You talk about it’s failings yet you give me zero reason to sub

Good critique but zero entertainmanship. Why stay when others make me laugh?

I could never get past the intro. To boring.

Starfield wasn’t that bad. I enjoyed it and I don’t understand how some people seem to have utter hate for it. It was a decent game. I think people were expecting Skyrim in space. Same with Fallout 4. It was a good game that I’ve recently seen more people talking positively about. I think the same thing will happen with Starfield. Initially everyone seemed to like it, and then a month later hate it. I think in the long run people will be “fine” with the game. Wish it was better but I enjoyed that they tried different things, like the ship builder. I think this was more or less a test for tech in making the next elder scrolls. There will be a builder of some kind, and there will be procedural generation as well. Starfield is an alright game so the next elder scrolls can exceed expectations. I think Todd Howard and Xbox will do everything in their power to make sure it’s the best game it can be, knowing that the money spent in development will be massively made up in sales.

What good is a thousand procedural generated planets if no player ever visits them?

The reason you can’t repick traits in new worlds is its not really a new game plus the story keeps going and you are the same person . Your first run is the tutorial. Its not a great design but it is the design

3:25:00 I don’t know what point you’re trying to make here. Are you saying atheists are in the majority? That’s fucking insane. I looked up this study, and the only way they become the “single largest group” is because they broke up all the christians into groups by race. When you put them all together they’re still 75% of the population. Maybe do a little more than reading the headlines?

I never played Starfield but I’m on my 3rd rewatch of this video

From the hit series on Paramount Plus 😂

I hope you do a review of Tainted Grail

When cyberpunk goes to space i will go to space for one last gig lol

It was shit because it felt like Skyrim and Skyrim is super fucken dull 😂

We could have had Elder Scrolls 6 already if they didn’t make this dogshit game

4:04:00 By the way! The Creation Kit Wiki is STILL down as of this post! Also nice putting the wiki being down on 404 in the edit!

I still play skyrim

My take on the ‘Bethesda open world magic’. The games were never as good as people thought they were, the reason is not Bethesda failing the formula, the formula was never very good.

This game is the definition of not taking risks.

2:57:01 nice casual spoiler.

42:46 wow! Ok, soundtrack is important… what a difference!

I put this vid on to sleep sometimes

21:15 I’m starting to get to the real life by now lol)))😂😂

20:48 definitely)))

Fallout 76 mostly positive??)) Ahahah at this point we can forget about the gaming indistry. Not even a cent should go to the pocket of those greedy assholes…

Absolutely right m8.

I appreciate your nuanced and relatively balanced take on this game, but god dayum bethesda made a real pile of shit with this game. Starfield was such a steaming pile of dog shit.

Just play Mass Effect.

2:42:00 example don’t work, those aren’t active by lore. Yet I agree that Starfield’s world building comes across as half-baked by 3-5 different people.

I think the worse part of starfield is my constant 1635262766273525.625 latency 😅

has anyone else been falling asleep to starfield reviews 😭

If Starfield leaned heavily into survival mechanics I think it could have succeeded. Starflight is an old old school big space game which pretty much has a bare bones plot and story and relies on the fact that you have limited fuel amd have to gather resources because there’s not that much that is interesting on the planets. But you always have the danger of being stranded with not enough fuel for your rover to get back to the ship or for your ship to get back home. If you get stuck you need to be rescued which loses your rover and costs you a lot of money. There aren’t any quests. But! They did combine ship combat with interesting communications with aliens!

1:26 *Laughs in Mass Effect

But continue

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8:00 smoke and nirrors

your dragon take was terrible

Yeah I’m sure it was a mistake^^ *Todd while swimming in Starfield money*

All I know is when I tried playing this game, I got to level 9 and realized how absolute shit the combat was(how THE fuck do they make the melee worse than Skyrim? It’s the same fucken game engine!)

The music is so generic and bad that I cannot believe they gave the Composer anything other than “we need music for Exploration, combat, dungeon, space, and main theme but future space game”, and it turned into some of the most inconsistent shiz ever.

I think everybody who sucks complaining online is a sht trend . For fk sakes most of these people absolutely need to have a clearly degined track because theres no way they can figure out simple sht. Asthetics in Star Field could be better , no sht . Guns do get modded on the weapons work bench . Like suits and packs . Doesnt seem like he played much of the game. Boarding actions are like every other conflict if you actually play the game. Then again im betting there woulda been alot less bad press if it would have been put out on sony . People are petty . The fact hes killing them with 1 shot seems to say turn the fkin dificulty up.

Coming back to this, as a father, Sam’s still boring even if you can relate to him.

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14:26

You know, you CAN make a game that taps into that sense of wonder and exploration. it’s called outerwilds. And you want to know what that game has? A bunch of mechanics to create that sense of wonder, everything from the fact that you fly your own ship as a real ass physics object effected by gravity. The fact the game hypes you up as an explorer. the fact that it replaces the mystery of science with the mystery of history and makes you effectivly a space archeologist.

But that game is not the game Bethesda wanted to make.

… It’s a Bethesda game lol. All the games were bad

It wasn’t a mistake. It’s just severely unfinished.

I think my brain just removed the memory it was so boring. Most forgettable 30 hours of my life.

What Bethesda tried to make : mixing Elite Dangerous with No Man’s Sky and Fallout, but taking only the boring parts.
What people would actually like : Mass Effect with planet exploration and ship piloting. But that task would be gargantuan.

One of the final things to keep my attention before I stopped playing was just building ship builds off of cool YouTube tutorials, kind of like doing simple Lego builds. 😆

players liked it but it requires more work? REMOVED.

Stop supporting these frauds.

This game would’ve strongly benefited from just focusing on making the sol system, and maybe our closest stars like Alpha Centauri. There’s plenty of content to work with just within our solar system. Hell, Destiny 1 & 2 does this to great effect. It would’ve made the overall scope of the project well within reach comparatively speaking.

Best gaming decisions of my life – not purchasing Fallout 76 or Starfield. I’ll also never pre-purchase any title from any dev. Best to wait for actual reviews since almost 100% of games from AAA devs are absolute trash these days.

Is this background music from Starfield ? 19:20 would love to find out the name to this song

3:25:11

42:56 this sounds like fucking shit i cant lie lmao just stick to the criticisms instead of tryna be a composer and “replacing” the music. literally doesnt fit at all

Just wanted to say that it was nice to see Lorerunner pop up in someone else’s video.

57:50 Nobody can ever tame me, don’t kid yourself.

Another great video, a couple small points i disagreed with but overall i think your analyses have been getting better with each video, you mix your personal writing with more analytical styles incredibly well and i think you’re able to deliver a mix of more personally driven writing and objective based writing.

4:09:05 i think you’re putting a bit too much value on anecdotal evidence to form your conclusion, giving emil more resources and less restrictions is what seemed to expand these issues, i don’t think emil isnt talented or amything he certainly is but giving him more resources just seems like a risk in which he wouldn’t improve his work

So like…the Elder Scrolls oblivion remaster…

I fear that TESVI if it ever does come out will be like this

EMIL IS A TALENTLESS HACK WITH NO CREATIVITY

i really tried with this game ,but its complete trash , from writing to gameplay, mechanics….

“It just works” and that’s all the game manages.

i woefully disagree with you woefully disagree 01:09:00 they are absolutely bullet sponges. evrything in this game feels like you and god and everybody all have pillows taped to our pajamas while we beat eachother up with even more pillows.

yes it was. i’ll never forget the slow realization that the game sucked ass taking off we the ship for the first time

It’s really sad that this game is such a flop. I had very low expectations but even I overestimated it. I have played a ton of Skyrim and a solid amount of New Vegas and Fallout 3, but I feel like modern Bethesda is just so far from what I enjoy it in those games. And none of those three really clicked with me, they all have obnoxious aspects.

I hold out hope that Morrowind will be my ringer from Bethesda, still haven’t given it a try though I like what I’ve heard. But I did hope that starfield would be a much better platform. I strongly prefer interstellar Scifi to post nuclear apocalypse

Skyrim has 9 cities that feel populated and fleshed-out (for a while) in ONE small area of ONE part of ONE planet. How on earth do Bethesda think they can create 1000 planets with anything like the same level of immersion? Maybe AI will eventually be able to create realisitc, interesting communities and quests on the fly.

Todd Howard is just a guy that got the right job before something awesome landed, and got credit for it, and as time goes, you realize that he’s just a POS who can’t do his job…

Capitalism really is a lottery.

I won’t buy another Bethesda title until a month after release when I KNOW that they got their soul back.

Feels like we should all boycott Elders Scrolls 6 until they fix Starfield entirely.

Starfield was entertaining for a few hours.

Hearing the Morrowind soundtrack under Starfield made me sad.

You said exasperated but you meant exacerbated. I recommend not using words if you are unsure of the meaning.

Omg! Whatever would we do without you telling us what to think?

I wish we played in the setting of the galactic sized mech war instead of hearing about how it was too cool and got outlawed

who the fuck keeps orbital lines on in E:D?

Bottom line is that their engine wasnt even close to up to the task. There is no chance that they intentionally built the game with 90% dead lifeless empty planets. It makes no sense at all.

This is the beta for the new Starfield IP.

Look at what Nintendo did with breath of the wild and tears of the Kingdom.

Starfield One is effectively going to be a beta so starfield 2 can hopefully be a decent game

11 minutes into the video and wondering why you did a star field review when you obviously don’t like Bethesda games.

I mean I don’t get me wrong, Starfield is s*** and your points are correct but I’m still confused of why you would even bother with it

This game honestly looks like it was made by one guy, in a basement, sometime around 2017.

It took me around 4 hours to realise i didnt want to play this game at all anymore. The hours you put into this must’ve been torture.

I like how the lockpicking minigame explanation is the only moment when we can hear some enthusiasm and praise coming from the narrator.

If the mistake reveals a lie and the reality of the current situation, can it still be called a mistake? This “game” has prepared many with updated expectations for how little ES6 will have to offer. We now know it will be outdated, ugly, poorly made, and boring. The people in charge have made it plan and obvious that they are not willing to learn or change or adapt or improve or anything that isn’t dogshit and mediocre.

Imagine if CD Project Red made this… damn

To me todd howard will always be the micheal scott of gaming

Please come back.

Elder Scrolls are these mystical, otherworldly artefacts that can alter reality, warp time, and otherwise drastically affect the world around them.

Nuclear Fallout is the oppressive emptiness and void that’s left over from a nuclear explosion. It’s the wasteland, the plants, the fauna, and the lives of the people suffering through it all at once.

So what is Starfield? How does the title relate to the story? Well…there are stars. And when you open the map, there’s a field of them.

From just the name alone you can see the lack of care put in the game. There’s no metanarrative meaning, no deeper meaning, no relation to the story at all. Starfield can be the name of a dozen different games, but The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim or Fallout: New Vegas can only be the titles of the games they represent.

Bethesda’s approach to game design is “We can’t figure out this problem, let’s dumb it down”.

They come close to a cool idea and then make it lame.

Where tf life of a skyrim rogue?

Jank Man’s Sky.

sims 1 build music mentioned

Heyyy. Guys. I heard. Some where. During the game. You meet your parents ,, and you get to marry. Either. Sarah. Or that , andreja. Chick ,,????

The fact that the game is still out at 69.99$ tells me all I need to know.

A reminder that sometimes, its okay when a nearly complete game gets cancelled.

Fallout 4 looks better now huh try some of that again on survival mode and enjoy your game time again.

I own the DLC for this game, but after 100% percenting the base game, I just can’t bring myself to care enough to go back in to play it again. It was such a tedious SLOG of a game.

Im glad i never played it

As a space nerd, I was really hoping this game would have been much more than it was. But of course as per Bethesda, the modding scene has to save their ass. But this time more than half the modding community totally abandoned this game. And it’s just a massive waste of time and money. Yes I had my 500 hours of fun, so much so I made an entire channel just for this game. But as you can see from my upload schedule as of late, this game is pretty much dead, especially after the VERY lackluster DLC Shattered Space

It’s crazy how Todd will literally be talking up all the methodologies that caused them to fuck up as if they’re these insanely good, well thought out ideas. He’s really delusional tbh.

At 7:22 you said “exasperated” when I think you meant “exacerbated”. I’ll see myself out now.

Listening to the devs makes me shake my head. Such crappy people making crappy games for crappy people to play…

The start should have had oblivion music over it

To each his own. I thoroughly enjoy the game and appreciate all the energy and effort put into making the game. You have some people who just can’t be satisfied. Why don’t you all go create your own game instead of downing the hard work of others. Bethesda still nets profits regardless and millions of other players are satisfied. Move on with your life.
Ps. Thank you Bethesda!

no. its all intentional or they wouldnt have releases it. moron

Thanks all the people who fall asleep to this video and leaves something that sounds like an alarm clock at the end…amazing

I’m sorry to hear that your elopement didn’t work out with Patrician. I still think it is very mature of you both to stay friends despite it, I look forward to the amazing content both of you make together in future.

I liked Starfield; however, this is one of my least favorite BGS games. This is a game that suffered from over scoping and trying to do everything. I would have taken a tighter scope with less features (real star systems, outpost building, ship building). I would do away with any of that if it meant that exploration and everything else had more depth.

From my understanding starfield is stuck in the past standards of what we wanted in the past. What i think it should’ve been remodeled into the current meta of what people really want in a game.

It’s funny how the last Bethesda game I tried earnestly, Skyrim, was awful for the same reasons Starfield is. All of the points the reviewer raises here I said about that damn game, but somehow people gobble it up like there’s no tomorrow. In hindsight, this tendency towards targeting the least common denominator for what qualifies as a game mechanic, and stripping away ANY need for the player to involve their brain at any second, started already in Oblivion. It just had enough DNA from Morrowind/Daggerfall to still be ambitious enough to try to be interesting.

Bethesda makes filler and inflates it to be their entire game. This has been the case for decades, but it keeps selling, so why would they stop or change?

Starfield is gaming biggest disappointment!

“I get that Bethesda’s target are emotionally unsatisfied millenial dads” …Really? Hate to break it to you, but that’s NOT who Sam was made to appeal to lmao. He’s not a self-insert to project onto, he’s a DILF. People love a hot dad, especially a hot dad who’s good at BEING a dad.

Something about this game that really ticked me off was the armor. the space suit didn’t feel extensively customizable or have interactions with the world it just felt like armor in a bethesda game with a different skin. It didn’t feel like I was wearing a space suit that protected me from the harsh void or planetary anomalies I was just wearing a set of numbers. The gas mask from the Metro game series feels more impactful and memorable as environmental protection than the space suit of starfield.

I’ve hate watched almost as much Starfield as I played. And that’s saying something because I REALLY played a lot of Starfield to try and give it a fair shot. A single 4.5 hour video is nothing in the drop of a bucket compared to the total number of Starfield videos I’ve hate watched. Over a year later I still feel ripped off. I don’t understand how Bethesda could crap out this piece of crap after that many years of development and think it was good and sell it to us at the price like it was filet mignon

4:21:50 There really is no excuse for not being able to fly to planets and land on them. None. NMS did that 9 years ago, 9 years ago! AND THEY HAD VEHICLES! They had that working at or before they started working on this game. Starfield should have had seamless flying to and from planets, vehicles, amongst a ton of other amazing things to blow our minds for the price we paid on release date. NMS might have been a mess on release date BUT I DIDNT FEEL RIPPED OFF BY IT. I feel like I got what I paid for with NMS AND they kept improving the game. I felt ripped off by Starfield.

2:26:30 Indifference. That just about is the best 1 word summary I’ve ever heard for Starfield

I would pay good money to see a conversation with you and Emil.

Did this video always end with an alarm clock? wtf.

I’ll buy Starfield when it’s like 20 bucks. I’m a Bethesda fan so I’m probably going to like it.

Starfail killed off what little hope and interest I had for TES 6, and I’ll never forgive Bethesda for it.

Something has to be really bad for synthetic man to be right ever

Starfield is so garbage I can’t even find words to describe it.

Am I the only one who loves Starfield?

It seems Starfield video killed this chanell

Starfield is cool at the same time it’s bad. Horrible game design some of the worst ever horrible quest design and horrible world design. If you wanted to make only humans they should’ve done what dune did and made mutants the snake people should’ve had snake features like eyes or skin depending on how mutated.

The open world should’ve been scaled back to maybe 3 planets or a handful because the biggest problem is the quest are so short and require you to go to a whole another planet just to talk to someone for 4 seconds menagerie you got a planet like neon just completely under used they should’ve used every single piece of space on these planets before making the player leave and when they do leave it should be a big quest.

The corpo quest is so cool an idea but so undercooked and you don’t even lead the company in the end which is a Bethesda staple. The Wild West planet shouldn’t exist, the paradise planet why does that planet exist when it has no use at all, the redline is a joke it should’ve just been a arena like oblivion more like the running man Arnold movie.

And space doesn’t need to be accurate to be fun people just need to think they are flying to other planets I mean even Garry’s mod does this and it would work on their engine they just didn’t do it. I like star field infinitely more than fallout 4 but at the same time not a high bar

I was rlly rooting for this game for years. It’s just way too mid 😢

First Person NPC conversations while they stay fixed on screen at the 3ft distance is such a 2011 thing. Whoever looked at that concept for a modern game and said “this is still perfect, lets roll with it” ………… idk man, it sure was a choice.

2:39:41 It’s perfectly plausible that billions would be left behind even if they had 50 years to leave. To build and operate enough spacecraft to move more than 10 000 000 000 people to other planets within 50 years would possibly require more money and resources than any organisation had, and there is no financial incentive to save everyone. And it’s not just because of the costs involved in making the journey, but also because of the extremely difficult task of getting food and housing for billions of people once they reach their destination.

42:35 Ew, what is that, brother? That is so much worse than the bland Starfield music. Using music from Black Mesa: Xen, Crysis 2&3, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Anthem is a better solution because it actually sounds good.

It was very poetic to get one of the most shining examples of a good RPG in the form of BG3, and the prime example of how not to make an RPG in the form of Starfield. It’s not even an RPG. It’s a bland shooter with a sprinkling of shallow RPG systems to try and convince you it is more than it actually is. In other words, Starfield is quite literally just Fallout 4 part 2.

54:53 dude…… the ONLY reason anyone still plays even fallout 4 let alone skyrim is because of mods….. the only reason people still play new vegas is cause it wasnt even touched by bethesda and is obsidians magnum opus…. the only reason people still play oblivion is cause it was the last ‘good’ game made by bethesda and was made before skyrim retconned so much tes lore and ruined everything that had been set up before…… full stop, the formula NEVER worked and NEVER was what made people love TES and fallout games…. all it ever was was that the lore was so good and when those games came out, they all rode on the back of the morroind high that got LUCKY with how bethesda tried cheating obsidian and still did so on a techincality with new vegas with than the sheer dumb luck that good enough mods came out in time for skyrim to keep people playing till fallout 4 which again, was lucky enough to have that modding community carry over and make more mods to keep the dying flame burning until 76 which thoroughly snuffed that flame for half the REMAINING community with starfield halfling the already halved near dead community yet again and shaping up to make it so TES 6 is set up to be the final death blow of how much of a hit bethesda can take before they go bankrupt and microsoft gives their ips to a different studio under their wing in hope of saving at least the franchises…..

Starfield was a massive mistake. It took resources away from better franchises, and for what? That pile of crud.

Exacerbated.

You know what pisses me off the most about this bad game? That in the very opening you can’t tell your boss, who just almost got you killed, to fuck off and backward jump while giving her the finger DE style. Instead all you can do is say you’ll miss her or whatever after knowing her for about 2.5 minutes. Fuck this game. What a ginormous let down

Starfield is the foundation of a game laid down sorta. Then it felt like Bethesda was obligated to put stuff into the game to do. But then it seems like they got bored doing that and half assed it. The planet exploration is meaningless when youve seen every POI that will be reused endlessley after an hour or two

Bethesda doesn’t even understand what an RPG is anymore, when was the last time your decisions meant something in there games? yea.. I’ll wait
also ashly saying that was so dumb, it’s a game, not real life…

Whatever happened to the Skyrim retrospective?

Mass Effect Andromeda came out as a mess, but if they abandoned their original idea of procedural planets to focus (albeit too late) on what was important, Bethesda should’ve taken that as a hint to do the same

Can’t wait to be the chosen Swordborn and sail from one loading screen to another in the Iliac bay.
(Oh god; i just realised, the Redguard have Kalpa/multiverse potential too…orz)
Fuck Emil.

Innovation, or even shameless copying from their competitors is beyond Bethesda’s abilities. Can’t call your horse in Skyrim, well… guess what, can’t call your ship in Starfield. Their game design development cycle hasn’t evolved, nor have they looked at YT videos that bring QOL mods to their former titles; nor do they listen to anyone but their mediocre game testers and their worshiping fanboys (somehow Shiny Happy People by REM comes to mind). They just rinse and repeat, slap a 50+ dollar price tag on their ‘final product’ and then let the modding community rectify or implement what should have been included in vanilla, in order to keep cashing in on their product.

Bottom line: Bethesda should hire Sean Murray. He succeeded in turning a turd into a gold nugget. Bethesda just accomplished the opposite.

Starfield is Elite Dangerous’ Odyssey without space travel mechanics.

I just want to know where the part three to that Skyrim analysis is

It was fun if you have the imagination

You keep saying that nobody has nailed the space adventure open world type game yet but I think no man’s sky is pretty close especially after all of the shit that they’ve patched it with?

NO ALIENS
(beside bugs)

First time I played No Man’s Sky, I lost my first ship icon a d was stuck on a planet trying to hustle my way to buying a ship by selling crap i found or killed. It was the most immersive playthrough of NMS I’ve ever played!

Your not exploring if constellation already explored your not exploring if there already facilities on all the planets

If it was a space sim the barron planets would be alright. Also the side quest are boring example grab some cargo go to a planet done get a mission for a bounty kill guy done. Thats boring there no immersion in that

42:43 Rewatching the for the 9th time or so and the OXTO bit is still absolutely baller.. and damning to how uninspired and lifeless Starfield is.

21:40 “if you have a method of last resort to unstuck player”
When player lands with fuel level below some threshold:
– have a randomly placed fuel storage, if planetary condition allows
– have a randomly placed crashed ship with remaining fuel
– have pirate ship landing event (just as it happens now) so player can hijack it
– have civilian/military ship landing event to let player leave the planet and get to the nearest civilized location
– let player to send a distress signal and throw a challenge at him, in Starcraft’s “survive X minutes” missions fashion.

That’s just from the top of my head. Now back to washing dishes.

I had so much hyoe for this game
I played for like 60 hours didnt even beat it and then i got to a point where i was like”why am i playing this i dont like this game even tho i want to”

6th grade me would be very sad to know that Bethesda will go from two of best games I ever played to having more bad games than good.

In the soundtrack segment currently, too bad Bethesda doesn’t have the sauce to risk alienating players by doing some OTXOesque stuff, what if the player is too sensitive to the synths?!

Your instant reaction to a dragon appearing being to pull up the console and try to kill the dragon with commands is very relatable

I’m a bit worried about Private Sessions. There hasn’t been any activity in a long time on the channel. 😢

In the real world, Class A vehicles are small cars, and Class C vehicles are giant trucks.

My favourite poi had the genius handcrafting of someone who really thought about how a person would live in one of these places… I felt such immersion in the game when on a planet that had no atmosphere had at the top of a guardtower open food pockets and empty cups of terrabrew. You know things you would absolutely consume in a zero atmosphere environment.

I never was going to play starfield (not enough time for much gaming+no xbox/decent pc) but even that aside I never really was interested in it either despite being a huge Bethesda fan (more less now days but)… it sucks man Bethesda needs to get their shit together and stop abandoning what made their past games so good, RPG elements… because visually starfield at times looks pretty cool imo…..

As of me posting this, Starfield has a very modest 6k playing it, and Farming simulator 25 has almost 30k… A game about freaking farming is doing better then Starfield.

your parents actually dont just disappear if you stop sending them rent. they become homeless and addicted to space drugs, and they get so strung out they forget youre their child. probably the darkest moment in all of starfield.

1:24:40
Anyone competent would have it extract the actual values and put them in the text box. Usually not that hard.

The best thing about Starfield is that it finally got finished and is no longer on Todd’s lifelong wishlist, so now they can focus on Fallout 5.

43:00 name of the music you added?

When mod creators show you how simple it is to turn your game engine into anything you want, it’s easy for intern developers to do the same thing with ‘official’ support. Same toolbox. Same toys. Just need a creative to design lore and a supporting cast/script. Sorry – the toolbox can’t do that for you. You need some real talent there.

In Starfield’s defence it’s still the most expansive Fallout 4 mod ever made

As someone once said on Reddit “starfield freed me of any hype or want of elder scrolls VI”

God I wish this game worked. A space Bethesda game sounds like a super cool idea and it would’ve been if it was Bethesda of old.

2:49:00 blogiated

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Starfield is objectively a masterpiece both as a game and as a collection of stories. Only arrogant idiots disagree and you have completely failed to see the sheer, pure excellence of this game.😃

You are the cringe. Too sad for you. Lol.

thanks for the video I’m going to sleep and leave this playing in the background

China is the only thing keeping this game alive.
Big game studios: 200M for starfield and 700M for Star Citizen…both flopped harder than a limp noodle.
Indie devs: Minecraft – started as a side hobby from a single developer. Sold it for 2.5 BILLION. Goes on to be the most played and popular game of all time.

Cry baby nerds get a life. It’s a game made to occupy time

Want to tell the people watching this that I was so frustrated by the ship building, even after 190 hours, that when I came back to it, looking for mods to put doors where I wanted them,

That that, in combination with me constantly losing the ability to load my save (cuz of THEIR CREATION MODS),

Just let me to delete the game.

I’m not putting up with this crap.

I’ma have to disagree on Elite Dangerous. Having played it since release, it also feels like an unfinished game still with undercooked mechanics and a completely static sandbox. It’s a largely lifeless and boring experience even if you like exploration because none of your choices matter. The Bubble will never expand as a result of player activity. I think it’s a larger issue with space sandboxes in general failing to be actually dynamic and consequences to player’s actions.

Honestly these types of videos are way too wordy and nitpicky for what can be explained simply and focusing on just few core issues but I still can’t stop listening to them haha, great to put in the background and listen in

Well, if most of the planet would be actually empty and never visited, that would be better than what is now. Only close areas around settled systems should have any human infrastructure, then at last we would feel as actual “explorers”. After that we could help build, transfer people, resources for factions in the world for the said planets, increase or decrease some political areas.
The final goal of achieving a working armillary sphere should be possible in any faction but from different reasons, constellation being one of them – as a lawful good – want to be bad guy – here is pirates or ecliptic, corporative – Ryujin, etc. And in new universe, shift people in that factions between to some degree at last – yes it would be costly due to voiceovers, but it will be something that will have wow effect at last.

Also, you can’t actually walk around a planet. The map is heavily limited in size

So we’re almost through 2024 and still no Skyrim analysis part 3 huh

I used to think it would be cool if somebody took no mans sky’s exploration and gameplay features (especially how you can fly from planet to space without a loading screen) and combined it with fallout so i was hyped because i thought that’s what starfield would be but it fell so far short of anything like that

I enjoy your analysis, but Starfield definitely has mountains, canyons, geysers.

Bro made a 4 and a half hours diss track on Starfield and it’s crazy good

Song at 3:37:30??

does starfield crash all the time like skyrim?

I totally think they went with calling the aesthetic NASApunk because it’s catchier, but I think the more appropriate name would be Nasacore, similar to cottagecore. I still think it perhaps wouldn’t be an entirely perfect fit given the variety of other types of designs in the game, but it would at least be closer to the truth.

7:36 “starfield is bad bc there’s too much variety” Pray for a cure for Starfield Derangement Syndrome 🙏🙏🙏

Inon Zur with proper direction : FNV
Inin Zur without direction : starfield

4 abd a half hourss on something you dont like??? Hate sells i guess. Its sad. I feel bad for the fans that have to see all this kind of crap👎🏻

I don’t think Bethesda truly understands the scale of the earth’s magnetic field.

Its odd to me that you can’t possibky imagine anyone thinking earth wasnt worth trading for other planets and honestly ypu sound tone deaf in saying that. Do you really think almost everyone today would trade everything they own and everything they have just so that humanity could continue growing with no real reason? Do you know regular people who arent science fiction pilled as you?

Kinda made me question your read of all this as thats just a crazy thing to say and I think its one of the few instances of you trying to hate every aspect of the story. Its not good, but not everything is going to fit your narrative

as someone who hasnt played starfield listening to the story section, I will say even if its bad its more i teresting than both fallout 4’s main plot and skyrims. Those games coast so hard on having amazing lore backing them up that it softens the blow of them being thoughtless puddles with nothing there.

That’s a piss poor excuse to not address what fans want, Emil. “My mental health is bad”. God damn. Plenty of people work harder than his pudgy ass. If he was actually passionate about his job, he’d do something about it, or listen to it.

holy shit was that a oxto reference?

At the very least. I bet someone is going to be making a compelling mod list, to make the game decent. And they can keep doing that.

4:25:17 “Fortunately that script is mostly complete so it’s not gonna take another 8 months for that one”
He lied as easily as he breathed lol

8 months laters still no Skyrim. Hope you doing well

I still feel it’s weird Emil has his job. It’s not just because he’s not competent, but because his attitude isn’t really corporate-y enough either. It’s one thing to suck, it’s another thing to openly announce that you don’t take criticism, and in fact, you actively avoid all criticism. Corporations tend to allow alot of BS so long as no one hears about it. Firing Emil at this point would make Bethesda look good, like “See, we’re cleaning house!” Or at least assigning him to a lesser position where he can have a boss looking over his shoulder, reining in his worst tendencies.

But then, I think part of the problem is that Todd and Emil seem very similar. Not to say they are bad people, I hope, but these are two pie-in-the-sky dreamers who, at the same time, aren’t actually very competent at the grunt work. They may be good at coming up with ideas, but aren’t good with execution, with limitations, with reality. From Emil’s own words, it seems like he and Todd go have their private discussions, where they big each other up, and then go deliver those mandates on the rest of the staff who just have to try to cope with them. And since they’ve admitted that access to Todd is far more limited than it used to be, it’s hard to go in there later and say “Hey, boss, so the new things you and Emil discussed? I think there are some issues that haven’t been grasped that need to be addressed.” Emil refuses to accept criticism, and so if you can’t talk to Todd instead, you’re just stuck trying to pound a square peg into a round hole because that’s what you were ordered to do (it does seem like Todd used to listen to his staff, at least). I suspect TES 6 will be better than Starfield, but that’s only because it’ll be riding the coattails of the previous games, and won’t be the massive jumping-on point to the series that Skyrim was for new players–it’ll be just passable to those already invested in the series.

If memory serves, the problem with the faces isn’t that they scanned weird looking people or anything, it’s that they scanned a ton of people, broke their faces into “parts,” and then assembled all the game’s faces with those parts. So you’ll have a Scandinavian woman with Asian-eyes and black lips and Native American hair, with a man’s chin and nose for good measure. And part of it probably was to be progressive; instead of each NPC having a race and then picking parts from that race, you got this bizarre amalgamations that look like the patients of Doctor Frankenstein if he was a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. Because having clear and distinct racial features would be bad, or something.

I don’t see why nerfing sneak attacks to the point of irrelevancy is good just because it put a stop to “a meme.” I’ve never done a stealth archer playstyle in a Bethesda game, because it’s boring, but making it viable to slowly sneak through the map and one-tap every enemy in the head is a good option for people who like that. Instead, Starfield took that away–stealth is virtually useless up close and at distance is just a minor boost. Melee is also pretty crap as you only functionally have 1 weapon with 1 combo–the only differences are textures and attack values. And alot of the space magic isn’t good, so the only real choices in combat are which guns to use (and none of them are really crazy future guns like Borderlands or something) and whether or not to use the few spells that are good (that are completely broken because NPCs have literally no defense against them). Oh, and how much you want to abuse the jetpack. It’s basically as varied as, say, Halo: Infinite, which was already not quite enough for the size of IT’S world. Polishing up the gunplay slightly was not worth the trade-off of losing the option to charge in with a rocket-powered sledgehammer or raise undead minions or roleplay as an actual sniper blowing heads off with big guns from so far away the enemy can’t even respond.

First thing I disagree with isn’t even Starfield related; dragon attacks in Skyrim were great. I’m actually surprised by this argument, as it’s just not one I’ve really heard. Yes, sometimes it’s annoying when they kill NPCs you want alive, that I get (and why I didn’t like the vampire attacks in Dawnguard, those were toxic), but that didn’t happen all that often unless you have Dragonborn and are at a high level, and it was great to see dragons actually be part of the world. Your only argument is that it is less fun if you’re a pure melee build, which I guess is true, but dragons land often enough for this to not be much of a problem–just hang out around an open area they CAN land in, and they’ll come down for a smacking. I could criticize them for fundamental reasons, like how Skyrim’s combat in general is lacking, but the specific dragon attacks were so fun, with the great music, that I installed a mod to allow them to happen in the big holds too. And this was precisely BECAUSE it broke up my time looking for certain plants or just running across open areas to get to a dungeon–something would actually happen. Bethesda needs MORE of this sort of stuff, things to break up the loop, add some spice. Starfield ship combat is conceptually similar, sure, but it’s fairly distant otherwise. Like, getting good at ship combat has nothing to do with the rest of the game, and ship combat tended to be a much larger time sink, and ship combat could also be far more punishing, and the rewards are basically non-existent. Also worth noting; you can run away from dragons, if you need to, very easily–they can’t go inside or stop you from doing so, and they don’t chase you terribly far, and other NPCs will draw aggro (mostly guards). You’d have to be at a very low level, and very poorly equipped, to even potentially end up in a situation where a dragon was a death sentence you couldn’t escape except by reloading.

It was an experiment, you got it right the first time. how devoid of content can they make a game and still convince millions of people into buying it

I know i will never play this game, but i love watching these videos lol

If they ignored the fantasy and went full exploration, industry and commerce, where you could say set up a medical supply factory where you could get workers and customers. Or a ship factory where you could make or fix customers ships from the components you manufactured. The industrial side would need a lot of additions including many more minerals and components to manufacture, like a lot more! If they made these changes it would be much better. The industry needs this relative aspect. If there were far far more elements, where you have to spend ages finding a rare element to make a sought after component for a weapon for example. Then there needs to be quite a catalogue of apartments and estates to spend your hard earned cash on

4:10:40 “Here is how NKB could have won this drama…”. He DID win the drama.

Short for Vladimir is Vova, Vlad is short for Vladislav, nobody ever calls a Vladimir “Vlad” lol

the best review of all reviews written or spoken

This is the starfield dlc we deserved! 10/10

3:27:54 it is explictly stated that he is letting earth die because a starborn told him it would advance humanity rapidly.

2:56:15 or, y’know. the second highest. you get to pick.

1:23:50 so all the ranks of the security would be barely seperate since picking a lock would count for all 4 at once.

1:08:36 you do know when it’s *not* going to be enchanted, though. if the enemy has one health bar, they’re not carrying an enchanted weapon for sure.

1:02:00 what? it’s advanced, that’s as good as it gets.

The bit with the custom music at 42:45 actually did make the combat much more interesting to watch. It’s more proof how important that is in a game.

On the topic of no mans sky, part of the appeal as well is the immersion. Flyimg hetween and onto planets as you go, the fact that even id its procedurally generated its consistant. Starfield has lost some of what makes the gameplay loop of no mans sky amazing. If it didnt have that, nk mans sky wouldnt have half the audience it has.

Everyone has shocked eyes and fish mouth disease 🤧🤧 🤡 great Halloween game 😶‍🌫️🫢😳🥸🎃

Honestly the exploration is the same as any space game out today, the issue was everything else surrounding it.

Quit halfway through. Boring and an idiotic story.

A lot of people say that Starfield is bad, however. I enjoyed my time with it when I played it.. However, that was all.. I enjoyed it, and I finished it.. I havent returned to it, not even to play the DLC, not because I dont like the game, but because I just dont care… and I think thats the biggest failure of Starfield.. It was just okay. Its not a game that I want to go back and play again and again like Skyrim or to a lesser degree Fallout, and I know I am not alone in this, just look at the amount of mods there are for the game. People dont care, which is such a shame..

Look i enjoyed playing it, i would never say it’s perfect but i had fun with it when it came out

This is like looking into a toilet and going “yep that’s shit alright, if you look closer you can see some corn”.
I could tell this game was shit just by looking at it, no need to look for corn.

Starfeld

2:20:48 There are aliens in this game?

Worst weapon design ever though

DJ PEACH COBBLER CAMEO!!!!!

4 hours bro? I thought the biggest conplaint of starfields was its boring but watching a 4 hour video of someone yapping is fun?

Man i haven’t watched this man’s video’s in a while, this should be fun.

Edit: Damn him making the comprasions between cyberpunk and starfield especially at the last section now makes me want to buy and play cyberpunk 2077, so thanks for that.

Nailed it even before Shattered Space came out

Wait, fucking wait, hold on a fucking minute. Not only do they do him the disrespect of replacing him with a TABLE, but the text for the table is so half arsed *they did not even spell “pore over” correctly* – are Bethesda actually serious here?

2:38:32 by? from what weve seen entire pop of these settled systems is… 500k people maybe? and most are pirates, so who would settle “most of the galaxy”? Sure, I get it, they can show us hundreds of millions of NPCs, but most other games somehow managed to do it. Look at Mass Effect even, it had pretty much the same “load screen” FTL drive, it actually had less systems I think, but did it felt like there is nobody lives in the galaxy? Not for me, in Starfailed it was one of the first things(inconsistencies) I noticed. If anything entire pop should be concentrated on one or two planets, not some random outposts that is a museum of colonization or corpo-planet-town. But this game got similar issues everywhere, Red Mile – everyone say that its soo epic, hard, people who made it to the end are legends… anyone who actually tried it knows what a joke this Red Mile is.

I made myself a great ship, got married and collected loads of great armour and weapons and my reward for playing the game for seven days was to lose it all. i’m pissed off.

1:08:51

The clip playing: (Vortex Power) Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! (Shield breaks.) Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam!

Me: Dang, these enemies are total bullet-sponges! All those other reviewers weren’t kidding.

Meanwhile, Private Sessions: “Some people say the enemies are bullet-sponges, but I disagree.”

I’m twenty minutes in, and I’ll probably listen to a lot more, if not the whole game, and this comment will NEVER be seen by the creator because he has over forty-five hundred comments on this video, _AND_ this video has eight-hundred thousand views which means my advice is probably not needed, wanted, or useful in any way, anyway, BUT ANYWAYS here it is:

Examples. Too many “analysis videos” give admittedly decent insight, but without backing up that insight with examples it’s 1) useless and 2) boring.
This isn’t an insult. It’s a problem that I’m trying to shed light on to that it can be fixed. I have the same issue and I have actually stopped writing essays, indefinitely, because I realized that it simply would not be interesting without examples, and I wasn’t willing to put in the effort to get them.

Example: I made a review on my favorite soda, Pepsi Nitro, wherein I intended to make a couple of gifs of me following the instructions on the can and having some (small) bubbly, but I never could be bothered to do the gifs and instead of releasing the essay anyway, I put it in temporary limbo permanently because the fact is that the whole article rode on this notion of showing me doing the instructions and trying the drinks.

I’ve done this with movie reviews and video game reviews, too. It is the rare essay where you can get away with no examples. Examples are the dialogue of essays: Almost no one skips dialogue in books, and if you’re at the point of skipping dialogue you probably just don’t like the book.
Examples are built-in interest, and if you can make the preamble to an example interest, you’re _really_ on a roll!

This video does what feels like setting up an example. . . for fifteen minutes before we finally get a minor example that, wouldn’t you know it, was the most interesting part of the video up to that point. (It’s the example of how he “explored” planets by “exploiting” the POI randomizer when choosing different places to land his ship planetside.)

I’m going to keep watching and listening, and I hope that more examples are forthcoming, because without examples, this essay might end up feeling more like a generic insult of broad ideas rather than a pointed critique of a specific game.

This is so bornig. This review and the game.

Would love this level of analysis for Star Citizen

I have a feeling Bethesda has given up on selling games and is instead selling frameworks for modders to fix. What a deviously corporate thing to do.

with regards to outpost building; i will mention a quest that the player can pickup from strous-ecland that asks that player to gather 500 units of iron to turn into them.

Now true if you have the money you can just buy the iron from different vendors, but i feel like this quest was designed to have the user go do some manual mining, and then realize how long it would take and then look into outposts as a way to automate the mining. (not that it’s much faster, it’s just passive as opposed to active work on the player’s part)

I have no proof for any of this but i remember the first time i got this quest and thinking about how i would go about completing it and concluding that outpost mining was probably the easiest way; which in tern got me to start looking for a place to setup my outpost

I love starfield

4 and a half hours! God you guys are such pretentious fvcks. Get a life.

I will always respect Crate for the sheer amount of care and love they’ve shown Grim Dawn. with another expansion/dlc coming in 2025 as well it’s just awesome. They still update grim Dawn multiple times a year.

Setting Starfield after The Colony War was one of Bethesda’s biggest mistakes.

You think back to Skyrim… The Empire is licking its wounds after the war with the Aldmeri Dominion. The Civil War (which the player can choose to have an active role in) underpins just about everything. From minor guard comments, to familial blood feuds, to witch hunting of Talos worshippers. It is simple. But it adds depth to the world and its characters and sometimes a motivation for those characters.

Starfield is set in the aftermath of that universes’ largest war. We don’t see the battles between the UC’s Xenobiological Weapons and the Freestar Colony’s Mechs on Niira in the Narion System. We don’t see the destruction and evacuation of Londinion in real time. We don’t see House Va’ruun wreak havoc on the Settled Systems in its Great Serpent Crusade. Nothing. We get dropped in picking up rocks during peacetime and then sent on this fetch quest path of discovering the galaxy’s greatest mystery. The prize? Do it all over again. And again. And again.

Bethesda bugs, wooden performances, empty randomly generated planets and dull gameplay aside… Starfield is just narratively boring.

34:40 nah man, the ramp is for all the disabled people playing the game. Trying to be inclusive lmao

Omg the frigging contrast problem for us console players!
After fiddling with all of the Xbox options and all of my TV’s contrast options. I ruined how other games look! Starfield still looks like I’m stuck in a smoke filled room. Like how the hell that got screwed up is amazing!

“next video won’t take another 8 months”
we’re running kinda low on time here…

Gamers: video game devs making the same game every year in another iteration.

Also gamers: this and that game was a mistake, devs shouldn’t do anything new.

I don’t think Starfield was a mistake. Bethesda wanted to try something new and that’s a GOOD thing. Did it work out like they expected? Maybe not. But at least they tried.

hear me out, star wars KOTOR from the original xbox. that is the kind of game i was hoping to get out of starfield. only 5 planets but each full of life and story

All I want is a good story and the ability to kick folding chairs out of the way. Bethesda gives me neither. Instead I get the ability to stack sandwiches

you doing okay, brother?

no posts in a while. that’s okay. just wondering how you’re holding up ❤

i mean yes game can be boring but i had a lot of fun with it. Im assuming a lot of other space game enjoyers did was well. Space games like this arent very common these days you got like Solaris But you need to have zero life to play a full play through and its top down. No mans sky is alright.

This video is too short. There is no way you can discuss everything wrong w Starfield in 4.5 hours.

Edit: It isn’t hard to make space fun/interesting. The formula was laid out by Wing Commander decades ago. Todd probably knows it well.

I have countless hours in RDR2 and I kid you not I didn’t know there is fast traveling until I watched that video

It’s crazy how there’s no reason to do almost anything in this game. Why ever build an outpost? I just don’t understand the point. I probably built ten in all my playthroughs to see how it would add to your resources…but you always have way too many credits anyway, so it’s easier/cheaper to just buy them.

I think even if they did something more minimal, like adding several decent quests to make the procedural stuff entertaining I could really play/enjoy it for a while.

The play styles and rpg mechanics are so rough, so much just seems usless/pointless/not worth investing in for any reason at all.

I just dont understand what sort of feedback QA was providing that allowed them to ship a game like this.

I gave it so many chance to redeem itself, but it’s just not worth anyones time…unless you want to get high and kill random pirates for gear over and over again; certainly not entertaining sober.

The comments the uploader makes about there being some intent by the devs to comment on the mentality of tryhards were insightful, as was the observation that the devs fumbled that and ended up communicating indifference to such exploitation. Very ironic.

you mean going to random planet 8 in a videogame isn’t the same as going to the moon in real life? no way bro

skyrim se has 10k more daily players than starfield lol

I absolutely don’t give a sh*t about this game or genre. There’s nothing compelling or “tenable” as you say, about it. I got to 26 minutes of your video, I congratulate you. You deserve a YouTube award.

The story sounds so incredibly boring and uninteresting.

Back again. Still missing your uploads. Please come back to us soon!

I heavily disagree that space combat is optional. I’ve died so many times trying to grav jump out

I bought my Alienware laptop specifically to run Starfield! What a let down on both purchases!

High hopes that BGS learned what NOT to do with ES6

Personally i always thought the sound track of this game was more of a bastardized star wars meets fallout 4ish kinda thing

the modding scene for this game now is almost exclusively texture swaps and sound changes aimed at turning starfield into star wars lol

Wait, Barrett is gay?

I like the Starfield score. But yeah the lack of environmental/geographical variety is poor.

I tried so hard to like this game. Took a break for a couple of weeks when work got busy and just couldn’t bring myself to play it again.

The project moon franchise also deals with a “setting with indifference as the tone” mentioned in 2:28:20 and I think they do it as least if not even more effectively than Cyberpunk

Please tear Emil a new ass hole for the writing in Shattered Space. You just know it’s gonna be absolute dogshit.

Starfield just exudes that feeling of “we didn’t have any vision for this game.” It’s so nakedly uninspired with no idea of what kind of experience they wanted to deliver. They set out to make a Bethesda game in space and… that’s pretty much it.

we have a buggy now…. its slow af, turns kinda.. and dose not fit in the landing bay but just appears next to the ship… sigh