Great video, but the gameplay demo went on way too long.

Starfield is like a bag of Doritos and Cyberpunk is a five course dinner prepared by a Michelin star chef.

Come back downward. It kills me thinking you’re as lost as me.

8 years they wasted on this game and not ES6

To Bethesda’s credit, they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

40% starfield essay, 60% cyberpunk gameplay guide

It’s not Skyrim in space. Instead, it’s Daggerfall in space, but with a far less enjoyable main story.

The game was ruined for me after landing on every planet and every single one basically having the same surface with a different color filter on it.

How are you expecting starfield (a game set in low gravity space) to have fast paced movement? The controls are supposed to be more floaty. If you want fast paced shooting go play Doom or CoD.

the random encounters in red dead 2 might be the best i’ve ever experienced but literally every single play through of cyberpunk can be unique. i’ve seen people do things in orders and ways I didn’t even know were possible. it makes you want to boot the game up again and see what else you missed

“after all if everything is unique, nothing is unique????” not necessarily pimp. Every human being is unique but you wouldn’t say all humans are the same. you can have a full line up of unique items and the fact that they are all unique do not negate that they are all different items. In other words them all being unique doesn’t make them the same(or no longer unique)because they are all unique. Isn’t how that works i don’t think

No Man’s Sky is awesome

I really wish people would stop comparing this empty pit of a game to No Man’s Sky, which is now one of the finest space games ever made.

Bethesda is deader to me than this channel.

Starfield tries to do everything that No Man’s Sky did in 2016 and somehow manages to screw up something as simple as a catalogue for discoveries.

It does everything NMS did seven years prior, at LAUNCH. But, somehow worse.

And the game has improved significantly since release.

When I land on a planet in NMS, I look around for materials, or I simply start wandering. It’s a lot like Starfield, but it somehow feels a lot more fun and relaxing. I’m not being accosted by pirates, things aren’t constantly out to kill me, and it feels like like a failing simulation than Starfield (Which is ironic, considering you being stuck in a failing simulation is the entire story of NMS.)

In Starfield, you don’t land on a planet to explore it. Exploring in Starfield has no meaning and feels unrewarding and uninspired.

1:09:25 “I am surprised they didn’t said word “shit” its like they made this game for kids”
Bro your argument is falling apart because you censored word shit right there in your statement litteraly like you was making videos for babies.

I think one issue was the setting, it is based on our galaxis and the planets really exist and the one in game are based on them, most of the planets in our galaxis are barren rocks or just gas.

1:12:39 I mean I agree with all of this video in its spirit but man, talk about a cherry pick. Phantom Liberty DLC with a full MO-Cap performance done by Grimes in a story-setpiece is not just ‘a club’ in Cyberpunk 2077. Indeed, beyond Maelstrom and one or two other story events, the clubs in CP2077 are atmospheric and artistic but absolutely lacking compared to that scene.

We miss you tonald

How starfield wasn’t killed but it was murdered

Come back brother 😔

Starfield leads to a real life existential crisis, after the first playthrough, you ask yourself “why am i still playing this game?” And then you uninstall and never touch it again. Everything is half assed or micron thin. The death knell for this game was when the mod makers said there is no reason to put work into mods because there is nothing to do.

We miss you man. Hope you been well.

That cyberpunk edit from 23:00 to 26:30 is quite loud compared to the rest of the video.

a laser weapon with recoil that fires two separate beams in two different and random directions

my qquestion to everyone who was surprised by how bad it is… why were you surprised. What were you expecting?

There was no reason to believe they were even capable of making a good game in a new IP, even if you could find reason to believe that they would try.

it is more than dissapointing.
It is soul sucking bad.
Only its first impression was ok.
but than omg. I have still ptsd

a “sandbox” game in outer space — hmmmm, something about the core premise seems flawed

Starfield feels like Bethesda just had an ai create a “Bethesda” game.

theoretically procedural generation could have worked, but they would have had to go _hard_ on it, or gone back and worked on a large chunk of actual content themselves.

Miss your videos mate, any plans to return?

I still can’t believe they wanted $70 for this crap.

1:12:10 this whole scene looks like something youd see in goat simulator. dude 😭😭

It’s a failure of a game, it’s in the name – starfailure.

I’m sorry did you say the sidequests were amazing? That they go above and beyond? THEY DO THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM. None of the game, not one single part, goes above and beyond. Serviceable at BEST

I certainly wasn’t expecting to be sold on Cyberpunk 2077 watching this review, but you managed to pull it off and it pushed me to finally put my money towards that game! Hoping I enjoy it as much as you clearly did; been wanting to find a new game that’ll suck me in for some time now.

And if it doesn’t, well… guess I could always finally give those Witcher games a go – if what I’ve heard about them is true, then it sounds like CD Project Red has been making the kinds of games that Bethesda should’ve been making years ago.

The crazy part about the shooting upgrade, is that they had to bring in a bunch of the devs from ID that worked on DOOM to fix the God-awful shooting system we originally saw in one of the early trailers that *EVERYONE* flamed BGS for showing.

11:30 I do remember there was an interview with Todd about the environmental hazards on the different planets and how they were originally designed to be very punishing, but of course in the interest of ease of accessibility, they nerfed it into the ground. That’s why it still exists in your stats and HUD, but it doesn’t actually do much of anything at all. They wanted an “easy” game rather than an interesting and challenging game.

They also didn’t dumb down the fuel/grav drive thing for ships because of “scale,” but rather because they actually didn’t want players to run out of fuel in the middle of a jump and become stranded. Their reason is that it wouldn’t be very “fun” to run out of fuel and be stranded, yet that would have opened up even more gameplay options. Fuel consumption was originally implemented into the game. So the problem really isn’t that they’re half-baked, the problem is that BGS always tries to “play it safe” and avoids any features that would make their games harder for the masses.

1:12:10 I’m dying

56:23 Yeah people love being talked at, just exposition dumps, 4 options of dialogue at most

Starfield plays like a game designed by AI

To tell you that a niche game like Kenshi has a bigger player base than Starfield

NV survival mode is an interesting point, space survival could have been gated behind the difficulty. Especially with all the switches and controls that exist in the subsequent updates. There’s just so much potential that never made it.

I get it you like Cyberpunk.

Glad that i have found your video…I was sooo hyped about this game…I was sad when I got to play it the first time…last week try to replay it after all patches and dlc…well 4 hours in I uninstalled it…I will wait until.the star wars genesis mod is finished…this will make me install the game again xD

holy shit cp77 got so much better since the release

That gunplay segment of cyberpunk footage with no critique or talking was waaaaaaaaaay too long dude almost made me quit the video.

years later and i never knew Grav Dash existed, hoooly crap. That is baaaaaad.

Lol, I always love it when people showcase fragments of Cyberpunk 2077 combat just to emphasize how incredibly dated and awful Bethesda’s idea of combat is.

Do you plan to go back to making more videos?

I’m more upset over the lost potential than anything

See folks, THIS is why AI sucks. You CAN have it write a script for you but while the words sound fine they lack logic backing them up, or just make outright blatantly stupid claims. There should be an iq test to post reviews.

I gotta be honest, I’ve never played this game and I have no desire to (it always looked quite terrible to me…) But I find it strangely entertaining watching people pick it apart. I’m glad people criticize boring slop games like Starfield, but unfortunately I don’t think Bethesda is ever going to do any better because I imagine they make a lot of money putting out lackluster games like this. It seems like people will buy their games regardless of the quality so they don’t have to get any better. Hopefully I’m wrong and they start making good games again, but I just don’t see it happening because I don’t think they have the skill/talent or inspiration among their development team.

A year later is it any less disappointing? Think not.

Cyberpunk is catwalk style over substance of gameplay. Starfield has the style plus the multiple styles of gameplay. It’s story is not cliche penis simulator story of enjoy cutting your organs out for plastic and metal.

The amount of loading screens was annoying

Solid takedown. And good job contrasting with the masterpiece that is Cyberpunk. Well done. Subbed.

Tonaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaald

Come back, Tonald 🙁

Cyberpunks alert noise is genuinely peak game design.

Just played 115 min. Got a refund. My friend played 20hrs. Bailed. So clunky and boring

Hey Doward Thrust. I was just scrolling Youtube and thought about how good your videos are. I see you haven’t uploaded since late 2023. I hope all is well!

Hi from Gex X, yes they half assed it and that’s why you should stop supporting it with content.

I quit every time I got my first few powers.

The Xbox fan boys were very defensive about this game and the game was a absolute dud. It took 4 hours for me to stop playing Starfield.

Hey Man I would really like your opinion on tainted grail, I know you read those 😊

Way too many ads. Also if you make more videos dont use so many long extended game clips. Painfully obvious that you are just padding out the length of your videos for more ad revenue. Ironic considering you are critiquing starfield, a game comprised almost entirely of padding. Using game footage is great, but there is no reason whatsoever to put a 5 minute montage of Cyberpunk gameplay in the middle of your video when you can easily just show it in the background while you talk.

Good video, but one that feels like it was made to milk that youtube ad revenue.

No real variety in planets. How about different gravity affects based on the mass of the planet? How about planets that rain liquid methane or diamonds? How about a planet with erupting volcanos and flying creatures that swoop over them? Starfield empty soulless without imagination.

This game disappointed me so much I’m still watching these videos trashing it over a year later.

Litterly went back to playing cyberpunk 😂 after that montage

Hey have the channel died?
It was so good

Your amount of ads is fucking staggering. Down vote for that man

Take the most medicore least thought out dialog and then write a metric fuckton of it that can only be skipped one line at a time, brilliant move by BGS

I strongly recommend downloading ships needs gas and astrogate mods. Astrogate + immersive landing and take off + no loading screen mods combo makes the game a lot better. You can set autopilot and even walk around your ship while taking off or landing, and you dont even realize there’s a loadinf between space and atmosphere. Plus with astrogate you can travel manually between the planets, and walk around the ship while quantum jump (or whatever is called)

I have played a lot of fall out 76 but i tryed starfield . I have never played a game there feels so dead somehow. Maybe its me i dont know

I think I could have gotten over bad mechanics, always did with Bethesda games cause the quests, the world, and everything else was so damn good. Starfield gave us nothing worth dealing with the janky bethesda systems for.

Will you ever make videos again dude?

This is literally all Emil’s fault he is the cancerous rot at Bethesda soft works all the good writers are long gone leaving him and todd

the whole concept of galaxy exploration starfield proposed was done better, i feel, by Outer Wilds. Granted, its only one system but we have to pilot to each planet and land as well, all without cutscenes or loading scenes.

Every time I play Starfield, I inevitably end up quitting and booting up either Elite Dangerous, Mass Effect, or KOTOR. Every time.

I searched TPS syndrome and it brought me here. Makes complete sense reading all the Not Bethesda fans cry because the game is completely a Bethesda game. A bunch of manchilds that have 99% of there play hours in Fortnight and CSGO/COD then are mad this wasn’t that lool. No honest and true Bethesda fan would say any of this ignorant things about Starfield. Joining in with the other team TPS haters will not increase anything and your not cool. Sorry you were born that way, next you will buy a Jacked up truck or sports car…….

I bought a series X so I could finally check this game out and man lemme tell ya, underwhelmed is how I felt. I had infinitely more fun playing No Man’s Sky

I can somewhat forgive the crappy exploration and generative planets… but beyond that I can’t forgive the shit RPG elements like bad dialogues, non-reactivity of the world and boring story. Which is why I am not buying Bethesda games, since I think a lot of their other titles have that problem too. That’s probably fine for the year 2000, but in 2025 I need my choices to matter.

Oh cool a new channel that uploads retrospectives…. and this was his last video uploaded a year ago

It’s amazing, they made Elite Dangerous but with fewer planets, worse spaceflight mechanics and spaceship fighting, and with the upshot that there is a vague plot buried in there somewhere

you say that you expected great characters because it’s a bethesda game and i’m genuinely very curious for some examples of great characters in bethesda’s work

Just discovered this channel only to realize there are no new uploads anymore.

i’ve been watching your channel for like half a decade or more. i hope you upload a new video soon brother❤

Game so bad bro quitted youtube all together

Somewhat samey buildings of POIs make sense in a realistic sense that there would be pre fabricated building units or modules that would make it easy to transport them and set up bases on planets….. the problem is they are all exactly the same no variation, they didn’t even make a bunch of buildings segments or modules that could be generated in random configurations.

Man I do love finding the exact same written notes and “ environmental storytelling”. In multiple buildings literally across the galaxy

I believe the entire purpose for Starfield was simply expectation management. First, they wanted to get gamers accustomed to increased prices for games. Then they wanted to lower gamer’s expectations for actual engaging content – they are trying to train us to expect almost nothing from these more expensive games. I believe the end goal is to sell procedurally generated games with AI generated voice lines with very nearly zero human developer input. That would cost them next to nothing to create, and convert to near 100% pure profit, which is the only thing they care about. I have hundreds of hours into Skyrim and several fallout games, but I did not buy Fallout 76 or Starfield, and won’t be purchasing the new Elder Scrolls game when it comes out. If reviews show that the new ES is a great game, I’ll be pleasantly surprised, and open my wallet, but realistically there’s less than a 1% chance of that happening. I don’t believe we’ll ever see another good (let alone great) game from any AAA developer. The only chance for good/great games come exclusively from indy/privately owned developers from this point forward.

did you close this channel man?

I still love this game

You know what i noticed in the starfield vs cyberpunk comparison? The music. Cyberpunk always has some tone setting noise in the backround but starfield is silent.

Bro where did you go

It’s shocking when you compare Cyberpunk and Starfield combat right next to each other. One hasn’t learnt anything from the other and is outdated by more than a decade.

Bro please!!! I beg of you…this cannot be the last video you make, Starfield can’t be the video you leave this channel with! I hope you’re doing well and come back one day.

I know this is a year old video, but 10:37 LMAO. I am in fact myself, a homo genius.

I absolutely loved it for its NASApunk aesthetic and absolutely hated it for literally everything else

i dont think the game is as big of a let down as most people say it is. i mean honestly it still has the same core gameplay elements as the other games. you can run around, explore, .loot. and other things. even on a larger scale………its just that a lot of the stuff is spread a bit thin. but i honestly like many of the locations though.

The star citizen exploration is unmatched

26:08 and the next three minutes of cyberpunk 2077 footage is how you say it’s cd project red sponsored video without telling a thing

This whole video to me is just like: Starfield Bad; Cyberpunk Better

Where did you go?

Come back to us Tonald 😔

18 months without a Downward Thrust video. I understand he’s moved on to a more stable career, but I miss his commentary on games.

one this you said isn’t true, Starfield DID say something to offend me. ONCE. that was it. and it was when my companions talked down to me for a legitimate military command decision that HAD to be made. i said the general was in a tough position, and they were disgusted with me for it. but other than that, yea your right about everything else lol

Starfield is just like Star Trek Online, which is a 15 years old, free to play MMO.

Bethesda relied too much on the community to make their game better.. I’m just glad I got the game from PC Gamepass.. It was just a big disappointment. As soon as I tried “tgm” and it worked, I knew the game is cooked..

So did you just quit gaming after this?

Well. I don’t exactly know. About this. 1000. Planets ???????? But iv been on a few of them. That are good. Some are a bit. ,,,,,,so./ so ,,,,,,and SOOOOMMEE are like. Hazy, smoggy ,,,but I don’t take things. To heart. It’s some thing to do on alll of them ,,,in a way. ,,,,BUT the REALLLYYY. REEEAALLYYY. GOOOODDD part is. ,,,is that. THAT sarah morgan chick ,come up to you and BLASTS you for no reason. ,,😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 so you shoot the b, tch ,,,, (not that it kills her) ,,,,,just makes you feel GOOOOODDD ,,

Hmm I. Honestly. CANT understand. WHY theses people that play these games. COMPLAIN SO MUCH about them,,????????????
when the REAL ANSWER is. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT
DONT BUY IT ,,, , simple. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 let us good people. ENJOY OUR GAMES IN PEACE. ,,, PLEASE. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Starfield just seems to be severely half baked. 1/10th baked even. It’s like the initial idea for the game that was agreed on when they started was amazing, and after realizing they bit off more than they could chew they hyper focused on making a game that released as bugless as possible, which they did, but is a husk of what it could have been. Everything seems like the bare minimum, least fleshed out version of what it could have been, and likely was imagined as before starting development.

Skyrim is literally:

ADHD – The video game.

Aaaaand he’s gone

Tonald.

You have spent many seasons in slumber.

The cosmic chicken stands unguarded from the likes of Jim Sterling and Movie Bob… Boogie has sunk to new levels of depravity.

Please return to the Intellecutal Gaming Community!

The Don calls for you!

Put Cyberpunk down for 25 mins to watch a video.
Watch 25 mins of this video.
Go back for another 3 hours of Cyberpunk post-completion rampaging #.

Dude Cyberpunk is totally awesome. Starfield is lame.

You know, yhe procedural thing could have worked if they had made the plot revolve around that, say the explorers club your a new member of stars seeing bizzare tjings like ancient ruins undiscovered despite being visable from the star port ect.

Make the game about realising your in a simulation, how do you respond to that?
Justifies the differenr factions as AI with different opinions on being AI, some dont care and just get on with life while the starborn start speedrunning existence ect

everyone shitting on this game, i like it very much.

One point I don’t agree with is the cut-scenes, specially in a firs person point of view game, I don’t want the game to take over, decide what’s happening and show it to me, I want to decide what happens and live through it. A cut-scene makes you the passive spectator of what is happening to your character and is completely opposite of what an RPG should be.
That’s also the reason why I don’t want a voiced character.

If it were more of an adventure game, like say kingdom come deliverance or Mass effect where you are playing a very specific story with a predefines character then it’s perfect but not in a elderscrolls like game where I can be whoever I want and do whatever I want,or at least I should.

And maybe I should ad I only half agree with the combat part, Elder scrolls like games are not combat centered, as long as the world is well crafted, exploration is good and there are great quests combat can be very basic and I’m happy. They should do better difficulty wise that is absolutely true but for the rest it’s not as important and wouldn’t have been a big deal if everything else wasn’t so boring. But as the game stands you’re right that even combat is not helping making it more fun.

24:52 tbf i would also do that if i saw John Protagonist do that to my buddies and knew i was next

Really good analysis!

Pirated this game played a couple hours
i can’t fly into or out of planets
Have to fast travel everywhere
Delete game
Bought no man’s sky

Somebody’s been watching fudgemuppet 🤭

hey, i hope you are well. i just wanted to say that i miss your videos

Hope to see you making new videos some day.

Okay, wait…WHAT!? “Starfield is a game that shattered my sense of disbelief”? That would mean Starfield STOPPED you from NOT believing in it, aka it RESTORED your belief in it. You were making the EXACT OPPOSITE point…I’m nearly positive u HAD to have meant it would NOT allow you to “SUSPEND your disbelief”, right? What you said would be a COMPLIMENT 2 Starfield. Also, unless someone is literally like a 14 yr. Old, any “TRUE Bethesda fan” would’ve EASILY been able to see the INCREDIBLY steep decline of their studio/games as early as Fallout 4, but no LATER than Fallout 76

This game is so aimless

I think that because video games are focused on aim assisting rather than the aimlessness and evoking, creativity and problem-solving to figure these things out for self it does the experience and almost kinda is the aimlessness that is unwanted Like riding a bike with training wheels and then learning to ride without them I still love Starfield I can’t wait to see it grow it sometimes, when I’m on the planets. I think I’m in the elder scrolls 6😂

I used to watch you alot like 7 years ago. Time flies, i can tell you enjoy gaming alot more now

Have a happy holidays Downward Thrust

Yea I remember figuring out how to slide cancel in cyberpunk just because I’ve played cod

Where’d ya go dude?

Elite Dangerous is what Starfield wishes it was

You know what I’ve always wondered from these many starfield review videos on YouTube. If Bethesda knows about how many of us are deeply disappointed with the game. Instead they reply to bad reviews with AI generated replies.

We miss you man

I said it once. I’ll say it again. First off you have to understand. There are 2 major types of gamers. #1 Explorers/adventurers. #2 main story liners. Now with that out the way. Alot of people was complaining (YouTubers) about Bethesda having better story lines. So with Starfield they probably spend 90% of their time on story and side stories. Other 10% on base building. Ship building and procedural generated content. They left out us explorers/adventurers. Let me explain. Skyrim you could go into caves and spend hrs going through the cave. Starfield a 5 min copy and pasted cave. Another example. Fallout 4 you could build as many turrets as you wanted. Starfield what 4-6 turrets. They catered to the storyliners. Leaving out explorers/adventurers which is their main fan base. There’s no hand crafted locations to explore. No caves. Bases are copied and pasted to the point its very noticeable. Past games they equaled this out fairly. They didn’t do this on Starfield. They said it would be a 10+ year game. No and I will go on further to even say past titles are better. Steam proves that. Starfield is made to play quest, side quest, then move on to the next game. Which is a shame. I’m a Bethesda fan as well. I was excited for the game. I was bummed when seamless planets wasn’t a thing. I let that ride. With the lack of handcrafted content for exploration and adventure. That did it for me. They totally excluded the largest chunk of their player base over a few youTubers complaining about stories. So they went all out on that. Then gave adventurers/explorers ship building. Wtf man what a let down to the fan base.

Bro where r u

Played it on some game pass thing, lasted about 30 hours and it just became so dull I started going back to looking for bits of grit and dry mud in my carpets and using my mini PC cleaning vacuum cleaner to get them.

Its to easy and lazy to jump on the hate bandwagon. Use some imagination and creativity, make something more interesting!

Yup the classic Bethesda bullet spread 😁

Exactly!

he was so disappointed he quit youtube 😢

Bethesda could’ve done the less planets with more substance with just a simple story tweak. Make the story about how you are one of the first humans to explore deep space. Can still include starborn with some tweaking and decisions you made will affect the galaxy in the near and far future regarding humanity traveling space.

You’re comparing two games.. why? IF Starfield had all the cyber mechanics you’d just be complaining that bethesda stole all the mechanics from cyber.. both games are good. (I think cyber is boring) Both are bad. That’s life. Don’t compare games, if you want the same mechanics, don’t complain when both are the same, but you will. Starfield at first glance for the first 40-100 hours is a great game. Once you start repeating it, sure it get’s boring.

You know how Starfield has so many elements? Well what if, in a system like No Mans Sky, you had to discover and name minerals on planets, then you could mine them for said elements, and each mineral has a percentage of an element giving you a certain amount of it based on that percentage. That can play into the whole exploration society narrative of Constellation by having you document these minerals AND by fiing the empty voids between POIs with these mineral nodes it at least gives you ONE REASON to explore the planet and go off the beaten path! Instead of just having pure elemental nodes to mine which is not only lazy but uninspired and unimaginative. Imagine how crazy these mineral formations could be I mean JUST LOOK AT NO MANS SKY!

Grab dash looks exactly like whirlwind sprint with the way you just stop at the end, negating any time you saved.

Where r u

this is the rule of thumb: play videogames that come out of Europe. Simple.

To everyone who thinks this game was released the way it was without though to it being half finfished. To look at 76 perfect example. I may take 10 yrs but someda my god this game will be released as advertised” – tod howard

Bro, again. After 75 hrs. It is not the game. You are just dumb.

If it took you 200 hrs to realize you don’t like a game that just shows me you have no self respect or anything better to do XD

Sure, starfield is horrible game, but using cyberpunk as the example what a good game should be. Well, can’t agree.

you trash at starfield you can go invis while someone walks by take em out w a suppressor slow mo into taking out a group of 5 grav dash into a melee kill that last 2 and boost pack outta there before they get a shot off

that feeling of wonder is what this game is about after you get that the rest of the game is just to waist your time till you realize the best part of the game was before you played it

1:01:00 LMAO

1 year later and as a fan of bethesda since the launch of morrowind I can honestly say that STARFIELD IS THE WORST GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED. IF BETHESDAS NAME WASN’T ATTACHED TO IT EVERYONE WOULD AGREE. SHALLOW BORING UGLY GARBAGE

Complains about realism…. Then goes on to complain that his 100 pound female character can’t shoulder toss or pile drive buff enemies. Bc it would be realistic if she could!!

i was very disapointed with SF since it was not anything close to star citizen, so if bathesda wants my attention SC like game is what im expecting from bathesda

Looks really bad. If you want to make a game set in space, at least model low gravity properly and model things like fuel consumption etc.

Rage 2 also has awesome movement mechanics.
Its very similar to Cyberpunk when you start to combo them with each other and the various attack options. The jump dash then double jump to hover into a ground slam… chef’s kiss.

Rage 2 was produced by Bethesda.
Like 6 years ago.

Rage 2 is a hidden gem… its so fun once you have all your abilities. It also has the best shotgun in all of gaming. You can tell id. worked on the gunplay.

I would dare make the assumption that it might have had some influence on Cyberpunk.
Too bad Bethesda is like “Nah, we are good with the same old clunky, boring mechanics and combat we been doing for 15 years.

I played for 4 hours and uninstalled the game. Glad it was on GamePass and I didn’t spend $70.

Its boring. And when its not boring, the combat sucks.
Its deliberately a waste of time. 20 minutes in that first big city and I was mad. I had to run then walk then run then walk then run then walk across that massive, empty courtyard full of zombie NPCs twice and I had enough.
Its just a re-skin of Fallout 4… which I also found to be boring AF and couldn’t get more than 10 hours into.

Just the music in Cyberpunk is more exciting than anything is Starfield has to offer.

As a Skyrim huge fan, I found Starfield simply boring, shallow and non-inmersive. Also, the gameplay (combat, exploring, item collection, etc) feels outdated and little evolved from Skyrim 13 years ago. Plus the plot and dialogs with NPC are basic and cliche (not that Skyrim ever shined in this department, to be honest).

I dunno, big disappointment. Bethesda got tons of work to do to get Elders Scrolls 6 right to redeem themselves from Starfield.

Even Mass Effect Andromeda sounds more than this and I only been looking at discusions and playthroughs, to the point, the more I listen the only way I would even play this thing is it was free

35:54 You’re not “bouncing,” you’re double-jumping. We can hear the associated cybernetic implant sound play and it’s also why you can’t (and don’t) double-jump after “bouncing.” You already did, just close to the ground.

Not really fair to compare Bethesda to a dev that gives a shit about their fans

Haven’t touched 2077 or this trash. I detest first person anything so I will never touch it ever

Are you okay??

I could forgive boring planets and a lack of exploration if the quests were more interesting.

Seriously, which fucktard at Bethesda decided that out of the MASSIVE INTERPLANETARY WAR, the Pirate Empire, the Religious Jihad People, Bioweapons Research Run Amok, and Magic Space Rock Scavenger Hunt, the Magic Space Rock Scavenger Hunt was the most interesting story they could tell?

hard to watch when it constantly plays cyberpunk footage for like 5 minutes at a time

They made this game to not offend any they/thems and in the process of doing so ruined so much. They kept with their style of making big locations small for quick game play, and their engine being able to handle it. They really needed to go all out, make huge cities, and many towns on the planets with O2. And they needed to give an option either at install or new game start as to how ‘rough’ we wanted the game…PG13 like it is or R. Far too many hints at many things but nothing. The companions could be more fun but again, nerfed. Other ‘followers’ have potential but nothing tapped.
I watched a review last year where the author looked in depth into how this was made…it basically had 1 writer. And now with people who were involved speaking out there was a lot of other studios making pieces and little to no oversight or control to make it go together well. And little to no QA. Supposedly Bethesda staff were given the game to play for almost a year before release…did they really play it? If they did were they so deep in the mix they couldn’t see how MEH! it is?
Early on I came up with a list of mod ideas to improve the game, but then it dawned on me. I would be putting myself through hell creating and maintaining these for free. All the while Bethesda would be sitting back, laughing at us fools who made mods for free while they rake in tens of millions of dollars…for releasing crap…..I don’t think so.

Purchased Cyberpunk 2077 back in the day but never actually played it. This video just made me install it. Thanks

Big is NOT better, quality immersion is .!
Get rid of the wokists running the agenda at Bethesda and get back to what you did best previously.
No Planet to atmosphere to space content without loading screens is what players want and not the shit they continue to pat themselves on the back for .
I doubt the Dark Brotherhood questline will be saturated down to an soft argument with a fairy god mother .
Fallout 6 will be be about a UN mandated french crossdresser tip toeing through the rainbow tulips .
Let the player friggen decide what is their moral obligations are and play how THEY want to play, instead of being railroaded by the useless woke nutjobs you’ve hired.

Get your shit together bethesda !

Hey man I love your content, been following you since 2019. I hope you’re doing well and come back one day

Hey man, i’m not sure what’s happening in your life or where you’re at, but just wanted you to know that i’ve appreciated your videos over the years. You were one of the first gaming essay channels i found. I still think about you and pop back in from time to time.

Hey what happened with this channel? I remember I follow it for years and now it seems its abandoned..

My biggest complaint by far is that the letter O on the keyboard doesn’t use a medpack. 2200 hours later

Everyone trashed cyberpunk on launch because of bugs or something, now everyone treat it like industry gold standard, like Witcher before

When u looom at Garfield next to game li’e cyberpunk it’s just…. Well like few independent developer would made this game in free time. Bethesda is bigger then both cd projekt and larian and channel money from ESO and they came up with this? wtf, look at this face animations, in Skyrim they looked better and those bugs…

well, you still could buy a very expensive ship
to do nothing

Thank you. I am adding Bethesda next to a GameFreak from Nintendo amd Bungie to incompetent developers who dont know what the fuvk they are doin.

really deep procedural would be better than copy/paste down to the corpses and food wrappers…strange..

there is false backstories in CP 2077
there is honest backstories in Starfield
CP 2077 – false abilities
Starfield – honest abilities
there is no gameplay in CP 2077
there is good gameplay in Starfield
There are no windows in Nightcity, it’s a basement.
No need to falsely praise Cp 2077 and falsely criticize Starfield

God that Starfield direct was the greatest scam they ever pulled. Even if it was just Skyrim in space, I’d have loved it.

This channel needs a return

Cyberpunk sucks too though. Stalker gamma is where it’s at.

What they should have done was make 10 planets, with the next DLC make 5 more planets, with the next DLC make 5 more planets, so on and so forth until they decided they were done with the game, also while allowing mod makers to make their own planets

I really appreciate the tone politness and density of the review. Going to subscribe. Thank you for your service

Feel for Jackie more than any Bethesda anything. Jackie was the man. Died to young.

Honestly, the biggest downfall of this game is its scope. There just too many mechanics going on in the game, and almost none of them have any real meaning to the actual narrative. When you try to do everything because of a misguided philosophy that gamers expect good games to be a reflection of real life, nothing gets done well. It seems like the only thing Bethesda put any effort into was finding ways to hamper your game play experience so something fun becomes the exact opposite.

never thought id be watching a video essay where cyberpunk is used as a study of ideal gameplay

When you start comparing the conversations and “cutscenes” of Starfield to cyberpunk it reminds me of how I felt starting Starfield. Going down in the elevator inside the mine at the very start of the game it looks motion captured or at least animated. The way they move and give you equipment. I was thinking every dialogue in the game would be of that quality and thought bathesda had really improved the conversations in game….. but no. That is the only time in the entire game a scene plays out like that. I was very disappointed after the fact.

7:42 well it didn’t… most people hate this game, in case they even touched it to beginn with 😀

Looking at cyberpunk after a session of this game is so depressing, but glad you included it 😂

Big bro, where are you? Come back please ❤

The world may be going to hell in handbasket but we will always have Starfield to punch down on. Thank you Todd.

Give us 15 planets with 3 handcrafted stops each where everything is unique and dense, give us more than 2 real factions, the galactic war should be an ongoing conflict and give us a way to create a new faction on planets we take control of and let us create a city as a capital. The United colonies seem futuristic and cool until you make your own faction and they try to attack your capital because you haven’t made peace with them and didn’t do anything to deter the attack.

The game had tons of potential but not much else.

Out of all fairness any FPS you play after Cyberpunk 2077 is going to feel basic, boring, and last Gen.. I just hope GTA6 is as fun without the tech and crazy movement that’s in 2077

Microsoft will be the death of Bethesda and unless Xbox makes some huge changes I see them turning into a modern day SEGA

That cut to cyberpunk gameplay is like dancing on the grave of Starfield

Maybe you need to get a life, but no you put time and energy into a shit video that proves nothing other than your inability to get a life.

Now this game has a 100gb mod support limit and its a matter of time until insane mods make this game hilariously fun, like Skyrim and Fallout 4 on console. YUH!

1:12:54 I fucking love delicate weapon, that song goes so hard

45 minutes of cry. get a life. play something you like.

The empty, barren , maps made me think of Mass effect1 planets…at least back then they had an excuse for lack luster planets.

I had to double take at your thumbnail, it looked like a pelican’s front from Halo :S lol

Am I crazy or was the vanguard quest line the best Bethesda side quest ever?

While the combat and movement in Cyberpunk feels way better compared to Starfield, in terms of enemy AI I don’t think they differ much but that’s an issue of like 90% of titles with FPS mechanics.

Habe you never played a Bethesda game before? Everything after morrowind is disappointing.

It’s obvious why things are the way they are. Creations. They put in hooks for things (like fuel) that something Like Stavival can hook into. Then let the modders handle it and hope that they’re greedy and charge for it so Bethesda can get more microtransaction money. It’s crystal clear.

Also why go in and handcraft planets when the community might do it for you? Creation kit now. I don’t think it’ll be long before we see “Ceta system Overhaul mod: Overhauls and refactors all planets in the ceta system making them unique and divers”

I don’t think it’ll be long before we see skyrim caves ported over. Or just more caves cells at least

Im hoping that they at least take the feedback and add it to the game. The caviot is that they have a ludicrous amount of space to add content. It has such potential to be a great game. Praying for updates, the vehicle was a good start.

I never landed on a planet and thought “wow this is beautiful”. Its always “hmm i wonder what type on bland nonsensical procedurally generated bullshit will I have to trudge through now?”

Starfieldis still WAY BETTER THEN EVERYTHING E.A. HAS REGERGITATED OVER AND OVER IN THE PAST 24 YEARS!
And they did it again… they bought out paradox games just to throw away their new game that was going to KILL THE SIMS.
E.A WON’T MAKE GOOD GAMES THEY JUST BUY AND KILL ANY COMPETITION THEY CAN SO THEY CAN SELL YOU SIMS PART 456 AND BATTLEFIELD PART 902 AND NEED FOR SPEED PART 768.

Just started playing this game so I’m having a completely fresh and new experience with it. I’m glad I waited until now. Having a lot of fun so far! It’s going to be even better as time goes, and after I get the main content finished over the next month, I have new content waiting for me. It’s a good time to be a new Starfield player.

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I’m afraid you could only be disappointed in Starfield if you have bad politics. Please hear me out. You guys like democracy? You should, it comes part and parcel with egalitarianism, equal civil rights, which is the real actual source of all innovation and art. The more rights people have, the more they innovate and create art, and democracy holds potential for the most rights for all. Which is why corporations are a problem, specifically, is the total lack of democracy, let alone egalitarianism. Listen, a corporation is a resource-based dictatorship, it exists for powers sake, and this means that all corporations, like any and all dictatorial power structures, get eaten or become the predator. There is no other fate for a dictatorial power structure. Bethesda was chasing away its own artists by transitioning to predator OVER A DECADE AGO. It has been bleeding artists, what remains are people who are ‘just doing their job’. Skyrim and Fallout 4 were the last gasps of art they could possibly muster. Everything that follows is a product made for the express purpose of parting a consumer from their power and accruing it for themselves. Corporations a priori cannot be the good guys, because good guys believe in democracy. We have a whole different word for a resource-based democracy, we call that a co-operative, expressly to delineate them from dictatorial corporations. Dictatorship is not just unethical, it is flagrantly incompetent by comparison. It exists purely to feed the poor mental health of would-be dictators. If you are seriously surprised that a toymaker dictator would be bad at making toys then you need to step back and take stock of the world around you in a big way, and stop just going off your papa’s politics; your papa was a drone.

People laugh at Star Citizen, which has a hardcore starship piloting system, and then go buy Starfield for $100, whose space gameplay consists of watching loading screens. Clown Emoji.

It’s been 9 months since a new video was uploaded. I enjoyed this guy’s content, anyone know if he’s ok?

36:23 I already bought the game at the montage, How much more can you convince me?!

“It just doesn’t work” thanks Todd. If I wanted someone to ruin RPGs I would’ve… Idk where I’m going with that. In conclusion! Fucking Todd

Funny you mentioned it felt like the writers were being restrained and couldn’t say anything because they literally were lol. Sweet baby inc was heavily involved with Starfield.

RIP bethesda. Cant believe i spent $100 on that fucking trash propaganda.

Came for starfield slander, stayed for cyberpunk montage

is he still uploading on patreon ? really love the channel hopefully is enjoying some down time.

@1:12:34 : it’s very embarrassing. it’s like Disney trying to show a nightlife club scene.

The exploration its so boring fallout does it waay better

It should have been No Man’s Sky but with fixed generated worlds with cities on them for story purposes. I’ve have scarcely been so disappointed with a game and I can’t believe Bethesda betrayed the single thing they’ve ever been good at – making interesting worlds.

I’m 400+ hours in and I’m in love with the game, even with its many flaws. I think your video is one of the best criticism videos I’ve seen, and is not just blind hate of the game. Unfortunately, it does make me realise more and more flaws that I often overlook or try to ignore 😂 I really wish ship combat and space exploration (while in your ship) was better implemented… Probably one of the biggest let downs of the game. Well done with the video!

I stopped trying to find new games to play after starfield and battlefield 2042 crushed all my hopes for gaming

I remember theorizing the end of the game would basically introduce an alien race into the game and completely flip the game on it’s head, but no! The starborn are just dudes from other universes, yippee!!!

It’s crazy that we had better space powers in 2007 with Mass Effect 1 and as the series progressed (up until andromeda) the insanely fun combos and powers only improved steadily with each release. Somehow they made a worse system in 2023.

I feel like they should have done more of what Mass Effect did. Lots of planets but maybe should have just been able to send probes for resources. That or maybe send people you hire to planets to see what they find.

Instead of making the Elder Scrolls 6 which what we all asked since long time ago, they decided to make this garbage

A very biased review. Keeps comparing Starfield to Cyberpunk 2077 – at great length. Makes the one-sided argument that Cyberpunk – and older game – has better exploration, combat, story, quests, writing, graphics, progression, travel, characters, dialogue, cutscenes, lip-synching and other details. But does Cyberpunk 2077 have 1,000 planets? No. That’s never mentioned.

One thing tha shows how luckluster the story really is, is how wirters create fanfic of it. For example cyberpunk, elden ring and fallout all focus more on the world of their respective universe with a focus on exploring and addin to the world.

A vast majority of fanfics of starfield are romance fics betwen an original charcter and someone of the crew (mainly sam, sarah and andreja)

Havent watched the video yet. But this was the second game I ever pre-ordered and both this and watch dogs legion were massive disappointments. Never again.

I still remember the day I stopped playing starfield. I was in a gunfight and got bored after killing countless minions. I decided to abandon the gun fight all together and go do something else. Then it hit me…there’s nothing else to do. I haven’t turned the game back on since.

Edit- I do want to thank starfield though because I got star citizen after I quit starfield and wow…it’s exactly what I thought starfield would be.

I love the video, some good points, but I have to disagree that they did the factions well. Bethesda creating a new Space Opera IP and giving us the boring tired ol “Big Three” factions is almost insulting. UC and Freestar are so shallow, and them hiding House Varuun, who by far is the most interesting, secretive and possibly most powerful faction behind payed DLC is garbage. Also, there should be dozens, if not hundreds of smaller independent factions running around, vying for new planets and colonies.

But what do we have instead? A big 3 (2) and then a pirate faction that is cool for maybe 4 missions, and then the spacers who have no depth whatsoever.

Still waiting for a game to have serious RPG structure with elite dangerous flying mechanics and trade/mining. I’d never play anything else if that game ever gets made.

Luckily for starfield players, theres No Man’s Sky. A better, more content rich game, with a lot less loading screens. Also cheaper than this budget knock-off.

Watching this makes me so glad No Man’s Sky has improved over the years. It may be procedurally generated, sure, but the worlds have so much to see and some amazing generations, especially now with Worlds Pt. 1. And the flying looks especially better in NMS because you can fly wherever you want with no loading screens.

Heres the thing about fuel elite dangerous has a fuel mechanic and honestly its fun because you have the thrill of running out and needing help. So idk man it just feels lazy by bethesda

To be honest… bethesda games, have always been rather sterile. Some npcs walk around on a pattern but you don´t really see much otherwise. The dialogue has always been cringe in their games, but it became part of the charm as it was like this for years.
In general i think bethesda had it´s success with the elder scroll series… but they actually never developed or grew with the industry. Heck even when it comes to fallout the superior title is done by a different studio (Fallout new vegas – Obsidian). That already showed pretty clear that they didn´t have it anymore and with fallout 4 showed they couldn´t be ar*ed to improve.
Cyberpunk 2077 is such a stark contrast it´s unreal they are from the same decade.

The most disappointing part.. they allegedly worked on starfield for many many years to deliver something that, while not horrible, just feels like a mediocre game from decades ago with modern graphics. Heck… mass effect andromeda is probably a better experience. (even so the actual flying around part doesn´t exist there).

I haven’t played Starfield, is it’s exploration similar to… first Mass Effect?
Dropping on a planet, going to the points of interest, finishing the objective with some little combat and leaving?

Just on foot instead of a jumpy space tank buggy?

“… something to show you that this place has been lived in…”
like… its literally unhabited planets that you explore, do you expect major cities located there?
9:31 its literally a planet with no atmosphere and 631 degree celsius ambient temperature with almost no resources (and also no magnetosphere, which means high solar radiation), it makes sense that there is no POIs around

Oof, that Skyrim intro.

“Depthness” 4:49

Admit it, cyberpunk would have looked so much cooler if it was third person with the ability between switching

This just makes me want to replay Cyberpunk

Mathematically unique (aka randomized) does not mean humanly unique.

Its really hard to take any of you guys seriously because every single one of you has brought up Cyberpunk 2077 as if y’all weren’t talking shit about it a few years ago, its ridiculous to even compare them as the entire game is different other than them both being RPGs. Then you do realize this game still suffers from the same problems you claim starfield has yet no now eveyone is praising cyberpunk as if it became the game if the century when its still a buggy mess that has subpar game play unless you use the sandevistan or hacking everyone you have nothing else that is actually interesting beyond what every other game has, I can do all that minus the kill animations in fallout 4 without mods. And don’t get me started on the atrocious storyline that’s so predictable I knew the ending long before I got to it, but strarfield is way worse right because you didn’t pay attention to the story or characters and how like every other Bethesda game is explained in more ways than completing quests. And while the planets feel baren the universe is very much a lively place with different adventures to be had all across the universe I have still not even explored half the planets because Im too busy doing things on the planets I uave already discovered and not only that but the surrounding solar systems as well with so many different side quests that can actually tie into the main quests characters but you have to look for them instead of hating it because its not what you wanted, its more than enough to be one of the greatest games Bethesda has ever made and at least top 10. Oh and starfield has one of the best stealth mechanics I have ever experienced in a game it’s actually realistic most of the time anyway, it reminds me of dishonored 2 with brutal gameplay that made each encounter challenging and fun not like previous Bethesda games where I can literally be invisible or cyberpunk where I’m never seen by anyone ever when playing any stealth build, the only real fun I had with cyberpunks gameplay was the sandevistan which is my favorite type of mechanic in any video game so if it didn’t then the game should have been considered garbage as its not hard to do like I alrelady said fallout 4 already did it and its not as good at level one but starfield does it too and I love it but many of the other powers are actually engaging instead of use this and either one thing dies or everything dies that’s really it for cyberpunk and don’t talk about the animations because they get old pretty quick and its very annoying you can’t turn them off

I made a big mistake I started Starfield directly after I finished Cyberpunk (Phantom Liberty). God Starfield feels like an annoying game from 2015. Everything in this game is designed to rob your time and fun. Unbelievable 🤣

I really hope they listen to the players/community and dont just see it as “hate”. I really REALLY dont want TES6 to beeeeeeeeeeee this generated or shallow :’)

Probably the same dude who said cyberpunk was trash at launch 😂

Those dialogue comparisons between CP2077 and Starfield highlight something so many have pointed out about the games ie that despite using NASAPunk as their aesthetic signifier, compared to Cyberpunk, Starfield has no interest in actually capitalizing on that “punk” aspect. I’ve heard that exact sentiment that Starfield is absolutely “sexless” and though crude it is an apt description for how absolutely droll, bland and barren of actual style Starfield is. There’s no life nor edge nor grit nor soul. That one casino conversation in 2077 is a microcosm of the beating heart & vitality that game has & expresses even in the simplest moments. Even in comparison to visual novels, Starfield is bereft of dynamism such that it might as well be a text adventure. That’s not meant to be an insult to Text Adventures since I love that genre because through simple & deft use of prose, a great text adventure can create mood, atmosphere & character that can make the reader’s imagination boil in a simple scene. It’s a feat that despite Bethesda’s control over lighting, art style, soundscape, camera etc. it fails to even match in Starfield. Even with their (IMO poor) facial animation tech, too many exchanges in Starfield come across as so completely bland & empty of any elements to create any mood, tension or character.

Universe worth but empty inside.

Bethesda successfully made an anti ADHD game. Congrats!

Cyberpunk has 6 times the amount of players starfield has

I was a little bit confused when people on twitter started clowning on the one guy who said that the player should be able to land on gas giants like jupiter, saying that it wasn’t like that in real life, and they want it to be realistic. I don’t know about everyone else, but I would absolutely be willing to suspend my disbelief in exchange for the wonder of seeing what Bethesda’s interpretation of a gas giant would be. Something to the effect of “heheh im gonna crash my ship into saturn because why not” turning into “holy shit you can actually land”. I think the call for “realism” in games ends up making the game boring because the real world is boring. I want more whimsy and wonder in my games.

I fucking knew this would happen i was telling everyone but no it’ll destroy no mans sky it’ll be perfect no i fucking knew it i knew it would fail

Alright video, but you rely _WAY_ too heavily on other games to make your point. Two, four, five minutes of uninterrupted footage? I’d practice more restraint in the future, even a minute of another game’s footage would get your point across.

Dude just made me redownload Cyberpunk

There’s a youtube video comparing starfield’s club deal scene with Cyberpunk’s Maelstrom deal scene and the difference is night and day.

It was the stealth creatures that made me cringe, it’s like they lacked imagination to create natural camo for them, oh and the shouts of “you’re not worthy” and bloody necromancy in the final confrontation, was I playing a scifi or a f’king fantasy, don’t get me wrong, I like both genres, however the writers could seem to get away from their fantasy roots.

You lost me at praising the faction quests

The moment i put the game down was after landing on my first planet I went to explore and saw a cool monster thing destroying a little hut and thought cool what else is there on this planet. And there was nothing like genuinely nothing else.

I’ve been playing RPG games for most of my life, but I’ve grown sour on the industry. For me the state of the field is exemplified by how industry leaders downplayed BG3 for abandoning the formula they have embraced in games like Starfield. It feels like every game these days is the same: beautiful to look at, exploitative as it tries to force you to stay “engaged”, bland in a corporate HR way with respect to plot, and increasingly filled with heavily integrated microtransactions. In many respects it reminds me of the state of the film industry, where every project is enormously expensive which makes it so high risk from an investment perspective that it forces companies to make production choices as safe as possible to satisfy investors. Experimentation in new gameplay design or intentionally challenging story is nearly impossible in that environment, so what we get over and over are great looking games with misleading trailers that imply gameplay that will never actually exist. I fear that the days of the Mass Effect trilogy, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and Witcher are ever more firmly in the rear view mirror, although a part of me can’t help hoping that the success of games like BG3 will inspire positive change.

Did bro just quit making videos ?

I’ve never played starfield but one thing I noticed is the loading screens. You get interrupted by a loading screen when landing on a planet. That must be immersive breaking.. i get that its probably difficult to implement but other space games have found a way around it.

I think it’s fair to say the majority of gamers would rather have a shorter game with hand placed well thought out places than a longer one with procedural generated planets.

When you think about it, probably the most detrimental thing to open world games a genre is the little number you see counting down the distance before you reach something. In every single game that has that little counter, your entire field of view shrinks down to watching that number go down and any form of exploration is reduced into waiting for you to reach tour destination. So it has to be the most harmful thing you can put in your game. If you’re gonna guide tour players on where to explore, give them a direction rather than a distance. That’s what the best good open worlds do, because that way you don’t know how far you’re going and you still have the possibility of discovering other stuff as you go. Without that, why even include an open world if your game is gonna be fixed locations separated by empty scenic space.

Huh, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines has a far more engaging nigh club than Starfield.

Hell, Deus Ex has a better night club, and that game has terrible animations!

Wait, Starfield still uses Fallout3’s bullet mechanics??

This game taught the gamers of the world why it was important to have a central design document.

Okay, that orgy of action and violence from Cyberpunk 2077 makes me understand a little better why people like that game.

It has now 59% on steam.

I wonder if he likes Cyberpunk.

in terms of anything spacey i just remember elite dangerous exists. It has spaceflight, both on and offworld. It has proper fuel conservation. the flight mechanics are better

Your example clips from other games were too long for me. I came to hear you bash starfield. Eventually, you lost my interest. sorry.

Why am I watching some random game that is not Starfield? Why is it so effing long?

The real tragedy of Starfield was Bethesda’s response to its customers who weren’t thrilled about it. It’s an ominous indicator of what to expect for ES6.

If you wanna run around a proceduraly generated world and find shit to mine there is already a game that does this better: No Mans Sky. Which somehow despite having the same gameplay loop is better in nearly every aspect (Altrough not good enough to make it an actually great game still. But at least I can trust NMS to actually fix their shit, unlike bethesda who leaves it to modders)

Todd Howard’s brain is stuck in 1995

played this game for free on xbox game pass, it’s ok for a FREE game, but I’d never spend money on this turd….

Bethesda could learn a lot from a professional game developer like Hello Games.

It fails at exploration, fails at space ship sim, fails at a fun story, fails at economics. Ship building is cool and one of the faction storylines was interesting.

Cyberpunks combat the way it is now is pretty good, but let’s not forget this game, too, also launched terribly. People say it’s fixed now. idk if that’s really true. I never really went back to it. I wasn’t a fan of the main character you play as, and the story wasn’t for me.

Has Todd Howaard ever played a Bethesda game?

The real kick in the nuts is having 1000 planets and only 5 “major” settlements..

“Bethesda promised…” Yeah I’ll stop you right there. Bethesda promises you the moon. They lie. Obviously.

Damn is Cyberpunk actually good?

The original Starfox is way more immersive on the Super Nintendo. Every planet is unique and there are multiple paths you can take through the solar system. All with 16 bits.

What happened to Tonald? Its been like 7 months since his last video and clearly his viewership wasnt lacking for his videos.

“Grav Dash” is just the first word of Whirlwind Sprint. Momentum stopping and all.

I got tired every two minutes I had to play the inventory game.

In short, they learnt nothing from f76. Typical Todd behavior.

starfield

Starfield is really not big. Its not a 1000 planets you can explore, its 1000 maps where you can randomly click and the game will generate a small map, where there is nothing to do and nothing to see.

I’m not that picky about my BG games, my favorite is Morrowind and I love janky, outdated mechanics. It’s the lack of exploration that did it for me.

Jesus why are game devs obsessed with middle aged lesbians

Try dash lvl 10 …

I’m honestly way more forgiving of No Mans Sky than I am of Starfield. NMS was made by a team of TWELVE. It was a passion project they ran out of time on for the amount of THINGS they wanted in it by launch, with no PR team and a Lead Dev that was a HUGE introvert, with a team that have spent basically every year post-launch making it into the game they wanted it to be, for FREE. You can see exactly what they did wrong, in hindsight, and you can understand it easily.
Starfield? Starfield was made by a team of hundreds, by a studio known for it’s handcrafted worlds, that arbitrarily decided they didn’t need to do one of the main things people played their games for, and decided the best thing to do post-launch was to drip-feed additional content via their paid store. Sure, NMS might be rough as hell around the edges compared to a AAA game, but at least NMS’s higher ups GIVE a shit, you know?

First time and Last time , watching this channel …Too depressing.

the number of people that defended this game and still defend this game as a good game is mind boggling. they’re the reason why studios can get away with producing “AAA” garbage like this because studios know these people will still dumpster dive for their products

and people still dick ride this game, like it’s the 2nd coming of Christ

What broke the wonder and immersion for me was all the open-air campsites I kept finding on every inhospitable world I landed on.
Why are there just cots, sleeping bags, desks and food items just scattered everywhere in places no human would ever have such things? Are the people of this game’s universe the absolutely worst litterbugs, or is it just bad implementation of a procedural generation system?
I would gladly trade 100 systems with procedurally generated nonsense planets for a dozen well crafted star systems and worlds to visit.
I hoped Starfield would be Skyrim-in-Space, but it isn’t, and it breaks my heart.

Buy their next game i am sure it will be good

the gameplay breakdown was an awesome part

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This video can be summed up as “Cyperpunk good, Starfield bad.” I get it. It definitely made me actually want to play Cyberpunk, but it felt like at points all you were doing was saying “why aren’t you as good as this game I like?” And bear in mind, I have an extremely negative opinion of Starfield. I do not like it at *all.*

This is ridiculous, never in my life would I imagine Cyberpunk being used as a positive example. Wow how far gaming has fallen…

Been playing through mass effect for the first time and im about half way through ME3. Ive realized mass effect is the starfield i wanted.

An ocean wide, spoon deep canvas they expected modders to fill out.

Its kinda like going out to eat at a restaurant but they tell you you have to prepare and cook it yourself.

You know what bro… I love Starfield for the potential of what I know I will someday be able to turn it into, but right now you are right.

Nothing the modders can’t fix 😉

Constellation sitting on their butts for years before the main character appears to me was the most story breaking moment to me.

It looks like no one cared about space exploration in the setting before you pressed start on the main menu. And these jokesters were supposed to be doing YOUR job before you joined.

I dunno im having a good time. Im taking the game slow, in no need of instant gratification every 2 minutes. Flaws?, yup but plenty of releases have them. All in all i personally find it to be a calming and intriguing game. But i always like to hear other peoples perspectives on it, even if i dont agree with some of the complaints, though of course some are warranted.

Shartfield

I wasn’t disappointed because I expected it to be a mid game and it delivered.

video isn’t why starfeild is disappointing, this video is “why cyberpunk is better than starfeild”. seriously bro glazes cyberpunk too much in this vid

All the hate this game gets is so over rated it’s a well made game. Respect it for the quality it was designed for. Join the masses and become the sheep. So lame

49:53 this right here is why I f*cking hate the space combat. Look at the top right corner. You ALWAYS end up with a bounty because some dipsh*t UC or Freestar ship gets grazed by a laser because it wouldn’t get TF out of the way. Outside of knockoff-VATS, there is no precision in space combat so you’re always going to accidentally hit and piss off an “innocent” party. Unless you are actively targeting them, you shouldn’t get a bounty for hitting a ship with stray gunfire when 90% of the time you’re responding to a distress call or just showed up, saw a fight, and tried to help. It is so goddamn annoying.

I couldnt disagree more. The game was fantastic. From a fps/rpg hybrid perspective the game was phenomenal. The base building, weapon and spacesuit upgrading, the factions, the loot, the skills. But i entered without expectations. That seems to be the downfall of starfield. Not the game itself. The expectations.

That they sold a game you KNOW no one at Bethesda would want to play themselves is enough for me to never give them any money for Starfield.

Are they expecting Modders to fill in all the holes?

After the launch of fallout 76 and Starfield I have realised Bethesda games are now best left for a year or so before buying them, after all the kinks are all worked out and the worlds are more populated.

I still like it, but good points

I could fast forward a 1h:20m video with a 1,2 second sentence: Its a modern Bethesda game.

I can’t believe they released this game with no vehicle(s) to use on these planets. They should know that Death Stranding is the most recent And current walking simulator but even in That particular game? There’s vehicles lol.

40:00 – 41:34 Such a waste of game 😮😢

35:14 – 36:48 Such huge comparison 😢😢

34:10 – 34:25 Unbelievable 😢😢

I can’t wait for the next Bethesda game to tell us about another world-changing, massive conflict that we don’t get to see at all and are told what happened by the same VA’s

The disappointment of watching a retrospect review only for it to try to sell me another game. Too much focus on cyberpunk in this video tbh man, you could have moved the video along faster by keeping it to quick edits. Think people would have understood the point you are making in each category. Other than that great video that got me to 1:07:07 in it.

Remember watching trailers for this game and got excited since i was looking for a new game besides Destiny. When i saw Bethesda in the trailer i was out. Stone. Cold. Out!! Fu*k Bethesda and their 1979 game engine.

How the hell did you even manage to play it for 200 hours?

Now do star citizen.

Jk. The video was a good listen.

A space game with no space….🙁

Whoa whoa no mans sky is a absolutely fantastic game now and has been for a long time now. That company deserves all the love all these free updates they truly love the game and i do to. Hopefully you weren’t comparing this trash to no mans sky

Starfield Millions of dollars later

You should compare Starfield to Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Games are subjective . I love ES series and fallout . Starfield was cool as far as a new ip . Just because a game isn’t a 10 for reviewers doesn’t make it a bad game . I think the major problem is there is no competition. Which is crazy because ppl would eat more of these styles of games up instead of the 30th assassin creed . Maybe . But I feel like starfield is made for old guys like me who take there time . They do need to cut about 700 planets. I’ve watched my nephew play and he just wants to blast through it . Then complains that it’s boring . It’s not fortnight . Obviously this game has issues but there is nothing out there like bgs games .cyberpunk was straight garbage . Boring no body acted like real ppl . Yeah it was improved with 30 updates but still mediocre from a company that made the witcher series. Corporate greed is the downfall of gaming. Oh I own a PlayStation so I’m not coping I’m just giving an opinion.

I made it 3 minutes. Couldn’t make it past Girl Boss.

As a fan of Bethesda games for 30 years Starfield never appealed to me. It looks incredibly generic; the concept art looked like low-effort stuff from Deviantart and when it finally came out I was right about everything. The sounds, the sights, the animations, the jank… Nothing has been improved upon from the past Beth games. The gameplay looks more boring than Fallout 4 which I didn’t think was possible. With each new game I realize more and more how much I love Morrowind and how far Bethesda has fallen.

I enjoy Starfield. *shrugs*

They should have had 100 deeply crafted worlds. More quests, enemies, POI that we haven’t seen a 100+ times on almost every planet
Seeing the same deserted weapons research facility or abandoned listening stations gets tedious. I mean it’s the same POI with the same pictures, desktop garbage and the same enemy type. Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
More planets and quests could come in the form of DLC. Slowly build the galaxy with deep exploration and content, creating thousands of more playtime. Then again this is just me complaining

2:47 “starfield does not take advantage of this opportunity”.

It’s literally the reason the game is bad, so many times there is a good concept in the game that will always play out like a 2/10 movie. The end of the game opens up the multiverse and the option that you just don’t belong here isn’t even in the dialogue. I killed the star born and because they invaded my universe, but through dialogue it plays out like so I guess you don’t agree with any of our points. There’s is no point half the time and the reason you make choices in games is never represented by what happens.

Star field did not survey a single person to see how the would react in rpg situations and made a 200hr game that just isn’t fun.

I liked star-field, but as an rpg its lip service.

It’s fun listening to your voice, great content

HELL! I would not mind these generic moon rocky planets if they make them a more risky plaent to stay on cause hiw terrifying they can get. Weird anomalys that alter the physics on a world, unconfirmed

Only enjoyable dialogue I had was with that bounty hunter lady in cydonia

If your environment is randomly generated, it needs randomly generated content to fill it, or else you will have the same things repeated as you see here.

Randomly generated factions, quests, and events would have been a boon to the game.

Wait….people actually went in expecting Bethturdsta to have suddenly and magically learnt good writing and storytelling? LOL

procedural generation isn’t why starfield is bad, it’s bad bc it’s a half baked procedural system 1 person could develop in an hour

You have said it all.
It’s fine to see an icon, but it only feels like a true open world when you randomly come across aliens..and then… Oh… They live in a cave…and WHAT.. somebody died in that cave..but before they died, they wrote something in blood …