Starfield Is NOT "Just Another" Bethesda RPG!
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2023
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Starfield is finally out and now so is my review. Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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jesus i felt like i was fitting after 30sec of fast cut edits
game is trash, respect lost
I will once i get over the idea that it will take a lot of work, I'm just a retard attached to my browser (firefox), but I have thought about it for years and I will get it XD
EDIT: i know it won't take a lot of work, it's just an excuse to procrastinate lol
Finally, I was waiting for the greatest game reviewer to talk about Starfield
if only there was anything to talk about
And his review hit the nail on the head ez.
Its sad we have to look forward to mods to fix this game. My hype is lowkey dampening For TES 6
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It was very entertaining and informative
Why, did Tim Rogers make a video about starfield?
The lack of meaningful exploration is really sad, something i really enjoyed in Fallout 4 for example is the little easter eggs, if you are enough of a lootgoblin and search every nook and cranny of a location you are bound to find a teddybear torturing someone
....are easter eggs now consider "meaningful exploration"
@@silvekin nah man not by itself but it's the culmination of the little things, like a little joke the developers put in a random spot, that makes the world feel whole
@@silvekin If enything little easter eggs and lore bits are the best kind of motivations (if executed right) as they a tad more internal compared to random XP bar
@@silvekinyes, at least more so than empty fields with preset buildings peppered in here and there
@@silvekini guess what hes saying is its better than nothing
I like so much how this man went for shaolin monk youtuber to batshit crazy insane game reviewer.
What? Its the other way around dude lol
Pretty sure he started out batshit crazy and has been since 😅
@@user-wl1wk2pk3v he has a few videos about the time he spent at the Shaolin temple as a warrior monk and what it's really like.
Even if you barely mod Skyrim, with little to no tweaking, you can have a fun immersive experience full of discoveries and stories to tell. Starfield became a great Ad campaign for Skyrim and No Man's Sky, and nothing more.
I fell in love with Skyrim the very first time I played it, without even knowing about mods
@@believer431 It's a testament to how great the game is. While many systems are simple, the game works wonderfully with its many systems, it's just that mods elevate the foundations even higher. Keep in mind that I also just use a moderate amount of them, no overhaul.
I liked the lore added by skyrim to the series. The quests that everyone likes as well (daedric quests, etc.) Other than that, skyrim felt very lacking in terms of decisions and player's choices. Lacking in lore consistency, and so on. The combat, magic system, etc. being so simple combined with the shouts really just felt like a power play main character (which it is anyway lol) kinda rpg, which wasn't really my cup of tea (most bethesda titles weren't, despite having a friend who is a huge sucker for bethesda). But the quests, handmade terrain, exploration, changed my mind overall about the game and made me warm up to RPGs in general and made the elder scrolls series grow on me. Sure Skyrim's locations aren't as big as those before, the amount of NPCs aren't as many, and so on, but it seems believable being Skyrim in the 3rd era, just after the great war, with the civil war going on, and the Nordic culture and architecture making sense. Overall, it all ties around itself and makes most things make sense and immerses you despite the classic funny moments and small inconsistencies. For a game released on 11/11/11 it was worth my waiting until anniversary edition to finally give the game (and bethesda) a try, which made me actually like their work and respect their efforts on fallout and elder scrolls. Back then I thought Skyrim was just another boring RPG with only the graphics and terrain being the good thing about it (nothing like walking on skyrim with that nice music). I've tried it a couple of times at a friend's pc a few years after release. I didn't like it lol. But trying it out after more than a decade of holding back on it because I thought it wasn't worth playing, made me realise how nice it is. Nowaday, me just use couple mods here and there, fixing stuff and inconsistencies, spicing up the combat and immersiveness, and I've never had an RPG so tailored to my own terms before. Mods aside, I would play skyrim just for the lore, nostalgia, exploration, writing and so on. However, taking walks frequently while also walking in skyrim, feels like farming then playing farming simulator.
@@enman009 I used to have a dislike for the RPG genre, Skyrim fixed that, says a lot about it I guess lol 😊
Literally makes no sense but whatever boats your float man
After about 4-5 hours or so I completely lost my desire to explore the world, which is the complete opposite problem I have with other Bethesda games where I end up with decision paralysis because there's so much to find. All I want to explore at this point in the game is Sarah Morgan's and Sam Coe's insides.
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probably because it fells like a past bethesda game modded. no real change, u really have to have a lot of free time to play it through
You are a poet
I became a ship hoarder after 4-5 hrs
After 4-5 hours, I was hunting down all the Unique weapons and doing pirate missions. Iunno what You were doing, but it sounds like you were trying to manually fly from planet to planet 🤣🤣🤣
"Procedural generation is where meaning goes to die".
-Rantoni
Quote of the fucking year for the gaming industry. *Massive chef's kiss.
The brilliance of his quote is that it also reflects real life. Too much freedom takes away from order. And only through struggles is meaning found. It's the hero's journey as well. An archetypal character in the human psyche
procedural generation doesn't have to be bad. Daggerfall had pretty great procedural generation, of course it was limited by the tech of the time, so tilesets made it look very samey. The tech exists now that you could have procedurally generated daggerfall style stuff, that doesn't look like it is made out of the same 6 tiles for 6 different tilesets.
procedural generation i've seen used well in games like arpgs like poe for map generation or in other indie roguelikes but everytime i've seen it used in open world "freedom" touting games its be garbage with the closest to success being NMS@@mercb3ast
@@mercb3ast it had great procedural generation relative to what procedural generation of the time, but most people would have preferred a smaller world more handcrafted.
Ranton seemed a lot more passionate about this review, the editing and humor was a lot less chaotic (despite still being random at times lmao). Skyrim is (I believe) still one of Ranton’s favorite games of all time, so I was really looking forward to this review.
I loved the video, it feels more insightful and has a nice change of pace from the usual reviews.
Am I the only one detecting hypocrisy in having Skyrim as a fave and disliking Starfied for lack of meaningfull exploration? Skyrim was literally Meaningless Exploration: The Gold Standard
@@jansettler4828 well, in Skyrim those things are mean to be there so it's more meaningful than Starfield, i guess
@@jansettler4828 maybe to you, to me exploring in skyrim is fun (no mod. yep). my mods are just adding outfits from other games and adding random pretty and funny followers because why not lol. otherwise, everything is pure vanilla. tried modern combat mods, dont like it. back to vanilla again. its just simple (like ranton said) and it works. only games like dark souls where more advanced combat is fun to me and witcher too. oh assassin creed as well.
i mean, i got uniquely named sword in skyrim with some story behind it because i was exploring. got a unique dagger from an adventurer who lost his friend to a troll/bear/spriggan (i forgot which) because i saw someone sitting idly in front of a random looking cave. accidently stumble into a cave filled with a handful of vampires and almost dying to them with my low level ass gears lol. discovering shit related to... dragon priests? because i was exploring a place that seems like a cool, glorified shortcut.
i could go on for at least 1 or 2 paragraphs more, but my memories are fuzzy and now im about to play it again, vanilla only. idk why i keep coming back to vanilla no matter how many mods out there lol
@@jansettler4828starfield is bigger but as full as skyrim , that puts it into a perspective . Skyrims world was not so big , but it had something to do whenever you go out into the open world , starfield tho , all planets are just jpgs and their surfaces are fucking barren
wym mean lmao skyrim has better exploration then starfield its keeps u intrigued with the environment then starfield lmao
If you like fighting the same enemy that is in the tutorial of the game 100's of times over and over again with absolutely no evolution whatsoever, you're going to love the combat in starfield
And that claim that fable 1, a game that came out 20+ years ago, has worse UI, therefore...okay, I'm done. I can't.
@@bobmcbobbington9220And which was meant to be an Xbox exclusive, no less
There are many enemy types in starfield
@@jayg.2066Haha yes. It has 30 variations of humanoid enemies and they all act exactly the same in combat. And 10 terrormorph variations that also act almost exactly the same in combat. And a handful of other creature enemies that all act the same in combat. Such variation lol!
Yeah I can't see how he found the combat good. The actual shooting itself feels good, what you are shooting at 10/10 times is dumber than a sack of bricks
I don't think a Ranton video could exist where I agree with every single one of his points, but here we are.
starfield sucks ass
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Agreed
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What about Adolf?
@@VCRAGE which Adolf there are plenty
@@VCRAGEadolf ain't german tho
I will never stop coming back to this channel. I forget it exists for several months and then suddenly banger reviews drop like this one and I binge watch the rest of the vids I missed lol
I really want to see Ranton and Jack Black in a room together, I think there could be enough energy to power humanity to the stars.
Rantom being contrary to mixed reviews is him being mixed. So stunning. So brave.
Fucking masterpiece of a review. It should be a cold shower for Todd and everyone working on Elder Scrolls 6, I'm really worried about it.
Amazing job once again, I want to shake your hand, Ranton, maybe hug you, no homo tho.
Thank you 🙏🏼😘
Fuck it, I'd even go for homo
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First fallout 76, then this. I don't think todd knows what the fk he's doing. He liked to hype shit it and not deliver.
Same, they still couldnt get combat right even after many years of wait
I have had news Ranton.... Most modders have given up on Starfield
Morrowind skills were pretty in depth. It was 21 years ago but played for at least six years so I figure it counts
morrowind's speechcraft system is one of the worst i've ever seen however.
@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 that's a really fair point haha
And when the world needed him most, he returned.
Even Jedi Survivor did this multiple planet thing better IMO. There are 2 huge open world planets and a few other smaller but linear ones. I had so much more fun in that even though that's not an RPG.
Starfield is a 2013 game in 2023. But tbh that’s kinda being way to nice because gta 4 and even the original dead space are far better games. If starfield just had better writing and characters tbh I think I could really like the game. I think they thought everyone was gonna love the companions. Starfield is the most realistic game ever because there is no proof that any of this has any meaning.
Well yes, but they were only limited to a certain of number, so they can cooked the planets really well.
Still, Starfailed sucks. Shitarfield still has barren exploration, for a game about planetary exploration, still shitty NMS ripoff.
Yeah, I played Survivor. They weren't randomly "procedurally" generated. No it didn't. Most planets and moons contain Numerous randomly generated areas the size of fallout 3. You could load a save before entering the area you already entered and Everything will be different. I have one where I was on a moon, and had Ecliptic on an abandoned mine and a group of scientists I had to escort back to the nearest big city. Reloaded, and an entirely different map with different locations, one had an old outpost filled with Spacers, another some UC dudes fixing some weather machine that helped with the acid rain. Not to mention all the random shops that fly in that you can potentially steal, including some Big time type C ships. Survivor was Nothing like Starfield.
@@ayourmum8521"better writing and characters" the CF quest was Golden, what were You playing?
@@jpisbackyeah i believe op mentioned jedi survivor, not fallen order, the one before it.
I like when he gives examples on how to make large scale open world game in space possible, with handcrafted areas to explore instead of a whole planet, he almost describes Mass Effect 1-3 perfectly. (I know these games have their own issues with lineal kill corridors, but ME gets a hard carry from its story telling and gameplay, so i can look past that)
Exploration in the other bgs games is so much more rewarding cause you can physically see the cool thing you want to walk to and then you walk to it and see other cool things on the way. In starfield you have to slog through menus and loading screens then pick where you want to land and god forbid you land somewhere without a marker cause then you'll get 6x6km generic generated landscape with actually nothing notable to look at 9/10 times, the best thing i saw when landing on a flat space on a barren moon was a researcher taking pictures of the landscape and living out of a small hab. Your planet scanner says you chose a mountainous region? cool you get 20m tall hills or some extra steep rocks. A forest region? cool you get a patch of trees spread apart 3m each( at least). The only accurate ones is coast regions cause you get to see a big ass body of water in one of the directions. And any points of interest you might have seen from far away are instead highlighted on the planet viewer. Instead of ¨holy shit what is that tower in the distance¨ or ¨whats that building in the boston skyline thats always lit in the night¨ you get a marker that says exactly what it is so whats really the point of going to ¨abandoned fracking station¨ when you know its an abandoned fracking station. What really killed exploration for me was the POIs on earth. If you know your geography you'd be able to pick them out on earth, I did. I went looking for the pyramids, i went looking for the st louis arch no such luck because you need a misc quest marker that activates a landing spot marker on the planet. i went looking for the empire state building, i went looking for a bunch of other landmarks and points of interest that do not exist that i think should exist because it would've made sense for them to. Like the himalayas, surely if the stack of rocks in egypt exists the tallest mountain range much bigger than the pyramids would too, nope just more desert and rocks. Ok surely any mountain, nope. Just more fucking desert and rocks. Guess whats still standing Sky scrapers with a 90% glass facades and most of the glass is still there.
As cool and fun flying space ships are, the mechanic is largely inconsequential, there isnt a lot to do or see in space my favorite moment in the game is bumping into ¨The valentine¨ and listening to the guy sing, so it adds mostly nothing to exploration and adds to the overall nothingness inbetween the mildly interesting parts. Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk also has big patches of nothing sometimes, but in those games you get a mode of transportation that is much faster than your running speed so you get to see the landscape go by quickly, going fast is always fun and going fast while looking at pretty views is very nice. There is a 8km straight stretch going from the most eastern point to one of the most western points of main NC in cyberpunk and driving down that main road at 180km/h and watching the badlands change into rural into dense streets and skyscrapers, avoiding other cars while listening to the radio is completely pointless but its also one the most fun things to do in the game in between quests for me.
If they wanted to keep the conflict between UC And FC they could've taken a page out of "The Expanse"'s book and made it much more localized instead of several systems just keep to the Sol system and Alpha centauri. Two systems with very good habitable main planets and then extra planets for resources, military bases, population etc etc. Alpha centauri wants independence like FC, Sol wants to be one big group for some solidarity bullshit like UC and they fight sure maybe its reminiscent of the skyrim civil war but the added setting with space fights, actuality conquering planets, having to minimize or maximize civilian casualties(cause you're awesome), having on ground battles to control ground to space cannons or dismantling mech factories or taking care of rogue xeno-aliens etc etc it would have made all that fucking dope.
Also about the main companions, decent idea cause you can do more in depth stories with few rather than half ass many, but really meh execution cause there are so many crew members far more interesting than the ones in constellation. You can meet Marika Boros as soon as you get to NA and she has different ambitions from you but still has to travel around to gain perspective so she can one day build her own ideal settlement. Helping her do that would have been such an interesting quest line and would have given the player real incentive to do proper outpost building and management cause there really isn't any reason to unlike in fo4 where resources and crafting are instrumental to getting stronger.
All the jokes about ¨skyrim in space¨ and ¨fallout in space¨, i wish they were true now cause starfield is less than that.
Great points. I'm thinking Microsoft as the owner of Bethesda could have made content from flight simulator available, then just applied procedural generation to weather, age, make ruble/ruins, and generally reduce detail to just primary artifacts and typography, then add a team to create a few interesting interiors/quests/etc. at key surviving landmarks.
Kinda felt like you'd be mentioning Outer Wilds. That game is exactly what I think you meant, handmade planets with handmade mechanics. True, they're not Starfield BIG, but with Bethesda's budget they would've been able to do some like that imo
Best space game, hands down
Outer Wilds is like Fallout in space. It has humour, good writing, some very dark themes, but also whimsy and the feeling of discovery and exploration.
None of those are in Starfield.
Petition for Ranton to review outer wilds
@@Isnogood12are you thinking Of outer worlds? Outer wilds is the space puzzle game, outer worlds is the fallout in space game
@@Mr.Beavis667outer wilds is a masterpiece.
Wilds, not worlds lol.
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**posts the least contrarian review on his channel**
I think you nailed it. The 6 out 10 was spot on. My take was that I loved this game right up until I didn't. Half way through my first replay (plus play) I just put it down and felt no need to go back. I got my money's worth, so okay. I feel more desire to pick up Skyrim for the 12th play through than I do to finish my second one here.
Love the pacing in this one! Way more consumable whilst maintaining that Ranton humor!
When Ranton uploads he never fails to spread my cheeks and make me smile 😊
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Man.. Each one of your point and reason really feels like it comes from your heart. I love this laid back and more focused review.
I used to be super into the idea of exploring an endless open world. When I was playing Oblivion, I remember thinking, "I wish I could just have Infinite dungeons like this to explore through," and when I was playing Minecraft, I remember thinking, "the best part of this game is that I can always have more of it."
But now that I've started playing more games with packaged well-designed experiences, I've really had to reevaluate that. I didn't even get Starfield because the concept was uninteresting to me. I've been playing Baldur's Gate and Tears of the Kingdom, where the intentionality behind all the in-between sections - not just the obvious highlights - REALLY stands out. I've realized that the things I liked about Oblivion's dungeons were their uniqueness, and the joys of discovering them in the first place. Give me infinite procedural ones, and you've taken away the best parts. You put into words what I've been feeling for a long time, and I think Starfield really suffers from having been built with old mentalities right at the cusp of a new wave of games that realized quantity cannot outpace quality.
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As a Brazilian I just love the fact Ranton used one of our most iconic memes in the beginning of the video, AKA the Dante RaCeCaR PiLoT school kid.
Ranton, you beautifully crafted a review of Starfield that completely took my thoughts and feelings for the game right out of my head. Thank you. Love you, dude. Keep these amazing reviews coming!
'we had certainly bitten off far more than we could chew'
they *literally* told us the game was going to be missing things and nobody ever brings this quote up? this is S tier evidence
the meaningful exploration is a good take. as an openworld arpg fan, what fuels my exploration was the wanderlust from uncovering the world, with how rewarding the landmarks are that piques players interest; packed with environmental storytelling, thriving npc's, random encounter, and sidequest with dynamic narrative. sigh* looking at previous Bethesda titles, thats true.
You ARE aware that All of Bethesda's previous "random encounters" were all actually just scripted events meant to trigger when you entered from certain directions or certain times, write? You can read the papyrus scripts and see exactly How they're triggered. Starfield's are a lot more "random".
@@jpisback yea it's part of dynamic narrative/writing.
GTA 6 will be better.
I got called out for wanting 10 planets instead of thousands cause I knew it was gonna be randomly generated. Procedurally generation = no point in a game. It immediately translates to the game designers not planning, not working and not caring for the player's experience and lets the AI do the work with no soul and no point.
Proc gen absolutely has a point if the point of the game is to be a sandbox which is what Starfield is and was marketed to be, and sandboxes are worse the more limited they are. No Man’s Sky, Elite Dangerous, Daggerfall etc these games aren’t bad games, they’re just sandboxes and people wanted a narrative game from what was always going to be a sandbox. I love sandboxes so Starfield is great for me and I love it. Worlds are not interesting to me if they’re only the size of a studio apartment, even if they’re an ocean deep.
@@Brokenlanceah yes , the famous unlimited world of Starfield . The only price you have to pay for that world is your time and immersion , sunce you cant even travel between planets without a download screen. Maybe you have to get your eyes checked out , starfield feels much more limited than even their previous games
@@erxan4163 but it doesn’t for me. The issue is people like you acting like it’s an objective statement. It isn’t. Would seamless travel between planets be cool? Sure but a lot of the time it’s just a hidden loading screen in those other games as well. In NMS when you fly into orbit you cannot watch the land in space seamlessly transition to the land you’re about to land on. Your canopy gets engulfed in fire and clouds and then finally there’s a momentary pause when the game finally instances you into the planets atmosphere. It’s just a very well hidden loading screen. In Elite Dangerous you can’t seamlessly fly between planets. You select a target initiate your FSD and then you’re put into a corridor where you have to keep your craft on target and when you get there, there is a momentary pause and then it drops you in at your destination. Also as for load screens, literally every single Bethesda game has loading screens for every single area you walk into except the overworld. So while I understand the exploration is not the same as previous Bethesda games (except Daggerfall, it’s exactly like Daggerfall) it isn’t this unprecedented thing either. The issue is we were promised Daggerfall in space, and that’s what we got but despite what we were told, people came up with expectations for themselves that were never set by Bethesda and THAT is an objective fact.
Also, where did you get this unlimited word idea about Starfield? That was never promised in marketing ever. He always said that space was one instance and Planetside was another, and that when you land on a planet it’s a tile and each tile is about the square size of Skyrim.
@@Brokenlancethe point of a sandbox is that there's sand in it.
When he said "todd is obsessed with rebuilding" it made me fear TES 6. It's rumoured to he in Hammerfell and Hammerfell is, according to the lore, destroyed by the Aldmeri Dominion so i could see it being a "rebuild hammerfell" 😭😭😭😭😭
My biggest issue is how the factions have no real impact just like most other BSG. I really wish you'd have to commit to one faction and it would make other parts of the world harder to access and easier to access others. I think it's odd you can be vanguard, free star and uc etc. Which is always the main thing I don't like in fallout or elder scrolls
The other issue is they're supposed to be barren planets almost all have traces of humans already being there
If you see a door in Starfield, what are the chances it has a loading screen?
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7/10
I loled at this.
And I love Starfield and have atleast played 400 hours now...
"You were so busy creating a world that's believable, that you forgot to create one that's interesting". Bars good sir.
"I love everything people hate, and I hate everything people love" Lmfao That's me my brother from another mother.
What utter lies. He's spewing the ssht from every other sony pony
@@ummerfarooq5383 I've been a huge Bethesda fan since Morrowind. I bought the premium edition of Starfield and never thought I'd refund a BGS title. But I did for exactly the reasons he gave. And I'd give it the same 6/10 score, maybe 5. When it's on sale, and after modders have had time with it, maybe I'll buy it again. I'm not a fanboi.
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Yep, you hit the nail on the head.
That's the same argument I had when people said I should like it if I also liked the other Bethesda games.
People have already forgotten about starfield.
I absolutely love that youre doing reviews once again! Keep em coming my man 🤘
Did you really use Matteo Renzi in your video? I just love it
The Sar Wars KOTOR games are also incredible space exploration games, maybe more so not just Super Mario Galaxy.
I just told my friend yesterday that they should have made it just about solar system. Something similar to Expanse series. They could use Mars, Venus, Titan, Io, Moon, asteroids, space stations... And make everything full of exciting discoveries. That would be very good game.
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My biggest issue is that the enemies are boring. There's no diversity in the enemies. In Skyrim there's animals, werewolves, vampires, falmer, giants, dragons, etc. In fallout there's ghouls, Deathclaws, Super Mutants, Aliens, Robots, all kinds of mutated animals, etc. In Starfield there's alien creatures, turrets and robots, and humans. That's it.
This game respects no ones time, they saw people spending 3 digit hours on their past games and instead of giving us more things to lose ourselves in, they gave us more things to waste time doing that ultimately amount to nothing.
Definitely one of the best reviews ive seen of this game
insanely good video as always anton mein süßer. 1 little thing. have you considered getting that small mic you put on your t shirt for better sound quality ? just an idea :)
I love u for that bully jingle at the EZ text
this is it. i think you found the perfect balance in your videos. really enjoyed this review😊
I appreciate that!
Honestly couldn't agree more !
Yes!!
Holy crap. You actually made me realize why another game I'm playing feels so bad to a lot of players with this. Props to you.
Absolutely love the review ❤
I am having fun with starfield because I scan planets and discover many random events plus do all faction quests…
200 plus hours and still haven’t done more than a few main quests😅
That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love to see more.
However 200 plus hours in I’m not expecting much more until dlc arrives 😅
crazy editings man
Holy shit, finally someone who has a similar opinion! I'm sure there are more people out there who think alike, but I've seen so many posts excusing its issues by saying "It's a Bethesda RPG, what did people expect" but that's the fucking problem tho, it definitely doesn't feel like a Bethesda RPG.
It sorely lacks one of the strongest aspects of their previous games! The only thing Starfield did for me was to make me appreciate Skyrim and Fallout 4's world-building and exploration even more ...
Playing Fallout New Vegas right now and there is so much to discover and everything feels meaningful unlike with starfield
Ranton has grown as a reviewer and his still matured and i am all for it! love it coming from heavy German jokes and such to this is a massive departure but it also feels like he has found his humor beats alot better and i love it
Thats the first video i see from this channel.
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I love it
I agree with ranton a lot on this and I think it has lots of potential to be great but the main story is meh and the exploration is also meh it's a good game but not a ground breaking one I think one of the reasons why they made the protagonist silent is to allow modders to create content for it easily without the need of trying to edit voice lines and these problems will be ultimately be fixed by the modding community and they will have lots of fun modding it Starfield is Fallout 4 if you like Fallout 4 you will probably like starfield and I feel that they are banking on modders to improve and expand the game and add content hence the silent protagonist 6/10 is extremely reasonable but with time and couple if DLCs and huge mods Starfield will be amazing
i have no doubt modders will have a field day but my only question is that will modders make one whole planet feel meaningful to explore? if yes, how long it will take to finish?
I hate that Bethesda keeps getting saved by mods. They can keep launching broken game after broken game, and they have the community fix it. They even had the gall to try and charge people for the modders hard work.
@@mehemynxm6974name a game in the last ten years that wasn't't broken or buggy at launch?
@@princerose233 name a game in the last ten years that wasn't a complete cluster fuck, barely able to run, and buggy to no end? Halo reach, halo 4, Titanfall 2, metro exodus, disco Elysium, Baldur's gate 3, mass effect 2 & 3, spider man, Hades. Fucking Skyrim ran better than starfield. Where those games completely bugfree? No. Did they have a better story, gameplay and performance? Yes, by a landslide. Don't excuse Bethesdas moronic practices with "oh well lots of games are broken at launch" Skyrim still has game breaking bugs in every version this many years later. Starfield is gonna have the same.
@@princerose233Mario Wonder released a couple weeks ago with zero bugs, and insane mechanics that most devs would build entire games around instead of a single level. It’s my game of the year hands down.
WE STAY ON THE NOTIFICATION BELL IN THIS ONE!!!
When Bethesda said how many planets there were, all I heard was a resturant say "we'll cook your entree, main course, and desert in 5 minutes without reducing portion sizes." There is no way you get that number without sacrificing quality.
15 seconds in, liked and subscribed, such a good vibe
Ranton, listening to the recommendations you gave to improve the game's environment design made me think that you should really try Outer Wilds, it ticks all those boxes you were talking about. (Not the Obsidian game, the one made by Mobius Digital). Truly a unique experience.
First person I've come across that mentions the lack of artist intention/curated experience.
Great analysis of that aspect.
I think the most common reason combat is lambasted though is not the shooting itself which is fine, its the small enemy variety, their ai is terrible, and the contex for which you are fighting is always the same. You shoot cause bad guy. Stealth is not viable cause as soon as you shoot someone silently, everyone knows where you are.
Never like sponsors in youtube videos, but you made it *Rantoni Style* and I love it. Absolute 10/10
The main story gave me the oblivion quest vibe "Close 30 oblivions gates" only this time around when you are done the main story is over. 😂
Problem is closing more that 3 is optional. The only 3 you have to close is Kavatch, Bravil, and the big battle at Bravil. All others are if you want to close them.
Sad to say I agree. I really hope modders will be able to create some meaningful places and stories inside this boring sandbox we got.
Enjoyed the video though, I'll never get tired of your style of videos ❤
Sounds like you didn't do anything on the Game.
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Finally someone who says the combat isn’t bad! I have no clue why people hate it so much. It’s literally the thing I long for the most whenever I’m playing the game, problem is people stick to 2-3 weapons cause they’re the ones they prefer, but using 9+ weapon’s keeps the games action very refreshing
I kinda want to see you review Outer Wilds, but I cant even imagine what a Ranton review of that gane would sound like
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@@stevejohnson6593 Does contradicting with everyone give you a hard-on?
You're describing Outer Wilds as the game you want, like almost perfectly. It's uncanny.
Finally a word for what I am missing in so many games: meaningful exploration. that describes it perfectly
How you explained the planet exploring sounds a lot like death stranding , which you loved. But I agree with ya 😂
I haven't even played it yet, I'll play it after the community has finished Bethesda's game for them (surprise surprise on that one), but you described exactly what Starfield looks like to me from the outside.
A lot of criticism is valid but I loved this game a lot and the experience really stuck with me. It’s my favorite BGS title and I am looking forward to the expansions and mods to come
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see you when you play for more than 40 hours and you'll change your mind
@@trashdoge1217 I put over 130 hrs and did 2 NG+ cycles
Watching a Ranton review always feel like I’m injected with caffeine straight into my veins and i love it
4:22 Maybe because games that perfect the face animations also polish the other aspects of the game. I've never seen a bad game with perfect face animations. There are games with perfect face animations that I'm not interested in, but they are never below average in overall quality.
EXACTLY. The moment i heard “procedural generation”, i started to worry about this game. No mans sky, for all the “exploration” it pushes, got really boring (in terms of exploration) after the 10 first planets. Because they get really ((samey)) after that. I did enjoy with my friend, put tons in hours in, but in base building and campaign.
Outer wilds, just has a single, very small solar system, all hand crafted. You go through that and you feel the true meaning of exploration and meaning. It’s for me, the best space games out there.
Really the only thing I heard people complain about in the first 4 things you mentioned was the UI. And it isn't about how it looks or how you move around in it. It's all about the information it provides or the lack thereof and the delay when entering and exiting of it. Next time you play it, just pay attention to it. You'll see how bad it is.
When buying stuff, theres no way to know how much you have currently. Like with ammo or digipicks or aid items or resources or grenades, theres no number showing how man you currently have. You have to tab over and then find each item. When you have 80 different aid items it can take a while.
When buying a gun, there's no easy way to compare it to the same gun you already have unless you already have it equipped or, you guessed it, tab over and find it. I carry a lot of weapons, always 40 plus. Bc I like switching up all the time and not just using the same 1 or 2 weapons the whole game so it takes forever to find a weapon.
Plus you can't sort them by type. Well you can, but I have no clue what they consider type bc its not by manufacturer or by class of weapon like pistol or rifle or shotgun or heavy. The only thing it does is put the same eact weapon with each other if you have multiple of them. Normally its alphabetical so if you have 5 grendels, you'll have to search for them 1 by 1 or when you sort them by type, all 5 will be grouped together. But there's no rhyme or reason to the order they put them in. The best one of that specific gun is at the top and the worst at the bottom but the actual order they chose each gun seems random. It'll be rifle, rifle, heavy, shotgun, cutter, rifle, pistol, rifle, rifle, sniper, rifle, and on and on. There's no way to have it show you just shotguns and have them listed by whichever way you want then by either manufacturer or value or damage.
There's no way to sort food from aid. You just have to find what you're looking for thru a long ass list. There's no way to sort books from magazines from survey data from data pads.
Another thing with weapons, I have a legendary gun, so of course it has 3 perks. Well it also has 6 mods. The problem? I have no clue what 2 of them are bc the box it pops up when clicked on that weapon is so damn big, it cuts it off. It list 4 mods and then says 2 more mods. There's no way to find out what those mods are. I guess I could go to a weapon bench and see that way but I shouldn't have to.
Just bc there's workarounds for all these things doesn't mean it isn't bad game design. This type of stuff has been in games for well over a decade now. It's the simple attention to detail that Bethesda is terrible at. They won't fix it either. You'll have to get mods to fix it. You're on xbox? Tough shit.
How about every time you go to the star system, it goes to the planet you're on so you have to back out twice every time to get to the system and don't accidentally hit it 3 times bc you'll be doing it all over again. I know if they were to start you looking at every system, you'll have to click on a system and then the planet. But that's why they should start you in the system every time where you only see the planets and moons in the system you are currently in. That way you can either back out to see every system or if you want to travel to a different spot on the planet you're already at you can click on the planet. It's litterally the middle of the two so no clue why they didn't choos it.
There's also the delays between presses. When looking at pretty much anything in the menu, you have to hit back 3 or 4 times or you can hold back. When you hold back, there is a delay before it actually backs you out. Why is it not instant? Clearly you're trying to get all the way out the menus.
It's just a ton of small details like this that make the game worse than it needs to be. This is all simple quality of life stuff that should be there from day 1. There's also a ton of other stuff wrong with this game but that's just some of the stuff I could think of off the top of my head with the menus.
Disjointed was the exact word I used to describe all the fast travelling when I played it!
This is why we love Anton he's not scared to say what he really feels. Even if how he really feels sucks...
Edit: Nevermind he's right, never comment early kids
Using the elevator in Star Citizen was more fun to me than the majority of environment interactions in Starfield.
100% agree with the one solar system. Now I’m sad thinking what it could have been 😢
I think the problem with making an rpg set in the middle future that takes place in our solar system would be that everyone would be comparing it to the Expanse, and there's no way Bethesda would be able to make something more interesting than the Expanse.
hit the nail on the head there, that's exactly how i felt playing the game, the systems were classic bethesda and alright, but it was the actual exploration and looking forward to things that removed all meaning with how procedurally generated most things was.
"Yes, the skill system is Starfield is shit, but it's been shit in every single Bethesda game for the past 15 years, so that makes the skill system in Starfield not shit somehow" - Ranton, 2023.
I really hope our boy didn't give this game more than a 6/10
Did he?
@@alexanderpippington9277I was spot on, yep, 6/10
As my favourite phillosopher Emanuel Dirty wet Kant said " You just cannot Stafield without field... " that says it all
Haven't thought about it before but definitely agree with your point of meaningful exploration.
That being said, sometimes I do just like doing stuff. For reasons unknown, the game I have the most hours in is ultimately euro truck sim. The nuance between cities is subtle or non-existent yet for some reason feels exciting.
I'm about 40 hours in and I'm having the time of my life. I spent about 10 hours surveying planets and I did get bored of it after a while, but I'm having a lot of fun, there is a lot to do. It does take some figuring out what is not worth doing and what is worth doing tho.
Meanwhile, 300 hours into baldur's gate, doing a third run, and having a completely different game unfold. And in all, probably 10 minutes of loading.
I would start keeping my shit takes and bad opinions to myself, if I were you. Some kids had fun playing with their own poop, you didnt see them bragging about it.
you can have fun with any game, if you play 1 game a year. or have autism.
@@putinmahcochin1636 Imagine being so juvenile you describe someone's completely subjective opinion as "shit". Also, who said anything about Baldur's Gate? It's a great game and definitely better than Starfield in many things. But simping so hard for it that you have to mention it to prove that your opinion is superior is crazy. Can't we enjoy games instead of constantly comparing them? Reprioritize bro
@@solitudesf8111 Imagine having fun with a game, that's not a 10/10. Preposterous. What are your favorite games?
@@putinmahcochin1636 you sound like my redditor uncle
This game is garbage, nothing even remotely good
Shout out to your family bro, loved the vid!
It certainly replaced NMS for me as it has actual little side stories and interactions, but I agree that the environment doesn't build up to anything or give you a continuous narrative. It's essentially NMS+
I haven’t played it just so I can hear Ranton’s hard hitting pov. You make great points on things I was worried about (the open boringness of the worlds mainly). I still look forward to picking it up and playing for 100+ hours, considering that they will more than likely add in DLC to make the planets more… immersive .
I don’t know I’m just speaking out my ass. Great video, Ranton 👍🏼
Miss your constant uploads bro. You are a master. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise. We are blessed to have you.
Ranton, love your videos! If you love a hand-crafted space exploration, I 1000% recommend Outer Wilds. You have an entire solar system to explore that is 100% designed for players to explore. You will not be disappointed.
Lets go, great review and video
You made a lot of good points and explained them very well! Another Ranton classic