25 years in the making, my arse. Bethesda saw Obsidian's success with The Outer Worlds and decided they wanted a space game too. So they shat out this half assed excuse for a game, a couple of years later. Surprised nobody else picked up on this.
The worst thing about this game for me was how much there was to do in the vast empty void of space. Absolutely immersion breaking; wtf were they thinking.
You are absolutely spot-on. Starfield is the biggest load of crap ever for exactly the reasons that you stated. The response from Bethesda is even worse and not entirely unexpected. Not that it would make a difference but I would not spend another cent on anything Bethesda because it will likely be something that we have seen before from Bethesda but with a new skin.
What this game needed to be was two Skyrim sized worlds on Jemison (New Atlantis) and Cheyenne (Akila City). With plenty to explore in the surrounding area and quests that will give you reasons to go off planet and explore. The nearby star systems would have their related colonies and a little further outside them would be pirate factions. The outer systems would be unexplored and the reason for Constellation to actually exist. You should need to establish outposts just to reach out there and you should be seeking planets with the perfect combination of resources you need for what you plan to do. There should be finds of lost ships and secret bases, perhaps ancient alien derelict ships and bases, but other than that, there shouldn't be much out there. All the human life is near the core. And you should be able to fly from planet to planet manually within a star system similar to Elite Dangerous. There needs to be land vehicles, the ability to call your ship to you location and more game play for the different ship hab types.
The younger been sold a Bridge to Nowhere. I had the same anticipation and have same massive let down feeling. 40 hours total and it sucks. For a Bethesda Fallout/Elder Scrolls esque game. 40 hours is nothing. I should be getting 300 hours or more before it starts to get boring.
What makes the game o much worse, at least IMO, is that plants that actually had places on them to explore were nothing more than cut and paste. Every, single, time... After the fourth Abandoned Cryo Lab that was exactly the same in every sense to the others, I gave up exploring these useless planets. Every crashed ship. Every Mech wasteland. Every one of the explorable structures were the same as the last. My Lord, this game is lazy.
The explicitly "woke" stuff in the game is small potatoes, and easily ignored. In creating a character, I barely noticed the pronoun thing. Where current sensibilities really affect the game is in the gutlessness of the story, the complete lack of hard choices with meaningful consequences, the absence of anything that would make anyone uncomfortable. The contrast with CP2077, and especially the Phantom Liberty expansion, could not possibly be more stark. There's also a managerial mindset that pervades the game. I was already put off by the impression that I was being called in for a performance review by Sarah in HR after every significant mission sequence, when I found myself being sat down for an actual performance review by the Freestar Rangers . . . you know, the ones who are supposed to represent freedom. Maybe the Settled Systems are supposed to be a bureaucratic dystopia?
They wasted too much effort on these small potatoes though. I don't mind the funny Russian accents, as a Russian myself. But when you have the funny Russian accents, a ship designer, female representation, a useless cooking system, pronouns, useless base building, but... no plot to speak of, you start to wonder, what the heck is going on here.
"There's also a managerial mindset that pervades the game". Yes, all that bland dialog every character in the game says about "hey, my work is hard, but it's a great company and I'm lucky to have a job". If there's a test to find whether someone would like the game before they play it, it's this: When you hear the phrase "You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps!!", do you think it's a) hilariously witty, clever and a profound insight. or b) a trite, glib cliche you've heard a thousand times and never want to hear again. If you answer a) , then Starfield is the game for you.
You are exactly right, activists not game programmers. Small percentage of freaks and supporters of those freaks trying to push their reprobated minds on the rest of us. I was pretty weirded out when Barrett tried to romanticize me (I'm a guy, super-straight), also at the beginning with the gender crap. I'm playing the game for the outpost building and resource stuff and have about 340 hours in the game with about 150 in outpost stuff. I liked the missions for a while but they are the same 6 or 8 places over and over with no relation to the game lore. The quests are ok but get annoying after the back and forth stuff. Plus half the stuff with resource management, containers are partially broke so none of it works correctly, no way to see all your resources at the same time, no way to track all your outposts from one screen, etc...Thanks for your video. I'm going to try to share your video with Obsidian Ant, he is getting the same impression concerning lack of game lore and putting stuff on planets just to have them be found with no relation to the game.
I absolutely hate all the restrictions that prevent you from enjoying the game. Constant over burden, only like 2 infinite storage boxes, how you go to an ENTIRE FKING PLANET to sell you loot from ONE MISSION... and that entire planet can comeup with more than 18k? How tha fk does that economy even function. Just that i have to go to 4 different planets to sell ONE raid of gear. Trash. Then the constant conpanion bitching. I will only use Vasco, Betty, and Jesamine from the fleet. All others are complete trash. You need more weapons, more armor, more ship and weapon parts. Its like the took out wverything that was good just to make sure it ran at 30fps. Its just a polished turd. The shipbuilder is by far my favorite system in game. N even that needs work. The parts are so limiting... no wings, no curvy peices to make saucers, tall thin ships and wide angled curves. Unless the completely overhaul this game with the dlc n mod support.... till game will die. We need more compainions, varrun, ecliptic, crimson.... being evil should be more viable. This is the firat Bethesda game where i feel stuck playing the game the same way as everyone else. There not enough variety.... all this said... i have played it only on PC game pass and am soooooooooo glad i didnt pre order or buy it.
I love how you're so absolutely entrenched in your own political bubble that you think identity politics is the reason why a Bethesda game doesn't have land vehicles instead of Todd Howard just not being a great game producer. Bethesda games barely fill a single map environment, and Todd thought he could fill a galaxy. It's a joke.
Huh? I never mentioned any land vehicles. About Todd: Yes we know Todd, but it is not me being in a "political bubble" the reason I am claiming what I am claiming. The reason is that BGS hired 27 external game studios to make the game. All these studios are in turn under one umbrella, that of "Keywords plc", which itself is strongly linked to ESG commitees and such.
You just might be a bad game when an FOV slider isn't even in it on LAUNCH.A feature that is in EVERY OTHER current game annnddd it's NOT the first time. They got crap for it in 76. People were getting sick. They were FORCED to put it in. Several years down the road, "whooppssiieee". "Couple of MONTHS down the road we'll have it. While modders got it in HOURS. I love some Bethesda games but this thing is an...insult. This is a PRODUCT from a multi, MULTI million/billion dollar company that is now owned by a multi, MULTI TRILLION dollar company who SUPPOSED to be a HIGH TECH of the high tech annnddd this 20 year OLD thing is the BEST they got? Just yet ANOTHER example all these "big" "aaa"s, millions , billions,...whatever THEY got ...nothing anymore. JUST...talk. Modders too, bless their hearts, should be insulted too. If ever there was a BLATANT example of RELYING on THEIR WORK, this thing SHOWS IT.
That's just not true. I have been a Bethesda fan for decades. Fallout 4 is my favorite game. This mess called Starfield was most DEFINATELY NOT made for me!
They played ULTRA SAFE. No, no not offending ANYONE anywhere , anyhow. No crazzy , politically incorrect beings out here in space. Nope not...one. Space, the...SAFEST frontier. These are the voyages of Slopfield. To explore...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
YOU'RE THE -DRAGONBORN- STARBORN! No way Bethesda wasted 8 years making this trash, The Frontier guys spent 8 years making that mod, sure the writing is bad, but the technical side of that mod is nothing short of a miracle, making a map that is as big as NV, driveable vehicles, cutscenes and making you play another character that isn't "you" while using this trash engine is downright black magic.
I’m a BGS fanboy and I think the game is a steaming heap of cowshit on a cold January morning. 2023 has been disappointingly eye-opening for me what with the AAA game space. Diablo IV is another one. So much damn disappointment in one year.
Oof, yeah, D4 as well. Did a review on that, was attacked (of course). A few months later suddenly all of the attackers and their grandma were saying exactly what I was saying months before.
You gotta pay for the dlc that adds the fun into the game. Bethesda is gone and dead yall. These types of games cant be monetized so the industry is going to move away from it. The bean counters run these companies now, not the artistic vision.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo right now it has 1 playable system in alpha, 3 planets and 12 moons, and dozens of space stations. There will be 95 systems in full version, god knows when, but that 1 system, despite all the bugs and general state of unfinishness, is already 10x better space sim than starfield would ever be. Space exploration game with no ability to fly your ship off of a freaking planet is a joke. Starfield isnt a space sim, its a loading screen simulator.
@@whiteobama3032 I haven't played star citizen, I've had a sour taste against star citizen when they did a kickstarter raking in 100s of millions while seemingly having stolen the carpet from Infinity Quest for Earth. I only barely sometimes glance at star citizen hear say and some clips of videos and major milestones, as pretty and detailed as they seem. But then recently I was surprised to learn that Star Citizen hardly has any systems, nor can you enter those buildings. But in starfield you can. The last video I was watching of star citizen was a live stream of someone spending 20 minutes trying to get their backside out of a ship. ... When Star Citizen manages to have 95 seamless systems, Microsoft will have 100 for starfield. The seamlessness is already under the cover in starfield, just that they decided to take a different path.
Starfield is practically a carbon copy of the first released 2015 version of Empyrion Galactic Survival - a game which has been massively improved over the years and is now a fantastic experience to play.
Many of the 'systems' are called the Settled Systems, if they are so "settled" then where are all of the colonies, villages, and cities? Why are there not more factions? UC and Freestar Collective should have way more developed worlds for Jemison and Akila if they are the capital worlds yet we only have the main cities.
Yep, just as I mentioned, a "minimally viable product". Everything just "barely" is. "Cities" are actually - when you really pay attention, so ridiculously small that it is a joke calling them cities. All (no name)NPCs are also randomly generated. For example in New Atlantis you can see them going inside the elevator then "disappearing" into thin air, and also coming out of thin air. This is because these NPCs are not real, i.e. you will not encounter that specific no name NPC, whom you could follow, then he goes to his aparment, goes to bed etc. No, they just keep being randomly generated. If you would count the whole population of the "settled systems" there are probably not more than a few hundred people, a max of 1000 in total. This is utterly ridiculous.
@@sHuRuLuNi Yeah, I actually have many of the same gripes and criticisms as you with the game. Especially, with lying Todd saying this was the game he wanted to make the most. The game shows a complete lack of passion and desire for game creation compared to BG3 where Larian is actually driven, although I hear BG3 is still not as good as BG2.
Also the main story puts you in a Explorer’s guild that only explores the settled systems. This was a last middle finger to the fan base before Todd retires and runs off with his millions
I don't know, the more I explored the more I came to realize humanity must be on the brink of extinction because the cities certainly don't have more than couple thousand citizens, and the rest are spread super thin across the galaxy under constant threat of pirates. Children are also extremely rare, which to me points to a population collapse.
My issue with the game isn't the woke shit because aside from the pronouns in the very beginning I never even noticed it. My problem was with the repetitiveness.
The story is so uninspiring. More multi-verse garbage. Theres no Prometheus story here or intelligent aliens. Factions are boring and are nearly all the same with the same motivations and desires. The companions are all generic, good guys, and lame. The loading screen spam is aweful. The ship builder is confusing and clunky. It's such a mid game and such a disappointment.
Starfield is actually overall quite successful. Bethesda really identified their market share and catered to it. Starfields' playercount has dropped below that of Skyrim right now, which is proof Starfield is successful. You aren't meant to buy and play Bethesda games, the enjoyment is mostly in watching dumpster fires from afar. So far F76 was their best fire, Starfield falls a bit short of that success, the heat from the dumpster is much less but there very much is still some heat eminating from the dumpster that is Starfield. Solid 6/10 at least.
Man its so sad the idea i had when i heard Bethesda was making a space epic was anazing. I mean different races each starting the game on a different planet and all the good stuff you can imagine im talking super fun science fiction themed guns freeze rays, lazer blades , ray guns and some goofy guns like the nuke one in fallout or some ratchet and clank stuff. I thought the main quest would have me so hooked and i thought id be eager to make different builds but nope just plain ole lame human. I still have no answers to what anything even means whats the point of the main quest and is their even a starborn word? Or was there a people who built all these lame temples ridiculously far apart from eachother on barren planets. The temple mini game is literally the most Wtf moment ive ever had and ive had some serious wtf moments in my life. I dont mind that companions are involved in conversations thats cool except they are all so damn boring and forgettable. Even the pirate quests were lacking and that was the most fun part literally twice i was doing a mission and realized after it was the last for a faction and i was underwhelmed as hell im like "theres gotta be more to this" but no there wasn't its just heres a star eagle and some goofy space suit youll never use. Even with the setting they chose whats up with it? The tech doesnt match up like humans have z but still dont have x and y. Humans only have few options work fast food, be a pirate, be a soldier. Then we have the obviously ridiculous stuff like the loading screens and small cut scenes you cant skip. Just walking around looking at trees and mountains in skyrim with secunda in the backround was 100% more fulfilling to me than all of starfield. The world doesnt feel even a tiny bit as lived in and alive as skyrim. In skyrim if you kill an npc they will have appropriate items on them to their character. A skooma adict will have skooma etc. Npc had stuff hiding in tjeir homes that gave them more character. Oh yeah and wtf humans dont use any sort of automobiles? Just startship thats it. Had to add that how are they called cities they have no roads no highways man that flys in the other bgs games because of their setting but this doesn't make any sense. You cant call something like new atlantis or akila a city in a game anymore when you have cyberpunk or even old games like the gta games and mafia or even spiderman that have whole cites
Yeah, right? It is a mystery to me that people do not see this, lol. Or wait, maybe they do see, but they are one of the two categories of people I mentoned in the video ...
150hrs in the so-called game and it turns out to be utterly BORING! Another FO76 POS. Bethesda screwed up big time on boringfield. Outpost & shipbuild are tedious and certainly NOT fun. Companions suck dog eggs. Weapons are NOT good. Storyline is woke and a joke! Feel totally burned by Bethesda.
"Hopefully, people will now learn to not preorder and wait a few months" - eh, i doubt that. As you mentioned before, this is happening for quite some time. And it WILL KEEP HAPPENING. Because majority of people is stupid - the level of "not being able to learn from their own mistakes" stupid.
how can one claim to be objective telling his taste ? loool. No objective argument given, and I think, not a real deep exploration of the consequences of the choices on characters relations. One thing more : in a sandbox like game, emptiness is one important ingredient.
What always kills me about, especially not clearly bright white "Aryan" looking types, such as yourself, is that there are regions in my home country Germany, where the, uhm... let's say "politically incorrect" hold sway over the street. Magdeburg, for instance. They are v e r y politically incorrect. To such extremes that an individual with your particular phenotype might very quickly get into a tight situation. You know the type of tight situations in which you have to run for your life, or at least bodily integrity. So, yeah, I imagine it is fun to be politically incorrect from the safety of your home. Homie. That the game is fucked up because of its emptiness and many other game related things, absolutely. But, "activists"? Hahahahahahahaha
You DO know what politically incorrect means, right? And what do you mean by "not clearly bright white" lol. I am albanian, you cannot get more white than that, unless you are an albino. I was blonde until the age of 15 (most of us are as children). Only later my hair got darker, and even now it is brown, and in the summer much brighter. My daughters are totally blonde. This is not about race lad, it never was, at least not as far as I am concerned. This is about certain agendas which I mentioned in the video. Also, about activists: It is clear as day, if you research who actually worked on this thing, if you check some of the producers of this thing, the game itself, certain "cups" you can find ingame, and much more - that the reason the game is so lackluster is exactly BECAUSE these activists had the sway in designing it. For them, it was important to design it and inject things in the game which will indeed make it policitally CORRECT, much more important for them than actually make the game GOOD. THe resources used to do this are the resources which then were lacking to actually make a good game. Ach, und ich lebe in deinem "home country". Ich lebe in München und Albanien, weil ich Firmen hier und dort habe :)
A little UA-camr who lives off hate, even if he has to lie through his teeth to do so. Man, this is already becoming repetitive, tiring and especially worrying, if this is a sample of the new generation.
"the new generation"? lol. I am 47 and a father of 5. I am not a "youtuber", I don't do this for living, but sure, of course it is "hate" or "revie bombing" just as I said in the video --- no chance this masterpiece just is NOT GOOD ... nah.
@@sHuRuLuNi 56, almos 57 and father of 2. If this game is NOT GOOD, would you mind clarifying which games you considered good? And please don't mention games from 25 - 30 years ago...
Jokes, aside, indeed hardly any good games nowadays. At least not those from AAA studios. I hear BG3 is considered to be good (haven't played it). It is not so hard to make a good game. Just as I said in the video, with the resources BGS had, 8 years and more than 250 Mil. dollars (in fact, there seems to be a lot of information now that it was closer to 400 million ...) -- a group of passionate devs could have made not a good, but a SUPERB game. Example: with a tiniest fraction of that money they could have hired any writer who could have written a better game story. It's not hard to beat to be honest, because the story is laughable, the characters are laughable, everything is sooo "superficial". I was 10 years old when I programmed and wrote text adventures on various machines I had (atari 800xl, zx spectrum, c-64) - and although I just did it for fun, even those stories written by a no one like me would have been better than what Starfield has.
@@sHuRuLuNi I haven't played BG3 yet and I don't even know if I will. I never liked the concept of tabletop games. Maybe I'll change my opinion if I play BG3, just like I changed my opinion of not liking RPGs when for the first time, in 2015, I played Skyrim, just to see if it was true that you could modify female NPCs to be naked. (yes, I'm an old fart and a pervert). All I had to do was do a mission and I was immediately hooked on this game! Interestingly, I tried to play Fallout 4, but I gave up (for now) because I didn't like the game's ambience and dialogues (they sounded too cliché to me). I have 4200 or so hours in Skyrim LE (not counting a few hundred hours in Skyrim SE) and I can say that I know this game well. I've also made 3 or 4 mods for personal use, so I had to learn (and I'm still learning!) how the Creation Engine works. And that was good, because I started to understand how games are made and the commitments that publishers make when making a game. And that's why I think it's very misleading to make direct comparisons between a game like BG3 and Starfield or any other game made on the Creation Engine. The same applies when comparing Witcher 3 (which I've already put around 250 to 300 hours into) or Cyberpunk 2077 (I've only played around 10 hours) with any other game from the ES series, Fallout or now Starfield. There are things in these Bethesda games that you won't find in any other RGP game! And the basis of this difference originates one of the biggest "problems" of these games - loads and loads of draw calls! You know what a draw call is in a game, right? That's why Skyrim was very heavy (and still can be, with the "right" mods!) on the CPU when it was released in 2011 and it's also the same reason that Starfield is very heavy on the CPU again in 2023! Unfortunately, I see many of the big UA-camrs who supposedly know a lot about games and how their mechanics work, that they don't mention this. Why? And they also don't mention that it is because of this "strong"/"weak" point that these games can have thousands and thousands of mods. In a game where draw calls have been optimized, such as Doom Eternal (who is the publisher, who is it?), the Tomb Raider series of games, especially the more recent ones, or even, but to a lesser extent, the Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk, it is very difficult, if not practically impossible, to make a mod that changes a certain aspect of the game's setting. In Bethesda games like Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Starfield, especially (but not necessarily) with the Creation Kit, you can modify practically everything! And, if you know how to do it, it's child's play! This is one of the main reasons why Skyrim is still played after 12 years! If it weren't for mods, many of which allow you to extend the original story, Skyrim would be another game practically forgotten on the shelf, as is now the case with games like Witcher 2, Tomb Raiders from 6 years ago or other games from that era. Returning to Starfield, I also thought that the main quest was not very captivating, just as I had found the same with Skyrim's main quest. I'm practically 2/3 of the way through Starfield's main quest and it went from something initially apparently boring to something that I want to play to the end as quickly as possible, just to see how the story ends (but I don't, for the pleasure to last more time!). The negative reviews I see about the main quest, which curiously are generic and always repeat the same adjectives, without almost ever going into detail, don't match my experience! If necessary, I can go into detail about why I say this, but I will go into spoilers for anyone who reads this review and hasn't played the game yet. Do you want to talk bad about Starfield? If so, then talks bad about things that are very evident to those who played Skyrim and now play Starfield, things that I see very few people mention. I'll give you an example. In Skyrim, every single NPC (practically everyone, with the exception of bar tenders) has a daily routine. An example of this are traders. There is a time to open the store for business, a time to eat, a time to go for a walk or to the inn and a time to sleep. At Starfield this daily routine is omitted! A merchant will always be available in his/her store 24 hours a day! This is one of the serious flaws in Starfield, which is a step back compared to Skyrim, and which, instead of being a sign that Bethesda is lazy (the most frequently made generalist criticism), shows especially how the script engine (Papyrus ) on Starfield is stretched to the maximum of its capacity to allow a game of this scale (it is perhaps the biggest game ever made!). There are many more specific criticisms that I can mention, and that I can point out here if you want to know, but I would be lying through my teeth if I said that I wasn't loving this game! In the last 6 years, the games that gave me the most pleasure playing were Skyrim, the Witcher 3 and now Starfield. Have fun!
@@sHuRuLuNi its also disingenuous to say the planets are always empty, they usually have an object/place of interest to explore or a base or a spaceship will land nearby or you will be attacked by native wildlife etc
Where did I say they are ALWAYS empty? I CLEARLY stated in the video that the planets are procedurally generated and also the points of interest are procedurally generated around you. Here for example: 8:57 @@purefoldnz3070
@@purefoldnz3070 If you honestly think a game is meant to be boring if you don't have enough 'imagination' then your an idiot. The reason walking on the moon is entertaining is because no one lives in low gravity, if we all lived in low gravity no one would give a shit. Also if you land on your first planet and run around for 30-60 minutes and nothing happens then the planet may as well have nothing at all. Why? because people don't have time or patience to desperately search for entertainment in a game with barely any in it.
Lol your analysis doesn't even make sense. People don't want to play this because...ITS BORING. There's nothing else to read into. Any additional reasons you may wish to add says a lot more about you than anything.
The ps5 trolls and bots review bombed starfield because they were jealous it was an xbox exclusive and no longer a ps5 exclusive. Starfield is goty, better than Spider-Man 2. Theres nothing wrong with starfield.
Sure nothing wrong necessarily, but Skyrim is better in every way than starfield. I consider that wrong since it's been how many years and they are producing games of inferior quality after all that time?
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo good for you, if you thought it was bad without playing it then I don't know why you like starfield, since it is literally less good in every single aspect. Maybe you just have poor taste?
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Thank you very much.
Yes! One planet for each faction. Maybe a few moons on DLC.
25 years in the making, my arse. Bethesda saw Obsidian's success with The Outer Worlds and decided they wanted a space game too. So they shat out this half assed excuse for a game, a couple of years later. Surprised nobody else picked up on this.
Of course, but for marketing purposes, it sounds way cooler if Todd keeps repeating "25 years in the making" - thus building an enormous hype ...
The worst thing about this game for me was how much there was to do in the vast empty void of space. Absolutely immersion breaking; wtf were they thinking.
The honeymoon is over and SOME of the lights are coming back on.
Thumbs up just for the intro.
You are absolutely spot-on. Starfield is the biggest load of crap ever for exactly the reasons that you stated. The response from Bethesda is even worse and not entirely unexpected. Not that it would make a difference but I would not spend another cent on anything Bethesda because it will likely be something that we have seen before from Bethesda but with a new skin.
Oh and Toddddddd , I'll...upgrade MY computer when...YOU DO.
What this game needed to be was two Skyrim sized worlds on Jemison (New Atlantis) and Cheyenne (Akila City). With plenty to explore in the surrounding area and quests that will give you reasons to go off planet and explore. The nearby star systems would have their related colonies and a little further outside them would be pirate factions. The outer systems would be unexplored and the reason for Constellation to actually exist. You should need to establish outposts just to reach out there and you should be seeking planets with the perfect combination of resources you need for what you plan to do. There should be finds of lost ships and secret bases, perhaps ancient alien derelict ships and bases, but other than that, there shouldn't be much out there.
All the human life is near the core. And you should be able to fly from planet to planet manually within a star system similar to Elite Dangerous.
There needs to be land vehicles, the ability to call your ship to you location and more game play for the different ship hab types.
Won't let me click this more than once....sad times indeed
I read somewhere that originally you would need outposts for refueling but that was cut from the game.
The younger been sold a Bridge to Nowhere. I had the same anticipation and have same massive let down feeling. 40 hours total and it sucks. For a Bethesda Fallout/Elder Scrolls esque game. 40 hours is nothing. I should be getting 300 hours or more before it starts to get boring.
See that mountain ? You can gotto that mountain and on the way? Not a THING will happen. Enjoy
What makes the game o much worse, at least IMO, is that plants that actually had places on them to explore were nothing more than cut and paste. Every, single, time...
After the fourth Abandoned Cryo Lab that was exactly the same in every sense to the others, I gave up exploring these useless planets.
Every crashed ship. Every Mech wasteland. Every one of the explorable structures were the same as the last. My Lord, this game is lazy.
The explicitly "woke" stuff in the game is small potatoes, and easily ignored. In creating a character, I barely noticed the pronoun thing. Where current sensibilities really affect the game is in the gutlessness of the story, the complete lack of hard choices with meaningful consequences, the absence of anything that would make anyone uncomfortable. The contrast with CP2077, and especially the Phantom Liberty expansion, could not possibly be more stark.
There's also a managerial mindset that pervades the game. I was already put off by the impression that I was being called in for a performance review by Sarah in HR after every significant mission sequence, when I found myself being sat down for an actual performance review by the Freestar Rangers . . . you know, the ones who are supposed to represent freedom. Maybe the Settled Systems are supposed to be a bureaucratic dystopia?
They wasted too much effort on these small potatoes though. I don't mind the funny Russian accents, as a Russian myself. But when you have the funny Russian accents, a ship designer, female representation, a useless cooking system, pronouns, useless base building, but... no plot to speak of, you start to wonder, what the heck is going on here.
"There's also a managerial mindset that pervades the game". Yes, all that bland dialog every character in the game says about "hey, my work is hard, but it's a great company and I'm lucky to have a job".
If there's a test to find whether someone would like the game before they play it, it's this: When you hear the phrase "You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps!!", do you think it's a) hilariously witty, clever and a profound insight. or b) a trite, glib cliche you've heard a thousand times and never want to hear again.
If you answer a) , then Starfield is the game for you.
thank god i borrowed it from a fit female
Waiting for Bethesda's game changing Starfield expansion.
Good observation 😊
You are exactly right, activists not game programmers. Small percentage of freaks and supporters of those freaks trying to push their reprobated minds on the rest of us. I was pretty weirded out when Barrett tried to romanticize me (I'm a guy, super-straight), also at the beginning with the gender crap. I'm playing the game for the outpost building and resource stuff and have about 340 hours in the game with about 150 in outpost stuff. I liked the missions for a while but they are the same 6 or 8 places over and over with no relation to the game lore. The quests are ok but get annoying after the back and forth stuff. Plus half the stuff with resource management, containers are partially broke so none of it works correctly, no way to see all your resources at the same time, no way to track all your outposts from one screen, etc...Thanks for your video. I'm going to try to share your video with Obsidian Ant, he is getting the same impression concerning lack of game lore and putting stuff on planets just to have them be found with no relation to the game.
Agreed.
I had Sarah and Andreja romanced at the same time in one universe. If I did not find both of them annoying AF I might have tried to have a 5 way.
Excuse me Todd ,laughing alll the way to the bank, Howard here, allegedly... ...Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha..oohh huff puff....ha, ha, ha,ha....allegedly.
I absolutely hate all the restrictions that prevent you from enjoying the game. Constant over burden, only like 2 infinite storage boxes, how you go to an ENTIRE FKING PLANET to sell you loot from ONE MISSION... and that entire planet can comeup with more than 18k? How tha fk does that economy even function. Just that i have to go to 4 different planets to sell ONE raid of gear. Trash. Then the constant conpanion bitching. I will only use Vasco, Betty, and Jesamine from the fleet. All others are complete trash. You need more weapons, more armor, more ship and weapon parts. Its like the took out wverything that was good just to make sure it ran at 30fps. Its just a polished turd. The shipbuilder is by far my favorite system in game. N even that needs work. The parts are so limiting... no wings, no curvy peices to make saucers, tall thin ships and wide angled curves. Unless the completely overhaul this game with the dlc n mod support.... till game will die. We need more compainions, varrun, ecliptic, crimson.... being evil should be more viable. This is the firat Bethesda game where i feel stuck playing the game the same way as everyone else. There not enough variety.... all this said... i have played it only on PC game pass and am soooooooooo glad i didnt pre order or buy it.
waiting to buy saved me once more :p
I love how you're so absolutely entrenched in your own political bubble that you think identity politics is the reason why a Bethesda game doesn't have land vehicles instead of Todd Howard just not being a great game producer. Bethesda games barely fill a single map environment, and Todd thought he could fill a galaxy. It's a joke.
Huh? I never mentioned any land vehicles.
About Todd: Yes we know Todd, but it is not me being in a "political bubble" the reason I am claiming what I am claiming.
The reason is that BGS hired 27 external game studios to make the game. All these studios are in turn under one umbrella, that of "Keywords plc", which itself is strongly linked to ESG commitees and such.
You dont have to look far for negative comments.
Look in the mirror
You just might be a bad game when an FOV slider isn't even in it on LAUNCH.A feature that is in EVERY OTHER current game annnddd it's NOT the first time. They got crap for it in 76. People were getting sick. They were FORCED to put it in. Several years down the road, "whooppssiieee". "Couple of MONTHS down the road we'll have it. While modders got it in HOURS. I love some Bethesda games but this thing is an...insult. This is a PRODUCT from a multi, MULTI million/billion dollar company that is now owned by a multi, MULTI TRILLION dollar company who SUPPOSED to be a HIGH TECH of the high tech annnddd this 20 year OLD thing is the BEST they got? Just yet ANOTHER example all these "big" "aaa"s, millions , billions,...whatever THEY got ...nothing anymore. JUST...talk. Modders too, bless their hearts, should be insulted too. If ever there was a BLATANT example of RELYING on THEIR WORK, this thing SHOWS IT.
The problem is this game was made for people who like Bethesda games. It's safe, niche, and outdated in 2023.
That's just not true. I have been a Bethesda fan for decades. Fallout 4 is my favorite game. This mess called Starfield was most DEFINATELY NOT made for me!
They played ULTRA SAFE. No, no not offending ANYONE anywhere , anyhow. No crazzy , politically incorrect beings out here in space. Nope not...one. Space, the...SAFEST frontier. These are the voyages of Slopfield. To explore...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
YOU'RE THE -DRAGONBORN- STARBORN!
No way Bethesda wasted 8 years making this trash, The Frontier guys spent 8 years making that mod, sure the writing is bad, but the technical side of that mod is nothing short of a miracle, making a map that is as big as NV, driveable vehicles, cutscenes and making you play another character that isn't "you" while using this trash engine is downright black magic.
People give 9s and 10s to this unimaginative crap and hate on unique good games like forspoken without even playing them. This is not fair.
lol, forspoken
Haha forspoken
it's a great game. Dont join thehate bandwagon @@mischka118
I’m a BGS fanboy and I think the game is a steaming heap of cowshit on a cold January morning. 2023 has been disappointingly eye-opening for me what with the AAA game space. Diablo IV is another one. So much damn disappointment in one year.
Oof, yeah, D4 as well. Did a review on that, was attacked (of course). A few months later suddenly all of the attackers and their grandma were saying exactly what I was saying months before.
BGS introduces its next huge game and its called.... BLACKSCREEN!
Exploring the 1000 “planets” gives off mass effect 1 exploration, without the fucking MAKO …. That of itself is a death penalty offense ! Wtf !!!
If they took the Skyrim base and No Man's Sky,s and had a baby it would have worked out, BUT, some how the laziness won.
You gotta pay for the dlc that adds the fun into the game. Bethesda is gone and dead yall. These types of games cant be monetized so the industry is going to move away from it. The bean counters run these companies now, not the artistic vision.
Starfield tried to be what star citizen almost is.
Star Citizen has how many planets? How many buildings you can enter?
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo have you played it?
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo right now it has 1 playable system in alpha, 3 planets and 12 moons, and dozens of space stations. There will be 95 systems in full version, god knows when, but that 1 system, despite all the bugs and general state of unfinishness, is already 10x better space sim than starfield would ever be. Space exploration game with no ability to fly your ship off of a freaking planet is a joke. Starfield isnt a space sim, its a loading screen simulator.
@@whiteobama3032 I haven't played star citizen, I've had a sour taste against star citizen when they did a kickstarter raking in 100s of millions while seemingly having stolen the carpet from Infinity Quest for Earth.
I only barely sometimes glance at star citizen hear say and some clips of videos and major milestones, as pretty and detailed as they seem.
But then recently I was surprised to learn that Star Citizen hardly has any systems, nor can you enter those buildings. But in starfield you can.
The last video I was watching of star citizen was a live stream of someone spending 20 minutes trying to get their backside out of a ship. ...
When Star Citizen manages to have 95 seamless systems, Microsoft will have 100 for starfield. The seamlessness is already under the cover in starfield, just that they decided to take a different path.
Starfield is practically a carbon copy of the first released 2015 version of Empyrion Galactic Survival - a game which has been massively improved over the years and is now a fantastic experience to play.
Many of the 'systems' are called the Settled Systems, if they are so "settled" then where are all of the colonies, villages, and cities? Why are there not more factions? UC and Freestar Collective should have way more developed worlds for Jemison and Akila if they are the capital worlds yet we only have the main cities.
Yep, just as I mentioned, a "minimally viable product". Everything just "barely" is.
"Cities" are actually - when you really pay attention, so ridiculously small that it is a joke calling them cities.
All (no name)NPCs are also randomly generated. For example in New Atlantis you can see them going inside the elevator then "disappearing" into thin air, and also coming out of thin air.
This is because these NPCs are not real, i.e. you will not encounter that specific no name NPC, whom you could follow, then he goes to his aparment, goes to bed etc. No, they just keep being randomly generated.
If you would count the whole population of the "settled systems" there are probably not more than a few hundred people, a max of 1000 in total. This is utterly ridiculous.
@@sHuRuLuNi Yeah, I actually have many of the same gripes and criticisms as you with the game. Especially, with lying Todd saying this was the game he wanted to make the most. The game shows a complete lack of passion and desire for game creation compared to BG3 where Larian is actually driven, although I hear BG3 is still not as good as BG2.
Also the main story puts you in a Explorer’s guild that only explores the settled systems. This was a last middle finger to the fan base before Todd retires and runs off with his millions
I don't know, the more I explored the more I came to realize humanity must be on the brink of extinction because the cities certainly don't have more than couple thousand citizens, and the rest are spread super thin across the galaxy under constant threat of pirates. Children are also extremely rare, which to me points to a population collapse.
Maybe but they were too lazy to even incorporate that into the game lore.@@XeonProductions
My issue with the game isn't the woke shit because aside from the pronouns in the very beginning I never even noticed it. My problem was with the repetitiveness.
its a mundane game with too much repetition
The story is so uninspiring. More multi-verse garbage. Theres no Prometheus story here or intelligent aliens. Factions are boring and are nearly all the same with the same motivations and desires. The companions are all generic, good guys, and lame. The loading screen spam is aweful. The ship builder is confusing and clunky. It's such a mid game and such a disappointment.
The funny thing is you trusted BETHESDA the idiots of Fallout 76
alfo known as Todds's garfield
Based!
Starfield is actually overall quite successful. Bethesda really identified their market share and catered to it. Starfields' playercount has dropped below that of Skyrim right now, which is proof Starfield is successful. You aren't meant to buy and play Bethesda games, the enjoyment is mostly in watching dumpster fires from afar. So far F76 was their best fire, Starfield falls a bit short of that success, the heat from the dumpster is much less but there very much is still some heat eminating from the dumpster that is Starfield. Solid 6/10 at least.
Man its so sad the idea i had when i heard Bethesda was making a space epic was anazing. I mean different races each starting the game on a different planet and all the good stuff you can imagine im talking super fun science fiction themed guns freeze rays, lazer blades , ray guns and some goofy guns like the nuke one in fallout or some ratchet and clank stuff. I thought the main quest would have me so hooked and i thought id be eager to make different builds but nope just plain ole lame human. I still have no answers to what anything even means whats the point of the main quest and is their even a starborn word? Or was there a people who built all these lame temples ridiculously far apart from eachother on barren planets. The temple mini game is literally the most Wtf moment ive ever had and ive had some serious wtf moments in my life. I dont mind that companions are involved in conversations thats cool except they are all so damn boring and forgettable. Even the pirate quests were lacking and that was the most fun part literally twice i was doing a mission and realized after it was the last for a faction and i was underwhelmed as hell im like "theres gotta be more to this" but no there wasn't its just heres a star eagle and some goofy space suit youll never use. Even with the setting they chose whats up with it? The tech doesnt match up like humans have z but still dont have x and y. Humans only have few options work fast food, be a pirate, be a soldier. Then we have the obviously ridiculous stuff like the loading screens and small cut scenes you cant skip. Just walking around looking at trees and mountains in skyrim with secunda in the backround was 100% more fulfilling to me than all of starfield. The world doesnt feel even a tiny bit as lived in and alive as skyrim. In skyrim if you kill an npc they will have appropriate items on them to their character. A skooma adict will have skooma etc. Npc had stuff hiding in tjeir homes that gave them more character. Oh yeah and wtf humans dont use any sort of automobiles? Just startship thats it.
Had to add that how are they called cities they have no roads no highways man that flys in the other bgs games because of their setting but this doesn't make any sense. You cant call something like new atlantis or akila a city in a game anymore when you have cyberpunk or even old games like the gta games and mafia or even spiderman that have whole cites
Yeah, right? It is a mystery to me that people do not see this, lol. Or wait, maybe they do see, but they are one of the two categories of people I mentoned in the video ...
Starfield is Fallout 4's biggest mod.
150hrs in the so-called game and it turns out to be utterly BORING! Another FO76 POS. Bethesda screwed up big time on boringfield. Outpost & shipbuild are tedious and certainly NOT fun. Companions suck dog eggs. Weapons are NOT good. Storyline is woke and a joke! Feel totally burned by Bethesda.
"Hopefully, people will now learn to not preorder and wait a few months" - eh, i doubt that. As you mentioned before, this is happening for quite some time. And it WILL KEEP HAPPENING. Because majority of people is stupid - the level of "not being able to learn from their own mistakes" stupid.
how can one claim to be objective telling his taste ? loool. No objective argument given, and I think, not a real deep exploration of the consequences of the choices on characters relations. One thing more : in a sandbox like game, emptiness is one important ingredient.
Xbox babies are so used to being gaslit that they can only respond to the world with more gaslighting
What always kills me about, especially not clearly bright white "Aryan" looking types, such as yourself, is that there are regions in my home country Germany, where the, uhm... let's say "politically incorrect" hold sway over the street. Magdeburg, for instance. They are v e r y politically incorrect. To such extremes that an individual with your particular phenotype might very quickly get into a tight situation. You know the type of tight situations in which you have to run for your life, or at least bodily integrity.
So, yeah, I imagine it is fun to be politically incorrect from the safety of your home. Homie. That the game is fucked up because of its emptiness and many other game related things, absolutely. But, "activists"? Hahahahahahahaha
You DO know what politically incorrect means, right?
And what do you mean by "not clearly bright white" lol. I am albanian, you cannot get more white than that, unless you are an albino. I was blonde until the age of 15 (most of us are as children). Only later my hair got darker, and even now it is brown, and in the summer much brighter. My daughters are totally blonde.
This is not about race lad, it never was, at least not as far as I am concerned. This is about certain agendas which I mentioned in the video.
Also, about activists: It is clear as day, if you research who actually worked on this thing, if you check some of the producers of this thing, the game itself, certain "cups" you can find ingame, and much more - that the reason the game is so lackluster is exactly BECAUSE these activists had the sway in designing it. For them, it was important to design it and inject things in the game which will indeed make it policitally CORRECT, much more important for them than actually make the game GOOD.
THe resources used to do this are the resources which then were lacking to actually make a good game.
Ach, und ich lebe in deinem "home country". Ich lebe in München und Albanien, weil ich Firmen hier und dort habe :)
A little UA-camr who lives off hate, even if he has to lie through his teeth to do so. Man, this is already becoming repetitive, tiring and especially worrying, if this is a sample of the new generation.
"the new generation"? lol. I am 47 and a father of 5. I am not a "youtuber", I don't do this for living, but sure, of course it is "hate" or "revie bombing" just as I said in the video --- no chance this masterpiece just is NOT GOOD ... nah.
@@sHuRuLuNi 56, almos 57 and father of 2. If this game is NOT GOOD, would you mind clarifying which games you considered good? And please don't mention games from 25 - 30 years ago...
games from 25 - 30 years ago :) @@letsplayskyrimle9391
Jokes, aside, indeed hardly any good games nowadays. At least not those from AAA studios.
I hear BG3 is considered to be good (haven't played it).
It is not so hard to make a good game. Just as I said in the video, with the resources BGS had, 8 years and more than 250 Mil. dollars (in fact, there seems to be a lot of information now that it was closer to 400 million ...) -- a group of passionate devs could have made not a good, but a SUPERB game.
Example: with a tiniest fraction of that money they could have hired any writer who could have written a better game story. It's not hard to beat to be honest, because the story is laughable, the characters are laughable, everything is sooo "superficial".
I was 10 years old when I programmed and wrote text adventures on various machines I had (atari 800xl, zx spectrum, c-64) - and although I just did it for fun, even those stories written by a no one like me would have been better than what Starfield has.
@@sHuRuLuNi I haven't played BG3 yet and I don't even know if I will. I never liked the concept of tabletop games. Maybe I'll change my opinion if I play BG3, just like I changed my opinion of not liking RPGs when for the first time, in 2015, I played Skyrim, just to see if it was true that you could modify female NPCs to be naked. (yes, I'm an old fart and a pervert). All I had to do was do a mission and I was immediately hooked on this game! Interestingly, I tried to play Fallout 4, but I gave up (for now) because I didn't like the game's ambience and dialogues (they sounded too cliché to me).
I have 4200 or so hours in Skyrim LE (not counting a few hundred hours in Skyrim SE) and I can say that I know this game well. I've also made 3 or 4 mods for personal use, so I had to learn (and I'm still learning!) how the Creation Engine works. And that was good, because I started to understand how games are made and the commitments that publishers make when making a game.
And that's why I think it's very misleading to make direct comparisons between a game like BG3 and Starfield or any other game made on the Creation Engine. The same applies when comparing Witcher 3 (which I've already put around 250 to 300 hours into) or Cyberpunk 2077 (I've only played around 10 hours) with any other game from the ES series, Fallout or now Starfield. There are things in these Bethesda games that you won't find in any other RGP game! And the basis of this difference originates one of the biggest "problems" of these games - loads and loads of draw calls! You know what a draw call is in a game, right? That's why Skyrim was very heavy (and still can be, with the "right" mods!) on the CPU when it was released in 2011 and it's also the same reason that Starfield is very heavy on the CPU again in 2023! Unfortunately, I see many of the big UA-camrs who supposedly know a lot about games and how their mechanics work, that they don't mention this. Why? And they also don't mention that it is because of this "strong"/"weak" point that these games can have thousands and thousands of mods. In a game where draw calls have been optimized, such as Doom Eternal (who is the publisher, who is it?), the Tomb Raider series of games, especially the more recent ones, or even, but to a lesser extent, the Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk, it is very difficult, if not practically impossible, to make a mod that changes a certain aspect of the game's setting. In Bethesda games like Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Starfield, especially (but not necessarily) with the Creation Kit, you can modify practically everything! And, if you know how to do it, it's child's play! This is one of the main reasons why Skyrim is still played after 12 years! If it weren't for mods, many of which allow you to extend the original story, Skyrim would be another game practically forgotten on the shelf, as is now the case with games like Witcher 2, Tomb Raiders from 6 years ago or other games from that era.
Returning to Starfield, I also thought that the main quest was not very captivating, just as I had found the same with Skyrim's main quest. I'm practically 2/3 of the way through Starfield's main quest and it went from something initially apparently boring to something that I want to play to the end as quickly as possible, just to see how the story ends (but I don't, for the pleasure to last more time!). The negative reviews I see about the main quest, which curiously are generic and always repeat the same adjectives, without almost ever going into detail, don't match my experience! If necessary, I can go into detail about why I say this, but I will go into spoilers for anyone who reads this review and hasn't played the game yet.
Do you want to talk bad about Starfield? If so, then talks bad about things that are very evident to those who played Skyrim and now play Starfield, things that I see very few people mention. I'll give you an example. In Skyrim, every single NPC (practically everyone, with the exception of bar tenders) has a daily routine. An example of this are traders. There is a time to open the store for business, a time to eat, a time to go for a walk or to the inn and a time to sleep. At Starfield this daily routine is omitted! A merchant will always be available in his/her store 24 hours a day!
This is one of the serious flaws in Starfield, which is a step back compared to Skyrim, and which, instead of being a sign that Bethesda is lazy (the most frequently made generalist criticism), shows especially how the script engine (Papyrus ) on Starfield is stretched to the maximum of its capacity to allow a game of this scale (it is perhaps the biggest game ever made!).
There are many more specific criticisms that I can mention, and that I can point out here if you want to know, but I would be lying through my teeth if I said that I wasn't loving this game!
In the last 6 years, the games that gave me the most pleasure playing were Skyrim, the Witcher 3 and now Starfield.
Have fun!
10:11 depends if you have an imagination and sounds like you have none.
If I have to use my imagination, which I have PLENTY OF, to be able to play, then why do I need to buy a 70 $ game?
@@sHuRuLuNi why do you need $70 when its on gamepass?
@@sHuRuLuNi its also disingenuous to say the planets are always empty, they usually have an object/place of interest to explore or a base or a spaceship will land nearby or you will be attacked by native wildlife etc
Where did I say they are ALWAYS empty? I CLEARLY stated in the video that the planets are procedurally generated and also the points of interest are procedurally generated around you.
Here for example: 8:57
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@@purefoldnz3070 If you honestly think a game is meant to be boring if you don't have enough 'imagination' then your an idiot. The reason walking on the moon is entertaining is because no one lives in low gravity, if we all lived in low gravity no one would give a shit. Also if you land on your first planet and run around for 30-60 minutes and nothing happens then the planet may as well have nothing at all. Why? because people don't have time or patience to desperately search for entertainment in a game with barely any in it.
The pronoun thing is so blown out of proportion. You don't have to pay attention to it and it's inclusive. What's the problem?
Lol your analysis doesn't even make sense. People don't want to play this because...ITS BORING. There's nothing else to read into. Any additional reasons you may wish to add says a lot more about you than anything.
The ps5 trolls and bots review bombed starfield because they were jealous it was an xbox exclusive and no longer a ps5 exclusive. Starfield is goty, better than Spider-Man 2. Theres nothing wrong with starfield.
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Sure nothing wrong necessarily, but Skyrim is better in every way than starfield. I consider that wrong since it's been how many years and they are producing games of inferior quality after all that time?
@@kevinhank17 never played skyrim, looked like trollop smelt like manure.
@@UmmerFarooq-wx4yo good for you, if you thought it was bad without playing it then I don't know why you like starfield, since it is literally less good in every single aspect. Maybe you just have poor taste?
@@kevinhank17 maybe I don't like a colour wheel made by someone who is colour blind.
Review 28827 saying the same things... Zzz