I spoke to game reviewers who LOVE Starfield (ft. Gene Park & Andy Cortez)
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2023
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Like most, I was initially a little disappointed this wasn't a true space Sim with more Elder Scrolls exploration.. but 20 hours in, I'm absolutely in love. It is a captivating, thoughtful, gorgeous game in so many ways. The stories are enthralling and I'm deeply invested in many of the characters and quests.
It's not a perfect game- but the way I'm absolutely enjoying it- easily more than anything since RDR2, makes it a 10/10 game for me. I will easily spend hundreds of hours playing this game. It's amazing.
Happy to hear so many are enjoying this game. Cant wait for tuesday evening! Might pull an all nighter.
I love Skyrim and Fallout and ofc I was so hyped for Starfield...but I have barely any free time right now with my job... So I was sitting at the job, reading and watching all reviews about Starfield and I was kinda scared for Stafield...but tomorrow I finally had a chance to play for about 2-3 hours and I had a blast...I am pretty sure Its gonna get even better.
@@robertavanesovru Enjoy mate! I've got time off atm before I start a new job- timing couldn't be better! I'll have zero time after that though
What you said !!!!! 😃😃😃 I don't even remember that I was reticent about it not being a space-sim - I'm too busy pimping my ship !!
Alanah, Gene and Andy together? This is going to be an amazing time!
I'll count this as an KF/CLS collab
It's probably the closest we'll ever get haha. I love it tho.
I clicked on this immediately because of this, lol. Awesome to see, Gene and Andy are the best.
Lol I want Gene to be more proud of his stance with Last Stand
Next time say reporter for the Washington Post and frequent guest for LSM.
I came looking for this comment immediately
I also saw this and thought heyyyy KF/LSM crossover let’s go! Gene is more than just a frequent guest, he’s a member of the Nintendo focused Punching Up podcast LSM makes. And Andy is co-creator of the best show on the internet, KF/AF.
Gene is a gem of this industry. Love his approach to reviews.
this 100%
Does he have a UA-cam? That would be amazing ❤
@@SteeezecakeI don't think he has his own UA-cam channel, but he's a co-host of the Nintendo podcast on Last Stand Media, and is a frequent guest on their other shows, like their last 2 Xbox podcasts
This game is growing on me big time. “You haven’t meet Vlad?” “You can lean” yep….that’s sums up the game. Zero hand holding but it’s so intriguing. I appreciate the perspective on the game play styles, can’t wait to captain a ship and blow shit up!!
Get caught with contraband. some cowboy bebop vibes...youre welcome! Love this game!
30 hours in, it's awesome. A Bethesda game through and through. Not the most next gen that exists but boy it's fun. A total 10/10 for me.
@hubnhinhi8232maybe you're just a salty little Sony fantard, because that's how you're coming off kid 🤷🏻
@hubnhinhi8232Hard to fathom why people like yourself act so toxic over somebody loving a game.
@hubnhinhi8232 Sorry for budging in but, what if he intentionally didn't hint at 'experience' but rather just blurted out 10/10 without context?
he could actually mean the experience for him has been 10/10.
like you mentioned a game can't ever be a 10/10 because everything has to be perfect if it had that score.. and NO game is EVER perfect meaning you are basically answering my question already.
Just use your brain next time :)
@hubnhinhi8232 just because a game has flaws doesn't mean it can't be a 10/10 for someone. Stfu
@greatrug427bro let the guy have fun 10/10 is subjective opinion on for me it's 10/10 too, this game has nothing perfect but does everything in such a way that I can't stop playing it I can't describe it cuz I've never had something like that a different games
3-4 hours in hit mars, and was solar hopping and randomly got hailed, i was going to ignore but decided to hail them back, the ship thought i was someone else and asked me to investigate what is happening on this certain research planet. turns out the get invaded for spacers. and now i am apparently helping these scientists all due to a ship accidently thinking i was some one else lol.
So happy to see that Andy loves it! For some reason I thought it would bounce off of him, or just be lukewarm
Andy talking about his glitched missing crewmember ("RIP, wherever she is, hope she's doing well") was my favorite part of Kinda Funny's Starfield review lmao
Yeah never knew Mike Shinoda was a fan of Bethesda games
It's criminal how good this game is. As someone who loves space, love's RPG's, and 10 years ago would consistently think "I wish there was a game where i could chart the stars, land on whatever planet I wanted to, experience different planets cultures, complete quests". Played the mass effects and loved them, however space always felt secondary and just acted as a backdrop to travel from planet to planet w/ no actual space flight, therefore not scratching my itch for freeform spaceflight mixed w/ the freedom of an RPG. Got elite dangerous on xbox back when the planetary landing update came out and loved it, but it has it's limitations as your character was basically the ship and the planets you could land on were super limited and had nothing at all on them. However this was the first game that scratched a bit of my vision's itch and i loved it despite it not doing everything i wanted it to do. Then NMS comes to xbox and i spend hours upon hours into it. A game that finally gave me the feeling of boundless space exploration and discovery, however it lacked a true purpose, didn't have developed cities with their own different cultures, and had no real stories. It damn near did everything I wanted in a space game besides making the universe feel lived w/ stories, quests, and roleplaying. It was clear that what I wanted was an full blown RPG set in space on a much larger scale than mass effect.. Starfield.... Starfield is quite literally the space game I've always wanted. It's gorgeous on my high end PC, has everything that I wanted 10 years ago in a space game, and truly gives you an extremely immersive RPG in space experience. Is it perfect? No, but what game is? It's damn near perfect for me though. Im 30 hours in, loving it to death, and I see myself putting 100's of hours a single playthrough alone and another 100 if no 1000's of hours into a 2nd playthrough when the modding community starts realeasing meaty content and taking advantage of a vast universe ripe for mods. The possibilites w/ this game are endless.
Yes! That's exactly how I feel too! People who compare this game to Star Citizen and NMS are only thinking about *one* system, the space simulation aspect, when this gane gives me everything I've wanted since Mass Effect and more, like being able to land anywhere on a planet.
I’ve only played around 3 - 4 hrs and I’m loving the game. I bought myself a Series X just to play Starfield and I don’t regret it.
I love no man’s sky. I’m glad that Starfield is it’s own thing.
Will continue to play NMS alongside Starfield
Yeah I'm also glad, both are great games and while comparible in some areas they each provide their own thing.
Space Sim vs Space RPG. Getting back into NMS after a few months break. Also excited for Starfield. Will give it a go in a few months.
Thats exactly what im doing though i wont be playing nms for a while, star field’s got me hooked
No mans sky has allot of mincraft quality’s its also a seamless space sim, exploration building a fleet.
Starfield is a space rpg with great combat imo. So much choice and allows you to fulfils the fantasy. And the crafted areas are so detailed, i almost wonder is nms could take some tips from how star-field does its missalanious quests.
Naah. NMS worlds are too cartoony for me. I prefer Empyrion Galactic Survival for my space sim needs!
@@KamleshMallick
Are you using the reforged mod?
Might give Empyrion a try, have seen it on steam for years but never tried it
I love Gene Park. My fav game journalist.
@@khalismur So, have you ever played a sim game? Because.... yes components of "sim games" are simulated....
@@khalismur immersive sim =/= space sim.
@@khalismur”immersive sim” is an actual genre in the video game space. Specifically look at Deus Ex, System Shock, Dishonored, and Prey (2017) as examples (Those games are filled with loading screens btw)
@@khalismur He means sim in a different way... He doesn't mean fundamentally as a simulator/Space Sim, he is on about the myriad of systems that create the illusion of a sim (i.e. the world).
It's an RPG, that's its genre.
@@khalismur immersive sims are games like Deus Ex or Prey 2017, LMAO
That's one of the greatest strengths of Starfield - pretty much any playstyle you would want in open world space opera is not only available, it is viable. Say you want to play straight up explorer? Sure, there is decent XP and credits to be made just from scanning and surveying planets, then selling the survey data. You want to be pirate? Check. Space trucker? Check. Bounty hunter? Check. Security force? Be my guest.
Speaking of Mass Effect comparison, Starfield is what Mass Effect Andromeda should've been.
Another example of a thing that I learned a bit late. When you scavenge minerals in the intro of the game you are teached to do so with a laser cutter. But at some point you encounters some minerals on planets that are a bigger chunks. So I was trying to laser cut them and it was not working. My bet was that I needed a more powerful laser cutter for these ones. Just to realise by accident that I could scavenge them by exiting the scan mode and hovering near them and take the minerals like it is a chest box.
No shot. I've missed out on so many resources LOL
@@LocoMohsinlmao same here haha
Well I just learned this just right now. Thanks for the info. I thought I needed more skill level.
More you play it and more game mechanics you learn the better it gets.
Edit: You can harvest minerls with spaceship. When you are in asteorid area you blast them with weapons and when they broke to peaces there is a chunk with minerals that you can pick up.
And if you have large ship with all the work-stations it become a mobile base with everything you need.
Very cool. Thanks for the tip!
I was gonna mention the crafting station module. Plus the storage modules that increase your ship capacity. Which you can stash everything in and later you can sell directly from a ship inventory without the need to over encoumber yourself.
And since they have a weight cost, getting better engines, reactors, and warp cores give purpose to customizing/buying ship a purpose outside of space combat.
So in short, ships are very useful outside of combat.
I can't 100% confirm that this is an actual mechanic, but my experience is that your persuasion attempts are far more likely to succeed if you say something the person would want to hear. Telling someone who's annoyed with you that they're not going to get rid of you, or someone who wishes they could help you that you understand their position, seems to work far more often. The reason I believe it's intentional because there's a faction quest that tutorializes that interaction by having you read dossiers on people before trying to persuade them - I just wish that was in the "main" experience so that everyone could learn it.
Pretty sure it's completely random. I passed a check, had to reload and do it again, and the same entries failed the 2nd time.
I agree, I think actually what you say matters, not just the points. Its much more enjoyable mechanic if you try to say things the character might actually be persuaded by.
I have had the perfect level of jank so far, from insane corpse launch to dramatic introduction to a companion while zoomed in on just her upper lip and nostrils, I was in stitches
Wow Andy + Gene in the same place, what a treat!
Many might not know this but when you're flying your ship in 3rd person view, if you click the mouse wheel and move your mouse it goes into a free-cam view that allows you to rotate the camera all around the ship. It's a great way to admire your ship while flying. Also, this view toggles, so you don't have to hold the mouse wheel click button down.
Took me a long time to watch this whole video, but something that occurs to me - that I think speaks to the diversity of gameplay offered by STARFIELD and makes me really appreciate it, is that there’s a reviewer out there - WHO GAVE IT A 10! - without even meeting Vlad. That is - in a word - incredible.
Bethesda should be proud.
Thank God, too much content nowadays is focused on the criticism side rather than just the love of the thing. Everybody feels like they are doing a service by spending 90% of the time deep diving their perspective flaws and 10% "but anyways I had fun".
THIS! I want to like this comment 100 times over. I think a lot of times people tend to focus on the criticism even though they might have loved the game. There were podcasts I listened to about Zelda or GoW where they all said they loved the game but spent 90% of the podcast talking about the criticism. Which is fine to do but as a person who isn't a dev and just wants to enjoy a game, it kinda gets disheartening. I love hearing random small moments they each experienced in the game, whether it's positive or negative. Especially in a game like this where everyone's experiences are so vastly different. It's just kinda rare to find at times. At the end of the day, video games are a form of entertainment and a means to have fun. Criticism is perfectly fine but it's not enjoyable to listen to when that is most of the discussion. At least for me.
These 3 doing a weekly podcast would be perfection.
Finally, i can be the stealth assassin ship builder i always wanted to be
If you want to do stealth dont use a companion they will blow your cover every time lol
So long as the space guards say, “must have been the space wind” when I’m aiming down my space bow.
I've been having a blast with this game. I can't remember the last time I've put this many hours into a game sense release.
fr bro im trading in my ps5 for a series x ive been playing on my series s and this game is amazing! and i play bg3 on my ps5 and it sucks i hate it! playstation has let me down for the last time plus their price rate
Братаны, да вы любители кала Тода Говарда 😂
@@YUNGSLEEVESbg3 goty
@@MrScrawnjuan nope
I've been a Bethesda fan since Daggerfall (1993). I have early access and have only played 18ish hours so far. I can already tell this one is special. I really believe this is the best game Bethesda has ever made, and arguably one of the top ten greatest RPG's of all time.
Me too. Including going back to Daggerfall. Bethesda has finally been able to make a game with the scope of Daggerfall and yet has real depth. Despite what the naysayers that haven't played the game and desperately want it to fail may have to say.
Why do you think starfield is a top tier rpg
Alanah, Andy, and Gene are few of my favorites in video games coverage - much love!
This was such an interesting chat and has made me even more excited abiut starfield. Like, what an interesting game that it takes a while to unfold and people can have completely different experiences.
Gameplay mechanic update here I just stumbled on that is very useful. Change view button (select on controller), if you are in your ship, in space, you can hold it and it gives a free spin view option. Great for photo mode. Some maneuver is limited. But if you have an object selected, that same free spin view stays on object selected. Ship maneuvering normal now. Great for combat. Enjoy CDRs.
This game is incredible.. probably my favorite rpg game ever… the more you play the more insane it gets… so much fun
exactly!
The three of you have great chemistry. I really enjoyed this
Gene has great chemistry with everyone tbh, he was on the Matty and Cog podcast earlier and it was just as entertaining and insightful there (I'd argue even more so cuz of that episode length).
@@RuthwikRao thanks for the heads up. Watching that now.
thank you!
I've seen a few reviews saying the beginning is slow, but I actually enjoyed it. I learned about the characters and the world. Granted, Skyrim came out of the gate with a freaking dragon attacking you, but I don't need action all the time. I'm about 8 hours in and enjoying the game! I will go back to the game after completing this video.
Sort of... It opened up with you be imprisoned... and then running through a city... and then it turns into tons of dialogue and just walking around. I actually don't think Skyrim really opens up that much faster than Starfield if it does at all.
"The game starts slow" is such a bad take.
I love when a game takes its time to properly set itself up. I’m excited that seems to be the case for Starfield.
Yeah, it sets a mood. Then "music and lights". Buyer shows up, - an attack - followed by here's the keys to my ride. I was surprised so much happened so fast.
Great conversation! First time I visit your channel. Subscribed!
Thank you for this video. I love the positive vibes. Truly enjoyed. Amazing efforts! ❤
Ive heard a lot of people complain about there not being a local map but there is one. Open the scanner then press RB. Its pretty rudimental but it does help.
The thing that stands out to me is the level of details. The game is immersive in that all the details contribute to make it feel "living". Yes there is empty planets, but they went to realism. I was not expecting landing on Mars and spend 20 hours there discovering its 5 major cities who are as big as New Atlantis. But the level of details in the major cities in the game and also in facilities is really great. So much different furnitures, decorations, lootable items, things to read in books, computers, etc. They surely have put lot of time handcrafting all these items.
I agree that the game does not teach you well how it works. Just navigating in the menus feels like learning to use a new software without relying on the help menu. For example, I knew that my ship has a cargo bay and I wanted to drop my inventory in there. I searched in the ship where to go to do that by overing everywhere and couldn't find it (eneded up finding it by accident while at 15hours in the game). And I found that I could drop things in the cargo trought the menu options (but was not obvious). So I will say the downside is that menus are not intuitive and esay to learn. Just getting at a vendor for the first time I was buying and selling items and I could not see what I bought or sell and the balance amount of the transaction and nothing saying the tansaction was completed so when I exited I feared that it just cancelled the transaction and that I would need to do it again. While there is cons with menus and mechanics explanations, I came to think that I prefer it to be that way. Discovering a mechanic by yourselves is kind of part of the discovery process and when you do its compelling. I understand it can be also frustrating at the same time a bit because you would have liked to learn that thing way earlier. But, i'm fine with it, I feel it hads to the immersion, realism and unique player experience.
Yes, the load times every time I walk out of my house. Pure immersion.
@@17thknight It's like 2-3 seconds per load screen with NVME hard drive
@@17thknight Nice deflection. As if games never had loading screens until now.
Everyone has their own opinion! For me it’s a 9/10 so far, could improve depending on the ending of the main story and when I eventually get in-depth with outpost system. You can’t play this game for even ten hours and expect a lot, it really improves the more you improve your skills which takes hours and hours and hours so if you don’t give it a proper playthrough and invest your time then you’ll probs not enjoy the game loop at all. I LOVE IT!!!! If you have 0 imagination or patience I’d swerve loool
11 hours in and I am 100% playing it as Andy is doing, just completing side stuff. As soon as I could be Freestar ranger I joined up and just started doing their missions and it defitinely feels like a completely different game. Actually having a lot more fun doing their stuff than the main missions (though I haven't gotten far in the main missions so that might change later on). I am not even sure when I am gonna pick up the main missions again tbh, probably gonna be a while😅
Why are they rubbish?
Great lineup 👍
I too started on some of the side content, and just forgot about the main story. For me it began with 'Failure to communicate' (I was way underleveled for!) And continued with hiring Marika Boros. Whom's personal story inspired some investigation, and ends up being a whole chain of impromptu quests, with choices you likely would not have made without that insight to confirm your skepticism. - At some point, all the factions et al, end up forming a matrix of potential outcomes.
I feel like most people on the game are on a similar trajectory with it, that you three are. For example, getting into the ship building; it might help people to know that A, B & C reactor classes, are not about good - better - best, but instead light, medium & bulk. Taiyo make a Sensory module for those of you putting points into Astrodynamics, Scanning, and Astrophysics.
At first the lack of information can be frustrating, and make the game feel slow to wind up. Then you begin to notice a lot of the info you are looking for is in your face. A lot of the things you are looking for surface along the way. Just looking for potential outpost sites, scanning different planets, will likely have you at rank 4 Pilot in no time flat! - ya just gotta ..do it.
Did Andy just suggest space station building for bases when he was talking about mobile ones? Because that would be amazing to see modded in.
Great takes all around. Interesting with different perspectives. I feel like I kearnt alot more about the game, even though I've played quite alot of it. Thanks for all your great content Alanah.
This podcast is why I love this game. Kinda sad that I’ve heard the walking out of the vault moment as basically the biggest reason ppl hate it.
That was an iconic moment in gaming period
I prefer an open world game that doesn’t hold your hand…and in this game it helps with the immersion specifically related to discovery and the feeling of exploration.
Gene Park seems like a nice guy
Heh, actually read his reviews on wapo sometimes.
Gene Park very recently had a lengthy appearance on the Kit & Krysta podcast. Very deep dive into his life story and background. Remarkably candid and interesting.
@@sfbsfbcheck him out on last stand Media during his constellation appearances. The guy has some crazy life stories. Like you said very candid and open with everything. He is also the co-host of a Nintendo podcast on there as well.
The kinda cool thing about Starfield reviews is that it showed me whose game opinions I lean more towards. I LOVE the game.
Great to see you, Gene! Love your work!
I really enjoyed this conversation.
So the game starts off slow then gets really good the more you play. Sounds like a win to me!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but you can clear those bodies off the stolen ships by going into ship editor, move a module around tweak something on the ship. Save it, go back and move it back if you want, and save it again. Then the dead bodies are gone. Also anything that got jostled around during the firefight to take the ship will be reset in position too.
The 3 of you should keep this going ❤
This might be a stretch but does anyone know where Andy's hoodie is from?
I went in with middling expectations and have been pleasantly surprised. Personally, I feel like it kinda rushes through the intro a bit where I feel like it could've taken a bit more time to ease us into the world before launching us into the chosen one mantle but I can also imagine lots of players would then dislike the slower pace so it's tricky. The planets I've explored feel a lot larger than I was expecting given the discussions around invisible walls and such going in. Honestly, I don't think it's quite as groundbreaking as it maybe could have been but it's definitely a fun RPG if you enjoyed Bethesda's previous works.
Persuasion works by getting to know what will work for the character’s personality
The Kinda Funny X LSM collab we been waiting for!
Andy! Have to give NMS another shot. Capital Ship customization sounds like what you were looking for.
I absolutely love hearing Gene's thoughts on videogames. What a great brain.
I'm at work now but this video has inspired me to jump back into Starfield once I log off.
Best thing to do if you want to designate NPCs as unkillable? Make your crosshairs disappear and/or lower your weapon when looking at them. Or have it as an option
Why not give the player total freedom? They would be soft locked sure, but that's a more realistic result compared to unkillable NPC.
Space travel thing that the game doesn't tell you that helps improve immersion in space flight, you don't have to use the map to travel between planets. You can open the scanner while flying your ship and while it is open it will show you all of the other planetary bodies in your current system allowing you to fly between them by target selecting them and then flying to them. This helps make space flight feel better and less menu driven. You still have to use the map to grav jump between systems but within your system it is actually much cleaner with the use of this system.
You can use your ship as a mobile crafting station, instead of building and maintaining outposts. It’s the best use of time and resources. Especially on the first play through.
Man. I need to finish the game before listening to this 😆.
Great discussion. On the persuasion system I don't know what the back end looks is but doing it so much I do not think it's a roll to see if they like your response. If you ask questions before hand you have a better sense of what the person is looking for. An option that may not work earlier in the conversation may work later after you primed it. Perhaps maxing the persuasion skill and using food/pills makes them more likely to be convinced no matter what. I mainly focus on filling those 5 boxes at the bottom, if I think the +4 or 5 is the best option maybe I'll do it but a couple of those and a one tends to work best. I do prefer the BG3 system but this one's growing on me.
Love this!! Yeah first 10 hours or so I was really bummed about a lot now I’m 25 plus hours in and I’m LOVING IT! I get STUCK in the ship customization it’s so fun but very overwhelming at first
But what about the actual game? The copy and paste locations, stale NPC interactions and frequent load screens? It just ruins it for me
Only bug I've had so far has been a alien walking near a ship that was landing just getting launched into the air. It was incredible
20:40
You know they updated it to "Creation Engine 2" for this
Peeking around cover has been around since (I think) Fallout 4. Moving corpses (and other objects) has been around since Oblivion.
I was like dude at the bottom. The exact way. I never played Bethesda games like that, I was just playing b/c it was on gamepass. I was playing but it's weird. I like doin missions in any game more than just running around on my own, so I think it was just the checklist. The most intimidating part was never playing a game, knowing how to sell, knowing how much not to carry, building, what skills to unlock, etc. It was me playing the storymode I figured our alot of this. My step out moment is when I realized I had an actual job as a vanguard & then the United Colony missions is what made it click. It just makes me feel like I'm apart of it
Really great podcast, I was on the fence but I think I'll definetly be picking up Starfield on Game Pass tomorrow :)
Great podcast more of you three please
Another tip regarding space: you can sell from any NPC near a planet in another spaceship. So you don't need to land to unload all that stuff.
Wow, this video is enlightening and nice to watch. LOL leaning and no one knows about it! Another thing they do not explain well is that the ships actually have Newtonian physics. I watched a few reviews where the player was like you dont drift in space and when you let go of thrusters you slow down but you have to press a button to free fly the craft.
What a great group of people
This is amazing conversation. Love it❤
Cool chat. I don’t get the comparison with the oblivion persuade game though - Starfield has a chance of failure depending on colour. Oblivion’s is not chance based at all - you just match the happy NPC facial expression to the strongest response and repeat, it’s impossible to fail
I actually prefer the randomness of Starfield, it adds some flavor to the experience. That way you're never guaranteed to persuade just because you meet some arbitrary threshold.
@@nick15684it feels more like I’m playing a dice roll and playing to the character boosts my odds.
@@hunterbowser667 Yup, I think it actually adds to the replay value too.
That's so funny when you mentioned to Andy about Vlad, I had the same reaction and I'm 30 hrs in. I thoughts I'd done a decent chunk of the main. Feel a bit excited now 😂😂😂
I'm definitely interested in Starfield, is it Xbox only or PC also?
PC as well.
I went to an abandomed mine about 10 hours in and was boosting around with longer-range weapons so i could get close and finish them with a shotgun and realized this was fallout with way better shooting mechanics and thats when I realized I love this game
Really good discussion!
More Andy, Gene and Alanah content pls 🙏
I wonder if the moment Andy is talking about at 4:20 is the same that happened to me, where you get arrested and forced to infilitrate Crismon Fleet to avoid jail time
Holy shit, here’s a trio I can get onboard with!
Nice vid and conversation! To the people who don't know (like me after playing for 10 hours 😂) you can land anywhere on a planet or moon. I was a little disappointed because I thought you could land only on specific locations like outposts, bases, etc. But you can just pick a random spot and land on it. I did it randomly on Neptune's moon and found outposts with pirates, loot, etc. Changed my whole perspective of the game after that.
All BGS games take a while to get going. There's a lot to learn and master but it's always been like that in these games for me
I dont want to see alot of stuff before i play it , but i love all this info!!!
The persuasion system is nothing like the oblivion wheel lol
This was awesome!
Yeah this is the closest to a Kinda Funny/Last Stand Media collaboration we're gunna get
There is a local map. Pull up the scanner and hit right bumper or pc equivalent.
The vast majority of reviewers scored this between 9 and 10. A quarter of reviews are a straight 10. Yet we are focussing on 2 reviews that gave it a 7 against the massive consensus opinion. I also dispute the game is a ‘slow burn’ it starts amazingly and is drawing you in after a couple of hours like no other game does. It’s legitimately up there as one of the greatest RPG’s ever made.
Lmao, it's not remotely one of the "greatest RPGs ever made". It's not even in the top 3 RPGs of this year. It's in the 80's on metacritic and that's where it firmly belongs. A good game, nothing great. Like, Jesus dude, two better RPGs came out the last two months.
@@17thknight Majority of the reviewers disagree with you…..
@@17thknightSorry you can't handle different opinions
Surprised to see Gene! He's great on Punching Up and LSM.
U can do delivery missions and cargo missions with ships!
The "you have to find your fun" rings super true to me, and was like a bit of an epiphany I had in my 3rd or 4th session with the game. I can imagine for lots of people if you play the game "passively" so to speak, you might bounce off it quite hard. I don't mind that at all, but can absolutely understand that it could leave others feeling like the game is shallow and boring.
For all the restrictions that exist in this game which largely don't exist in Bethesda's other games (namely much less seamless travel) it certainly does feel much more free to me. I was also worried that Starfield would follow the trend of Bethesda simplifying their mechanics with each successive game, and have been pleasantly surprised that this game feels quite a bit deeper than their last few games. Personally I would prefer certain mechanics and systems to be even deeper, complex and interesting than they are, but honestly I'm just so damn glad they stopped "mainstream-izing" every mechanic so much.
Also rather than No Man's Sky x Fallout, which is the comparison I've seen the most, the game feels *much* more like Mass Effect x Oblivion to me. Specifically the space and ground traversal feels like what I would expect to get in a more faithful Mass Effect 3 sequel in 2023. Very disappointing that we got a more Bioware style of travel as opposed to Bethesda, but it's not even close to a deal breaker for me.
Also very excited to see where mods take this game in the next year or so, and hoping Bethesda are willing to quickly patch up some of the issues.
All I want is an Operation Anchorage-style mech sim DLC
I fully expected this from a BGS rpg...I love this game so much and have been having a blast with random encounters and getting sidetracked with all of them giving rewards, so it doesn't feel like you wasted time doing those instead of the main quests.
Think there are a lot more plus 9's and 10's than there is 7's and 8's on the review scale.
Uses of ships:
Combat
Smuggling
Cargo Running
Exploration (zillion encounters in space, including derelicts, stations, pirates, other ships, etc.)
Inventory Space (You can store stuff and sell directly from your cargo hold)
Crafting (not needed, but convenient)
The one thing that's missing is "supercruise" - meaning free interplanetary flight with a true purpose. That is, indeed, unfortunate - but I see what they're doing here.
The game is literally too big for anyone to reasonably want to spend time doing manual space flight - beyond maybe a few minutes to just try it.
They just got rid of that.
My playstlye is Ship Building/Side Quests/Exploring/Surveying/Mining/Outpost Building. Haven't met Vlad yet. And I know what you get mechanically from it.
Also, I know what happens at the end of main quest/NG+ and I'm still intending to 100% base game first (so people feel otherwise). Then main quest. Then in like several years do NG+ with mods.
Space exploration games are kinda niche to begin with alot of people like to have a smaller world that's more dense and hand holding which is fine but starfield is more just open do what you want
And I love game with a smaller world but also love games like no mans sky, star citizen, astroneer and now starfield
I totally agree with Andy talking about NPCs not remembering stuff. Just yesterday I talked to Cora and she was talking about how she admires the Mantis and how I'm a superhero too. And as a slightly lower level character I was avoiding doing the Mantis quest but then I immediately went to get that done so I could see Cora's reaction and nothing
This isnt the CLS/KF show people have been clamoring for...lol jk thanks for this alanah
Yeah, great discussion guys. I definitely agree with Lanah though. Two weeks was not enough time to properly review this game.
I am really curious which side quest Andres is talking about. I'm about to give up on this game because none of it has grabbed me after 13 hours of playing. A good quest line may change that.
Put the game down. It's not for babies.