I am their target audience. I've been playing Bethesda games since the early 2000s. I love their games and the people making them. I also love No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous. And Starfield is STILL, somehow, the most 5/10 game I've played in the last decade. They essentially put Fallout 76 post Wastelanders update in space but forgot that they had, once again, left most of the stories in notes, computers and voice memos. All the action is in a couple hub cities and the other 90% of the game takes place on empty, soulless copy-pasted procedurally generated tiles. Is it typical of Bethesda? Yes. But that's not a good thing. There is no excuse for a multi-billionaire dollar company to put out a game of this quality.
Exactly... It's not like Starfield is some terrible affront to gaming, it's just... another Bethesda release? Idk how to put it, but Elder Scrolls and Fallout always felt different even if the bones were the exact same, but Starfield just feels like base-level Bethesda writing before they colored it to the setting and plot. I feel like they finished the game itself, but then forgot to make it a lived-in world and actually flesh it out.
Ain't that the truth, to be fair, I have really enjoyed starfield, but I will not lie and say that the game doesn't have issues, and that Bethesda isn't carried by their fanbase.
@@samwisethe5th112 Oh yeah, I’m 100% sure StarField is GREAT. It’s sold so well for a reason, and a lot of people are console-warring over the game, so not all criticism or praise is going to be valid, but it’s just the pattern of Bethesda to release good, but unfinished games that the community has to finish for them.
its like skyrim, you're either fully outside of the target audience or ravenous about it some are too tough on it and others are obsessively arguing that its the best thing since sliced bread personally I quit skyrim because I got bored, and feel like if this is another bethesda game I might hit the same point
@@lolicongang.4974 Hey bud. they're both space exploration games. one barely put any effort into it and the other put a lot of love into it and is actually fun
On top of which they're flat black loading screens or the fallout 76 camera roll.. like spinning props skyrim style isnt great either. But there are better options. Hell they could use the little takeoff and landing cutscenes as loading screens and it would work perfectly. Most space games do this, give us a loading screen that looks like you're doing something. Hell mass effect did it with airlocks and elevators. No mans sky does ot with literal warp tunnel effects other games use shuttles descending into atmosphere. These are not new ideas Instead we get all the little cutscenes, and then fade to black loading screens
Lol I don't mind the short loading screen. I don't even watch a cutscenes cause I Instantly just pick a planet. To me far better than nms flying through space wasting my time.
To be fair to Heels his rant was about some NPC with a ridiculous back story. From the bits I've seen Stanfield is the standard clunking bug fest that's Bethesda bread & butter.
He would explain more in a follow up video, his complaint is largely that the americans made the whole pronouns thing political, and then it spread to Europe, and now when he tries to play and escapism game to get away from all the political drama it's in the escapism games. He made a whole 20+ minute video on it, and his outburst on stream was according to him "I hammed it up for more of an entertainment value for my stream watchers, something the people that disliked it missed, it am a streamer and I have to entertain them first"
There is no way they bought bethesda just for starfield, the record breaking studio that made skyrim and fallout no way, this doesn't look good of course but the real deal is if TES:6 comes out and isn't received any better THEN we got a problem.
No, they bought Bethesda because they wanted to own their well-known and received past and future franchises, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and now Starfield. Along with the acknowledgement that no matter the perceived quality, Starfield (that even as a new IP) will be a top-seller regardless, based on renown alone because it was developed by Bethesda, which is another problem with AAA developer complacency, really. Starfield just happened to be the game they've been developing during the buy-out, you have to think of this fiscally like how a corporate conglomerate would see it. It was high gain and low risk, because of the correct assumption people are anticipating Starfield, and a sizeable projection of consumers and Bethesda die-hards would purchase it anyway. So it was mostly pro and little con, and if they actually feel like it, Microsoft can inject it's own resources if they feel the product isn't up to par. Which *really* means they're just taking the brunt of the middling reviews right now and gauging reactions for future endeavors, if this is what they took over and allowed to be released lol
@@dwarfminerwilliethey literally said in court under the penalty of perjury, that starfield having an exclusive deal was the thing that triggered them to buy bethesda (and then make it exclusive). 😂. Now they just spent 70 billion in the dumpster fire that is ABK…
If you wanna see how No Man's Sky is better after all this time, watch a video called "No Man's Sky in 2023 is..... Ridiculous" Starfield Literally doesn't compare to it XD Not an ad but god I wish I was.
No Man's Sky 2023 features is the bare minimum for a triple A studio making an space game. If a small indie group made Starfield, we wouldn't be mad at it.
I have a bug that the starborn power that slows time never ends, but if I boost my ship when that happens I'm able to fly from planet to planet. Which means that if they actually simulated the vacuum of space correctly (no air resistance to slow your ship after boosting), you could do that without the need for a bug or loading screens. And then they could have actual random events instead of making you investigate map markers
The game seems pretty meh glad I didnt pick it up maybe it will eventually be decent but I'll just wait until then if anything the release of this game got me more interested in no man's sky
Since it came up in the vid, Cyberpunk for me was main reason why SnoreField felt to lifeless, boring and empty. Most basic combat of just shooting a bullet sponges, lifeless NPCs, exploring bloody empty planets (oh they are not completely early, there are rocks to look at and 3 same pirate/space bases you clean agian and again). Sure it has the spaceship but all you have for that is just your run of a mill space combat. Meanwhile Cyberpunk, just one walk trough the streets and it is a living (or rather really good illusion of one), combat is fluid and you have several ways of approaching it, dialog is interesting, just the fact they animated most quest where you and other npc are talking was amazing and great for immersion. Oh and modders made flying cars in Cyberpunk so the an extent you even have that over Snorefield.
I really wish that people didn't only see the pronoun bit of heals versus baby faces ran..... That was like a 5 second blurb of a several minute rant of the things that he found wrong with Starfield. And all of his criticisms are the same criticisms that everyone else has. And his biggest issue with the pronouns was the fact you had to choose pronounce and yet in the actual game itself it had no bearing on anything whatsoever and there's only one singular transcharacter that's not even technically trans because she is a clone of a man but is biologically female which makes her just female. And people seem really forget how cloning works cloning is not likely to satisfy does it wears an exact copy the clone in sarfield would be genetically the child of the man that she was cloned after. That was his issue the false of virtue signal if it was actually a part of the game he wouldn't have flipped out about it like that.
All I recall is when skyrim came out it was a dumpster fire and people shit on it left and right till they played through it. Them mods also came out and it was held as a massively amazing game. I remember Fall out 3 drama I remember fall out 4 drama. I dont remember a time a Bethesda game has never had drama. I will say as someone who played cyber punk 2077 and the new mass effect on launch Starfield is deff not worst than those disasters of games. Player expectation is just ludacris
I enjoy fighting and looting in starfield but the setting and story are weak. side stories and characters are also usually pretty weak aside from a few standouts (still only good) but better than the main quest. Ship building is also cool but the space combat is not it. I just use space combat as a vehicle to board other ships so I can feel like a privateer. I wouldn't have played it if I didn't have gamepass
Honestly, this starfield game is. Just so mediocre. For so much hype, i was expecting at least for it to be good. But nope, this was just really terrible. If you have to rely on the modders to make the game enjoyable. Then that's not a game i want to try. I know people will bring cyberpunk 2077 to counter they point, but at least cyberpunk 2077 had some substance to actually enjoy it. Hot take : but cyberpunk 2077 is a much better game than Starfield
From what I've heard, even from the beginning, the story, and characters of Cyberpunk were great from the beginning, plus, they've constantly updated, and fixed the game since it came out, much in the same way Hello games updated, and fixed No Mans Sky, and Cyberpunk is now in a stable, completely playable state. From everything I've heard, Starfield is the very definition of mid. Which for a game that was being touted as the greatest game within the last 10 years, is not a good thing. Everyone either hates it, or is arguably overly defending it saying it's "okay that it's mid, not every game needs to be a masterpiece.' except, the problem with that is that you were the exact same people who were saying it was going to be the game of the year. It seems like a lot of people are coping, and trying to say it's better then even they believe it is.
It seems the game has low quality generic NPCs to fill in the cities and those are the one with the weird eyes/stares. The "normal" NPCs look much better but I'm not sure why they left those models of such low quality for them. Though the point was to make the towns feel more lived in so there's a lot of them. Don't get too close to them and the illusion will hold, I guess? As I'm playing through the game though, I really don't notice all those things put forward by critics. It's a pretty minor part of the experience but it's put forward a lot because drama brings views I guess. As for bugs, the game isn't bug free but it's actually really good. Like Cyberpunk at release was REALLY REALLY worse by far. This is easily the least bugged Bethesda game ever. The bugs present are pretty minor and not blocking the gameplay much. As for the story, the main story is, well so far it's serviceable at best. The main side stories I've been trying are really good though. This is pretty standard Bethesda there. Main story is more an excuse to get the player to experience the game anyway.
Unfortunately Bethesda seems to be similar to Nintendo. They suffer from “Get with the times” issues but Bethesda just outright refuses to do so, where Nintendo may trip or stumble but they will adjust and adapt as needed. There is only so far a software system can go and eventually, if you don’t adjust with modern technology, you will be left in the dust and forgotten about.
@@lolicongang.4974 I was only dumb enough to buy Skyrim twice a time after it released. I got it in a bundle when I bought my PS3 and I bought it again when I got my first and only Xbox 360 when it was about $10 - $15. I stumbled into a few game breaking bugs, like having vampire powers as a werewolf & the game calling me a vampire even though I don’t have the vampirism status effect. Then after accidentally clipping through the terrain of the inside of Whiterun I realized how broken the game was. I haven’t bought it again since then.
Well the problem with the console wars you mentioned in the video is that the game was made an Xbox exclusive by Microsoft. (They bought Zenimax/Bethesda) People on playstation simply can't play it at all.
Starfield is basically what Fallout would be if it came out today. The only difference that there is more planets to visit over the wasteland. I think you could say the same with the Elder Scrolls series. So my take is that, yes this is a bad standard, but it is not something we didn’t expect to happen after how much Bethesda lies. I don’t believe you can even compare this to No Man’s Sky either since the gameplay loop is different to Starfield, but you can definitely compare the space exploration which is definitely sad to see. Still I don’t believe that No Man’s Sky should be held to a good standard as well for the industry since it encourages for publishers to make bad games then fix them which is what games are doing now. Anyhow... Overall review: Game is 3/5 since again it is just their other games. You get a boring opening until you get the world open up to you. Then you either continue to do the main quests, or you visit other places for the fun of it.
it was built with the time and energy of a side project your don't even care about. the plotlines make no sense to the point where you will ask yourself "wait, why can't i just leave? i can literally jump out of this system in less time than it will take for more pirates to show up and the place i'm jumping to is a patrolled system." the NPCs will make you question whether this game came out 6 months after fallout 4. the complete lack of scripted content will make you ask how many people were even working on this game. it is the most lazy game i've seen since Star Wars: The Old Republic was released.
Alanas the best Dumb/Dumber I know….she’s the only one to be fair. Also as someone with 2000 hrs in Skyrim and another 2000 in Fallout 3, 4 and Oblivion I highly recommend not buying Starfield at full price, it’s not even worth $40 without at least 2-3 DLC, the only real good content is the 4 main faction quest lines and ship building. The main quest is a hit or miss and exploration and side quests are mostly fetch quests and empty repetitive planets, structures, and enemies.
NO MANS SKY, a game that come out in 2016 (as noted, it wasn't very good at the time) IS STILL BETTER then STARFEILD, Bethesda's NEW IP that came out in 2023. A 7 Year old game that Amounted to MINECRAFT IN SPACE, is BETTER then Bethesda's Latest RPG. Just let that SINK IN real good for a moment. "Starfeild is better then with the mods" Say it with me folks, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MOD A GAME TO ENJOY IT OR FOR IT TO BE PLAYABLE!
I mean the biggest problem is Bethesda refuses to move away from the Creation Engine, which is 12 years old at this point, which was honestly just a mid engine in the first place. Bethesda for the last 7-10 years has pretty much been counting on the modder communities to make their games for them, so they're perfectly satisfied with launching completely mid-tier at best games and calling them (and pricing them) as AAA. The one saving grace for them before was a really compelling story that allowed players to overlook the graphics and bugs, but that's been put by the wayside a while ago. Bethesda has now basically become a joke/meme company.
I absolutely believe starfield spent 7 years in development. We are talking about Bethesda. It took them months to implement fixes in fallout 4 for bugs known since fallout 3. The fixes moders made in days. And the official fix broke the mods that fixed the bugs, but failed to fix the bugs.
I'm gonna be honest and say game graphics kinda peaked around 2015-2016 not saying that all games nowadays look worse but most 15/16 games have Holden up quite well compared to recent titles
People would complain about realtime planet sim like they did on no mans sky which is why you cant free roam space the fact that a realtime planet rotating on its axis made “gamers” upset is baffling. If you want a real space sim game with open space travel play elite dangerous
2:40 It's literally the same engine. 4:50 It's done procedurally. That explains a fucking _lot,_ Bethesda. With Baldur's Gate 3 deciding to launch a little earlier to avoid the Starfield crowd, this was not the year to have some shitty, half-baked animation system for faces and mouths. Larian absolutely crushed the lip sync and expression game this year, while Bethesda took a fucking shortcut. Astounding.
I already knew Starfield wasn't going to be good. Just look up layoff list who got canned and know why that's why alot of companies don't make good games anymore because all the talent that made these legendary games are not there anymore. They've been replaced to save a few bucks and they think they are "insert game company" that they are the ones who make great games and forget that it's the talented veterans of industry and young driven talent that made the games great and they killed it just to cut corners to save a few bucks
I'm happy people like something. It genuinely makes me happy. But I get flashbacks from Cyberpunk launch. It was worse but still had the same blind defenders of the game. We should take every game as it is, not get disappointed by expectations but holy British fudge the bugs and missing features. I don't think any NPC rides a motorcycle in cyberpunk, that's not game feature? Not flying to planets is a decision, saves up resources. But the eyes, total lack of reaction to gunfire, early (year 1) cyberpunk NPC doing the exact same animation at the exact same time wasn't a great reaction either, also when you turned around they had vanished from a totally open huge area. My point is, both these games promised huge and delivered ass. Both are great fun but get ruined frequently by lazy code or tech missing.
Wrong people presumed stuff and got it wrong. They told the truth. They never said you can fly off the planet. They didn't say graphics going to be top of the game. It's a Bethesda game through and through. :l
I'll wait until its like 20$, by that time there will be enough mods to justify playing it. And if Bethesda will use the same engine for ES6, will it mean that in like 2030 we will get a game with characters that look like they are from 2010?
@@lolicongang.4974 But it is catered to me. I like many ideas in the game. Its just that most of them are implemented in either a mediocre or outright bad way. The game could have been so, so much better.
The RPG systems in starfield in my opinion better than fallout 4, and skyrim. The are about on par with oblivion in detail and choices. And in my opinion starfield does many things better than any other of bethesdas RPG''s. The dialogue and persuasion system is probably the best. Or at least on par with oblivion and morrowind. The gun play and gamplay in general is better than any of theor previous titles in terms of fluidity. The lockpicking system in particular i think is perfection. The space combat is also better than most of its competition, especially No Man's Sky. The writing in particular for the hand crafted quests are some of the best bethesda has ever done. In my opinion leagues better than Skyrim, Fallout 3 or 4, and even morrowind and oblivion. I'd argue that it rivals even the writing genius of New Vegas. The interior environments, are honestly jawdroppingly good. And some of the lanscapes in starfield nearly look photo realistic. The facial animations are slightly better than previous games, but still have that jank at many times. Not so much with more important questline characters. But random NPC's do look like fallout 4. And for me, the worst aspect of this game is the UI, it feels very rushed and was made to simply function on a basic level. It's defenitly no morrowind levels of bad, but it does drag down the experience at times. But for me, starfield is rhe return to form bethesda desperately needed. And I'm loving the game from the bottom of my heart.
>"I'd argue that it rivals even the writing genius of New Vegas." It's utterly incomprehensible to me how someone who genuinely loves NV could ever possibly say this unironically.
@@bickboose9364 I'm playing through the Crismson Fleet Questline while a friend is doing the Ryuigen Questline. Both quests could be games on their own. They are probably better than any of Bethesda's previous faction quests (outside of New Vegas, which was made by Obsidian). The main quest isn't mindblowing but it is the best Bethesda has ever done. People who say that the writing in Starfield is anything less than mid is either A. disingenuous or B. they have yet to play any of the quests. I never said it was better than NV, but the writing is definitely one of if not the best, part of the game for me.
Oi that guy in your chat saying ME:A was the worst game ever made. How dare. It had a lot great about it, the two issues being one minor being that human faces could be pretty weird from time to time. Second the big one is the story was lacking most of the time, it had it's moments and a good over all idea. It was just done poorly and the main villain was super forgettable. But the environments, character interactions, combat, all of that was top notch. Even though I hated Liam with a passion, but there is always that one character in ME games I hate.
Its just skyrim / fallout in space with the same garbage Bethesda game engine lmao. When mods get more in depth we'll get a good game. I just hope there are some good romance mods cause they only gave us 4 very mid options. Imma go back to baldurs gate where we have like 20 options and even twins lol.
Why people cope for this game? I mean, I would if I spend 100dlls for the game and got a sht game I might do the same lol... thats why I have the Game pass, I think is free there with a bunch of other games KEKW
... Ugh, heev is so cringe... It honestly hurts to hear him talk in that video... HasteMG's twitch chat message (in 4:52) summarizes my thoughts of those facial expressions... So, well... Wtf am I looking at? I don't know, Fallout 3 only really had one amazing DLC and rest was pretty much decent. I can not consider it bad but, I was pretty damn disappointed when the game said 'You completed the game, there is no post main story line to be played.' To which I was just... Really? That's BS... I can not consider it a bad game but, I consider it mildly underwhelming.
I still play new Vegas I have never cared what npcs looked like lmao, but environments and space is honestly pretty good, gameplay gets stale tho after awhile.
Maybe it's a hot take but i genuinely enjoyed my time with starfield (about 60h in as of writing this) even from the start, and yes it is without a doubt rough around the edges and the asking price is definitely a bit high for some people. Despite this starfield made me feel like i was playing skyrim for the first time which is exactly what I was hoping for.
Cyberpunk was playable at launch tho, people just got hit with a lot of bugs, UA-cam was full of them, NPC's clipping through vechials, buildings, enemies spawning right behind you, crashing to desktop wasn't one of the many bugs in release cyberpunk I heard, rather you'd get stuck in eternal loading menus, stuck mid cutscene, audio video not playing at the same time and everyone t-posing.
@@viola8422 there has been worse games, like fallout 76, that bricked some consoles entirely, while at other times corrupting other peoples console operating software. Anthem also for some people that I know only gave them blue screens when attempting to boot up, sure cyberpunk was bad at launch, yet their has been worse.
@@gidi3250 okay and? People spent 60 bucks,and now the foxed version isn't valuable at all. So they got scammed not only on price,but also on what was promised lol
@@viola8422 and cyberpunk was still somewhat playable, fallout 76 ij some cases resulted in people needing to get new console due to it bricking or needing a full reset due to internal software corruption, that sounds a bit more expensive than just $60 being spent on a half baked game.
I used to watch heelvsbabyface, but he's gone deep into the culture wars and its really cringe now. He also streams with a bunch of other right leaning youtubers and I think that's just made him worse over time
RedEngine 4 may be decent in comparison to Creation Engine atm but bro it's arguably just as dogshit, there's a reason why CDPR is abandoning it after just 1 game, they fucked up real bad; maybe Bethesda can take notes and abandon the Creation Engine but I wouldn't hold my breath at all
Its boring. Its not alive. If you are bored to death yes. Otherwise Get Cyberpunk 2077 At least you know game-play is fun game is beautiful city is ...Alive and story will make you feel something
"Half Baked"
This is the tagline for AAA games for the past 5 years.
I am their target audience. I've been playing Bethesda games since the early 2000s. I love their games and the people making them. I also love No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous. And Starfield is STILL, somehow, the most 5/10 game I've played in the last decade. They essentially put Fallout 76 post Wastelanders update in space but forgot that they had, once again, left most of the stories in notes, computers and voice memos. All the action is in a couple hub cities and the other 90% of the game takes place on empty, soulless copy-pasted procedurally generated tiles. Is it typical of Bethesda? Yes. But that's not a good thing. There is no excuse for a multi-billionaire dollar company to put out a game of this quality.
Exactly... It's not like Starfield is some terrible affront to gaming, it's just... another Bethesda release? Idk how to put it, but Elder Scrolls and Fallout always felt different even if the bones were the exact same, but Starfield just feels like base-level Bethesda writing before they colored it to the setting and plot.
I feel like they finished the game itself, but then forgot to make it a lived-in world and actually flesh it out.
I just hope they step up their game for TESVI. It's been 10 years...
Starefield. For people who has staring fetish.
@@UTO7 Oh, *boy* is TES6 gonna be a shitfest. _Brace yourself..._
@@bickboose9364didn't they say tes6 will be in a new engine? I hope it's good.
Can’t wait for the mods to make this the best game ever made.
😂 probably 5 years from now
Ain't that the truth, to be fair, I have really enjoyed starfield, but I will not lie and say that the game doesn't have issues, and that Bethesda isn't carried by their fanbase.
@@samwisethe5th112 they make great betas for the comunity to build of a game out of it.
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Oh yeah, I’m 100% sure StarField is GREAT.
It’s sold so well for a reason, and a lot of people are console-warring over the game, so not all criticism or praise is going to be valid, but it’s just the pattern of Bethesda to release good, but unfinished games that the community has to finish for them.
its like skyrim, you're either fully outside of the target audience or ravenous about it
some are too tough on it and others are obsessively arguing that its the best thing since sliced bread
personally I quit skyrim because I got bored, and feel like if this is another bethesda game I might hit the same point
those NPCs stare into your soul like there is no tomorrow
Ngl Starfield is the best advertisement for how far No Mans Sky has come, they've put so much love and effort into the game.
Hey bud not the same game.
One is basically exploring and the other is a rpg first.
@@lolicongang.4974 Hey bud. they're both space exploration games. one barely put any effort into it and the other put a lot of love into it and is actually fun
God every NPC just oozes uncanny valley.
Really makes you FEEL like you're in a mannequin store
Bethesda feels like an AI generated game company.
Man halo 3 from 2007 has better water physics than Starfield
Starfields main problem is too many loading screens, because it doesn't make you feel like your playing an openworld game.
On top of which they're flat black loading screens or the fallout 76 camera roll.. like spinning props skyrim style isnt great either.
But there are better options. Hell they could use the little takeoff and landing cutscenes as loading screens and it would work perfectly.
Most space games do this, give us a loading screen that looks like you're doing something. Hell mass effect did it with airlocks and elevators. No mans sky does ot with literal warp tunnel effects other games use shuttles descending into atmosphere. These are not new ideas
Instead we get all the little cutscenes, and then fade to black loading screens
Lol I don't mind the short loading screen. I don't even watch a cutscenes cause I Instantly just pick a planet.
To me far better than nms flying through space wasting my time.
@@lolicongang.4974 I respect that opinion. but i personally love the fact that u can freely go over a planet in NMS.
To be fair to Heels his rant was about some NPC with a ridiculous back story. From the bits I've seen Stanfield is the standard clunking bug fest that's Bethesda bread & butter.
If your searching the web for bugs yes.
He would explain more in a follow up video, his complaint is largely that the americans made the whole pronouns thing political, and then it spread to Europe, and now when he tries to play and escapism game to get away from all the political drama it's in the escapism games. He made a whole 20+ minute video on it, and his outburst on stream was according to him "I hammed it up for more of an entertainment value for my stream watchers, something the people that disliked it missed, it am a streamer and I have to entertain them first"
We have to remember that Starfield is the reason Microsoft bought Bethesda. For it to be this "average-at-best" is big reason to be alarmed.
There is no way they bought bethesda just for starfield, the record breaking studio that made skyrim and fallout no way, this doesn't look good of course but the real deal is if TES:6 comes out and isn't received any better THEN we got a problem.
No, they bought Bethesda because they wanted to own their well-known and received past and future franchises, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and now Starfield. Along with the acknowledgement that no matter the perceived quality, Starfield (that even as a new IP) will be a top-seller regardless, based on renown alone because it was developed by Bethesda, which is another problem with AAA developer complacency, really.
Starfield just happened to be the game they've been developing during the buy-out, you have to think of this fiscally like how a corporate conglomerate would see it. It was high gain and low risk, because of the correct assumption people are anticipating Starfield, and a sizeable projection of consumers and Bethesda die-hards would purchase it anyway. So it was mostly pro and little con, and if they actually feel like it, Microsoft can inject it's own resources if they feel the product isn't up to par. Which *really* means they're just taking the brunt of the middling reviews right now and gauging reactions for future endeavors, if this is what they took over and allowed to be released lol
Elder Scrolls is the real reason that Bethesda or Todd Howard are known at all. Starfield is barely an also ran ._.
@@dwarfminerwilliethey literally said in court under the penalty of perjury, that starfield having an exclusive deal was the thing that triggered them to buy bethesda (and then make it exclusive). 😂. Now they just spent 70 billion in the dumpster fire that is ABK…
They Bought their parent company ZENAMAX, not just Bethesda.
If you wanna see how No Man's Sky is better after all this time, watch a video called "No Man's Sky in 2023 is..... Ridiculous" Starfield Literally doesn't compare to it XD Not an ad but god I wish I was.
No Man's Sky 2023 features is the bare minimum for a triple A studio making an space game. If a small indie group made Starfield, we wouldn't be mad at it.
It's still boring though. All you do is craft and explore
1:31 No, it's not "half baked"
It's "half baked at best"
I am enjoying this No Man's Sky advertisment. It's getting me interested in playing that game instead of Starfail.
I have a bug that the starborn power that slows time never ends, but if I boost my ship when that happens I'm able to fly from planet to planet. Which means that if they actually simulated the vacuum of space correctly (no air resistance to slow your ship after boosting), you could do that without the need for a bug or loading screens. And then they could have actual random events instead of making you investigate map markers
The game seems pretty meh glad I didnt pick it up maybe it will eventually be decent but I'll just wait until then if anything the release of this game got me more interested in no man's sky
Almost 6k lets goooooo
Since it came up in the vid, Cyberpunk for me was main reason why SnoreField felt to lifeless, boring and empty. Most basic combat of just shooting a bullet sponges, lifeless NPCs, exploring bloody empty planets (oh they are not completely early, there are rocks to look at and 3 same pirate/space bases you clean agian and again). Sure it has the spaceship but all you have for that is just your run of a mill space combat.
Meanwhile Cyberpunk, just one walk trough the streets and it is a living (or rather really good illusion of one), combat is fluid and you have several ways of approaching it, dialog is interesting, just the fact they animated most quest where you and other npc are talking was amazing and great for immersion.
Oh and modders made flying cars in Cyberpunk so the an extent you even have that over Snorefield.
I really wish that people didn't only see the pronoun bit of heals versus baby faces ran..... That was like a 5 second blurb of a several minute rant of the things that he found wrong with Starfield. And all of his criticisms are the same criticisms that everyone else has. And his biggest issue with the pronouns was the fact you had to choose pronounce and yet in the actual game itself it had no bearing on anything whatsoever and there's only one singular transcharacter that's not even technically trans because she is a clone of a man but is biologically female which makes her just female. And people seem really forget how cloning works cloning is not likely to satisfy does it wears an exact copy the clone in sarfield would be genetically the child of the man that she was cloned after. That was his issue the false of virtue signal if it was actually a part of the game he wouldn't have flipped out about it like that.
All I recall is when skyrim came out it was a dumpster fire and people shit on it left and right till they played through it. Them mods also came out and it was held as a massively amazing game.
I remember Fall out 3 drama I remember fall out 4 drama. I dont remember a time a Bethesda game has never had drama.
I will say as someone who played cyber punk 2077 and the new mass effect on launch Starfield is deff not worst than those disasters of games. Player expectation is just ludacris
Dude none of the NPCs blink, it’s freaky.
I enjoy fighting and looting in starfield but the setting and story are weak. side stories and characters are also usually pretty weak aside from a few standouts (still only good) but better than the main quest.
Ship building is also cool but the space combat is not it. I just use space combat as a vehicle to board other ships so I can feel like a privateer.
I wouldn't have played it if I didn't have gamepass
Bethesda...
GET A BETTER ENGINE!
Honestly, this starfield game is. Just so mediocre. For so much hype, i was expecting at least for it to be good. But nope, this was just really terrible. If you have to rely on the modders to make the game enjoyable. Then that's not a game i want to try. I know people will bring cyberpunk 2077 to counter they point, but at least cyberpunk 2077 had some substance to actually enjoy it.
Hot take : but cyberpunk 2077 is a much better game than Starfield
From what I've heard, even from the beginning, the story, and characters of Cyberpunk were great from the beginning, plus, they've constantly updated, and fixed the game since it came out, much in the same way Hello games updated, and fixed No Mans Sky, and Cyberpunk is now in a stable, completely playable state. From everything I've heard, Starfield is the very definition of mid. Which for a game that was being touted as the greatest game within the last 10 years, is not a good thing. Everyone either hates it, or is arguably overly defending it saying it's "okay that it's mid, not every game needs to be a masterpiece.' except, the problem with that is that you were the exact same people who were saying it was going to be the game of the year. It seems like a lot of people are coping, and trying to say it's better then even they believe it is.
It seems the game has low quality generic NPCs to fill in the cities and those are the one with the weird eyes/stares. The "normal" NPCs look much better but I'm not sure why they left those models of such low quality for them. Though the point was to make the towns feel more lived in so there's a lot of them.
Don't get too close to them and the illusion will hold, I guess?
As I'm playing through the game though, I really don't notice all those things put forward by critics. It's a pretty minor part of the experience but it's put forward a lot because drama brings views I guess.
As for bugs, the game isn't bug free but it's actually really good. Like Cyberpunk at release was REALLY REALLY worse by far. This is easily the least bugged Bethesda game ever. The bugs present are pretty minor and not blocking the gameplay much.
As for the story, the main story is, well so far it's serviceable at best. The main side stories I've been trying are really good though. This is pretty standard Bethesda there. Main story is more an excuse to get the player to experience the game anyway.
"The game gets fun 12 hours in!"
That sounds like Stockholm syndrome.
Starfield: "we reskinned Skyrim and then removed all the fun."
Unfortunately Bethesda seems to be similar to Nintendo. They suffer from “Get with the times” issues but Bethesda just outright refuses to do so, where Nintendo may trip or stumble but they will adjust and adapt as needed. There is only so far a software system can go and eventually, if you don’t adjust with modern technology, you will be left in the dust and forgotten about.
And they succeeded in starfield no wonder they don't listen to you guys they got a fan base lol
@@lolicongang.4974 I was only dumb enough to buy Skyrim twice a time after it released. I got it in a bundle when I bought my PS3 and I bought it again when I got my first and only Xbox 360 when it was about $10 - $15. I stumbled into a few game breaking bugs, like having vampire powers as a werewolf & the game calling me a vampire even though I don’t have the vampirism status effect. Then after accidentally clipping through the terrain of the inside of Whiterun I realized how broken the game was. I haven’t bought it again since then.
Well the problem with the console wars you mentioned in the video is that the game was made an Xbox exclusive by Microsoft. (They bought Zenimax/Bethesda) People on playstation simply can't play it at all.
Fall out 1 and 2 are pretty hilarious. You could play one of them, especially on the low intelligence runs.
Starfield is basically what Fallout would be if it came out today. The only difference that there is more planets to visit over the wasteland. I think you could say the same with the Elder Scrolls series. So my take is that, yes this is a bad standard, but it is not something we didn’t expect to happen after how much Bethesda lies. I don’t believe you can even compare this to No Man’s Sky either since the gameplay loop is different to Starfield, but you can definitely compare the space exploration which is definitely sad to see. Still I don’t believe that No Man’s Sky should be held to a good standard as well for the industry since it encourages for publishers to make bad games then fix them which is what games are doing now. Anyhow...
Overall review: Game is 3/5 since again it is just their other games. You get a boring opening until you get the world open up to you. Then you either continue to do the main quests, or you visit other places for the fun of it.
Yes Bethesda biggest "bad standard."
Or it's not for you.
"If it takes you 12 hours to get into the game, its not a good game"
FFXIV begs to differ. There it only takes 100 hours!
should watch Angry Joes review of Starfield
it was built with the time and energy of a side project your don't even care about. the plotlines make no sense to the point where you will ask yourself "wait, why can't i just leave? i can literally jump out of this system in less time than it will take for more pirates to show up and the place i'm jumping to is a patrolled system." the NPCs will make you question whether this game came out 6 months after fallout 4. the complete lack of scripted content will make you ask how many people were even working on this game. it is the most lazy game i've seen since Star Wars: The Old Republic was released.
Alanas the best Dumb/Dumber I know….she’s the only one to be fair.
Also as someone with 2000 hrs in Skyrim and another 2000 in Fallout 3, 4 and Oblivion I highly recommend not buying Starfield at full price, it’s not even worth $40 without at least 2-3 DLC, the only real good content is the 4 main faction quest lines and ship building. The main quest is a hit or miss and exploration and side quests are mostly fetch quests and empty repetitive planets, structures, and enemies.
NO MANS SKY, a game that come out in 2016 (as noted, it wasn't very good at the time) IS STILL BETTER then STARFEILD, Bethesda's NEW IP that came out in 2023. A 7 Year old game that Amounted to MINECRAFT IN SPACE, is BETTER then Bethesda's Latest RPG. Just let that SINK IN real good for a moment.
"Starfeild is better then with the mods" Say it with me folks, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MOD A GAME TO ENJOY IT OR FOR IT TO BE PLAYABLE!
Yeah cause that's a space sim.
It's doing what it's designed to do.
Bethesda is doing what they do.
They aren't the same.
I mean the biggest problem is Bethesda refuses to move away from the Creation Engine, which is 12 years old at this point, which was honestly just a mid engine in the first place. Bethesda for the last 7-10 years has pretty much been counting on the modder communities to make their games for them, so they're perfectly satisfied with launching completely mid-tier at best games and calling them (and pricing them) as AAA. The one saving grace for them before was a really compelling story that allowed players to overlook the graphics and bugs, but that's been put by the wayside a while ago. Bethesda has now basically become a joke/meme company.
I absolutely believe starfield spent 7 years in development. We are talking about Bethesda. It took them months to implement fixes in fallout 4 for bugs known since fallout 3. The fixes moders made in days. And the official fix broke the mods that fixed the bugs, but failed to fix the bugs.
This game will long term live or die by the mod support 😮
40 years old gamer who has been in coma for 35 years
I'm gonna be honest and say game graphics kinda peaked around 2015-2016 not saying that all games nowadays look worse but most 15/16 games have Holden up quite well compared to recent titles
You're right. The newer Battlefront games, in terms of graphics, put all the games that came after them to shame and have way lower requirements.
speaking of bugs...
new vegas bugs are also worst, but they are helped by the story and game mechanics which are pretty good.
If it takes a game 12 hours to hook you in you aren't hooked. That is just Stockholm syndrome setting in.
I’ve really been enjoying starfield so far, my legs hurt from sitting on the floor for hours.
People would complain about realtime planet sim like they did on no mans sky which is why you cant free roam space the fact that a realtime planet rotating on its axis made “gamers” upset is baffling. If you want a real space sim game with open space travel play elite dangerous
2:40 It's literally the same engine.
4:50 It's done procedurally. That explains a fucking _lot,_ Bethesda. With Baldur's Gate 3 deciding to launch a little earlier to avoid the Starfield crowd, this was not the year to have some shitty, half-baked animation system for faces and mouths. Larian absolutely crushed the lip sync and expression game this year, while Bethesda took a fucking shortcut. Astounding.
I am not seeing the problem.
You should have stitched the OP starship react into this video 🤣
I just watched that maps stream lol
Do you have a channel where you backup streams? It would be sad if those were lost to time.
No I don't sadly
Between my editor and I we don't have the resources to do it ourselves
Redfall and now Starfield...do you think Microsoft is happy with the Bethesda purchase?
I already knew Starfield wasn't going to be good. Just look up layoff list who got canned and know why that's why alot of companies don't make good games anymore because all the talent that made these legendary games are not there anymore. They've been replaced to save a few bucks and they think they are "insert game company" that they are the ones who make great games and forget that it's the talented veterans of industry and young driven talent that made the games great and they killed it just to cut corners to save a few bucks
I'm happy people like something. It genuinely makes me happy. But I get flashbacks from Cyberpunk launch. It was worse but still had the same blind defenders of the game. We should take every game as it is, not get disappointed by expectations but holy British fudge the bugs and missing features.
I don't think any NPC rides a motorcycle in cyberpunk, that's not game feature? Not flying to planets is a decision, saves up resources. But the eyes, total lack of reaction to gunfire, early (year 1) cyberpunk NPC doing the exact same animation at the exact same time wasn't a great reaction either, also when you turned around they had vanished from a totally open huge area.
My point is, both these games promised huge and delivered ass. Both are great fun but get ruined frequently by lazy code or tech missing.
Wrong people presumed stuff and got it wrong.
They told the truth.
They never said you can fly off the planet.
They didn't say graphics going to be top of the game.
It's a Bethesda game through and through.
:l
I review soft fluffy fox ears as 10/10 ❤
i'm gonna say what all these elder scrolls games and fallout games are, it's the sims for nerds.
search your heart, you know it to be true.
I'll wait until its like 20$, by that time there will be enough mods to justify playing it.
And if Bethesda will use the same engine for ES6, will it mean that in like 2030 we will get a game with characters that look like they are from 2010?
Just say it's not catered towards you and you will wait for mods
It's simple.
@@lolicongang.4974 But it is catered to me. I like many ideas in the game. Its just that most of them are implemented in either a mediocre or outright bad way. The game could have been so, so much better.
I dont think alana remembers new vegas if she thinks fallout writing bad
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The RPG systems in starfield in my opinion better than fallout 4, and skyrim. The are about on par with oblivion in detail and choices. And in my opinion starfield does many things better than any other of bethesdas RPG''s. The dialogue and persuasion system is probably the best. Or at least on par with oblivion and morrowind. The gun play and gamplay in general is better than any of theor previous titles in terms of fluidity. The lockpicking system in particular i think is perfection. The space combat is also better than most of its competition, especially No Man's Sky. The writing in particular for the hand crafted quests are some of the best bethesda has ever done. In my opinion leagues better than Skyrim, Fallout 3 or 4, and even morrowind and oblivion. I'd argue that it rivals even the writing genius of New Vegas. The interior environments, are honestly jawdroppingly good. And some of the lanscapes in starfield nearly look photo realistic. The facial animations are slightly better than previous games, but still have that jank at many times. Not so much with more important questline characters. But random NPC's do look like fallout 4. And for me, the worst aspect of this game is the UI, it feels very rushed and was made to simply function on a basic level. It's defenitly no morrowind levels of bad, but it does drag down the experience at times. But for me, starfield is rhe return to form bethesda desperately needed. And I'm loving the game from the bottom of my heart.
>"I'd argue that it rivals even the writing genius of New Vegas."
It's utterly incomprehensible to me how someone who genuinely loves NV could ever possibly say this unironically.
@@bickboose9364 I'm playing through the Crismson Fleet Questline while a friend is doing the Ryuigen Questline. Both quests could be games on their own. They are probably better than any of Bethesda's previous faction quests (outside of New Vegas, which was made by Obsidian). The main quest isn't mindblowing but it is the best Bethesda has ever done. People who say that the writing in Starfield is anything less than mid is either A. disingenuous or B. they have yet to play any of the quests. I never said it was better than NV, but the writing is definitely one of if not the best, part of the game for me.
Bethesda peaked with Skyrim
The 40yo gamer probably hasnt played a game in the past 5 years.
Which, Good on him. Cause none of them have been any good.
The cope in chat is sad lol
Oi that guy in your chat saying ME:A was the worst game ever made. How dare. It had a lot great about it, the two issues being one minor being that human faces could be pretty weird from time to time. Second the big one is the story was lacking most of the time, it had it's moments and a good over all idea. It was just done poorly and the main villain was super forgettable. But the environments, character interactions, combat, all of that was top notch. Even though I hated Liam with a passion, but there is always that one character in ME games I hate.
Its just skyrim / fallout in space with the same garbage Bethesda game engine lmao. When mods get more in depth we'll get a good game. I just hope there are some good romance mods cause they only gave us 4 very mid options.
Imma go back to baldurs gate where we have like 20 options and even twins lol.
Why people cope for this game? I mean, I would if I spend 100dlls for the game and got a sht game I might do the same lol... thats why I have the Game pass, I think is free there with a bunch of other games KEKW
... Ugh, heev is so cringe... It honestly hurts to hear him talk in that video... HasteMG's twitch chat message (in 4:52) summarizes my thoughts of those facial expressions... So, well... Wtf am I looking at? I don't know, Fallout 3 only really had one amazing DLC and rest was pretty much decent. I can not consider it bad but, I was pretty damn disappointed when the game said 'You completed the game, there is no post main story line to be played.' To which I was just... Really? That's BS... I can not consider it a bad game but, I consider it mildly underwhelming.
Awwww, a tiny head piggy.
I still play new Vegas I have never cared what npcs looked like lmao, but environments and space is honestly pretty good, gameplay gets stale tho after awhile.
Why compare it to NV? It doesn't have creepy porcelain-doll-looking NPCs that stare into your soul.
@@bickboose9364 No, dead eyed dried leather tho lol
@@bickboose9364 And because they’re both rpgs, based on exploration and looting… New Vegas has a special charm tho even though it was a buggy mess.
I love how every one of these videos begins with a giant floof tail blocking half the screen.
Maybe it's a hot take but i genuinely enjoyed my time with starfield (about 60h in as of writing this) even from the start, and yes it is without a doubt rough around the edges and the asking price is definitely a bit high for some people. Despite this starfield made me feel like i was playing skyrim for the first time which is exactly what I was hoping for.
Not a hot take it's just real.
Bethesda biggest launch ever.
I got like 70 hours in right now and let me tell ya been going stupid.
Fleet for life.
It's an alright game but I'm enjoying the hell out of it
Anyone who calls a game an "Experience" is automatically to be ignored.
Least Starfield is playable at launch unlike cyberbug
Cyberpunk was playable at launch tho, people just got hit with a lot of bugs, UA-cam was full of them, NPC's clipping through vechials, buildings, enemies spawning right behind you, crashing to desktop wasn't one of the many bugs in release cyberpunk I heard, rather you'd get stuck in eternal loading menus, stuck mid cutscene, audio video not playing at the same time and everyone t-posing.
@@gidi3250 that's playable to you,must have low standards lol
@@viola8422 there has been worse games, like fallout 76, that bricked some consoles entirely, while at other times corrupting other peoples console operating software. Anthem also for some people that I know only gave them blue screens when attempting to boot up, sure cyberpunk was bad at launch, yet their has been worse.
@@gidi3250 okay and? People spent 60 bucks,and now the foxed version isn't valuable at all. So they got scammed not only on price,but also on what was promised lol
@@viola8422 and cyberpunk was still somewhat playable, fallout 76 ij some cases resulted in people needing to get new console due to it bricking or needing a full reset due to internal software corruption, that sounds a bit more expensive than just $60 being spent on a half baked game.
I used to watch heelvsbabyface, but he's gone deep into the culture wars and its really cringe now. He also streams with a bunch of other right leaning youtubers and I think that's just made him worse over time
After putting 72 hours in Starfield, all I can say is that Starfield is a very good game.
19:57 Skyrim on PS3 was great! Idk what that guy was talking about. The game was fun af, even with the bugs.
I am a target for these games, if these games was better and had a better engine and improvements from the last 20 years, it's trash.
RedEngine 4 may be decent in comparison to Creation Engine atm but bro it's arguably just as dogshit, there's a reason why CDPR is abandoning it after just 1 game, they fucked up real bad; maybe Bethesda can take notes and abandon the Creation Engine but I wouldn't hold my breath at all
Its boring. Its not alive. If you are bored to death yes. Otherwise Get Cyberpunk 2077 At least you know game-play is fun game is beautiful city is ...Alive and story will make you feel something