Thanks for watching, mammals. I tried to avoid spoilers and it turns out it's harder than I thought to explain what an RPG is like without talking about the story, lol. Like and subscribe, mammals!
NMS travel is nice, but i would like for starfield to work more like star trek, basically you set your destination and your exit from the cockpit as the ship basically autopilots to the next desitnation while you walk around in your ship doing stuff while you wait, i mean you could talk to your followers or fix something in your gear in that time anything could happen while you wait as it happens in real time. now i'm not saying it should be as long as it is in games like star citizen, but something long enough that it's not too boring and not too long either, however i do think the time it takes should depend on how far you travel to the next destination, so some destinations take longer than others, but it should also depend on your ship's engines to factor in that distance and speed percentage for time traveled. you see bethesda already know how to make this kind of thing possible, because they did this kind of game loading back in FO4 whenever the player used an elivator, of course back then it was slow loading with HDD's and not SSD's which are far faster in comparison. but your ship could essentailly be a loading cell but simulate to the player that it's actually traveling somewhere so you don't lose out on the feeling. NMS travel isn't exactly possible in starfield, the engine can't handle that kind of travel, but it can do this other idea i'm talking about.
I want you to do a revisit to this video and rescore your questing and overall gameplay. You need to do this revisit immediately after performing the following task: Gain 10 special powers in consecutive fashion, one after the other with no breaks, just those. Then after that, do 10 more and then come back and give your questing score.
you can't say the game is a 7.5 and admit that a vital part of the game design is tedious and boring, which it is. So instead you say, 'do other things'. Look, just try it, get the first 10 in a row then see if you like the game after that. @@RothTheSloth
@@maunaowakea777 My score is for the big picture and not focusing on a single boring mechanic. Especially for a task that is optional to complete the game. If we rate games based solely on 1 poor mechanic they have, very few games would rate very high.
@@maunaowakea777 Semantics, mammal... it doesn't matter, at the end of the day it's all opinions, and I get it.. you don't agree with mine and I don't agree with yours, and it doesn't make either of us wrong or right. ❤️
my take away -if you can get past all the glaring flaws, you could have fun. after playing for over 100 hours, its a vapid wasteland that gets old fast, i only kept playing after 20 hours because i was tryin to find the fun everyone kept talking about.
😂 80 hour test to figure out it wasn't fun - stop lying to yourself. thank god it's a single player game and i don't have to deal with you in my world. 🤣
so No Mans Sky and Elite have loading screens they just are clever in how they hide them behind other things. like in Elite the system to system jump animation is just hiding a loading screen. same with the transision from space to planet in NMS and Elite there is still loading screen there its just hidden
Very true... I guess the docking sequence in NMS is a loading buffer too... its just so much smoother than Starfield, lol. Thanks for hangin out, mammal!
And look at how old NMS is. Yet they figured out how to do it. Why hasn’t Bethesda? I don’t think we should let them off the hook that easily when many poorer companies did it & did it years earlier…
Starfield is mid. And look, finding fun in activities is always about attitude. Even throwing rocks at a tin can will employ some level of fun for hours. That doesn’t mean it’s the best. It is not a game of the year candidate.
I hated this game for the first 5 hours, but I feel like I was looking for that feeling of playing Skyrim at 20 years old. Now I’m 150 hours in, haven’t finished the main story, haven’t finished the Crimson Fleet storyline, and have only completed side quests. On nights I play, I play for hours. I love the gun mechanics. It feels so nice to have weapons that are inaccurate in comparison to the likes of COD and Apex. Ship combat isn’t great, but is acceptable in my opinion. This is also the first Bethesda RPG that I’ve played with any type of vehicle to control. I’m not surprised it’s not perfect. Personally, I’d rather not have to adjust my shield/weapon/grav power levels. That shit infuriates me. Starfield is not a space sim and ship combat is not prevalent enough to warrant that level of detail. I would prefer WASD be strafe forward/back/left/right, Q and E to be roll, and have the mouse for pitch/yaw. That’s how Star Citizen does it and I love the ship mechanics there. They even managed to make it work WITH having adjustable power levels. I was disappointed about the not 100% explorable planets at first, but since I came from Star Citizen, I’m grateful for it now. What’s worse than a barren wasteland you can’t fully explore? A barren wasteland you CAN fully explore. The NPC’s bug the hell out of me. Probably my biggest gripe. It’s not even the speech options. It’s the non-essential NPC’s walking around and how weird they are. Idk. It makes me lose some immersion or something.
@@nunchuksteev9811…yeah? Well they do force u to save constellation once u meet them, don’t they? That’s not rpg. Remember? Save your companions or save the artifacts? What if I don’t want to do either? I don’t even want magic in space. Why u making me do this, game?!
As far as I've noticed, people using performance enhancing mods and running the game above 60 fps is creating more bugs. People modding their game and getting bugs is to be expected.
@@RothTheSloth I really like your style nice and honestly refreshing to see someone who enjoys the game. One thing, you know that glob of stuff in the back of your throat? Well just swallow it ,spit it out or something! Jk,just referenced Rick and Morty for you 😊
I enjoyed starfield. I think the people who dont enjoy it are the ones watching all the negative reviews. It isnt perfect. But its a fun world to get lost in and soak hours into...
I think you’re discounting that people wanted to enjoy starfield. Then came out of the experience not liking it. Should an rpg player just give Bethesda a pass for putting the literal Skyrim shout in the game? Or, instead of calling you Dragonborn, you’re starborn? Magic in space? They easily could’ve gone machine god with this. Or gone with more scientific things like worm holes or black holes linking multiverses. Melee is underwhelming to a guy who often played fallout 4 with stealth melee. Very little imagination in clothing & equipment. No karma system. No robot companion. No base building. Sure u can construct a ship. Yet how much freedom is allowed in decorating? FO4 is a decade older yet still beats starfield by miles when it comes to customization. & don’t even get me started on that stupid modding system. When one has to rate an rpg, those kinda of limitations will factor in. & if UA-camrs give it a less-than-stellar score, I don’t blame em.
its so disingenuous how you guys treat this game. Imagine saying "you know the movie is good to be made by a bunch of black ppl." You guys treat Bethsidia like the slow kid in class and its disgusting. This is a muti billion dollar company. They need to do better. This mf talking about "Now if your a pro movie critique or writer." Boy if you dont. I dont need to be a pro basketball player to know when im watching a trash match.
You ain’t wrong. I remember it like it was yesterday how Todd Howard was gushing over this new creation engine. Then still have the same amount of loading screens with the same bugs from previous Bethesda titles. Bugs that modders easily fixed a decade ago…
I managed to breake the game and softlock myself. I explored 1 planet way to much and the loading killed the game lol. So yeah, this game has limits..... (no mods used)
Oh yikes! That's good to know. Sorry your game got borked. Did u make it very far thru the main story or get a chance to try out some of the faction questlines before it crapped out on ya?
1:25 never downplay a game pushing agenda on you as "not a big deal" if it wasn't they wouldn't push it, really ask WHY a big company SUDDENLY wants to put it in the game in a era of esg, and social and identity politics at the forefront especially in microsoft and you have an answer - it isn't a good thing and weakens the point of char crator
I never felt like an agenda was being pushed on me while playing Starfield. I wouldn't say I downplayed anything, I just didn't want to add fuel to a dumpster fire of a conversation.
30 seconds in and you say Starfield had a Rocky release. I hope you're talking about the delays before. It came out because the actual release went quite well. Actual final release went very well. In fact, I saw 2 million copies in the 1st day. And had 6 million players by the 5th day. And 10 million players within the first week and a 1/2.
I was more talking about the "hate train" and polarizing views on its gameplay in contrast to its successful sales. To me a smooth launch would be good sales coupled with rave reviews... like BG3 for example.
A lot of games sale well initially, then go on to be scorned by the community afterward. Look at overwatch 2. Just because a game makes good money, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good game. Look at Diablo 4.
yeah, you can tell the ones that just want to race through it to complete it and write their review got annoyed by it. I play a Bethesda game for literally years.
I want to play and enjoy the game, but I have been soft locked on the main quest line so I cant progress any further, so for me the game is really shite.
Where did u get softlocked? Are u on PC? There are console commands to edit your quest progress, you may be able to force the game to think you're done and onto the next step
I am on PC. All that money can buy is the quest line. I have tried many commands and none so far allow me complete and move to the next quest line. I contacted bethesda and I was informed it was something they are trying to resolve and will inform me when they have a solution. @@RothTheSloth
It's a waste of money. Don't buy into the hype. It's absolutely worse than games like No Man Sky. Once you hit level 25 you'll be bored as fuck. There's nothing to do at that point. And just getting there is so fucking tedious it's embarrassing. If I was the one responsible for releasing this game I would never work in the industry again, out of respect for the industry.
I just haven't hit that wall, yet. I get why people where disappointed with the game. Maybe because I went into it with very low expectations? I'm level 42ish atm and still haven't done all the major faction questlines. There is a lot of content in Starfield...its just a question of if you can get into what content is there. Thanks for hanging out, mammal!
@@RothTheSloth The space combat is equivalent to the 1996 game Escape Velocity. Speed up, speed down. Lasers, beams, and projectiles. Missiles and locking missiles. What a goddamn joke. When you look at the amazing systems of other games like EVE Online, for example, its an absolute embarrassment. One other thing... this open world space game has no intelligent aliens? A grand total of 45 weapons in the entire universe, but you only really run into 5-10? Cool and normal. 👌Base building is a joke. Calling it "open universe" is a joke. Mining is an ignominious joke. Everything about this game is just an utter letdown. I'm more excited for City Skylines II, now.
@@ryan_roga I agree.. the individual systems are done better by other games. But I can't call it a bad system just because it's simple, ya know? I get why it soured a lot of gamers tho.
I'm level 84, 337.7 hours in and counting. Completely disagree with this. But if it's your opinion, you're free to have it. There's stuff in the game I haven't even done. It's not a perfect or amazing game but it's good. Don't even compare RPGs to space sims despite how arcade those sims might be ;)
Playing starfield is like watching grass grow but more boring and uglier to look at. Bethesda single handedly got me back into gaming when morrowind launched. This game only makes me sad. I tried to start this game 5 times and after an hour or two just couldn't stand the utter SLOG the whole experience is. After playing cyberpunk 2.0 this game just looks, sounds, feels and plays archaic. Nothing here feels like a Bethesda title except how boring their butter faced dialogue scenes are. Horrible just horrible. I would've taken 3 0r 4 worlds full of content than this wide as an ocean deep as a puddle garbage. Just like fallout new Vegas before it outer worlds by OBSIDIAN ENT does a much better job in giving you the feeling lyou're on an outer space adventure.
Well thought out review! You pointed out the good and the bad. I think the large outcry of hate for SF (at least on YT) is the hype (most self made by ytubers and such, not you though!) leading to unrealistic expectations. Im a Star Citizen nut so I almost fell for the whole 'its like No Mans Sky and Skyrim had a baby' BS but history is always veryinsightful when looking into the future.
Comments to the effect of "anybody that doesn't like Starfield is a sheep" are just as bad as "anybody likes Starfield is a fanboy". I don't like Starfield. I am a huge Bethesda fan. I have played through every Bethesda title since Daggerfall, all of them multiple times. Playing Skyrim right now. With Starfield, I couldn't take the lack of meaningful or enjoyable exploration, the repetition, the bland NPCs, or the lack of agency in quest completion. I played Starfield for well over 100 hours. The gun combat is fun. Building a spaceship is fun (flying it is not). It's a Bethesda game. Surely I will start to enjoy this if ... oh hell, after 100+ hours, this is the game. if I still feel "why am I playing this" at this point it is not going to get better. If you like the game, fine, but don't assume that people who don't like it are sheep that are following YT haters.
@@RothTheSloth Exploration by menu. No agency in quests. Bland, two dimensional NPCs. Repetitive gameplay. Those are not surface level criticisms. I can get past the ugly NPCs. I can get past the death stares. I can get past the janky ship building menu. I can get past the awful inventory management. I can get past the jacked up skill tree. I can get past the usual Bethesda weirdness and even concede that there is much less of it in Starfield than previous Bethesda games. I can't get past the fact that, too often, I am left feeling completely underwhelmed. If you have a different experience, that's great. Do not assume that people who are disappointed feel that way because somebody else told them to.
@@RothTheSloth I wanted it to - very badly. Still on my HD waiting for modders to do their work. Many months away with no guarantees, but there is enough in Starfield mechanics give hope.
I've seen so many negative reviews where people can't explain why they hate Starfield, so they just start making things up. I can tell you played the game and I think you were being generally fair. I don't know why so many people are being irrational when talking about this game. It's perfectly okay to admit you hate something without making up stuff.
Agreed! I think there was a substantial "hate train" rolling for this game that people really wanted to get on board lol. Im still having a blast with no end in sight
You won't believe the things they are saying about the game, thanks to haters on You Tube or from those who regurgitate whatever they heard that isn't true. For instance, I've put in over 1000 hours into NMS, and I think it is a great game, but two completely games entirely. Starfield fulfills the realistic/storyline and action aspect of a space RPG. Something that No Man's Sky cannot do. But you hear all kinds of things from people that never played the game, and you could tell.
@@Tchud They always mention NMS or Star Citizen because they are just repeating popular talking points. Luke Stephens was one person to poison the well early and made those complaints/comparisons. I don't know where they originally started though.
I can explain it after playing maybe 3 hours. Its boring, the content is difficult to find. The exploration is extremely boring, the game would be better if they completely cut it and made the game level based. There is like, 10% fnv buried in an absolute mountain of 90% no mans sky.
If there is a good story behind horrendous gameplay, to an extent its just not worth it. If I have to play for 12 hours to enjoy it, then it’s just not really worth my time. Ultimately people play games to enjoy them. You don’t go to a fine art museum to see 100 kroger ads and 1 real peice of art, and thats really what is happening here.
Don't worry! I won't write an endless text. If you're interested in my experiences and opinions, let me know, and I'll write more. I love talking about games. Well, first of all, I'm glad that everything shown in the deep dive actually appears in the game. Especially with minimal bugs, at least in my playthroughs on the Series X. It's more the small details and logic errors that bother me. There are no vehicles. Even though I understand Bethesda's approach here, it's still a hardship that we're supposed to explore the 1000 planets, each area of which is apparently supposed to be twice as large as Skyrim, on foot. Why did the temples remain undiscovered even though there's an outpost just 600 meters away? By the way, the powers are cool, but it doesn't feel satisfying to acquire them. If you've played Skyrim, you know how rewarding it feels to learn a new Dragon Shout after a dungeon filled with countless enemies, traps, and puzzles. I used chat gpt to translate from german. I hope everything makes sense.lol Greetings from austria!
Thanks for watching, mammals. I tried to avoid spoilers and it turns out it's harder than I thought to explain what an RPG is like without talking about the story, lol. Like and subscribe, mammals!
"Thanks for watching, mammals..."
I feel like I have to take personal offense to that :P
NMS travel is nice, but i would like for starfield to work more like star trek, basically you set your destination and your exit from the cockpit as the ship basically autopilots to the next desitnation while you walk around in your ship doing stuff while you wait, i mean you could talk to your followers or fix something in your gear in that time anything could happen while you wait as it happens in real time.
now i'm not saying it should be as long as it is in games like star citizen, but something long enough that it's not too boring and not too long either, however i do think the time it takes should depend on how far you travel to the next destination, so some destinations take longer than others, but it should also depend on your ship's engines to factor in that distance and speed percentage for time traveled.
you see bethesda already know how to make this kind of thing possible, because they did this kind of game loading back in FO4 whenever the player used an elivator, of course back then it was slow loading with HDD's and not SSD's which are far faster in comparison.
but your ship could essentailly be a loading cell but simulate to the player that it's actually traveling somewhere so you don't lose out on the feeling.
NMS travel isn't exactly possible in starfield, the engine can't handle that kind of travel, but it can do this other idea i'm talking about.
@@user-tp5yb4hr4w I wouldn't mind something like this. I like the feeling of walking around my ships and it would be nice to have a reason to.
"Open" world exploration more like 1000 cubes where you load between.
I agree the travel is disappointing. It's like cruising down a highway littered with speed bumps.
I want you to do a revisit to this video and rescore your questing and overall gameplay. You need to do this revisit immediately after performing the following task: Gain 10 special powers in consecutive fashion, one after the other with no breaks, just those. Then after that, do 10 more and then come back and give your questing score.
But why? Just because a game has a boring part doesn't mean that's all it has. There's more to questing than getting your powers.
you can't say the game is a 7.5 and admit that a vital part of the game design is tedious and boring, which it is. So instead you say, 'do other things'. Look, just try it, get the first 10 in a row then see if you like the game after that. @@RothTheSloth
@@maunaowakea777 My score is for the big picture and not focusing on a single boring mechanic. Especially for a task that is optional to complete the game. If we rate games based solely on 1 poor mechanic they have, very few games would rate very high.
when you say, 'complete the game' what do you mean in this case?@@RothTheSloth
@@maunaowakea777 Semantics, mammal... it doesn't matter, at the end of the day it's all opinions, and I get it.. you don't agree with mine and I don't agree with yours, and it doesn't make either of us wrong or right. ❤️
my take away
-if you can get past all the glaring flaws, you could have fun.
after playing for over 100 hours, its a vapid wasteland that gets old fast, i only kept playing after 20 hours because i was tryin to find the fun everyone kept talking about.
😂 80 hour test to figure out it wasn't fun - stop lying to yourself. thank god it's a single player game and i don't have to deal with you in my world. 🤣
@@asianartist1 cringe
so No Mans Sky and Elite have loading screens they just are clever in how they hide them behind other things. like in Elite the system to system jump animation is just hiding a loading screen. same with the transision from space to planet in NMS and Elite there is still loading screen there its just hidden
Very true... I guess the docking sequence in NMS is a loading buffer too... its just so much smoother than Starfield, lol. Thanks for hangin out, mammal!
no man sky is a space exploration simulator...star field was never marketed as a space exploration simulator.
And look at how old NMS is. Yet they figured out how to do it. Why hasn’t Bethesda? I don’t think we should let them off the hook that easily when many poorer companies did it & did it years earlier…
Starfield is mid. And look, finding fun in activities is always about attitude. Even throwing rocks at a tin can will employ some level of fun for hours. That doesn’t mean it’s the best. It is not a game of the year candidate.
I hated this game for the first 5 hours, but I feel like I was looking for that feeling of playing Skyrim at 20 years old.
Now I’m 150 hours in, haven’t finished the main story, haven’t finished the Crimson Fleet storyline, and have only completed side quests.
On nights I play, I play for hours.
I love the gun mechanics. It feels so nice to have weapons that are inaccurate in comparison to the likes of COD and Apex.
Ship combat isn’t great, but is acceptable in my opinion. This is also the first Bethesda RPG that I’ve played with any type of vehicle to control. I’m not surprised it’s not perfect. Personally, I’d rather not have to adjust my shield/weapon/grav power levels. That shit infuriates me. Starfield is not a space sim and ship combat is not prevalent enough to warrant that level of detail. I would prefer WASD be strafe forward/back/left/right, Q and E to be roll, and have the mouse for pitch/yaw. That’s how Star Citizen does it and I love the ship mechanics there. They even managed to make it work WITH having adjustable power levels.
I was disappointed about the not 100% explorable planets at first, but since I came from Star Citizen, I’m grateful for it now. What’s worse than a barren wasteland you can’t fully explore? A barren wasteland you CAN fully explore.
The NPC’s bug the hell out of me. Probably my biggest gripe. It’s not even the speech options. It’s the non-essential NPC’s walking around and how weird they are. Idk. It makes me lose some immersion or something.
I agree... for me even with its obvious flaws the game hits a note with me that just vibes and I get sucked in.
Nice edit
Thanks, mammal! 🦥
Giving the intro a 7 out if 10 is wild. Its bland, takes nearly an hour and makes no sense. He just gives you his ship and robot....
Takes more like ten hours my guy 😂
@@zeroDOLLARg-Ro well once you land on New Atlantis you can go wherever you want at that point. You don't even have to meet with Constellation.
@@nunchuksteev9811…yeah? Well they do force u to save constellation once u meet them, don’t they? That’s not rpg. Remember? Save your companions or save the artifacts? What if I don’t want to do either? I don’t even want magic in space. Why u making me do this, game?!
As far as I've noticed, people using performance enhancing mods and running the game above 60 fps is creating more bugs. People modding their game and getting bugs is to be expected.
I'm very pleased with the lack of bugs. I've got a few visual and ui mods and still having 0 issues
This is a nice style of reviewing, keep up the great work
Thank you, mammal! That means a lot to me 🦥
Space Cop reference was on point, on behalf of RLM fans all around the galaxy,I thank you 😊
Always gotta shout out to RedLetterMedia
@@RothTheSloth I really like your style nice and honestly refreshing to see someone who enjoys the game. One thing, you know that glob of stuff in the back of your throat? Well just swallow it ,spit it out or something! Jk,just referenced Rick and Morty for you 😊
@@themonkysuncle lol just a side effect of being a talking sloth 🦥
I enjoyed starfield. I think the people who dont enjoy it are the ones watching all the negative reviews. It isnt perfect. But its a fun world to get lost in and soak hours into...
Agreed. Im still hooked! Looking forward to what future DLCs and the modding community are going to bring!
I think you’re discounting that people wanted to enjoy starfield. Then came out of the experience not liking it. Should an rpg player just give Bethesda a pass for putting the literal Skyrim shout in the game? Or, instead of calling you Dragonborn, you’re starborn? Magic in space? They easily could’ve gone machine god with this. Or gone with more scientific things like worm holes or black holes linking multiverses. Melee is underwhelming to a guy who often played fallout 4 with stealth melee. Very little imagination in clothing & equipment. No karma system. No robot companion. No base building. Sure u can construct a ship. Yet how much freedom is allowed in decorating? FO4 is a decade older yet still beats starfield by miles when it comes to customization. & don’t even get me started on that stupid modding system. When one has to rate an rpg, those kinda of limitations will factor in. & if UA-camrs give it a less-than-stellar score, I don’t blame em.
@@ssaribay There is base building... and a robot companion.
its so disingenuous how you guys treat this game. Imagine saying "you know the movie is good to be made by a bunch of black ppl." You guys treat Bethsidia like the slow kid in class and its disgusting. This is a muti billion dollar company. They need to do better. This mf talking about "Now if your a pro movie critique or writer." Boy if you dont. I dont need to be a pro basketball player to know when im watching a trash match.
I think you might have missed the point, but thank you for that perspective!
You ain’t wrong. I remember it like it was yesterday how Todd Howard was gushing over this new creation engine. Then still have the same amount of loading screens with the same bugs from previous Bethesda titles. Bugs that modders easily fixed a decade ago…
I managed to breake the game and softlock myself. I explored 1 planet way to much and the loading killed the game lol.
So yeah, this game has limits..... (no mods used)
Oh yikes! That's good to know. Sorry your game got borked. Did u make it very far thru the main story or get a chance to try out some of the faction questlines before it crapped out on ya?
@@RothTheSloth Nah had to start a new game over it..
1:25 never downplay a game pushing agenda on you as "not a big deal" if it wasn't they wouldn't push it, really ask WHY a big company SUDDENLY wants to put it in the game in a era of esg, and social and identity politics at the forefront especially in microsoft and you have an answer - it isn't a good thing and weakens the point of char crator
I never felt like an agenda was being pushed on me while playing Starfield. I wouldn't say I downplayed anything, I just didn't want to add fuel to a dumpster fire of a conversation.
Welcome to 2023 dude you better get used to this being "normal" from now on lol
30 seconds in and you say Starfield had a Rocky release. I hope you're talking about the delays before. It came out because the actual release went quite well. Actual final release went very well. In fact, I saw 2 million copies in the 1st day. And had 6 million players by the 5th day. And 10 million players within the first week and a 1/2.
I was more talking about the "hate train" and polarizing views on its gameplay in contrast to its successful sales. To me a smooth launch would be good sales coupled with rave reviews... like BG3 for example.
A lot of games sale well initially, then go on to be scorned by the community afterward. Look at overwatch 2. Just because a game makes good money, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good game. Look at Diablo 4.
I was hoping you would do a Starfields review! With it being on Xbox game pass right now, it's worth at least checking out if your curious!
Agreed! Thanks for watching mammal!
its way better than the IGN-lead 7 out of 10.. pick it up and see. I put down BG3 to play starfield.
Whats wrong with your nose? Liked and subscribed.
Lol.. its from hanging upside down all day.. I get a lil stuffy 🤧
Those negative reviews I saw were just Toxic CoD players critiquing a genre they don’t enjoy. They need to go back to their mindless shooter games.
Yeah, there have been a lot of haters just being haters.
Bruh acting like CoD players would pick up a Bethesda RPG 🤣. What a ridiculous comment
@@jhallo1851 exactly the point. It’s stupid to make a review when it’s not your favorite genre.
yeah, you can tell the ones that just want to race through it to complete it and write their review got annoyed by it. I play a Bethesda game for literally years.
@@tomm1109 Agreed. I hope to be playing for many years to come!
I want to play and enjoy the game, but I have been soft locked on the main quest line so I cant progress any further, so for me the game is really shite.
Where did u get softlocked? Are u on PC? There are console commands to edit your quest progress, you may be able to force the game to think you're done and onto the next step
I am on PC. All that money can buy is the quest line. I have tried many commands and none so far allow me complete and move to the next quest line. I contacted bethesda and I was informed it was something they are trying to resolve and will inform me when they have a solution. @@RothTheSloth
It's a waste of money. Don't buy into the hype. It's absolutely worse than games like No Man Sky. Once you hit level 25 you'll be bored as fuck. There's nothing to do at that point. And just getting there is so fucking tedious it's embarrassing.
If I was the one responsible for releasing this game I would never work in the industry again, out of respect for the industry.
I just haven't hit that wall, yet. I get why people where disappointed with the game. Maybe because I went into it with very low expectations? I'm level 42ish atm and still haven't done all the major faction questlines. There is a lot of content in Starfield...its just a question of if you can get into what content is there.
Thanks for hanging out, mammal!
@@RothTheSloth The space combat is equivalent to the 1996 game Escape Velocity. Speed up, speed down. Lasers, beams, and projectiles. Missiles and locking missiles. What a goddamn joke. When you look at the amazing systems of other games like EVE Online, for example, its an absolute embarrassment. One other thing... this open world space game has no intelligent aliens? A grand total of 45 weapons in the entire universe, but you only really run into 5-10? Cool and normal. 👌Base building is a joke. Calling it "open universe" is a joke. Mining is an ignominious joke. Everything about this game is just an utter letdown. I'm more excited for City Skylines II, now.
@@ryan_roga I agree.. the individual systems are done better by other games. But I can't call it a bad system just because it's simple, ya know? I get why it soured a lot of gamers tho.
I'm level 84, 337.7 hours in and counting. Completely disagree with this. But if it's your opinion, you're free to have it. There's stuff in the game I haven't even done. It's not a perfect or amazing game but it's good. Don't even compare RPGs to space sims despite how arcade those sims might be ;)
@@anticorrupcao5631 wow, nice! I hope I'm still going 300+ hours in. Bethesda didn't hit it out of the park, no, but they're on base imo!
Playing starfield is like watching grass grow but more boring and uglier to look at. Bethesda single handedly got me back into gaming when morrowind launched. This game only makes me sad. I tried to start this game 5 times and after an hour or two just couldn't stand the utter SLOG the whole experience is. After playing cyberpunk 2.0 this game just looks, sounds, feels and plays archaic. Nothing here feels like a Bethesda title except how boring their butter faced dialogue scenes are. Horrible just horrible. I would've taken 3 0r 4 worlds full of content than this wide as an ocean deep as a puddle garbage. Just like fallout new Vegas before it outer worlds by OBSIDIAN ENT does a much better job in giving you the feeling lyou're on an outer space adventure.
Well thought out review! You pointed out the good and the bad. I think the large outcry of hate for SF (at least on YT) is the hype (most self made by ytubers and such, not you though!) leading to unrealistic expectations. Im a Star Citizen nut so I almost fell for the whole 'its like No Mans Sky and Skyrim had a baby' BS but history is always veryinsightful when looking into the future.
Thank you, mammal! There are a lot of layers to Starfield and just too many surface level criticisms about it. I'm still having a blast playing it.
Comments to the effect of "anybody that doesn't like Starfield is a sheep" are just as bad as "anybody likes Starfield is a fanboy". I don't like Starfield. I am a huge Bethesda fan. I have played through every Bethesda title since Daggerfall, all of them multiple times. Playing Skyrim right now. With Starfield, I couldn't take the lack of meaningful or enjoyable exploration, the repetition, the bland NPCs, or the lack of agency in quest completion.
I played Starfield for well over 100 hours. The gun combat is fun. Building a spaceship is fun (flying it is not). It's a Bethesda game. Surely I will start to enjoy this if ... oh hell, after 100+ hours, this is the game. if I still feel "why am I playing this" at this point it is not going to get better.
If you like the game, fine, but don't assume that people who don't like it are sheep that are following YT haters.
@@RothTheSloth Exploration by menu. No agency in quests. Bland, two dimensional NPCs. Repetitive gameplay. Those are not surface level criticisms.
I can get past the ugly NPCs. I can get past the death stares. I can get past the janky ship building menu. I can get past the awful inventory management. I can get past the jacked up skill tree. I can get past the usual Bethesda weirdness and even concede that there is much less of it in Starfield than previous Bethesda games. I can't get past the fact that, too often, I am left feeling completely underwhelmed.
If you have a different experience, that's great. Do not assume that people who are disappointed feel that way because somebody else told them to.
@@patwilson2546 Sorry the game didn't get its hooks into ya. Thanks for hanging out, regardless, mammal!
@@RothTheSloth I wanted it to - very badly. Still on my HD waiting for modders to do their work. Many months away with no guarantees, but there is enough in Starfield mechanics give hope.
Enjoy that Bethesda/ Microsoft pay off, Champ. 👍
Thank you! I am 😀
I've seen so many negative reviews where people can't explain why they hate Starfield, so they just start making things up. I can tell you played the game and I think you were being generally fair. I don't know why so many people are being irrational when talking about this game. It's perfectly okay to admit you hate something without making up stuff.
Agreed! I think there was a substantial "hate train" rolling for this game that people really wanted to get on board lol. Im still having a blast with no end in sight
You won't believe the things they are saying about the game, thanks to haters on You Tube or from those who regurgitate whatever they heard that isn't true.
For instance, I've put in over 1000 hours into NMS, and I think it is a great game, but two completely games entirely. Starfield fulfills the realistic/storyline and action aspect of a space RPG. Something that No Man's Sky cannot do.
But you hear all kinds of things from people that never played the game, and you could tell.
@@Tchud They always mention NMS or Star Citizen because they are just repeating popular talking points. Luke Stephens was one person to poison the well early and made those complaints/comparisons. I don't know where they originally started though.
I can explain it after playing maybe 3 hours. Its boring, the content is difficult to find. The exploration is extremely boring, the game would be better if they completely cut it and made the game level based. There is like, 10% fnv buried in an absolute mountain of 90% no mans sky.
If there is a good story behind horrendous gameplay, to an extent its just not worth it. If I have to play for 12 hours to enjoy it, then it’s just not really worth my time. Ultimately people play games to enjoy them. You don’t go to a fine art museum to see 100 kroger ads and 1 real peice of art, and thats really what is happening here.
70h?
I have 11 days😂😂😂
I hope to get there one day! lol. What are your thoughts after that many hours? I'm super curious!
Don't worry! I won't write an endless text. If you're interested in my experiences and opinions, let me know, and I'll write more. I love talking about games.
Well, first of all, I'm glad that everything shown in the deep dive actually appears in the game. Especially with minimal bugs, at least in my playthroughs on the Series X. It's more the small details and logic errors that bother me. There are no vehicles. Even though I understand Bethesda's approach here, it's still a hardship that we're supposed to explore the 1000 planets, each area of which is apparently supposed to be twice as large as Skyrim, on foot. Why did the temples remain undiscovered even though there's an outpost just 600 meters away? By the way, the powers are cool, but it doesn't feel satisfying to acquire them. If you've played Skyrim, you know how rewarding it feels to learn a new Dragon Shout after a dungeon filled with countless enemies, traps, and puzzles.
I used chat gpt to translate from german. I hope everything makes sense.lol
Greetings from austria!
it stinks!
504 hours into the game - some people build sand castles, others quit after 20 hours.
Blow your nose
It's these damned claws, I can't hold onto the tissue without ripping it. I'm cursed
Tickle your nose and sneeze into oblivion. You sound like you have a deep ancient clog lol@@RothTheSloth