This video feels like it encapsulates exactly how I WOULD feel if I played starfield, thanks for taking the fall for me On some level I wish they'd dedicate themselves to the sandbox more. Focus on making the world, factions, and some systems to engage with them to instead let you focus on survival and climbing the ladders of wealth, fame and power. And please Godd Howard do remove the level scaling So basically they should make morrowind again
I believe the world would be a much better place if we had a Morrowind 2 I also agree with what you said on the sandbox. Right now, I found it was best to just run around on planets, look at weird dogs, and sell the survey notes and that got really tiring and felt like I wasted my skill points
Yea... a very blend Game :D I first wanted to just explore a bit, but then I thought about making Contraband. But that seems not to be possible at all. It seems to just provide the ability to make Aurora, which sells for 107 or something meager like that. Well, at one point of doing different things, I thought "Why not just farm 10+ Skill Points and then check out the different Skills. Said and done... I settled for making a List about all the Flaws the Game has to offer xD Here we go: No Vats - No Gore - No diving - borked Stealth - No Weapon/Armor Repairing(Durability System) - No Building your own Ship/Equipment from Material you Mined/Gathered - No real End-Game Goals - No Transmog - No making your own Contraband - NPCs not dropping what they wear - Can't open Doors, defuse Mines, use Items... when in Scan Mode - Can't control jump height. NPCs can do that. A Charge up Meter is really needed on some Moons, or you fly off like a Rocket - Boost Packs are not really suitable ever/meaning that you need different kinds of Boosters for different Situations but also you need Resistances against Korrosion, Air, Radiation, Bio, and somewhat level conforming Laser, EMP, Bullet Resistance = you need 12+ Boost Packs - Crafting and Building Copy Paste from FO4 but with worse placement control - Awful Controls overall. The game works on GamePad but you need your whole Keyboard if you choose to play on the Keyboard. Make ready to rebind 50 Keys and ignore Conflicts - Very few and lackluster Feats - You should start with level one on each Skill - Skills need to be way more "Exotic". ATM they are mostly "more DMG, can Craft, can buy, can fly - Item Feats are mostly useless and are Copy Paste from FO4 - Skill progression is mostly forgettable and unimaginative - EXP from discovering, Hacking, building, crafting is nearly not existent - Item Notifications gone after 1.5sec = can't check Stats = open Inventory - Carry Capacity sucks - You can't mark individual Items to look/track for - You can't undo all tracking Items - Inventory Menu sucks! StarUI Mod needed = modding mandatory or wasting hours unnecessarily - Can't use Cure Object in Affliction Screen. Again StarUI Mandatory - Not showing "Weather(Corrosion/Radiation...)" Conditions on Planet before landing- Map is awful - Quests send you to places you can't reach - Lifeless Planets are useless - Copy pasted Bases/Caves... no sign of prcedurally generated Locations - Often looking to Scan "Natural Wonder" that I already Scanned because it's not identifyable from the Picture - Planet Map shows 100% scanned even if it's not because of "Costal Area" - Escort Quests that have you travel 1000m+ for low reward - You can't ban Useless Items from Scanner - Rare/Legendary/Epic Items cause 2sec Game Freeze when Equiped and changing to Scanner or cyceling through Weapons - Space Combat at least unskilled at early Levels is pure Stats Game and often undoable because 3v1 - No feeling of actually flying through Space - You still get Stuck and can not jump when on angled Ground as in FO4/Skyrim/Oblivion... - NPC Money should be infinite or at least increased by 4x - Items you pick up/have in Inventory show the worth they have when you buy them from a Merchant, but they should show what they are worth to you, when you sell them - NPC standing on Pilot Seat so only 3rd Person Space Flight or piloting through gap between NPCs Legs - Enemies/Animals on Planet stacked in a Heap, so you think you will fight 3, but it ends up being 12 or more all stacked into one tiny Spot and into each other - Melee Combat as bad as it was in any other Bethesda Game (look what modders did to Skyrims Combat Animations) - Reloading gets Canceled by running and jumping - Typical Bethesda Bullet-Sponge Enemies - Typical run around/jump over Obsacles and slowly chip away their Health - In Ship flight you need to be able to make custom Presets for "Full Power Weapons, Grav Drive, Engines, Shields..." and bind them to F1-F4 or any other Key you choose - Needs City/Outpost/Other Listing on Star-Map to find the Locations + placement of own nameable Markers - Needs Button to stop Quests from coming in. I get 5 new Quests when running around doing one Quest. I don't know how I got the Quests. I don't know who the Quests are from. I have no connection to them. - NPCs need to stop talking over each other. It just can't be too complicated to program in that only one Voice can be played at once. - Finding Quests is a Nightmare. They need to be Structured much better. Time when Quest received/Location of Quest Giver/Nearby Quests/Location of Quest/Radiant Quest... - Still can't go from Sneak to normal Mode whilst doing any other action / meaning Stealth play feels Crap. Sneak to someone with a Melee Weapon, hit them 1 time, wait for Animation to finish, press "Crouch" Key, wait for your Character to stand up, and engage in Comabt. 1995... 19 F*cking 95!!! - I have been playing the Game for 60 hours now and am Level 30 and still I find the same Fire Axe I found on Level 4 over and over 21 DMG - When on the Map Screen, there has to be a Warning that you can not travel at this moment - I am SEETHING because I activated a Mission but the Game decided to not show me that Mission at all, but two other Missions I do not want to do - I decided to do one of the Missions to see what happens... I now have FOUR Map markers. WTF! And I am not allowed to activate even two Missions - Buy Back Disabled as soon as you leave Shopping Window - Can't pay the debt from Dream Home Perk - Game does not tell you what Skills do until you unlock the Line. That means that you can't work to a specific Skill and know its effect - I managed to lock up the Menu by opening and closing it in quick succession. - Can't move after Loading-Screen, but the NPCs can - Crafting is a F*ing JOKE! You dump Skill points and Materials into upgrading but then you look at something like "You can now add a +5 Resistances Mod to Your Jump Pack". And that one cost me 2 Skill Points btw. No mention of that beforhand! - No Planet Wiki showing me what Planet I have been on and what I found on that Planet (Alien Species, "Geysers", Flora...) - No Crafting of Weapons, Armor, Drugs, that are not already in the Game to find - No Enhancement of Weapon/Armor Mods (Stuff like increase chance to poison Enemy by+5%, by "infusing Weapon with 500 Material X, next 5% cost you 1000, next 5% cost you 2000, next 5% cost you 4000... something to make Mining Stuff on Planets useful)- No Melee Weapon Mods - No Melee Weapon Differences in behavior - Can we have 8k+ Planet Pictures for our "Space Journey"? - Just three Slots for Character Itemization (Not promising for what Variety Mods will be able to offer) - Timescale is F*ed when on some Planets. Wait 1 hour(time-unit) passes a VERY long time. Like wait "24 hours" = wait 2400 hours. WHO the F thought this was a good idea?! - Hold Key for every second Option, but sitting down "just works" So that was fun to do with the Game if nothing else :P
One of the issues, one; is that you get a lot of XP and Credits from doing the main quest. The "mission board" and other "radiant" quests give poor rewards. So while you might find some activities "fun", you won't "progress" as fast unless you focus on the main quest.
It's kind of difficult to be disappointed if you approach it without any real expectations. That's how I did things and have the attitude of that it's okay.
I enjoyed my experience with the game, but I really can't give it more than a 6/10 Even though I liked it, its a below average Bethesda game. Edit: The 12 hour thing as bullshit as it sounds is genuinely the time I took me to really start enjoying the game. Buut this enjoyment was only temporary as I got sucked into and completed some big side content, just to realize that was *half of the games major quests*. Then after the ending I just kinda got bored as shit with it. Ending was cool but I could care less
Yeah, you can scan plants, animals and find some features on planets like fungal forests. You find everything and scan it enough times you 100% surveyed the planet
At this point, if someone had told me that Starfield inspired the devs to make No Mans Sky, to deliver on the promises that Starfield failed to deliver on, I would believe them. It truly is a sad situation when a company has to bring to market (to make back _some_ of the money they spent) a blatantly inferior product to it's competition, while not even attempting to compete by being the cheaper alternative. Mismanagement really is a thing of horror, isn't it?
There is no space exploration im not saying that to be an ass either its not there. There is one mission that I did in the crimson fleet quest line that has a very short trip to a space station while your ship taking damage that is the exstent of space exploration in the whole space game.
Looking back, yeah, you're right. The exploration has been walking around on the ground. I remember seeing that you could fly to another planet but it's just like a png placeholder?
Skyrim was too good is the trouble and Bethesda decided to just half ass Starfield hoping that Skyrim would carry it but even Skyrim, Dishonored and Fallout were trying hard to drag us in. Skyrim at least as I still play my Khajiiti rogue on there, had so many things that I still discover stuff even now. There's always another cave to roam into
@@KagiGrimoire yup, Skyrim is a true classic that earned it's GotY award. I think that's why I really feel so bad for Starfield. It had Skyrim to look up to, it had Dishonored and Fallout, sister studio's Wolfenstein plus competition like No Man's Sky, Star Trek Online even Star Wars: The Old Republic had an amazing ship combat system and not including Squadrons or even Battlefield which also had flight down pat as you could seamlessly transition from terrestrial to interstellar flight in one motion, no loading screens or anything. So all that out to inspire the apparently 800 development staff at just Bethesda itself and they came up with... that
I'm glad I didn't pay for my copy. The only thing amusing about the gameplay is occassional try finish a mission by going postal. It works out in the boonies, but tends to turn into a mass casuality event in cities . Last one I had to go back to my ship and get a different gun because I had run out of ammo and npcs to buy ammo from.
The last, somehow reasonable game they released, was Fallout 4. You could play it without mods, if you're easily satisfied and don't care about aesthetics. But this piece of software is just soulless Game Pass fodder, and it doesn't proof that you're even a real game developer. I'm sure that you could have fun here and there, but this isn't an AAA game. It looks like you read about game design and did the opposite, for every single aspect somebody could judge.
Bethesda does not deserve a free pass for bad game design and woefully inadequate levels of immersion when they are a AAA studio that has been around for over 20 years now. Bethesda had all the time and money to make a fantastic game, but instead did the bare minimum. Stop holding Bethesda to a lower standard than you would hold any other AAA studio because it is beyond hypocritical, and also because giving Bethesda a free pass tells other AAA devs that they don't have to try as hard, thus lowering the standards for all of gaming.
You have every right to feel the way you do, but I don't think you are the target audience. Starfield has more in common with FO4 survival mode, which was all about settlement building and making your own fun. Starfield is for people who want more of a sandbox than Skyrim provides. You want something more curated. There isn't anything wrong with that. Something like Dragon's Dogma accomplishes open world curated experiences really well, just to give an example.
It was described as Skyrim in space. How is someone who loved Skyrim not the target audience? I think it's fine if Starfield appeals more to people who want more of a sandbox than Skyrim was, but obviously the target audience was Skyrim fans. Also, it's an RPG.
All I hear is you don't like the game because there's too much to do lol. Any game will take time to get into. Everyone will have a different experience based on what you do. Give it time and try a bit of everything. There's a lot in this game that you didn't even mention.
I played for about 50 hours when making this video and I just don’t think it’s for me. And you’re right, like I said, my experience is one of many but I think I’ll just check it out again when there’s mods that make it more fun for me For now, I just moved on
"You see that mountain? You can't go there" - Todd
"You see that planet?" You can load there - Todd
This video feels like it encapsulates exactly how I WOULD feel if I played starfield, thanks for taking the fall for me
On some level I wish they'd dedicate themselves to the sandbox more. Focus on making the world, factions, and some systems to engage with them to instead let you focus on survival and climbing the ladders of wealth, fame and power. And please Godd Howard do remove the level scaling
So basically they should make morrowind again
I believe the world would be a much better place if we had a Morrowind 2
I also agree with what you said on the sandbox. Right now, I found it was best to just run around on planets, look at weird dogs, and sell the survey notes and that got really tiring and felt like I wasted my skill points
Yea... a very blend Game :D
I first wanted to just explore a bit, but then I thought about making Contraband.
But that seems not to be possible at all.
It seems to just provide the ability to make Aurora, which sells for 107 or something meager like that.
Well, at one point of doing different things, I thought "Why not just farm 10+ Skill Points and then check out the different Skills.
Said and done... I settled for making a List about all the Flaws the Game has to offer xD
Here we go:
No Vats - No Gore - No diving - borked Stealth - No Weapon/Armor Repairing(Durability System) - No Building your own Ship/Equipment from Material you Mined/Gathered - No real End-Game Goals - No Transmog - No making your own Contraband - NPCs not dropping what they wear - Can't open Doors, defuse Mines, use Items... when in Scan Mode - Can't control jump height. NPCs can do that. A Charge up Meter is really needed on some Moons, or you fly off like a Rocket - Boost Packs are not really suitable ever/meaning that you need different kinds of Boosters for different Situations but also you need Resistances against Korrosion, Air, Radiation, Bio, and somewhat level conforming Laser, EMP, Bullet Resistance = you need 12+ Boost Packs - Crafting and Building Copy Paste from FO4 but with worse placement control - Awful Controls overall. The game works on GamePad but you need your whole Keyboard if you choose to play on the Keyboard. Make ready to rebind 50 Keys and ignore Conflicts - Very few and lackluster Feats - You should start with level one on each Skill - Skills need to be way more "Exotic". ATM they are mostly "more DMG, can Craft, can buy, can fly - Item Feats are mostly useless and are Copy Paste from FO4 - Skill progression is mostly forgettable and unimaginative - EXP from discovering, Hacking, building, crafting is nearly not existent - Item Notifications gone after 1.5sec = can't check Stats = open Inventory - Carry Capacity sucks - You can't mark individual Items to look/track for - You can't undo all tracking Items - Inventory Menu sucks! StarUI Mod needed = modding mandatory or wasting hours unnecessarily - Can't use Cure Object in Affliction Screen. Again StarUI Mandatory - Not showing "Weather(Corrosion/Radiation...)" Conditions on Planet before landing- Map is awful - Quests send you to places you can't reach - Lifeless Planets are useless - Copy pasted Bases/Caves... no sign of prcedurally generated Locations - Often looking to Scan "Natural Wonder" that I already Scanned because it's not identifyable from the Picture - Planet Map shows 100% scanned even if it's not because of "Costal Area" - Escort Quests that have you travel 1000m+ for low reward - You can't ban Useless Items from Scanner - Rare/Legendary/Epic Items cause 2sec Game Freeze when Equiped and changing to Scanner or cyceling through Weapons - Space Combat at least unskilled at early Levels is pure Stats Game and often undoable because 3v1 - No feeling of actually flying through Space - You still get Stuck and can not jump when on angled Ground as in FO4/Skyrim/Oblivion... - NPC Money should be infinite or at least increased by 4x - Items you pick up/have in Inventory show the worth they have when you buy them from a Merchant, but they should show what they are worth to you, when you sell them - NPC standing on Pilot Seat so only 3rd Person Space Flight or piloting through gap between NPCs Legs - Enemies/Animals on Planet stacked in a Heap, so you think you will fight 3, but it ends up being 12 or more all stacked into one tiny Spot and into each other - Melee Combat as bad as it was in any other Bethesda Game (look what modders did to Skyrims Combat Animations) - Reloading gets Canceled by running and jumping - Typical Bethesda Bullet-Sponge Enemies - Typical run around/jump over Obsacles and slowly chip away their Health - In Ship flight you need to be able to make custom Presets for "Full Power Weapons, Grav Drive, Engines, Shields..." and bind them to F1-F4 or any other Key you choose - Needs City/Outpost/Other Listing on Star-Map to find the Locations + placement of own nameable Markers - Needs Button to stop Quests from coming in. I get 5 new Quests when running around doing one Quest. I don't know how I got the Quests. I don't know who the Quests are from. I have no connection to them. - NPCs need to stop talking over each other. It just can't be too complicated to program in that only one Voice can be played at once. - Finding Quests is a Nightmare. They need to be Structured much better. Time when Quest received/Location of Quest Giver/Nearby Quests/Location of Quest/Radiant Quest... - Still can't go from Sneak to normal Mode whilst doing any other action / meaning Stealth play feels Crap. Sneak to someone with a Melee Weapon, hit them 1 time, wait for Animation to finish, press "Crouch" Key, wait for your Character to stand up, and engage in Comabt. 1995... 19 F*cking 95!!! - I have been playing the Game for 60 hours now and am Level 30 and still I find the same Fire Axe I found on Level 4 over and over 21 DMG - When on the Map Screen, there has to be a Warning that you can not travel at this moment - I am SEETHING because I activated a Mission but the Game decided to not show me that Mission at all, but two other Missions I do not want to do - I decided to do one of the Missions to see what happens... I now have FOUR Map markers. WTF! And I am not allowed to activate even two Missions - Buy Back Disabled as soon as you leave Shopping Window - Can't pay the debt from Dream Home Perk - Game does not tell you what Skills do until you unlock the Line. That means that you can't work to a specific Skill and know its effect - I managed to lock up the Menu by opening and closing it in quick succession. - Can't move after Loading-Screen, but the NPCs can - Crafting is a F*ing JOKE! You dump Skill points and Materials into upgrading but then you look at something like "You can now add a +5 Resistances Mod to Your Jump Pack". And that one cost me 2 Skill Points btw. No mention of that beforhand! - No Planet Wiki showing me what Planet I have been on and what I found on that Planet (Alien Species, "Geysers", Flora...) - No Crafting of Weapons, Armor, Drugs, that are not already in the Game to find - No Enhancement of Weapon/Armor Mods (Stuff like increase chance to poison Enemy by+5%, by "infusing Weapon with 500 Material X, next 5% cost you 1000, next 5% cost you 2000, next 5% cost you 4000... something to make Mining Stuff on Planets useful)- No Melee Weapon Mods - No Melee Weapon Differences in behavior - Can we have 8k+ Planet Pictures for our "Space Journey"? - Just three Slots for Character Itemization (Not promising for what Variety Mods will be able to offer) - Timescale is F*ed when on some Planets. Wait 1 hour(time-unit) passes a VERY long time. Like wait "24 hours" = wait 2400 hours. WHO the F thought this was a good idea?! - Hold Key for every second Option, but sitting down "just works"
So that was fun to do with the Game if nothing else :P
Playing Starfield is like reading your comment.
Damnit, Todd, you've done it again
They just made Skyrim in space!!
One of the issues, one; is that you get a lot of XP and Credits from doing the main quest. The "mission board" and other "radiant" quests give poor rewards. So while you might find some activities "fun", you won't "progress" as fast unless you focus on the main quest.
If I revisit this game soon then I'll have to keep that in mind, levelling up did feel a bit slow at times doing side stuff
Todd gonna Todd . . . unfortunately.
It's kind of difficult to be disappointed if you approach it without any real expectations. That's how I did things and have the attitude of that it's okay.
I enjoyed my experience with the game, but I really can't give it more than a 6/10
Even though I liked it, its a below average Bethesda game.
Edit: The 12 hour thing as bullshit as it sounds is genuinely the time I took me to really start enjoying the game. Buut this enjoyment was only temporary as I got sucked into and completed some big side content, just to realize that was *half of the games major quests*. Then after the ending I just kinda got bored as shit with it. Ending was cool but I could care less
Bathesda doesn't make games....They are reselling a broken game engine to modders for decades.
So you scan all the animals on a planet? Just like No Mans Sky?
Yeah, you can scan plants, animals and find some features on planets like fungal forests. You find everything and scan it enough times you 100% surveyed the planet
At this point, if someone had told me that Starfield inspired the devs to make No Mans Sky, to deliver on the promises that Starfield failed to deliver on, I would believe them. It truly is a sad situation when a company has to bring to market (to make back _some_ of the money they spent) a blatantly inferior product to it's competition, while not even attempting to compete by being the cheaper alternative. Mismanagement really is a thing of horror, isn't it?
There is no space exploration im not saying that to be an ass either its not there. There is one mission that I did in the crimson fleet quest line that has a very short trip to a space station while your ship taking damage that is the exstent of space exploration in the whole space game.
Looking back, yeah, you're right. The exploration has been walking around on the ground. I remember seeing that you could fly to another planet but it's just like a png placeholder?
Skyrim was too good is the trouble and Bethesda decided to just half ass Starfield hoping that Skyrim would carry it but even Skyrim, Dishonored and Fallout were trying hard to drag us in. Skyrim at least as I still play my Khajiiti rogue on there, had so many things that I still discover stuff even now. There's always another cave to roam into
I sometimes still get the urge to go back and play Skyrim again just for the adventure and see if there's anything I missed over the years
@@KagiGrimoire yup, Skyrim is a true classic that earned it's GotY award. I think that's why I really feel so bad for Starfield. It had Skyrim to look up to, it had Dishonored and Fallout, sister studio's Wolfenstein plus competition like No Man's Sky, Star Trek Online even Star Wars: The Old Republic had an amazing ship combat system and not including Squadrons or even Battlefield which also had flight down pat as you could seamlessly transition from terrestrial to interstellar flight in one motion, no loading screens or anything. So all that out to inspire the apparently 800 development staff at just Bethesda itself and they came up with... that
Agreed. And thank you.
I'm glad I didn't pay for my copy.
The only thing amusing about the gameplay is occassional try finish a mission by going postal. It works out in the boonies, but tends to turn into a mass casuality event in cities . Last one I had to go back to my ship and get a different gun because I had run out of ammo and npcs to buy ammo from.
YAS MORE CONTEEEEEENT!!!
And there’ll be even more to come!
The last, somehow reasonable game they released, was Fallout 4. You could play it without mods, if you're easily satisfied and don't care about aesthetics. But this piece of software is just soulless Game Pass fodder, and it doesn't proof that you're even a real game developer. I'm sure that you could have fun here and there, but this isn't an AAA game. It looks like you read about game design and did the opposite, for every single aspect somebody could judge.
Bethesda does not deserve a free pass for bad game design and woefully inadequate levels of immersion when they are a AAA studio that has been around for over 20 years now. Bethesda had all the time and money to make a fantastic game, but instead did the bare minimum. Stop holding Bethesda to a lower standard than you would hold any other AAA studio because it is beyond hypocritical, and also because giving Bethesda a free pass tells other AAA devs that they don't have to try as hard, thus lowering the standards for all of gaming.
You have every right to feel the way you do, but I don't think you are the target audience. Starfield has more in common with FO4 survival mode, which was all about settlement building and making your own fun. Starfield is for people who want more of a sandbox than Skyrim provides. You want something more curated. There isn't anything wrong with that. Something like Dragon's Dogma accomplishes open world curated experiences really well, just to give an example.
The problem is there is barely any sand in this sandbox.
@@Zodroo_Tint Just making a contrarian statement literally means nothing. Are you a child, a moron, or just lazy?
It was described as Skyrim in space. How is someone who loved Skyrim not the target audience?
I think it's fine if Starfield appeals more to people who want more of a sandbox than Skyrim was, but obviously the target audience was Skyrim fans.
Also, it's an RPG.
I don't think this game is for you.
"The first mission has me going to Mars, which kinda sucks" pretty much sums you up.
Yeah, you're right.
You should put the bar much higher!
i like ur character
All I hear is you don't like the game because there's too much to do lol. Any game will take time to get into. Everyone will have a different experience based on what you do. Give it time and try a bit of everything. There's a lot in this game that you didn't even mention.
I played for about 50 hours when making this video and I just don’t think it’s for me. And you’re right, like I said, my experience is one of many but I think I’ll just check it out again when there’s mods that make it more fun for me
For now, I just moved on
Dude, if all you hear in this video there is too much to do in the game then you are hearing things in your head.