Should Your Boyfriend Play Starfield?

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  • Опубліковано 7 жов 2023
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  • @Redswipe
    @Redswipe 7 місяців тому +4783

    This game is perfectly summed up by the fact there's an adorable character travelling on your ship who is constantly asking for books yet there's no way to give her any of the 1000's of books you find lying around on your travels.

    • @Jasta85
      @Jasta85 7 місяців тому +400

      You can even find the exact books she asks for and can't give them to her, and she has a twin from another mother...and father in another quest line heh.

    • @UtaNngkrngDpanKompi
      @UtaNngkrngDpanKompi 7 місяців тому +310

      Yep. brought sarah to the second artifact after hearing how exciting it is for her. touch the artifact and everything, hoping to getting a response from sarah but nope. just the standard bog convo list like before.
      succeded to convince sam's dad by only persuasion, hoping sam will recognize my abilty or praise or say "wow how did you manage to convince my stubborn dad". nope just the standard bog response to carry on the quest.
      everything just feel half baked.

    • @irecordwithaphone1856
      @irecordwithaphone1856 7 місяців тому +27

      That's a pretty weird way to quantify a game's quality but yeah alright

    • @CubNole
      @CubNole 7 місяців тому +115

      @@irecordwithaphone1856Summed up, he said

    • @African_Rose
      @African_Rose 7 місяців тому

      isn't adorable she's autistic and her dad sucks.

  • @realgravy
    @realgravy 7 місяців тому +749

    "Did Todd Howard make a good game, or did he put all his points in persuasion and pretended he made a good game?" I spit out my drink!

  • @MrZlocktar
    @MrZlocktar 6 місяців тому +375

    These "It's TEN dollars more, so.. Seventy dollars in the garbage" and "Just kidding Starfield fans, if you do in fact exist" lines were delivered as gold.

  • @BlackFoxLovesYou
    @BlackFoxLovesYou 7 місяців тому +56

    I was NOT ready for such a great parody song. The life on mars parody was so good that I was watching on my TV, got up, logged into my pc, and opened youtube to find this video to tell you. Well done!

  • @NorthoftheBorder
    @NorthoftheBorder 7 місяців тому +5723

    I'm so excited for when Starfield comes out of early access in 3 or 4 years once the unpaid modding team has had their hands on it.

    • @DarkRubicant
      @DarkRubicant 7 місяців тому +22

      lol

    • @devon00789
      @devon00789 7 місяців тому +69

      I would like to hope so, but considering I've heard barely anyone talking about Fallout 4's modding scene, I ain't holding my breath.

    • @TheFos88
      @TheFos88 7 місяців тому +6

      Wow.

    • @BrokenNoah
      @BrokenNoah 7 місяців тому +1

      @@devon00789 There is still a big scene even if you haven't heard anything recently. 100+ mods have been released since last week per Nexus mod which is still quite decent for an 8 year old game. The subreddit for Fallout mods is still in the 1% of top Reddit communities. Sure, it's not as busy as it is in its peak and with Starfield just released, modders have migrated to that but there are still big projects underway for Fallout 4.

    • @ironmaidenmetalgod
      @ironmaidenmetalgod 7 місяців тому +18

      That's the strategy. It worked for cdpr.

  • @___.51
    @___.51 7 місяців тому +944

    “It’s everything you want and at every point they try to make it as annoying for you as possible” sums it up perfectly.

    • @maxwentzel9563
      @maxwentzel9563 7 місяців тому +7

      I was so annoyed and simultaneously bored that I gave up after 8 hours.
      I originally thought I'd come back in a few years with lots of mods, but now I couldn't care less

    • @TB-wvvvw
      @TB-wvvvw 6 місяців тому +3

      Fortunately, I'm not so precious and fragile that everything has to work perfectly easily for me or exactly the way I expect at all times in a video game. There's plenty there to enjoy if you aren't so negative and childish that you're just looking for reasons to be annoyed.

    • @___.51
      @___.51 6 місяців тому +12

      @@TB-wvvvw you’re a big big boy such sophistication good stuff thanks for the comment

    • @TB-wvvvw
      @TB-wvvvw 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Entropic_Meat_Machine I had nothing but fun playing Skyrim and all of the Fallouts, and Starfield has been a very smooth and enjoyable experience for me at 4K. It's beautiful and runs great all the time on my AMD based hardware. I've never needed mods for any of the Bethesda games to enjoy them, though I added some mods in Skyrim the third time I played it just for fun. I'm not really tempted to add mods for Starfield because I like the way they made it. I don't know why you had so much trouble (assuming you've actually played the game) unless you're trying to play on very weak hardware, which wouldn't work regardless of the company that made it as these games are demanding. I don't have any special reason to favor Bethesda games except that I've honestly enjoyed them very much over the years and appreciate when other people skillfully make things I enjoy in life. I'm not a child trying to impress people by criticizing things I could never make myself. I'm a software developer in a different industry and know what hard work it would take to make those amazing games.

    • @TB-wvvvw
      @TB-wvvvw 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Entropic_Meat_Machine People who have played and enjoyed those games like I have (hundreds of thousands of us) know exactly where I'm coming from, and of course I'm not worried about what losers who are full of shit think about my comments.

  • @danielchristie8951
    @danielchristie8951 7 місяців тому +381

    It’s so funny to hear the Outer Wilds theme play in this video! For those who don’t know, Outer Wilds is an actually good space exploration game

    • @AretaicGames
      @AretaicGames 6 місяців тому +25

      There are also a couple of very brief bits from the soundtrack of No Man's Sky, which is a different sort of good exploration game.

    • @Iliurgul
      @Iliurgul 6 місяців тому +8

      Also from Star Citizen

    • @helderoliveira2994
      @helderoliveira2994 6 місяців тому

      Your deadbeat father won't come back

  • @yayastedi
    @yayastedi 5 місяців тому +75

    “Now open your menu and fast travel to the place. That only takes you to space outside the place. So you gotta open your menu and fast travel to the place…again.”
    This is literally the entire game.

  • @rocko34
    @rocko34 7 місяців тому +817

    I still randomly sing Todd Howard fancy shoes every now and again 😂 such a banger

    • @alarmingamoeba5190
      @alarmingamoeba5190 7 місяців тому +12

      If you don't belt out a fancy shoes whenever you see todd are you really a girlfriendreviews fan?

    • @Thornq1
      @Thornq1 7 місяців тому

      I start belching it whenever i hear people talking about broken games

    • @SamReynols
      @SamReynols 7 місяців тому +1

      @@alarmingamoeba5190 I sing the "Todd and the sweet little lies" song.

    • @MindGameStudios
      @MindGameStudios 7 місяців тому +9

      _”Our Todd is an awesome Todd, He games from Heaven…”_

    • @matheusp572
      @matheusp572 7 місяців тому

      John Denver is real quiet since Girlfriend Reviews drop that banger of a song, guess it’s David Bowie time to do the same now.

  • @swagdawgyt
    @swagdawgyt 7 місяців тому +772

    The "Life on Mars?" parody was absolute gold. Earned at least my subscription from that alone.

  • @Ben-fk9ey
    @Ben-fk9ey 7 місяців тому +17

    When the Outer Wilds music kicked in around 7:43 I immediately thought of the bit in Harry Potter "How dare you stand where he stood".

    • @fillosof66689
      @fillosof66689 3 місяці тому

      Exactly! One of those games does its best celebrating the great mysteries of the universe, the beauty of it and the horrors; the insatiable curiosity of sapient life.
      And the other is a heap of purile Toddslop that manages to make even it's more laudible hard sci-fi roots into an excuse for recycled content and unimaginative designs.

  • @andrewlombardi709
    @andrewlombardi709 5 місяців тому +24

    "It takes longer to sit in the driver's seat of your ship, than it does to drive your ship, across the universe." Spoke the most to me 🤧🤧

  • @crow_2772
    @crow_2772 7 місяців тому +1103

    Shelby's rendition of "Life on Mars" is impeccable

    • @EightPieceBox
      @EightPieceBox 7 місяців тому +36

      It's definitely my favorite performance of hers. More Bowie parodies!

    • @petpumpkin
      @petpumpkin 7 місяців тому +16

      came here to say this, amaaaazing, genuine smile on my face while listening to that

    • @wetramen5885
      @wetramen5885 7 місяців тому +6

      i only know this song because of Jessica Lange singing it in american horror story :^)

    • @zachcoats4849
      @zachcoats4849 7 місяців тому +4

      Real, I was so busy jamming I couldn't even stop to laugh

    • @EzaneeGires
      @EzaneeGires 7 місяців тому +6

      For real! It's a work of genius, no lie

  • @Taliesin_
    @Taliesin_ 7 місяців тому +886

    You took a lot of (deserved) shots at the game, but playing the Outer Wilds theme was the best one.

    • @gizatsby
      @gizatsby 7 місяців тому +78

      Yeah that almost crossed into cruel lol

    • @CaptBighead
      @CaptBighead 7 місяців тому +98

      I was excited when I heard it. Makes me want to play Outer Wilds again. What a great space exploration game

    • @IndustrialQueue
      @IndustrialQueue 7 місяців тому +39

      I’m unsure if it’s cruel to Starfield or a slight to Outer Wilds to even show up over a video of starfield. Probably both, but that is the MUSIC OF THE SPHERES you’re messing with. Do not besmirch it.

    • @anabenskywalker122
      @anabenskywalker122 7 місяців тому +13

      An actual good space game

    • @geekofsteal
      @geekofsteal 7 місяців тому +30

      @@IndustrialQueue I'm leaning on 'cruel' to Starfield. I don't know if it was intentional, but through that whole section of the review, I thought "Wow, I'd rather play Outer Wilds than this shallow, broken piece of overhyped, outdated designed piece of crap game." To me, it was a reminder that great games don't have to come with outrageous budgets. Budgets that serve the end product so superficially, like in graphics alone. Without a soul, the experience is hollow.

  • @MrCovi2955
    @MrCovi2955 7 місяців тому +103

    I watched a fascinating video about Nintendo's meticulous design philosophy for Tears of the Kingdom's open world to make sure it was engaging, interesting, and that players wouldn't just run in a straight line. They figured out how to make it so that you would discover things that you were interested in by yourself, but how those discoveries were actually in a planned out graph to move you towards the important story locations.
    Bethesda on the other hand just spent the last 5 years procedurally generating terrain and saying "Yeah, that looks good enough I guess. Not that I have to worry that anyone's going to see it, because they're going to bee-line towards this one quest."
    Its amazing that we treat Bethesda with the same kiddie gloves we use on single-developer indie studios, despite how much money and former talent they're sitting on.

  • @ashleygains1833
    @ashleygains1833 7 місяців тому +223

    2 points, lies of Tod is your best song yet and that is an achievement in itself. Also huge appreciation to the small things Matt includes like Norman Reedus whistling poorly 😂 Love you guys

  • @thismanjack8224
    @thismanjack8224 7 місяців тому +148

    I feel like we missed an opportunity for “Ground Control to Mr. Todd”

  • @ryans539
    @ryans539 7 місяців тому +153

    (frustrated whisper voice) “Oh my God”
    -Matthew, Girlfriend Reviews, 2023

  • @craigbolton2868
    @craigbolton2868 6 місяців тому +43

    I've watched this about 6 times already for the Life on mars parody alone. Please keep doing what you two are doing!

  • @arandombard1197
    @arandombard1197 7 місяців тому +12

    The lack of vehicles for planet traversal is such a travesty. A little buggy with bouncy physics would have been great fun and made those large areas fun to explore, as you have to find pathways through the environment.

    • @CheekiTiki
      @CheekiTiki 7 місяців тому

      I wouldn't mind the lack of vehicles if they just LANDED US CLOSER

  • @robertallshouse500
    @robertallshouse500 7 місяців тому +578

    The fast travel/cutscene section sums this game up perfectly

    • @_pkfire_
      @_pkfire_ 7 місяців тому +33

      Pretty much convinced me not to get this yawn fest disguised as a game

    • @ananthrey9031
      @ananthrey9031 7 місяців тому +1

      Oh my god...

    • @YouTubeCensors
      @YouTubeCensors 7 місяців тому +19

      ​​@@_pkfire_you weren't buying it anyway. Also it's a great game.
      Also you don't play a game for a 100+ hours if you don't love it. Don't care if they're doing it for their "job" IGN , etc didn't even do that, oh wait even that reviewer said he was doing a NG+ of it. Guess he loved it more than the score he gave it.

    • @_pkfire_
      @_pkfire_ 7 місяців тому +50

      @@UA-camCensors yea it's the greatest 7/10 game I may never play 🤷‍♂️. I'll wait 5 years for the definitive edition and 100+ community mods before I play this snooze fest

    • @HyouVizer
      @HyouVizer 7 місяців тому +28

      ​@@_pkfire_5/10 really, hence "midfield" it can be fun sometimes but....as you see the loads of awful design choices greatly hinder it .___.

  • @mikeandersonart
    @mikeandersonart 7 місяців тому +911

    this is bizarrely the most honest review according to my experience I can find anywhere

    • @rundown132
      @rundown132 7 місяців тому +77

      So many people were defending it last month too lol, it's a mid-game

    • @MrJbedo
      @MrJbedo 7 місяців тому +17

      ​@@rundown132happens with any game people will praise a game theyre enjoying because of honey moom phase. But once it wanes ovee thry realize how flawed some games are even if it is still good to them

    • @stygy9929
      @stygy9929 7 місяців тому +38

      @@MrJbedo It would have been understandable if it was the Ol` bethesda fan boys doing the defense but they've added Xbox fans on top of it making it about their stupid console war, making it even harder to make a point across. "oh you don't like starfield? Must be a PSpony, TLOU2 bad game"

    • @jeremyroberts8822
      @jeremyroberts8822 7 місяців тому +7

      @@rundown132to me it’s more than that. I’d consider a mid game like a 5/10 personally and with starfield I haven’t finished it yet but so far I’d give it like a 7.5

    • @SugarW1thC0ffee
      @SugarW1thC0ffee 7 місяців тому +6

      @@rundown132I haven’t even played the game and I can tell it’s incredibly mid.

  • @peterwarwick4140
    @peterwarwick4140 7 місяців тому +22

    I just found you guys, and I think you’ll be my new favorites! Creative, original, fun, and entertaining. I hope I meet you guys sometime in my life. :)

  • @o0Fizzle0o
    @o0Fizzle0o 6 місяців тому +13

    No one else mentioned it, but I appreciate the use of the Star Citizen OST :)
    Pedro Camacho's work is absolutely breathtaking- if you like what you've already heard I can't recommend the rest of his catalogue enough!

  • @liampatey-dennis5145
    @liampatey-dennis5145 7 місяців тому +380

    i actually lost it when she said "noooooo, don't sit back down". perfectly, summed up my starfield experience right there. so relateable

    • @tony2time516
      @tony2time516 7 місяців тому +6

      How about landing on a planet only to take off again by mistake 😂 I did this yesterday. I literally yelled “FAHK”

    • @lif6737
      @lif6737 7 місяців тому +11

      Docking, reading undock and still thinking about how you just docked so you click undock, then having to dock again is in my opinion peak gameplay

    • @jekw23
      @jekw23 7 місяців тому +1

      @@lif6737I’ve surprised myself with how many times I’ve done this. That moment of realization when you think “noooooo” just as the cut scene starts.
      Peak Bethesda.

    • @Sollidottingen
      @Sollidottingen 7 місяців тому +1

      Thats why i modded away all the stupid filler cutscenes like sitting down, docking, undocking, climbing ladders. Thank you nexusmods! Never play a bethesda game without it!

    • @Subsistence69
      @Subsistence69 7 місяців тому

      Sometimes I do sit back down so I dont have to walk through my ship to board 😂

  • @VinylBossGaming
    @VinylBossGaming 7 місяців тому +61

    The ever-so-slight dig at using a song from Outer Wilds was genius. I noticed that light-hearted guitar picking almost immediately.

    • @MasDouc
      @MasDouc 7 місяців тому +8

      A vastly superior space exploration game in every conceivable way. Starfield wishes.

    • @tankbeast8480
      @tankbeast8480 7 місяців тому +1

      Not from outer wilds

    • @VinylBossGaming
      @VinylBossGaming 7 місяців тому +3

      @@tankbeast8480 uhhhh yeah it is. The song is called Timber Hearth. Song starts at the 7:42 mark

    • @tankbeast8480
      @tankbeast8480 7 місяців тому

      @@VinylBossGaming it wasn't made for outer wilds lol

    • @VinylBossGaming
      @VinylBossGaming 6 місяців тому

      @@tankbeast8480 i dont exactly follow ur logic. That song I'm talking about was a song that is specifically in the Outer Wilds OST, performed by Andrew Prahlow. Why are you saying it wasn't made for Outer Wilds?

  • @ERRORCODE616
    @ERRORCODE616 7 місяців тому +62

    I honestly had the most fun with the ship builder and ground combat. I just wish all the best ship parts weren’t arbitrarily locked behind perks. I don’t regret my time with the game, but it’s gotta say something that I was immediately having more fun getting back into Cyberpunk for the 2.0 update, even though I did a full playthrough less than a year ago. Baldur’s Gate 3 is still my top contender for GOTY.

    • @screaminjesus
      @screaminjesus 6 місяців тому +1

      the ship builder is by far the best part of the game, if only there was actually more to do with your ship in the game...

    • @FlakiCiociGosi
      @FlakiCiociGosi 6 місяців тому +1

      I'm in the same boat. Spent 60 hours mostly making ships or saving money for parts. The combat is fun, but feels very retro. Once Cyberpunk 2.0 came out I haven't launched Starfield, even though I finished the whole game when it came out- and by that I mean getting all the endings, achievements, gigs, side quests etc. And yet the roughly 50 hours I put into the expansion were FAR more engaging than Starfield.

    • @yayastedi
      @yayastedi 5 місяців тому

      Literally my exact thoughts. Got Starfield on 6th of September, about two weeks later Cyberpunk’s 2.0 patch came out and a week later they released Phantom Liberty. I never looked back….

  • @NobodyOfficial.
    @NobodyOfficial. 6 місяців тому +6

    The shoe squeak at 2:07 was a nice touch

  • @Bjhorn279
    @Bjhorn279 7 місяців тому +341

    Shelby doing a life on mars cover made me a lot more giddy than I expected.
    If war never changes than I want girlfriend reviews to never change either. They just get better and better

    • @PJ198704
      @PJ198704 7 місяців тому +10

      So they changed?

    • @SubieNinja
      @SubieNinja 7 місяців тому +1

      if they get better they must be changing. they'd be exactly the same quality every time if they never change. unless... what never changes _IS_ that they keep improving

    • @HskHeroReborn
      @HskHeroReborn 7 місяців тому +1

      Them harmonies tho lmao love when she sings

  • @zevolta88
    @zevolta88 7 місяців тому +451

    I'll never forget the part where you help fix the eye. You go to Sarah and help her fix some stuff with a socket wrench. You'd think, any modern game would have you pick up the tool, and an animation would occur when you interact with the object. You'd see the character "fix" something. Well not this "Next Gen" game Starfield. You interact with whatever it is you're repairing. And a text box pops up saying, "you repaired the panel". A freaking Text Box in a Triple A, Next Gen Xbox exclusive thats come out in 2023. And its not the only time it happens either.

    • @turtles9707
      @turtles9707 7 місяців тому +18

      It truly is the "next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars"

    • @nico_6729
      @nico_6729 7 місяців тому +14

      I liked the text boxes, they give a Old RPG / DnD / Morrowind kind of vibe, I wished they used these a bit more often.

    • @crazys89
      @crazys89 7 місяців тому +14

      @@nico_6729 aren't there literally text based rpgs specifically for this? lmao

    • @TotallyOKAYProductions
      @TotallyOKAYProductions 7 місяців тому +2

      thats not really a problem

    • @sheildingepicness
      @sheildingepicness 7 місяців тому +14

      @@TotallyOKAYProductions compare that to baldurs gate 3 , which has hours of cinematics…

  • @CassiusItsOver237
    @CassiusItsOver237 5 місяців тому +2

    I found your channel because Videogamedunkey recommended your Last of Us 2 ending breakdown in one of his videos. I'm so glad I checked out your channel. I'm now obsessed. That song was so funny and on point

  • @DailyStreamer
    @DailyStreamer 6 місяців тому +10

    This video made me go on a David Bowie binge.

  • @michaelmackebon1000
    @michaelmackebon1000 7 місяців тому +368

    The Outer Wilds soundtrack REALLY makes me want you guys to do that game!! One of my all time favorites.

    • @totallyalex2607
      @totallyalex2607 7 місяців тому

      The Outer Wilds is too complex of a game for inbreds though...

    • @ThreesixnineGF
      @ThreesixnineGF 7 місяців тому +31

      I hate that i'll never be able to experience that game for the first time ever again :( Why even keep going?

    • @VersanGetryx
      @VersanGetryx 7 місяців тому +10

      Wow I'm so glad you caught this, I thought it sounded super familiar. God this game was an experience for me, still think about it.

    • @alexandercordova3856
      @alexandercordova3856 7 місяців тому +7

      yeah WTF the music makes me think that they are familiar with it. Have they done any reviews on it? DID THEY PLAY IT WITHOUT LETTING US WATCH!?!?!?!

    • @natem1579
      @natem1579 7 місяців тому

      I loved that song but damn bro I played that game for 5 hours and felt like I got nowhere and I was just confused. I really, really wanted to like it, and thought I would, but it just did nothing for me.

  • @ChozotheBozo
    @ChozotheBozo 7 місяців тому +125

    What she didn't explain about that fast travel section is that you can level all the powers to level 10. Meaning you have to do all that boring ass temple traveling 240 times.
    And since they're tied to new game plus, there's no point in doing anything else in between because it gets wiped every 24 temples so you have to do them all in a row.

    • @nielsmichiels1939
      @nielsmichiels1939 7 місяців тому +44

      The more i hear about this game the more PS players seemingly dodged this by not getting it.

    • @YouTubeCensors
      @YouTubeCensors 7 місяців тому +7

      ​@@nielsmichiels1939😂 Keep thinking that.

    • @gregolas597
      @gregolas597 7 місяців тому +4

      Good thing is you can skip the temples and powers all together and it impacts the game zero 😆

    • @ngolokantecar
      @ngolokantecar 7 місяців тому

      @@nielsmichiels1939bought geforcenow for a month for this with gamepass. played it and cancelled all of it after that. the only 10 bucks microsoft will ever get from me

    • @TheGodofweak
      @TheGodofweak 7 місяців тому

      As somone with a ps5, but still played Starfield between Baldur's gate 3 and Cyberpunk's DLC... Yeah PlayStation only gamers aren't missing anything. Have fun with Spider-man 2, pretty sure that game is gonna be incredible. @@nielsmichiels1939

  • @forafewnightsout
    @forafewnightsout 7 місяців тому +27

    as always the best trustiest review is here. Putting like 150 hours into Baldur's Gate 3 right before trying Starfield with gamepass was WILD! All these issues felt prehistoric in comparison.

    • @BlueRadium
      @BlueRadium 3 місяці тому +1

      I also went straight from BG3 to Starfield. It was the weirdest imaginable whiplash.

    • @forafewnightsout
      @forafewnightsout 3 місяці тому +1

      @BlueRadium right yooo lol it felt lowkey offensive like I was being tricked or something lol being played by the game instead of the other way around lol

  • @randomrandom7208
    @randomrandom7208 7 місяців тому +8

    I wasn't expecting an honest review, but I was very surprised to receive it. The same thoughts came to my mind 10 hours later, when any hope had completely evaporated.

  • @virajgole4338
    @virajgole4338 7 місяців тому +328

    Hearing "Outer Wilds" music in the background feels incredible, let's hope they do play it sometime in the future & try the DLC as well. No other game has ever impacted me the same way as "Outer Wilds".

    • @MrEL91N
      @MrEL91N 7 місяців тому +23

      Completely agree. Easily one of the best games I have ever played. the exploration is amazing. It is so perfectly designed. The ending had me very emotional. I thought about it in between playing. It was a whole experience that I wish I could do for the first time all over again. I can't think of many games that have had an actual affect on me like it did. Just perfect.

    • @KOSAtm
      @KOSAtm 7 місяців тому +2

      Same here

    • @neilwalsh4622
      @neilwalsh4622 7 місяців тому +7

      Matt has played it on stream but quit cause he didn’t like it :(

    • @RegretfullyActive
      @RegretfullyActive 7 місяців тому +3

      It’s such a shame we will never play it for the first time again.

    • @trustypatches669
      @trustypatches669 7 місяців тому +5

      I wish I could experience it for the first time again.

  • @Awake0226
    @Awake0226 7 місяців тому +4

    Chefs kiss to The Outerwilds soundtrack used in this, thats my favorite game, and truly a grand space adventure.

  • @BVargas78
    @BVargas78 7 місяців тому +2

    Impressed by the Bowie rendition! :)

  • @takumifujiwara9181
    @takumifujiwara9181 7 місяців тому +5

    Its baffling how this somehow got perfect reviews from certain outlets.

    • @CreativeUsernameEh
      @CreativeUsernameEh 7 місяців тому +3

      Bribes

    • @OneInTheMosh
      @OneInTheMosh 7 місяців тому

      Game reviews are not worth anyone's time. Probably for more than the past decade

    • @anshitgupta1294
      @anshitgupta1294 7 місяців тому

      People can have opinions

    • @takumifujiwara9181
      @takumifujiwara9181 7 місяців тому +2

      @@anshitgupta1294 and this is why ppl shit on game journalists because they are looking for an objective honest review not an "opinion".

    • @anshitgupta1294
      @anshitgupta1294 7 місяців тому

      @takumifujiwara9181 yeah even objectively people can give their opinions. Some people can like and dislike a particular game

  • @misterhoobomaster
    @misterhoobomaster 7 місяців тому +766

    This channel is becoming an excuse to start a music career.
    I'm all for it.

    • @xsomeNOOBx
      @xsomeNOOBx 7 місяців тому +10

      Always has been.

    • @CreativeExcusesGaming
      @CreativeExcusesGaming 7 місяців тому

      A creative excuse?

    • @Trace153
      @Trace153 7 місяців тому

      Second this, lol

    • @rafaeldeleon3386
      @rafaeldeleon3386 7 місяців тому

      More pleasure than an excuse

    • @maran947
      @maran947 7 місяців тому +1

      I mean the music career existed before the channel...

  • @OnionTheBat
    @OnionTheBat 7 місяців тому +14

    Love how you play music of a much more interesting space game in the background.
    Man I miss you, Outer Wilds.

  • @iTolquhon
    @iTolquhon 6 місяців тому +2

    The songs, the references, the music choices, the editing, the writing... *chef's kiss*

  • @Z3R0SK1LLZ
    @Z3R0SK1LLZ 7 місяців тому +1

    Easily my favorite song so far. Bravo Shelby. Excellent video as usual. Keep up the great content.

  • @victoraguiar8096
    @victoraguiar8096 7 місяців тому +176

    The Life on Mars? parody was too perfect. I actually got goosebumps and I want a full version!

  • @BrandonB...
    @BrandonB... 7 місяців тому +503

    Having the Outer Wilds music in the background just highlighted how awesome a modern game centered on space travel could potentially be and how we could all be better spending our time playing that instead.

    • @LernestW
      @LernestW 7 місяців тому +18

      I'm so glad you had the same thought I did and expressed it better than I could have.

    • @pliubumas
      @pliubumas 7 місяців тому +8

      Played that, need more, Starfield it is.

    • @danulas
      @danulas 7 місяців тому +23

      I just want them to review that game! Is that so much to ask?!

    • @NewsofPE
      @NewsofPE 7 місяців тому +14

      @@pliubumasspoiler alert, starfield is not it

    • @Onibachi
      @Onibachi 7 місяців тому +2

      You should try Elite Dangerous.

  • @StandardGabriel
    @StandardGabriel 7 місяців тому +1

    Heard your song thru SkillUp's weekly. Cant believe I havent seen these videos. Subbed

  • @shockwave972
    @shockwave972 7 місяців тому +1

    Had fun watching you 2 stream this!

  • @Thomas-eh3df
    @Thomas-eh3df 7 місяців тому +1046

    I have more confidence in these two to offer me an honest review than all the video game journalists combined

    • @Monty750
      @Monty750 7 місяців тому +7

      Except they play on pc and any new game on that is gonna be filled with glitches.

    • @gurentgc3546
      @gurentgc3546 7 місяців тому +46

      ​@@Monty750StarField/Garfield is just bad in general. Very outdated.

    • @zerogeass9930
      @zerogeass9930 7 місяців тому +39

      ​@@Monty750some cope right there huh

    • @Petrixxxxxxx
      @Petrixxxxxxx 7 місяців тому

      ​@@Monty750You need some serious help

    • @kyoko4651
      @kyoko4651 7 місяців тому +32

      @@Monty750 That's, not how it should be? also not true, lots of indie games release bug free on PC, the reason we get a lot of bugged games, is the same reason console gets a lot of bugged games, triple A companies are lazy, and don't bug fix their games, because people will buy them anyway.

  • @TheDuzx
    @TheDuzx 7 місяців тому +307

    I thought Starfield was going to be game of the year, but instead I'm playing Cyberpunk for the 4th time and my friends are playing Baldur's Gate 3. Lies of P ended up being a bigger highlight in the Game Pass library than Star Field.

    • @SuperRONDALE
      @SuperRONDALE 7 місяців тому +14

      It’s always came off as boring to me.

    • @matthewcharles9813
      @matthewcharles9813 7 місяців тому +28

      Sadly starfield was just a meh game with some exciting parts. So many better games in just the last few months.

    • @theotothefuture
      @theotothefuture 7 місяців тому +11

      Oh man, i def shouldve got Lies Of P instead of Starfield. Damn.

    • @Trace153
      @Trace153 7 місяців тому +9

      Agreed, SF was to be a choosing one, but they joined the waste my time side of the force.

    • @StyvynWayne
      @StyvynWayne 7 місяців тому

      @@Trace153- That’s from Star Trek.

  • @SilverTongue66
    @SilverTongue66 7 місяців тому +9

    One of the best GF reviews in a while, top-notch humour

  • @johnnydoe2177
    @johnnydoe2177 6 місяців тому +2

    Life On Mars parody was hilarious, subscribed

  • @ArcGG
    @ArcGG 7 місяців тому +846

    Girlfriend Reviews never misses

    • @young__blacksmith
      @young__blacksmith 7 місяців тому +16

      I think there are certain incels that would definitely disagree with you

    • @torinsmith9867
      @torinsmith9867 7 місяців тому +4

      Unlike the supposedly professional sharpshooters in this game.

    • @Nathan_Coley
      @Nathan_Coley 7 місяців тому

      Facts 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @kamalaharry9514
      @kamalaharry9514 7 місяців тому

      If you notice. It's always just the same videos made by different UA-camrs.
      It's like they have a script.

    • @JayZed2850
      @JayZed2850 7 місяців тому

      What about that one time she supported a bigot then got mad people called her out?

  • @randomkid217
    @randomkid217 7 місяців тому +503

    For those wondering, yes the husband did play Outer Wilds in a stream several months ago while the wife was out of town. It wasn't quite clicking with him so he hasn't returned to it since but I hope they do revisit the game again with the wife there to backseat. I really do think that it would be a great experience for both of them to solve the mystery of the game together!

    • @theherooffire007
      @theherooffire007 7 місяців тому +40

      I strongly second this. Would be great to see both of their reactions when they reach the end.

    • @KhorneDeth1
      @KhorneDeth1 7 місяців тому +50

      I was basically bullied into playing Outer Wilds because Skill Up named it his game of the year like 5yrs in a row and.... wow. Incredible game, unforgettable music, never been so thrilled to be bullied.

    • @SaskatchewanSteve
      @SaskatchewanSteve 7 місяців тому +17

      Thank you! That music caught my ears and I needed to know. I do hope he comes back to it

    • @kylerjnickel
      @kylerjnickel 7 місяців тому +10

      Yes please no other game will compare

    • @DaMorg3
      @DaMorg3 7 місяців тому +5

      @@KhorneDeth1I was bullied in the same way… I will say that after spending probably a combined 5 hours and being admittedly fascinated by it, I’ve now bounced off it twice due to just having a hard time pulling any strings far enough to have a true AHA! moment. Maybe I’ll get there on my third trip.

  • @ArcadianWaheela
    @ArcadianWaheela 6 місяців тому +1

    You had me at the Life on Mars cover. Definitely earned a sub here and of course on the one game I’ve seen you not recommend 😭

  • @DreadZep
    @DreadZep 7 місяців тому +1

    Love how you added the music from a way better space game in the background (Outer Wilds)

  • @phoenyck
    @phoenyck 7 місяців тому +19

    The use of Outer Wilds music makes me hope for an Outer Wilds video. And it reminds me of a better space game which hurts me.

  • @krolik1157
    @krolik1157 7 місяців тому +27

    For the first time, I just pictured Todd Howard, at home, having a normal day, then seeing this come up on his YT recommendations. As a cold surge of fear runs down his spine, he opens it, and watches in horror as it turns out to be more negative and about Todd Howard than he ever would have feared.

  • @Bukal9209
    @Bukal9209 7 місяців тому +1

    OMG that Star Citizen theme at 3:24 ! ! ! What a brilliant move of yours! :D

  • @bennysunday907
    @bennysunday907 7 місяців тому +3

    I can’t believe I forgot about this channel. This stuff is too good!

  • @robbieclark1784
    @robbieclark1784 7 місяців тому +8

    Brilliant use of Outer Wilds music.

  • @gyrozeppeli00
    @gyrozeppeli00 7 місяців тому +35

    Outer wilds music, a 2019 game is getting nostalgic to me, I'll never forget the journey and the friends I made along the way. I already forgot what happened in Starfield.

    • @nihftyy
      @nihftyy 7 місяців тому +1

      I swear I’ve thought about Outer Wilds every single day since finishing it.

  • @danielkover7157
    @danielkover7157 4 місяці тому

    Even the ad at the end was entertaining! Good job, y'all! 😅

  • @ACLNM
    @ACLNM 6 місяців тому +2

    I love how Outer Wilds plays behind this review. This moves me deeply.

  • @brianp-c1609
    @brianp-c1609 7 місяців тому +145

    Shelby, I’ve got your “Lies of Todd” on repeat. You always knock it out of the park. Thank you.

    • @rahulraghu4928
      @rahulraghu4928 7 місяців тому +6

      What’s that song a parody of? It slaps.

    • @OrdinaryNerd
      @OrdinaryNerd 7 місяців тому

      @@rahulraghu4928life on Mars, david Bowie

    • @PlopPlopMan
      @PlopPlopMan 7 місяців тому +11

      @@rahulraghu4928 It's a parody of David Bowies 'Life on Mars?'

    • @Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human
      @Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human 7 місяців тому +7

      I wish she did songs more often. She's funny, and has quite a good voice.

  • @morbid1.
    @morbid1. 7 місяців тому +10

    I hear "Outer Wilds" soundtrack and I feel better, thanks.

  • @idanschonberger8994
    @idanschonberger8994 6 місяців тому +4

    The David Bowie song parody is perfect

  • @jpzarde8734
    @jpzarde8734 7 місяців тому +5

    Probably one of the most convincing reviews I’ve watched TBH
    (The musical bit was pretty funny too xD)

  • @ZedAmadeus
    @ZedAmadeus 7 місяців тому +255

    it's pretty healing to see someone go this hard on the game
    Hearing Outer Wilds music over Starfield gameplay is like, next-level shade that completely speaks for itself. It's one of the least flattering comparisons you could ever invoke.

    • @Runestuf999
      @Runestuf999 7 місяців тому +11

      As if the entire internet hasn't been righteously dumpstering this game since the week of release lol

    • @goffe2282
      @goffe2282 7 місяців тому +1

      I didn't hear that, but I did think I heard some Star Citizen..... which will go in the opposite way. Plenty of chairs to sit in though.

    • @TheNinja-Man
      @TheNinja-Man 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@Runestuf999Dude musta been asleep. Lol

    • @obyone878
      @obyone878 7 місяців тому +4

      @@Runestuf999 Lying isn't the same as righteous. There are a lot of awful takes.

    • @supermitendo9654
      @supermitendo9654 7 місяців тому +4

      People were only harsh about this game during the release week, after that a lot of people were defending this game, calling it a great game after the first 12 hours or so. Maybe because people who hated it had already dropped it by then.

  • @nihftyy
    @nihftyy 7 місяців тому +92

    Loved hearing some of the Outer Wilds ost in this video. A real space game! ❤

    • @nihftyy
      @nihftyy 7 місяців тому

      @@HaloReachbetter don't cry about it too hard buddy.

  • @joshua969
    @joshua969 5 місяців тому +1

    Great video. That Bowie parody is top tier...lol

  • @BioZook
    @BioZook 7 місяців тому +1

    i died when I heard the outer wilds theme, great choice of shady ambience

  • @greenisnotacreativecolour
    @greenisnotacreativecolour 7 місяців тому +16

    Teasing better things with The Outer Wilds music there... If I had a superpower it would be to be able to erase The Outer Wilds from my memory and play it again for the first time as many times as I wanted.

  • @averykristian
    @averykristian 7 місяців тому +73

    never stop doing this, your witt appeals to the cynic in all of us

  • @dwatts64
    @dwatts64 4 місяці тому +2

    Alright, you earned my subscription with the David Bowie parody. Life On Mars is one of my favorites, and it's from THE best Bowie album of them all: Hunky Dory.

  • @TheOvy
    @TheOvy 7 місяців тому +38

    How are you going to use the Outer Wilds music in the background, but NOT UPLOAD A VIDEO ABOUT OUTER WILDS?! C'mon, it deserves the Girlfriend Review love.

    • @IrvNation
      @IrvNation 7 місяців тому +1

      THIS. YES. To that point, Outer Wilds deserves to be played, going in BLIND.

  • @PaperBenni
    @PaperBenni 7 місяців тому +80

    Playing outer wilds music during the review is just brutal. You just have to allude to that comparison to utterly destroy starfield xD

    • @milk_bath
      @milk_bath 7 місяців тому +3

      Starfield is a mile wide and an inch deep. Outer Wilds is the GOATED first person space exploration game.

    • @TitaniumTomcat
      @TitaniumTomcat 7 місяців тому

      Don't you mean the Outer Worlds?

    • @danoliver8989
      @danoliver8989 7 місяців тому +2

      @@TitaniumTomcatnah outer worlds is pretty mid

    • @TitaniumTomcat
      @TitaniumTomcat 7 місяців тому

      @@danoliver8989 I agree I couldn't even finish it.

    • @PaperBenni
      @PaperBenni 7 місяців тому +2

      @@TitaniumTomcat No, outer wilds. It released the same year as outer worlds and both were too stubborn to change their name. Outer wilds is absolutely amazing though. It's a time loop game where the only upgrade you ever gain is knowledge, but each bit of knowledge you aquire changes something significant about the gameplay. Please don't watch anything but the official trailer before playing it, as spoilering is equivalent to just skipping part of the game

  • @boxxylegoplaymobil8906
    @boxxylegoplaymobil8906 7 місяців тому

    tears in my eyes over that fuckin life on mars cover. god bless you shelby

  • @NPCLiam
    @NPCLiam 7 місяців тому

    What an amazing review. Fantastic work y’all

  • @Severian1
    @Severian1 7 місяців тому +89

    "Lies of Todd" is a certified classic.

  • @geosmashing
    @geosmashing 7 місяців тому +462

    Shelby is consistently the most honest and the most entertaining reviewer around. Perfection.

    • @joshramirez7
      @joshramirez7 7 місяців тому +5

      Hate to break the illusion but her husband writes the script, she just does the video.

    • @Retrofire-47
      @Retrofire-47 7 місяців тому +1

      How about a game that _doesn't_ inspire the hatred of everyone, maybe even a game that ppl generally like, is she honest then?

    • @kannanshrinivasan6984
      @kannanshrinivasan6984 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Retrofire-47bruh people are mixed on it. Check steam reviews. Everything she talks about is in the game.

    • @TakRathen
      @TakRathen 7 місяців тому

      @@kannanshrinivasan6984 I straight up like the game, and I agree with everything that was called out in this video. It's a very flawed game, but I still vibe with it so hard.

    • @paulw5039
      @paulw5039 7 місяців тому +1

      @@joshramirez7 Of course. There's no way a woman could write such a clever and snappy script. It's obvious a man wrote it.

  • @eemmjay8728
    @eemmjay8728 7 місяців тому

    4:20 The Blizzard Phone joke was just gold!🤣🤣

  • @ScyThe16SketZz
    @ScyThe16SketZz 7 місяців тому +1

    That outer wilds music kicking in mid way had me in tears like always...

  • @awgabe
    @awgabe 7 місяців тому +65

    My god the life on mars remix was truly so well done and hilarious. Another banger !!!!

  • @danimatronic9651
    @danimatronic9651 7 місяців тому +3

    The Outer Wilds music really hit me in the feels.

  • @chekote
    @chekote 7 місяців тому +1

    Instant fav whenever Outer Wilds music is used 🥰

  • @nathanstoltzfus1544
    @nathanstoltzfus1544 7 місяців тому

    3:57-4:18 the 3 "oh, my god..."s had me dying

  • @77777Spooky
    @77777Spooky 7 місяців тому +281

    Sometimes I think i am wasting too much time in my life. Then I hear that a brilliant man like matt spent four days playing Starfield, and I feel better.

    • @--dave
      @--dave 7 місяців тому +10

      Difference is he is making a career out of it. Effectively paid to play Starfield for 4 days.

    • @vincentpreziuso3597
      @vincentpreziuso3597 7 місяців тому +2

      And paid to edit already repetitive content over and over. I feel for all the editors trying to cut together footage for games like this.

    • @Gruso57
      @Gruso57 7 місяців тому +1

      Trust me, you and most of us are still wasting time. Unless your goal is to sit on social media half the day and the other half is to play video games.
      Luckily you have the option to stop and make a better life for yourself.

    • @WarMonkeyPlays
      @WarMonkeyPlays 7 місяців тому +3

      I think I have 7 days racked up. I wouldn't recommend it. Please send help.

    • @TheBpendleton44
      @TheBpendleton44 7 місяців тому

      😂

  • @M4r1OH
    @M4r1OH 7 місяців тому +102

    It is so funny that increasing the number on the sixty dollars line in "Todd Howard Fancy Shoes" keeps the song up to date. I thought the updated version was going to be the song for this review, but then BAAM! "Lies of Todd" new single!! You are gold Girlfriend Reviews!!

    • @diodora2381
      @diodora2381 7 місяців тому +2

      Why not Platinum?

    • @Andre_2099
      @Andre_2099 7 місяців тому +2

      She Bethesda’d it! Change a few lines and released a new thing!

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 7 місяців тому

      ​@@Andre_2099
      More like she's EA sports it

  • @CuriousJet
    @CuriousJet 7 місяців тому +1

    I have not played the game, heck I don't even own a Xbox but I finished your video grilling this game. That speaks volume of how good this episode is 😂. Love your song!

  • @CarlosSolis-dw8eg
    @CarlosSolis-dw8eg 7 місяців тому

    A spot on review attesting all the talk I've heard recently. Great review guys! 💯 So. . . . . . when's the polar opposite No Man's Sky review coming out??? 👀

  • @cly5870
    @cly5870 7 місяців тому +50

    The best part of all the space content in this video was when music from Outer Wilds started playing for some reason. Make a review of that masterpiece please!

    • @IfYouSeekCaveman
      @IfYouSeekCaveman 7 місяців тому +3

      "Outer Wilds", not "The Outer Wilds"

    • @MrEL91N
      @MrEL91N 7 місяців тому +2

      Please edit your comment to say Outer Wilds so that people don't accidently try and play The Outer Wilds instead. It would be a shame for someone to miss out on Outer Wilds because of a typo.

  • @gabedamien
    @gabedamien 7 місяців тому +6

    Damn, using the Outer Wilds soundtrack to wordlessly massacre this game. I mean I'm still having fun with it, but what a brutal yet unspoken comparison.

  • @wertyuiop753
    @wertyuiop753 7 місяців тому +1

    this was probably the funniest vid you guys have made, great job on this one 🙂

  • @Sunflare87
    @Sunflare87 7 місяців тому

    Sneaking in Interstellar soundtrack music was a great start to this vid!

  • @KnightBoltFilm
    @KnightBoltFilm 7 місяців тому +96

    Outer Wilds is too good, great music and makes me just want to go back and play it again. It would be nice if I could forget it to experience it all over again.

    • @Tom-B292-S3
      @Tom-B292-S3 7 місяців тому +1

      When that music kicked in I just wanted to fire up the OST.

    • @SuperDope
      @SuperDope 7 місяців тому +9

      ratio@HaloReachbetter

    • @vicio19995
      @vicio19995 7 місяців тому +1

      @HaloReachbetter Im sry you feel that way

    • @pogtuber5146
      @pogtuber5146 7 місяців тому

      @HaloReachbetter yeah, having to think about what to do to proceed in a videogame is boring to neanderthals who think Starfield is good gameplay

  • @srubbercleanz
    @srubbercleanz 7 місяців тому +76

    Was not expecting a insanely high quality david bowie cover

  • @davidwilliama.7296
    @davidwilliama.7296 5 місяців тому +1

    I had never heard of the song Life On Mars by David Bowie, but that parody (Lies of Todd) was so catchy that I had to look up the actual song and now Life On Mars is a new favorite song. It's amazing!
    On a side note, I went to karaoke for the first time recently and sang Life On Mars and it is a fun song to sing.

  • @theKid87
    @theKid87 7 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for the laughs. Probably the most entertaining review I've ever seen.

  • @atm565
    @atm565 7 місяців тому +28

    The Outer Wilds music really brings to mind what good space exploration and discovery looks like