These days I mostly enjoy Bethesda games in form of negative reviews. In that sense I could still say, they bring me hours upon hours of entertainment. Great review, lots of good and original points.
@watchlover7750 thankfully I waited a couple months for the game to be out before buying so my first experience with Stanfield was hearing how shallow it was. Deepness of systems/story writing are my two biggest drivers pulling me in so I just... didn't buy it :p. I could summarize the story of the game, the issues it has, and multiple plot holes/issues and I've never once launched the game LOL.
@@twischta it is the best first person experience available and extremely immersive. That’s an extremely shallow reason to not play one of the greatest single player games of all time. But you do you, you’re the one missing out 🤷🏽♂️
@@cantu7214the problem with cyberpunk map is that there arent any interiors, unlike in gta 4 which has lots of interiors for you to explore and immerse yourself
@@twischta I can't convince a person who hates FPP, but the parkour and the mantling is just so so smooth in Cyberpunk. I was a die-hard TPP player. I played Skyrim TPP, I even modded other games so I could see my pretty characters. But even though TBH it irks me that I can only really enjoy my carefully arranged fashion ensembles/battle gear while on a motorcycle or using photo mode, the way V moves and the combat really makes up for it, and will eventually even feel natural.
True the nightcity is from another dimension. But the gameplay in Cyberpunk is fucking shallow garbage for me. And not to mention main quest where all you do is just sit on a vhair and listening to people talk at you. Cyberpunk is crap.
"So I could just walk into New Atlantis, slaughter everyone, go to the next town, pay the bounty, and be fine? What?" Repeat after me, a crime with a fine as the only punishment is only illegal for the poor. xD
I'm about to blow your mind: There is no side quest where you bring Sam's daughter books. She has dialog asking for books, yes. But there is no quest, there is no interaction, and there is no way to actually give her a book. You misremembered that, maybe confusing it with a different quest where you bring a kid on Mars some comic books. Or maybe you assumed there was a quest there based on the voice lines. But I assure you, it doesn't exist. Probably cut content. The missing book quest is a bit of a controversy among Starfield fans.
You’re right that was two separate children! Does this happen to be one of the many children that look exactly the same as her? Nice catch. I’ll have to figure out how to overlay a correction or something like that.
i’m a recent player, so they may have updated it, but now you can give Cora books and gain XP from it! she does ask you to bring her whatever books you find but there’s no mission flagged at all
Bro hated this game so much that started a whole career out of it 😂😂 this was such a great analysis/review like every detail that you mention it really shows you have a great way to explain the things that you enjoy/ not enjoy. Having a list of games that you can play instead or to have similar vibes or that do it better is such a nice detail to have in the video and I really welcomed that. Instantly subscribe and very impressive for your first video I can't wait for your next analysis/review keep up the great work
The "background" music is incredibly distracting. I was unable to enjoy this video like it should be. Everything else except the music volume seems great.
Speaking of house varuun - how much you wanna bet that in the upcoming DLC, just like in the base game, the background trait "serpent's embrace" will influence 2 things: jack and shit?
XDDD well bethesda surprised with Fallout 4 Far Harbor when if you sided with institute you could go there and ask if Asumi is a synth from Institute. Maybe they will take our breath away since they have all the time they need on that dlc :)
This was excellent, you hit all the games ridiculous game world inconsistencies and more. Hard to believe that this poorly planned and thought out game took 5+ years with the final product being so bad.
15:26 One very easy way to solve the crafting being essentially useless, would be special recipes that could result in weapons and armor that could only ever be crafted, basically enemies, misiones, and quests, could have a rare chance of dropping blueprints for crafting items that can’t be found anywhere else other than crafting. Let’s say you pick up a blueprint that lets you make a massive plasma hammer or something, the only way to ever get a plasma hammer is to craft it, sure it will eventually get outclassed and become worthless, but you can make it and use it for at least a handful of levels before you fined a replacement.
Small nitpick that honestly bothered me more than it should have: Vasco recognizing and voicing your name is not novel. Codsworth did that in Fallout 4.
Today, aside from the lack of maps, none of these things have been fixed in any way. In fact, there are even more issues now than when the game launched. WTF, Bethesda?!
Every Bethesda game used to be an insta buy for me. Ever since Fallout 76 thats changed, they are not fooling me again. I had high hopes for SF but i'm happy I didnt buy it at launch (or all for that matter). I'm sorry you had to go trough playing that obvious abomination.
What do you mean you are already at the top? Brother you can still get a rtx 4090 and a threadripper 7995wx lol. My new favorite genre of videos are starfield analysis videos.
You sir get the title of the Starfield rant OVERLORD!! 🥇 This has to be the single most interesting rant I've come across, and believe me, I consider myself a connoisseur of the genre when it comes to critiquing Starfield. I've seen every lengthy analysis, every deep dive, every pointed critique out there. But this-this takes the cake.
Great analysis! I have over 400 hours in Starfield, but most of it was time spent in the ship editor. Only feature I really like. The rest is abysmal. Before the game released I fantasized about a game that doesn't really have one of Bethesdas boring main quests and instead concentrates on lore and worldbuilding - something they are really good at, even in Fallout 76. But as you said, the game lore is wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle. And this is something I just can't stomach anymore. Bethesda is finished for me.
Dude. Amazing first video. I was flabbergasted when I got to the end and you "revealed" that you just started the channel. Would love to see more analysis like this!
Thing abt the performance: My card is a 6600xt, supposed to be a 1080p powerhouse of a card giving 100+fps in any title at high or above, and starfield kneecapped my pc to like 40fps... Now I ask you, FOR WHAT??? Rdr2 looks and is miles above this garbage muddy textured mess and runs in the easy 60+fps?? So wtf is Starfield doing that it needs so many resources??
Good stuff, really enjoyed that. A lot of work went into it as well, impressive effort. Appreciate the video bro will subscribe to see more. Yeah I hated Starfield so bad, because of the thrown away potential at every turn as well. I doubt DLC's will ever fix it up, buut the IP could work in a sequel. Just it needs to be far less samey and predictable, and better in design imho.
Considering the approximate 5 year dev cycle that Bethesda has, the next starfield would be in 15 years, after TES:VI and Fallout 5. By then I feel like nobody will remember starfield so it’s unlikely.
The Freestar Collective really do suck don't they? You would have thought that out of the many corrupt characters there would be one idealistic Libertarian or something to give them a bit of redeemability in the faction leadership but nope.
Bethesda made 2 good video games in their entire career...at most. Bethesda fans got the game they deserved and anyone who has any hope or hype for TES 6 is ignorant beyond belief
Let’s not be that angry at it. Elder scrolls 2-5 are great and I hear fallout 3 and NV are good. The elder scrolls games are amazing for their time but they really really do not age well. Playing daggerfall now on anything but daggerfall unity with 1000 mods is a massive waste of your time, for example.
@@ParisAbyssus what part of fallout 3 is good? The gameplay? The story? The part of the wasteland expect DC and the Metro? The DLC? New Vegas is not a Bethesda game. Morrowind with pretty good and if you like RPGs lite Oblivion is ok at most.
@@SYLRMHAI'd say Fallout 3 wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. Although it may have to do with it being my first Fallout game and I had nothing to compare it to at the time, and the concept of the nuclear wasteland just blew my mind. I think Oblivion was decent, actually good at many places - though Morrowind was without a doubt lightning in a bottle for Bethesda and nothing they've made since even compares to it. As for Skyrim and Fallout 4, I played them for hundreds of hours and had a good enough time with it, certainly I don't regret buying or playing them... but Fallout 4 definitely made me wary of pre-ordering future Bethesda games - which is what saved me from the 76 debacle and why I'm still waiting for Starfield to go on sale before I buy it.
Great video. I appreciate your presentation and methodology. You also have a nice speaking voice, it has a pleasant quality to it. I hope to see much more from you.
Absolutely agree with everything you said, the only difference is, I just uninstalled it after about 9-10 hours of suffering, and I did not start a UA-cam channel lol :D you earned my sub :D
i'd say crit chance is nowhere near important as encumbrance. in fact there's a lot of games that just don't tell you what crit chance is. i'd rather have it displayed, but personally i'm fine with just not having crits at all in my games, unless they're like DMC where they're skill-dependant rather than luck-dependant.
Honestly, there is no reason to be salty that Bethesda can't make games anymore or they closed down Arcane because they could. Just support Stalker 2 and European game design as much as possible.
1:08:18 wait, people generally frame their whole lives around a purpose? I thought that was just a weird trope in media, I never thought it was something real people actually do...
The inevitable end of Libertarian states is companies making a bajillion dollars and becoming monopolies because nobody can stop them and then they become the government except they exist to funnel money into their pockets and shareholders and literally nothing else. So what you get is the implication of civilization but in reality you live in the bowels of a machine that exists to crush you into fine powder they can sell back to you.
@@ParisAbyssus So it's the beginning and status quo of a communist/ socialist state, except it only makes a quarter bajillion dollars because they don't have the best person for the job they have the most politically correct ( be it affinity for the regime, class, race, gender, orientation) and much of the quarter bajillion is lost due to corruption an grift. They are the government and exist to funnel money into their pockets, give the plebs just enough to not riot, and literally nothing else. So what you get is the forced and politically correct implication that you live in a "fair" utopia, but in reality you live in the bowels of a machine that exists to crush you into a fine powder, but because it was made by the most politically correct comrade, instead of the best engineers, and it turns you into a gunky mush that you can then stand in line for, smile and call it bread.
Outstanding mate! Best critique of Starfield I have heard yet, and I've watched at least 10 to 15 of these. I've played every Bethesda game (especially NV, FO3 and FO4). I kinda always knew they were empty, pointless and mindlessly juvenile, and how white-bread, hollow and stupid the main stories are; specifically in Fallout 4. That being said, the game still possessed just enough strangeness and sci-fi apocalypse character to keep me interested and exploring all the little nooks and crannies. And I did like meeting all the odd (but shallow and pointless) NPCs. ( But I would always restart the game before finishing the main story quest). Overall it held my interest enough for me commit 100s of hrs playtime. Plus 100s of hours playing all the other fallouts after #3, and Skyrim too. I want to thank you for explaining in perfect detail why fallout 4 sucked ass. As I was watching and rewatching your well made presentation, it dawned on me that I could basically plug in fallout 4 stories , themes, main characters and overall scenarios into all of your analysis and critiques, and you were basically describing why fallout 4 gobbled donkey balls. I haven't had the urge to play any Bethesda game in many years. I skipped FO76 and will not be giving Microsoft any money to DL Starfield. I sit back and watch all the Starfield review videos and have a warm glow inside knowing that at least one public facing corporation is having to hear from people they crap on regularly. Maybe just maybe, someone in Bethesda/Microsoft (and I wish most other corporations) will catch a hint as to how we feel about the catastrophicly shitty products and services they offer. Cheers brother, keep speaking truth. I subscribed.
So much of what you said is completely false or just nippaking and whining. I could make a list of everything but wow. I would be here for days writing a two page essay.
Anything in particular that stuck out so I can correct it? It’s a pretty big game and I only wrote the script of this video after finishing it so I may have misremembered a couple things here and there and at the time the wiki was pretty bear bones so I didn’t have any easy way to check. As for nitpicking, I mean yeah games deserve to be complained about when they have problems lmao, that’s how this reviewing thing works.
Bud, roasting a Bethesda game is pretty pointless. We all know the limitations of this game come from the fact they've been using the same game engine since 1998. All of their games have basically been this since Terminator Future Shock.
Because I was hyped for it. The Elder scrolls is my favorite series and fallout if great. I just wanted to see if it would get better if I changed how I played the game and it just never did.
Expectations does this to people. They play it in a denial of it being so bad, just imagining what could've been. There's no arguments in favor of it, since being a RPG doesn't make the developers free from the guilty of making a space-themed game so spacially-limited. Could've been 50 planets, if they had no loading screens, atmosphere flight and contentful exploration, the game would be so much funnier, because after all it's a GAME not a reality simulator.
I disagree about suggesting that first two mass effects are hard to get into(unless you're a baby or something). If you gonna play it - you have to start with the first one or everything else won't have the same narrative impact. You won't care about those awesome followers as much and won't have personal history with them. Otherwise a great video! Appreciate using lots of Oblivion soundtrack😄 Edit: Also about robot saying your name - Codsworsth in Fallout 4 says many names including some obscenities. Fallout 4 has the best bethesda companions imo. They use animation markers, react to your actions and the world and are better fleshed out than Starfield ones. I think they started evolving their companions with Serana in Skyrim, got better in fallout 4 and then went completely stale and lazy in Starfield
The combat and generally everything about mass effect 1 (other than the followers and story) made me want to immediately drop the game and run as fast as possible. I have never seen a game fail so spectacularly at the feeling of shooting things. Halo 1 from 2001 had better gunplay. Edit 1: also the entire extended oblivion ost is here. I will try to get through the 3 fallouts eventually.
@@ParisAbyssus Combat might be clunky but the story is what makes that game. You just can't skip it and start with the third game. There's no point arriving at the end of the story without experiencing the whole thing.
I definitely agree with you but I was actually able to play through and finish 3 and then just acted like 1 and 2 were weird low quality prequels that tied everything together. Also putting the ending not at the end of the series honestly made me enjoy it more because it wasn’t the last thing I remember about it.
Good video. Although I bursted out laughing when you recommended people to play Mass Effect 3 before the 2 first games in the series. That's in my opinion a Terrible idea. Mass Effect 1 gives you allot of context to the world, and Mass Effect 2 is one of the best written RPGs ever made. The third game concludes the story, that begins in the first game, and is in my opinion, the worst of the trilogy. Also Mass Effect 1 came out the year after Oblivion, another game you recommended. And I think it is a much more modern game, in terms of mechanics, than Oblivion is. Plus there's the whole Savefile transfer between all the Mass Effect games, that will give you the best experience overall.
While all of that may be true, the combat in 1 and 2 that game is very very bad and I only recommended it if you couldn’t get through 1 on your first try, like I did. Story wise obviously start with 1, but I don’t really think it is needed to enjoy 3. Bethesda games get a pass because they will always be half a decade behind anyways. Not that they have many continuing storylines, but I would do the same and suggest Skyrim first. My point was that you should find whichever game in a series will actually hook you in and then play the rest. Like the only reason I’m playing daggerfall, a game I wouldn’t even consider in any other circumstance, is because I ran out of Elder scrolls games to play.
@@ParisAbyssus I dont really see why "Bethesda get a pass". I get that the type of interaction you get in their games are limited to them, but saying that they get a pass because their games are behind the curve anyway, is more a reason not to play them. I love Bethesda games btw. But they can be hard to recommend because of the jankiness and weirdness, that they all have. Rather than letting them get away with it, I would want to see them improve instead. I haven't played Starfield, because to me, from what I have seen, they haven't learned much since Fallout 4. I think it looks like they might have regressed a little bit. If you play Mass Effect on Console, then yeah, the combat is weird and unintuative. But on PC, the Powers are alot easier to use, and the Gunplay is smooth. So I would recommend playing Mass Effect 1 and 2 atleast, on PC. And the games are so old now, that most PCs can run them fine. I tried starting up a New game of Mass Effect 3, without an imported savefile. The game was very different from my earlier playthroughs. Conversations were more limited, many NPC stories just sorta happened, without much I could do, and the whole experience was rather subpar, compaired to how I remembered it.
@@christiankaiser3885 I suppose the better sentence would have been "I am heavily biased" instead of "they get a pass". I'll replay the Mass Effect games soon enough. Maybe four years later and with more critical thinking I will enjoy them in the correct order.
There are some people who actually enjoy playing Starfield. I wish I was as stupid as those people so I could enjoy this trash game. Starfield sucks ass in literally every way. Its embarrassing
Interesting video but if I can point out one thing it would be this. The background music is sometimes significantly louder than your voice. In addition, the tone of your voice is quite monotonous, which makes listening boring and difficult
I dont know why exactly but after this video i have the urge to play oblivion for the 100th time
The overuse of Oblivion ost was real.
It’s literally the entire Morrowind OST, then oblivion, then whatever fit of the Skyrim OST, and the ending was my favorite Oblivion track.
It reminds all of a simpler time. A time when we knew deep down we were criminal scum.
Listening, experiencing how bethesda is falling into.. hmm.. oblivion is best experience one can get from their games nowadays. It's priceless.
Bro. Wait till you hear about Morrowind
“What got you into UA-cam?”
“My sheer hatred for this game: Starfield.”
These days I mostly enjoy Bethesda games in form of negative reviews. In that sense I could still say, they bring me hours upon hours of entertainment. Great review, lots of good and original points.
I agree, it's literally a new UA-cam genre. and I finished the game 2 times
@watchlover7750 thankfully I waited a couple months for the game to be out before buying so my first experience with Stanfield was hearing how shallow it was. Deepness of systems/story writing are my two biggest drivers pulling me in so I just... didn't buy it :p. I could summarize the story of the game, the issues it has, and multiple plot holes/issues and I've never once launched the game LOL.
Japantown in Cyberpunk alone clears every single city and location in this game lol
If only it had 3rd person... So far this is the reason I haven't bothered looking at it.
@@twischta it is the best first person experience available and extremely immersive. That’s an extremely shallow reason to not play one of the greatest single player games of all time. But you do you, you’re the one missing out 🤷🏽♂️
@@cantu7214the problem with cyberpunk map is that there arent any interiors, unlike in gta 4 which has lots of interiors for you to explore and immerse yourself
@@twischta I can't convince a person who hates FPP, but the parkour and the mantling is just so so smooth in Cyberpunk. I was a die-hard TPP player. I played Skyrim TPP, I even modded other games so I could see my pretty characters. But even though TBH it irks me that I can only really enjoy my carefully arranged fashion ensembles/battle gear while on a motorcycle or using photo mode, the way V moves and the combat really makes up for it, and will eventually even feel natural.
True the nightcity is from another dimension. But the gameplay in Cyberpunk is fucking shallow garbage for me. And not to mention main quest where all you do is just sit on a vhair and listening to people talk at you. Cyberpunk is crap.
"Like that tomato you stole" LMAO 🤣
"So I could just walk into New Atlantis, slaughter everyone, go to the next town, pay the bounty, and be fine? What?"
Repeat after me, a crime with a fine as the only punishment is only illegal for the poor. xD
pretty realistic actually.
If you have money + a good looking body you can basically do a ton of stuff
I'm about to blow your mind: There is no side quest where you bring Sam's daughter books.
She has dialog asking for books, yes. But there is no quest, there is no interaction, and there is no way to actually give her a book. You misremembered that, maybe confusing it with a different quest where you bring a kid on Mars some comic books. Or maybe you assumed there was a quest there based on the voice lines. But I assure you, it doesn't exist. Probably cut content. The missing book quest is a bit of a controversy among Starfield fans.
You’re right that was two separate children! Does this happen to be one of the many children that look exactly the same as her?
Nice catch. I’ll have to figure out how to overlay a correction or something like that.
@@ParisAbyssus I'd leave it in man, your review is the authentic starfield experience of forgettable plots blurring together. I really enjoyed it
You'd think if they were going to cut the quest, they also cut the voice lines that imply a quest will follow
i’m a recent player, so they may have updated it, but now you can give Cora books and gain XP from it! she does ask you to bring her whatever books you find but there’s no mission flagged at all
@@daniellecolona6445 yeah it was added in a previous patch. I guess they saw all the people commenting on how weird it was
Bro hated this game so much that started a whole career out of it 😂😂 this was such a great analysis/review like every detail that you mention it really shows you have a great way to explain the things that you enjoy/ not enjoy.
Having a list of games that you can play instead or to have similar vibes or that do it better is such a nice detail to have in the video and I really welcomed that.
Instantly subscribe and very impressive for your first video I can't wait for your next analysis/review keep up the great work
I just have to say your voice is so soothing to listen to. The passion and frustration is palpable
The "background" music is incredibly distracting. I was unable to enjoy this video like it should be. Everything else except the music volume seems great.
Speaking of house varuun - how much you wanna bet that in the upcoming DLC, just like in the base game, the background trait "serpent's embrace" will influence 2 things: jack and shit?
XDDD well bethesda surprised with Fallout 4 Far Harbor when if you sided with institute you could go there and ask if Asumi is a synth from Institute. Maybe they will take our breath away since they have all the time they need on that dlc :)
This was excellent, you hit all the games ridiculous game world inconsistencies and more. Hard to believe that this poorly planned and thought out game took 5+ years with the final product being so bad.
15:26
One very easy way to solve the crafting being essentially useless, would be special recipes that could result in weapons and armor that could only ever be crafted, basically enemies, misiones, and quests, could have a rare chance of dropping blueprints for crafting items that can’t be found anywhere else other than crafting.
Let’s say you pick up a blueprint that lets you make a massive plasma hammer or something, the only way to ever get a plasma hammer is to craft it, sure it will eventually get outclassed and become worthless, but you can make it and use it for at least a handful of levels before you fined a replacement.
Small nitpick that honestly bothered me more than it should have:
Vasco recognizing and voicing your name is not novel. Codsworth did that in Fallout 4.
Fair enough. As I’ve mentioned I haven’t played the fallout games yet to any reasonable depth so I didn’t know that. Thanks for the pointer!
We live in a world where Skyrim, a game that was made years ago, is a much better experience than StarField.
Great stuff man. Maybe adjust the audio a bit, your voice gets drowned out at times
Today, aside from the lack of maps, none of these things have been fixed in any way. In fact, there are even more issues now than when the game launched. WTF, Bethesda?!
Good shit
Subbed and hope you keep putting out bangers
Every Bethesda game used to be an insta buy for me. Ever since Fallout 76 thats changed, they are not fooling me again.
I had high hopes for SF but i'm happy I didnt buy it at launch (or all for that matter).
I'm sorry you had to go trough playing that obvious abomination.
What do you mean you are already at the top? Brother you can still get a rtx 4090 and a threadripper 7995wx lol. My new favorite genre of videos are starfield analysis videos.
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Anybody else here who have never played this game, but like to watch these reviews of it??😂
If you take away all the things that made New Vegas and Skyrim great, You're left with Starfield.
If you add a bunch of loading screens,yes.
The music is too loud, your voice can be barely heard.
personally, I quite like the balance and can hear him just fine
You sir get the title of the Starfield rant OVERLORD!! 🥇 This has to be the single most interesting rant I've come across, and believe me, I consider myself a connoisseur of the genre when it comes to critiquing Starfield. I've seen every lengthy analysis, every deep dive, every pointed critique out there. But this-this takes the cake.
criminally underated
Re: the terrormorph thing: you just don't replace one apex predator with an even more powerful apex predator and not have it being a danger to humans.
Really solid video.
Great analysis! I have over 400 hours in Starfield, but most of it was time spent in the ship editor. Only feature I really like. The rest is abysmal. Before the game released I fantasized about a game that doesn't really have one of Bethesdas boring main quests and instead concentrates on lore and worldbuilding - something they are really good at, even in Fallout 76. But as you said, the game lore is wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle. And this is something I just can't stomach anymore. Bethesda is finished for me.
Dude. Amazing first video. I was flabbergasted when I got to the end and you "revealed" that you just started the channel. Would love to see more analysis like this!
Oh holy heck. There are already two more videos out, and they're on my favorite game of all time? Yessssssss
Chipping in $10/mo to your Kofi for a bit to help get you started :)
Thing abt the performance:
My card is a 6600xt, supposed to be a 1080p powerhouse of a card giving 100+fps in any title at high or above, and starfield kneecapped my pc to like 40fps...
Now I ask you, FOR WHAT???
Rdr2 looks and is miles above this garbage muddy textured mess and runs in the easy 60+fps?? So wtf is Starfield doing that it needs so many resources??
This man's smiting ability is top notch. Recommend subbing or he'll do a review on you next. Good stuff man.
Good stuff, really enjoyed that. A lot of work went into it as well, impressive effort. Appreciate the video bro will subscribe to see more. Yeah I hated Starfield so bad, because of the thrown away potential at every turn as well. I doubt DLC's will ever fix it up, buut the IP could work in a sequel. Just it needs to be far less samey and predictable, and better in design imho.
Considering the approximate 5 year dev cycle that Bethesda has, the next starfield would be in 15 years, after TES:VI and Fallout 5. By then I feel like nobody will remember starfield so it’s unlikely.
The Freestar Collective really do suck don't they? You would have thought that out of the many corrupt characters there would be one idealistic Libertarian or something to give them a bit of redeemability in the faction leadership but nope.
Bethesda made 2 good video games in their entire career...at most.
Bethesda fans got the game they deserved and anyone who has any hope or hype for TES 6 is ignorant beyond belief
Let’s not be that angry at it. Elder scrolls 2-5 are great and I hear fallout 3 and NV are good.
The elder scrolls games are amazing for their time but they really really do not age well. Playing daggerfall now on anything but daggerfall unity with 1000 mods is a massive waste of your time, for example.
@@ParisAbyssus what part of fallout 3 is good? The gameplay? The story? The part of the wasteland expect DC and the Metro? The DLC? New Vegas is not a Bethesda game. Morrowind with pretty good and if you like RPGs lite Oblivion is ok at most.
@@SYLRMHAI'd say Fallout 3 wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. Although it may have to do with it being my first Fallout game and I had nothing to compare it to at the time, and the concept of the nuclear wasteland just blew my mind.
I think Oblivion was decent, actually good at many places - though Morrowind was without a doubt lightning in a bottle for Bethesda and nothing they've made since even compares to it.
As for Skyrim and Fallout 4, I played them for hundreds of hours and had a good enough time with it, certainly I don't regret buying or playing them... but Fallout 4 definitely made me wary of pre-ordering future Bethesda games - which is what saved me from the 76 debacle and why I'm still waiting for Starfield to go on sale before I buy it.
Great video. I appreciate your presentation and methodology. You also have a nice speaking voice, it has a pleasant quality to it. I hope to see much more from you.
Absolutely agree with everything you said, the only difference is, I just uninstalled it after about 9-10 hours of suffering, and I did not start a UA-cam channel lol :D you earned my sub :D
I knew you will mention plant sera as example when talking about all 10 variations of constellation.
Sooooo creamy
i'd say crit chance is nowhere near important as encumbrance. in fact there's a lot of games that just don't tell you what crit chance is. i'd rather have it displayed, but personally i'm fine with just not having crits at all in my games, unless they're like DMC where they're skill-dependant rather than luck-dependant.
Honestly, there is no reason to be salty that Bethesda can't make games anymore or they closed down Arcane because they could.
Just support Stalker 2 and European game design as much as possible.
Great review, thanks man!
Nice theme tune. Shame about the lazy flawed concept and bugs.
1:08:18 wait, people generally frame their whole lives around a purpose? I thought that was just a weird trope in media, I never thought it was something real people actually do...
Some people do, others don't. Personally I don't see the need, I am perfectly happy to just exist because I have no reason not to.
So Bethesda actually managed to correctly describe a libertarian/neoliberal society: The Freestar Collective?
The inevitable end of Libertarian states is companies making a bajillion dollars and becoming monopolies because nobody can stop them and then they become the government except they exist to funnel money into their pockets and shareholders and literally nothing else. So what you get is the implication of civilization but in reality you live in the bowels of a machine that exists to crush you into fine powder they can sell back to you.
@@ParisAbyssus So it's the beginning and status quo of a communist/ socialist state, except it only makes a quarter bajillion dollars because they don't have the best person for the job they have the most politically correct ( be it affinity for the regime, class, race, gender, orientation) and much of the quarter bajillion is lost due to corruption an grift. They are the government and exist to funnel money into their pockets, give the plebs just enough to not riot, and literally nothing else. So what you get is the forced and politically correct implication that you live in a "fair" utopia, but in reality you live in the bowels of a machine that exists to crush you into a fine powder, but because it was made by the most politically correct comrade, instead of the best engineers, and it turns you into a gunky mush that you can then stand in line for, smile and call it bread.
Outstanding mate! Best critique of Starfield I have heard yet, and I've watched at least 10 to 15 of these. I've played every Bethesda game (especially NV, FO3 and FO4). I kinda always knew they were empty, pointless and mindlessly juvenile, and how white-bread, hollow and stupid the main stories are; specifically in Fallout 4. That being said, the game still possessed just enough strangeness and sci-fi apocalypse character to keep me interested and exploring all the little nooks and crannies. And I did like meeting all the odd (but shallow and pointless) NPCs. ( But I would always restart the game before finishing the main story quest). Overall it held my interest enough for me commit 100s of hrs playtime. Plus 100s of hours playing all the other fallouts after #3, and Skyrim too. I want to thank you for explaining in perfect detail why fallout 4 sucked ass. As I was watching and rewatching your well made presentation, it dawned on me that I could basically plug in fallout 4 stories , themes, main characters and overall scenarios into all of your analysis and critiques, and you were basically describing why fallout 4 gobbled donkey balls. I haven't had the urge to play any Bethesda game in many years. I skipped FO76 and will not be giving Microsoft any money to DL Starfield. I sit back and watch all the Starfield review videos and have a warm glow inside knowing that at least one public facing corporation is having to hear from people they crap on regularly. Maybe just maybe, someone in Bethesda/Microsoft (and I wish most other corporations) will catch a hint as to how we feel about the catastrophicly shitty products and services they offer. Cheers brother, keep speaking truth. I subscribed.
Have you played Morrowind?
Cant even say it was crunch or $$ these decisions were made to purposely make the game worse.
I don’t think you make bad things on purpose, that wouldn’t make any sense. It’s more of just the Bethesda magic being gone
So much of what you said is completely false or just nippaking and whining. I could make a list of everything but wow. I would be here for days writing a two page essay.
Anything in particular that stuck out so I can correct it? It’s a pretty big game and I only wrote the script of this video after finishing it so I may have misremembered a couple things here and there and at the time the wiki was pretty bear bones so I didn’t have any easy way to check.
As for nitpicking, I mean yeah games deserve to be complained about when they have problems lmao, that’s how this reviewing thing works.
It would take you days to write a two page essay?
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Bud, roasting a Bethesda game is pretty pointless. We all know the limitations of this game come from the fact they've been using the same game engine since 1998. All of their games have basically been this since Terminator Future Shock.
Why would you play this game for over 100 if you hate it so much?
Because I was hyped for it. The Elder scrolls is my favorite series and fallout if great. I just wanted to see if it would get better if I changed how I played the game and it just never did.
Expectations does this to people. They play it in a denial of it being so bad, just imagining what could've been. There's no arguments in favor of it, since being a RPG doesn't make the developers free from the guilty of making a space-themed game so spacially-limited. Could've been 50 planets, if they had no loading screens, atmosphere flight and contentful exploration, the game would be so much funnier, because after all it's a GAME not a reality simulator.
I disagree about suggesting that first two mass effects are hard to get into(unless you're a baby or something). If you gonna play it - you have to start with the first one or everything else won't have the same narrative impact. You won't care about those awesome followers as much and won't have personal history with them. Otherwise a great video! Appreciate using lots of Oblivion soundtrack😄
Edit: Also about robot saying your name - Codsworsth in Fallout 4 says many names including some obscenities. Fallout 4 has the best bethesda companions imo. They use animation markers, react to your actions and the world and are better fleshed out than Starfield ones. I think they started evolving their companions with Serana in Skyrim, got better in fallout 4 and then went completely stale and lazy in Starfield
The combat and generally everything about mass effect 1 (other than the followers and story) made me want to immediately drop the game and run as fast as possible. I have never seen a game fail so spectacularly at the feeling of shooting things. Halo 1 from 2001 had better gunplay.
Edit 1: also the entire extended oblivion ost is here.
I will try to get through the 3 fallouts eventually.
@@ParisAbyssus Combat might be clunky but the story is what makes that game. You just can't skip it and start with the third game. There's no point arriving at the end of the story without experiencing the whole thing.
I definitely agree with you but I was actually able to play through and finish 3 and then just acted like 1 and 2 were weird low quality prequels that tied everything together. Also putting the ending not at the end of the series honestly made me enjoy it more because it wasn’t the last thing I remember about it.
@@ParisAbyssus To each their own I guess. I prefer chronological order😄
@@TearfulMoonDon't worry I'll make a review of them eventually. :b
Good video. Although I bursted out laughing when you recommended people to play Mass Effect 3 before the 2 first games in the series. That's in my opinion a Terrible idea.
Mass Effect 1 gives you allot of context to the world, and Mass Effect 2 is one of the best written RPGs ever made. The third game concludes the story, that begins in the first game, and is in my opinion, the worst of the trilogy. Also Mass Effect 1 came out the year after Oblivion, another game you recommended. And I think it is a much more modern game, in terms of mechanics, than Oblivion is. Plus there's the whole Savefile transfer between all the Mass Effect games, that will give you the best experience overall.
While all of that may be true, the combat in 1 and 2 that game is very very bad and I only recommended it if you couldn’t get through 1 on your first try, like I did. Story wise obviously start with 1, but I don’t really think it is needed to enjoy 3.
Bethesda games get a pass because they will always be half a decade behind anyways. Not that they have many continuing storylines, but I would do the same and suggest Skyrim first.
My point was that you should find whichever game in a series will actually hook you in and then play the rest. Like the only reason I’m playing daggerfall, a game I wouldn’t even consider in any other circumstance, is because I ran out of Elder scrolls games to play.
@@ParisAbyssus I dont really see why "Bethesda get a pass". I get that the type of interaction you get in their games are limited to them, but saying that they get a pass because their games are behind the curve anyway, is more a reason not to play them. I love Bethesda games btw. But they can be hard to recommend because of the jankiness and weirdness, that they all have. Rather than letting them get away with it, I would want to see them improve instead. I haven't played Starfield, because to me, from what I have seen, they haven't learned much since Fallout 4. I think it looks like they might have regressed a little bit.
If you play Mass Effect on Console, then yeah, the combat is weird and unintuative. But on PC, the Powers are alot easier to use, and the Gunplay is smooth. So I would recommend playing Mass Effect 1 and 2 atleast, on PC. And the games are so old now, that most PCs can run them fine.
I tried starting up a New game of Mass Effect 3, without an imported savefile. The game was very different from my earlier playthroughs. Conversations were more limited, many NPC stories just sorta happened, without much I could do, and the whole experience was rather subpar, compaired to how I remembered it.
@@christiankaiser3885 I suppose the better sentence would have been "I am heavily biased" instead of "they get a pass".
I'll replay the Mass Effect games soon enough. Maybe four years later and with more critical thinking I will enjoy them in the correct order.
There are some people who actually enjoy playing Starfield. I wish I was as stupid as those people so I could enjoy this trash game. Starfield sucks ass in literally every way. Its embarrassing
Great video with based opinions 😎
Interesting video but if I can point out one thing it would be this. The background music is sometimes significantly louder than your voice. In addition, the tone of your voice is quite monotonous, which makes listening boring and difficult
Good for insomnia, though. Very calming.
6:47 looks Ugly.
Didn't even beat it, it was so boring. What was it? 25years to make this? And it sucked -_-
What did you expect, they're using a game engine they made in 1998
The one thing i agree with Todd Howard is that you shouldnt be picking up every paperclip and microscope you see.
Wish I could refund this crap . And I bought on sale at 29$
I got it for $100 for the premium edition so imagine my pain lmao