Starfield Is NOT "Just Another" Bethesda RPG!

[@RealRanton]

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[@gambello1195]

my current browser is mentally challenged, are you sure you want to say that?

[@MelhussedJr]

🥲

[@jaseboon6282]

jesus i felt like i was fitting after 30sec of fast cut edits

[@Python_Bacon]

game is trash, respect lost

[@Loriethalion]

I will once i get over the idea that it will take a lot of work, I'm just a retard attached to my browser (firefox), but I have thought about it for years and I will get it XD EDIT: i know it won't take a lot of work, it's just an excuse to procrastinate lol

[@AzerAnimations]

Finally, I was waiting for the greatest game reviewer to talk about Starfield

[@daizenmarcurio]

And his review hit the nail on the head ez. Its sad we have to look forward to mods to fix this game. My hype is lowkey dampening For TES 6

[@BigBoy-ok3eg]

second greatest german

[@Tethloach1]

It was very entertaining and informative

[@petervarlas6678]

Why, did Tim Rogers make a video about starfield?

[@Thaumtron]

I was waiting for armored core 6 😢

[@rastanchacha]

I like so much how this man went for shaolin monk youtuber to batshit crazy insane game reviewer.

[@manzanasrojas6984]

What? Its the other way around dude lol

[@Tomas_Vrbada]

Pretty sure he started out batshit crazy and has been since 😅

[@kieranadamson3224]

​@@Jchan-m4i he has a few videos about the time he spent at the Shaolin temple as a warrior monk and what it's really like.

[@Shak2k11]

if you were real a you would know it was the other way around

[@thijsdeboer389]

The lack of meaningful exploration is really sad, something i really enjoyed in Fallout 4 for example is the little easter eggs, if you are enough of a lootgoblin and search every nook and cranny of a location you are bound to find a teddybear torturing someone

[@silvekin]

....are easter eggs now consider "meaningful exploration"

[@thijsdeboer389]

@@silvekin nah man not by itself but it's the culmination of the little things, like a little joke the developers put in a random spot, that makes the world feel whole

[@HelloOnepiece]

@@silvekin If enything little easter eggs and lore bits are the best kind of motivations (if executed right) as they a tad more internal compared to random XP bar

[@skunto]

​@@silvekinyes, at least more so than empty fields with preset buildings peppered in here and there

[@danang5]

​@@silvekini guess what hes saying is its better than nothing

[@zacharybaihu7584]

I have had news Ranton.... Most modders have given up on Starfield

[@buscuitnaught3026]

After about 4-5 hours or so I completely lost my desire to explore the world, which is the complete opposite problem I have with other Bethesda games where I end up with decision paralysis because there's so much to find. All I want to explore at this point in the game is Sarah Morgan's and Sam Coe's insides.

[@Kiefy6886]

😂😂😂

[@smrah8750]

probably because it fells like a past bethesda game modded. no real change, u really have to have a lot of free time to play it through

[@mauvemus5810]

You are a poet

[@fazzfaiez4496]

I became a ship hoarder after 4-5 hrs

[@jpisback]

After 4-5 hours, I was hunting down all the Unique weapons and doing pirate missions. Iunno what You were doing, but it sounds like you were trying to manually fly from planet to planet 🤣🤣🤣

[@enman009]

Even if you barely mod Skyrim, with little to no tweaking, you can have a fun immersive experience full of discoveries and stories to tell. Starfield became a great Ad campaign for Skyrim and No Man's Sky, and nothing more.

[@believer431]

I fell in love with Skyrim the very first time I played it, without even knowing about mods

[@enman009]

@@believer431 It's a testament to how great the game is. While many systems are simple, the game works wonderfully with its many systems, it's just that mods elevate the foundations even higher. Keep in mind that I also just use a moderate amount of them, no overhaul.

[@beafraidofinsectattack]

I liked the lore added by skyrim to the series. The quests that everyone likes as well (daedric quests, etc.) Other than that, skyrim felt very lacking in terms of decisions and player's choices. Lacking in lore consistency, and so on. The combat, magic system, etc. being so simple combined with the shouts really just felt like a power play main character (which it is anyway lol) kinda rpg, which wasn't really my cup of tea (most bethesda titles weren't, despite having a friend who is a huge sucker for bethesda). But the quests, handmade terrain, exploration, changed my mind overall about the game and made me warm up to RPGs in general and made the elder scrolls series grow on me. Sure Skyrim's locations aren't as big as those before, the amount of NPCs aren't as many, and so on, but it seems believable being Skyrim in the 3rd era, just after the great war, with the civil war going on, and the Nordic culture and architecture making sense. Overall, it all ties around itself and makes most things make sense and immerses you despite the classic funny moments and small inconsistencies. For a game released on 11/11/11 it was worth my waiting until anniversary edition to finally give the game (and bethesda) a try, which made me actually like their work and respect their efforts on fallout and elder scrolls. Back then I thought Skyrim was just another boring RPG with only the graphics and terrain being the good thing about it (nothing like walking on skyrim with that nice music). I've tried it a couple of times at a friend's pc a few years after release. I didn't like it lol. But trying it out after more than a decade of holding back on it because I thought it wasn't worth playing, made me realise how nice it is. Nowaday, me just use couple mods here and there, fixing stuff and inconsistencies, spicing up the combat and immersiveness, and I've never had an RPG so tailored to my own terms before. Mods aside, I would play skyrim just for the lore, nostalgia, exploration, writing and so on. However, taking walks frequently while also walking in skyrim, feels like farming then playing farming simulator.

[@beafraidofinsectattack]

​@@enman009 I used to have a dislike for the RPG genre, Skyrim fixed that, says a lot about it I guess lol 😊

[@mycookiehasnoname]

Literally makes no sense but whatever boats your float man

[@Isnogood12]

Rantom being contrary to mixed reviews is him being mixed. So stunning. So brave.

[@irakimo]

When he said "todd is obsessed with rebuilding" it made me fear TES 6. It's rumoured to he in Hammerfell and Hammerfell is, according to the lore, destroyed by the Aldmeri Dominion so i could see it being a "rebuild hammerfell" 😭😭😭😭😭

[@kornelparoczai1763]

I don't think a Ranton video could exist where I agree with every single one of his points, but here we are.

[@FSVR54]

starfield sucks ass

[@workoutandread]

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.104 Nobody cares about you or what you do

[@afibuffygirl]

Agreed

[@bobmcbobbington9220]

If you like fighting the same enemy that is in the tutorial of the game 100's of times over and over again with absolutely no evolution whatsoever, you're going to love the combat in starfield

[@bobmcbobbington9220]

And that claim that fable 1, a game that came out 20+ years ago, has worse UI, therefore...okay, I'm done. I can't.

[@jayg.2066]

There are many enemy types in starfield

[@haraldjohansen1867]

​@@jayg.2066Haha yes. It has 30 variations of humanoid enemies and they all act exactly the same in combat. And 10 terrormorph variations that also act almost exactly the same in combat. And a handful of other creature enemies that all act the same in combat. Such variation lol!

[@sparkyspinz9897]

Yeah I can't see how he found the combat good. The actual shooting itself feels good, what you are shooting at 10/10 times is dumber than a sack of bricks

[@jayg.2066]

@@haraldjohansen1867 The combat is mostly there for roleplay. It isn’t supposed to be super complex and multi faceted like in a combat focused game like Cyberpunk. Where essentially all they’re offering is combat. It doesn’t make sense for Starfield to go super in depth on it either because of how often you encounter a formidable enemy base. With Elder Scrolls 6, they only need to focus on polishing 3rd and 1st person combat. If they make combat like elden ring land witcher, it should be a much better experience

[@existentialvampire7744]

"Procedural generation is where meaning goes to die". -Rantoni Quote of the fucking year for the gaming industry. *Massive chef's kiss.

[@MegaMerdeux]

The brilliance of his quote is that it also reflects real life. Too much freedom takes away from order. And only through struggles is meaning found. It's the hero's journey as well. An archetypal character in the human psyche

[@mercb3ast]

procedural generation doesn't have to be bad. Daggerfall had pretty great procedural generation, of course it was limited by the tech of the time, so tilesets made it look very samey. The tech exists now that you could have procedurally generated daggerfall style stuff, that doesn't look like it is made out of the same 6 tiles for 6 different tilesets.

[@Silentpoppy]

procedural generation i've seen used well in games like arpgs like poe for map generation or in other indie roguelikes but everytime i've seen it used in open world "freedom" touting games its be garbage with the closest to success being NMS@@mercb3ast

[@boarfaceswinejaw4516]

@@mercb3ast it had great procedural generation relative to what procedural generation of the time, but most people would have preferred a smaller world more handcrafted.

[@TheParagonIsDead]

And yet he’s wrong.

[@jackiechimp6878]

Ranton seemed a lot more passionate about this review, the editing and humor was a lot less chaotic (despite still being random at times lmao). Skyrim is (I believe) still one of Ranton’s favorite games of all time, so I was really looking forward to this review. I loved the video, it feels more insightful and has a nice change of pace from the usual reviews.

[@jansettler4828]

Am I the only one detecting hypocrisy in having Skyrim as a fave and disliking Starfied for lack of meaningfull exploration? Skyrim was literally Meaningless Exploration: The Gold Standard

[@oramisc90]

@@jansettler4828 well, in Skyrim those things are mean to be there so it's more meaningful than Starfield, i guess

[@grainnmertens]

@@jansettler4828 maybe to you, to me exploring in skyrim is fun (no mod. yep). my mods are just adding outfits from other games and adding random pretty and funny followers because why not lol. otherwise, everything is pure vanilla. tried modern combat mods, dont like it. back to vanilla again. its just simple (like ranton said) and it works. only games like dark souls where more advanced combat is fun to me and witcher too. oh assassin creed as well. i mean, i got uniquely named sword in skyrim with some story behind it because i was exploring. got a unique dagger from an adventurer who lost his friend to a troll/bear/spriggan (i forgot which) because i saw someone sitting idly in front of a random looking cave. accidently stumble into a cave filled with a handful of vampires and almost dying to them with my low level ass gears lol. discovering shit related to... dragon priests? because i was exploring a place that seems like a cool, glorified shortcut. i could go on for at least 1 or 2 paragraphs more, but my memories are fuzzy and now im about to play it again, vanilla only. idk why i keep coming back to vanilla no matter how many mods out there lol

[@erxan4163]

​@@jansettler4828starfield is bigger but as full as skyrim , that puts it into a perspective . Skyrims world was not so big , but it had something to do whenever you go out into the open world , starfield tho , all planets are just jpgs and their surfaces are fucking barren

[@GrowishGambino]

​wym mean lmao skyrim has better exploration then starfield its keeps u intrigued with the environment then starfield lmao

[@leytarking]

Ranton is a German National Treasure and no one can claim otherwise. I just love this guys content

[@USBEN.]

*Human International Treasure

[@monty_carlo]

Und dann kommt Bier ins Spiel

[@VCRAGE]

What about Adolf?

[@juansostre456]

@@VCRAGE which Adolf there are plenty

[@ashentwo6608]

​@@VCRAGEadolf ain't german tho

[@MyRegularNameWasTaken]

I used to be super into the idea of exploring an endless open world. When I was playing Oblivion, I remember thinking, "I wish I could just have Infinite dungeons like this to explore through," and when I was playing Minecraft, I remember thinking, "the best part of this game is that I can always have more of it." But now that I've started playing more games with packaged well-designed experiences, I've really had to reevaluate that. I didn't even get Starfield because the concept was uninteresting to me. I've been playing Baldur's Gate and Tears of the Kingdom, where the intentionality behind all the in-between sections - not just the obvious highlights - REALLY stands out. I've realized that the things I liked about Oblivion's dungeons were their uniqueness, and the joys of discovering them in the first place. Give me infinite procedural ones, and you've taken away the best parts. You put into words what I've been feeling for a long time, and I think Starfield really suffers from having been built with old mentalities right at the cusp of a new wave of games that realized quantity cannot outpace quality.

[@weeamood9615]

Ranton: "I'm gonna be a contrarian." **posts the least contrarian review on his channel**

[@tando6266]

I really want to see Ranton and Jack Black in a room together, I think there could be enough energy to power humanity to the stars.

[@roguebogey]

I will never stop coming back to this channel. I forget it exists for several months and then suddenly banger reviews drop like this one and I binge watch the rest of the vids I missed lol

[@tortellinifettuccine]

starfield is a money grab, Bethesda legit admitted that. Quick tip, any game that's more than a base price of 60 USD is a money grab, especially if it's not out but you can pay more to get it early (fine print mentions you can't refund though). Mortal Kombat 0? Money grab. This is not a good game, it's a loading screen fish bowl sim, with horrible everything, and the gameplay is 2013-level. There is no space, no planets, it's just a different fishbowl you load the screen into, there is no open world, you literally get a message on your screen and get teleported back if you go further than 15 minutes away from your ship. The dialogue is unbelievably awful, there's no feeling or emotion in anything, the story is the most boring I have ever seen, etc. If you like any part of the game, you are exactly what Bethesda and the rest of the corps want, little moldable American brains that respond well to colorful ads and don't care about actual quality, and are VERY willing to pay more for less.

[@varunkarlekar560]

And when the world needed him most, he returned.

[@jesseritchie9282]

Yes. Now we need a Rantoni collab with Fleekazoid. It has been spoken.

[@valentinvas6454]

Even Jedi Survivor did this multiple planet thing better IMO. There are 2 huge open world planets and a few other smaller but linear ones. I had so much more fun in that even though that's not an RPG.

[@ayourmum8521]

Starfield is a 2013 game in 2023. But tbh that’s kinda being way to nice because gta 4 and even the original dead space are far better games. If starfield just had better writing and characters tbh I think I could really like the game. I think they thought everyone was gonna love the companions. Starfield is the most realistic game ever because there is no proof that any of this has any meaning.

[@Therizinosaurus]

Well yes, but they were only limited to a certain of number, so they can cooked the planets really well. Still, Starfailed sucks. Shitarfield still has barren exploration, for a game about planetary exploration, still shitty NMS ripoff.

[@jpisback]

Yeah, I played Survivor. They weren't randomly "procedurally" generated. No it didn't. Most planets and moons contain Numerous randomly generated areas the size of fallout 3. You could load a save before entering the area you already entered and Everything will be different. I have one where I was on a moon, and had Ecliptic on an abandoned mine and a group of scientists I had to escort back to the nearest big city. Reloaded, and an entirely different map with different locations, one had an old outpost filled with Spacers, another some UC dudes fixing some weather machine that helped with the acid rain. Not to mention all the random shops that fly in that you can potentially steal, including some Big time type C ships. Survivor was Nothing like Starfield.

[@jpisback]

​@@ayourmum8521"better writing and characters" the CF quest was Golden, what were You playing?

[@TheUniversalRocker]

​@@jpisbackyeah i believe op mentioned jedi survivor, not fallen order, the one before it.

[@saintpoli6800]

What’s even worse is modders aren’t wanting to mod Starfield, and are going back to Skyrim and Fallout 4

[@kellykozzy]

My brain doesn't have enough RAM to watch Ranton and think at the same time

[@Matty002]

'we had certainly bitten off far more than we could chew' they *literally* told us the game was going to be missing things and nobody ever brings this quote up? this is S tier evidence

[@OnlyOneMan96]

Kinda felt like you'd be mentioning Outer Wilds. That game is exactly what I think you meant, handmade planets with handmade mechanics. True, they're not Starfield BIG, but with Bethesda's budget they would've been able to do some like that imo

[@Mr.Beavis667]

Best space game, hands down

[@Isnogood12]

Outer Wilds is like Fallout in space. It has humour, good writing, some very dark themes, but also whimsy and the feeling of discovery and exploration. None of those are in Starfield.

[@NamanArusia]

Petition for Ranton to review outer wilds

[@jacob3761]

@@Isnogood12are you thinking Of outer worlds? Outer wilds is the space puzzle game, outer worlds is the fallout in space game

[@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725]

​@@Mr.Beavis667outer wilds is a masterpiece. Wilds, not worlds lol.

[@Scholle0xD]

I like when he gives examples on how to make large scale open world game in space possible, with handcrafted areas to explore instead of a whole planet, he almost describes Mass Effect 1-3 perfectly. (I know these games have their own issues with lineal kill corridors, but ME gets a hard carry from its story telling and gameplay, so i can look past that)

[@Jny235]

Fucking masterpiece of a review. It should be a cold shower for Todd and everyone working on Elder Scrolls 6, I'm really worried about it. Amazing job once again, I want to shake your hand, Ranton, maybe hug you, no homo tho.

[@RealRanton]

Thank you 🙏🏼😘

[@LeenayPeechus]

Fuck it, I'd even go for homo

[@Jny235]

@@RealRanton I am not a gae, but I support... sex.

[@RagingUtai]

First fallout 76, then this. I don't think todd knows what the fk he's doing. He liked to hype shit it and not deliver.

[@ArchieGamez]

Same, they still couldnt get combat right even after many years of wait

[@rektexcalibur5254]

They should’ve gone for planet scale, rather than galaxy level… they’re just not ready for that yet

[@RAUFFUS_0]

As a Brazilian I just love the fact Ranton used one of our most iconic memes in the beginning of the video, AKA the Dante RaCeCaR PiLoT school kid.

[@AstaoftheBlackBulls]

Morrowind skills were pretty in depth. It was 21 years ago but played for at least six years so I figure it counts

[@boarfaceswinejaw4516]

morrowind's speechcraft system is one of the worst i've ever seen however.

[@AstaoftheBlackBulls]

@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 that's a really fair point haha

[@shankypanky8879]

If you see a door in Starfield, what are the chances it has a loading screen? . . . . 7/10

[@dusermiginte4647]

I loled at this. And I love Starfield and have atleast played 400 hours now...

[@robwonder630]

Deine Produktionsqualität der Videos ist unnormal hoch! Bleib wie du bist :)

[@fearjballer]

"You were so busy creating a world that's believable, that you forgot to create one that's interesting". Bars good sir.

[@itsKimi]

u're right Starfield Is NOT "Just Another" Bethesda RPG, it's a complete failure of the RPG concept itself

[@ReylianRD]

When Ranton uploads he never fails to spread my cheeks and make me smile 😊

[@voidwr2672]

😦

[@hammy_007]

Ayo 🤨😂

[@KF3000-w7x]

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[@ShawnCollier-ew8zu]

Don't get rail rash

[@matthieusaade3616]

PAUSE !!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@CraterM]

Wow, a hand crafted solar system with free traveling between planets? Sounds like a certain outer wilds

[@michael6880]

Exploration in the other bgs games is so much more rewarding cause you can physically see the cool thing you want to walk to and then you walk to it and see other cool things on the way. In starfield you have to slog through menus and loading screens then pick where you want to land and god forbid you land somewhere without a marker cause then you'll get 6x6km generic generated landscape with actually nothing notable to look at 9/10 times, the best thing i saw when landing on a flat space on a barren moon was a researcher taking pictures of the landscape and living out of a small hab. Your planet scanner says you chose a mountainous region? cool you get 20m tall hills or some extra steep rocks. A forest region? cool you get a patch of trees spread apart 3m each( at least). The only accurate ones is coast regions cause you get to see a big ass body of water in one of the directions. And any points of interest you might have seen from far away are instead highlighted on the planet viewer. Instead of ¨holy shit what is that tower in the distance¨ or ¨whats that building in the boston skyline thats always lit in the night¨ you get a marker that says exactly what it is so whats really the point of going to ¨abandoned fracking station¨ when you know its an abandoned fracking station. What really killed exploration for me was the POIs on earth. If you know your geography you'd be able to pick them out on earth, I did. I went looking for the pyramids, i went looking for the st louis arch no such luck because you need a misc quest marker that activates a landing spot marker on the planet. i went looking for the empire state building, i went looking for a bunch of other landmarks and points of interest that do not exist that i think should exist because it would've made sense for them to. Like the himalayas, surely if the stack of rocks in egypt exists the tallest mountain range much bigger than the pyramids would too, nope just more desert and rocks. Ok surely any mountain, nope. Just more fucking desert and rocks. Guess whats still standing Sky scrapers with a 90% glass facades and most of the glass is still there. As cool and fun flying space ships are, the mechanic is largely inconsequential, there isnt a lot to do or see in space my favorite moment in the game is bumping into ¨The valentine¨ and listening to the guy sing, so it adds mostly nothing to exploration and adds to the overall nothingness inbetween the mildly interesting parts. Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk also has big patches of nothing sometimes, but in those games you get a mode of transportation that is much faster than your running speed so you get to see the landscape go by quickly, going fast is always fun and going fast while looking at pretty views is very nice. There is a 8km straight stretch going from the most eastern point to one of the most western points of main NC in cyberpunk and driving down that main road at 180km/h and watching the badlands change into rural into dense streets and skyscrapers, avoiding other cars while listening to the radio is completely pointless but its also one the most fun things to do in the game in between quests for me. If they wanted to keep the conflict between UC And FC they could've taken a page out of "The Expanse"'s book and made it much more localized instead of several systems just keep to the Sol system and Alpha centauri. Two systems with very good habitable main planets and then extra planets for resources, military bases, population etc etc. Alpha centauri wants independence like FC, Sol wants to be one big group for some solidarity bullshit like UC and they fight sure maybe its reminiscent of the skyrim civil war but the added setting with space fights, actuality conquering planets, having to minimize or maximize civilian casualties(cause you're awesome), having on ground battles to control ground to space cannons or dismantling mech factories or taking care of rogue xeno-aliens etc etc it would have made all that fucking dope. Also about the main companions, decent idea cause you can do more in depth stories with few rather than half ass many, but really meh execution cause there are so many crew members far more interesting than the ones in constellation. You can meet Marika Boros as soon as you get to NA and she has different ambitions from you but still has to travel around to gain perspective so she can one day build her own ideal settlement. Helping her do that would have been such an interesting quest line and would have given the player real incentive to do proper outpost building and management cause there really isn't any reason to unlike in fo4 where resources and crafting are instrumental to getting stronger. All the jokes about ¨skyrim in space¨ and ¨fallout in space¨, i wish they were true now cause starfield is less than that.

[@jamesbooth3360]

Great points. I'm thinking Microsoft as the owner of Bethesda could have made content from flight simulator available, then just applied procedural generation to weather, age, make ruble/ruins, and generally reduce detail to just primary artifacts and typography, then add a team to create a few interesting interiors/quests/etc. at key surviving landmarks.

[@Nahan_Boker94]

I mostly agree of Ranton points. But the rating is 4/10 for me. They really a huge disappointment compared to older game. Or maybe they really cant make their own story properly bcs fallout & TES already have lore established (before they buy it from original studios). - All NPCs all human races (I mean no intelligent aliens, no android, no sentient robots races, etc. Compared to skyrim that have 8. Its such a let down) - The factions also not that catchy, they all feel the same and souless and while their main factions quest is kinda ok, you can side with all of them with no consequences. Evil or Good not matter. - They have not that memorable factions (Fallout & TES have these deep lore factions that extend in every sequels and deep enough to just by looking the environments, holotapes/books) - The explorations just as Ranton says, its really really bad and they F up big times. They really let down with the boasted "procedural generations" by making many empty planets that you cant actually explores completely. Also the factions bases so uninspired. The "handcrafted" dungeon is also bad and repetitive. No easter eggs, no references, no actual mystery, nothing. - They get rid of swimming, goddamnit. There goes the underwater explorations or water based planets. - Bcs we cant fully explore the planets they dont bother giving a vehicles. Its like they avoid it like plagues. They want us to walking into literal barren wastleand that without any random encounter is literally empty. - They still rely on fastravels and loading screens which is proven by many they added it bcs they lazy to animates certain parts and make the game seamless. - The spaceship battle is really boring and lack of depths. I just spam fast travels after discover things. Its so much uninspiring and felt out of dates. The fuel/shield mechanism barely affects anything. - The base buildings while its simpler and felt better than FO4 settlements thst have huge snapping/clipping issues. Its almost unecessary and have no great purposes to make many. - They also avoid melee combat like plagues, its further disappearing since FO4. Im kinda worried how it will turn out in TES 6. Will it the same as skyrim or worse? - And lastly the NPCs, i feel skyrim NPCs is the smartest they have. Did you know you can no longer order your followers just trade items with them? The stealth ai still stupid as usual? Guards AI & roaming NPCs will not react at your shenanigans unless you literally hit someone or steal items in front of them? And you cant kill story tied/quest NPCs anymore? Not even bleedout animations or any reaction from getting shot? They really goes backward. - The worst of all, choices of how the story will unfopd especially main quest bears minimal weights. You will get a lot of times forced to do quest for this guy or that girl. You cant refuse, turn on them, completely not aligned with them, etc. If the quest dont allow you. The freedom of choice really degraded badly since FO NV. They become so linear. Such a disappointment and further down my expectations of TES6 to be better than skyrim. Bethesda hit the ceiling of their capability as devs in FO4 and its clearly shown in Starfield in term of engines. And their incapability to create their own new IPs. Also their lazyness since they can do it but chose not to since modders will fill the game f9r free and 5-10 years later they just re release it like skyrim. So eventually Im back playing FO4 and Skyrim and choosing routes that I normally not do and still finding new things. Dont forget the mods. I wont touching starfield again until a real mod can overhauls these problems. But i doubt it can fill the huge holes Bethesda leaving, since Starfield is so barren compared to TES or FO.

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[@Malkovith2]

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[@MichaelOdendaal]

Love the pacing in this one! Way more consumable whilst maintaining that Ranton humor!

[@EvilGeniusRANIK]

I got called out for wanting 10 planets instead of thousands cause I knew it was gonna be randomly generated. Procedurally generation = no point in a game. It immediately translates to the game designers not planning, not working and not caring for the player's experience and lets the AI do the work with no soul and no point.

[@Brokenlance]

Proc gen absolutely has a point if the point of the game is to be a sandbox which is what Starfield is and was marketed to be, and sandboxes are worse the more limited they are. No Man’s Sky, Elite Dangerous, Daggerfall etc these games aren’t bad games, they’re just sandboxes and people wanted a narrative game from what was always going to be a sandbox. I love sandboxes so Starfield is great for me and I love it. Worlds are not interesting to me if they’re only the size of a studio apartment, even if they’re an ocean deep.

[@erxan4163]

​@@Brokenlanceah yes , the famous unlimited world of Starfield . The only price you have to pay for that world is your time and immersion , sunce you cant even travel between planets without a download screen. Maybe you have to get your eyes checked out , starfield feels much more limited than even their previous games

[@Brokenlance]

@@erxan4163 but it doesn’t for me. The issue is people like you acting like it’s an objective statement. It isn’t. Would seamless travel between planets be cool? Sure but a lot of the time it’s just a hidden loading screen in those other games as well. In NMS when you fly into orbit you cannot watch the land in space seamlessly transition to the land you’re about to land on. Your canopy gets engulfed in fire and clouds and then finally there’s a momentary pause when the game finally instances you into the planets atmosphere. It’s just a very well hidden loading screen. In Elite Dangerous you can’t seamlessly fly between planets. You select a target initiate your FSD and then you’re put into a corridor where you have to keep your craft on target and when you get there, there is a momentary pause and then it drops you in at your destination. Also as for load screens, literally every single Bethesda game has loading screens for every single area you walk into except the overworld. So while I understand the exploration is not the same as previous Bethesda games (except Daggerfall, it’s exactly like Daggerfall) it isn’t this unprecedented thing either. The issue is we were promised Daggerfall in space, and that’s what we got but despite what we were told, people came up with expectations for themselves that were never set by Bethesda and THAT is an objective fact. Also, where did you get this unlimited word idea about Starfield? That was never promised in marketing ever. He always said that space was one instance and Planetside was another, and that when you land on a planet it’s a tile and each tile is about the square size of Skyrim.

[@MrOnay-px1jx]

​@@Brokenlancethe point of a sandbox is that there's sand in it.

[@adamkopp500]

3:10 good old Morrowind has proper RPG mechanics

[@JustGrowingUp84]

Yep, you hit the nail on the head. That's the same argument I had when people said I should like it if I also liked the other Bethesda games.

[@MrDrewwills]

When Bethesda said how many planets there were, all I heard was a resturant say "we'll cook your entree, main course, and desert in 5 minutes without reducing portion sizes." There is no way you get that number without sacrificing quality.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

"I love everything people hate, and I hate everything people love" Lmfao That's me my brother from another mother.

[@ummerfarooq5383]

What utter lies. He's spewing the ssht from every other sony pony

[@chrisnewbury3793]

@@ummerfarooq5383 I've been a huge Bethesda fan since Morrowind. I bought the premium edition of Starfield and never thought I'd refund a BGS title. But I did for exactly the reasons he gave. And I'd give it the same 6/10 score, maybe 5. When it's on sale, and after modders have had time with it, maybe I'll buy it again. I'm not a fanboi.

[@FloatingAmongTheCosmos]

@@ummerfarooq5383 Cry some more.

[@deadpain2483]

Why don't they generate the whole thing and work on that to add hand crafted stuff to make that game more appealing?

[@thathandsomedevil0828]

If a game has to be improved by modders then that game is garbage, starfield being a prime example.

[@jackwriter1908]

I love the title of this video, you go into this and say "oh hey, look _Starfield is not just another Bethesda game_ from Ranton, he seems to have an other opinion on the game!" Only to realize at the end that he probably meant something along the lines of _Starfield is not another Bethesda game, it's far worse then any other Bethesda game..._

[@TypicalKK]

People have already forgotten about starfield.

[@Madmax45247]

My biggest issue is that the enemies are boring. There's no diversity in the enemies. In Skyrim there's animals, werewolves, vampires, falmer, giants, dragons, etc. In fallout there's ghouls, Deathclaws, Super Mutants, Aliens, Robots, all kinds of mutated animals, etc. In Starfield there's alien creatures, turrets and robots, and humans. That's it.

[@SL4PSH0CK]

the meaningful exploration is a good take. as an openworld arpg fan, what fuels my exploration was the wanderlust from uncovering the world, with how rewarding the landmarks are that piques players interest; packed with environmental storytelling, thriving npc's, random encounter, and sidequest with dynamic narrative. sigh* looking at previous Bethesda titles, thats true.

[@jpisback]

You ARE aware that All of Bethesda's previous "random encounters" were all actually just scripted events meant to trigger when you entered from certain directions or certain times, write? You can read the papyrus scripts and see exactly How they're triggered. Starfield's are a lot more "random".

[@SL4PSH0CK]

@@jpisback yea it's part of dynamic narrative/writing.

[@cooldoberman2025]

GTA 6 will be better.

[@riflakar2179]

Man.. Each one of your point and reason really feels like it comes from your heart. I love this laid back and more focused review.

[@KevinMystery]

Ranton, you beautifully crafted a review of Starfield that completely took my thoughts and feelings for the game right out of my head. Thank you. Love you, dude. Keep these amazing reviews coming!

[@larrote6467]

bethesda stopped making rpgs around morrowind, what they make are adventure games

[@themris]

The greatest game of all time imo, is Outer Wilds. That's how you make an awesome space game.

[@themris]

It also has the most meaningful exploration in any game ever.

[@CreativeUsernameEh]

Agree that game feels so special.

[@Triforcefilms]

While It wasn't great for gameplay/combat, I think Outer Worlds made a space rpg the right way. Just a dozen small open world areas that are rich and unique/detailed. More isn't always better.

[@officialnoonon]

The Sar Wars KOTOR games are also incredible space exploration games, maybe more so not just Super Mario Galaxy.

[@luciogt]

Never like sponsors in youtube videos, but you made it *Rantoni Style* and I love it. Absolute 10/10

[@ombra711]

This game respects no ones time, they saw people spending 3 digit hours on their past games and instead of giving us more things to lose ourselves in, they gave us more things to waste time doing that ultimately amount to nothing.

[@crabLT]

This game is just sad. Starflop is as wide as an ocean and as deep as a piss puddle.

[@specrtre]

My biggest issue is how the factions have no real impact just like most other BSG. I really wish you'd have to commit to one faction and it would make other parts of the world harder to access and easier to access others. I think it's odd you can be vanguard, free star and uc etc. Which is always the main thing I don't like in fallout or elder scrolls The other issue is they're supposed to be barren planets almost all have traces of humans already being there

[@16m49x3]

Yeah, how can there be a billion abandoned space stations, but the biggest cities in the solar systems house like 1000 people... The biggest issue with the game I think is that it should have been set at the human frontier, not after the frontier settled into a stalemate...

[@specrtre]

@@16m49x3 I agree I think the setting would have made a much more interesting gameplay especially if it somehow tied into outpost build to maybe expand a factions influence

[@superguy183828]

Bro set on 2x speed irl (but seriously, good video, i do legit have to play it on .75x for my sanity though)

[@TheScathed]

Holy crap. You actually made me realize why another game I'm playing feels so bad to a lot of players with this. Props to you.

[@bond0815]

Yeah, the notion that "if you are a behesda fan you are gonna enjoy this too" never made any sense to me. This isnt just a dated bethesda game, is a very dated half baked hybrid between a bethesda game and no mans sky, without coming close to the core fun gameplay loop of either one. And even if you still like it (which is ok): Reviewers who gave this 100% should look for another career honestly.

[@nikolai7521]

I just told my friend yesterday that they should have made it just about solar system. Something similar to Expanse series. They could use Mars, Venus, Titan, Io, Moon, asteroids, space stations... And make everything full of exciting discoveries. That would be very good game.

[@bobsteven2363]

4:22 Maybe because games that perfect the face animations also polish the other aspects of the game. I've never seen a bad game with perfect face animations. There are games with perfect face animations that I'm not interested in, but they are never below average in overall quality.

[@Crit-Multiplier]

this is it. i think you found the perfect balance in your videos. really enjoyed this review😊

[@RealRanton]

I appreciate that!

[@hueypancakes597]

Honestly couldn't agree more !

[@CRUISERMUSIC]

Yes!!

[@snehallit]

Finally someone speaking Todd’s honest truth.

[@Tondor50]

I think you nailed it. The 6 out 10 was spot on. My take was that I loved this game right up until I didn't. Half way through my first replay (plus play) I just put it down and felt no need to go back. I got my money's worth, so okay. I feel more desire to pick up Skyrim for the 12th play through than I do to finish my second one here.

[@ievaday]

A lot of review channel videos I watch on 1.25x speed because they're too slow for my taste. I feel like I should watch Ranton in 0.75x

[@slendydie1267]

It's a space exploration game where they made space exploration boring and limiting. You dont have much freedom either. Its an ass game

[@TheHipClip]

Starfield is so boring, there's nothing much to discuss. At least Fallout 76 was such a big train wreck that it had a lasting impact on the gaming scene. This is how bad Bethesda has gotten for me, if they had made a bad game, not just an ok one, they would have been forced to put some effort into it. What we got was shippable according to Microsoft's "standards". 16 times the amount of nothing to do is still fucking nothing, Todd!

[@nathanmitchell7961]

Definitely one of the best reviews ive seen of this game

[@samturner6061]

Only problem I had with the UI was there isn't a sort by function.

[@generalv.1891]

Playing Fallout New Vegas right now and there is so much to discover and everything feels meaningful unlike with starfield

[@bradpitt5355]

As my favourite phillosopher Emanuel Dirty wet Kant said " You just cannot Stafield without field... " that says it all

[@comoassimbro]

Holy shit, finally someone who has a similar opinion! I'm sure there are more people out there who think alike, but I've seen so many posts excusing its issues by saying "It's a Bethesda RPG, what did people expect" but that's the fucking problem tho, it definitely doesn't feel like a Bethesda RPG. It sorely lacks one of the strongest aspects of their previous games! The only thing Starfield did for me was to make me appreciate Skyrim and Fallout 4's world-building and exploration even more ...

[@carlossantin1414]

I waited to buy Starfield until watching Ranton's review and boy did that pay off, I will save my money and go back to Skyrim

[@suborgeust]

This is why we love Anton he's not scared to say what he really feels. Even if how he really feels sucks... Edit: Nevermind he's right, never comment early kids

[@umbranocturna6342]

Starslop. Decent if you have little to no requirements in the quality of the games you are playing.

[@XSL17X]

Finally someone who says the combat isn’t bad! I have no clue why people hate it so much. It’s literally the thing I long for the most whenever I’m playing the game, problem is people stick to 2-3 weapons cause they’re the ones they prefer, but using 9+ weapon’s keeps the games action very refreshing

[@cooldoberman2025]

i want to see his reaction to GTA 6 trailer reveal this early december.

[@philipajfry]

First person I've come across that mentions the lack of artist intention/curated experience. Great analysis of that aspect. I think the most common reason combat is lambasted though is not the shooting itself which is fine, its the small enemy variety, their ai is terrible, and the contex for which you are fighting is always the same. You shoot cause bad guy. Stealth is not viable cause as soon as you shoot someone silently, everyone knows where you are.

[@renaigh]

I like the idea of an RPG without a Main Quest, I wish more Designers did it more.

[@battousaix4263]

Have you tried Kenshi? Could be worth checking out if you like smth without a strictly dictated main quest

[@NyaandereGaming]

You're describing Outer Wilds as the game you want, like almost perfectly. It's uncanny.

[@yt-UBiK]

Did you really use Matteo Renzi in your video? I just love it

[@انا_ابراهيم_البناوي]

I agree with ranton a lot on this and I think it has lots of potential to be great but the main story is meh and the exploration is also meh it's a good game but not a ground breaking one I think one of the reasons why they made the protagonist silent is to allow modders to create content for it easily without the need of trying to edit voice lines and these problems will be ultimately be fixed by the modding community and they will have lots of fun modding it Starfield is Fallout 4 if you like Fallout 4 you will probably like starfield and I feel that they are banking on modders to improve and expand the game and add content hence the silent protagonist 6/10 is extremely reasonable but with time and couple if DLCs and huge mods Starfield will be amazing

[@heavel]

i have no doubt modders will have a field day but my only question is that will modders make one whole planet feel meaningful to explore? if yes, how long it will take to finish?

[@mehemynxm6974]

I hate that Bethesda keeps getting saved by mods. They can keep launching broken game after broken game, and they have the community fix it. They even had the gall to try and charge people for the modders hard work.

[@princerose233]

​@@mehemynxm6974name a game in the last ten years that wasn't't broken or buggy at launch?

[@mehemynxm6974]

@@princerose233 name a game in the last ten years that wasn't a complete cluster fuck, barely able to run, and buggy to no end? Halo reach, halo 4, Titanfall 2, metro exodus, disco Elysium, Baldur's gate 3, mass effect 2 & 3, spider man, Hades. Fucking Skyrim ran better than starfield. Where those games completely bugfree? No. Did they have a better story, gameplay and performance? Yes, by a landslide. Don't excuse Bethesdas moronic practices with "oh well lots of games are broken at launch" Skyrim still has game breaking bugs in every version this many years later. Starfield is gonna have the same.

[@conaldeugenepeterson2147]

@@princerose233Mario Wonder released a couple weeks ago with zero bugs, and insane mechanics that most devs would build entire games around instead of a single level. It’s my game of the year hands down.

[@wolololer]

The idea of Solar system would be 100x better, exactly as Ranton said, Even the name of the game "starfield" would fit so much better than this actuall garbage of a game. I will be real i never player Starfield and i never will, this game screams boring meaningless all over it

[@666MaRius9991]

Honestly yes,give me a detailed solar system with shit to do.

[@sardineguy12]

Ranton, listening to the recommendations you gave to improve the game's environment design made me think that you should really try Outer Wilds, it ticks all those boxes you were talking about. (Not the Obsidian game, the one made by Mobius Digital). Truly a unique experience.

[@marcoraydiaz]

Okay as an italian, I just NEED to know where does he find all these obscure italian memes?? Like, the Renzi meme at 8:49 and the Shish from that same meme clip were popular ages ago in Italy...I mean, I have nothing but respect for Rantoni Ravioli

[@Jethro_Flynn]

Not only a sponsor but a legit one I already use and could vouch for myself.

[@stevejohnson6593]

*bought opinionzz* ;p

[@nidium1951]

@@stevejohnson6593 Does contradicting with everyone give you a hard-on?

[@boltdm8238]

"Yes, the skill system is Starfield is shit, but it's been shit in every single Bethesda game for the past 15 years, so that makes the skill system in Starfield not shit somehow" - Ranton, 2023.

[@Deku20235]

The main story gave me the oblivion quest vibe "Close 30 oblivions gates" only this time around when you are done the main story is over. 😂

[@CosmicGoku529]

Problem is closing more that 3 is optional. The only 3 you have to close is Kavatch, Bravil, and the big battle at Bravil. All others are if you want to close them.

[@LeenayPeechus]

Sad to say I agree. I really hope modders will be able to create some meaningful places and stories inside this boring sandbox we got. Enjoyed the video though, I'll never get tired of your style of videos ❤

[@jpisback]

Sounds like you didn't do anything on the Game.

[@silverheart7964]

​@@jpisback*in

[@teodormocanu8287]

I kinda want to see you review Outer Wilds, but I cant even imagine what a Ranton review of that gane would sound like

[@Evan-k]

This game is garbage, nothing even remotely good

[@-jiji-]

Grtz on the sponsor! For ranton it really feels well deserved

[@PandaPulse4]

A lot of criticism is valid but I loved this game a lot and the experience really stuck with me. It’s my favorite BGS title and I am looking forward to the expansions and mods to come

[@jakejam7877]

hi bot

[@trashdoge1217]

see you when you play for more than 40 hours and you'll change your mind

[@PandaPulse4]

@@trashdoge1217 I put over 130 hrs and did 2 NG+ cycles

[@quanchinut]

It certainly replaced NMS for me as it has actual little side stories and interactions, but I agree that the environment doesn't build up to anything or give you a continuous narrative. It's essentially NMS+