Starfield is Way Worse Than you Think.☢️

[@RJSamonte]

"The more you play Starfield the better it becomes because you get used to the smell of crap." You got yourself a subscriber!

[@grueti21]

"we want to say yes to the player as much as possible" No other game says no the the player as much as starfield.

[@randosavich]

They want to say yes though…

[@themagnus2919]

All the unlikable NPC'S are unkillable.

[@JackTheFallout]

Its so stupid and that makes me scared for fallout 5 oh you can't Kill this settlement Becuase they are "insert whatever here" so stupid.

[@jimblackford6680]

Except star citizen

[@thedoomslayer5863]

Having just clocked in 400 hours onto baldurs gate 3 i could NEVER imagine myself playint starfield now. Im too used to a game not only saying "yes" to me but REWARDING me when i think outside of the box

[@AretaicGames]

Let's see: if you do NG+ to bring all 24 powers to level 10, that means you'd have to jump through 1200 glowy-glitter things in 240 temples. No, thanks.

[@DuggyDarko]

And the best part is there's literally no point in doing NG+ once. Let alone 10 times! It's a literal grind for nothing!

[@JackTheFallout]

It really baffles me why they thought that was a good idiea. each power should have been a randomly generated space monster that would have been much more fun.

[@patrickbrooks2644]

It be different if everything changed but if your going threw the multi verse it’s literally the same universe so ur just going back in time smh

[@BodieB]

Tbf this game was designed before XBox... so the blame is on Bethesda alone...hell it was supposed to be a PS5 exclusive

[@lolzasouruhm179]

I really think the people who worked on this game were just pushed around cause clearly they didn’t get the whole teams opinion on ideas. This is what happens when the creative director is also the producer and the art director.

[@GamiGreen]

The fact the barren boring planets were put there ON PURPOSE says everything

[@dealwolfstriked272]

Rather they were put there on purpose but the purpose was not achieved so they changed the purpose and had Todd say "when the astronauts landed on the moon and there was nothing they were most definitely not bored". Its just bad game design but it was not intended to be bad as no game is.

[@gerwyn8340]

They should have called it Sky Field.

[@notthemusewere]

I would like them better if they were actually Veraghen and boring. It really takes the thrill of exploration and discovery out when you walk 100 feet and there’s 200 pirates drinking it up.

[@yahya_elistinsary]

I think they are just lazy. I haven't played star field and will never play but I funny to watch people rip it apart

[@EmperorCaligula_EC]

I had so much fun from Starfield. Hours of reviews ripping the game apart. Never indend to buy it. XD

[@krudmonger]

"...This could 100% be my fault for overestimating what I believed Bethesda were capable of." Nah, don't blame yourself for assuming they could do what No Man's Sky could do SEVEN YEARS ago.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

No Mans Sky was a boring crap 7 years ago. Bethesda achieved just that.

[@TheBHAitken]

When I heard that the senior Bethesda staff all retired about a week after the game came out, I realized what had happened. This game was Bethesda's "Minimal Contractual Obligation" before the senior staff could cash-out their options & leave. Most, if not all of the aspects you mentioned could have been fixed. Between their previous innovations and the open-source work of the modding community this game could have been great. But Bethesda REFUSED to implement any of it which makes me wonder just what they were doing for their five years of development. We have volunteer modders showing more complete production on projects like Fallout London & Fallout Miami that whatever Starfield is supposed to be. And while I understand that there is supposed to be at least one upcoming DLC, without the support of senior programming staff it promises to be very limited in scope. We got a stripped down engine to get itself past the bug reports, the Minimal Contractual Requirement for everyone to head for the door.

[@plainluke722]

It's because they know people would run out and buy it, they dont care about the back lash. The initial purchase numbers are their justification. I still cannot believe people day 1 purchased a Bethesda game after fallout 76. People's gaming purchase behaviour shows the weak stay of mind of a whole generation of people

[@ethanwasme4307]

and those senior staff have only been around since skyrim 😂😂 fucking joke of a studio

[@NieR.Amanda]

Todd: "See that moon?" Obi Wan Kenobi: "That's no moon. That's a jpeg." Todd: "But you can go there..." Obi Wan Kenobi: "Actually you can't. You forgot to put a map tile on it." Todd: "Okay, forget that. Wait until you get your Spaceborn powers, and feel them flowing through you." Obi Wan Kenobi: "About that. There are some lawyers from Disney who want a word."

[@jdranetz]

Starfield seems suited to people with OCD. Todd Howard seems obsessed with inventory and character administration. He views time spent in the menu system as actual enjoyable gameplay.

[@SixteenVoice]

Aka people with powertrips like Elon. People like Todd and Elon think life is about controlling other people like pets. And here we are as a society...

[@thetruestar6348]

If it’s bored and uninteresting I’m not gonna collect shit

[@nothde9865]

@@SixteenVoice I don't know what tf you are talking about but the menu system has nothing to do with people or society. It's just bad design because they opt to go for procedural generation instead of hand-crafted content. Too much yes-man probably got Todd to think somehow regressing back to Daggerfall is a good thing.

[@MrPoeGhost]

@@nothde9865 Funnily, regressing back to Daggerfall _would_ be a good thing, if it was in terms of RPG mechanics and not everything else.

[@bryandedon7459]

​@SixteenVoice and who is Elon controlling? Let me guess you liked him until he bought Twitter?

[@facetubetwit1444]

what told me that starfield was just a cash grab is when i was on a moon with my space suit staying alive which told me the suit is air tight and then i go to other planet and with same space suit and i get toxic gas prisoned? wait a sec i thought this suit was air tight?

[@JackTheFallout]

I also noticed this, it confused me also running out of Air damages you regardless of Having a helmet on. lol

[@facetubetwit1444]

@@JackTheFallout the other thing that bugged me is boost in space vacuum, like why do i slow back down when there is no friction in space? i know I'm nit picking a bit on this cause after all it is a game but it did really irritate me.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

Sleep for 1 hour on Venus. Explain, why you fall into a coma? They don't seem to understand the basics of time.

[@mandala314]

Yeah it's like the spacesuit material is porous a certain amount, you can upgrade but it's just not realistic.

[@Wally480]

I have to say one good thing with this game is it will probably help launch the careers of many KZbin channels.

[@JackTheFallout]

I mean my video is doing better than I ever imagined, so I guess I'm thanfull there even though I had to suffer playing it lmao.

[@MrReaperofDead]

REAL TALK! I actually stopped watching many of the channels that failed to put up a video criticizing Starfield, like Yongyea. He didn't say shit about Starfield, said nothing about its controversies, nothing, he's a suck up! But he'll quickly bag on COD XD I followed a lot of the channels that told the truth. Starfield is trash.

[@Wally480]

@MrReaperofDead yeah I stopped watching him over a year ago. Can't even remember why now lol. I'm pretty sure it was a similar reason. Also, I found several new channels thanks to Starfield 🤣

[@michaelnapper4565]

This game is like going trick or treating and getting Brussel sprouts. And razor blades.

[@csam9167]

And Infected Heroine needle with the twist of no Heroine

[@xaikken]

Hey i actually like razor blades

[@stateofmind578]

I love Brussel sprouts 👌

[@dealwolfstriked272]

@@stateofmind578 right?! Try smashed brussel sprouts.....to die for!

[@stateofmind578]

@@dealwolfstriked272 i will try, thanks for the tip

[@skyrimisforthenords8312]

They said there would be loading screens and i was fine with the take off and land loading screens, but the traveling is what kills it. They made it seem like you can explore space. As in fly from earth to venus or mars. No. You fast travel to orbit. They may as well not ha e had space at all

[@thegreat7878]

My thoughts EXACTLY. I genuinely believe they would've done better with a Mass Effect Andromeda approach, the "space exploration" is so bare bones that it doesn't feel like you're moving half the time. Just cut it and give a more unique menu experience with cinematics.

[@ertymexx]

My "favorite" example of loading screen bullshit is The Key. You dock, enter the starbase, loading screen. You are inside. Fine. But you have to walk a few tens of meters to enter the station proper, through a door - another loading screen. What the actual f*ck! They could have skipped the whole middle part.

[@lolzasouruhm179]

What I don’t get is why would you go to ng+ when you have spent tens hours building ships, outposts, and collecting items when it all get wiped. Sure you get a new ship and armor and a 5% chance to have a interesting quest change. But that’s it nothing else changes. if they wanted to get people to go to ng+ they should of changed more to and had some way to bring your outposts and ship to ng+.

[@nananikinas8864]

True. It was so lame they don’t even give you a gun whenever you start ng+.

[@Rokabur]

Likely there will be a mod that lets you retain everything.

[@JackTheFallout]

It's like they looked at all those can you beat videos, and tried to make a game evolved around that concept but failed hard.

[@somethingbrite8484]

Here's the thing I don't know yet. When you go to NG+ do the subsequent games versions of you actually still exist as they would in this hypothetical multiverse? Can you go watch yourself in the mine touching the artefact? If yes. Then at least that is pretty neat. If no....then why the actual fuck not? Surely not being able to encounter yourself in an alternate reality undermines the entire premise of the multiverse story?

[@John.Diaper]

"You can fly, you can shoot, you can mine, you can loot!" Starfield finally has a meme.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

Even the Starfield memes are crap.

[@DuggyDarko]

Its all just tedious, pointless busy work to keep you playing as long as possible just to fluff up the gamepass stats.

[@teamnovember5594]

Thanks for being the first to admit what we've all suspected: not being able to play Starfield on Playstation is generating some level of salt.

[@JackTheFallout]

Your welcome, people like to lie and say that's not a genuine reason, or they put it down to your just a fanboy" when it can definitely leave a bad taste especially if the game's bad to its annoying to see something that could have been great turn out, well awful.

[@JohnShepard90]

The objective of Starfield's main quest is to unlock NG+. Just think about it. From start to finish, you collect all the artifacts. Does that lead to some massive revelation or an ultimate big boss fight? No. You are given a flimsy explanation about the "Creators" and it unlocks Unity which is basically a portal to NG+. You don't defeat Alduin with all the shouts you have gathered and save the world. Oh no! You collect the powers and that's just it. Now enter the portal and do it again and again.

[@ertymexx]

Exactly. In a game about exploration and discovery, the great ending is that you go BACK, and start all over. A game that talks progressive, but acts reactionary, as it were. And the "other realities" are just the exact same one over and over. So what the hell are you discovering there? Nothing. This isn't discovery, this is hell. Stuck in an eternal loop with the only difference being that your magic powers get better. Powers that are almost all utterly useless. To me it sounds like a literall devil's deal, where you trade power for an eternity in repetition chasing something that is useless.

[@RyanHorseHelmet]

I have it installed taking up a nearly a quarter of a hard drive for no reason. I don't touch it, I have no want to touch it. One of the biggest disappointments in a game I have ever experienced. It's miserably boring.

[@napalmarsch]

The ending did only 1 thing to me, why should I care to do all this again after loosing all my shit

[@JackTheFallout]

its like new game plus without the +

[@UnknownMoses]

That's the thing, I am fine with much of it being empty and boring if you can go anywhere but you can't go anywhere, because explorable areas on a planet are tiny little squares.

[@L1minalLord]

I tried to just have fun on the game by doing what is fun in the game: blasting things. So i stopped doing the UC questline which felt like a never ending string of "talk to this npc, now talk to this npc" so I instead landed in a random spot on a planet in hopes of AI generated locations full of things to kill, then i was reminded I still needed to run 500 meters or more to each location for just a chance at finding pirates or spacers to kill. I turned the game off.

[@devinjohnson2513]

Exact same experience here. My biggest regret is spending 20+ hours trying to manage inventory and build settlements. I'm not sure why I expected settlements to actually be able to store my items in any meaningful way. I should have just consoled a higher carry capacity but I wanted vanilla for my "first" play through. What a naive ideal driven man I was. I eventually just started using the infinite mass crate at Constellation. They block the fun at every possible turn in this game. Such a complete disappointment of something I'd looked forward to for so long. They got our money and we got a loading screen sim.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

​@@devinjohnson2513cmon, you guys didnt learn your lesson with fallout 76?

[@devinjohnson2513]

@@thedoomslayer5863 lol I liked 76 and played it with friends

[@thedoomslayer5863]

@@devinjohnson2513 poking shit with a stick can be fun with friends that's hardly a point for FO76 lol

[@devinjohnson2513]

@@thedoomslayer5863 speaking from experience?

[@keithmichael112]

you can tell Todd really wanted to say there were over 1000 planets, he probably sent dozens of emails about that to the team. he really knows how to activate the gamers lizard brain

[@Shadowhunterbg]

There are gamers out there who actually have a brain and Fraud Howard can't do anything to lure us in because we never forget. That there are a tons of stupid gamers out there that can be fooled with basic unoriginal promises (lies), that is another thing entirely.

[@reaty05]

There are like 100 different systems and each one on average has atleast 10 planets or moons some closer to 20 landable ones so im not seeing the lie in the 1000 planets enlighten me in that acid trip thought process

[@keithmichael112]

@@reaty05 I didn't say it was a lie, I'm saying it's not the selling point it seems because most of them aren't interesting at all lol

[@reaty05]

@@keithmichael112 ok i misunderstood then my bad

[@keithmichael112]

@@reaty05 it's all good

[@lostnumber08]

Bethesda sycophants coping HARD.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

You don't know what you're talking about!!! Starfield is the bestest Bethesda game ever! It'll be GOTY both this, and next... Sorry, I couldn't even type that with a straight face 😂😂

[@goadfang]

Starfield is a game about choices that aren't choices, decisions that affect nothing, and your ability to do everything because nothing you do matters. There are, maybe, five actual decisions you can make in the game that actually change the state of the universe. You could save, or doom the crimson fleet, you can take Ron Hope's bribe, or kill him, you can settle the colonists of the Constant on Paradiso, or not, you can choose the virus vs the aceles, and you can spare Vae Victus, or not. And literally none of these choices mean virtually anything. The status of Ron Hope means nothing either way. The status of the Constant means nothing. The Status of the Fleet is just access to radial quests and vendors, and is actually somewhat impactful. The choice between virus and aceles is utterly pointless except to be berated by every single member of Constellation for making the (right) "wrong" choice. Vae Victus can also grant radial quests, though you will likely never do them since they are pointless. And that's it. That's the full depth of the choices you are allowed to make that impact the state of the universe in any way. Even places where NPCs appear to be providing you with a choice to make, the writers sweep in to deny that choice, making conversation with multiple apparent branching paths actually just single linear decision matrix with different ways to emote as you go along for the railroad trip the devs planned for you. This in a game that is all about alternative universes! Bethesda famously tries not to lock players out of content, making every piece of content available to the player in a single playthrough. I never loved this, but it at least made some sense in other titles. In this title though, we are expressly provided a "do over" of the entire experience in NG+. We go to an alternative universe and do it all again, but there are so few alternative choices to make that when we do it all again we are literally forced to make the exact same choices as before, except in the above five scenarios, where the outcome of those choices are largely meaningless. WHY? Why can't I murder every single corporate bastard on Paradiso to make room for the people of the Constant? Why can't I sabotage the UC in the Fleet story line? Why can't Mathis and I actually betray Delgado? Why can't I break Vae Victus out of his cell? Why can't I personally strangle Vae Victus? Why can't I capture Vae Victus accomplice and expose his whole plot? Why can't I kill the enemy CEO in Walter's quest? Why can't I shoot the thief and take the artifact in that quest when we first meet? Why can't I betray Constellation and take their stuff? Why does nothing matter? Well, I know why. The reason nothing matters is because Todd has already decided who we are as a character, and what choices he wants the players to make. There is no agency in Starfield, there is just the illusion of options. You aren't there to decide the fate of the galaxy, or of the multiverse, you are there to reaffirm all of the decisions Todd and team have made on your behalf. You didn't buy a game, you bought a railroad ticket. Todd Howard is the worst Dungeon Master alive.

[@MSpotatoes]

I'm so glad I passed on this game.

[@SmokersTars]

I actually played Starfield *before* i now started baldurs gate 3... and you hit the nail square on the head.

[@BearfootBob]

I love videos about how Starfield sucks

[@ummerfarooq5383]

Sucks the tears out of ponies. Must be effectnof low blood salt taste in his mouth.

[@Shashin54]

I still can't believe people compare this to Cyberpunk. Night City has more content in one district than entire of Starfield. I'm currently 80hrs 21min into a single save of Cyberpunk and I messed up act 1 and kinda skipped some stuff.... and I STILL have more stuff to do. I ran out of stuff to do in Starfield after 24hrs of forcing myself through all storylines and outpost shenanigans.

[@WhatWillYouFind]

Cyberpunk depending on the PC setup on launch was actually as advertised. I had very few issues running it, though 1.3 tripled performance for me. Story was great. The small details and intentional design felt refreshing. Each stat and weapon types offered an extremely unique experience. Double jump with body shotgun build? Doom. Tech stealth was a new age Metal Gear Solid. The relationships actually felt real if a bit toxic. I had very few complaints on launch. The only blight was the failed prior gen console release which should've never happened. Phantom Liberty sort of exceeded my expectations, I think they've put done themselves with what they sold us with the tech demo before release.

[@bob-rogers]

IDK. I've been playing starfield 350 hours so far and I'm still finding new things. If you ran out of stuff in 24 hours you weren't looking very hard.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

​@@bob-rogersi doubt that but i can definitely say it for Baldurs Gate 3 over 400 hours in

[@patrickbrooks2644]

It’s baffling because fast travel in Skyrim changes the game completely for the bad and now they made fast travel a core feature. Super lame

[@scubasteve3032]

No, it’s not worse than I think. I knew it was trash before it released. How? They have steadily declined since Skyrim. It’s just the natural progression of Bethesda.

[@HoneyBadgerVideos]

I have spend dozens of hours building outposts so i could see ships take off and land. Only to find it bugged to all hell and ships never arriving at their destination after taking off. I quit the game after finding that out. The universe feels dead and unbelievable.

[@POVgames]

The game is a solid 3.5/10. It’s the worst game I’ve ever played in my entire life. The suspicious 10/10s and the gameplay looking bad before launch and all the double speak and confirmed lies before launch was a huge red flag anyone with a brain should’ve seen.

[@matrixlag4074]

I wanted to like this game so badly. But its just bad. Every week or two I will give it a try and hope it gets better. It does not. Worst part is that the space part is simply not there. Its all fast travel. Just so bad and I swear I want to like it. But it just sucks.

[@deanlowdon8381]

Hadn’t intended to play it, but got a free 3 month subscription for Gamepass with my new laptop so decided to give it a try. Honestly can’t believe how poorly designed it is…

[@thefactory7221]

what an accurate title, every honest critique video i watch points out something totally new that none of the others covered.

[@jonathanwessner3456]

Meanwhile, the Microsoft press corps keep screaming that these reviews are fake. Despite the game being "meh" at best. It might be an ok game, but, it is not the game we were told we'd get, and it is NOT as good as MS/Bethesda NEEDED it to be

[@AnthonyBrown-gt4tn]

i dont know what you guys wanted game is fine and lots more interesting than fallout 4@@jonathanwessner3456

[@taiven.lechevalier]

I‘ve been watching vids on Starfield since it came out. I was planning on waiting a year or so; give them some time to fix things. But, I’m not sure I’ll even bother at all at this point.

[@RandomWandrer]

Well I've enjoyed more than 200 hours in starfield. The faction quests and random encounters are well written. I love the ship building. The outpost is bare bones (I expect expansion to at least FO4 level) and mod support is coming too. I think waiting 6+ months is a great idea. It's already very fun, and will be incredible with mods and dlc and a few bugs fixed. It's not like fallout. You can't run around space with a gun. It's empty. I dont really know what kind of exploration people expect from space apart from FTL jumping (which is the only realistic option).

[@Xenotypic]

@@RandomWandrer actually, ftl travel is the LEAST realistic option possible, quite possibly even impossible. Normal, slow travel like most people wanted/were expecting is much more realistic and would have been much more immersive and fun. How do you make a space game where there is essentially no space travel?

[@mosespray4510]

"Because that is a waste of time, and time is f*cking precious." Truer words have never been spoken.

[@tiemanowo]

12:49 To be clear. This is not "Earth". Earth is a sandy wasteland in the solar system.

[@bernvigz9138]

I was done with Bethesda after Fallout 76. Maybe I'll buy one of their games again after Todd leaves.

[@quito787]

Totally agree... it was marketed as a space exploration game, but in reality it isn't, because all you get is loading screens. There is no space exploration at all, just loading screens to locations on a map.

[@JackTheFallout]

And where there aren't enough space games we are limited in choices for what experience we want. Personally for me a game like starfield with the openness of nms, I'd say star citizen but the game looks for too brutal to be fun. Squad 42 though that's a contender.

[@bnacronama_na947]

I still say STFU Preston when I hear him say that line.

[@angellmarrero8326]

The more a play starfield, the worst it gets...:(

[@Space_Ghost91]

I thought the same thing about The Red Mile, like this is pretty dark, a bit of blood sport, or death sport to be more accurate. But the game is so hand-holdy it won't let you do anything as morally impermissible as betting on human beings. It's so annoying, it's like ooh look at this cool little scenario we've set up, but you can't fully interact with it because that would be bad and you're not allowed to do anything bad in Bethesda games anymore.

[@JackTheFallout]

There's a weird disconnect, like you can't do a bad deed or say something rude or kill someone in game, but other characters can. ..

[@Space_Ghost91]

It's kinda like in filmmaking how they say "show don't tell" except in games it should be "do don't show"@@JackTheFallout

[@JustSkram]

Bethesda (publishing) is the most mismanaged gaming company for their size par none. They have some of the best studios and continue to run them into the ground for the sake of getting that "skyrim mass appeal". Let's take a look: Arkane Studios - Brought back Immersive sims to the AAA space along side the new Deus Ex games. Their magnum opus Prey 2017 was literally sent out to die with no marketing then acted shocked when it undersold despite high critical reception. So what does bethesda do next? Makes that same branch make a coop shooter that leaned into NONE of their strengths. Machine Games - Brought fucking Wolfenstein back to life with 3 amazing games. Of course then Bethesda's marketing team ran the PR into the ground with New Colossus' marketing. What does Bethesda do next? Makes them develop a coop shooter with in-game microtransactions. Tango Games - Makes a decent first game, amazing second and then shoves Ghostwire out the door with an infamous development. But then they make Hi-Fi Rush What does Bethesda do next? Literally no marketing and releases it the second it's announced. Once again they obviously sent it out to die but didn't expect the warm sales they got, they even said so in an interview. So where does all their money go if they are squeezing blood from their studios? Into making more and more mediocre releases with every new product, too scared to make something experimental or even to their true strengths but instead they release the most mass appealing, inoffensive, out-of-touch focus tested slop. Also it's very obvious they don't want to change engines because if they did, they have to pay royalties to whatever first party engine distributor they go with if they ended up trying to keep paid mods going since their paid mods platform is a milking cow for consoles.

[@gucciguy3408]

Now with Arkane I though Deathloop was the project after Prey,but yea that and Redfall were awful. Hi-fi rush devs made a good game,but now they got kicked to the curb how kind of the bigger owners. Bethesda is gonna rot like I see all others nowadays with the mindset that RPG’s have to be dumbed down for the masses. Staright to the trash…ES6 is gonna suck as they aren’t gonna learn from the poor writing and world building that was Skyrim and the rest of their games since. Unfortunate since I love the world it is,but can’t stand the idiocracy that is them hating on RPG mechanics.

[@l_ChillZone_l]

Deleted the game after 50 hours.

[@jerodwolf5582]

Starfield not only has the loading screens of Sonic 06, but also the graphics, it's such a bold inspiration for Bethesda to take for their space game

[@MattTheriot]

It's baffling and sad how bad Bethesda fumbled this. The story is boring and poorly written, the gameplay is mid at best, the world isn't fun to explore and is basically a loading screen simulator. Sad to see. Bethesda AND Arkane, 2 of my favorite studios officially died in 2023 and I don't expect to see anything good from them again.

[@ivyking4149]

Sooo glad I went for nms in 2023.

[@argirypanagopoulos8928]

The more I hear about this stupid game, the more I hate it

[@MrAntisound]

While i do agree with most of what you say, there are things that aren't quite true about what you said, you can get particle weapons pretty early on without perks on your ship that destroy others ships with ease, slap a few neutron beams on your frontier and you take out other ships pretty fast. But yeah, definitely the worst game Bethesda has made so far..

[@JayBuccola]

I can't understand why they made the game without any item collections. The Priest masks alone kept me going back to Skyrim for years.

[@arkeshn729]

I've just been hoarding all the legendary weapons and armor.

[@JayBuccola]

I can't believe how many hours I've spent spam farming weapons cases at outposts...

[@thedoomslayer5863]

Just some masks brought u back? That is a low low low looowwwe bar my guy...

[@JayBuccola]

Not the only game I played and it's not a low bar if I came back to collect. You missed the entire point.

[@LordJaroh]

The "game" is a modder's paradise...released without mod tools. I do hope the game becomes good, but that is not going to be for a long while.

[@Wanderlust2430]

"Since Fallout 3": *laughs in watching bethesda kill itself since morrowind*

[@karolyburkhalter]

Boycott Bethesda, I'm so bored of these lazy people, maybe they would learn the lesson next time

[@JackTheFallout]

I think I might after this, well untill 99 yo Todd Howard says fallout 6 is talking place in England.

[@karolyburkhalter]

​@@JackTheFallout I feel like this was the game to boycot, you could see it from the begin that this game would have been bad, but people rate to get hyped by amazing trailers...you know, the ''fake light'' that blind your eyes, (Lights can blind, if you remind Ulysses from New Vegas said that)...I knew it would have been a scam since the first trailer, because I was so hyped in 2015 by Fallout 4 and knew the feeling, anyways I'm on the road to renounce playing games, I'm so busy, buying books and stuff for my bike, but it is so funny to see all people mad with this game and Bethesda. With TES 6 they will ride the hype more than ever, the game will not fail, whatever it will happen, they will do amazing trailers, amazing music, and even if the game will be 6/10 no one will care.

[@ertymexx]

Thank you. You covered much of my criticism, most importantly how Bethesda now relies on modders finishing their games for them. I love the modding community, have since old Morrowind, but they should focus on changing small details, adding to the game, not feppin' finishing constructing and fixing them from a beta "early access"-state. Also - the main story - is it just me seeing it having a horrible ending? In a game about exploration and discovery, you end up redoing the same things over and over in "other realities" rather than actually going out discovering something new. NG+ is a horrible concept.

[@JackTheFallout]

Yeah it's really sad... The main story feels like it was made for those YT channels that beat the game in different ways.... It's so disappointing bgs have never been amazing at stories but I was expecting alot better than the infinite loop...plus the new realities have hardly any variations.

[@ito2789]

Elder Scrolls 6 is doomed.

[@UnknownMoses]

Based on the pattern Morrowind>oblivion>skyrim each iteration is more simple the next elder scrolls will be even dumber

[@mysticking16]

Great coverage of the issues that plague this game. One thing you left out that turned my brain to mush is areas with elevators and stairs have loading screens if you take the elevator but you can skip the leaving screen if you jump down or take the stairs. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!!!????!!???

[@Shep2345]

I bought an Xbox series X just for this game….i played about 30hrs and was completely bored to tears with the constant loading screens and haven’t turned on the Xbox again since.

[@No-Me3]

As soon as Toddy Silver-tongue said Starfield was going to be on this broken, outdated, ugly engine years ago, I knew this game was going to be crap. ES6 will be crap, too. But people will buy it because people are gullible, stupid, and have no memory.

[@JackTheFallout]

Sad truths, big publishers release bad game people buy it regardless and try to fight others saying its a good game.

[@GnosticAtheist]

I think it is the best game ever. Never played it myself but I have enjoyed a lot of the side entertainment it has spawned.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

It's absolutely worth playing. Not gonna go as far as saying it's worth Paying for!! But definitely worth playing.

[@randosavich]

@@eternaldarkness3139how so?

[@eternaldarkness3139]

@@randosavich I got as an AMD promotion, many have access via Game Pass. As for retail versions; It's pretty hard to avoid the views of many, perhaps most KZbin reviewers, they're not wrong. SF is impressive on Scope, and Detail, the Ship Builder is magnificent. First time you exit that builder and turn around... However, calling this an RPG is a bit of a stretch, the exploration isn't great, traversal is bad. Some cool creatures, beautiful scenery, but as with other games of this genre... there's only so much a developer can do. There's a reason Star Citizen has still not released. Like No Man's Sky, these are good games as long as you accept them for what they are. There's a KZbinr that reviews games based upon: Buy, Wait, Never Touch. For most people, I'd call it a Wait for Discount or Game Pass. SF has a lot of good elements, but there are too many things that are Dull, or Repetitive, or Pointless. That said, I've played several hundreds of hours, many in the ship builder, many in interesting questlines, many just bored. There is certainly a lot to do, I haven't even finished the main quest yet. I would definitely have gotten my monies worth at retail, but I also would have been disappointed with the product, for the most part. We'll have to see what the mods can do when the Creation Kit releases in a few months.

[@qwertyvypez]

Your missing out on a great game. KZbinrs are basically being super critical for views. Its the way of the world but its a great RPG if you like RPGs. Its not perfect but its a great game. This video for example is saying every feature in the game is bad, which is just untrue

[@JackTheFallout]

@qwertyvypez balders gate 3 is a great rpg this is not, I'm critical becuase I'm generally disappointed with this mid game.

[@SiskoSvK]

Imagine this wasn't on Game Pass on day 1 and you'd have to pay £60+ for this...

[@JackTheFallout]

the Horror.

[@JackTheFallout]

Spiderman is an amazing game 15 hours of pure action and beautiful storytelling, over 100 hours of nothing at the end of the day its your money. lol

[@Rokabur]

That's exactly why Bethesda has been touting number of players and not copies sold.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

​@charlieb308so, you're defending a game, that you... in your own words... won't play, and is worth at most $20. Popular and Good are not the same thing. Played and Purchased are not the same thing. Game Pass has 30 million subscribers that can play SF for nothing. AMD included Codes with every 7000 series CPU & GPU sold. I like Starfield, I have 500 hours played. It's still not a great game, too many design and engine limitations.

[@plainluke722]

​@charlieb308people like you is why the book 1984 was made

[@bryanbarbiea5163]

Literally every single thing this man has said is 100% TRUE!

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

Starfield cant give you small settlement without a loading screen every time you want to enter or exit a building no matter how small.... seamless space travel.... yeah :D

[@monachan432]

If I didn’t already think this game was a zero…learning that dogs are extinct in it? Starfield is dead to me! Great video!

[@sgtcole40]

I agree with a lot said here. The game should've been better than what we got... by a lot! With that said...I enjoyed playing the game (until they broke it while killing chest glitches)... here are some tips to make it more enjoyable: 1. Use the scanner on planets and from space to find poi/ landscapes and features. I found some pretty cool "natural" features on planets. 2. Use cover during gunfights. There is an unmentioned mechanic that allows you to peek in and out of cover while your weapon is drawn. Just walk to a corner, and you'll notice your weapon is held upright to adjust for the proximity to the wall. From there just ads, and you'll peek the enemy. Release ads to get back beings cover. This gave me a little more immersion than standing in front of the enemy and trading bullets. 3. Use far 3rd person in the temple. Also, try to memorize the temples that have the powers you want to upgrade and stick to those mainly when leveling them. It made the grind less grindy for me. 4. Look for space fights and kit your ship for them. Travel between planets and you'll find space poi and dogfights more often. I even found some legendary ships to fight that came up as a quest mission once I approached. This were hella tough and challenged me and my ships capabilities. Speaking of which... spec heavily into the tech column... if you want ship fighting on harder difficulties. Just a few tips to make the game more enjoyable for those that have gone past the return window. It doesn't excuse bgs for this and I no longer look forward to day one games from them... I'll catch the next one on sale.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

While its nice to see someone who can see its faults and doesnt deny them i have to ask. Why not uninstall it and play any of the other bangers from 2023? This year has been PACKED so why choose starfield over the rest?

[@sgtcole40]

@@thedoomslayer5863 long story short... it's the most accessible game (that I haven't already played) available to me atm. Looks like I'm passing on bg3 due to not wanting to support digital only. I've got phantom liberty on ps5 and am waiting on black Friday for Spiderman 2 (high chance of a deal). In other words... Todd caught me at the prefect time to have patience with this game.

[@ryanvandoren1519]

​@thedoomslayer5863 I really do think a LOT of these people have some sunk cost/time fallacy going on. No way people should need to try this hard to simply enjoy a game.

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

Starfield is a seriously flawed game, but I don't see how there's any hope left for the human race when people can say "I played this game for 100+ hours and it sucks" and not see how ridiculous they sound. Do I seriously need to point out the irony in that statement? Then when all call them out on this, someone will say something like "Well maybe he was hoping it would get better." Jesus Herbert Walker Christ. I heard the Witcher 3 was amazing, but I only played it for one hour before deciding it was not for me. Maybe I'll try it for another hour or two, but not 110 hours of "waiting for it to get good." People like the game but can't admit it.

[@JackTheFallout]

I spent 3 days playing starfield i would have stopped 10 hours in, but I wanted to make this video, when they say a game gets good 23 hours in you know its bad, and you will start kidding yourself into believing its a good game. lol

[@anthonyrobinson3514]

This game is absolutely horrible!

[@bryandedon7459]

If you sit in the pilot seat, thats 2 more you load screens you skipped. Sitting or standing takes around 9 to 10 seconds too. I normally play every game the immersive way where I rarely fast travel. I never board my shit and sit in the seat. I just bring up the star map in the hud and fast travel when I'm ready to leave and once I land I hit the button to instantly leave the ship unless I want to sleep for a hour to get the 10% xp buff.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

As a prolific ship builder... it makes me sad that I'd rather leave a shop on Neon, and pop back to my Outpost by just Pressing "M" and a few clicks, rather than actually going to my ship. And I have some really cool ships 😂

[@alanhirsch4632]

"because you get used to the smell of crap" love it!

[@eternaldarkness3139]

It's why there's giant Dung Piles everywhere. Todd knew...

[@lolzasouruhm179]

Most people don’t know this but it is hard to design models for indoor and outdoor spaces because generate lighting from a sky box can make things look like shit. It takes alot of work to make things look good outside if you only make them look good inside with directional lighting. Now from an indie prospective you choose to do one or the other but a triple A studio should be able to make both looks Amazing!

[@asddap]

Witcher 3 managed to do that 8 years ago. And that game still looks good, even better than Starfield in many aspects.

[@MrPoeGhost]

@@asddap The fact they even managed a port that on the Switch of all things with its potato-ass hardware leaves Bethesda with little excuse.

[@section7173]

They are using an antiquated game engine and lack the creative talent to build a new engine. All their new employees are based on "inclusivity" rather than skill. They've painted themselves into a corner and will either need a complete corporate restructuring, which is doubtful, or they fail outright in a pitiful quiet liquidation.

[@Stig69]

Imagine leaving a 30 minute voicemail to a girl you don't like

[@NSixtyFour]

More like a 30 min voice-mail to a person who tried to con you and all of your friends. Who convinced them to give your time and attention to them. Their presence as the reward.😤

[@Andriej69]

I am NEVER tired of shitting on Starfield! Hahaha Take that, Bethedrones, I can almost hear you crying!

[@JeopardsRune]

Starfield is atrocious but c'mon you can't tell me you didn't have an SSD already that's INSANE

[@JackTheFallout]

I know and I'm ashamed but it's true.

[@ryanvandoren1519]

Imagine your mp3s taking a full EIGHT seconds to load. The HORROR

[@cebrith]

You nailed it. Starfield is a sad collection of poorly executed mini games with abysmal writing.

[@Floxxoror]

After the recent patch, SF had less players than Skyrim... And I mean on 23-11-22 not in comparison to when Skyrim was new.

[@peckneck2439]

Literally anything they could've done to Earth would be better than what they actually done. Hell, even if they did absolutely HAD to make it into a giant empty desert, they could still add interesting things to see there that aren't just unlockable landmarks. Plastic. They could've added plastic bottles and containers all over the place to show how even after the planet essentially died, plastic remained, as it's still decomposing. They also could've added oversized cockroaches because these little buggers just refuse to die no matter what. Some ruined buildings could be sticking out of the sand, and a plethora of differing things that could make Earth in Starfield actually interesting to see.

[@brianholdbrookwrites]

Bro, im glad you said it. Every character ESPECIALLY constellation is so... ReSpEcTfUl its obnoxious. Everyone cares so much about your feelings its like a bunch of polite robots

[@JackTheFallout]

Chat gpt, Disliked that.

[@Kolljak]

When you get down to the basics of the engine Bethesda uses, it is the exact same as the engine that runs Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2. its items inside rooms inside cell's inside modules. its a very limited engine.

[@JackTheFallout]

If true That's shamefull lol

[@Xenotypic]

they're going to destroy the whole company due to reluctance to change the engine. they may as well invest in learning a new engine for elder scrolls 6 or it's over for them.

[@kbdc]

Your thumbnail game is strong af. Perfectly encapsulated everything you needed to know about Starfield in the graphic alone

[@JackTheFallout]

Thank-you :D

[@TheSocketshock]

Earth became a dessert wasteland so instead poeple colonized planets with no air, and created "farms" with no greenhouses or nothing. Literally makes no sense. You go i the buildi gs for the one list mission and they dont even have plants in their 2-3 buildings.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

People want to move to Mars now... Stupid Humans

[@npenick66]

Don't forget that most of the story elements were copied from other ip's. The bad guy in the basement prison giving missions to take out other bad guys was from the Black List, get to the center of the galaxy/unity so that you can rinse/repeat the game was No Man's Sky, the multiverse concept that we've seen done ad nauseum in Marvel movies over the past decade, Hunter being an Agent Smith clone, etc. The writing is lazy and preachy even with copying better ip's. And don't get me started with every member of constellation, male and female, trying to hump my leg or forcing you to choose pronouns to make your character. I get that the dev's have political beliefs and agenda's but I play games to escape from the real world for a while. One of my main frustrations was Outpost inventory management. The personal and ship inventory system is pretty clunky, I've seen much better in games that are over 20 years old, but I could use it. With close to 400 hours in Starfield I've built many, many pointless outposts and still can't pull up a consolidated outpost inventory. You can build skyscrapers out of connected storage boxes but have to go box to box to try to find something in the unsorted inventory. Had they given Outposts the same inventory system that they gave the ships it would have been crap but at least I could find my crafting resources when I needed them. Not that there's much use for crafting other than making upgrades to certain weapons or suits. You can't even craft ammo. And you can do the limited crafting that you need on your ship. There's no real use for Outposts other than as xp farms and to check a box so that you can train certain perks. The game is a 6/10. It's a good time sink if you don't have anything better to do or just need a break from your regular games. It should have been a $30 game, that was the quality level. The only reason I put so many hours into it was because I was playing along with my son, but he burned out at under 100 hours.

[@MjollTheLioness-o4y]

Don't forget the whole touching an artifact and seeing visions is completely ripped off from Mass Effect. When I saw that it actually made me angry and I knew from that moment that the game was gonna be a mashup of stolen ideas from people who implemented them better years ago.

[@npenick66]

@@MjollTheLioness-o4y There were so many things that were copied from other games and movies. One other was the mission to the planet with clones of leaders from history, a direct rip off of an old Star Trek episode.

[@dad33r]

"large bounty" for the undercover cop mission triggering is a bit overstated. i got it for every little misdemeanor. Exedently picking up a food item. Yes you are the perfect fit for a undercover mission! Go infiltrate the crimson fleet. And when not... well ...

[@JackTheFallout]

yeah it Triggered after I was attacked for no reason in alpha and killed 2 or 3 guards.... but that's hilarious the fact if you stole someone half eaten sandwich, and then get forced to infiltrate the biggest space pirate gang.

[@TheSocketshock]

Or say tou want to go to a new system, sometimes more often then not the game breaks and wont even allow you to jumo to a new system even if you jump to a system you have already been to. "Unexplored route" "Unexplored route" "Unexplored route" This hapoened so many times that i litterally gave up on going anywhere that wasnt wuest related. That was essentially 20 hours in and I just gave up playing after 80 hours cause I couldnt get over the 5-6 loading screens per 20 minutes of gameplay, which take up to 5-7 minutes EACH on a brand new m.2 SSD.

[@njcdailo8934]

No love for the ps5 boys just a dumb move nowadays. Exclusive limits buyers and revenue.

[@JackTheFallout]

Facts, and they wonder why the numbers are dropping exclusives are silly, it goes both ways I don't think spiderman should be just on ps I would actually like xbox fans to experience those games.

[@mmmbopgangsta7329]

In the lore earth lost its magbetosphere or atmosphere or something so basically all the oceans wouldve boiled away and after 300 years i can accept it turning earth into a dry dead planet. Tbh.

[@WaynesWorldUnlimited]

I’m also a massive Bethesda fan. With over 401 play through on Skyrim across multiple platforms…. I was looking forward to this. I shelled out £100 for early access and special addition and it’s a complete letdown. I played it for the first two weeks on Xbox series. X and it’s a pile of shite… unable to get my money back after two weeks, I wouldn’t recommend it.. I Bethesda game, most of them that have ever been made.. I will make the next elder scrolls my last one I think providing it good. If not, I’m done with the company I don’t care anymore…. Back to Skyrim

[@SmokersTars]

I installed Starfield, had fun the first 40h, then played another 50h. Not because it was fun, not because I was curious to explore. I felt like there should be some more things I didn't do, interesting stuff to find. I went to all the high level systems, I've rummaged around, I checked different stations... and nothing. I did NG+, tried to do faction quests again just to notice that besides the main quest, NG+ doesn't have any impact on the other ones. Then I closed the game, and after re-launching CP2077 i realized how much time I've wasted chasing ghosts. Sadly, the damn main writer on Bethsda didn't change since TES IV DLC's, and it shows. That guy has zero RPG-Creation skills, he only knows how to write stories...

[@Swordslinger-hb1ns]

You’re not the only one Jack. I’ve loved the Fallout franchise ever since its inception in 1997. When I heard Bethesda of all people bought out the ip from its original creators: the late great Interplay Entertainment and was finally giving us the long awaited Fallout 3 I was beyond hyped. From then on I worshipped Bethesda as I did the Fallout series. After playing Starfield which I was hoping it combine No Man’s Sky with Fallout’s stellar narrative I have to say, I’m severally disappointed in Starfield. It’s dull, boring, and lacking in features that made Elder Scrolls and Fallout so indelible. And as a side note it’s going to be at least 5 or 6 years before we get Fallout 5.

[@JackTheFallout]

As someone who loves many of those series, i don't understand how they are able to mess them up so much, maybe they have just lost the passion for making games and pump out whatever they can not caring, if its made my bgs they know people will buy it. I'm no writer but. I know i could come up with a better plot than starfield.

[@alphatrion4365]

Guess you were in a underground vault or on another planet when Fallout 76 and No Man's Sky were released. They were incredibly overhyped, full of bugs, and didn't have a lot of the content that was advertised(they lied about content). Never forget the valuable lesson NMS taught everyone as they were pretty much the pioneers of this crap - when you buy a new game, you're getting the worst version of the game at it's highest price. Wait for bug patches, reviews, and sales.

[@Swordslinger-hb1ns]

@@alphatrion4365 thank god Fallout 76 is doing a hellva lot better since the Wastelanders update. It narrowly escaped the fate of EA/BioWare’s Anthem and EA/DICE Battlefield 2042.

[@cdurkinz]

Lol "let me convince you something is worse than you thought." Great addition to the internet thank you.

[@DETRACT0RD00M]

Gunplay with no blood or gore? Haha, Bethesda had to really try to squeeze every last dollar out of this cold turd..

[@en6853]

Great video man. Found you on a mauler subreddit

[@JackTheFallout]

thank-you i Really appreciate it.

[@gustavodias6391]

We all knew what was coming after so many bad games, when reviwers said the game was good i doubted on launch, is a bethesda game after all, there is no reason to think they did not lied for profit.

[@alexnicklay8626]

I guess someone should tell him that you can steal or buy better ships from the beginning and the ship builder is ridiculously unrestricted and you can delete every ship part and build a 100% custom ship, and space is very empty and boring. I guess your experience was bad because you thought you unlock ships?? It became obvious that you didn't figure out how to do a lot of the ship based content so you called it bad, the Star Eagle is absolutely NOT necessary to enjoy space combat and you should figure the mechanics out before leaving a review.

[@JackTheFallout]

I knew all of that I did not like any of that so to me it was bad I did say it was better as you went through the game but overall as a new player not fun. Yes star eagle is definitely needed.

[@alexnicklay8626]

@JackTheFallout it certainly didn't sound like you did and knowing that you did makes your video seem disingenuous as you are the first person I've heard call the ship builder restrictive. The Star eagle is a good ship but you can easily build a ship that outperforms it in the shipbuilder. I'm interested in hearing about the other ships you tried using for comparison.

[@JackTheFallout]

@alexnicklay8626 everything I say in my video is what I think of the game, I tried the original ship you get aswell as the prison shuttle.. And I used the mantis a bit.. I tried to build a ship that I liked the look of but was forced to delete everything becuase of the mass and for me that was an issue... By the time I got to the end of the game I still haven't unlocked the perks I needed to get more mass.. So what am I meant to go ng+ or grind for hours to get better things.

[@o0TraceuR0o]

Wouldn't play this even if i had game pass

[@vincanthofred8195]

You made me laugh when you said "The story was interesting for me! As in that it was boring and bad"

[@alaskacpu]

Best Review 🎉 You read my mind 😂 subscribed ❤

[@cdeford2]

If you like shooting things Starfield can be a good game I guess. If you like a good story and exploration it's really bad. You can have fun for a short time, but it soon wears thin. Time will tell whether modders can breathe life into the corpse.

[@mandala314]

Waiting for Xbox mods before I decide to keep playing. Fallout 4 is still fun for me because of the mods

[@devinjohnson2513]

Can they mod out the loading screens? I doubt even years of mods are going to salvage this experience for me. It's broken at a fundamental level.

[@jimjacobs2817]

Starfield -- the game about nothing!

[@cargorunnerUK]

The issues in this game are nothing to do with Microsoft. You have to admit that Bethesda single players games have been getting worse after Skyrim. The writing has been getting worse and worse. This could be seen in Skyrim where the writing was more dumbed down compared to Oblivion. The writing in Fallout 4 was dumbed down further and the story was full of plot holes. Fallout 76 had almost no story at launch. And Starfield is the weakest writing so far. You are totally correct in saying that the world is too fragmented to be immersive. So the game needed really strong writing & interesting characters & quests. But the writing is so weak and the quests so shallow that there is just not enough to keep you engaged & coming back for more. The only questline I found really engaging was the UC Vanguard one. The constellation questline is the worst they have ever done. The starborn dialogue is just so dumb and ridiculous & more than 20 empty temple quests with the same mini game & vision is so repetitive & shocking for a AAA game. The Earth in Starfield is the worst, laziest & just most embarassing art design for a future destroyed Earth in any movie or game. It took me 184 hours to play less content than you get in a 100 hour Skyrim playthrough. And NG+ was a huge disappointment as I could not even change my traits to make the new playthrough feel a little different. It makes no sense at all.

[@JackTheFallout]

I'm no writer and I'm confident that I could come up with a better story than the shit they made. lol 100% agree with what you said, they want people to play more so why not make a game with unnecessarily long things to pad out the playtime just for game pass and unfortunately people fall for it. There are games like balders gate 3 have so much more content I finished that story and there's still things I have missed And it's an infinite better story rpg everything really.

[@OrangeNash]

It's a 10 year old childs "My First Space Story". Actually, that's wrong, because most 10 year olds could imagine a story and a future world far more interesting and exciting than Starbore.

[@CyberSpider35]

So I guess according to "Bethesda logic" Earth is also "supposen't to be a Disneyland" and Neil Armstrong didn't feel bored when he returned to Earth and found nothing but SAND here? :)