Starfield isn't exactly a "space game"...

[@shadowwolfe8829]

I for one am ready for Ranger Dave and the Minutemen to start bringing immersive settlement builds to space ^^

[@RustyIv]

I second this

[@RavenStorm332]

I think you mean immersive outpost building

[@TimTeboner]

Dave I am really looking forward to you getting into the ship building in this game. I feel like a series of you engaging with it has the potential to be as good as your FO4 settlement videos, especially once the modding really gets going!

[@aviatorengineer3491]

I think a lot of us were hoping the space flight would be at least a little bit more utilized. Not necessarily Elite: Dangerous level where it's literally almost the whole game but more than just a bit between loading screens, too. Things like manually landing or taking off your ship even would be a welcome step _for me, at least, I know not everyone is here for the space flight sim._ Glad you mentioned the NPC animations, too - there's just something not quite right about the conversations in my opinion. Like talking to a theme park animatronic. The people in Fallout 4 or even 3 felt a bit more lifelike about it.

[@jimjam7928]

In regards to the "slow beginning" I actually feel like Bethesda never let you sit in the intro section for long enough before throwing all the Chosen One stuff at you. Let me have a little prologue story that is also the tutorial at the start, with me actually working as a miner for two or three in-game days, before thrusting all this stuff at me. I'd rather earn my first ship then having some guy just give me his.

[@putowtin]

flying around in the Mantis ship, scaring spacers and gaining the thanks of bemused ship captains is histerically good fun

[@RangerDave]

Starfield isn't quite what I expected... but the more I play the more it seems like it's still something special. Now that it's officially out for everyone, what do you all think?

[@Yippememes]

Haven't played yet but looks greate

[@Yippememes]

*great

[@averagemug]

I like it, it wasn't exactly what I was expecting and it falls short in the writing and characters some times, but it's not bad enough to hate on it as much as people are. It's actually better than Fallout 4 in some ways, maybe not completely but still.

[@lachainepaume2847]

Did the Minutemen's General Dave gonna conquer the galaxy?

[@bigchadman]

idk why everyone was comparing it to Star Citizen/ Elite Dangerous instead of ya know other rpgs that are in space Mass Effect/Outer worlds

[@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272]

Boy, don't compare this game to Mass effect😂.

[@ryanrandazzo7677]

I think I speak for the entire comment section when I say I can't wait to see your outpost and ship builds. After subscribing to your channel when you were showing off all your Fallout 4 Settlements I have to say I'm excited to see where you take things.

[@exobreaker6149]

Game has been so much fun definetly lived up to the hype ill probably be playing this for the next year or two the amount of different things you can do is sooo much fun

[@xray606]

Whoever is in charge of all this (if anyone), I figure they probably left an almost impossible to cross void of empty space between everything and everybody, for a very good reason. I doubt we will ever have a real life Star Trek world, and that’s probably a good thing.

[@spiritgaming1442]

This games really likes to get you lost in the world of Starfield, and in doing so you find yourself feel infinitely smaller, compared to the granduer of the universe. It does so in a way Fallout 4 never made me feel.

[@silencedmaxim5889]

I thought you were gonna say "After about 18 hours the game starts to be fun"

[@awesomeal3603]

It is so cool to get up from the cockpit while in space and stare out the windows of your ship. It's the freedom to do stuff like that is why I love BGS games.

[@oldfartrick]

Star Citizen or Elite Dangerous or No Man's Sky do it much better.

[@1810jeff]

Is this like your first game? This game lacks a ton of player freedom, basically half of the NPCs are essential and the dialogue options are either cartoonishly evil or generic good guy lines. They've also pretty much brought back the fallout 4 dialogue system where the majority of the time there's only 4 options.

[@awesomeal3603]

@@1810jeff You don't sound like you've played the game at all. One, you get different dialogue options depending on your background, two, the persuasion checks gives you a ton of alternate options, and 3, your skill levels will unlock new dialogue options. What game are you comparing Starfield to?

[@awesomeal3603]

@@oldfartrick Do what better?

[@1810jeff]

@@awesomeal3603 The game Bethesda refuses to learn from, Fallout New Vegas. You can't be a jerk in starfield because the writers are pansies and like I said the options are either neutral, generic good guy or cartoonish villain. The lines are reddit tier "quirky" in many instances and one look at the dev team will show you why, they're redditors.

[@joanned8172]

Dave you will enjoy and want to do early in playthrough the freespace rangers quest you can start on Akila.

[@RangerDave]

Oooh, noted thanks!

[@julesjoy6499]

Once they get the outpost system to a 'settlement level' I'm excited to see you do some settlement building

[@RavenStorm332]

I think Bethesda is going to really improve the game with coming updates and hopefully they make it so that we can put up a settler recruitment beacon for our outposts using the in game organization "LIST" which would be cool

[@thefalloutphoenix]

Man i can't wait to play

[@bradleyb483]

Starfield settlement builds coming?

[@RangerDave]

Hopefully! I barely have anything unlocked so far though

[@bigsoup9341]

Im kinda sad you cant make your outposts full fleged settlements wanted to build a city

[@psittacis5431]

Cannot wait until he starts making settlements in Starfield!

[@FalconMain3]

Looking forward to space ranger dave

[@ecksdeeeXD]

I'm still waiting for Space Ranger Dave's settlements on the moon.

[@FrontierStarterGroup]

Instead of shooting the window to the toaster oven. Remember you can pick up like 90% of things. Flip it over my dude. In general my first impressions were much different from yours. I was hooked from the very beginning. Can't say I think New Atlantis is a weak area either. However I think my experience ultimately boils down to having a different perspective and expectation of the game. I've loved every second of the game, save for a few quests that I found more tedious than fun. Havent had any of those weird head & eye tracking experiences yet lol.

[@gabrielrodriguez4411]

Todd Howard's Starfield is lil Timmy's first Bethesda game 🗿

[@trancecod]

maybe it's just me but I was waiting for this game to come out for a while now, and now that it came out, I'm not even hyped to play it. To be fair I have bg3 to finish, fallout base I started 1 month ago and a city in the foundation first :D

[@RangerDave]

The nice thing is this is definitely a slow burn game so there's no rush!

[@zachIPFW]

You’re not really missing out on anything, it’s fallout in space, with a very typical Bethesda experience and story.

[@chriscormac231]

@@RangerDave it's a bethesda game, wait for the re-re-re-release

[@johnsmith2589]

Are you going to build custom bases like Fallout.

[@RangerDave]

I hope so! Got lots to unlock first

[@Cheeseybeaver45]

Feels like they saw star citizen and took out what makes that game great and put in load the game the simulator

[@DJ_NOOB]

"Starfield isn't what most people expected" I'm sorry but what? Actually I think it's exactly what most people expected. If they were expecting something other than No Man's Skyrim then they clearly weren't paying attention. (Title has now changed. I think it's a better title)

[@DJ_NOOB]

That's a better title.

[@steven20653]

So it’s like Mass Effect then?

[@RangerDave]

Quite similar in overall framework yep - with more freedom to fly your ship in real time

[@SilkyNoah]

In typical Bethesda style the highs are really high and the lows are dreadfully low. Flying though space is awesome, building ships and battling space pirates is like a dream come true. Watching the sun rise on an exotic moon is always cool. However, navigating practically all of the UI with a controller is terrible, performance is subpar, the character writing and storytelling is all “meh” in my opinion, I still wish I had more flexibility to play as a unique character rather than being shoehorned into this or that path, etc… Going to put lots of time into this game exploring and fighting, I just wish I felt motivated to care about anything going on in the world. It’s Skyrim all over again!

[@RangerDave]

Very well put!

[@trancecod]

5:10 this looks like oblivion tf

[@xindicator762]

I feel like its just the outerworlds

[@KrzysztofKrzysztof-d8j]

Eve online is a space game. Best space game.

[@DeadLead]

StarField is not a space game, which is not OK. It was advertised as a space exploration game, but it does not feel like one. It feels more like a smaller, segmented version of Fallout, with random rooms stitched together. There is no universe to explore. Just rooms.

[@KrzysztofKrzysztof-d8j]

Why in starfield is unlimited fuel??????!!!!!!!

[@AlenB29]

No mans sky rules

[@zachIPFW]

It’s certainly better than this garbage

[@exobreaker6149]

no mans sky is incredibly boring and is a completely different type of game than starfield is

[@spyguy8002]

​@@zachIPFWone of the most empty copy and pasted boring games ever

[@zachIPFW]

@@spyguy8002 keep on shilling for bugthesda my guy

[@AlenB29]

@@spyguy8002 enjoy exploring all of ur 1000 planets that are the same giant rock just with different colors

[@TabiTheCat]

well...no shit?

[@theangrygamer6427]

I've heard so many mixed reviews that I'm going to have to pass for now, especially since I was going to have to buy an Xbox for it. I'll just stick with Hogwarts Legacy

[@zachIPFW]

You’re not missing out on anything. It’s the same old tired Bethesda experience, nothing new. All of the Bugthesda Andys will defend it and claim it’s the best game ever but it’s not. This game is hot trash, and Todd Howard is a liar as always.

[@spiritgaming1442]

I feel like everyone started expecting a life-changing experience after the game reveals a few months back, as marketing started to ramp up. It's Bethesda. Expect a Bethesda game. And you'll get exactly that and more, this isn't the railroaded fallout 4 Bethesda, this is Skyrim or Oblivion Bethesda. It strings you along in these long as quest lines whilst also making you feel extremely small by scale.

[@tarkov_6]

Plenty of other really similar games that have already been out for years. It's a ok Bethesda game, but a medicore 2023 game. Thing that bugged me was how similar the music was to fallout.

[@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272]

​@@zachIPFWjust play fallout 4. Game feels pretty underwhelming tbh. I enjoy far more running to my different outposts than having to fly from disconnected barren planet to planet. It's the total disconnect that doesn't really appeal to me tbh.

[@zachIPFW]

As a fan of Bethesda and pretty much all their games I’m very disappointed with Starfield. Space is boring, most of the planets are boring, controlling your ship is weird and I don’t like it, very much a bog standard Bethesda experience, little polish many of the npcs look dead eyed, they don’t respond to you aiming your weapon at them or even shooting around them. Many parts of the game feel under cooked. Honestly I’d rather play no man’s sky, it’s far more polished and fleshed out. It’s sad that objectively speaking, no man’s sky and cyberpunk 2077 are far better games than Starfield. I think Starfield needed at least one more year in development before release so maybe in a year and after some mods it’ll be worth playing. The whole do what you want, explore space aspect is very under developed and I find that to be very upsetting. If you’re a fan of the typical Bethesda experience, you’ll like Starfield. I’m now very worried about es6.

[@VATROU]

I definitely think a pure Exploration themed DLC should be a requirement, the various empty planets need a little more life than what they have now. However Starfield is rather polished in comparison to other Bethesda games, it looks like the time they did get was well spent. And while we do have bugs it's a vast improvement from older titles that just broke upon release. I still remember when enemies in 76 slid and attacked from a prone position. Or when you could fall through the map to a void or touch a object and immediately die due to the weird physics in the engine.

[@Jansmaaa]

I've watched a little bit of streamers playing Starfield and the game does not interest me. Its too tame. The dialog is boring, graphics are a bit dated though still look good enough, the npcs on the other hand... Its 2023 and some of them look so uncanny, especially the unnamed ones that have no impact other than to make areas more lively. If this had come out in 2015 if would have been a good game but now it just seems dated.

[@djdan890]

It’s made by Bethesda lmao what did you expect, the gaming industry is going to go bust soon

[@GMdrivingMOPARguy]

I've never been a space sci-fi fan. And from your clips here the combat looks really bullet spongey and lackluster, as per typical Bethesda. Maybe in a year or so once it gets patched and some Q.O.L. mods come out I'll consider it but I'm gonna pass for now

[@SNoozzyJ]

If u compare it to NMS you’re disappointed….cool story but what’s gonna make me keep coming back. The little “sense of exploration” if it’s trying to be a “space game” it’s kinda pathetic for 2023…looks like a 2013 game…a remade one…just cause u see space and you’re on a planet doesn’t make it a space game…it makes it a sci-fi rpg with lack of space and exploration…

[@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272]

Yep, why make it a space game if the space part is going to be mediocre? Imagine if it was inverted? Instead of flying into the stars you go deeper and deeper into the planet, building your outposts and discovering the "artifacts" secrets.

[@PanicOregon]

No it is not ok, because it was advertised as a space game. A whole new IP, set in space and the exploration was the selling point. You're just trying to validate your 70$/100$ purchase. This is a joke, just because it's 'classic' Bethesda means nothing because you were lied to. You cannot walk across the entire planet, It's heavily copy pasted POIs, etc, etc. I've been playing the game for several days and this is a joke. I can't refund it, and i will not validate Bethesda's release just to make myself feel comfortable with my purchase.

[@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272]

Yep, why make it a space game if the space part is going to be mediocre? Imagine if it was inverted? Instead of flying into the stars you go deeper and deeper into the planet, building your outposts and discovering the "artifacts" secrets.

[@oldfartrick]

Cut scenes means they are not actually making a space game. Its a reskinned fallout game.

[@xgndiesel1179]

I've already got two days playing it since the 31st 😅

[@RangerDave]

Wheeeeeew gamer, take your vitamin D supplements!

[@gremlinlily]

Felt. I got 48 hours of playtime in the first 4 days after launch lmao

[@vanjastec3160]

Game is disappointment

[@jacktodd3439]

Doesn't matter how good game may be and fun, if it promotes degeneracy political ideologies I won't support it and this one does.

[@Taylor.L.]

Ehhh you one of those huh

[@travus111]

PRONOUNS!??!!??

[@jacktodd3439]

@@Taylor.L. Yes I'm one of those normal people who wasn't brainwashed to think such things are normal, not big deal etc bs

[@subbinbacktoallsubbs5272]

Dude who cares? I'm conservative and this is such a minor issue it doesn't matter.