Starfield Review - This game is a disaster!

So you loved the Bethesda RPG's of old with their immersive world and characters. Meet Starfield it basically throws all that out the window.
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[@WorthABuyreviews]

Hate to say I told you so but all you people that dissed and thumbed down this review....Young fools, only now at the end do you understand. Currently trending on steam at 48% even lower than Fallout 76 :)

[@innerstrengthcheck]

Rightfully so! What a snooze. Review is on point mate.

[@samhart4663]

Enjoyed it for a few weeks but once I was getting the whole planet after me for stealing a glass of water it just got ridiculous and overly out of control at times just turned me off

[@liszt646]

A lot of Bethesda (and Xbox) fans just don't wanna admit that this game is bland and lacking in all regards. It's nothing compared to Skyrim and even Fallout 4

[@Seftdelmer]

Spot on, thanks for an objective review. I tried to refund, but steam told me I'd played it for too long, damn right I had, it's shite.

[@UncleMarty]

Imagine spending all that money on the game, finding out it sucks and then going online to lie to people that its an amazing game JUST to make yourself feel better about wasting your money. Because thats what I'm seeing. Nobody can truthfully say this is a great game. It's average at best.

[@gtabro1337]

My favourite summary of Starfield is “See that planet? You can fast travel to it” 💀

[@chrisstucker1813]

“It just loads!”

See that POI on that planet in another star system? You can fast travel to it!

[@petrus4]

Starfield: From the people who brought you Fallout 76.

[@TheAlanReviews]

And Skyrim

[@Daijoblue]

The best thing about Starfield is that now i know which reviewers to trust

[@cblack3470]

none

[@grizzlyadamblack]

The one's that gave it a 10 out of 10?

[@vaulttraveler]

@@cblack3470pretty much

[@daltonliles6161]

@@vaulttraveler Literally play it yourself because the reviews are the most mixed I've ever seen for a video game.

[@JakeLondonRivers]

bro thats hella based lol

[@gridleaf]

The zones all look like movie sets. Like it feels really obvious that there's nothing beyond what you're currently looking at.

[@asdf11389]

Wow, hit the nail on the head. Cities feel like they’re from the Truman Show, if you go in the wrong elevator it’s all propped up cardboard.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Basically that dlc from Saints Row 3.

[@embracerodusk2537]

It looks like the moon landing

[@AnumaOnline]

Well it’s certainly not an open world game as we are used to

[@YouTube-Grifter]

Ohhhhh FFS!! 😂 I'm waiting for it to download now ... I had a feeling it was going to be a huge empty world...

[@vrabo3026]

I'm so used to No Man's Sky where you can just fly to a waypoint on a planet and land exactly where you need to be, so I'm left confused why the game lands you on a planet like half a kilometer away from your destination. And I'm not even criticizing the fact that Starfield is a loading screen whereas No Man's Sky does it seamlessly and keeps you in full control. Because, I mean, it would be unfair to expect a AAA game to have the same standards as a 7 year old indie game made by like 10 people.

[@Flavalicious]

Because the creation engine should of been put into the ground 3 games ago 😂

[@esmolol4091]

​@@Flavaliciouscorrect. but the don't want to spend a dime on creating a better engine.

[@GHOSTTIEF]

@@Flavaliciousno it should’ve been been taken out back since f3

[@DJDoener]

@@esmolol4091 They just need to licence Unreal Engine. Sure it costs money, but imagine the game then...

[@Flavalicious]

@@GHOSTTIEF sure. But fallout 4 has something like a 90% positive review rating on Steam.....so at some point its the fandoms fault more then its Bethesdas. Simple people enjoying simple things, lol.

[@jimboSleeeeiiice]

You perfectly described this game. It’s not that you “dismantled” or “destroyed” it, it did that to itself. You are just telling it how it is.

[@arizonahd]

It is kind of a bummer. They could make the map 1/8 smaller but make it immersive and it would be 4x better.

[@lintlickers]

Exactly kiddo

[@olivergenz8877]

Should have been like 1 or 2 Star systems but hand crafted instead of 100000 boxes@@lintlickers

[@BillClinton228]

I knew when the hype started that this game would be a disaster. This is not the Bethesda of 20 years ago... most of the talent that helped them create amazing games has left the company, don't expect much.

[@mchapman2424]

1/8th is an understatement. They could have just kept it within our own solar system. But thats just the surface of all the problems with this game. Its unbelievably poorly thought out on multiple levels

[@Alexander-zt9kz]

@@BillClinton228with new writers, a new engine, and a focus on quality over quantity, I do believe Bethesda can still make a good game tbh

[@Grandmastergav86]

"I WAITED YEARS FOR THIS TODD!" That line alone had me in stitches.

[@SEPK09]

Over hyped by many gamers end result typical.

[@blablubb4553]

Why did he, though? Should have known Todd "Tell me sweet little lies" Howard better, no?

[@kingc8531]

​@@SEPK09It was overhyped by Bethesda and Todd Howard too. I was expecting something like Elite Dangerous or No Mans Sky with Bethesda questlines.

[@LizardMammaryGlands]

@@kingc8531I totally understand, but I also don't have any confidence that Bethesa will ever be able to deliver that. They are really stuck in the creation engine, and if they ever switch engines, they probably won't know where to start.

[@lucifer0247]

he waited for a Star Citizen SpaceSim and not for an RPG, when he wants a SpaceSim he should wait for Star citizen. IF he wants a good RPG he should just start playing starfield like and RPG and not complaining that his RPG game has Skills/Perks. I mean WTF? How are you supposed to progess if not with perks? He wants a dumbed down NOMansSky without any story and depth?

[@Saint_Ixtab]

I'm more heartbroken for Mack than the actual game itself, he seemed somewhat excited for this more than i ever will, i'm so dead inside nothing gets me hyped anymore.

[@Retrofire-47]

:( friend you best do some introspection then, not that such sentiment is uncommon in this mad world. gotta create your own

[@mrwhips3623]

I knew this game would be trash

[@ninjaruss4205]

Same here. I was surprised to hear how excited he was for this game and he really wanted it to succeed. I kept my expectations pretty low considering Bethesda was the Devs. They rely on their community to mod their game and make it into something that keeps the game alive. I really wish they took some inspiration from outer wilds in terms of space travel. They wanted to try something new but it still feels like a Bethesda game

[@1aatlas]

@@Retrofire-47 They did a great deal more introspection than 99% of the npc's on planet earth already.

[@socratese5]

@@ninjaruss4205that’s what I was thinking. It feels great in outer wilds to sit in the cockpit and takeoff into space! Not watch loading screens and pre renders🤨

[@Hobnobrob10]

As soon as Tod first announced the hundreds and thousands of planets.... I knew this was coming

[@anasevi9456]

Yep, and unlike earlier Bethesda releases where at least some feedback could make it to Bethesda's ear, there wasnt remotely a chance of it not turning out as bad as possible. Ever since the mmo ESO grew large in the mid 2010s, there is now a gigantic fanatical fanbase cult doing everything they can in their power; to cocoon the ears of any development team working for that publisher from criticism.

[@Battleneter]

Naa this is a fun to play game with flaws, while I agree with some of the stuff mentioned here, he has gone way overboard on the negativity.

[@BGraves]

​@@Battleneterhow old are you?

[@happygofishing]

​@@WundercruXXbox 360 had 512mb of ram, series X has 16gb. There should be no excuse to separate the world into multiple world spaces.

[@jasm5205]

Literally fucking same

[@TheFreckelz]

Todd has basically tasked modders with turning this crap into a real space game from the ground up because he can't be bothered to do it himself. Good luck you madmen.

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

The only way I'd ever play this is if it's heavily discounted (at least 70%) and there's a Fallout Who style mod. Otherwise this looks like an absolute waste of everybody's time.

[@daltonliles6161]

And since modders have straight up said the game is too boring to get into I think it's safe to say starfield is dead and gone.

[@afterdarkprod3489]

How did they spend 7 whole years developing this game without thinking of a better way to implement space exploration? Wtf were they doing?

[@ljj9494]

They are incompetent

[@Sindrella.]

Any time you hear “7 years” and a big company like Bug-thesda, just imagine them slacking off and that meme of the guy lighting a $100 bill on fire and smoking it. Ninety percent of the game’s development was just patting themselves on the back for cashing in on people’s expectations. I learned after they ruined Fallout. Sadly the themes about consumerism in Fallout 1 rang true; now Bethesda is a walking monument to everything Tim Cain parodied.

[@8thMusketeer]

Making sure they included pronouns

[@guywithreallybadchannelnam6184]

Probably because its not a space exploration game. Its a bethesda rpg with an actual story and characters

[@Rex_Smashington]

@@guywithreallybadchannelnam6184 12 hours of story then the real game begins. Autism crafting for 1000 hours and selling items to NPCs.

[@BarneyGoogl]

"Sixteen times the loading screens" - Todd Howard

[@Perfidion]

"It's just works! (Provided you have the necessary perks.)" - Todd Howard

[@purefoldnz3070]

Sixteen tim---- *loading -es the loading screens.

[@ValosarX]

At least the loading screens use your own screen shots as splash screens instead of the same few 3D rotating objects :/

[@thelittledetailscr7231]

I have 990 samsung. Literally seconds for all loading screens. So many of them tho.

[@KirkMillerShow]

bahahhaha

[@InvisibleMan95]

See that planet? You can't land on it.

[@TheQuietTimes]

More like, _"See that planet, you can load there."_

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@TheQuietTimes"you can load 1 tiny disconnected slice of that planet at a time that will have a selection of the same handful of random encounters you've already seen"

[@sourdoughbornsourdoughbred4712]

Or walk around it

[@jkeebla]

@@MichaelJ44 i thought this was our chance to finally get an AAA space exploration game, but all we got was loadfield, the loadiverse, filled with loadscreens. how can no mans sky have 18 sexbillion planets yet still you can land on them individually without an issue

[@TakenCypress369]

​@@jkeeblaan nms had rough launch but it's now quite amazing and once you bought nms 7 years ago you never had to pay 1$ more 100% free content an updates for 7 years yes it took few years to make it as good as hello games claimed it was gonna be on launch but they did it an continued to make it better then they promised amazing game playing it right now

[@AlanSmith88888]

This game would have been great if it was made 10 years ago

[@ItsNothingAmazing]

It's not even good for a 10 year old game though. Morrowind released 2002, which was 21 years ago. Oblivion released 2006 and that's better than this too. New Vegas is my favorite Fallout game which was released in 2010 and that's also better than this. Skyrim released 2011 and that's also better than this. These are all games by Bethesda and older than 10 years.

[@TheAsdasd6699]

What? You mean it's better than or at the same level as modded Skyrim? Because 10 years ago, Skyrim was already released and had some mods, I'm sure. Your argument doesn't make any sense unless you were born 10 years ago and don't know any games made before that date

[@tarkov_6]

It's an ok game, but a mediocre 2023 game.

[@K-ward]

exactly, its a 5 year old game on a 10 year old engine.

[@cblack3470]

bro look at diamond city from f4 that's almost ten years ago diamond city yes a city is about the size of a couple of landing pads in starfield, people just wana hate for no reason other than attention it's sad we finally have a good game before us, enjoy it.

[@johnlocke4715]

Don’t forget, you have to input your own FOV slider into the game as the developers were too lazy to do so.

[@sunnyjim1355]

That's such a trivial issue that I wouldn't even have bothered mentioning it, myself.

[@AG-cg1nf]

⁠​⁠@@sunnyjim1355 That’s such a trivial comment that I wouldn’t even have bothered mentioning it, myself.

[@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen]

That's been a standard for Bethesda games for so long I'm surprised people are even bothering to complain. You get a base on an upgraded engine and then you mod it into being good.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@sunnyjim1355 it's such a trivial issue yet the devs are so incompetent they haven't been able to figure it out for a decade.

[@sunnyjim1355]

@@kiwismurf4536 Yeah, you're right... as I grew up having to write DOS batch files and configure IRQs etc to get a game to work... so stating such here is a totally valid viewpoint. Vindicated.

[@Guanjyn]

Looks like something I’ll pick up on a Steam sale in a couple of years.

[@chrisw6164]

I waited two years on Fallout 76 and bought it for nothing. Played a total of 2 hours max.

[@Nerunium]

Or just pirate the thing...

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Same, I'll wait for the $20 game of the year edition in a few years and have ton of mods to choose from.

[@arturius9715]

It's actually pretty good, Mac just isn't getting it, even though he's not wrong about a lot of stuff he said

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Assuming they even bother to update it beyond bug fixing

[@Matstarx25]

This game should have been set in one or two handcrafted star systems with ability to roam in space and manually land from space to surface.

[@jordanmarazzi]

Facts! Not sure why they actual game developers can’t think of that 😂 fuck sake so happy I played games back in the day

[@JSsm987]

Yea, I was worried when they said 1000 planets.

[@ericsaari2901]

Ubisoft Star Wars. I'm surprised to put Ubi in the mix, but the gameplay of that looked great - better than this anyway. Seamless ship travel surface to space, vehicles, handcrafted environments. Their technology for scaling and loading is admittedly great. That is a game I put on my radar, but all the lead up to this game I could tell it was pretty much what Mack said. Can't believe people bought it.

[@Flyeaglesfly215]

Not gonna lie akila city, new Atlantis and neon hlare packed full with side quest, I've been in neon for like 5 hours selling aura and joining the strikers gang lol

[@VoltanIgor]

Which is pretty much The Outer Worlds tbh :) That was pretty damn good.

[@cyanide7270]

Starfield is the result of Bethesda asking if they can copy No Mans Sky and Star Citizens homework, then proceeds to take a piss on it.

[@mattlucas992]

This game costs $120 in Australia, which inexplicably seems to be the new standard price for "AAA" games here.

[@HeiseSays]

Inflation!

[@suspicioustumbleweed4760]

Shouldn’t have banned guns and vaping

[@MrFireSpy]

@@suspicioustumbleweed4760 Nah we're good mate, It's nice to be able to pop to the shops and never think about being shot at, as for vaping, fuck I wish they'd ban it, And the $120 is just for the base game, the "special" version is priced at $170.

[@suspicioustumbleweed4760]

@@MrFireSpy rage and seethe

[@stribs311]

@@MrFireSpythe guns part has a lot more to do with demographics. Just don't let the aboriginals have guns.

[@mr.crumbles2557]

One of my favorite things to do in skyrim was to wander and explore random, totally unrelated locations on the way to a quest marker.. from the reviews ive seen of starfield it seems you pretty much have to navigate a bunch of menus and fast travel everywnere

[@TheOriginal_BigMac]

Bumping into a Frost Troll as a level 4 was a genuinely terrifying ordeal

[@1Jack22]

it's all small-medium size locations that you travel through menu, there is no open world. Sadly, it's not Skyrim in space.

[@R8M3N25]

It is almost a loading simulator. And thats exactly the reason why you need a SSD. Just pick up the MS pc pass and play this shite for 10€ a month. Thats a fair price for the Fallout Space Mod.

[@tchewy]

You don't need to open menus to fast travel, use the scanner on your ship and fly to places

[@soulrebel6309]

Speaking of Skyrim😅, I never know if I should enter random caves, because I dont know if they're connected to quests. Should I just say F it, and explore them anyway? Any info would be appreciated

[@jamesli9380]

So basically if you don't put enough perks in, you can't get rep which severely limits your bank.

[@HealthyCriticism]

Also the lack of nitrous is insulting

[@ninjainnameonly-6902]

🤣

[@jtraimundo]

lol repppp xD

[@peterpan6821]

😂

[@stephendiggines9122]

Bethesda is the original perkmaster, must be Macks first time.

[@fenomenopepe1159]

Bethesda fan and old gamer here: I want to say something about this review: Based and truth review. The game is souless, yes, lacks soul. Oblivion has soul, Morrowind has soul, even fucking Skyrim has soul.

[@fenomenopepe1159]

Ok, here is the debriefing. I ended starfield and tried elite dangerous, but that game is too fucking dificult to play, also look old gen, so i returned to starfield playing the after ending save i lefted. Sad thing but game are getting worse day by day.

[@dragonforks93]

Bethesda no longer make games, they make mod platforms.

[@TheCrazyCartModChannel]

this

[@yetanotherrandomviewer]

I agree with this statement.

[@bobloblaw2958]

I think that's exactly what this is, it's a shell that is waiting to be filled in. A good mod community could turn it into something however.

[@marksargeant1019]

They always have tbh that’s their greatest strength.

[@stevegee8010]

@@marksargeant1019 To be fair, they made games that were highly moddable. But this is like the OP says, just an engine that needs to be modded to make a game.

[@baldr2510]

Remember the old GTA games from early 2000's. You could take a train at a train station and have it go around the map / city. 20 years later we get a loading screen...

[@novvez]

Remember the old GTA games from early 2000's where NPC's ran away from you in terror when you pointed the gun at them.

[@SENATORPAIN1]

20 yrs later the train station is the size of gta 3s map.

[@gabrielfmm]

@@SENATORPAIN1 and still sucks compared to the ogs lol

[@michaelweston409]

We’re reverting back

[@ichrismoku]

Oh my God dude I loaded up GTA III for the feels yesterday and that was THE FIRST THING I DID. Ran out from my hideout, up the stairs, waited for the train and took a trip to Chinatown! We truly have gone backwards.

[@waterdose1]

nice indie game. hope it comes out of early access soon!

[@Elburion]

They could have made half the star systems and really put in more work on making them unique. Handcrafted dungeons, more settlements. I worry about ES6

[@Chevifier]

"A made a woman because all the men look feminine" Solving problems with logic I love it😂

[@davewarwicker2512]

Anyone would think there was a link between wokeness and soulless?

[@profanemagic5671]

@@davewarwicker2512 you can slap a dick on your chicks in bg3 and that game's pretty good.

[@IJJusion]

I'm all for making female characters when you want to, but I find it odd that he had to pretend they all looked feminine, while in the background as he says that is a bald man pictured - never heard of baldness being a feminine trait. Edit: I suppose I should have written more considering the amount of replies, that bald man pictured as he said this didn't look feminine to me - but if that looks feminine to you, all good!

[@hellotherekenobi2156]

​​@@IJJusionA facial structure/features can still be feminine in spite of being bald

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

@@IJJusion Most Hasidic female Jews are bald. (by design)

[@twentygoodmen]

it's wild how many modern gamers today embrace mediocrity Starfield looks and plays like a game that came out 10 years ago

[@rundown132]

Lmao sad truth, but then again it's probably because the bar is so low nowadays with all the half-baked releases

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@rageplayer20so did Bioshock Infinite and GTA V.

[@sunnyjim1355]

it's wild how many modern people today embrace mediocrity, so....

[@carbonstar9091]

Let's be fair. Games that came out 10 years ago were way better than most of the stuff coming out today.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

AAA has been so bad for so long , younger folks have just got used to 2nd rate games , many don't even get upset about major bugs etc , half finished games , I don't even argue with them

[@MrLuridan]

7:07 “a million quid for a swivel chair on your spaceship!” Killed me

[@Democritus8181]

The Biggest killer of the AAA games industry, is grey men in suits, rather than a ponytailed nerd throwing in his passion all day behind a computer desk.

[@nickv1212]

Well, it's also grey men in suits forcing the passionate nerds to burn themselves out. But it seems Bethesda doesn't even have them. All their nerds are doing is making the knick knacks look the knackiest. Bethesda is anti-substance.

[@proximacentauri3358]

Grey men in suits are nerds evolved to those mens

[@noneofyourbuisness2539]

​@thomasov2004straight over your head, eh? The grey men aren't the evolution of the nerds. Most of them never played an actual good game, you're lucky if they've even bothered to play some mainstream shite the 'AAA' publishers charge a fortune for. AAA games are for the benefit of one set of people only, and it isn't people who enjoy games, it's investors.

[@Chuked]

@@noneofyourbuisness2539the last good AAA game I played was probably Doom Eternal and RDR2

[@compostsmurf5519]

​@@proximacentauri3358grey men in suits are usually the jocks that bullied ppl for gaming decades ago

[@OkamiToge]

I'm still scratching my head at how they could not add a moon rover or space bicycle at the least just something, they could have reskinned the janky Skyrim horse into a 4-legged robot or hover bike.

[@SongOfStorms411]

They can’t do real vehicles because of their ancient engine. And even if they could, increased speed would highlight how small the maps are, again, because of ancient engine.

[@Chtulhu_Mustermann]

@@SongOfStorms411 entirely off that engine argument, it'd just be a lot of work to arrange/rework the maps for that to be implemented without new problems, that was reason enough if you look at the rest

[@Shadowbanned_On_YouTube]

​@@SongOfStorms411LoL.! If your sprint bonus is to high in Elder Scrolls Online you'll break the game, which isn't hard to do...

[@Irregular_John]

Add to the above answers the fact that all planets look barren as hell. Tumbleweed is all that missing in them.

[@eldenringer6466]

The lack of vehicles is....odd. and telling.

[@theandroids]

I got a refund. Loading screen for travel, taking off, landing, going up ladders, opening doors... What is this 1996?!

[@JazmanGames]

Close! Engine is based on Gamebryo which released in 1997.

[@kadashiuzubara2226]

Lol 1996 had better games

[@lucixer]

Your able to fast travel without going to the pause menu… just press the scan button and it fast travels

[@Elemental-l9i]

The loading screen just to get into your spaceship is unforgivable

[@lucifer0247]

Tell me an RPG Game where you can freely fly with your space ship and even built your own? And I again ask for an RPG @@Elemental-l9i

[@icedsmoke]

I’m only 6 hours into it. And the reason is because I understood all you are saying immediately. When leaving the mine I was expecting a huge intro like oblivion when you leave the cave, or when fallout you leave the shelter. This is tragic.

[@conyo985]

IKR! Basically you're a chosen one and your boss just slightly irritated that you just have to leave because someone said so. LOL!

[@isleeg]

no dragons, no nuke, only touching a metal piece of shit.

[@fcukugimmeausername]

Yup. It is an bad as I was worried it would be. I just can't believe that they would spend all these years working on what was CLEARLY a bad idea.

[@RRP801]

So them not panning the camera out for 5 seconds is tragic

[@icedsmoke]

@@RRP801 not that. The panning the the camera and majestic music was all complementary to the sense of awe of the sight of the world. I thought i was certainly getting that when on the ship, but the ship doesn’t even move. Even in space you press w and you literally don’t go anywhere. Space is just another small sandbox of vacuum with pictures of planets and moons you can’t get to. That’s what I meant by tragic. It’s not Skyrim in space. It’s something else.

[@sumthing24]

Yeah, the problem with the ships is you really don’t have anywhere to fly them. Hope in your ship take off into space then you have to just open the star map up and fast travel. It would be a lot better if it had a similar system to elite dangerous where you actually fly the ship to where you are going. Because at the moment they are basically a doctor who tardis.

[@Nisunsu]

How exhausting would it have been to manually embark on each mission, launch your ship into space, plan your course like a elite dangerous, travel through the solar system for 10 -20 dam minutes to reach the mission's target planet? I'd rather not.

[@EmergencyChannel]

​@@NisunsuYou could fast travel, us that enjoy space sims and actual roleplaying could fly, just give us the option.

[@xStarblazer]

@@Nisunsubingo. The novelty honestly of flying off a planets surface would get old to me. I’m not making excuses, but with a space game you’re gonna have to have fast travel. So what, launch of the planet into space and then hit hyperspeed/warp/grab jump or whatever fast travel? But then what’s the point of that, you’re just adding an extra step.

[@vaengr2695]

@@xStarblazer the idea is to design it like you would a normal bethesda game, having intersting content to do within space as opposed to random ship encounters, its the reason why no one complains about fast traveling in skyrim, because there is compelling things to gain from exploring the map. bethesda should have known going into making a game in space that ppl would expect proper space travel in that format

[@Deadsmegma]

It's not a space sim

[@Saith516]

Most reviewers are being so, so gentle with this game. Thanks for being honest.

[@Frost_Saber]

Yeah I ended up watching several as I was shocked by the positivity of the first one, the more you see the worse it gets.

[@JiriJustra]

I am just watching Force Gaming review and he is literally dancing around every talking point. It is almost hilarious.

[@igorthelight]

Small tip: if you hear that KZbinr got a copy from a publisher - close the browser tab ;-)

[@Captainrave]

Most reviewers worked out half the stuff that Mack couldn’t 😂

[@treywar25]

it’d be nice if he actually explained what he didn’t like other than the traveling part…. keeps saying things look ugly but doesn’t get specific, says it’s lifeless when he’s not even trying to talk to npcs, and doesn’t elaborate on why space combat sucks. Didn’t Bethesda say the game had the most dialogue by far? He didn’t do a good job reviewing it, but I haven’t seen any other reviews.

[@sittingdingo1]

I saw Red Flags in official promo vids where Devs proudly announced how detailed their Sandwich models were. Seriosly, thats not something to highlight.

[@dreyga2]

the characters are a red flag, not the sandwich. You can't make rpg with ESG characters.

[@konakoffee00]

Oh, but it's not just ANY sandwich.... it's LE Sandwich...

[@Ignatius_C]

Did they really? One of the worst animations I noticed was an NPC "eating" a sandwich lmao

[@GB_Rusty]

I almost didn't watch this review as I'm kind of liking Starfield at the moment. But... you've hit the nail on the head. I've realised I'm not twitching to play it when I'm not. I should be dreaming of the places I can go to and the things I want to do, but I'm not. However I've not hit any bugs yet in 8 or 9 hours of gaming time. There's that, I suppose.

[@B.L.S.]

It just works.

[@lukemurphy6244]

They've lost the magic.

[@martymcyourflysdown6872]

I think the games good but there’s always someone who rushed thru it who says it sucks. Early access starts: *48 goes by* “I’ve played for 40 hours and the game sucks” ..Well if it’s only been out for 48 hours and you’ve already beat the game then I take your opinion with a full plate of salt 🧂

[@POTBELLY15]

@@lukemurphy6244you’ve just grown up.

[@POTBELLY15]

This game plays a bit differently from other Bethesda games but that feeling is still there. There’s SO MUCH you can do that you can start whenever. I mean ffs this one dude on the subreddit went straight to neon and started smuggling drugs as a career to buy bigger and better ships. It’s INSANE how much is packed in here

[@BitsBytesBobs]

I agree totally with your feelings on this. At first I thought it was just me not getting it. Surely the hype and the 10's it received meant something, but no, not at all. I wonder their game dev platform is not up to scratch. It actually looks and plays like a 10 year old game. Maybe that is what some mean when giving it a 10!

[@Grand1Admiral]

Haha, this is so spot on. It is so generic as to be boring

[@yourmom9200]

Show me a game from 2013 that looks like Starfield.

[@andrejz8954]

@@yourmom9200 Crysis from 2007

[@OrlandoShroom]

@@yourmom9200Aliens: Colonial Marines

[@miguelroman4294]

​@@andrejz8954don't, you can't compare. Rpg and first person shooter are very different

[@Mannu385]

Almost bought the Premium Edition to play it earlier, so glad I decided to wait for your review, you saved me 85 quid, Mac. Nobody mentioned in their reviews what you mentioned here. Thanks, buddy!

[@conyo985]

Everyone was bought Even my most trusted ACG! So disappointed.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Synthetic Man is also probably gonna be scathing in his review, though he's a lot edgier.

[@yewtewbstew547]

Yeah always wait now. Even if you think it's a sure thing, the game can't possibly be bad ... just wait a few days anyway lol.

[@sinephase]

Me too, I was really getting the itch but I've learned my lesson in general but especially when it comes to Bethesda LOL

[@mraso30]

@@conyo985 The game is actually good though, these people weren't bought, Mack just hates on basically everything (if you somehow haven't noticed). He's gonna go play NMS instead. That game freaking sucks overall, it has better use of a spaceship, and literally everything else about it other than that is worse than Starfield, yet, somehow he wants to play that, instead of putting skill points into actual useful perks and getting the most out of Starfield. ACG actually knows how to play video games, so, he didn't make the dumb mistake Mack did, putting all his skill points into "combat". Who does that early on into an RPG? Who the heck plays an RPG and not read all the perks when they get their first skill point and try to prioritize things that are actually useful, like lock picking and persuasion and carry capacity, etc. you save combat for mid or late game.. It is like he never played a Bethesda RPG before because they ALL have advanced and master locks that you can't open without putting skill points into lock picking, the reason those locks are so hard to open is because there is some really freaking good loot behind them and you gotta work for a while and get later in the game to get to it, that's how these games are made, you can't do literally everything in the first 10 hours. Seems like he went astray on some random crappy quests or late game quests and got disappointed that he wasn't rewarded for playing the game without any real sense of direction himself, like he WANTED to have his hand held in this game, for some reason, yet when other games do it, that is a flaw of those games... But if a game requires thought on his end, it is also crap. This guy likes the worst games honestly, and has shat all over some real gems. I've listened to this idiot for probably 8 years, he's cynical the entire time, basically can't enjoy anything, but the few games he does enjoy a lot, like No Man's Sky apparently... Leaves me scratching my head. Valheim too, remember the Valheim hype, best game he'd ever played in his life it seemed like, I hated that game so much I thought it was so bad and over-hyped. I don't even like Starfield a ton or nothing, just think it is a solid game that is getting way more flack than deserved, but I feel his issues with it are all pointless except I do wish it had in atmosphere flight, and proper take offs / landing, but then I'm not so sure, I think I'd just fast travel after a while anyways... It would be a nice novelty though, for sure, just not sure if it actually would make the game better..

[@VRGamingTherapy]

Imagine. We have the technology to have MASSIVE open worlds & immersive npc's, rich story telling & beautiful graphics. Bethesda decides to continue to use the same 25 year old engine & do the exact opposite. Shame.

[@sirderpsalot]

That and have poor optimisation.

[@Garycarlyle]

We even have AI that can write 1000 characters in minutes. There is no excuse for this game.

[@Shadowbanned_On_YouTube]

Bro.! It just works...

[@_Luluko_]

I can overlook loading screens and not super realistic graphics if you get an easiely moddeable game for that. But if the base game isnt appealing its quite likely modders will not bother with the game. Well at least we can hope Skywind will come out one day.

[@Garycarlyle]

@@_Luluko_ I think thats all its about. An easy cash-in. Bethesda know modders will make content for it but it could have been mods for any other game. Its not especially made for modding like ARMA is.

[@breikio]

Maybe its just me, but I cant believe nobody has mentioned the UI in Starfield. Like the perk tree section - just a few colors put together as background with icons? It looks like a Junior year power point presentation.

[@dav3bassman]

You are right, the UI is terrible like Skyrim :') whoever made sky UI needs to get on this asap lol

[@BrigadeShip]

They were trying to meet the deadline so they called Greg from university to put it together real quick.

[@mateoreyes6921]

It remind me of the ui from Resident Evil 4 Remake, being just grey boxes

[@natel7382]

Bethesda devs know modders will fix their issues.

[@Cronus_1]

For sure. I feel like this was the dev screen, but they didn't have the time to polish it, so it just is what it is. All I could think was it was a DOS based UI.

[@JeremyBX]

First rule of immersion is never take a way control from the player...

[@Spookyboy]

Todd forgot he was making a space game Mack

[@Alduizard]

Bcz there's only one way of making a space game.

[@eldenringer6466]

Todd knows exactly what he was making. He was and is always making...money.

[@zedzuzuz]

There was one quest where I had to help an npc weld. All it was a prompt to press on a welder, and then it explained to me that I welded…… no animation, no movement, just an info box saying I welded………

[@ftniceberg874]

Don't want to scare the pronoun people away thinking about work and jobs 😂🤣

[@knowwhoiamyet]

@@ftniceberg874 what a weird and irrelevant shoehorn...

[@JohnSmith-cz3us]

@@ftniceberg874did they make this game woke? Is that why it’s trash? Did this company lose their talent and hire these types?

[@apk4381]

@knowwhoiamyet Just like the whole pronouns agenda being shoved down our throats by the rejects of society 🫠

[@michaelweston409]

@@JohnSmith-cz3usit’s the gay agenda

[@fungooloo12]

Mac missed one thing, something he hasn't even encountered yet but when he does the fan will become so brown it will never spin again. You know that when you land on a planet that landing spot is also a box that is about 8km by 8km I think. When you run from your ship you will eventually hit the edge of the box, an invisible wall and you cannot transition by foot to the next box. If you then teleport back to your ship and try and choose a landing zone just on the edge of that new box you couldn't walk into (good luck doing that) then the ship loads into that new box but it looks nothing like what you saw looking into this new box when you were at the edge of the old box, it is regenerated. So talk about immersion breaking. The game has nothing in it at all that I see as being worth it especially for the $120 Aussie dollars they are asking, no way. I agree with Mac, 15 pounds or $30 AUD is about all it is worth.

[@CragScrambler]

Yeah someone did that on stream, they landed as close as possible to the one of the city's and walked to the edge of the tile to see if they could see the city, they couldn't.

[@docthomas8717]

​@@The_Noticer.For one area of one planet. And they are still winning about it

[@desireless4092]

dude this sounds horribad... So it is a basically a fake open world game. You have dynamically contained areas that are randomized each time thus breaking the illusion you are in a living, breathing world. You know I'd rather the static areas like in Mass Effect. Yes, I know it is not real that thing over yonder but it looks cool, the city is always there and brimming with life and moving ships, cars and whatnot. Maybe Star Citizen is the only game with this deep level of immersion but this project is ever evolving enigma that I am not sure will see an official release.

[@misapheonix]

@@desireless4092 Star Citizen is a FAR better game, yeah! Altho it's a direct opposite in terms of design; all the mechanics you could ever dream of using in ANY game, while not acheieving even 0.0001% of a story, nor content, that Bethesda can produce. We are yet to see ANY game with a strong connection of both these design philosophies. Apparently, we dont have the technology yet lmao

[@desireless4092]

@@misapheonix I mean space opera is hard genre to make into a game it seems or at least make it run wild. I don't expect Farscape or Star Trek magnitude or level of exploration, but a new Mass Effect with interesting story, characters, awesome gameplay and some exploration with today's tech - I can totally get behind it. No need to go above and beyond - just make a good damn game without gimmicks and sales pitch....

[@patrickhenry9238]

Just play outer worlds. Smaller world but more heart n soul

[@AndScrambledEggs]

A lot of people on the Starfield subreddit are having a massive cry about this review. They are still at stage 1 of the grieving process (denial) about how the game turned out.

[@Archangelm127]

Let me guess, anyone who speaks up to them gets banned?

[@cartermoth6447]

@@TheFreedyShow Seriously? They make the most on-rails safe shlock for reviewers who play on easy mode. "Cinematic"... & barely a video game. I'm all for criticizing modern media but not when someone inserts "rival company is so much better! trust me bro!" into the conversation.

[@stickstu2866]

It's Reddit, most users are afraid of their own shadow and have no life 🙃

[@twodyport8080]

Reddit... enough said.

[@gdgd5194]

Same people who attack bg3 critics. They will defend every game that is marketed as "the most popular". And starfield currently is the most popular, it is better than bg3 (steam stats).

[@ZeZeko]

"Critics love it." says enough

[@edwardarnett9815]

So true 😆

[@devking321]

What critics love it lol? IGN, Gamespot?

[@ZeZeko]

@@devking321 yes, the "critics" 😂

[@devking321]

@@ZeZeko I didn’t know 7/10 meant love it

[@andreiandrei2708]

Exploration (which for me was the selling point) is just a map with invisible walls based on the region you're in, you can see mountains or sea but never touch , you'll never go further than the "box" as Mack says, ridiculous... Another game which falls in the category "there is so much potential but they choosed the easy way of not doing it and invested into marketing insted". After Blizzard this are going to the drain too.

[@Cenot4ph]

Thats such a joke, i cant believe Todd did it again 😂

[@UranusfromBrussels]

Brother I don't know how I got here, but I laughed my ass off after a hard day's work and gym. Just thanks mate and my best wishes ^^

[@pimpatterson]

something you didnt mention in your review, if you run past all enemies and go to a loading screen door, then go back, all the enemies are already dead...

[@Vert_GreenHeart]

Whaaaat ?

[@sunnyjim1355]

They probably all commited Seppuku then, for a shameful display.

[@Cenot4ph]

😂 is this for real. The demo presentation they did was genius tbh. They made it look good

[@mraso30]

@@Cenot4ph I don't see why this would be true at all honestly, no Bethesda game did this before, I haven't seen it yet, and I have snuck past enemies... No clue what this guy is talking about but maybe for certain missions or quests it does happen.. Not sure.

[@josephdeneka666]

@@mraso30 its because the old lady following you around is invincible and just kills them all. you don't need to do any combat you can just hide behind a desk while your invincible follower kills everything.

[@Colonel_Mustsard]

this game cost $400,000,000 and 9 years to make, yet is being praised for basic RPG features awkwardly pushed alongside what just feels like early concepts for game mechanics. They could have left out all the procedurally generated stuff and should have included more handcrafted environments.

[@tanork47]

It reminds me of the OuterWorlds without the world charm that game had. It had boxes but those boxes were worlds you can explore.

[@Colonel_Mustsard]

@@tanork47 Starfield has literally got me playing Outerworlds again. It’s such a good game & I’m not entirely sure why it was disliked so much on release! I think a lot of people don’t have an issue with world boundaries but at least in a game that isn’t procedurally generated they can make the boundaries make sense, right?

[@Ziplock9000]

Yep you can tell which reviewers are too scared to tell the truth. They don't want to miss out on review keys next time

[@UGPSSR]

400000000???? Are you serious right now?

[@alexy.3512]

@@UGPSSR After doing some digging, the number appears to be correct. They've got a long way ahead to break even, not considering the fact that they didn't appear to invest any money into their own outdated and inferior engine.

[@thegamingworld100]

"I can slow down shit and make shit go shitty" - Mac 2023

[@recon4085]

Todd has surpassed himself. This is indeed his greatest achievement in bland games.

[@ancientnpc]

Listening to this basically summed up my posts for the past 3 months, since the "showcase". The dev team told everybody it was wallpaper and instances and no one listened, in fact they went into denial and kept talking about "exploration" and "discovery" Mack has summed it up so well as usual.

[@desireless4092]

I am actually impressed. He will make a great politician with his snake oil merchant skills

[@jackastor5265]

@@desireless4092 Todd Howard needs to be fired. He needed to be fired a long time ago.

[@desireless4092]

@@jackastor5265 I am interested to see Crowbcat video too. It is always entertaining as hell when he makes internet go big mad. As for Todd - doubt it. Dude can sell you bottled air and the Bethesdrones will run you over to go and buy it. And just dare to say anything but positivity about it.

[@jackastor5265]

@@desireless4092 Bethesda has made a lot of fans over the years with titles like Elder Scrolls and Fallout, and rightfully so, but that makes something like this all the more disappointing.

[@DingbatToast]

Mack, you need to work your way up Tods perk tree if you want to get a key

[@zzzdartfrogzzz]

and get paid xD

[@rvh1999]

LOL 😂👌

[@argentest]

It feels like Starfield has gotten into the age-old trap of open world games, which is quantity over quality :(

[@GeraltofRivia22]

It's especially sad because Bethesda is literally known for their quality open worlds. That's why people play their games.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

THEY made Open World-games, dear kiddo!

[@mcride9773]

​@@GeraltofRivia22they havent been good since skyrim

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@mcride9773 Starfield was their chance to show they still had that Bethesda magic after the mess of Fallout 4 and 76. Clearly they don't.

[@alexandrep4913]

It's not really open world, it's more like open isolated levels.

[@rugoshath]

Still trying to force myself to play through it. Glad you share my feelings towards this game. What a shame. At least there's always Star Citizen, who should hit beta by 2039

[@JINGWA64]

even in its current bug filled alpha state its more fun, more beautiful, more immersive etc etc, so when it works and all comes together despite 90% the game not even being implemented yet... it feels AAA++++ and my $50 bucks feels like i got a $1000 worth of goodies, but more often then not it feels like i only got my $50bucks worth due to all the bugs and issues, but the fact i feel like i get my moneys worth every major advance forward it makes and on the odd occasion things become a epic masterpiece, overtime makes me feel like i gotten allot more bang for my buck then i actually put in... and every 12 months so much changes... so yea i can forgive the long road to beta... plus ive coded my own games myself, made all the art, animations myself for them... so like i said almost a decade ago... starcitizen probably wouldn't reach beta until 2026-2027, based of my own experience making games... assuming they intend to make a legit AAA game as outlined, so were they are at now fits roughly with my expectations... the only thing i can fault them on is leading ur average backer like a carrot on a stick... i know why they did it, because telling ur average backer wait 15 years for beta... but dont worry u will have early access to walk inside ur ship in a few years... = that doesnt sound very good = carrot on a stick time... again dont agree with this, but i can understand the why... most gamers are lets face it stupid, its why the list of top grossing games is full of **** games, made by **** devs and **** companies, only possible due to fact most gamers are stupid... meanwhile star field... yea... if it released at 0$ id give it a good review for what its "worth" and if they charged $20 and said early access, id be like yea okay, i will give it a thumbs up assuming its got another 2 years of active development lined up and its not going to be hardly different in 12 months, but major progres has been made, yea sure, i will give it optimistic review... but starfield isnt that... so the only thing to look forward to as is the majority consensus = the mods, which im still waiting to see if its worth me investing the time to raise the skull and bones or not 6 months latter, because i already got other games ium currently playing that are better then starfield and other games that with confidence look to be better as well, that also cost less... so yea... might be a while before i care about starfield.... think i waited almost 10 years to buy skyrim on sale after my skull and bones expedition back in the day which left me saying "meh, u want how much for this game lol??" and i can safely say after picking it up almost for free and installing the mods, it was well worth it, but on release... hell no. As for fallout 4... after my skull and bones expidition... even after receiving them for free, including the VR version... i dont even want to touch them with mods... my VR playtime is 54 minutes and it was hell, i would have asked for a refund... but well i got it for free. its also hilarious todd took a jab at starcitizen and... then basically failed to deliver a single planet, because the planets dont even exist in starfield other then as a jpeg or 3d model u cant land on, you have nothing more then a number of levels /missions u can load as a specific biome types, that dont actually even piece together to = a planet and the so called "space" in this game doesnt fair much better either, so in actuality the didnt even deliver a single planet, perhaps a very small moon if u stitch every "level" together maybe? and remove the loading screens? im probably being optimistic there as well, but who cares if its "good"... the problem is as any sane individual has pointed out, like urself and i agree... its not. though mods im pretty sure will change this around... not sure if thats worth being happy about though if one spent money on the game though, as that $$$ really should go to the modders and not Bethesda as they basically just supplied a poor mans unreal engine 2.

[@borgestheborg]

If you don't enjoy it, don't play it. "force myself" ffs...

[@lostree1981]

@@JINGWA64 No way is anyone reading this essay of petty grudges. I'm sorry that happened to you, or, congratulations on whatever it is you wrote about.

[@steviedee9826]

@@borgestheborg He's full of shite. He enjoys it, but wants KZbin updoots to satisfy his ego.

[@ItsNothingAmazing]

​@@lostree1981 haven't read it properly but I think it's meant to be a copypasta.

[@Feneture]

10:40 Shooting the Pirate, who has no reaction at all! "Come on!... Forget this!" The Pirate said exactly what I was thinking 😂

[@Pavl9k]

Just based on that I will not even think about getting the game...

[@vorlon123]

"Must have been the wind"

[@Feneture]

@@vorlon123 "I used to be an adventurer like you, and then I took an asteroid to the knee!"

[@leandro4552]

@@Pavl9k Exactly my thoughts.

[@92Langers]

All i've wanted for years now is a new Elder scrolls game that filled me with the same joy that Oblivion and Skyrim did what feels like a lifetime ago now. However, after seeing Bethesda's track record over the last few years I think i'm finally going to have to let that dream die. It seems they are intellectually and creatively incapable of creating even an 8/10 game now, never mind a masterpiece.

[@Humiliator115]

Dont worry mate, Skybliovion and Beyond skyrim got you covered. Maybe its not "new", but its as close to new as it can get these days.

[@rusteddenial453]

Just plat baldurs gate 3 man

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@rusteddenial453 that's a totally different style of game and no matter how good it is, a top down CRPG is never gonna capture that feeling of immersion like the old Bethesda games.

[@SolarisKane]

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon has potential, check it out.

[@IncredibleHulk-lq9jt]

I one hundred percent agree with you! Why they went this route with this dumbass game I'll never understand. They should have made elder scrolls 6 in the vein of Oblivion and Skyrim and everyone would have been super happy with that, but no instead they had to go with a stupid 70's style futuristic?? space explorer bulshit game that no one..absolutely no one asked for!

[@GordonGarvey]

The saddest part of this is that it probably means es6 is gonna be the same. I kinda knew the whole countless planets to discover was gonna be a gimmick, and had no faith in that discovering the mysteries of the universe story they were presenting.

[@Jack-ux1ow]

Tbh that's the way it goes each time Bethesda release a game. It just gets more simplistic than the previous one and people still eat it up

[@grahamt19781]

Imo Skyrim mods will be the downfall of ES6. After playing Starfield I'm convinced that Bethesda will simply not be able to beat Skyrim with mods via ES6.

[@wutdafeezi]

The saddest part is Microsoft buying Bethesda. Now have to resort to Microsoft's demands and won't have the fundamental creative freedom of making a good game

[@alexmurphy5289]

After fallout 76 I gave up on elder scrolls forever and also a lot of gaming in general. It just isn’t the same anymore for me at 32

[@chaos_baron]

No, ES6 will be much different. The world of Tamriel is already set, so whichever area the game will take place in will be a new, vast discovery sense of feeling. They couldn't make it disjointed even if they tried.

[@thewise3551]

Its sold though, and you cant refund after 2 hours. So the lesson for developers is hype is more important than the game. Hype makes money.

[@flipsutter1]

Man your reviews. I love them!! Thank you for making this lol!!

[@panzerfaustwot8530]

No threat to Baldurs Gate III becoming Game of the Year

[@vladimer7153]

Totk will be

[@Michael-hc2vs]

@@vladimer7153no

[@Tyriewoodcraft]

Its pretty self evident that corporate greed and laziness has taken away true talent from the gaming industry, theyve clearly learned how to market well and deliver the bear minimum just to strip peoples bank accounts, its day light robbery when we get this many loading screens in game in 2023

[@jaredbangerter8156]

Thank goodness Baldurs Gate 3 exists

[@annilator3000]

FYI, in the credits of the game, it looks like the game was subcontracted to 27 different studios lmfao

[@drinkflinger1473]

@@jaredbangerter8156buddy it’s turn based combat, we get it you played WOW with all the other antisocial losers

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

@whitmanmaleman Oh do grow up.

[@categorialimperative4182]

I don't know what kind of talent you're talking about, but the only Bethesda game that didn't look like an outdated piece of shit when it came out was Oblivion. A game with a lot of problems, but it could never be accused of being outdated.

[@sundin57]

Fantastic box rant. Loved it

[@Xighor]

I spent a couple min flying into the planet till i realised i am not actually moving and i have to teleport through the menu..

[@chr1srugby]

Did you actually set a marker down to check the distance changing? It takes a LONG time to get to places manually given how huge the distances are. I need to test this myself as I've seen this complaint a couple of times but others have said they've done it. The starting engines don't go particularly fast either so perhaps that's why.

[@kitkat5465]

@@chr1srugby no the planets aren’t real they are just pictures. It takes like 7 hrs to fly to a planet then you just fly straight through it because it’s just a jpeg.

[@dustinberthold962]

You bring up an excellent point! So often, have we become accustomed to just checking off boxes. I miss the days of immersion; where you actually care about your character, and get lost into the world. Structured Sandbox with heart, soul and choice is the answer!

[@retroarcadefan]

I'll take a good mostly linear rpg with a great plot over something like this.

[@polystrate1]

@@retroarcadefan i'm looking at sea of stars

[@Dragoninja833]

I feel like most devs (or publishers) have completely given up on innovation. Everyone before them had once choice: innovate or fail. Nowadays they just copy the same old crap and recycle each others ideas and no one innovates anymore.

[@polystrate1]

@@Dragoninja833 indies are where it is at. Cheaper games and usually much more interesting.

[@Chtulhu_Mustermann]

@OP Is that a Chatbot comment?

[@Perriax]

Fast map travel kills immersion, also in the old games.

[@EVERYDAYGames00]

This ain't no man's sky 😂

[@HoovaHee]

But if it wasn't in the game people would complain about it taking too long to travel between places and planets."Why do I have to sit and steer my spaceship for 30 minutes just to get to another planet" would be the main complaint then.

[@iddra1868]

​@@HoovaHeeYou know you can have both?

[@SolarisKane]

Fast travel is fine when the world is open and immersive. Remember, you can always not use it. Here in Starfield though it's mandatory.

[@zidan40o0]

having it as an option is fine, building the game around it is not. @@HoovaHee

[@Brandon-rc9vp]

This should be required viewing for all bethesda investors and employees

[@rpa4110]

Another playthrough of Baldurs Gate it is, thank you.

[@mrdato116]

Baldurs gate only 3rd person sadly. No immersion and no open world.

[@RonhozZ]

???? no immersion ? are you on crack mate ?

[@Kidge.6081]

Finally, the candid truth, while everyone else is fawning over the hype. When do they need hype? When they know that the game is shallow and won’t sell on its own once it’s released. When I saw how much money and time they were spending on hype the month before release when all hands should be on deck, I knew it was a bad sign.

[@retroarcadefan]

Of course they were going to spend a lot of money on marketing. They did for all their other games. That argument makes no sense.

[@anasevi9456]

Hardcore Bethesda fans, whom believe it or not mostly festered out of ESO, and not prior greats like Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind, are utterly nuts and will brigade anyone hard with harassment whom criticises anything directly related to their grand Cult of Zenimax. I am an old school Bethesda fan, and anytime someone like me tried to telegraph on the forums or reddit our concerns to the developers; we were shut down hard.

[@JasonLS1776]

I had a bad feeling when I heard other reviewers saying this was the best game ever. I said I better wait to see what Mac says.

[@djedwards8394]

Always wait for Mack I don't waste my finger strength to click on other reviewer videos

[@shivan2418]

That's not the reviews I saw. Most reviewers say that it's good but not great.

[@DayDream-RR]

@@shivan2418I’ve see a few videos that say it’s not a “space sim” like people thought but we should like it anyways

[@timmcdonald9873]

Who praised it that highly? I genuinely want to watch them

[@jkeebla]

when the review embargo was lifted, the IGN video gave it a 7/10. which is honestly too much, and the commenters got so piss angry. it's funny how IGN probably gave it a 7/10 at most because they wanted to please bethesda

[@tomolryify]

I really wanted this game to be great, but I'm 10 hours in... and this review is spot on. Had a bunch more fun playing Remnant 2.

[@ColeZero]

Same..but i am only in for 2-3 hours. At least it was in game pass, so i removed it. It's really soulless and boring, no immersion, no atmosphere, i spend more times in menu screens then in space in a space game.

[@robertlichtner4214]

Remnant 2 is almost perfect for what it is. And it's not even a full priced title. PC Performance is the only thing that sucks about it, but thats more of a general problem with new games, starfield included. Starfield is ok, it's definitely not bad, but nowhere near perfect in my opinion.

[@tut-4126]

Eyy, Remnant 2 rocks bro! XD

[@kneelb4chevelle]

Yup I'm still playing remnant 2 also. Screw Blahfield.

[@stanettiels7367]

4:43 This is why I loved Elite:Dangerous (until Frontier essentially ruined their own potential). Knowing if I wanted to get to a certain place (Guardian/Thargoid ruins) or to get to a certain engineer it would literally be a massive journey where you’d better make sure your ship was equipped for the task at hand otherwise you could add hours or even days (real time) to your journey. I remember getting to the engineer Ram Tah and it was an epic journey. Out alone in the black and just occasionally landing on a planet for some sightseeing or resource gathering.

[@sorearm]

Odysee completely fucked ED for me and I've not played it since. And I'm an OG elite player. Tragic

[@stanettiels7367]

@@sorearm Same here. I still occasionally jump in (haven’t for well over a year now I’m thinking) without Odyssey installed for the nostalgia, but that’s it. It is absolutely tragic.

[@sorearm]

@stanettiels7367 so disappointed. The grind was even worse. Fleet carriers were great and I enjoyed the xeno combat ... but the lack of VR support, no cross platform support, the sheer cba attitude from frontier. They killed the game and community.

[@stanettiels7367]

@@sorearm Yeah the grind was brutal. I remember researching what specific upgrades I was going to use for each engineer, then figuring out the amount of resource gathering was required to max roll the upgrade. Farming Jamesons crash site and Davs Hope was mind numbing. Then grinding for prismatic shields, etc. Then maxing my empire rank for the Imperial Cutter...it got tiresome. Especially when you add the unintuitive nature of the game and having to rely on EDDB (so sad they shut down) for any hope of being efficient. But the atmosphere, the ambience of the game kept me hooked. I enjoyed just chilling in an asteroid field and core mining with collector drones, then dumping a few hundred million units worth of materials (whatever materials were in demand and meta at the time). Really relaxing. I miss it badly.

[@Awfulrob]

@@sorearm I backed ED and have been playing of and on since Alpha. It's tragic the amount of potential they've wasted in that game

[@UBNshadow]

I knew it. This is why I didn't have high hopes with this game.

[@Treayom]

It seems to be a growing trend that "new AAA games " lead me back to 10 year old games. Diablo4 led me back to POE and now Starfield led me back to No Man's Sky.. 😂😂 I'm left with Silent Hill 2 and Cities Skylines 2 releasing in Oktober.. fingers 🤞

"It has sixteen times the boredom!"

[@ChibiViolin]

I used to think that the 'Bethesda boxes' were due to technical limitations but after seeing games like BG3 and RDR2 I know that can't be true. I think they've adopted the 'boxes' as their style as if it were charming or something. Truth is, it was barely forgivable in Skyrim, unacceptable F4 and a complete embarrassment in Starfield. Now, without an overworld to connect all the little boxes, it really been exposed for geriatric game design that it is.

[@alexmurphy5289]

Their entire engine is a complete embarrassment in 2023. Its the same pile of S over and over

[@generic_tough_guy.4830]

At least Skyrim is old af at this point. It's 2023 they can't make a game worth a damn

[@goudanuff6451]

That train in the city works the literal exact same way as the fucking carriage from Skyrim bro

[@Fwosto]

wtf does bg3 have to do with boxes? each map is extremely contained

[@OeilDeSang]

I'm so fond of the way that he starts the video calm and composed. Then, he slowly drifts and starts losing his mind.

[@JohnSmith-cz3us]

LOL I loved it bro. ❤. This is classic comedy. I’m dying right now.

[@michaelweston409]

Kinda like Hitler 😂

[@RacerRookie]

He becomes more and more irrational and compares it to world of warcraft, a pay to win subscription boring traditional mmo game... With tab targeting... EUGH. I take it he is a PS5 fan boy and just hates xbox and star field to be edgy. WoW is part of the reason games suck.

[@ItsNothingAmazing]

​​@@RacerRookie"PS5 fan boy" first of all, it's "fanboy", not "fan boy". Second, he's always hated consoles and preferred gaming on pc w/ keyboard and mouse so stop jumping to conclusions. You're clearly new here. Thirdly, if games suck then you should stop watching game related content.

[@justashibainu]

The moment I decided to refund Starfield was the moment I saw a cool looking mountain while exploring and started to walk towards it, only to get a pop up telling me I had reached the limit of the map and I had to go back to my ship and re-land if I wanted to explore that area. The lack of ground vehicles is another huge letdown, even Daggerfall let you ride a horse, but Starfield expects you to trudge across barren landscapes on foot just to hit an invisible wall. You also might find abandoned outposts or caves while exploring, but none of these locations have any unique characteristics and simply exist for the sake of filling space in otherwise empty maps.

[@fiery_transition]

If I have to guess, they totally pooped the technical decision of staying within their old modified game engine and after they already sunk years into it, they couldn't justify changing the underlying tech anymore and just went with it.

[@sejecem]

So you refunded Starfield in less than 2 hours? You haven't even really seen a tiny speck of it by then... What a waste!

[@H.Collector]

@@sejecem If you play more than 2 hours you can't refund anymore. Better safe than sorry, you can always buy again but you can refund only once.

[@zxbc1]

Modders will fix all those things. As for the boundary of exploration, they could have solved it within the engine limitation (just do hidden transitions, like all other games with similar engine limitations) but they also opted not to. It's entirely possible to have mods bridge that gap as well. This is a Bethesda game, it will suck until mods make it good.

[@BlueEagle669]

It's kinda funny and kinda sad how Bethesda is going backwards. "See that mountain over there? Yeah well you used to be able to climb it..." -Todd 2023

[@Tombonzo]

Thanks for the review Mac. I tried to talk my friend out of buying it. He didn’t listen and now he regrets his decision. I know Bethesda wanted to try something different, but it’s just “another” bland FPS. Unlike Mass Effect!

[@danielsetiawan8754]

Todd's words are ..... well it's todd

[@ThatToddGuy60]

I stand by my words

[@danielsetiawan8754]

@@ThatToddGuy60 the other Todd i mean XD

[@GeraltofRivia22]

He's literally a serial liar like Peter Molyneux but he's given a pass because reasons.

[@Cenot4ph]

​@@GeraltofRivia22100 percent, molyneux also turned out to be a thief. Godus debacle really exposed this ahole

[@0owmjapo0]

16x the lies

[@quacktuber1051]

I'll buy the Complete Edition for Series X 3 years from now that will include all the patches, all the 3 DLCs and I'll will install the graphics and FPS boost mods. I'll pay the Summer Sale price of $30. Looking forward to it.

[@TanukiDigital]

I don't know how Todd keeps fooling people. It says more about people, I think, than it does about Todd.

[@guiguijol]

People fooled themselves dude. How can one believe bethesda will ever create a good game again? And I mean it's not like that's the first time a dev team spends a lot of money into a promotional campaign to push the hype like crazy. CDPR did the same "you will be able to do this and that, it works, never been done before etc etc ...) the exact words I don't want to ear before buying a game. Look at Rockstar (like them or not) or Larian: They shut up and put the hard work, knowing only the result will speak for them, that's a fact. The players are the first responsible of the video game's downfall. Stop being a blind pigeon. 70$ isn't nothing. It's one entire week of food. people tend to forget the value of money and buy games like crazy. I always wait until I'm 100% sure the game is good. I bought BG3 yesterday. I'm having a blast X1000 as you can imagine.

[@Crobian]

Modern game devs know that they don't actually have to make a good game, they just have to make a pretty showcase then pay "influencers" to shill it. It's the new meta.

[@spencertomlin]

the real reviews are always here. Thank yo for saving me £60 on garbage. Its always bad when your hard drive does more traveling than you

[@jmon4286]

Your honesty is admirable when nowadays it feels like half the industry is bought by mega corporations.

[@varmastiko2908]

Half? More like 99%

[@lowserver2]

yeah, some reviewers were truly shameless

[@FullTimePRO]

As a fella that played skytim and FO4 extensively, I was really excited for that "feeling" in space, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand nope, not even a bit. It's as you said, click here, teleport, kill people, carry 10,000 guns out, quest over, click there, teleport home, repeat.

[@michaelweston409]

Same ol shit

[@billcarson818]

That seems to have some connection to how you play the game. Because what you said doesnt describe my many hours of experience in Starfield at all. :)

[@swiftbear]

After you've played Baldur's Gate 3 and play this it's just embarrassing. What Larian did with the story, companions, animations, character creation and NPC's in general really puts the Starfield team to shame.

[@johncollins8471]

Aku cuba main BG3 dalam 2 jam macm tu lepas tu uninstalled terus.Benci turn based rasa macam orang bodoh tunggu turn nak lawan.

[@shivan2418]

@@johncollins8471 no one can understand what you write.

[@ALifeOfWine]

​@@johncollins8471I've heard quite a few people say this in comments sessions recently, and it baffles me to no end. The combat is essentially like a game of chess, where you position your pieces in the most effective way you can think of and deploy a strategy to try and win. Do you feel like a fool waiting for your turn in a board game too?

[@lost.projects387]

Yeah I think I’m gonna bounce after a couple hours on this and head to Baldurs Gate. Maybe revisit it in a couple of years when we have some mods, DLCs and hopefully improvements from Bethesda to some core systems.

[@thesongoflunch]

Completely agree despite them being different styles of games. The NPC's looking blankly down the camera lense, the weak systems and combat that hasn't evolved since Fallout NV. Package that with terrible performance and what I'm sure does work here has lost me 2-3 hours in. Wait for modders to fix this as best as possible and check in later. On the bright side it did make me want to do a modded Fallout run for the open world freedom once again!

[@eli34536]

the famous "Starcitizen and Elite Dangerous killer" lol

[@b1thearchitect401]

I'm a little conflicted on this from what I'm hearing across a large number of reviews I've check out. On the one hand, I completely agree that they marketed this game as a boundless, open, immersive, exploration focused game where you could travel and go wherever you want, and the idea of exploring and the journey you go on sounded very important to the experience. So for the game to then come out and essentially just be Mass Effect or The Outer Worlds, where it's just a bunch of segmented hubs, levels and small areas split up by constant loading, is a pretty massive misrepresentation of what this game actually is. Todd Howard going on about 1000's of planets you can explore was a huge red flag and immediately made me roll my eyes lol. So for that alone, I think a lot of people will be rightfully upset with what BGS actually delivered here. However, for me personally, I prefer questing, hand crafted content and good moment to moment gameplay over endless exploration and constant immersion, so I don't think this will actually dampen my enjoyment of the game very much at all. With that said, even for someone like me though, I expected far less loading.. with so many modern games that are able to smartly mask the process of loading in assets, and present as an essentially seamless cinematic experience, something about this structure feels very last gen. Combine that with the typical janky looking lip sync and character animations, and it kind of feels like a 15 year old game with some really nice materials and textures slapped over it. I suspect that I will get a lot of enjoyment out of this considering I'll be able to play it for no added cost with my game pass subscription, but I agree that this seems to be a failure to deliver on what they promised again. I think that even if this game does well with sales & general critical response, the inability to deliver on what they promised once again will hurt the reputation of the company. Even though I enjoyed Fallout 4, and will probably have a good time with this, it still does seem like a far cry from the industry defining games that BGS was making decades ago; I'm not sure if they've lost any big parts of their creative team or if anything changed, but from FO4 onwards things have certainly felt a lot different.

[@theoptimisticpessimist5555]

The problem is too many people just want to hate everything now. They turn to KZbinrs and people on social media for thoughts and get bombarded by click baiting rants that only serves their ego and lure people in. Starfield is pretty good game right now. Somethings could be better but there are a good handful of people overblowing the negatives.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@theoptimisticpessimist5555 let me put it this way, a restaurant offers you a steak and you order it, but they deliver a burger instead. Maybe the burger is good, but people are immediately going to dislike it because its not what was promised. And Starfield definitely has a ton of problems regardless.

[@CookieCrisp97]

@@theoptimisticpessimist5555 KZbin is filled even more with reviewers praising this game yet everybody knows this game is trash, it's the FF16/Diablo IV effect

[@theoptimisticpessimist5555]

@@GeraltofRivia22 I haven't run into a 'ton' of problems yet. Just a handful and those had been mainly been sound bugs.

[@theoptimisticpessimist5555]

@@CookieCrisp97 The game isn't 'trash'. You are just parroting the typical trashy reviewers seeking clicks.

[@quercus3290]

think the biggest problem is still trying to use that engine for a game of this scope. It doesnt work.

[@zKaltern]

100% this. And I hear they ARE going to be using it for ES6 - which would be ludicrous if true. Imagine... Skyrim 2, with more loading screens.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@zKaltern imagine how much worse the creation engine is going to look in comparison to other games by 2030 when ES VI finally releases.

[@quercus3290]

@@zKaltern havin said that though after 12 hours solid play this is actually an extremely good game.

[@splooshnoonley5620]

"walk to loading screens" is the perfect fucking summation

[@Shadowx011]

This is the first video from Worthabuy where I strongly disagree. I am about 20 hours into this game and LOVE it. 😎

[@armelior4610]

Funny that now that every AAA is open-world, Bethesda who pioneered the concept make a game about exploring space with planets and space completely separated with loading screens

[@penispaul1237]

That's the most Bethesda thing ever though

[@COMMANDandConquer199]

I wouldn't even consider this open world honestly. The only part of it that's open world are the procedurally generated barren wastelands called planets that all have the same half dozen locations copy and pasted on them. The part of the game worth playing is basically linear. With that, and the fact that you can hardly call it an RPG, I would classify this game as a space themed action game rather than a space exploration RPG.

[@kairusaotome95]

It just works!!

[@Flyeaglesfly215]

​@COMMANDandConquer199 have you played it? Because it's open world to me it's so big so much to do it's crazy

[@kairusaotome95]

@123gobirds It's big and feels rather empty to be honest. Yes, I've played. Really hoped it would be a return to form for Bethesda, honestly. It's not doing it for me, it feels so disconnected that I just get bored playing it. Honestly, I'd rather go back to Fallout 3/New Vegas. At least when those games had a glitch, it was occasional and sometimes even pretty funny. All Deathclaws go to Heaven glitch in the Broken Steel dlc for Fallout 3 is a great example of this.

[@fedupwiththetimes6413]

Todd Howard being involved at all should raise red flags for anyone not simply running off nostalgia. What has he boasted of in the last decade (or longer) that hasn’t been a crock of sh!t?

[@WhoaD614]

agreed. todd is too old and too rich now to stay connected to what fans actually want. he is a great salesman and public speaker and im sure he is cool to work for but they greatest thing Bethesda has ever had their name tied to was a game call Fallout New Vegas...which Obsidian developed...

[@rvh1999]

Absolutely true!

[@cinifiend]

Frankly I don't understand how the gaming community let Bethesda get away AGAIN with their ridiculous massive hype train. It's like they haven't learned that Bethesda just releases the same broken game over and over and over. Bethesda releases shitty games that look and play like they should have come out 10 years ago and need to be fixed by modders.

[@Aenygma_]

Career over. Move on, Todd!

[@sumyunggui8750]

​@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer😂 sure if you're a masochist

[@Imm0rtalVJ]

Do you know you're the only game review I respect and trust

[@Nerunium]

We all do, there are few who still haven't sold their soul to corporates, Synthetic Man is one of them.

[@ValosarX]

I like his reviews as well but totally disagree with him on this. I'm 60 hours in to Starfield and can't disagree with him more. He's going on and on about how things are locked behind a perk wall like he's never played an rpg before and you should just be able to do everything at level one being a fucking miner fresh out of the mine. Tons of the shit he's complaining about is in Skyrim as well which he's praising for the same shit he's bitchin about here. Fast travel is in Skyrim, power fragments in Skyrim, donky dumb npcs in Skyrim, soulless boxes in Skyrim.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@Nerunium yeah, Mac and Synth are my go to reviewers these days.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@ValosarX you mean a 12 year old game vs a brand new one. You'd think there'd have been some improvements. In Skyrim, you can walk from one end of the map to the other with zero loading screens or cutscenes. You can't do that in Starfield.

[@__-gf3zn]

​@ValosarX In BG3 you can lockpick with no proficiencies in sleight of hand nor dexterity, however you have a likelihood of fucking up moreso than a rogue with those proficiencies. In Fallout New Vegas, you could pick locks that were under "easy" to "very easy" lockpicking difficulties. You didn't just pick like... one perk and handy dandy, everything's fine. Granted, I haven't played starfield, although fallout 4 was something that wasn't of my liking.

[@cult4208]

I love your reviews man nothing but brutal honesty 😂

[@LorensMerz]

The first time I landed on New Atlantis I noticed all the blurry textures, bad looking trees, AI spawning from elevators and low-res clouds. And the game still barely runs with 60FPS on an RTX 3080 10GB. I also absolutely hated the first side missions on New Atlantis. Actually, the first side mission I started on New Atlantis was a cheap copy from a mission in Mass Effect 1. WOW. Skyrim modded looks much better, runs better and is much more immersive. What happend, Bethesda?!

[@23majesticblue]

Even the 2017 prey game looks better than this. Too bad there was no sequel to that game.

[@ftniceberg874]

Bugthesda has always been trash...nothing new...just people finally waking up to Tod's grift.

[@avistryfe4534]

I assure you. Every mission across every game is a copy of some other games quest. Its not specific to this game. Its just a copycat phenomena that occurs after 282525272828484625262827463 quests have been created.

[@antonkrachzer9788]

New Atlantis looks and feels terrible. It also kills my gtx 1060 card. It's below recommended but I still don't see what on earth would be making the city so performance hungry. It looks worse than GTA5 yet eats 5 times as much performance. I'm genuinely confused because there is not geometry there and the entire city looks incredibly bland. And if I'm mentioning bland I also ought to mention the terrible clothes on everyone which is perhaps the most boring I have ever seen in a video game.

[@Joze1090]

"what happened Bethesda??" They realized they could sell shite half finished games for full price and people would EAT IT UP. They didn't lower standards, we did.