I loved Starfield a lot. First game in maybe 10 years that I spent over 300 hours in. Kinda stopped having the motivation to share my enjoyment for it because of all the toxicity online, but I'm glad to see more people also enjoying the game.
A lot of people hate it only because others do, and because they are unable to have their own opinions. Looking at the popularity of Starfield, the "haters" is a minority. I'm one of those who liked Starfield too.
You are not alone. I love this game too. I believe that popular streamers given toxic takes about it on launch, combined with the "Xbox exclusivity" caused all the hate.
I didn't like Starfield, but not because of some of the stupid reasons other people hate it for. It's spaceship combat is the best I have ever seen, and it's gunsmithing/mods is fucking awesome. The reasons I don't like it is because there is no gore or dismemberment, that was disappointing, makes combat less fun. In fallout 4 shooting people and watching limbs fly off was satisfying and sometimes funny. In Starfield there's none of that, combat feels unrewarding or underwhelming. The game graphics are pretty good, most of the NPCs look retarded but that's way more funny than anything. They look ridiculous, they make my weird disfigured character look normal and it's hilarious. Another thing I really, really don't like is the feeling of emptiness, just nothing. Most of the planets are just empty with the same generic points of interest. I thought exploring empty planets looking for artifacts would be much more interesting with the way they showed it in the trailers, but there just fetch quests with nothing in between, collect artifact, put in circle, repeat. This one mission gets you weird cosmic powers that are entirely useless, and you end up meeting aliens who try to get you to stop finding them. Sounds intriguing, maybe interesting? Nah, there not aliens. There some of the retarded characters from the group of explorer's from the future, Wich means you found the artifacts and uncovered there secrets right? Yes you did, and your reward for all this is meeting yourself in game in the fucking cosmos and you tell yourself in game to start over and play again and make different choices. Completely pointless because no matter what choices you make you get the same ending, only thing that changes is different people from the explorer group die. You still meet yourself and tell yourself to start over. Fucking stupid.
I love Starfield, but I also don’t listen to CZcamsrs. I love Starfield. Cracks me up seeing all the content on CZcams from people saying “500 hours played and this game is terrible”. Nobody plays a game for 5 hours if it’s terrible let alone 100+.
Right, because that's what every single video says.. are you stupid or something? Lol You act like there's no valid criticism. Also don't worry about it. This game so dead. No one even really talks about it anymore.
It reminds me of the same people who play a game like Destiny 2 for 10 hours a day, every day, and then complain about no content after 2 weeks of a dlc release. Of course there's "no content" left to do; they spent 70 hours a week, or more, doing everything. 😂
The developers themselves have stated the game doesn't open up until you beat the main quest. Yes, there are plenty of videos capitalizing on the decline of public perception of bethesda, but the existence of bad faith actors does not diminish the critique of the game. Perhaps it is fun to you, but that does not mean your standards reflect the wider populace. Saying "don't think too hard it's a Bethesda story" is not comforting to those who expect a little more from a developer with so many accolades.
I put about 150 hrs into the game and I absolutely loved it. BGS made something ambitious and original and I was captivated by it but i do agree a lot of criticism is also valid and I am looking forward to mods, expansions and more fixes. I do however hate the discourse surrounding this game. It’s clearly obvious that influencers and news sites used this game as a punching bag to generate clicks and controversy while skewing the perception of the gaming community. P.S. The frauds playing this game for hundreds of hours then saying it’s not good, you can fuck right off.
Exactly, at least some Starfield haters like JWAGS 412, in his review of the game, he admitted he couldn’t finish the game. No way someone’s going to come up in my face with “300-500 hours of gameplay” and tell me the game is bad. You’re either lying about your hours, or love it deep down but hate it for strange, ulterior motives
Is Starfield the bestest game that's ever been made? No. Are there bugs and other annoying things about it? Yes. Am I having a ton of fun playing it regardless? Absolutely.
I agree. People say starfield is trash but then forget that Skyrim & Fallout are just as janky and glitchy. But everybody loves those games! Idk what all the fuss is about lol
@@Jaymo00Glitches isn’t why people dislike it though. For me, I didn’t feel the worlds were worth exploring. Did I like character creation and buikding bases tho? Hell yeah
It's the endless loading screens and dumb looking generic moving npcs that breaks the immersion. Also, exploring space seems boring since their isn't anything worthwhile to do on most planets.
Starfield is fun when you don’t have a pretentious CZcamsr in your ear with their five hour “essay” videos about why this game is the worst thing ever created
Most of those pretentious gaming CZcamsrs had hit pieces on Starfield literally months, if not years before the game came out. They were preparing to rip the game to shreds anyways
I would say most of those bad review on steam are reasonable criticisms of the game. I been looking forward to starfield before it releases. Todd overselling the game, but when it releases it wasn’t within my personal expectations. I’m fine with others enjoy the game, but this game is not for me. I hope Elder scroll 6 doesn’t flop, although their announcement for the game has already been 5 years
People feel cool if they act like nothing impresses them. It's like minority kids reviewing fast food on Buzzfeed, they feel like superior beings if nothing impresses them.
Starfield lets you make your own fun - the mission where you run into the space grandma who invites you for dinner. When you run into her again she repeats the same dialogue and acts like she's never met you before. Now, some people complain that this is lazy game design. Not me. I choose to pretend she's simply senile and *actually* doesn't recall meeting you before.
@@DigimontamerB If you are filled with rage, and you keep looking for more reasons to be filled with rage, then you might be a "rage junkie". You can decide if we're talking about you, or not.
@guerillagorilla4423 he didn't straw man he just says he doesn't like the game and that doesn't make him a rage junkie. I hope english is you're second language bc if not you need to work on reading comprehension
I will say that I did enjoy wandering aimlessly and/or scanning/surveying planets and moons. It works wonders for my depression and anxiety. Most of the hours I put into the game were doing just that.
I enjoyed this, the problem I had were all the human made structures you would come upon. What are the odds you would land within a mile of something human exploring a random planet?
Bought it on spring sale & went in with low expectations. I'm blown away with how much there is to do. One thing i'll say is that performance during gunfights needs work especially when using scoped weapons. Crashing has been my only real issue. Keeps happening to me on planet Akila.
Good dude, have fun, I played it a couple months ago and did everything I could in one playthrough, it’s fun but it’s clearly not as polished as other Bethesda games, it just feels like once you do all the main and side quests, there’s absolutely nothing else to do. But I enjoyed it, don’t feel the need to play it again yet tho
@@carterverIf you play every side and main quest in skyrim or fallout, and got the best gear, weapons and skills for your playstyle. What is there to do? Its literally the same. I like skyrim more, but i also think its because of the nostalgia everyone had. And how new it felt.
@xbavox facts. Same can be said with just about rpg/mmo games. I play warframe and consider myself an endgame player and I think the game is boring because there's nothing for *me* to do. Doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else, though
@@carterver There's still plenty of places and missions to stumble across such as Eleos Retreat, First Contact, Project Starseed and the Colander. I'm 500+ hours in and still seeing new stuff.
The only bug I really hate, because it got me every time I started over, is the ships land but won’t open up. You board a ship in space and no one is on it. Ships not opening on landing screws so many different quests. Other than that love the game.
It's still present even with the May update, as far as I can tell. It occurs when you have the mission "Kill the crew and take the Ship, or Leave," and end up doing neither - such as the ship taking off when you board or sitting in the seat, and then leaving or something. Basically, that quest never completes, therefore all further enemy ships are empty. The only fix I found is to start a NG+. The way I avoid it is to save before entering a ship - if it takes off, I reload and don't enter the ship. It taking off instantly breaks that quest. And looting or stealing one ship isn't worth breaking the playthrough over. So now I am very, very careful with that quest and most of the time just leave.
I've found a lawyer to sue you for enjoying Starfield, but need assistance as there are four Maj0r Lees in your town and I need to know where to send the lawsuit.
I had a lot of fun just ship building and decorating my outposts, not even doing quests, also just being immersed in the sheer loneliness and quietness of space is an experience I’ve never had in any other game
So rare to see a youtuber make positive content about Starfield, It's far from perfect and BGS need to keep working on it but I truly believe the potential of this game is insane.
BGS doesn’t have the gumption to make Starfield the game it deserves to be. They should’ve ditched the main story/Constellation altogether and flushed out the UC questline to make it the main instead. And then they could have done a proper Freestar questline too. After that, meeting back up with Hadrian and doing a few last missions with her would’ve been the icing on the cake. BGS doesn’t know what they’re doing and the modding community is doing its best to stay away from the game so I’m not holding out hope. And I’m saying that as someone that’s trying to write a story questline mod for the game
@@matejmarosz20 That pathological toxicity of negativity is not helpful to anyone nor is it welcomed. As a matter of fact, you'll have better luck spewing it onto a wall in your bedroom, at least until you actually have something intelligent and constructive to say.
I love Starfield. It is a Bethesda game. Wide open and ready for DLCs. You can do whatever you want, quest, shoot and loot, build and work the economy. I love it because after work, I'm tired a lot of the time. I just want to vibe and do non-thinking gameplay like decorating, mission boards, etc...
this is exactly why a lot of people aren't happy with Bethesda and their games in the past roughly 10 years. Bethesda RPGs USED to be actual RPGs where you had to plan out your character, not a "non-thinking" type of deal... Yet they of course continued to water down almost all RPG elements - Morrowind to Skyrim is a pretty huge step back in complexity and more a catering towards usually non-rpg type players.
@@stonaraptor8196 Because they need to draw in more gamers cause RPGS alone don't bring in enough money to keep a business open, so you need to draw in the Non-RPG fans to stay in business. As many RPG fans as there are in the USA alone, they are not enough to keep a Dev business running well. They need to go outside the box to attract more gamers to RPGs even if it means making it easier. Open World games that are a Sandbox are extremely fun for so many people. If you don't like that, there are always JRPGS, don't whine and complain about Bethesda, move on with your life, stop whining and go play another game, its not hard to do.
@@tanyltorres7713 RPGs don't make enough money? You sure about that? Baldure's Gate 3 made a boatload of money for instance. Bethesda is slacking, they used to make good games but refuse to step up their literal game. And bro don't tell me what to do what is wrong with you lol? Of course I will complain about a product when I am not satisfied.
Seen another Aussie that triggered over the same stuff while admitting he had never played. He was trashing starfield content creators & trying to build a career off of it
The thing about me is I simply liked landing on new planets and collecting minerals and clearing out outposts and discovering the structures on the planets, the aimlessness is what kept me coming back, building outposts was cool as hell too. Can’t wait to hop back in. The fashion choices were also underrated. The overall aesthetic of Starfield is legit eye candy, it’s what you think of when you think of a good future civilization. With that being said I’m buying the game tonight again
You can enjoy something while still being critical of it's flaws. And you can enjoy or love or even be obsessed with Starfield while still acknowledging that it could (and should) have been so much better. But it's not wrong to love something just because other people don't - that also doesn't mean that all the negative leaning content around Starfield is just because that's. "cool* - it is a DEEPLY flawed game. I'm glad there are people who love it, because I'm sure at least on the ground level, some passionate devs worked on it. That doesn't mean the flaws aren't real.
Except DEEPLY FLAWED is highly subjective half the time, especially for a game like Starfield. Just because a game has a very positive reception among the gaming community doesn't mean it can't be considered deeply flawed by someone else. Take Yakuza: Like a Dragon, for instance. That game has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam, but I'd personally consider it deeply flawed for a variety of reasons, even though I still think the game is solid. Something you consider a deep flaw of Starfield might not be a flaw at all in someone else's eyes, like bad side quests (subjective), terrible writing (again, highly subjective), or loading screens (inconsequential IMO). So, yes, no one can say Starfield is literally perfect because no game is. But someone can also say they love Starfield and think it is not deeply flawed in their opinion. Just like someone else can say a universally beloved game like Red Dead Redemption 2 is deeply flawed in their opinion even though everyone else loves it. Opinions that are contrary to popular consensus exist and are valid. I'm tired of people acting as if the popular consensus is fact.
@@jimmythegamer2231 very bad coding (large portion of modders just abandoned trying to work with the code due to how horrible it is), poor quality dialogue, lifeless NPCs, TERRIBLE lighting (a brightness slider is not hard to put in a game), and resctricting basic quality of mechanics behind skill trees. These are all facts, not opinions or public concensus. These are actual flaws, and cannot be explained away as the game being "quirky" or "a bit buggy"
@@pieck5460 Tbf, a good game does not NEED great story. Mario proves this all the time. Overwatch had no story at all and it still won, contentious as that choice was. The gameplay and mechanics of LOU II was actually very good. Tight controls, great atmosphere, good coding (if only the pc remasters were), and a variety of accessibility options. Story was not as good as the first, some would even say by a lot, but everything else made it a very well made game. (Also game of the year awards are about as valid as the oscars are in determining if a game is good)
@@jimmythegamer2231 The loading screen argument is low hanging fruit, but it leads to one of the games biggest flaws that’s 100% self inflicted. The loading screen itself isn’t the problem, i thought it was even cool that it uses photos you take as place holders. But here’s the basic loop of doing anything in this game the moment you load in. Open map, pick quest, fast travel to ship - LOADING SCREEN - enter ship - LOADING SCREEN - take off from planet/location - LOADING SCREEN - enter space, pick destination, fast travel to destination - LOADING SCREEN - arrive in orbit of planet, open planet, land on planet - LOADING SCREEN - exit ship - LOADING SCREEN (that’s one right after the other after landing on a planet LOL) - walk around, find and enter primary NPCs building - LOADING SCREEN (but not always to be fair), talk to NPC, get new location, start cycle from the beginning. This formula itself is immersion breaking, tedious and time consuming. That’s at least 14 different loading screens and time spent walking and traveling before any actual gameplay. Say i only have an hour or two to play, i don’t want to spend 30-50% of that time walking, traveling and stuck in loading screens. And this is just one quest, imagine how much this cycle is repeated over the course of a 2-3 hour play session. No you’re probably thinking “oh well you can just fast travel straight to planets you don’t have to do all that,” and you’re right, I don’t, and I didn’t, but guess what that meant? I was actively avoiding my ship. IN A SPACE FARING GAME, YOU’RE INCENTIVIZED TO AVOID THE THING THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TRAVEL SPACE. It’s a busted formula and it’s one of the easiest quality of life things to fix, but it would probably break the outdated Creation Engine. This would be fine for a game like New Vegas or even Skyrim, but it’s absolutely unacceptable from a AAA game studio in 2023, and it forces players to actively avoid one of the core features of the game. Which sucks, because the ship builder itself is fucking awesome. I spent so many hours and put so many resources into building and crafting my own ship, only to find out not only was that where I was spending the least amount of time in game, I was actively avoiding it just to get to wherever tf I have to go faster. Again, In a game that’s main selling point is SPACE TRAVEL, that’s completely unacceptable and is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what’s fundamentally wrong with this game.
I'm so glad the "i actually like/love starfield" videos are starting to arrive. The negative ones got boring fast, & i didn't even find many of them all that persuasive!
As someone who is in their twenties, I wish I could make a character that looks like they're in their twenties. Everybody looks thirty to forty in this game.
My biggest problems with Starfield were how they handled space travel, ng+ content (the game fails to recognize what you actually did, like in the ending), the temple repeated minigame (Skyrim did it better), the way they tuned procedural generation where sometimes it doesn't make sense (Venus etc). Otherwise, a solid experience, it's just different compared to other BGS games. They even told people so before release. Exited for mod support and expansions.
The NG+ is a big flop. So, you're going to an alternate universe in which your decisions should made an impact in the world but... barely anything happens. Because they didn't have time... It's like... ok.
I think BGS was concentrating on the RPG aspect of the game more so than making a spaceship simulation. They probably thought that gamers wouldn't want to fly, themselves, from one destination to another in a mission. That would take a lot of time. I've been playing Eve Online since 2006. You basically fly everywhere in that game (except flying into planets and moons). Trust me, that gets old sometimes. Also, the spaceship combat is fun considering it's not a spaceship simulation.
Nice. That final statement at the end about how it has the potential to become better and potentially even seen as great is so true, especially after the update the other day and content reveal/leak of what they're bringing to the table. Also immediately after 76 seems to have had its redemption story. For the record, i haven't played much of Starfield. I'm level 15 or so, and can only stream it since my PC can't run it native and I'm on PlayStation instead, but that space game urge is creeping up on me, and my 300-400 hours in No Man's Sky is telling me that Shaun Murray's universe, as much as i love it, ain't gonna cut it this time.
Just bought the game. 8.5hrs and I’ve enjoyed it so far. After delivering the first artifact I told Sara I got other things to do and fast forward I stumbled upon a side quest that ended with me getting some cool mantis armor and a spaceship.
That is the best early armor you can get. Also, there are some humorous advantages to that ship for those who want to reduce space combat (I won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen it, yet).
same here. On my second playthrough and something like 400 hours. Some people put up crazy hours in games though! People were like over 1000 by new years!
The biggest irony is the lack of nuance imo. Like yeah I agree Starfield isn’t a 10/10 game but it doesn’t need to be. Like there are plenty of things it does well and there are legit criticisms of the game but to me the problem is it’s all over the place. Like I get that people have different opinions but when it boils down to “everything sucks in this game” it’s hard to take criticism seriously. Like I legit dislike (even borderline hate) BOTW and TOK (to a way lesser degree) but there are legit things I enjoy about it (like the ability to freeze time and shoot arrows, the bike being fun to use, etc). It’s like the gaming community has gone to absolute shit because it’s either 10/10 or -10/10 with no fair nuances or thoughts. Like I hated cyberpunk and consider way way worse than Starfield but it’s melee combat and combat in general was fun. It’s a problem because it doesn’t lead to healthy game discussions because everyone has to jump on a team. “Oh but you just dislike that everyone hates the game and they have legit criticisms” maybe but couldn’t you say the same about any other game that’s gets universal appeal? Hell couldn’t you say the same thing to the people that loved BOTW that got mad about criticisms? Like the gaming community has this massive problem of applying logic that’s never consistent and it’s annoying af. “This game has gotten 10/10 therefore it’s a masterpiece and all criticism is wrong” “this other game got a 10/10 and all the reviews are just paid by the company” Like do you not see the irony?
Thing is that people will find a way to get what they want. People want to dislike and despise Starfield. I have seen countless examples of confirmation bias by naysayers, using certain things to try and prove that the game is bad. People keep saying that this game does nothing good. I don’t know, voice acting maybe? Character models that are significantly improved over their previous games? Cool attention to detail? People dont want to like this game, and we can tell because they are still talking about it even more than the champion of 2023.
You have in a few paragraphs, pretty much summed up my entire campaign for the last few months, trying to make people aware of the hypocrisy. A few examples: “Everything in Starfield is done better somewhere else.” This makes no sense to me because this logic applies to virtually every other game. What ever happened to appreciating a thing for its uniqueness. Other games may do things “better”, but none of them do it like Starfield does. “ They messed up the exploration.” This is not TES or Fallout, its a different game. The sooner people realize it the better. “The game does nothing new, there is no innovation here” Me: 🙄. People who say this need to be put in a straight jacket. No offense to anyone, but : Retard Alert class!! The hysteria behind this game boggles my mind, and so many of peoples arguments are selective hatred, that can be applied to almost any game. Thanks for summing everything up.
Hey major lee I came across your channel probably about 2years ago I think it was an star wars battlefront review it was funny, your someone I could listen to because you seem normal, a lot of people on CZcams are weirdo's, I'm glad I found your channel again so I can hear some normalcy.
I gotta ask what were you doing for it to be that buggy i just did the fraction mission and did not have that much issue with the game beside the Bethesda bs when i played it
About the Autosave, saves go in Documents\My Games\Starfield directory, which if you're using Onedrive, it can mess it up. I've made that folder "Always available on this device" and seems it's more stable that way. Yesterday I tried Starfield again since the 160h "speedrun" I did at launch. I sank 8hrs straight including 2 for modding some QoL stuff, and figuring out the OneDrive issue through some Vortex tips (took a while because I messed my OneDrive a bit in the process but recovered everything in the end). I played from my "repeat main quest NG+" and rushed to the ending so I get a new NG+ start for another run. Here I thought: "Meh, I'll give it another shot, a few hours and I'll go sleep." I slept 30 minutes before going to work. Yeah, the exploration is what it is, but Starfield sure has hooks it's hooks deep to keep me in.
I enjoyed starfield (I play on xbox), even though it had quite a few bugs early on. I do think it could use some improvement, such as exploration vehicles while on planets to speed things up a bit, but I was not disappointed by the game.
I have 40 days of playing time and not collected more than 2 artifacts. I have been enjoying exploring solar systems/planets, side missions and other game play missions. I like how your not set to play in one way only but how multiple characters, missions and choices that effects your gameplay. I think many people do not like because it’s a 1 player game! But that’s why I love it! My choices and decision effect the game play. Hopefully there’s others who feels this way. I’m hooked on the game!!
But your choices and decisions... Don't impact the game play. That's kind of the entire problem. It all leads to the same crap. The game tried so hard not to have you play certain ways that it made it so none of them matter. If you're having fun that's fine. Go for it. Play it for thousands of hours. Just don't kid yourself while doing it.
@Setixir the story missions sadly don't, which is why they're not really liked. But the side missions do. Certain choices lock you out of certain missions and make you enemies of specific factions. They could have done a LOT more with the ecliptic instead of making them just some merc group. Same with house va'ruun
@Setixir Isn't that the trend with modern Bethesda? Starfield has like 1 or 2 quests that influence the explorable environment, instead of just affecting 2 characters. Skyrim did the same thing, I never saw anything really affect the entire world aside from the civil war questline, but it is still nothing in terms of choices affecting the world. And Fallout 4 too, its only really one specific quest that can cause a "massive" change. Starfield having next to nothing in terms of choices that actually affect the world is more or less modern Bethesda at this point. That's not trying to seek an excuse, but more like I'm trying to justify also criticizing and complaining about Skyrim and Fallout 4 for not having the same depth of world changing events that Oblivion, Fallout 3, or Morrowind had.
I'd say it's better to play any Bethesda game without mods first. Then you can appreciate the modding experience much more adjusting the game as you like.
There's enough here for me to enjoy. I like the idea of landing on a random spot, finding a civilian outpost, seeing what bounties are posted or what resources they need, and carrying those contracts out. It's definitely a game where "make your own fun" is in full effect. But that's also a problem, because none of the stuff I find fun has to do with exploration.
I've got to say that one of the fastest ways to get "Don't Recommend Channel" out of me is to post another bloody video moaning about Starfield. It's far from a perfect game but some of the complaints are so absurd and out of proportion compared to other games that have far, far worse issues. It seems to be whatever the opposite of a hype train is and everyone just seems so eager to jump aboard.
Thank you, its not perfect but I enjoyed it and I'm still currently enjoying it. Optimistic about its future also 98% of the content is negative of late. It's refreshing to see some current positive content for a change
I’m right there with you. I’ve gone back in forth in my mind multiple times as to whether star field is a 9/10 or a 3/10. I’ve never played a game that made me feel like that. I think for that reason it’s neither of those and I would definitely put it between the 6-7 range depending on the day.
I enjoyed my time playing Starfield. Would I go back for more? Maybe. I think if there were fewer loading screens, more streamlined menus, more flexibility in the partners you could take along with you, less expensive ship mods, etc, etc. I could consider it.
I enjoyed your review, and I agree with most of what you have said here. I am looking forward to Bethesda's big update at the end of May. They are adding some nice QOL improvements like a better map with icon marker locations, and more in-game customizations to certain parameters like carrying capacity, vendor credits, etc. Liked and subscribed 👍
Starfield has a lot of potential and had started far better than most Bethesda games but the writing is the problem and loading screens if you can’t take it
The main story was terrible. Nothing is explained, its based on what's become a cliche (the multiverse), and the plot doesn't fit with the gameplay AT ALL. What are the odds that in the vastness of the galaxy, most of these artifacts would happen to be buried under bases occupied by thugs?
@@NamTran-xc2ip I don't know why people talk like games have got better over the last 10 years (aside from graphics). Loading screens and bad writing would have been just as bothersome a decade ago.
I’m pushing lvl 100, and think you we’re pretty spot on. I think this game would really come together with a bit more content. Not more systems, but flush out the world. Adding another ship manufacturer, another hub world, another weapons manufacturer, and another faction would make this game feel a bit more whole. 0/10 I can’t land on gas giants.
Have you seen the wanderers short film? Erik Wernquist? One scene depicts floating city on Saturn. It’s not completely implausible. Its atmosphere could be mined for helium3 for fusion. If we had fusion we could keep the city afloat with hot air balloons. At the right height, air pressure and gravity match earth so you could probably survive outside with just cold weather gear and a breath mask.
I really like starfield. The gameplay variety is fantastic for people who need to play at their own pace. I like how it lends itself to be played on multiple screens (side missions on mobile, main missions on big screen).
i like to play melee builds in starfield. trying to dodge bullets and just swing at enemies with a sword is just fun to me. a boost pack makes it even better. i like to roleplay it as a sort of space witcher with alien dna as one of the traits. i think its neat. but overall, i quite enjoy the game.
The most sane review I saw about Starfield, and you done awesome. I really get tired to watch people addicted who literally lives inside a game, put anger in a pile of feelings, getting blind and don't really try to understand all the devs work, those kids put all their blind judgement above. You was pragmatic, understanding and logic about everything you spoke, that's the way to enjoy games in my opinion.
I actually quite enjoy Starfield. I like to say it has the "bones of brilliance" that only Bethesda RPG's seem to have. The major issues are in the fact that game, as of now, has next to no "meat" (of *fun* supporting content) on those bones. The game does need an overhaul... or a few. But it STILL has the potential of standing shoulder to shoulder with Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
I love Starfield. Hundreds of hours into the game, some just roaming planets and gathering data. One of these days I’ll reach unity, whatever that is. Thanks for the video, sir. You have earned a sub 👍🏽
Wow, I'm not the only who enjoys this game? I'm so glad someone else can look at it, and say you know what, this is fun. I loved the game, and and dude SARAH is the GOAT!!!!!!! I love her, like she sit rent free into my digital xbox heart.
Agreed! I don't get all the hate for her. I wonder if IRL they are guys who can't handle strong successful women. I bet they would never date a woman like her because of their insecurities.
The logic is pretty simple: Bethesda games usually take place in one single open zone. In that zone are tons of things to discover and explore. With Starfield being an interplanetary setting, you ironically lose that sense of exploration that you had in a continuous and single setting. I don’t play Bethesda games, but that’s what it sounds like to me
With a lot of reviewers I have the impression they did not even play Starfield extensively and judge prematurely due to opportunistic reasons. And I think a lot of them cannot bear any void and blame the space for being the space.
Seriously, I've seen "criticism" from people whose opinions I used to respect but lost all of it as soon as I'd realized that they never touched the game. Bandwagons are hard to resist I guess
Have you watched any reviews at all? Most reviews I have seen had people play at least 50 hours of the game. I myself played 80 hours gave it a 6/10 (7-8 with mods). I think you just don't want to accept that many people are finding the same problems with Starfield's mediocre game design.
14:29 that's my main take of the video, Starfield seems bad only when you compare individual features to other games that are great on that specific feature. "Cyberpunk doesn't have loading screens" "Skyrim exploration is better" "BG3 decisions have more consequences" "NMS has better space traversal and outpost building" "CoD has better shooting mechanics"... and the list goes on, but here is the thing, none of those games comes even close to the amount of features Stafield offers, plus they ignore all the thigs that Starfield does really well like ship customization and the groundbreaking procedural terrain generation with biome diversity, flora and fauna that surpasses even NMS in some aspects.
@@liquid1514 Thanks for supporting my point because that's only if you were expecting handcrafted exploration like in regular open world games, otherwise there is plenty to explore 😉
bro loading screens is not a comparison thing it shouldn't even exist it's 2023 it shouldn't even exist back in 2014 even when oblivion came out gothic 3 came out the same year and had no loading screens "skyrim exploration is better" again exploration is what make a game either generic or great if you are making an open world game you need to make the exploration an essential thing why do you think elden ring fallout new vegas and skyrim are a successful open world games ? consequences is rpg is not a comparison thing in open world games starfield not only has no consequences but the way they designed the essential npc system literally goes against the game the story and it even contradict some dialogue "nms has better traversal and outpost building" yes these are very basic things for a big AAA game in 2023 starfield has no space traversal with all the loading screens it's an illusion "Cod has better shooting Mechanics" in starfield there are no weapon variety it's 3 weapons reskinned as weapon variety and the melee weapons are all the same don't even need to compare it to other games just compare it to other bethesda games lol ship customization was good yes "groundbreaking procedural terrain generation with biome diversity" i hope this is a joke cuz if it's not then i want to tell you this is not groundbreaking "flora and fauna that surpasses even NMS in some aspect" not sure about this one but i played NMS last time in 2020 and if i am making a comparison with it then NMS would still win in my book but idk how NMS is doing today heard it still improving more and more
@@aligmal5031 First you ignored my main point which was that there is no game that does ALL those things better than Starfield because there is no game that does ALL those things. But even so I disagree with most of your points. Why loading screens shouldn't exist? every game "load" assets either with a loading screen or with a hidden loading area like a long hallway or an elevator ride, those always take longer than a loading screen because the system is still running the game while loading, so I prefer a 5sec loading screen than a 10sec elevator ride, if you like hidden loading areas is your personal preference. Starfield's exploration is not better or worse than Skyrim is just very different, one focuses on handcrafted guided exploration, the other one is procedurally generated exploration where you might not always find super exiting things all the time but you will always find something different, again it comes down to personal preference. Space traversal sure it can be better but the only game that for me has a better balance between immersion and fun is NMS, others like Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen take WAY too long to go anywhere, you sacrifice way too much time just for not breaking your precious illusion, which by the way all games are illusions. Stafield’s choices has no consequences? Who lives or dies depends on your choices, what faction wins depends on your choices… did you even played the game? 😆 Starfield only has 3 weapon variants? 🤦♂Pistols, rifles, miniguns, snipers, shotguns, grenade launchers, stun weapons, most of those several no-reskinned versions, most of those with physical, energy and magnetic variants, there is like 50 weapons that have completely unique meshes… to all of that you add the mods system and 😵💫… again did you even played the game? Yes groundbreaking procedural generation is not a joke, name one open world RPG that has procedural generation with more than 10 planets, multiple biomes on the same planet, flora, fauna, and graphics like Starfield or better… I played NMS a month ago, and yes Starfield it is better in SOME aspects, like having multiple biomes on the same planet and graphics.
As some one who is not a "gamer" i bought this game because it sounded cool. Iv only got about 40 hours into it and ive enjoyed it (again im not a gamer and i dont play games often). I got onto youtube and everyone acts like they hate it. Guess my tastes dont match up with everyone else.
I've always been a PS guy but am finally picking up a Series X tonight. I will definitely be giving Starfield my full attention. Thanks for the honest vid. There are so many people hating on this that haven't even tried it.
I actually like that the game is offering diffferent experiences and type of gameplay, i don't see it as a failure trying to please everyone. I see it as a success to please people whatever type of activity they want to engage in during a play session. Sometime I spend hours crafting a ship, sometime I spend hours exploring empty planets, sometime i return to quests and dialogue, sometime i go hunting alien life... I have 1500h into the game. To be honnest my biggest grudge is about the "Action" key being tied to Target ship and Exit pilot seat at the same time... Seeing your character slowly rise from the seat and turn around is an heart broker during a dire space fight ! 🥵
It's great to hear about peoples experiences enjoying aspects of the game that others don't... I cannot believe that chair thing never happened to me during space combat. That is something that would drive me nuts.😂
This is what I LOVE about BGS games. I can play whatever I'm in the mood for in one game. It let's me just pick it up and start playing and discover what I want to do if I'm not sure before I jump in. Love it
Tempted to play a bunch of space games (No mans sky, Starfield etc) and give my full opinion on them in some way, I absolutely love space so It’d be really interesting
Same boat. I don’t get all the steam reviews with over 250 hours crying how the game is bad. Clearly they had fun or they wouldn’t have played that long. It seems to me slot of people had fun and finished the game then went online to see others opinions and then say people bitching about every single thing so they said “huh maybe I didn’t have fun”
The FSR 3 implementation in Starfield is fantastic! I could just barely et 30 fps at launch on the lowest settings. Now I get 60 fps almost consistent with much higher graphic settings. Dragons Dogma 2 should learn from Starfield in regard to performance patching!
You, sir, are a hoot! Thank you for your wonderfully wry commentary, and for appreciating what is good about Starfield. Think I may come back for more...
Finally someone that can have constructive criticism without taking a dump on the game. That's the way you push the game (and developers) forward! Just like you I really enjoy the game, but at the same time I am not blind for the shortcomings. There is a lot to be improved. Lucky enough for the interface there are already some good mods that make it a lot less wonky to use. It's certainly not perfect, but it takes away a lot of the pain. I completely agree the game need patience to play. Sadly - A lot of gamers these days are the sort that does speed runs, have a short attention span, or just passing important things without even noticing. Those kind of people that want instant gratification, because they cannot be bothered by figuring things out, and they "want their time to be respected". It are those people that are fiercely attacking Starfield. I agree it's "cool" and "fancy" to bash on Starfield these days. and I personally think it's gotten completely out of hand, and undeserved. As said above, I like that you have fun with the game, but still can point out the flaws without jumping on the "hate train". Very much appreciated!
My biggest complaint is the lack of morally ambiguous characters. And personally i think they had a perfect opportunity that they missed. Imagine adding in a few morally grey or even evil (but not too evil) charcters within constellation. And throughout the various mainquestlines and major sidequests you can alter the perspectives of these characters with successful and failed speech checks. Until it all comes to a head near the end when a moral conundrum comes into question, and they all split between this side and that side based on how you influenced them. There would be a quest where a small conflict occurs and your side (and theres) loses lives, and constellation breaks appart. Now its a race to figure out whats the deal with unity between starborn and your old companions. The final confrontation is completely sandbox a 1v1 battle between the opposing groups of companions where all essential status is toggled off and the opposing side dies with the possibility of your side including possibly love interests and friendships to die as well. A full on high stakes battle. Afterwhich you become starborn and travel to newgame plus.
Can I just say, I detest the fact that youtube NEVER tells me when you put out a new video, bell on or off. It's actually criminal that I miss out for weeks and sometimes months before seeing your latest.
I've been playing since pre-launch and I still enjoy the game. I don't know how many NG÷ I can handle to repeat the game but it's still an awesome game.
Yeah I played because of him, Streets of Rogue too. He's a good pitch man and I had some fun times because he got me interested where most others probably wouldn't. Think about how much more effective his commercial would be on tv other than the artsy nonsense we sometimes get.
I really enjoy Starfield. Though I do believe the game was over hyped, which is what led to extreme backlash. It's a solid game with some aspects that are lacking or outdated, just like Fallout 4. And I'm at nearly 2000 hours on Fallout 4. I think Starfield has more potential though. I enjoy it as is, but I can't wait for the updates and DLC. Not to mention, official mod support.
Really looking back, no Bethesda game has been superb until the creation kit for the game released, not sure why it takes so long. A lot of mods for F4 are fixes for things that someone didn't like about F4 "Modern weapon mod" for those that don't like the wacky unrealistic weapons and are sorta lore friendly when looking at past Fallouts. I only had minor complaints about Srarfield and no real bugs. Companion dialog is really lacking, once you use up all their dialog, that's it really only getting more to progress story. I would love something more like Inigo mod from Skyrim, Take Sarah out to eat when she brings it up. And this is really a nit pick and has been a problem for me in almost every game I have played, STOP GIVING ME EVERY FECKING QUEST. Just because some idiot says hi doesn't mean I want to go save his "insert crap here". Let me go talk to someone and decide if I want to help them, please.
@@leelustigexactly my point lol. The people hating this game can’t read basic tutorials and need constant stimulation for their rotted brains. They can’t deal with a 1 second black screen without going on their phones to get a dopamine hit
Honestly, I would rather make them more complex; or move the Guardian into the room and you have to beat them first. Appearing afterwards just felt off.
Playing Skyrim makes realize by how much they dropped the ball on gaining space powers compared to getting dragon shouts. Yes, there are some word walls where you don't have do anything to earn them, but a good amount require you to get through dungeons full of enemies and maybe decent puzzles; or there will be ones out in the world that have mobs you have to kill or Dragons you have to kill, depending where you are in Main Story.
The ironic thing about sarahs disapproval is at the start she says she DOESNT CARE what you do to complete the missions as long as it doesnt bring trouble back to constalation . She tells you repeatedly that she hates the trade authority yet when you have the option to either give them something thats worth tons of money OR hack them to lower the price she tells you not to go down this route 🤔 so she rather we benifit the company she HATES rather than liwer their price 😪
Great video! I love this game to the point I scanned all possible fauna, flora, moons and planets. Yeah, it has bugs, but besides crashing sometimes, I always get a good laugh. I am looking forward to the update.
Major Lee, thanks for this video. This shows the game has potential and since Bethesda is owned by Microsoft they did one thing right. They finally released the game into the publics hands and got the feedback they needed to improve, same thing Microsoft does with their pcs. They had bugs that needed to be worked on and through feedback improved on it. This game is just getting started and I’ve had few problems on Xbox but just being patient, and not everyone is like that. Let’s how haters are when GTA 6 comes out, is it gonna be great or is it going to have bugs and everything to do? I don’t think so because each new game gets drip fed and gets better. Great video
You are not alone in having noticed the high quality of the plastic flaps.
I noted that also 🙏🏼
And the sound it makes when you walk through them is glorious
Yeah first thing I noticed in intro, flaps are fantastic 😂
Should have been more flaps
I loved Starfield a lot.
First game in maybe 10 years that I spent over 300 hours in. Kinda stopped having the motivation to share my enjoyment for it because of all the toxicity online, but I'm glad to see more people also enjoying the game.
That’s how I feel too.
Same here i just play it and enjoy it talking online makes it so toxic
A lot of people hate it only because others do, and because they are unable to have their own opinions. Looking at the popularity of Starfield, the "haters" is a minority. I'm one of those who liked Starfield too.
You are not alone. I love this game too. I believe that popular streamers given toxic takes about it on launch, combined with the "Xbox exclusivity" caused all the hate.
I didn't like Starfield, but not because of some of the stupid reasons other people hate it for. It's spaceship combat is the best I have ever seen, and it's gunsmithing/mods is fucking awesome. The reasons I don't like it is because there is no gore or dismemberment, that was disappointing, makes combat less fun. In fallout 4 shooting people and watching limbs fly off was satisfying and sometimes funny. In Starfield there's none of that, combat feels unrewarding or underwhelming. The game graphics are pretty good, most of the NPCs look retarded but that's way more funny than anything. They look ridiculous, they make my weird disfigured character look normal and it's hilarious. Another thing I really, really don't like is the feeling of emptiness, just nothing. Most of the planets are just empty with the same generic points of interest. I thought exploring empty planets looking for artifacts would be much more interesting with the way they showed it in the trailers, but there just fetch quests with nothing in between, collect artifact, put in circle, repeat. This one mission gets you weird cosmic powers that are entirely useless, and you end up meeting aliens who try to get you to stop finding them. Sounds intriguing, maybe interesting? Nah, there not aliens. There some of the retarded characters from the group of explorer's from the future, Wich means you found the artifacts and uncovered there secrets right? Yes you did, and your reward for all this is meeting yourself in game in the fucking cosmos and you tell yourself in game to start over and play again and make different choices. Completely pointless because no matter what choices you make you get the same ending, only thing that changes is different people from the explorer group die. You still meet yourself and tell yourself to start over.
Fucking stupid.
I love Starfield, but I also don’t listen to CZcamsrs. I love Starfield. Cracks me up seeing all the content on CZcams from people saying “500 hours played and this game is terrible”. Nobody plays a game for 5 hours if it’s terrible let alone 100+.
Right, because that's what every single video says.. are you stupid or something? Lol You act like there's no valid criticism. Also don't worry about it. This game so dead. No one even really talks about it anymore.
It reminds me of the same people who play a game like Destiny 2 for 10 hours a day, every day, and then complain about no content after 2 weeks of a dlc release. Of course there's "no content" left to do; they spent 70 hours a week, or more, doing everything. 😂
The developers themselves have stated the game doesn't open up until you beat the main quest. Yes, there are plenty of videos capitalizing on the decline of public perception of bethesda, but the existence of bad faith actors does not diminish the critique of the game. Perhaps it is fun to you, but that does not mean your standards reflect the wider populace. Saying "don't think too hard it's a Bethesda story" is not comforting to those who expect a little more from a developer with so many accolades.
Agreed. I’ve seen some haters not lasting longer than the first 30 minutes, believe it or not.
yea singleplayer games. Live Service games tho? oh boy let me tell you...
Finally. i was starting to think im crazy. i am absolutely loving it as well
Glad to hear that!
Facts.. I can't stop playing it even though I already beat it..
yeah lots of people like garbage
@@numberonedadSure do that's why your parents raised you after-all even if you're below garbage.
Just because multiple people have your low standards, doesn't mean you're not crazy
I put about 150 hrs into the game and I absolutely loved it. BGS made something ambitious and original and I was captivated by it but i do agree a lot of criticism is also valid and I am looking forward to mods, expansions and more fixes. I do however hate the discourse surrounding this game. It’s clearly obvious that influencers and news sites used this game as a punching bag to generate clicks and controversy while skewing the perception of the gaming community.
P.S. The frauds playing this game for hundreds of hours then saying it’s not good, you can fuck right off.
Lol. Yeah, why are we putting that much time into a game that’s apparently so bad. People are insane.
Exactly, at least some Starfield haters like JWAGS 412, in his review of the game, he admitted he couldn’t finish the game. No way someone’s going to come up in my face with “300-500 hours of gameplay” and tell me the game is bad. You’re either lying about your hours, or love it deep down but hate it for strange, ulterior motives
Is Starfield the bestest game that's ever been made? No. Are there bugs and other annoying things about it? Yes. Am I having a ton of fun playing it regardless? Absolutely.
I agree. People say starfield is trash but then forget that Skyrim & Fallout are just as janky and glitchy. But everybody loves those games! Idk what all the fuss is about lol
@@Jaymo00 the glitches aren’t what people hate about Starfield
@@Jaymo00Glitches isn’t why people dislike it though. For me, I didn’t feel the worlds were worth exploring. Did I like character creation and buikding bases tho? Hell yeah
@@Dennis-nc3vwthe non game breaking and game crashing ones(which this game has a lot of) at least 😂
It's the endless loading screens and dumb looking generic moving npcs that breaks the immersion. Also, exploring space seems boring since their isn't anything worthwhile to do on most planets.
Starfield is fun when you don’t have a pretentious CZcamsr in your ear with their five hour “essay” videos about why this game is the worst thing ever created
Most of those pretentious gaming CZcamsrs had hit pieces on Starfield literally months, if not years before the game came out. They were preparing to rip the game to shreds anyways
I follow two types. Those that focus on the qualities and those with legit, reasonable critiques.
I now have these toddler reviewers on block
@@jimmythegamer2231 It doesnt help that the game is still mediocre garbage tho.
I would say most of those bad review on steam are reasonable criticisms of the game. I been looking forward to starfield before it releases.
Todd overselling the game, but when it releases it wasn’t within my personal expectations. I’m fine with others enjoy the game, but this game is not for me.
I hope Elder scroll 6 doesn’t flop, although their announcement for the game has already been 5 years
People feel cool if they act like nothing impresses them. It's like minority kids reviewing fast food on Buzzfeed, they feel like superior beings if nothing impresses them.
Starfield lets you make your own fun - the mission where you run into the space grandma who invites you for dinner. When you run into her again she repeats the same dialogue and acts like she's never met you before. Now, some people complain that this is lazy game design. Not me. I choose to pretend she's simply senile and *actually* doesn't recall meeting you before.
Schrodinger's grandma.
I've learned to not care what people say about the game, the game is amazing to me, flaws and all 🎩
Agreed!
"but i dont like it so you shouldnt have fun"
Better that way, people these days are afraid of standing on what they actually believe these days
Brave man, not pandering to the rage junkies.
"If you don't like a bad product, you're just a rage junkie."
@@DigimontamerB If you are filled with rage, and you keep looking for more reasons to be filled with rage, then you might be a "rage junkie". You can decide if we're talking about you, or not.
@@DigimontamerBDon't make strawmen. Argue your point instead.
@guerillagorilla4423 he didn't straw man he just says he doesn't like the game and that doesn't make him a rage junkie. I hope english is you're second language bc if not you need to work on reading comprehension
@@guerillagorilla4423that’s literally what OP did 😂😂😂
I will say that I did enjoy wandering aimlessly and/or scanning/surveying planets and moons. It works wonders for my depression and anxiety. Most of the hours I put into the game were doing just that.
felt this
Most of the hours I put into the game was breaking all the laws & slaying every person & thing I possibly can 😎
It's super relaxing to do before bed.
I enjoyed this, the problem I had were all the human made structures you would come upon. What are the odds you would land within a mile of something human exploring a random planet?
hang on how is a woman enjoying video games?
Bought it on spring sale & went in with low expectations. I'm blown away with how much there is to do. One thing i'll say is that performance during gunfights needs work especially when using scoped weapons. Crashing has been my only real issue. Keeps happening to me on planet Akila.
Starfield is just so sweet
Got it 5 days ago. I'm 50 hours in and haven't even touched the main quest. Just been going around doing quests and being a space pirate lol.
Good dude, have fun, I played it a couple months ago and did everything I could in one playthrough, it’s fun but it’s clearly not as polished as other Bethesda games, it just feels like once you do all the main and side quests, there’s absolutely nothing else to do. But I enjoyed it, don’t feel the need to play it again yet tho
@@carterver oh wow you mean to tell me once you play through all the content there’s no more content ??? 🤯🤯
@@carterverIf you play every side and main quest in skyrim or fallout, and got the best gear, weapons and skills for your playstyle.
What is there to do? Its literally the same.
I like skyrim more, but i also think its because of the nostalgia everyone had. And how new it felt.
@xbavox facts. Same can be said with just about rpg/mmo games. I play warframe and consider myself an endgame player and I think the game is boring because there's nothing for *me* to do. Doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else, though
@@carterver There's still plenty of places and missions to stumble across such as Eleos Retreat, First Contact, Project Starseed and the Colander. I'm 500+ hours in and still seeing new stuff.
The only bug I really hate, because it got me every time I started over, is the ships land but won’t open up. You board a ship in space and no one is on it. Ships not opening on landing screws so many different quests. Other than that love the game.
Yeah, stuff like that was happening to me left and right in the early days of playing. But for me, most of those issues really did clear up.
It's still present even with the May update, as far as I can tell. It occurs when you have the mission "Kill the crew and take the Ship, or Leave," and end up doing neither - such as the ship taking off when you board or sitting in the seat, and then leaving or something. Basically, that quest never completes, therefore all further enemy ships are empty. The only fix I found is to start a NG+.
The way I avoid it is to save before entering a ship - if it takes off, I reload and don't enter the ship. It taking off instantly breaks that quest. And looting or stealing one ship isn't worth breaking the playthrough over. So now I am very, very careful with that quest and most of the time just leave.
I've found a lawyer to sue you for enjoying Starfield, but need assistance as there are four Maj0r Lees in your town and I need to know where to send the lawsuit.
Lol.
May we see your lawyer’s credentials?
@@madsquirrelmods3035graduated magna cum laude from PragerU
I specialize in Bird Law but I think I could convince a jury Starfield is terrible.
I had a lot of fun just ship building and decorating my outposts, not even doing quests, also just being immersed in the sheer loneliness and quietness of space is an experience I’ve never had in any other game
900 hours and still in love with that great game!!!
Wow I don't know how
lol dog come on now
You must be suffering from severe brain damage.
Dude, there are other games out there too. C'mon
The guy is completely right I'm at around 500 hours and haven't even scratched the surface yet the game is really good
So rare to see a youtuber make positive content about Starfield, It's far from perfect and BGS need to keep working on it but I truly believe the potential of this game is insane.
No it isnt, they would need to change the engine and the whole studio to make a difference. People need to get over they fanboying
@@matejmarosz20 Exactly it's engine stops what most of these people see as potential with the game that it won't see.
BGS doesn’t have the gumption to make Starfield the game it deserves to be. They should’ve ditched the main story/Constellation altogether and flushed out the UC questline to make it the main instead. And then they could have done a proper Freestar questline too. After that, meeting back up with Hadrian and doing a few last missions with her would’ve been the icing on the cake. BGS doesn’t know what they’re doing and the modding community is doing its best to stay away from the game so I’m not holding out hope. And I’m saying that as someone that’s trying to write a story questline mod for the game
Its the wide miss of that potential that upset everyone.
@@matejmarosz20 That pathological toxicity of negativity is not helpful to anyone nor is it welcomed. As a matter of fact, you'll have better luck spewing it onto a wall in your bedroom, at least until you actually have something intelligent and constructive to say.
I love Starfield. It is a Bethesda game. Wide open and ready for DLCs. You can do whatever you want, quest, shoot and loot, build and work the economy. I love it because after work, I'm tired a lot of the time. I just want to vibe and do non-thinking gameplay like decorating, mission boards, etc...
Should play fallout 76
this is exactly why a lot of people aren't happy with Bethesda and their games in the past roughly 10 years. Bethesda RPGs USED to be actual RPGs where you had to plan out your character, not a "non-thinking" type of deal... Yet they of course continued to water down almost all RPG elements - Morrowind to Skyrim is a pretty huge step back in complexity and more a catering towards usually non-rpg type players.
@@stonaraptor8196 Because they need to draw in more gamers cause RPGS alone don't bring in enough money to keep a business open, so you need to draw in the Non-RPG fans to stay in business. As many RPG fans as there are in the USA alone, they are not enough to keep a Dev business running well. They need to go outside the box to attract more gamers to RPGs even if it means making it easier. Open World games that are a Sandbox are extremely fun for so many people. If you don't like that, there are always JRPGS, don't whine and complain about Bethesda, move on with your life, stop whining and go play another game, its not hard to do.
@@tanyltorres7713 RPGs don't make enough money? You sure about that? Baldure's Gate 3 made a boatload of money for instance. Bethesda is slacking, they used to make good games but refuse to step up their literal game. And bro don't tell me what to do what is wrong with you lol? Of course I will complain about a product when I am not satisfied.
@@stonaraptor8196difference between critcism and just whining. You're just whining. I still have some issues with the game but it's still very fun
Why is that one dude so angry? Wow….maybe he just needs a hot cocoa and a weighted blanket.
i love my weighted blanket lol
Seen another Aussie that triggered over the same stuff while admitting he had never played. He was trashing starfield content creators & trying to build a career off of it
@@Tenebrous227 how much of a sh** sandwich 🥪 do I have to eat before I can say it tastes like sh** 💩
@@Macheako personally I wouldn't eat them if I were you
Heel’s baby’s Face is part of the alt-right.
Major Lee is a Majorly underrated youtube channel.
The thing about me is I simply liked landing on new planets and collecting minerals and clearing out outposts and discovering the structures on the planets, the aimlessness is what kept me coming back, building outposts was cool as hell too. Can’t wait to hop back in. The fashion choices were also underrated. The overall aesthetic of Starfield is legit eye candy, it’s what you think of when you think of a good future civilization. With that being said I’m buying the game tonight again
You can enjoy something while still being critical of it's flaws. And you can enjoy or love or even be obsessed with Starfield while still acknowledging that it could (and should) have been so much better. But it's not wrong to love something just because other people don't - that also doesn't mean that all the negative leaning content around Starfield is just because that's. "cool* - it is a DEEPLY flawed game. I'm glad there are people who love it, because I'm sure at least on the ground level, some passionate devs worked on it. That doesn't mean the flaws aren't real.
Except DEEPLY FLAWED is highly subjective half the time, especially for a game like Starfield. Just because a game has a very positive reception among the gaming community doesn't mean it can't be considered deeply flawed by someone else. Take Yakuza: Like a Dragon, for instance. That game has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam, but I'd personally consider it deeply flawed for a variety of reasons, even though I still think the game is solid.
Something you consider a deep flaw of Starfield might not be a flaw at all in someone else's eyes, like bad side quests (subjective), terrible writing (again, highly subjective), or loading screens (inconsequential IMO).
So, yes, no one can say Starfield is literally perfect because no game is. But someone can also say they love Starfield and think it is not deeply flawed in their opinion. Just like someone else can say a universally beloved game like Red Dead Redemption 2 is deeply flawed in their opinion even though everyone else loves it. Opinions that are contrary to popular consensus exist and are valid. I'm tired of people acting as if the popular consensus is fact.
@@jimmythegamer2231 very bad coding (large portion of modders just abandoned trying to work with the code due to how horrible it is), poor quality dialogue, lifeless NPCs, TERRIBLE lighting (a brightness slider is not hard to put in a game), and resctricting basic quality of mechanics behind skill trees.
These are all facts, not opinions or public concensus. These are actual flaws, and cannot be explained away as the game being "quirky" or "a bit buggy"
Last of us 2 has a deeply flawed story yet that gane still won game of the year...
@@pieck5460 Tbf, a good game does not NEED great story. Mario proves this all the time.
Overwatch had no story at all and it still won, contentious as that choice was.
The gameplay and mechanics of LOU II was actually very good. Tight controls, great atmosphere, good coding (if only the pc remasters were), and a variety of accessibility options.
Story was not as good as the first, some would even say by a lot, but everything else made it a very well made game.
(Also game of the year awards are about as valid as the oscars are in determining if a game is good)
@@jimmythegamer2231 The loading screen argument is low hanging fruit, but it leads to one of the games biggest flaws that’s 100% self inflicted.
The loading screen itself isn’t the problem, i thought it was even cool that it uses photos you take as place holders. But here’s the basic loop of doing anything in this game the moment you load in.
Open map, pick quest, fast travel to ship - LOADING SCREEN - enter ship - LOADING SCREEN - take off from planet/location - LOADING SCREEN - enter space, pick destination, fast travel to destination - LOADING SCREEN - arrive in orbit of planet, open planet, land on planet - LOADING SCREEN - exit ship - LOADING SCREEN (that’s one right after the other after landing on a planet LOL) - walk around, find and enter primary NPCs building - LOADING SCREEN (but not always to be fair), talk to NPC, get new location, start cycle from the beginning.
This formula itself is immersion breaking, tedious and time consuming. That’s at least 14 different loading screens and time spent walking and traveling before any actual gameplay. Say i only have an hour or two to play, i don’t want to spend 30-50% of that time walking, traveling and stuck in loading screens. And this is just one quest, imagine how much this cycle is repeated over the course of a 2-3 hour play session.
No you’re probably thinking “oh well you can just fast travel straight to planets you don’t have to do all that,” and you’re right, I don’t, and I didn’t, but guess what that meant? I was actively avoiding my ship. IN A SPACE FARING GAME, YOU’RE INCENTIVIZED TO AVOID THE THING THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TRAVEL SPACE. It’s a busted formula and it’s one of the easiest quality of life things to fix, but it would probably break the outdated Creation Engine.
This would be fine for a game like New Vegas or even Skyrim, but it’s absolutely unacceptable from a AAA game studio in 2023, and it forces players to actively avoid one of the core features of the game. Which sucks, because the ship builder itself is fucking awesome. I spent so many hours and put so many resources into building and crafting my own ship, only to find out not only was that where I was spending the least amount of time in game, I was actively avoiding it just to get to wherever tf I have to go faster. Again, In a game that’s main selling point is SPACE TRAVEL, that’s completely unacceptable and is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what’s fundamentally wrong with this game.
I'm so glad the "i actually like/love starfield" videos are starting to arrive. The negative ones got boring fast, & i didn't even find many of them all that persuasive!
Glad to know I'm not the only one who took 6 months to review it. 😅
If you watched a lot of negative reviews, of course it gets boring. Everything too much is not good…
The negative ones are actually quite fun
unfortunately the easily influenced ate those negative videos up. most people that hate starfield havent played more than 10 minutes of it.
@@lasuzzoeaglegaming Oh believe me, I played for about 7 hours. But it was sooo boring
Feel like im listening to an actual gamer for once. Its nice. Thanks for your review! I enjoyed it and related to it greatly!
As someone who is in their twenties, I wish I could make a character that looks like they're in their twenties. Everybody looks thirty to forty in this game.
Thank you for coming out and saying what I, and I presume others who have enjoyed Starfield have been thinking.
My biggest problems with Starfield were how they handled space travel, ng+ content (the game fails to recognize what you actually did, like in the ending), the temple repeated minigame (Skyrim did it better), the way they tuned procedural generation where sometimes it doesn't make sense (Venus etc). Otherwise, a solid experience, it's just different compared to other BGS games. They even told people so before release. Exited for mod support and expansions.
The NG+ is a big flop. So, you're going to an alternate universe in which your decisions should made an impact in the world but... barely anything happens. Because they didn't have time... It's like... ok.
I think BGS was concentrating on the RPG aspect of the game more so than making a spaceship simulation. They probably thought that gamers wouldn't want to fly, themselves, from one destination to another in a mission. That would take a lot of time. I've been playing Eve Online since 2006. You basically fly everywhere in that game (except flying into planets and moons). Trust me, that gets old sometimes. Also, the spaceship combat is fun considering it's not a spaceship simulation.
If you don't tell anyone about Vae Victus, you can go see him for the rest of the game to get assassination missions.
Here I go murdering again...
WHAAAT? i gotta do this now
Yeah, I'm a contract killer now thanks to Victus.
Nice. That final statement at the end about how it has the potential to become better and potentially even seen as great is so true, especially after the update the other day and content reveal/leak of what they're bringing to the table. Also immediately after 76 seems to have had its redemption story.
For the record, i haven't played much of Starfield. I'm level 15 or so, and can only stream it since my PC can't run it native and I'm on PlayStation instead, but that space game urge is creeping up on me, and my 300-400 hours in No Man's Sky is telling me that Shaun Murray's universe, as much as i love it, ain't gonna cut it this time.
Just bought the game. 8.5hrs and I’ve enjoyed it so far. After delivering the first artifact I told Sara I got other things to do and fast forward I stumbled upon a side quest that ended with me getting some cool mantis armor and a spaceship.
That is the best early armor you can get. Also, there are some humorous advantages to that ship for those who want to reduce space combat (I won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen it, yet).
Honestly I haven't stopped playing since it dropped for me its my number 1 game, I think people just didn't give it a chance.
Glad you're still enjoying it!
same here. On my second playthrough and something like 400 hours. Some people put up crazy hours in games though! People were like over 1000 by new years!
The biggest irony is the lack of nuance imo. Like yeah I agree Starfield isn’t a 10/10 game but it doesn’t need to be.
Like there are plenty of things it does well and there are legit criticisms of the game but to me the problem is it’s all over the place.
Like I get that people have different opinions but when it boils down to “everything sucks in this game” it’s hard to take criticism seriously.
Like I legit dislike (even borderline hate) BOTW and TOK (to a way lesser degree) but there are legit things I enjoy about it (like the ability to freeze time and shoot arrows, the bike being fun to use, etc).
It’s like the gaming community has gone to absolute shit because it’s either 10/10 or -10/10 with no fair nuances or thoughts.
Like I hated cyberpunk and consider way way worse than Starfield but it’s melee combat and combat in general was fun.
It’s a problem because it doesn’t lead to healthy game discussions because everyone has to jump on a team.
“Oh but you just dislike that everyone hates the game and they have legit criticisms” maybe but couldn’t you say the same about any other game that’s gets universal appeal? Hell couldn’t you say the same thing to the people that loved BOTW that got mad about criticisms?
Like the gaming community has this massive problem of applying logic that’s never consistent and it’s annoying af.
“This game has gotten 10/10 therefore it’s a masterpiece and all criticism is wrong” “this other game got a 10/10 and all the reviews are just paid by the company”
Like do you not see the irony?
Yeah, this sort of all-or-nothing thinking is why a lot of things have gotten toxic lately.
I would describe it as a very fun but brutally flawed game. It's like burnt gourmet food.
Thing is that people will find a way to get what they want. People want to dislike and despise Starfield. I have seen countless examples of confirmation bias by naysayers, using certain things to try and prove that the game is bad. People keep saying that this game does nothing good. I don’t know, voice acting maybe? Character models that are significantly improved over their previous games? Cool attention to detail? People dont want to like this game, and we can tell because they are still talking about it even more than the champion of 2023.
You have in a few paragraphs, pretty much summed up my entire campaign for the last few months, trying to make people aware of the hypocrisy.
A few examples: “Everything in Starfield is done better somewhere else.” This makes no sense to me because this logic applies to virtually every other game. What ever happened to appreciating a thing for its uniqueness. Other games may do things “better”, but none of them do it like Starfield does.
“ They messed up the exploration.”
This is not TES or Fallout, its a different game. The sooner people realize it the better.
“The game does nothing new, there is no innovation here”
Me: 🙄. People who say this need to be put in a straight jacket. No offense to anyone, but : Retard Alert class!!
The hysteria behind this game boggles my mind, and so many of peoples arguments are selective hatred, that can be applied to almost any game. Thanks for summing everything up.
Hey major lee I came across your channel probably about 2years ago I think it was an star wars battlefront review it was funny, your someone I could listen to because you seem normal, a lot of people on CZcams are weirdo's, I'm glad I found your channel again so I can hear some normalcy.
Love your stuff, always great content!
Love your reviews dude 👍
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiine, I'll buy it. Its on sale,. You convinced me. Thank you though, honestly. Fantastic video
I gotta ask what were you doing
for it to be that buggy
i just did the fraction mission and
did not have that much issue with the game
beside the Bethesda bs when i played it
About the Autosave, saves go in Documents\My Games\Starfield directory, which if you're using Onedrive, it can mess it up. I've made that folder "Always available on this device" and seems it's more stable that way.
Yesterday I tried Starfield again since the 160h "speedrun" I did at launch.
I sank 8hrs straight including 2 for modding some QoL stuff, and figuring out the OneDrive issue through some Vortex tips (took a while because I messed my OneDrive a bit in the process but recovered everything in the end). I played from my "repeat main quest NG+" and rushed to the ending so I get a new NG+ start for another run.
Here I thought: "Meh, I'll give it another shot, a few hours and I'll go sleep." I slept 30 minutes before going to work. Yeah, the exploration is what it is, but Starfield sure has hooks it's hooks deep to keep me in.
"broken at launch, fix later" i hate this
Welcome to modern gaming.
Welcome to Agile Software Development
“Broken now, abandon immediately” welcome to EA Games
@@leelustig as long as everyone keeps supporting it, it will never stop and theyll keep selling us unfinished garbage.
@@leelustig Bruh we had perfectly playable games last year.
3:52 Eh...you're right. I'm gonna go play Cyberpunk 2077.
This review reminded me so much of mark and classic game room 😢 such a legendary channel
I enjoyed starfield (I play on xbox), even though it had quite a few bugs early on. I do think it could use some improvement, such as exploration vehicles while on planets to speed things up a bit, but I was not disappointed by the game.
I have 40 days of playing time and not collected more than 2 artifacts. I have been enjoying exploring solar systems/planets, side missions and other game play missions. I like how your not set to play in one way only but how multiple characters, missions and choices that effects your gameplay. I think many people do not like because it’s a 1 player game! But that’s why I love it! My choices and decision effect the game play. Hopefully there’s others who feels this way. I’m hooked on the game!!
I haven't looked for any yet. Been playing 7 months
If you want choices and impact play new Vegas
But your choices and decisions... Don't impact the game play. That's kind of the entire problem. It all leads to the same crap. The game tried so hard not to have you play certain ways that it made it so none of them matter.
If you're having fun that's fine. Go for it. Play it for thousands of hours. Just don't kid yourself while doing it.
@Setixir the story missions sadly don't, which is why they're not really liked. But the side missions do. Certain choices lock you out of certain missions and make you enemies of specific factions. They could have done a LOT more with the ecliptic instead of making them just some merc group. Same with house va'ruun
@Setixir Isn't that the trend with modern Bethesda? Starfield has like 1 or 2 quests that influence the explorable environment, instead of just affecting 2 characters. Skyrim did the same thing, I never saw anything really affect the entire world aside from the civil war questline, but it is still nothing in terms of choices affecting the world. And Fallout 4 too, its only really one specific quest that can cause a "massive" change. Starfield having next to nothing in terms of choices that actually affect the world is more or less modern Bethesda at this point.
That's not trying to seek an excuse, but more like I'm trying to justify also criticizing and complaining about Skyrim and Fallout 4 for not having the same depth of world changing events that Oblivion, Fallout 3, or Morrowind had.
Hi! Is it better to wait for official mod support and play the game with mods, or to play it now without mods? What do you think?
I'd say it's better to play any Bethesda game without mods first. Then you can appreciate the modding experience much more adjusting the game as you like.
Definitely up to how you want to experience the game
Lol. I just came upon your content and im a subscriber now!
There's enough here for me to enjoy. I like the idea of landing on a random spot, finding a civilian outpost, seeing what bounties are posted or what resources they need, and carrying those contracts out. It's definitely a game where "make your own fun" is in full effect. But that's also a problem, because none of the stuff I find fun has to do with exploration.
I had fun with it. The online response is really weird, like it kicked their dog or something.
People are just tired of BGS making the same mistakes for over a decade
Because people were expecting the next Skyrim: a legendary masterpiece that would be remembered for generations.
@@Dennis-nc3vwkind of hyped that way by Todd too.
how was the response weird ? it was so valid another generic modern AAA game
I've got to say that one of the fastest ways to get "Don't Recommend Channel" out of me is to post another bloody video moaning about Starfield. It's far from a perfect game but some of the complaints are so absurd and out of proportion compared to other games that have far, far worse issues. It seems to be whatever the opposite of a hype train is and everyone just seems so eager to jump aboard.
Most CZcamsrs are lazy, They just feed the algorithm with whatever vanilla take to rake in the views.
People love to hate what is popular now more than ever it seems. Schadenfreude sells well. Regardless of the truth.
as someone who saw like 30+ starfield rant videos i would say 95% of the stuff they say is valid this game is a joke
@@aligmal5031 That just sounds like an unhealthy obsession with something you hate. That's very sad. Focus on things you like instead.
@luckylanno People hate what is popular? Who was hating on Elden Ring, BG3, RDR2 and TW3?
Thank you, its not perfect but I enjoyed it and I'm still currently enjoying it. Optimistic about its future also
98% of the content is negative of late. It's refreshing to see some current positive content for a change
Subscribed! Great review. Nice to see someone with both a sensible point of view.
I’m right there with you. I’ve gone back in forth in my mind multiple times as to whether star field is a 9/10 or a 3/10. I’ve never played a game that made me feel like that. I think for that reason it’s neither of those and I would definitely put it between the 6-7 range depending on the day.
Starfield is good at making me sleepy
I enjoyed my time playing Starfield. Would I go back for more? Maybe. I think if there were fewer loading screens, more streamlined menus, more flexibility in the partners you could take along with you, less expensive ship mods, etc, etc. I could consider it.
I enjoyed your review, and I agree with most of what you have said here. I am looking forward to Bethesda's big update at the end of May. They are adding some nice QOL improvements like a better map with icon marker locations, and more in-game customizations to certain parameters like carrying capacity, vendor credits, etc. Liked and subscribed 👍
Starfield has a lot of potential and had started far better than most Bethesda games but the writing is the problem and loading screens if you can’t take it
Considering it’s a 2023 game it should. It would be a good game a decade ago.
well a decade ago the engine was publicly released but its just a modified version of the old one@@NamTran-xc2ip
The main story was terrible. Nothing is explained, its based on what's become a cliche (the multiverse), and the plot doesn't fit with the gameplay AT ALL. What are the odds that in the vastness of the galaxy, most of these artifacts would happen to be buried under bases occupied by thugs?
@@NamTran-xc2ip I don't know why people talk like games have got better over the last 10 years (aside from graphics). Loading screens and bad writing would have been just as bothersome a decade ago.
All games have something...BG3, for example, is an inventory management simulator, but people still love that
I’m pushing lvl 100, and think you we’re pretty spot on. I think this game would really come together with a bit more content. Not more systems, but flush out the world. Adding another ship manufacturer, another hub world, another weapons manufacturer, and another faction would make this game feel a bit more whole. 0/10 I can’t land on gas giants.
Have you seen the wanderers short film? Erik Wernquist? One scene depicts floating city on Saturn. It’s not completely implausible. Its atmosphere could be mined for helium3 for fusion. If we had fusion we could keep the city afloat with hot air balloons. At the right height, air pressure and gravity match earth so you could probably survive outside with just cold weather gear and a breath mask.
Good ideas.
There is another ship manufacturer in game lore, Titan Shipyards, but you can't buy the parts yet. I assume it is a future expansion element.
You shouldn't have wasted all the employees at Slayton.
I really like starfield. The gameplay variety is fantastic for people who need to play at their own pace. I like how it lends itself to be played on multiple screens (side missions on mobile, main missions on big screen).
i like to play melee builds in starfield. trying to dodge bullets and just swing at enemies with a sword is just fun to me. a boost pack makes it even better. i like to roleplay it as a sort of space witcher with alien dna as one of the traits. i think its neat. but overall, i quite enjoy the game.
The most sane review I saw about Starfield, and you done awesome. I really get tired to watch people addicted who literally lives inside a game, put anger in a pile of feelings, getting blind and don't really try to understand all the devs work, those kids put all their blind judgement above. You was pragmatic, understanding and logic about everything you spoke, that's the way to enjoy games in my opinion.
What are "actual activities"?
theres literally a tab in game called activities 🙄
I actually quite enjoy Starfield. I like to say it has the "bones of brilliance" that only Bethesda RPG's seem to have. The major issues are in the fact that game, as of now, has next to no "meat" (of *fun* supporting content) on those bones. The game does need an overhaul... or a few. But it STILL has the potential of standing shoulder to shoulder with Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
I love Starfield. Hundreds of hours into the game, some just roaming planets and gathering data. One of these days I’ll reach unity, whatever that is. Thanks for the video, sir. You have earned a sub 👍🏽
Take your time with it brother. Savor it like the Fallout 76 whiskey that I wish I didn't like so much.
Wow, I'm not the only who enjoys this game?
I'm so glad someone else can look at it, and say you know what, this is fun.
I loved the game, and and dude SARAH is the GOAT!!!!!!!
I love her, like she sit rent free into my digital xbox heart.
Keep my wife's name out of your mother****ing mouth! 🤬
Agreed! I don't get all the hate for her. I wonder if IRL they are guys who can't handle strong successful women. I bet they would never date a woman like her because of their insecurities.
it was never bad, we just expected better somehow...
I am only a few hours in and i like what I've played but landing on Jupiters moon io and seeing nothing but rock hurt me as a space lover.
The logic is pretty simple: Bethesda games usually take place in one single open zone. In that zone are tons of things to discover and explore. With Starfield being an interplanetary setting, you ironically lose that sense of exploration that you had in a continuous and single setting. I don’t play Bethesda games, but that’s what it sounds like to me
100% correct
With a lot of reviewers I have the impression they did not even play Starfield extensively and judge prematurely due to opportunistic reasons. And I think a lot of them cannot bear any void and blame the space for being the space.
Kenophobia is the fear of empty spaces and it is a real thing.
Seriously, I've seen "criticism" from people whose opinions I used to respect but lost all of it as soon as I'd realized that they never touched the game. Bandwagons are hard to resist I guess
Have you watched any reviews at all? Most reviews I have seen had people play at least 50 hours of the game. I myself played 80 hours gave it a 6/10 (7-8 with mods). I think you just don't want to accept that many people are finding the same problems with Starfield's mediocre game design.
@@carontorliak2760 exactly. lol these people just want to listen to reviews that praise the game really.
Hey Lee, do you allow sponsorship on your videos?
You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.
14:29 that's my main take of the video, Starfield seems bad only when you compare individual features to other games that are great on that specific feature.
"Cyberpunk doesn't have loading screens"
"Skyrim exploration is better"
"BG3 decisions have more consequences"
"NMS has better space traversal and outpost building"
"CoD has better shooting mechanics"...
and the list goes on, but here is the thing, none of those games comes even close to the amount of features Stafield offers, plus they ignore all the thigs that Starfield does really well like ship customization and the groundbreaking procedural terrain generation with biome diversity, flora and fauna that surpasses even NMS in some aspects.
1000 empty planets to explore😀
@@liquid1514 Thanks for supporting my point because that's only if you were expecting handcrafted exploration like in regular open world games, otherwise there is plenty to explore 😉
bro loading screens is not a comparison thing it shouldn't even exist it's 2023 it shouldn't even exist back in 2014
even when oblivion came out gothic 3 came out the same year and had no loading screens
"skyrim exploration is better" again exploration is what make a game either generic or great if you are making an open world game you need to make the exploration an essential thing why do you think elden ring fallout new vegas and skyrim are a successful open world games ?
consequences is rpg is not a comparison thing in open world games starfield not only has no consequences but the way they designed the essential npc system literally goes against the game the story and it even contradict some dialogue
"nms has better traversal and outpost building" yes these are very basic things for a big AAA game in 2023 starfield has no space traversal with all the loading screens it's an illusion
"Cod has better shooting Mechanics" in starfield there are no weapon variety it's 3 weapons reskinned as weapon variety and the melee weapons are all the same don't even need to compare it to other games just compare it to other bethesda games lol
ship customization was good yes
"groundbreaking procedural terrain generation with biome diversity" i hope this is a joke cuz if it's not then i want to tell you this is not groundbreaking
"flora and fauna that surpasses even NMS in some aspect" not sure about this one but i played NMS last time in 2020 and if i am making a comparison with it then NMS would still win in my book but idk how NMS is doing today heard it still improving more and more
@@BernardoPC117 i ment to say bubbles because they aren't even full planets
@@aligmal5031 First you ignored my main point which was that there is no game that does ALL those things better than Starfield because there is no game that does ALL those things. But even so I disagree with most of your points.
Why loading screens shouldn't exist? every game "load" assets either with a loading screen or with a hidden loading area like a long hallway or an elevator ride, those always take longer than a loading screen because the system is still running the game while loading, so I prefer a 5sec loading screen than a 10sec elevator ride, if you like hidden loading areas is your personal preference.
Starfield's exploration is not better or worse than Skyrim is just very different, one focuses on handcrafted guided exploration, the other one is procedurally generated exploration where you might not always find super exiting things all the time but you will always find something different, again it comes down to personal preference.
Space traversal sure it can be better but the only game that for me has a better balance between immersion and fun is NMS, others like Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen take WAY too long to go anywhere, you sacrifice way too much time just for not breaking your precious illusion, which by the way all games are illusions.
Stafield’s choices has no consequences? Who lives or dies depends on your choices, what faction wins depends on your choices… did you even played the game? 😆
Starfield only has 3 weapon variants? 🤦♂Pistols, rifles, miniguns, snipers, shotguns, grenade launchers, stun weapons, most of those several no-reskinned versions, most of those with physical, energy and magnetic variants, there is like 50 weapons that have completely unique meshes… to all of that you add the mods system and 😵💫… again did you even played the game?
Yes groundbreaking procedural generation is not a joke, name one open world RPG that has procedural generation with more than 10 planets, multiple biomes on the same planet, flora, fauna, and graphics like Starfield or better…
I played NMS a month ago, and yes Starfield it is better in SOME aspects, like having multiple biomes on the same planet and graphics.
As some one who is not a "gamer" i bought this game because it sounded cool. Iv only got about 40 hours into it and ive enjoyed it (again im not a gamer and i dont play games often). I got onto youtube and everyone acts like they hate it. Guess my tastes dont match up with everyone else.
Probably the best actual Starfield Review on YT. While this game absolutely have issues I am also enjoying my time 100 hrs in.
I've always been a PS guy but am finally picking up a Series X tonight. I will definitely be giving Starfield my full attention. Thanks for the honest vid. There are so many people hating on this that haven't even tried it.
I actually like that the game is offering diffferent experiences and type of gameplay, i don't see it as a failure trying to please everyone. I see it as a success to please people whatever type of activity they want to engage in during a play session. Sometime I spend hours crafting a ship, sometime I spend hours exploring empty planets, sometime i return to quests and dialogue, sometime i go hunting alien life... I have 1500h into the game. To be honnest my biggest grudge is about the "Action" key being tied to Target ship and Exit pilot seat at the same time... Seeing your character slowly rise from the seat and turn around is an heart broker during a dire space fight ! 🥵
It's great to hear about peoples experiences enjoying aspects of the game that others don't...
I cannot believe that chair thing never happened to me during space combat. That is something that would drive me nuts.😂
This is what I LOVE about BGS games. I can play whatever I'm in the mood for in one game. It let's me just pick it up and start playing and discover what I want to do if I'm not sure before I jump in. Love it
One of your best!
Tempted to play a bunch of space games (No mans sky, Starfield etc) and give my full opinion on them in some way, I absolutely love space so It’d be really interesting
Morethan 400 hrs in and 100 of those was my first ship design😂 barely getting to base building. Wish they had more fallout 4 type base building.
Better than fallout and eler scrolls because of a jetpack. Man oh man.
I just want to say I have 1000 plus. Hrs into this game and absolutely Love it . Sure I have been frustrated at times but I get over it really fast 😂
Same boat. I don’t get all the steam reviews with over 250 hours crying how the game is bad. Clearly they had fun or they wouldn’t have played that long. It seems to me slot of people had fun and finished the game then went online to see others opinions and then say people bitching about every single thing so they said “huh maybe I didn’t have fun”
The FSR 3 implementation in Starfield is fantastic! I could just barely et 30 fps at launch on the lowest settings. Now I get 60 fps almost consistent with much higher graphic settings.
Dragons Dogma 2 should learn from Starfield in regard to performance patching!
Am I the only one who is married to both Andreja and Sarah at the same time? Great video btw. I agree 100%.
You, sir, are a hoot! Thank you for your wonderfully wry commentary, and for appreciating what is good about Starfield. Think I may come back for more...
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Finally someone that can have constructive criticism without taking a dump on the game. That's the way you push the game (and developers) forward!
Just like you I really enjoy the game, but at the same time I am not blind for the shortcomings. There is a lot to be improved. Lucky enough for the interface there are already some good mods that make it a lot less wonky to use. It's certainly not perfect, but it takes away a lot of the pain.
I completely agree the game need patience to play. Sadly - A lot of gamers these days are the sort that does speed runs, have a short attention span, or just passing important things without even noticing. Those kind of people that want instant gratification, because they cannot be bothered by figuring things out, and they "want their time to be respected". It are those people that are fiercely attacking Starfield.
I agree it's "cool" and "fancy" to bash on Starfield these days. and I personally think it's gotten completely out of hand, and undeserved. As said above, I like that you have fun with the game, but still can point out the flaws without jumping on the "hate train". Very much appreciated!
My biggest complaint is the lack of morally ambiguous characters. And personally i think they had a perfect opportunity that they missed.
Imagine adding in a few morally grey or even evil (but not too evil) charcters within constellation. And throughout the various mainquestlines and major sidequests you can alter the perspectives of these characters with successful and failed speech checks.
Until it all comes to a head near the end when a moral conundrum comes into question, and they all split between this side and that side based on how you influenced them. There would be a quest where a small conflict occurs and your side (and theres) loses lives, and constellation breaks appart. Now its a race to figure out whats the deal with unity between starborn and your old companions. The final confrontation is completely sandbox a 1v1 battle between the opposing groups of companions where all essential status is toggled off and the opposing side dies with the possibility of your side including possibly love interests and friendships to die as well. A full on high stakes battle. Afterwhich you become starborn and travel to newgame plus.
Can I just say, I detest the fact that youtube NEVER tells me when you put out a new video, bell on or off. It's actually criminal that I miss out for weeks and sometimes months before seeing your latest.
I love Starfield. Still playing it. The game just keep giving me more content.
Im 1000 hours on ng+ 13 im level 176 i still find new things i love it i cant wait for the dlc.
I adore Starfield - your review had me in the first three minutes. Subbed!
Killing an enemy on a low gravity planet and having them achieve orbit it still my favorite
I like boarding a ship that has lost its gravity and using the land mines as frisbees!
I've been playing since pre-launch and I still enjoy the game. I don't know how many NG÷ I can handle to repeat the game but it's still an awesome game.
Yo the terraria review guy
Yeah I played because of him, Streets of Rogue too. He's a good pitch man and I had some fun times because he got me interested where most others probably wouldn't. Think about how much more effective his commercial would be on tv other than the artsy nonsense we sometimes get.
I think of him as “the Shenmue guy”, because his video on the Shenmue trilogy is hands-down the best on all of CZcams.
I really enjoy Starfield. Though I do believe the game was over hyped, which is what led to extreme backlash. It's a solid game with some aspects that are lacking or outdated, just like Fallout 4. And I'm at nearly 2000 hours on Fallout 4. I think Starfield has more potential though. I enjoy it as is, but I can't wait for the updates and DLC. Not to mention, official mod support.
Really looking back, no Bethesda game has been superb until the creation kit for the game released, not sure why it takes so long. A lot of mods for F4 are fixes for things that someone didn't like about F4 "Modern weapon mod" for those that don't like the wacky unrealistic weapons and are sorta lore friendly when looking at past Fallouts. I only had minor complaints about Srarfield and no real bugs. Companion dialog is really lacking, once you use up all their dialog, that's it really only getting more to progress story. I would love something more like Inigo mod from Skyrim, Take Sarah out to eat when she brings it up. And this is really a nit pick and has been a problem for me in almost every game I have played, STOP GIVING ME EVERY FECKING QUEST. Just because some idiot says hi doesn't mean I want to go save his "insert crap here". Let me go talk to someone and decide if I want to help them, please.
One gameplay gripe. Temple puzzles. I got a mod to shorten them just to avoid uninstalling the game
The floaty rooms? I'm not even sure I consider that a puzzle...🤔
@@leelustigexactly my point lol. The people hating this game can’t read basic tutorials and need constant stimulation for their rotted brains. They can’t deal with a 1 second black screen without going on their phones to get a dopamine hit
Honestly, I would rather make them more complex; or move the Guardian into the room and you have to beat them first. Appearing afterwards just felt off.
Playing Skyrim makes realize by how much they dropped the ball on gaining space powers compared to getting dragon shouts. Yes, there are some word walls where you don't have do anything to earn them, but a good amount require you to get through dungeons full of enemies and maybe decent puzzles; or there will be ones out in the world that have mobs you have to kill or Dragons you have to kill, depending where you are in Main Story.
@@abrahambobst4602 the sole exception being the one where you face off against the Emissary or Hunter. That is an epic fight.
Major lee out here with some of the best takes as usual
The ironic thing about sarahs disapproval is at the start she says she DOESNT CARE what you do to complete the missions as long as it doesnt bring trouble back to constalation . She tells you repeatedly that she hates the trade authority yet when you have the option to either give them something thats worth tons of money OR hack them to lower the price she tells you not to go down this route 🤔 so she rather we benifit the company she HATES rather than liwer their price 😪
Great video! I love this game to the point I scanned all possible fauna, flora, moons and planets. Yeah, it has bugs, but besides crashing sometimes, I always get a good laugh. I am looking forward to the update.
Major Lee, thanks for this video. This shows the game has potential and since Bethesda is owned by Microsoft they did one thing right. They finally released the game into the publics hands and got the feedback they needed to improve, same thing Microsoft does with their pcs. They had bugs that needed to be worked on and through feedback improved on it. This game is just getting started and I’ve had few problems on Xbox but just being patient, and not everyone is like that.
Let’s how haters are when GTA 6 comes out, is it gonna be great or is it going to have bugs and everything to do? I don’t think so because each new game gets drip fed and gets better. Great video