The Death of Bethesda - A Starfield Long-form Analysis
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-------------------------------------------------------- Day 1
00:00:00 Intro Cinematic
00:01:19 Intro
00:03:41 Artifacts
00:04:41 Post Processing
00:06:12 Character Creator
00:08:46 Inventory Management
00:12:51 Loot Drops
00:15:25 Shopkeeps / Ship Stealing
00:22:00 NPC's
-------------------------------------------------------- Day 2 (Mic gets better and added pop filter)
00:24:50 Stations
00:29:57 Locations on Planets
00:43:23 Radiant Locations
00:47:00 Combat
00:50:40 Ships
00:57:26 Dialogue
00:59:30 Stealth
01:01:00 Magic
01:03:20 Lockpicking
01:04:25 Housing
01:06:32 Side Quests
01:13:47 Main Questline
01:19:07 Ryujin Questline
01:22:25 Crimson Pirates / UC SysDef Questline
01:31:11 Freestar Rangers Questline
01:34:36 Council of Governors
-------------------------------------------------------- Day 3 (Mic gets better and added shock mount)
01:49:25 Followers
01:54:08 Adoring Fan
01:55:18 Vasco
01:58:20 Barrett
02:00:20 Sarah Morgan
02:02:26 Sam Coe
02:05:30 Andreja
02:21:00 Unhinged rant about House Va'ruun and DLC
02:23:25 Recommendations for other games
02:36:47 Conclusion
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I dont know why exactly but after this video i have the urge to play oblivion for the 100th time
The overuse of Oblivion ost was real.
It’s literally the entire Morrowind OST, then oblivion, then whatever fit of the Skyrim OST, and the ending was my favorite Oblivion track.
It reminds all of a simpler time. A time when we knew deep down we were criminal scum.
Listening, experiencing how bethesda is falling into.. hmm.. oblivion is best experience one can get from their games nowadays. It's priceless.
Bro. Wait till you hear about Morrowind
“What got you into CZcams?”
“My sheer hatred for this game: Starfield.”
These days I mostly enjoy Bethesda games in form of negative reviews. In that sense I could still say, they bring me hours upon hours of entertainment. Great review, lots of good and original points.
I agree, it's literally a new CZcams genre. and I finished the game 2 times
Japantown in Cyberpunk alone clears every single city and location in this game lol
If only it had 3rd person... So far this is the reason I haven't bothered looking at it.
@@twischta it is the best first person experience available and extremely immersive. That’s an extremely shallow reason to not play one of the greatest single player games of all time. But you do you, you’re the one missing out 🤷🏽♂️
Bro hated this game so much that started a whole career out of it 😂😂 this was such a great analysis/review like every detail that you mention it really shows you have a great way to explain the things that you enjoy/ not enjoy.
Having a list of games that you can play instead or to have similar vibes or that do it better is such a nice detail to have in the video and I really welcomed that.
Instantly subscribe and very impressive for your first video I can't wait for your next analysis/review keep up the great work
I'm about to blow your mind: There is no side quest where you bring Sam's daughter books.
She has dialog asking for books, yes. But there is no quest, there is no interaction, and there is no way to actually give her a book. You misremembered that, maybe confusing it with a different quest where you bring a kid on Mars some comic books. Or maybe you assumed there was a quest there based on the voice lines. But I assure you, it doesn't exist. Probably cut content. The missing book quest is a bit of a controversy among Starfield fans.
You’re right that was two separate children! Does this happen to be one of the many children that look exactly the same as her?
Nice catch. I’ll have to figure out how to overlay a correction or something like that.
@@ParisAbyssus I'd leave it in man, your review is the authentic starfield experience of forgettable plots blurring together. I really enjoyed it
This was excellent, you hit all the games ridiculous game world inconsistencies and more. Hard to believe that this poorly planned and thought out game took 5+ years with the final product being so bad.
We live in a world where Skyrim, a game that was made years ago, is a much better experience than StarField.
What do you mean you are already at the top? Brother you can still get a rtx 4090 and a threadripper 7995wx lol. My new favorite genre of videos are starfield analysis videos.
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This man's smiting ability is top notch. Recommend subbing or he'll do a review on you next. Good stuff man.
You sir get the title of the Starfield rant OVERLORD!! 🥇 This has to be the single most interesting rant I've come across, and believe me, I consider myself a connoisseur of the genre when it comes to critiquing Starfield. I've seen every lengthy analysis, every deep dive, every pointed critique out there. But this-this takes the cake.
Dude. Amazing first video. I was flabbergasted when I got to the end and you "revealed" that you just started the channel. Would love to see more analysis like this!
Oh holy heck. There are already two more videos out, and they're on my favorite game of all time? Yessssssss
Chipping in $10/mo to your Kofi for a bit to help get you started :)
Good shit
Subbed and hope you keep putting out bangers
Absolutely agree with everything you said, the only difference is, I just uninstalled it after about 9-10 hours of suffering, and I did not start a CZcams channel lol :D you earned my sub :D
Good stuff, really enjoyed that. A lot of work went into it as well, impressive effort. Appreciate the video bro will subscribe to see more. Yeah I hated Starfield so bad, because of the thrown away potential at every turn as well. I doubt DLC's will ever fix it up, buut the IP could work in a sequel. Just it needs to be far less samey and predictable, and better in design imho.
Considering the approximate 5 year dev cycle that Bethesda has, the next starfield would be in 15 years, after TES:VI and Fallout 5. By then I feel like nobody will remember starfield so it’s unlikely.
Small nitpick that honestly bothered me more than it should have:
Vasco recognizing and voicing your name is not novel. Codsworth did that in Fallout 4.
Fair enough. As I’ve mentioned I haven’t played the fallout games yet to any reasonable depth so I didn’t know that. Thanks for the pointer!
Great analysis! I have over 400 hours in Starfield, but most of it was time spent in the ship editor. Only feature I really like. The rest is abysmal. Before the game released I fantasized about a game that doesn't really have one of Bethesdas boring main quests and instead concentrates on lore and worldbuilding - something they are really good at, even in Fallout 76. But as you said, the game lore is wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle. And this is something I just can't stomach anymore. Bethesda is finished for me.
Great video. I appreciate your presentation and methodology. You also have a nice speaking voice, it has a pleasant quality to it. I hope to see much more from you.
criminally underated
Really solid video.
Great review, thanks man!
So Bethesda actually managed to correctly describe a libertarian/neoliberal society: The Freestar Collective?
The inevitable end of Libertarian states is companies making a bajillion dollars and becoming monopolies because nobody can stop them and then they become the government except they exist to funnel money into their pockets and shareholders and literally nothing else. So what you get is the implication of civilization but in reality you live in the bowels of a machine that exists to crush you into fine powder they can sell back to you.
@@ParisAbyssus So it's the beginning and status quo of a communist/ socialist state, except it only makes a quarter bajillion dollars because they don't have the best person for the job they have the most politically correct ( be it affinity for the regime, class, race, gender, orientation) and much of the quarter bajillion is lost due to corruption an grift. They are the government and exist to funnel money into their pockets, give the plebs just enough to not riot, and literally nothing else. So what you get is the forced and politically correct implication that you live in a "fair" utopia, but in reality you live in the bowels of a machine that exists to crush you into a fine powder, but because it was made by the most politically correct comrade, instead of the best engineers, and it turns you into a gunky mush that you can then stand in line for, smile and call it bread.
i'd say crit chance is nowhere near important as encumbrance. in fact there's a lot of games that just don't tell you what crit chance is. i'd rather have it displayed, but personally i'm fine with just not having crits at all in my games, unless they're like DMC where they're skill-dependant rather than luck-dependant.
Outstanding mate! Best critique of Starfield I have heard yet, and I've watched at least 10 to 15 of these. I've played every Bethesda game (especially NV, FO3 and FO4). I kinda always knew they were empty, pointless and mindlessly juvenile, and how white-bread, hollow and stupid the main stories are; specifically in Fallout 4. That being said, the game still possessed just enough strangeness and sci-fi apocalypse character to keep me interested and exploring all the little nooks and crannies. And I did like meeting all the odd (but shallow and pointless) NPCs. ( But I would always restart the game before finishing the main story quest). Overall it held my interest enough for me commit 100s of hrs playtime. Plus 100s of hours playing all the other fallouts after #3, and Skyrim too. I want to thank you for explaining in perfect detail why fallout 4 sucked ass. As I was watching and rewatching your well made presentation, it dawned on me that I could basically plug in fallout 4 stories , themes, main characters and overall scenarios into all of your analysis and critiques, and you were basically describing why fallout 4 gobbled donkey balls. I haven't had the urge to play any Bethesda game in many years. I skipped FO76 and will not be giving Microsoft any money to DL Starfield. I sit back and watch all the Starfield review videos and have a warm glow inside knowing that at least one public facing corporation is having to hear from people they crap on regularly. Maybe just maybe, someone in Bethesda/Microsoft (and I wish most other corporations) will catch a hint as to how we feel about the catastrophicly shitty products and services they offer. Cheers brother, keep speaking truth. I subscribed.
Have you played Morrowind?
Sooooo creamy
Thing abt the performance:
My card is a 6600xt, supposed to be a 1080p powerhouse of a card giving 100+fps in any title at high or above, and starfield kneecapped my pc to like 40fps...
Now I ask you, FOR WHAT???
Rdr2 looks and is miles above this garbage muddy textured mess and runs in the easy 60+fps?? So wtf is Starfield doing that it needs so many resources??
The music is too loud, your voice can be barely heard.
Great stuff man. Maybe adjust the audio a bit, your voice gets drowned out at times
1:08:18 wait, people generally frame their whole lives around a purpose? I thought that was just a weird trope in media, I never thought it was something real people actually do...
Some people do, others don't. Personally I don't see the need, I am perfectly happy to just exist because I have no reason not to.
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Bethesda made 2 good video games in their entire career...at most.
Bethesda fans got the game they deserved and anyone who has any hope or hype for TES 6 is ignorant beyond belief
Let’s not be that angry at it. Elder scrolls 2-5 are great and I hear fallout 3 and NV are good.
The elder scrolls games are amazing for their time but they really really do not age well. Playing daggerfall now on anything but daggerfall unity with 1000 mods is a massive waste of your time, for example.
@@ParisAbyssus what part of fallout 3 is good? The gameplay? The story? The part of the wasteland expect DC and the Metro? The DLC? New Vegas is not a Bethesda game. Morrowind with pretty good and if you like RPGs lite Oblivion is ok at most.
@@SYLRMHAI'd say Fallout 3 wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. Although it may have to do with it being my first Fallout game and I had nothing to compare it to at the time, and the concept of the nuclear wasteland just blew my mind.
I think Oblivion was decent, actually good at many places - though Morrowind was without a doubt lightning in a bottle for Bethesda and nothing they've made since even compares to it.
As for Skyrim and Fallout 4, I played them for hundreds of hours and had a good enough time with it, certainly I don't regret buying or playing them... but Fallout 4 definitely made me wary of pre-ordering future Bethesda games - which is what saved me from the 76 debacle and why I'm still waiting for Starfield to go on sale before I buy it.
I disagree about suggesting that first two mass effects are hard to get into(unless you're a baby or something). If you gonna play it - you have to start with the first one or everything else won't have the same narrative impact. You won't care about those awesome followers as much and won't have personal history with them. Otherwise a great video! Appreciate using lots of Oblivion soundtrack😄
Edit: Also about robot saying your name - Codsworsth in Fallout 4 says many names including some obscenities. Fallout 4 has the best bethesda companions imo. They use animation markers, react to your actions and the world and are better fleshed out than Starfield ones. I think they started evolving their companions with Serana in Skyrim, got better in fallout 4 and then went completely stale and lazy in Starfield
The combat and generally everything about mass effect 1 (other than the followers and story) made me want to immediately drop the game and run as fast as possible. I have never seen a game fail so spectacularly at the feeling of shooting things. Halo 1 from 2001 had better gunplay.
Edit 1: also the entire extended oblivion ost is here.
I will try to get through the 3 fallouts eventually.
@@ParisAbyssus Combat might be clunky but the story is what makes that game. You just can't skip it and start with the third game. There's no point arriving at the end of the story without experiencing the whole thing.
I definitely agree with you but I was actually able to play through and finish 3 and then just acted like 1 and 2 were weird low quality prequels that tied everything together. Also putting the ending not at the end of the series honestly made me enjoy it more because it wasn’t the last thing I remember about it.
@@ParisAbyssus To each their own I guess. I prefer chronological order😄
@@TearfulMoonDon't worry I'll make a review of them eventually. :b
Nice theme tune. Shame about the lazy flawed concept and bugs.
6:47 looks Ugly.
Cant even say it was crunch or $$ these decisions were made to purposely make the game worse.
I don’t think you make bad things on purpose, that wouldn’t make any sense. It’s more of just the Bethesda magic being gone
Why would you play this game for over 100 if you hate it so much?
Because I was hyped for it. The Elder scrolls is my favorite series and fallout if great. I just wanted to see if it would get better if I changed how I played the game and it just never did.
Expectations does this to people. They play it in a denial of it being so bad, just imagining what could've been. There's no arguments in favor of it, since being a RPG doesn't make the developers free from the guilty of making a space-themed game so spacially-limited. Could've been 50 planets, if they had no loading screens, atmosphere flight and contentful exploration, the game would be so much funnier, because after all it's a GAME not a reality simulator.
Great video with based opinions 😎
The "background" music is incredibly distracting. I was unable to enjoy this video like it should be. Everything else except the music volume seems great.
Good video. Although I bursted out laughing when you recommended people to play Mass Effect 3 before the 2 first games in the series. That's in my opinion a Terrible idea.
Mass Effect 1 gives you allot of context to the world, and Mass Effect 2 is one of the best written RPGs ever made. The third game concludes the story, that begins in the first game, and is in my opinion, the worst of the trilogy. Also Mass Effect 1 came out the year after Oblivion, another game you recommended. And I think it is a much more modern game, in terms of mechanics, than Oblivion is. Plus there's the whole Savefile transfer between all the Mass Effect games, that will give you the best experience overall.
While all of that may be true, the combat in 1 and 2 that game is very very bad and I only recommended it if you couldn’t get through 1 on your first try, like I did. Story wise obviously start with 1, but I don’t really think it is needed to enjoy 3.
Bethesda games get a pass because they will always be half a decade behind anyways. Not that they have many continuing storylines, but I would do the same and suggest Skyrim first.
My point was that you should find whichever game in a series will actually hook you in and then play the rest. Like the only reason I’m playing daggerfall, a game I wouldn’t even consider in any other circumstance, is because I ran out of Elder scrolls games to play.
@@ParisAbyssus I dont really see why "Bethesda get a pass". I get that the type of interaction you get in their games are limited to them, but saying that they get a pass because their games are behind the curve anyway, is more a reason not to play them. I love Bethesda games btw. But they can be hard to recommend because of the jankiness and weirdness, that they all have. Rather than letting them get away with it, I would want to see them improve instead. I haven't played Starfield, because to me, from what I have seen, they haven't learned much since Fallout 4. I think it looks like they might have regressed a little bit.
If you play Mass Effect on Console, then yeah, the combat is weird and unintuative. But on PC, the Powers are alot easier to use, and the Gunplay is smooth. So I would recommend playing Mass Effect 1 and 2 atleast, on PC. And the games are so old now, that most PCs can run them fine.
I tried starting up a New game of Mass Effect 3, without an imported savefile. The game was very different from my earlier playthroughs. Conversations were more limited, many NPC stories just sorta happened, without much I could do, and the whole experience was rather subpar, compaired to how I remembered it.
@@christiankaiser3885 I suppose the better sentence would have been "I am heavily biased" instead of "they get a pass".
I'll replay the Mass Effect games soon enough. Maybe four years later and with more critical thinking I will enjoy them in the correct order.
So much of what you said is completely false or just nippaking and whining. I could make a list of everything but wow. I would be here for days writing a two page essay.
Anything in particular that stuck out so I can correct it? It’s a pretty big game and I only wrote the script of this video after finishing it so I may have misremembered a couple things here and there and at the time the wiki was pretty bear bones so I didn’t have any easy way to check.
As for nitpicking, I mean yeah games deserve to be complained about when they have problems lmao, that’s how this reviewing thing works.
Interesting video but if I can point out one thing it would be this. The background music is sometimes significantly louder than your voice. In addition, the tone of your voice is quite monotonous, which makes listening boring and difficult
Good for insomnia, though. Very calming.
Wish I could refund this crap . And I bought on sale at 29$
I got it for $100 for the premium edition so imagine my pain lmao