Starfield is Creatively Bankrupt
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- Starfield is out, and is worse than I could have possibly imagined. So, let's get down to business and review this slop.
#starfield #syntheticman
0:00 Pain Compilation
3:49 Intro
10:50 Technical Issues
12:45 Gameplay - Shooting
18:16 Gameplay - Loot & Swimming
22:24 Gameplay - Space Exploration & Ship Combat
28:15 Character Creator & Pronoun Controversy
34:12 Skill Trees
36:20 The World of Starfield
42:39 The Ugly NPCs & Wokeness
49:06 Quest Design & Player Choice
53:04 The "Evil" Faction
54:26 Faction Quests
1:00:30 Side Quests & "Cutscenes"
1:08:35 The Main Quest (SPOILERS)
1:15:00 New Game Plus
1:17:38 Conclusion 
Игры
If Blackrock and Vanguard made a game
I too hate the Irish bankers who rule over us (Mortimer J. Buckley)
So weird how we all know who those people are
>If
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hahahha, great comment section
Gamers refuse to accept that most AAA studios age like milk, not wine. Great development teams make great studios, not the other way around.
Dev teams are like sports teams. They are only as good as the people currently are working in the team.
Anyone who saw the Starfield direct and saw the people who work at Bethesda today should be able to know what to expect from the game.
Today the people who work there are the soyboys and the dyed hair feminists so of course its super woke.
Bingo. All companies are just a group of people. If a bunch of those people move on, the company is no longer the same. On that note, Todd needs to retire. He has no clue what he's doing.
huh and i thought diversity was our strength.
What Todd tried to do it in Stafield, Bioware have achieved with Mass Effect, more than a decade ago...
The tech isn't inovative, the story is bland and boring, Bethesda rpg elements, as much folks like it are being replaced by emergent gameplay in other games, in other words is, outdated.
NMS despite the broken launch already born a better game than Starfield, and today is something way better than when it was launched.
@@efxnews4776 one lone turkish man achieved it with spacebourne 2
The next Bethesda game will just be the Creation Kit and they'll tell you to make your own game.
still better than starfield
Also upgrade your PC.
Honestly I would prefer if they put all their resources into a project like that instead of asking us to sit through this game first. The whole appeal of Bethesda games is seeing how far modders can push it.
They'll sell you the creation kit for $150 and it will "update" every week and completely break.
You joke but that might be the best thing they could do at this point to win back trust if they made it user friendly enough.
"And the random gay dude is an essential NPC, imagine my shock"
Gaming in current year.
idc about that perse. Nobody should be essential, except children obviously. FNV and Morrowind done it no problem so why are we going backwards? Far too many were essential in Skyrim and fo4.
@@TimoshemperoniChildren shouldn't be essential either.
@@Timoshemperoniwhat do you mean “except children obviously” children especially 🔫🔫
Gaming in the 2000s: I can't believe Todd Howard did it again!
Gaming in the 2020s: I can't believe Todd Howard did it again.
🤣🤣🤣
Lmao
Gaming in the 2040s: I can't believe Todd Howard did it again
XDD
@@awardwinningcritique6895 no there won’t be internet because our orbit will be filled the blown up satellites blocking our access to space forever we probably won’t even have electricity and you won’t have time to game while trying to survive this was the best time humanity will ever have and we squandered it
The fact you cant kill npcs after they threaten you is crazy least immersive game ever
But but do you realize that this game will be played by stupid children who will later cry because the quest npc is dead and who will never accept to pay for their mistakes. Well we live in a world where parent never say no!
They're essential to quests that don't really matter to the story. Plus they could be killed and replaced with another npc who will serve the same purpose but that doesn't happen either.
@@dominicdeluca6378 This happens in good games only never in Bethesda games, making them immortal is goodenough, Bethesda is the goodenough company.
@@kukipett Could also be a way to ensure missions can always be completed, unlike some quests in Skyrim where assassin guild could send you to kill someone you than needed for another quest later on... And killing someone cause they "insulted" you is quite the immature reaction.
@@kukipett imagine if a game has multiple options to complete quests even after you kill every living thing in the map crazy right !!?!??! oh wait this already exist in other games that were made by ppl who actually care about choices
the real issue here is how 90% of reviewers including youtubers gave it a positive rating the week of release, the same ppl who mocked the facial animations of Mass Effect Andromeda, when the animations in Starfield are actually worse and they never brought it up.
theyre not worse than andromeda, and andromeda was compared to ME trilogy which was a cinematic masterpiece that no game will top for 50 years, the downgrade in terms of acting, world building and everything was heartbreaking not just disappointing, starfield isnt as much as a disappontment as that game was, still very disappointing but its not the level of andromeda
Reminds me of fallout 4 release. It was getting 9s and 10s and people were calling it a masterpiece not even a week into release lmfaooo. Fallout 4 is still a better game imo it’s still funny lmao
@@ibbyseed i can forgive poor FPS and other technical issues as they can be patched, but they took 8yrs to make this and said it has endless content when in reality its a barebones space sim that depends on modding community to fill the gaps, Bethesda should be investigated by FTC for pulling this fraud on consumer.
They're as bad as Andromeda
Except Andromeda is... what? 7 years old by now? And now it's fixed too.
So yes, in fact - it's worse. @@artemislogic5252
@@yt_hatesfreespeech It's not even a space sim..
At this point, I think it’s amazing that there’s no loading screen to skip dialogue.
Yo dawg, we heard you like loading screens, so we put a loading screen into your loading screen! And it just... works!
You know a game sucks when you'd rather do a genocide run on your first playthrough but the game won't let you.
😆
I found this out when I tried to kill moara on his ship. I said to myself "thanks for the info" [2 12g shots to the head]. "I can't kill him...why?"
I wanted to liberate the people in Far Cry 3.
But Far Cry 6 made me want to kill every single one of my own so-called allies.
Baldur's Gate 3 lets you.
War crimes are best crimes
I find it Hilarious that when you kill an NPC that is sitting, that same NPC need to stand up because it NEED to be out of sitting animation before dying
Wow that's lazy!
You couldn't kill sitting NPCs in Mass Effect either... if you turned friendly fire on with a console command. Which the game waa not designed for.
And it works AS WELL as Starfield.
@@KopperNeomanI really hope that's irony.
Are you serious?
Mass effect is over 14 years old by this point. Have you... ever played mass effect: Andromeda even? @@KopperNeoman
Best part is that it wasnt like that in Skyrim/F4.. They actually go back technologically on that on top of lack of gore and dismemberment..
It’s wild how many people still defend this game.
fanboys gonna fanboy
It looks so fucking goofy. Why every game nowdays has to look life a Fortnite ripoff. I guess the beta males game designers and nerd wannabe females are trying to make it look realistic, but instead, the shit turns out to be an oversaturated trash that tries to appeal to the younger generation.
They probably saw their faces on these NPCs.
People say this game is better than Skyrim lmao
And even Skyrim dumbed down quests and rpg mechanics like dialogue
Fallout 4 still has "very positive" reviews on Steam despite it being dogshit gameplay and plot-wise from the get go
Roses are red, violets are blue, Bethesda hit their peak with Morrowind and Blizzard with Diablo 2.
Morrowind is in desperate need for a Remake.
Morrowind is absolute peak
Imagine a remake of Redguard with the technology we have today
@@simon6157 skywind and yes morrowind was the best game bethesda ever made.
@@arkgaharandan5881 for it's time yes but sadly it aged pretty badly imo.
For me Bethesda is Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. Even tho this games became more and more casual they still had a lot of great quests and slapping a ton of RP / Hardcore mods on top of them still gives them very good RPG flavor to this day.
And for Blizzard their peak absolutely was Warcraft 3 and countless genres and games born from custom maps made for this game.
I found a coffee mug in the game that says "never apologize for being a powerful fucking woman" I almost cringed into oblivion
I bet that "sandwich" bitch from the Starfield trailer put that in the game.
Beyond cringe.
remove "never" and "powerful" 😂
Yeah, that's what really makes Starfield a piece of turd. Oh, my God, gamers really are a special case. Incurable.
Oh my god, it's not like we can find shitty feminist products in real life 😱
Starfield dialogue was written by an AI who's only data source was the Reddit home page.
Believable
Sounds right
I believe that more and more
*Grunts in agreement*
Souless marvel tier soy dialogue
Man I miss Morrowind's COMPLETE lack of hand holding.
“Random gay dude is an essential npc.” In fallout 76, the only items you can’t scrap are the communist items.
Real?
“communist items” like what? is it only “communist items”?
this game looked like a 5/10 from a mile away.
It's goty, hated by far right racist neo-nasties. It gets 87/100. The same as the goty Spider-Man for the ps4.
I am the farthest thing from a right wing neo nasty. I am pro choice, pro universal heathcare, anti nazi..etc the list goes on. The reason I hate the game is people like you who defend this lazy barely last gen game marketed as a next gen game. Alls it does is perpetuate the cycle of corporate greed going left unchecked! Guess what, being a lefty, I am pretty pro workers/consumer rights! Can't help when consumers are blindly loyal to corporations though. Hey, if you have fun with the game, great, but it is dishonest and utter horseshit to call this next gen or GOTY. BG3 stomps this Fallout 4 reskin right into the ground. No, I am not a "sony pony." I am a PC gamer.@@ummerfarooq5383
@@ummerfarooq5383God of War was much more GotY in 2018, not Spider-Man
This game is trash.
@@ummerfarooq5383🤣rofl bro
Starfield feels like it was explicitly designed around the mantra "modders will do it later". See those vast wastelands that encompass 95% of the game? Modders will fill all that space out later. Bare-bones, copy-pasted quests? Modders will flesh them out later. Meaningless factions? Modders. Basic QoL options? Modders.
This entire game is Bethesda throwing their hands up in the air and admitting that anyone with a lick of talent or vision at the company left years ago and that the people on payroll now are less competent than Moe Modder who does their job better than them in his spare time.
But how dare the modders remove the pronouns.
That's Bethesda to a t. The only people who like this game are the modders.
Except modders won't save this game. Shit cannot become candy.
@@gdl9362Cyberpunk fanboys were dumb enough to fall for modding just because they can “date” fictional characters. Modding ruins games more than it helps them.
Imagine a far off future where everybody looks normal when in modern times we already have extreme body modification. It's so lazy. Hell, nearly all sentient races in Fallout are technically human so it's not like it's unprecedented.
Starfield felt like playing D&D with a DM who is aggressively trying to keep all the players from derailing the story.
hey at leats dnd has lore, this game does not and this come from someone who hates medieval fantasy and dnd but loves ci fi, holy crap this game is bad.
Why is it that all these modern games have the most terrifying human faces? It's like a nightmare. Stop making eyelids that retract all the way behind the eyeball.
Starfield is what you get from continuously lowering the average IQ of a dev team over the course of two decades.
And the customer
And being a diversity ridden team.
Not just collectively lowering the IQ of society (much of which is accomplished via replacing the original members of a society or encouraging them to breed with invasive species), it's also disallowing anything other than safe topics socially. To be mainstream is to be safe. You can't explore anything uncomfortable or unsafe lest you have the jewish defamation legion I mean anti defamation league, SPLC, NAACP, and more beating down your door.
@@Sukhoi_Su-25
Might want to rethink that first half. You can fight every black or Mexican boyfriend (or whoever youre talking about) that your daughter brings home, but thats not going to protect her from the years of lowered standards and trash propaganda theyre teaching her in school. Kids of all races are being dumbed down all at the same time.
The two usually go hand in hand @@jasonlawrence360
Its insane how there are people who actually defend this game. They're probably lobotomized zombies.
yes
You literally cant even discuss the game without them reeing
Normies and leftards are the loudest and sometimes most influential in the entertainment business. This is what you get when you tolerate those imbeciles.
They are bunch of redditors stay out from that echo chamber of platform
SHILLS
This IS by far the worst game Bethesda has ever developed lol.
that's sad to see some denying it, they probably never really played games or just random shit..
like i mean, why do they deny reality?..
this game is so disappointing..and still not just the woke pronoms stuff which dont make any sens btw, but the game itself..
JUST LOOK AT IT, this is so empty, and slow..
Fallout 4 is so MUCH BETTER.
I'm really sorry for people defending this, they're lost
really
@@xertiasstrat8957 It's sad to see A LOT of people deny A LOT of things. From problems men face, issues in women's beliefs/thoughts/attitudes, defending Anal Woke 2 and Spiderman 2, that Islam ISN'T a intolerant religion, that communism is bad, that the CCP is bad, Trump wasn't a decent president especially in comparison to the current senile puppet we have in office, that pizzagate was real, that the 2020 elections were rigged, that MeToo/Feminism hasn't completely ruined gender relations between men and women, that the Red Pill is good for men, that George Floyd died of an overdose etc. I'm just so fxcking tired of life at this point...
I mean they never developed good games
@@jdrok5026 Yes they have, pretty decent games, just buggy AF lol.
@@jdrok5026 And yes I know New Vegas wasn't developed by them and is my favorite they've published, but 4 is fun for what it is, Fallout 3 is more flawed than New Vegas but a classic, Skyrim is awesome, Morrowind is decent and Oblivion is great and hilarious.
I've watched like 40 different videos that dunk on starfield to quench my disapointment with this game and modern gaming in general, but feels like I can still watch like 100 more of them.
The critic videos are more entertaining than the game.
Same here.
This game shows you who the real life NPCs are
And you arent
@@vilxxblack2472you have extra chromosomes
@@vilxxblack2472Nuh uh
Animal life is a game and we are all just the npcs for the main character spider.
@@ocinprofessionfuck that game would be sick
It's funny that New Vegas, a decade old game, developed in a rushed schedule - managed to avoid the immortal essential NPC crap for the vast majority of its important characters
You can kill anybody in New Vegas, you can even kill Yes Man. He does come back, but there’s actually logical reasons why he can keep coming back. He’s a computer program and can load himself into any securitron.
Yup - two things.
First, you need passion. Big studios just don't have it. When your team is super passionate, they will work hard on making their vision work. Baldur's Gate 3 is proof of that. Elden Ring is proof of that. At the end of the day, you need people behind the game that really care about it.
Second, great writers are hard to get and are super underappreciated, something that is becoming more and more obvious looking at the AAA gaming industry.
You could feel the love the developers had for Skyrim. It’s why I still play it, to this day. BGS has really lost its way, hopefully they get back on track for TESVI and FO5.
@@robotron1236 Nope, they won't. Skyrim was already a massive downgrade in terms of RPG mechanics compared to previous iterations. Ever since then, their games have gotten more and more simplified. Fallout 4/76 and now Starfield are all first person looter shooters with perk systems that are replacing any and all meaningful RPG mechanics from the past, and that's all Bethesda can churn out now.
Skyrim had better NPC interaction and immersiveness. Guards would warn you about shouting or having a weapon drawn, NPCs would pick up and even fight over an object you dropped. In Starfield they do nothing. You can fire a gun all around them and they stare blankly at you. Did Bethesda forget how to program in the last 12 years?
Freelancer, a 20 year old game, did interstellar and planet-planet travel (jump gates and trade lanes) way better than fast travel ping ponging all over the galaxy.
And don't get me started on how lazy and simplistic obtaining powers is in Starfield vs shouts in Skyrim.
Yet fanboys still defend this utter disrespect and disdain that Bethesda has for them.
This game made Fallout 4 look like a masterpiece
fo4 was a masterpiece imo, but only when played on survival
Fallout 4 was pretty great, but people love to bitch about everything so I consider that first and foremost when it comes to criticism.
@@synergygaming65 Fallout 4 was good in terms of gameplay mechanics but bad in terms of structue and pacing. You don't earn power armor. You get it given to you. Plasma weapon and a certain handgun is also overpowered. Deathclaws are dreduced to solo jokes as well. They don't threaten the player anymore because they're too isolated. And plasma weapons kill them in a matter a moments. Even on survival. It's just too easy.
And you know Fallout 4 is too black and white with it's story. The factions are too on the rails. Other Fallout games tend to have the player manipulate the factions more somehow. You're just bitching about bitching. Maybe there's good reason people bitch in the first place. You ddin't consider why. You didn't mention context. You lied about how it's about "everything" when you made a snap judgement devoid of context. All that shows is that you didn't think and use your brain and consider reasons with context about why people bitch.
New vegas had it all done better. RPG, pacing. No big enclave fights (unfortunately) but it gets so much done right. This is an example of context with criticism. Specific reasons. Too many people make blank carpet statements devoid of context and that's likely why people can't address the problems in games. Little wonder devs can improve on them then.
@@artemislogic5252 no, enough with that crap, enemies were still bulletspongy even on survival.
@@synergygaming65 fallout 4 sucked it had godawful story, ruined the lore and it playes like a looter shooter with elite bulletspongy enemies barely any rpg mechanics whatsoever, its mindblowing to me how starfield is worse than fallout 4.
You have no idea how much it hurt my soul when steam declined my refund when i was just a tiny bit over 2 h.
starfield really gives you the freedom to do anything, as long as it wouldn't affect the plot or allow you to roleplay in any way.
So, like The Witcher 3 then?
@@paul22180At least Witcher 3 had a competent team of writers and an amazing open world without a loading screen every 5 minutes.
@@Immopimmo It is pretty easy to write something when you know everything that the character can do and say. It is a single player game where you play as a Witcher called Geralt of Rivia; it isn't an RPG. As a writer, you don't have to take any other consideration into play other than that. Nothing the player does affects the world; you're basically writing a novel or a film the player is witnessing, rather than participating in.
An open, empty world. Huts, all empty; caves all empty with maybe a bit of water in them. Ruined castles, all empty. The problem with a big open world, even an empty one, is that it uses resources. When you want to take the player to a whole new area, with new assets, enemies and have it full of loot; you need loading screens. Otherwise, you're left with the empty world of The Witcher 3 and Read Dead Redemption 2, where everything is just background and empty save for an occasional container or drawer.
@@paul22180 Witcher 3 isn't a roleplaying game to begin with, it's a story game with a set plot and protagonist.
@@zilvoxidgod Yeah that's an RPG mate
Starfield is like a microcosm of what all modern big games are like. Every big game feels bland, inoffensive, tasteless, soulless. Nowadays I simply play older games, smaller niche games and some indies. My brain naturally filters out all the AAA gaming media and 'reviewers' by now because I just know nothing out there is worth it and the vast majority of it is shills getting paid to deceive you (sometimes they aren't even getting paid, they are too psychologically attached to their favorite companies which might be worse). It's depressing.
I am the same way. I think the last major AAA game I bought was Red Dead 2, and before that was GTA 5. Everything else is smaller stuff. Why tf would I play games like Starfield when I have Warhammer40k Darktide?
It's definitely the latter. It's obvious that the intelligence of consumers and just the public in general has taken a sharp dive over the past few years. The customer dictates the market in any field and naturally this is going to carry over into the gaming scene. You can see the results. The bar is now extremely low, and there is little to no quality control because people have no standards. The inability to accept that something you like is now trash, even when presented with some of the most crystal clear, in your face evidence possible is 100% an intelligence issue. I can pick apart just about anything I enjoy. That's called being rational. Most people are mentally conditioned npcs now and because of this it will only get worse.
Most of the time I am doing that as well, but BG3 for instance was pretty enjoyable, even though it has too much woke agenda in it.
I dunno about inoffensive, this game is unsettling and almost demonic in its conceptualization of the future, this is rancid slop and Todd was a mistake. I hope if this is what space flight looks like 'humanity' never leaves this rock, they don't deserve to skinwalk actual humans in space.
@@OrgusDin ikr? This feels like the universe was hand crafted for the meta commentary. Literally if we just had some NPCs questioning the slob, it could've fixed everything.
Imagine an NPC just asking you the player "Wtf is going on in those cities? New Atlantis feels so sanitized, so... inhuman. It's like they're robots" the game would've worked if some NPCs and factions actually commented on sorry state of their universe but nope 😢
When fucking lego star wars is a better space sim than your triple A space sim game, you know you’ve fucked up.
2016's No Man's Sky let you take a walk on a planet, board your ship, go out of atmosphere and deep in the space, reenter the atmosphere of another planet, land on it, all without a single loading screen. When i saw the cutscene of the ship takin off in Starfield, i just lost it. GG Todd "thousand planets" Howard
16 Times the Loading screens!
Got it last week... it's amazing honestly.
There’s a PS2 game called HAVEN: Call to the King that did the same thing.
defending no man's buy even when it's STILL a bad game.
lmao.
How is it that New Vegas managed to have six different types of caves but Starfield only has one?
8 years is a too short amount of time ...
Not only that, but i didnt even realize it was only 6. Felt like more since their interiors were unique and done better.
@@xaikken It just goes to show how much better a designed experience is over a generated one.
Crazy thing is imagine what the game would have been like if they released it when Todd thought it was good to go. Pretty sure Todd told Microsoft that it was ready to launch back in like 2021.
Cause Fallout NV was done by the team that worked on the original Fallout 1 and 2. Sadly Todd/Bethesda never got the idea behind the fallout universe.
I mean cmon, just look at Fallout 4, People living with skeletons and corpses in their homes, nothing cleaned up. As if the nukes bombed away everything including the idea of cleaning.
Remember, this is Todd Howard's dream game.
This is the game Todd had (allegedly) wanted to make since before Oblivion.
Let that sink in.
Apparently empty plants were only possible on the series X. 😂😂
I think the oddest part of the whole not being able to take out "essential NPCs" was a seriously missed opportunity in this game because *spoilers ahead* you get to jump to a parallel universe with your character and try again. This would be the perfect situation to allow a more open ended gaming experience.
That would mean they'd need coding and actually make the game workable with more writing for sure.
People call Cyberpunk linear but your decisions really matter in that at least. Bethesda has been dumbing RPG's down so that they can sell it to wider audiences
I haven’t played a Bethesda game since Skyrim and thank god cuz I have cherished memories and wanna keep it that way - if I played starfield I’d somehow find a way to permanently delete that Sarah or whatever her name is from the game. Can’t stand her idc if I’d have to become a coder to do it. Just a disgusting bloody shart of a game.
@@deathmetalcakefarts2751 it honestly feels like a big tech demo. So, here's hoping under MS management they do something different than what they've been doing with FO4, F76 and Starfield. ES6 probably won't see the light of day until 2026 or 2027.
Honestly yeah, essential npcs makes no sense in the storyline. The game can keep going as long as you get the artifacts and just-reset the universe? A player can't easily softlock themselves & can ussualy just reload.
@@AbstractTraitorHero exactly, they had the perfect situation to allow a return to the older no hand holding and give players a bit more of a unique game experience. Instead everyone basically plays out in similar ways.
the "essential characters" thing is really abused in Starfield.
Its like when the DM basically says that an NPC is going to flip on you, and when you and the party retaliate and try to kill him, the DM says: "no, no guys please, he's gonna important, you can't kill him." Hell, the NPC doesn't even have to be antagonistic, the DM just wants you to basically not kill anyone that is named. I hate it.
You speak from experience
Thankfully, console commands are the same as Skyrim. So, we set then to nonessential.
But what if i identify as a frog ? What is my pronoun ?
Bethesda is racist !! They didn't include me into their diversity !!
@ZoomerStasi lol nice reference
@ZoomerStasi Nah, BG3 gives you plenty of opportunities to break the usual flow and be violent with people, especially if you choose Dark Urge.
Never underestimate Todd's ability to make things as mainstream and as boring as possible. He's the man you go to create a demo instead of a game.
Don't insult demos bro. Demos are actually fun
Todd may not be know for his ability to make games interesting, but he’s definitely known for his ability to wear the same brown “members only” jacket for the past decade.
@@toothgrinder2760he has the never changing NPC outfit.
@@toothgrinder2760 he only wears that jacket when presenting a new game, that's why it lasted so long. Now it's practically a ceremonial garment.
I remember the good old xbox 360 days when all the games I even owned were demos@@awardwinningcritique6895
I've been addicted to the 'Starfield Hate' genre on youtube lately, and this is the best video I've seen yet
Wish there was more of it. Seems like there is nothing left to say about it.
I am excited for TES 6 hate videos now.
This is the guy we should be watching... Actually makes good point. Gman is probably getting paid.
Gman shills
Shill up
Yong yea (the fruit who shilled cyberpunk by not telling anyone how broken the game was before it become "cool" to hate on it)
Act ma'am who defended star slop
So many fake game reviewers
It's worth mentioning, the Fallout world & lore is good because it was written before Bethesda got involved :D
You mean tim Cain?
Yeah all the worst parts about it were parts that Bethesda felt the need to retcon to fit their newer narratives.
@@Mr.Fernandes. Are you sure?
I feel like comparing anything to Brotherhood of Steel is crossing a line, even 76 because *_at least_* it has playable content now.
bethesda retroactively ruined fallout lore with ever game. God i hate them.
@@Mr.Fernandes. Even in that game they got the broterhood insignia right, in fallout 3 they mirrored it until someone pointed out and they patched it, this is how much they cared.
How easy it is for so many people to get dragged by the overton window into defending absolutely moronic bs is one hell of a black pill, doubly so when you realise it applies to much more than just politics.
This. Dear God, this point here exactly.
over.
Feel the same way. This game and its support from gamers legit has me questioning if i should just stop playing games cause its only getting worse 💀
It'S 2023 brO GEt WiT Duh TImeS BRo!
The same for a certain... Adaptation of a certain popular recent japanese series.
What a waste of 70.00. They can send as many patches as they want but you can’t patch boring af dog shit games.
Come on man, that's not fair, the people in Starfield have a culture, they clearly all worship coffee.
To the people who defend this game I feel sorry for you. You deserve more than whatever starfield is.
Yea they unironically deserve phantom liberty 😂
Why? If people are having a good time (obviously alot of people), isnt that what games are for? The performance is clearly inconsistent across certain rigs, but cloud gaming is excellent.
Either enjoy the game or refund it, like any other media.
It's a bit like going to a really expensive restaurant and having a world-famous chef give you burned food. You can cut off the burned parts and say "Hey, I still enjoyed my meal" and there's nothing wrong with that but if you then say "10/10 meal - absolutely perfect", it tells the chef that what they are doing is acceptable and leads to more of the same.
There are lots of people out there who love Bethesda RPGs but think Starfield sucks. WIth ES6 coming next, that means some will want their voices to be heard so we don't get more of the same next time.
I think that's partly why there's so much argument over this game - the more people claiming Starfield is brilliant, the more likely it is that ES6 will be very similar and for some, that would be a disaster.
Maybe it is what they deserve...
People still hang onto those shitty ips like Sonic or Bethesda trying to salvage things and hoping for a brighter future, it’s depressing
This is the game where Bethesda writers truly gave up. They didn't even bother this time around. There are questlines in Starfield that make Skyrim's Theives Guild look good by comparison. Everything is just dull and lazy.
Yeah, when you compare it unique quests in Oblivion like the painted world one that was just a random sidequest you can stumble across you can see how much less creative they've become.
It wasn't just the excess fat Emil shed, it was his brain as well.
@@Flyon86That was one of my favourite quests! I remember the first time I found it. I had so much fun.
@@Flyon86or that pirate ship inn one.
Ugh Theives Guild was always my favorite guild and they are such a bunch of losers in Skyrim.
But the Nightingale armor is badass. Feel like Batman in it
in a game which has a FUCKING multiverse where the lives of anyone but you is insignificant, you still cant kill any NPC
Imagine being able to swim underwater in Skyrim over 10 years ago, but cannot now? Imagine being able to assasssinate an NPC in varying positions in Skyrim ie. Dark Brotherhood. But in 2023 not so? Like what the fuck
The honeymoon period with this game has ended for me, and now I’ve been binge watching negative reviews of it lol
Lmao.....
I never was a fan of bethesda, I only enjoyed skyrim, but after fallout 4 I could already see were this company is going, it only went downhill from there
I binge watch the negative reviews first.
F putting hours into a game that gets you frustrated as hell again. Bring back the simple 90's games with no small part looting and all the best skins already in the game
“Just spend 20-30 hours on the main missions to get to NG+. ThATs WhEN tHE gAMe GeTz gUD.”
That's how I got here too.
Right out the gate when the NPCs asked me what happened when I touched the artifact I said I don't remember anything then then the Barrett dude ask me if I saw anything I said no and then proceeded to tell me I had to go see people to help me understand the visions and music I saw and heard. I LITERALLY SAID I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING!
Yeah.... that's a writing problem. He has no reason to know what you saw, because you refused to tell him. If you aren't going to support a choice, don't lie to the player and give it to them!
57:25 is where he shows a couple good examples that player choice doesn't matter. They literally imply that you can kill them with dialogue, but the game won't let you. Bethesda doesn't care about giving the player choice, but rather making sure you see their set pieces. Essential NPCs are obviously pandering to idiots, but having NPCs be essential just so the game can have you kill them later is egregiously asinine.
You didn’t THINk you saw anything. That’s what happened.
@@Mirthful_MidoriEssential NPCs are "good" in the sense that the mechanic protects your savefile from fucking up due to other random factors (like NPCs getting stuck taking damage and eventually dying, etc). But why can't they make it so that player damage doesnt care about an NPC being essential? Or more importantly, why are these bugs that the essential mechanic protects you from still in the game at all after so many iterations of games exactly like this? It was goofy funny in Fallout 3, but that was more than a decade ago.
They can sus out your protagonist aura. There's no hiding
Competence has left the studio.
Exactly, i been saying it for years; BethesdaGS are just too incompetent to make great rpgs anymore.
Todd is a genius he makes his sheepeople fix the game for him while he earns unlimited money.
Exploiting low IQ people is the most profitable business
Except with the Nexus going woke modders are going to play close to their chest and start gatekeeping the hell out of their communities. So sheeple can cry about the mods they want but they're never getting them on the Kosher site anymore. It's only a matter of time before modders monetize their work in a more effective means, cutting out the middle man entirely.
I just talked to godd Howard. He wants you off RUclips, & start making mods that make the game playable!!!!
Basically. Nexus mods are Todd's b!tch
Total Todd Victory
Starfield story felt so freaking obnoxious, no high stakes, no dark humour, no dark outcomes... Its just happy people doing happy things for the greater good of the multiverse.
Yep, everyone is a goodie two-shoes, and when you go to be a “bad guy” by joining the Crimson Fleet, it’s just a snarky ghey gurl boss who’s annoyingly sarcastic; and mean spirited.
And after you beat the Crimson Fleet side missions, the Fleet intersects with other missions where they’re supposed to be the enemy, but since they’re your allies they don’t see you as an enemy.
Modern gaming be like
@@toothgrinder2760"Make her a chick, and make her ghey, AND LAME"
Modern Writers who only care is their paycheck and agenda. Players? They don't care cuz they knew you will buy it no matter what.
Good, BAD, I'm the guy with the gun.
The plasma pistol from Halo is cooler than any weapon in Starfield.
These people are the definition of simulacra in their writing. All their experiences are derived from media and not real life. The knowledge base being reddit and marvel movies.
Yup. Luckily you're not the only person who has noticed. These writers write about their experience of media instead of writing media about their experiences. There just isn't a clever meme yet to express this sentiment.
The worst part is it's fiction, completely sci-fi space crap. Its writing doesn't need life experiences, just a bit of doggamn imagination
Simply pathetic 😒
@@Marcara081Ahh good old storytelling self-referentialism. Shallow as a puddle, vacuous as their own experience of life. Only truly boring people could've written this sort of stuff. Both the first two comments here are really well said, I heartily agree.
@@mikeexits Hence why 'millennial' writing is typified by commentary on the events of the story as though it were a story, complete with criticizing the cliches and comparisons to other media.
"And the random gay dude is an essential character imagine my shock " I'm weak😂😂😂😂😂
How can a game with such a long development be so undercooked?
The worst part of it is...this game delayed ES6 an extra 8 years. Think of this: I was 24 when Skyrim came out. I will probably turn 40 before ES6 is released.
Rajeet coders and developers.
1:05:54 - this is why I will never unsub. You have the best resolutions to problems even of the future.
The greatest trick Todd ever pulled was convincing the world his games are better than they actually are.
its so funny that he got away with that shit again because he just springles some """represantation""" in his mid game and all these dumbfuks try to run defense for it
He convinced no one.
Skyrim is the prime example of this
16 times the detail. I knew at once this man only spits bull
@@perfectenrager he proved everyone. 👍👍
We are all gathered here today because we wish to answer the greatest question of all: why is this game just ok at best? Thanks Synth for your honesty!
@ZoomerStasihe could've fixed it with a tink tink tink gentleman
But what if i identify as a frog ? What is my pronoun ?
Bethesda is racist !! They didn't include me into their diversity !!
I guess Cyberpunk 2077 is okay too.
Every American RPG is just OK
@LuisSanchez-by7mh nah that's worse lol. Bethesda made no bold claims about this game being something crafted by Jesus Christ himself, those were the BGS fans and xbox fans since it's not on PS. CP2077 devs talked hella shit and completely underdelivered. Everything is dogwater in that game from driving to shooting to physics to map. Even the story i found to be super meh in it's presentation.
You called the gay guy gay....subbed
I have autism pointing things out that shouldn't be pointed out is my entire sense of humor
That was funny as fuck 😂
You can see the sweet baby inc stain in the awful writing. Nonsense like them being hired to help game development is one of the reasons for the bloated costs of making games
46:44 Even if you side with SysDef, *Naeva still cannot be killed.* She just mysteriously vanishes during the climactic battle at the end of the questline. The Commander later informs you that she's "out there," but that final showdown never actually happens. 😞
I would be so mad.
cant be havin ah black queen dyin shieeet
The funniest thing about this game is when you kill every soulless monster that the devs try to convince you they are good NPCs.
I suppose the schizo tangent would be that that is on purpose.
I disagree. The funniest thing is that Todd managed to fix the ugly character tech in Oblivion only to use the latest tech to make the characters ugly on purpose this time. Wrap your head around that one.
"the most braindead, triple vaxxed videogame ever made"
10 minutes in and i m already laughing my ass off, neat
Also my favorite joke in the review.
triple boosted, double masked
use the boost
There's no way a Jewish quest is in this game holy shit lol
Every. Single. Time.
Still love this review. 🎉
How is it possible that Bethesda hasn't improved their face modeling in decades?
It'd be very, very easy to blame it on the Creation Engine but then you have a look at what modders have done with Skyrim and Fallout 4 and you realise that can't be the case.
They did, but devolved back to oblivion
@@Brandelwynoh please, that would be a compliment
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrin I liked many characters in fo4, actually
Devs still don't know what humans look like. At least in the elder scrolls they had the excuse that most of the races weren't human.
Does Bethesda just not know how to write villains?
Truly, of all the disappointments Synth mentions, this is the biggest one for me. These villains are... awful. Like, pathetically bad. Pirates that don't loot and plunder? Gangsters that don't break the law? "I was alive the whole time and orchestrating everything from prison" with no effort to explain how any of that was possible? Space slug diabolus ex machina?
Can Bethesda just not write a compelling villain? One with gravitas? One who exploits human weakness for personal gain? One with a motivation more complex than "the good guys say he's bad, so he's bad?" This is writing I would expect from amateurs. Not a big video game publisher with hundreds of millions of dollars of budget.
Liberals think they are the heroes, but we all know their actual villains they put their logic as to what a hero should be into the game. Which is why the "heroes" are so villainanis.
You are not allowed to write a good villain because they would necessarily become a compelling indictment of your deranged agenda, which is way too fragile to endure that.
@@dielo943 That doesn't make the slightest lick of sense. You should think before you speak, not just blurt out whatever comes to mind and hope that it makes sense.
@@dielo943 Typo; it's THEIR deranged agenda that would crumple.
@@SyndicateOperativeQuite to the contrary, your belligerence to the ignorance is in the eye of the beholder, but bolder is the boulder who wears his heart on his shoulder, as it were. 😌💯
My friend was a play tester for this game and he wound up finding the most bugs on his team for this game. I think he told me he found about 2000 bugs/things that needed to be fixed before the game released. The worst part is that he wasn't even on the Starfield play test team for very long, he got transferred 6 months before the game came out.
Well yeah. Eventually the engineers gotta take their list and work on what they can before the game goes gold. With the amount of bugs still left in the game, just imagine how bad the early builds were.
I have for a long time had the opinion that a lot of games are just the same, have the same feel, same concept, same mechanics etc and themes. So many shooters etc are just shit in my opinion. They demand a lot from your computer, they take a lot of spaces, they are expensive, highly inefficient and competitive. It’s just a perfect for the normal idiot consumer that has no idea about what good quality games are.
true.
Don't forget they also extensively talk about how "no one leaves the crimson fleet" yet they just let Mathys go for no reason
Or the guy that works on the cruise ship that Delgado casually fired.
Or Lt. Toft
bethesda doesnt have a core design document, meaning that when you got hundreds of people working on a game there is no document to consult on wherever its ok to do something in the game's universe or not, bethesda's side missions are made up on the spot.
@@arkgaharandan5881Bethesda can't make a good and Interesting RPG with a great story, good mechanics and story even if their life dependents on it. They have been hyped much more than they ever deserve.
Their best game, fallout new Vegas wasn't even made by them.
Now these delusional fanboys slowly wake up or are just bored with these boring games.
And there's still enough people which will defend Bethesda.
@@DieEineMieze imagine how good this game would be if they hired a good writer to writer the story.
"Boundary reached, open the map to explore another region"
this is literal daggerfall technology
More like Arena was where that happened but Daggerfall let you explore unchecked back in 1996
You didnt even get the game right LOL
@@SwedishEmpire1700you don't have to get the game to know that though. Are you saying they're wrong ? If not then what was your point ?
No Daggerfall was bigger and you could actually travel the map (boring as that would be).
Starfield is a step back from the 90's. Lol
"New Tech, gotta upgrade your PC"...
I'm disappointed that gmanlives had to make a positive video on starfield that's sad. I dont care for his opinion on games anymore if hes backing shitfield
He’s a complete douchebag lol
The fact that people tried to insinuate that Bethesda couldn't do vehicles in a space game where you can build your own ship is literally mental illness
Mass Effect 1 was able to do it.
@@maulressurected4405and it was shit.
How did people not see this coming after the disastrous game that was fallout 76. As soon as Todd started making this big promises about the game should’ve been a red flag for everyone 😭
People hate patterns. Especially when those patterns contain inconvenient truths.
🚩
I did, and the FO76 disaster was the reason I waited for it to come out, and so glad I did.
I saw the fallout 76 disaster looming and waited before buying. I have played every fallout game except 76 (including the originals). I wont ever buy another bethesda game again.
Tbh. I started playing 76 with my brothers. We wanted a new game to fuck around with.
I've had way more fun playing 76 than I have in Starfield.
Helps I have my brothers to play with, but Starfield put me to sleep multiple times.
I couldn't keep going
It's always something I found absolutely astonishing. Bethesda manages to create a game with the highest amount of obnoxious, annoying and repulsive NPCs. And then make them "unkillable". Not because they are overpowered. They just "fall" to the ground unconcious. Adding even more to the insult. And with each game they seem to make more and more NPCs unkillable.
Its called having a woke creative team & a broke system developing team.
I find it crazy theyve created this game on a 10 year old game engine.
Diversity hires has regressed games back to Xbox 360 graphics
When woke leftist are the ones creating these NPCs they create them after themselves and there friends who are all awful people for the most part so that explains it.
Lol reminds me of Bully but at least that was funny and made sense
and now half of them look like howard haha
It's like a sanitized, Disney-fied, boring mess that tries to appeal to a mass braindead audience. Story as old as time. Everything from Movies to Las Vegas goes this route and no one ever learns the lesson. It's so weird.
Subscribed after 30 seconds lmao
The fact that almost everyone that talks about this game on RUclips never discusses how many Essential NPCs that you can't kill is insane. You are literally one of the only people to point out this glaring flaw in the game.
Can you kill essential NPCs in the witcher 3?
@@MrSiloterio Is The Witcher 3 a bethesda game?
@@nepalskilouda so the killing essential npcs only apply to certain rpgs?
@@MrSiloterio yes? are you r3t4rd3d or something? The witcher 3 is story driven rpg, it's about quality writing and interactions between characters. Meanwhile bethesda games are (or used to be) about player agency, freedom and roleplaying/immersion.
@@MrSiloterio Im comparing this to Fallout games. Even Fallout 4 had way more killable NPCS this. Haven't played Witcher 3 in forever lol I enjoyed it but never get obsessed with it. Pretty sure even that game lets you kill more NPCS....
Starfield seriously makes me think that modern game writers should've gone on strike as well. It's not like their absence would've detracted from the game.
This aged well given apparently there's an actual strike happening in gaming
ChatGPT does exist and perhap a way better job than bethesda at writing a compelling story,
ChatGPT is not capable of writing an actual story with depth, detail, and nuance. It also doesn't have the ability to be creative so it can't come up with its own ideas and will instead just plagiarize from other stories.
@@PhenoDubssounds like writing nowadays. Every mainstream movie or TV show is a remake , spinoff or knockoff of the next...so just go ahead and put the boys in charge 🤷🏾
game writers are complaining since early 2000s that most publishers think text is cheap.
Please people, never forget, we gamers are on the bottom of the Bethesda totem pole. The game was made to please investors, that's it the end!
Thank you Synthetic Man for taking one for the team and playing these terrible games so that we dont have to. You are doing a humanity a great service!
The amount of people, especially RUclipsrs that praised this game was mind blowing. At least it makes it easier who not to trust.
Todd's adoring fans...
I still can't believe that its fans and defenders aren't just endless waves of bots.
tbh they might as well can still be considered bots with how NPC they are@@EverSoSlightlySolidSnake
I subscribed to Synth Man after the review of Gman, that guy have the evidence of a bad game and he didn't care.
Is he legally blind in IRL or what ? Because the"Bug will be fixed" almost cost me a new PC lol. But Todd will say "Just buy a new PC, lonely salary man"
@@fernandokmps9346 the thing is that , you cant praise a game for being mediocre and call it a masterpiece LMAO, we have to be critical
Synthetic man’s brutal honestly is something this world needs more of. Keep up the solid work
a man the world doesn't deserve, but needs!
@@mooonn-jb6tuyou ain’t wrong.
Is he not aware of actual bad games this kind of stuff the angry Joe and James Rolfe used to review such a sonic free riders, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, mindJack, Winter Olympics, Lord of the rings Gollum, and all the CDI games
@@maxmazzotti6651Yes but games like Gollum doesn't have a secure fanbase that's why it's "universally" hated. But games like Starfield or any other soulless AAA game have a fanbase. That fanbase are also RUclipsrs. He is simply not shilling and aslo exposing the game for what it truly is. I hope you understand now🙏.
What I hate most is that these fans come into this channel and come harass people who agrees with him. Humans are stupid.
Your honesty got me. Subbed.
Yesterday I decided to have another try at this game.
I found myself back in some generic mining camp, and there were posters on the wall.
Even the posters were generic. One just said "Football" with a picture of football. That's what really pushed me over the edge, because they werent even trying to make the "universe" they "crafted" feel lived in. It felt like I was living in a stock photo.
Reminder that Bethesda fired Lukas Kristjanson. The writer of Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age and Mass Effect. Some of the best games ever made.
That alone says it all. This is not the same Bethesda. It's a hollow former shell of what it once used to be. Only the company name remains. To fool the public.
I expected nothing after FO76 and they still managed to do worse than I expected.
The thing is, FO76 now or since the last two years when it started it’s dedicated roadmap is far more fun
@@aceclover758Begone bruhthesda drone. This hot garbage will always be irredeemable.
@@user-mu5js6qn4q huh?
@@aceclover758Fo76 is fun if you're starting fresh or have friends to play with, but once you reach the endgame with quests completed it's just korean mmo farming style of boredom.
@@aceclover758
Fallout 76 has been out for 5 years and nowadays, it's barely at the point it already should've been when it launched back in 2018.
Imagine in the real world, if you do a world tour and visit all country, you find the same people, same culture, same food everywhere. How boring that would be?
Look no further and see it for yourself in Starfield then.
Diversity at this point where everything merge is not always good.
I'd argue it is never good.
When you go to another country it should be for the people living there, for the food, for the culture.
If its all the same, why go there? I see no reason to visit places far abroad that are completely similar to the place I am living at. For that I can stay in my own country.
And I don't understand how American companies can't understand that themselves. They always say "oh LA is so different to NY its like another world"
But it never reflects in their products they ship internationally.
This game would be better if they made humans of various planets more exotic. I would given humans various features related to genetic modification and prosthetics to make up for the fact that there aren't any aliens.
Starfield is peak globo homogenous, the ultimate melting pot, the convergence point where all cultures and etnicities became one.
Globalism wants that for us.
You make it sound like I wouldn't prefer to never see anything but my own people and culture or something. "Boring" more like a coherent safe society with nearly all of its problems absent.
Thanks for doing an absolute honest review, this game is garbage. Bethesda has became a corrupt and lazy company. After fallout 3, a great game, they did skyrim, but they kept using the same code since f3, they are a fraud. Thumbs up for your work.
Bro when I’m telling you I was THROTTLED when I seen Gman gargle this game harder than he did to Todd Howard’s balls is an understatement, Him and TheActMan with PAYDAY 3 just cemented them as corporate shills and I appreciate you sooo much more for your actual criticism in holding these developers and games accountable.
Bankrupt implies they bothered to open an account in the first place. Star field is the video game equivalent of warm Fiji water being drunk out of a sci fi themed bottle.
Fiji water is too good for Starfield - it's not pumped with lead, flouride, estrogen, and microplastics like the other brands
@@PreeSpunky It's an experiment on how much sawdust you can put in a ricecrispie cookie or how many brown logs in a fruit puch before people stop complementing your offerings.
@@PreeSpunkybeat me to it! 🤣
Like that super expensive StarWars hotel that got closed after 12 month?!?
@@PreeSpunkyThe plastic bottles they come in are leaching plastic into the water
Finally, an honest starfield review. Thank you!
You're welcome
Yes, I mean after all, how could so many people genuinely enjoy it? I don’t, so they must be lying ong
@@callmepsycho3132You can enjoy a garbage game and it can still be garbage thats why the term "guilty pleasure" exists, its when you start lying about the basic facts of how the game works and brushing the rest of its glaring flaws under the rug that you become a shill.
@@DebasedAnonexactly why do people find this hard to believe. Starfield can definitely be enjoyed, what needs to stop is the shilling and the GOTY tier praise.
Translation: “finally a review that agrees with how I view the game”
they said starfield gonna be a modder paradise. never i thought that they meant the game is just a empty map with almost nothing inside, and they literally "let" modder to "finish" their game
Thank you for name dropping good review channels to follow. I appreciate it.
ggmanshills review of this game is embarrassing, its not evne a review as it does zero criticism in order for it to be a re- view, its more like a preview or a 14 year old girl writing on her dairy how she wants her perfect prince to be like, "phenomenal achievement" my ass, spacebourne 2 is a phenomenal achievement considering it was made mostly by one man in turkey and it does most of the same stuff. Ironically ggmanshills saying no mans sky is a "wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle" is more accurate to this game, but what you expect from the guy who shilled fallout 76 and disabled comments because people point out he was paid with a sponsorship to make this video by bethesda and didnt disclose it.
If the "center" of your ship is empty space because you add a large L bracket of struts to the top of your ship, most enemies can't hit you in space combat. It just works.
From what I've seen of it enemies can only hit if they accidentally shoot from an angle that puts a piece of ship between the AI and the center point.
The gummi ship method lmao hilarious in works in other games
Imagine if the game AI always targeted center mass so you made your ship into a giant hoola hoop.
whats even funnier is that this exploit is 18 years old. because kingdom hearts 2 HAS THE SAME STRAT. people usually do a square there tho and make it look like a donut to get a little bit more hp for the few things that can damage you, like collisions and bombs.
@@Marcara081Good news, you don't have to imagine it.
If there wasn't any other game that exposed alot of Shilltubers this game certainly did.
It also exposed the hatewatchers.
@@user-wc3kz7dn1q How are you guys just now Realizing ActMan is shill? He shilled for that New World game made by Amazon like a year ago.
@@jeremyboughtono2hatewatchers?
@@gronndarpeople who warch something only to spite on it later
It’s unfortunate
I like act man and G man was alright for the most part.
This game is basically Camp of the Saints in space.
I see you're a man of culture
@@xcharlesbronsonx yep.
Damn, someone who I can mostly agree with, you are one rare creator bro
Not an NPC comment at all
@@Ordnas95 The fuck you mean, he's literally one of the few ppl that aren't afraid of speaking their mind, out of us two you sound more like a NPC bro
I won't allow no leftist to play me.
I AM Non-Playable Character!😡
About the G0re, I really hate that they got rid of the damage models for robots. I loved that you could visibly damage the robots in F4.
I swear I noticed that yesterday... then I remembered Todd saying this game is next gen in technology... seriously so many little details missing what made Bethesda great.
They should've gotten idtech to do the gore system considering how well the gore in the last two Doom games are. Instead, they get id's engineers to work on their...
Wait for it...
MOTION BLUR!
What a game changer, wow!! /s
Calling bugthesda incompetent at this point would be the understatement of the century.
This is why I wouldn't even pirate the game, a waste of network bandwidth, disk space, and processing time.