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.
@watchlover7750 thankfully I waited a couple months for the game to be out before buying so my first experience with Stanfield was hearing how shallow it was. Deepness of systems/story writing are my two biggest drivers pulling me in so I just... didn't buy it :p. I could summarize the story of the game, the issues it has, and multiple plot holes/issues and I've never once launched the game LOL.
"So I could just walk into New Atlantis, slaughter everyone, go to the next town, pay the bounty, and be fine? What?" Repeat after me, a crime with a fine as the only punishment is only illegal for the poor. xD
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.
I played one questline and a few random missions. The game is barren, theres like 1 city on each inhabited planet, and the other planets are either entirely empty or have one of the same handful of copy pasted facility. Space travel is boring, and in general the game handles like shit. Its a blatant example of the devs didnt do any work and just put this out there so they could profit off the creation club and modders work. Bethesda went from creating inspired worlds to making sand boxes for their customers to fill.
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.
i’m a recent player, so they may have updated it, but now you can give Cora books and gain XP from it! she does ask you to bring her whatever books you find but there’s no mission flagged at all
Speaking of house varuun - how much you wanna bet that in the upcoming DLC, just like in the base game, the background trait "serpent's embrace" will influence 2 things: jack and shit?
XDDD well bethesda surprised with Fallout 4 Far Harbor when if you sided with institute you could go there and ask if Asumi is a synth from Institute. Maybe they will take our breath away since they have all the time they need on that dlc :)
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
@@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 🤷🏽♂️
@@cantu7214the problem with cyberpunk map is that there arent any interiors, unlike in gta 4 which has lots of interiors for you to explore and immerse yourself
@@twischta I can't convince a person who hates FPP, but the parkour and the mantling is just so so smooth in Cyberpunk. I was a die-hard TPP player. I played Skyrim TPP, I even modded other games so I could see my pretty characters. But even though TBH it irks me that I can only really enjoy my carefully arranged fashion ensembles/battle gear while on a motorcycle or using photo mode, the way V moves and the combat really makes up for it, and will eventually even feel natural.
True the nightcity is from another dimension. But the gameplay in Cyberpunk is fucking shallow garbage for me. And not to mention main quest where all you do is just sit on a vhair and listening to people talk at you. Cyberpunk is crap.
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.
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.
@@ParisAbyssusits a preset list of names they loaded into the game. For example, my name is Glenn, which isnt on the list, so he just calls me Sir. But Glyn is in the game, as if thats a name you hear anymore.
Every Bethesda game used to be an insta buy for me. Ever since Fallout 76 thats changed, they are not fooling me again. I had high hopes for SF but i'm happy I didnt buy it at launch (or all for that matter). I'm sorry you had to go trough playing that obvious abomination.
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.
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.
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??
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.
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.
15:26 One very easy way to solve the crafting being essentially useless, would be special recipes that could result in weapons and armor that could only ever be crafted, basically enemies, misiones, and quests, could have a rare chance of dropping blueprints for crafting items that can’t be found anywhere else other than crafting. Let’s say you pick up a blueprint that lets you make a massive plasma hammer or something, the only way to ever get a plasma hammer is to craft it, sure it will eventually get outclassed and become worthless, but you can make it and use it for at least a handful of levels before you fined a replacement.
This game kills me, cause there are moments when I look at the interior of ships, the sprawling landscape of a planet, the visual design of suits, and think "man that's really cool". There are fingerprints of love and hard work sprinkled throughout, it's THERE, it just... Doesn't amount to anything that's actually fun to play. I wanted to love it so badly, but 30 hours in and the gameplay all feels the same
I just don't enjoy Bethesda games. Not even Skyrim. I had fun with Rage 2, but they only produced it. Todd "from a certain point of view" Howard didn't touch it. The way they do things is irritating. Some things are way too easy, and things that should be simple are made unecessarily difficult or convoluted. Its like they are made to take a long time for the sake of taking a long time. And I find them really boring. I literally fell asleep siting up playing Fallout 4. I was hyped for Starfield, cus as usual, it was pitched to be 100 times better than it really was. I love No Man's Sky and thought... no way, NMS with an actual story and dynamic NPCs and stuff? I AM SO DOWN. Then it only came out on Xbox so, screw me, I guess 😂 Sometimes God works in mysterious ways. People I know that really love Bethesda RPGs were even disapointed with Starfield. I get bored watching Starfield footage thats been chosen to be entertaining. I do find joy in people complaining about Bethesda games though. 😂
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!
So as a comment at the end of the video - let me add another game to the list of things that dwarf Starfield when it comes to storytelling as well as space-based travel and combat, and trading, and all that jazz (no shipbuilding or basebuilding though): Freelancer. Freelancer is THE game that brings me such an awesome nostalgia wave anytime I play it. It has some of the best space travel system with its boost / warp / travel lanes / gates... I just wish some game developer did a REAL modern version of it that I loved. There just isn't anything that comes close to it. Now... you can't *buy* that game anymore, it's no longer purchasable. But if you can find, say, a physical copy, it's *well* worth the effort just to be able to play. I strongly suggest a proper high-res texture mod pack though. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go find myself some Sidewinder Fang - I can't stand that Liberty Ale crap :P
I like your video a lot but I have major qualms with your recommendation of starting with Mass Effect 3. The other games are dated, but not inaccessible. The story is still amazing and if youre playing the remastered versions it updates the games to a much more playable state. The whole amazing thing with those games is that your choices influence every subsequent game. It makes no sense to play the worst of the 3 just because it is the newest.
This is a good start, and so there are lots of positive comments, but there are some issues as well, and it's worth mentioning if one is to learn. First, as mentioned by others, the sound balancing is bad. The volume of the background music changes and isn't being corrected to account for the speaking voice. There are also issues with the narration itself. Some of it is unclear not because the music s too loud, but because of slurring of words and general sloppy pronunciation. If you're expecting people to listen to you speak for hours, then making an effort to speak more clearly is warranted. There are also quite a few mispronounced words. I'm generally fine with people mispronouncing words, because it likely just means they've read more than they've heard a word spoken, and there's nothing wrong with that. Having said that, again, if you're speaking to an audience for a couple hours, then checking your pronunciation is in order. I realize you might not always know that you don't know, in which case having a few people listen to the recording and give corrections might be useful. In terms of content, it's actually reasonably well structured for being a rant-type video. I did lose you at a few points, but you got me back eventually, in terms of coherence. I found it very silly how angry you seemed to get about how the cartoonishly evil faction was being cartoonishly evil. You definitely spent way too much time complaining about it being evil, when a more mature critique might've lamented the shallowness of the writing or the lack of nuanced factions, or explained why certain things would not have worked the way they were depicted, rather than simply reacting in the way Bethesda obviously wanted you to react. Or maybe noting how evil corporations tend to try to appeal to their audience by writing stories pretending they're not on the side of evil corporations. Or maybe, if you happened to think that was actually a well written faction, maybe try and figure out what they did so well that it got to you so much. Overall, a reasonably solid first effort.
Starfield is uninspired. I started watching a cartoon series on Netflix about vikings called Twilight of the Gods. Every scene, every moment, is epic and compelling. They manage to turn even the most basic tasks into character building opportunities. I'll give an example. There's a scene where the MC and her hubby are going to get some sort of magic weapons before they set out on the journey ahead. If this were Starfield, the story would end there. Now the MC, mind you, is on a quest of vengeance (this will be relevant momentarily). She takes up a weapon and grasps it firmly. The individual they are with taking them to retrieve these weapons then stops the rest of the party, exclaiming, "Wait, before you pick your weapon, you must know that the weapon itself will destroy you if it senses any hesitation in your spirit or on the battlefield". He knew the MC had resolve, but was unsure about the rest. The hubby, up until this point, had been more analytical/reluctant to act out of impulse, unlike his wife (MC). Before he grabs a weapon, his wife thinks his spirit wavers and stops him, saying, "No, don't - you have nothing to prove. I don't want to lose you." But then the hubby just goes, "Fuck that" - grabs a weapon, and... doesn't perish. "I'm with you 'til the end!" Bethesda has no moments like this in Starfield. Everything that happens is uninspired, lackluster, or mediocre at best. They don't stop to think about how to make an otherwise generic plot point feel epic or compelling. They really need to seek out some inspiration, because it is painfully obvious they have become completely devoid of it.
I appreciate your review, however, I do have to say you seem to have gotten a few things wrong. Through not fault of your own, mind you, not many people would have the patience to go through multiple quests multiple times just to see what are all the possible outcomes... But for example, at 1:12:00 you mention the "alternate universe" quest, and this one actually has a 3rd outcome where *both* universes sort of merge and you can save everyone. So, it's wrong to say that it's one or the other. But at the same time, this doesn't really make it better, because they just wrote this separately from whatever everyone else was writing, completely break the rules of the game world that have been set already. The biggest failure in this (and other "small portals to different dimensions" is that it makes the Unity completely stupid. Why the hell do I have to lose everything and everyone, my equipment, my ship, and all of it, when one could just... switch universes through a simple portal? There's no logic in it!
Putting NG+ in a Bethesda game is such a bad idea. If everything resets after I beat the game, then why the fuck would i bother getting attached to absolutely anything? It's all gonna go away. Why would I do any outpost building if its just gonna disappear? Why hunt down the best legendary gear if its getting disintegrated? Why should I sink time and effort into my ship if it's getting pulled into the warp? Look at FO4: despite the very, very big flaws with the game (specifically writing and story), I still enjoy it. I care about building settlements because they'll always be there when I'm doing something else. I painstakingly mod my weapons to a specific perfection and proudly display my previous ones as a testament to the effort I sunk into them. I take the time to fully customize my power armor because, even if I'm not using it, it'll always be there when I want it again. I care about how I act with various NPCs, knowing that their deaths are permanent. I feel absolutely ZERO of this for Starfield. The fact that you have to ignore such a huge mechanic just to avoid hard-wiping the universe is ridiculous.
I love that you are putting this together so coherently on your first try. Compliments. One tip: look into proper levels for audio mastering. It sounds like you may have mastered this by ear, cranking up the sound on your headphones or speakers, but this causes your voice to be way too soft on most devices, and your background music is way too loud. Made it impossible to listen to on a train for me. Just a tip!
Games always seem to get crafting wrong. Especially MMOs. Crafting should be the way to aome of the best possible gear in the game aside from very few other methods. For instance, lets say you wanna craft a real bad ass gun. You can either get a high skill to start on it yourself, but you should have to go f8nd and essentially make rare materials, and then find kegendary masters of their craft to aide you in finishing a weapon or gear worthy of being legendary. You have to seek out these fabled masters of their craft, and have them combine efforts with other masters as well as yourself, to create and comvine the highest quality items to make the gear. It truly should be capable of getting you stuff that no ordinary dungeon drop should even be able to come close to. I remember back in WoW getting that Ragnaros Fury Brand. Had to get orbs of power from legendary elementals, had to get metal aloys made with the metal that was enchanted and wood hafts that were empowered via enchanting and inscription respectively. End game crafting shood be a gateway to the top of the top of gear in games with the systems. But it needs to be made where exploration and completion of rather powerdul level quests with reagents and material rewards giving you rare items of significant power or capability to craft into your new weapon of legend. This is what crafting imo should be about in any game with crafting skills like that. Killing some nameless schmuck and his ductaped broken Drako should not yield me a weapon stronger than my forged through legendary smiths and materials gear.
This is going on a playlist of video essays about Star Field and they will all be used to help me sleep. I mean that with respect. Star Field has failed in so many ways, but unexpected way it has made my life better is all the amazing content that I will listen to countless times while aiding me in conquering my insomnia.
There are some people who actually enjoy playing Starfield. I wish I was as stupid as those people so I could enjoy this trash game. Starfield sucks ass in literally every way. Its embarrassing
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 RUclips channel lol :D you earned my sub :D
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.
Do you people touch yourselves to these slow intros with music blaring in the background? This isn't some high art masterpiece of a video you are producing, you are reviewing a mid videogame. It is like every long form review youtuber likes to do the same bland and boring intro trying to hype people up for the video. I don't think I can describe how silly it feels. I know the comment is going to sound overly harsh, hehe, but it is something I noticed and it is starting to annoy me.
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.
I found Starfield to be ok. Not great, not terrible. Maybe the upcoming DLC will make it better. Who knows. But it's still fun to watch these videos on how much of a trainwreck the game was, vs. what was actually promised.
I would also recommend if you want a good space sim, X4: Foundations, it’s like the love child of EVE and Star Citizen, no loading screens, seamless universe, economic management, ship and station building
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.
35:25 you're right making every npc named would probably take hundreds of people and it would probably take them like 8 years to complete that game. No one ever made a giant city full of named NPCs *coughs in Imperial City*.
There was like 5 people in that entire city and the rest were copy-pasted guards. And the scale did feel really weird because how could the capital of basically the world only have like a handful of people in it.
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...
Honestly, there is no reason to be salty that Bethesda can't make games anymore or they closed down Arcane because they could. Just support Stalker 2 and European game design as much as possible.
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.
Today, aside from the lack of maps, none of these things have been fixed in any way. In fact, there are even more issues now than when the game launched. WTF, Bethesda?!
The Freestar Collective really do suck don't they? You would have thought that out of the many corrupt characters there would be one idealistic Libertarian or something to give them a bit of redeemability in the faction leadership but nope.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
Bud, roasting a Bethesda game is pretty pointless. We all know the limitations of this game come from the fact they've been using the same game engine since 1998. All of their games have basically been this since Terminator Future Shock.
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 RUclips?”
“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 RUclips genre. and I finished the game 2 times
@watchlover7750 thankfully I waited a couple months for the game to be out before buying so my first experience with Stanfield was hearing how shallow it was. Deepness of systems/story writing are my two biggest drivers pulling me in so I just... didn't buy it :p. I could summarize the story of the game, the issues it has, and multiple plot holes/issues and I've never once launched the game LOL.
Trashtalk Starfield is the only thing that ease the shame for knowing i pre order this garbage...
"So I could just walk into New Atlantis, slaughter everyone, go to the next town, pay the bounty, and be fine? What?"
Repeat after me, a crime with a fine as the only punishment is only illegal for the poor. xD
pretty realistic actually.
If you have money + a good looking body you can basically do a ton of stuff
The way todd intended
@@johnynoway9127 expected the reddit answer.
It's the price of doing business
I guess rdr 2 sucks
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.
Anybody else here who have never played this game, but like to watch these reviews of it??😂
Don't call me out like this.
I played one questline and a few random missions. The game is barren, theres like 1 city on each inhabited planet, and the other planets are either entirely empty or have one of the same handful of copy pasted facility. Space travel is boring, and in general the game handles like shit. Its a blatant example of the devs didnt do any work and just put this out there so they could profit off the creation club and modders work. Bethesda went from creating inspired worlds to making sand boxes for their customers to fill.
*reads video title*
*notes video length*
*cracks knuckles and presses play*...
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
You'd think if they were going to cut the quest, they also cut the voice lines that imply a quest will follow
i’m a recent player, so they may have updated it, but now you can give Cora books and gain XP from it! she does ask you to bring her whatever books you find but there’s no mission flagged at all
@@daniellecolona6445 yeah it was added in a previous patch. I guess they saw all the people commenting on how weird it was
Speaking of house varuun - how much you wanna bet that in the upcoming DLC, just like in the base game, the background trait "serpent's embrace" will influence 2 things: jack and shit?
XDDD well bethesda surprised with Fallout 4 Far Harbor when if you sided with institute you could go there and ask if Asumi is a synth from Institute. Maybe they will take our breath away since they have all the time they need on that dlc :)
Exactly this. 4 text choices though. All of which, no matter which you choose, will give you the exact same result.
We live in a world where Skyrim, a game that was made years ago, is a much better experience than StarField.
Idk Skyrim doesn't let you build ships
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
These guys are pumped out by talent agencies that farm youtube channels for revenue
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 🤷🏽♂️
@@cantu7214the problem with cyberpunk map is that there arent any interiors, unlike in gta 4 which has lots of interiors for you to explore and immerse yourself
@@twischta I can't convince a person who hates FPP, but the parkour and the mantling is just so so smooth in Cyberpunk. I was a die-hard TPP player. I played Skyrim TPP, I even modded other games so I could see my pretty characters. But even though TBH it irks me that I can only really enjoy my carefully arranged fashion ensembles/battle gear while on a motorcycle or using photo mode, the way V moves and the combat really makes up for it, and will eventually even feel natural.
True the nightcity is from another dimension. But the gameplay in Cyberpunk is fucking shallow garbage for me. And not to mention main quest where all you do is just sit on a vhair and listening to people talk at you. Cyberpunk is crap.
The music is too loud, your voice can be barely heard.
personally, I quite like the balance and can hear him just fine
As a pirate, we still have standards. I ain't gonna pirate for a 2020s game that was delivered like it's 2000s
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.
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!
@@ParisAbyssusits a preset list of names they loaded into the game. For example, my name is Glenn, which isnt on the list, so he just calls me Sir. But Glyn is in the game, as if thats a name you hear anymore.
Every Bethesda game used to be an insta buy for me. Ever since Fallout 76 thats changed, they are not fooling me again.
I had high hopes for SF but i'm happy I didnt buy it at launch (or all for that matter).
I'm sorry you had to go trough playing that obvious abomination.
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.
If you take away all the things that made New Vegas and Skyrim great, You're left with Starfield.
If you add a bunch of loading screens,yes.
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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I just have to say your voice is so soothing to listen to. The passion and frustration is palpable
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??
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.
"Like that tomato you stole" LMAO 🤣
You say "tomato", Bethesda says "STAHP! YOU VIOLATED MY MOTHER!"
Great stuff man. Maybe adjust the audio a bit, your voice gets drowned out at times
Starfield is baby’s first The Expanse
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.
15:26
One very easy way to solve the crafting being essentially useless, would be special recipes that could result in weapons and armor that could only ever be crafted, basically enemies, misiones, and quests, could have a rare chance of dropping blueprints for crafting items that can’t be found anywhere else other than crafting.
Let’s say you pick up a blueprint that lets you make a massive plasma hammer or something, the only way to ever get a plasma hammer is to craft it, sure it will eventually get outclassed and become worthless, but you can make it and use it for at least a handful of levels before you fined a replacement.
This game kills me, cause there are moments when I look at the interior of ships, the sprawling landscape of a planet, the visual design of suits, and think "man that's really cool". There are fingerprints of love and hard work sprinkled throughout, it's THERE, it just... Doesn't amount to anything that's actually fun to play. I wanted to love it so badly, but 30 hours in and the gameplay all feels the same
I just don't enjoy Bethesda games.
Not even Skyrim. I had fun with Rage 2, but they only produced it. Todd "from a certain point of view" Howard didn't touch it.
The way they do things is irritating.
Some things are way too easy, and things that should be simple are made unecessarily difficult or convoluted. Its like they are made to take a long time for the sake of taking a long time.
And I find them really boring.
I literally fell asleep siting up playing Fallout 4.
I was hyped for Starfield, cus as usual, it was pitched to be 100 times better than it really was. I love No Man's Sky and thought... no way, NMS with an actual story and dynamic NPCs and stuff? I AM SO DOWN.
Then it only came out on Xbox so, screw me, I guess 😂
Sometimes God works in mysterious ways.
People I know that really love Bethesda RPGs were even disapointed with Starfield. I get bored watching Starfield footage thats been chosen to be entertaining.
I do find joy in people complaining about Bethesda games though. 😂
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 :)
These guys are pumped put by talent agencies that farm youtube channels for revenue
So as a comment at the end of the video - let me add another game to the list of things that dwarf Starfield when it comes to storytelling as well as space-based travel and combat, and trading, and all that jazz (no shipbuilding or basebuilding though): Freelancer. Freelancer is THE game that brings me such an awesome nostalgia wave anytime I play it. It has some of the best space travel system with its boost / warp / travel lanes / gates... I just wish some game developer did a REAL modern version of it that I loved. There just isn't anything that comes close to it.
Now... you can't *buy* that game anymore, it's no longer purchasable. But if you can find, say, a physical copy, it's *well* worth the effort just to be able to play. I strongly suggest a proper high-res texture mod pack though. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go find myself some Sidewinder Fang - I can't stand that Liberty Ale crap :P
I like your video a lot but I have major qualms with your recommendation of starting with Mass Effect 3. The other games are dated, but not inaccessible. The story is still amazing and if youre playing the remastered versions it updates the games to a much more playable state. The whole amazing thing with those games is that your choices influence every subsequent game. It makes no sense to play the worst of the 3 just because it is the newest.
This is a good start, and so there are lots of positive comments, but there are some issues as well, and it's worth mentioning if one is to learn.
First, as mentioned by others, the sound balancing is bad. The volume of the background music changes and isn't being corrected to account for the speaking voice.
There are also issues with the narration itself. Some of it is unclear not because the music s too loud, but because of slurring of words and general sloppy pronunciation. If you're expecting people to listen to you speak for hours, then making an effort to speak more clearly is warranted.
There are also quite a few mispronounced words. I'm generally fine with people mispronouncing words, because it likely just means they've read more than they've heard a word spoken, and there's nothing wrong with that. Having said that, again, if you're speaking to an audience for a couple hours, then checking your pronunciation is in order. I realize you might not always know that you don't know, in which case having a few people listen to the recording and give corrections might be useful.
In terms of content, it's actually reasonably well structured for being a rant-type video. I did lose you at a few points, but you got me back eventually, in terms of coherence.
I found it very silly how angry you seemed to get about how the cartoonishly evil faction was being cartoonishly evil. You definitely spent way too much time complaining about it being evil, when a more mature critique might've lamented the shallowness of the writing or the lack of nuanced factions, or explained why certain things would not have worked the way they were depicted, rather than simply reacting in the way Bethesda obviously wanted you to react. Or maybe noting how evil corporations tend to try to appeal to their audience by writing stories pretending they're not on the side of evil corporations. Or maybe, if you happened to think that was actually a well written faction, maybe try and figure out what they did so well that it got to you so much.
Overall, a reasonably solid first effort.
Starfield is uninspired.
I started watching a cartoon series on Netflix about vikings called Twilight of the Gods. Every scene, every moment, is epic and compelling. They manage to turn even the most basic tasks into character building opportunities. I'll give an example.
There's a scene where the MC and her hubby are going to get some sort of magic weapons before they set out on the journey ahead. If this were Starfield, the story would end there. Now the MC, mind you, is on a quest of vengeance (this will be relevant momentarily). She takes up a weapon and grasps it firmly. The individual they are with taking them to retrieve these weapons then stops the rest of the party, exclaiming, "Wait, before you pick your weapon, you must know that the weapon itself will destroy you if it senses any hesitation in your spirit or on the battlefield". He knew the MC had resolve, but was unsure about the rest. The hubby, up until this point, had been more analytical/reluctant to act out of impulse, unlike his wife (MC). Before he grabs a weapon, his wife thinks his spirit wavers and stops him, saying, "No, don't - you have nothing to prove. I don't want to lose you." But then the hubby just goes, "Fuck that" - grabs a weapon, and... doesn't perish. "I'm with you 'til the end!"
Bethesda has no moments like this in Starfield. Everything that happens is uninspired, lackluster, or mediocre at best. They don't stop to think about how to make an otherwise generic plot point feel epic or compelling. They really need to seek out some inspiration, because it is painfully obvious they have become completely devoid of it.
I appreciate your review, however, I do have to say you seem to have gotten a few things wrong. Through not fault of your own, mind you, not many people would have the patience to go through multiple quests multiple times just to see what are all the possible outcomes... But for example, at 1:12:00 you mention the "alternate universe" quest, and this one actually has a 3rd outcome where *both* universes sort of merge and you can save everyone.
So, it's wrong to say that it's one or the other. But at the same time, this doesn't really make it better, because they just wrote this separately from whatever everyone else was writing, completely break the rules of the game world that have been set already. The biggest failure in this (and other "small portals to different dimensions" is that it makes the Unity completely stupid. Why the hell do I have to lose everything and everyone, my equipment, my ship, and all of it, when one could just... switch universes through a simple portal? There's no logic in it!
Putting NG+ in a Bethesda game is such a bad idea. If everything resets after I beat the game, then why the fuck would i bother getting attached to absolutely anything? It's all gonna go away.
Why would I do any outpost building if its just gonna disappear? Why hunt down the best legendary gear if its getting disintegrated? Why should I sink time and effort into my ship if it's getting pulled into the warp?
Look at FO4: despite the very, very big flaws with the game (specifically writing and story), I still enjoy it. I care about building settlements because they'll always be there when I'm doing something else.
I painstakingly mod my weapons to a specific perfection and proudly display my previous ones as a testament to the effort I sunk into them.
I take the time to fully customize my power armor because, even if I'm not using it, it'll always be there when I want it again.
I care about how I act with various NPCs, knowing that their deaths are permanent.
I feel absolutely ZERO of this for Starfield. The fact that you have to ignore such a huge mechanic just to avoid hard-wiping the universe is ridiculous.
I love that you are putting this together so coherently on your first try. Compliments. One tip: look into proper levels for audio mastering. It sounds like you may have mastered this by ear, cranking up the sound on your headphones or speakers, but this causes your voice to be way too soft on most devices, and your background music is way too loud. Made it impossible to listen to on a train for me. Just a tip!
Games always seem to get crafting wrong. Especially MMOs. Crafting should be the way to aome of the best possible gear in the game aside from very few other methods.
For instance, lets say you wanna craft a real bad ass gun. You can either get a high skill to start on it yourself, but you should have to go f8nd and essentially make rare materials, and then find kegendary masters of their craft to aide you in finishing a weapon or gear worthy of being legendary. You have to seek out these fabled masters of their craft, and have them combine efforts with other masters as well as yourself, to create and comvine the highest quality items to make the gear. It truly should be capable of getting you stuff that no ordinary dungeon drop should even be able to come close to.
I remember back in WoW getting that Ragnaros Fury Brand. Had to get orbs of power from legendary elementals, had to get metal aloys made with the metal that was enchanted and wood hafts that were empowered via enchanting and inscription respectively.
End game crafting shood be a gateway to the top of the top of gear in games with the systems. But it needs to be made where exploration and completion of rather powerdul level quests with reagents and material rewards giving you rare items of significant power or capability to craft into your new weapon of legend.
This is what crafting imo should be about in any game with crafting skills like that. Killing some nameless schmuck and his ductaped broken Drako should not yield me a weapon stronger than my forged through legendary smiths and materials gear.
CDPR really showed us what a flawed game Starfield was after getting lost in the ambience of Night City
This is going on a playlist of video essays about Star Field and they will all be used to help me sleep. I mean that with respect. Star Field has failed in so many ways, but unexpected way it has made my life better is all the amazing content that I will listen to countless times while aiding me in conquering my insomnia.
Amazing video. Extremely underrated. Been watching it for days
There are some people who actually enjoy playing Starfield. I wish I was as stupid as those people so I could enjoy this trash game. Starfield sucks ass in literally every way. Its embarrassing
Also it's hilarious to me that BG3 is entirely the companions to you because I ignored them almost entirely lmao
Nearly 3 hours of a perfectly honest review. Good god.
1:57:00 They already did the name thing in Fallout 4. This is not new.
I dont even play this game and never will but these videos are fun to watch
Refusal to make an effort and appalling production has peaked
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 RUclips channel lol :D you earned my sub :D
I honestly thought the intro had promise, sadly it falls off a cliff shortly after
Didn't even beat it, it was so boring. What was it? 25years to make this? And it sucked -_-
What did you expect, they're using a game engine they made in 1998
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.
I loathed it to i used to love bethesda but they have gone to shit
Do you people touch yourselves to these slow intros with music blaring in the background? This isn't some high art masterpiece of a video you are producing, you are reviewing a mid videogame. It is like every long form review youtuber likes to do the same bland and boring intro trying to hype people up for the video. I don't think I can describe how silly it feels. I know the comment is going to sound overly harsh, hehe, but it is something I noticed and it is starting to annoy me.
despite me waking up and choosing violence, video was not bad or anything, just to be clear.
I’m gonna be honest I did it because I wanted to make art so I shoved it into the intro. If I posted it anywhere else nobody would see it :)
Nice theme tune. Shame about the lazy flawed concept and bugs.
Bro pls lower game music audio
You have nailed the review of this game
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.
"It just works..."
Some guy at Bethesda
"No, no it doesn't work..."
Most of the Starfield player base
I found Starfield to be ok. Not great, not terrible. Maybe the upcoming DLC will make it better. Who knows. But it's still fun to watch these videos on how much of a trainwreck the game was, vs. what was actually promised.
I would also recommend if you want a good space sim, X4: Foundations, it’s like the love child of EVE and Star Citizen, no loading screens, seamless universe, economic management, ship and station building
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?
35:25 you're right making every npc named would probably take hundreds of people and it would probably take them like 8 years to complete that game. No one ever made a giant city full of named NPCs *coughs in Imperial City*.
There was like 5 people in that entire city and the rest were copy-pasted guards.
And the scale did feel really weird because how could the capital of basically the world only have like a handful of people in it.
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.
This man's smiting ability is top notch. Recommend subbing or he'll do a review on you next. Good stuff man.
Honestly, there is no reason to be salty that Bethesda can't make games anymore or they closed down Arcane because they could.
Just support Stalker 2 and European game design as much as possible.
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.
6:47 looks Ugly.
Today, aside from the lack of maps, none of these things have been fixed in any way. In fact, there are even more issues now than when the game launched. WTF, Bethesda?!
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
The Freestar Collective really do suck don't they? You would have thought that out of the many corrupt characters there would be one idealistic Libertarian or something to give them a bit of redeemability in the faction leadership but nope.
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.
wtf is the problem with being able to pick a gender, exactly?
It's such a new concept after all
The problem isn’t that you can but that it serves no purpose in the game
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.
It would take you days to write a two page essay?
@@pandamonium9255 I imagine it takes a long time to type anything when you have to remind yourself how breathing works after every keystroke
Sooooo creamy
You can run the game with DLAA it helps a bit with the blurriness
Really solid video.
criminally underated
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.
Starfield hate vids gotta be my favorite gender
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 still enjoyed it, love my slop
Great video with based opinions 😎
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
Re: the terrormorph thing: you just don't replace one apex predator with an even more powerful apex predator and not have it being a danger to humans.
I knew you will mention plant sera as example when talking about all 10 variations of constellation.
Great review, thanks man!
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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.
Bud, roasting a Bethesda game is pretty pointless. We all know the limitations of this game come from the fact they've been using the same game engine since 1998. All of their games have basically been this since Terminator Future Shock.
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I lost it on "oi m8 you have a loisence for dat ship".
That was amazing.
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The plot of Monster goes burrr
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
The one thing i agree with Todd Howard is that you shouldnt be picking up every paperclip and microscope you see.