I live in a city that has grown a lot in the last 200 years. Counter to the European style where the poor live on the outskirts, here the wealthy are constantly moving to the edge of the city with the poorer filling in the places they left behind, but yeah it's all horizontal. There is an underground ares where the new city was built on top of the old, but nobody fucking lives there because it's unsafe compared to camping out in the wilderness.

SF isnt even worth pirating

In my opinion, this game feels like an empty shell. Everything feels bland or stale and I feel like it does have some potential but it's just not there. New Vegas feels more like what neon was ment to be but a rated pg version even then neon isn't as crazy as it was hyped to be. Again so much potential but not there

It’s sad that the most fun I had was setting up bases to mine every raw resource. After I accomplished that and played the main story 2 times I dipped and haven’t gone back since my initial play through

Starfield is a good game. But it’s not what it should have been. It’s not what we were promised. It’s definitely not a great game and not even in Bethesdas top 5. So much missed potential…. They should have just left it in the oven for 5 years lol. I’d rather wait 5 years if it meant I got a good game with replay value.

I'm going to be a 100-year-old before Fallout 5 comes out and it'll be on a PlayStation 20

never gonna play this. so the rock give space herpy?

Starfield's problems are numerous but its still a decent game you can get your moneys worth from and as always the modding community are the saving grace for Bethesda. The problem is the bar for expectations is immediately through the roof if its a game by Bethesda, their fanbase wanted ES6 or Fallout 5 so starfield was doomed from the start. You cant make some of the best games ever, keep your fanbase feinding for sequels and then make starfield.

Starfield's main story isn't great, but I liked the side missions a lot. And the mission where you rescue that space station that's split across 2 universes was amazing. Imagine if the whole game had stuff as cool as that mission?

Now if only you can go back in time to when the starborn convinced the scientist to make the grav drive, and you 'murder' the scientist.

And yet still better than every jrpg ever made!

meeting a space school bus in the middle of nowhere and talk about starships for family vacations..like arv certainly doesn't make travel feel like it needs explorers. also finding mcdonalds wrappers in the farthest reaches of space also make everything seem like it's on a beaten path. even a long lost home of a religious figure...looks like a messy apartment in new york city 🙂 a strange feel.... but...i wouldn't want them to fix it by making everything even more barren...so...

I’ve come to the conclusion that the story is collect powers and then reset the universe no consequences. Ad infinitum. How is that fun or interesting? What if you resetting the universe had a consequence like every time you did it two sets of enemy builds to be more powerful and the universe becomes more or less opposed to the player depending on their actions. Ie hero playthrough causes the good enemy to be more powerful and a villain play through makes evil enemy more powerful. Maybe the procedural generated nature is what you need to fight and the more you reset the more unique and interesting the universe becomes. Maybe starborn are becoming like a virus that is spreading or they have to be made to keep a virus in check. Anything but what they made would be more interesting that what they did here. But this Bethesda cannot look past their own noses.

i was hoping this would be more about how bad the Science is. i mean if you can visit Venus and NOT be crushed and melted with in seconds of landing?!? or how about the instant Grav-Drive travel? or the planets don't ALL have all types of ore? some of the plants have breathable air to humans w/o ANY need for disease or organism infecting you running around w/o a helmet?

Its crazy how people hated ME Andromeda because of the bad animation (was justified) but this game face animations are just as bad but the voice acting and dialogue being actually worse than ME:A

I'm about to fix the intro of starfield and give then a new angle to improve their story. It isnt even difficult to do. The Mc is still a miner, but we get information about a new type of rock that has been found and the recently and are killing anyone who touches it. So we are informed about them and are to not touch anything during a briefing before the mining operation begins. Half through mining we hit the funny new death rock. The boss calls off the mining to get the government down here to remove the rock safely before continuing. Suddenly the pirates atk and our mc being the only survivor was to go back into the mine and finsh mining out the death rock. We somehow didnt die from touching the death rock and try to use it to fight against the pirates. The government arrives becuz of earlier distress call about the death. Pirates die we get recruited by the government becuz we are super special. The pirates later found to have ties to a terrorist group that is trying to weaponize these rocks.

40:30, yep you NAILED IT.

"Im so mad I got a prolong intro/tutorial for a massive open world gam that left the world building ambiguous for me to dicover my own way" the hate on this game is so stupid

Until Emil goes Bethesda is going to perpetually have poor writing.

The fact that a city builds skyscrapers and vast underground livingspaces before it builds laterally is fucking insanely stupid. It just betrays how unfathomably bad at world building Bethesdas writers are. Holy cow. How does a company of that trajectory get so bad at world building?! The entire justification for Bethesda games is exploring a world!

Imagine making a space game with an intricate vessel crafting mechanic where you don't get to explore the unknown.

Fantasy is lost on you!

Saying BG3 has a lot of choices makes this sound very "idsconnected". True it is linear, but it is also linear in choices.

"we're a diverse crew, we swear!" YOU'RE ALL THE SAME PERSON WITH DIFFERENT SKINS! THAT'S NOT DIVERSITY, THAT'S A PALLET SWAP!!!

Constellation is just a nonsensical concept from top to bottom. Their stated mission is to answer the question of "what's out there", but they never offer any explanation as to why they are asking this question in the first place, what it is they are expecting to find, or what means they are using to find whatever it is. The artifacts seem to be their pre-existing hobby horse, and yet they are seemingly uninterested in studying what they are or where they came from, only in finding them at any cost (which is utterly bizarre). And then there's the issue of Constellation's staff. Just what exactly are Andreja's qualifications? Or Sam's? Or Barrett's? Why is it that Constellation doesn't seem to have any actual research personnel? Why does the Lodge feel more like a coffee shop instead of a research facility? I just can't take it seriously. It's a mixed bag of half-baked and contradictory ideas.

I know it will never happen but in a perfect world, the Sun or Reaper ending is canon, Songbird goes to the moon, and we get a casino heist DLC to close the loop on V’s story. If we got that, Orion can start fresh with a whole new main character and I would still be the happiest gonk in the world.

I gave up on starfield when the ending to the Neon Gangster questline was basically... to become cops. and it was soooo short too. and there was no other option!!! like, that plus the final step of the quest bugged for me because none of the other gangsters would stop shooting the cops long enough for it to play out XD... i troubleshooted a bunch and went back a save or two to fix it all for some lame "congratulations gangsters, you win, now you can play cops this time"... like i thought that questline was going to be like a guild equivalent or smthn, i felt sooo burrrned

Is possible that the Starborn members are immortal humans who have experienced different lives and then Unity just uses them again so they are reborn and that could be why they have so many conflicting experiences, is like starfield you can take different paths and even have game plus features.

I can't believe I gave this game 130 hours. I think it was the nostalgia built in to the Bethasda style gameplay that kept me going, but this was an awfully shallow game. Paint on bones.

cdpr doesn't know how to end a story they want to end the stories like inception where you choose how the story ends did the top stop spinning or did it continue its your choice

39:44 also to explain this. So when you go through the armillary your ship jumps and cones back with the artifacts and everything like nothing happened. It’s exactly when you go there and turn back and nothing is wrong with your ship is the same as that. The one npc even says she’s going to study your ship and the artifacts after you’re gone. They aren’t fighting over the opening of the gateway but who gets the right to go through. If you best bury anyone can go through, if you best the good she allows God to go through and vise versa. To give example. You’re character actually killed sam coe in one of the universes and leaves through the armillary and his daughter chases after you only to find your actual self (the one that didn’t kill him) starts your ng+. One of my fav ng+ starts

21:15 i only disagree with this one topic. I thought it was pretty shitty that i stayed behind and let the blonde girl die. I was running a space scoundrel and that was the arc that made my character a starborn that helps lol but i agree with everything else for sure

games haven't been good since the 2010s. I am the sad.

you can go as far back as oblivion and find extremely - to the point of emptyness - shallow world. the premise goes along the way of the emperor of the presumed empire dying without leaving any apparent heir to throw the country and its political system into turmoil and complete disarray. only the empire in the imperial city of the imperial province has no political system. it's the emperor and ocato who does nothing whatsoever. there's no political conflict or socioeconomic tension and no imperial busyness of any kind going on. actually, some later game dialogues with caius cosades in morrowind about the empire have more of this substance than the whole tes4 game. same goes for fo3, but you can check mrbtongue for that.

This all makes so much sense. I didn't make some of those connections when I played through them. Btw that outro was perfect

Andreja ends 2 zealots and she's "dangerous". Meanwhile, when I got to the part when the Hunter attacks. A pack of Artificial Idiots ran into my line of fire; Resulting in me going ballistic and ending every single NPC in the spaceport, and every ship in orbit. And constellation still loved me after I cleared my bounties (which was well over 1,000,000 for the UC and Freestar combined). Great world building BGS!

Also the visions are stupid. Couldn't figure out what they were supposed to be showing me. The visions in Mass Effect made more sense as player motivation.

I don't think there was any build up prior to constellation's introduction that made them cool. If given the choice, I wouldn't have joined them.

Definitely not defending this trainwreck of a game but the Keeper knows the answer to the riddle because he IS the Pilgrim. He's a Hunter variant that, well, got bored of dimension hopping and settled down. Also the guy in the alternate destroyed lab can be resolved by saving him AND the undamaged lab by doing the objectives in a certain order, which arguably is worse because it negates said trolley problem. Width of an ocean, depth of a puddle.

...VIP Grindr clubs, you say???

lol. I'm reading these comments it's really clear that there are bunch of people who are silly and didn't pay attention. FTL is not what we have, we have a jump drive. That's the one thing that violates physics. Otherwise, the Speed of Light rules. Technology has curves. We went from primitive to incredible in a short-time. But not a lot has changed beyond the increase in computing power and some refinement. Yet so many of you expect magic. Technology, and science, doesn't work that way.

starfield sucks, yeah ,but you're not very smart

At least in Foundation, Earth is “known”, it’s “original name” has just been forgotten, and the modern sensibilities would refuse to believe that the cradle of mankind could be a radioactive nuked world. I wonder sometimes if even that is actually likely to be forgotten though. Maybe. Even in the Information Age we live in now, some parts of the internet (rarely) die, and are not backed up. Over thousands of years, we can certainly forget a lot of things, and all it takes is a few information backup failures to make it possible

The multiverse plot twist has been a crutch for terrible writing for a decade now.

What if Mister Blue eyes is David's long last father? Doubt it, but that is nuts.

And fire Emil!!!!

boring ass game gave you my watch time but cant even remember what we were talking about

While I'm not inclined to be charitable to Starfield's writing, given the space western overtones, I suspect the "white suit good guy/black suit bad guy" thing is probably a specific callout to classic westerns that used the white hat/black hat thing.

I already forgot about the essence of the whole game.

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