0:02 and I already don't like this video. I honestly have no idea how Starfield fulfil your Mass Effect void. Starfield is not even slightly similar in writing, world building or character designs. Name some as cute as Tali in Starfield? anyone so sexy as Miranda? any character as interesting as Legion? Best Friend forever Garrus?... Many character in ME will stuck in your head for years or decades because they have personalities and they are well written. I can't recall any memorised character in Starfield. Even Skyrim has NPCs which stuck in your head with only 2 lines of dialog. I understand the urge to play in Space, and this might scratch this for you. Unfortunately this game do not scratch Mass Effect void
My opinion is not factual and ultimately holds no substance to what you like. I’m talking about what I like. If you have a problem with that then that’s your problem.
@@maxdmacleod I ask for example, why starfield feel your ME void. You decide to ignore it and get offended about like don’t like. Great understanding of test you read. Peace
@@maxdmacleod I watch entire video, but I will happily go somewhere else. To the place where people can give any argument to support their opinion. Happy evening, great RU-vidr.
Brother, if you enjoy a game, any game for that matter, THAT is the only thing that should matter to you and you only. We do not need to be a "community" to form some illusive merit badge, just to feel justified for enjoying a piece of entertainment.. Enjoy Starfield. I love Cyberpunk. I'll always have someone try to rain on my joy for the game, saying this and that sucks about it, but even if I should share a respectful response, I deeply tune them out, because quite frankly... who gives a rats butt, if I'm actually enjoying it. Game on man. 🖖
Wow this response made my day! I’m a BIG Cyberpunk fan too, It’s one of my favorite games of all time. Maybe I’ll talk about it in the future. I’ve always wanted to make a video on phantom liberty!
As a BGS game, Starfield was a huge letdown for me. Main reason for that is probably the usage of procedurally generated content, because every location was pretty much the same. I always enjoyed the exploration the most in previous BGS games, but in Starfield it simply wasn't fun, in fact it was so tedious that I tried to avoid it. And that is where Starfield failed the most in my opinion, because the whole premise of this game was to explore the space. So yeah, really big letdown. And to make matters worse thanks to Fallout 76 and Starfield, I'm no longer excited for future BGS games such as Elder Scrolls 6, because I don't think that BGS knows anymore what made their games so good in the past.
Yeah preferably I like their “one big map” design then multiple small maps in starfield. I personally think what you said would be excellent feedback for BGS to hear. Like I said these common criticism should be considered if they choose to make a sequel!
I feel like Bethesda wouldn't have gotten half as much shit as it did if space adventure game felt like space adventure game and not loading screen fest that it is. Sadly that is an issue not fixable (if at all) as easily as qol things they did. Doesn't hrlp that there is competition out there that is doing things better: elite dangerous, x4,... star citizen (even in its sorry and shady state)
All Bethesda games built in the creation engine have a lot of loading screens especially Skyrim. I think it’s just waaaay more noticeable in Starfield because of its design. Like I said in the video it’s not one big map in Starfield.
@@maxdmacleod I think it's more about not putting care into pacing loads better/ making them not feel like loads. For being masters at evoking certain feelings, its like they did not care this time.
It may click in a future, but Starfield took the direction that i really hate in Bethesda games, and it's heavy focus on radiant quests. And hand-crafted ones, not even better. Huge let down in general even tho i liked at first
Good vid, I love the game and put over 150 hrs in so far. I think the May update is a very good step in the right direction to address the issues. The survival mechanics implemented to increase the difficulty definitely adds more depth to the game and makes you pay attention to resource management and planning ahead. Like I had a situation where i was caught in the middle of a blizzard while trying to survey a planet and my health was chipping away unless i found shelter at the POIs, then I had to eventually trek back to my ship almost 2000m away because i couldn’t fast travel because of health loss preventing me. For the first time, there was real danger in the exploration which i felt was missing from the game. I’m very excited for the future of the game and for me the game was an 8.5/10 at launch but with this new update, it makes the game feel fresh again and changes the way i play it so i would say its a very solid 9/10 now
I love all three FFXIII games but what you said about the bosses was my frustration exactly in each one. The battles get chaotic and it's hard to tell what's happening. Then suddenly they pull out some kind of insta-kill attack and I would have no idea what happened or how to defend against it. Sometimes I'd have to look up boss attacks just to understand what the attacks were doing.
tbh this is one of the top games in FF to me. I know it can be confusing and it could do better on some of the story telling, but it was just so fun, especially how we could add enemies to the team, and even bosses. Just such a fun idea.
The first entry has potential if they make snow as main character not lighting or centre of the cast instead the second one is great because we are going in different directions and the plot just building up while the lighting suck cause they don't handle the character well enough. We can get a rematch between noel and kaius but we don't, we can get an epic final battle but instead we don't but the ending is still great though but playing it is boring
@@michaelfrazier3148 snow need some twerk to work as main prog but they sure make a good job with lightning, I also hated that he look older for some reason like he someone father but dating a teenager, you know what maybe the first one wasn't that bad after all just need some fixes with the story and character design
You actually have my dad's first and last name, but his and mine last name is spelled " McLeod" . But anyway dragons dogma 1 &2 are unbelievably epic and loved the first one so much.
Oh yeah I got the Scottish spelling but the Irish spelling is way more common. Maybe I’ll do a full review on Dark Arisen one of these days, who knows!
If you are doing an entire fight with two coms and a medic you are not playing this game correctly. "I used the slowest set up imaginable, and so I'm mad that the game is slow and boring." Umm, you did this to yourself... I think a flaw of this game is that it makes people figure it out themselves and if they do they like it, and then they don't it's tedious. Based on your critique you 50% figured out battling.
I wish they kept this stagger system for the 7 remake series because I'm forever gonna be using spells thinking it will increase the chain gauge and not doing anything 😂
It's not bad design. You did Pulse wrong. There are absolutely monster you are SUPPOSE to avoid. It's to make pulse feel dangerous. It's to make you feel like you need to be prepared and aware of your surroundings at all times. Imagine if they talked Pulse up the entire game as this big scary place, hell on earth type wild Jurassic park, and then you get there and it's filled with monsters that you already know how to beat. This is the first time you see the big turtles and you think. I'm supposed to battle THAT? But if you fight the Ci'eth stones into order they unlock, you will gain enough crystarium point to find of that with a pre-emptive strike you can absolutely take down a big guy. It's actually amazingly well crafted. I'm sorry that you got 10 hours of the mostly beautiful scenery that had ever exist in a video game up to that point. I'm sorry, you're welcome. People complain that it's too linear and then when you have full control and a full party to explore with, they also complain.
How did you explain the battle system as... "and there's also a stagger mechanic." The start of convo about the system is the stagger mechanic. If you use 3 ravagers you are going to build up the stagger quickly but it falls to zero in a second or two, and you lose your progress. But even if you are using 2 rav,/1 com, if a rav is the last to hit the stagger bar is in rav mode mean it falls quickly and if you aren't paying attention and you are not the com, the com could wait to long to attack. This type of thing happens when the ravs have 3 atb units and the com has 4 because they got their summon, you have to keep track of their attacking rhythm. There are defensive enemies where it takes a long time to build the bar and you basically only do damage when they are staggered. Also the bombs is you don't move fast they will kill you for sure. If you use 3 commandos you aren't going to build the stagger at all, but the stagger that you do have is going to be totally stable and is never going to drop. This can be good for enemies with a long slow bar that attack hard and you just have to heal and freeze the bar. There will be times that you will want to just be in 2 com/1 rav or 2 rav/1 com for stagger maintenance and safe stagger building respectively. There are also enemies that can be launched when staggered but if they are launched you can keep them up in the air and they can't attack. There are also hordes that if you time your attacks right and or you use a preemptive strike to stagger and take out 8 slugs while maintaining a partial pre-stagger on a behemoth, and that's only with Lightning and Hope. You have to time you attacks to kill a behemoth on the first stagger because if it stands up you're done. You also have to learn to time your attacks to hit the monster in the lull between the last npc attack to maintain whatever stagger phase your in. And with constant shifting of the team and limited jobs between the two or three available to you, you are always forced to learn new ways of battle based on the paradigms available. But if you figure out the trick you always have the paradigms you need. They never leave you with out a sentinel during a battle you really needed one. I truly believe that if you think this system is autobattling you are just not good at it. I'd say that the only time I started to get bored of it was when you coming back from pulse for the last assault. I think that's just because I spent WAY too much time in pulse and had already learned to battle most of the monsters. And I wore myself out. Particular with that wind ceith near the circle of ceith stones but I think I wanted to get him for the teleportation stone. I'm not sure.
Fast travel is not something we need in this game cause world is not that big, landscape is interesting and monsters are everywhere. Being able to fast travel in this game would only bring this game into the ruins. It is a gem right now with bad questing design. Fighter needs more poise cause almost any enemy can interrupt him- it should be more tanky than warrior not wise versa. Ypu bring up some detail explanations because of this fast travel, but these explanations are like more for lazy paeople and does not bring up that wonder that is in the explorations trough wilderness. If you remove that then theres no point anymore to even play that game....even when being to this place twice ore more. What ruined wow for example in the first place, was flying. I did enjoy that but then i did not went to this place anymore, by visiting and bringing life and more immersion for low level players. It is a different game, but still....a lot of games are ruined by that- and it eliminates the social aspect.
But you’re assuming everyone plays the same way as you. That’s not the case. Fast travel being a scarcity just seems pointless to me even if the world is fun to explore. It gets old having to hike back to places you’ve already been.
@@maxdmacleod i know, thats why you got that many vocations to level up, hone your skills and to be honest, whenever i go back i can find another chest that i did not foun before lol.....im surprised how well they hid all these boxes everywhere....not just these regular ones, but chests that contain armor...its the nr1 to go back and discover in my opinion.....you can fast travel by using ferrys and crystals you place down....in my opinion it is enough...you can find many if you explore....some of them are in griffins nests .....theres even enough ferrys....i do have too many of them....and maybe you can make copys of them.....havent tryed yet cause theres enough
Is it worth it 😂😂 it's one of the best games I've played in years. Don't listen to all the moaning PC players it's all lies. It's a masterpiece and worth every penny.
@maxdmacleod I don't think he was responding to anything you said, he was speaking in general. And I agree with him. Lots of peeps are hung up over perceived issues with the PC release, which really amount to nothing in the grand scheme of things. People should play this game for sure.
From a technical standpoint, nope, it isn't worth it. Very infuriating that we got a 70 USD game with such shitty performance, with massive FPS drops and GPU overheating. It's clear that the game wasn't ready for launch yet. I hate this "modern trend" of games launching with poor optimization and a lot of players going like "Hey it's okay they'll fix it soon". That shouldn't be an excuse. It's not even a problem just with PC, because the console versions got issues too. This makes me think the RE Engine isn't really suited for open world titles. However, from the "fun factor" standpoint, absolutely. The game is ridiculously fun. I got my money worth. This is the first open world game since _Breath of the Wild_ that made me compelled to explore the world, because there is always something of interest to find even if it's just materials. Combat feels meaty and has a lot of weight. The new vocations are super fun. Boss fights are still very thrilling. The game does have some fundamental designs flaws (terrible story, very boring characters, outdated mechanics recycled from the first game), but it's my personal Game of the Year. I don't even mind the traveling on foot because the game is just breathtaking. Regarding endgame, it's on a timer, but actually not. Time only progresses if you sleep at the Inn / Bed. So as long as you play safe, you have technically infinite amount of time in the endgame. And yes, there are no oxcarts but all enemies in the endgame have a small chance to drop Ferrystones (guaranteed drop for boss-type monsters).
@BingBangPoe Guess it depends on the version of the game but the same can be said for most games no matter how good they seem to be. BG3 for one thing was abysmal on Series X for me in a lot of places. This game has nowhere near the amount of problems that game had for me on the same console. So it depends on the version of the game. That being said, games need to be optimized for every single platform they are on. Not just one or a few.
@@maxdmacleod fair enough however you don't mention , Battle Pass Exp from Contracts , Daily Bonus , Unlimited Free farming terminauts on the maps , bonus mission during excursions ... etc you painted a much worse picture than it actually is..
@@robertcanning3000first off I do mention the contracts. Second farming terminauts is not a good incentive to finish the battle pass. People want actual content.
The only thing I don’t like is the fast travel. The game is waaaay too big to not have a proper fast ravel. Plus 20,000 for a ferry stone and 10,000 for a haircut? Wtf
I love this fast travel system. It makes you earn the privilege.10k for a ferry stone seems daunting at first but (as with all rpgs if you loot properly) you'll have more $ than you could ever spend by mid game. The fast travel system in this game is actually the first time a game economy has made sense. They should add 3 portable port crystals and one more variety of each common enemy in the expansion and it would be perfection.
