Starfield is a Masterclass in Tedium Part 1 

Fact: in 2027 Star-Skyrim just works

Idk about that. Mods are being heavily censored these days. You are only allowed to fix certain issues - otherwise you are an evil bigot and need to be cancelled. It's feasible that in four years even a simple bug fix is deemed 'problematic'.

it's basically an early access game sold at full AAA launch prices, and you being the beta tester for free and you pay them to be their beta tester, for the next 4 or 5 years until their game is finally done and meant to be sold. that seems to be every AAA dev nowadays, i mean it was this with Cyberpunk, and now it's going to be this with starfield, and if you think about it, every game has been like this for the last decade since they introduced DLC, because the game isn't fully complete until all the DLC is released and all updates to fix the game are released. i guess skyrim didn't really end it's development up until it reached anniversary edition.

​@@5226-p1edon't forget PR. These idiots buy the game unfinished, then defend it to anyone who says it's unfinished

​@@5226-p1eand no, there are plenty of triple a devs that would never dream of doing this. People are too lazy to learn that fact still apparently

Perfectly stated sir.

that whole environmental damage thingy is a joke

​@@hansjuker8296There was a German guy that had a lot of people's lungs damaged by gas too.

​@@komikop In an interview, it was actually stated that the environment system was going to be important but they changed it. And your ship wasn't supposed to have infinite helium 3... They took almost every survival element out of the game for some reason.

​@@OffTheRailGamingcan't wait for that to be sold as DLC in a year

21k is the best

💯Yup, I've been binging these bitches for days.

I love them

and getting longer than it takes to complete the main storyline

And more honest

Oh which ones were thoughs mine were ACG and Gmanlives.

​@@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148gmanlives was crazy. He went way too far

​@@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148I fucking died listening to GManlives simp for Starfield. I was WHEEZING.

Can't be that people have different tastes these days. Gotta be paid

go check out the Division 2 reviews guys. That is a hall of shame right there .....

Spoilers don't matter to me because after ten hours of this walking, load screen simulator I won't ever be playing this again. Starfield 4/10. Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Cyberpunk 2.0 all blow this soulless, unimaginative, repetitive, immersion lacking fraud of a game away.

@@distantthunder12ck55totally agree, been on that cyberpunk grind for the past few weeks, put about 140 hours on the game and it’s night and day difference to what it was

@@distantthunder12ck55 Play some Robocop like the rest of us, and let those other beige, lifeless games be a memory

@@distantthunder12ck55the best thing i ever did was uninstall this piece of shit lol

SF is a loading screen simulator

^this

We are somehow..... Going even further BEYOND than the Panderverse

Yep, classic short haircut, girl boss, no beauty whatsoever, standard modern californian politics. Just the peak of fictional characters.

Nope sorry get on the space tram

@@EternalGaze8 yep 😂

​@@EternalGaze8Was about to write something very similar ha

Trying to imagine a ground vehicle driving smoothly and somewhat realistically in the Creation Engine's ludicrously outdated and janky collision system is a hilarious mental image.

I was almost convinced with how detailed some of the in game models are, but I'm sure they will either go mech (i.e just a bigger biped walking over the jank) or some kind of magical rainbow shitting alien horse.

Starfield is certainly a prime example of ESG-conform game design by DEI comittee, implemented by diversity hires and senior devs on their way out, cashing in their retirement cheques from the Microsoft acquisition. Not a shred of competence or care found anywhere!

Isn't it weird how 'diversity' is even a thing for every developer? Almost as if it was required from the outside somehow.

@@varmastiko2908 it's almost like there is a 9.42 trillion dollar heavy investment company that has skyscrapers as office buildings in every western country that has a system that rates every company after enviromental, social and governance metrics. Which will decide about if a company should be invested in or not. or in other terms... worth cancelling or not.

"diversity" is just a dog whistle for "get rid of Whites"

how did your truthful message stay visible? Teach me your ways, Everything truthful I write mysteriously disappears for everyone but me.@@PSXman9

It might be as you say, but don't ignore the tiny possibility that they just had a genuinely good time with a game that you don't like... :/

​@@8517812People can like a game and still admit it's objective faults

@@8517812 Liking a bad game is one thing, straight up LYING about how bad it is is something entirely different.

I write for GameSpot! Every reviewer has their own views, of course, but our writers do their best to avoid praising mediocrity. I recently reviewed Starfield's biggest update yet, and I wasn't gonna BS anyone about the state of this game. Did they introduce some good quality-of-life features? Yes. Are you punished with an XP reduction for using them? Also yes. Is it still a buggy mess? Absolutely, yes. Maybe Shattered Space will breathe some life into it this fall when it comes out, but unless they give us a new companion with a moral compass that doesn't point due north like the other four, I doubt it'll change much.

Almost every YT review I watched was mediocre at best for Starfield.

Haha now you mention it, we cant rule it out mate. WoT already does this and Im sure they are probably thinking about.

​@@21Kilotonit'll also core meltdown the game because nothing is optimized. The modders will fix the leaks.

every time i see someone point out the numbers of how much money bethesda made off of this game, they never think of the people who simply can't get a refund and who hate this game and it's never taken into consideration into their demographics of success. because every single day i see another review like this pouring in with people complaining about how bad the game is, and this is from people who played over 100 hours worth of the game and they are regretting it, maybe it's genius for bethesda to make a game you have to spend more than 100 hours just to know for sure if you really like the game or not, because they tricked you into thinking their game was deep and meaningful, when in reality it was about as deep as a puddle the whole time. now i could see this game possibly getting better in 5 years from now, but i'm not sure i'm as confident in them as i used to be anymore, the idea of this game was ambitious and the issue is they sold everyone on the idea that they upgraded their engine and made it seem they were capable of surpassing the issues of the past like the load screen issues, but no, that will never happen with the creation engine, it's always going to have a limit to it's overall functionality, where that kind of gameplay is simply impossible, well not impossible, but not very fun because they couldn't make the game engaging enough in space, what's the point of space when it's not really about space when it's just a load screen simulator game?

​@@21Kiloton i know of a fun way to get rid of the pronouns, basically don't tell people your mod disables them, name your mod something else, the mod does that something else but also gets rid of the pronoun nonsense, then make another mod that does the same thing and never tell people your mod takes the pronouns out, they will have a lot of fun trying to find the issue, they might accuse you of doing this, but all you can say to that is that it could be their load order or it's a conflict with another mod or you are new to modding and don't know how to fix it. any number of these excuses will work without issue, because we know how modding works in bugthesda games, this way you won't get banned and they won't be able to figure out what is causing it, when it's all of your mods lol. that will rightfully fuck them over and provide lots of fun, i would try to make mods that everyone wants, like a sexy female follower, these usually get downloaded lots on the nexus. i know it's not ideal, but it will work and they won't be able to figure it out, and this process if you want to could be split up with many accounts and maybe you could encourage other modders to get onto this idea lol, the nexus sent many modders away within the last decade because they didn't like something that modder was doing, well get these guys to all make mods on the nexus again and have them all add in the same tweaks to all of their mods, and then eventually the nexus won't have a clue how to stop it because a lot of other people are doing it lol. btw, always use an adblocker on the nexus, i know you don't want to support them and preventing their ads is crucial, they gain nothing from you and you end up using their infrastructure like with youtube and many other sites that pull this shit.

They are perfect for Microsoft then

GAME is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate their scam and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch. Free merch > free speech. Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation. Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent. As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves, and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician.

@@johndodo2062 mw3 😭😭🙈

Replace *Starfield* with Bethesda, because the future sure does look bleak for Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5. God help us all.

hater

He is a good lad. Agree with him or not, at least he is honest, speaking his mind, and he aint on the payroll.

@@21Kiloton exactly, as far as reviews go yourself synthetic man and worth a buy are my 3 wise men, all the best to you guys!!

@@darkestfugue Don't drag me into this. I don't agree with any of you, I don't deal with religion. All of you arguing about it have not the ability to take out the gods you follow in this phenomenon. There are good reasons for thinking it is war, but most of the world does not participate in this conflict. Because we have a real war going on. God bless

@@kveitehitmaker6316 Who is talking about religion? and who are you?

@@darkestfugue I thought you might be able to encrypt my message. Never mind, I am used to the people who have strong opinions, are also most likely those with no appetite for self respektive nor the wish to philosophy over something old they had done before. Me, I am unpartial to your feud. But I agree with both on some parts, I agree with feminism about toxic male power, and I think sometimes the agenda goes too far. If I said"This game does not need politics", if a woman is replacing the real man from history", it doesn't necessarily mean I am against female rights and justice. It might be that it is wrong to rewash history. I never understood why it is we live through the American lens of this stuff, everything is so weird and ego-driven there. Here, ego is something that you'll be shamed and mocked for if used.

And each city is the size of a college campus at best and an elementary school campus at worst

@@UncomfortableShoes fuckin akila city is smaller than my high school was. Lol

Yep, Todd and Emil both look at what they can gut next. Litwrally just regressing their games.

That makes sense. For Starfield, they clearly decided they could do without any professional science fiction writers, instead just outsource it to Chat GPT. Imagine what the world will be like in 2300? No., we can do without that. Lets just put Texas 2023 in space, thats enough.

@@OrangeNash And it becomes even worse when you made the grave mistake to binge watch lots of 'Expanse' episodes before you start playing Starfield. Damn, the belter pidgin alone is putting Starfield to shame.

Seriously, Neon is like someone played Cyberpunk 2077 and removed every single bit of visual appeal, any of the clubs in that game look like actual clubs compared to this family friendly "Rated M for Mature for no reason" that is Starfield.

@@SammEater Agree, Neon is Diet Night City. Also the clothing in Starfield is so painfully fucking boring, oh my god. So little variation, barely anything brightly colored or visually appealing. EVERYTHING is function over form. It's so stupid, it's a fuckin' RPG, let me make my character a colorful, privileged fashionista if I want. Cyberpunk 2077 did clothing SO much better.

@@Beauty_Bot Also, it makes zero sense for the elite to dress in the same boring earth tones that the average joe has. There is basically no variation between outfits that really show the difference in their societies.

I dont even want to think about what fallout will become.

Also, this game perfectly embodies the spirit of Bethesda, since even the in-world cloning processes are bugged.

hater

@@changsiah2 shill

@@zombehnashun what?

hater@@zombehnashun

“Honkey hair” is the correct wording

Literally me.

As a former gay, black man I agree

My first try I only lasted as long as the battle outside the mine. Second till in space, finding out it fast travel simulator not a skyrim/fallout/nomansky cross why just ew. I'm done.

I got it as a promo that came with my new AMD processor, but the thougth that I had actually payed for this mess... ugh. I expected nothing from the game, I payed nothing for it and I _still_ got disappointed. That is a feat in itself, you have to give Todd that.

Thank you mate.

@@21Kiloton You’re more than welcome :)

Starfield made me play fallout 3 and then I bought 76 for $7 to try

Yep, Fallout4 never looked so good.

@@bdleo300 This. FO4 wasn't great but it was certainly better. I actually finished FO4. It's like how disney star wars makes you think Jar Jar and the prequels really weren't that bad...

Starfield has made Outer Worlds look good.

@@OrangeNash Outer Worlds 2 hype

He still wont let you touch his peepee

Same here.

I remember Obsidian saying how archaic and limited it was when they were making New Vegas, and New Vegas came out in 2010! What's even more baffling is they owned id, who make the id tech engines that run things like Doom and Wolfenstein. They look amazing and scale incredibly well to the point you still get silky smooth frame rates while it looks good on a potato.

Trying to imagine a wheeled ground vehicle with their engine's abysmal and ridiculously outdated collision system is hilarious. Like, their terrain is still just a flat blocky texture, and even the slightest change of angle would cause the vehicle to noticeably "straighten" out, so it would appear to oscillate constantly as you drove it. I mean, they can't even implement ladders - they had to use a scripted animation, bahaha! xD

@@TalesOfWar To be fair, Obsidian did say that a large part of their limitations came from working within the console's, mostly the PS3's limitations. The PS3 absolutely broke itself when trying to make The Strip and Freeside one whole map. Heck, The Strip itself had to be dialed back so hard they scraped most buildings and NPCs in order for it to run. That said, there's blame on Bethesda's engine too, being that their engine could not effectively handle RAM usage which make it prone to crashing, specially in Gomorrah's. Even on a powerhouse PC today, install NV with no mods and go walk in Freeside, then the Strip and enter Gomorrah and go inside every floor. You are guaranteed to trigger memory overflow and CTD. Why? Because NV is a 32-bit application and has a natural limit of 2GB of RAM usage, no matter how much RAM you actually have. Now some nay-sayers may note that 32-bit applications were the norm until the mid 00s and most 7th gen games are also 32-bit until the early 10s, but unlike Bethesda's engine, most games run on engines that can properly handle memory streaming unless you go out of your way to install 4K texture packs/inject a lot of scripts/stress the physics to an insane degree. BTW, Bethesda has never fixed poor memory streaming in the games to this day. They just rely on their games now being 64-bit applications that can use a lot more RAM instead. It's why Todd Howard unironically suggested users who have problems with Starfield just upgrade their PCs instead. Cheers.

GOATED comment bravo that is freakin hilarious!

​@@zonesquestiloveunderworldActually there can be ground vehicles, there's enough proof for that. Bethesda is just lazy. Let's not make excuses 😊

The specialists hijacked, selectively edited, and spammed the partial quote into the zeitgeist.

lol, that line always replays in my head whenever I see people bickering about identity politics and partaking in the victimhood/oppression Olympics. The rich are cackling with glee as the working class are distracted by meaningless and destructively divisive "progressive" bulls**t (that isn't remotely progressive at all). Renton's prophecy is uncannily close to coming true, bahaha xD

OOF! 😵

I really used to like Jim back in the day. He was funny and fun to listen to on the destructoid podcast and his older RU-vid videos. Then he drank the tranny koolaid and lost his mind.

@@dustygearheadAgreed he went from video game journalist to the ghost of gamergate.

He's always been a twat

I remember when Jim Sterling was a alright bloke, now he's just a gross fat sx pest.

This is one of the reasons why I _never_ played or play any of the new Fallout games with a companion. With the exception of some admittedly hilarious character like Dog/God, but even then it's a 'They are slightly more entertaining than annoying'. Companions in the classic games were fun, just never give Ian an SMG and your good. In the new games I find them utterly annoying.

I wouldn't be shocked if they sabotage mod support for this game to make sure we don't fix it in a way that the empty suits at Microsoft don't approve.

I feel ya. I kept hoping that it would turn a corner and suddenly get good, but it didnt. I dont even think DLC can save it tbh.

Spoking generally its weird when they say that because that just means i gave it a more than fair shake to do my best to not misrepresented the product.

I genuinely forgot to keep playing it

21Kiloton’s reviews should be compulsory before any major game purchase, especially Bethesda Game. Fantastic video.

My best guess is that Im blacklisted, and Im categorized as "borderline content". RU-vid swears blind that neither of these things are real .... but then the ex-CEO of RU-vid, Susan Wojcicki, went on a video meeting at the World Economic Forum at Davos and explained in great detail that this is precisely what she is doing. Thanks for caring though dude

@@21Kiloton Around the same time I found one of your videos via the recommendations bar, I had also started getting lots of fringe content like conspiracy theory stuff, Russian/Indian propaganda "news articles", political commentary videos etc. So yes, your channel is most definitely grouped into "borderline content", because the first time I ever saw a video was when RU-vid seemed to decide I'm a "borderline user" or whatever.

@@ArchOfficial Thank you for the background information mate. I would also add that in no small part, advertisers get to mess with channels too. If a major video game publishers doesnt like you, and they have a significant advertising account with RU-vid, lets just say that "the world is their oyster" when it comes to fucking with your channel.

@@21Kiloton Oh well, at least the videos eventually reach the right people. Nobody else on YT is giving game publishers the middle finger (or the thumbs up, in the case of Death Stranding LOL) like you are, so there's great value in it even if the videos don't gross millions of views.

@@21Kilotonthere are people out here that can see the care and passion someone puts into their work I’d watch you over any creator on this platform with millions of subscribers your voice and the way you put your script together is absolute gold bossman I am keeping you in my prayers that one day the world will wake the hell up..

It depends, how much of the 1.5 hour is adding to all the criticism we've already heard? Is the "woke" sarcasm of the intro representative of the rest? At least it must be entertaining.

Funfact "Tod" in german is "death" ;)

Yeah, why is the game rated M? From what ive seen theres no gore, no bad language...no strippers in the strip club? Could be E10+ or T at the most.

This is how the elite want all entertainment to be like in the new world order...a miserable existence

That's their sacred cow.

Thank you for recommending this! I would never have heard about this game otherwise.

synthetic man used to call out satanism in no uncertain terms, unfortunately it seems they have gotten to him recently, the real synthetic man is no more lol

god i really hope es6 is good but bethesdas track record of late has me quite worried on that one lul

The ESG friendly stuff is really just the cherry on top of this shitcake, BG3 had that crap too but at least it's an actual fun game to play as a RPG, there is no meat in this Starfield game, it is visually unappealing, has no character, no actual RPG mechanics in this so called RPG and a boring FPS gameplay loop and outdated mechanics that were already outdated in the XBOX360 days.

@@SammEater The ESG stuff in BG3 was enough of a turnoff for me, but I'd play that game before this game if mandated. A shame so much money went into Starfield, but the core mechanics just make it feel like a 2nd job without the benefits, a pity that can partly be attributed to Emil.

@@TwistedTammer Yeah. And besides at least in BG3 you get the option to kill all the esg friendly characters and have an entire storyline of your character be pretty much a full psychopath. That is what I wanted in Starfield. I really wanted to join the pirate faction to screw with the Constellation clowns, but the game won't even let you be evil because even the pirates are family friendly.

I appreciate that sentiment fella. It was a slog ngl

At least they left you alone. It is often a compulsory thing like this video pointed out about Nexus Mods; Ivan Provorov of the NHL chose to opt out from wearing pride jerseys, and certain individuals of that community went off the fucking deep and went after him. It became such an ugly display and especially after the Budlight fiasco, the NHL kiboshed the whole night and all special jerseys.

What's Synth?

Synthetic man

Patrician tv and private sessions are honest as well, though they don't put out content very quickly.

It's hubris at this point. Being acquired by Microsoft for billions probably sent him over the edge of fart-sniffing that he was already dangerously close to.

"Confusion and uncertainty for thee, obvious and informative categorization for me."

*spoiler alert at the bottom of my comment. Don’t click more if you care about spoilers* Yup. After the Crimson Fleet mission I completely said fuck the rest of this game and I just got through the rest of the game. *spoiler alert* The fact that you can’t double cross Delgado with Mathias …even though he brings it up MULTIPLE times is so stupid. It’s the illusion of choice. . . . . . . . What is the fucking point of it? I don’t really understand it. Also at the very end of the questline, the most annoying character is ALL OF GAMING escapes and you can’t even kill her. You can’t kill her. She’s nowhere to be found. It’s fucking annoying shit like that, that actually make me hate some of these quests.

Loading screens?

@@mindaugasstankus5943 luckily I have a lightening fast SSD but yeah it's a loading screen simulator.

I hope you're joking. I follow at least 8 people who all said this would be trash. And then they all made videos confirming its trash

Its pretty telling when there were only a few large RU-vid channels expressing even slight skepticism over Starfield's hype while there were numerous small to mid size channels recognizing all the red flags that popped up in the months leading up to the game's release.

true, I watched several channels doig same, but yes.. most of the bigger channels like Act Man just shilled and lied. its a GOOD thing, makes seperating the phonies from the real ones much easier.. Synthetic man has me Laughing my a$$ off watching his review, he HATED it... same with spiderman, disgustingly "woke"

@@quasar953 Here lies problem small and mid size one. All of them combine do not have reach of one big or what "main steam" media have. Plenty smaller ones regurgitating BS too...

@@quasar953 the check cleared so all the big channels had to make sure that the digital copies moved

Hopefully he can stop having pronoun spaz-outs now.

You can in fact tell RU-vid to not recommend you a channel

@@MaakaSakuranbo I can also in fact hope that the guy just stops making his trash videos and moves on to being a distant memory in general

Yes. Yes they are Stanetti

@@21Kiloton Scumbags.

Honestly, after the decline of Fallout and Bethesdas tendencies for exaggerated anouncments anyone pre-ordering or buying their games without watching at least 10hrs of reviews should have their brains checked. The worst part about this is that even somewhat positive reviews sound like someone just condensed buyers remorse into a video.

@@Gruftkriecher They've been degrading since morrowind in most areas lol. They've been "1 steps forward 2 steps back".

This is why I refuse to call Starfield a "role-playing game" because it absolutely is not

@@Mr_Mistah Bethesda switched to making looter shooters instead of RPGs with Fallout 4. This is all they want to make now.

I liked in Morrowind any character can die

@@Mr_Mistah Bethesda hasn't made an RPG since Oblivion.

@@COMMANDandConquer199 Yup. And at this point they've proven they are incapable of making one.

Apoliges. You are absolutely correct.

No worries. Very good video nonetheless @@21Kiloton

haha poor Sarah

I sincerely hope the video is more entertaining than the game mate.

My pronoun is TRUMP

Welcome to the shitshow. Its all downhill from here .....

This is criticism I can take on the chin. Thank you.

@@21Kiloton The first time I visited new Atlantis I thought it was a relatively big area. Nope. It's masked by the loading screens. Neon is by far the biggest city and it is maybe half the size of one part of Night City from Cyberpunk. Which Neon clearly has gotten inspiration from. The Phantom liberty DLC costs 35 dollar and just the new Dogtown Area offers more content then the entirety of Starfield. I know Cyberpunk has it's own problems. This is just a size comparison and what you are getting for your money. Glad you saw my comment

Always a pleasure to see you Shawn. Yeah pick it up for ten quid and you will only be slightly disappointed.

I would be that optimistic about the modding thing. Modders might have saved half-finished and half-broken Bethesda games time and again, but according to many experienced modders, Starfield is a mess even in this regard and pretty much unmoddable.

@@21Kiloton I got it for free as a promo coming with my new AMD processor. I expected pretty much nothing from the game, I've payed nothing for the game and even I feel disappointed and ripped off.

i refunded when i realised that your ship drive had no reason to have a limited range due to fuel as it just makes you have to used a load screen like 3 times in a row to get anywhere