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Starfield's Writing Is Pure Cringe - Part 2 

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@WORLDCRUSHER9000
@WORLDCRUSHER9000 7 месяцев назад
It's legit hilarious that the player is actually called the starborn I really cannot believe it.
@BungieStudios
@BungieStudios 7 месяцев назад
Fus ro blah!
@VanBourner
@VanBourner 7 месяцев назад
I genuinely thought people were mocking the nameless protagonist who was not exactly given a universal title for the NPCs to work with.
@mightytheknight2878
@mightytheknight2878 3 месяца назад
It's hilarious because there a million other Npc with that title; and there dumb, tyrannical double standard masochist. it like pointless tbh; when in oblivion the player is the champion of cyrodil; and he worked for that title. its means little to nothing when the titles Just became literally anything + Born, it really shows the lack of effort put into the game writing; really shallow; At least in Skyrm even if there are multiple dragons born, where the only one alive and our significant actually matter in the grand scheme of thing. it Bethesda's Garfield it's just another useless pointless pronoun to just have a sticker in your forehead that says your special
@detectivemadoka69420
@detectivemadoka69420 7 месяцев назад
>In Fallout 5, we'll play as the VaultBorn and we'll rebuild the Wasteland with the help of the even uglier ESG compliant NPCs and the Sweet Baby Inc. faction!!! >Emil Pagliarulo will be hailed as the God of the Writing arts.
@deathmetalcakefarts2751
@deathmetalcakefarts2751 7 месяцев назад
😂😂😂 true af this reads like a prophecy bro
@AndrewBrownK
@AndrewBrownK 7 месяцев назад
yeah the funny thing about Delphine is, it's not bad writing to make an unlikable character. Unlikable characters can be very compelling. The writing failure with Delphine is the huge shortcoming in ways our dragonborn can respond. So she's a total prick, but the dragonborn just rolls over for her. And that's where the frustration comes from. Take Nazem in comparison, everyone hates Nazeem, but they LOVE to hate Nazeem, because they can respond to him however they want.
@lanterns_glow
@lanterns_glow 7 месяцев назад
And sometimes the response to Nazeem is taking him to the too of the Throat of the World, and telling him with a very strong GO BONE YOURSELF off the side of it
@Umbra_Ursus
@Umbra_Ursus 7 месяцев назад
Well, that, and she's basically the Elder Scrolls version of Peggy Hill. Total idiot? Check. Arrogant beyond any reason? Check. Acts like she's better than everyone with nothing to back that up? Check. And just like Maven Black-Briar (Thieves Guild in general, actually), she's immortal. Elenwen, despite arguably being the actual main villain of Skyrim, *isn't* immortal. And to top all that off, she's stupid enough to act like she's in-charge. Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it her religion to follow the orders of the guy with dragon blood? And then they make it worse by having Paarthurnax be wyvern Jesus. Man saves all mortal races, does nothing but help, is literally the one reason we can save the world (So that's *twice* the man saved all mortal races), and is fully upfront that, yes, dovahs are inherently evil, and they have reason to distrust him. No sane person, not even an insane monster, could possibly justify siding with Delphine. But the writers clearly disagree, because she's essential, and you can't tell her to shut it.
@BigBoyBelisaurus
@BigBoyBelisaurus 7 месяцев назад
I think it's not all a writing issue. Her initial reaction to the Paarthurnax problem is consistent with her character and she has no reason to believe there is this one dragon not entirely focused on power and fear. There should be an option to convince her, though, and there isn't. Maybe the writers never noticed the problem, or maybe the quest designer got lazy or run out of time. Anyway, you should be able to negotiate with her, obviously, but at least she isn't suddenly becoming very harsh after 10 hours of complainig about her hurt feelings.
@kalashnikovdevil
@kalashnikovdevil 7 месяцев назад
@@BigBoyBelisaurus Yes. Any kind of agency with that whole mess besides a binary choice would have been nice. I've never sided with the blades, because my boy Partysnax has in fact, shown that dragons don't need to be genocided for peace. He's lived in a world with only mortals for a stupidly long time, he could have carved out his own little empire, or just revealed himself and basked in the worship if he presented himself properly, but he didn't. He sat on the throat of the world, contemplated, and taught those who wished to learn the way of the voice. Like he taught Nord heroes in times long forgotten by man and mer alike. They wrote all that! All that's in the game! And what's frustrating about it for me at least is they don't actually DO anything with it. Or at the very least WE can't do anything with it. I also think making the dragon encounters basically being fights against animals completely fucked the whole concept in it's ear but that's neither here nor there.
@georgeoldsterd8994
@georgeoldsterd8994 7 месяцев назад
You can't actually say anything to Nazeem, the only things you can do are: 1) ignore him, 2) pickpocket him, 3) attack him, 4) use magic\ console commands to make him do stuff or do stuff to him.
@hankdedalus
@hankdedalus 7 месяцев назад
A plot about the player unknowingly opening the way for a cosmic horror and finding out the starborn hunter was trying to stop the player from doing so but he or her had done this loop so many times they don't even try to talk to player they just go for the kill but are too late to stop you. Then this opens up the hopping from multiverse to multiverse trying to find a way to stop or kill the cosmic horror as emissaries of the entity try to stop you. That would have been a better twist to the story but I guess that is too big brain for today's Bethesda.
@Cyromantik
@Cyromantik 7 месяцев назад
I'll go one further, it would be cool if the player character could have the choice to become the herald of the cosmic horror ala The Silver Surfer and lead the human settlements to their doom, purely for fun.
@hankdedalus
@hankdedalus 7 месяцев назад
Well yeah that to I was just dropping the setup idea.@@Cyromantik
@BigBoyBelisaurus
@BigBoyBelisaurus 7 месяцев назад
You know, I measure stories by how many improvements to them I can think of in a minute. And yeah, almost everything that comes to mind is a better story than Starfield.
@lawrenceragnarok1186
@lawrenceragnarok1186 7 месяцев назад
It's not even a big brain story, it's pretty dang standard. Everybody loves talking shit about HP Lovecraft being racist but they can't stop stealing his ideas
@hankdedalus
@hankdedalus 7 месяцев назад
Well you miss the point I am getting at something that standard they can't even do anymore.@@lawrenceragnarok1186
@NikolaiMihailov1
@NikolaiMihailov1 7 месяцев назад
The worst part about Starfield is it's so PAINFULLY bland. You can see that Emil's stink has ruined the interesting concepts the story brings forth. Emil has been doing this since MORROWIND. Mechanically,the game could use some fine tuning,and some adjustments. But Emil HAS to go,but Bethesda will NEVER get rid of him,even though he IS the problem. He wanats you to be ALWAYS good no matter what.
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 7 месяцев назад
I think it may be more accurate to say that Emil ruins the interesting stories the concepts bring forth. There are always decent enough ideas at the base of these games, but he fails to execute anything well. In skillful hands, these concepts _could_ be made better and grown into compelling stories, but Emil is not that guy. What's more, he often times admits, without realizing it, that he purposely goes in the opposite direction he should for whatever elementary reason he can think of to excuse his ineptitude. Like his "TedTalk" thing, where makes excuses for not building compelling stories and developing deep lore "'cause they'll just tear it up and make paper airplanes with the paper." F**k off, Emil, you hack!
@tracexl
@tracexl 7 месяцев назад
So TES has the Dragonborn, Starfield has the Starborn, so what will the next Fallout have, the Nukeborn?
@BungieStudios
@BungieStudios 7 месяцев назад
Vaultborn*
@YouTubecanfuckagoat
@YouTubecanfuckagoat 7 месяцев назад
Still born
@adavis5926
@adavis5926 7 месяцев назад
@@RU-vidcanfuckagoat Best comment! Sent coffee through my nose.
@kittydaddy2023
@kittydaddy2023 7 месяцев назад
Blueborn
@adavis5926
@adavis5926 7 месяцев назад
Shoehorn
@TurkTigg
@TurkTigg 7 месяцев назад
I've taken shits that were more memorable than StarField
@BigBoyBelisaurus
@BigBoyBelisaurus 7 месяцев назад
They probably had better dialogue too.
@thedrake5072
@thedrake5072 7 месяцев назад
I did not see that comment about Delphine coming... Thank you for torturing yourself through Starfield for our amusement.
@512TheWolf512
@512TheWolf512 7 месяцев назад
well, entirely correct. literally nothing wrong with his argument
@AndrewBrownK
@AndrewBrownK 7 месяцев назад
40:44 this is really sad to see from Todd... to see they have such a clearly defined intention, but lack so much fundamental understanding that they don't just miss the mark, they miss the planet. It really shows how much of their success was an accident.
@lordloverocket81
@lordloverocket81 7 месяцев назад
Their success was not an accident, it was built on the work of more talented people who came before them. They didn't create the world of fallout they just bought it, the people who created the elder scrolls left by the time morrowind shipped. Todd and gang simple inherited the creations of more talented people and devalued them. Starfield is what happens when they try to create something themselves.
@r3dr4te963
@r3dr4te963 7 месяцев назад
@@lordloverocket81 yeah. Todd, Emil and co were helped by already established lore of better creators and writers. I have no doubt Skyrim and FO4 (and probably 76), would have better storyline if other team handle them.
@Tamperkele
@Tamperkele 7 месяцев назад
Yeah. Skyrim isn't exactly remembered fondly because of it's awesome story...
@vavra222
@vavra222 7 месяцев назад
@@Tamperkele True, Skyrim was great at atmosphere and freedom to roam around and explore endlessly and the story was ok imho, it was serviceable. Bethesda was famous for this and yet they decide to ax the one thing that made their games enjoyable, leaving nothing else to carry Starfield.
@nunyabizness6376
@nunyabizness6376 7 месяцев назад
When starfield dropped I had just come off a tears of the kingdom playthrough, w very minimal dialog, Cyberpunk 2077, w intricate plot lines, w a little valheim sprinkled in which had almost zero dialog, a d having to sit thru starfields dialog felt like punishment. Every. Single. Time. It was sleep inducing brain rotting garbage, and I read comic books in the 80s. I couldn't stomach any of it. Bi turned it off and Uninstalled. Then went to play baldurs gate 3. My mind was blown at the difference. And to be clear I WANTED TO LOVE STARFIELD. I PAID 100 DOLLARS TO GAIN EARLY ACCESS. I'M NOT A BETHESDA HATER I JUST HATE BAD GAMES. F U TOAD HOEWAD
@vavra222
@vavra222 7 месяцев назад
That fucking hurts, man. I am a huge Cyberpunk fan, i really enjoyed 2077 and its stories, characters and Night City itself too. I knew Bethesda wont make a good story for Starfield, but my inner loot goblin was excited still, i wanted to sift through abandoned early human outposts, find derelict ships and just sift through loot and lore hidden in computers. Instead i got to watch as my PC, which ran CP2077 at 70+ fps with raytracing on, gave ma a stuttery, ugly experience instead lmao. Everything feels bland and tedious, i loved to clear out and loot up in my first pirate outpost, only to find the exact same one later, with the same ship-landing sequence triggering at the same spot. Ship combat was dull, space exploration was not even there and it just boiled down to me juggling storage space and fast-traveling around. Glad i torrented the game, played about 20 hours and nothing even remotely began to grab my attention.
@JohnShepard90
@JohnShepard90 7 месяцев назад
"Write what you know" is perfect when explaining Starfield writing. Most writers feel like amateur interns who watched a lot of Marvel movies and spend their time on social media 24/7. It shows specially when it comes to Crimson Fleet characters writing. All bad guys are just plain rude. They are childish and immature. The leader lacks any witt or charisma. The writers wrote the villains as if they were rude internet commenters cause they don't know anything else to write about. The only thing they couldn't include is swearing. Otherwise it would have been like Forspoken.
@BigBoyBelisaurus
@BigBoyBelisaurus 7 месяцев назад
Oh, Forespoken would be great for this channel :)
@AndrewBrownK
@AndrewBrownK 7 месяцев назад
oh my god..... "Starborn" is a knockoff of "Dragonborn"..... I can't believe I never noticed..... are they THAT starved for creative innovation????
@goreobsessed2308
@goreobsessed2308 7 месяцев назад
Bro, how did you not notice
@r3dr4te963
@r3dr4te963 7 месяцев назад
Dude... everybody else notice it. But even haters don't really complain about it, just think it as (lazy) homage or something.
@lawrenceragnarok1186
@lawrenceragnarok1186 7 месяцев назад
They're not starved for creative innovation, they just know there customers are really dumb (you)
@satzbau9185
@satzbau9185 7 месяцев назад
@@goreobsessed2308 average Starfield enjoyer lmao
@goreobsessed2308
@goreobsessed2308 7 месяцев назад
@satzbau9185 nah shit was boring got my money back if you can't entertain in the first 2 hours you don't deserve players
@GothaBillsAndDeath
@GothaBillsAndDeath 7 месяцев назад
I do think that exploitation and an exploration into neoliberal, NATO-esque, world orders were far better explored in actually political games like Disco Elysium, in response to 21:42. Hell, most of the cRPG / strategy genre that goes below the radar have extremely good explorations on specific mature topics. Want a more nuanced take of a man simply existing within a military dictatorship? Tyranny, Rogue Trader, and Highfleet will scratch this itch. Not only does each have a great premise, but they enhance the core themes via mechanics that feedback into the narrative. Such as Highfleet's POV allowing the player to feel a stretch removed from the conflict, as if he were viewing his actions from a drone camera, as he fights for survival. Naturally, the player accrues war-crimes along the way as there are villages dotted around the map that present as small little markers on your window. In the heat of battle, you must quickly gauge as either threats to your ship (as enemies combatants will fire from these markers) or harmless. Small things like that actively pull the player into an intriguing narrative. And hey, even if the player isn't receptive to the story (as-in he's literally not paying attention), well, at least he'll have a good time trying something different.
@Vert_GreenHeart
@Vert_GreenHeart 7 месяцев назад
While Todd is is stuck being a CEO, I believe Emil is the current game director.
@WhiteManOnCampus
@WhiteManOnCampus 7 месяцев назад
I think Pagliarulo is the lead writer, while Pete Hines is the director. I might be wrong, though.
@Vert_GreenHeart
@Vert_GreenHeart 7 месяцев назад
@@WhiteManOnCampus Pete Hines left Bethesda just after Starfield, Emil is lead writer and lead designer, basically Todd's right-hand man.
@publiusdos5925
@publiusdos5925 7 месяцев назад
@@WhiteManOnCampus Pete Hines was just a PR guy he wasn't really a dev per se.
@backupschmliff1156
@backupschmliff1156 7 месяцев назад
Delphine is a better written character than most if not everyone from Starfield. As someone who thinks Skyrim is pretty bland and shallow, that thought is mind-shattering to me. Maybe Starfield is worse than I thought.
@thetoadwalker3010
@thetoadwalker3010 7 месяцев назад
I instantly had the same thought about the totally original non-xenomorphs. Based on Emil's past and that presentation about writing he did, I imagine that he must have watched Jurassic World, and so was exposed to the militarized dinosaurs idiocy and thought "Wow that's a cool idea!" and then added it to his own story.
@kalashnikovdevil
@kalashnikovdevil 7 месяцев назад
If only Emil and Bugthesda had thought to hook the player up with a pet alien attack dog named Blue. That'd make it all better.
@Jimmyinvictus
@Jimmyinvictus 7 месяцев назад
Ah, Starfield's factions. They present me a conumdrum; on one hand the faction questlines were some of the most fun I actually had in Starfield, but on the other you can actually tell which scifi franchises the writers liked: you've got 'Starship Troopers' land, the 'Firefly' themepark, etc. Decades and this is what they give us? I was saddened by the statement that Bethesda will never make another Morrowind; barring a major shakeup in Bethesda's creative team, a spiritual successor to Morrowind ain't happening; I don't even think they could pull off a sequel to Skyrim at this point. I don't feel good about typing that, just saying outloud what a lot of Bethesda's fans are thinking, giving the conversations ive had on various forums. You could *buy slaves* in Morrowind. (You could free them as well, of course!) With the ESG-soaked morass we got in Starfield, I cannot imagine Morrowind getting greenlit today, I'm genuinely worried about TES VI. I'm going to buy it, whenever it releases, and im going to play it, but Starfield has me VERY concerned about where TES is headed. I suppose we'll see. Thank god we've still got (free) modding on Morrowind and Oblivion.
@BigBoyBelisaurus
@BigBoyBelisaurus 7 месяцев назад
I mean, I want to type some witty answer, but you've said it all. Side note: I'm seriously considering using a "Tortuga" copy of Skyrim, so that I can be free from Bethesda's nonsense updates.
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 7 месяцев назад
If you're genuinely concerned about the state of TES after Starfield, then *DON'T* buy it and play it on release. *_WAIT_* (perhaps even for months) for reviews from trusted, proven sources, and _THEN_ decide whether or not it's worth your hard-earned money. If you just keep lapping up whatever slop they throw at you, they learn nothing from their mistakes (nor do you, apparently), and they will never have any incentive to course correct. You're just feeding into the cycle, hoping and wish they will change while reinforcing their choice not to.
@goreobsessed2308
@goreobsessed2308 7 месяцев назад
They tried to avoid all the cliches and realized their wasnt anything fun left and still pushed this crap out. Guys were gonna avoid all cliches and make a "realistic" space exploration sure dead planets are boring but go run across em any how.
@kittydaddy2023
@kittydaddy2023 7 месяцев назад
I think they didn't want to sit in another decade of development hell and just pushed it out as well.
@goreobsessed2308
@goreobsessed2308 7 месяцев назад
@@kittydaddy2023 it should have been scrapped shameful display
@kalashnikovdevil
@kalashnikovdevil 7 месяцев назад
The real problem is there isn't ANY exploration in this space exploration game. There isn't a single world that the player is the first human to put boots on in the entire game. Not one. Every single world on the map that isn't a gas giant has abandoned outposts, settlers, prospectors or pirate bases.
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 7 месяцев назад
And then couldn't even be bothered to get the "realism" right. Like... why do you still need to wear a spacesuit outdoors on an Earth-like planet with breathable atmosphere, and why do you still have to worry about your CO2 meter? Such idiocy and awful game design. Bethesda just suck. I'm convinced they have no talent left.
@goreobsessed2308
@goreobsessed2308 7 месяцев назад
@@HickoryDickory86 oh holy crap I've just watched people play it I never caught that detail
@homemetalstudios759
@homemetalstudios759 7 месяцев назад
mauler, spaceballs, and big lebowski cuts? oh we def on the same page!
@adavis5926
@adavis5926 7 месяцев назад
When I first started playing SF I was shocked at how bad the dialogue was. The "romances" are an embarrassment. I finally quit listening or reading and just kept hitting the key to get to whatever non-choice my character was allotted until I finally couldn't play it anymore. Unless someone does a total conversion mod, this is simply unfixable. Last night, I went back to play some Witcher 3 that actually has decent dialogue. I have been a long-time Bethesda fan but unless I see rave reviews on their next game, I'm done with them--that's how burned I feel by the poor quality of this game.
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 7 месяцев назад
Same. Unfortunately, most of the TES channels I follow and trusted raved about this game, so I can't even trust them to provide honest, genuine reviews anymore. I honestly and done with Bethesda and will not be buying and playing TES VI unless I see at least decent reviews from the likes of Luke Stephens, who has been one of the few that was honest about Starfield from the jump. The others have lost all their credibility and cannot be trust as far as I'm concerned. That includes but not limited to FudgeMuppet, Gopher, and Zaric Zhakaron. They're all shills who squandered their goodwill.
@adavis5926
@adavis5926 7 месяцев назад
@@HickoryDickory86 You are not wrong on the hyped reviews. However, I did see one reviewer who put out an apology after he fully realized how crappy SF is.
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 6 месяцев назад
@@adavis5926 Mind sharing who that one is? I am unaware. But while the apology and course correction is appreciated, the damage to credibility is still done. I will be very guarded about all reviews going forward, because far too many broke that trust for me. So much so that I even unsubscribed from some of them.
@adavis5926
@adavis5926 6 месяцев назад
@@HickoryDickory86 I can't remember who it was, I'm sorry. Like you, I got caught up in a lot of hype from reviewers I had previously respected. Now, I can't help but see the majority of them as shills. Burned once, twice shy.
@HickoryDickory86
@HickoryDickory86 6 месяцев назад
@@adavis5926 Yep. I was watching along with Gopher's gaming streams, and he kept gushing about how this game was Bethesda's "return to form," all the while quite literally everything happening on-screen was soulles, bland, boring, and... gray. Nothing was exciting or engaging, and he just kept going on. I kept thinking to myself that I musy be missing something, because everyone else I trusted was saying the same thing, but all the "let's plays" looked like the same washed out, uninteresting dreck! Then I Luke Stephens released his review and it was like a breath of fresh air! Then, thankfully, many others soon followed. Like has cemented his trustworthiness to me.
@BungieStudios
@BungieStudios 7 месяцев назад
Nick Valentine cannot be allowed to continue!
@Iluvantir
@Iluvantir 7 месяцев назад
Current day writers: all the skill and ability of a ground up piece of wet tissue paper with the emotional maturity of a 3 year old and the hormones of a mid-pubescent, all suffering from delusions of greatness because at no point in their childhood and youth did their parental authority love them enough to put limits on them and tell them: "no."
@loganswalk8621
@loganswalk8621 7 месяцев назад
Starfield is revealing of how incompetent Bethesda has become in recent years especially in writing without the years of lore building that Elder Scrolls and Fallout have. They don’t know how to build a interesting world and story without retreading their own stories the Dragonborn/Starborn connection is the most blatant it feels like they realize without magic powers the game would’ve been Fallout in space so instead of improving the gunplay without VATS or giving the player interesting gadgets to shake up gameplay they just shove in magic and give them a unoriginal name.
@brendancoulter5761
@brendancoulter5761 7 месяцев назад
Multiverse is almost always a terrible idea. All it does in most instances is eliminate stakes.
@lucakrokrowinkel9576
@lucakrokrowinkel9576 7 месяцев назад
2:30 On a side note, walter and his everlasting love both got sucked into the wall slowly during their romancing. Made it slightly less annoying.
@jennasmith8062
@jennasmith8062 7 месяцев назад
great work and love the editing! cant wait to see more
@lexdeobesean
@lexdeobesean 6 месяцев назад
New Atlantis looks more like Abu Dhabi. That wouldve been cool though, an entirely Arab city with futuristic Arab culture... not the crude entho-salad it is now.
@JIMJAMSC
@JIMJAMSC 7 месяцев назад
I was so bored and angry wandering around aimlessly and lost I never got much further along than the first city so I never got into the "story". Maybe that was a blessing.
@franciscor390
@franciscor390 7 месяцев назад
Starfield is the type of game that screams "written by committee" (and HR ladies).
@TheSultan1470
@TheSultan1470 Месяц назад
really?
@kevinizatt4358
@kevinizatt4358 4 месяца назад
The look on that guys face when Todd is talking about replaying Starfield is just perfect, he looks in physical pain.😂
@Baalur
@Baalur 4 месяца назад
I lost it at that part. The music. The short camera move to show his face... Just as you said: Perfect.
@macrograms
@macrograms 7 месяцев назад
now they synchronized their update system so when they update this vacuous space 'game' skyrim mods break. they cannot stand it that people play their old games. stop giving them money.
@TheDopingman
@TheDopingman 7 месяцев назад
I love your vids my man! I can't wait to see what you cover next
@auroramadariaga4081
@auroramadariaga4081 7 месяцев назад
I was going to listen to this, but your prowess in editing is just too good not to watch so I did * chefs kiss * Thanks for the laughs. Starfield is my telenovela that I'm following with morbid interest from the comfort of my hundreds of hours playing BG3. Great content, subscribed😉
@infernoeagles5812
@infernoeagles5812 7 месяцев назад
ENTER THE TRASHFIELD AND BECOME THE TRASHBORN UNITY IS A RECYCLE BIN TO FIX YOUR GAME
@ThatMykl
@ThatMykl 7 месяцев назад
Woop woop, part two here we go!
@mortalwombat83
@mortalwombat83 29 дней назад
"...out of the desecrated body parts of Interstellar, and a RU-vid list of Top 10 first world problems." This guy is awesome :D hahahaha
@niklasw.1297
@niklasw.1297 7 месяцев назад
1:21 NO WAY. This brought back my fucking childhood within just a few seconds. On a different note, ASDF Movie unironically might have better writing than Starefield. It certainly has better build up and pay off.
@lurker-yz9dp
@lurker-yz9dp 7 месяцев назад
3:11 me am strong independent wahmen who need no man, me am onlz want them. This is getting so damn boring.
@JennerNuwen32
@JennerNuwen32 3 месяца назад
Your point about just who the hell is making all these Starborn ships and spacesuits is spot on. That, more than anything, ruined the whole Starborn thing for me. The fact that this was not explained just made my head implode. I couldn't take the game seriously after that.
@manaayek8091
@manaayek8091 7 месяцев назад
It definitely was weird to look back at fallout 4 so positively.
@p0k314COM
@p0k314COM 7 месяцев назад
This whole game looks like it was made for teenagers, and not very bright ones at that. Embarrassing dialogues, infantile characters, relationships that amuse with their lack of maturity, a scenario like from cartoons from the 80's, mechanics simplified to the minimum. ZERO consequences of choices. ZERO skill requirements. And that, after all, is just the narrative side. On top of that, the technical side is some 20 years out of date. Complete crap made by people who stopped mentally decades ago.
@uuddlrlrbas9904
@uuddlrlrbas9904 7 месяцев назад
The game should have been at most 100 planets, would've been better to be 12. Ending by traveling through the unity, with a fallout style montage ending
@generalrevelation8923
@generalrevelation8923 7 месяцев назад
- Got the game on Xbox Game Pass. - Start Game. - Character creation asks me what are my pronouns. - Sure that it only gets worse after that. Close and uninstall game. - Play another game, not developed by smoothbrains.
@vavra222
@vavra222 7 месяцев назад
Love how the video thumbnail kinda says "SOLD" with Sarah in front of it making that weird angry face (i really hate facial expressions in Starfield to my core). Thats the only thing Bethesda cares about, sure, its the goal of every game company, but that doesnt mean their product has to be shit.
@tigrafrog
@tigrafrog 7 месяцев назад
RIP Bethesda. MS will not allow to improve on anything. MS interested on one thing only - to fill game subscription library with differently colored goo, just about good enough so consumers (not gamers anymore) will not cancel subscription. Anything above - just increasing expenses.
@Zolwiol
@Zolwiol 7 месяцев назад
I will note that you CAN tell compelling story in a "multiverse" but first you have to have an idea what you actually want to acomplish. Hell my favourite story right now technically has a multiverse but it's not "infinite" and the alternate worlds are like fleeting bubbles in the sea that reflect and distort the proper world. It's also written by people who understand what complications "multiverse" brings so they've reigned it in hard.
@DragonxFlutter
@DragonxFlutter 7 месяцев назад
For as lost in the ESG/DEI sauce as it's become, Magic: The Gathering actually handled the idea really well (at least it did before I stopped following it). Each different Plane is - in a meta sense - a different genre setting. Innistrad is classic horror, Dominara is classic LotR-style fantasy, Ravnica is dystopian ubermetropolis run by ten different guilds, Kaldheim is Norse Mythology, Theros is Greek/Roman mythology, I forget it's name but there was a recent one that was 1920s mobster noir, I forget this other one's name too but it was fairy tale style fantasy. Hell, they even went so far as to rip off Hogwarts and turn it into an entire Plane of the Multiverse. And only very specific magic users - the Spark-gifted Planeswalkers - are capable of traveling between Planes; but they need to know where they're going, or they'll risk being lost to the Blind Eternities (the void between). They also need to spend time adjusting to a Plane's unique mana imprint before they can cast spells or leave to another Plane; but this is mitigated by how long you spend in a Plane (and how familiar you are with it), to the point that you can make several "walks" in a row before needing to rest. And when you want something more spicy, there's individual evil factions that can move between Planes at will via unknown means. The Eldrazi are Lovecraftian-style cosmic horror, the Phyrexians/New Phyrexians are body modification horror. There used to be the dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas, who was classic mustache twirling villainy, but he's been defeated; and Amonkhet, the Egyptian Mythology Plane, was sacrificed for the sake of a story that I hear wasn't told very well. MTG has a ton of great concepts, and early on in Wizards of the Coast's tenure, they made some good retcons to solidly establish rules. But I stopped following them when they drank the Kool-Aid.
@nothing4mepls973
@nothing4mepls973 7 месяцев назад
The most shocking thing about Starfield is how many people actually thought it would be good. They didn't market the game, they marketed a fucking watch. That was your first clue something was off.
@MonadTransformer
@MonadTransformer 7 месяцев назад
"Space California and Space Texas, but worse" - lol.
@cockyrustler
@cockyrustler 7 месяцев назад
In Mass Effect, at least you feel like a charismatic, badass marine who fights cosmic monsters. In Skyrim, Dragonborn is cool because you're prophesied hero part of Nord culture and son of Akatosh. Starborn..is just so bland and uninteresting.
@richardbohacik2685
@richardbohacik2685 6 месяцев назад
Amazing videos, both of them. Thank you for great entertainment :)
@siyzerix
@siyzerix 7 месяцев назад
I don't think even mods can save it. And the main reason is performance and loading screens. Bethesda games already run like crap. Modding in a more advance city, NPC's, etc. will just make it worse. And the loading screens. My god are they infuriating. It was barely tolerable in skyrim, but here? Heck no. Bethesda had a very good chance to make a realistic game. Just set it to 1 planet thats orbiting a red dwarf (as an example) so it has a red sky, dark colored water, dark flora and fauna. The planet could be windy to transfer heat because its tidally locked and thus no day/night cycle. Maybe you can have the planet have permanent rain storms in certain parts due to the hot side of the planet and cold side of the planet meeting in between. I can tell you this would've given them a truly unique setting. Perhaps this is the human's first foray into interstellar travel and they are just starting to colonize the planet, which would explain why there's only just towns and maybe like 1 city. And its your job to help colonize the planet, thus you gotta set up towns. Maybe have the player raise funds, gain favor, etc. with other NPC's so that they can create the towns faster/better. To be even more realistic, you can remove perkpoints, skills, weapon upgrades, etc. for the most part since its not very realistic. Rather, have the player naturally level up the skills which get used most commonly. Powerful weapons are gated behind massive amounts of money you have to gather. Thus, using less powerful weapons or modifying them to improve them would make more sense. Or if you do get a powerful weapon, you have to modify it and buy the mods to fully use it. Etc. This would let your loot and sell gameplay loop shine a lot brighter. Another aspect is the enemies. Stop having so many enemies. Have players resolve differences via speech more often. Or make the fights actually hard. Have a proper reputation system. Jail system. maybe even a court system. You've done some of this already bethesda. Their ancient engine (because they can't update it for crap) would be able to handle this FAR better than what they currently have.
@strategystuff5080
@strategystuff5080 5 месяцев назад
Fallout though you cannot attribute to Bethesda, They haven't done anything new in the story, they just re-hash/re-package stuff from fallout 1 and 2, the only bit of originality came from new Vegas (again not Bethesda) You could argue Liberty Prime, + some of robots are the only new thing they actually added to the setting. Oh and Lovecraft stuff. So no originality to be found story wise.
@kalashnikovdevil
@kalashnikovdevil 7 месяцев назад
Tim Curry desperately trying to keep himself from laughing his ass off as he says that at 22:01 will never not be amazing.
@Erakelus
@Erakelus 2 месяца назад
I can't believe it took them 7 years to make this abomination. The entire Starfield feels like a combination of Skyrim and Fallout's basic functions, with space ships instead of horses.
@mightytheknight2878
@mightytheknight2878 3 месяца назад
Multiverse is like the director or budgeter saying; "where milking the franchise and we now have lore authority to make up shit as we please with little effort, and if something goes wrong its multi-verse." to the fans.
@tudomerda
@tudomerda 2 месяца назад
The first mod I installed was the "skip dialogue" mod, and then I uninstalled the game as I couldn't stand the copy paste of everything.
@FerunaLutelou
@FerunaLutelou 5 месяцев назад
Traditional multiverse concept (every choice and even non-choice splits the world into multiple realities) by itself is quite problematic. That's why you need either a REALLY good writer to handle a story set within such a multiverse, or you need to think of and use a different kind of multiverse that is less problematic.
@crakhaed
@crakhaed 7 месяцев назад
Just a head's up, around 4:52 at the beginning of Sarah's chapter you have 'an euphemism' instead of 'a'. 😊 thanks for making me learn which it was. I actually forgot/wasn't 100% sure lol Really enjoy your humor and style! 😃
@BigBoyBelisaurus
@BigBoyBelisaurus 7 месяцев назад
Annoying as f()k that euphimism situation. it starts with a vowel, in writing at least, since "e" is a vowel. And then I never remember it should have an "a" instead of an "an"
@hiighcalibre
@hiighcalibre 7 месяцев назад
The first Jurassic World is the only 'board room checklist' movie I give a pass... because the checklist is essentially just "Over the top shit that would be cool" it was almost a parody of the original and the acting and directing seems self aware of this.... Then again I thought the Waller Bridge Driod in Solo was satire and it wasn't. Poe's law is a bitch.
@ShaggyShagz13
@ShaggyShagz13 4 месяца назад
Mod idea. Kill Matteo quest.
@andrewwhiskin6694
@andrewwhiskin6694 7 месяцев назад
Love the commentary, Looking forward to more content!!
@gamingforever9121
@gamingforever9121 7 месяцев назад
Calling it now elder scrolls six is going to suck balls. Sigh better play Skyrim again !
@lordsilvis1048
@lordsilvis1048 7 месяцев назад
I don’t think it’s impossible to do an alternate time and universe well, I mean Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross did it well. I’d say it’s impossible for Bethesda to do it well.
@ShaggyShagz13
@ShaggyShagz13 4 месяца назад
The companions are so bad that I assign the ones on my ship for specific RP reasons, leave them there (in my way half of the time), and solo everything unless it is close to my ship and Vasco attacks. The crew and stations need functionality. I really don't like the game my cool ship building game is surrounded by.
@ChapterFourBand
@ChapterFourBand Месяц назад
I thought Sarah was one of the worst characters in the game, even just the concept of her doesn't work. She was in the military for so long and still ends up being a naive, goody two shoes adventurer with lofty ideals? That just doesn't make any sense. If the basis of her character doesn't make any sense, if it doesn't feel like a human that could actually exist in the real world, then what's the point of even continuing with that character?
@cargorunner9960
@cargorunner9960 7 месяцев назад
Great and totally entertaining analysis. I used to love the Fallout universe.... but Fallout 4 added lots of inconsistencies and made all the factions so unbelievable with their only motivation being to kill everyone else. It killed my interest in all future Fallout games. The Starfield world lore had some promise when they released the history of events. But just like the main story mystery ... nothing delivers. I just didn't find the factions and the destruction of Earth believable or immersive. I was excited to go to the hospital that started the colony wars. But I could not find any details on why it was built in a location that would start a war. I expected some intrigue or secret motivation. But I found nothing. The different parts of the world lore should support eachother. Instead Starfield world lore is a fragmented list of ideas that often contradict eachother. At the most basic level the Starfield story is flawed. The human race completely 100% leaves Earth due to radiation & lack of atmosphere to set up bases on planets that often have radiation and no atmosphere. How does that make any sense? And there is nothing in the terrible main storyline that makes you think about religion or faith. They totally oversold how "deep" the main story was going to be. The main story is as shallow as a puddle. The only mystery left in the game is House Varuun. I am very curious about them.... but at this point I have zero faith left that they can deliver good story about this faction. I too have been pushed past my breaking point. The world lore, writing & quests are just too weak, inconsistent & shallow to waste time playing their new games. So I am now a PREVIOUS Bethesda fan as the games they make now just make me want to cry ! The only Bethesda thing I am excited for is the Oblivion remaster if it is true.
@DragonxFlutter
@DragonxFlutter 7 месяцев назад
Fallout 4. When you want Fallout: New Vegas, but mom says we have Fallout: New Vegas at home.
@ziephel-6780
@ziephel-6780 7 месяцев назад
Enshrouded already has a better intro sequence and worth more of my time than Starfield gives lmao
@mightytheknight2878
@mightytheknight2878 3 месяца назад
Emotional relations in a game are amazing, when its not obnoxious and just throw in their in the players face; it must be presented in a way a player has to dig to find out the real reason why, that's what makes it engaging. adding a golden steak to the game is nice; slapping it the player face at each possible opportunity makes the steak not so golden anymore and much less tasty; when adding emotional., it must be set up in bread crubs so the player wont lost interest, and then near the end an entire bread; and then the end a golden steak. not it should be with variety instead of a golden steak, you got premium bread with some butter; not everything need to be juicy, neither spicy neither sweet, some can be sour and still taste good; especially for villain arcs, or in morale fetish, a response doesn't have to be inline, it could even be a random whim; but it must be done right. That how writing is, bread crumbs, a piece of steak, and then barbecue sauce, that escalates to toasted bread with butter, and a dash of olive, that later descends into a settle nice pinch of salt; cook up so nice story basically, whip up some nice fun backed in the oven, and hot.
@ShaggyShagz13
@ShaggyShagz13 4 месяца назад
Lol. You brought Tim Curry from C&C Red Alert 3! The silly and goofy time travel storyline from that game is a masterpiece compared to Starfield.
@zzFlare
@zzFlare 7 месяцев назад
the return of the king! well made rant
@johnwiks2597
@johnwiks2597 7 месяцев назад
That Ron Hope re-write was simple and perfect
@asraarradon4115
@asraarradon4115 7 месяцев назад
Yeah, it's a Bethesda game. They all have shitty writing.
@carmenwillow7991
@carmenwillow7991 7 месяцев назад
Laughing my A$$ off and just started watching….the characters are sooooo EMO.
@ninochaosdrache3189
@ninochaosdrache3189 3 месяца назад
The descend of a human into madness
@oduneyeman
@oduneyeman 7 месяцев назад
"Sense star stuff" bruh
@puppykitten4779
@puppykitten4779 4 месяца назад
It's ok to make unlikeable characters, but you must allow people to kill them as well, otherwise it's just annoying
@laynegiese7933
@laynegiese7933 7 месяцев назад
Bethesda has had god awful writing since Kirkbride, whats the surprise?
@kittydaddy2023
@kittydaddy2023 7 месяцев назад
I'm going to voice an unpopular opinion here and say Starfield will never be fixed, and Elder Scrolls VI is going to be hot garbage. With that being said, I will probably play Elder Scrolls VI at minimum 100 hours just to make sure I don't like it.
@PlainDoll
@PlainDoll 3 месяца назад
top 10 first world problems lmao
@kiptaylor3567
@kiptaylor3567 7 месяцев назад
Guy sounds like Mrdoctor IYKYK
@ziongite
@ziongite 5 месяцев назад
There is nothing realistic about the game's space imagination, so claiming they tried to make it realistic is the same as you saying you think it is realistic. What is realistic about a multiverse, like it is some MCU nonsense, and then you have planets with nothing but rock and there are silly insect looking aliens on them, what do these animals eat? Rocks? Then you have warping through space, this also is not scientifically valid, it's literally star wars nonsense. And then you have humans on baron worlds struggling for resources, yet they have an entire galaxy of planets which the game already makes clear they can easily travel to any of them. Also not finding any half intelligent life, or even fossil evidence of intelligent life, instead everything is a silly insect type enemy is also like something out of Starship troopers. There is nothing scientific about this game, it is a bunch of nonsense made by Emil Pagliarulo, who claims his religion of Catholicism is his inspiration, lol.
@darkshamrock5763
@darkshamrock5763 7 месяцев назад
It just works 🥴
@Tortillasoup-se7sh
@Tortillasoup-se7sh 7 месяцев назад
Fallout 4 does not produce a good example of the fallout universe fallout 1,2 and new Vegas are good fallout games
@Exoskel2
@Exoskel2 5 месяцев назад
But Bethesda game always have bad writing? It is just funny 10 years ago but become unfunny today
@MMMNemesis
@MMMNemesis 7 месяцев назад
😂
@sidvanhound
@sidvanhound 7 месяцев назад
The fact you only have 937 Subs is some weird Multiverse What Not shit.
@BigBoyBelisaurus
@BigBoyBelisaurus 7 месяцев назад
It's growing at a nice pace, give it some time :)
@robmitch4085
@robmitch4085 7 месяцев назад
Honestly I hope the failure of starfield does not make them do away with the idea off new game+ because ignore the story and lore around it. That's a good idea. Imagine a game with the complex guilds like morrowind with the story but something like shouts. Every new game+ you grow stronger you can experience stuff you you didn't have the skill to before. Imagin you kill alduin Delphine shuts her mouth and partonax tells you "By killing him something ripped across time. I fear alduwin is alive but not here." where? "Another time? maybe place? It's unknown." how do you know? "I am.. unsure. Look to the scroll one last time. it may lead you dova." Then you look at the scroll and a voice tells you alduwin lives in the echo of time. You can chose to chase him but will lose everything. But your power and knowledge will grow. life a new life and grow." Minimum story link it's time not dimensional so it's more of a groundhog day and you get to make the guilds complex again with a multi branching story. Can even bring back spell crafting so if something broke hey no worry ng+ cleaned it up because your effects got removed.
@ziephel-6780
@ziephel-6780 7 месяцев назад
Good idea for a mod
@Loganl1980
@Loganl1980 7 месяцев назад
I HATED that game. The ship builder is super cool, but there’s no way to play the hero. The good guy. There’s no way to reject the bourgeoisie and unite all the outlaw factions in an attack on the formalized classism keeping people living in squalor in The Well. The criminal class obviously manipulates a fiat currency for their own benefit at the expense of the poor. I know, I hacked their banking system and tested them. Nope, if I can’t play Robin Hood in whatever reality anyone wants to dream up, I’m out. The Western town is pretty ok. People there live rough, too, but those are flippin’ pioneers. You couldn’t corral them in a nice apartment if you tried. Cool ship builder. Scrap the rest.
@TheSultan1470
@TheSultan1470 Месяц назад
...that's a dumb idea
@mightytheknight2878
@mightytheknight2878 3 месяца назад
its means little to nothing when the titles Just became literally anything + Born, it really shows the lack of effort put into the game writing; really shallow; At least in Skyrm even if there are multiple dragons born, where the only one alive and our significant actually matter in the grand scheme of thing. it Bethesda's Garfield it's just another useless pointless pronoun to just have a sticker in your forehead that says your special
@zachhiggins1668
@zachhiggins1668 6 месяцев назад
Are people still making salty videos about Starfield😂 that's sooo sad 😢😢
@1983beau
@1983beau 7 месяцев назад
Whoa. Is this guy homophobic? Seems like this guy is homophobic. Why does he keep bringing it up? That's completely irrelevant.
@andrzejarchi8093
@andrzejarchi8093 7 месяцев назад
capitalism is just a glorified feudalism. You can't pick both between helping ppl and making money out of them.
@flerbus
@flerbus 7 месяцев назад
nonsense western style capitalism/democracy has given the highest standard of living in human history
@andrzejarchi8093
@andrzejarchi8093 7 месяцев назад
@@flerbus Like not being able to afford a basic needs like living space or even water (read what coca-cola did to Monterrey). Highest standards as they are.
@TheSultan1470
@TheSultan1470 Месяц назад
Dumbest comment I've read.... this minute
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