The True Cost of Starfield's Loading Screens 

Did Starfield meet your expectations? Let me know down in the comment!

i REALLY LOVED the use of music in this video. Started classical, melodic and operatic when discussing the idea of Starfield but becomes distorted, electronic and modern when discussing the actual game and its issues.

I am conscious to Starfield’s bugs, copy and paste abandoned locations, desolate planets, loading screens, periods of boredom, and even the sometimes cringey dialogue. I still love Starfield for what it is. Present mods and creations have made the game more consistently fun. They’ve dropped free DLC and ones you can buy. I have sentimental feelings towards Vasco. The game has a lot of beautiful visuals. The ending made me tear, something I rarely do; I can’t remember when I cried over a campaign’s story. Yes, the game falled short. Yes, it seems there’s more disdain towards Starfield than positive. The game has a cult following, and I’m one of the members. I can’t wait to see what Bugthedsta does with Starfield games in the future. Bugthedsta has learned a lot from the shortcomings in Starfield, and with the gaming communities’ feedback, I think they will improve on next installment.

Great video. All points are valid and thought through. Subbed

Good video, nice pace, and informative, thank you.

Im very happy to have discovered your channel, I wish you the growth you deserve!

for being your second video this is actually pretty good, keep it up bro

Try playing Spacebourne 2 - fraction of Starfield's budget, exact same blueprint, seamless travel, minimal loading screens, mass effect 1 type combat and basic missions, multiple factions, companions which actually boost stats, faction raids, intergalactic politics, organized space navy battalion battles, an interesting mc backstory, hilarious dialogue like Fallout New Vegas, space walk, mag boots, land your ship, fight aliens, enemy mechs and creatures. The only gripe? Silent protag, placeholder NPCs, AI voice generated NPC dialogue.

“Finding something…. Anything….” Interesting and not boring

you have great content for a second video, keep going! New subscribe

I still enjoyed Starfield a lot but I do agree with you about the loading screens. There are more clever ways to hide loading screens too that they’ve used in the past and opted not to this go around

I play Starfield almost daily. Got a lot of time with it. I love it. But the lack of flight (surface to orbit and vice-versa) in a game that is strongly about spaceflight hurts the game. You can’t remove flight from spaceflight imo. I know other games do it, and I know a game can be great without it. But that is my one true complaint with it. And I think the biggest immersion breaker. Between bodies, yeah grav jump (load screen) through all that, but the idea of burning down to the surface from orbit, leveling out, skimming the tree tops and animals, spotting my objective, maybe a little CAS, pulling a sweet thruster drift move like pimp, touching down oh so soft, and running down the ramp with my homie Vasco to kill and loot EVERYTHING is my dream. But only my dream. I’ll continue sailing the blackest sea. Because this game is something special really. Catch a smile out there. o7

lol now take into account the No Mans Sky Worlds Part 1 update. Hilarious how outclassed starfield is.

I haven’t played starfield but have watched a bunch of reviews because I was interested in the infamous problem of combining a space rpg with infinite worlds. NMS seamless travel would have been nice, but its lack wasn’t the biggest problem to me. Here is my Wishlist: Starfield NewVegas: primarily, no unkillable NPCs, but also some design choices that make FNV excellent for character based roleplay, both in the freedom but also consequences. Skyrim in space, _in space!_ Those 1000 procedural worlds can’t deliver the Skyrim exploration experience, but that experience can be mapped 1-1 to a purely inspace level. Mountain = nebula, dragon = massive warship, bandit = pirate ship.. all handcrafted and discovered through the same organic exploration. Never repeat special locations on procedural worlds. One fix would be a procedural dungeon crawler mechanic, eg using the existing base building mechanic.

I feel like I have been watching a BBC documentary. Nice style. I think sometimes the soundtrack could be a little lower in volume in some places though! I get what you and other people are saying about loading screens and truly understand where that comes from. Maybe I have just not moved on, but one of my favourite game franchises had loading screens galore, and that is Mass Effect. I think there was a mismatch of marketing/expectations and I think the problem resides with the story itself. You said the first time you were connected to the game was when you had to make the choice of who to save, but that is not actually early in the narrative as you suggest. Iirc it's somewhere in the second half. That's a long time before you were "prompted" to care for the game. And then the ending makes it all "useless" and unimportant all over again... multiple times. I 100% agree with you that quantity of planets is secondary to the quality of what you find. Also there is this quote from the devs you have in this video, where it says something along the lines of curiosity being rewarded because you never know what you'll find, and my first reaction to that was, "Yes, I do know, it's copy-pasted facilities". It's like drop rates in a game like The First Descendant. Unless you REALLY like to grind through repetitive worlds to find the few gems, you'll just give up with that 3% drop rate.

Good video I liked it a lot. Some constructive criticism I would give you because I’d love to see you grow more - Turn down the music a bit during some of your narration, also some of the music didn’t quite match the pacing of the video and felt more intense than what was onscreen. Other than that I hope you get bigger. subbed

This was a great quality video and well executed. I wish you all the best in your ventures. I do agree, the loading screens killed immersion. However, I still enjoy playing the game because besides the points you brought up, it still is a signature Bethesda game. I'm sure with the modding community as good as they are, will find a way to eliminate some of the loading screens to enhance seamless travel.

Very well put together, kudos to you!

I don't so much mind grav jump loading screens or landing/take-off loading screens But loading screens to travel within a system just bugs me. Because I can't have the experience of setting my ship on course and getting up from my seat and watching it go, slowly, across the system. It makes travel feel short, like I'm not on much of a journey at all. Luckily there are mods that (sort of) fix this

its not that the idea was better in your head its that bethesda did not hit that home run even remotely. i do like some of the games mechanics and alot of the settings are well done, its just the story among other things could have been entirely different.

The loading screens dont bother me tbh. I feel like the internet wants me to hate this game, but to be real, it is one of the only games to keep me playing it. For me the best improvements would be the ability to control and fly my ship while on a planet. I feel like traversing planets would be more enjoyable. Planets need more diverse wildlife, and the ship should be able to explore underwater, with another biome full of wildlife.

On PC, with the SFSE script extender, you can mod the game to a pretty good state of immersion. Shame it didn't come like that from the start.

If you want immersion play Star Citizen. The scope and detail is incredible. Oh and no loading screens lol

Hey Trench you should try No Man’s Sky, it’s pretty much starfield without loading screens

Great video! , but the background music is really really annoying, what was the point?

It is a failed “space game”. It really doesn’t capture the vastness and loneliness but is also simultaneously a very empty game. Just without the inherent dangers of space travel. I would have preferred a gate jump system like in EVE Online.

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It needs to work properly first.

Fast Travel Skyrim

Ive honestly had a lot of fun for starfield and it was up to my expectations tbh

I re-downloaded Starfield (series s) to see if mods could make Starfield fun. Unfortunately, what I discovered was that no matter how many assets or skins I install, it's STILL STARFIELD. I can dress like Anakin Skywalker, populate the universe with Star Wars aliens and build an amazing ship - but the moment I try to DO SOMETHING, the reality of awful writing/quest design/loading screens is still a huge obstacle. I have tried, so hard, to brute force fun into this game. Even with mods, this game is so shallow and not worth the space on my hard drive. I deleted it (again) and downloaded NMS instead.

Another banger, don't regret even 0.1% subbing to you. Don't forget me when u get famous 😁.

Truly pish The Todd geezer should never work in the industry again

Star citizen and no man sky do it way better and midfield is gonna take years before it gets anywhere close but by then other ips like elder scrolls and fallout are going to be out and there was an interview with matt (RU-vid) and todd howard where he said there using the same engine as midfield for tes 6

Please don't speak for me. I love the game, and understand why they used the loading screens.

You could try out star citizen, an actually space game! but if you dont like much bugs you should wait till atleast 2025

Honestly, if they just remove the loading screens and add land vehicles, that would make it (almost) perfect!

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Hahaha that's cute... somebody doesn't know what "fail" means.

So you want them to spend $1 billion in developing Starfield? Heck your GTA 6 is barely spending $2 billion on production that much for a tiny city area and it will hardly be as detailed as Starfield. Like how fallout 4 was better than cinematic RDR2 when it came to actual game play. Not even Star Citizen can be compared to Starfield even though it's gobbled up $0.7 billion.

Its crap