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Starfield Analysis | A Quick Retrospective

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Starfield.

Sections:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:13:14 - On Design Documents
0:29:41 - Argos Extractors
0:58:45 - Worldbuilding
1:25:24 - Terra Firma
1:36:39 - A Classless Society
1:47:08 - Constellation
2:01:21 - Not My First Rodeo
2:20:49 - Temple Run
3:03:42 - The Scow
3:23:12 - Space Force
3:55:06 - Unity
4:20:47 - NASA
4:57:18 - The REAL Game
5:19:20 - UC Vanguard
5:56:20 - Ryujin
6:22:07 - Freestar Rangers
7:17:10 - The Crimson Cringe
7:53:21 - Conclusions

Starfield is a 2023 action adventure game from Bethesda Game Studios as well as Microsoft and Xbox

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20 Comments

@Patrician Creator 2 years ago Pinned

I appreciate the positive reception to this video. I've read the first ~1100 comments, hence all the hearted comments. If I heart a comment, that means I've read and acknowledge what was said, but didn't have a response.

@mattymerr701 1 year ago

>"The United Colonies"
>Looks inside
>One colony

@Fimbulvinter19 1 year ago

Having a game be called a modders paradise should elicit the same dread reaction as calling a dilapidated house a handyman's delight. What it means is you're getting a barebones release with large deliberately empty stretches Bethesda expects modders to fill in for them.

@spyr0guy 2 years ago

To quote a friend after showing them this video, "I've seen 40-page design documents for Minecraft modpacks." They're important, people.

@prophylaxis24 1 year ago

I've never actually finished this video. I've tried a few times, but every time Pat says "...no design document" I wake up naked in front of Bethesda Studio in Rockville Maryland.

@CruzaComplex 2 years ago

3:43:30 "If you don't like it, don't use it."

It drives me up the wall when a game considers the player choosing not to play it a win condition.

@nikolasrhine 2 years ago

One thing I should add to the "Modder's Paradise thing:" Part of why Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout, Skyrim are so popular with modders is because there is potential in there. The base game is fun, at least to some people. If a game is meant to be heavily modded, but doesn't lure in players, it won't get many modders. There has to be something special in the game.

@holycowitsdave 2 years ago

"The phrase 'there is truly nothing new under the sun' is not supposed to be a design motto" honestly one of the most biting critiques I've heard in ages

@nothobbes 1 year ago

it's amazing to me how many times Todd & the crew can say "it's like Skyrim in space!" then turn around and blame gamers for comparing it to Fallout & Elder Scrolls when "it's its own thing".

@grimmmothy 2 years ago

Emil- "Ignore the reviews"
Also Emil- "Let's type out a cringe gaslit 15 tweet chain about the reviewers"

@ngwoo 2 years ago

The New Game+ system was the perfect opportunity for them to go back to the Morrowind style quest design of letting you kill any NPC you wanted, but with an interesting 'out' instead of just having to load an older save file. How they managed to drop the ball so hard on the one big feature they were so protective of pre-release boggles the mind

@PlatinumLP 2 years ago (edited)

I got Andreja's affinity based dialouge right after I drank a bottle of wine to pass the final boss persuasion check and ruined the climax for myself. She was talking about how everyone she knew has died or left her alone yada yada and I told her I would never leave her alone and would always be there for her. Then I walked into the unity.

@pillowrider_og 1 year ago

Emil is like that one cancer cell that was undetectable and eventually became a stadium 4 tumor, and in the end destroyed the entire body. a "design director" be this creatively bankrupt and anti critics is just mind blowing to me.

@BlazeMakesGames 2 years ago

Finally finished the video. And I gotta say that the line "Starfield is their most functional game to date, and yet their worst designed game ever" is a perfect summary of this game.

@Dithyrambos-h5e 2 years ago

If there was ever a game for Bethesda to completely remove the training wheels, it's Starfield NG+. You have a perfect justification. Someone's been through the game once; let them sequence break, kill whoever they please, and do whatever they want. At worst, they just hard reset the universe for the next NG+ version.

@bkstaxman 2 years ago (edited)

16:36 Hearing Emil say they essentially scrapped Design Documents after Fallout 3 makes everything they've done since then make so much more sense.

@SomeRedDude93 1 year ago

Honestly, if Bethesda are the table top rpg nerds they claim to be, their campaigns must be railroaded constantly.

@earendurtelumendil8214 2 years ago

The duality of Bethesda interviews. On the one hand they want to "say yes" to the player all the time, on the other they think that Morrowind letting the player kill important NPCs was bad.