why i HATE Starfield

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

I've put 100 hours or more into Starfield,

and I was hoping the game was going to get

better, but unfortunately it hasn't

really, and I'm nearing the end of the

game and I'm feeling pretty disappointed.

So I thought I could look past the janky

gameplay and all the glitches and the

shallow kind of gunplay and combat

mechanics if the story and the characters

were good and strong. And because this is

a role-playing game, you'd expect there to

be a damn good story. Unfortunately, so

far the story has been kind of bland,

boring, and uninspired. The story

basically consists of you going backwards

and forwards to this place called the

Lodge where you go and look for artifacts

on random planets, and then you bring it

back to the Lodge, which has a bunch of

characters which are just like NPCs

really. And then there's a few characters

like Sarah or Barrett and that woman and

that guy who wears the funny hat. And

these are like the main characters of the

game, but they're so boring and bland as

personalities. There's basically no

interesting characters in this game.

Maybe Sarah is like the main side

character, but even then she's really

annoying and she constantly nags at you if

you do anything bad, like attacking the

Freestyle, the UC ships, or civilians or

soldiers. She just starts nagging at you

and she gets mad. There are also these

quests which are linked to the main quest

called Power of Something, and it involves

you having to go to some random planet and

then find a temple which has this power in

it that you collect. You find the temple

by turning on your scanner and just

looking around until the circle aimer

thing starts flickering, and then you see

the temple. It's always really far away,

like between 500 and 1,000 meters away,

and you have to spend almost a minute or

two just running in a straight line. It's

just so boring, and you have to do this

like over 20 times because there's over 20

different types of powers you can collect.

Some of the powers are quite cool. For

example, the one I'm using now gives me

unlimited oxygen for a limited amount of

time, which is really useful. When you

just want to run really quickly for a long

amount of time. But the way you get the

power is really lame. You got to run all

the way to the temple, and then when you

get to the temple, there's like a big

spinning ring and you're in this zero

gravity area, and you got to fly around

and just aim yourself at the sparkling

lights and then do this 5 times. Every

time you touch the light, it will

disappear and reappear, and then you just

aim towards the new location of the light

and then just keep doing that 5 times,

and then the rings will start spinning

really quickly and then you fly into the

center of the rings, and then you get the

power. And then when you exit the temple,

this Starborn enemy will appear and try to

kill you, and then you just have to defeat

him and then leave. So you've got to do

this like 20 times because there's a lot

of powers. I think there's over 20

different powers, and if you want to get

all of them, you're gonna have to do this

running to the temple, flying around these

rings, collecting the lights. You gotta do

this 20 times, and it gets really boring

and really tedious. They could have just

added like a little mini boss instead of

just flying around these rings, in order

to unlock the new power, it would have

been nice if they gave you something

that's challenging, like maybe a puzzle,

or maybe like a really strong boss that

will be very difficult to take down. And

then when you take him down, you get the

power, and it'll feel like, wow, I just

defeated this boss, I got this new power,

I really feel like I earned it. But no,

instead all they could think of was,

let's just make the player repeat the same

task over and over again 20+ times, where

it's not even challenging, it's just

time-consuming and annoying. So as you get

later on into the story of the game,

you'll come across these people called the

Starborn. And at first they'll attack you,

and they will attack you every time you

unlock a power. And they look like aliens,

like some kind of alien civilization. At

first I was intrigued. I was like, wow,

are these superior alien beings who are

trying to wipe us out, or they're gonna

try and teach us something? No, it turns

out they're basically just humans from

another universe. So it's so stupidly

cliché, but this game's story is all about

freaking multiverses. I don't know about

you, but I can't stand the multiverse

trope. I think the Marvel movies, like the

multiverse and Doctor Strange, that kind

of stuff really made it popular to have

this idea of multiple universes or

infinite amounts of alternate universes.

And it's just such a lame storytelling

device, or like a plot device, because any

characters that die, they can just come

back because they can come back from a

different multiverse. And that happens in

this game. For example, this one guy dies

called Barrett, and And it's all sad and

everything, and everyone's sad, but then

he just comes back from another universe.

So there's these 2 guys who are Starborn.

One is called the Hunter and the other one

is called the Emissary. One of them's

Barret, I forgot which. And they kind of

try to stop you from collecting the

artifacts because they don't think you're

responsible enough to have the power to

also become a Starborn. Also, the name

Starborn is so lame. Reminds me of

something else that ends in the word born.

But they basically come out of nowhere and

they like try and convince you to take

their side, and you have to pick which one

of them to side with. So the main quest of

the game is becoming Starborn, so you then

have access or the ability to traverse

multiple universes. And as soon as they

mentioned multiple universes, I was just—

I was done. I was just completely

uninterested in the story. The mystery of

the game kind of vanished because up until

that point I was kind of interested and

intrigued. In what the story is going to

be about and who's like the main villains.

What are we supposed to be doing here?

What is the goal? And then as soon as they

started talking about multiverses, I was

like, oh my God, not this again. That was

a shift in space-time, a dip into the

multiverse. We'll have to go through a few

more to reach the center. And I lost

interest, and I feel like I kind of know

where the ending is gonna go or lead to.

I reckon there's gonna be NG+ in this game

where when you finish the game you can

restart the game from the beginning but

keep on to your powers. And they're

probably going to just say, you have

finished the game, but you can enter a new

multiverse where everything is how it was

before. Everyone will still be there, but

they won't remember who you are because

you're in a different multiverse. But

you'll have all your skills and all of the

experience you gained from your first

playthrough. I reckon that's what they're

going to do when you finish the game and

you want to do NG+, and it's just going to

be like Oh, you got infinite amounts of

multiverses that you can just restart from

if you want to finish the game and do like

NG++. I reckon the end of the game you're

gonna just become Starborn, defeat the

enemy who's trying to stop you from

becoming Starborn, and then you can either

choose to remain in your current universe,

which would probably get pretty messed up,

so you can finish side quests and that

stuff, or you can just enter a new

universe and start the game from the

beginning again. So when I realized that

this is what the main story is gonna be

about, it just seemed very predictable.

And I kind of lost interest in the main

story. Now there still are some

interesting side quests, like the faction

quests are still interesting, and I did an

interesting quest that took you to the

NASA headquarters located on Earth, and

you fly down to Earth, everything's like a

desert because they, they found an

artifact on Mars and then they brought it

back and they found out they can create a

grav drive by manipulating and bending

gravity to travel faster than the speed of

light. By using this artifact. And they

invented the grav drive, and they were

testing it out on the moon, and this

accidentally ripped apart the atmosphere

on Earth. And then all of, like, the

atmosphere and the ozone layer just kind

of spilled out into space, and Earth

became this barren wasteland, like a

massive desert. All the water evaporated,

and it became uninhabitable. That

storyline and that questline was pretty

interesting as someone who is kind of

interested in space exploration. It was

really cool being able to explore the old

NASA headquarters. They've got like a

museum in there as well with all the, the

old stuff from history, like the Apollo

landings and space station stuff. So that

was pretty interesting. I liked that. As

for the other aspects of the game, like

the spaceship combat, I was really

enjoying that, and I was really enjoying

leveling up my piloting skill and building

a really cool ship. But when I maxed out

my piloting skill and I made this

incredibly powerful ship that could take

on like 60 enemy ships at the same time,

it kind of got boring when I just felt

like, well, nothing can beat me, I'm super

powerful, I can destroy like a whole fleet

of enemy ships now. I basically just made

everyone my enemy. I got like a million

credit bounty on my head from UC and

Freestar, so anytime I enter their space,

they send a whole squad of spaceships

attacking me. So I jumped into orbit of

Deimos space station Star Yard and And

there were like 60 or 50 ships attacking

me all at once, and I managed to take them

all on and destroy them all without barely

doing anything because my ship is so good.

It's got like 12 automated turrets on it.

I just kind of sit there stationary and

let the enemy ships fly around me whilst

my auto turrets do all the work for me,

and I just keep my eye on my hull damage.

So I feel like my time with the game is

soon coming to an end. I feel like I've

gotten most of the satisfaction out of the

game, but I still feel a little bit

disappointed with the storytelling. The

characters were extremely forgettable,

not interesting at all, and most of them

were just kind of annoying.