DO NOT BUY Starfield - Very Disappointing...

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Starfield by Bethesda Games, and as an

avid fan of Bethesda Games and RPG games

in general, I knew I just had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been kind

of bland, boring, and uninspired. The game

has had massive hype, and after playing it

for almost all day now, I don't really

feel like the game has lived up to the

hype, and here's why. So the game has been

marketed as this massive open-world game

set across the galaxies and the stars,

and there's supposed to be thousands of

different planets that you can and all

these different cities and establishments

you can roam around, and all these

different characters with their own

storylines and plotlines that you can get

involved with. And that sounds amazing and

everything, but I don't feel like the

final game delivers on what was promised.

So it's kind of hard to enjoy the game

fully right now because of the performance

issues, and maybe that's because the game

only just came out and there's still

glitches to fix and bugs to squash, and

there should be patches coming soon to fix

these performance issues. But it's still

very frustrating when you've paid a lot of

money for the Premium Edition so you can

play early and the game just feels very

janky a lot of the time. The frame rates

in the game is just really bad, and I

don't understand why. I currently have the

settings all set to low because if I set

the graphics any higher than low, then my

system can't really handle this game. And

it should be able to handle it because

I've got a pretty powerful gaming laptop,

17-inch Razer Blade Pro gaming laptop with

an RTX 3060 and a Core i7

processor. And I've been able to play

basically all games recently on ultra.

But for some reason, my system really

struggles to run this game very smoothly.

Most of the time I can maintain 30 to 40

FPS, but then sometimes it just randomly

drops down to like 10 FPS, and it takes a

while until it sorts itself out and gets

back up to about 30 FPS. This game kind of

feels like a mixture of No Man's Sky and

Cyberpunk 2077. In No Man's Sky, you had a

spaceship and you had all of these

planets, infinite amounts of procedurally

generated planets that you could visit,

and you could fly around in space and

stuff like that. But the good thing about

No Man's Sky was there was basically no

loading screens ever. You could just hop

into your spaceship, launch off into the

sky, and then launch off into space, and

then just activate your hyperdrive and

then visit other planets. And most of the

time there was never any loading screens.

But in Starfield, there's so many loading

screens. So for example, in Starfield, if

you want to hop into your ship and then

fly off to a different planet or a

different galaxy, it takes so long. Look

how many loading screens there are.

First, there's a loading screen to get

into your ship, And then you've got to

then walk over to the pilot seat, and then

there's going to be like a little

animation of him getting in the seats and

a little computer sliding forwards.

There's so many of these little animations

which take up a couple seconds, but it

really feels like it's slowing down

everything. And then you've got another

little animation or loading screen of your

ship taking off.

Space, cold and dark.

Starships fly there like coffins,

carrying us home. And then when you

finally get into space, sometimes there's

enemy spaceships in the area which

prevents you from hyper jumping out of the

area. You get stuck in combat and then you

get blown up and destroyed, and then you

reload the game. You have to watch all the

little cutscenes and loading screens to

get back into space all over again. And

then to get to the planet you want to,

you have to quickly open the map and then

kind of zoom out on the map, find the

planet you want to go to, plot the course,

jump into hyperspace, watch another little

animation or cutscene of the ship going

into hyperspace, and then you arrive

there, and then you have to land, and

there's another 2 loading screens. It just

takes so long to get around in this game.

It makes the whole process of just jumping

into your ship and flying around and

exploring new planets really annoying and

really tedious. And I didn't feel like

this when I was playing No Man's Sky. In

No Man's Sky, it felt so seamless and I

felt like I could just jump into my ship

and just shoot off into the stars and just

find a planet, aim towards it, activate my

hyper engines, and just go straight for

it, enter its atmosphere, and land on the

planet, all without seeing a single

loading screen. Maybe just one loading

screen for the hyper jump. Also, entering

a lot of buildings in the game, you have

to go through a loading screen just to

enter some building. There's just way too

many loading screens, and I don't

understand why this game has to have so

many loading screens when So many open

world games barely have any loading

screens at all. The game's open world kind

of city hub areas look very bland and

empty compared to games like Cyberpunk

2077, which I feel like is quite similar

to this game. But Cyberpunk 2077 city was

so cool. Night City had so many things

going on and it looks so interesting and

so futuristic and cool. But in Starfield,

the main kind of futuristic city hub area

looks so dull and bland, and there's

barely anything happening, just a load of

NPCs randomly walking around. The game's

visuals just don't really blow me away,

and I know I'm playing the game on low

graphics, but even with the graphics

cranked up to high, I don't really notice

much difference. Okay, the reflections and

textures look a bit better, but the

overall design of the visual appearance of

the game and the levels just look kind of

lacking in luster. The planets all look

really dull and barren as well, and I know

they have hundreds or even thousands of

planets and they're randomly generated and

it's impossible to make them all look

really cool, but I don't really care about

exploring thousands of planets when they

all look boring and dull like this. No

Man's Sky had the same problem as well.

The game also has some strange glitches

with the ragdoll physics, like bodies

getting stuck in the air or bodies just

getting stuck in the wall and then

flipping out. I guess it's kind of funny,

but it's also very janky.

It is kind of disappointing to see so much

jank in what is supposed to be a AAA game

that they've been working on for, what,

15 years or nearly 20 years? To be able to

play the game early access, it was very

expensive. I paid nearly $200. It was

£100 plus £31 for the premium

upgrade, which is about $189. So when

I'm spending that much money I would

expect the game to be quality. As for the

combat of the game, it doesn't feel great,

to be honest. When it's smooth, it feels

okay, but most of the time the frame rate

is not super smooth. It doesn't feel

buttery smooth like other games like

Cyberpunk 2077 does. And I just feel like

the enemy AI and the shooting action and

the movements, the way it feels, just

feels kind of janky. The Bethesda engine

is kind of famous for being a bit janky

And I do see that they've upgraded it

since the previous game Fallout 4, but it

still seems like they can't get rid of the

jankiness. The engine that's used in

Cyberpunk 2077 is just so much better and

felt so much better when jumping around

and shooting. And the movement in

Cyberpunk 2077 was so much better as well,

where you could slide around and jump and

do like a double jump and spin around and

do all these crazy melee attacks and just

chop up enemies limb by limb. There's no

gore like that in this game. I know I keep

comparing this game to Cyberpunk 2077,

and maybe a lot of people think they're 2

completely different games, but I swear

when I'm doing these kind of combat

missions where I'm in an enemy base and I

can either be stealthy or just go out guns

blazing or hack into computer systems, I

feel like it's very similar to Cyberpunk

2077 but in like a much more dull and

bland way. For example, there's melee

weapons in this game like an axe or a

pick, but it doesn't feel anywhere as cool

as the katanas or the massive kind of

bladed weapons in Cyberpunk. You can't

chop your enemies up into pieces, and

there's no cybernetic implants from what

I've seen so far. You can't really hack

into the mainframe and like hack into the

enemy's heads and blow them up or make

them do stuff. I kind of miss the VATS

system from Fallout where you could stop

time and target specific limbs. I wish

they brought that back. And I really don't

like the space combat. The space combat

just feels kind of boring. You just kind

of aim your mouse, your cursor, at a

circle to match the other circle so you

get lock-on. Then you kind of like fly

past the enemy, you're flying towards each

other, you fly around, then you fly back

and you aim at them again. It's just very

repetitive and boring. I really don't like

the space combat. There does seem to be a

lot to do in the game, and there's a lot

of complex systems like the cooking

system, the crafting system, the skill

trees seem pretty complex. But as of right

now, considering the fact that I've spent

$130 or $189, I don't really

feel like this is the amazing AAA game

that I was promised. It kind of feels like

a combination of No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk

2077, and a bit of Fallout 4, but

honestly, I prefer Cyberpunk 2077 way more

than this. Hopefully the game will get

some big patches fixing the bugs and

making it more of a smooth experience,

but that could take weeks or months, and

by the time all the fixes have come out,

I might have already finished the game.

So as of right now, I can't really

recommend buying the game. I would give it

a 6.2 out of 10, and I definitely

recommend waiting 5 days until you can

play it without paying extra for the early

access.