Go. I've done it.
Starfield. Ah, what's the date today? It's the the eighth. It's been 48 hours
nearly more or less since the official release of Starfield for Xbox Series XS.
Is it on S? Yeah. And PC. Asher's obviously had hold of it since the first of
September. Yep. And I have had hold of it since the sixth of September and if
you're one of the people who's not interested in Starfield, you best go away
really because that's what this episode is going to center around. Disclaimer,
we're not going to spoil anything, however, we'll be discussing early mechanics,
gameplay stuff and just the game. We won't be disclosing any important things,
but we will be talking about, you know, the odd side mission, yada yada, but
nothing very, very important. So just bear in mind, if we spoil anything for you,
you've been warned. We won't be talking about glitches, we're not here to tell you
how to earn the most amount of fucking credits or whatever their units,
whatever they're fucking called. Credits. There's none of that bullshit, no cheats
or anything like that. So if you're looking for guides or just fuck off and
just listen to our normal conversation about it because this has been, since the
first of September, this has been cooking. Yeah. Sorry I couldn't be here last week.
Someone stole my vehicle. Stole it. It was a friend that stole it so I couldn't
get here. But I'm back. Thanks for filling in. I did listen to the pod the other
day. I thoroughly enjoyed it as usual. You're welcome. Good work, Steph. And me.
And me. Thank you. You're welcome. So yeah, so let's fucking jump on it.
Ash is playing Starfield on his Xbox that he bought specifically for Starfield.
This has been over a year ago. Yes. When you bought that. It was basically near the
beginning of the podcast is when you purchased that. Yeah, it was when I went
to Centre Parks. Yep, that was the one. Oh, that shit, was that, that was, we hadn't
done our first episode yet. Had we not? No, I think we did it after Centre Parks.
Oh yeah, because we started. Because we were going to plan to do it and I said,
we'll wait till I get back. Yeah, that was the one. So this has been over a year in
the making. I've barely touched the Xbox. I played it a little bit, but not really.
It's crazy, and I'm playing it on PC. Yeah, before we get into that, I just
realised how jealous I am of you. Not that you're playing it on PC, but the
power that you have to play it on Steam Deck if you feel pleased to. Yeah. That's
crazy. Yeah, I mean, obviously you use Game Pass, so you might have to buy it.
Yeah, annoyingly, I think there is a work around. I can get access to Game Pass
through the desktop side of my Steam Deck, so I wouldn't have to pay for it,
which I think for the sake of 70 quid, I'd probably, I'd probably do that. But
yeah, if I wanted to, I could have it, I could have it portable. It's great. I
don't think it would run particularly well. Well, I've seen people say it's
really good. I think I would imagine it would lock it at 30 frames. Can confirm.
Charlie has bought an Xbox for this game. Has he? Fantastic. He's that hype for it.
It's great. People are coming to me. I love the fact that I just get messages
from people I haven't heard for ages. When a game comes out and they don't know
a lot about a lot, they go, I know a man that does know a lot about, not a lot. So
let's holler him. And nine times out of ten, I recommend stuff and they hate me
for it, but they keep coming back. And this is why we run a gaming podcast. We
do slightly know what we're on about. It's odd. There is some knowledge there.
We like to think we do. We know more than the average Joe. Yeah, which is how we'll...
So where do you want to start? I think you should start maybe on the, what
character, what did you go with? What was your traits, your poisons? That's it. So
when you make your character, you get to pick three traits and they're quite,
they're in the background. Yeah. They're quite unique. Background. I think I
picked pilot. I think is what I went for, or I can't, I can't really remember, but
my traits, one of my traits was the one where you have that adoring fan that
fucking randomly pops up. He's from oblivion. Yep. He's now on my fucking, he's
now on my ship. And then the other two, fucking hell, what was the other two? I
think they were just like bog standard. One of them, I got a bounty on me.
Bounty hunters will always... That's wanted. Yeah, wanted. Will try and take me
out because I thought might be interesting. Fuck it. None have actually
come to take me out yet, but we'll see. And then my other one, I can't actually
remember. I think it was just one of the boring ones, like extra stats somewhere
for doing something. I can't remember what. So my background, I picked a bounty
hunter. Yep. It's just fucking cool. The traits are all optional. You don't need
to take any of them. Yeah. Cause I know a guy at work, he, he's got a dyslexic
dyslexia. So like reading is not really his thing. Like he can read, but you know,
he, he'd avoid it if he can. Yeah. So, but he plays like he's game that he only
plays is ESO. It's the only game he plays. He plays it whenever he's free,
thousands and thousands of hours of it, which is mental to me. Cause for someone
that can't really read, he plays an MMO, which is all voice acted. It is voice
acted, but there's still a lot of menus and shit to get through for someone
that's not, he's not a gamer, but he just plays MMOs. That anyway. So yeah, he,
he didn't realize that they were optional. So he just picked like whatever free,
he just whatever. I can't remember what I picked. I definitely picked wanted and I
did remember what the other one was, but it seems to have eluded me. I have had
people turn up and try and kill me. So what they do is they give you something
and they also take away. That's why they're optional. So for example, um,
one, it'll give you like, I can't remember plus 5% or 15% damage permanently,
but also you can get swarmed by bounty hunters. Um, I liked one of them that,
that basically made it like real life. You've just got a mortgage that you have
to pay. It was, um, yeah, you have access to a, to a very decent house. And then
there was another one where, um, both your parents are alive and you can visit
them, but 2% of your income goes directly to them. Yeah.
I feel like they're both would have been interesting ones to go with. Um, but
like you say, they're, they're completely optional. They just make it a little bit
more spicy. I mean, the mortgage one was like, you had to pay fucking 150 grand a
month or something. I was like, that's a lot. Yeah. I don't, yeah, I don't want to
be fucking popping that out. So yeah, I didn't bother with that. I can't remember
exactly what the other one was, but I'm sure I remember. Um, I wonder if it would
get repossessed. I don't know. And then there'd be like some quest sequence where
your house gets fucking taken from you. I feel like that would be the kind of shit
that could happen. Oh yeah. A hundred percent. That sort of stuff would happen.
Um, but yeah, I got up, I set my alarm four o'clock in the morning last Friday
to play this with the intention of coming on the pod. So I'll get some timing. Um,
and I only really managed to get the intro done and I was very tired and it was
hard to, it was hard to absorb the information that was being portrayed
through the television screen at that time. Pitch black fucking TV lights in my
eyes, trying to drink coffee quietly. Cause my wife's asleep next to me. Didn't
want to wake the kids up, but we got through it and uh, yeah, I, I've not looked
back. I've put 20 hours in so far, which for me is a lot because I can only play
like a couple of hours. You only had fucking seven last time I spoke to you.
Yeah. I'm on my 20, 21 now. I've done just shy of 11, which ain't bad for two
days. It's quite a lot of time. Um, I managed to get the best spacesuit in the
game, but do you know how? No. All right. Well there's a spoiler. Well, no, it's
not really a spoiler. Well, I don't know if it's the best place in the game, but
it's like three or four times better than the one I've got. And it's in a master
locked cabinet and it's in the lodge, you know, the constellation building. Yeah.
You go down into the basement. There's a glass cabinet with a spacesuit in there.
Oh, I haven't explored that. And um, yeah, it's obviously like, it's a master lock.
If you like put your cursor in, you can get it in between. Get it. Yeah. And you
keep spamming the button. You can get it. But, but what I've done is I've got to
have to do that when I fucking come off this. It's nuts. You get the, you get the,
you get a helmet spacesuit backpack for a booster pack or whatever. Uh, but it's
so good that I've just unequipped him, put it in my storage cause I feel like I
shouldn't have it yet. I've got a feeling that might be like the reward that they
give you for the, well I've, I've got the perk, which lets me unlock advanced locks.
Um, so I'd imagine the next one, you have the next one up. I've, I've got a, no,
next one's expert. Obviously I told you about the helmet that I stole that
allows me to go invisible when I crowd that, um, yeah, going into the, there's,
there's this, um, store basically where you can buy gear and guns and shit like
that. And obviously you can steal things like most Bethesda games. You can, you
can Nick stuff and then you get fucking bounty put on your head or whatever. You
go to jail, all that shit. But what you can do is if it's on a racking or
something like that is you can melee it and hit it off the racking and then just
push it out the fucking building, which is exactly what I did. And then just
stole it like that. Yeah. And then just, and then just took it. And then with the
helmet, um, I've got the perk for the stealth where it gives you a stealth bar.
So you know when you're hidden and when you're not. Um, and I just crouched by
the helmet and then waited for it to say hidden and then just equipped it. Nice.
And then no one, no one does anything. And then obviously the minute you put it
on, you're invisible because you're crouched and you're not moving. Yes. So,
um, so yeah, it's been, it's been fantastic. You can pick up items. I don't
know if you know, you can pick items up light and, and hover them around and put
them where you want, rotate them. Yeah. I don't know how to do that yet on PC.
I've got the controls screenshotted for you, but I did think I was like, cause
you used to be able to do that in fallout free. Yeah. We can do it in all of
them. Yeah. But yeah, like a lot of famous one used to be in Skyrim. Like
they'd have always gold on their desks and stuff or whatever in the shops. And
it's people would put buckets on the shopkeeper's head. It's crazy. Take it.
Take the bucket off. They can't see it. It's great that the physics even exists
for that. That's, that's the, I've sent you a picture of the wooden duck. Yeah.
Yeah. That was just, it's just, I found a wooden duck and it's the only one I've
ever found. I found the, I found one too. I also found a, um, a cuddly toy, uh,
that has had a proper name on it. And when I picked it up, it made like a really
weird laughing noise. Yeah. I got, I got, I found two of them. Uh, but one of
them I want to put in my ship as well. Yeah. I was going to put it in the ship.
Uh, but yeah, cause I've only found one of them. It's for my own little treasure.
I've put it up in the cockpit. So I dropped it and then picked it up and
rotated it and popped it there. And to my surprise, I thought this is going to
bug out soon as I take off, it's just going to go, but it doesn't, it's still
there. It stays there. Cause it took me a long time as well to realize that you
can, you can exit your cockpit whilst you're in space. Yeah. I didn't realize
that. So yeah, when I got out in space and I exited and walked around, I said,
still fucking there. So yeah. Uh, but yeah, we might've jumped the gun a bit.
What do you think? Come on, hit me with your thoughts of the game. I think it's
very, very good. I do think it's very good. I think it's, it's getting a lot of,
um, negative, uh, voices, um, reviews, fucking people whinging about it. I
think because so many people have, the only real thing that you can put it next
to is something like no man's sky. And they're two completely different games.
Everyone's saying about the seamless, um, exploration in no man's sky. And
while yeah, that's a, that's a great feat. It's, it's not groundbreaking that,
that, that isn't a thing in starfield. If you don't know in starfield, basically
you want to go, if you want to traverse space, it is quite a few loading screens,
but they're not tedious loading screens. They're animated and they're, and
they're, and they're very fast. So for example, you're on a planet, you get in
your ship, you, you open up your map or sorry, you get in your ship and you can,
you can go into space and that, that's a loading screen. And then you're in space.
You can move around in space. You can't, um, traverse the entire space. So there
will be an invisible area where you'll hit a wall. Um, that's not actually true.
They, someone flew all the way to a planet. They left it as a video that Alaina
Pierce.
Yeah. I don't think they ever, she reached it. Yeah. She flew to, I can't
remember where it was Pluto or something. She left it on, went to sleep, got up
and then put the stream back on just as she is about to get there. And when she
got to say Pluto and she, as she got to Pluto, she just went through the planet.
So obviously you're not supposed to fly to her, but you can, if you wanted for
some strange reason, but also just to jump in on that, the loading screens and
all that, you can cut a lot of them out. If you're on a planet, you can just
travel to another planet. You don't have to go into space for us. And add to the
fact of that, all this sort of stuff will just be modded out in Skyrim. For
example, one of the most popular mods that I've always had installed and it's
one of the most popular when you go on the mod store is open cities, which means
no loading screens for cities. So you would literally, normally you go up to
Whiterun, you open the door and then there's a loading screen to get into the city.
Now on the mod, you just open the door and you walk in the city. So they'll have
mods to, they'll, a hundred million percent will be a mod where you can fly a ship
in space. But you don't need the fucking, you don't need the mods. Some people
will want that. One, one thing that I found that I didn't like when I first
started playing it, but now I'm starting to get used to it because it was just so
much more different is the space combat pilot in your ship and everything like
that. It's very, very different to any other thing that I've played. And you get
to a sign you have say like my ship, for example, I got 14 like power banks
essentially, and you can split that into how much power your engine has, how much
power your missiles have, your laser beams and things like that. You can move
it all around your grav drive and all that shit. And then the actual movement of
the ship itself, it's not like you have to hold down forward. You press forward
and it will ramp up the speed.
I haven't got used to that yet. I'm always holding forward.
Yeah. And it is odd. But like I said to Ash, I didn't like it. However, I saw it
as I've got the default ship. It's slow. It's clunky. It's a shit ship compared to
everything else. So it's not a fighting ship. No. So the so the orange. Yeah. So
the combat in that ship is not going to feel as good as if I had a better ship
and having seen quite a lot of videos now on TikTok because I'm liking that shit
now that I've got the game. I'm seeing a lot of ships that are a lot more durable
in space flight and things like that. So I know that it gets better. And that was
sort of my only real gripe with the game was that I wasn't used to the space
combat and that's it.
I also think it's harder for you, a lot harder because a lot of people are
struggling with flying with the mouse and stuff like that. I think it's a lot
easier on controller.
I quite like it on the mouse.
Yeah. Some people might get on better with it. I know I definitely wouldn't. I'm
struggling with the controller because whenever there's a fight, I'm instantly
like, right, fuck, move. And I'm trying to move. And then I'm like, oh, my lasers
aren't powered up. Click, click, click, click, up, up, up, up. I mean, I'm trying
to get that. And then I'm locking on and they're shooting me and can't tell my
health's gone down. I don't know. What are you playing on? I'm playing on hard.
It's difficult. I'm just playing it on normal. Yeah. The space combat is by
and large the hardest thing in the game so far. Yeah. But the actual, everything
else like I said, the noises in the game because I was on planet with a headset,
they're so good. The noises are so good. Don't get me wrong. There's obviously
things that are wrong with this game. From what I've heard, I haven't
experienced any myself, but there's been a couple of bugs. I got one person I was
talking to who their sound is completely broken in the game and their loading
screens keep crashing their game and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, well, I
haven't experienced any of that, but obviously it's a thing. But also I've
noticed a trend of a lot of people that are complaining about it either haven't
played the game or have only played like an hour and then gone, yes, it's shit.
And if, if that's how we're going to for a game that takes hundreds of hours to
complete, if that's how we're going to roll with it, then it's, it's not going to
work because I've done the same shit with God of War, No Man's Sky itself,
Elden Ring. You know what I mean? All these heavy hitting games, Horizon,
fucking loads of them where no, they're actually real, really good. You just got
to stick at it a little bit.
I've got a little interview here from David Jeff or Jeffy. I don't know how to
pronounce his name, but he was the director of God of War, like the first
ones, I believe. And he's interviewing someone about why they don't like
Starfield. And this just shows you what the problem is. I'll play it. It's quite
short. It's about a minute and a half long.
I haven't got that yet with Starfield, but I'm not far in it. But I want to say
one thing though. The game is so far based on word of mouth reviews, it's a
disappointment. I don't think it's a bad game, but it is a disappointment
considering what it's complete.
I mean, how much have you played?
Like three hours.
What's disappointing about it to you?
To me, it just doesn't get. First of all, I thought the intro was horrendous.
I think the writing.
What about the intro? What about the intro was horrendous?
It just was very lackluster. Like if you compare it to Skyrim, immediately,
you know, you're fighting a dragon.
You can't say Skyrim properly.
And then you're sent out into the world to do anything you want. Like literally.
That's the same here.
Whereas this is a little bit like I said, it's a little more shallow.
It's a little bit more.
It's a little bit almost more like Mass Effect where it's more story oriented.
It's pushing you in a certain.
This bit.
Do you think that was the choices you made?
What is her name?
Lynn or Lim, the lady who's your boss?
Do you think part of it is just that the fact that she asked you to burn the
bodies and shit and it should be more of a choice versus she forces you to do it
and it's almost like it's scripted at that point?
That's some of it.
I mean, that didn't that didn't happen at all in the game.
So I'm assuming you haven't played it yet.
I mean, so people are just jumping on bandwagon, just being like, no shit.
But you haven't played it.
And also, yeah, there is an argument for saying, right.
Yeah, I've heard a lot of people I respect and they're big Bethesda fanboys.
So they they weren't they weren't 100% sold on it until about 12, 15, 20 hours in.
However, it took them to get to certain places.
I think, yeah, all right.
Some games aren't designed in that way, but these games are designed for long for
long play sessions and long play time.
So you kind of know what you're getting into and expecting and don't get me wrong.
It's not bad up until that point.
But yeah, it can be slow.
It can be a bit boring and tedious.
I'm 10 out 10, 11 hours in.
I have not had a single bit where it's slow.
No, I don't think so.
And I've only done three or four of the main story missions because I've been doing side shit.
As I said to you yesterday or day before, the there's a point in the I'm doing all the main stuff now.
There's a point in the main story where and I'm still well early in it.
Well, I'm pretty sure I am anyway.
But there's a point in my story where something happens and you're kind of like, oh, wow, I wasn't aware of this.
So and when you get to that point, the game is going to open up even more in terms of just I'm not going to say anything.
But yeah, there's something that happens and you're just like, oh, I didn't even know.
There is so much shit to do in this game.
Looking at my quest log, there's just so much stuff, so many different storylines that I'm currently doing of which I know
that they're going to intertwine at some point.
Like I won't say who, but there's one geyser that I'm currently planning on blackmailing.
I'm also doing a different quest line, which is to do with this geyser.
But it's not mentioned whatsoever, but I just know that that's the path that they're going to cross.
So that's why I'm saving this little thing that I've got to blackmail this geyser.
There's countless other quests that I've got where I've either been walking through a city
and someone's been saying, I really wish such and such could help me or could do so.
And you go and speak to them, then boom, you got another quest or some quest that you pick up just by fucking just being in the area.
There's so there's so much stuff to do that the people who the people who are playing it and saying it's bland, it's boring,
it's it's it's really not lived up to expectations and things like that.
You're you're not you're not going to get what you're after in two, three hours worth of gameplay.
It's just not going to happen. And also, this is a Bethesda game.
I'm not I'm not a Bethesda fan boy, but we all know that things like Skyrim fall out, even to some extent.
Fucking other world. No, sorry. Outer Worlds.
Yes, there's there's a story there and most of them have a very decent story.
There's a lot of quest lines there. Blah, blah, blah.
It's also somewhat of a sandbox. You have the freedom to do a lot of shit.
We just sat here and told you that I stole stuff by knocking it off the shelf and then walking out the door with it before I equipped it.
And Ash got a really fucking decent spacesuit behind a locked cabinet by peering through the fucking gap in the glass and then taking it that way.
You can put buckets over people's heads in Skyrim to nix shit.
There's there's so much stuff that you can do thinking outside the box that you don't even know.
Yeah. So to say that that is bland and boring, that it's I feel like we're in a gaming culture at the moment where everyone wants stuff handed to him on a plate.
They want they want instant fucking satisfaction.
The minute they're playing that game, they want to be blown away from start to finish.
And unless you're invested in the game and actually fucking switched on a little bit, not every game is going to give you that.
And this isn't the kind of game where you are going to receive that.
If you could fly from planet to see that's the main complaint I've seen is one invisible walls on planets.
You have to run for so long to get to have a single invisible wall.
I mean, neither have I. So I don't know how long you have to do it, but it's a long time.
And also the flying between planets or whatever.
So if there was no invisible wall, fine.
If you could fly between planets, fine. But these people would find something else to moan about.
Yeah. And they'd grasp onto that.
I'm telling you now, planet wise, with the invisible walls like No Man's Sky, No Man's Sky, you can traverse the entire planet in a seamless fucking thing.
You can do this on Starfield because you ain't hitting that fucking wall.
There is so much shit to do in whatever area is set. It's crazy.
And then if you do happen to hit a fucking wall, it's not very much of an issue to just jump on your ship and then literally fly.
You can also fast travel to your ship.
Yeah. To just fly to the next bit, which then loads you in.
I landed on the moon expecting to be hit with this small area that I could explore.
Fucking just running constantly. But it's not like I'm running and there's nothing. I'm on the moon.
I'm on the moon. There's nothing on the moon. We've been there. It's just cheese. Right.
I'm there. And there is countless buildings, caves, hidden areas.
Fucking I come across this oil refinery place that was purely it was run by robots with a warning that come up saying if I enter, they're going to kill me.
That was just one of the random things on the fucking moon, a place where there's nothing there.
I mean, you're talking about just side quest. You just land on any planet. There's stuff to do everywhere.
That wasn't even a side quest. I was doing. That's what I mean. I was doing a side quest and the fucking NPC that I had with me said, oh, if you want to go and explore the moon, that would be quite fun for a little minute before we go and do this.
So it weren't even part of the mission. It was literally the NPC with me saying, I'd quite like to go over there if you want to do it.
And we did. We didn't spend long there. But the videos I see of people running in straight lines on planets and hitting invisible walls.
I have no idea. Never did that in No Man's Sky. I never landed on a planet in No Man's Sky and just running a straight line for 20 minutes. Who's doing that?
Who's doing that? And what do you want? What do you want from that? You just want to be able to run in a straight line forever on a planet.
I'm a big fan of No Man's Sky as we both are. But obviously it has its limitations in comparison.
The biggest criticism was always said with No Man's Sky is there's a lot, but there's not a lot to do. There's a lot of mining.
It relies on creativity of the person playing.
But if you land on a planet on No Man's Sky, you're going to run around, you're going to see the same containers, you're going to see the same buildings, the pointless aliens that you can't really do anything with.
There's no missions. They're not giving you any quests. You're fighting sentinels. You know what I mean? On this, there's fucking random alien fucking monsters.
There's obviously the mining, the scanning, the building, the random quests you can come across, the radiant quests.
I was out mining because I've got a real problem. This is probably my only problem with the game.
Two problems I have is one, storage space because I'm a hoarder. And every time I see a mineral, I need it.
And I'm worried I'm going to need it, so I store it all. And I just I never have any fucking space in my inventory.
And two, I don't think the companions talk enough. But hopefully that will be patched in.
I saw someone build a ship. It had 21,000 inventory slots. It was literally just all containers.
That's the kind of shit that I need. But yeah, just running around on a planet, you're always finding stuff.
What was that thing I sent you?
By the way, we're not ripping No Man's Sky at all. We both love the game, but it's they're two completely different games.
People who keep comparing them are just outright wrong because they're not comparable.
Just because they're both in space, it does not mean. Yes, you can obviously see that Starfield has taken some kind of inspiration from No Man's Sky
with the minerals and the scan in them and things like that, but only slightly.
And yeah, I just I don't know, man. Like you say, you sort of hit the nail on the head on that one.
You go to a place on No Man's Sky. Yes, the planets are randomly generated and they are fantastic.
But you. There is only as much to do on the planet as your imagination would allow you to perceive.
There's minerals there, there's things that you can gather, but ultimately, unless you're there for a specific quest that has sent you there,
it's a it's a survival sandbox. So you are creating your own fun with that game and there is a shit ton of fun.
But it's not it's not story driven. Early on in the game, I was fighting.
I was just on a random planet. I don't know where I was and I was in some little fucking robotic area.
And I just come out and I'm still in the same sort of boat. Now I've got no fucking medipacks.
I never have very many because I'm always healing. I'm playing on hard. So I guess that helps.
But yeah, I had not a lot of health. I come out as I was going to go to the ship and leave as I was going to the ship.
A ship landed and all the fucking bounty hunters jumped out, started shooting me. I was like, fuck.
So I've had to like I've tried to fast travel to the ship, but I can't because I'm in combat.
So I had to like duck and dive and run to try and get to the ship whilst being chased by bounty hunters.
Like that's just random stuff happening. You're not getting that no man's sky.
That's not to detriment to no man's sky. But that is the organic thing in Bethesda games.
What makes them so unique because I think all them videos I've been sending you.
Yes, unique experiences that are not they're not scripted.
So they make them that makes it more fun. Yeah, because it just happens.
It's organic. And that's why Bethesda games are so beloved because you've got your own stories.
I genuinely think that a lot of the people that are that are speaking negativity don't don't get it twisted.
We're not here sucking the dick of Starfield. No, it's not perfect. It's not perfect.
It definitely isn't. I wouldn't put it in the category of game of the year either.
So from what I've seen so far, I don't think it's there. I think it's a very good game.
But I also feel that a lot of the people that are ripping it just haven't played it.
Not talking only put a couple of hours just haven't played it full stop.
And you know, for a fact, there's a lot of people whinging who only play on PlayStation because they can't have it.
The same way that Xbox that Xbox players complain when a fucking when God of War Ragnarok released.
It looks too linear. You can't even know.
You're always going to get people whinging always. And I feel like there's some instances where that
that almost negative feedback is somewhat necessary, dependent on the game and how it's released and things like that.
But a lot of the time, it just tears down gaming as a whole and the developers and everything like that.
If they spent all that time and effort making a game to just have people consistently whinge.
So what's the fucking like you say, if it if it's seamless travel and you can do everything that everyone's whinging about,
they'll find something else to fucking whinge. If it's open world, they'll complain it's not linear.
If it's linear, they'll complain it's not open world. There's always some cunt who has a fucking whinge about it.
If it was if you had to fly everywhere, people soon get bored of that.
They fucking were because the flying in No Man's Sky is boring as well.
After a while, it gets fucking boring much like everything after you do it for a while is boring.
You're in the vastness of space. What are you doing apart from flying to the planet?
Exactly. Like there's there's other ships, but you'll see them in the orbit of the planet.
The noises of the ships, by the way, are fantastic. Yeah.
When you hit the frost, they sound real fucking decent.
When you take off, it's got that crispy. Yeah, yeah, really, really nice, nice sounds.
And all the little clicks and the buttons. Yeah, man.
Yeah, when you load it, yeah, it's cool.
Have you got another ship yet? No. So I've bought I've bought another ship.
I don't have the fucking dough. I've got like forty thousand whatevers.
I bought a second ship, one from the first from the Atlantis, Achilles is called.
And I've also I've also stolen a ship.
Yeah, I remember you telling me about that one.
But but there's different cockpits as well.
And you sit in your one and you sit there and you pull the control panel out and it wraps around you like my one.
I get in it. I get in at the side.
And as I get in, the seat rotates and goes forward.
So like there's so much like I haven't worked out the ship building yet.
As far as I'm aware, I need to get a hold of another ship in order to start getting more parts to build shit.
I think I don't think so. I just started building.
I just started adding things on the side.
So when I wanted more storage, I just got I just bought the storage containers, clipped it on the side.
You can only clip onto certain pieces and if it needs to be attached and blah, blah, blah.
I'm like I'm not a very creative person.
So I struggled for a bit trying to work out what I was doing wrong.
But yeah, now when I want more storage, I literally just pop more storage on.
Yeah, I'm going to have to have another look.
I want to get a little bit further in the main story before I start fucking around with the ships and things like that.
But yeah, man, I think it's a fucking good game.
It's playing really well on on on PC.
I think I'm getting I'm on high graphics, not not ultra.
But that's just what it's set to as default.
So I might whack over to ultra and see see how it actually plays.
But on high graphics, I'm getting a stable 90 frames.
That's that's my other gripe.
Obviously, this I can't wait till the mod comes out to unlock frames because 30 FPS is horrible.
That's a poor move. I don't I don't understand because the starfield is optimized for the Xbox, not for PC.
So I can't really understand why we're running at 30 frames per second on a series X.
It's just mainly for performance. So there's not lag spikes.
Yeah, but you could have the performance without any of that because they could fucking series.
I'd imagine they could have a performance or quality mode like most games.
One hundred percent. And I think it would be absolutely fine.
I will a hundred percent be unlocking them frames because the 30 FPS is jarring.
I don't like it. I thought it might be possible because it is in some games.
It's very noticeable and I hate it. So I can't wait for that to go.
But yeah, this the whole thing about is a vast universe.
Explore it. Explore is your leisure. People got a lot before the game come out.
People getting hung up on the thousand planets thing and only a hundred of them having life on them and stuff.
I think now it's probably I'm guessing because I haven't been to a thousand planets,
but I'm guessing when it comes to only a hundred of them having life on,
there's still going to be things to do on these planets.
There's still going to be buildings, still going to be stuff to find.
Like I say, the moon has robots on it.
Yeah, they're not just going to be barren barren. There's going to be things to do.
And yeah, like the little stories, man. So I don't know how much you're into it,
but I'm listening to all the dialogue. You know, I walked into a land on a random planet.
I don't know what it was. Fucking gone at show or something. It's called.
I fucking don't know. I don't know. So I'm beginning with a G.
I was wandering around and I wandered into like this little fucking repair shop thing.
I was talking to a girl. She's writing a story talking about mech warriors from the future or some shit.
Is it a good title for a book? I was like, no, it sucks because I'm playing a dickhead.
Yeah, I always do. Yeah.
And then but then she started talking about like the colony wars and stuff,
all the backstory of the game, all the wars in it.
And apparently because, you know, his contraband and a lot of it is mech parts.
You're not allowed to have mech parts. And she explains you can ask her why.
Like because she was a mech pilot in the wars and why they were banned and stuff.
And I was like, OK, so now I'm understanding why mech parts is contraband because I didn't know.
Yeah. Now I understand that mechs are banned as part of like the colonization
and unification to stop fighting between planets, the idea.
So I'm hopeful that there's going to be some mechs to climb into or something.
Do you mean there's the possibilities in this game?
It just it's going to have the lifespan of Skyrim.
It's going to be modded to fucking the high heel and people will still be playing in 10 years.
It's just because they'll have to because there won't be another Starfield for 20.
Starfield 2 will be 20 years away. Agreed.
Which is fine, because as soon as they add Darth Vader and a lightsaber, I'm done.
I don't need any other games. Yeah, that's I'm just going to be running around.
You know, you know, the fucking Death Star and all of that shit is all coming.
The minute you introduce a shipbuilder, that's it.
You saw what the people did with fucking Tears of the Kingdom.
Now look what they're going to fucking do with with Starfield.
It's going to be the mods are going to be mad.
I hope the mods on the Xbox are larger than they were on Skyrim.
Scrim you had like a five gig max.
It needs to be extended because I need lightsabers, I need Darth Vader, I need Death Stars.
I need fucking I need all of the Star Wars stuff. I need a Star Wars pack.
Yeah, I can just go bought me now Star Wars.
But yeah, it's the organicness of the game.
The first fucking the first mission thing you do and Vasco comes out with you and you, you know, the Crimson Fleet.
You have to fight them. The captain at the end and you come out and he's like, hey motherfucker, you know, I want your ship.
I don't know how you dealt with it, but I persuaded him to not, you know, fight me.
And he let me he let me go. He's like, just take your ship and your fucking robot and leave.
And I was like, oh, yeah, I passed. I've done the persuasion thing.
But then I killed them all anyway. Yep. Because it's fun.
The the geezer that I'm currently blackmailing, I had to he set me on a task to destroy his ship,
which had been taken by pirates because there's some sensitive data on there. I've done that.
Yeah. And I did not destroy his ship. I boarded it.
I lied to the pirates and they let me board and then they instantly found me out.
And yeah, I did a persuasion thing with with the with the captain and basically said, look, I'll take what I need.
You can keep your fucking ship and then we'll both go be on our ways.
And he was like, all right, fair enough.
And yeah, I was tempted to fucking kill everyone and take the ship.
I was tempted. But again, I remembered one of the side missions I'm doing and I thought this could come in handy.
So I've got a little fucking envelope, which is to blackmail the geezer that give me that fucking task.
Interesting. I know exactly what question you're talking about, because that's on
it's on that dusty planet. Yeah.
And I did the same thing. I went there, found his ship, boarded the ship.
But like that, that famous me more gif is I didn't give anyone a chance to talk.
I boarded the ship and I just started shooting. So I blasted everyone in that ship.
And then not only did I shoot them all and kill them all and took the data, but also fulfilled my mission.
I got off the ship and I blew it up.
Just another way of doing things. And that's the organic nature of just just a normal side mission.
The differences that we've had just through that.
Also, I'm in the same position as you when you spoke about getting caught with contraband and then I'm also in jail.
But I won't go into it. But I'm also on the side of well, as soon as I get the option to side with the other lot, I'm siding with them.
And I'm blowing you motherfuckers sky high. So you're a fucking traitor, basically.
I will be wiping them motherfuckers up. Well, they I didn't know what was going on because the reason I'm in the situation that you're in is because that ironically,
that mission that we just discussed, I was doing that. I took a lot of stuff from there and on my way back, that's when they nabbed me.
Forgive me. I've got Pringles. Yeah, I just had that image, you know, that camera in the Pringles videos.
That's it. I won't eat them into the mic.
But yes, I just it's just such a good game. And I just I wake up thinking about I go to sleep smiling because I've had so much fun.
And the variables on it are just that's what makes it great. It's that water cooler moment that people call it where people stand around in an office around the water cooler
talking about what they got up to on the game the night before. And everyone will be doing different things.
And then games are so few and far between and so unique that they should be celebrated and not vilified.
It's a nice breath of fresh air is what it is. This is a very exciting brand new game from Bethesda. First in twenty one, twenty two years.
First new IP. So two decades. Todd Howard's Magnum Opus.
And let's not let's let's have it right and not forget as well that they've they stated in interviews that I've seen with my own eyeballs and ear holes.
That they said this the reason the games are so far in between is because they put obviously so much work into it.
But their games, you know, Alice Skyrim, but it's a different world we're living in now.
Starfield is going to be supported for years. Starfield is going to be not just mod support.
They're going to be doing expansions, DLCs and the Creation Club whilst frowned upon on Skyrim and stuff like that because it's such an old game and it was bought in so late.
It's great. It's crafted content from Bethesda, i.e. spacesuits and missions and little bits and bobs, little gameplay changes and stuff that you can buy with real money if you want to.
But you don't have to. They'll just enhance the immersion if you want to be lost in a sci-fi world, which is all I want.
Now. I'm ready for Starfield 76.
Online Starfield. Why not?
Yeah, that would be pretty cool. But I'm happy with what I've got.
If they had something like Elder Scrolls Online in space, but with the current graphics of Starfield, you'd be on to a fucking winner all day.
All day every day. You just think of how successful ESO is. And like you were saying on the pod with Steph the other day about the quality and the difference that you notice now with voice acted dialogue.
So as I said to you when we were playing WoW, I like to know what I'm doing and stories, but I don't want to sit there and read all that.
So I just click through and then run. I'm looking at what my objective is, not what I'm actually supposed to be doing or any reason behind it.
And I know that's the MMO landscape and that's how a lot of them operate. But I also like being told, because when as Steph rightly said as well, you could play ESO like I have when I've played it as a single player Skyrim.
There's other people running about doing their thing, but I'm in my own story. I'm doing my own stuff.
Whereas in World of Warcraft, even though I can play it that way, I'm not interested in reading all that stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. And neither am I.
Exactly. Very few people do. You got to get into the lore of WoW.
I think you have to be very interested in it because it's a lot of reading.
There's no reading actual books and fucking all the dialogue in the quest and knowing where you are.
Whereas with something like ESO, it throws it at you. And like I said, there's multiple people that don't listen to the dialogue and are able to work it out through the quests themselves and what they're doing in the areas.
It tells the story without you having to actually listen to it. It makes it very, very fun to play.
For me, that's why I've always preferred the ESO style of the MMO because one, it's on controller, but that's just me. That's a personal thing.
But two, when I'm doing something, even if it is collect 10 apples, I know why I'm doing it.
And you're more invested in the reason for it as opposed to I've just clicked accept quest, gone and collected 10 apples.
Here you go. I'll give me the XP dump here. I'm actually doing it because this woman's child can only live on apples.
You're invested in it because you know exactly what's going on, which is how I feel with Starfield at the moment.
That's why I'm picking up all of this side stuff because I'm actually paying attention to what it is that I'm doing and why it is that I'm doing whatever it is that I'm doing.
It's a very engaging game. If you let it be engaging, it's fantastic. Stop fucking whinging about Starfield. Just leave it alone. It's not perfect.
No, it isn't. But it's one of the fucking decent games of this year. Stop fucking whinging, you sweaty little cunts.
Neon Street Rat was the other trait I picked. There's a neon street rat. I can't remember what it does, but it means you grew up on the mean streets of neon, which I haven't visited yet.
Although I have found an outfit from it. The weapons as well. I keep finding new weapons. I keep thinking, oh, that's probably all the weapons. Nope.
The weapons are great. There's another new one. I found one yesterday. I killed it at the end of like, once again, a random little side thing.
Killed this guy and he dropped like the sickest gun. I don't think I'll pick another gun now. It's just a pistol, but it's got like, you know, in Dead Space, he's got like that laser.
He's got like that laser cutter thing. He's got like three green dots that come off of it, like a triangle of dots. And I think it shoots like radiation or something.
But it's like, it's fucking sick. The gun feel, obviously it feels, it'll be feeling different on console, but for me, it feels great.
It's the best combat that Ed Bethesda have done. It feels really, really good.
I know that they said in interviews that the ID team helped them out because obviously they're Bethesda because that's Doom and Doom is shooting.
So you put Doom and Bethesda together, the shooting is going to be a lot better. Obviously it's not as impactful as Doom, but it's there.
And like I say, once again, mods, they'll add mods to make fucking, you know, blowing people's legs off and stuff.
I was surprised that they haven't done that because in most of like in Fallout and stuff, you blow people's heads off and don't think you could do that in this yet.
I haven't seen it, but there's there's there's bits of space and stuff like that and planets and shit where the gravity affects your combat.
Oh, yeah. I was flying in space yesterday and I just come across a derelict ship.
I boarded it. I hailed it first because, you know, immersed me. No noise, nothing coming back. So I boarded it and I was all just floating around.
First time that's happened. It was a fucking casino. It was a floating casino in space.
Abandoned casino.
Have you been in it?
No, I haven't been in it, but I've seen a video about it. Apparently it's quite a good place to get a load of money.
Yeah. Yeah, I reckon I found a bit of money, but it's just sick.
And when I like so this is why I love Bethesda games and not just Starfield in general, just Bethesda games full stop because I stumbled across this.
I went in there. I was I have no idea what I'm doing, where I am. This is cool. I'm looking around.
I don't know what it is. It looks like it looks like a casino.
Oh, they must. I'm guessing that something's happened and everyone's died because the gravity is gone and everyone's suffocated and died.
That's what I've put together in my own head. But then I'm finding like like little environmental storytelling things and documents and stuff and reading it.
And no, this is the first casino in gravity space and stuff like that. So it was supposed to be like that, but it wasn't really working and stuff.
So you you kind of you kind of get a story about being told a story if you look for it. And that's fucking genius.
I don't think that's why I think games like this should just be celebrated. As you said, 21 years for the first new IP has been like 10 years in the making.
And it shouldn't be like picked at his floors. Obviously, it should be fairly critiqued.
But I feel like people are just just trying to floor it because they just want to.
They want to have the media. If you want to go and play No Man's Sky because it's so much better, go and play No Man's Sky.
That's absolutely fine. If you genuinely believe that Starfield is shit and there's other games out there that are far better star citizen No Man's Sky fucking ever space, then by all means, go and play them.
It's absolutely fine. But I for one, I'm enjoying Starfield even more so with the fact that I haven't had to pay for it because it's free on Game Pass.
So I'm going to buy it. I'm going to buy it. I decided I'm going to buy Starfield and then I'm going to cancel Game Pass because I probably ain't going to play nothing else.
Yeah, genuinely. I bought the Xbox for Starfield. I've got Starfield. There might be the odd game that I come back, but then I'll just subscribe for a month and play it.
And then I subscribe. And once I've once I've had Starfield for like six months, then I've paid for the Game Pass.
I'm going to be playing this game for hundreds of hours. It's like Skyrim. I always went back to it.
Even as recent as last year, I was playing Skyrim and modding it and then Connor started playing it again.
And they're just that's just them sort of games. You just get a new idea for a new playthrough, new character, new way of doing stuff.
It just seems it just seems very fun. It's very easy to fucking potter about and just do bits by bits, bit by bit with no immediate pressure that you need to complete this game.
No, because everyone's game is so different because it's all random events and shit like that.
The game hasn't even the game hasn't even shown its full potential to you yet.
I'm excited for you to get to that and go, oh, OK. And then you're going to be like, right.
Well, that's that's that changes a few things because now my brain is like, oh, right.
Then I there's it's hard to say about giving it away. So I'm not going to say anymore.
But yeah, I can't wait for you to get to that point. I'll find it out tonight. Yeah, it won't be.
You won't. If you beeline the main stuff, you'll be there well quick because I just beelined it.
And I was there very, very quickly. And then I stopped the main quest because I was like right now, I know that was probably the thing that most people say.
And when you get to that point and then you realize what the game is. Yeah.
Yeah, I think now I'm just going to go back to just doing what I do, which is let's check the log.
Have I got anything I fancy doing? No. I'll land on this planet and see what's going on.
And that's all I've been doing. This fucking such a cool game.
Yeah, I want to go home and play it now, but I can't talk to this fucking patron mugs, which we're going to go and do.
We are going to do that. As always, patron.com forward slash what's the buttons?
Shit load of episodes there that you can get access to for like five quid.
Have you told them all there on Spotify? No, you haven't.
They are all on Spotify. That's quite cool.
Steph is working on changing the logo for that specific Spotify section because it comes up as the the patron to it.
He's called the Jedi Club. If you're not aware and on we've linked it now with Spotify
so you can listen to all the patron episodes through Spotify if you are obviously subscribed.
And Steph was going to change the logo to theme at Star Wars and she was going to she was going to have obviously like blue and red.
And then she was going to replace the controller with a lightsaber and some other shit might put a fucking might turn you into some kind of Vader.
There's there's a couple of things that we're that we're looking to do to sort of separate it.
But yeah, it's because that is one of the annoying things about patrons.
If you want to listen to anything on it, you've got to go on the patron app.
But now it's all directly on Spotify, which is fantastic and very easy.
Also, have you used that Spotify DJ thing? Yes, I think.
Now we're going to listen to some tracks that you haven't listened to for a while.
So up next is 50 Cent within the club. I'm enjoying it.
Right. We're going to go and do that. Play lots of Starfield.
We yeah, we hope you didn't tune into this episode to listen to anything else because you'll be sorely disappointed.
Ten out of ten. See you later. Uro.