Def not a perfect game but for me Starfield is easily up there with ToTK for the most fun I’ve had this year in a game.

Nothing wrong with being critical, but the podcast was really hard to listen to because it doesn’t seem like the guests spent any reasonable time outside the main story quests. Like not engaging in any ship building is mind blowing to me. Not seeing random encounters that lead to hours of side content is mind blowing to me. It’s all there, you just have to engage with it.. It felt the entire time that they are in full defense mode for their colleague. At the end of the day, who cares what IGN thinks, but it would be more enjoyable to listen to with different guests who actually played the game and forming their own opinions that us viewers/listeners can engage with. Damon still the goat tho

No, he did NOT! convince me. 100+ HRS in, and it's only getting better.

After listening to them discuss Starfield, I'm thinking a lot of the lower scores or middling reactions are coming from people speeding through content. Anyone who has stopped to smell the roses have been praising the game.

Wow! They say they liked Starfield but it really sounds like they felt it was a horrible experience that they wish they had their time back! They spent 80% complaining about the game and 20% talking about positives.

Sam sounds mad at Starfield

Wow if you think theres no exploration in the game and everything is procedurally generated, you really havent played much of side stuff 😂 Im 50hrs in and theres plenty of stuff you can find thats off track, some quest start with random documents/recordings.

Role-playing game has tough decisions on how to spend your xp?! *surprised Pikachu face*

Can IGN please just hook up dude #3 with a mic that doesn't sound like he's in his garage?

So sams main complaint is that he can’t tell his friend to go to this planet and do the thing he did? He’s docking the game points by proxy? Seems weird that they’ve talked about the procedurally generated planets and then goes on to complain about the nature of procedural generation. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Starfield is not a dungeon/cave exploration game, the caves are just caves and not meant to be explored again and again. There is hand crafted exploration set pieces in space and on planets. These guys are missing the magic of the game. The more you play, the deeper and crazier it gets.

Im loving starfield. Thats all.

Literally sad that they praise other games for not hand holding and discovery but criticize this game for it. Like the mantis quest etc

Loving Starfield, favorite game of the year so far

The ship building is easy. It just looks intimidating.

Ign should have multiple reviews for big games. Different oppinions.

The game tells you “ you’ve picked up contraband and can’t land on planets” then when your try to fast travel it tells you “ you have illegal items, enter at your own risk” then you look in your inventory and drop the clearly marked contraband. I’m old but these guys are OLD!

Literally since Dan have Starfield a 7. It’s felt like every other IGN employee has to justify why the game warranted a 7. I understand supporting a coworker but idk, it feels because of the 7. Everyone there has to talk about the game in a way that justifies it. IGN’s standard of 7’s with other games makes it truly puzzling for the audience to get how Starfield falls in line with that when it does so much well and a lot.

During loading the game gives a tip mentioning who to sell contraband to

Can we get Sam a real mic please?

I’ve played the game for 70 hours and haven’t gotten any powers yet… you guys run through these games as fast as you can and miss everything that is cool about them. There’s more to do then just main missions, but you can’t have the attention span of a gold fish.

Starfield conversation is odd. So many people like it but also don't at the same time. Very odd conversation around this game.

Starfield has it's faults but every game does. The in-game experience is by far the best in a long time for an RPG IMO. Easily my GoTY.

That Gunstar Heroes intro track brought me back to great childhood memories Daemon! Hit me like a truck full of nostalgia!

starfield is dope

Powers within 2 hours of the game? I'm 20 hours in and have no powers!? Also Mark can you tell me how to get 100 of thousands of money? I've got about 30k after 20 hours

Glad to have y'all back. Starfield is amazing, and easily one of the best games of the year.

Drew did great playing Stranger Things for 62 hours and 20 minutes setting a new Guinness World Record! Thanks for the shoutout! Get out there and play more pinball!

Remnant 2 is an impressive use of random generation tools/tiles

Starfield is easily one of the best games that came out this week. It’s definitely a GOTW contender

Finally! Glad to see a new episode

Think I'm absolutely going to have to dive into the Making of Karateka.

Scoop! Just started watching but already super stoked to hear music from Gunstar Heroes.

Scoop! Welcome back! It was a long wait, but considering this is episode 737 then we all understand you occasionally need a break, especially after traveling overseas. Nicely job!

this has made me interested in Karateka lol

the money glitches/ item duplications you can do in the game on console is hilarious AF. That alone makes the game a 9 out of 10 for me.

NICELY JOB!

Nick is coming for sam and justins 20 q skills

Yay scoop friday🎉.

Wow I’m 3 Scoops behind again. I’ve got some catching up to do.

the central limit theorem: all games tend towards normal.

(my) top 10 games of the year: 1. Starfield 2. Resident Evil 4(remake) 3. Baldur's Gate 3. 4. Hogwart's Legacy. 5. Dead Island 2. 6. Dead Space remake. 7.Diablo 4. (saving some space for persona 5 tactica, spider-man2 and some other surprise title). it's blasphemy to say you don't like Zelda games but....i don't really like Zelda games lol. (grew up and lived in tokyo most of my life-i'm familar with the power and influence of nintendo).

Very unique 20 questions in Sam (or our missing friend Justin) didn’t have to carry the team! Nicely Jobbed!!

Great to have our regular Scoops back! 👍👍

Sam and mark are so bad about dropping spoilers 😡

Their conversation about Starfield is the perfect example of an In-Group Bias monster in the making. Very unprofessional.

Sam's audio is a bit echoey and rough, is the mic too far away from him or somethin? Everyone else has perfect audio, so it stands out.

These guys are tearing this game apart.. but they still like it. Sounds like a 5/10

Game scoop should gift sam a nice mic setup for christmas :)

Where’s that contrarian Justin been!??

Sam’s t-shirt game is 🔥

According the Charles Martinet it's "So long, King Bowser"

Yes, you can enter places with contraband. If you don't take the time to understand the systems as intended, that's on you. You can find shielded cargo or a jammer by playing one of the factions' side stories. In simple terms, he only played the main story line. Remember the one that criticizes the most got to end game without using the ship building mechanic.

Thanks guys

That Sam guy seems to talk THE MOST and has the worst mic.

Please have Seth Macy Game Scoop on sometime.

Gunstar Hero’s music ❤

Sam has got to stop talking over everybody. He was a bull in a china shop in this episode.

Seems everyone just wants to talk about whats not in the game why not talk about what actually is in the game

Would be funny if in 6 months starfield get expansion pack fallout edition.

Agree with Mark - a review score should not impact your enjoyment of the game. I've played 50+ hours on Starfield and BG3, 70+ hours of TOTK, 20+ hours on RE4 and Jedi: Survivor, and plenty of other games. Its been a great year for gaming, with plenty more to come. This game of the year talk is redundant anyway, Super Mario Wonder is taking that crown!

SCOOP!

These comments are salty AF. 😂

Really looking forward to all of your thoughts on Sea of Stars. Goty!

Working hard to defend the 7.

I'm not sure scores should exclude games from a GOTY discussion. Everyone knows Streets of Rage 4 was the best game of 2020 and that got a 7!

Starfield: sixteen times the exploration.

Bg3 should be goty

Starfield is fantastic! Reviewers who got early copies jumped the gun and tries to be first to crap on the game. However the game came out and everyone loves it. So now all the early reviewers are struggling to explain their early opinions, lol.

shoutout to sam’s cramps shirt

Scoop!

Ive never heard much nit picking, whining and moaning about a game you supposedly enjoy. I'm surprised it even managed a 7 with what you guys are saying 😆 Im loving it. Fave BGS game so far.

SO LONG DEAR BOWSER!

Spoiler - IGN don't like Starfield. Except Ryan, no one likes it. Just wait till they give perfect score to Spiderman 2 and it looks like more of a same and set in same setting.

They have tried so hard to support their coworkers review here. Complaining they had to youtube one small aspect of smuggling.....these are the same guys that will praise eldens rings lack of handholding. Stinks of trying to support the review.

@IGN. As your audience, we don't need you to like a game, we just need you to keep an open mind when you evaluating it. My experience is so far from what I'm hearing from this panel, it's difficult to take seriously.

Sam we get it you don't like (current) 2D Mario games (always shitting on them, even though they're arguably some of the best platformers ever)... I for one thought the first New Super Mario Bros. was brilliant, and have enjoyed the series since. I agree it's time for a new spin on 2D Mario games, and I feel Wonder is doing that.

The 7 heard around the world? Politely, the hell is that? Acting like Starfield is some kind of failure

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is GOTY, so no need to worry about Starfield.

Stop comparing the game to Skyrim.

Oooof...... 🤔

Yo IGN! Get that guy in the Cramps shirt a decent mic! It’s so harsh to listen to when he speaks.

You guys just rush to main story

Goty is such pointless term

Daemon really replied to my comment about 7/10 being a C- with "incorrect. IGN reviews don't work that way." But then goes on to contend that Starfield's out of the running for GOTY despite IGN's policies.

Nintendo has officially said it's "so long KING Bowser." Always amazes me that these people that actually work in video games don't know video game things. Especially someone that has played the game as much as Mark has. Sad. Sam sounded bad this episode. Like he was in a tunnel.

Why is everyone in the comments SO concerned with Sam liking Starfield? Everyone has to make sure he understands why he's wrong for not enjoying it. It's okay for you to enjoy it. You don't need to justify it to yourself.

This panel justifying a 7 is wild, ... “ empty world with nothing that wows you”

Karateka is the Spanish word for karate. 😅

Might be obvious to some but with IGN giving a 7, how come IGN around the world all scored it higher, why are there reviews not taken into account?

Sam "there's nothing to explore its the same cave" But you gave totk a 10 when it's exactly the same...every area in totk is the same or from botw...and there's no music in totk so you're just wondering in silence...fun... You're bashing the game for stuff that totk does exactly the same. You complained about being too rich yet gush over item duping in totk...you can get max hearts and stamina from food so what's the point in doing shrines. You can't say bad things about starfield which gives it a 7 then give totk that has a lot of the same things you're moaning about a 10 and goty (it will be) "The graphics aren't great" yet again totk is a ps3 graphics game. It doesn't matter if it's because of the hardware the fact is the graphics are old. Look at a tree in that game... What games were out when totk came out? Nothing...thats why you played it 20 hours over the weekend. Theres been a bombardment of new games recently and great games.

A lot of crybabies on the frontlines on the console wars in this comment section.

One person’s 7 is someone else’s 10, and yet *another* person’s 2. 🤷‍♂️

20 hours into Starfield myself and I'll agree with the 7/10 at this point. It's a step back for Bethesda.

Saying that we don’t need to listen to your reviews makes you lot redundant 🤷🏻‍♂️ I mean what’s the point in ign if your reviews aren’t worth anything?

Find it so funny that Starfield was so overhypered like it was going to be this huge , next big thing and then it's come out and seems to be such a mixed opinion kinda game that people seem to have more negatives then positive

Starfield is not game of the year material man... the game is ok but it's nothing special nor it has any wow factor, or inovation..

Bro if you criticize Starfield even a little bit, angry weirdos come after you.

Disappointed by starfield. Mass Effect had a way more interesting universe to (not) explore 15 years ago.

What's the deal with Seinfield, they only gave it a 7>???