I spent an hour building a ship from scratch that I hated as soon as I took off with it. 10/10 game.

I chose the perk "Kid Stuff". I went to visit my parents and listened to every dialogue. And then realized I visit and talk to my fictional parents more than my real life parents. 10/10 game

I’d love a mod that adds all of the books full texts, so I could sit in my space house reading War of the Worlds

Starfield has fully convinced me to get away from video-game discourse, I'd rather just discover games on my own and formulate my own opinions based on experience than seek out that sweet sweet confirmation bias from youtubers and online personalities.

One of the reasons starfield not being a space exploration game like nms hit me so hard, is that its ship customisation would be so cool in a true space exploration game

You can use your ship scanner to fast travel between star systems / planets without needing to go into the star-map every time. It is more seamless and immersive and not to mention less tedious and quicker.

Not gonna lie, that reverse ship building time-lapse was actually super clever and turned out great!

I went in to Starfield completely blind. Like I didn't even know it existed until it had already released and I bought it immediately. Not expecting anything has me really loving the game for what it is.

The first time I played starfield I forgot to quick save and lost over an hour of progress, so it’s safe to say it’s a Bethesda game

Such a good vid. Most relatable Starfield review imo.

Personally i really love this game. Ive played 30 hours and spent it base building and exploring space and different solar systems barely doing a single mission or quest. Exploration is somewhat on rails compared to NMS but i think its a lot of fun regardless.

I don't ever remember Starfield being advertised as an open-world survival game and I never once heard NMS called a space RPG. I think what happened is everyone just assumed it would be like ED or NMS and then were surprised when it was a space RPG like they kept telling us.

Love the idea of calling planets "interior spaces" to contrast with outer space

The reversed ship building looks cooler than it would have done the other way, since it looks like youre just instantly placing things instead of going through picking the parts

I feel the exact same way about this game. I’m loving it. I’m 60 hours in, barely started the main quest, haven’t even started any factions, and I’ve been having a blast just enjoying side content, outpost building, and exploration

my favorite interaction with this game so far: “we’ve been trying to reach you about your ship’s extended warranty” contrasted with the part that has annoyed me most: “cannot fast travel while jumping or falling” As someone who has a weird habit of pausing the game while midair this one has had me backing out of the map to let my character land only after having already done a million inputs to target where i wanted to go too many times. On another note, awesome video. Staying around to check out what else you’ve got. And of course, to flirt with every character in the game.

I spent a whole hour making my character look like me. Then another half hour figuring out my perks. 10/10 game.

The 12 hours thing was more like 6 hours for me, I embarked on a cool side mission where I became a double agent for the government and infiltrated pirates and started enjoying the game a ton

"David Copperfield? Did he turn himself into a book?" is better writing than any of the in-game dialogue

I noticed that after 10 hours I was horribly side tracked on a planet with no missions on it just wondering around. Every time I go to try and finish the first quest with constellation I get side tracked again.

The start felt really overwhelming to me, but when you hit the gameplay loop it feels really good

I literally got an encounter with a ship asking about my ships extended warranty

Honestly, this was basically my exact experience, even the 12-hour thing. I'm probably going to play No Man's Sky after this to scratch that itch, but for what it is, I really do like this game.

if you use the scanner while in your ship you can travel around the planets in the star system you're in without navigating through the menus like a lot of the other space games, a lot of people don't know this surprisingly

I think naming your outpost riverwood is creative

Nah man, they CHOSE to advertise it incorrectly. They made it "impossible" to convey to people just how boring their fast-travel ridden, prefab-laden, "w" key-holding, POI traveling simulator would be. They'd be shooting themselves in the face with 12ga if they were even halfway honest in the first place.

I didnt know this game was a thing until the launch day and then it took me about a week to try it. Gotta say going in with zero expectations i have thoroughly enjoyed my experience so far

Honestly I wish AAA games did more stuff that indies did. Regular development updates, sneak peaks, snippets of gameplay. Removes all the confusion and builds more trust than stupid flashy trailers can. But nooooo. God forbid they’re transparent with customers.

By the way, the reason that the cheese looks like butter in Starfield is because the cheese is vacuum-sealed so it'll stay fresh. (Basically MRE cheese)

While I agree with the Internet, that the game would’ve been better/ more immersive if it had more space sim aspects and was a more cohesive experience. I’m also enjoying the gameplay, narrative, side quests, and random encounters quite a lot. If you view the game for what is it, and not for what it’s… not, it’s pretty fun.

Habie swiftly becoming my favourite content creator on KZfaq and I don’t even have a VR kit. Just pure wholesome vibes every video!

I think the problem with Starfield's marketing was that people thought it was gonna be the next No Man's Sky when it's more like Outer Worlds.

First video of yours I’ve seen that I’m aware of. Came for someone with the same opinion, stayed for the editing. 10/10

Habie I’m happy to have found you as an up an coming content creator. Seeing your channel grow has been awesome. I don’t even have VR nor am I really interested in it but I watch all your VR videos because they’re so damn entertaining. Part of that is the public “shaming” of the atomic mirror brains who seem to think you’re worth spending they’re hard earned money on. Keep it up

You can use your scanner in the ship to find the other planets in the system and just hold x to travel to them. They all have markers for it.

Starfield really knows how to make you feel like a kleptomaniac

I feel like if habie was a cow he would only have 1 really big black spot and that’s it

I honestly don't know how I stumbled onto your video, but I'm super happy that I did! I'm about 40 hours in, and I'm honestly loving every moment of it! I know that I still have a tonne of hours left in this game because I am going at it at a snail's pace, and that's just the way I like it. Are there problems? Yes, but none of the problems spoiled the love I feel towards this game. I definitely wasn't expecting everyone to feel the same as I did about Starfield (we're all allowed to have our own differing opinions on pieces of media), but just seeing an overwhelming amount of people on the internet being generally down on the game made me sad because it felt as if my tastes were wrong or stupid. If it were just internet randoms it would be one thing, but it also came from people who carry a lot of weight in the gaming community, some of those are people I respect and listen to. As someone who considers himself to be a creative person, is all the stuff I make just actually garbage? Will I just amount to absolutely nothing at all because I don't know what is *good*?? Are me caveman really ooga booga?!? So, thank you for making me feel a little less alone, and reminding me that it's okay to love something even if no one else feels the same way. And sorry for little vent 😅 Also, your rant around 9:30 was probably the most confused I have ever felt, but I just let it wash over me as I accepted my fate! Definitely going to check what else you have! 😁

You can use the scanner to fast travel to anything on the planet you’re on or any planet in the solar system you’re in instantly. You can also press pause to go into the menu and click X to “set course”, this will auto teleport you to the planet your mission is on. For example, you have to go to the lodge for your mission, press pause, press X, and confirm, you are now in the lodge.

As someone who was just expecting Fallout in Space I got into it immediately. Because that's basically what I wanted. To me what I saw of the game during some of the marketing was just a more grounded version of Obsidian's Outer Worlds. Both have the mega corps and space cowboys just Starfield just has more grounded sci-fi over the goofy space dramedy that was Outer World. So going into it with the expectations of Outer Worlds with a bigger budget and more realism made the game meet my expectations. Also the first ship does just feel like a fast travel mechanic but once you start building custom ships and getting attached to the work you've done the ships go from being small fast travel ships to giant Starships that act as your main home. The houses in game are your secondary homes. Your ship is your real home.

I was thinking this game was going to be like No Man Sky and was blown away when it was actually Fallout 3 in space. 10/10 game

The way that KZfaq decided to serve me a starfield ad right as this video loaded was too funny

I think the problem with the "Seemless Exploration" expectation isn't about comparing it to other space games like No Man's Sky. It's about comparing it to past Bethesda games. In Skyrim yeah you might load when walking into certain towns like Whiterun, but you can still seamlessly walk between all the major locations in one long journey. Bethesda's worlds are usually pretty well connected and a lot of the fun can come from the very natural exploration element that arises from that. You might be travelling from Whiterun to Solitude or whatever but then you see a random cave or come across a minor village or some NPC that much more naturally and fluidly allows you to discover some new content. But in Starfield exploration is done purely through menus, and that completely removes that aspect of the game. Like it's not just about the presentation (though going through like 3 loading screens just to fly to another planet is annoying), it also removes a very core aspect of a lot of past Bethesda games. At best you can only encounter something at your destination, but at that point you're already where you're trying to go and that might discourage you from diverting your path. Assuming you even have anything happen upon arriving in the first place beyond just fighting some random pirates. And since everything is so menu-oriented, it makes it harder to keep track of the relative positions of locations in your head. I mean without the game explicitly labelling exactly where every star system is and what each planet in each system is, do you really think you could remember where they all are? Or even where the important settlements are? I mean hell the star map is literally just a bunch of white dots on a black background there's literally nothing to go off of. Not to mention that so many of the planets are just generic procedural generation with the same generic abandoned facilities full of pirates or caves or whatever on them. I don't feel the draw to explore random planets because I know that every time I touch down outside of a pre-defined location I'm just gonna end up in some flat relatively barren area with 2 or 3 generic structures visible within my immediate vicinity. Like if you enjoy the combat and the writing and such then sure I can get that, that's up to personal preference. And I will fully admit that many aspects of this game improve upon its predecessors. I like the new Persuasion system, I like the new levelling system, I even think that (Most) of the writing is leaps and bounds better than their other recent releases. But man Bethesda games usually have such a good exploration aspect that glues them together. That's like the entire point of a big open world game after all. And Starfield just feels like it falls so flat in that regard.

I haven't been pulled into a Bethesda game like this since Fallout 3. I'm having an absolute blast playing this game. Loving the ships, outposts, the story, the side quests, and the gunplay. I haven’t been able to put it down.

my entire experience with starfield so far is literally building ships and incinerating pirates with 40mm explosive shells from a literal grenade launcher.

I really liked the timelapse of you building your ship :)

your ship is basically the Highwayman from Fallout 2... but cooler in every possible way imaginable.

That 12 hour thing is really funny, because I was finding the game a bit boring and yesterday, whilst doing the Mantis quest, I suddenly realized this game is really fun, checked my save and I was exactly 12 hours in. Weird

This is such a great explanation, and I especially appreciated the overarching cubed food collection arc

In TESVI every room in house will be separate cell with loading screen. Because Janet from model design division really wanted sweet roll to contain 4.000.000 polygons.

When I saw there are different types of Chunks, my first reaction was also to collect them all. I do not know why. I now have a full collection of Chunks on display at my base. Not only every type of unpackaged chunk, but even the packaged version of each, and both flavours of Chunks wine. Even found an additional Special Sauce Cube after having to hand over the first one for the quest.

It’s the impish chuckling as he amps up his missile systems in front of the ship carrying the 6th graders that kills me 😂

You don't have to travel with the map. Just use the scanner and it shows the locations, stars and everything. Just target where you want to go.

my chunks collection has packaged and non-packaged on empty packaging.

While yes, it is a Bethesda game through and through, there's something so uniquely *open* about it. When I picked up an audio log made by the leader of the big pirate faction, the first thought I had was that the character was physically OUT THERE somewhere, and maybe I'll meet them one day, or maybe I'll never hear of them again. A few moments later, I saw a movie poster touting "the true story of the battle of Niira" and again I thought, okay, Niira is a place in this universe, and I could go there right now. Similar things happen in Fallout and TES, but in Starfield when you hear the equivalent of a Whiterun guard talking about Hammerfell, you know that there's no map boundary stopping you from seeing it yourself. Losing the seamlessness of something like No Man's Sky in order to get that kind of magic is more than a fair trade, IMO.

habie never ceases to stay so incredibly humble while he makes these videos

I was going to comment that your video was VERY well edited but overthought my way out of it as I was typing, but then I went to your channel and you said you started the channel to basically develop those skills in a fun way. Thought that was too big of a coincidence to not comment lol. Keep up the good work man

One of the best things about this game is the modding community is already hard at work pumping out mods for this gorgeous game I can't wait to see what people come up with because I've only just scratched the surface at this point the mood are fun and I'll get deep into it after I beat them vanilla game is a masterpiece in it own right

I'm 56 hours in and I still haven't done the "The Old Neighbourhood" mission (Sarah wanted to talk to me about my first mission) so I think it's safe to say I'm enjoying the game.

I love how people are surprised by the fact that Starfield is in fact a Bethesda game. And I love even more that a lot of people actually expected it to be Star Citizen at its core. I can only say, I love Starfield and there's this one mission that completely proved to me that this game deserved my love. Entangled.

I couldn’t have explained that better myself. I went into the game expecting seamless flight from planet to planet. That didn’t happen and I was sad. But I kept playing the game and I now have 1 day and like 3 hours on the game and I really enjoy it. And I got into it and really started to enjoy it at around 8 hours id say.

Honestly, Habie telling me to love myself kinda makes my day.

It took me roughly 10-12 hours as well - I think to get my head around how the game 'works' compared to their other games, and also to reconcile the cognitive dissonance I had about what I thought the game was, versus what it actually is. Once I got over that hump, I became obsessed with the game. The discourse around it since review codes first went out and footage began emerging into the wild has been insane, however.

I just want you to know and I think your fans agree that you are one of the funniest and nicest KZfaqrs that doesn’t give two shits about subs you just do it for fun thank you for all the laughs

Absolute most unhinged mirror brain intro and names yet. Keep it up habie

Idk man I think its cool but we should expect a lot more from a studio this large. There’s no reason why there shouldn’t be a more seamless travel system.

Habie be a real man and name your outpost Kvatch. You know it's gonna get decimated with you running it.

Habie, listening to your videos gives that feel of sitting in your friends basement at 2 am crushing pizza and cackling at Halo 2 shenanigans. I love it

him getting excited over the chunk's food was my favorite part of the video, release the full chunk's collection vod when?

I really look forward to playing this (for 30€ during steam winter sale), but it also makes me want to give no mans sky another shot

10:09 The smoothbrain section was missed last video, glad to see it make a return

5 years waiting, 8 hours downloading, 2 hours playing, 10 seconds uninstall.

The game really opened up for me after I snuck aboard a Crimson fleet ship sitting in the open, hijacked it and took it back to New Atlantis, then discovered the ship building, and the ongoing compulsion to collect all the desk ornaments. Also the food in this game looks amazing.

I had that exqct same bug with the Ernesto character drifting through the counter

The biggest thing is that I feel like a lot of people wanted Starfield to be Star Citizen or Elite Dangerous, so they are meeting Starfield with expectations that it just can't meet or satisfy so they end up disappointed, my own expectations for Starfield was that it was a good RPG game and I was satisfied.

5:26 correction, you can use your scanner in the ship to go from celestial body to celestial body. And you can use it to land at points of interest on a planet as well. So you don’t “need” to use the menus for that

The amount of ways to play starfield just makes it difficult to advertise it

this game is a perfect complilation of all previous beth games. theres clearly some of all 3 fallouts, theres skyrim, and theres oblivion with the adoring fan which had me rolling when I saw him and he said" 1 meter, *gulp* even... closer?"

8:07 Ernesto at Hopetown bugged out in the exact same way for me lmao

This is why I always watch Habie's videos, this man never misses. Everything he's saying, I can't word it better.

I love your vids, man. Keep up the great work.

I appreciate this vid. So much more than you may think. And I hope others feel the same finding this in the space of youtube. Got a sub

I think I would rather die than have Habie not berate the Atomic Mirror Brains. They deserve it, and it needs to be a public shaming. KEEP THE MIRROR BRAINS!

This is exactly the type of subjective, opinionated, and just honest commentary I’ve been looking for on this game. I hate listening to ads, critics, and it’s hard to pick good content to watch because a lot of new games will sponsor streamers to play it. Thank you for giving your honest thoughts and opinions on the game, I can’t wait to form my own.

You could make a video on any game I wasn't interested in before and I instantly wanna play that game.

@habie147 you get my subscription. 10/10 comedy. 10/10 retention. 10/10 understanding that developer does not define game style, and the past does not define the future. Absolutely top-tier game that I spent HOURS on, day one of release, and looked at ZERO reviews or content before playing. Keep up the good content, and I'll probably be back-watching your other vids in the meantime.

Not gonna lie, the Atomic Mirrorbrain callout is the reason I originally subbed. I got a random video from you recommended and the sheer absurdity + commitment to the bit was exactly my style of humor

Starfield feels very much like Mass Effect, I'm actually crying tears of nostalgia for story rich space travel games! No Mans Sky is the equivalent of Minecraft in space due to its procedural universe and planets, whereas Starfield shares similarities to Mass Effect because it focuses on storytelling and following a legitimate semi-linear series of events. You're a big inspiration for me Habie, thanks for producing such amazing VR content!

"oh my goodness, wheres riverwood?" Lol

Hey im new to your channel. Appreciate the perspective on Starfield, but wtf was that middle section around the 10 minute mark?

I went back and forth on this game, I'm level 15 now and I've come to accept certain things. Now it's actually a really great game, when I stop wanting it to be something it's not supposed to be. I'll be playing this for years.

To me nothing is more satisfying than upgrading my scanner skills and slowly getting to see more and more different resources on the planets even though I do not really build outposts. Don't know why but it makes the funny part of my brain happy to see all the little colors. Also without saying too much the bottom of neon is the most terrifying thing I have ever accidentally fallen into.

1:54 "I can't believe its not butter"

man what a neat little community this channel is, I just ran into miss Whitmore while watching this 😂 I love you habie. Thank you for all your amazing content.

To defend a small tidbit: You didn't have to open your map and set a course to go to Luna in your example. If you went up in space, turned on your scanner and clicked on Luna, you could press R and travel to there without any menu's.

"its just skyrim in space" "Im already sold you dont need to sell it more"

Ah yes, Starfield, the “this world is entirely empty” simulator.

Close up of you transferring power to MSL instead of actually showing you blow up the magic space school bus was indeed clever.

I haven’t played it for long yet, but to me simply going the navigation table instead of the cockpit had a similar moment

The vibe of your videos is great. So chill, so relaxing, feels like just a good chat. Its nice