Serviceable Thumbnail?

[azure quiver]

Video is called "Will Starfield Be Any Good?" and its basically just a

[dapper wind]

Seems a bit plain ngl

Maybe put the starfield logo to kinda show that it's abt starfield

[azure quiver]

starfield explanation/speculation and going into depth on like the problems i have w it and stuff

[azure quiver]

I tried but theres no place to put it w/o it looking awk

[azure quiver]

how abou t his one

I also added in toddy todd because it still looked empty

[wicked frost]

for the first one, I wouldnt know it was starfield, and for the second one I think the starfield logo and todd just makes it an odd thumbnail

[azure quiver]

[azure quiver]

so would second one w/o todd and and logo be good?

[wicked frost]

yeah maybe

[azure quiver]

🤔

[wicked frost]

I think that can work

👍

[azure quiver]

ahh thanks

im prob gonnna do this zoomed in vertsion bc i thinbk non zoomed looks v empty w tons of empty space on the right and more empty space bc of smalelr font

[dapper wind]

Use this

[azure quiver]

i thought abt that exact combo lol

but it looks too similar to others imo

thats the main image used in the trailer for 1, like its the first attachment on the steam starfield page, and all other starfield videos either use it or use that starfield logo, they use like the thing of someone standing on a planet looking into the distance so i wanted to do concept art

[toxic stream]

Compare your font size to someone like MrMattyPlays maybe (he does starfield content)? I can’t tell if the text is big enough or not

I like the vibe though!

[azure quiver]

yeah he doess

yeah i think font size on second one is better i might center it more but overall i think i got my thumbnail

if low ctr then ill switch to the first thumbnail bc i rlly like the outfit of the character in the jayvee tn and in my first thumbnail but it def looks dark and less appealing

[azure quiver]

thx

[toxic stream]

The first draft versus the latest one shows good improvement!! You took the critique really well man 👌

Best of luck, I’m overhyped for starfield so I probably need to watch that video once you release it lmao

[azure quiver]

im prob just gonna hype it up int he video tbh 😭 ive been spending like 8 hours a day on my first comeback to youtube video for the past week so i kind of took a break today but i made an outline and summarized it to like main points i want to put in the video - itll be released like next wednesday cuz im doing a weekly thing

Intro/Explanation - Intro and explanation of whos making it/why that is important, how popular it is.
Basic Checklist - copies a checklist of 7 ways to know if a game is suck from another ytber and applies them to starfield
Specialized Content - yes you can visit that moon but whats on that moon is randomely selected from a bunch of random dungeons or areas the devs made, not extremely specialized, handcrafted content like what would be at the top of a mountain in skyrim
SF Direct = Marketing - sf direct is just what they want u to see, nms trailers looked good when they should flashes of diff biomes but when the 10 biomes they only showed in a few seconds was all that was in the game it sucked
Conclusion/Verdict - yes its worth the hype cuz its cool and i liek space with good graphics

[toxic stream]

Counter point (as an idea to mention maybe): did you know Microsoft stopped Bethesda from launching?

[azure quiver]

yup

[toxic stream]

The game would’ve come out in 21/22 without Xbox going “nonono we want you to polish it more”

Which is an interesting point ^^

[azure quiver]

i was gonna metnion how they gave them lkike 1-2 more years id have to look up it up tho idk the exact amount of time they were given

[toxic stream]

Yeah for sure!

On r/starfield there’s a lot of good comparisons of the original trailer versus the direct that show the polish

You could include those if you credit the subreddit and redditor probably

But not forcing, just friendly ideas!!

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[azure quiver]

i feel like this isnt much of a reassurance tho ill mention maybe for like bugs since all bethesda titles are buggy at launch but plenty of games have been delayed and then still were buggy - and there still are some performance concerns that ill metnion like the 30fps lock, vehicles not being able to run in their engine so they had to cut them, and the nvidia thing

[azure quiver]

yeah

[toxic stream]

Oh I actually saw a neat post about the fps lock

I forget where

[azure quiver]

whatd it say

[toxic stream]

But y’know how I’m Bethesda games you can have like.. 5000 cheese wheels/nuka colas/sandwiches just in the world

Like when people flood whiterun with cheese

Apparently the fps lock makes that work so that your Xbox won’t just completely explode from the effort of 5000 cheese wheels shaking and flooding whiterun

But I’m not an expert

So I can’t say if that’s factual or not

[azure quiver]

i didnt know that abt bethesda games, but the reason they have an fps lock is more than likely bc they couldnt get it to a stable 60fps on console, the overwhelming majority of modern AAA games have options to go between locked 15 fps 720p super low graphics to 120 fps 4k ultra hd graphics and everything in between, if they could get 60fps working itd prob be in the game and if it rlly coudlnt load 5000 cheese wheels then the player would have the choice to lower it down

and on pc too the fps lock isnt there, if todd cares sm about like graphical fidelity and resolution over performance then why did he only limit the frame rate on the xbox, wouldnt it be in all versions of the game?

[toxic stream]

Oh no it’s totally for consoles only

But the strain of having that many [item here]s is also apparently a part of it

I think consoles in general always struggle with fps compared to pcs it seems

But tbf people are building pcs that could launch rocketships with their power

So the consoles aren’t getting a fair shot at competing

[azure quiver]

true pc is just better, but a lot of it is bethesdas creation engine just sucking like modders who work in the creation engine have confirmed this its just so hard to get things working, like they literally cant put vehicles in the game or seamless space-planet stuff because the engine cant handle like all those differnet items coming into view at once - it is worrysome and ill note that its like a thing to worry abt that its basically the same engine theyve been using since skyrim

[toxic stream]

The CE2 seems to have made leaps and bounds though- at least from the footage we have thus far

I think it’s a really cool topic to talk about- I’m excited to see your video ^^

[azure quiver]

graphically at least it certainly has, but theres no way to tell if the ce2 is any better when it comes to the game acc being optimized well, and everything we have to far like no vehicles, no seamless space-planet, 30fps lock on consoles, all points towards the creation engine still having those issues imo

[azure quiver]

ya thx

fun to talk about and itll get me views bc

starfield :0