Starfield user score drops to "mostly positive" on steam

I love Starfield. My mates love Starfield. It’s Fallout meets No Man’s Sky meets Mass Effect.

It’s just another kick ass Bethesda game in a long list of kick ass Bethesda games IMO.

I don't understand the people who spend a hundred hours on a game to then give it a bad rating, calling it boring. Why don't they just quit much earlier and play Chrono Trigger or something?

Ou for fucks sake people, games dont have to be perfect tens Its okay to be a 8/10 or 7/10

I think Bethesda knows how to make one game in different settings, sadly that game was most popular in the early 10s.

I think I’m just getting old. Games like Starfield are boring the hell out of me. I played it for about 1.5hrs then uninstalled it.

Is the score of Starfield really the only gaming topic Lemmy has to offer since like 4 days?

Modern gamers are self-destructive. Nothing is good enough, and because every AAA release gets torn down and review bombed in one way or another, most and eventually all games from developers with the resources to make something of scale will become pay to win, microtransaction based garbage.

Because if they can't please their audience and lose all passion for the craft because of it, they'll just say fuck it go straight for the credit cards of those that do show up.

I've played about 70 hours so far. If you like the genre but starfield doesn't wow you, I don't think you're able to be pleased. Is it perfect? No. Is it at absolute minimum an A grade? Absolutely.

Aww man it’s actually a bummer to hear so many people are disliking the game. This has been the first game in a while where I’ve gotten hooked. I love the RPG elements in the game and the story has been brilliant. I’ve enjoyed games recently like Ragnarok and Control but this is the first one where I’m excited to just get back and sucked into the world. The last Bethesda game I played was actually Fallout 3 over a decade ago. It makes sense as Mass Effect is my favorite franchise and this feels like an evolution of that. My perfect game would probably be Starfield with ME: Andromeda combat.

Eh, guess I'll drop my review.

The game seems good and mostly well made, with the best hand-crafted environments I've ever seen from Bethesda.

But when it comes to the core gameplay loop, I feel like I've played this game already and I got bored very, very quickly.

It truly plays like Fallout 4 but with more menus and loading screens in order to fast travel somewhere. There is space combat, but it doesn't feel compelling to me. Click on bad ship until kaboom.

You want to fast travel? Drop some things, you can't fast travel while encumbered. Please undock first, we have some quest events tied to undocking and we don't want you to miss those. Please fast travel to the planet before landing at a location, we have some quest events tied to the space around planets and we don't want you to miss those.

Again though, the game is generally well made and I can see a lot of people truly enjoying it and the many gameplay systems you can dive into like settlement, ship, crew building, and side questing.

The slower-paced looter shooter gameplay loop just really isn't for me right now. I'd rather play Fallout or Borderlands.

Note that I haven't commented on the story. I don't feel like I've experienced enough of it to really give a good opinion on it. I've played 4 hours.

If this game had dropped in 2016, I’d be ecstatic. But… I played Elden Ring & it felt a bit like a modded Skyrim, that was better than Skyrim. Now, Bethesda games feel stale.

Does this mean they get no bonuses and obsidian gets a turn again?

Is it just me, or do the planets look like they have no lighting at all? (Playing on Xbox Series X)

Best walkingsim/exploration rpg I've played this decade by a longshot.

They should have made an arena shooter instead

Play Walking Simulator or actually go outside instead