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distantsounds, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

It’s just a clunky reskin of fo4 with no depth. I’ve put about 50 hrs in at this point & will probably continue for a bit because it’s a comforting loot cycle that pleases my lizard brain. It really lacks the feeling exploration possibilities that Skyrim & fallout worlds have. The bugs, UI, bland emptiness, and shit tier maps are why I wouldn’t recommend…but is a decent time kill if you’ve enjoyed their previous games

Kaldo,
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Same, I pirated it to give it a try, put in a few dozen hours to make sure I'm not missing anything but left pretty disappointed tbh. It has a strong interesting opening but the more you try to get into the nitty gritty details, the more shallow and flawed the game becomes until you're just doing chores for the sake of it. Some people find enjoyment in these chores but it ain't me, maybe in a few years it becomes better. I got phantom liberty instead and am having a blast there instead

DarkThoughts,

Wut? The beginning is easily the worst part of the game.

Kaldo,
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When I say opening / beginning I don't mean the 20 minutes of prologue, I mean the first ~5 hours of game showing new mechanics and worlds to you, making the illusion that there's lot of unique fun content to do. Eventually it all started to look like same formulaic shallow crap to me and the game didn't live up to that initial impression of freedom, exploration and progression, it's half baked in everything.

DarkThoughts,

The game didn't open up for me until about 8-10 hours in and felt really weird and restricted during that time. No idea what impression of freedom, exploration and progression you're talking about here because the beginning does not give you anything like that at all with how it makes you follow the very boring main quest.

CaptainEffort,

Same happened to me, I pirated it to try it out and after an hour or two I got bored and called it quits. I returned to it once more but after maybe 5 hours I just uninstalled it.

Klystron,

Verbatim my opinion. There’s nothing enjoyable here folks unless you like turning off your brain, fast travelling to planets and 100% search missions.

StereoTrespasser, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

I’m not surprised…it’s just okay. I’ve put maybe 25 hours into it and it’s not grabbing me like I hoped it would. Fast traveling everywhere is boring, inventory management is a nightmare, and the UI is frustrating. The last straw for me was during the " Rook Meets Queen" mission >!where I’m supposed to be deep undercover in the Crimson Fleet yet I can’t progress until I pay them 45,000 credits because there’s a bounty on my head. Seriously? Either I’m undercover or I’m not. !< So I put it down to revisit Cyberpunk, and I’m hoping once I get through that the kinks will be ironed out and the mod tools with MO2 support will be ready. I still have more fun playing a heavily modded Skyrim.

fibojoly,

What? The developer whose UI has been consistently shite from game to game, only for mods to come to the rescue, has released yet another obnoxious UI? Whose games are pretty much universally “great with mods”, is meh right out the gate? Colour me shocked!

CaptainEffort,

It’s crazy that every game they release somehow has worse UI than the previous one

Dublin112,

Funny, that’s the exact mission that made me lose interest in the game as well. >!I hopped on that day for the base building and eventually ship building but I guess I had a stolen item on me and triggered the mission. I don’t want to be forced to do this mission or pay the fine when all I wanted to do was play a different portion of the game that was available to me.!<

aaaaa, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

It's OK, it's definitely less polished than other Bethesda games and given they're not known for polish it'd saying something.

It gives a 'rushed out the door for a midnight deadline' vibe.

rip_art_bell, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam
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Fast travel simulator 2023

Zdvarko, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

No surprise, if they had only upgraded their game engine so you didn’t have so many cut scenes would have been much better.

kurcatovium,

By cut scenes you mean loading screens, right? Right!?

Zdvarko,

Yeah that

mnemonicmonkeys,

Actually, a surprising number of areas with doors or fast travel between them don’t need it. The entirety of New Atlantis’s exterior is a single cell. Same with Neon

Dylan, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

As buggy as Fallout 4 was I absolutely loved it and got me started on the Bethesda Train. Played New Vegas and Skyrim afterwards and those were great.

Starfield almost bored me to tears. Combat and Ship building are great but everything in between is just very average at best.

And then with Cyberpunk releasing it’s 2.0 update and DLC these past week, I have almost no urge to go back to Starfield anytime soon.

brsrklf,

New Vegas uses Bethesda’s Fallout 3 engine, but it was made by Obsidian. It’s not the most representative of what Bethesda does (well, except the part where it’s very buggy, I guess. That part mostly comes with the engine).

Jaysyn, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam
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...so far...

Sho, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

As to be expected from Todd “it just works” Howard 🙄 He has this weird ability to snatch failure from the jaws of success alot of the time.

xkforce, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

So you’re telling me that a game that is an unoptimized, buggy, shallow mess isn’t game of the year? No…

ColeSloth, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

“Bethesda has garnered a bit of a reputation for releasing games with loads of bugs in them,”

A bit? Lolololol

Blizzard, do games w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

That’s just Steam. Perhaps it’s being held in higher esteem by the Playstation communi… oh wait.

BigTrout75, do gaming w GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles

I kept hoping that Sony would do a last hurrah with discs and make a console that plays them all. But with discs being pretty much antiquated at this point, I don’t think it’s going to happen.

gk99,

Sony management didn’t even see a point to backwards compatibility until recently and still can’t be bothered to figure out PS3 emulation. It’s easily the console’s greatest flaw imo.

nodiet,

Looking at RPCS3, it seems like most PS3 games wouldn’t run well on PS5 without dedicated, PS3-like hardware.

BigTrout75,

I agree.

ampersandrew, do gaming w Payday 3 Developer Promises To Fix Matchmaking Issues
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As for the long term, it plans to evaluate a new partner for matchmaking and to adjust Payday 3's reliance on online services. That could mean that Starbreeze will remove the game's always online requirement, but the statement does not explicitly say that will be the case.

When it doesn't explicitly say that will be the case, I doubt that it will be. But hopefully we're reaching the turning point where games will stop with the always-online nonsense.

wolfshadowheart, do gaming w A GTA 5-Style "Living World" Is A Goal For Dragon's Dogma 2
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I wonder if the original vision of DD is going to be attempted. It was a cool concept.

Excited regardless of what's to come!

chloyster, do gaming w Platinum Games Director Hideki Kamiya Leaves Studio
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