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starman2112, w Starfield surpasses 6 million players to become Bethesda's best launch yet, beating Skyrim and Fallout
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Well no shit most of us got it for free with gamepass

GentlemanLoser,

That’s actually a great point

starman2112,
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I genuinely want to know how many people actually paid for it, and how many people just downloaded it cause we could. Consider this one vote for “cause I could”

didnt_readit,

Yeah I’m counted in that number because I downloaded it from Gamepass to try it on release day, thought the graphics were terrible (New Atlantis literally looks like an Xbox 360 game lol and I played at native 4K max settings on a 4090 so it wasn’t my settings), the gunplay was kind of crap, and just overall wasn’t super into it. Stopped playing after about 3 hours and bought FF16 which I’ve been playing nonstop and am loving, but I don’t count in FF16’s launch numbers since I waited to buy it. If FF16 was on PS+ I would definitely have counted towards launch numbers for that one…

Lycerius,

The one criticism I don’t understand is the graphics one. It looks gorgeous imo.

kaffiene,

Not on my machine, it doesn’t

Veedem,
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Only reason I’m playing it. I’m usually not an RPG fan, but I pay for gamepass so I can try these games without buyers remorse.

BigBananaDealer,
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what are your thoughts so far?

Veedem,
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Seems interesting enough to keep playing. I’m only about 2 hours in since I’ve had the wonderful chance to catch Covid for the first time and have it spread to both my kids.

sylverstream,

Not OP, but I’m loving it. 11 hours in and already done a bunch of side quests and exploration. Spent 5 hours or so surveying a planet, building an outpost, and helping some people I came across.

It all feels very engaging and interesting.

Redditiscancer789, (edited )

Not op either but 52 hours in: my verdict is basically Typical Bethesda Game. For better or worse with all the quirks and jank you’d expect from Bethesda. Bugs are hit and miss for all platforms, I’ve played only on PC and had 0 crashes anecdotally. Have had some flashing textures, minor physics bugs like with corpses infinitely jittering around if I walk on them. Had my worst bug this AM when I was talking to my companion she wouldn’t stop walking forward and eventually was just walking into a wall the entire time while we were talking. Difficulty is basically non-existent below hard unless you do something really stupid like sit in lines of fire or take a shotgun blast to the face.

I’ve wasted a lot of time pimping my space ship out because despite having some annoying limitations, it’s a lot of fun to basically build a spaceship Lego style. Spent a lot of time building outposts to mine resources for upgrades and doing side quests for Freestar Rangers(like a sort of Wild West Themed Police Force) and the UC Vanguard(like your stereotypical starship troopers government outfit where service=citizenship) because MQL can take a while to pick up. Overall the stories are entertaining if a little stream lined.

Graphics are hit and miss for a variety of reasons, I have been both honestly awe’d by some of the wildlife, mechs/robots, and landscapes while also thinking, especially with close ups on faces, how last gen so many of the NPCs look and the jarring perspective of seeing both in the same scenes.

Combat is just…barebones. Like Skyrim with guns. You have jetpacks sure, variety of melee and ranged weaponry, but if you’ve played any infantry space shooter before you’ve played the combat in Starfield. It can be fun to come up with strats depending on the scenario like assaulting an outlaw cave versus a space out post or using the landscape to your advantage but ultimately it’s just a sort of modern same old same old. You can at least customize your weaponry/armor except for melee weapons(at least so far). Space combat is also decently fun but every ship feels and fights like a space fighter. It makes no sense especially since it kind of defies the sci fi convention, that capital ships don’t fight like tiny space craft.

Just the base game would be a 7.5-8/10 for me, random Lemmy user. It is on a base level a pretty good game but there is some real rough edges game design wise that some people may have difficulty looking past, like space combat not being anywhere as open as they claimed and lots of loading screens.

I had my first personal annoyance with this when I had to grav jump(like warp from star trek or light speed from star wars) from system to system manually to “explore” the path ways to the system I had a quest at. I went through 6 silly loading screens just to unlock the path and nothing of any super interest happened RNG event wise.

MrGooglyPants,

It came with my ryzen 7800x3d. Didn’t even know it until amd sent me an email to a steam code for it.

RaivoKulli,

most of us

Sauce?

starman2112,
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Straight outta my ass

But also, there are like 25 million gamepass subscribers, so I’m not surprised if upwards of 10% of them downloaded the new Fallout Scrolls in Space

ME5SENGER_24, w Starfield surpasses 6 million players to become Bethesda's best launch yet, beating Skyrim and Fallout

Skyrim’s launch was less impressive than it’s eternal longevity. Released on 11.11.11 and ported to everything but a Texas Instrument’s calculator. (Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s been done too, mods included)

RightHandOfIkaros, w Starfield surpasses 6 million players to become Bethesda's best launch yet, beating Skyrim and Fallout

Good, the game is fantastic.

newthrowaway20,

I have complaints, but over all I’m having a lot of fun. Pretty typical with any Bethesda game to be honest.

Corran1138,

You’ll fix every complaint and be able to make every man in the game into a waifu once mods are officially added. It’s gonna be a game I play for the next 5-10 years for sure.

gravitas_deficiency,

Oh yeah. It definitely has that classic Bethesda jank in many of the normal places, but it still feels good in all the ways that matter. Like you’re finally awake.

Graphine,

Yeah. Skyrim is my top 5 favorite games of all time but I got issues with that game for sure. It’s not perfect. But damn is it a blast.

Feeling the same with Starfield, I got issues, but the core of it is so fun. Having way more fun with it than Fallout 4.

Quentinp,
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Agreed it’s not perfect but it slowly sucked me in more and more. Ready for NG+

Graphine,

Fair warning about NG+: Think long and hard about it when you do. That is all.

Quentinp,
@Quentinp@lemmy.ca avatar

?

Ethanice,

It really is. I can't stop playing it.

citrusface, w CD Projekt: 'Big Part' of Cyberpunk Team Moving to The Witcher 4 After Phantom Liberty Launch - IGN

So you mean companies move the majority of their employees to other projects once the majority of the work is finished with the current project they are working on? Wow.

BillyZane,

That’s wild, let’s write a whole article about it. I’m definitely not complaining, but I thought the Witcher 3 was supposed to be the last Witcher game?

philycheezestake,

It was until it sold super well

hogart,
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Always saying it’s the last and everyone wants to play the last. It’s smart but gets old.

sebinspace,

/s

Think you dropped this.

proper, w Studio Behind EA's Magical FPS (Immortals of Aveum) Has Layoffs After Low Sales
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I hadn’t even heard of this game til now. maybe that lack of marketing was a factor.

lolzy_mcroflmao,

Obviously different marketing preferences, but I hadn’t stopped hearing about this game for months

Deceptichum,
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I don’t know if it’s the same game, but I saw a guy on YT make a little model glove thing as a sponsored prop for a game and I think it was this.

The talking points sounded like it was a cheap mobile game, and I only heard about it like a week before this.

Katana314,

The marketing really seemed to focus on the story, which definitely seemed like a bad idea.

“We came here to stop Sandrak from winning the Everwar.”

That line got blasted at me a thousand times. Who’s Sandrak, and who cares? Why are teen fiction writers taking charge of the war’s name?

CluckN,

I think releasing right between Baldur’s Gate 3 and Armored Core 6 was a bad idea.

cmbabul, w Starfield surpasses 6 million players to become Bethesda's best launch yet, beating Skyrim and Fallout

Knowing Bethesda I decided to start Baldurs Gate and wait for them to iron out the bugs until I’m finished with that

EveningPancakes,

I’m over here still trying to finish Elden Ring.

cmbabul,

I passed on that one, but took a solid 3 months to beat Tears of the Kingdom

drcobaltjedi,

It’s honestly a really well polished game and I’ve only had a very small handful of bug encounters. Its less buggy than curent patches of FO4 and Skyrim

Corran1138,

My biggest common Bethesda glitches so far was ONCE, one of the NPCs had the white squares attached to her hair and played miss sparkle for our conversation and then the occasional alien getting caught on geometry and then vibrating because the engine didn’t know what to do. Outside of that it’s been remarkably bug-free so far. Oh, I’m 30 hours in too!

drcobaltjedi,

Yeah, i found a couple of crates that decided to co exist in the same location as my most bethesda bug so far. I have had 1 quest fail to progress at one point but a quit out and load an earlier autosave fixed that.

cmbabul,

That’s good to hear, and I believe you, but I’ve also been burned by Bethesda many times in the past

beefcat,
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Ironically I think BG3 is buggier than Starfield on release.

I’ve experienced a few instances of bethesda jank, but nothing game breaking or even requiring a reload in ~55 hours of play. Just silly things like bodies getting stuck in a ceiling after an explosion. My SO is playing BG3 and has been getting CTD’s and other more egrigious bugs since hitting act 3.

gravitas_deficiency, w Starfield surpasses 6 million players to become Bethesda's best launch yet, beating Skyrim and Fallout

Elder Scrolls: Spacerim

turbodrooler,

Outer Worlds 0

Prox, w This website has the interactive Starfield maps that should've been in the game

Direct link to the titular site: mapgenie.io/starfield

scala,

MVP

jordanlund, w Starfield surpasses 6 million players to become Bethesda's best launch yet, beating Skyrim and Fallout
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Forget Barbenheimer, I’m going full on Balder’s Field and playing both.

So far, Baldur’s Gate III seems deeper. Just starting on Starfield.

melroy,
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Still existentialism related.

BigBananaDealer,
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its kinda wild to me that balders gate 2 was i think 23 years ago and then i suddenly hear about 3

Nahlej,

I’m nearing 100 hours in BG3 and absolutely loving it. I’m not even into the full Act 2 yet, still making my way through the act 1 - act 2 transition/passages.

Choices matter, characters matter, story matters… shit is so fun

I’ve got Starfield through gamepass just waiting to go but I’m still trying to get motivated to start…

Corran1138,

If it helps, you have to put in some work. The first group of missions for the Freestar Rangers has a dialogue option where you can ask for a promotion and the Marshal laughs in your face and tells you to get back to work. That’s like 5 missions in and 3-4 hours. No taking the faction over in a couple of hours.

circuitfarmer,
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BG3 is definitely the deeper game IMHO.

Starfield has some charm – it’s also got a lot of slog and grind and some serious issues with immersion.

RightHandOfIkaros, w This website has the interactive Starfield maps that should've been in the game

I’ve been loving the default map in the game. Its kinda like going back to the days Bethesda would write out navigation instructions in the quest and let the player use their brain to figure out where to go instead of marking it with a gigantic exclamation mark.

supercheesecake,
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Yeah Morrowind was great for that. Felt more old school RPG where you actually had to explore to complete quests.

AlexRogansBeta,

What are you talking about? You don't need to listen to a damn word anyone says. Just follow the waypoints, fast travel to everything. The game is a menu navigation simulator.

BigBananaDealer,
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i actually loved needing to remember where stores are, makes me feel like im actually there as a dumbass tourist

CaptainEffort, w Bethesda hired the creator of a Skyrim clutter mod to design Starfield's "lighting and clutter"

Elianora never made a “Skyrim Clutter mod”, but she did make dozens of immaculate player homes that have extremely well thought out clutter within them.

This isn’t a huge surprise either, as she worked with Bethesda in making some of the CC content.

starbreaker, w Saints Row studio Volition has been closed down "effective immediately"
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Sounds like Embracer Group skipped extension and went straight to extinguishing.

Ab_intra,
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Sucks when they acquire more than they can chew…

starbreaker,
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Call me paranoid, but I suspect Embracer Group buys studios specifically to shut them down. They just want the IPs, not the talent.

Ab_intra,
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That is usually what big publishers do… Look at EA and Activision.

It really sucks. But at the end of the day the studios that do get acquired do know of this risk… Only big studios such as Rockstar are safe from this.

starbreaker,
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Oh, I know. But there's nothing wrong with EA and Activision that can't be fixed with a bit of old-fashioned (Teddy) Roosevelt-era antitrust prosecution.

Ab_intra,
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Yeah maybe but have this happend tho? I would think people in this situation would rather go about their day instead of working for someone that clearly doesn’t want them.

trashgirlfriend,

If only big studios like rockstar were safe from themselves

AlexanderTheGreat, w Seven Games Are Confirmed For Xbox Game Pass In October
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• The Lamplighters League (October 3rd)

• Warhammer 40K: Darktide (October 4th)

• Forza Motorsport (October 10th)

• Cities: Skylines 2 (October 24th)

• Mineko’s Night Market (October 26th)

• Headbangers Rhythm Royale (October 31st)

• Jusant (October 31st)

NOT_RICK,
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Glad to see darktide is finally coming to consoles

avater,
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but it still sucks content wise

AlexanderTheGreat,
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Still?? Haven’t they had enough time on PC to fix up all the issues? Lol

avater, (edited )
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I played the game a few weeks ago, they fixed some bugs, but content wise the game is still pretty much the same. So everything shiny and good looking is ingame store exclusive…

They also do not explain all the values of the weapons and armor to this day…I don’t know this game needs a complete overhaul of all core systems except gameplay, sound and graphics…

AlexanderTheGreat,
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Ouch, does not sound like it’s In a good state

RightHandOfIkaros, w Peter Molyneux says he regrets over-promising his games

His most recent game, Legacy, is described as a blockchain business sim in which players buy non-existent plots of land with cryptocurrency.

So basically this person and their companies are currently entirely worthless. Got it.

AlexanderTheGreat, w Starfield's Main Character Is Silent So The World Can Be Huge
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Good, unless you’re writing is going to be top notch I don’t need my character having three word lines that make me a dick no matter what I pick.

Zron,

“Welcome to our RPG, please select your dialogue options:

  1. Yes
  2. sarcastic yes
  3. funny yes
  4. yes but later

Enjoy your ‘role play’”

Fallout 4 was a nightmare from a character standpoint. I don’t have much faith in Bethesda writing, but at least we’ll be able to have more options than the above. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll even have skill checks back.

AlexanderTheGreat,
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I would absolutely love skill checks being back!

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