Starfield Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Lemming42]

Not saying this game is great (didn't play it) but i highly doubt its worse than e.g "10/10" Skyrim.

Fo4 was an insane drop in quality from Skyrim (making no comment about the quality of Skyrim itself). To this day I'm not sure what happened with Fo4, they just produced a piece of total shit with less soul than Oblivion.

Could be that they've just totally lost track of what made people like their games in the first place. If Starfield is a critical flop and even more boring than Fo4 then they're gonna be in trouble because the goodwill from the Morrowind-through-Skyrim glory days seems to have worn off with the public.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I think IGN and Gamespot and similar woke garbage sites has given up on Bethesda and are now just fully embracing Larian and wants them to have the GOTY title.

Not saying this game is great (didn't play it) but i highly doubt its worse than e.g "10/10" Skyrim.

It's been posted ITT already, but give the Mortismal review a listen (only review that matters imho).

Timestamped to the negatives & positives wrap up segment:

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

starfield seems to suffer the same curse that fallout 4 has: the side quests are actually enjoyable, the gunplay seems to be really good, and the world is enjoyable to explore - but the main story quest itself is boring as hell and the underlying rpg mechanics are outclassed by other games that only had a tiny fraction of starfield's budget

If they had just made a real space game, I probably would have bought it. Even with all the usual Bethesderp.

But no, the space stuff is a poor illusion. You fly around in a tiny skybox and need to fast travel everywhere. The "worlds" are tiny sandboxes that you can't even fly around in, and most of them are just junk with no content.

All I want is what Frontier: Elite II gave me 30 years ago, but every dev including Braben himself keeps messing up the formula.

 

[Grauken]

All I want is what Frontier: Elite II gave me 30 years ago, but every dev including Braben himself keeps messing up the formula.

Have you heard about Star Citizen? I think it's close to being finished

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

It's been posted ITT already, but give the Mortismal review a listen (only review that matters imho).

Lol, imagine believing this shill. He mentions none of the bugs, and glosses over the fact that the planet exploration - a major selling point they harped on, with "1000 worlds!!" - isn't interesting.

 

[Drakortha]

It's been posted ITT already, but give the Mortismal review a listen (only review that matters imho).

Lol, imagine believing this shill. He mentions none of the bugs, and glosses over the fact that the planet exploration - a major selling point they harped on, with "1000 worlds!!" - isn't interesting.

You've got to wait for the patches, man. Starfield is only getting started. Hines said there's a 10 year roadmap. Gamers are so entitled these days.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Have you heard about Star Citizen? I think it's close to being finished

Yes, I've known of Scam Citizen for years.

Roberts and the suckers who still believe are him is probably what inspired Todd to mint this latest bowl movement.

 

[mkultra]

Not saying this game is great (didn't play it) but i highly doubt its worse than e.g "10/10" Skyrim.

Fo4 was an insane drop in quality from Skyrim (making no comment about the quality of Skyrim itself). To this day I'm not sure what happened with Fo4, they just produced a piece of total shit with less soul than Oblivion.

Could be that they've just totally lost track of what made people like their games in the first place. If Starfield is a critical flop and even more boring than Fo4 then they're gonna be in trouble because the goodwill from the Morrowind-through-Skyrim glory days seems to have worn off with the public.

yeah i actually never really played FO4. It just never grabbed me. I mean i did start it and played for maybe 2h, but i never came back lol.
Lots of people do seem to love FO4 though, but Skyrim is more popular for sure, my old mods i did for it is doing great to this date (~50K unique downloads every month).
Remains to be seen if Starfield will be as popular as Skyrim. The modding potential is certainly there...

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

I think IGN and Gamespot and similar woke garbage sites has given up on Bethesda and are now just fully embracing Larian and wants them to have the GOTY title.

Not saying this game is great (didn't play it) but i highly doubt its worse than e.g "10/10" Skyrim.

The IGN reviewer gave Outer Worlds an 8.5. Imagine giving that pozzed game with shitty writing, uninteresting character progression, and nonexistent balancing an 8.5 lol. What a tasteless faggot.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

You've got to wait for the patches, man. Starfield is only getting started. Hines said there's a 10 year roadmap. Gamers are so entitled these days.

I realize this is probably a joke about Scam Citizen, but given the takes of some of the people itt, I can't even tell anymore.

 

[Grauken]

You've got to wait for the patches, man. Starfield is only getting started. Hines said there's a 10 year roadmap. Gamers are so entitled these days.

I realize this is probably a joke about Scam Citizen, but given the takes of some of the people itt, I can't even tell anymore.

Codex broke your irony sensor

 

[Heroic Liberator]

It's been posted ITT already, but give the Mortismal review a listen (only review that matters imho).

Lol, imagine believing this shill. He mentions none of the bugs, and glosses over the fact that the planet exploration - a major selling point they harped on, with "1000 worlds!!" - isn't interesting.

If you listen to the whole review, he does talk about both bugs (or lack thereof, considering it the most polished recent BGS title) and the pros and cons of planet exploration, with it being good in general and there being plenty of stuff to do without even having to seek out randomly generated content that does indeed grow old after a point (e.g. seeing the same generic locations, but them being populated with different kinds of generic enemies).

But perhaps a more apt reply to your post is...

Spoiler

k doomer

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

If you listen to the whole review

I did.

he does talk about both bugs (or lack thereof, considering it the most polished recent BGS title)

He says, as the NPC floats through the floor.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I listened to this guy (someone posted earlier) and he makes a lot of sense actually. If it's a game about space travel where you're not sufficiently well fooled that you are actually flying in open space, I can understand the disappointment, and this will become a central theme of reviews. That planets are empty apart from hand placed points of interest... is bad, and I kind of expected some "procedurally" generated points of interest here and there, to motivate people to explore.

So you have a space RPG with no feeling of space travel and no point to its exploration. What's left? The main story is very captivating? Doubt.

 

[AwesomeButton]

At this point I'm interested in the chances of modders turning this into a first-person Alpha Centauri.

 

[Stavrophore]

As soon as i heard it will be creation engine 2 i knew it will have very railroaded space exploration with fast travel.

 

[Hace El Oso]

Lol, imagine believing this shill. He mentions none of the bugs, and glosses over the fact that the planet exploration - a major selling point they harped on, with "1000 worlds!!" - isn't interesting.

The only difference on that topic between him and the ‘Jake Stevens’ (or whatever his name is) guy you liked better is the degree of planetary facility copy-paste.

Elite: Dangerous was past the limit(It still scratched the itch, though), I would demand Starfield to do better. I’d like to hear someone compare them directly. If anyone here who gets Starfield has, be a bro and post ITT.

 

[IDtenT]

Remains to be seen if Starfield will be as popular as Skyrim. The modding potential is certainly there...

The lack of high fantasy dooms it.

Notice how all the biggest Crusader Kings mods all deal with high fantasy.

The sci-fi autism market simply isn't as big the fantasy autism market. Trekkies have died as a phenomena.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

At this point I'm interested in the chances of modders turning this into a first-person Alpha Centauri.

Out of curiosity, if a RPG based on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had been made, would people here have played it?

 

[IDtenT]

At this point I'm interested in the chances of modders turning this into a first-person Alpha Centauri.

Out of curiosity, if a RPG based on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had been made, would people here have played it?

I played C&C: Renegade and I actually enjoyed it.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

At this point I'm interested in the chances of modders turning this into a first-person Alpha Centauri.

Out of curiosity, if a RPG based on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had been made, would people here have played it?

Just from a worldbuilding perspective in terms of factions, sure. SMAC is great in that department.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

The only difference on that topic between him and the ‘Jake Stevens’ (or whatever his name is) guy you liked better is the degree of planetary facility copy-paste.

Nope. Mort went out of his way to make excuses and had the gall to say there weren't many bugs. Even in his criticisms of the lack of meaning to the exploration, he just ends up writing them off and saying that exploration isn't really necessary for you to do.

Like AwesomeButton said, what's left? The space battles in tiny skyboxes? The Rick and Morty sans jokes storyline that ends in a buggy cutscene?

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

At this point I'm interested in the chances of modders turning this into a first-person Alpha Centauri.

Out of curiosity, if a RPG based on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had been made, would people here have played it?

Just from a worldbuilding perspective in terms of factions, sure. SMAC is great in that department.

That is what I mean. All the factions and their politics, Planet, the Mindworms, the mystery of the alien artifacts minus the aliens. But now in an isometric perspective or first person perspective.

 

[ArchAngel]

All I want is what Frontier: Elite II gave me 30 years ago, but every dev including Braben himself keeps messing up the formula.

Have you heard about Star Citizen? I think it's close to being finished about this time next century.

FIFY

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

Mort went out of his way to make excuses and had the gall to say there weren't many bugs.

Jeff Gerstmann said the same thing. There’s the usual Bethesda jank but nothing major. Huge improvement over Fallout 4.