Starfield Thread - now with Shattered Space horror expansion

[jackofshadows]

30% off already is an embarassment but then again - this is an embarassment of a game after all.

Could be a marketing strategy. "Let's overprice our game so that when we give it 30% off people will think it's a great deal!".

A visionary at marketing department? I won't ahem buy that. Besides, as was already mentioned, SF went on Gay Pass. So there's no way they would price it lower initially. They simply didn't expect the actual reception.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

Managed to keep going until the end only because I kept some of the good faction questlines (Crimson Fleet) for the last. After completing those quality quests I just rushed to the endgame. The last location was, as expected, quite disappointing, fighting the Starborn not challenging at all (despite playing on hard), by the time I reached the Hunter and Emissary, I was so fed up I just talked them to death with my superior persuasion skills and grabbed the final McGuffin. Oh, welcome, ending slides. It appears I really made a difference to this one galaxy. Which of course is irrelevant since it has millions of copies in the multiverse of Bethesda madness.

Not looking forward to new game plus, seeing it's just more of the same, with minor variations because of multiverse bullshit. Yesterday I heard about some madman who completed Starfield 34 times and got rewarded by a unique encounter in his 35th playthrough! Anyway, I only visited the Lodge, to tell them I come from a different dimension and see the reactions. They all believed me because why the hell not. Writing in this game is abysmal, but the delivery of those soulless lines comes at close second.

Recently I finished Cyberpunk 2077. After 100 hours I was still actively combing the game for additional content, trying to squeeze as much fun as I could. With Starfield it was just a race to the finish line just to be done with it. Probably it would be wiser to play these games in another sequence.

P.S. Despite most elements of this game being utterly soulless, there are glimpses of something better here and there. For me it was the quest of distributing drawings of the Star Frog for some kid around Cydonia, just to lift the spirits of the general population. This was completely random, and yet I greatly enjoyed both his art and me helping him spread happiness around Kudos to the person at Bethesda who designed this quest.

 

[Gargaune]

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours

Pfft, and you call yourself a Codexer? Go back and play another 21.5hrs minimum, then you can say it's shit.

Yesterday I heard about some madman who completed Starfield 34 times and got rewarded by a unique encounter in his 35th playthrough!

Now there's a man who can say it's shit.

 

[Vic]

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

10/10?

 

[Lord_Potato]

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours

Pfft, and you call yourself a Codexer? Go back and play another 21.5hrs minimum, then you can say it's shit.

I guess I could complete the main questline 6 times in this period, but I'm so much done. Damn the Codexcred, it's simply not worth it.

Yesterday I heard about some madman who completed Starfield 34 times and got rewarded by a unique encounter in his 35th playthrough!

Now there's a man who can say it's shit.

If he came out here, we'd probably laugh him away from the forum.

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

10/10?

More like a number of mehs I declared during the playthrough/1000 visitable planets

 

[Silverfish]

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

10/10?

No game that isn't a 10 warrants 78 hours.

 

[Vic]

No game that isn't a 10 warrants 78 hours.

I finished DA:O recently with 79 hours, not quite a 10, a 7 maybe. Also got 84 hours on Sacred Gold this year, which is a really mediocre diablo clone.

 

[Silverfish]

You got further than me. I dropped Dragon Age after the epic battle vs the zombie horde gave way to standard RPG early-game bitch work.

 

[Late Bloomer]

You got further than me. I dropped Dragon Age after the epic battle vs the zombie horde gave way to standard RPG early-game bitch work.

There is fun to be had past that point. I think you are missing out by not playing DA:O.

 

[Silverfish]

I don't doubt there's good stuff to be found, but it was incredibly deflating after the first few hours are constantly ramping up (origin story - the military camp and first big stretch of combat in the forest - the zombie battle and the ogre boss fight), but then you end up in a small village doing the kind of character interactions and quests that any other game would have in its first 15 minutes while you're getting acclimated. I've still got it sitting in a box, so I might go back sometime, but definitely not anytime soon.

 

[Harthwain]

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

10/10?

No game that isn't a 10 warrants 78 hours.

Needs 1000 hours. Just to be on the safe side.

 

[Toffeli]

Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

10/10?

No game that isn't a 10 warrants 78 hours.

Needs 1000 hours. Just to be on the safe side.

And 7 playthroughs.

 

[Cryomancer]

Just numbers.

which is a really mediocre diablo clone.

I liked Sacred Gold and made a ice shard battlemage

The itemization, character progression and world exploration was very good imo.

. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

Interesting. Since you mentioned Cyberbug, in a scale of 0 to 10, how would you rate Starfield and Cyberpunk?

 

[Vic]

I liked Sacred Gold and made a ice shard battlemage

yeah I liked it too a lot. I played a Seraphim and most of my time was spend grinding. There are 5 difficulties which unlock each time you beat the final boss in the previous difficulty. I'm currently on Platinum and it's an incredible grind to reach the final difficulty Niobium. I'm at level 84. One day I'll get back to the grind and finish it on the final difficulty.

 

[Gargaune]

in a scale of 0 to 10, how would you hate Starfield and Cyberpunk?

Freudian Codexian Slip?

 

[Vic]

You got further than me. I dropped Dragon Age after the epic battle vs the zombie horde gave way to standard RPG early-game bitch work.

you mean you dropped it after the introductory sequence? and you're proud of that too? smh

 

[Lord_Potato]

. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.

Interesting. Since you mentioned Cyberbug, in a scale of 0 to 10, how would you rate Starfield and Cyberpunk?

Starfield - 6,5.

Cyberpunk (I played 2.0 with Phantom Liberty, so that's the only version I know) - 9.

CP 2077 has a much better story, characters, quests, gunplay, enemy variety, encounter design, more engaging character development and a better gameworld that you can explore almost without any loading screens, by foot, car, bike and from what I hear - now also a metro system.

 

[Vic]

Starfield gets a 4/10 from me too in its current form, regardless of how much fun I've had playing it. Reasons are obvious, it's not finished in its current state.

 

[ArchAngel]

Starfield gets a 4/10 from me too in its current form, regardless of how much fun I've had playing it. Reasons are obvious, it's not finished in its current state.

You are more critical then me even, I would rate it 6/10. Barely passable for me to even play it. I do not even play games that I would score lower than that or I quit early if what I experienced would fall into below 6/10.

 

[Vic]

Starfield gets a 4/10 from me too in its current form, regardless of how much fun I've had playing it. Reasons are obvious, it's not finished in its current state.

You are more critical then me even, I would rate it 6/10. Barely passable for me to even play it. I do not even play games that I would score lower than that or I quit early if what I experienced would fall into below 6/10.

You have to consider that outpost building has no real purpose in the game. Also that enemies do not scale beyond level 100 and thus become trivial relatively early, which is in contradiction to the game's design of doing multiple NG+ runs to aquire all the powers. Furthermore the itemization is absolutely horrible. Plus a myriad of other things. Most of the issues should be fixable with updates and mods though.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Starfield gets a 4/10 from me too in its current form, regardless of how much fun I've had playing it. Reasons are obvious, it's not finished in its current state.

I mean, nice try... but King Crispy already told you he's not taking away your tag

 

[Vic]

Starfield gets a 4/10 from me too in its current form, regardless of how much fun I've had playing it. Reasons are obvious, it's not finished in its current state.

I mean, nice try... but King Crispy already told you he's not taking away your tag

I said that already over 2 months ago:

okay I'm done with this game, finished the United Colonies questline, which is one of the four factions in the game and "mediocre" doesn't even describe it. I know Hadrian is a clone of a man but come on, she was a really cool character that I was looking forward to getting as a companion. All I get for this shitty questline is an apartment and some store discounts? Are you kidding me.

Well, at least I can now say I've seen most of what the game has to offer, though the Crimson Fleet questline is supposed to be the best, I won't bother doing any quests in this game anymore until they release a DLC, and patches, and mods. In fact, I'm not going to touch it until a "Game of the Year" edition or something like that comes out with all DLCs bundled. Then, and only then will I give this turd another try.

Some might be wondering why I became so critical of the game towards the end. Well, it's because in the end all games fall apart, all but the classics that is. I can infinitely replay BG1, VTMB or even New Vegas. On the other hand games like Starfield, and all of Bethesda's games really, fall apart at the seams sooner or later and you see them for what they are: a turd.

Only true classics can stand the test of time, and Niggerfield is a far cry from one. After doing some of the quest content, I have to revise my initial score of 6/10 to a 4/10, it's hilariously badly written and if I add that up with the spacesim, base building and looter shooter systems that basically go nowhere, that's a pretty fair score I'd say.

The person who gave me the tag doesn't even read my posts. I also said that I can enjoy crappy games, which btw Starfield is far from crappy, but it's also far from its potential.

 

[FreshCorpse]

Some might be wondering why I became so critical of the game towards the end. Well, it's because in the end all games fall apart, all but the classics that is. I can infinitely replay BG1, VTMB or even New Vegas.

VTMB is pretty bad at the end.

 

[Silverfish]

you mean you dropped it after the introductory sequence? and you're proud of that too? smh

If Bioware didn't want me to drop their game, they wouldn't have made it boring. "The zombies have overrun the camp, Logain betrayed everyone and bugged out and now the king is dead. Anyway, here's a quest board and you can fend off some bandits who killed this kid's mom". Dragon Age is like a shit car that goes 60 to 0.

 

[markec]