Starfield Thread - now with Shattered Space horror expansion

[Hobknobling]

I think it's hilarious that the game has been out for six months and there's still no CK. Even by Bethesda standards this is a bad fuckup.

At this point I am 100% certain that they were going to pull a some sort of "Paid Mods 2.0" trick and now are scrambling to change plans since the game did not do as well as they expected.

 

[Yosharian]

I think it's hilarious that the game has been out for six months and there's still no CK. Even by Bethesda standards this is a bad fuckup.

At this point I am 100% certain that they were going to pull a some sort of "Paid Mods 2.0" trick and now are scrambling to change plans since the game did not do as well as they expected.

Lmao yeah I'm sure they are totally not going to do that anymore because gamers are upset about the game being shit

They definitely aren't going to milk it for all it's worth regardless, nope

 

[La vie sexuelle]

They realased mod tools yet?

 

[ArchAngel]

Something else interesting from Nexus, BG3 mods have had 113 million downloads but Starfields mods are 37 million

Thats a good metric of seeing more people are actively playing BG3

That is because all the best mods for Starfield were removed from Nexus :D

 

[Butter]

Nexus didn't even let the de-niggering mod for Fallout 4 stay up.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Nexus didn't even let the de-niggering mod for Fallout 4 stay up.

BasedMods, my friend.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Starfield, Bethesda’s latest RPG, is nothing short of a cosmic catastrophe. It’s a black hole of mediocrity, sucking in any semblance of fun or engagement. Its vast universe is as empty as the void of space itself, filled with monotonous quests that are as exciting as watching paint dry on a spaceship hull.

Character customization? More like character assassination. The options are so limited, they make a clone army look diverse. Dialogue options are as shallow as a puddle on Mars, and your choices impact the world as much as a pebble does a supernova.

The combat system is a disaster of intergalactic proportions. It’s as clunky as a rusted-out space junker, turning every encounter into a test of patience rather than skill. The crafting system is a labyrinthine nightmare, producing items that wouldn’t be out of place in a space trash compactor.

The graphics, while initially dazzling like a distant star, quickly reveal themselves to be a supernova of glitches. Texture pop-ins, frame rate drops, bugs, crashes - it’s like navigating through an asteroid field of technical issues.

In short, Starfield is a space odyssey of disappointment. It’s a glitch-infested, soulless void that fails to deliver on its promise of a deep, immersive RPG experience. It’s a stark reminder that not all that glitters in the night sky is gold, and sometimes, a star is just a distant, cold, and lifeless rock.

Thank you.

Can we leave the ChatGPT-generated posts on Steam?

 

[Decado]

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

 

[TheEntitledOne]

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

Not even pirating

 

[Caim]

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

Bethesda modders are some of the most autistically focussed, in denial, coping, attached and obsessed people in all of gaming.

And they gave up on this game.

Consider that your answer.

 

[Cohesion]

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

Bethesda modders are some of the most autistically focussed, in denail, coping, attached and obsessed people in all of gaming.

And they gave up on this game.

Consider that your answer.

How dare you! Summoning Vic.

 

[Decado]

Okay. I appreciate it, dudes!

 

[Fedora Master]

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

Not even pirating

It's kinda amazing how hard it fails at everything it claims to be. It's a bad RPG, it's a bad space exploration game, it's a bad space combat game, it's a bad FPS.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

It doesn't bother me personally what the sales numbers are, Im still going to play it just heavily modded

Considering Bethesda Softworks has yet to release the Construction Kit, while the number of people interested in Starfield dwindles, it's quite doubtful that the game will ever receive the kind of extensive modding experienced by Skyrim 12 years earlier.

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

Not even pirating

It's kinda amazing how hard it fails at everything it claims to be. It's a bad RPG, it's a bad space exploration game, it's a bad space combat game, it's a bad FPS.

Starfield isn't an Open World game, is more of a 'looter-shooter' than RPG, and aside from the mediocre combat there's nothing to do in space other than fast travel to the next location. What remains to be seen is whether Bethesda Softworks even realizes they are failing to develop the same fundamental type of game they established with Morrowind, or if they attribute Starfield's lack of success to other causes and make similar blunders for The Elder Scrolls VI, which will release, at minimum, 16 years after Skyrim.

 

[Yosharian]

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

No, and I say that as someone who thinks even Skyrim is salvageable with enough mods

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Okay. I appreciate it, dudes!

Play Spacebourne 2 instead

 

[jackofshadows]

Is this game worth getting, at all? Serious question, from someone who loved Morrowind and legitimately had a good time in Skyrim, at least for a while.

Worst Beth game by far. Saying this as someone who hates F3 with a passion.

 

[Gargaune]

Considering Bethesda Softworks has yet to release the Construction Kit, while the number of people interested in Starfield dwindles, it's quite doubtful that the game will ever receive the kind of extensive modding experienced by Skyrim 12 years earlier.

There's some really baffling decisions going on at Bethesda. Basically, six months out, they've released:
1) a Bethesda game without Bethesda's trademark exploration of a handcrafted, contiguous open world;
2) a space game where you don't get to fly freely through space;
3) a "mods will fix it" game with no mod-making tools.

And lest someone stumble into this thread by accident and think Todd's put out three games in the past half year, no, just Starfield.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

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What does the "all-time peak" mean? Were there at one point in time 330,597 people who played Starfield simultaneously?

 

[Decado]

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What does the "all-time peak" mean? Were there at one point in time 330,597 people who played Starfield simultaneously?

Also, which version of Skyrim? I would be very surprised if Starfield had more players than all of the versions of Skyrim put together. I would bet that Skyrim blows Starfield out of the water both all time and concurrent player count highs.

 

[Decado]

Okay. I appreciate it, dudes!

Play Spacebourne 2 instead

Looks interesting, but I don't play Early Access games. Elite still scratches the "fly around in space" itch for me.

 

[Atrachasis]

Also, which version of Skyrim? I would be very surprised if Starfield had more players than all of the versions of Skyrim put together. I would bet that Skyrim blows Starfield out of the water both all time and concurrent player count highs.

I presume this being on Game Pass had something to do with a high concurrent number of people checking it out immediately after launch and then dropping it like a hot potato. I do wonder, though, if the drop-off was measurably steeper than for other day-one Game Pass titles.

edit: but those are only Steam numbers, right? So they probably don't count Gamepass players, and there may be even more unfortunate souls subjected to that experience?

 

[Chimera]

Also, which version of Skyrim? I would be very surprised if Starfield had more players than all of the versions of Skyrim put together. I would bet that Skyrim blows Starfield out of the water both all time and concurrent player count highs.

Possibly worth noting that, on average, another 250 or so people are regularly playing the VR version of Skyrim, as well.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Also, which version of Skyrim? I would be very surprised if Starfield had more players than all of the versions of Skyrim put together. I would bet that Skyrim blows Starfield out of the water both all time and concurrent player count highs.

Gaming has grown in popularity a lot, since Skyrim was released in 2011. Starfield having a high concurrent player count was expected due to the popularity of Skyrim and Fallout. For instance, Fallout 4 reached a peak of 472,962 concurrent players. And has remained in the top 100 played games on Steam ever since. Fallout 4 was met with a lukewarm reception. Starfield drops out of the top 100 games played on Steam on a regular basis. If Game Pass had a consistent high number of gamers playing Starfield on a regular basis, Microsoft would be showing off those numbers regularly. Instead, they most likely had a large surge of Game Pass subscribers that first month (microsoft did let the gaming press know about that) of Starfields release, who quit playing before the month was up, haven't touched Starfield since, all the while Microsoft hoping those gamers would forgot about their Game Pass subscription and just continue being charged.

 

[General Disarray]

Piece of shit is on 33% sale at steam at the moment until Thursday.