After playing it for about 10 hours upon launch (Series X and PC) I realized how staged, and empty all felt like and how little tension there was. From a space game with combat gameplay, I want something operatic, like Mass Effect, or the Halo series. So, I went ahead and spoiled the ending for myself and I'm never bothering to install it ever again.
I might return to it when they add the vehicles and the maps for locations... but I always say "I will go back to it" in regards to games, but I said that about Cyberpunk and The Witcher 3, and its been years.
Bethesda did manage to turn around the ****show that was the launch build of FO76. If they can build on Starfield's base game in the same way, they can turn that around too.
Though they way they turned around Fallout 76 was by having outside studios come in to make content for the game, I don't really see them allowing that for Starfield.
And rather than trying to get all the filler/empty content to the same level as the main hubs, just ditch all the literal copy/paste stuff. I get why bases would look the same on different planets, but finding the exact same items in the exact same spots so I can predict exactly what I can find where is just lazy.
Well, they should've led with that instead of the pompous Constellation group.
I've read this so many times since the game launched.
I think I found the whole 18th century "Explorers Club" attitude off... and the British lady whatshername, very patronizing.I've read this so many times since the game launched.
I don't remember finding anyone pompous, outside of maybe Walter who I think was a bit...off-putting when you first meet him.
Sarah?
She died? Well, my alibi is that it could have not been me since I was not even playing the game. My condolences, I guess.Sarah?
How dare you talk about my late wife like this.
I played the Freestar and Crimson Fleet lines while holding out on the story and afterwards I could not be arsed to go on with a set of tedious search and fetch quests. I think the concept of a collective of Explorers is fine. It's a nice callback to our own history. But the execution is poor/lazy. Like adding an entire universe, but no RNG on anything and only a handful of archetypes, so it's tedious and predictable. Especially after a set of very well crafted and exciting side stories.
Aside from maybe Rockstar's open worlds, which tend to be a little more story driven, i feel its the exploring, gathering, crafting and leveling up on skills which are the real meat to a good open world game. The main story is just a loose string to hold it together.
Played for 9/10 hours got bored and haven't touched it since.
Those games had a very interesting open world and many, many side quests. I saw a video recently comparing Morrowind, Skyrim and Starfield and the total quest amount went from 300+ to 200+ to 39. There's just a lot to do in the likes of Skyrim, you can ditch the main storyline because it has so much interesting side stuff. Starfield doesn't have either. So folks get bored.
I can understand that, for sure. Pretty wild to think that a game which came out over 20 years ago has more to do in it than a modern-day game, but maybe that's a discussion about the complexity of modern-day game development.
