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  1. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Bethesda's ethos has been to make game in which you can "Live another life". Sadly Starfield seems to have abandoned this for "live another mediocre scifi show" because that's what it feels like. Gone is the expansive, immersive open world previous titles have had you emerge blinking into. Worlds in which you could see a distant mountain and set off with the goal to find it and climb it,Bethesda's ethos has been to make game in which you can "Live another life". Sadly Starfield seems to have abandoned this for "live another mediocre scifi show" because that's what it feels like. Gone is the expansive, immersive open world previous titles have had you emerge blinking into. Worlds in which you could see a distant mountain and set off with the goal to find it and climb it, discovering along the way countless adventures. Replaced with a quest log, cut scenes and loading screens whisking you from one soulless level to another, sure many technically exist on open world maps but you would be forgiven for not noticing as the relevance it has to the gameplay. If you do decide to "explore" a planet you find nothing but endless tracts of randomly scatted rocks, plants and critters separating icon marked copy pastes of the POIs.

    There is no sense of distance or scale, no permanence or solidity to the world the game proports to put you in. All of which I might forgive if the writing, hand crafted locations and characters were more memorable or coherent but even here the game fails to impress. I can't help but feel like the hard working and skilled folks at Bethesda just didn't have their hearts in this game. I hope they can find their passion and grove again in time for TES6.

    Honestly it isn't terrible and I would give it more than a 4 if it were from a different studio. But this is a Bethesda game, it has to be judged in relation to the likes of TES and Fallout and in that respect it falls so far short of those greats its rather a sad state of affairs.
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  2. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Midfield it is. Bethesda has been on slow decline after Morrowind, simplifying their games and systems to appease larger crowds, but Oblivion and Skyrim still had souls, exploration was a blast and every dungeon or shrine had some history or lore behind it. Story was worth following as well.
    In the same vein, Fallout went from having robust rpg systems and learning curve, through F3 which
    Midfield it is. Bethesda has been on slow decline after Morrowind, simplifying their games and systems to appease larger crowds, but Oblivion and Skyrim still had souls, exploration was a blast and every dungeon or shrine had some history or lore behind it. Story was worth following as well.
    In the same vein, Fallout went from having robust rpg systems and learning curve, through F3 which changed the formula to fallout 4 which was stripped of most of its rpg elements and turned into a shooter with vats, still it was worth exploring cause the world was hand crafted and there was **** to discover.
    That leads us to Midfield, with which Bethesda completely abandoned any pretense of trying. Either they dont care anymore or they simply dont have the people who brought quality to their games. Nothing that made Bethesda games good or enjoyable is here. Exploration is a waste of time, most planets are straight up empty and added only to increase size of the shallow puddle. There is no world/universe building or history to speak of. No deep systems to engage with, other than building your own ship if you are into that, but why would you if the space battles are mostly skippable and the space combat is attrocious and ship travel between and within planets is just a cutscene. Skill tree would be good enough if the skills worked as they are supposed to. Combat itself is horrid, melee isnt viable at all and gunplay has no weight behind it, plus the variety of gun types is pathetic. Even more pathetic is the variety of enemy types, its pretty much nonexistent, there is no intelligent non human life btw, few useless monster types, but 90% of the time you are fighting humans, in case of bosses, they are half humans, half sponges, some teleport. Writing is dog****, the dialogues are waste of time, following the "story" is a waste of time, trying to get to know your companions is a waste of time and the twist at the end is the most cliche scifi trope anyone could imagine. And its full of ugly npcs and ESG slop bethesda gladly servers you in excess of whats mandated to meet the quota.
    In other words, there is no way to play starfield and make it enjoyable, if you have any standards for quality of anything. Be it the story, worldbuilding, exploration or combat. Unless you are proffesional ship designer, starfield has nothing to offer you.
    Oh and everything I said concerns only the vision and idea of the game itself, even if the game was polished and technically sound, it would still be mediocre in every way, but ofc its not technically sound, its plagued with bugs and disgusting optimazation.
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  3. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    The performance is bad even at a high end system. Console peasants might be okay with 30 fps but PC players with high-end systems settle for nothing less than 60 (144+ should be the norm in AD 2023)

    Add to these problems, the woke hysteria - one of the worst games i've seen this woke, it's sickening. There's also several features missing; where is the diving? Why almost no
    The performance is bad even at a high end system. Console peasants might be okay with 30 fps but PC players with high-end systems settle for nothing less than 60 (144+ should be the norm in AD 2023)

    Add to these problems, the woke hysteria - one of the worst games i've seen this woke, it's sickening.

    There's also several features missing; where is the diving? Why almost no blood/gore? Why no vehicle to traverse on land? Why no free flying in space, only fast travel? Why no maps?

    Has potential to be good though, but that is assuming BGS or modders fix the performance, removes the woke and adds missing features (it will probably not be BGS doing these things....)

    4/10
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  4. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    I usually like Bethesda games (though never tried 76). I also liked the Mass Effect games (though never tried Andromeda). Unfortunately though, I can not say that I like Starfield. It just misses the mark. There are SO many issues I could talk about - I actually wrote out a list. I doubt anyone wants to read that though so the main points are that
    1) The narrative of the quests and
    I usually like Bethesda games (though never tried 76). I also liked the Mass Effect games (though never tried Andromeda). Unfortunately though, I can not say that I like Starfield. It just misses the mark. There are SO many issues I could talk about - I actually wrote out a list. I doubt anyone wants to read that though so the main points are that
    1) The narrative of the quests and companions are not engaging enough. That is to say, most of the game is quite boring. Occasionally there is an interesting character or interesting event, but it's not enough
    2) The performance is not good and the game doesn't even look that good
    3) The combat is too bare bones. It's just too boring. The AI is bad, itemization isn't interesting, etc.
    4) There UI and systems are too much of a mess. I have to Google things WAY to much. There needs to be WAY more tutorials.
    5) The planets are too ridiculously similar to each other and too ridiculously similar to Earth
    6) Surveying the different planets is too ridiculously tedious and unrewarding. So are building outposts. There not being any kind of grav bike or other land vehicle to use is also very stupid.
    7) The NPCs are so ridiculously unrealistic and dialogue is poorly done. This is especially embarrassing when you compare it to works by Larian and CD Projekt Red
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  5. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    The menu system is so blatantly designed for controllers, it is incredibly awkward and unintuitive to use with mouse and keyboard.

    Ship-building is a frustrating experience, because the game does not explain the features or functionalities of the different ship parts
  6. Sep 10, 2023
    4
    My recommendation on Starfield right now is to wait 1 or 2 months and see what Bethesta can fix in terms of bugs and issues. Some of the issues might sadly be too problematic to even fix. Combat AI for example. But until these issues are sorted, the game is simply not worth playing - knowing it could be done better. The game is only 4 out of 10 until these fixes go through.
  7. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    This game is bad. It looks like game from 2013 and i some places like from 2005, but has horrible optimization, and requires top hardware for such **** graphics. Also old engine has tons of loading screens almost everywhere. It is shame, that large studios with giant budget doing such crap in 2023. Fail of the year. And they say it is "next gen" game. This is mockery on players.
  8. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Pros:
    -Okay sidequests, factions quests are fairly good but too short
    -A lot of content but can get a bit repetitive -Main cities -The Starships are very cool -Armour and weapons look decent -Surprisingly decent graphics -Varied voice acting, haven't really had the 'repeat' feeling like experienced in Skyrim and Fallout -Modding community (Some great mods out there already)
    Pros:
    -Okay sidequests, factions quests are fairly good but too short
    -A lot of content but can get a bit repetitive
    -Main cities
    -The Starships are very cool
    -Armour and weapons look decent
    -Surprisingly decent graphics
    -Varied voice acting, haven't really had the 'repeat' feeling like experienced in Skyrim and Fallout
    -Modding community (Some great mods out there already)
    -Hasn't crashed once
    -Back to the silent protagonist
    -Highly detailed misc/general items for inspecting in the inventory

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    Cons:
    -Outdated Engine and it shows
    -Mod potential shouldn't be relied on to fix the game/add basic features
    -General lifeless NPCs - They don't react - for example: start shooting around New Atlantis, without hitting anyone and they will just continue walking as nothing happened (feels like Cyberpunk 2077 original NPCs before updates)
    -Broken stealth, feels like oblivion stealh - would on occasion get caught even though no one is in the room with me/all doors closed
    -Combat AI is pretty bad. Also lots of clipping and glitching out
    -A few minor bugs, companions running super fast, disappearing, falling through ship etc etc.
    -Loot no longer dynamic on corpses - RNG based.
    -Poor optimisation. RTX 3090 / Ryzen 9 5950x @ 1440p gets around 40-50 FPS while exploring planets and cities however in small closed off areas I get around 80-120 FPS. Also lag when switching weapons, and switching scanner on and off
    -Planet exploration: A lot of copy paste point's of interest - breaks the immersion a lot to have the same exact locations on different planets. Also some are just downright bad and aren't rewarding for the amount of time spent walking there
    -No diving/underwater content
    -Awful UI/Inventory management. Locked to 30FPS so is a bit janky. Mods have fixed this. Highly recommend the compact UI mods on the nexus
    -No local maps which is a huge pain in cities
    -Quest management could be made nicer (Sorting quests into main cities would be great)
    -No vechicles. I don't mind about hitting planet boundaries faster with a hover bike or something. Walking/Jetpacking can get very tedious at times
    -Over reliance on fast travel
    -Way too many essential NPC's, takes immersion away if you wanted to go guns crazy

    Love Bethesda games and have enjoyed Starfield so far but honestly too many cons which shouldn't be a thing for a Bethesda title in 2023. It feels like a step back in many ways, Skyrim had more reactivity from the NPC's and it came out 12 years ago. It's not terrible, but it's not great either.
    If you are looking for a typical Bethesda game and like Fallout 4, you will probably enjoy Starfield. Bethesda haven't innovated or expanded their game design at all with starfield. If we aren't vocal in this, then ES6 will probably be the same .
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  9. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    Just play fallout 4 if you want a shooter with rpg elements. Starfield is basically worse version of that game.
    - no blood and gore, even robot parts don't get damaged
    - very low enemy variety, for 20 hours I've killed 3 different alien creatures, some space suite guys, 2 different kinds of robots and a turret. In Fallout 4 I would see 10 times more enemy diversity. - no underwater
    Just play fallout 4 if you want a shooter with rpg elements. Starfield is basically worse version of that game.
    - no blood and gore, even robot parts don't get damaged
    - very low enemy variety, for 20 hours I've killed 3 different alien creatures, some space suite guys, 2 different kinds of robots and a turret. In Fallout 4 I would see 10 times more enemy diversity.
    - no underwater swimming
    - every gameplay feature like weapon customization and pickpocketing is behind skill system
    - no power armor
    - landscape is generated and boring
    - worse performance
    - more bugs
    - no cool vaults/dungeons
    - character is constantly encumbered. And you can't even turn items to scrap.
    - terrible balance, companions doing 6 times your damage and immortal, healthpacks very rarely drop from enemies, this leads to safe and boring gameplay.
    - ludo narrative dissonance, often you get a quest to deal with some very dangerous people, but in reality they are some low lvl hobos that can't hurt you.
    - bad ai, super passive and with unlimited ammo they can will shoot you from distance with smg for hours even if they can't hit.
    - bad ui, instead of compact spreadsheet or icon grid you have about 6 items on screen with info only for selected items and no icons.
    - you can't fly anywhere, space part is just so you can shoot some ships or dock to a station one in a while.
    - even character editor is worse, you can't grab face parts and drag anymore.
    - quest choices are limited, your actions don't matter, you can't just kill quest npc, and they will resurrect and act like nothing happened.
    + item models are cool
    + ship building system is nice
    + 50 different models of guns and you can upgrade them, best part about the game
    + really large world, you can waste hundreds of hours (if devs and modders fix it)
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  10. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    ...it was so promising. But... no AR 32:9 Ultrawide without modding it, no DLSS without modding it, uglee inventory without modding it ... thats from the technical side. At all i played like three hours, but i could not make it longer. The game is boring!
  11. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Setting aside the disappointment at how space travel is handled, and the constant loading screens (thankfully they're not too slow on an nvme drive), it's the bugs and rotten frame rate that tears the game down for me. I've had crashes selling items at the kiosk, inventory UI just stopping working, NPCs standing through chairs, NPCs not reacting to walking into forbidden areas, no DLSS,Setting aside the disappointment at how space travel is handled, and the constant loading screens (thankfully they're not too slow on an nvme drive), it's the bugs and rotten frame rate that tears the game down for me. I've had crashes selling items at the kiosk, inventory UI just stopping working, NPCs standing through chairs, NPCs not reacting to walking into forbidden areas, no DLSS, last gen graphics in places... its just all of that together that spoils the experience. That you encounter all of this within the first hour is the icing on the cake, it speaks to a lack of caring on the Bethesda side, they have to had seen these problems themselves yet they think it's good enough.

    I really hope I can come back to revise the score after a patch or two...
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  12. Sep 10, 2023
    4
    Played it because I have gamepass anyway. Boring crap like Skyrim. I really tried to like these kinds of games, but there is absolutly no immersion with these soulless NPCs. And the unimportant ones are so ugly. Not worth your time or money.
  13. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    The beauty of Elder Scrolls games, Fallout etc. was the mystery - it was walking around aimlessly and stumbling across this amazing thing or that god statue that could talk, or this crazy NPC. None of that exists in Starfield. The magic is not there. The basic mechanics are the same (and I'd say the graphics are the same as older Fallout games) but you can't just wonder around andThe beauty of Elder Scrolls games, Fallout etc. was the mystery - it was walking around aimlessly and stumbling across this amazing thing or that god statue that could talk, or this crazy NPC. None of that exists in Starfield. The magic is not there. The basic mechanics are the same (and I'd say the graphics are the same as older Fallout games) but you can't just wonder around and explore. Everything is behind a 'wall' and as such you don't feel like this is an exploration game. You feel like it's work - a tedious ask-task-retrieve loop. You don't 'find' things anymore - you are quested things and then you just go to the marker and do it. Rinse - repeat. Compared to other amazing games (esp. after I just finished playing Baldurs Gate 3) this seems wildly mediocre. Add the expectations (and time) laid out by Bethesda and this really can't be more than a 4. Expand
  14. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Bad story, old engine, bugs everywhere, poor optimization. All this for $100.
  15. Sep 11, 2023
    4
    This game is boring. I know it's a Bethesda game, I've played them all. There's just no "substance" to keep me interested the story, find these goofy artifacts. I found the Xenomorph story line would have been much better. And partly is my getting older, I'm finding I really dislike games with stupid quests like go here and pickup a comic book. I guess Fed Ex etc doesn't exist in theThis game is boring. I know it's a Bethesda game, I've played them all. There's just no "substance" to keep me interested the story, find these goofy artifacts. I found the Xenomorph story line would have been much better. And partly is my getting older, I'm finding I really dislike games with stupid quests like go here and pickup a comic book. I guess Fed Ex etc doesn't exist in the future. I also apparently can be part of every faction, like even competing ones this wasn't the case in Fallout.

    There's really no point at all for space craft, since it's basically cut scenes, maybe a combat mission. Once you have visited a planet/local you'll be fast traveling there any way. There are way too many copy and paste locales, for as many years as this was in development, more hand crafted locales would have kept my interest.
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  16. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    i never owned a console, always a pc since my childhood, and to see the war console in the comments is so funny... what a bunch of idiots, its insane rofl BUT i am sad for xbox team.. they are forced to acclaim the "game of the generation" the first real "exclusivity", they wanted to stab in the hearth all these bad and nasty playstation fanboys.... but now we all know the truth loli never owned a console, always a pc since my childhood, and to see the war console in the comments is so funny... what a bunch of idiots, its insane rofl BUT i am sad for xbox team.. they are forced to acclaim the "game of the generation" the first real "exclusivity", they wanted to stab in the hearth all these bad and nasty playstation fanboys.... but now we all know the truth lol starfield is a disaster, a failure even for bethesda type of games.. so boring, so bad written, so ugly and old in his gamplay...the exploration part is a joke, no one wants to loose time in souless empty procedural worlds and the space fights are so bad... my G... they are no FOV slider, no options for accessibility, no gamma and light sliders, no choice for texture, only presets, no intel Xelss no dlss (and what a bad move for amd btw.. now everyone who has downloaded the mod for dlss knows that fsr is crap, they should have stay on a low profile). This game is really a shame in 2023, all these loadings are insane, they made me mad, i cant believe they dare realease it. moreover after baldurs gate 3 this is very painful to play, what a mess geez Expand
  17. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Apart from being boring, empty, repetitive, nothing like they advertised. Technological mess, no hdr on PC, broken brightness and contrast, poor machine localization.
  18. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Real Score 6/10. But Tod Say This game is Next GEN and Have Good Optimisation, So -2 score for this.
  19. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    It's a solid base that a (potential) modding community can use to build something worthwhile in the future, but on its own it's very unimpressive.
  20. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Take a cheese grater to fallout New Vegas and it's character system, sprinkle that onto Skyrim, shave off base building from fallout 4. And glue the entirety of no Man's sky to it. And
  21. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    I don't enjoy Bethesda games. They lack of gameplay. It is just bland and boring. Go there, talk to that dude, go there pick that stuff, walk 2 miles and talk to that other dude... i guess it is for people who likes to believe they live in another world and have another job or something. I like challinging gameplay, actually some skill with the controller or some tactic skills.

    Graphics
    I don't enjoy Bethesda games. They lack of gameplay. It is just bland and boring. Go there, talk to that dude, go there pick that stuff, walk 2 miles and talk to that other dude... i guess it is for people who likes to believe they live in another world and have another job or something. I like challinging gameplay, actually some skill with the controller or some tactic skills.

    Graphics are really outdated. Faces are like from 15 years ago.
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  22. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    It's a game that released in 2023 but feels and looks like it comes from 2016. At best, it's mediocre otherwise it's an uninspired bore.

    The Good: -Finally a Bethesda game that supports ultra wide settings without messing with ini files. Something they still couldn't be bothered to update with Skyrim and the millionth release. -Player character isn't voiced. Please never do what you
    It's a game that released in 2023 but feels and looks like it comes from 2016. At best, it's mediocre otherwise it's an uninspired bore.

    The Good:
    -Finally a Bethesda game that supports ultra wide settings without messing with ini files. Something they still couldn't be bothered to update with Skyrim and the millionth release.
    -Player character isn't voiced. Please never do what you did with FO4 ever again.
    -Many newer AAA games put far too much focus on controllers nowadays, ignoring kb/m, but kb/m plays quite nicely

    The In between:
    -Ran okay on my PC. I cap my fps to 60, and despite having a 3080 and Ryzen 7 5800x, i was having drops to the 50's. Needs heavy optimization on PC

    The Bad:
    -Combat is horrible. I'm fairly casual and like simple games nowadays...but jfc combat is painfully dumb. First "boss" which you can talk your way out of just stood in the open and opened fire hardly hitting me, robot dude killed him as I stood there. So far all enemies I encountered you just stand in the open and fire at them. Might be the dumbest enemy AI I've seen, not to mention I just casually walked into areas and they didn't react until I was next to them (without crouching). Even then most of the time they wouldn't do anything.

    -Ship combat is clunky and unenjoyable. NMS had the same issue but I thought a AAA 2023 title would have improved this. Also it's pretty pointless to partake in outside of the beginning tutorial for it.

    -Character creation. Kinda mediocre. Hair looks as bad as always for a Bethesda game, and yet another game that thinks blond hair is yellow, white or light brown. Seriously ask Larian for their colour pallet.

    -Inventory. Clunky and a massive mess to navigate through.

    -No FOV slider, again.

    -Voice Acting. It's typical generic and bland v/a from a Bethesda title, but how can a company worth this much spend so little. Maybe I just got spoiled with another recent release that had amazing v/a.

    -The beginning is dull. People keep saying play for 15-20 hours and then it gets good. That is beyond terrible game design. Who wants to slog through 15+ hours of bad game play?

    -It's just lazy. A game this long in the making it adds absolutely nothing to the RPG genre. I can't think of any other studio that can make such lazy and uninspired games and get the "well it's a Bethesda game uwu" as if that excuses things. I don't see any way that modders can even fix this game at this point (other than performance/bug fixes, like Skyrim still needs to this day).
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  23. Sep 10, 2023
    4
    The game was good however the pacing feels slow ay first, and it became too boring next.
  24. Sep 10, 2023
    4
    Disgusting optimization.
    Visually, the game is 5 years behind.
    The gameplay and mechanics in the game are 10 years behind.
    The feeling is that most of the dialogues in the game were written by AI.
    Terrible animations of NPC faces.
    Disgusting gray-brown filter in the game.
    A very well-written main plot and a lot of monotonous secondary quests.
  25. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Starfield is basically a glorified mod of a Fallout 3 or a Skyrim.

    The game feels 10 years old with decent graphics. Most characters are ugly as ass though. The "Space" part is only superficial : you don't take off, you don't flight where you want. It's more like a mini-game next to the usual formula. The story is pretty underwhelming. Don't expect anything as epic as in Skyrim
    Starfield is basically a glorified mod of a Fallout 3 or a Skyrim.

    The game feels 10 years old with decent graphics. Most characters are ugly as ass though.

    The "Space" part is only superficial : you don't take off, you don't flight where you want. It's more like a mini-game next to the usual formula.

    The story is pretty underwhelming. Don't expect anything as epic as in Skyrim or any of the older games.
    The way it starts is basically : hey you, here is a ship, take the keys and go there. You have no choice in the matter. The writers have obviously never heard of the "Hero's Journey".

    Lame.

    There is a big "political" controversy with the game but it feels a bit exaggerated.
    I don't mind the pronoun choice and the body type 1 & 2 in the character creation as I've not been bothered with it after that point.

    That being said, an overwhelming amount of your interaction with though/team boss characters will be with women. Men are a rarity in space apparently and it feels very unnatural. I guess the game is pretty woke.
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  26. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    I will say that I do not like Star wars or anything, but I enjoyed The Elder Scrolls so I was looking forward to this game.

    It is unfortunately very.. Empty? You could have endless possibilities with planets and environments but it all seems samey and after a while the game becomes a real slog. I'm sure this game will appeal to a certain type of players, but it's by no means a
    I will say that I do not like Star wars or anything, but I enjoyed The Elder Scrolls so I was looking forward to this game.

    It is unfortunately very.. Empty? You could have endless possibilities with planets and environments but it all seems samey and after a while the game becomes a real slog.

    I'm sure this game will appeal to a certain type of players, but it's by no means a masterpiece we were promised by Microsoft.
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  27. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Es un RPG estilo Fallout en el espacio y además diria que bastante lineall, como te salgas de donde te marca el juego te vas a encontrar un universo vacio y bugeado como es marca de la casa. No hay exploración expacial con la nave, se viaja mediante iconos de viaje rápido en un mapa.

    Como RPG estilo Fallout obviendo los bugs que supongo que irán arreglando en futuros parches, está bien
    Es un RPG estilo Fallout en el espacio y además diria que bastante lineall, como te salgas de donde te marca el juego te vas a encontrar un universo vacio y bugeado como es marca de la casa. No hay exploración expacial con la nave, se viaja mediante iconos de viaje rápido en un mapa.

    Como RPG estilo Fallout obviendo los bugs que supongo que irán arreglando en futuros parches, está bien pero no es lo que nos han vendido. Por eso le pongo un 4.
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  28. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Videojuego distraído, pero no optimizado para PC. Sin DLSS. El creador del videojuego, dice que compremos máquinas nuevas, en vez de optimizar el juego. Falta de respeto. El juego está en perfecto castellano y es distraído pero no es lo que prometieron. Lo peor del juego y la baja nota es por la pésima optimización.
  29. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Runs like dogsh*t on my Ryzen 5600x, Rtx 3070 with 32Gig Ram at 3600mhz on an M.2 980 Evo in 1440p. Gameplay feels uninspired and assets are repeating quite fast. The procedural aspect is boring as hell. After 20 planets you almost saw every asset except from the story structures. Exploring is a joke. No feeling of freedom. The user rating compared to critics, shows it all. Overhyped BSRuns like dogsh*t on my Ryzen 5600x, Rtx 3070 with 32Gig Ram at 3600mhz on an M.2 980 Evo in 1440p. Gameplay feels uninspired and assets are repeating quite fast. The procedural aspect is boring as hell. After 20 planets you almost saw every asset except from the story structures. Exploring is a joke. No feeling of freedom. The user rating compared to critics, shows it all. Overhyped BS and the Todd Howard is a god damn liar. Expand
  30. Sep 10, 2023
    4
    The buggy game studio thought they had a free pass to continue releasing buggy games. It's not cute.
Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 75 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 75
  2. Negative: 0 out of 75
  1. Jan 28, 2024
    76
    There's a lot of flaws in space in Starfield. But that does not prevent me from exploring our galaxy again and again.
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 22, 2024
    80
    I fell in love with Starfield. It's my cup of sci-fi and I can't wait to spend the next thirty, fifty, maybe seventy hours here. I enjoy the exploration, the shootouts, the art style, the ship building, and the diverse worlds. I gratefully acknowledge the good optimization and the absence of major bugs. But I can't overlook the flaws. There are bad animations, ugly faces and repetitive moments.[Issue#329]
  3. Oct 23, 2023
    60
    In a year dominated by sequels to franchise favorites, there was a hope that Starfield would carve its own path to success. While the team at Bethesda should be commended for taking such a big swing, there’s no denying that the game doesn’t feel like a cohesive work. Maybe continued support and future sequels will make something more meaningful out of a work that is clearly deeply enamored with both science fiction and space exploration. Unforunately, this first launch has had far more mixed results than desired.