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  1. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    the game is not about space
    not about space travel
    not about space adventures
    not about role play
    they are just procedurally generated fields
    it should have been called "field" without stars
  2. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Update: I don't own any console from microsoft or sony, and am just a PC player with several hundred hours of Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallount NV and Fallout 4. Loved these games, lived without problem with the bugs but I can't live in a glorified maze of multiple rooms filled with minimaps, which this game is.

    For instance, there is no minimap and only fast-travel for a good
    Update: I don't own any console from microsoft or sony, and am just a PC player with several hundred hours of Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallount NV and Fallout 4. Loved these games, lived without problem with the bugs but I can't live in a glorified maze of multiple rooms filled with minimaps, which this game is.

    For instance, there is no minimap and only fast-travel for a good reason: the core design of the game cannot allow it.
    As the Creation Engine 2 is going to be used for TES6, I'll pass from now on on all Bethesda games and I doubt that mods will fix anything (I play the vanilla versions anyway).

    Not only the developers and more precisely Todd Howard, are outdated and live in the shadow of their former glory, but their main working tool is working on outdated paradigms, concepts and algorithms.

    The reason why this game has such high hardware requirements exceeding those of CP2077 to run barely decently is that at its core, it's pushing the antiquated algorithms of an antiquated game engine to a level it was not designed to handle.

    I am glad that some are happy enjoying this game, but in the same time, I think they are quite foolish trying to convince the world his is the 8th wonder of the world of gaming. It is simply not that.
    End of Update.

    I'm glad I got a refund for this product. It's using the update of an antiquated game engine, which results in severe limitations breaking immersion. The game is simply not fun, not as advertised and it doesn't even meet basic standards for the underlying concepts like O2/CO2 to measure exertion.

    It's like a rehash of previous failures, but magnified.

    The reason why insane hardware requirements are necessary to achieve decent performance (and I didn't have any issue with my rig) is the outdated game engine. This game engine is designed exclusively to function as an update of the previous one used in 2006 products, so everything is built around its limitations: that's why we have loading screens for the pseudo open world which is in fact a series of minimaps, etc.

    Again, thanks to Steam for honoring the refund policy and Shame on Bethesda for their broken promises. As for the corporate shills reviewing the game, I'll believe them when they release the gameplay session they use to build their review as it's literally impossible to explain rationally the disconnect between customer reviews and the journalists.

    I have bought the game, gave it a fair chance but it's real garbage, it' worth 0. Even if the score is decent and the aesthetics are better than previous productions, and to date there is no microtransactions.
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  3. Sep 7, 2023
    3
    There is NOTHING groundbreaking in this game there are few good things in it but nothing that was not already done before and it was done so much better even in games that are 10+ years old....Loading screens are everywhere and sure they are short but they are still very annoying ,space flight feels very arcadish and atmospheric flight is non-existent so game is basically souless FPS &There is NOTHING groundbreaking in this game there are few good things in it but nothing that was not already done before and it was done so much better even in games that are 10+ years old....Loading screens are everywhere and sure they are short but they are still very annoying ,space flight feels very arcadish and atmospheric flight is non-existent so game is basically souless FPS & Loot collector with the very weak story line that could not be less immersive..... Expand
  4. Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Already got about 30 hours on it because I have no life. Have done main quest and side stuff. Didn't pirate it, paid the full amount for early access. And I'll tell you straight up it's a massive disappointment. First of all it just feels too similar to Fallout 4 and 76. You can immediately tell it's essentially the same game with a new setting. Shooting feels better but enemies areAlready got about 30 hours on it because I have no life. Have done main quest and side stuff. Didn't pirate it, paid the full amount for early access. And I'll tell you straight up it's a massive disappointment. First of all it just feels too similar to Fallout 4 and 76. You can immediately tell it's essentially the same game with a new setting. Shooting feels better but enemies are incredibly easy. They barely react. "Exploration" is almost nonexistent. It's not open world. You just load from instance to instance over and over. Story is incredibly overhyped and boring. It doesn't really evolve as you play. Overall the whole game is boring. I've never felt so aimless in a Beth game before. You honestly just stop giving a **** because it's this drab back and forth with nothing of consequence. Character creator is good imo, builds are **** The stuff you pick doesn't feel impactful in general gameplay at all. Space flight is absolute **** You can't really explore space at all. The dialogue is the standard quippy modern fair. NPCs look awful as usual. Many locations are empty "mobs spawn here" zones with nothing much else. It's just a very bland game.

    Starfield really does feel like Fallout 4 in "space" but it's just far more empty, generic and boring. There's nothing new here. I'll keep playing but overall I'm very let down because the game just isn't what they pretended it to be. It could literally be a Fallout 4 mod. Iam having buyers remorse, awful game.
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  5. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This game is the definition of rehased, lazy, soulless content. It's nothing but a mashup of FPS with "pretty" graphics and empty promises. This is not an RPG. I fear the worst for the Elder Scrolls 6 if this is the new standard for Bethesda games.
  6. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This game is bad in every way - poor graphics and animations, boring storyline and side quests, no sense of space and terrible optimization. I don't recommend playing it even for free.
  7. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    A game about space, without space.. Yura we all fu**** **
    Eh .. this comrade returns to the Elite Dangerous.
  8. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It’s a broken mess, with lots of loading screen and outdated graphics. It doesn’t let you land or take off from the planet and the overall story is very short Expand
  9. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Garbage ass game with braindead people on Steam defending their 100$ investment while playing at 30 fps on a mouse and keyboard and calling it a "smooth" experience. At the same time, Todd tells everyone they delivered an optimized game and we should buy an XTX or 4090 to run it. 0/10 Don't buy it, pirate it!
  10. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Jogo não é ruim porém tem muitos bugs , modelagem dos personagens ultrapassada e não cumpriu oq prometeu
  11. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    It's too boring, it's full of bugs and if it's not for the easy mods it's a disposable game
  12. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    No es mal juego pero no es lo que prometieron, no tiene exploracion y no es tan grande como decían,
  13. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Jogo lançando a base da mentira, Marketing absurdo, falaram que o game ia ser um jogo "Revolucionario" e entregam isso. Sinceramente, esse jogo seria bom se fosse lançando em 2017
    Alguns pontos aqui: NPC Cagado, expressões faciais de geração antiga, mundo que não é aberto, planetas iguais com bichos iguais e sem textura de nova geração, jogo cansativo e historia mediocre. Essas são as
    Jogo lançando a base da mentira, Marketing absurdo, falaram que o game ia ser um jogo "Revolucionario" e entregam isso. Sinceramente, esse jogo seria bom se fosse lançando em 2017
    Alguns pontos aqui: NPC Cagado, expressões faciais de geração antiga, mundo que não é aberto, planetas iguais com bichos iguais e sem textura de nova geração, jogo cansativo e historia mediocre. Essas são as minhas criticas!
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  14. Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Bethesda has once again failed to deliver a genuine RPG instead a soulless,streamlined,woke,Fallout 4 clone
  15. Sep 7, 2023
    3
    The gunfight is outdated, it's like been back to 2010.

    Space exploration non-existent, planetary barely usefull, you just have to follow the interest points, to see the exact same caves/laboratorys again and again. The quest are good but the staging is a awkward, hard to play this game after BG3. Overall it's not a bad game, but it's like bethesda never evolve since Skyrim, if i
    The gunfight is outdated, it's like been back to 2010.

    Space exploration non-existent, planetary barely usefull, you just have to follow the interest points, to see the exact same caves/laboratorys again and again.

    The quest are good but the staging is a awkward, hard to play this game after BG3.

    Overall it's not a bad game, but it's like bethesda never evolve since Skyrim, if i would want to play a game with 2010 mechanics i've better to play new vegas or skyrim than starfield.
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  16. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Fallout 3 in space, with no soul or substance. I found the combat extremely bad and outdated. I found the space combat worse than privateer 2 and older games. I can't believe this is what people consider AAA game in 2023, not to mention the high scores in official reviews do not make any sense. I really hope people can get the word out about the quality of this game in time to save peopleFallout 3 in space, with no soul or substance. I found the combat extremely bad and outdated. I found the space combat worse than privateer 2 and older games. I can't believe this is what people consider AAA game in 2023, not to mention the high scores in official reviews do not make any sense. I really hope people can get the word out about the quality of this game in time to save people money. Really disappointing game and state of the industry. Please look into other space games, this is a weird fallout feeling game. Expand
  17. Sep 8, 2023
    1
    Starfield tem coisa boas e coisas novas. Só que as coisas boas não são novas, e as coisas novas não são boas.
  18. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This is the most boring game i have ever played in my life. Ai is stupid, so the combact is useless. The dialogues are boring which are the main thing in this game. Because of this i think that this game doesn't reach his objectives
  19. Sep 7, 2023
    3
    The biggest smoke campaign of the last years after Cyberpunk 2077, bugs everywhere, bad performance, outdated gameplay, lack of important decisions, last generation graphics, slow exploration, etc.
  20. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Es la cosa más horrible que haya jugado tremendo somnifero Todd ya debería jubilarse, Xbox murió en el 360 tenía hype por este juego y lo arruinaron completamente
  21. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    .Todd Howard: The game is completely optimized, your PC needs to be upgraded! Don't joke, man, you didn't do your job right
  22. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Sadly, a good review is not available in your region.
    We're very sorry. (add Russian language to starfield)
  23. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo muito fraco , gráficos ruim inteligência artificial ruim ...tudo é tem que carregar jogo ruim .... Expand
  24. Sep 8, 2023
    1
    Starfield: A Galactic Nightmare

    Starfield, the highly anticipated open-world RPG set in space, had promised to be a revolution in the space exploration and discovery. However, after two years of anticipation and high expectations, what we got is an experience that fails to live up to its developer's promises. In this review, we will explore the reasons behind this disappointment and
    Starfield: A Galactic Nightmare

    Starfield, the highly anticipated open-world RPG set in space, had promised to be a revolution in the space exploration and discovery.
    However, after two years of anticipation and high expectations, what we got is an experience that fails to live up to its developer's promises. In this review, we will explore the reasons behind this disappointment and analyze key aspects that affected the overall quality of the game.

    Repetitive Space Exploration:
    One of the most exciting features touted for Starfield was the ability to explore multiple planets and solar systems. Unfortunately, this promise is marred by a lack of variety and depth in exploration. Most planets seem to be designed with a similar template, with landscapes and settlements that feel recycled. Exploration quickly becomes monotonous, as most planets offer similar experiences, with very few surprises. This is a major letdown, considering the game's potential to offer a true sense of discovery in space.

    Very outdated tech:
    Starfield inherits the combat system from Bethesda's previous games like Fallout, which feels outdated compared to contemporary shooter games. Firefights lack the fluidity and excitement we would expect from a space shooter. The lack of innovation in this regard is frustrating, as the game had the opportunity to shine and provide a truly memorable combat experience.

    Another disappointment in Starfield is the lack of significant advancements in character facial expressions. Despite promises of technological improvements, characters still have stiff faces and limited expressions. This affects immersion in the game and makes interactions with characters feel emotionally shallow and robotics.

    The developer had suggested that Starfield would be a significant technological leap, but in reality, the advancements are minimal. While the game is visually impressive in some aspects, it doesn't feel like a substantial leap compared to other titles of the same era. Technological "seams" are often evident, which detracts from the immersion in the game world.

    For every action we want to do we have to swallow a lot of loading screens again and again. It is NOT a smooth gaming experience. This is especially irritating after a few hours of playing and having to sit through dozens of loading screens.

    Horrible performance:
    Regarding the performance of the game, it is the worst I have tried from Bethesda in my life. A nightmare. You need an upper-middle-range PC to play at 60fps even at medium settings. Forget about having a good experience with a GPU below a 3070 TI in max settings and a six cores CPU with a very high IPC. Visually you will not encounter anything nor does anything happen in the game that justifies these disproportionate requirements.
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  25. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Worst optimization. Outdated mechanics. Mediocre graphics. Why was it released?
  26. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    zero optimised game, unfunny 30 fps shooting moments, annoying fast travel every where, no integrated world
  27. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Horrible game full of loadings, outdated engine and graphics, theres no way this game is from this generation, as bas as redfall, just like that, it is SO repetittive, playing this game is like a torture, dont waste your time w/ this game...
  28. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After 50 hours of gameplay:

    Starefield: The facial animation is outdated. The Gaming engine is outdated. -1
    The main quest is super generic except one mission - entangled. -1
    The ending is generic and unexciting. -1
    Tons of items to pick up but your inventory is always full, even with full inventory space upgrade. -1
    There are only 10 types of gun in the game. -1
    Fraction quests are okay. I will give them that. not as good as those in oblivion. +1
    1000 planets but most of them are vast but empty. Nothing much to do. -1
    I dont see any megaboss on a planet, the wow factor is missing during my exploration.
    Tons of bugs. NPC glitching in and out. -1
    Endless loading screen. I swear 10% of my total playthrough time are just me sitting here waiting the game to load. -1
    There are only 4 romance option. Main Companions are annoying and boring. They left you if you steal and do pirate stuffs. Sam coe is okay solely because of the Adam jensen voice actor. -1
    The major capital city like new atlantis feels so small. Every big company are just conveniently packed in the same building in neon. -1
    Many repeated content. They have the audacity to use the dungeon( the lab) with exact same layout twice in the main questline. -1

    0/10.
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  29. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Se supone que este juego iba a ser el juego de la década, un "antes y un después" nos encontramos con humo y más humo, un Fallout 4 pero todavía peor.
    Pantallas de carga para absolutamente todo, habría sido más sencillo eliminar la nave y dejar un viaje rápido y listo, el control de la nave navegando por un png estático es una broma de mal gusto.
    La sincro labial es un horror, gráficamente
    Se supone que este juego iba a ser el juego de la década, un "antes y un después" nos encontramos con humo y más humo, un Fallout 4 pero todavía peor.
    Pantallas de carga para absolutamente todo, habría sido más sencillo eliminar la nave y dejar un viaje rápido y listo, el control de la nave navegando por un png estático es una broma de mal gusto.
    La sincro labial es un horror, gráficamente las expresiones faciales rozan el ridículo se siente absolutamente robotizado.
    La ia??? Es un escándalo de lo nefasta que es tanto de los compañeros como de los enemigos, el gunplay es genérico y plano, los menús son otro horror.
    Conclusión una estafa de las gordas, mi consejo es que no lo compréis, jugadlo en el Gamepass si estáis con mucha curiosidad pero no regaleis vuestro dinero a semejante mojón, Bethesda estamos en 2023 no en 2002 cambiad este horroroso motor y dejad de timar a los usuarios, lleváis con la fórmula copia/pega desde oblivión, y eso antes era muy bueno, hoy en día es un mojón, tenemos cosas como Witcher 3 o Baldurs gate 3, jugar a este starfield directamente es como jugar a un mod del fallout 4 instanciado, ya no cuela.
    "Juego de la década "mis cojon...s"
    Yo ya devolví mi copia en steam y no lo pienso tocar ni con un palo, dentro de 2 o 3 añitos si les da por mejorar la ia y la legión de bugs que nos trae por 20€ merecerá la pena, más no.
    Y pensar que a este zurullo medios le han dado un 100.
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  30. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Yet another leftist toy they can use to masturbate themselves with. pronouns: pe/nis
    next
  31. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    I'm only a couple of hours in but I'm already stunned. One of the best games I've played in a long time
  32. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Soulless bland game that would have been good 10 years ago, but simply outdated now.
    Oh my God, the picture was better in Fallout 3
  33. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    It's not about space exploration, it's about RPG they say... Anyway it's not a very bad game, but full of lies
  34. Sep 7, 2023
    3
    Fui jogar Starfield depois de experimentar Final Fantasy XVI e foi uma decepção. Achei Starfield ruim demais. Os gráficos dos lugares são muito bonitos e bem feitos, mas fica só nisso. NPCs muito mal feitos e sem nenhuma expressão, planetas completamente vazios sem nada pra fazer, a IA é extremamente ruim e além disso o jogo é mal otimizado, meu Ryzen 5 3600 ficava em cerca de 25% de usoFui jogar Starfield depois de experimentar Final Fantasy XVI e foi uma decepção. Achei Starfield ruim demais. Os gráficos dos lugares são muito bonitos e bem feitos, mas fica só nisso. NPCs muito mal feitos e sem nenhuma expressão, planetas completamente vazios sem nada pra fazer, a IA é extremamente ruim e além disso o jogo é mal otimizado, meu Ryzen 5 3600 ficava em cerca de 25% de uso enquanto minha RX 5700 XT ficava em 99% com o jogo rodando no alto a cerca de 35FPS, tem jogos com gráficos muito mais aprimorado com NPCs muito mais bem feitos que rodam bem melhor e forçando menos a GPU. Expand
  35. Sep 8, 2023
    1
    Literally unplayable in PC.
    Not only they didn't optimize it, but also now Todd Howard has the gall to say publicly that they did and we should buy a new PC.
    Refunded it, of course. Will update this review if and when it gets optimized.
    Also, I'm all for freedom, but keep identity politics out of games, it's getting very annoying.
  36. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    It is a Skyrim so if you like that one, you may like that one.
    The space vs ground is two instances; really a loading simulator game...

    Also I personally found the story telling at the beginning is really lacking of effort....
    Been so bored that I decide to maybe come back to that game later... but the excitement is now gone.
  37. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    First, you need really good pc to play this game. This game is not optimized well. I already experienced few bugs like NPCs falling through the floor. Walking through the walls. Sometimes they are dumb! One of my quests are bug stuck, can’t do anything about it until there’s a patch. Space is limited and not free to explore. Some planets don’t even exist, they just JPG planets. SomeFirst, you need really good pc to play this game. This game is not optimized well. I already experienced few bugs like NPCs falling through the floor. Walking through the walls. Sometimes they are dumb! One of my quests are bug stuck, can’t do anything about it until there’s a patch. Space is limited and not free to explore. Some planets don’t even exist, they just JPG planets. Some planets are empty. Main story is alright but side quests are better. Fun part doesn’t start until hours later. I wish better updates Expand
  38. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Another broken mess created by the most overrated studio in existence, just a bland, boring and souless game that makes sport games look like masterpieces, same old fallout 3 gameplay, broken AI, robotic npcs, recycled empty planets, "massive open world game" full of fast travels, a complete joke of a game.
  39. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Ughhh, I wanted to love this. Zero out of ten. It's like they took all the boring parts of other games and made a space cocktail of yawns. Loading screens galore—felt more like waiting in line at the DMV than exploring space. The planets? More like blandets—samey and filled with invisible walls. Combat's meh, like Fallout 4 NPCs went to a space costume party. The main quest? Snooze-fest.Ughhh, I wanted to love this. Zero out of ten. It's like they took all the boring parts of other games and made a space cocktail of yawns. Loading screens galore—felt more like waiting in line at the DMV than exploring space. The planets? More like blandets—samey and filled with invisible walls. Combat's meh, like Fallout 4 NPCs went to a space costume party. The main quest? Snooze-fest. Graphics and animations are straight-up dated, and don't get me started on the clunky UI. I expected a space odyssey but got a space disappointment. Expand
  40. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    if you live in 2015 the game is nice
    graphics 2015
    no optimization
    ai comedy
    there is a ship yes but I haven't seen it being useful for anything and no matter where you go there is loading everywhere its beyond awful
    waste of time and huge disappointment
  41. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Tout n'a été que mensonge avec ce jeu. On nous a vendu de l'exploration à gogo. Au final il n'y a rien que des temps de chargements avec un menuing des enfers. Pour le reste la quête principale est d'un ennui mortel, gunfights mous, IA des ennemis aux fraises, PNJ modelisés avec les pieds, aspect RPG négligé, aucun choix impactant, caméra fixe pour les dialogues qui cassent l'immersion,Tout n'a été que mensonge avec ce jeu. On nous a vendu de l'exploration à gogo. Au final il n'y a rien que des temps de chargements avec un menuing des enfers. Pour le reste la quête principale est d'un ennui mortel, gunfights mous, IA des ennemis aux fraises, PNJ modelisés avec les pieds, aspect RPG négligé, aucun choix impactant, caméra fixe pour les dialogues qui cassent l'immersion, combats spatiaux réellement rébarbatifs, système de tuiles pour cacher un OW vide, des milliers de planètes procédurales qui ne servent à rien, 30 fps sur SX. Bref n'achetez surtout pas ce jeu, voire même évitez de perdre votre temps sur le game pass avec ce scam des enfers. Expand
  42. Sep 7, 2023
    3
    I played 8 hours, and I was bored. The NPCs and companions are lifeless husks that lack any real consequence or immersion. Their eyes rolling up into their heads and staring directly into your soul seems so outdated compared to games like BG3. This is Skyrim in space and nothing more. Exploration is none existent, and BGS is going to need a mountain of mods to make this interesting orI played 8 hours, and I was bored. The NPCs and companions are lifeless husks that lack any real consequence or immersion. Their eyes rolling up into their heads and staring directly into your soul seems so outdated compared to games like BG3. This is Skyrim in space and nothing more. Exploration is none existent, and BGS is going to need a mountain of mods to make this interesting or engaging. Combat isn't bad, gunplay feels good, but I am not playing this as a looter shooter. I'll go spin up Destiny if I want good gunplay and a subpar story. Expand
  43. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    After many hours playing this was very big letdown. Many years in development and yet they gave us a barren wasteland. *Loading screens galore. *You take the train hoping it would be doing it in realtime instead its a loading screen oh wait you can just fast travel. Its like no mans sky but horrible.
  44. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    نتیجه ۸ سال ک‌س‌شعر گفتن تاد هوارد برای استارفیلد که نتیجه نهایی نسبت به تریلر و دسترسی زودرس بازی به بدترین شکل در اومده است
    انحصاری ایکس باکس=تحویل فاجعه بار مگر اینکه خیلی روی بازی کار شود به نتیجه خوبی بدست آورد
    داش گوتی افتاد تهش اگه بتونی موسیقی متن شو جایزه ببری
    نتیجه ۸ سال ک‌س‌شعر گفتن تاد هوارد برای استارفیلد که نتیجه نهایی نسبت به تریلر و دسترسی زودرس بازی به بدترین شکل در اومده است
    انحصاری ایکس باکس=تحویل فاجعه بار مگر اینکه خیلی روی بازی کار شود به نتیجه خوبی بدست آورد
    داش گوتی افتاد
    تهش اگه بتونی موسیقی متن شو جایزه ببری
  45. Sep 7, 2023
    3
    I wish you had valued the game and graphics instead of allocating a budget for advertising. I'm having a hard time playing with my RTX3060 (12 GB VRAM) graphics card.
  46. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    I see a lot of cope coming from the bethesda fan boys. They keep saying things like "if you like bethesda games you are going to like this game, it is just like skyrim or fallout." That couldn't be any further from the truth. This is nothing like any of the bethesda games. If i didn't know this was a bethesda game I would of never guessed. You literally have no freedom of choice. MeaningI see a lot of cope coming from the bethesda fan boys. They keep saying things like "if you like bethesda games you are going to like this game, it is just like skyrim or fallout." That couldn't be any further from the truth. This is nothing like any of the bethesda games. If i didn't know this was a bethesda game I would of never guessed. You literally have no freedom of choice. Meaning your choices do not matter at all. There is no real space exploration. The characters, the dialogue and the story is horribly boring and uninteresting. The combat is atrocious. You have to fast travel everywhere. You spend most of your time in menus. The A.I. in this game is horrible. Literally everything about this game is so bad. A lot of people saying this game is being "Review Bombed". That is just a term made by corporations to silence the truth. People do not like this game and the fact that the review score from the critics is so vastly different than the peoples score is evidence that critics dont have integrity or they just dont know what a good game is. It's not "review bombing" to not like something. The whole point of criticism is to help improve things and we have every right to hate something just like you have the right to love it. Feelings aside this game is objectively bad and is the worst game Bethesda has ever made. These game developers clearly hate us. They don't care about our feedback and will just keep making awful games and unintelligent people will keep lining up to eat the slop. Expand
  47. Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Worst game from Bethestard.
    Also Todd saying that the game is optimized and that it's the fault of the hardware of the people who are playing it if it runs badly It's the straw that breaks the camel's back.
    Now Bethestard is on the **** list together with ubisoft and EA games.
  48. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This game is a test, if we let Hodd Toward get away with this so it could be the future of modern gaming and that would be a shame. We just see what is possible for a studio as Larian with less dev and almost the half of the budget. Literally Skyrim and even fallout has better mechanics than Loadfield. Pls guys don't support this game, otherwise we are going to become the thing which isThis game is a test, if we let Hodd Toward get away with this so it could be the future of modern gaming and that would be a shame. We just see what is possible for a studio as Larian with less dev and almost the half of the budget. Literally Skyrim and even fallout has better mechanics than Loadfield. Pls guys don't support this game, otherwise we are going to become the thing which is the total opposite of the things gaming industry was in the earlyer days. This is not only the question is this game good or not, this is right now the chance to show Xbox and Phil Spencer this is not the way they should go down. Right here and right now we have the opportunity to actually have a huge impact on the industry a very long time ago. Expand
  49. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Pros
    - The Main Soundtrack is pretty dope
    Cons - Contains more bugs than the mouldy pizza in the corner of my room - Dialogue that reads like it was taken straight from a Marvel film - Characters with less personality than my desk lamp - Combat that feels like I'm shooting target dummies with a water pistol - Stare - Literally a single enemy type copy pasted 1000 times with
    Pros
    - The Main Soundtrack is pretty dope

    Cons
    - Contains more bugs than the mouldy pizza in the corner of my room
    - Dialogue that reads like it was taken straight from a Marvel film
    - Characters with less personality than my desk lamp
    - Combat that feels like I'm shooting target dummies with a water pistol
    - Stare
    - Literally a single enemy type copy pasted 1000 times with different hats
    - FTL, an Indie Rogue Lite made by one dude, unironically had more space exploration than this game
    - Bland un-interesting universe where I literally couldn't care less about anything that happens in it
    - Faux RPG choices giving the illusion of build diversity
    - Possibly the worst UI I have ever experienced in any major release title
    - An inventory that's harder to manage than my emotions
    - More time spent in loading screens than browsing the internet on a dial-up connection in 2001

    All in all I cannot say I enjoyed a single minute of the time I spent playing this game and am thankful Steam was kind enough to give me a refund
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  50. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Soulless in every sense of the word. Despite my better judgment, I spent 30 hours on this game just looking for the key to unlock the fun. A puddle a million miles wide, and not even an inch deep.
  51. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Todd Howard says "We did" optimize for PC. Uhh, no. The game runs like dog. This is EASILY Bethesda's worst RPG ever. No contest.
  52. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Starfield prometiendo ser un juego ambisioso y interesante donde no faltaria cualquier detalle la salvacion de los xboxers el juego esta vacio su rendimiento es horrible la navegacion en la nave es rompeconsolas es lo peor hay bugs horribles la barra de vida de los enemigos estorba y no tiene logica el juego
  53. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Ah, another Bethesda title, and yet again, I'm left wondering if they ever learn. The game follows the same worn-out formula that's become all too predictable. Open world? Check. Game-breaking bugs that pop up just when you're immersed? Double check.

    The NPCs still feel lifeless and robotic, reciting lines with the enthusiasm of a malfunctioning voice assistant. Side quests? Sure, if by
    Ah, another Bethesda title, and yet again, I'm left wondering if they ever learn. The game follows the same worn-out formula that's become all too predictable. Open world? Check. Game-breaking bugs that pop up just when you're immersed? Double check.

    The NPCs still feel lifeless and robotic, reciting lines with the enthusiasm of a malfunctioning voice assistant. Side quests? Sure, if by "side quests" you mean a never-ending list of repetitive tasks that make you question your life choices. The AI? Still as baffling as ever. Enemies that sometimes just stand there, letting you shoot them point-blank, or allies who become obstacles in narrow hallways.

    Graphics? Well, they're typical Bethesda – sometimes breathtakingly beautiful, but often marred by janky animations and the odd graphical glitch that catapults you into the stratosphere.

    Their crafting system, while expansive, feels tacked on and unnecessarily convoluted, like they're trying to give the illusion of depth where there isn’t any. And let's not forget the lore inconsistencies that would make any long-time fan scratch their head in confusion.

    In conclusion, it's the same old Bethesda experience - vast yet shallow, ambitious yet buggy. One day, I hope they’ll surprise me, but today is not that day.
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  54. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    If this game had a remotely modern engine and everything wasn't instanced to hell, it still would NOT be very good. Bethesda seem stuck in their ways and after an already disappointing Fallout 4 simply try to inflate the scope of their typical style of game resulting in insanely boring procedural landscapes and many annoying fetch quests. And since the game world itself and the story areIf this game had a remotely modern engine and everything wasn't instanced to hell, it still would NOT be very good. Bethesda seem stuck in their ways and after an already disappointing Fallout 4 simply try to inflate the scope of their typical style of game resulting in insanely boring procedural landscapes and many annoying fetch quests. And since the game world itself and the story are also probably the worst for any of their titles I sadly can't rate this any higher. Expand
  55. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    It Just Doesn't Works

    Game would be good in 2015, but in 2023 it's nothing but same old crap on the same engine. Shaders don't exist, faces of NPCs are better in Half Life 2, simulator of loading screens. Going to play NMS I'm getting sick of this over hyped trend in last quarter of year.
  56. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    It just works

    Another portion of yummy for Bethesda Softworks fans
    Eat, little ones ^_^
  57. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    If Mass Effect Andromeda and Cyberpunk release version had a child.. Starfield is that.. My face is tired KEKW

    Anyone rating this game high are just pure Bethesda and Todd fanboys. When he claims that ppl with latest GPU and CPU have to upgrade because this "next gen" game with 2012 graphics cant run properly because of lack of optimization and modders have to fix on day 1 is just
    If Mass Effect Andromeda and Cyberpunk release version had a child.. Starfield is that.. My face is tired KEKW

    Anyone rating this game high are just pure Bethesda and Todd fanboys. When he claims that ppl with latest GPU and CPU have to upgrade because this "next gen" game with 2012 graphics cant run properly because of lack of optimization and modders have to fix on day 1 is just something on another level..

    Enjoy giving him money and set the usual standard to this level so other game developers can follow too.. why bother optimize your game and make proper animations and polish the game when your fanbase gonna buy no matter what sheet you push down their throat.. You guys just pathetic..
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  58. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    The parts of the game that actually work are boring. Too many load screens and poorly optimised.
  59. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Unfortunalty its propably one of worst Bethseda games , no open world makeexploartion gone , and shooting is as bad as ever
  60. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Técnicamente el juego es muy desfasado, tiene los gráficos muy antiguos la exploración es muy tedioso con las constantes pantallas de carga para desplazarte de un planeta u otro gameplay muy básico lo destacable seria como se ven las galaxias y los planetas desde lejos.
    En general es un juego básico nada destacable y decepcionante en la exploración lo cual es un punto Muy importante dado
    Técnicamente el juego es muy desfasado, tiene los gráficos muy antiguos la exploración es muy tedioso con las constantes pantallas de carga para desplazarte de un planeta u otro gameplay muy básico lo destacable seria como se ven las galaxias y los planetas desde lejos.
    En general es un juego básico nada destacable y decepcionante en la exploración lo cual es un punto Muy importante dado que el juego se basa en la exploración misma.
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  61. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Wow... playing this game is like watching paint dry. I don't understand how the managed to make the start or the game so boring. The AI is straight up awful, they are still using NPC models from skyrim, they always give you creepy looks when you walk by. It's also basically a loading screen simulator, I don't understand how no mans sky can have seamless space travel in 2016 and one of theWow... playing this game is like watching paint dry. I don't understand how the managed to make the start or the game so boring. The AI is straight up awful, they are still using NPC models from skyrim, they always give you creepy looks when you walk by. It's also basically a loading screen simulator, I don't understand how no mans sky can have seamless space travel in 2016 and one of the biggest companies can't manage it in 2023. Good luck if you by this game. Expand
  62. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Please, don't buy this. I just came off of playing BG3 and went straight into this. Oh! THE DISPARITY! Bethesda the Great is NO MORE. Empty, hollow, soulless, repetitious and without merit. Freedom? Feel free to watch their garbage game load. Why is this so highly regarded even amongst seemingly trustworthy sources? The only place you find accurate impressions of this waste of drive spacePlease, don't buy this. I just came off of playing BG3 and went straight into this. Oh! THE DISPARITY! Bethesda the Great is NO MORE. Empty, hollow, soulless, repetitious and without merit. Freedom? Feel free to watch their garbage game load. Why is this so highly regarded even amongst seemingly trustworthy sources? The only place you find accurate impressions of this waste of drive space is in the user reviews on Metacritic. Don't give them money for this. Let them sit a couple hundred million in the hole. When will they get the point? The community doesn't deserve last gen graphics and mediocre story touted as innovation AND trailblazing. Unacceptable. This company has to go man. They couldn't do it then, they can't do it now and they definitely won't do it down the line. It's time we take the market back and hand it to developers and studios like Larian. Expand
  63. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    El juego es aburridisimo, lleno de bugs, tardas 2 horas para empezar a jugar! Es el mismo RPG de siempre pero en el espacio!
  64. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    The game feels very outdated and very restricting. There's almost no reason to be in space and the gathering is so lazily designed that instead of actual rocks to mine they just look like little pimples on scattered about. Deceptive marketing was used to promote this game. They were selective with their review copies to make sure only those who would rate it positive got one.
  65. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Старфилд полное govno, не тратьте на это время Expand
  66. Sep 7, 2023
    2
    The game is okay, but not much more. It doesn't live up to the hype. Generic Bethesda quests, the most fragmented space I've ever seen. It looks good, but it comes at the cost of countless loading times. You can't even go up a ladder without a loading screen. There aren't too many bugs, but they occur regularly.
  67. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Mando compra um PC melhor mas e os cara c os hardware mais topo de linha rodando a 30 fps?
  68. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    scam game!
    The quality of the tree, the texture of the water, the light and shadow effect.
    It's hard for you to believe that this is a game from 2023. I believe it when you say it's a game from 2013.
    Bethesda spent 7 years making a pile of **** from 10 years ago, and someone paid for it...
    Bethesda's lack of ambition is not without reason.
  69. Sep 8, 2023
    4
    The game is pretty good but the optimization is crap. The game is not played.
  70. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    This game doesn't deserve your time and attention
    I'll gave advice
    If you want to play something like this go play no man's sky
  71. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Starfield é mais um título da Bethesda que não consegue inovar na fórmula de saque, tiro e exploração pela qual o estúdio é conhecido. Minhas expectativas eram altas, mas não encontrei nenhum sistema que apresentasse pelo menos um pequeno defeito.

    A construção de naves é competente, mas a verdadeira diversão é impulsionada pelas vantagens. O combate espacial se mostra monótono e
    Starfield é mais um título da Bethesda que não consegue inovar na fórmula de saque, tiro e exploração pela qual o estúdio é conhecido. Minhas expectativas eram altas, mas não encontrei nenhum sistema que apresentasse pelo menos um pequeno defeito.

    A construção de naves é competente, mas a verdadeira diversão é impulsionada pelas vantagens.
    O combate espacial se mostra monótono e simplista, onde a diferença de nível e investimento em vantagens são os únicos determinantes de vitória ou derrota.
    A narrativa parece genérica e desprovida de inspiração.
    A jogabilidade é sólida, mas poderia oferecer mais profundidade; os poderes, embora inovadores, rapidamente perdem seu apelo.
    As vantagens, embora interessantes, às vezes bloqueiam o acesso aos recursos básicos do jogo e podem ser permitidos para completar missões.
    O excesso de telas de carregamento é notável, interrompendo a fluidez da exploração planetária.
    Falando em planetas, uma vasta quantidade deles carece de conteúdo significativo, resultando em exploração tediosa em busca de recursos inúteis.
    Os rostos dos NPCs são inexpressivos e perturbadores, prejudicando a tradição.
    A gestão do inventário é uma verdadeira dor de cabeça.
    O desempenho do jogo, embora não terrível, deixa a desejar, especialmente em áreas urbanas movimentadas como New Atlantis.
    Há mais críticas a serem feitas, mas essas são as principais razões para minha decepção com este tão esperado título de "ópera espacial" após supostos 25 anos de produção.
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  72. Sep 10, 2023
    1
    The only good thing I have to say about Starfield is that it's definitely the best Bethesda game in a while. But, no matter how you look at it, at the end of the day Starfield is just a No Mans Sky reskin, which depending on how you look at it, could be good or bad. If you like No Mans Sky, then I recommend Starfield, but if you don't I obviously don't recommend this game. To put itThe only good thing I have to say about Starfield is that it's definitely the best Bethesda game in a while. But, no matter how you look at it, at the end of the day Starfield is just a No Mans Sky reskin, which depending on how you look at it, could be good or bad. If you like No Mans Sky, then I recommend Starfield, but if you don't I obviously don't recommend this game. To put it simply, I would describe Starfield as a dull No Mans Sky reskin. That's why I rate it as a 1. This game does have things that NMS doesn't, but it's not enough for Starfield to be considered truly unique. Expand
  73. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    (Got my Steam refund today) Worst game I ever played and I am a gamer since the 80's. Hard to think that way about Starfield becauce I'm among the biggest fans of Skyrim with over 10 000 hours of play. But this game is trash and painfully boring. Nothing to do... Not a space game... No exploration at all... graphics are like a bad game of 2011. The characters and Npc are so ugly. Everybody(Got my Steam refund today) Worst game I ever played and I am a gamer since the 80's. Hard to think that way about Starfield becauce I'm among the biggest fans of Skyrim with over 10 000 hours of play. But this game is trash and painfully boring. Nothing to do... Not a space game... No exploration at all... graphics are like a bad game of 2011. The characters and Npc are so ugly. Everybody in the game have short hair??? What a stupid fact... They spend 400 millions for a game and they managed to make this garbage. I will not trust Bethesda ever again. They made promises and they fail to deliver them. I'm sure these promises were never wanted to be... Bethesda lied to us for the last years. Thank you for the refund Steam, you are the best part of my Starfield experience. Don't buy it! Oh... One last thing... Don't buy it! Expand
  74. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Horrible disappointment of a game, to think they spent over 7 years to make this abomination. Shallow worlds, shallow characters, shallow traveling, and shallow RPG mechanics. The only thing saving the game is the somewhat ok space flight but it is jot enough to redeem it from being a 0. Games coming from companies like Bethesda who HAD good credibility either get one of 3 scores, a 10, 9,Horrible disappointment of a game, to think they spent over 7 years to make this abomination. Shallow worlds, shallow characters, shallow traveling, and shallow RPG mechanics. The only thing saving the game is the somewhat ok space flight but it is jot enough to redeem it from being a 0. Games coming from companies like Bethesda who HAD good credibility either get one of 3 scores, a 10, 9, or 0. The game is a mile wide and an inch deep, and because of that there is no legitimate way to get invested, it’s just run here, shoot this, grab that, fly there, do this. There are not way to play your own way in regards to actual depth in RPG mechanics. 0/10, disappointment Expand
  75. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    this game was fun at certain points but after playing 50+ hours and finishing the main story this **** sucks
    game performs poorly even when above recommended specs and the game does not look that great, combat sucks (no gibbing/dismemberment, more bullet spongy than ever), space combat is not fun, perks are awful and you have to spend points to unlock stuff you should just have (perk to
    this game was fun at certain points but after playing 50+ hours and finishing the main story this **** sucks
    game performs poorly even when above recommended specs and the game does not look that great, combat sucks (no gibbing/dismemberment, more bullet spongy than ever), space combat is not fun, perks are awful and you have to spend points to unlock stuff you should just have (perk to unlock the ability to use boost pack??? space magic is just rehashed dragon shouts and most of them suck and unlocking them is incredibly frustrating where you have to run land on a planet, run to a temple (oh no ground vehicles btw because bethesda dont know how to make one never have) then float into **** lights and get ear raped

    so disappointing, im done with bethesda, i cant believe they had so much money and so many years of development to make a great game and came out with this, now i have no faith in them making something good again
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  76. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    e sem absolutamente nada para fazer. O pouco conteúdo que é gerado, são repetitivos e no terceiro planeta vc já não vai querer vistar mais nenhum.

    Era bem melhor ter feito apenas um sistema solar, mas que a gente pudesse pelo menos voar entre os planetas, entrar na atmosfera... Enfim, só de lembrar eu já fico com raiva. Eu espero muito que a Bethesda abandone esse motor gráfico
    e sem absolutamente nada para fazer. O pouco conteúdo que é gerado, são repetitivos e no terceiro planeta vc já não vai querer vistar mais nenhum.

    Era bem melhor ter feito apenas um sistema solar, mas que a gente pudesse pelo menos voar entre os planetas, entrar na atmosfera...

    Enfim, só de lembrar eu já fico com raiva. Eu espero muito que a Bethesda abandone esse motor gráfico ultrapassado, e comece a usar a Unreal 5. Se TES vier tão baixa renda igual esse Starfield, vai ser outro fracasso
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  77. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Worst npcs in any game in terms of ai and design. Outsourcing this game was a bad idea. Also “buy a new pc” is a poor excuse considering the target fox is 30
  78. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    I can't believe that the worst thing about a "space game" is the space gameplay and navigation, very disappointed with everything.
  79. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Unoptimized piece of crap, worst and at the same time funny thing is Todd and Phill recommend us change video adapters, are you fckn jokin
  80. Sep 8, 2023
    1
    This is one of the worst games I've played in recent times. I'm even too lazy to describe all the disadvantages of the game, its buggy, sluggishness. Bad graphics from 10 years ago. I won't sputter - play No Man's Sky or Mass Effect. I'm so glad I didn't buy this "game". Well Todd Howard calls it a game. Thanks torrents for letting me try to play this.
  81. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    Did not enjoy it at all. Did feel like a game from 2010. No joy of taking off the ship or landing it. Alot of fast travels, more like the whole game is a big fast travel..
  82. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    "It's unacceptable that they release such a bad game, with bugs throughout the entire game, ridiculous missions, planets that look like screensavers, no meaningful exploration, poor PC optimization, and the worst part is that I have an Xbox, and the bugs and optimization are still bad, maybe slightly better. A company that used to be so incredible has become the worst."
  83. Sep 7, 2023
    4
    The game does not deliver what was promised. Bad graphics, VERY high hardware requirements. Boring, no space exploration, archaic game engine remembering the days of Oblivion. The only thing from space in this game is its price. The game has its pluses, of course, but the number of minuses does not allow to give it a positive rating. It looks like Bethesda released Skyrim clone in space inThe game does not deliver what was promised. Bad graphics, VERY high hardware requirements. Boring, no space exploration, archaic game engine remembering the days of Oblivion. The only thing from space in this game is its price. The game has its pluses, of course, but the number of minuses does not allow to give it a positive rating. It looks like Bethesda released Skyrim clone in space in 2023 hoping that the community will improve the game with mods. That's not the way to go. Expand
  84. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    boring story......
    boring characters......
    looks worse than some 8th gen games...... runs much worse than cyberpunk with raytracing, without having the raytracing...... ship customization is meaningless, the ship is just a glorified fast travel intermediary...... loading screens to enter a small building, to enter your ship, to exit a planet, to fast travel to another planet, to land
    boring story......
    boring characters......
    looks worse than some 8th gen games......
    runs much worse than cyberpunk with raytracing, without having the raytracing......
    ship customization is meaningless, the ship is just a glorified fast travel intermediary......
    loading screens to enter a small building, to enter your ship, to exit a planet, to fast travel to another planet, to land on the planet and to exit your ship......
    No DLSS, you have to install a mod to get a feature that is standard these days......
    No FOV slider, also need a mod......
    No raytracing......
    Mediocre combat with retarded NPC AI and bulletsponge enemies......
    No maps for cities......
    empty and boring planets, only useful to gather resources so that you can build settlements. It`s literally Bethesda saying "we will not make anything interesting and leave it to the players and modders to make something with the tools we gave them"......
    no day 1 patch to fix any of these issues......
    TLDR: It`s trash.
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  85. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This game is awful and garbage they say it will be the help angel of xbox but this game need help its has false things like the planets and garbage story and side quest i dont sugest to play this game beacuse its ****
  86. Sep 8, 2023
    1
    I played this game 1 hour before I refunded, it’s as woke as it can be , there is no way to avoid it .
  87. Sep 7, 2023
    2
    1) my ARCa 770 graphics card is not working fine in this game...
    2) location download simulator
    3) constantly crashes
  88. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Prometieron el juego del siglo y nos entragaron un juego donde el 90% del juego esta vacio!
  89. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Starfield is biggest disappointment of the year. Just very bad game and bad story.
  90. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Lleno de bugs por doquier, das un paso y bug, ni cyberpunk tenia tantos bugs
  91. Sep 7, 2023
    2
    This is just slightly less buggy fallout in space.... Except the worlds are more boring. There's no point to exploring or trying to get creative, and the worlds are just made up of instances. If you're going to play the game, just beeline straight to the end. If you don't, you'll probably get bored and never play again. I was originally going to give the game a 3 or 4, but writing thisThis is just slightly less buggy fallout in space.... Except the worlds are more boring. There's no point to exploring or trying to get creative, and the worlds are just made up of instances. If you're going to play the game, just beeline straight to the end. If you don't, you'll probably get bored and never play again. I was originally going to give the game a 3 or 4, but writing this review has shown me how disappointing this game really is. Expand
  92. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Biggest disappointment in games i had in recent years. The world is not immersive at all, npc AI behaviour is really bad, space flight is an illusion. For that price, just no. It feels like an indie game that you can get for 30-40$.
  93. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Juego malo con gráficas de 360 tiempos de carga enormes y no se puede creer la cantidad de errores que tiene
  94. j97
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    First off, the pronoun stuff doesn't matter. Even if you're miserable and uninformed enough to get mad about how other people live their lives, you wouldn't even know the option was there(a minor option at the start of the game that is never significantly relevant again) without demented freaks online demanding you get upset about it. Don't let right-wing grifters dupe you into getting madFirst off, the pronoun stuff doesn't matter. Even if you're miserable and uninformed enough to get mad about how other people live their lives, you wouldn't even know the option was there(a minor option at the start of the game that is never significantly relevant again) without demented freaks online demanding you get upset about it. Don't let right-wing grifters dupe you into getting mad about that. What you should care about is how bad the actual game is, and not fake culture war nonsense.

    This game is just Fallout 4 again but worse in every possible way. The performance is absolutely dreadful even on high end hardware, and their previous games weren't known for being well optimised.

    As bad as Fallout 4 might have been as an RPG, it at least had a map that was fun to explore and live in. You could look in any direction and there would be something to go do over there, and the locations were varied and worth exploring. In Starfield, however, they have apparently gone for "realism" in the sense that most planets are completely devoid of anything worth seeing or doing, and this was on purpose according to their own Pete Hines(google search "Starfield planets were purposefully designed to be ‘boring’ says Bethesda"). When you land on a planet you are given a small patch of land on that planet to explore, before hitting invisible walls, and within that patch of land there may be 2-5 points of interest. Getting to any of these locations requires a five minute walk, as there are no land vehicles and you can't just hop in your ship to get closer, as that would generate a slightly different patch of land, thus resetting the locations to be different and placed a certain distance from the ship's landing point. During your five minute walk, you will encounter nothing. I mean literally nothing, no enemies, no minor buildings or objects, maybe a couple of non hostile animals that you can kill for material scraps, but nothing to make the journey at all exciting. Once you arrive, the location will be one of three or four different types of location. A cave will just be that, a small cave with some bits of material on the wall that you can waste your time mining. A space bandit hideout will be one of two or three bandit hideout templates that you will keep seeing again and again. All of this makes exploring extremely dull, which is bad news, considering that was supposed to be a major selling point for this particular game, and in this regard(and most others) it just falls on its face in the most clownish way possible.

    As a role playing game, it once again lowers the bar through the floor, removing any sense of unique character builds in favour of generic perks that are either so important that literally everyone would take them or so bad that it doesn't matter which you choose.

    The dialogue is so bland and lifeless it could easily have been written by some of the early AI chatbots from a couple years ago, each character is even more boring and uninteresting than the last, and your choices in dialogue always include two ways of advancing the conversation the same way but with reworded text, and one or two ways of asking more about the subject, which is literally never worth doing.

    The combat is somehow a downgrade from the already awful combat in their previous games, where enemies stand in place sponging your bullets without flinching as you empty your mag directly into their head, and their AI is so poor that just playing the game like you would any other results in the enemies being confused and unable to keep up.

    The ship combat is a pointless, dull, tacked-on waste of time, there's no gameplay to it beyond lining up your crosshair with the enemy ship and holding down the mouse button until their HP bar is depleted.

    This game really is failing on all cylinders, and the positive reviews truly make me question why I continue to hope for good video games when so many gamers are content with shameful slop such as this. There may be a couple slightly redeeming moments later in the game, but it's like an NPC says at the start of the game "The juice ain't worth the squeeze".
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  95. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    The game isnt worth your money and time
    Too many bugs,graphics from like 2010,story is very boring and repetative. In all Bethesda delivered an unfinished and un polished product.Shame on you Todd and Bethesda for all the bad marketing lies..
  96. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    zbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
  97. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    So, this Space Skyrim/Fallout has turn out to be the biggest disappointment of the year. The WORST optimization I've seen since Batman Arkham Knight, coming from a game that has been developed for almost 10 years, and worked with this graphic engine for 20y. Makes no sense.

    Despite the performance, the game looks good aesthetic, but not appealing enough.
  98. Sep 7, 2023
    3
    I really tried to like Starfield, but I just couldn't.

    The game suffers from numerous things it executes on poorly, and almost no redeeming features to make up for it. Story wise the game is extremely boring and despite what some people say doesn't magically get better after 15 odd hours of gameplay. The skill tree feels extremely limiting and punishing. If you don't take
    I really tried to like Starfield, but I just couldn't.

    The game suffers from numerous things it executes on poorly, and almost no redeeming features to make up for it.

    Story wise the game is extremely boring and despite what some people say doesn't magically get better after 15 odd hours of gameplay.

    The skill tree feels extremely limiting and punishing.
    If you don't take lockpicking as an example there are many quests that you simply CANNOT finish.
    In comparison to other games like BG3 and even older BGS entries this feels extremely shortsighted and gives you a false sense of choice in regards to building your character.

    The environments feel bland and a person can really tell it was generated instead and not polished afterwards.
    The enemy bases are literally copy pasted and in around 40 hours of gameplay I probably saw the exact same enemy structures 5-6 times.

    The inventory system feels unintuitive and feels more like a chore than anything else.

    Surprisingly, the ship customization and ship battles really surprised me because they are half decently done.

    The graphics are unfortunately extremely outdated for a 2023 release.
    Character faces look outdated and overall looks jarringly bad.
    The game optimization is horrible, I am struggling to get consistent FPS on low graphics , while I can play any other modern game on medium/high graphics without any performance issues.
    The Creation Engine is really starting to show it's age, both in graphics as well as in combat.
    The FPS experience somehow feels very similar to Fallout 4 , and at this point feels inexcusable for a AAA release.
    The sheer amount of loading screens are jarring and it makes it almost impossible to get immersed in the game.

    The game would have been significantly better if they scaled the game down to 10 planets and instead hand crafted major areas on each planet for us to explore.
    Instead you are limited to a randomly generated generic block to explore for each planet.

    Overall I have played roughly 40 hours of Starfield , and don't think I'll ever be picking up the game again.
    The game tries to do too much and ends up as a half baked RPG and a half baked space exploration game.
    I would rather go replay another BGS title to get a better RPG experience or rather play No Mans Sky for a better space exploration game than play a game that does neither well.
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  99. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Bethesda hasn’t evolved in the past decades, it is still the same junk/mechanics, it really sad because i really wanted to love this game, i tried i really tried but everything feels so old.
  100. Sep 7, 2023
    1
    The fact that Bethesda had the nerve to release a PC port of Starfield in its current state is absolute absurd after the disaster of the Fallout 76 launch. The game is plagued by hangs, audio cutting in and out, long freezes when firing weapons (somehow even though the animations and mechanics were ripped straight from Fallout 4 which didn't have these issues), and some good old fashionedThe fact that Bethesda had the nerve to release a PC port of Starfield in its current state is absolute absurd after the disaster of the Fallout 76 launch. The game is plagued by hangs, audio cutting in and out, long freezes when firing weapons (somehow even though the animations and mechanics were ripped straight from Fallout 4 which didn't have these issues), and some good old fashioned hard crashes. Frankly, give it a miss for at least six months. It wasn't ready for prime time and it won't be worth your time if you get it through game pass or your money if you buy it for a long time.

    Metacritic reviews tend to be exaggerated, but I'm not exaggerating, and I'm not mincing words here. This game is not functional for many PC players, especially Nvidia users.
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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.