Starfield

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  1. knetis
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
    Great game with a ton of things to explore but poorly optimized even for high end hardware.
  2. Agliareth
    Sep 10, 2023
    7
    Lamentablemente, el viaje espacial en Starfield no cumplió con mis expectativas. Las mecánicas de vuelo y exploración espacial son limitadas y carecen de profundidad, lo que resulta en una experiencia decepcionante. Además, la variedad de armas en el juego es escasa, lo que limita las opciones de combate y puede hacer que se vuelva monótono a largo plazo. Por otro lado, los NPC en el juegoLamentablemente, el viaje espacial en Starfield no cumplió con mis expectativas. Las mecánicas de vuelo y exploración espacial son limitadas y carecen de profundidad, lo que resulta en una experiencia decepcionante. Además, la variedad de armas en el juego es escasa, lo que limita las opciones de combate y puede hacer que se vuelva monótono a largo plazo. Por otro lado, los NPC en el juego tienen una inteligencia artificial bastante básica y carecen de interacciones significativas, lo que les resta realismo y profundidad. Aunque Starfield tiene sus puntos fuertes, como sus visuales impresionantes e historia, estos aspectos negativos impactan en la experiencia general del juego. Con algunas mejoras y actualizaciones, Starfield podría convertirse en un juego de culto. Por ahora, le doy una nota de 7/10.… Expand
  3. Alexkhan85
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    The game is just good, nothing revolutionary. Yes, it has some new mechanics like flying into space, but the realization of space travel and space battles leaves much to be desired. And everything else looks the same: here and hanging around NPCs with grimaces on their faces, the old engine with its frequent downloads makes itself felt. Optimization as I think could be better, graphicsThe game is just good, nothing revolutionary. Yes, it has some new mechanics like flying into space, but the realization of space travel and space battles leaves much to be desired. And everything else looks the same: here and hanging around NPCs with grimaces on their faces, the old engine with its frequent downloads makes itself felt. Optimization as I think could be better, graphics sometimes gives beautiful landscapes, but not so much to squeeze out of the top graphics cards all the power. From the good except that more or less pleasant shooting and some quests are not bad, well and in the end the game is monumental, I think in the game you can spend a lot of time.… Expand
  4. Solidsnake69
    Sep 10, 2023
    7
    It's very mid. I'll just the issues. Boring story, no land vehicles, so much loading, pointless base building.

    Lots of good moments as well though.
  5. Gipsojo
    Sep 11, 2023
    7
    This is a good game but could have been much better with different imagination and management. As it is, this is a new gen version of Skyrim or Fallout. In fact it even comes across as less exciting than those games because by now we're familiar with the Skyrim/Fallout experience.

    In my opinion they should have focused on aiming higher than Skyrim/Fallout 4 instead of trying to emulate    This is a good game but could have been much better with different imagination and management. As it is, this is a new gen version of Skyrim or Fallout. In fact it even comes across as less exciting than those games because by now we're familiar with the Skyrim/Fallout experience.

    In my opinion they should have focused on aiming higher than Skyrim/Fallout 4 instead of trying to emulate those experiences exactly. The whole thing is a little too familiar and definitely a letdown when you consider the years and years of hype. If anything this game feels old fashioned in 2023.

    If you're okay playing a new version of Skyrim or Fallout then this is exactly that! Definitely big and expansive just like those games were. You can put a lot of hours into Starfield if you don't get bored and bounce off first.

    Don't buy a Series X just for this! If you already have GamePass then of course you've already downloaded it and played it for yourself.

    7/10    … Expand
  6. iSokolov
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Worst perfomance even on Nvidia 3k series. This game forced me to buy a new RX 7800 XT to have some fun but now I have to wait when the card will come.
    No russian language! "Thank you"
    Ru community must do own translation because Bethesda and Microsoft show their faces. Not all russian live in Russia and not all stay with its political decesioins. The game is boring and loading screens    Worst perfomance even on Nvidia 3k series. This game forced me to buy a new RX 7800 XT to have some fun but now I have to wait when the card will come.
    No russian language! "Thank you"
    Ru community must do own translation because Bethesda and Microsoft show their faces. Not all russian live in Russia and not all stay with its political decesioins.
    The game is boring and loading screens made me sad so game was deleted before it will be playable by community.
    I do not recommend to buy the game in its current state.    … Expand
  7. TheEndOfNether
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    The first 10 or so hours are boring af, the graphics are “good”, but for a $70 game, and for when it was made, pretty bad, also, the optimization is terrible, games made 5 years prior look at about the same, but play way better.

    Gameplay wise, as I mentioned before, the start is VERY boring, and combat is pretty bad as well, the ai of most enemies is non-existent, and difficulty seemingly    The first 10 or so hours are boring af, the graphics are “good”, but for a $70 game, and for when it was made, pretty bad, also, the optimization is terrible, games made 5 years prior look at about the same, but play way better.

    Gameplay wise, as I mentioned before, the start is VERY boring, and combat is pretty bad as well, the ai of most enemies is non-existent, and difficulty seemingly only increases enemy health, making them incredibly spongy, sometimes requiring more than 5 mags, just to kill one enemy, this makes the ammo economy absolutely terrible, I often have to just melee everyone because I run out of ammo.

    One more notable, thing, is the inability to fast travel directly from a planet’s atmosphere, to a position on it, without going through a few menu. (You can fast travel from planet to planet, and solar system to solar system without menus though).    … Expand
  8. mac1appula
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    Good game, nothing innovative or revolutionnary:
    It really is Skyrim in space.
    Gameplay looks and feels better than what we saw during gameplay trailers/teasers, lots of possiblities. Story is not fantastic or bad, it's mid. Quest design, HUD, game engine, RPG aspects of the game look outdated. Optimization wise, it's bad.. can't even hold 60fps on a 3070 w/ ryzen 7 5800X on    Good game, nothing innovative or revolutionnary:
    It really is Skyrim in space.

    Gameplay looks and feels better than what we saw during gameplay trailers/teasers, lots of possiblities.
    Story is not fantastic or bad, it's mid.

    Quest design, HUD, game engine, RPG aspects of the game look outdated.
    Optimization wise, it's bad.. can't even hold 60fps on a 3070 w/ ryzen 7 5800X on 1440p, had to install optimized settings mods to get them.

    That's what the game feels like.. a Starfield game template for modders to cleanse the game from bugs, crashes and all kind of problem.

    Would not recommend buying at full price, just get gamepass for a month..    … Expand
  9. Svarcadusk
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
    Ambitious and impressive game. Sadly quite boring most of the time. Gameplay is mostly absent throughout. Story and characters are also missing. It's a fantastic world more than a game proper.
  10. VitaminCx3
    Sep 10, 2023
    7
    Starts very slow and takes quite a bit of time to be fully immersed. The Good
    -Once the story gets going it’s good
    -The side missions are great -Exploration is good The Bad -The menu and UI are trash -No map -Buggy -Graphics look dated, nothing looks next gen, ugly character models -So many loading screens -30fps sucks IMO, this should’ve been a next gen game The Average -Gunplay is an    Starts very slow and takes quite a bit of time to be fully immersed. The Good
    -Once the story gets going it’s good
    -The side missions are great -Exploration is good

    The Bad -The menu and UI are trash -No map
    -Buggy
    -Graphics look dated, nothing looks next gen, ugly character models -So many loading screens -30fps sucks IMO, this should’ve been a next gen game

    The Average -Gunplay is an improvement over Fallout but still feels clunky -Having no land vehicles isn’t terrible because you can fast travel but it would’ve been a nice feature -Ship combat is mediocre Ultimately, it’s a prototypical BGS game. They tell great stories and offer great exploration but they’re never well polished games. It’s good and will eventually be great because modders will once again bail it out.    … Expand
  11. AGCR
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    I like it, kinda disappointed cause they tell us this would be the best game in the history and it's not even close, but still a very good game, a lot of hours of content, recommended
  12. xanosta
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    Bethesda had the chance to craft a masterpiece, but...

    -Game Engine: Just another patch. Same bugs, same emotionless faces, same camera angles... A part of me feels like I'm replaying Fallout 4/Skyrim but with spaceships. -AI: An "artificial intelligence" where the "intelligence" part is notably missing. -Difficulty: When you ramp up the game's difficulty, all you get is enemies    Bethesda had the chance to craft a masterpiece, but...

    -Game Engine: Just another patch. Same bugs, same emotionless faces, same camera angles... A part of me feels like I'm replaying Fallout 4/Skyrim but with spaceships.

    -AI: An "artificial intelligence" where the "intelligence" part is notably missing.

    -Difficulty: When you ramp up the game's difficulty, all you get is enemies with more health that turn into bullet sponges.

    -Spaceships: Extremely simplistic spaceship combat, plus you can't travel freely. This makes spaceship customization wholly irrelevant and merely cosmetic.

    -Content: Many entirely empty planets, and yes, I understand it's a game set in space, which is mostly void... but above all, it's a game. And a game with so much empty content is a mediocre game. Period.

    -Narrative: Nothing standout. Characters lack charisma.

    - Technical Aspects: Poor optimization. No native HDR support. No native DLSS support. No Ray Tracing. Technically, it's like a 2010 Indie game.

    Despite everything, the game is enjoyable, and I'm having a good time playing it. However, I can't turn a blind eye to Bethesda's laziness and complacency.    … Expand
  13. Erfancafbr
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    In my opinion, Starfield is a good game, but one of the biggest problems of this game is the creation engine 2, which I think Bethesda should have worked on because the character animations are not interesting. On the other hand, the game world is empty, according to Bethesda, who says that out of 1000 planets, only 100 of them have life and those 100 do not have that many details. IIn my opinion, Starfield is a good game, but one of the biggest problems of this game is the creation engine 2, which I think Bethesda should have worked on because the character animations are not interesting. On the other hand, the game world is empty, according to Bethesda, who says that out of 1000 planets, only 100 of them have life and those 100 do not have that many details. I wish he made the game with unreal engine 5, in my opinion, it would have improved a lot, it would have affected the NPCs and the game environment. But in general, Starfield is not a bad game, but it cannot be called a very good or great game either.… Expand
  14. Lachmund
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
    Starfield isn’t a bad game, it’s good, not great or exceptional, just good. Why it is disappointing to many is due to several reasons.. first being lied to in marketing and secondly because it basically feels like a 15 year old game. There is nothing next gen about it, there is no innovation. No, it even lacks the things that always made Bethesda RPGs so special, as the exploration andStarfield isn’t a bad game, it’s good, not great or exceptional, just good. Why it is disappointing to many is due to several reasons.. first being lied to in marketing and secondly because it basically feels like a 15 year old game. There is nothing next gen about it, there is no innovation. No, it even lacks the things that always made Bethesda RPGs so special, as the exploration and secret wonders to discover are greatly reduced in comparison to older Bethesda titles. It can absolutely be fun and addictive but has so many flaws and unfulfilled potential, that it essentially becomes both, fun and disappointing in equal measures, when it’s fun it’s an 8 and when it’s clunky and boring it’s a 5 so I can sadly only give it a 7, especially since performance even on my PC is really bad for a last gen looking title. It would even be bad if it looked like a next gen title, which it never does.… Expand
  15. Soulcast
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    Juego con mucha paja sin sustancia... demasiadas pantallas de carga para todo, "viajes" espaciales hechos sin ganas, varias misiones no hay por donde cogerlas de lo simples que son, narrativa y expresiones de los npc muy cuestionables.

    ¿1000 planetas para qué? menos cantidad y mas calidad. La historia no está mal, los diseños de las naves molan, el gunplay está muy bien. Experiencia    Juego con mucha paja sin sustancia... demasiadas pantallas de carga para todo, "viajes" espaciales hechos sin ganas, varias misiones no hay por donde cogerlas de lo simples que son, narrativa y expresiones de los npc muy cuestionables.

    ¿1000 planetas para qué? menos cantidad y mas calidad.

    La historia no está mal, los diseños de las naves molan, el gunplay está muy bien. Experiencia bethesda.    … Expand
  16. Tiradentes
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    People are giving this game a (10 - Game of the Year) rating and a (0 - Horrible) rating, but this game is neither of those. It offers a descent Bethesda-style experience.

    If you're looking for an RPG with a compelling story and numerous independent side stories, this game is for you. However, if you're seeking an exploration-driven game, don't bother because it's not that type of game,    People are giving this game a (10 - Game of the Year) rating and a (0 - Horrible) rating, but this game is neither of those. It offers a descent Bethesda-style experience.

    If you're looking for an RPG with a compelling story and numerous independent side stories, this game is for you. However, if you're seeking an exploration-driven game, don't bother because it's not that type of game, despite what someone may have suggested before its release.

    Yes, it has bugs, but they're not significant enough to ruin the experience. Initially, I was going to give it an 8 out of 10, but the facial expressions really bothered me, especially since I had just come from playing another RPG that handled them so well. Therefore, a 7/10 rating feels more appropriate to me.

    In conclusion, it has its flaws, but if you like or love Bethesda games, you'll definitely enjoy it, making it worth the full price on PC. If you can play it with a pass, even better.    … Expand
  17. Kludo
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    No hay duda de que no es un mal juego. pero tampoco hay duda de que no es lo que prometieron. Y es que falla en sus mecánicas más prometedoras y se queda en un juego de rol del montón ambientado en el espacio. Puede ser divertido y aburrido al mismo tiempo. Puede ser grande y muy pequeño a la vez. El rendimiento en pc es caótico. Puede ir de maravilla en un mapa abierto de superficie,No hay duda de que no es un mal juego. pero tampoco hay duda de que no es lo que prometieron. Y es que falla en sus mecánicas más prometedoras y se queda en un juego de rol del montón ambientado en el espacio. Puede ser divertido y aburrido al mismo tiempo. Puede ser grande y muy pequeño a la vez. El rendimiento en pc es caótico. Puede ir de maravilla en un mapa abierto de superficie, puede ir a tirones en un espacio cerrado con 4 npcs o puede bajar misteriosamente de fps en los menús. No es el peor juego de Bethesda pero tampoco es el mejor.… Expand
  18. sherekmate
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
    Let's take a serious analysis since many sites out there prefer to earn a few bucks before sending a decent review.

    The game has a very good premise and is fun to play, the ship modifications are really cool... The graphics don't even mention it, more for the objects themselves, the world around them... That's really cool. However, many things in the game seem to be delayed in time,    Let's take a serious analysis since many sites out there prefer to earn a few bucks before sending a decent review.

    The game has a very good premise and is fun to play, the ship modifications are really cool... The graphics don't even mention it, more for the objects themselves, the world around them... That's really cool.

    However, many things in the game seem to be delayed in time, such as the characters' speeches, the enemies' AI, and the players' movement through the "open world".

    It's unbelievable that a 2023 game has a loading screen all the time, as well as robotic models of the characters when they talk to the player.    … Expand
  19. NightWalker693
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
    It's a great game that suffers from outdated engine and terrible optimization on PC, with the CEO of the Bethesda just saiyng "upgrade your hardware" instead of fixing the problem. It feels like a beta version.
  20. berko0ne
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    old engine graphics like 2014 and still performance problems with current GPUs.
  21. EinarHarald
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    This is not skyrim in space, it is oblivion in space. Once you understand that your expectations will be set. This game is very inconsistent. To start several aspects of the game are 10/10, including the art direction, textures, absolute depth of content, sound (and voices), music and atmosphere. The music is superb and the artists did a phenomenal job creating a NASAPunk art style.This is not skyrim in space, it is oblivion in space. Once you understand that your expectations will be set. This game is very inconsistent. To start several aspects of the game are 10/10, including the art direction, textures, absolute depth of content, sound (and voices), music and atmosphere. The music is superb and the artists did a phenomenal job creating a NASAPunk art style.
    However, the game is extremely lazy and incompetent when it comes to other aspects, close to 3/10. This includes the story which is in my opinion 0/10 and the world building and level design. There IS SO MUCH that can be done in space, but the combat is barely different from fallout 4/76. Every conversation with NPCs results in a fetch quest. I s*it you not, in 1 hour in new atlantis I stumbled upon 5 different fetch quests including getting a coffee for a Janitor. What in the actual crap is this? The writers of this game are absolutely incompetent, it feels like a clone of the previous games writing-wise. And the role-playing aspects aren't improved upon since Fallout 3. In fact in FO3 you could role-play more effectively. The quest designers and writers need to be FIRED. The UI design IS ATROCIOUS. It gives me anxiety.
    Finally as always, this game will be endless with mods. Mods will find creativity that bethesda writers and game designers don't have    … Expand
  22. RTJ50
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    After several hours in Starfiled I can give my opinion about this rpg. Starting with its technical section, I really expected more with very bad graphics and textures and in other places very well done, with almost no space exploration, which was what excited me the most, the character editor is very well done, I think Starfield He tried to do many things at once, leaving many shortcomingsAfter several hours in Starfiled I can give my opinion about this rpg. Starting with its technical section, I really expected more with very bad graphics and textures and in other places very well done, with almost no space exploration, which was what excited me the most, the character editor is very well done, I think Starfield He tried to do many things at once, leaving many shortcomings in all the areas , the null AI of the enemies, the points of interest that in reality only translate into minimal skirmishes with little sense and their procedural worlds that are only fillers that do not I recommend that you make an effort on it because you are going to be disappointed, it would be better to focus on the main missions if they have more meaning and are more entertaining, I think it is a title that we were all in the clouds of expectation but in my case it did not reach my expectations. This game could perfectly be called Fallout 5. It's as if they had copied things from Skirim, Fallout and other games, with the same sense of missions and mechanics with their procedural worlds that I don't like at all. But not everything is bad, the main missions are entertaining, the creation of the ships, which is their strong point, and the "linearity" that you can have in this game. I emphasize the worst thing is its AI, the truth is that it is the part that most disappointed me, no, being an rpg it must have some difficulty it doesn't matter if you increase the difficulty the nocs don't change their water they are just like a sponge from which they absorb a great amount of bullets haha ​​.. Bethesda should leave this graphics engine and look to the future with other technologies, moders can save this game in a year, maybe it will be in condition. I wish.… Expand
  23. legendkiller2k
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    Not a perfect game by a long shot but what it does offer is hours of fun and entertainment, as with Bethesda games it does have a few bugs but nothing that will ruin the enjoyment of the game.
    It takes awhile to get going so just bear with it.
  24. lunaroja
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Requerimientos exagerados y problemas de optimizacion. El juego no es malo, pero no se puede esperar un buen producto con un motor que ya tiene tanta antiguedad.
  25. SomeWeirdGuy
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Not truly a sense of space exploration when the game is designed to make the player go between menus and travel points but other than that the sci-fi atmosphere and world building is very good, the gunplay is serviceable but could be better imo.
  26. AlcoholicGamer
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Poor PC Optimization, slow start, very mediocre story, and delivering nothing new are some of gripes.
    Combat is fluid and it strikes home with skyrim feels. It's overall a good game, but it's important to keep in mind how much development into this game and the hype around it.
    My gripes really aren't justifiable. 7/10 may seem harsh, but maybe I'd go 8/10 on xbox assuming it's optimized    Poor PC Optimization, slow start, very mediocre story, and delivering nothing new are some of gripes.
    Combat is fluid and it strikes home with skyrim feels. It's overall a good game, but it's important to keep in mind how much development into this game and the hype around it.
    My gripes really aren't justifiable. 7/10 may seem harsh, but maybe I'd go 8/10 on xbox assuming it's optimized better. FYI, I have a top end PC.    … Expand
  27. corillian
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    It's not a bad game but it has some rough edges.
    i don't like the Inventory, the map especcially in cities and the travelling system.
    Graphics are good but has some weird bugged faces and the performance is not really great in outdoor areas.

    Story is ok, there are nice Quests but also some exeptions.

    7/10 for me
  28. Pouria47
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Good design, high variety A typical story
    The game is unnecessarily heavy(to much loading) my techincal rate is 6.8 but my feeling rate is 9.2 i enjoy the game
  29. Hopkihu
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Nothing innovative. Copied formulas from decades old games. The first day or two of this game is boring as hell. You start to realize there's nothing actually great about this game. Illusion of choice (yes or no) dialogue. BG3 is the game of our generation and that development team took the time to give us choices in how we play and talk. Speaking of, you can have dialogue with every NPC.Nothing innovative. Copied formulas from decades old games. The first day or two of this game is boring as hell. You start to realize there's nothing actually great about this game. Illusion of choice (yes or no) dialogue. BG3 is the game of our generation and that development team took the time to give us choices in how we play and talk. Speaking of, you can have dialogue with every NPC.

    I wanted to like this game. But it's MID. No amount of Xbots can change the course of history. Multiple high-budget game this year under the Bethesda banner leaving Microsoft holding the Bethesda bag.

    Todd Howard should be ashamed of himself and his career. They gave us nothing new. Old engine, old crafting style, old dialogue system, outdated ui, outdated inventory, outdated graphics, outdated as hell combat gameplay, typical outdated crappy Ai npc, and more loading screens than I have ever seen.

    They could have cared, I mean so many fkn years spent developing this game. Were they actually working on Starfield? Where did their budget actually go?
    Imagine being a Destiny player and fed up with the NeverChanging seasons. Mid after mid after mid.
    That's how it feels to pick up and play Starfield.

    Who develops a game where the first 15 hours are absolute **** boring, and tedious?

    The only thing I love about this game is that on PC I can toggle Command Mode and remove the self-destructive Weight Capacity mechanic.

    The saddest thing about this entire situation is this-
    Xbox owners have been getting spoonfed games that have been marketed as great for so long that they no longer recognize what makes a game great. So while the rest of the world got to play amazing games like BG3, God of War, Last of Us, (games that pushed the bar for story, graphics, and game design) they were too busy drooling over the likes of Redfall and Starflop.

    No amount of pop-up review sites being given advance copies and $50 can change the fact that this game is 20 years old in design with a half-assed paint job.

    Now I see why Microsoft gave this game away.    … Expand
  30. Dervrak
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    The good:
    - Graphics are pretty good, except for some of the facial animations that look like they came from the 11-year-old Skyrim.
    - Music is great - Main story is fine, not revolutionary, but holds your interest. - Ship customization is fun - Actually, pretty bug free for a Bethesda game The bad: - Exploration outside of the main quest is virtually pointless. - Far too many    The good:
    - Graphics are pretty good, except for some of the facial animations that look like they came from the 11-year-old Skyrim.
    - Music is great
    - Main story is fine, not revolutionary, but holds your interest.
    - Ship customization is fun
    - Actually, pretty bug free for a Bethesda game

    The bad:
    - Exploration outside of the main quest is virtually pointless.
    - Far too many loading screens.
    - Enemy AI is as bad as Fallout 4

    Conclusion:
    Not the worst game ever, but not groundbreaking either. I personally would wait about a year until the modding community fixes and adds in all the missing features and makes exploration worthwhile. Then it might bump up to an 8/10 or 9/10 game    … Expand
  31. SavrySauce
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    It's just too boring at the beginning. Every planet feels the same, and enemies are bland and duplicated throughout the galaxy.

    As others have said, it does get significantly better after a dozen or so hours.
  32. Jimese
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    A solid Bethesda game, but still falls short. If you're expecting another Bethesda experience, you've got it. Just don't expect anything more. If you enjoy these games, it's a fun ride, but not without bumps.

    Firstly I'll be comparing the game to another Bethesda game, Skyrim. Compared to Skyrim, the cities in Starfield are just as good, if not better. However, this comes with a price.    A solid Bethesda game, but still falls short. If you're expecting another Bethesda experience, you've got it. Just don't expect anything more. If you enjoy these games, it's a fun ride, but not without bumps.

    Firstly I'll be comparing the game to another Bethesda game, Skyrim.

    Compared to Skyrim, the cities in Starfield are just as good, if not better. However, this comes with a price. There are too few handcrafted settlements to explore. It leaves the world's and galaxy feeling empty. This is supposed to be offset by the civilian outposts which are procedurally generated among planets you explore. In theory it's a cool idea, however it gets old fast. There are only so many types of outposts you can encounter, and they never have named NPC's. The quests they give will always be the "go kill this guy" type of quests with infinite variations. And the way they are randomly placed in the world and are devoid of meaningful characters reminds me of Minecraft villages. The worlds of Starfield don't feel immersive like Skyrim. There is a certain charm that's missing that comes with a handcrafted world. The way that the environment tells a story, the way the environment compels you to move to a point of interest, and the feeling of randomly stumbling onto some cool location, is missing in Starfield. Instead, points of interest (POI) are marked on you map and scanner, and you explore by just walking towards the POI on your compass. There is no stumbling onto some small scene that a dev lovingly put into a small corner of the map. Everything is procedurally generated outside of POIs. This is not the kind of exploration that's fun for me. The game suffers from a lack of weapon variety. For example for lasers, there's only 1 laser pistol, 3 rifles, and 1 heavy. It's really boring to have the same weapon model you had since the beginning of the game, with it just doing more damage. Skyrim had many different types of materials for weapons, and each had their own model. A greatsword had iron, steel, elven, orcish, and daedric variations. In Starfield I specced into lasers and pistols, and using one model for 28 levels was so disappointing. I'm disappointed because I thought Starfield would push Bethesda's boundaries, but it doesn't even match the level of Skyrim.

    Now, onto the good things.

    The game is roleplaying friendly. I enjoyed the game the most when I leaned into roleplaying a starship captain. Because let's be honest, Bethesda aren't known for their in depth combat systems. It's combat is serviceable. Lean into it's strength as an RPG and you'll have a good time.

    Building ships is great fun. The builder is a little clunky, but if you can get past it there's a lot of fun to be had. You can make ships of all shapes and sizes, and it just works. It's something you can sink your teeth into, and I appreciate that. A complaint I have is that you cannot buy a ship part, and store it to use later. You need to be physically present at the ship yard in order to use that part. This forces you to travel many times to many different shipyards, back and forth.

    In conclusion, Starfield is a solid Bethesda game with many flaws, but still fun in the end. 7/10.    … Expand
  33. Hikarrus
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    Recomendaría la compra en el caso de que te gusten los juegos de rol del estilo de Fallout y Skyrim, pero si te esperas una experiencia totalmente inmersiva del espacio o un simulador espacial estilo Star Citizen, X4 Foundations o No Man's Sky, mejor que te mantengas alejado del juego.

    Definiría el juego como un juego con diferentes MÓDULOS, el módulo de la Nave, en Tierra, los    Recomendaría la compra en el caso de que te gusten los juegos de rol del estilo de Fallout y Skyrim, pero si te esperas una experiencia totalmente inmersiva del espacio o un simulador espacial estilo Star Citizen, X4 Foundations o No Man's Sky, mejor que te mantengas alejado del juego.

    Definiría el juego como un juego con diferentes MÓDULOS, el módulo de la Nave, en Tierra, los Asentamientos, la Tripulación y la Exploración, pero que realmente no acaban de cohesionar bien en el juego, debido a que puedes pasarte el juego sin necesidad de hacer uso de uno u otro, por ejemplo puedes explorar la galaxia sin necesidad de profundizar en la nave.

    Aun así, la experiencia es muy divertida y positiva, tú decides que aspectos tocar, el juego y sus planetas son preciosos y desconocidos que invitan a explorarse, tiene buen sistema de combate y de habilidades, extensa personalización del personaje, diversa construcción de asentamientos y una correcta personalización de las naves, aunque personalmente debería de actualizarse en una Update futura, ya que no es intuitiva y tampoco puedes rotar algunos módulos ni conectarlos de la forma que quieres.

    Sin embargo, la IA es un absoluto desastre que deberían mejorar, los diálogos con los personajes carecen de carisma y sientes que estás hablando con un Synth del Fallout4, exceso de pantallas de carga y cinemáticas para las mismas.

    Para situarlo en un ranking de juegos de rol de Bethesda, diría que está por debajo de Skyrim pero por encima de Fallout 4.

    Si has llegado hasta aquí, muchas gracias por tomarte el tiempo en leer la reseña, me gustaría profundizar más en muchos aspectos, pero es un juego tan extenso y abismal que no es posible en una caja de texto.    … Expand
  34. GenShakewell
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    I've been having a really good time with this game and in most situations, the graphics are gorgeous.

    There ARE a lot of issues with it if you went into it with certain expectations. The performance is not that great, and it really should have shipped with DLSS3 and Frame Generation. Using the mod that was put out, on my 4070ti at 3440x1440 I never dip below 75fps on Ultra at full    I've been having a really good time with this game and in most situations, the graphics are gorgeous.

    There ARE a lot of issues with it if you went into it with certain expectations. The performance is not that great, and it really should have shipped with DLSS3 and Frame Generation. Using the mod that was put out, on my 4070ti at 3440x1440 I never dip below 75fps on Ultra at full resolution scale.

    Yes, it's not as open as they lead you to believe, yes, the pronouns are stupid, but I personally didn't even notice it because they defaulted to the male character I made; hell, I didn't even realize I could change them at first.

    What the game desperately needs is a vehicle you can use on a planet's surface to make you want to go explore the structures off in the distance. I sure hope there is some sort of buggy or land-speeder DLC. Spending 5 - 10 minutes just walking through a baren wasteland to get to one of the structures off in the distance is pretty boring.

    The gunplay feels good, and the AI is leaps and bounds better than previous Bethesda titles.

    I do feel like there are a bit too many restrictions placed on ship building and it becomes tedious swapping out and removing parts constantly just to get the errors to go away.

    Being on PC, I am hoping most of my complaints will be solved with the help of mods, so it probably is getting an extra point as a result. I would say for the general public, a 6 is an accurate score and that's disappointing for a game that we all waited so long to play.

    In conclusion, I know the devs put their heart and soul into this game and it does show under the complaints. It's just such a massive game that unless we wanted to wait another 1-2 years, this was probably the best we could have gotten. Bethesda can and hopefully will still fix the performance issues on PC and hopefully release some sort of free vehicle DLC. I think those two points would go a long way in making a lot of people enjoy this game a lot more. Buy the game but don’t do it under the belief that it’s the second coming or going to change your life.    … Expand
  35. distru2003
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    not really bad, not really good, this game is really similar to fallout 4, enjoy it!
  36. shalmani
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    This is not skyrim in space, it is oblivion in space. Once you understand that your expectations will be set. This game is very inconsistent. To start several aspects of the game are 10/10, including the art direction, textures, absolute depth of content, sound (and voices), music and atmosphere. The music is superb and the artists did a phenomenal job creating a NASAPunk art style.This is not skyrim in space, it is oblivion in space. Once you understand that your expectations will be set. This game is very inconsistent. To start several aspects of the game are 10/10, including the art direction, textures, absolute depth of content, sound (and voices), music and atmosphere. The music is superb and the artists did a phenomenal job creating a NASAPunk art style.
    However, the game is extremely lazy and incompetent when it comes to other aspects, close to 3/10. This includes the story which is in my opinion 0/10 and the world building and level design. There IS SO MUCH that can be done in space, but the combat is barely different from fallout 4/76. Every conversation with NPCs results in a fetch quest. I s*it you not, in 1 hour in new atlantis I stumbled upon 5 different fetch quests including getting a coffee for a Janitor. What in the actual crap is this? The writers of this game are absolutely incompetent, it feels like a clone of the previous games writing-wise. And the role-playing aspects aren't improved upon since Fallout 3. In fact in FO3 you could role-play more effectively. The quest designers and writers need to be FIRED. The UI design IS ATROCIOUS. It gives me anxiety.
    Finally as always, this game will be endless with mods. Mods will find creativity that bethesda writers and game designers don't have.    … Expand
  37. Dr_cheetos
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego es bueno solo que los mundo está vacíos en su mayoría y otra cosa que no me gustó es la "exploración espacial" que de exploración espacial no tienen nada solo puedes estar en las órbitas de los planetas pero fuera de eso el juego es bueno pero su inicio es lento pero si tienes paciencia podrás apreciar un buen juego no es nada espectacular pero tampoco es malo es bueno y ya está… Expand
  38. RizGoG
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
    Игра интересна не смотря на старый движок,ну конечно вечная загрузка тоже очень подбешивает в 2023 году,но играть всеровно интересно ,многие говорят поиграйте уж лучше в Скайрим или Фоллаут ,но как по мне эта игра кто хочет поиграть в нормальную RPG,поэтому играйте PS:Я вообще не умею писать обзоры так что не обращайте на мою туфталогиюИгра интересна не смотря на старый движок,ну конечно вечная загрузка тоже очень подбешивает в 2023 году,но играть всеровно интересно ,многие говорят поиграйте уж лучше в Скайрим или Фоллаут ,но как по мне эта игра кто хочет поиграть в нормальную RPG,поэтому играйте PS:Я вообще не умею писать обзоры так что не обращайте на мою туфталогию
  39. Samkurd
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
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  40. Gregoloko
    Sep 11, 2023
    7
    I have been able to play more than 50 hours of the game since early access and for me it is not the masterpiece that Bethesda promised, mediocre story, forgettable characters, fast travels everywhere and for everything, out of 50 hours you spend 20 hours in the menus, horrible AI, it's not because it's Microsoft,Its just because the game is not worth more than 7/10...
    We all know that    I have been able to play more than 50 hours of the game since early access and for me it is not the masterpiece that Bethesda promised, mediocre story, forgettable characters, fast travels everywhere and for everything, out of 50 hours you spend 20 hours in the menus, horrible AI, it's not because it's Microsoft,Its just because the game is not worth more than 7/10...
    We all know that Bethesda expects modders to do what they couldn't do, but how sad that they didn't put more effort into the game, especially when I see what no man Sky can do.

    He podido jugar mas de 50 horas al juego desde el acceso anticipado y para mi no es la obra maestra que prometio bethesda,Historia mediocre,personajes olvidables,viajes rapidos hasta para ir al baño, de las 50 horas te la pasas 20 horas en los menus,IA horrenda,No es porque sea Microsoft sino porque el juego no vale mas de 7/10...
    Sabemos todos que bethesda espera que los modders hagan lo que ellos no pudieron hacer pero que triste que no le pusieran mas empeño al juego mas cuando veo lo que puede hacer no man Sky.

    J'ai pu jouer plus de 50 heures au jeu depuis l'accès anticipé et pour moi ce n'est pas le chef d'oeuvre promis par Bethesda, histoire médiocre, personnages oubliables, déplacements rapides partout et pour tout, sur 50 heures on passe 20 heures dans les menus, IA horrible, ce n'est pas parce que c'est Microsoft mais parce que le jeu ne vaut pas plus de 7/10..
    Nous savons tous que Bethesda attend des moddeurs qu'ils fassent ce qu'ils ne pouvaient pas faire, mais comme c'est triste qu'ils n'aient pas mis plus d'efforts dans le jeu, surtout quand je vois ce que No man Sky peut faire...    … Expand
  41. psychobudgie
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    Incredibly disappointing by Bethesda's standards. The space game where travelling in space is optional. You can quite literally fast travel between planets, and by planets I mean a small map that happens to be on a planet. This is not No Mans Sky so forget about exploration for anything other than mineral gathering. The missions are as generic as they come and after around 8 hours in it isIncredibly disappointing by Bethesda's standards. The space game where travelling in space is optional. You can quite literally fast travel between planets, and by planets I mean a small map that happens to be on a planet. This is not No Mans Sky so forget about exploration for anything other than mineral gathering. The missions are as generic as they come and after around 8 hours in it is incredibly boring. The combat is generic and underwhelming, graphically it's not exactly ground breaking but will batter your hardware like it is and it has its fair share of game breaking bugs and crashing to the desktop so you need to save often. I see many giving this 10/10 which is ridiculous given the issues it has. Amazed how Bethesda seems to get a pass for putting out poorly optimised, unfinished and bug ridden games when every other publisher, rightly, gets dragged over the coals for it. Simply not good enough considering the time it spent in development. It's an OK game but the negatives far outweigh any positives.… Expand
  42. Diaboliquin
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Bad performance no matter what HW you have, Bethesda doesn't fix this POS, it just says you have to update, cynics. It lacks HDR, raytracing and DLSS support, but these Bethesda mofos believe Starfield is "next generation.". Nice story bros, your ancient engine don't have to do with anything. This needs heavy patching/modding as always with Bethesda.
  43. Glic2003
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    A surprisingly bland, clunky shooter with a thin veneer of RPG elements which are mostly poorly-explained, in a generic sci-fi setting with unlikable characters.
  44. Tubey
    Sep 9, 2023
    6
    Disclaimer: I've wrote 170 game reviews on here for fun, being as honest as I can be. I think I've scored two games 10 and two games 0 in that time. So when I give Starfield this score and review, it is not 'review bombing' - it's embarrassing to see media outlets time and time again dismiss user generated reviews because they're generally actually more reliable than their scores.

    On    Disclaimer: I've wrote 170 game reviews on here for fun, being as honest as I can be. I think I've scored two games 10 and two games 0 in that time. So when I give Starfield this score and review, it is not 'review bombing' - it's embarrassing to see media outlets time and time again dismiss user generated reviews because they're generally actually more reliable than their scores.

    On with the review...

    I was excited for Starfield. Not to the extent most were - I didn't expect Game of the Century - but I expected a really fun experience, Skyrim in space as people say.

    I even bought the special edition headset and controller because they're incredible. I have zero regrets doing so either.

    So yes, it's disappointing to say that Starfield is... mediocre. In many ways it is actually Skyrim in space, and if that was the aim they technically achieved it. But it's done with no heart, soul or innovation. It's a relic, a game from ten years ago, clumsily dressed up and disguised as a modern one. But it's like plastering over a wall that's falling apart; the cracks quickly begin to show. And boy does Starfield have cracks.

    NPCs look and act like robots. They don't feel part of the world. Even the voiced primary cast have a vague empty feel to them. The cities suffer from uninspired design - either painfully bland or cookie cutter. They get a bit better than the first one you'll bump into, which isn't hard as THAT one almost feels like a practical joke in how generic and beige it feels, but it never gets to the territory of 'good'. Indeed, The Outer Worlds - a game this borrows heavily from and is inferior to in look, story and character - smashes Starfield apart in this respect.

    Yes, the game is 'big'. But 90% of it is lifeless. Literally. Barren planets acting as resource deposits. Again, The Outer Worlds - smaller, more focussed and hand crafted - is leagues beyond what Starfield offers in terms of curated content, because it's a more even experience throughout.

    The writing and cast... no, actually, I won't criticise the voice actors too much. It's done well for their part. But the writing... it's Maguffin 101, you largely know what is going to happen throughout inside 15 minutes and there's very little turn of pace or direction. And to again compare to The Outer Worlds, nearly everything is so serious - yes, it occasionally 'lightens up', but it feels like a side-mission of levity to the main mission of deadly serious, boringly delivered lines. Without Skyrim's 'one voice actor voices like 200 people' novelty, this really, really starts to grate.

    Combat is, for the most part, good. Gunplay - a concern of mine ahead of launch - is surprisingly very decent. The levelling system, however, isn't. It's... not pointless as such, as the perks work, but it's all delivered at snail's pace and in terms of combat perks can mostly just be straight up nearly ignored.

    The UI is classic Bethesda - terrible. But I could have lived with that personally as it's par for the course. The lack of mapping, however, isn't. It's an almost gamebreaking design fault, absolutely shocking and I can't for the life of me understand why they went in this direction. It's supposed to be a sprawling open world RPG - how can you NOT give the player mapping?

    Speaking of RPG, this comes to the crux of my issues with Starfield. It's decidedly an average looter-shooter first, and an RPG second. Fresh off the back of Baldur's Gate III and Sea of Stars, Starfield REALLY feels limited in its role-playing aspects.

    Is it a 'bad' game? No. There's a lot of fun to be had, it does a lot right. But it's a disappointing one overall. From the makers of Skyrim and Fallout, over a decade after the latters release and with the company surely learning from the mistakes of Fallout 76, I simply expected a lot better. This is going to be a game that review sites will cringe when looking back on the 9s and 10s it's been rewarded out of sheer hype, because it's quite honestly not even close to that score. It's a 4/10 'Bethesda' game for me, but a 6/10 'actual game' - I expected so much more and got, what the kids call, a 'mid' experience. To this day, I can pick up and play Skyrim for a few hours and have a great time; whereas I pick up and play Starfield and I'm looking for reasons to carry on after 15 minutes. Therein is the difference.    … Expand
  45. Rudal
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    I am one of those poor bastards that decided to buy the early access version of the game instead of just waiting for cheap game pass access.

    I have close to 42 hours in the game (41,7h according to steam) and it is a typical Bethesda game. No improvements, no surprises, no excitements. Where it all falls apart for me is the lack of "WOW!" moment. I'm over 40 hours in and I'm still    I am one of those poor bastards that decided to buy the early access version of the game instead of just waiting for cheap game pass access.

    I have close to 42 hours in the game (41,7h according to steam) and it is a typical Bethesda game. No improvements, no surprises, no excitements. Where it all falls apart for me is the lack of "WOW!" moment. I'm over 40 hours in and I'm still waiting for it to happen.
    There are the same bugs as always, the same stiff faces and animations as always, even the idle lines of NPC's when you walk past are the same like in Skyrim and Oblivion or Morrowind. At some point I was even expecting one of the guards in New Atlantis to complain about his missing sweet-roll or tell me that he used to be an explorer as well...

    Another negative point is the "your journey" factor. Elder Scrolls or Fallout games have this sense of moving forward, this journey your characters takes. Even if you travelled back and forth between two locations it still seemed meaningful, still had a purpose. In Starfield there are loading screens...
    Whatever you do, there is a loading screen. You can travel to the far end of settled systems and it still doesn't feel like you're on an epic journey cause there are just loading screens. Hell, there even is a loading screen to get straight to your cockpit if you can't be bothered to walk across your own ship.

    I know that you don't have to use fast travel and just do it the "old fashioned way" but honestly, there are occasions where I don't even know that I will fast travel. Once you discovered a place then you will fast travel there. You have to go out of your way to travel to discovered places the "normal way".

    The game is not all that bad or a lie like some make it out to be, but it is less than what I would normally expect from Bethesda and definitely not worth the £60, hence 6/10.    … Expand
  46. jfrisby
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    The marketing for this was like they were actually going into space, a technical marvel. Bethesda's writing and attention to detail are weaker than I remember... I just see amazing scenarios with lacking options, choices, and consequences in the design and fine detail. On rails.
  47. akarnokd
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    It's a mess. Technical issues, stability problems, awkward design choices, glitches. Wait for patches, driver updates and possibly overhaul mods.

    The negatives: - Didn't run on Intel Arc on Premium Access release day. A bit better now. - Performance and stability issues. - Design choices, such as storage not connected to crafting. - Space combat is not that good with mouse and    It's a mess. Technical issues, stability problems, awkward design choices, glitches. Wait for patches, driver updates and possibly overhaul mods.

    The negatives:
    - Didn't run on Intel Arc on Premium Access release day. A bit better now.
    - Performance and stability issues.
    - Design choices, such as storage not connected to crafting.
    - Space combat is not that good with mouse and keyboard.
    - Small glitches.
    - Planetary traversal is tedious.
    - Low inventory capacities.
    - Repeating locations.

    The positives:
    - Exploration.
    - Planetary surveying.
    - Discovering new and unique locations.
    - Vasco's banter.
    - Environmental storytelling.
    - The smaller sidequests.    … Expand
  48. mosti
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    The space travel aspect in the game is merely a shallow feature that allows you to say, "Hey, you can travel in space," without much actual gameplay involved. Rather than accessing other planets through a physical menu, you access them through an interactive menu while onboard your ship.

    During my early gameplay, I had a ship battle, but there haven't been any significant encounters    The space travel aspect in the game is merely a shallow feature that allows you to say, "Hey, you can travel in space," without much actual gameplay involved. Rather than accessing other planets through a physical menu, you access them through an interactive menu while onboard your ship.

    During my early gameplay, I had a ship battle, but there haven't been any significant encounters since. However, it's possible that these mechanics become more prevalent later in the game. Overall, the game feels like Fallout 4 set in space, albeit without the VATS system. The gameplay, loot gathering, and usage of loot resemble Fallout 4, and it doesn't bring much novel to the table. Unfortunately, there are two major flaws that significantly detract from the game.

    Firstly, the absence of land vehicles other than walking is incredibly frustrating. Sprinting depletes your oxygen rapidly, and traveling from point A to point B takes a frustratingly long time due to the vast expanses of empty space between them.

    Secondly, unlike in Fallout, where you could spot distant landmarks and explore the areas in between, this game lacks that sense of discovery. Either the long-distance visuals don't appear until you're closer, or there genuinely isn't much of interest on each planet.

    Despite boasting a staggering number of 1000 planets to explore, it fails to capture the same sense of exploration found in Fallout or Skyrim. The issue might stem from the arduousness of traveling around, especially from point A to point B.

    On the positive side, the game mechanics are solid and offer a diverse range of activities. Crafting weapons, armor, ship upgrades, and mining minerals form an intricate system. However, it would have been more enjoyable if the developers had focused on improving the content of a smaller number of planets, rather than spreading themselves thin over 10000 planets.

    Additionally, the game suffers from technical issues. HDR is glitchy, the lack of an FOV slider and brightness adjustment is noticeable, and the lighting is subpar for a next-gen game. The PC optimization is questionable, although it's worth noting that some players forget that DLSS is not available in this game, causing performance struggles for those with lower-end GPUs.

    Overall, I would rate the game a 6/10. If they were to address some key issues by adding a land vehicle, fixing HDR, introducing an FOV slider, and implementing DLSS, the score could potentially reach a 7/10. To further improve, they should focus on creating more points of interest on fewer planets, as the current quantity feels gimmicky. With such changes, the game could potentially earn a 9/10 rating.    … Expand
  49. zjdog
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    The game is the most fun when you just ditch the main quest and go exploring and messing around. Shipbuilder is probably the best feature in the game.
  50. Bloubul1
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    The more I played the worse it got. I initially gave it an 8 out of 10, now I am down to 6 out of 10. It is just...empty. I think if they added more (intelligent) alien races to discover, vehicles like hover craft or dune buggies to explore planet surfaces, and flying in the atmosphere - the exploration part would have been much better. Also, why can't I swim under water? It is soThe more I played the worse it got. I initially gave it an 8 out of 10, now I am down to 6 out of 10. It is just...empty. I think if they added more (intelligent) alien races to discover, vehicles like hover craft or dune buggies to explore planet surfaces, and flying in the atmosphere - the exploration part would have been much better. Also, why can't I swim under water? It is so immersion breaking.… Expand
  51. Kahl
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Such a frustrating game. Amazing in some places, awful in others. The UI, map, inventory management are flat out awful for a 2023 game, its like Bethesda expects modders to fix its problems. The combat is merely ok, AI is stupid. The nonstop teleporting cuts into immersion. A mile wide and an inch deep is a good categorization. To be clear, I am ENJOYING this game 30 hours in, but there isSuch a frustrating game. Amazing in some places, awful in others. The UI, map, inventory management are flat out awful for a 2023 game, its like Bethesda expects modders to fix its problems. The combat is merely ok, AI is stupid. The nonstop teleporting cuts into immersion. A mile wide and an inch deep is a good categorization. To be clear, I am ENJOYING this game 30 hours in, but there is so much pain and lack of polish on managing the basics. You can't even mark items in your inventory to prevent selling them, making every trip to the shop take 3x longer than it should as you sift the grain from the chaff. The map is PAINFUL after lots of usage, no favorite waypoints, really?

    A game that is amazing in areas but fails at most of the basics.    … Expand
  52. peente
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    The game is good and interesting, but very outdated. A greedy producer should allocate some money to improve the technology, because it would be a shame to play a powerful idea in such an old shell. Frequent loadings in a game of this type are unacceptable.
  53. bonq
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    Lvl 43. 30h in. Game is just meh at best. It's too expensive for what it can offer. The good: story and quests, gunplay. Some mechanics, like lockpicking, and assaulting other spaceships. The bad: Well game looks great in some places in others just... Only spaceship, no other vehicles. Outposts are useless, broken, or janky as hell. Leveling is too slow and blocked by achievements. SpaceLvl 43. 30h in. Game is just meh at best. It's too expensive for what it can offer. The good: story and quests, gunplay. Some mechanics, like lockpicking, and assaulting other spaceships. The bad: Well game looks great in some places in others just... Only spaceship, no other vehicles. Outposts are useless, broken, or janky as hell. Leveling is too slow and blocked by achievements. Space is okay, but planets are just big and empty sometimes with repeated locations. They could procedurally generate some locations not only enemies.

    Expect the story and some fun quests, there are better games. In my opinion is worse fallout 4 in space. Buy only on big discounts, or after millions of mods.    … Expand
  54. winzentween
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    Starfield is not bad. Its not Starfail. But its not a great game either. I like to think of it as a AAA loading screen simulator. It's much more than that at times though at it's core Starfield really is a series of endless loading screens. The devs took the open world majesty of Skyrim and compartmentalized the excitement of space exploration into walled in mini games.

    Quick Summary: If    Starfield is not bad. Its not Starfail. But its not a great game either. I like to think of it as a AAA loading screen simulator. It's much more than that at times though at it's core Starfield really is a series of endless loading screens. The devs took the open world majesty of Skyrim and compartmentalized the excitement of space exploration into walled in mini games.

    Quick Summary: If it's free then definitely play it and decide for yourself. Or wait for a sale. Its average and a little boring at times.

    REVIEW: Starfield is an odd game. It looks last gen but with some fancy lighting. The same awful facial animation is back but this time the story sucks. As does the voice acting. Which is a shame as I presumed Bethesda would have ironed out the quirks and jank after so many many years and so much money.

    It runs fine though digital foundry will tell you not all cards run it equally. You'll get 60 ish fps on 1080p on a mid range card like a 2080. Its a little glitchy but one of the better launched for Bethesda. But this isn't a cheap game so we shouldn't act as unpaid PR teams for a AAA studio which has a habit of misleading fans and starfield is no different. Its not quite what they promised. After Redfail I had hoped MS would have insisted on only releasing games when they're ready. Starfield may have benefited from more time or even a redesign. As it lacks many basic options on all versions including FOV. So mods are once again freely fixing the many issues (cyberpunk style).

    The game world is like 970 empty procedurally generated planets and 20 decent ones and 10 good ones. Its like a poor mans mass effect merged with no man's sky though inferior to both. It tries so hard to be all these better games but fails to be any of them or even it's own thing. But I feel with a year of official hard work and free dlc and mods then it could become something better. It will never be Skyrim in space as it's not a seamlessly open world game. As said at it's core it's an elaborate loading screen sim but it's the best one ever made!    … Expand
  55. garayba
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    What a disappointment it's really just a 6/10 i'm not just angry . look when you first start it you will be amazed by the graphics and the mystery but after sometime you'll realize that this game is so boring , it's just running around , talking to npcs , shooting enemies , repeat . i'm serious that's it , that's the most "exiting" part other stuff is below boring. planets are boring ,What a disappointment it's really just a 6/10 i'm not just angry . look when you first start it you will be amazed by the graphics and the mystery but after sometime you'll realize that this game is so boring , it's just running around , talking to npcs , shooting enemies , repeat . i'm serious that's it , that's the most "exiting" part other stuff is below boring. planets are boring , main quest is boring , they didn't even create animations for most of the things it's just a text like "hey you took that and activated that and an explosing happened" lol but no animations happens no effect nothing it's an empty game , don't believe the hype anymore.… Expand
  56. Tuskone
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    A standard typical Bethesda game with all the good and bad. Be it the abnormal amount of bugs, the cheese-ability of every encounter, or the good writing of quests, and physics sandbox where every item location is perma saved and the planets orbit around.

    Loading screens are insane, there's no vehicles because the boundaries are so small, gunplay is meh (though some ID software touch is    A standard typical Bethesda game with all the good and bad. Be it the abnormal amount of bugs, the cheese-ability of every encounter, or the good writing of quests, and physics sandbox where every item location is perma saved and the planets orbit around.

    Loading screens are insane, there's no vehicles because the boundaries are so small, gunplay is meh (though some ID software touch is there), AI is bad. Game is boring though, main story boring, NG+ idea is great. If you want space exploration NMS is the game. If you want a good story BG3 is the game. If you want good combat AC6 is your game. Starfield is just a mix of "meh", "good" things sprinkled in with some extremely bad design decisions, like the whole UI.    … Expand
  57. NelchaelSS
    Sep 9, 2023
    6
    It’s exactly what I expected from Bethesda, Space Fallout. Really fun game if you abandon the mediocre main quest and do all the side stuff (where all the fun stuff resides).

    For me it would be a SOLID 8/10 game if Todd didn’t gaslight us, telling us that the game is properly optimised (it isn’t, it runs like ass on top spec PC’s) and the fact that Bethesda is completely silent regarding    It’s exactly what I expected from Bethesda, Space Fallout. Really fun game if you abandon the mediocre main quest and do all the side stuff (where all the fun stuff resides).

    For me it would be a SOLID 8/10 game if Todd didn’t gaslight us, telling us that the game is properly optimised (it isn’t, it runs like ass on top spec PC’s) and the fact that Bethesda is completely silent regarding future bug fixes (because the game has quite a lot of bugs).    … Expand
  58. Squall81
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Is Starfield a bad game? No, it's not a bad game.
    Is it a GOTY masterpiece? No, by a long shot.
    Starfield is... a Bethesda game. If you played Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout then you've played Starfield too. The PC version really needs some optimizations, but it's not the main problem here: Something didn't click for me, like "Ok, nice game, i will continue play it...", but there's no    Is Starfield a bad game? No, it's not a bad game.
    Is it a GOTY masterpiece? No, by a long shot.

    Starfield is... a Bethesda game. If you played Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout then you've played Starfield too.
    The PC version really needs some optimizations, but it's not the main problem here: Something didn't click for me, like "Ok, nice game, i will continue play it...", but there's no soul.

    Space exploration is dull, IA is atrocious.
    Certain aspects of Starfield are very good, like the improved gunplay and the overall space atmosphere but i don't think it's enough.

    Wait for a discount, don't buy it at full price or try it on gamepass.    … Expand
  59. vonfidde
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    A mediocre game that don't really do much, it's quantity over quality. It's Fallout 4 in space but with less immersion and more loadingscreens way more loadingscreens (a game released 2015). Worst inventorysystem in ages it's even worse then Fallout 4, horrible menysystems and maps.

    The praise of this game comes from people that are stuck in the past or do not play many games, if you    A mediocre game that don't really do much, it's quantity over quality. It's Fallout 4 in space but with less immersion and more loadingscreens way more loadingscreens (a game released 2015). Worst inventorysystem in ages it's even worse then Fallout 4, horrible menysystems and maps.

    The praise of this game comes from people that are stuck in the past or do not play many games, if you are a gamer and enjoy good games then this is not the game for you.

    It's clear Bethesda do not evolve or improve at all, my hype for the next Elder Scrolls died with Starfield. Starfield also made it clear that Bethesda needs to take the creation engine 2 behind the barn and shoot it. Too many limitations and you will find the same bugs from previous titles in Starfield.

    Quick recap:
    Performance = Bad
    AI = Bad
    MainStory = Bad (booooring)
    Sidequests = 50/50 Ok/Bad
    Combat = Ok (but underwhelming)
    Sound = Ok (but underhwelming)
    Music = Good
    Immersion = Bad

    There is some ok to good parts in the game but overall very mediocre i would rate this 6/10. I wish modders wouldn't help Bethesda so they actually had to care about there own products in the future. Bethesda didn't even add FOV-slider or DLSS.    … Expand
  60. Andrudis
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    It is not a bad game, and have some good ideas behind it, but outdated game engine, poor balance and very user-unfriendly UI ruin all immersion. Mods will be able to fix some of the issues, particularly with UI, but even mods will not be able to fix fundamental issue with outdated engine.
    Main problem of this game - it does not feel like a live open world, but instead feels like a set of    It is not a bad game, and have some good ideas behind it, but outdated game engine, poor balance and very user-unfriendly UI ruin all immersion. Mods will be able to fix some of the issues, particularly with UI, but even mods will not be able to fix fundamental issue with outdated engine.
    Main problem of this game - it does not feel like a live open world, but instead feels like a set of hundreds of very static small maps connected either by instant teleports or by vast emptiness.    … Expand
  61. joey2234
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    This game is not a 10/10… it is also not a 0/10.

    Starfield as it exists is a fully competent game that takes a LOT from Bethesda’s previous games. At times it really does feel like I’m playing Fallout 4 Spacers Choice. The NPCs that are main characters look amazing…. But 97% of them (random townies) look like ps3 models. The game is incredibly boring and follows very close to the    This game is not a 10/10… it is also not a 0/10.

    Starfield as it exists is a fully competent game that takes a LOT from Bethesda’s previous games. At times it really does feel like I’m playing Fallout 4 Spacers Choice. The NPCs that are main characters look amazing…. But 97% of them (random townies) look like ps3 models. The game is incredibly boring and follows very close to the “skyfall” formula ultimately resulting in a game that feels as old as its predecessors. If you haven’t played Skyrim or Fallout in the last 10 years sure knock yourself out. But for the OG’s this one feels stale and at times totally half baked. Don’t get me started on the atrocious enemy AI. I feel like I can stand in a wide open space with no cover and just shoot until everyone’s dead. Not to say everything here is just bad… it’s just seems even the things done right are just barely so. You know it’s bad when 10 hours in I thought to myself…”why aren’t I just playing heavily modded Skyrim?” 6/10    … Expand
  62. reloaded689
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Clunky, emotionless, and glitchy. Built on a decades old engine, no excuses Todd, it's basically Fallout 4 with a new coat of paint, and Redfalls Ai.
  63. malang
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    The whole game could have taken place on a single planet in a single map, the game is TINY only lasting about 40 hours to 100% EVERYTHING.
  64. Syrona7
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Bought the premium edition in order to play early access.
    I played the game for exactly 3 hours, and got bored out of my mind and refunded it.
    Putting aside the glaring wokeness of having preferred pronouns, the vast majority of humanity being multiracial for some reason, with white people, and especially white men, being extremely rare, and most positions of power being held by women,    Bought the premium edition in order to play early access.
    I played the game for exactly 3 hours, and got bored out of my mind and refunded it.

    Putting aside the glaring wokeness of having preferred pronouns, the vast majority of humanity being multiracial for some reason, with white people, and especially white men, being extremely rare, and most positions of power being held by women, the game has other issues as well.

    Such as the AI lacking the I, the character models being super ugly, reminding of Oblivion, the game being a chain of loading screens as the universe is not actually open, it's just a huge amount of cells, each with their own loading screen.

    But above all, the game is just...BORING! It's not Skyrim in space, it's Fallout 4 in space, except that unlike Fallout 4, it doesn't even have a popular franchise to stand on.

    Wokeness is always ignored by the players if the game is good. Hell, Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty woke and no one cares because the game is so damn good. But Starfield is not a good game, it's a mediocre game at best, so of course the wokeness sticks out like a sore thumb.

    It's...a game. It's nothing memorable nor interesting, it's a soulless corporate product made to squeeze money out of the sheep.
    And if anyone thinks it's a contender for the GOTY award, then they're just pathologically delusional.    … Expand
  65. LittleTerrapin
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Well it's an okay game, just nothing too special really. For some this is exactly what they wanted. For me not, because I have spent too much time with games in my life to want the same types too often I guess.

    Starfield is not a space game in the sense that you feel like space matters. It's more a sci fi themed game where space is part of the look and feel. Flight in space could just as    Well it's an okay game, just nothing too special really. For some this is exactly what they wanted. For me not, because I have spent too much time with games in my life to want the same types too often I guess.

    Starfield is not a space game in the sense that you feel like space matters. It's more a sci fi themed game where space is part of the look and feel. Flight in space could just as well have been flight in atmosphere. The entire game could have been realized on a single Planet with many biomes.

    The many "explorable" planet areas just feel like fluff or padding.

    The thing tjat infuriates me most is how another aaa game from a well known publisher gets such high ratings of "official tester pages". It's **** up that they give points bonus to games which have high probability to buy ad space on those pages but only if the rating is nice and high. Broken review system.    … Expand
  66. AlexHDYT
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Lo llevo jugando en PC desde su salida. El sistema de disparos es muy satisfactorio en comparación a Fallout 4 y anteriores. La personalización de naves es muy extensa y se agradece. El cambio de la gravedad entre planetas es interesante y hace que los combates sean algo mas entretenidos. Dejando esto de lado, los 27 teleports que hay que hacer para moverte me sacan totalmente de laLo llevo jugando en PC desde su salida. El sistema de disparos es muy satisfactorio en comparación a Fallout 4 y anteriores. La personalización de naves es muy extensa y se agradece. El cambio de la gravedad entre planetas es interesante y hace que los combates sean algo mas entretenidos. Dejando esto de lado, los 27 teleports que hay que hacer para moverte me sacan totalmente de la "exploración espacial", me hubiese gustado que los npc tuviesen un mínimo de IA, ya que si roleas el papel de un pirata espacial (que se puede) que menos que se asusten si les disparas a 1 centímetro de la cara. El rendimiento en pc es absurdo lo malo que es y no Todd, no me voy a comprar otro pc, los 20 años que tiene el motor gráfico se notan a la legua. Para mi no es el Goty que todos dicen que es. Es entretenido, pero ya, es olvidable. (No tengo play que ya os veo)… Expand
  67. Runwin
    Sep 11, 2023
    6
    This game is a lie. I enjoyed my 60 hours of gameplay, until I knew I were lied. Since that moment I understood this is just a generic space adventure without any memorable sense or emotion, for me.
  68. zqpb
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Starfield is a Bethesda game that I don't feel like going back to. I had some fun, lots of bugs and bad design decisions.

    It's a bad RPG, mediocre shooter, weak quests, inappropriate music, hideous interface and characters. The onions in the game are better made than the whole game combined. The managers and management should have prioritized it differently. The game could have been    Starfield is a Bethesda game that I don't feel like going back to. I had some fun, lots of bugs and bad design decisions.

    It's a bad RPG, mediocre shooter, weak quests, inappropriate music, hideous interface and characters. The onions in the game are better made than the whole game combined. The managers and management should have prioritized it differently.

    The game could have been better and I have faith that the modders will make the game better. But Bethesda should consider that it's time for them to change their game engine and make games that are within their capabilities.

    Alas, Starfield has proven to be beyond the company's capabilities. Many of the promises made by management turned out to be outright lies. I consider myself deceived, but I respect the good workers at Bethesda. Alas, they are run by incompetent people who have lost touch with the players and no longer understand what people like.

    I wish Bethesda to change their management and not repeat Starfield's mistakes. Don't listen to those who praise this game. It's a failure. You will most likely regret the money you spent.    … Expand
  69. fxlj1t
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Уныло, душно и скучно, но некоторые квесты интересные. Пусть собачка макимы47 не дефает этот среднечок
  70. MiguelD
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Starfield, a vast galaxy of boring nothingness and lost potential. . What a shame! I'm a Bethesda fan, but I need to stay objective here. The game is oke if you're just looking for a new RPG game to play. Is it a groundbreaking, innovative, fresh or bold RPG game? Absolutely not. Want exciting combat and/or real exploration? Then sorry, this is not your game. The critics who gave this gameStarfield, a vast galaxy of boring nothingness and lost potential. . What a shame! I'm a Bethesda fan, but I need to stay objective here. The game is oke if you're just looking for a new RPG game to play. Is it a groundbreaking, innovative, fresh or bold RPG game? Absolutely not. Want exciting combat and/or real exploration? Then sorry, this is not your game. The critics who gave this game a 9 or a 10 are not objective in my opinion or got payed for it.

    For me this is a game like Mass Effect, but without the great story, storytelling, cities, good combat and the amazing characters. I just expected much more from a project of this size and scope. It's been in development for 7 years by a developer that has all the budget, tools and manpower they need... . It's like they know that the modding community will add all the extra's and fix their game.

    My feedback:
    *Very good and sharp visuals for the most part, but some stuff just looks weird.

    * You get thrown into this game with little to no explanation. Good luck figuring it all out!

    * Building your own ship is really cool, but you don't use it for what it's intended to be. So it's a cool and fun gimmick.

    * Better get used to the bugs and glitches, it will happen often.

    * The weapons etc are nice, but the combat is dull and boring.

    * The enemy and team NPC AI are really bad. They are just plain stupid.

    * Plenty of NPC dialogue, but the characters look at you like a plastic zombie with little to no expression. The dialogue is not really engaging too.

    * Inventory space and management is just a joke. Do the devs actually play their game? How many huge money making RPG's does Bethesda have to make to get this right?

    * Looting 1001 carrots, apples, phials, ducktape, screwdrivers etc to sell at an NPC for credits is really not oké anymore. It just sucks. It's like Bethesda is stuck in the past. Same note: do they actually play the game and go "wow this is fantastic, we should keep this?"

    * NPC vendors don't have enough credits for all the crap that you want to sell.

    * No mini map! It can take you a looooong time to figure out where the vendors are.

    * Space combat is not really exciting. The same for the exploring.

    * Wanna explore the universe or planets with your ship? Nope! It's just press a button and teleport! 1000 'planets' of pretty much nothing.

    * Most of the main NPC characters are just dull. If feel no connection with them what so ever. The only one I kinda like is Sam Coe. he NPC characters are a bit too chatty. For some reason, they all what too talk to you for some reason... . Endlessly talking about their private life, loved ones, lost husband, daugther... . It's a nice attempt for creating a bond with the characters, but does anyone really care about conversations like that?

    * Do I regret my 100$ purchase? I should've probably just bought the standard version. Or try it out first on xbox game pass. It's a oke fill the gap game. But it's really not what I thought it would or could be.

    Let's just hope that the Elders scrolls 6 will be much better. Just plzzzzz stop doing the same stuff over and over again!!!    … Expand
  71. dandman90
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Based on my extensive experience playing this game, I'd like to share some thoughts. During the initial hours of gameplay, I was perplexed by the subpar optimization. Even on my Nvidia 3080 desktop, the frame rate wasn't stable, and it failed to reach the expected high levels. Meanwhile, the 3D modeling and texture quality resembled those of games released five years ago. The storylineBased on my extensive experience playing this game, I'd like to share some thoughts. During the initial hours of gameplay, I was perplexed by the subpar optimization. Even on my Nvidia 3080 desktop, the frame rate wasn't stable, and it failed to reach the expected high levels. Meanwhile, the 3D modeling and texture quality resembled those of games released five years ago. The storyline lacked depth, and the SPACE theme failed to resonate with me; I didn't feel like I was truly immersed in a space-themed game. I hope Bethesda can address these technical issues in future patches and improve performance. In summary, I am disappointed.… Expand
  72. casualty327
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    I really wanted to like this game but when I think about playing I think about all the load screens and fast traveling. I just don't want to constantly be dealing with loading screens.
  73. shmitzles
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    I've put 18 hours into Starfield and I think I've played enough to come to my conclusion. Sadly, for me Starfield is the worst Bethesda RPG I've played. The menu system and traveling really grinds my gears and the writing, face animation, and camera work really pull me out of the story. I constantly found my self zoning out and skipping dialogue.

    At times the game is gorgeous and at other    I've put 18 hours into Starfield and I think I've played enough to come to my conclusion. Sadly, for me Starfield is the worst Bethesda RPG I've played. The menu system and traveling really grinds my gears and the writing, face animation, and camera work really pull me out of the story. I constantly found my self zoning out and skipping dialogue.

    At times the game is gorgeous and at other times it looks very outdated. NPCs stare into your soul for no reason and over encumbrance is yet again and issue.

    I'm willing to give it a 6 because the gun play is okay and the ship building is kind of fun. Overall I was very excited to play Starfield but in the end I mostly felt disappointed and irritated by my 18 hour experience.    … Expand
  74. magnumdb
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    I’m 10 hours in. I’ve done multiple story mission and 2 open world quests.

    Let me start with what I like. Graphics looks pretty darn good, by and large. There’s some weird anomalies like the wide eyed stare, and there are visual glitches. Some planets look a bit weak but those total 5% of what I’ve seen. The other 95% looks great - textures and models of all the gear, the human built    I’m 10 hours in. I’ve done multiple story mission and 2 open world quests.

    Let me start with what I like.

    Graphics looks pretty darn good, by and large. There’s some weird anomalies like the wide eyed stare, and there are visual glitches. Some planets look a bit weak but those total 5% of what I’ve seen. The other 95% looks great - textures and models of all the gear, the human built environments, all beautiful.

    Voice acting is usually ok. There’s a lot of cartoony over the top voices that sound like sarcasm. Music is beautiful. It all loads pretty fast on my Series S, thank goodness because of the many loading screens. I don’t think I’m out of the first act of the main story but I’m following along, enough - it’s fine!

    Already from my positives though you can see it’s not blown me away really.

    The bad:

    The games mechanics are confusing, it is taking me forever to understand how I store, trade, keep, upgrade, etc all the gear. Hard to understand menu navigation when traveling, hard to understand how to survey planets (I spent 2 hours on my first planet going in circles until I regretfully looked up help online. There are annoying enemy bugs where they clip through walls; they get me but I can’t get them. They blend into the environment too much; the areas colors are usually just 2-3 main similar colors, and muted and muddy. Many times I can’t see the enemy because they wear those same colors plus all the smoke hides everyone.

    I hate getting around. We are given an entire universe, but no great way to traverse it. Menu systems for ship travel are complex, confusing, and convoluted. Opening up a menu, selecting a planet, traveling, getting to the planet, but not actually landing on it, opening the menu, again, selecting an area on the planet, traveling again, watching the cut scene of the ship landing… terrible. Sometimes the planet needs to scan you for contraband, other times, not. Sometimes you can leave directly from being docked, other times you have to undock yourself. When you’re on the planet, you can’t run for long without running out of oxygen, that can run out even faster if you’re over encumbered, and when you’re over encumbered, you can’t fast travel. There are no vehicles. And you are running around these empty planets with nothing really interesting to do or look at as you make your way to the one area to get an artifact, or special ability or resource/trait. You can fast travel back to your ship… but only if you aren’t encumbered.

    Characters talk over each other all the time. The gunplay has been a struggle. Aiming either feels like I am pulling the cursor through syrup or it has a booster engine and shoots my crosshair across the screen if I barely touch it. I’ve tried so many aim sensitivity settings but I think I am making small improvements only because I am learning to work within these confines. I have yet to find much ammo for one of the guns I really want to use.

    Speaking of guns - what the actual EFF is with the lack of automatic ammo pick up? To get ammo for your gun, you have to pick up a gun that uses the same ammo. The ammo will automatically show up on your HUD but now you have to do something with the gun. With such limited inventory, I am dropping the guns all the time, and it really slows down the momentum of the game. . After spending 15 minutes walking in a slow straight line across a boring empty planet, when I finally find enemies to shoot, I don’t want to spend most of that time opening my menu to drop guns. Even a game considered one of the most realistic, RDR2, allows you to just walk near an enemy and the ammo is automatically picked up.

    There is some good, but at this point there isn’t enough good to make me want to leave the main story again. At the moment, it’s entertaining enough that I will continue the main story for now, but I have a lot of other games I want to get to and star field has felt more like it’s stealing my time more than me enjoying my time with it.    … Expand
  75. The_laggy_one
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    as my first bethesda game. its pretty good, if not a bit confusing. like you can do literally anything and there will also be consequences which turn into entire story lines. which is just awesome ( after just 5hrs in game. the amount of loading screens are insane. like man i just want to open a door, not get a 5second loading screen. so lowering from 8/10 to 5/10)
  76. AntiReviewBomb
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Such a meh game. Can’t even fly down to planets, so much for a space game where planets r just flat picture boxes. Zones on planets have boundaries so it’s not explorable. Just another tod Howard lies game.
  77. The_marsy
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    Games not terrible but I have a 4070ti with 7700x for this game and its still highly unoptimized, its a fast travel, loading screen, cut scene simulator, story is ok so far, I wouldn't pay for it, but its probably the best thing to come to Game Pass so you may as well play it there but I won't be keeping my subscription when it ends.
  78. Trombly
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    It was a number of different things that made me give this game a negative review instead of a positive one. I was stockholm syndromed into thinking I loved the game and I did have a lot of fun when playing but then I just hit a wall that made me look at the game differently.

    Exploration felt quite boring to me. I found the procedural generation not great and after 'exploring' multiple    It was a number of different things that made me give this game a negative review instead of a positive one. I was stockholm syndromed into thinking I loved the game and I did have a lot of fun when playing but then I just hit a wall that made me look at the game differently.

    Exploration felt quite boring to me. I found the procedural generation not great and after 'exploring' multiple planets I just got sick of going in the same buildings, killing the same enemies and getting almost the same type of loot items again and again. I even got some of the same caves and bases with exactly the same terminal logs and environmental storytelling on multiple different planets.

    I pretty much gave up on surveying after my second time since I found it mind numbingly boring having to run the distances in between the POIs and everything that needed scanning. It doesn't help that a lot of the landscape started to feel the same no matter what planet it was I landed on.

    At first I really enjoyed the quests but as I did more and more and actually thought about the previous ones I realized that a massive number of the quests are quite simplistic and are basically just fetch quests or going somewhere to kill/persuade someone.

    Can't really speak much for actual choices in the game. From what I saw the world doesn't really respond to your actions much and your actions provide little impact with the actual outcomes of quests. For me the choices in Starfield feel like the choices in Fallout 4. They are there to give you the illusion of choice but in most cases you are still going to progress to the same outcome regardless of what you choose. Starfield does do this better though and its not so obvious as it was in a game like FO4, I think having a voiceless protagonist is a big reason why it's hidden better.

    As well as these things the game doesn't have much character for me. No edge or anything like you would get in the Elder Scrolls or Skyrim. It just feels incredibly vanilla and like Bethesda didn't want to take any risks or rock the boat. Even FO4 was better for me in this regard since it had the character of the Fallout universe/lore to back up the bad parts of that game.

    I grew up playing RPGs and it basically didn't feel like an RPG for me but a looter shooter with RPG mechanics. My short summary of the game would be that Starfield is a slightly better version of a Ubisoft game.

    It could have been a lot better by being smaller. I think that if Bethesda did a solar system or two with no more than 20 planets max and they were entirely handcrafted Starfield would be 10/10. I wouldn't even care about exploring whole planets. I would rather have a skyrimish size map per planet of handcrafted content than hundreds of the same repetitive tiles across hundreds of planets.

    I wouldn't say don't get the game but IMO its certainly not worth the full price, let alone the price I paid for the premium edition. Wait for at least 6 months or a year and pick it up when its on sale and the modding scene for the game is more developed. Modding like in all BSG games will be top notch and likely produce stuff that is even better than the base game    … Expand
  79. Brutallica
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Main story is hot garbage (i was on 8/10 until i started getting in to that whole multiverse stuff), The Red Mile is the MOST DISSAPOINTING content in the entire game.

    Bethesda... Old engine, old tricks with lazyness drizzled on top. You take your modding community for granted..
  80. Ymirein
    Sep 11, 2023
    6
    I played this game for more than 14 hours and I can tell this: This is not as bad as gamers says, BUT poorly done marketing that promised miracles. At first 5 hours i was like: "What is this? Starfield is trash" and then i realized... I had too many expectations, If you lower them, you will realize that you can have fun in this game. Ofc optimalization is very very poor, around 40 fps atI played this game for more than 14 hours and I can tell this: This is not as bad as gamers says, BUT poorly done marketing that promised miracles. At first 5 hours i was like: "What is this? Starfield is trash" and then i realized... I had too many expectations, If you lower them, you will realize that you can have fun in this game. Ofc optimalization is very very poor, around 40 fps at medium settings WQHD with fsr at 67% (RTX 3080 Ti and i5-12400f). To sum up- OK game, not amazing but just OK (the price is not ok).… Expand
  81. Enes6775
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    İ played 12 hours and those loadscreens and in-game cutscenes made me stop playing it. İ thought i would get used to it but it got worse. İt's like this: loadscreen, cutscene, loadscreen, talking, walking around, loadscreen, cutscene, loadscreen, a bit of action, cutscene, loadscreen cutscene. Even sitting down on a random bench is a cutscene. My head hurts because of refocusing on theİ played 12 hours and those loadscreens and in-game cutscenes made me stop playing it. İ thought i would get used to it but it got worse. İt's like this: loadscreen, cutscene, loadscreen, talking, walking around, loadscreen, cutscene, loadscreen, a bit of action, cutscene, loadscreen cutscene. Even sitting down on a random bench is a cutscene. My head hurts because of refocusing on the game after every loadscreen or cutscene. Good: Graphics, story, amount of content, space fights, ship building. Bad: The enemy Aİ is trash and way too easy to kill. TOO MUCH loadscreens and cutscenes kills the immersiveness, gameplay is basic nothing special, no maps which made me spend too much time ln finding some stores etc, no vehicles.… Expand
  82. Vodkia
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Statfield, eventho can be fun to play sometimes, does nothing new, looks like a 15 year old game with new graphics. It feels outdated all they way, the mechanics are the same from every other game from bethesda, they have not changed anything in 15 years, the IA its the most basic, dialogues and storyline are vague and simple, nothing interesting. There is no reason to explore planetsStatfield, eventho can be fun to play sometimes, does nothing new, looks like a 15 year old game with new graphics. It feels outdated all they way, the mechanics are the same from every other game from bethesda, they have not changed anything in 15 years, the IA its the most basic, dialogues and storyline are vague and simple, nothing interesting. There is no reason to explore planets since they dont really exist in the game, they are procedural generated portions of map that repeat assests over and over, its irrelevant what planet you visit, you can explore all the assets in a single planet just generating new portions of map all over it. It does not feel like im travelling through galaxies and systems at all. Loading screens, eventho they are 2 seconds, are annoying and breaks any inmersion the game could generate into the player, the game is not a big galaxy or map to explore like previous games, but small portions of map you have to load through to get to your destination, way too many loading screens and teleports to everywhere, there is no journey to a new location where you encounter random things on the way and end up doing something else. In general an OK game, I wish bethesda would be more ambitious in their games, this is not the most ambitious game from Bethesda. Just the continuation of what they have already done for the last 15 years or more, but now with space aestethics.… Expand
  83. max421
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    They spent too much time and effort on the wrong things, I don't want to collect 10000s of small objects like wooden toys, I want to sit in my spaceship and travel SEAMLESSLY between planets and systems. This game is a big missed opportunity with a really barebones version of space.
  84. best-of-max
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    +20h in: so far to me it is okay, but really nothing special. I'm not disappointed, but it's not what many people wanted the game to be/pretend it was.
    Game of the year should definitely become BG3.
  85. Briger26
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    It's fun exploring around different environments and I love these weird npcs but it gets boring real soon
  86. Endymion_Var
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Vaya engaño, que nos vendieron.
    Lo mas emocionante del juego que era explorar y viajar en el espacio; se reduce a hacer un salto rapido; escojes planeta y sale animacion y llegas. El juego es de mucho Loteo.
    Y sin otienes un buen PC se ve feo y y con caidas de FPS
  87. AaronMitsu
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Un classico gioco Bethesda, con i suoi pro ed i suoi contro.
    Tecnicamente molto mediocre pur girando a 50 fps con una 4080, i713700k
    Ne vale la pena solamente perchè è incluso in gamepass.
    Sconsigliato.
  88. SAVIAR
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    It is not easy to score this game. Good and bad are at extremes. NPCs from GTA San Andreas are a huge dissapointment. Story variation is the strongest part.

    Story: 8
    Story Variation: 9
    Gameplay: 8,5
    Graphics: 7
    Sounds: 8,5
    AI: 1
    NPCs: 1
    HDR and SDR Performance: 1
  89. infraRecon
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Well well well, let me guess, you came to read reviews of Starfield, You've come to the right place traveller. I've been playing this game for a while, I'm a fan of Bethesda titles (The good ones), and I'm here to give you the goods.

    Let's begin: Negatives: - This game makes you hate Fast Travel, The procedural generation comes with limitations, there are no real-time procedural    Well well well, let me guess, you came to read reviews of Starfield, You've come to the right place traveller. I've been playing this game for a while, I'm a fan of Bethesda titles (The good ones), and I'm here to give you the goods.

    Let's begin:

    Negatives:
    - This game makes you hate Fast Travel, The procedural generation comes with limitations, there are no real-time procedural elements like lesser games such as No Man's Sky.

    - The performance is all over the place, sometimes it's 60fps, sometimes it's 24fps(No joke), and sometimes it's 45fps, it depends on how much is being rendered and what elements bottleneck your CPU and GPU.

    I'm running a PC with:
    AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6c 12t
    32GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200mhz
    MSI NVIDIA RTX 3060 12G
    Muskin Vortex SSD 7GB read/ 5GB write

    and at 1080p it cannot maintain a Constant 60fps just like Fort Solis, I called it.

    - This game lacks character introductions, it's all a massive character dump or nothing, let's take Sarah for example, if I were to think about who she is, I wouldn't be able to tell you. The characters and storylines are just pushed onto you. The game says "OK stop what you're doing, get on the ship and go here".

    - Most planets are desolate and lack a certain type of detail compared to No Man's Sky.

    - There is a lack of features, including graphical settings, an explanation of those settings, No map for civilizations, no Map integrated into gameplay, no FOV slider, and No Display settings, it is this convoluted mess of menus and things that are uneasy or completely useless to achieve the thing that you want.

    e.g fast Travel, you will have to delve into two menus and endure 2 loading screens.

    - All of this takes too long for FAST TRAVEL, who designed this?!

    - You can travel to and from planets but there are no mechanics that make that easy, it will take you hours, if not days.
    No Man's Sky, an Indi-developed game has more mechanics and fun ship features than this game. The "Grav Drive" in this game is a glorified loading screen.

    - This game is overly expensive considering the quality.

    - The animations and gameplay are Janky for 2023 standards.

    - There are a bit of woke touches in here(I'm not bothered about that too much, I just care about the game.)

    - You can't see your character when choosing Dialogue, I don't care if it's a "Bethesda" title, make your game have a good presentation like I don't know... Baldurs Gate 3.

    - The UI is boring, the UI is sh*t to use, and yes this includes the start screen. People were complaining about this and they have every right to. Of course, a Start screen doesn't speak for the game, but it can raise red flags in consumer confidence about a product, that's just reality.

    Don't give me the excuse of, "Oh but you're only going to see it for like 3 seconds", when a mechanic is focused on opening a menu every few minutes, the UI, all of it better look amazing.
    I would do that in my game, Why shouldn't Bethesda, a AAA Studio, backed by the Trillion Dollar Company Microsoft?
    Stop making excuses and expect better, otherwise, you are asking to be screwed.

    - When I saw the Start screen, I knew that something about Starfield was off, I wanted this game to be the pinnacle of Bethesda RPGs, but let me tell you this is no better than Fallout 4, play that game instead.
    This is Fallout in Space just without any of the fun mechanics like Power Armour, Pip boys, Interesting characters and Story, all of it is just so bare minimum, with a hint of ...Something.

    - No vehicles, No planetary Flight.

    - Misuse of Invisible Walls
    - Maybe things weigh too much. Positives: - Nice lighting. - Nice Music. - Nice Gun Play. - New Game Plus - Nice excessive Detail to things. - Good Procedural animation and sometimes voice acting. It took 8 years to develop, we could have had 2 great Bethesda games if management wasn't like this. Now for what it's worth, I do see the passion and dedication, but that's nothing if there isn't substance. Bethesda has me Scared about TES VI. Just remember, instead of trying to make a big game, try and make a Quality game. This is a 6/10 game, and my initial prediction was more forgiving. This game is slightly entertaining and that's it, There are good moments but god you have to grind. *A Message to Phil Spencer, You are wrong. Making great games would do wonders XBOX, and future titles to come, Starfield has shown me that Bethesda is nowhere near ready to Deal with TES VI. DO NOT buy this game, Please listen to me, Let me save you once more. Wait until Bethesda releases all DLC and when modders have fixed the rest of the game, then Buy it. So when they do their "GOTY Edition", get it for about $50 or less. Right now, Don't even look at this game, I'm not going to until it's oversaturated with fun content, and the game is more tolerable. That's my review, I'm gonna start playing my Second Playthrough of BG3 now...    … Expand
  90. d_mouse
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Unfortunately the Starfield we got is underwhelming and not what was promised by Bethesda.

    It runs like crap, even on high end hardware and the copy / paste of game elements across planets means it gets boring very fast. It's not worth the $120 AUD they're asking for the base version, let alone the $170 AUD they're asking for the premium edition. Give them 12 - 18 months to fix    Unfortunately the Starfield we got is underwhelming and not what was promised by Bethesda.

    It runs like crap, even on high end hardware and the copy / paste of game elements across planets means it gets boring very fast.

    It's not worth the $120 AUD they're asking for the base version, let alone the $170 AUD they're asking for the premium edition.

    Give them 12 - 18 months to fix the bugs and modders to fix the rest of the game and it might be worth picking up for $20 on sale by that point    … Expand
  91. Sp00lsh
    Sep 9, 2023
    6
    The promotion of this game is a straight lie, don't be fooled. This game is completely average. Not much matches what was promised to us. I do not recommend buying at full price because it is absolutely not worth it.
  92. srosebrace
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    starfield is the latest game made by bethesda
    a new attempt at creating a new world out of this world in the last 25 years in the making
    but the game falls flat and feels like another generic bethesda game but in space its world felt like they pushed a super realistc take on the space world which felt weak especialy towards something like the elder scrolls and fallout which took a    starfield is the latest game made by bethesda
    a new attempt at creating a new world out of this world in the last 25 years in the making

    but the game falls flat and feels like another generic bethesda game but in space
    its world felt like they pushed a super realistc take on the space world which felt weak especialy towards something like the elder scrolls and fallout which took a more fantasy approach to its world

    the game lacked something like the star wars world setting
    more space or alien like people you can talk or even be
    it feels too realistc compard to other games they made

    while combat is improved i felt the AI has not been improved
    ai still is braindead and easy to cheese and now you are able to kill enemies 10-15 lvl above what you are

    traveling the planets also feels mid
    the invisable wall drama only made it worse as lead devs from bethesda promised it diffrently then what we got

    the ship combat feels weak also and something you will get annoyed by
    the story felt weak as well with you being forced to play 12 hours of slop boring stuff to even get to the "good stuff"

    lets not begin about the loading screens and how that is more of the game then a real game

    this release was something many say is goty or game of the century which its not
    and rpg of the year it lost by a mile away against bg3

    pro
    -combat is improved from fo4
    -it looks at times pretty good

    cons
    -30 fps is noticable
    -weak story
    -ship combat annoying
    -dumb ai
    -loading screens the game
    -false promises

    6/10    … Expand
  93. Faraday59
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Bethesta artık yükleme ekranları kalmadı hatırlatayım ve donuk ruhsuz npcler en önemlisi animasyonlar biz rdr 2 gibi fizik motoruna sahip oyunlar oynadık artık etkileyici gelmiyor bunlar aksine rahatsız ediyor şu oyun motorun
  94. Ababykangaroo
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    This game is not nearly as bad as/ as good as console war warriors are claiming it to be.
    Xbox players wanted it to be there consoles saving grace to have their first new gen exclusive that is a critical success and ps fanboys wanted to **** on it to prove their console is gonna stay on top for this gen.
    In reality this game is average it does some stuff right, does some stuff horribly    This game is not nearly as bad as/ as good as console war warriors are claiming it to be.
    Xbox players wanted it to be there consoles saving grace to have their first new gen exclusive that is a critical success and ps fanboys wanted to **** on it to prove their console is gonna stay on top for this gen.

    In reality this game is average it does some stuff right, does some stuff horribly and the rest is mediocre filler content. If you really want to know whats good/bad from someone who is indifferent, here it is.

    The Good:
    Combat is cool/ varied weapons and boosting through shooting is fun
    Different equipment/stats makes for some cool builds
    Alot of missions/side mission to sink your time in
    Art style is cool
    Ship building is fun if you can digest the ui

    The bad:
    Horrible UI all over the game
    You spend about 30% of your gameplay time in menus (maybe 50% if u engage with crafting/ outpost building mechanics)
    Exploration is Instanced loading screen galore (and a lot of menus)
    Stupid encumbrance system
    Outdated graphics
    Bad Optimization

    The Average:
    Meh main story
    Many missions are either fetch quests or go kill someone
    Choices are either meaningless or has no real effect on story progress
    AI is just A without the I
    less bugs than Bethesda's history but still there    … Expand
  95. AlejoR
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Got it on game pass, I would only buy the game with 50% or less discount, Bethesda has over hyped the game. Graphics are great, gameplay feels outdated like playing fallout 4. The world's exploration most of the time feels empty. Combat and weapons are okay. Rpg elements are okay. Story is not so okay. By far the worst is Official DLSS support missing due to stupid AMD exclusivity.
  96. KarlFromKonnig
    Sep 9, 2023
    6
    I love games of Bethesda; yet it was so difficult to play this after BG3!!!! Will play in one year if this will be fixed!!!!
  97. ChiIIaoi
    Sep 9, 2023
    6
    Review só pra lembrar a nota que eu dei pro jogo:
    Jogo ruizinho, agora só escrever pra passar dos 75 caracteres.
  98. WaraWana
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    This game feels stuck in the 2010s. I enjoy a lot of parts of this game but they are outweighed by frustrating things. I was hoping for Skyrim in space, because I love Skyrim. But it is more of a Fallout in space and I do not like fallout at all. The gunplay does not feel great at all to me. Freedom to explore is good though. Weird choices with the menu too.
    Thank you for reading. Enjoy Gaming.
  99. Roigar
    Sep 9, 2023
    6
    Very poorly optimized on PC. I didn't expect it to run well on my dated hardware but from what other people have been saying it doesn't run well on decent specs either.
  100. EvenTheFlow
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    > Took 7 years to make > 1 year delay > Same engine from 2006 > 10 Guns in the WHOLE game > Same planets > Bad ai. Not worth your money, Ubisoft's try for no man's sky was better than this you should buy that instead it's cheaper and the exploration feeling was WAY better.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 75 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 75
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  1. Riot Pixels
    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.
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  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. RPGamer
    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.
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