Starfield

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  1. stoo5815
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    If Starfield actually worked without crashing every five minutes, I might find time to enjoy it.
  2. LogiskBrist
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Would you like to play a dumb down version of No Mans Sky? How about we trow in a clunky old fallout mod? It might not be fun, but the graphics are really nice if you stand completely still. We even have heavy motion blur on by default!

    Seriously though, the ads are dope, the game is not. Buy Baldors gate 3 instead, thats the real deal.
  3. SebasGod777
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    De los peores juegos de este año, demasiado aburrido y lento, basicamente lo mismo que red dead redemption, pero este ultimo si es buen juego.
  4. ggscv
    Sep 11, 2023
    2
    Extremely buggy, dull and not very fun at all. Unfortunately Starfield fails to capture the magic that Skyrim and other Bethesda releases had. Stay away at all costs.
  5. bojzi
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    I was hoping I would get Space Skyrim - a vast open world to lose myself in like I did with Skyrim so many years ago. What I got is a boring mess of buggy time waste.

    Where in Skyrim I got almost executed, attacked by a dragon and fought my way through many enemies in the first hour, Starfield makes you slog through hours and hours of basically nothing. Open world exploring? Nope. Just    I was hoping I would get Space Skyrim - a vast open world to lose myself in like I did with Skyrim so many years ago. What I got is a boring mess of buggy time waste.

    Where in Skyrim I got almost executed, attacked by a dragon and fought my way through many enemies in the first hour, Starfield makes you slog through hours and hours of basically nothing.

    Open world exploring? Nope. Just the same sequence of enter your ship, click through obnoxious menus, loading screen, enter building, loading screen and... that's your exploration.

    Waiting so long for a product so sad is baffling.    … Expand
  6. redkitties
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    My computer can run Cyberpunk, Elden Ring- any other game released this year. Starfield, bought on Game Pass, shutters and crashes. Background music lags in and out, Every start of a conversation with npc there's no audio- Enemies have to load in? Lag. Exploring an area? Crash. Along with little to none Art Direction in this game, enemies all look the same, hairstyles and makeup from MassMy computer can run Cyberpunk, Elden Ring- any other game released this year. Starfield, bought on Game Pass, shutters and crashes. Background music lags in and out, Every start of a conversation with npc there's no audio- Enemies have to load in? Lag. Exploring an area? Crash. Along with little to none Art Direction in this game, enemies all look the same, hairstyles and makeup from Mass Effect (2007), No registered shots on pc... It's going to be a disappointment for me.… Expand
  7. vectrax
    Sep 11, 2023
    2
    Woke = Authoritarian. The woke ideology wants to tell you what thoughts you're allowed to have, what words you're allowed to speak and what ideas you're allowed to consider. It tells you what you need to do to be a good person, and what you can't do if you want to be a good person. What you need to do to be accepted in society and what's going to get you cancelled. It wants to controlWoke = Authoritarian. The woke ideology wants to tell you what thoughts you're allowed to have, what words you're allowed to speak and what ideas you're allowed to consider. It tells you what you need to do to be a good person, and what you can't do if you want to be a good person. What you need to do to be accepted in society and what's going to get you cancelled. It wants to control every aspect of who you are and how you present yourself to the world, and it's all supported and enforced by the establishment.

    People who identify as "woke" have a rigid parochial set of values and beliefs that they've ignorantly mistaken for objective truth. A system of values that they believe are fundamentally good and morally righteous. A set of values that they're convinced are undeniably correct and necessary to human happiness. A set of values they're so committed to that they've adopted a militant and grossly intolerant attitude towards anyone who happens to have different values or anyone who happens to believe things other than what they themselves have mistaken for objective truth.

    The existence of people who don't share their values makes them so furious that they've convinced themselves that these are bad people who need to be shut down and punished through a deeply malicious combination of lies and intimidation they've attempted to impose their personal values on everyone, smearing anyone who says something they disagree with as sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic and any number of other "ist's" and "ic's".

    Through doing this they've destroyed many people's lives and brought us all cultural impoverishment and social decline. Moreover through a rabid commitment to an entirely irrational gender ideology which they've convinced themselves is morally righteous they've allowed predatory men to encroach upon women's spaces all around the world and openly engage in child grooming in public.

    They champion diversity but they don't like diversity of ideas. They champion Liberty, but they don't like freedom of speech. They preach about social justice on a phone made by a child slave. They use the expression "Words have consequences" entirely oblivious to how Fascistic that sounds. In short they're hypocrites of the highest order. They are all of those things they claimed to hate the most. Bigots, Authoritarians and Bullies.

    Here's a song about the situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO-yVHaAlyA    … Expand
  8. DHarland
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    Played for 6 hours but the game is so tedious, dialogue so rote and the loading screens so offensive I stopped playing, I expected so much more from Bethesda in 2023 but it feels like the game is stuck in 2013.
  9. JimmieD
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Save money, save time, don't play this fraud of a game. Not even worse the Game Pass sub. It's ridiculous. Boring quests, outdated graphics and nothing much to "explore", as proclaimed by Mr. Howards. How did this take seven years of development? I mean, HOW!!?!?
  10. Dertan
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Starfield a game in space where you don t fell lile you have any control , cant land on a planet mnaually (planets are 2D models ) it fell like evry ation neeed a loading screen what year is this 2012?a lack of weapon variety,combat is so bad, the animations are the same as 8 years ago , story nothing special , its just so boring ,don t waste your money on this and don t excpect yourStarfield a game in space where you don t fell lile you have any control , cant land on a planet mnaually (planets are 2D models ) it fell like evry ation neeed a loading screen what year is this 2012?a lack of weapon variety,combat is so bad, the animations are the same as 8 years ago , story nothing special , its just so boring ,don t waste your money on this and don t excpect your Space fantasy to be fullfield here , its just an rpg In differents mps with loading screen go play skyrim and you will see what a true rpg experience feel like… Expand
  11. Couchp
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    This is just slightly less buggy fallout in space.... Except the worlds are more boring. There's no point to exploring or trying to get creative, and the worlds are just made up of instances. If you're going to play the game, just beeline straight to the end. If you don't, you'll probably get bored and never play again. I was originally going to give the game a 3 or 4, but writing thisThis is just slightly less buggy fallout in space.... Except the worlds are more boring. There's no point to exploring or trying to get creative, and the worlds are just made up of instances. If you're going to play the game, just beeline straight to the end. If you don't, you'll probably get bored and never play again. I was originally going to give the game a 3 or 4, but writing this review has shown me how disappointing this game really is.… Expand
  12. Fab75000
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    What a disappointment.

    Bethesda manages to do worse at each game.
    The best one was Morrowind and each new iteration is worse.

    You feel lonely, your spaceship doesn’t matter, the quests are awful, the gameplay is awful, the PNJ are like zombies
  13. Onur84
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Enttäuschung , ...
    Man hätte soviel machen können. Es ist wieder ein unfertiges Spiel
  14. catwithgreenhat
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    I cannot believe Todd rejected the fact that this game has serious optimization issues on PC. You cannot normalize 30 target FPS for recommended specs. Totally ridiculous!
  15. AlQnaS_505
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    they shall name the game, fast, travel simulator , it’s boring the main story it’s boring the side story it’s boring
  16. unreal_skill
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Ich hatte mich sehr auf dieses Spiel gefreut, wurde aber leider massiv enttäuscht. Es ist mehr ein Shooter als ein RPG, meine Handlungen oder die Dialoge haben so gut wie kein,e Auswirkung auf das Spielgeschehen. Es hat einfach keine Konsequenzen, ich kann tun was ich möchte, das Umfeld reagiert nicht darauf. Die Flüge im All sind lächerlich, man ist in einer Sandbox, dreht sich bissleIch hatte mich sehr auf dieses Spiel gefreut, wurde aber leider massiv enttäuscht. Es ist mehr ein Shooter als ein RPG, meine Handlungen oder die Dialoge haben so gut wie kein,e Auswirkung auf das Spielgeschehen. Es hat einfach keine Konsequenzen, ich kann tun was ich möchte, das Umfeld reagiert nicht darauf. Die Flüge im All sind lächerlich, man ist in einer Sandbox, dreht sich bissle um die eigene Achse, aber man kann nicht wirklich andere Planeten ansteuern. Nach 20 Stunden habe ich das Spiel beiseite gelegt. Keine Empfehlung von mir.… Expand
  17. Jokma
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. He terminado el juego, creo que el problema real de este sin lugar a dudas fue el hype, es un juego más del montón tomando en cuenta que nos hicieron sentir que sería una revolución, nada de eso. Un título el cual si bien medianamente cumple con lo prometido deja mucho que desear pues es todo lo que podrías ya encontrar en el mercado adquiriendo otro título del mismo género.… Expand
  18. HenriqueDLM
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    A Redfall From Space, Lies, loading screens, lies, They promised a lot of things and delivered almost nothing, many loading screens damaging the immersion, very weak level design of the story. Completely empty worlds and a copy and paste of bases for you to explore. The lack of land vehicles in the game borders on the absurd, the game's gunplay and terrible enemies do not react to bullets.A Redfall From Space, Lies, loading screens, lies, They promised a lot of things and delivered almost nothing, many loading screens damaging the immersion, very weak level design of the story. Completely empty worlds and a copy and paste of bases for you to explore. The lack of land vehicles in the game borders on the absurd, the game's gunplay and terrible enemies do not react to bullets. As long as Phill Spencer is in charge, I don't see any evolution in the XBOX division.… Expand
  19. LyleUgleman
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    A trite and often bland experience that I had a hard time bringing myself to keep playing. So much of what you do in Starfield gives you major "been there, done that" vibes and for good reason. So little of the game is an improvement on FO4, and unfortunately there's even some steps backwards in terms of the quality of the writing and the interest of exploring the unknown.

    My main    A trite and often bland experience that I had a hard time bringing myself to keep playing. So much of what you do in Starfield gives you major "been there, done that" vibes and for good reason. So little of the game is an improvement on FO4, and unfortunately there's even some steps backwards in terms of the quality of the writing and the interest of exploring the unknown.

    My main gripes:
    Lack of weaponry, especially melee weapons. New Vegas had power fists/claws, ripper swords, shiskebab, super sledge, and many other interesting weapons. You'd think a game set 300 years in the future would have even more interesting options, but sadly, that's not the case. Just a very paltry amount of mundane weaponry that already exists, with the best melee weapon being a small cestus looking dagger. Bland and boring.

    The main quest writing and pacing is pretty abysmal. It makes an awful first impression by quickly throwing you from mining on a planet, to forced into space with a plot that makes little sense narratively. While some side content has better writing, the main quest instantly puts a bad taste in your mouth.

    Exploration is kneecapped by overuse of fast travel. There's usually very little reason to want to explore anywhere. A thousand planets with so few feeling unique in any way. Once you've cleared the exact same complex three times, you'll get so sick of the monotony of it you'll never want to explore again. Which is a shame, since some actual good hand-made content is hidden in the morass of mediocrity. They somehow make a game that takes place in a massive galaxy feel even smaller and less interesting than their games that are just one planet or continent.

    Starfield isn't a terrible game, and I'd score it higher if it didn't feel like a regression in many ways of the traditional Bethesda rpg formula. Unforutnately, it just feels very dated now. The Creation Engine 2 feels like a creaky, old, relic that still can't deliver action that's not clunky, AI that's not shockingly braindead, or expressive character models that don't look gawky and ugly.

    Just a painfully average game, and that doesn't cut it.    … Expand
  20. Lazybtch
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Too many bugs, boring blind story, repeatability planets, nothing new after you play 1 hour or 12hours
  21. Chaosik
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Boring missions and exploration.
    Dumbest AI I've seen in games..
    This game wanted to be everything and is nothing
  22. Harbridge
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    I had such high hope for this. As someone who grew up on Bethesda rpg’s I am utterly disappointed. Slow game, last gen graphics and countless loading screens. After putting in 12 hours, I can safely say that it’s not for me.
  23. kyesar
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Runs like ass yet still looks like ass. Most bland story in any game I've played. Enemy AI is hilariously bad.
  24. sprootbash
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Bethesda aimed for the stars, and hit the trash can on this one. This game is nothing but a fast-travel simulator, talk to person A on one planet then go to person B on another. Your ship only exists to allow the idea that you are able to do interstellar travel, taking off and landing on planets is a cutscene, if you are in orbit and want to check out another planet in the system then youBethesda aimed for the stars, and hit the trash can on this one. This game is nothing but a fast-travel simulator, talk to person A on one planet then go to person B on another. Your ship only exists to allow the idea that you are able to do interstellar travel, taking off and landing on planets is a cutscene, if you are in orbit and want to check out another planet in the system then you have to open up your map so you can plot a course and enter a cutscene that sends you there, this- though technically is a space-game, is not a space-game at all. If Bethesda could've kept their scopes on one star-system which wouldn't even have to be our own, then I think this could've been a really neat game. There is Bethesda world-building in the game, but you have to traverse so many clunky menus and UI and loading-screens that it is just a hollow shell of a game with pretty skyboxes. Yes you can take over ships and customize them, but Bethesda really missed the mark when they decided on not letting you take parts from one ship and transfer them to another, that alone would've been huge! Base-building is Fallout 4 just more inconvenient and clunky. I really really wanted- and still want, to love this game but it is impossible when you know what this game could have been.… Expand
  25. Zephyrghost_
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    50 hours in, and I have just wasted my life on this game.

    1. This is not an immersive space sandbox or RPG. It is a Bethesda game. You get so much more immersion from 'No Man's Sky', and a testament to that is the seamless gameplay with no loading screens (and you can even fly to space from a planet). Sadly, Starfield does not have this. In fact, you can teleport from planet/galaxy to    50 hours in, and I have just wasted my life on this game.

    1. This is not an immersive space sandbox or RPG. It is a Bethesda game. You get so much more immersion from 'No Man's Sky', and a testament to that is the seamless gameplay with no loading screens (and you can even fly to space from a planet). Sadly, Starfield does not have this. In fact, you can teleport from planet/galaxy to another planet/galaxy via the menu. Why the need to travel to space, then? LOL.

    2. Starfield is not optimised. I get frame drops and lags even on my rig, which is powered by an RTX4090. Seriously?

    3. The game was designed for the console and then ported to the PC. Cause Starfield was focused on being an Xbox console exclusive. So the menus, gameplay etc., are more designed for console/controller.

    4. Combat is fun. Yes you heard me right. The combat is a highlight of this game. It is tactile, impactful and the guns are quite fun. Customisations to guns are also quite good.

    5. Dialogue is weird. Often times you are left staring into the eyes of the NPC, sometimes, your soul gets caught in between.

    100 bucks over for this game is just completely and utterly ridiculous. However, for Bethesda fans, this is by far, one of their best games they created.    … Expand
  26. sreos
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    inventory is a huge problem, You can't loot five enemies without being overweight. Combat is really bad. There are no enemy ai what so ever. Animations are from 2010. Good graphic and environment design but low resolution. Using a spaceship is meaningless. Has lots of missions like Skyrim. Extreme amounts of bugs.
  27. TerrickLiu
    Sep 12, 2023
    2
    Is this a 2023 video games? And the producer call it the same experience as a 2018 video game which is?
  28. Lexonus
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Boring game, unimaginative, soulless. It isn't a "bad game" but for the time put into development, budget and price I expect much more.
  29. Seet
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Pros:
    Ship building and customization is extensive and pretty fun
    Interiors and certain environments are visually pleasing Lots of variation in fauna Relatively few bugs Some of the cons: No vehicles on planet surfaces Spaceship can only be flown in orbits Bad performance even with high end pc NPCs for the most part look terrible UI is a pain in the ass and you have to use the    Pros:
    Ship building and customization is extensive and pretty fun
    Interiors and certain environments are visually pleasing
    Lots of variation in fauna
    Relatively few bugs

    Some of the cons:
    No vehicles on planet surfaces
    Spaceship can only be flown in orbits
    Bad performance even with high end pc
    NPCs for the most part look terrible
    UI is a pain in the ass and you have to use the starmap and inventory quite often
    Main story is mediocre
    Dialogue system jumping from one face to another is jarring and bad facial animations dont help
    Small unskippable cutscenes when boarding the train, docking to a ship, entering a surface etc. get old really fast
    Loading screens way too often
    AI is extremely dumb
    Weapons are really bland
    Combat is tedious as its you emptying zillion bullets into enemies whom offer no challenge
    Most enemies act exactly the same way    … Expand
  30. Private_kcorpse
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Title: Starfield: A Galactic Disappointment

    Introduction: Starfield, the highly anticipated space exploration game, promised to take gamers on a journey through captivating worlds and thrilling adventures. Unfortunately, it falls comically short of those lofty promises. As a fan of the genre, I couldn't help but feel immensely disappointed by the lackluster execution and numerous flaws    Title: Starfield: A Galactic Disappointment

    Introduction:
    Starfield, the highly anticipated space exploration game, promised to take gamers on a journey through captivating worlds and thrilling adventures. Unfortunately, it falls comically short of those lofty promises. As a fan of the genre, I couldn't help but feel immensely disappointed by the lackluster execution and numerous flaws that plague this game.

    Lack of Innovation:
    From the moment I launched Starfield, I was struck by its underwhelming lack of innovation. The game fails to introduce any groundbreaking mechanics or unique elements that could make it stand out in an overcrowded genre. It feels like nothing more than a rehashed version of countless other space-themed games, lacking creativity and originality.

    Bland World Design:
    One of the most glaring weaknesses of Starfield lies in its bland and uninspiring world design. In a game that revolves around exploration, it is disheartening to find that the planets you encounter feel lifeless and devoid of any character or charm. The planets lack diversity, with repetitive landscapes and a limited range of creatures, making the exploration aspect feel monotonous and uninspired.

    Poor Character Development:
    Despite the potential for intriguing space-faring stories, Starfield falls short when it comes to character development. The main characters lack depth and fail to evoke any emotional connection, leaving the player feeling detached from their journey. The dialogue options are shallow and unengaging, making interactions with NPCs feel like nothing more than going through the motions.

    Technical Issues:
    Starfield's release was plagued by technical issues that hindered the gameplay experience. From frequent crashes and glitches to frame rate drops and clunky controls, the game seems like it was rushed out without proper optimization. These technical flaws further disrupt any attempt to immerse oneself in the game, leading to frustration and a sense of wasted potential.

    Tedious Gameplay Mechanics:
    The gameplay in Starfield is a repetitive cycle of completing tedious tasks and engaging in lackluster combat encounters. Whether it's hunting for resources or engaging in space battles, the mechanics feel shallow and lack any real challenge or excitement. The lack of variety and complexity in these gameplay elements ultimately makes Starfield a monotonous and unengaging experience.

    Conclusion:
    Starfield fails to live up to the vast expectations placed upon it as a highly anticipated space exploration game. With its lack of innovation, uninspired world design, poor character development, technical issues, and tedious gameplay mechanics, it falls far short of being an enjoyable and memorable gaming experience. It pains me to say that Starfield feels like a missed opportunity and a forgettable addition to the genre.    … Expand
  31. Jakee03
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    This game is so basic and boring. 23 hours in and I’m literally playing the most boring storyline and gameplay mechanics I have ever touched in my life. I got pc game pass just to play this and honestly I’m much more enjoying sniper elite 6 than this garbage. Not worth it.
  32. valefra
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Outer worlds, in the same genre, is a far better game. And its a AA game from 2019. I will not add anything.
  33. Mikez023
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Un juego anclado en el pasado tanto gráfica como jugablemente. Historia sosa, personajes sin gracia y lleno de bugs como todo juego de Bethesda. El universo abierto que prometieron no le llega ni a la suela de los zapatos a juegos como no mans sky, lo único que se salva es la iluminación.
  34. onewayAndy
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Why does Todd get to say "you need to upgrade your PC for our next-gen games"? His arrogance is baffling, this game still has a long way to go!
  35. Arrain
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Skyrim was my all time favourite game, so I really wanted to love this but uff, I just can't. A space exploration game where you don't feel like you can actually explore. Outdated engine and graphics. McGuffin quests that are 20 years out of date. Weird visual filters. The worst UI ever (which is saying something). No widescreen monitor support, no DLSS. I got the game refunded fromSkyrim was my all time favourite game, so I really wanted to love this but uff, I just can't. A space exploration game where you don't feel like you can actually explore. Outdated engine and graphics. McGuffin quests that are 20 years out of date. Weird visual filters. The worst UI ever (which is saying something). No widescreen monitor support, no DLSS. I got the game refunded from Steam, so should you or just don't buy it until 2 years time when modders have fixed this broken mess.… Expand
  36. Snaaake99
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Load screens everywhere, constantly taking you out of the immersion.

    Story is very forgettable, side content is somewhat decent.

    Graphics can be good, but absolutley terrible in alot of areas.
  37. Grahf212
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Already got about 30 hours on it because I have no life. Have done main quest and side stuff. Didn't pirate it, paid the full amount for early access. And I'll tell you straight up it's a massive disappointment. First of all it just feels too similar to Fallout 4 and 76. You can immediately tell it's essentially the same game with a new setting. Shooting feels better but enemies areAlready got about 30 hours on it because I have no life. Have done main quest and side stuff. Didn't pirate it, paid the full amount for early access. And I'll tell you straight up it's a massive disappointment. First of all it just feels too similar to Fallout 4 and 76. You can immediately tell it's essentially the same game with a new setting. Shooting feels better but enemies are incredibly easy. They barely react. "Exploration" is almost nonexistent. It's not open world. You just load from instance to instance over and over. Story is incredibly overhyped and boring. It doesn't really evolve as you play. Overall the whole game is boring. I've never felt so aimless in a Beth game before. You honestly just stop giving a **** because it's this drab back and forth with nothing of consequence. Character creator is good imo, builds are **** The stuff you pick doesn't feel impactful in general gameplay at all. Space flight is absolute **** You can't really explore space at all. The dialogue is the standard quippy modern fair. NPCs look awful as usual. Many locations are empty "mobs spawn here" zones with nothing much else. It's just a very bland game.

    Starfield really does feel like Fallout 4 in "space" but it's just far more empty, generic and boring. There's nothing new here. I'll keep playing but overall I'm very let down because the game just isn't what they pretended it to be. It could literally be a Fallout 4 mod. Iam having buyers remorse, awful game.    … Expand
  38. joper_ru
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    1) my ARCa 770 graphics card is not working fine in this game...
    2) location download simulator
    3) constantly crashes
  39. dsf
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Todd promised us a great bethesda game, but what we got was mediocre at best. Very disappointing
  40. penguinbc
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Huge step back in terms of gameplay depth from previous titles. Only about a dozen planets actually have unique content on them. All of the others are randomly filled with the same 12-20 repeating POIs. NPCs don't have schedules or homes, shopkeepers are always behind their desk. Only 3 item slots (Helmet, Suit, Backpack). Can't salvage items or remove mods from weapons. The repeatableHuge step back in terms of gameplay depth from previous titles. Only about a dozen planets actually have unique content on them. All of the others are randomly filled with the same 12-20 repeating POIs. NPCs don't have schedules or homes, shopkeepers are always behind their desk. Only 3 item slots (Helmet, Suit, Backpack). Can't salvage items or remove mods from weapons. The repeatable main quest puzzle is the exact same over and over again unlike Skyrim which actually had interesting locations. The skills are mostly just % increases (10% more damage or 10% more healing). Very shallow game overall compared to all other main Bethesda titles.… Expand
  41. CerberusX5
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Un Juego que se pierde en su propio mundo, Prometían mucho y todo eso quedó corto, mundos vacíos sin mucho que hacer, pantallas de carga que salen a cada rato, misiones que se repiten exploración aburrida en fin un juego que no logra atrapar.
  42. KiraMomos
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    La versión de PC es mejor que la Xbox pero aún así deja mucho que desear tiene demasiado Bugs que Aveces es injugable tiene un Mundo abierto vacío de que sirve tener muchos lugares para explorar si te aburres a los 3 minutos y ni hablemos de la navegación de las naves supongo que para la próxima no deben poner la vara tan alta por un juego que no había salido
  43. seahorror
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Starfield takes no risks, aiming to be completely agreeable and inoffensive in every possible way, resulting in an utterly bland and wanting experience.

    The project reminds me of a novel someone's been writing for half their life, leaving the author incapable of identifying critical issues due to personal attachment. When you stare at something for too long, you can't see it anymore.

    It's no issue to me that Bethesda developed concepts competing titles had already explored and iterated upon. However, they didn't build on the innovations of others, or even borrow from them, as if the studio worked in a bubble, isolated from the rest of the industry. Their sequestered development leaves the game feeling out of date, and even out of touch. It might be new to them, as multiplayer was in Fallout 76, but what about customers who continue playing games during 6-year development cycles?

    Major concerns:

    1. A science-fiction setting somehow lacking in curiosity and wonder.
    2. A light, almost anemic story, written without heart or soul.
    3. A world that completely fails to deliver player immersion.
    4. Stories that take no risks and dares nothing.
    5. Uncomplicated characters with little complexity or effective moral ambiguity.
    6. Role-playing without real choices or moral crossroads.
    7. Adventure without wonder or environmental storytelling.
    8. A game with no unique identity or new perspective.
    9. Writing without voice and tone.

    In the spirit of other reviews, I'll use the starting sequence of the game as an example.

    In a story, after the inciting incident, the audience will ask, "Can the character easily go back to their old life?" The answer must always be "no".

    In Fallout 4, the sole survivor cannot go back to their old life after their spouse is murdered, their baby is taken, and they wake from cryo in the future. In Fallout: New Vegas, the courier cannot easily go back to their old life after they've been shot in the head and left for dead with amnesia. In Fallout 3, the lone wanderer cannot easily go back to their old life after they're forced to leave the vault or be killed.

    In Starfield, can the miner easily go back to their old life? The answer is, frankly, yes. There is no dilemma.

    Yes, the miner can easily go back to their old life. They can give their client the artifact they were hired to excavate, then go back to mining. Even the pirates don't want anything with the miners.

    When you think about it, the narrative error here is that there's no "point of no return" for the miner in Starfield. Yes, they experienced a "vision" when interacting with the artifact. But, if the player asks, "Can I go back to mining?", the answer is, "Yes, easily".

    Other weak points:

    1. If Constellation already theorized that the first to touch an artifact experiences visions, why wouldn't they be present for the retrieval, asking the miners to step aside, to test their theory?

    2. After confirming that touching the artifacts grants visions, why wouldn't other members of Constellation insist on sharing those visions with each other during the planning of future retrievals? There are enough artifacts that everyone at Constellation could experience a vision (and other "experiences"). Does Walter not want to get his money's worth? Does Matteo not want to experience a miracle? Why would all of Constellation stand around a table, clapping for the newcomer who took over their venture?

    3. If Barrett also experienced a vision, and others can easily experience them for themselves, what makes the miner so special that they are given their trust, their companionship, their company ship, their robot, and, again, lead on their most paramount project? What did the miner do to earn any of this? What did the player do to earn this?

    Finally, I know this has gone on too long already, but that awkward, family-friendly Neon night club? That setting alone exemplifies the overall feeling of Starfield as a whole: no charm, no tone, no risk, no offense.    … Expand
  44. kelv1
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    This is not up to the standards Bethesda has set in past games, and frankly, isn't even up to the standards of a modern space game. The world feels dead, the main cities feel empty, you never truly feel emersed in the game as there are LOTS of things that take you out of it (will be noted below).

    Loading screens galore, going into your ship, taking off, entering a building, we are in    This is not up to the standards Bethesda has set in past games, and frankly, isn't even up to the standards of a modern space game. The world feels dead, the main cities feel empty, you never truly feel emersed in the game as there are LOTS of things that take you out of it (will be noted below).

    Loading screens galore, going into your ship, taking off, entering a building, we are in 2023 and with the spec demands of this game, THAT is what you give us? Flying your spaceship is clunky as well, the controls are not intuitive, trying to move power from on area of the ship to another requires you to be some sort of dexterity wizard. Trying to move the ship as well, I can't tell you the times I've hit up or down arrow to move my ship (like in MANY other space games) only to find, I'm now going above normal speed or at a complete stop (because the mouse moves your ship up and down (ugg).

    But let's say you skip the space portion totally (it is a space game and yes, you have that option...why? I don't know). The shooting in the game is fine, but it's not something we haven't seen 100 times before. The AI is mind numbingly stupid. You can run right up to them and they will look around the corner as you shoot them point blank range.

    Let's talk about companions....the Robot you start the game with is ANNOYING. He is always getting in the way, and breaking emersion. Trying to sneak into a place, well your big robot isn't following suite, he's just standing there with a big bullseye on him. Trying to take cover in a small corner...well he'll stand in front of you (LITERALLY in front of you!) so you can't hit the enemy, then you have to move heaven and earth to try and get past him to get out of the area. The game would be better without the robot and frankly all the other companions as well. None of them are worth the aggravation of having to avoid them once they are on your ship.

    The questing? Well, let's me just tell you the 1st quest I got when I arrived in my first main city, was to get a cappuccino for a woman.....yes you heard right...go buy a coffee. spent 75 credits and she gave me 400 credits FOR A COFFEE!

    I'm running the game on high with a decent computer, 13th gen i5-13600K 3060 Graphic card and SSD HD and 32 GB of RAM. Didn't have any crashes but also, this graphics are nothing special. Outside of the few mandatory "show" scenes in the game, the NPC's (those that are in the game as "citizens") look like they are from the zombie apocalypse, they faces and bodies on them are from straight up 10 years ago. Even when you are tasked with following a named NPC, they can't even get them to walk up the stairs correctly. The one NPC I followed was gliding up the stairs taking them two at a time. It's the small attention to detail like that, a game like this should not be having trouble with.

    I have over 300+ hours in Skyrim, I've played and enjoyed Fallout4 and New Vegas, this game isn't even in that ballparks parking lot, much less the same league. Luckily I'm playing on Xbox Game pass on PC, and even with the game being free for me, It will probably be uninstalled by this weekend.

    There is no reason...NO REASON, to play this game over a game like No Man's Sky. THAT is a proper space game that feels alive and has endless amount of content. After being spoiled with BG3, even more spoiled with the free updates over the years for No Man's Sky, this is a gigantic disappointment and one of the most disappointing game releases for a game I was looking forward to I can remember. It's so bad, it's honestly making me question if Bethesda can recapture the magic of Skyrim in the next Elder Scrolls Game, or if this is a sign of things to come.    … Expand
  45. jelqcloaca
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have put plenty of time into this game, because that's what everyone giving glowing reviews to this game says is needed. "You get out what you put in." is what Todd Howard says about the game.

    Well, after close to 100 hours between the paid early access and retail release, I've realized that I don't want to put anything else in. In fact, it feels like I've put in thousands of hours into this game, because, essentially, I have. It's the 400+ hours in Morrowind and Skyrim. It's the 500+ hours in Fallout 3, 4, and New Vegas. The point is, this is just more of the same BSG formula with a different coat of paint.

    Starfield was 25 years in the making, and you can tell. The same features from 2002's Morrowind are there, except, strangely enough, a map. The same melee attack animations, complete with the lack of any feeling of impact. Skyrim is there in the form of your Starborn powers, aka: shouts. The gunplay feels like it was ripped straight from Fallout 4 and tightened up a bit while they removed VATS.
    The visuals in the game range from gorgeous to downright terrifying. For every beautiful space backdrop or amazing planet, there are ghoulish (and not the Fallout style) NPC faces and planets devoid of anything apart from the occasional drab building.
    That said, there is definitely plenty to do in the game. Trading, hauling, space battles, piracy, outpost building, the game lets you play it however you want to. The problem is, none of the options feel very fleshed out. The skill tree is vast and has options that theoretically help you in your endeavors, whatever they may be. However, none of the points I invested seemed to make much of a difference. I failed more contraband scans at higher levels of Deception than I did with a single point invested, which seems odd since the skill is supposed to decrease the effectiveness of the scans.

    Ship building started off fun, but once you encounter any errors, the fun disappears. Locking parts behind arbitrary skill requirements is fine for an MMO like EVE Online (which is also a two decade old game), but in a single player RPG it doesn't make as much sense. Especially when things like legendary weapons are able to be used at low levels and not get replaced 20+ levels later.

    This brings us to one of the main drivers of an RPG, even an open world one like BGS's. The story. It's uninspired. It's poorly written. The illusion of choice that conversations give is meaningless. The whole hook of a multiverse shows how long ago the story was conceived, because the idea is played out at this point. The ending feels like it was written by a fanfic.com writer in 2015, and really only serves as a reason for you to play NG+. This left me feeling unsatisfied, as all of my actions were immediately rendered meaningless, my time spent getting to know the flat, boring characters wasted. Much like my time playing this game.

    I expected more, given the hype around this game. I didn't expect simply more of the same. I probably would have loved this game had it come out around the same time Fallout 4 did, because it's on par with that. Unfortunately, Fallout 4 is probably my least favorite BGS game, for many of the same reasons.

    TL;DR - Starfield is a great game for 2014, or for people who want more of the same Bethesda Game Studio formula. For 2023, it's not up to par.    … Expand
  46. KingdomComefan
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Bethesda has once again failed to deliver a genuine RPG instead a soulless,streamlined,woke,Fallout 4 clone
  47. retardedgamer2
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    There's none of the Bethesda magic here. there is so much potential in there being wasted that it makes playing for more than a few hours so disappointing, you quickly realize there's nothing special waiting for you out there.

    Did the developers even enjoy playing this?
  48. DonWick
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    I purchased this for $100 so I could play it early. What a mistake! I was only able to play for almost 7 hours before my save files stopped loading and would crash the game. During those 7 hours it was immediately apparent to me that this game lacked any innovation at all. You can't fly your ship off the surface, instead it's all done by loading screens. Want to enter your ship? LoadingI purchased this for $100 so I could play it early. What a mistake! I was only able to play for almost 7 hours before my save files stopped loading and would crash the game. During those 7 hours it was immediately apparent to me that this game lacked any innovation at all. You can't fly your ship off the surface, instead it's all done by loading screens. Want to enter your ship? Loading screen. Want to take off into space? Loading screen. Want to warp to another planet? Loading screen. Everything is boring and bland. Uninteresting characters. Uninteresting story. The combat is lazy. I can't believe it took them 8 years to put this out. This was the kind of game I'd play back before 2010, not what I'd expect in 2023. Bethesda has existed by riding the coat tails of their consumers' goodwill and depending on modders to fix their incomplete games. I'd pass on this trash and try No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen if you're looking for a REAL space adventure.… Expand
  49. JeffB1121
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    character that is so present in their other universes. I can even usually ignore the Bethesda "jank" that often accompanies the launch of their games - but something about Starfield's core mechanics seem inherently flawed as well, and I'm not sure I could even explain why. Whether it was the underdeveloped enemy A.I., the poorly designed base building (a giant material storage containercharacter that is so present in their other universes. I can even usually ignore the Bethesda "jank" that often accompanies the launch of their games - but something about Starfield's core mechanics seem inherently flawed as well, and I'm not sure I could even explain why. Whether it was the underdeveloped enemy A.I., the poorly designed base building (a giant material storage container can only hold 150 lbs of items, while the safebox in my bedroom can hold infinite), the emotionless (and ugly) character models, the lackluster main story quests, or just the general lack of adventure - Starfield ultimately proves to be an underwhelming RPG that fails to deliver on most of the promises Todd Howard and the marketing team pushed.

    That is not to say that there's nothing good here, the weapon design and shooting mechanics are a vast improvement over their past games, the ship-building is very intuitive, and the scenic landscapes of distant planets and galaxies can be absolutely gorgeous! I just wish I had more of a reason to explore them    … Expand
  50. crisspy117
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Playing on PC and while the game can look very nice in some spots, I have encountered some pretty serious performance issues. Specifically the framerate. My hardware is better than the minimum requirements and I am still getting very noticeable frame drops even with everything turned on Low. I have an Nvidia RTX graphics card and can't help but wonder why DLSS is not an option. I know myPlaying on PC and while the game can look very nice in some spots, I have encountered some pretty serious performance issues. Specifically the framerate. My hardware is better than the minimum requirements and I am still getting very noticeable frame drops even with everything turned on Low. I have an Nvidia RTX graphics card and can't help but wonder why DLSS is not an option. I know my computer is up to the task because I can run games like Jedi Survivor and RDR2 perfectly fine at High settings and get over 60 fps consistently while Starfield struggles to stay above 30. I think this shows that optimization for PC has taken a backseat and I don't want to wait for an update somewhere down the line that makes the game playable.… Expand
  51. carta_red
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Porfavor Bethesda arregla el juego. Es injugable por el momento, esa IA pobre, los graficos con esas caras de los NPC y lo lento que es al empezar...
  52. TheOldGamerBear
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    For me the first impression is very important. Skyrim, Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 did a good job of that. Those game have impressive hand-crafted world building. I'm a big fan of those IP except Fallout 76. Therefore i bought Starfield early access. I think i will happy if they just be like Fallout 4 with space exploration. However this game is a big F to me. Story quest is boring. Very SlowFor me the first impression is very important. Skyrim, Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 did a good job of that. Those game have impressive hand-crafted world building. I'm a big fan of those IP except Fallout 76. Therefore i bought Starfield early access. I think i will happy if they just be like Fallout 4 with space exploration. However this game is a big F to me. Story quest is boring. Very Slow beginning and the story just doesn't make sense. Combat in the game is just not as good as Fallout 4. Plus enemies variation is just very low. They all wear space suit and feel the same.
    They say the game doesn't feel good after 20 hours of gameplay. However it doesn't give me any reasons to keep on playing after the very bad 10 hours. I'm glad i can refund it.
    If you like the game good for you. I think game is like country music some just click well with others and some doesn't. To me this game is a 2 out of 10.    … Expand
  53. Tataru
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Don't you guys have RTX4090?
    If one game doesn't meet the standard of 3A games in 2023, it will be a nonsense to give a high score just because it's made by bethesda, especially when the company toss every problem it has to modders to fix it for free.
    First it's a game, then it is a bethesda game.
  54. Ivorysmoonlight
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    They could have done a way better job, But Todd didn't care he wants another cash cow. AI that is more A than I, 30 fps shutter show for modern gaming, large amount loading screens, shallow main story, Bland and laggy title screen, invisible walls. I'm giving it a 2 because it runs better than launch at fallout 76. Todd you suck
  55. Mew23
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Anybody that gives this game a 10 is delusional and/or a paid actor. Same generic formula. It's like Bethesda refuses to push the envelope once again with another re-skin of Skyrim. For $70? No thanks. Save $10 and buy BG3. Better yet, get No Man's Sky (it does everything so much better).
  56. tsukiyashinokis
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    STARFIELD is made by people living in medieval. Though space theme, all the stuff within is quite like the elder scroll, you get your mission face to face, you fight people face to face even using knife the same as medieval times, your spacecraft speed almost out match carriage. Dont worry, the ai is also sutpid like peasant back in medieval, just ignore everyone of them may need 50 moreSTARFIELD is made by people living in medieval. Though space theme, all the stuff within is quite like the elder scroll, you get your mission face to face, you fight people face to face even using knife the same as medieval times, your spacecraft speed almost out match carriage. Dont worry, the ai is also sutpid like peasant back in medieval, just ignore everyone of them may need 50 more shots to kill.
    But let me be clear, the game have one certain aspect could catch up with modern background game like half life 1, that is its level design, you climb a ladder and loading, you go through a corridor and loading, you enter a building and get more than one loading.
    Dont play this game even it is free, starfield just dont fit for its theme. the space is infinite, but Bethesda style is narrow and only works for medieval games.    … Expand
  57. guncooper
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    It's the same boring mess as the latest games Bethesda made. The last game they did actually well was TES IV Oblivion. All the other games they did after that were just a copy-paste of their own ideas. I won't say there was absolutely nothing new; however, these changes were quite small.
    They keep using this outdated Creation engine they've made for Morrowind (It just has a different    It's the same boring mess as the latest games Bethesda made. The last game they did actually well was TES IV Oblivion. All the other games they did after that were just a copy-paste of their own ideas. I won't say there was absolutely nothing new; however, these changes were quite small.
    They keep using this outdated Creation engine they've made for Morrowind (It just has a different name). The gameplay mechanics are quite dull. Shooting looks outdated, lockpicking is boring and looks outdated, and the oxygen/stamina system is a piece of garbage.
    The game is not open-world anymore. The faction system looks artificial and exists just to add a standard for the series quest lines. Randomly generated stuff is just a copypaste.
    I'd say a lot more, but I want to make it short:
    - "Early access," which is just a scam and an attempt to force people to pay an extra 30$ bucks for the air.
    - Bad visual style (colors and palette). Everything looks grey-ish
    - Absolutely worst optimization (PC/Consoles)
    - Your companions are worthless except for keeping the trash you are collecting
    - The main story is a piece of garbage
    - Tons of empty dialogues
    - Animations from mid-2000s
    - Absolutely horrible shooting, melee, and stealth mechanics
    - Absolutely worst AI
    - Enemies are just sponges for bullets
    - No actual space exploration
    - No vehicles
    - Ship customization is useless
    - Stupid "NASA punk" (in reality, it is "IDFK-punk") style. You say it is 2300, and most of the human-technology looks like in the 1990s?    … Expand
  58. loiter_lobster
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    A bland mess of poor technical optimization, shallow mechanics, and uninspired writing. It's a game that feels fifteen years old, looks five years old, but runs like it came from ten years in the future even on top of the line hardware. The performance issues cannot be understated: this game relies on frame generation (FSR2/DLSS via mods) to achieve anything near a playable frame rate.A bland mess of poor technical optimization, shallow mechanics, and uninspired writing. It's a game that feels fifteen years old, looks five years old, but runs like it came from ten years in the future even on top of the line hardware. The performance issues cannot be understated: this game relies on frame generation (FSR2/DLSS via mods) to achieve anything near a playable frame rate.

    Even if you have the hardware to run Starfield at an acceptable level, there's not much here for you. Starfield time gates its limited content behind grind at every turn. Lockpicking, core to the worn out Bethesda formula of looting, is gated behind perk points and a required amount of containers/doors lockpicked. Trying to pick this perk late in the game will leave you looking for Novice tier locks for hours, as everything you find is Advanced, Expert, or Master tier.

    Most of the character progression or even core game features are similarly gated behind perks. To name a a few, these include: targeting for space combat, access to weapon mods, the jetpack, parts for your ship. All of them are perks, requiring you to both grind out the experience points as well as the perk-specific challenges to advance. While this isn't a terrible system, too much of the game is gated behind this. You want to build a network of outposts producing something for you, fully unlock shipbuilding, combat or social skills? Expect to sacrifice all other character progression for dozens of hours to do so.

    The economy is similarly time-gated, and there seems to be no way to earn credits legitimately in-game that's faster than looting drops off enemies. While you can capture other ships and sell them, you'll need to register them first. This registration fee will eat up 90% of your profits, leaving you with 1-3k credits for selling off a ship. A amount comparable to selling a single weapon or space suit dropped from an enemy. Considering that you would've also looted a couple of enemies when taking of the ship, you earn more from them than the ship itself.

    Speaking of things that don't make sense outside the context of wasting players time: planet exploration. This consists of an instanced zone with a handful of points of dubious interest and a dotting of resources for you to mine. These points of interest are several minutes of walking in a straight line apart, giving you plenty of time to take in just how empty the world feels.

    The outpost system is just as half-baked as it was in Fallout 4. At least you're not getting called up to defend them every five minutes, but that's about the only good thing to say about it. While it lets you ship resources between different outposts, you're not given any way to filter items from arriving shipments. This means you can at most receive three types of resources per outpost. While you can theoretically set up a series of outposts to automate production and make credits this way, I'd expect that you'll make more by looting enemies.

    Finally, a brief word on quests and companions. The writing assumes that the player is always willing to meet it more than halfway, that the player will always be interested in whatever exposition is being spouted at them. It feels equally lazy and arrogant, as if it expects you to happily engage with whatever nonsense is presented to you. From assuming player motivation in the presented context, to player interest in cardboard characters, all while expecting the player to disregard massive plot holes.

    To wrap this up, Starfield is an iteration on the same game Bethesda has been trying to make since Morrowind. This time it has a space skin, uninspired writing, massive grind and terrible technical performance. Save your money and time.    … Expand
  59. ar2ditu
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    We are in 2023, and the game looks at times like it was in the PS3 era, truncated "supposedly" planets, faces, 8 bit textures, loading screens, ultra bottomless dialogues, 0 emotion and gestures, AI out of its ass running and making circles around you, and that's a drop in the ocean. Skyrim was impressive 12 years ago, for me Starfield currently has regressed heavily by several years.We are in 2023, and the game looks at times like it was in the PS3 era, truncated "supposedly" planets, faces, 8 bit textures, loading screens, ultra bottomless dialogues, 0 emotion and gestures, AI out of its ass running and making circles around you, and that's a drop in the ocean. Skyrim was impressive 12 years ago, for me Starfield currently has regressed heavily by several years. Compare what RDR2 or Cyberpunk looks like on ultra.… Expand
  60. Soranthx
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Un juego mal optimizado, repetitivo y que se siente de hace diez años. Un ejemplo buen visible de por qué Bethesda no puede pretender seguir viviendo de Skyrim, incluso si ese Skyrim tiene una alineación espacial.
  61. requiem835453
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    **** of bethesda. It's only a space sci-fi themed Fallout, but everything that made Bethesda's previous games great, Starfield makes it worse, with Exploration Inexistence, bland planets, and a super-heavy introduction...
  62. qu61k
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    This is exactly the same game as many others from Bethesda with all these issues. Unpolished at release date, not optimized at all. All Todd's words about freedom and 20 years of development was sweat lying to gamers hears. The same old mechanics, the same old simple quests, the same animations... just 90% of the game is old stuff in new cover. This is exactly the same game as many othersThis is exactly the same game as many others from Bethesda with all these issues. Unpolished at release date, not optimized at all. All Todd's words about freedom and 20 years of development was sweat lying to gamers hears. The same old mechanics, the same old simple quests, the same animations... just 90% of the game is old stuff in new cover. This is exactly the same game as many others from Bethesda with all these issues. Unpolished at release date, not optimized at all. All Todd's words about freedom and 20 years of development were sweat lying to gamers hears. The same old mechanics, the same old simple quests, the same animations... just 90% of the game is old stuff in new cover. There is no 20 years of development.. just no. This is stagnation.
    I am worrying about what we can get eventually in ES6    … Expand
  63. prototowb
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Unfinished and unoptimized Game. Sci-Fi aspects of the game are a joke. Performance is a joke. But the biggest joke of all is the blatant unoptimization of everything. May it be textures, lightning, physics, landscape effects/particles, flight mechanics, quests, the mist could go on and on. Even the frickin story is so so bad. What the frick was, whoever was in charge, thinking.
  64. RisingMountain
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    I didn't expect much from this game, if anything to be honest. But still Bethesda manages to disappoint. Where to start with this failure of a game?

    - Performance is absolutely horrendous. I have an rtx 3080ti, by no means a weak card. The rest of my system is comparable in quality and with this game I just had the worst performance ever. With Cyberpunk I could somehow understand but with    I didn't expect much from this game, if anything to be honest. But still Bethesda manages to disappoint. Where to start with this failure of a game?

    - Performance is absolutely horrendous. I have an rtx 3080ti, by no means a weak card. The rest of my system is comparable in quality and with this game I just had the worst performance ever. With Cyberpunk I could somehow understand but with a game that looks like it could have been released in 2015 I just can't comprehend. Game looks way too bad to have these heavy requirements. Not everyone has a RTX 4090 in their rig and it should have been way more optimised.

    -Next, the characters. Characters in Starfield are extremely bland. The first one you meet is boring and doesn't really bring anything extra to the game. -Gameplay is pretty average in this game. It is nothing special and there are plenty of games that do it better. It's funny that this aspect of Starfield is its most redeeming feature in my opinion. It was the only thing that didn't bother me that much.

    -Story. As far I played story is very weak. Nonexistent even. It is uninspiring and just boring. So even with this many reviews telling Bethesda to step up their game I'm pretty sure they will not bother.    … Expand
  65. Hubix21
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Fast travel simulator with terrible: ui, optimization, dialogues, faces XDD, stupid npc AI,
  66. sozkev
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Consideration: big AAA*, open world, fps rpg, space explore, 7 years of dev

    Promises and Expectation: Trailers revealed "ride" and "go" anywhere on the planet which is not ride, you cant land and fly the spaceship to a planet. You stand in a point and rotate 360, it's point click fast travel with loading screen and animation. even indie space games on the market have seemless spaceship    Consideration: big AAA*, open world, fps rpg, space explore, 7 years of dev

    Promises and Expectation:
    Trailers revealed "ride" and "go" anywhere on the planet which is not ride, you cant land and fly the spaceship to a planet. You stand in a point and rotate 360, it's point click fast travel with loading screen and animation. even indie space games on the market have seemless spaceship control and you can fly even on the planet atmosphere.
    You have spaceship which is basically loading screen animation, but no land vehicles (No you cant craft vehicle) so you have to walk 1000m of empty planet.

    Story:
    Bland and uninteresting, comparing to their old title. In skyrim your head was about to be chopped of and in Fallout 4 your love got killed and child taken out, comparing to those this story is pretty lame.

    Gameplay:
    Gunplay is same janky old creation engine gunplay with bullet sponge AI. Most of the AAA even AA and indies games has better gun play in their years old games. Seems like no AI or gunplay improvement even after 7 years of developement. they just add 4k space texture. No mechanics improvement. Some of the weapon customization is worse than fallout 4.

    Graphics and World Design:
    Texture improved but light doesn't. so graphics feels dated. Same layout and monochromic color of caves and rooms feels boring after a while.
    Planets are empty which devs say is realistive, but its empty in a repetitive way and planets got invisible wall so no you can't walk (which is already tiresome because of no vehicle and empty) through the entire planet.
    Enemy variety non existent, level 10 enemy means it is a bullet sponge, bullet sponge enemy difficulty, sometimes entire mag of your weapon doesn't do any significant damage to human enemy. And yes no locational damage so headshot means same as body shot.
    NPC and Character animations are so lifeless compared to other AAA, AA titles, facial expression non existent, its same old skyrim oblivion talking animation. No improvement.

    Bugs and Problems:
    NPC dont react to gun, even in skyrim NPC reacted to weapon but here, NO.
    Bugs are less than Fallout 76 which is horrible becuase common bugs of bethesda still exist, like NPC stuck or flying out through the texture
    Too many loading screen, Its 2023 and even some doors have loading screen. Fast travel puts you outside of the door so that you can go through a door which is another loading screen.
    Your character get easily encumbered

    ***Pros:
    Too ambious, sky, planets and moon looks amazing to gaze. spaceship and base customization seems ok. * you cant put one engine of spaceship to other tho. *you can create base on empty planets and bring your companion,
    Game plays like a fallout 4 mod, so if you are a bethesda fan and fallout 4 fan you will get enjoyment.

    There are other issuses too. like game is extremely slow place, your need 15-20hrs to get into, UI feels worse than fallout to me, just look at the title screen menu... I dont want to mention anymore.    … Expand
  67. Toja
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Starfield is an underdeveloped modding platform because I can't really call it a game.

    Generic characters. The story and quests were probably written by AI because I doubt a human could come up with such plain ideas. The whole industry is moving towards making a world where you don't have to load every location every 5 meters, unlike Bethesda. The AI is a failure; I don't know who    Starfield is an underdeveloped modding platform because I can't really call it a game.

    Generic characters.
    The story and quests were probably written by AI because I doubt a human could come up with such plain ideas.
    The whole industry is moving towards making a world where you don't have to load every location every 5 meters, unlike Bethesda.
    The AI is a failure; I don't know who was behind it, but they probably just wrote to GPT, 'Write me an AI that moves and shoots,' and pasted it into Starfield...
    The graphics design is actually quite high-quality, but the execution is a tragedy. If you were to scale Starfield in terms of graphics between Fallout 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2, Starfield is closer to Fallout and it devours resources like crazy. I wonder where those resources are going?
    Where is the space?
    Terrible interface.
    Starfield is just plain boring.
    I forced myself to play for the last few hours just to understand most of the game's systems. This game really has a terrible design.
    And now the positives of the game:
    Physics
    "Room filling"
    Shooting system
    Fantastic music
    Very well-made sounds
    Graphic design    … Expand
  68. 1eyed
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Cats out of the bag. The game is beautiful. Its visuals are polished and it’s a modern game. But that’s really where it ends. Repetition….. constant, shloging repetition. For the worlds it presents for the “ vast “ universe it tried to present its boring. Nothing feels important. You’re thrust so fast into the main story the beginning is a complete after though. The quests are likeCats out of the bag. The game is beautiful. Its visuals are polished and it’s a modern game. But that’s really where it ends. Repetition….. constant, shloging repetition. For the worlds it presents for the “ vast “ universe it tried to present its boring. Nothing feels important. You’re thrust so fast into the main story the beginning is a complete after though. The quests are like household chores. You know in order to progress you HAVE TO DO THEM. But you really don’t want to. Flying 50 light years to give some entitled old lady an energy drink wine cooler…. Who wrote this? Who thought this was a good idea. She’s the rich and famous Mrs.Coffin and she sets a desk even a Bethesda intern would laugh at. Exploration is the worst of any triple A title I’ve played. It’s like Bethesda play tested a bunch of games. Stole their basic premise and strung them together on this ancient engine and SOMEHOW made it work without exploding. But in the process left every captivating every titular concept their stole from under a pile of rocks on a moon. This game has no character, no flavor other than butt crack vanilla. You lick it a few times, you nurse it, you spend time with it. Just to have someone tell you that your breath smells like a**. This game suffered from the same thing Halo infinite did. Lack of direction in any one specific goal. A subpar storytelling experience and combat that would make fallout 3 itself laugh. Where has the immersion and the experience go of past titles. Who chose this as our future? Because they need tasked with something else. Story telling may at one point been their shtick. But it certainly isn’t now. I had such high hopes for this game. It’s beautiful, it’s HUGE. But in that it’s huge it’s also EMPTY. Like a big a** box of multi flavor chips. You can’t wait to open it to see what flavors you have and of how much each it contains. Just to find out the box is half empty, and there are only two flavors. 9 bags of plain, and one bag of salt and vinegar. You’ll open the box ( the game ) and think. “ WHO IS THE A**HOLE WHO PACKED THIS??!!” And that’s the game. 25 hours in I’m 100% out. The only way anything can be saved is by modders. The very same group that saves every Bethesda title every time it needs saving. Shame on you Microsoft and Bethesda. You made a beautiful soulless gutted empty space menu simulator.
    And you should feel bad. You’ve wasted all of our time and money. And you could have just been making ES6. But no, Todd wanted a space game. Sometimes it’s best if Todd doesn’t always get what he wants. For f**k sake just put him in a room with the current No Man’s sky and Everspace if he wants to know how this game should have felt.    … Expand
  69. Jott
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Game is buggy and unfinished, 2P because I like space battles. I refunded the game. Fix the bugs and release a non alpha
  70. Dandyjalapeno
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Boring Story.
    Boring Gameplay.
    Some Sidequests saved this Game from me giving IT a "0". Invisible Walls on planets is kinda a W now that i know that planets are also super Boring. Bugs (typical Bethesda) Good graphics are not really necessary buuuut...its a trillion Dollar company so, yeah they are. Feels weird compared to their much older Games, (Skyrim, Fallout 4). Yay ship building,    Boring Story.
    Boring Gameplay.
    Some Sidequests saved this Game from me giving IT a "0".
    Invisible Walls on planets is kinda a W now that i know that planets are also super Boring.
    Bugs (typical Bethesda)
    Good graphics are not really necessary buuuut...its a trillion Dollar company so, yeah they are.
    Feels weird compared to their much older Games, (Skyrim, Fallout 4).
    Yay ship building, THAT is really cool.
    Rather burned my 80€ (Insert Fake Money Joke for americans)
    And the worst part: ITS BOOOORING. I really was looking forward to Play and get lost in this Game but even after 20 horribly long hours i did Not feel it.

    Bethesda? Never again.    … Expand
  71. cprelot
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    I'm so disappointed, I was looking so much for this game, but it's not what they promise
    technequely it's a outdated game, I'm tired of those infinite loading screen that kill the immersion
    this game have no soul to be engage with the story...it's basically blank and boring character have no interest story and they are scripted robotic...no vehicles other than a spaceship is pointless    I'm so disappointed, I was looking so much for this game, but it's not what they promise
    technequely it's a outdated game, I'm tired of those infinite loading screen that kill the immersion
    this game have no soul to be engage with the story...it's basically blank and boring
    character have no interest story and they are scripted robotic...no vehicles other than a spaceship is pointless to explore the planet
    they are some many good game coming soon that I give up playing starfield
    I will not remember any of it...bye    … Expand
  72. couriersix12
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    awful optimization, questionable visuals, horrendous ui, unenjoyable space fights, forgetable characters and plot
    yeah, nice city map
  73. Barretox1
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Completely horrible on the PC, I'm stuck in the mission for two days talk to Vladimir the ship doesn't dock on the PC, another main mission here is gone, besides the horrible performance on the pc and graphically it's not all that. What a pity I liked the game and I just can't play the ship doesn't dock in the missions, before that I don't know how to get through the horrible experience on the pc!
  74. NickosDi
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    First of all, this game have 0 reasons to perform that bad on pc. While cyberpunk2077 had major GAMEPLAY bugs, i could still achieve high fps with both dlss and rt on. And the overall textures and objectives are better. Also, basic settings are missing like brightness slider, hdr, fov,textures settings and resolution

    NPCs/AI, graphics, main story feels outdated and not interested. Would    First of all, this game have 0 reasons to perform that bad on pc. While cyberpunk2077 had major GAMEPLAY bugs, i could still achieve high fps with both dlss and rt on. And the overall textures and objectives are better. Also, basic settings are missing like brightness slider, hdr, fov,textures settings and resolution

    NPCs/AI, graphics, main story feels outdated and not interested. Would bebetter if it had an online part like Death Stranding with its buildings, or a pvp to test our spaceships. All the grinding is not worth it.

    Good thing i have GP for a couple of games that I;m interested in. This is surely not worth the 70 or 100 euros    … Expand
  75. UserMike312
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    -8 stars for forced pronouns. Yes, the (forced) pronouns thing is a big deal, here's why.

    Do lies or truth help people? It is my belief that pronouns are severely damaging mental health. Why? I believe pronouns are being pushed to help further a personal belief that biological men can be women and vice versa. And who cares? Well, in all respect, you're asking the wrong question. We    -8 stars for forced pronouns. Yes, the (forced) pronouns thing is a big deal, here's why.

    Do lies or truth help people? It is my belief that pronouns are severely damaging mental health. Why? I believe pronouns are being pushed to help further a personal belief that biological men can be women and vice versa. And who cares? Well, in all respect, you're asking the wrong question. We should be asking "Do lies or truth help people?" Clearly the truth is best for us. And the truth is, it is biology, NOT us, or our feelings, that assigns chromosomes before we are born that determine male or female. (Yes, I get that there are exceptions, like with intersex born people, but the exceptions are just that - exceptions. And they are exceedingly rare. And sure, leave the pronoun choice in for them, that's okay. But forcing everyone else to choose is the problem). There is no amount of technology or feelings that can change chromosomal makeup. So therefore, men can never become women and women can never become men.

    Using pronouns helps to perpetuate a lie, which in the long run hurts people significantly. Pronouns, for thousands and thousands of years, have correlated with biology. Males are 'he' and females are 'she', etc. If I create a male character, the pronouns are understood to be used throughout the game accordingly as 'he'. There is zero reason to require that I pick pronouns because it's unnecessary. Now, as previously explained, go ahead and leave the option to choose pronouns in the game. BUT there should be a choice for those of us who do not want to help validate lies to everyone else, who is not legitimately intersexed.

    What should that choice be? There should be an option to simply leave that pronoun field blank and populate the game with the appropriate pronouns correlated to the character created as male or female.

    It's my opinion, that if you do not agree that biology and chromosomes determine male/female, please understand that it is you, not me, who believes lies and is denying truth - which is a very uncaring, unloving, hurtful, and a confusing act, that will complicate other's mental health.

    I believe history will one day look back and condemn the millions of people who would rather be part of a movement and feel a sense of social belonging, more than protecting biologically provable truth and the mental health of others. Two thumbs down Bethesda. For what it's worth, I will never be purchasing another game from you until I've ensured you are protecting the mental health of all of us.    … Expand
  76. Stevesix
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Play, in early access, (via Game Pass) by purchasing the Deluxe version.
    Only FSR and no DLSS at day One? (Maybe never). I have no intention of financing a modder for something that, in 2023, Bethesda and Microsoft should implement (especially in a product like this) without ifs and buts! AMD or no AMD!
  77. Mhkaaaay
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    This game is beyond bad. Cutscene, Loadingscreen, Cutscene, Loadingscreen. No Map, no feeling for the world. Just quicktravel after quicktravel. So sad for all the devs and fans. If i want a looter shooter in space with mini maps id play Destiny 2. Thank god it was "free" in Gamepass.
  78. zWallece1987
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    This game's "open world" (if you can even call it that) is a total downgrade compared to those from the previous BGS titles. It is merely a list of dungeons and other locations separated by long and frequent loading screens. This design choice not only stops you from immersing in the game's world but, when combined with the disastrous optimization by Bethesda is really frustrating. ItThis game's "open world" (if you can even call it that) is a total downgrade compared to those from the previous BGS titles. It is merely a list of dungeons and other locations separated by long and frequent loading screens. This design choice not only stops you from immersing in the game's world but, when combined with the disastrous optimization by Bethesda is really frustrating. It would be much better if they put all the content into just one star system with several large explorable areas, instead of making 1000 mostly empty planets just for bragging about that… Expand
  79. LordPako
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    I must give this game 2. Like when in school you go unprepared. First of all the optimization on Nvidia GPUs is embarassing, cant even change the resolution in game. Accessibility for abnormal users is nowhere to be found. Graphic is 1 and an half generation old, no ray tracing, AI is 2 generations old, no facial expressions, npcs are dumb and they dont react if you shoot 1inch from theirI must give this game 2. Like when in school you go unprepared. First of all the optimization on Nvidia GPUs is embarassing, cant even change the resolution in game. Accessibility for abnormal users is nowhere to be found. Graphic is 1 and an half generation old, no ray tracing, AI is 2 generations old, no facial expressions, npcs are dumb and they dont react if you shoot 1inch from their feet,no physics on objects, water is one of the worst i've seen in the last 10 years,quest design is like 2007 world of warcraft, world design is good but empty and many places have flat textures. Loading screens everywhere, gunplay is ok but doesnt adds up nothing new, planets are empty and when you find something is just a copy/paste from other planets, dungeons too are a copy paste. They took 1 year more delay to "clean" the game from bugs... They are still there. This is not a 2023 game, maybe 2016. Fallout 4 modders in 2 years made better than bestesda developers in 8 years with hundreds of millions dollars received. The main story is short (13 hours), game difficulty is too low and you cannot change it. New Game plus is awful and useless.
    Bethesda hyped fans and people thinking this could be game of the century, maybe in 2015 Starfield could be addressed as a good game.
    100 euro wasted and embarassing game.    … Expand
  80. Chico_Lopes
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    The most expensive Xbox 360 game you will play in 2023! Empty, AI-generated worlds with no soul. Absurdly dumb and repetitive enemies. Back gen visuals (worlds are a jpeg when you're looking at it in the ship menu and an almost straight mat with simple texture when you're in it and that's it). Useless customization (your ship is the most customizable loading screen ever made, you flick itThe most expensive Xbox 360 game you will play in 2023! Empty, AI-generated worlds with no soul. Absurdly dumb and repetitive enemies. Back gen visuals (worlds are a jpeg when you're looking at it in the ship menu and an almost straight mat with simple texture when you're in it and that's it). Useless customization (your ship is the most customizable loading screen ever made, you flick it to see it land in the loading screens and that's it). The WHOLE campaign is presented to you in static dialogues and poorly acted by NPCs that spoil the entire game experience, there is not ONE cutscene. The game is not intuitive and doesn't even try to be (there is no map of anything in the cities or on the planets, you just don't get completely lost in the main missions that are marked on the screen, besides, buy a little pad and draw in your hand where the things). Immersion spoiled by infinite loading black screens that cut the game at all times (and you can put it on the NVME M2 which is no use, there will be loading cutting the game in everything you do). Ridiculous performance on 20k PCs on any video card and processor, not justifying frame drops and bugs at all (on consoles I won't even comment, the worst port). Exploration of planets in MENUS, because there is no content inside them, in fact, the game is not even an open world, it only carries one of the three possible areas to play with invisible walls, empty places and with many other problems and there is ANY reason to if you go back to any planet again, just ONE time there for 3 minutes and you have NOTHING to do there anymore. I played 5 hours on PC and gave up, no way. Another unfulfilled advertisement for another game made on thighs. Everything the game does, it does so mediocre and uninspired. Mass Effect destroys it in the narrative, shooting gameplay and characters, just as No Mans Sky swallows it in exploration and world generation, there is no way to pass the cloth for that and I will not pretend to think the game is good, because M$ does not Pay me nothing to be her lawyer. Ridiculous, yet another flop sold as "revolutionary"....BOTTOM LINE: Starfield tries to take a little bit of every space game that has ever been made, but pulls it all together with no inspiration, and does so largely in a mediocre, empty, and pointless way. soul. It's not Skyrim, it's not Fallout, it's not Mass Effect, it's not No Mans Sky, Starfield seems just a generic game inspired by these others and advertised as an A trill, failing in its unreached grandeur!… Expand
  81. Bilb0Swaggins
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Starfield is an average Josh tier game tbh. Once, when I was younger and dumber, I'd have enjoyed something as mediocre and cringeworthy as a Josh tier game, but unfortunately - times have changed… Expand
  82. cadusakaguchi
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Game without story, boring and repetitive. There aren’t many bugs, but fast travel is a lot annoying.
  83. kingLear107
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Che dire, per un gioco che millantava una componente esplorativa profondissima e predominante, questa é una presa in giro. "Avrete a disposizione un sacco di pianeti da esplorare", certo, peccato che tranne che per un punto siamo vuoti e si venga bloccati da muri invisibili ancora nel 2023. Poi, l'esplorazione nello spazio non esiste, non puoi decollare, viaggiare e attraccare, devi fareChe dire, per un gioco che millantava una componente esplorativa profondissima e predominante, questa é una presa in giro. "Avrete a disposizione un sacco di pianeti da esplorare", certo, peccato che tranne che per un punto siamo vuoti e si venga bloccati da muri invisibili ancora nel 2023. Poi, l'esplorazione nello spazio non esiste, non puoi decollare, viaggiare e attraccare, devi fare tutto con i viaggi rapidi. Che razza di esplorazione sarebbe? L'unica cosa che esploro é la strada da casa mia fino al negozio per restituire il gioco.… Expand
  84. Ahmedsassi
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Whorst game i ever played from bethesda, , it’s just Fallout with bigger world and better graphics
  85. Ftanure
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Eu estava super ancioso pelo jogo a ponto de gastar 3 mil reais em upgrade no meu PC pra rodar ele da melhor forma possível, porém em meia hora de jogo eu simplesmente não suportei, bugs para todo lado, a betesda vendeu algo como" voce pode explorar 1000 planetas" vários desses são gasosos não da pousar, a maioria vazio, e os planetas são grandes bolas de textura aonde você entra em mapasEu estava super ancioso pelo jogo a ponto de gastar 3 mil reais em upgrade no meu PC pra rodar ele da melhor forma possível, porém em meia hora de jogo eu simplesmente não suportei, bugs para todo lado, a betesda vendeu algo como" voce pode explorar 1000 planetas" vários desses são gasosos não da pousar, a maioria vazio, e os planetas são grandes bolas de textura aonde você entra em mapas limitados, um jogo espacial de mil planetas que tela de carregamento pra entrar numa nave ? Pelo amor de deus . Um milhão de objetos inúteis pegaveis sem propósito, em falout 4 cada objeto servia como matéria na construção de outros itens, 25 anos pra fazer essa merda ? A criação de personagem de falout é melhor que isso, dentição fixa se tu faz um rosto largo fica parecendo que seu personagem tá com dentadura, npc tem expressões aleatórias, além dos personagens serem feios a ponto de entrar no vale da estranheza, diribilidade de mira para ataque de naves totalmente desalinhado, os itens destruídos da nave vai em direção a planetas e como você não pode chegar perto o item se perde na bola de textura . Decepção geral é minha fala sobre esse jogo com potencial que poderia ser o jogo do ano, mas agora é um jogo esquecivel. Baldurs Gates 3 deu uma surra tão grande nele mostrando como se faz um jogo esse sim jogo do ano . A nota dois é pelas paisagens nos mapas. Há o sistema de armas, cyberpunk da uma surra neles, você pode desmontar armas que não precisa ou não gosta e usar as peças pra melhorar outras armas, essa bosta de starfild só dá pra vender, e uma arma pesa tanto que seu inventário enche com 8 armas ...… Expand
  86. ArguyusSilvers
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Spent alot of time in shipbuilder. The only fun and engaging aspect of the game.

    The bad review score. Short easy to see reasons. with long explanations. -Space combat is boring and avoidable. Which means all that shipbuilding you had fun with was for nothing. You can just hit start and fast travel to the planet right when you get to locations avoiding all space battles. Which is    Spent alot of time in shipbuilder. The only fun and engaging aspect of the game.

    The bad review score. Short easy to see reasons. with long explanations.

    -Space combat is boring and avoidable.
    Which means all that shipbuilding you had fun with was for nothing. You can just hit start and fast travel to the planet right when you get to locations avoiding all space battles. Which is smart since space battles are so bad.

    - Citizen NPCS.
    The fact that each "city" is flooded with "Citizen" instead of named NPCs as all other Bethesda games have is criminal and lazy. I don't even believe that any of the old Bethesda staff worked on this because of this fact. Also, all the citizens say is variations of the phrase "WHOA {Cityname} is so nice" Good job trying to enforce you bad city designs with generic NPC's saying how nice it is.

    - Named NPCs
    So you did put some in. They are not the easiest to find, except well if they are a shop keeper. Thats right, in the future you might find yourself working ALL DAY AND NIGHT being a cash register. The named NPCs that you do find are almost exclusively shop keepers that man the station forever with no breaks or time off. They have about 2-4 unique things to say but mostly just sell stuff. The issue here is, they should just be Kiosk. Why in the future would any humans have to do this job. Or a robot should do it. Very bad use of Named NPCs.

    - City Designs
    You found 1 of around 5 or so real cities! Thats right. Thats less than Fallout series which is a dead planet. Turns out the universe is more dead than a dystopian nuclear wasteland. Now on these 4 cities (and 1 decent outpost) you notice that the humans that went to these places must be really into themes. Take a pick
    Poorly ripped off Olisar from Star Citizen town! (look it up) Where is the weapons shop? Thats right the residential district. Nothing is in the Commercial district, dummy.
    Cowboy city - new vegas fan put this bad boy in here. Too small to be a real city though.
    Edge city- Someone clearly liked cyberpunk and forced it in here.
    And last City- Legit just a bunker on mars. Good job, not.

    - Skills requiring milestones after purchase
    Best save some of those goods to sell until you buy the next level or merchant. Takes up to 125 unique sells to max the skill milestone so you can finish leveling it up. Worst Trait/skill tree.

    - Combat is dull. enemy AI is just not good.

    - Quest are bad. Some questlines (not many of them in the game) end randomly (looking at you Repo man questline) It is really sad that it's like they started on it, then got distracted with something else and forgot to atleast have the NPC's say "thanks well were all caught up" or anything.

    - Planets being dull with the same activities to do.
    Same 8 or so random encounters spawn at each planet. Imagine if Skyrim if you fast travel to a marker just to spawn about 3 minutes away from where you suppose to go, just to have that place you're going to be the guards with a prisoner every single time. Thats the gameplay loop.

    Summarize!!!

    Shipbuilding is fun and walking around the ship is neat. No interactivity with the inside of the ship for the most part, which sucks. But, can't win them all. In this case, any. So take that the building is fun.

    Thats it. The rest of the game is LAZY EA level garbage. Random generated **** being piled on your plate. No handcrafted anything, because that takes work. I'm guessing they assume the Modders will fix/make their game for them.

    2 points for shipbuilder    … Expand
  87. zodszdfky
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    its Cyberpunk only if everything is good in art and animation and everything bad in art, lack of AI, with much to be desired in performance and physics
  88. KyraaN
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    The Engine is outdated, not even support for 3840x1600. Even most Indi games support that today.
    Most time loading new map when entering something, since the engine can still not handle such stuff. No realtime travel between planets, all time need to use Waypoints, same for landing/takeoff on Planets. Feels like a game made 1990 but not 2023 with all that limitations and restrictions.    The Engine is outdated, not even support for 3840x1600. Even most Indi games support that today.
    Most time loading new map when entering something, since the engine can still not handle such stuff. No realtime travel between planets, all time need to use Waypoints, same for landing/takeoff on Planets. Feels like a game made 1990 but not 2023 with all that limitations and restrictions.
    Characters are looking also as if they would be made in 2000. Character-creation part is one of the worst i can remember in the last decates.
    Dialogs are made like it exist just one script for camera and that one is used all time. No camera movements etc, feels very static.
    Dialogs on the story telling part fells boring and flat.
    Exploring Planets is on most time pointless, but that discussion about startet months ago that this could be as boring and pointless like in No Man´s Sky, there was the hope Bathesta would make it better since they have been warned and...they failed :P (why listen to costumers as long they give the money)
    My score is also based on the price of the game. For a game in pricerange 70/100€ i can not give a better score with a outdated engine, loveles made characters, pointless number of Planets, bad inventory system, ugly character creator, flat dialogs etc. The game got the feel its made of Developers that got payed for being in office 8 hours/day, but not made by enthusiast that wanna make a great or at least good game. (Giving even the feeling like they are that kind of developers that dont even play games at all)

    Funny also the reaction given by Todd Howard that people need a better hardware for running the game smooth. Got a 13900K + 4090, with that setting and the average till low made graphic that the game offers, it should run with +200fps. Proof of the outdated engine and loveles made development.    … Expand
  89. FelixZV
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Закрываем глаза на:
    графику, оптимизацию, сюжет, стрельбу, полеты, пустые планеты, никакой безшовности и постоянные загрузки, однообразные квесты, тупейший ИИ.
    Получается средненькая игра 2007 года. Открываем и это просто фигня, мне в фаллаут 76 было интереснее играть, чем в это    Закрываем глаза на:
    графику, оптимизацию, сюжет, стрельбу, полеты, пустые планеты, никакой безшовности и постоянные загрузки, однообразные квесты, тупейший ИИ.
    Получается средненькая игра 2007 года.
    Открываем и это просто фигня, мне в фаллаут 76 было интереснее играть, чем в это
  90. LovelyWishes
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Over 100 hours in, I have to say I'm completely soured on the game to the extent that I've made this account just to write a review on it and hope I can contribute to the pile that may help to course-correct things... to some small extent that they could be corrected.

    Soulless political messaging platform that under-delivers on the implied promise of its advertising and lacks the open    Over 100 hours in, I have to say I'm completely soured on the game to the extent that I've made this account just to write a review on it and hope I can contribute to the pile that may help to course-correct things... to some small extent that they could be corrected.

    Soulless political messaging platform that under-delivers on the implied promise of its advertising and lacks the open world you play a Bethesda game for.
    Instead you get uninspired strings of fishbowl instances and the entirety of space is merely a separate fishbowl you have to fast travel to before you fast travel again to the fishbowl you intended to reach. Isolated space arenas that may or may not have anything to do in it before you can fast travel once again to the destination, which is probably an empty landscape that mostly looks the same as every other empty landscape you've visited and are forced to walk slowly across to find the quest marker, and maybe pass the random structure you've seen 12 times already with next to no variation between its instances.
    The worldbuilding is complete garbage that flies in the face of realism, the world is not believable at all with a near complete lack of identity behind the superficial veneers advertising a faction, as somehow after 200 years or something the remains of humanity still have a cosmopolitan modern PC political persuasion with random accents from any given modern day country that was already nearly a century out of date before humans had their exodus from Earth in the timeline.
    Overall it feels like there are many missing or incomplete systems that they scrapped or really should have thought about implementing.
    The near unusable "Map" they have is the most glaring example. They practically don't have a map. Much like the rest of the game being a fast travel simulator, the map's only function is to see and click fast travel nodes as the map is otherwise entirely unreadable.

    Bethesda games have taken up perhaps 70% of my lifelong gaming hours and it was a foregone conclusion tat I would have bought Starfield so yes, I preordered it, and the 100$ early access version no less.
    I regret it. I might not buy TES6 at this point, as it's unlikely they'll improve by then- They'll surely get worse the same as other once-great studio names that get hollowed out over time until they're a pox on their own history.    … Expand
  91. Azurika
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    it's ALMOST exactly like any poor to average bethesda game, you know exactly what to expect with NPC's and the way inventories and quests and such work.

    the killer blow to this game however is that they have, essentially "removed" the overworld, imagine skyrim, but with nothing but the dungeons, caves and town interiors. that is what this game is. you CAN fly between planets, but why    it's ALMOST exactly like any poor to average bethesda game, you know exactly what to expect with NPC's and the way inventories and quests and such work.

    the killer blow to this game however is that they have, essentially "removed" the overworld, imagine skyrim, but with nothing but the dungeons, caves and town interiors. that is what this game is.

    you CAN fly between planets, but why you ever would i don't know. there are no points of interest in space, it takes like 7 irl hours minimum to do so, this means the game is essentially "go to ship>go to seat in ship>press space to launch cutscene to take off and "teleport" to space>open map> find destination planet> fast travel to it, land via cutscene.

    i'm so disappointed that there are no points of interest in space, that i can't reasonably explore without just teleporting to a spot on the map, and that i can't fly down to a planets surface or manually take off and fly into space.    … Expand
  92. Satpyn
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    A sparse in-game world with straightforward quests and side quests with limited choice and consequences, a poor interplanetary travel system, an incredibly dull game start, and terrible optimization.
  93. ThighDevil
    Sep 9, 2023
    2
    Just so annoying.
    You fast travel from place to place talk to a person and fast travel again to the next planet to talk to someone else. It just doesn't feel like an open world game at all. No man's Sky has a far better feel. Ship battles are far too easy and boring. The game looks quite bad considering CPU and GPU demand especially on NVIDIA GPUs.
    It has a bunch of bugs NPCs trying to    Just so annoying.
    You fast travel from place to place talk to a person and fast travel again to the next planet to talk to someone else. It just doesn't feel like an open world game at all. No man's Sky has a far better feel. Ship battles are far too easy and boring. The game looks quite bad considering CPU and GPU demand especially on NVIDIA GPUs.
    It has a bunch of bugs NPCs trying to walk somewhere specific they just walk back an forth for minutes at times, Ship glitching out while in Cockpit, and Leveling system worse than Fallout 4 and far worse than Skyrim.    … Expand
  94. Zeldasolid
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    Creo que el juego ir un paso más allá, pero se queda estancado en un puedo y no quiero. Un Fallout en la galaxia donde la gran novedad es una nave especial y poco más, combates aburridos y exploración escasa en ciertas partes, con NPC'S MEDIOCRES Y ROBOTIZADOS. Una lástima, creía que podría ser más, pero al final, es un juego que se queda en la mitad. Recalco también: He compradoCreo que el juego ir un paso más allá, pero se queda estancado en un puedo y no quiero. Un Fallout en la galaxia donde la gran novedad es una nave especial y poco más, combates aburridos y exploración escasa en ciertas partes, con NPC'S MEDIOCRES Y ROBOTIZADOS. Una lástima, creía que podría ser más, pero al final, es un juego que se queda en la mitad. Recalco también: He comprado precisamente una Xbox para jugar este juego, pero mañana iré a vender la consola y el juego, no quiero saber nada más de Bethesda en un tiempo ni de Xbox con sus juegos que aún están sin cocinar, lastrados por la avaricia de demostrar en que tienen exclusivos. Sigo y seguiré prefiriendo Fallout 76 antes que está bazofia y ya es decir. Solo compraré juegos de Bethesda cuando sean multiplataforma, Nintendo sobre todo y PlayStation.… Expand
  95. gonzalesincorp
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    The game is just disgusting, after so much development time, they did IT. Outdated mechanics, eternal loading, empty space, the level of the game is terrible.
  96. TRLEGENDARIO
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    (30fps) No puedes crear un hombre típico. TIENEN UNA CADERA EXAGERADA. Prueba a ponerlo muy delgado y ríete! Buena música con GRAFICOS DESFASADOS! Muchos planetas VACÍOS y sin posibilidad de correr (se te acaba el oxigeno) Buena ambientación con MUY MALA IA + fallos técnicos del siglo pasado (atraviesas todo, saltas en el agua, animales juntos que hacen la misma animación exacta, etc.)(30fps) No puedes crear un hombre típico. TIENEN UNA CADERA EXAGERADA. Prueba a ponerlo muy delgado y ríete! Buena música con GRAFICOS DESFASADOS! Muchos planetas VACÍOS y sin posibilidad de correr (se te acaba el oxigeno) Buena ambientación con MUY MALA IA + fallos técnicos del siglo pasado (atraviesas todo, saltas en el agua, animales juntos que hacen la misma animación exacta, etc.) Dialogos de Oblivion pero con una atmosfera futuristica...
    Copia visualmente a Cyberpunk y copia mecánicas de STARLINK.
    Me quedo con la música y con la ilusión que me tuve al jugarlo el primer día. (30 fps)    … Expand
  97. Anris
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    Absolutely empty and uninteresting game. I came with the expectation of an open world and an interesting story, but I got only an unfinished parody of game
  98. mrseawood
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    bugthesda did it again!!!! unfinished, unpolished mess of a so called game... we should boykott these liars!!! once again they showed us with this ridicilous display of work and distaste for gamers that we cant trust them!!! what a shameful display from a multibillion company which got all resources availiable for producing whole games and not this abomination of a half baked something...bugthesda did it again!!!! unfinished, unpolished mess of a so called game... we should boykott these liars!!! once again they showed us with this ridicilous display of work and distaste for gamers that we cant trust them!!! what a shameful display from a multibillion company which got all resources availiable for producing whole games and not this abomination of a half baked something... in comparisson to baldurs gate 3, starfield is a REAL DISGUSTING JOKE!!!!… Expand
  99. xmvj629
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    Bethesda developed this game on the principle that, as with Skyrim in 2011, it will be enhanced by volunteer modders at the time of release and for years to come. So they botched their production on every level. The outdated graphics, the game mechanics dating from 2011, the user interface worthy of an alpha version, no open world just small areas cut off by screen loadings, uninterestingBethesda developed this game on the principle that, as with Skyrim in 2011, it will be enhanced by volunteer modders at the time of release and for years to come. So they botched their production on every level. The outdated graphics, the game mechanics dating from 2011, the user interface worthy of an alpha version, no open world just small areas cut off by screen loadings, uninteresting NPC-walkers, so few in number and so not "lively", and more than anything, a story so uninspiring that as a player we tell ourselves that we are going to go to the end just to make the 70 dollars profitable, not because it is inspiring and fun. For Bethesda fans wait until Starfield is worth 10 dollars and hopefully a well stocked Nexusmod over the years. For other curious or fans of space games go your way.… Expand
  100. OldGuyMK1
    Sep 11, 2023
    2
    Very poor in my opinion. Glitchy, boring, poor character acting. Difficult controls. Terrible inventory. Thankfully I only downloaded from Game Pass. I've tried to like it but after 10 hours play its just not doing it for me and so I'm uninstalling it. Just glad I didn't buy it based on the hype. There are many better games out there that really are AAA titles.
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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
  3. Negative: 0 out of 75
  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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