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  1. Sep 11, 2023
    3
    Dinheiro jogado fora! Loadings sem fim, gráfico fraco, planetas limitados e repetidos, a jogabilidade não inova em nada.
  2. Sep 11, 2023
    3
    this game is overrated... graphics are bad. no exploration & story is bad....
  3. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    Imprescindible, sin dudas de lo mejor de Bethesda, más de 40 horas disfrutadas y cada vez más impresionado.
  4. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    I am Dan Stapleton in IGN. I love it this game ım now bethesda fan forever
  5. Sep 11, 2023
    5
    Vanilla Starfield: Garbage 0/10
    Modded Starfield: GOTY. 10/10

    Total: 5/10
  6. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    I had written a 4000+ character review before MetaCritic threw a error 500, so I really don't want to rewrite it. Instead I'll give a shortened version.

    Movement is bad. This includes 1st and 3rd person. Also 1st and 3rd person walking is drastically different. You instantly move in 1st person, but 3rd person is delayed so the character animations can go through. If you run and jump,
    I had written a 4000+ character review before MetaCritic threw a error 500, so I really don't want to rewrite it. Instead I'll give a shortened version.

    Movement is bad. This includes 1st and 3rd person. Also 1st and 3rd person walking is drastically different. You instantly move in 1st person, but 3rd person is delayed so the character animations can go through. If you run and jump, but suddenly stop pressing w you just stop moving all together. There is no momentum.(You're in space I promise you there is momentum.)

    Flying your space ship in 1st person is nauseating. 3rd person is required and even then is not a 'fun' experience. Looting requires you to fly to each ship to press e on them where as mining on land it auto loots. Changing power allocation on your ship mid flight for combat is not engaging. If they could allow for power allocation presets it would be more enjoyable.

    Game tries to get you to use their cover system, but it feels like you're fighting with the games programming to even trigger the cover action. Bullets shoot from the tip, but they do not shoot straight out the barrel they go diagonal from the barrel to the cursor.

    The faces are jarringly bad. Not uncanny valley bad. If anything it looks like a mannequin. Eyelids don't line up and clip through the eyeballs. The mouths look like they just came from the dentist and are fighting off being numbed up. I spent an hour in character creation to make something that I could at least at the end of the day like, but gave up because the creator was just awful to use and everything looked well.. bad.

    I've read many posts say the game gets good after 12-15hr. If the average person has time to play games for 1-3hr a day that is a week of playing the game before it pays off.

    I would not recommend this to anyone. I would not recommend it to people who like Bethesda games. I would not recommend it to people who like space exploration. I would not recommend it to anyone who likes resource gathering and base building.

    Your time is best spent elsewhere.
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  7. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    Juegos lo que nos tiene acostumbrados bethesda, pero mucho superior lo visto, está a geniao
  8. Sep 11, 2023
    3
    I cannot comprehend anyone who gives this game better than a 7/10 unless they were paid to do so.

    TLDR; Starfield has all the hallmarks of lazy Bethesda design with none of the charm or soul of their older games. If you take the procedural world of No Man's Sky, add in Fallout guns, and then subtract 90% of the meaningful content and design attention from either of those games, you'll
    I cannot comprehend anyone who gives this game better than a 7/10 unless they were paid to do so.

    TLDR; Starfield has all the hallmarks of lazy Bethesda design with none of the charm or soul of their older games. If you take the procedural world of No Man's Sky, add in Fallout guns, and then subtract 90% of the meaningful content and design attention from either of those games, you'll have Starfield. Top it off with an insultingly poor UI that forces you to constantly fight against it to actually play the game.

    I'm putting my interface rant at the top, because as PC users, there's a fairly good chance you'll be playing on keyboard and mouse, and I want to be sure that you get this warning first. Bethesda did NOT make this game for PCs, despite what they or anyone else says. Starfield was made for consoles, and it shows in every single aspect of the UI design. Starfield has the distinction of employing the single most unintuitive and tedious UI I have ever seen in an RPG, and I am well acquainted with interfaces that are, charitably put, rough. Menus are locked to 30 (30!) fps. The main menu is radial and annoying to utilize with a mouse and keyboard. Every menu, from the main menu, to inventory, to ship editing, has SO much wasted space that Bethesda inevitably uses for some silly cosmetic purpose like showing asset models, instead of displaying actual gameplay information. On top of that, information is organized in a nonsensical way, separating relevant bits of data onto different parts of the screen, or totally hiding information from the player. Keybinds between similar menus are different for seemingly no reason, and in the menus and game itself, pressing a key and holding it function as separate commands. These two innocuous "design" choices really mess with the player's ability to develop muscle memory for the menus and end up burning a lot of time on accomplishing routine UI tasks. The map system, where you will spend much of your time is a total mess. There is no minimap or local map to speak of beyond a dotted grid that shows no information besides the relative position of POIs and there is no map whatsoever for interior spaces or cities.

    Starfield is poorly optimized (another signal that the PC release is an afterthought), and for the poor performance, looks barely as good or even worse than games five years or more older. Starfield's lighting and color saturation is a mess, so a lot of objects and structures look overly reflective or blurry. The antialiasing is primitive, so distant objects have choppy edges and combine to make a game that looks VERY unimpressive in 2023. On max settings, my machine barely breaks 90 fps, on fairly high end AMD hardware (7700X CPU/7900XT GPU/64gb RAM), which is who Bethesda partnered with to optimize their game. On Premium Edition release day, I crashed to desktop within the first 60 seconds of starting my game, and then once about every 10 minutes for several hours afterwards. To credit AMD/Bethesda, there was a GPU driver update specifically for Starfield that very day, and after installing it I haven't suffered a single crash. Still though, that's an awful first impression for a game with the budget and development time of Starfield. I have heard that the game is very unstable on Nvidia hardware, which I am willing to believe, so if that's what you have, be sure to look into whether the game will actually run for you. Loading screens are constant, as all building and ship interiors are instanced. If you aren't running this game off an NVME drive, expect to spend a lot of time staring at a loading screen.

    The scope of this game is an illusion formed by copy and pasted assets and populated by terribly coded NPCs. Their behavior is rudimentary, even by the standards of Bethesda's older games. Space exploration in Starfield is a falsehood. Travel is accomplished either on foot, or through fast travel options from the map menu. Your ship is simply a place to offload your inventory and do some crafting. There is no atmospheric flight, so almost all of the time you interact with your ship it's on the ground. The gunplay is serviceable, and the audio design is pretty good, but only when the NPCs aren't bugged or acting braindead. After so many years and hundreds of millions of dollars, a scifi reskin of Fallout with laughably low-effort worldbuilding is way less than customers deserve.
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  9. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    "Hello, my name is Jeff. My pronouns are he/him. What are your pronouns?" ...
  10. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    Metacritic is a funny joke, they let the trolls reviewbombing anything just like this game....
    This is a solid 85% game.
    2000+ review with 0-1 scores...? Unreliable.
  11. Sep 11, 2023
    1
    Bethesda shows what they can do best with 7 years of development time. Another half baked rpg with the same core game design elements found in mostly every other bethesda rpg.

    Empty promises through the roof as always nowadays.
  12. Sep 11, 2023
    5
    In a futuristic world where the wheel and mobile phones were never invented, you will click to travel instantly halfway across the galaxy. You will climb into your cockpit once, maybe twice, before learning that you can simply click and go! Except if you are docked.

    Yes, you can travel from the middle of the wilderness of one planet to the landing zone on another planet with just a
    In a futuristic world where the wheel and mobile phones were never invented, you will click to travel instantly halfway across the galaxy. You will climb into your cockpit once, maybe twice, before learning that you can simply click and go! Except if you are docked.

    Yes, you can travel from the middle of the wilderness of one planet to the landing zone on another planet with just a flick of the wrist and a twitch of the index finger, but if you are docked to some space station forget it!

    You are a nobody, a lowly newb miner with a possibly interesting background that has nothing to do with mining, but for “reasons” you will be sent to retrieve a mysterious artefact that displays “gravitational anomalies”, y’know, like in Star Trek. You will have a cinematic.

    A man turns up to gift you his ship and take your place in the mine. He too has had a cinematic, and so he knows all about the mysterious gravity things. You will ask yourself, “If this guy knew I was going to have a cinematic, wouldn’t it have been polite for him to say something about that before letting me have my pixels rearranged?”

    His chums in the secret society will give you a room in their hidden base, which is cleverly disguised as a base in plain sight. They will chat to you as if you’ve always been there, and send you on missions to find more of the weird artefacts.

    Funnily enough, although they are a society of explorers it appears they have done precisely no exploring, leaving that onerous task to you, the hero.

    So, you will discover strange alien sites featuring gravitational anomalies. You will discover them many times. You will explore the full extent of the procedurally generated tile that magically appears around you. Mysteriously, the caves and bases you find on all these many, many, many, many planets and moons will all be made of the same stuff, right down to the tea trays, pens and toilet paper.

    You will find innumerable weapons and suits and helmets and medpacks and resources and junk, and you will click and click and click on your many and varied storage places. There’s storage on you, in your companion, in another companion, in your locker on your ship, in the cargo hold on that ship, in the cargo hold on another ship - so many places to lose your loot!

    You will get powers you remember from Skyrim, and pretend they are new.

    The map will be a field of dots showing no detail. Even the cities will be mapless. You will remember that the mobile phone hasn’t been invented, so obviously no maps! And no taxis or bicycles, because the wheel isn't a thing. Just a train that never moves until propelled sideways by cut scene.

    You will enjoy loading screens. Many times.

    You will shoot the same bad guys. Many times.

    You will shoot or avoid the same weird creatures. Many times.

    You will scan bushes and trees. Many times.

    You will have epic space battles. A couple of times.

    You will hardly role play at all. Unless you start rolling dice IRL.

    NPCs will ignore any behaviour you care to engage in, but they will look at you sideways no matter what you do.

    There are cities. Or are they towns? At least one of them is just a town. OK, one of them is definitely a city. It has skyscrapers and everything. Markers will appear amongst those skyscrapers, leading you believe your quest lies above your head, but the only thing that lies is the quest marker.

    On planets you will see buildings in the distance that your scanner labels “unknown”, despite the fact that they are obviously buildings. But then you remember - no mobile phones = no maps.

    Other “unknown” features will turn out to be wrinkles in the topographies of otherwise largely flat terrains.

    The vast universe will be yours to explore, and you will never notice that assets and concepts have been repeated almost infinitely. You will never see the workings of the procedural algorithms, because they are so cleverly done. Except when you do, which will be always.

    You will conclude that the appearance of plenty is better than actual plenty, because you will be happy to be enjoyed so completely by Todd and his investors. You will think of Skyrim and swallow your overdraft, and you will be happy. Yes. Very happy.
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  13. Sep 11, 2023
    4
    The game would be awesome a few years ago. It's basically Fallout 4 with better textures which itself is not a bad thing but considering quality of other RPG games released recently makes the game feel very dated. The loading screens should not be a thing in 2023. The role-play aspect feels shallow and not very engaging. One would expect Bethesda would deliver something better consideringThe game would be awesome a few years ago. It's basically Fallout 4 with better textures which itself is not a bad thing but considering quality of other RPG games released recently makes the game feel very dated. The loading screens should not be a thing in 2023. The role-play aspect feels shallow and not very engaging. One would expect Bethesda would deliver something better considering all the money made with Skyrim AND partnership with Microsoft. The quality control is good and there are few bugs. If you have Game Pass then give it a try. Expand
  14. Sep 11, 2023
    9
    This is the only game to give me the “Skyrim-feel” since Skyrim. Bethesda knocked it out the park with this one. If you go into it expecting a seemless space sim, then you won’t like it, because that’s not what it is. It is, rather, a bethesda RPG, if you’re a fan of their formula (which I very much am) then you’ll love this game.
  15. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    LOADFIELD is a terrible game, is longer than others good rpgs, a crap, a junk bugged game, run from this
  16. Sep 11, 2023
    8
    Been genuinely enjoying myself creating my own RP throughout the different quest lines. There are definitely cons and I don't see this as game of the year, but this is definitely a Bethesda game that I will jump into in the years to come
  17. Sep 11, 2023
    7
    This is a good game but could have been much better with different imagination and management. As it is, this is a new gen version of Skyrim or Fallout. In fact it even comes across as less exciting than those games because by now we're familiar with the Skyrim/Fallout experience.

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

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

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

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

    7/10
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  18. Sep 11, 2023
    7
    I have been able to play more than 50 hours of the game since early access and for me it is not the masterpiece that Bethesda promised, mediocre story, forgettable characters, fast travels everywhere and for everything, out of 50 hours you spend 20 hours in the menus, horrible AI, it's not because it's Microsoft,Its just because the game is not worth more than 7/10...
    We all know that
    I have been able to play more than 50 hours of the game since early access and for me it is not the masterpiece that Bethesda promised, mediocre story, forgettable characters, fast travels everywhere and for everything, out of 50 hours you spend 20 hours in the menus, horrible AI, it's not because it's Microsoft,Its just because the game is not worth more than 7/10...
    We all know that Bethesda expects modders to do what they couldn't do, but how sad that they didn't put more effort into the game, especially when I see what no man Sky can do.

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

    J'ai pu jouer plus de 50 heures au jeu depuis l'accès anticipé et pour moi ce n'est pas le chef d'oeuvre promis par Bethesda, histoire médiocre, personnages oubliables, déplacements rapides partout et pour tout, sur 50 heures on passe 20 heures dans les menus, IA horrible, ce n'est pas parce que c'est Microsoft mais parce que le jeu ne vaut pas plus de 7/10..
    Nous savons tous que Bethesda attend des moddeurs qu'ils fassent ce qu'ils ne pouvaient pas faire, mais comme c'est triste qu'ils n'aient pas mis plus d'efforts dans le jeu, surtout quand je vois ce que No man Sky peut faire...
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  19. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    This game is incredible. A game has not grabbed me this thoroughly in many many years. I find it almost impossible to log off the game and when I'm not playing it I'm thinking about getting on and playing. The world and story and environmental graphics are amazing the combat is fun. This is a game that you can get lost in for 100 plus hours easily.
  20. Sep 11, 2023
    5
    In Skyrim you can follow a random npc around all day and they will have tasks and a home to go to and a bed to sleep in at the end of the day, if you killed them they had armor and other items that made sense for them to have that could be looted, and you could engage in at least a bit of dialogue with everyone. in Starfield a large amount of npcs are cardboard cutouts who walk around inIn Skyrim you can follow a random npc around all day and they will have tasks and a home to go to and a bed to sleep in at the end of the day, if you killed them they had armor and other items that made sense for them to have that could be looted, and you could engage in at least a bit of dialogue with everyone. in Starfield a large amount of npcs are cardboard cutouts who walk around in circles, they have no homes or schedules and they can't be interacted with or looted from.
    In Skyrim you had a detailed, handcrafted open world to explore packed full of points of interest and secrets. In Starfield the planets you land on feel empty and padded out with procedural generation.

    For everything that was gained, like the deeper roleplaying choices in character creation, something equally important seems to have been lost. It's bizarre. I sincerely hope Elder Scrolls 6 isn't like this
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  21. Sep 11, 2023
    9
    Very enjoyable game. Not perfect. The game has a lot of things to do and explore, and systems are rich enough they're enjoyable. People are being dramaqueens about this game because they're expecting Bethesda to be Bethesda and every other game ever made.

    This game has the polish of Skyrim and just as much content, in my opinion. The setting certainly isn't as fun, I enjoy the fantasy,
    Very enjoyable game. Not perfect. The game has a lot of things to do and explore, and systems are rich enough they're enjoyable. People are being dramaqueens about this game because they're expecting Bethesda to be Bethesda and every other game ever made.

    This game has the polish of Skyrim and just as much content, in my opinion. The setting certainly isn't as fun, I enjoy the fantasy, but it is a lot of fun.
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  22. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    In direct comparison with Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, you notice that the Bethesda developers have carried out "the biggest update to the Creation Engine so far" for the sci-fi role-playing game and Elder Scrolls 6 since they buried the Gamebryo engine. The faces of important NPCs are much more detailed, there are great panoramas and atmospheric lighting scenes.However, as soon asIn direct comparison with Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, you notice that the Bethesda developers have carried out "the biggest update to the Creation Engine so far" for the sci-fi role-playing game and Elder Scrolls 6 since they buried the Gamebryo engine. The faces of important NPCs are much more detailed, there are great panoramas and atmospheric lighting scenes.However, as soon as you compare Starfield with the current RPG competition, the freshly released epic - similar to Elex 2 - looks out of time. The graphics of the almost three-year-old Cyberpunk 2077 wipe the floor with the Bethesda novelty.And when it comes to cleverly staged dialogue set to music, the developers could have taken a leaf out of Baldur's Gate 3's book. If we add to this the well-known Bethesda quirks such as the crude interface design, the laborious inventory management, the omnipresent loading screens and the numerous glitches, and add new weaknesses such as the fragmented universe and the dull, procedurally generated content (so many systems and planets and so little ingenuity in fauna, flora and space anomalies), then we can understand every gamer who is disappointed by Starfield, because the strengths that do exist no longer outweigh the weaknesses mentioned. Expand
  23. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Title: A Disappointing Descent: The Last Bestheda Game Review

    Starfield is a game that promised so much but ultimately falls short in almost every aspect, leaving players with a bitter taste of disappointment. From its lackluster gameplay to its uninspired story, this game feels like a mere shadow of what it could have been. Underwhelming Gameplay: The gameplay in Starfield is a
    Title: A Disappointing Descent: The Last Bestheda Game Review

    Starfield is a game that promised so much but ultimately falls short in almost every aspect, leaving players with a bitter taste of disappointment. From its lackluster gameplay to its uninspired story, this game feels like a mere shadow of what it could have been.

    Underwhelming Gameplay:
    The gameplay in Starfield is a mixed bag of mechanics borrowed from other, better games. Combat feels clunky and unpolished, with awkward animations and unresponsive controls. The open-world exploration, which is typically a hallmark of Bethesda games, is plagued by numerous bugs and performance issues that hinder immersion.

    Tedious Quests:
    The main story and side quests are riddled with clichés and offer little in the way of originality. Players are often tasked with mundane objectives that lack depth and fail to engage the player's interest. The dialogue options feel meaningless, as choices rarely have any impact on the narrative.

    Technical Nightmares:
    One of the most glaring issues with Starfield is its technical instability. Frequent crashes, game-breaking bugs, and long loading times make for a frustrating gaming experience. It's as if the game was rushed to release without proper optimization and quality control.

    Graphical Stagnation:
    Graphically, Starfield is a far cry from the standards set by other contemporary titles. The character models are bland and lack detail, while the environments lack the breathtaking beauty that players have come to expect from open-world games. The art direction feels uninspired, and the game world lacks the visual diversity that would make exploration worthwhile.

    Empty World:
    Despite being an open-world game, the world of Starfield feels strangely empty. There are vast stretches of land with little to no meaningful content, leaving players with little incentive to explore. The lack of interesting NPCs and settlements further exacerbates the feeling of emptiness.

    In conclusion, Starfield is a game that fails to live up to the expectations set by previous Bethesda titles. It's a perfect example of how a promising concept can be marred by poor execution. With its unimpressive gameplay, technical issues, and lack of innovation, it's difficult to recommend this game to anyone looking for a fulfilling gaming experience. Bethesda must take a hard look at its development practices and prioritize quality over profit if it hopes to win back the trust of its once-loyal fan base.
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  24. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    Um dos melhores games todos os tempos, só pelo choro dos sonystas já é possível perceber que a Microsoft fez um grande serviço.

    Explore o universo de Starfield e seja recompensado com uma grande aventura, que contém tudo o que a Bethesda costuma entregar em seus games.
  25. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    Excellent. Just excellent. Don't buy the review bombers.... Misery loves company. This game is fun and that's what matters!
  26. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Fan of the game TES SKYRIM. But this game is complete crap from Mr. T.H.
    Mr. T.H. please no more.
  27. Sep 11, 2023
    1
    Just another lazy Bethesda game that has been using the same shi#ty engine for over 10 years. shi#y graphics, shi#y story, bugs and lags everywhere, shi#y music... what more could you want...
  28. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    Gran juego. Ningún bug por ahora. Si te gusta la SCIFI es tu juego y si no también.
  29. Sep 11, 2023
    10
    um jogo perfeito sem erros, quem dá nota baixa é burro ou sonysta, simplesmente o melhor jogo do ano
  30. Sep 11, 2023
    4
    There is a great RPG here, however its hidden behind a game with terrible on boarding, countless glitches, console crashes (I have never had soo many console crashes while playing any game, on any console), and visuals & npc's from a decade or more ago. I wanted this game to be a 10, its just not. Overall I found myself disappointed with this Bethesda game, especially after a 2 year delay.There is a great RPG here, however its hidden behind a game with terrible on boarding, countless glitches, console crashes (I have never had soo many console crashes while playing any game, on any console), and visuals & npc's from a decade or more ago. I wanted this game to be a 10, its just not. Overall I found myself disappointed with this Bethesda game, especially after a 2 year delay. I realize this game is huge, and pushing some boundaries, but It costed too much in the technical, and visual aspects of Starfield. Expand
Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 75 Critic Reviews

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