Starfield

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  1. Demonio
    Sep 10, 2023
    3
    After the creation of the character, the first minutes of game are tedious and useless ... there is no life around you ... people ignore you, and the world not react to you, i'm waiting a game beautiful also in the details and i find a game really boring.
  2. VOAD
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    This is basically Fallout 4 with new assets. Same bad IA and motion capture, same missions with new narrative. The new gameplay like ships battle are at best average (Everspace is way more fun), same base building, some nice area but many more with repetitive sand poor textures, plenty of loading screen even if in your own small ship. Poor PC optimization. For a game 25 years in theThis is basically Fallout 4 with new assets. Same bad IA and motion capture, same missions with new narrative. The new gameplay like ships battle are at best average (Everspace is way more fun), same base building, some nice area but many more with repetitive sand poor textures, plenty of loading screen even if in your own small ship. Poor PC optimization. For a game 25 years in the making as per Todd himself, this is very lazy work.… Expand
  3. CHRIIIIIS
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    I wanted to like this game, but after 20 hours, I'm just bored. It's not "bad", it's dull. As cold and lifeless as space itself.
    A lot of people say "it gets better 12 hours in", and not only should that justify suffering through 12 hours of slow-paced, repetitive gameplay, it's also not true.
    Starfield sorely lacks that "oh **** moment, like fighting dragons in Skyrim, or Fallout 4's    I wanted to like this game, but after 20 hours, I'm just bored. It's not "bad", it's dull. As cold and lifeless as space itself.
    A lot of people say "it gets better 12 hours in", and not only should that justify suffering through 12 hours of slow-paced, repetitive gameplay, it's also not true.

    Starfield sorely lacks that "oh **** moment, like fighting dragons in Skyrim, or Fallout 4's opening mission where you jump off a building in power armour and fight a Deathclaw. All there is so far is repetitive fetch quests, exploring the same handful of locations, and dull NPCs that drone on for far too long.

    It starts really slow. 10 minutes of walking through a mine, touching an "Artifact" (yes, that's all they're called, no originality here) to get a 2001: A Space Odyssey-style vision, then you make your character. After that, you fight some pirates, get given a ship, go through a decent ship tutorial, then you're introduced to the core gameplay loop - land on a planet, scan some rocks, plants, and wildlife, find a crater, abandoned mine, or outpost, kill some human enemies (it is ALWAYS the same human enemies btw), loot what you can with your paltry carry weight limit, and repeat.

    The gunplay hasn't changed since Fallout 4, and it doesn't have something like VATS to mitigate the clunkiness. Space flight is underwhelming - it's a glorified combat arena, if that. Fast travel is mandatory. Exploration is incredibly dull - once you've seen one abandoned mine, you've quite literally seen them all, both inside and out. Remember those random planets in the first Mass Effect that were squares of terrain with a handful of points of interest dotted about? That's planets in Starfield, only you have to walk for several minutes to get anywhere. I'd kill for a vehicle to cut out the monotony.

    I've done a fair amount of the main quest, got my hands on some of the powers, which are similar to Skyrim's shouts, only you can't organically find them out in the world like you could in Skyrim - you have to find an artifact, talk to someone, get sent off to a random planet, THEN you can find the power. That whole process is just walking from one place to another, by the way. No epic boss fights or anything like that.

    Enemy variety is laughable. In 20+ hours I've fought precisely 3 enemy types on the ground - humans (the most common), and 2 types of robot. Enemy AI is a joke - they'll stand there and let you empty your clip into them before reacting, or better yet, they'll run away. They love running away. There is alien wildlife, but you have to instigate the fight, and they're basically the equivalent of mole rats or brahmin from Fallout in terms of actually fighting them. Pretty bland, and space combat's not much better - once you've done the tutorial fight, you've seen everything space combat has to offer.

    The UI is atrocious. Navigating menus shouldn't be this slow and clunky. I shouldn't have to cycle between three inventories (trader's, mine, and my ship's) to buy and sell - especially when it was all on one screen in Bethesda's previous games. There are no actual maps, making navigation frustrating. Why can't I eat a food item instead of picking it up first when Fallout 76 let you do it? You know something's wrong when Fallout 76 has better quality of life features...

    But the questing's good, right? Wrong. I'm currently on the 7th quest for a faction. They have all been fetch quests where I've had to go to another building or planet, walk up to a crate or desk or computer, press a button, and that's it. This faction is supposed to be all about corporate espionage, and Bethesda managed to make even that boring as hell. The most interesting quest for this faction was the first one where I had to ORDER COFFEE. Why was it interesting? Because someone tried to kill me. I shot him once and that was it. The rest have involved no interaction with other NPCs at all. This is in Neon, by the way - the cyberpunk-looking city - and it genuinely feels like I'm playing a really ****ty version of Cyberpunk 2077. That would make Akila a ****ty Fallout, I guess...

    I can't help but feel like I'm playing a different game to everyone else, because so many people claim to be having a blast with this game. I don't understand what they're finding so fun about it. I'm just bored. I'd rather go back to Skyrim or Fallout 4.

    Oh, and it's crashed 11 times for me, so far. And don't believe the lie that is "it's Bethesda's least-buggy game". It's second only to Fallout 76 in how buggy it is. There's a bug that stops the main quest progressing, for crying out loud!

    The only positive is that the ship builder, despite being clunky, is really good. Shame you can't do much with the ships.

    Like I said, I wanted to enjoy Starfield. It just doesn't want me to enjoy it. I genuinely wonder if I'm playing a different game to everyone else who claims to be loving it. I want to play whatever version of Starfield they're playing.    … Expand
  4. Kharnivore2099
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    This is probably one of Bethesda's poorest outings to date, if we ignore FO76. What we have here is Fallout 4, a disappointing sequel to a beloved franchise, thrown into an incredibly shallow space setting.

    Most quests are simply walking back and forth between a few people, constantly waiting for doors to open and/or simply fast travelling everywhere. This has been their format since    This is probably one of Bethesda's poorest outings to date, if we ignore FO76. What we have here is Fallout 4, a disappointing sequel to a beloved franchise, thrown into an incredibly shallow space setting.

    Most quests are simply walking back and forth between a few people, constantly waiting for doors to open and/or simply fast travelling everywhere. This has been their format since Oblivion, and their lazy design in this regard necessitates the fast travel mechanic. Which is why it is arguably more prominent here than in any other game. Bethesda haven't learned how to make better quests, they have just made much more of them and allowed other mechanics to smooth over the poor designs. Sometimes you'll find that fast travel to a location is locked off for some reason, but if you choose to use the mission listing to plot the route there, it has no problem allowing you to travel there. It all feels very lazy and ill-thought out and makes the notion of exploration laughable.

    Combat perks are once again just damage buffs 90% of the time, with very few actually relating to any sort of "skill" advancement. This has been a thorn in the side of BGS games since Skyrim and it doesn't feel any better here. Though at least there are some other options here and there to pick from. There isn't really much to ship combat either. If you have played any space exploration game in the last 20 years, it will all seem very familiar and arguably dated. I'm not really sure why it's causing such a stir.

    All in all, there is a lot of pointless and unrewarding things to do in this game. If you like doing lots of pointless unrewarding things in a terribly buggy and poorly executed game, you will truly love this. There is a lot of talk about "Game of a Generation", and I think it comes from those that don't understand just how shallow and poorly implemented all of this is. There is nothing special here, just a LOT of half baked content.    … Expand
  5. Nygaard91
    Sep 9, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. When Starfield was announced, I was stoked, ready to strap on my space boots and blast off! But rather than a cosmic carnival, I found myself on a not-so-merry-go-round of repetitive tasks sprinkled with cringe woke American nonsense.

    TL;DR: Starfield promised an intergalactic adventure but delivered a mixed bag of repetitive quests, a clunky UI, and space combat woes. While there are some standout moments and impressive voice acting, the game's immersion is frequently broken by bugs, unbalanced combat, and heavy-handed political overtones. In space, everyone might hear you scream... but mostly at the bugs and UI.

    1. Main Questline Missteps: There are some redeemable questlines sprinkled throughout the game, but the main questline is painfully underwhelming. It's primarily reduced to fetch quests. The pattern of collecting artifacts followed by traveling to barren planets to solve the same repetitive temple "puzzle" becomes stale very quickly. Moreover, the powers introduced come off as a thinly-veiled imitation of Skyrim's shouts.

    2. The UI Dilemma: Navigating through the UI feels like a chore more than a streamlined experience. Imagine trying to read an alien language while being tickled – that’s how navigating the UI feels. Its clunky design, particularly evident on PC, and a puzzling decision to cap it at 30 fps mars the experience further.

    3. Combat Curveballs: The game can't seem to decide if it wants its enemies to be invincible titans or fragile glass cannons. On ground combat, switching to "very hard" mode becomes a necessity unless you want your foes to drop like flies with a mere pistol shot. However, space combat is the polar opposite – my ship faced annihilation within mere moments of fast-traveling to a new star system, forcing me to opt for "very easy" mode. The balance is, well, unbalanced.

    4. Ship-Building Woes: Designing my ship felt less like NASA and more like assembling IKEA furniture with missing instructions. Crafting the perfect ship turned out to be less of an exciting endeavor and more of a test of patience. With the erratic camera and inexplicable limitations on ship parts, it's an ordeal.

    5. Base-Building Bungles: If you thought ship-building was challenging, wait until you delve into base-building. Rotation issues, unintuitive snapping functions, and the overt emphasis on grind make it a tedious feature.

    6. Planetary Déjà Vu: The planets gave me serious No Man's Sky flashbacks, and not the good post-update kind. I’ve seen more variety in a box of crayons. The monotonous terrains and the occasional copy-paste aliens took away from the thrill of discovery.

    7. Lost Underwater Opportunities: There's no underwater exploration. Why not? They've done it in Skyrim and Fallout. Feels like a significant oversight.

    8. NPCs – Unsettlingly Hilarious: Kudos on the voice acting, but the NPC animations? Imagine chatting with someone who just chugged ten espressos. Bethesda's decision to bypass motion capture in favor of software was a bad choice when compared to the stellar motion capture in Baldur’s Gate 3.

    9. Map Mayhem: I've probably spent hours wandering around, trying to remember where everything is. There's no map for cities, and the galaxy map isn't intuitive as you'll need to memorize it all. Who needs a GPS in space, right?

    10. Fragmented Immersion: The game's dependence on loading screens and isolated zones breaks the immersion consistently, a letdown for players seeking a seamless space or open world experience.

    11. Interstellar Insects: While Starfield isn't the bug-infested apocalypse that Fallout 76 was, it's not bug-free either. NPCs launching skyward to merge with ceilings is oddly a regular phenomenon. And while many glitches are solvable with a game restart, some are not. An instance had me stumped when a quest wouldn't trigger its next stage. The fix? Console commands, which are PC exclusive and deactivate those sweet achievements. A tough choice for a gamer to make!

    12. Woke Overkill: The game's heavy-handed approach to pushing its political agenda is not just unwelcome but is also immersion-breaking. Starfield's narrative sometimes feels like being cornered at a space party by someone who REALLY wants to discuss their political views. Beam me out, Scotty!    … Expand
  6. Luhgnut
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    Rating the PC version. Just go play "No Man's Sky". This is a loading screen simulator at best. Fast travel the Universe to discover that all you are doing is just loading a map. Instant arrival to your destination, which isn't that explorable. It's like Ubisoft and Bethesda got together and had this "Thing". No way is this worth $70 bucks. The engine is janky, NPC graphics are easily 10Rating the PC version. Just go play "No Man's Sky". This is a loading screen simulator at best. Fast travel the Universe to discover that all you are doing is just loading a map. Instant arrival to your destination, which isn't that explorable. It's like Ubisoft and Bethesda got together and had this "Thing". No way is this worth $70 bucks. The engine is janky, NPC graphics are easily 10 year old assets. Gunplay is passable. Enemy AI are totally stupid, to the point of nearly broken. Cyber 2077 type of stupid. 20 hours waisted and I've seen all there is to see with this shallow game.… Expand
  7. Hobojobes
    Sep 7, 2023
    3
    Major grips:

    1) Space Exploration boils down to > Enter Map > Select Planet > Hold down X > LOADING SCREEN > Arrive at planet > Hold down X > LOADING SCREEN > Arrive on planet > Hold down Y > LOADING SCREEN > 2) Dialogue in true Bethesda fashion is nothing but yes, yes, yes, no (but actually yes). You are completely railroaded into doing every quest in the exact way Bethesda intends,    Major grips:

    1) Space Exploration boils down to > Enter Map > Select Planet > Hold down X > LOADING SCREEN > Arrive at planet > Hold down X > LOADING SCREEN > Arrive on planet > Hold down Y > LOADING SCREEN >

    2) Dialogue in true Bethesda fashion is nothing but yes, yes, yes, no (but actually yes). You are completely railroaded into doing every quest in the exact way Bethesda intends, there's very little opportunity for actual roleplaying or creativity.

    3) Quests are again railroaded, often dull, uninspired fetch quests across huge, empty maps. For example a diplomat can't enter the colony due to him lacking a visa, he requests you speak to the "nearby" embassy, que a 2 minute walk to a tram > LOADING SCREEN > 2 minute walk to the embassy > 2 sentence "conversation" > 20 XP. Utterly boring, huge time sink.

    In a moment of meta irony I even had a companion point out how sad the plight of the miners was when there was a huge galaxy to explore, amusing given I was on a quest to mine 10 chunks of iron that was dotted about an empty, lifeless rock field.

    4) The maps are empty and lifeless, inhabited planets just feature huge expanses of nothing with the odd interactable NPC dotted here and there. Want to shop? Enjoy 2 minutes of holding down w or the controller stick Uninhabited planets are even worse.

    Overall it feels more like a tech demo than anything else. The fact that critics are giving this game 80+ shows that they are all compromised by the "access for good reviews" model.    … Expand
  8. deck
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    When I played Fallout 3 in 2008, I didn't want to stop. This is what happened to me recently with RDR2. God, that game was good! Starfield is pretty low. If only they had made Elder Scrolls 6 or Fallout 5. 8 years for such trash. Sad.
  9. m00ni
    Sep 9, 2023
    3
    The Graphics are good, that is it. Sadly this game gives me no reason to play it. The story feels super forced, the companions are basically just gun platforms that follow you around without ANY meaningful interaction. And then there is the gameplay itself:

    Its basically a quick travel loading screen simulator. You select where you want to go and loading screen. You talked to the guy?    The Graphics are good, that is it. Sadly this game gives me no reason to play it. The story feels super forced, the companions are basically just gun platforms that follow you around without ANY meaningful interaction. And then there is the gameplay itself:

    Its basically a quick travel loading screen simulator. You select where you want to go and loading screen. You talked to the guy? Yes, good now you have to talk to another guy on another planet. So you fast travel to your ship, then you have a fast travel / loading screen to undock/leave the planet, then you have a fast travel / loading screen to go to another planet, then you have a fast travel / loading screen to dock at the planet and then rinse and repeat.

    Out of Combat, this game is really just selecting fast travel locations and looking at loading screens.    … Expand
  10. Yeti91
    Sep 10, 2023
    3
    U.I. is the worst in any Bethesda game. Even more essential NPCs than in Skyrim or FO4. Sarah is super annoying.
  11. TylerNF
    Sep 7, 2023
    3
    No brightness slider. Whole game looks faded.
    No HDR.
    No FOV. Unusably poor 21:9 support. Run through a zone and come back, all the enemies are automatically killed. Travel to a system. Loadscreen. Travel to a planet. Loadscreen. Travel to a POI. Another loadscreen. Load screen simulator. This is a bunch of little bite sized levels masquerading as an open world rpg. Half the    No brightness slider. Whole game looks faded.
    No HDR.
    No FOV.
    Unusably poor 21:9 support.

    Run through a zone and come back, all the enemies are automatically killed.

    Travel to a system. Loadscreen. Travel to a planet. Loadscreen. Travel to a POI. Another loadscreen. Load screen simulator.

    This is a bunch of little bite sized levels masquerading as an open world rpg.

    Half the planets look unlit, no shadows. The other half are deserts.

    Cant dive underwater. Cant customize ship interiors. No reason to customize ship exteriors because space doesnt exist and ships are just houses reskinned.

    No ground vehicles. Looks weird to see 100 percent pedestrians in a sci fi setting.

    Hammer the sprint button and pray for the loadscreen to come faster.

    Wont run properly on a 3070. No, the day one patch didnt fix this.

    Water looks worse than Fallout 4. Lighting looks worse than Skyrim. Faces are plastic. Artificial materials (metalnand plastic) look decent.

    No real time reflections. No global illumination. Where is this performance going? It runs worse than No Mans Sky or Cyberpunk, but with none of the cool parts of those games.

    All you do is run, shoot, and collect rocks. How is this an rpg? Fewer, smaller cities than Skyrim. Too many invincible NPCs. Too many generic NPCs with no schedule and no life and little AI.

    Reskinned plants from Fallout 4.

    I've played every Bethesda game since Arena, but this one is a letdown and makes me frightened for Elder Scrolls 6. Bethesda seems to be bleeding capability and moving backwards.    … Expand
  12. Belafonte
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    So disapointed...This is such a generic and shallow RPG full of reused assets, boring quests and randomized encounters and environments...Dialogues are very poor in comparison to many modern RPGs. There are some good moments with the excellent sound and music but i just don't want to launch this game anymore...Another game overestimated by mainstream media...
  13. Large
    Sep 10, 2023
    3
    Fallout 4 but somehow with less exploration, worse performance, worse main story pacing and worse skills/perks. This game is like have a really nice but old Porsche that doesn't start but looks great, the AC and all of the stuff inside looks and works really well, what's the point?

    Underwhelming and underexplained skills and perks which have a MASSIVE impact on your early-mid game    Fallout 4 but somehow with less exploration, worse performance, worse main story pacing and worse skills/perks. This game is like have a really nice but old Porsche that doesn't start but looks great, the AC and all of the stuff inside looks and works really well, what's the point?

    Underwhelming and underexplained skills and perks which have a MASSIVE impact on your early-mid game experience.

    Gunplay varies from okay to good but all the different pistols feel the same regardless of what damage they do, the .43 magnum that does 129 damage sounds like a pea shooter, the .27 that does 14 damage sounds like a handcannon, go figure, also not to be confused with the other .27 which does 12 damage that also sounds like a pea shooter.    … Expand
  14. TmatoCE
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    The game is buggy as hell, my computer run baldur's gate 3 without problems holding 70 fps with medium high quality but this game is terrible, my computer only hold 40 fps on medium.

    And i got very disappointed because you cant do anything with the ship, you cant go to any planet or moon you have to click on the map to travel to a planet. You can't even land on it with the ship not even    The game is buggy as hell, my computer run baldur's gate 3 without problems holding 70 fps with medium high quality but this game is terrible, my computer only hold 40 fps on medium.

    And i got very disappointed because you cant do anything with the ship, you cant go to any planet or moon you have to click on the map to travel to a planet. You can't even land on it with the ship not even get close to the planet and after reaching a distance launch a landing animation.    … Expand
  15. jazzyokawari
    Sep 7, 2023
    3
    Lazy, uninspiring game from a regressing developer.

    It's shameful how far the TES legacy, who used to be one of the highlight of PC gaming, has fallen.
  16. TheCluster
    Sep 9, 2023
    3
    A Starfail from Bethesda.

    This game is mediocre in every aspect. Primitive and unoriginal main storyline. Noname player character, typical secret organization, typical ancient artefacts... It feels like a generic RPG story in a generic RPG world. Visually, Starfield is stuck in the past, at least for 10 years. The mediocre graphics combined with a noticeable lack of optimization    A Starfail from Bethesda.

    This game is mediocre in every aspect.

    Primitive and unoriginal main storyline. Noname player character, typical secret organization, typical ancient artefacts... It feels like a generic RPG story in a generic RPG world.

    Visually, Starfield is stuck in the past, at least for 10 years. The mediocre graphics combined with a noticeable lack of optimization leave much to be desired, especially for a AAA title in 2023.

    Starfield is built on an outdated engine from Skyrim or Fallout 4. It is so ancient and miserable that any mods cannot hide all its flaws. A seamless world in a space exploration game? Forget it.

    Instead, you will get:

    - Absolutely horrible NPC face animations

    - Overcomplicated UI

    - Loading screens, loading screens everywhere non-stop.

    - Exploration is boring after visiting yet another dead planet.

    - Choices don't really matter and have barely any impact to ending

    - Bugs, visual bugs, AI bugs, or any other types of bugs

    - Stupid quests like a "find X of some crap and bring it to those NPC", like in games from 2010y.

    The gameplay itself, "shooting and looting", is somewhat enjoyable if you are in 2012, but currently, we are in 2023, and now Starfield gameplay is just boring.

    So, maybe Starfield isn't worst game ever, but it's definitely not worth the money. Buy it only on sales with big discounts.

    1 lying Todd / 10    … Expand
  17. HadMatter
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    The Bethesda fatigue is real. Todd Howard is like that uncle that keeps making the same 'pull my finger' joke. He thinks it's hilarious every time, but it's tedious and increasingly sad. Everything here you've seen every time. ✅ Doofy, robotic npcs
    ✅ Bland quests
    ✅ Dungeons that all look/feel the same ✅ Basic, uninspired writing/dialog ✅ Clunky combat The one thing it doesn't have is my    The Bethesda fatigue is real. Todd Howard is like that uncle that keeps making the same 'pull my finger' joke. He thinks it's hilarious every time, but it's tedious and increasingly sad. Everything here you've seen every time. ✅ Doofy, robotic npcs
    ✅ Bland quests
    ✅ Dungeons that all look/feel the same
    ✅ Basic, uninspired writing/dialog
    ✅ Clunky combat

    The one thing it doesn't have is my favorite thing about Bethesda games - exploration. No roaming across Skyrim, or the Commonwealth, or Vvardenfell, trekking aimlessly looking for random adventure. No more resolutions to not use fast travel before eventually caving - fast travel is all there is. So, more of the stuff you hate, less of the stuff you love.    … Expand
  18. DIEGOANDRADE
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    Jogo decepcionante. Prometeram coisas e mentiram em quase tudo. Muitos bugs, péssimos gráficos e trilha sonora repetitiva. Não recomendo
  19. Dr_Benway
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    A game concept with so much promise but ultimately a let down. An aging game engine that does not allow seamless immersion in the world and with dated and wildly inconsistent graphics quality, bland and annoying NPCs, none of whom I want in my party. They promised unrestricted exploration of the cosmos but instead it's like going down to a suburban shopping mall. A game devoid of wonder,A game concept with so much promise but ultimately a let down. An aging game engine that does not allow seamless immersion in the world and with dated and wildly inconsistent graphics quality, bland and annoying NPCs, none of whom I want in my party. They promised unrestricted exploration of the cosmos but instead it's like going down to a suburban shopping mall. A game devoid of wonder, innovation, creativity and risk. A real shame as in better hands it could have been so much better.… Expand
  20. waddon1
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    Performance on PC is abysmal. The game runs appallingly. It seems no matter what your hardware is getting this game to run at 60fps at a decent resolution is nigh on impossible. Devs need to stop using FSR and DLSS as an excuse to make uoptimised games. There are many other games that do what Starfield does, but with much more impressive graphics and better frame rates. There is some funPerformance on PC is abysmal. The game runs appallingly. It seems no matter what your hardware is getting this game to run at 60fps at a decent resolution is nigh on impossible. Devs need to stop using FSR and DLSS as an excuse to make uoptimised games. There are many other games that do what Starfield does, but with much more impressive graphics and better frame rates. There is some fun to be found in the game, however the formula hasn't really changed much since Fallout apart from the long cutscenes when travelling disrupting the flow of gameplay. The game feels pretty lifeless compared to Bethesda's other games. The characters don't feel like they could be real people and give off big ME Andromeda launch vibes. They have bizarre facial animations that I'm surprised haven't really been criticized at all as they are at least on par with Andromeda. Overall just very disappointed I love Sci-fi and Bethesda's previous games, but the lore and universe of Starfield just feel somewhat hollow combined with performance issues and numerous bugs, I just cannot recommend this game right now.… Expand
  21. industria
    Sep 7, 2023
    3
    No native DLSS in the game, no RTX effects, completely outdated and overpriced game with little to no innovations.
  22. LastHope17
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    Not great. It has many strange design choices. Most worlds are full of pointless AI generated landscapes. This is the future everyone, AI generation with no soul. Less romancable companion than fallout 4, the ship combat is terrible, there a lot of loading screens everywhere, traveling is just fast travel on a map, they force you to walk places when you should have just landed next to yourNot great. It has many strange design choices. Most worlds are full of pointless AI generated landscapes. This is the future everyone, AI generation with no soul. Less romancable companion than fallout 4, the ship combat is terrible, there a lot of loading screens everywhere, traveling is just fast travel on a map, they force you to walk places when you should have just landed next to your mission, you need to physically meet characters to talk to them even if it's just to turn something in. Outerworlds at least doesn't feel this silly you can talk to people through your comms all the time. There's no ambience or mystery like FO or Skyrim. It just takes itself really seriously. Then it becomes a joke with game elements that aren't realistic. You can build your ship, but you can start attaching things just for the system to tell you you need an engine out of you flying rank. Does that make sense? I'm not allowed to go buy a V8 Truck in the real world? I don't feel like talking to anyone, no one has anything interesting to say. The factions seem too similar and are all basically just the same thing. Most enemies will be mercs. Remember ME2's only bad guy. It's basically that. You are not voiced, and that can be a very good thing in a game like this, but in this case it's not. You don't get any extra talking points, you barely get the basics like lying and persuade. The days of making you character super intelligent and having extra dialogue or super dumb and extra dialogue is over at bethesda. I can't believe a small dev like obsidian beat you at your own game.

    Bethesda choose space and the future for this project, but we are still forced to travel and communicate like were in a wasteland. Shows you how shallow their games are without all the in-between.

    TLDR; Just go play outerworlds for a space RPG, or look for a space sim, because this is trying to be both and it exceeds at neither.    … Expand
  23. adryanmihai
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    I am level 16 slowly doing main quests with a sprinkle of side quests and boi oh boi this game is bland and boring. From the atrociuos UI and garbage combat to a gazilion of load screens and empty world where you just fast travel from A to B. Thouroughly dissapointed by what Bethesda is thinking this is revolutionary and genre breaking. For me this has to be the worse Bethesda game I'veI am level 16 slowly doing main quests with a sprinkle of side quests and boi oh boi this game is bland and boring. From the atrociuos UI and garbage combat to a gazilion of load screens and empty world where you just fast travel from A to B. Thouroughly dissapointed by what Bethesda is thinking this is revolutionary and genre breaking. For me this has to be the worse Bethesda game I've played ever (not counting F76 here).… Expand
  24. SilverOrlov
    Sep 11, 2023
    3
    I will not list here all the problems of that game because the vast majority of those who use this site already know them. Legally or not, some people played this game, while others had the opportunity to enjoy jokes and sarcasm about the problems of this game in YouTube videos. I will only write about why I gave this product such a low rating. Brain side: I completely agree with all theI will not list here all the problems of that game because the vast majority of those who use this site already know them. Legally or not, some people played this game, while others had the opportunity to enjoy jokes and sarcasm about the problems of this game in YouTube videos. I will only write about why I gave this product such a low rating. Brain side: I completely agree with all the negative reviews (yes, before writing this text, it was interesting for me to read why the game is criticized by the “red” ratings, and why the game is still praised by the “green” ratings)... The side of feelings: you know... I'm catastrophically tired and angry about what's happening with the gaming industry in recent years. I'm tired of making jokes like "to hell with it, we have an indie industry." I'm tired of the fact that many gamers forgive and even !praise! such products, motivating creators to make further pseudo-games like this one. If earlier there were a lot of big games from big companies that were interesting to play, then in recent years I’ve been increasingly thinking that I’m not interested in spending the full price tag on some kind of garbage in a beautiful wrapper. And thank you if this wrapper is really beautiful and is not stuffed with a million bugs.
    I am tired to be angry to see "a big game industry" in such a mess in 2023 because of so-calling effective managers. Because it so happens that in the modern World big games are made not by those who like to create games, but by those who simply want to suck as much money out of you as possible. And the most disgusting thing is that they don’t give anything for it except false promises and no less false apologies. I'm so tired of all this that EVERY! similar pseudo-games in future will receive no more than 3 points from me (graphics, music, idea). I'm over it.    … Expand
  25. 3ggate
    Sep 11, 2023
    3
    1) The game only works on SSD
    2) 30 FPS on main menu and inventory. What the.. Why on my 4090 i have 30 fps in menu and 40+- fps in caves and settlements
    2) Even on the SSD **** endless downloads. My Windows is loading faster than Starfield wants to load all his menus and finally let me into the game 3) All the planets are dull copy-paste. There are 4-5 interesting story planets and 3    1) The game only works on SSD
    2) 30 FPS on main menu and inventory. What the.. Why on my 4090 i have 30 fps in menu and 40+- fps in caves and settlements
    2) Even on the SSD **** endless downloads. My Windows is loading faster than Starfield wants to load all his menus and finally let me into the game
    3) All the planets are dull copy-paste. There are 4-5 interesting story planets and 3 large cities. And then, of them, only Neon City is interesting
    4) In fact, the game is even more grind **** than No Man's Sky. Only in the NMS, at least there are no downloads and flights between planets are not a stupid choice on the map and with the expectation of downloads
    5) The introduction is VERY long. I need to install a alternative start mod. Even longer than in Skyrim. It feels like the introduction is delayed for 40-45 minutes
    6) The characters are dull **** Take a guy from Fallout 4 with ANOTHER SETTLEMENT IN NEED OF YOUR HELP!!! If there were interesting quests in Skyrim, then in 2 days of playing 7-8 hours in Starfield, I found only space pirates who liked them at first, but quickly their quests just slipped into a dull ****.

    I won't say anything about the technical condition, the MB will be fixed.

    This is a single fallout 76. With PNG pictures of planets. That's all I can say about the game. And then, fall 76 is interesting at least by co-op    … Expand
  26. Dave_Nosdivad
    Sep 11, 2023
    3
    I was so hyped about this game...once more I was misled by Todd Howard and that is all on me!
    He promised exploration which is minimal. It's a space game without "space". They called it an RPG without dialogues with a role-play system.
  27. Souls2
    Sep 7, 2023
    3
    The biggest smoke campaign of the last years after Cyberpunk 2077, bugs everywhere, bad performance, outdated gameplay, lack of important decisions, last generation graphics, slow exploration, etc.
  28. Sue_xee
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    An outdated product from an arrogant dev.
    Mediocre graphic but requires high specs: Textures won't stand a close look. And Todd said you should just update your pc for the game.
    incredibly stupid AI: Stood there and let enemies like 5 lvls higher than me shoot me for 1 minute and survived. What's the point of RPG? I need only a med kit to down them all. Loading screen everywhere: It has    An outdated product from an arrogant dev.
    Mediocre graphic but requires high specs: Textures won't stand a close look. And Todd said you should just update your pc for the game.
    incredibly stupid AI: Stood there and let enemies like 5 lvls higher than me shoot me for 1 minute and survived. What's the point of RPG? I need only a med kit to down them all.
    Loading screen everywhere: It has an Open World tag but, go upstairs? Loading screen. Take the elevator? Loading screen. Go outdoors? Loading screen. Get in your spaceship? Loading screen. Take flight? Loading screen.
    Bad UI design and interaction logic: The art elements are not bad but the interaction is just counter-intuitive. Like in the loot window you only see a name and don't know if it's a weapon or what type of weapon it is, no info except a freaking name. I have to open inventory and scroll the whole world to find what I just picked up and see what's what. That's true immersive experience.
    Some pointless mechanisms like stealth: It's just nonsense and horrible, playing stealth is torturing yourself. Bethesda owns Arkane yet they learn nothing from the Dishonored series.
    Some "fans" keep saying like mods and other community supports things: Nonsense, I paid a full 3A title price to Bethesda, so I'm commenting on their efforts only, which suck huge.
    If this game was released 10 years ago, it would be fine. But if this can be acceptable as of today, gamers would be pathetic.    … Expand
  29. max982
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    Unfortunately, the most interesting thing you can do in the new bethesda game is to search for something interesting and in this desperate search you can spend many dozens of hours, but the end for most will be the same: this game is a complete failure.
  30. ScotterMonkey
    Sep 8, 2023
    3
    I was really looking forward to this game! After 10 hours of playing: It felt like a buggy, boring, lifeless, lonely, and restrictive treadmill. Sad. Also, why the cultural/political inserts? Also, why are NPCs so dumb in this the age of ai? Nothing new here.
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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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