Starfield

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  1. Darkfelix
    Sep 11, 2023
    2
    A game to be lanched 4 yars foward from now.

    Bethesda promissed exploration and a next gen game but they lied to us (as always )
  2. DrNunpuncher
    Sep 11, 2023
    2
    I'm a huge fan of space exploration games No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous being two of my favorites and honestly if you want to have a fun journey through space just play one of those instead.

    Maybe the most boring Bethesda game I've ever played, The main story is uninteresting and most of the characters you meet are beyond generic. Also having you do most of your "exploration" through    I'm a huge fan of space exploration games No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous being two of my favorites and honestly if you want to have a fun journey through space just play one of those instead.

    Maybe the most boring Bethesda game I've ever played, The main story is uninteresting and most of the characters you meet are beyond generic. Also having you do most of your "exploration" through menus and loading screens is a baffling decision to me. If you liked Fallout 3 you'll love this game because it plays the exact same if there's one thing you can commend Bethesda for it's sticking to their roots for better or in this case for worse, the creation engine needs an overhaul.    … Expand
  3. corvusman
    Sep 12, 2023
    2
    Very disappointed with the game. Shallow, boring, uninspiring. Very lazy work from the company I used to respect a lot. Bethesda, you can't just slap a new wallpaper on Fallout 4 and claim you worked on that for 7 years.
  4. Bluemoonjeon
    Sep 12, 2023
    2
    Sloppy details, space games where you can't travel in space, and freedom that you don't have. You can see completely degraded producers from previous works such as Skyrim and Fallout 4.
  5. hobodave
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Tried for 2 hours, got my money back. Graphics are dated. NPCs stare awkwardly at you. Very uncanny valley. Every. Single. Thing. Has a load screen. It’s just boring.
  6. robertkn21
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    Since they are announced. They sold it as the greatest novelty in the era of gaming, and simply a common RPG but in space and with which you cannot navigate in freestyle or in any style. It has many bugs and on Xbox series S and is poorly optimized and takes a long time to load resources, and its stories are simple. It is simply a $1 Dollar game pass game.
  7. Lordgrey
    Sep 10, 2023
    1
    If the game was sold for 20 dollars, if it was made by an indie studio like Spiders and if it can ran without problems on a 1650Ti video card, I would give it somewhere around 4-5 points based on the sum of its advantages and disadvantages. But... this is a product from Bethesda, and Todd says that this is not a broken game, but that you have a bad PC.
  8. Kirnl
    Sep 11, 2023
    1
    A solid disappointment. Loading screen sim. exploration is a joke you go out to a cave that's empty or abandoned base to find some useless cups and pencils. for some reason ground vehicles don't exist in a space fairing universe which makes exploration even worse with you character that can only sprint the distance of your average gamer. Design intent to keep us trapped slowly movingA solid disappointment. Loading screen sim. exploration is a joke you go out to a cave that's empty or abandoned base to find some useless cups and pencils. for some reason ground vehicles don't exist in a space fairing universe which makes exploration even worse with you character that can only sprint the distance of your average gamer. Design intent to keep us trapped slowly moving across planets to drive up numbers and subs on game pass. disgusting.… Expand
  9. Steyraus
    Sep 9, 2023
    1
    What's that saying? Wide as an ocean but shallow as a puddle. Well that is starfield, except it not even wide. The game is a bunch of small maps tied together through menus, you don't fly from planet to planet. You can't even explore to far as the map ends. Even worse these tiny maps are just random generation environments with the same 3 or 4 dull activities randomly scattered across theWhat's that saying? Wide as an ocean but shallow as a puddle. Well that is starfield, except it not even wide. The game is a bunch of small maps tied together through menus, you don't fly from planet to planet. You can't even explore to far as the map ends. Even worse these tiny maps are just random generation environments with the same 3 or 4 dull activities randomly scattered across the map/planet. Scan, scan some more, scan some more and occasionally do dome shooting and lasering same thing and the enemies just run at you and stand in front of you. Or just randomly run from random points. At first I was enjoying the game learning the system , but after 10 hours I was just doing the same thing over and over on similar looking areas. This all might be OK if the story and characters carried you through, but its all modern cringe writing with this ugly unappealing characters we find in so many modern games. After not long I was just skipping dialogue in hopes I could enjoy the game systems..But its just shallow. Leveling is just picking perks, that's it! and then there are few generic crafting chores. Basic stuff where you can't build nothing until you pick the perk then you can use some of that useless junk that weighs you down to make more useless junk cause the game still has to be fair if you dont do crafting.
    At first I liked the combat but after not long your just fighting the same red human dudes and handful of alien animals that a spread across all the planet/maps.
    Off course then there the woke stuff. Yeh it's all there and it's and crap as it always is.Ugly unappealing chicks everywhere , female empowerment with all leaders being butch and manly woman.. Averting the male gaze. Even the one attractive girl that is your companion is made unappealing by sounding like an irritating posh 70 year old.
    I got 15 hour and could go any further, it's just boring.    … Expand
  10. Sofon
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    The game has complex loading screens, an old engine and lack of Italian voice acting and Russian localization
  11. revianblue
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    I wasn't expecting a revolutionary RPG here ... but I was expecting a beautiful one. There is nothing beautiful about this game. The characters, the environments, the buildings, the landscapes.... each as bland and uninspired as the atmosphere is itself.
  12. PeteyB
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Well. Big promise. And big fake. Another blend game from Bethesda. Hope someone gonna get Fallout franchise from them till I'm alive. Todd and Spencer are happy. What else matters?
  13. Anb
    Sep 11, 2023
    1
    Despite being developed for whopping 7 years, somehow this new title fails to improve almost anything over previous Bethesda game - Fallout 4. You'd think that from 2015 to 2023 gaming tech and scope made a huge leap, but when you play Starfield, it feels like the game has been stuck in 2015 (and not a in a good way!). Added to that, the whole performance and hardware demand this game hasDespite being developed for whopping 7 years, somehow this new title fails to improve almost anything over previous Bethesda game - Fallout 4. You'd think that from 2015 to 2023 gaming tech and scope made a huge leap, but when you play Starfield, it feels like the game has been stuck in 2015 (and not a in a good way!). Added to that, the whole performance and hardware demand this game has while in the same time looking worse visually than Fallout 4. A huge disappointment.… Expand
  14. captaincrabface
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    By far the worst game Bethseda have ever made, and that includes Fallout 76.

    World building - wholely unconvincing: Everyone shares one American culture and acts like they are from the 1950's. In many cases the bloody Wild West. And not even the real Wild West but that of John Wayne movies. People wear spacesuits from the 1960's, yet have interstellar travel. Computers run some version    By far the worst game Bethseda have ever made, and that includes Fallout 76.

    World building - wholely unconvincing: Everyone shares one American culture and acts like they are from the 1950's. In many cases the bloody Wild West. And not even the real Wild West but that of John Wayne movies. People wear spacesuits from the 1960's, yet have interstellar travel. Computers run some version of Windows 95. Robots have worse voice simulation software than your iphone. The future is full of hokey morality vending machines, and interstellar coffee shops. Ridiculous. None of the cutting areas of science are explored. It spams out other peoples tropes badly when they were outdated half a century ago. But golden age of sci fi this is not. It is clearly not written by people with any knowledge of sci fi or science.

    Writing: I don't want to talk to anyone - including main characters. the writing is juvenile and patronising. Like it was written by a complete amateur.
    Graphics. Apart from the pretty character creation, the graphics are rubbish. This is acceptable to some degree with a big RPG, but it extends to the characters who fail to convince as human beings let alone compelling characters.
    Gunplay. I can't even see most of the enemies - thankfully there is a label over them, so I shoot that. There is absolutely no sense of connection either hitting someone or being hit. I only know I am being hit when a pop up tells me to use a medipack. The AI is so stupid it doesn't even notice you are there as you fire 20 shots into it.
    Exploration: You can't take off and land. Fair enough. But you can't even orbit a planet or plot a course outside a menu. If you try and explore you are confronted by a barren plane, with about as much charm as filler zone in a MMO.
    Roleplaying: There is none. You get a few trite options for saying variations of the same thing, that don't seem to do anything at all. I guess you just have to use your imagination.
    Everything about it is worse than any previous Bethseda release. I don't see how even mods can save it. At leasrt there previous games had dense interesting starting locations and atmosphere. There is none of that here.
    I'm bored. That's it. I can't in all fairness score it more than a 1 - my lowest score ever by at least 5 points. It does almost everything worse than games they made 12 years ago, and has no character, no decent story, no roleplaying options, no decent worlduilding. The much maligned Cybperpunk was light years ahead even at launch.    … Expand
  15. u1tras
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    The endless loading screens make this game unbearable. No merits of the game. It's time to disband Bethesda.
  16. Dalogan72
    Sep 10, 2023
    1
    This game is beyond saving, the movement is junky to the core (it doesn’t matter in which person play), the graphics are like old good Cinemaware but now in 2023 not Amiga 500. If you like questing and wasting time in loading screen this game is for you. The loading screen seriously, savage. This game is not good even free. Buy something else, play monopoly. I am a nice guy so I will notThis game is beyond saving, the movement is junky to the core (it doesn’t matter in which person play), the graphics are like old good Cinemaware but now in 2023 not Amiga 500. If you like questing and wasting time in loading screen this game is for you. The loading screen seriously, savage. This game is not good even free. Buy something else, play monopoly. I am a nice guy so I will not give them 0, I believe the game uninstalled properly without issues so I will give them 1 over 10.… Expand
  17. ToN1k_i_am
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Game about space without space and planets.
    Creation engine 3 = creation engine 2 with lags on 3080.
    Loading near every door, like in Skyrim or Morrowind.
    The dumbest NPCs I've ever seen.
    The most disrespectful treatment of fans I've ever seen.
    TES 6 rip...
  18. kosar1k
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Arguably the worst single player Bethesda game ever made. Terrible soapy graphics with a green filter that makes your eyes tired. NPCs are terribly stupid, quests are not interesting and there are a lot of loading screens, outdated graphics, the game is not optimized. Terribly boring game and it's not an RPG.. It's not worth 100 euros. For me, Bethesda is completely dead...
  19. xcava86x
    Sep 9, 2023
    1
    It's just another Bethesda RPG set in space, this time with inexplicable horrible performances, an upscaling technology supported by 20% of the GPUs on the market at best, all topped up with wokism and a 70 bucks price tag.

    Thanks, but no thanks. Funny review: https://steamcommunity.com/id/76561197989240599/recommended/1716740/ (It's longer than 5000 characters and so it won't fit    It's just another Bethesda RPG set in space, this time with inexplicable horrible performances, an upscaling technology supported by 20% of the GPUs on the market at best, all topped up with wokism and a 70 bucks price tag.

    Thanks, but no thanks.

    Funny review: https://steamcommunity.com/id/76561197989240599/recommended/1716740/

    (It's longer than 5000 characters and so it won't fit here...)    … Expand
  20. pedazo
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    7 years for this woke trash...

    RPG without exploration. Space without flying in space. Cities without traffic. Shooting without gun play. Characters without character. Graphics without graphic elements and shadows. This game has absolutely nothing, random crashes, worst IA ever
  21. adrii9715
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    So, this Space Skyrim/Fallout has turn out to be the biggest disappointment of the year. The WORST optimization I've seen since Batman Arkham Knight, coming from a game that has been developed for almost 10 years, and worked with this graphic engine for 20y. Makes no sense.

    Despite the performance, the game looks good aesthetic, but not appealing enough.
  22. Mover
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    enter your ship - > loading screen -> sit at console and "take off" -> loading screen -> choose new planet -> loading screen -> select landing site on planet -> loading screen -> exit ship -> loading screen ->

    -LOADING SCREENS

    That's all I have to say.
  23. Redcord
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    This is F4 level graphics that lags a lot on my 1080ti (which is 2 years younger than F4).
    Also no russian =(

    Game content itself is boring af; I couldn't make myself sit out another finding artifact quest and chase lights in another generic temple. The game is overwhelmingly GENERIC and that's the worst part.

    Better go play Skyrim or Mass Effect
  24. pdh115
    Sep 9, 2023
    1
    Too boring combat and weapon modification, Why food has bad stats? +5 health? wtf?? Why did you give me food perk? +50%?
  25. Revolt23
    Sep 10, 2023
    1
    It just works! See that mountain over there? you can go climb it! See Pluto? You can go there too! That's if you wanna sit there like a complete fool for seven hours........and once you get there, it's a cardboard cut-out. What an absolute joke! The character models are awful. It's the same same same over and over with this buggythesda company! Honestly, what gives?
  26. Arngrim560
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Se supone que este juego iba a ser el juego de la década, un "antes y un después" nos encontramos con humo y más humo, un Fallout 4 pero todavía peor.
    Pantallas de carga para absolutamente todo, habría sido más sencillo eliminar la nave y dejar un viaje rápido y listo, el control de la nave navegando por un png estático es una broma de mal gusto.
    La sincro labial es un horror, gráficamente    Se supone que este juego iba a ser el juego de la década, un "antes y un después" nos encontramos con humo y más humo, un Fallout 4 pero todavía peor.
    Pantallas de carga para absolutamente todo, habría sido más sencillo eliminar la nave y dejar un viaje rápido y listo, el control de la nave navegando por un png estático es una broma de mal gusto.
    La sincro labial es un horror, gráficamente las expresiones faciales rozan el ridículo se siente absolutamente robotizado.
    La ia??? Es un escándalo de lo nefasta que es tanto de los compañeros como de los enemigos, el gunplay es genérico y plano, los menús son otro horror.
    Conclusión una estafa de las gordas, mi consejo es que no lo compréis, jugadlo en el Gamepass si estáis con mucha curiosidad pero no regaleis vuestro dinero a semejante mojón, Bethesda estamos en 2023 no en 2002 cambiad este horroroso motor y dejad de timar a los usuarios, lleváis con la fórmula copia/pega desde oblivión, y eso antes era muy bueno, hoy en día es un mojón, tenemos cosas como Witcher 3 o Baldurs gate 3, jugar a este starfield directamente es como jugar a un mod del fallout 4 instanciado, ya no cuela.
    "Juego de la década "mis cojon...s"
    Yo ya devolví mi copia en steam y no lo pienso tocar ni con un palo, dentro de 2 o 3 añitos si les da por mejorar la ia y la legión de bugs que nos trae por 20€ merecerá la pena, más no.
    Y pensar que a este zurullo medios le han dado un 100.    … Expand
  27. PragnorVorn
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    There's no hiding from it, it's a creation engine game through and through. And with that comes all it's drawbacks that just scream Bethesda. I can't do it anymore, I can't play games made with this ancient engine. They need to start from scratch with an established modern engine or I'm gone forever, refunded.
  28. Redsjo
    Sep 12, 2023
    1
    I have to be honest here. I sailed the rough sea to play this game. I've played like 2 hours and all I had to do is fast travel to space then fast travel to a different system near an objective then fly to the space station to enter the space station. Everytime you see a loading screen. Whats even the point of going to space to immediately fast travel again we can all agree that's not goodI have to be honest here. I sailed the rough sea to play this game. I've played like 2 hours and all I had to do is fast travel to space then fast travel to a different system near an objective then fly to the space station to enter the space station. Everytime you see a loading screen. Whats even the point of going to space to immediately fast travel again we can all agree that's not good game design. Then the combat. Your companions are so dumb they are shooting the walls while shooting at the enemy. Then the graphics. The textures are good on characters imho but the lack of shading of shadows especially in the first planet it's just non existent it's really looking bad for a game that runs like a potato on an I7-13700k, Rtx3080, Ddr4 32gb 3200mhz. When you had your first meeting and go outside you see the grey concrete and the green vegentation it just looks like someone puked on the screen to be honest. The "ai" walking on the streets in the districts doesn't response on you shooting near them or aiming at them. It feels lifeless.… Expand
  29. BergN7
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    Bethesda studios exploiting same game engine for over 20 years. They selling the same game to the audience for 2 decades. This game is not enjoyable, it's a grind with loading screens, mediocre story, bad performance, low quality npc faces, and empty planets.
  30. Thebadrussian
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    It could be a good game, BUT: Performance on PC with a 4090 and Ryzen 9 is so bad it's unreal, than listen to what Todd Howard said about this, so disrespectful. You can't fly over a planet, the starting and landing from your ship is so boring, map and mini map is a disgrace to every RPG in this world, like what the hell is this? NPCs and their mouth when they talk looks like it's a gameIt could be a good game, BUT: Performance on PC with a 4090 and Ryzen 9 is so bad it's unreal, than listen to what Todd Howard said about this, so disrespectful. You can't fly over a planet, the starting and landing from your ship is so boring, map and mini map is a disgrace to every RPG in this world, like what the hell is this? NPCs and their mouth when they talk looks like it's a game from 2010, the UI is just bad sorry but didn't they looked at the game when they released it? Only mods can save this game, but this game needs more NMS features like free flying over the planet, space vehicles for exploring the planet etc it's just not what they promised.… Expand
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85

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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