Starfield

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5.6

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  1. Scott84
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    I’ve put some time in on the game looks thank you Bethesda games for a masterpiece.
  2. frajatogtx
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Es el juego de la generación.
    Game of the Generation.
  3. JA89
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Micorsoft need to start an audit investigation a.s.a.p
    Six years of development and a 200 million budget and the game is utter garbage.
    Terrible graphics, boring main story, terrible side quests with no substance. NPCs / dialogue are dull, Oblivion had better NPC mechanics a game over 12 years old. Constant loading screens. Repetitive bases and planets. NPC Ai is stupid as well.    Micorsoft need to start an audit investigation a.s.a.p
    Six years of development and a 200 million budget and the game is utter garbage.

    Terrible graphics, boring main story, terrible side quests with no substance. NPCs / dialogue are dull, Oblivion had better NPC mechanics a game over 12 years old. Constant loading screens. Repetitive bases and planets. NPC Ai is stupid as well.

    Whats the point of making a Space RPG and the game doesnt let you explore space, planets, moons, etc... Another Todd Howard lying masterclass.

    People who are giving this game a 10 or GOTY are clueless
    or to young to have played fallout 3/ New Vegas/ Oblivion / Skyrim.

    Thankfully Steam accpeted my refund request. I will try the game again in a few years if im still interested and I can get a good sale price. Hopefully the game will have been updated / patched and the modding community should have a few hundred mods to help with the above.

    I would not recoomend the game and espically at the current price.    … Expand
  4. Xylus
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Currently 30 hours into the game. This is the most premium, well made Bethesda game of all time. It is now my favourite bgs game ever made. I lose track of hours. When I'm not playing, I'm thinking about what to do next in game, or talking to friends about it, or watching streams of it.

    I love this game.
  5. SaintSeiya1103
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Grande Jogo sem duvida! Starfield é um jogo que quando se jogar dificilmente você não conseguir parar. Quem realmente não jogou este maravilhoso jogo Jogue e busque você mesmo a sua experiencia grandiosa. tire suas próprias conclusões experimente.
    Esse jogo é Incrível.    … Expand
  6. whitestafrican
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    If you are a fan of BGS games you will love this game. If you are expecting some next gen space simulation game then you will be disappointed. It really is Skyrim in space for better and worse. For me that is amazing because Skyrim is one of my favorite games of all time.
  7. Themajority
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Loading screens, empty planners, space and overall limitations and pro noun choices. Is that what gaming is about?… Expand
  8. KillianZane
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    It’s exactly what you want and expect from a Bethesda game. You don’t care about a harmless bug, or a loading screen every hour. You want a game you can sink your teeth into and play for years. This is the next Skyrim.
  9. Gravewax
    Sep 7, 2023
    2
    Really trying hard to like this after it got such rave reviews. But I can't, the game is slow, boring, graphics are extremely dated. The game starts off terribly and sadly it is a mark of what's to come, some guy you don't know hands you the keys to his starship without so much as a second thought, you get to choose through useless dialogue that all has the same outcome. The ship battlesReally trying hard to like this after it got such rave reviews. But I can't, the game is slow, boring, graphics are extremely dated. The game starts off terribly and sadly it is a mark of what's to come, some guy you don't know hands you the keys to his starship without so much as a second thought, you get to choose through useless dialogue that all has the same outcome. The ship battles are pretty basic and somewhat reminiscent of elite or wing commander but without the depth or fun. spent a couple of hours so far, will try a couple more to see if it improves. Very glad it came free with gamepass otherwise I would feel cheated.… Expand
  10. mahdiliravi
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Hello everyone. I will give my opinion about this game. Upon entering each planet, the player's eye is attracted to its attractive and different environment and stares at the game environment for a few minutes and then continues the game. The very smooth and flexible gameplay of the game is the positive side of the game, so that the player does not get tired after playing for hours. TheHello everyone. I will give my opinion about this game. Upon entering each planet, the player's eye is attracted to its attractive and different environment and stares at the game environment for a few minutes and then continues the game. The very smooth and flexible gameplay of the game is the positive side of the game, so that the player does not get tired after playing for hours. The huge game size of the game allows the player to play this beautiful game for several weeks. The graphics of the game are also among the best games. If you have a strong graphics card, you can be sure that a great pleasure awaits you. The story of the game also gets an acceptable score in my opinion. Overall, I give this game a score of 10/10. Thank you for taking the time to read my comment.… Expand
  11. yain
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Starfield is an occupied game and Microsoft once again proved its rank is lower than Sony and Bethesda studio lost its credibility among players. This game is full of bugs and these failures affect the process of game experience. All NPCs are very artificial and do not convey any emotion
  12. Lynxes
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Severely disappointed, even with no hype about it.

    Starfield does not have any of the positive qualities of either Skyrim or Fallout 4, it doesn't have the positive of other space game which did have some interesting features such as No Man's Sky. The game starts with you as a miner, you touch a relic, you have an LSD allucination and that's it... you get dragged into a group of    Severely disappointed, even with no hype about it.

    Starfield does not have any of the positive qualities of either Skyrim or Fallout 4, it doesn't have the positive of other space game which did have some interesting features such as No Man's Sky.

    The game starts with you as a miner, you touch a relic, you have an LSD allucination and that's it... you get dragged into a group of uninteresting people that you couldn't care less for to hunt some items that you couldn't care less for.

    The dialogues are boring, the way they are acted is underwhelming, if you constantly feel like skipping the dialogues rather than getting invested into it... I would almost say that if it didn't have voice acting it would have been better, reading it into my head would have been less boring that hearing it being read as if you were presenting your homework to your teacher when you were 7.

    From a Bethesda game I expected at least the story to be good.

    Then we have the exploration... which is not there!
    In Starfield you cannot explore space! All you can go is teleport from place to place, you teleport from a planet to it's "orbit", or rather, to a small box with the planet as a background picture, from there you can teleport to another box with another background picture. You can't explore space, all you can find by moving your ship is literally a couple asteroids, you don't even need to get close to the planet or have a particularly cool animation while landing, you just teleport.
    No Man's Sky did, it was the only good thing that game had, but damn was it cool...

    Starfield was supposed to be a huge world for you to explore, in reality the map is smaller than Skyrim!

    Planets exploration is no better, the planets are bland, empty, and once again you are placed in a box, when you walk too far off you need to get teleported to another box on the same planet... not that you'll actually ever explore until you reach that point, since the maps are empty anyway.

    The gunplay is boring, the weapons are not satisfying and for how much health the enemies have there are not enough ammo, you end up falling back to your pistol too often, I want to use fun guns, not be limited by ammo.

    Spaceship battle has the cool energy system, but once you actually get to use it in practice it ends up being more of a nuisance than anything else, battles are... meh, not great.

    The cool thing is that you can customize your spaceship, I mean, not that it matters since there is nothing to do in space anyway.

    Quests are mostly "go from here to there and talk with A, then go there and talk to B, here there are some enemies to kill, now teleport back to C"... it's boring, it's essentially asking you to keep teleporting around, walk for 2 minutes, teleport again. Where is the immersion? Where is the exploration?

    To top all of this off the game runs embarrassingly bad, it doesn't have Ray Tracing, it doesn't look particularly good, and yet it sometimes (in the city) doesn't touch 50 FPSs maxed out at 1440p in a city without FSR2 with a 4090 and a 12900k overclocked and water cooled with 3 rads... seriously? Do I need a NASA PC to play with game?
    At least it stays in the upper 120s in the various planets, which are empty by the way, so I don't understand where the 50% CPU usage and 99% GPU usage is going.

    There are DLSS mods since officially it's not supported, but that's not the point, I can play Cyberpunk at 1440p all maxed out in a real open world map with lots of NPCs, lots of moving objects, full Ray Tracing, Path Tracing and the entire DLSS suite at 120FPSs and hardly ever going down to the lower 90... this game needs some more work.

    NPCs are dumb, but it's a Bethesda game, that's hardly surprising.

    Menus are kinda weird at first, but ok in the end, the map seems weird at first, but once you realize that the game is not open world you end up realizing why it was designed the way it was designed.

    You can have some choices to be a pirate or whatever, but when the dialogues are acted in such a boring way and when the interaction with the world is so limited... what's the point?

    The looting is not satisfying since you don't know if what you're picking up is a weapon, food, medkit, clothing, misc? Who knows, but if you pick it up you might get over your inventory limit, which is a pain. Essentially either you meticulously scan what you picked after getting it stopping whatever you are doing, or you finish whatever you are doing and then get to the boring check of all the places you've already been to. Skyrim and Fallout 4 both had good UIs to avoid this problem.

    This game is boring, and even if it ran well, look great and whatever else, it would still not be worth the money, because it's extremely boring.

    I refunded my copy, and I hope you are in time to refund yours, there are other games that worth your time.    … Expand
  13. Manelzamora
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Esta muy mal optimizado, el motor grafico es vergonzoso, los NPCS parecen creados por ubisoft es de lo peor que va del año.
  14. Guampa
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    No the best game ever but still a wonderful game, and exactly what i was expecting
  15. Tizzz
    Sep 7, 2023
    9
    Great game! I get lost for hours In it. Bethesda game all the way. Would recommend
  16. Eliezer83
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo muito fraco , gráficos ruim inteligência artificial ruim ...tudo é tem que carregar jogo ruim ....… Expand
  17. Grigoriano
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    El juego no arranca en mi PC Pentium 3, quiero jugarlo en mi Pentium y no puedo porque no arranca el juego.
  18. Marcus123
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    This game has a slow Introduction, but once you passed the 10/15 hours its so unbelievable amazing.. The game is so huge, the technical aspect is also amazing. So many possibilities in this game. This game finally gives me the feels i need to bring me back into a game. Thanks Bethesda!
  19. RafaSouza630
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Starfield is a good Game, but if you play in PC you see this game is very heavy this game need some polishiments, my note is 7,5, but i edit after this adjustes for performances
  20. Luis1092
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    El juego es aburridisimo, lleno de bugs, tardas 2 horas para empezar a jugar! Es el mismo RPG de siempre pero en el espacio!
  21. GandalfCzarny
    Sep 7, 2023
    5
    Well the best thing that I can say about this one is that is a... game. And it have open world. Yeah... I felt nothing while playing this.
  22. Misel
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    You can say whatever you want but Starfield is the best game of 2023. You are just sony haters who dont even played the game
  23. zibra
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Optimization mess. Lack of details present in other games. Boring main quest so far. Boring side quests. I found Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim to be more fun. At least speech test system is decent. All hope in modders to make this game better. Because Bethesda won't do anything except for few DLC packs.
  24. Gwynbleidd86
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Es un muy buen juego, muy entretenido que es lo importante, no me había sumergido tanto en un juego desde tears of the kingdom.
  25. SubtleArcana
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    The fact that Bethesda had the nerve to release a PC port of Starfield in its current state is absolute absurd after the disaster of the Fallout 76 launch. The game is plagued by hangs, audio cutting in and out, long freezes when firing weapons (somehow even though the animations and mechanics were ripped straight from Fallout 4 which didn't have these issues), and some good old fashionedThe fact that Bethesda had the nerve to release a PC port of Starfield in its current state is absolute absurd after the disaster of the Fallout 76 launch. The game is plagued by hangs, audio cutting in and out, long freezes when firing weapons (somehow even though the animations and mechanics were ripped straight from Fallout 4 which didn't have these issues), and some good old fashioned hard crashes. Frankly, give it a miss for at least six months. It wasn't ready for prime time and it won't be worth your time if you get it through game pass or your money if you buy it for a long time.

    Metacritic reviews tend to be exaggerated, but I'm not exaggerating, and I'm not mincing words here. This game is not functional for many PC players, especially Nvidia users.    … Expand
  26. serres132
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    There are windows of loading, loading, loading everywhere. It ruins the atmosphere of the game. Weak graphics and optimization.

    Where are the Russian subtitles? The Bethesda forgot that 40-50 million Russian speakers do not live in Russia :(
  27. RockinRoger
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    If you like Bethesda games, you'll love this one. I'm about 30 hours in and have only completed a few main story missions. The faction quests and side quests are so deep and detailed I might never get to the main story! I've had about 5 different jobs so far on my playthrough, I can't get over how much content is in this game. Sad to see this masterpiece get review bombed by miserable SonyIf you like Bethesda games, you'll love this one. I'm about 30 hours in and have only completed a few main story missions. The faction quests and side quests are so deep and detailed I might never get to the main story! I've had about 5 different jobs so far on my playthrough, I can't get over how much content is in this game. Sad to see this masterpiece get review bombed by miserable Sony fans, hopefully they will purge the fake reviews at some point.… Expand
  28. tempertee
    Sep 7, 2023
    3
    I played 8 hours, and I was bored. The NPCs and companions are lifeless husks that lack any real consequence or immersion. Their eyes rolling up into their heads and staring directly into your soul seems so outdated compared to games like BG3. This is Skyrim in space and nothing more. Exploration is none existent, and BGS is going to need a mountain of mods to make this interesting orI played 8 hours, and I was bored. The NPCs and companions are lifeless husks that lack any real consequence or immersion. Their eyes rolling up into their heads and staring directly into your soul seems so outdated compared to games like BG3. This is Skyrim in space and nothing more. Exploration is none existent, and BGS is going to need a mountain of mods to make this interesting or engaging. Combat isn't bad, gunplay feels good, but I am not playing this as a looter shooter. I'll go spin up Destiny if I want good gunplay and a subpar story.… Expand
  29. Anthony1319
    Sep 7, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Vamos a emparejar las cosas piperos haters porque no lo pueden jugar solo les queda llorar como niños ratas que son… Expand
  30. Steelzera
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Jogo lançando a base da mentira, Marketing absurdo, falaram que o game ia ser um jogo "Revolucionario" e entregam isso. Sinceramente, esse jogo seria bom se fosse lançando em 2017
    Alguns pontos aqui: NPC Cagado, expressões faciais de geração antiga, mundo que não é aberto, planetas iguais com bichos iguais e sem textura de nova geração, jogo cansativo e historia mediocre. Essas são as    Jogo lançando a base da mentira, Marketing absurdo, falaram que o game ia ser um jogo "Revolucionario" e entregam isso. Sinceramente, esse jogo seria bom se fosse lançando em 2017
    Alguns pontos aqui: NPC Cagado, expressões faciais de geração antiga, mundo que não é aberto, planetas iguais com bichos iguais e sem textura de nova geração, jogo cansativo e historia mediocre. Essas são as minhas criticas!    … Expand
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#30 Best PC Game of 2023
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#3 Most Discussed PC Game of 2023

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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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