Starfield

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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5711 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 2,635 out of 5711
  2. Mixed: 612 out of 5711
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 5711
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  1. NGG
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A a gamer for most of my life I cant wait to wake up and play starfield. I think this game has amazing combat and space fights. The graphics and details are amazing too. Way to go Bethesda and all your team for your passion for gaming. Our channel is ngg Canada and thanks for reading! GAME ON… Expand
  2. nemix3d
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    One of the best Bethesda games finally here for us to enjoy and play, all the haters lol, if you dont like it, dont play it
  3. ckennedy
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    One of the best games ever made. Not quite done with it but loving every minute so far. Massive improvements on the BGS formula which was already excellent. Inflated my score a bit to offset all the butthurt Sony Ponies review bombing the game.
  4. Renatospada
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Starfield is a great game, where people are focusing and emphasizing flaws just because it's a Microsoft game and first Xbox exclusive.
  5. Sensemilla
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    No Russian localization, no optimization, no good story, no space. There's nothing! The game you **** with Todd Howard.
  6. Abibboy83
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Te atrapa en cuanto lo juegas unas horas, me encanta la personalización naves, ropa, armas..para mi JIEGAZO en mayusculas.
  7. Krimion
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Bethesda really outdid themselves with Starfield!
    I have a few minor things I'd like changed/added. But I'm 70hrs in and loving in!!
  8. neomoonsevin
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Very good game has occasional slowdown but its not bad enough to say it is the faces could be better looking but I guess that's the Bethesda style exploration is great the game taken me awhile to understand and it kind of reminds me of Starwars KOTOR 2 overall a very awesome game I think it can grow on everyone that trys this out
  9. Jarod007
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    La honte !!!
    Jeu qui crash toutes les deux secondes sur un pc avec un bon i5 (4670 k => 4 X 3.4 Gh/z ) et une bonne carte graphique (rx550 Pule edition 4GB)
    Tous mes autres jeux passent même les watch dogs qui sont codés avec le c*l !
    Starfield est codé avec les culs de tous les animaux de la rue tellement il rame / plante / crash / etc .
  10. cctusing
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great exploration, fun quests, interesting characters, and awesome RPG elements. Some bugs, but that's too be expected from a Bethesda game.… Expand
  11. geosousan
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Esse jogo é o bixo! Sensacional! Joguei em diferentes lugares, tanto no PC quanto no Console (XBSX) e até no Game Pass Ultimate. A imersão do jogo é incrível a medida que você vai avançando! Estou tendo que parar de jogar para poder trabalhar kkkk! Se não a pessoa não quer saber de mais nada, a não ser jogar, jogar e jogar! Parabéns, Bethesda! A única crítica que faço (que eu não gostei)Esse jogo é o bixo! Sensacional! Joguei em diferentes lugares, tanto no PC quanto no Console (XBSX) e até no Game Pass Ultimate. A imersão do jogo é incrível a medida que você vai avançando! Estou tendo que parar de jogar para poder trabalhar kkkk! Se não a pessoa não quer saber de mais nada, a não ser jogar, jogar e jogar! Parabéns, Bethesda! A única crítica que faço (que eu não gostei) foi que não teve dublagem em Português Brasileiro (PT BR), e isso é uma afronta, pois é tão maravilhoso poder jogar qualquer tipo de jogo ouvindo o seu próprio idioma local!… Expand
  12. spokengg
    Sep 10, 2023
    4
    It's Fallout 4 with spaceships and forced fast travel. The game is not good.

    -The writing is awful, the characters are all incredibly dull and uninteresting. I couldnt even force myself to suffer through the main storyline and I refuse to use any of the main companions because of how boring they all are. All of the actual companions have the same cookie cutter personalities and not even    It's Fallout 4 with spaceships and forced fast travel. The game is not good.

    -The writing is awful, the characters are all incredibly dull and uninteresting. I couldnt even force myself to suffer through the main storyline and I refuse to use any of the main companions because of how boring they all are. All of the actual companions have the same cookie cutter personalities and not even a single one of them is down to clown with evil players. Bethesda is OKAY at writing questlines and npcs that arent meant to be taken too seriously but they seem to have forgotten that they cant write a serious story for **** with this game.

    -The world feels completely sanitized and edge-less. You can really tell that Bethesda went out of their way to purposefully sand down the sharp corners here, everything just feels so safe and PG-13. They were clearly terrified of accidentally offending anyone with even slightly edgy dialogue or content.

    -Space and your spaceship is a glorified fast travel menu, it feels completely tacked on. If it weren't for the fact that the game forces you to pilot your ship, you would have no actual gameplay reason to do so outside of the extremely boring and shallow space combat. You cant actually fly anywhere in your ship, you just teleport around while watching a bunch of cutscenes of your ship flying. Encounters in space feel completely artificial too, you just occasionally run into people waiting around for no reason whenever you jump somewhere.

    -The AI is HORRENDOUS, somehow even worse than previous BGS games. Ive NEVER seen a single human enemy advance on me in combat, ive never even seen them move through a doorway, let alone open one. Not to mention the enemy variety is completely nonexistent. 90% of enemies youll face are just copy pasted humans with like 1 of 3 different guns.

    -The RPG mechanics are somehow even more basic and simplified from Fallout 4. Bethesda has literally regressed with every single game they've made when it comes to the actually RPG part of their RPGs.

    -Player Freedom is basically nonexistent. These arent even sandbox games anymore, theyre curated theme parks where your only decision is the choice of which ride to go on next. Except you only have access to Snoopy-Land with all the bumper cars, merry-go-rounds and ground level swingsets.

    -And finally, the Exploration is simply the worst its ever been. The feature they advertised the most is also the worst aspect the game. It doesn't feel like youre exploring a world, it feels like you're teleporting between a dozen different small areas. There is zero sense of being in an interconnected world, it just feels like a bunch of separate levels, no doubt because of how Bethesda seems to have designed the entire game around teleporting between planets with fast travel. Exploring the randomly generated planets is tedious and meaningless, they have nothing of value except some randomly placed points of interest that have nothing of interest. You also will spend the majority of your time on these planets sprinting and walking when your stamina runs out because Bethesda made the BAFFLING decision to not make ground vehicles of any kind. If you liked running around release day No Man's Sky planets then this might even be a small upgrade for you, if you have actual taste and value your free time though then this game is just going to be a huge disappointment.

    The only things I can definitively say that I liked are the location designs. Cities and dungeons all look great, the interiors are vibrant and very well made, probably because Elianora from the Skyrim modding scene worked on this part of the game. Dungeon areas are all multi-layered with different pathways and rooms, a huge upgrade from the single hallway designs of the last few BGS games.
    Also the art design itself is pretty good looking, the ships, weapons and spacesuits all look great.
    Spaceship building is cool but held back by the fact that its nearly pointless because of how worthless the actual space aspect of this game is.
    That's about it.

    Maybe mods will save it in a couple years but until then this is the most disappointing experience ive ever had in a Bethesda game, though I cant say im surprised given this has been the trajectory ever since Skyrim. If you REALLY like the standard, non-modded Bethesda fake RPG experience then you might enjoy this game despite it being the single worst fake RPG theyve every created.    … Expand
  13. Aavv
    Sep 10, 2023
    3
    One of the most soulless games ever made. It’s better than Fallout 76 but that’s like saying that Hitler was better than Stalin it’s hardly an improvement. Everything here is just so bland and more predictable than a Dhar Mann video we have seen this game already it was called Fallout 3 and that was a great game unlike Starfield.

    Don’t buy this game don’t give Todd “Little Lies” Howard    One of the most soulless games ever made. It’s better than Fallout 76 but that’s like saying that Hitler was better than Stalin it’s hardly an improvement. Everything here is just so bland and more predictable than a Dhar Mann video we have seen this game already it was called Fallout 3 and that was a great game unlike Starfield.

    Don’t buy this game don’t give Todd “Little Lies” Howard any money. He deserves nothing than to be paraded around a city in chains while having **** and rocks thrown at him.    … Expand
  14. victor_nsct
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Incrível!!! A Bethesda lançou mais um grande rpg para que os amantes dessa categoria possam se divertir, ainda mais em um universo com várias aventuras e sistema de escolhas.
  15. Iceberry
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    Quanto mais vc joga pior fica.
    jogo raso sem emoçao, prometeram tanto coisa antes de entregar o jogo, mas quando chega a hora de entregar, entrega um jogo sem emoçao vc joga durante 6hrs e se sente cansado sem animo pq vc nao se diverte vc nao sente atraido por alguma historia, as missoes sao horriveis, jogo sem historia.
  16. Gago69
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This game is excellent, it give a sensation of freedom and liberty. you can do what you want, when you want.
  17. Vikareus
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    I'm playing on Series X. Seems like the game is really being crushed by PC players who are bootyhurt that their system is struggling with the game, while simultaneously complaining that the game isn't complex enough. In other cases, it's getting crushed by players who were never the target audience of this kind of game in the first place. On console, I'm having a total blast playingI'm playing on Series X. Seems like the game is really being crushed by PC players who are bootyhurt that their system is struggling with the game, while simultaneously complaining that the game isn't complex enough. In other cases, it's getting crushed by players who were never the target audience of this kind of game in the first place. On console, I'm having a total blast playing Starfield, and I look forward to playing it for hundreds of hours more. The loading times are fantastic and the game is stable. I have no complaints there.

    I'm not here to spoil anything for anyone, and people can get the goods and bads from other reviews. Realistically Starfield is a 9 or 9.5 out of 10 for me, but I'm putting a 10 up to try and at least balance out the 0's and 1's from these spoiled crybabies that have absolutely no respect for the clearly apparent thousands of hours of work and TLC the developers put into making this game, only for some basement trolls to floor it on metacritic with unreasonably low scores that should only go to games like ET on colecovision...    … Expand
  18. TerraSanctum
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    The best game I've played in awhile! What I like the most if the freedom the game offers, you can play however it suits you most, crafting, exploring, building, taking your time to navigate or fast travel
  19. chenpi1993
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
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  20. Mlange
    Sep 10, 2023
    9
    I LOVE THIS GAME!!!! I have 50+ hours into it so far and I have barely touched the tip of the iceberg. I have not stopped playing it since it came out. The gameplay is fun, the quests feel like they have a purpose, even the obligatory delivery quests. The combat is fast-paced and action-packed. I actually enjoy the NPC interactions, the voice acting is top-notch.
  21. lewell
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    No Dlss. No 32:9 support. No way to change field of view. The story seemed really boring. The first person shooting in blocky square buildings is dull. I was really disappointed with this game. Shame it didn’t live up to the hype.
  22. Franlock
    Sep 10, 2023
    8
    I have played about 50h untill now and the game is amazing. Is not perfect due the limited exploration, but being a Bethesda RPG game in space is the only that matters.
  23. Anris
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    Absolutely empty and uninteresting game. I came with the expectation of an open world and an interesting story, but I got only an unfinished parody of game
  24. MorcegoJP
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    The best space traveler RPG of all time. Bethesda makes a wonderful game again, like Skyrim, but in the space.
  25. maticbri
    Sep 10, 2023
    9
    The more you play the better it gets the shooting feels great and the ability to use the cutter as a weapon is great for saving ammo and do the main story first!!!!!
  26. Mkdeadpool
    Sep 10, 2023
    1
    The game would be fun, if it didn't crash every other minute. I put in a ticket with bethesda and they said basically they can't do anything go to xbox support. I went to xbox support and they kept just giving me a list of fixes that didn't work. This is the only game that crashes on my console. And my console is only a year old.
  27. Nero_Angelo101
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To tell the truth, the game is good! I know that most of the low ratings are PlayStation users!… Expand
  28. netabatarya
    Sep 10, 2023
    5
    Summary: Worse than Fallout 4

    Ancient mechanics and animations left from Fallout 4. Story and its way of telling is poor. Dialog options are going only one way meaning you dont have any options to impact the story. We see faces of NPCs as a cinematic thing but mimics are poorly recorded, worse than Fallout 4. There's nothing to explore in the space. Flying spaceship doesn't satisfy the    Summary: Worse than Fallout 4

    Ancient mechanics and animations left from Fallout 4. Story and its way of telling is poor. Dialog options are going only one way meaning you dont have any options to impact the story. We see faces of NPCs as a cinematic thing but mimics are poorly recorded, worse than Fallout 4. There's nothing to explore in the space. Flying spaceship doesn't satisfy the player. Also taking down on planets is actually punishemnt to the player because many of them are just empty.    … Expand
  29. Itspablo
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    After dozen hours of gameplay, procedural planet look alike... Starfield could be so much more. I guess our expectation were too high.
  30. crazybrain
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Love the the fact I can build a ship and merc people like the borg. I like the fact that time changes from planet to planet.… Expand
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Metascore
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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