Starfield

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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5711 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 5711
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  1. WahjahEater
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Note: 57.4 hrs on record as of 9/7/23

    DONT FALL FOR THE AFTER (X)HRS IT GETS GOOD COPIUM, CAUSE IT NEVER COMES. What else could be said about this game... MORROWIND in Space, Oblivion in Space, Skyrim in Space, Fallout 3-76 in Space. Its the latest in a long line of Bethesda Game Studio titles same-ness. Easily a skip or grab it on a heavily discounted buy. I mean maybe come back for    Note: 57.4 hrs on record as of 9/7/23

    DONT FALL FOR THE AFTER (X)HRS IT GETS GOOD COPIUM, CAUSE IT NEVER COMES.

    What else could be said about this game... MORROWIND in Space, Oblivion in Space, Skyrim in Space, Fallout 3-76 in Space. Its the latest in a long line of Bethesda Game Studio titles same-ness. Easily a skip or grab it on a heavily discounted buy. I mean maybe come back for the modding shenanigans. Other than that it's nothing more than a massive tax write off for Microsoft at our expense.    … Expand
  2. 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.
  3. Freebird7887
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Es un RPG estilo Fallout en el espacio y además diria que bastante lineall, como te salgas de donde te marca el juego te vas a encontrar un universo vacio y bugeado como es marca de la casa. No hay exploración expacial con la nave, se viaja mediante iconos de viaje rápido en un mapa.

    Como RPG estilo Fallout obviendo los bugs que supongo que irán arreglando en futuros parches, está bien    Es un RPG estilo Fallout en el espacio y además diria que bastante lineall, como te salgas de donde te marca el juego te vas a encontrar un universo vacio y bugeado como es marca de la casa. No hay exploración expacial con la nave, se viaja mediante iconos de viaje rápido en un mapa.

    Como RPG estilo Fallout obviendo los bugs que supongo que irán arreglando en futuros parches, está bien pero no es lo que nos han vendido. Por eso le pongo un 4.    … Expand
  4. Trix122
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Once again, huge disappointment from the "professional critique".
    88 on this game is probably the biggest lie of the decade.
    I haven't played such a cold, empty and souless game in a while. Leaving aside the bugs (which as a bethesda game we all know their technical level is sub 0, and this game is no exception) everything feels so cheap and rushed. -General gameplay goes from empty    Once again, huge disappointment from the "professional critique".
    88 on this game is probably the biggest lie of the decade.

    I haven't played such a cold, empty and souless game in a while. Leaving aside the bugs (which as a bethesda game we all know their technical level is sub 0, and this game is no exception) everything feels so cheap and rushed.

    -General gameplay goes from empty interactions, amateur and dull voice acting, terrible NPC's and facial features/expressions that reminds me of oblivion.

    -Completely outdate engine. New gen you said? The game can barely run on high end hardware, and its filled with artifacts, noise and pollution.

    -Maps are empty, repetitive and pale... and obviously no vehicle so you wouldn't realize how empty they are as quick.

    -Whoever the f made the gun play never played a shooter in their life.

    -Loading screens EVERYWHERE.

    -The AI is probably the worst AI i've ever seen, no exageration.

    200+m budget game, i wanna know exactly where that money went because on hiring talented people and investing in resources and technology for sure not. Just to think this is 8 points away from BG3 is ATROCIOUS and a big disrespect to the gaming market, developers and players.    … Expand
  5. 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
  6. Maurog21
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Worst BGS game, even worse than Fallout 76. Is like No mans sky but with Bethesda´s common bugs and design. Campaign is meh but space exporation is a joke.
  7. ffp
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    uninspired, same ol recipe but cooked on a better pot.
    took me 14 hours for the game to actually get slightly better only to repeat same bs all over the world again.
    save your buckos
  8. Kratos_Br
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    A MICROSOFT PROMETEU ENTREGAR UM JOGO REVOLUCIONÁRIO E INOVADOR, COISA QUE NÃO EXISTIU, A GAMEPLAY É GENÉRICA A IA É PORCA O COMBATE É PORCO OS GRÁFICOS ULTRAPASSADOS E LOADING A DAR COM PAU KKKKK
    UM JOGO ABAIXO DO MEDÍOCRE
  9. HotaruKensaki
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    I'd say this is a typical Bethesda game but at this point AAA games are usually just some soulless hot garbage only made to make as much money as possible, they even outsourced the game to some no name studios to cut the budget. Peak capitalism i guess.
  10. YouMoMCallME
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Оптимизация просто ужасна !
    Боже а лица NPC :D
    Гиганский Прайс ...
    Тод слышь Рефанд
  11. Andy3721
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Неоптимизированное консольное говно. На 4070 не выдает 60 фпс, на любых настройках, бардак.
  12. zqpb
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Starfield is a Bethesda game that I don't feel like going back to. I had some fun, lots of bugs and bad design decisions.

    It's a bad RPG, mediocre shooter, weak quests, inappropriate music, hideous interface and characters. The onions in the game are better made than the whole game combined. The managers and management should have prioritized it differently. The game could have been    Starfield is a Bethesda game that I don't feel like going back to. I had some fun, lots of bugs and bad design decisions.

    It's a bad RPG, mediocre shooter, weak quests, inappropriate music, hideous interface and characters. The onions in the game are better made than the whole game combined. The managers and management should have prioritized it differently.

    The game could have been better and I have faith that the modders will make the game better. But Bethesda should consider that it's time for them to change their game engine and make games that are within their capabilities.

    Alas, Starfield has proven to be beyond the company's capabilities. Many of the promises made by management turned out to be outright lies. I consider myself deceived, but I respect the good workers at Bethesda. Alas, they are run by incompetent people who have lost touch with the players and no longer understand what people like.

    I wish Bethesda to change their management and not repeat Starfield's mistakes. Don't listen to those who praise this game. It's a failure. You will most likely regret the money you spent.    … Expand
  13. evadarr
    Sep 8, 2023
    4
    Why would you make the same game without adding ANY new additions? I mean this is the same game with skyrim, fallout. They didnt even add 1 new thing into this. NOT even 1 thing. Old engine, old graphics, old animations, look at the baldur's gate 3, they didnt even had the proper budget but look at what they done and look at starfield. With all that money, they made this.
  14. Jugoslaven
    Sep 9, 2023
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The laziest game beginning in gaming history. Guy walks up to you right at the beginning and hands over a space ship to you. And just like that you are a captain. You want to play Bethesda game play Skyrim and if you want to explore space play No Man's Sky… Expand
  15. Farandr
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Empty game. Face animations and combat is from 2010. Worst face animations in a modern game, seems like Bethesda can't be bothered to update their ancient game engine for a new one.
    Worlds are empty barren sandboxes filled with repetitive and mindless procedurally generated content repeated a million times as a sad excuse for the devs actually doing their work and making content for the    Empty game. Face animations and combat is from 2010. Worst face animations in a modern game, seems like Bethesda can't be bothered to update their ancient game engine for a new one.
    Worlds are empty barren sandboxes filled with repetitive and mindless procedurally generated content repeated a million times as a sad excuse for the devs actually doing their work and making content for the game. But of course, it's a Bethesda game, so they hardly do anything and expect modders to actually fill their game with content.    … Expand
  16. Philay92
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    Constant crashes started in New Atlantis and prevented any progress and force me to refund. The game also seemed poorly optimized as I had to put graphical settings on low to achieve decent fps, on a decent PC that runs most of the recent games on high setting. The image on low settings was very blurry and made it hard to properly see enemies at a certain distance. This were the worstConstant crashes started in New Atlantis and prevented any progress and force me to refund. The game also seemed poorly optimized as I had to put graphical settings on low to achieve decent fps, on a decent PC that runs most of the recent games on high setting. The image on low settings was very blurry and made it hard to properly see enemies at a certain distance. This were the worst graphics I have experienced on a game to achieve 60fps so far on my current build.

    The positives for the 2 hours of gameplay I could get before having to refund are that the game is DRM free, and can be modded easily.    … Expand
  17. Berserker_98
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    The worst RPG from bethesda's game ever made in years, once more again Todd Howard is a complete smoke seller.
  18. Glemial
    Sep 7, 2023
    5
    How can a game like this has a score beyond 80 in metacritic? What justify that?

    Story: weak and boring. Combat: weak and repetitive. Characters: boring, boring and boring. Graphics: nothing special, just average for an AAA game. Everyone seams to be made of dough. Sound: some are decente, but others, like the weapon sounds, feels like you are shooting beans. Exploration: pretty    How can a game like this has a score beyond 80 in metacritic? What justify that?

    Story: weak and boring.
    Combat: weak and repetitive.
    Characters: boring, boring and boring.
    Graphics: nothing special, just average for an AAA game. Everyone seams to be made of dough.
    Sound: some are decente, but others, like the weapon sounds, feels like you are shooting beans.
    Exploration: pretty bad, even with "more than 1000 planets" LOL

    When i see a metascore higher than 80, i imagine some game that is pretty good at most aspects i cited above, but this is a special case: a game that isn't very good at NOTHING and still being praise by most "pro critics". That stinks.    … Expand
  19. DavidPA17
    Sep 8, 2023
    2
    La optimización es muy mala, con un PC de 1500€ tengo que poner gráficos en medio y vas muy flojo de fps, en vez de decir que actualicemos nuestro PC mejor que actualicen su motor gráfico! Que está anticuado
  20. xhinge
    Sep 8, 2023
    5
    This game is not what I was hoping for, it's still plain old "walking" game, space is just setting, potential of space exploration is boring, or perhaps that was the point? Space is indeed dark, vast, boring, empty space. If that was the point then this game delivers I guess. "On-the-ground" experience and quests is good but less interesting and immersing than it was in Fallout and Skyrim,This game is not what I was hoping for, it's still plain old "walking" game, space is just setting, potential of space exploration is boring, or perhaps that was the point? Space is indeed dark, vast, boring, empty space. If that was the point then this game delivers I guess. "On-the-ground" experience and quests is good but less interesting and immersing than it was in Fallout and Skyrim, I don't feel the vibes really. And yea, one last part, leading screen, loading screen, loading screen, loading screen... There's a lot of loading screens.… Expand
  21. Manziflex
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    First fight graphics is scaling a bit, but its ok.
    Second fight graphics is scaling again...ok nvm..
    Third fight...fps lag...uninstalll
  22. VonDraco
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    This game isnt finished so many issues...
    -Loading Screen Simulator
    -Tod Howard is Conman and liar... He knew the Game isn't optimised
    I'm glad I Refunded this ,,Bad,, game.
    Compare it to No Man's Sky !
    And last ... Pronounces That is the last nail into its coffin
  23. helladarionx
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    mas uma vez o audio nojento e asqueroso em ingles. ate quando vai ficar saindo jogo sem Dublagem em português! desinstalei e pedi reembolso. nao da pra aturar audio em ingles.
  24. Vodkia
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    Statfield, eventho can be fun to play sometimes, does nothing new, looks like a 15 year old game with new graphics. It feels outdated all they way, the mechanics are the same from every other game from bethesda, they have not changed anything in 15 years, the IA its the most basic, dialogues and storyline are vague and simple, nothing interesting. There is no reason to explore planetsStatfield, eventho can be fun to play sometimes, does nothing new, looks like a 15 year old game with new graphics. It feels outdated all they way, the mechanics are the same from every other game from bethesda, they have not changed anything in 15 years, the IA its the most basic, dialogues and storyline are vague and simple, nothing interesting. There is no reason to explore planets since they dont really exist in the game, they are procedural generated portions of map that repeat assests over and over, its irrelevant what planet you visit, you can explore all the assets in a single planet just generating new portions of map all over it. It does not feel like im travelling through galaxies and systems at all. Loading screens, eventho they are 2 seconds, are annoying and breaks any inmersion the game could generate into the player, the game is not a big galaxy or map to explore like previous games, but small portions of map you have to load through to get to your destination, way too many loading screens and teleports to everywhere, there is no journey to a new location where you encounter random things on the way and end up doing something else. In general an OK game, I wish bethesda would be more ambitious in their games, this is not the most ambitious game from Bethesda. Just the continuation of what they have already done for the last 15 years or more, but now with space aestethics.… Expand
  25. tyco_08
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Full of bugs, devs don't want to fix them. Boring exploration, almost no story in it. It's horrible,
  26. Ashura12
    Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Fps drops open world is empty soo much buggy tons of bugs crashing game soo mucu time granphic is terible weak
  27. martin67763
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Graphics is decent but some are not policed, Story is generic, AI is bad it's from other game.
    you go. played 20 hours + and feels like a waste of time. you do the same thing over and over and it's not rewarding. This game was so overhyped Fallout 4 is way better than this game.
  28. Skorskis
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Bad optimisation , stuped quest, ugly npc, empty world. This is triple AAA 2023 T_T
  29. nosplashsl
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Starfield should be called Starfilm, it's more of a movie than a game. The player just watches most of the time, this is because 90% of Starfield is cutscenes.
    I like games with combat and difficulty and Starfield doesn't deliver on that. The game can be easily finished with just two buttons.
    So unfortunately it's a boring and soulless game, the maps are empty and the world is dead, in    Starfield should be called Starfilm, it's more of a movie than a game. The player just watches most of the time, this is because 90% of Starfield is cutscenes.
    I like games with combat and difficulty and Starfield doesn't deliver on that. The game can be easily finished with just two buttons.
    So unfortunately it's a boring and soulless game, the maps are empty and the world is dead, in fact it's not open world and you see loading screens all the time if you want to move from one location to another.    … Expand
  30. idobach
    Sep 8, 2023
    5
    thank god i got this game as part of game pass , id be pissed i actually paid for this game. here's
    why:
    1) loading screens.
    2) space exploration ? nope. more loading screens.
    3) horrible UI.
    4) horrible AI.

    not what expect after so many years in development from Bethesda.
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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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