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. guracco
    Sep 12, 2023
    1
    I'm a fan of TES 4, 5, and Fallout 3, 4, and this is the first time I got stuck in the middle of a main quest with the glitch and was completely unplayable.

    I cannot believe they are releasing the game like this. I want to write a lot of complaints about this, but I'm too sad right now, so I'll just leave this comment. I give up playing Starfield. bye Bethesda Softworks, from your    I'm a fan of TES 4, 5, and Fallout 3, 4, and this is the first time I got stuck in the middle of a main quest with the glitch and was completely unplayable.

    I cannot believe they are releasing the game like this.

    I want to write a lot of complaints about this, but I'm too sad right now, so I'll just leave this comment. I give up playing Starfield. bye Bethesda Softworks, from your former fan from jpn    … Expand
  2. psychobudgie
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    Incredibly disappointing by Bethesda's standards. The space game where travelling in space is optional. You can quite literally fast travel between planets, and by planets I mean a small map that happens to be on a planet. This is not No Mans Sky so forget about exploration for anything other than mineral gathering. The missions are as generic as they come and after around 8 hours in it isIncredibly disappointing by Bethesda's standards. The space game where travelling in space is optional. You can quite literally fast travel between planets, and by planets I mean a small map that happens to be on a planet. This is not No Mans Sky so forget about exploration for anything other than mineral gathering. The missions are as generic as they come and after around 8 hours in it is incredibly boring. The combat is generic and underwhelming, graphically it's not exactly ground breaking but will batter your hardware like it is and it has its fair share of game breaking bugs and crashing to the desktop so you need to save often. I see many giving this 10/10 which is ridiculous given the issues it has. Amazed how Bethesda seems to get a pass for putting out poorly optimised, unfinished and bug ridden games when every other publisher, rightly, gets dragged over the coals for it. Simply not good enough considering the time it spent in development. It's an OK game but the negatives far outweigh any positives.… Expand
  3. alejandro24
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    uno de los mejores juegos que ha sacado bethesda,está entre los mejores con la saga fallout
  4. TheDesigner4343
    Sep 12, 2023
    9
    10 hours in the game and so far I experienced only 1 bug, restarted the game and the bugs goes away. Only problem is there is no local map it is so hard to navigate through large cities especially New Atlantis.
  5. Mjh101
    Sep 12, 2023
    4
    I've tried everything to enjoy this game, based on lots of YouTube videos from content creators telling me, this game is great. It's not a great game and its not even a good game. Its average at best.
  6. SamAxe00
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    Although fun, I expected more. Buggy & feels repetitive. The constant fast travel & load screens cause a loss of immersion and prevents the sense of exploration found in previous BGW titles. Lots to do but feels like it has limited depth to the open world exploration. Significant potential with mods, but it feels like Bethesda did the bare minimum and is planning on letting the moddingAlthough fun, I expected more. Buggy & feels repetitive. The constant fast travel & load screens cause a loss of immersion and prevents the sense of exploration found in previous BGW titles. Lots to do but feels like it has limited depth to the open world exploration. Significant potential with mods, but it feels like Bethesda did the bare minimum and is planning on letting the modding community finish it for them.… Expand
  7. Harpokhrat
    Sep 12, 2023
    3
    It is not 2011 anymore.
    The game mechanics, the AI, the story and everything in the game is outdated.
  8. Franklinpf
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    Very good game . I'm playing it for many hrs from now and having a lot of fun
  9. Sylvest3r
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    This has been disappointing. I knew i should have saved my spending on something else
  10. diocancaro
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    it has some decent roleplaying systems like quests, crafting and ships but the way you use them in the main gameplay loop is sooo aszzzz i can't give this a 6 even. the writing is asszzz, the combat is assszzzzz oblivion clears this all day, even skyrim is better.
  11. shmitzles
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    I've put 18 hours into Starfield and I think I've played enough to come to my conclusion. Sadly, for me Starfield is the worst Bethesda RPG I've played. The menu system and traveling really grinds my gears and the writing, face animation, and camera work really pull me out of the story. I constantly found my self zoning out and skipping dialogue.

    At times the game is gorgeous and at other    I've put 18 hours into Starfield and I think I've played enough to come to my conclusion. Sadly, for me Starfield is the worst Bethesda RPG I've played. The menu system and traveling really grinds my gears and the writing, face animation, and camera work really pull me out of the story. I constantly found my self zoning out and skipping dialogue.

    At times the game is gorgeous and at other times it looks very outdated. NPCs stare into your soul for no reason and over encumbrance is yet again and issue.

    I'm willing to give it a 6 because the gun play is okay and the ship building is kind of fun. Overall I was very excited to play Starfield but in the end I mostly felt disappointed and irritated by my 18 hour experience.    … Expand
  12. JudasJack
    Sep 12, 2023
    2
    Low tier effort from BSG. Replacing handcrafted world with procedurally generated generic zones. More of an empty theme park than a sand box. Combat consists of guns and a clone of the Shouts system vs guys with guns and the occasional big bug. Real spaceflight is non-existent, just loading screens, ship combat that is worse than arcade games from the 1990s. No exploration of any value inLow tier effort from BSG. Replacing handcrafted world with procedurally generated generic zones. More of an empty theme park than a sand box. Combat consists of guns and a clone of the Shouts system vs guys with guns and the occasional big bug. Real spaceflight is non-existent, just loading screens, ship combat that is worse than arcade games from the 1990s. No exploration of any value in either the generic city zones, or the "planets" which are just zones with mostly procedurally generated POIs separated by vast stretches of featureless rock. Weak overall entry for BSG.… Expand
  13. Kenarwars
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    Positives: I can't find anything positive unfortunately
    Negatives: - poor performance on highend PC
    - Graphics are ancient, only a little bit improved - NPC are without depth, no emotions - Story is written like a child. e.g. You start as a miner and find an artifact and just get a spaceship from a stranger. - 1000 planets but 99% almost the same and pointless - Cities seem tiny,    Positives: I can't find anything positive unfortunately
    Negatives: - poor performance on highend PC
    - Graphics are ancient, only a little bit improved
    - NPC are without depth, no emotions
    - Story is written like a child. e.g. You start as a miner and find an artifact and just get a spaceship from a stranger.
    - 1000 planets but 99% almost the same and pointless
    - Cities seem tiny, it's 2023 there should be more than 10 houses per city.
    - Space in the game hardly exists, because you have to use only fast travel anyway. You can't even land yourself.
    - and so on

    For 20 years of development time of a company worth billions, which have as a goal to dominate the market, this is just an extremely bad joke. I can also in no way understand the 100 point ratings of some magazines. Since the game is already extremely bad. If Bethesda had rather put the money into the game than 90% into the PR, it could have been something.    … Expand
  14. gulgulglut
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    It's similar to fallout 4 but with no open world. The worst Bethesda game I ever seen.
  15. Alinazari
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    Awesome thanks to Microsoft and the Bethesda team for this great game. Thank you Phil Spencer and the Xbox team.
  16. Nottacritic
    Sep 12, 2023
    1
    I was so excited about this game. I have played a combined 1000 hours of Skyrim and Fallout 4. But wow. How does this game look older than Fallout 4? Why is the writing so painfully bad?

    It’s the biggest, opennest, emptiest game yet… from Bethesda, at least. For better ships and graphics, play No Man’s Sky. For better plot and setting, play Fallout 4. For creepy rubber faces with awful    I was so excited about this game. I have played a combined 1000 hours of Skyrim and Fallout 4. But wow. How does this game look older than Fallout 4? Why is the writing so painfully bad?

    It’s the biggest, opennest, emptiest game yet… from Bethesda, at least. For better ships and graphics, play No Man’s Sky. For better plot and setting, play Fallout 4. For creepy rubber faces with awful lighting, go ahead and play Starfield.

    The best part of this game is it launched on Game Pass where you can sign up, try Starfield, and still have time to get the full Game Pass refund.    … Expand
  17. kubus765
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    I just made an account here to rate it 0/10... Why? Well first of all I don't like game developers that straight up LIE. Secondly, the game is boring af, which is actually the main technical problem beside others. By others I mean that the engine is VERY outdated and not optimized for PC. Consoles too actually. I am really disappointed in Bethesda. I liked their games. I don't think I'llI just made an account here to rate it 0/10... Why? Well first of all I don't like game developers that straight up LIE. Secondly, the game is boring af, which is actually the main technical problem beside others. By others I mean that the engine is VERY outdated and not optimized for PC. Consoles too actually. I am really disappointed in Bethesda. I liked their games. I don't think I'll buy another game from them. I will refund my 100$. If Bethesda keeps doing this then they will lose all respect very soon. People who rate so high must be out of their minds...… Expand
  18. EnerJay
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    Epic, Bethesda game in space. More story driven than NMS, WIDER than BG3! Expansive open world to get lost in. The best RPG in space ever written so far
  19. Smithsmc
    Sep 12, 2023
    2
    Boring gameplay.
    Empty world.
    Bad AI, bad shooting, bad graphics, no optimization.

    Disaster and a joke.
  20. coltsr2
    Sep 12, 2023
    7
    Starfield has some great moments BUT... has some major and glaring issues that often spoil the game.. First off...How is this supposed to be a space based adventure with your own spaceship, when you cant even fly the spaceships properly? We are unable to fly on and off, or even over the surface of the planets? Hell even the far lower budget indie developers 'No mans Sky' at least lets youStarfield has some great moments BUT... has some major and glaring issues that often spoil the game.. First off...How is this supposed to be a space based adventure with your own spaceship, when you cant even fly the spaceships properly? We are unable to fly on and off, or even over the surface of the planets? Hell even the far lower budget indie developers 'No mans Sky' at least lets you land and take off from planets and fly around them! But Starfield's space exploration is a bit of a scam, a gimmick, a fake, a charade, a thin veneer, its pure snake oil sold to us by Todd Howard the snake oil salesman.
    Starfield has no real space exploration at all, just one base/mine/space station per planet, with fast travel cutscenes and loading scenes masquerading as space travel, the whole space exploration element is all a giant let-down!. instead we get the same irritating repetitive over and over cutscenes of the landings and take-offs..and that's it! Awful!
    Why even bother with the planets anyway if that's the best they could do with all the money they had and giant dev team? Its a joke, an insult to our intelligence and betrayal of what Todd Howard promised! They should of just kept it all on one planet, with different biomes and simply called it Planetfield! Whilst i enjoyed some of the planets in starfield, most are barren and continued nothing much to the game.

    And why so many Cutscenes? they are everywhere, Take off your ship = animated cutscene,...land your ship = animated cutscene, Fly to the nearest planet = animated cutscene, get out of your space ship chair = animated cutscene, get out of your spaceship = black screen cutscene, get back in your ship = black screen cutscene, get back into your chair = animated cutscene cutscene, Walk through a door black screen cutscene, Everything is cutscenes! I half expected a nice trip on the monorail/metro, looking out of the windows as I travelled between districts, but no...all i got was..you guessed it another fast travel black screen Cutscene! Compare that to the awesome real monorail in Star citizen!
    As for the planets, they may as well be non existent like ive said.., often just empty barren and nothing to do, with simplistic graphics, its a pointless waste of time even wanting to explore them!..there is nothing to explore! They are ultimately as fake as the games title. Fast travel to a planet you are presented with a few options, land on the designated area with the base, city, mine etc, or land on the planet somewhere miles away and be presented with zero options other than to mine pointless materials. So in effect each planet is just a staging post/backdrop for the missions. No exploration at all.
    Procedurally generated worlds can be boring and repetitive, even when done well. They need Procedurally generated bases, cities, missions etc. Now that would of been cool.
    No HDR options or even basic gamma or brightness options, so for me at least many of the interiors ended up looking very bright, foggy and often felt like I was in a smoke filled night club in most of the interior spaces! But thankfully the modding community was soon able to offer fixes for this on day one of official release! BUT Why should it be left up to the modders to sort these blaring issues out on day one of release?
    I've also added a custom ini to increase the field of view to 90, instead of the restrictive default of 70. As for the cities in the game, they are cartoon looking, low textured, like New Atlantis, which is a very basic, cartoon looking, small city with a scattering of useless NPC's walking or sitting around, and whats with the odd looking fake trees, and rubbish pools of fake looking water with cartoon water lily's in? As for all the cafe's, and shops, they are just empty facades with no real life in them.
    Missions are often ridiculous and boring.
    ive given it a 7..due to the effort put into some of the bases and ideas. It could of been a 10 if they kept to their promises. Its a real shame because you can see a lot of effort HAS gone into certain parts of the game.
    If Todd Howard was a used car salesman, he would walk you around an amazing Ferrari at his car showroom, waffle off all the great specs to get your interest level up, then quickly get you to sign the paper work for the expensive purchase, then when you are walked to the handover room, you would be given an old clapped out pickup truck with a Ferrari badge 'sticky taped' to the bonnet!    … Expand
  21. Franton
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
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  22. Plywoodface
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    This game is awesome!! Hours fly by in a instant so much to do and so many different missions, could play it over multiple times and have a different experience each time glad I bought a series s for this!
  23. Alfred_23
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    Masive game, with so much to do on it, 100% recommended for everyone. It may start a little slow, but after a few hours its a non stop playing game.
  24. LOSGAFES
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    Mucho hipe que a caído a plomo la sensación de explotación espacial es ninguna , nada de lo prometido
  25. Cognipop
    Sep 12, 2023
    3
    I fell for the marketing company and advertising spin dominating social media :(
  26. ZBeeB
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    A great and beautiful game, whether the main or side missions are all wonderful
    The best game of the year so far
  27. trevor1981
    Sep 12, 2023
    0
    All those negative reviews come from the users upset this is an Xbox exclusive, so just ignore them.
    I personally bought Xbox SX for Starfield alone and am very-very happy I did.
    This the best game so far I've played this year and having said that I've barely even scratched the surface.
    It's about time though that Xbox makes an analogy for a platinum trophy like PlayStation has
  28. TeezyWeezy
    Sep 12, 2023
    5
    The game is ok but not really something you would expect in 2023 from one of the biggest game developers. It's a good game but sadly not really a big enough improvement for what was promised and kinda expected.
  29. limminator
    Sep 12, 2023
    10
    This game is epic! I haven't felt this way about a game since skyrim or zelda botw. I don't care what the naysayser say; it's really good. While I can understand some of the criticism (loading screens, long walks of empty/bland exploration), I think that mostly comes from playing the game differently than I do, or they're just mad their lowend PC lags or maybe they just have a playstationThis game is epic! I haven't felt this way about a game since skyrim or zelda botw. I don't care what the naysayser say; it's really good. While I can understand some of the criticism (loading screens, long walks of empty/bland exploration), I think that mostly comes from playing the game differently than I do, or they're just mad their lowend PC lags or maybe they just have a playstation - who knows. FPS is fine, but drops a bit in cities. Give it time. It gets better as you go, but you need to talk to a lot of people to get quests.… Expand
  30. garayba
    Sep 12, 2023
    6
    What a disappointment it's really just a 6/10 i'm not just angry . look when you first start it you will be amazed by the graphics and the mystery but after sometime you'll realize that this game is so boring , it's just running around , talking to npcs , shooting enemies , repeat . i'm serious that's it , that's the most "exiting" part other stuff is below boring. planets are boring ,What a disappointment it's really just a 6/10 i'm not just angry . look when you first start it you will be amazed by the graphics and the mystery but after sometime you'll realize that this game is so boring , it's just running around , talking to npcs , shooting enemies , repeat . i'm serious that's it , that's the most "exiting" part other stuff is below boring. planets are boring , main quest is boring , they didn't even create animations for most of the things it's just a text like "hey you took that and activated that and an explosing happened" lol but no animations happens no effect nothing it's an empty game , don't believe the hype anymore.… 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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