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  1. Sep 8, 2023
    5
    Thankful for Gamepass. Was excited at first. But the game is boring. Dialogue bland. Graphics are definitely not next gen what so ever.
  2. Sep 8, 2023
    5
    Si buscas un Fallout 4 con menos mundo abierto este juego puede que te guste , pero no esperes exploración espacial o grandes innovaciones es un juego normalito entretenido a ratos pero ni mucho menos un New Vegas .
  3. Sep 8, 2023
    5
    No tiene nada de especial.. salir al espacio no tiene sentido y te pasas de viaje rápido todo el juego... Historia entretenida, buenas misiones secundarias pero no se justifican los 25 años de desarrollo, ni el dinero que cuesta. Lo he disfrutado, pero esperaba más! En pocas palabras starfield no ofrece nada nuevo, y su sistema de exploración es poco inmersivo. Carece de incentivos paraNo tiene nada de especial.. salir al espacio no tiene sentido y te pasas de viaje rápido todo el juego... Historia entretenida, buenas misiones secundarias pero no se justifican los 25 años de desarrollo, ni el dinero que cuesta. Lo he disfrutado, pero esperaba más! En pocas palabras starfield no ofrece nada nuevo, y su sistema de exploración es poco inmersivo. Carece de incentivos para ver nuevos planetas ya que no tiene vuelo en órbita (cada acción tiene una cinemática que no se puede quitar y una pantalla de carga) y los mundos son pequeños escenarios de no más de 10km. Separados entre sí, (algo muy triste y que demuestra que bethesda no invierte lo suficiente en cosas importantes en sus proyectos) el espacio está completamente vacío, las imágenes al volar con tu nave no son espectaculares como en elite o starcityzen. Las estructuras en los mundos son repetitivas... Juegos como no man's Sky llevan la exploración de una forma más agradable para el usuario; interfaz incómoda y desagradable...
    En pocas palabras teniendo en cuenta que Microsoft compro bethesda pensaba que se aprovecharían de ello colocando el sistema de nubes volumétricas de flight simulator como nebulosas en el espacio. O dentro de las admosferas (por ejemplo), pero para mi sorpresa el juego es simplemente un single player con una historia buena pero lineal (es de esos juegos que los terminas lo disfrutas pero se te hacen largos aunque duren 20 hs. Y lo desinstalas para olvidarte de el). El motor gráfico carece de tecnología y aún así siguen apostando a eso...
    Resumen, vale un mes de Xbox pass !SI!. Vale pagar 70$ !NO!...
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  4. Sep 8, 2023
    5
    A game with a great potencial, but with a lot of flaws.. they didn't delivered what was promised, but still a good game. i will say in general a mediocre game.
  5. Sep 8, 2023
    5
    The game is a classic buggy mess, but just because we always get these kind of releases from Bethesda, doesn't mean we must tolerate it. This has to end, and developers have to learn to release a fully functional game upon release, not selling an unfinished unpolished game, and fix the things on the future.

    Pros: Gameplay is fun when immersion is kept, it has the same feeling as any
    The game is a classic buggy mess, but just because we always get these kind of releases from Bethesda, doesn't mean we must tolerate it. This has to end, and developers have to learn to release a fully functional game upon release, not selling an unfinished unpolished game, and fix the things on the future.

    Pros:
    Gameplay is fun when immersion is kept, it has the same feeling as any other Fallout wit the added perk of space exploration, running and gunning while jumping in with the jetpack is glorious.

    And the missions are good to keep you engaged for days, specially with the amazing soundtrack

    Cons:

    Ugly and lazily created NPCs.

    Enemy AI is stupid, i had to change the difficulty to Hard so i could get a challenge by wasting more ammo.

    Bugs Galore, people says that is normal for a Bethesda game, NO! IT SHOULDNT BE NORMAL!

    So much Woke that Hurts, there is a difference between wanting inclusion, and wanting to "replace" a culture. There is no way that would exist many women on position of power in a lawless universe as this. There want on the past earth, it wont in the future space, specially when you read the history about wars, treachery, etc.

    Most of the gameplay is just loading an screen to another, even worse than Outriders, space lost it's meaning because you can quick jump from a planet to another.

    TLDR:
    Gamers should protest and let their voice be heard, if we pay our money, we want a fully working game!
    And the stupid Woke Agenda should disappear from game, inclusion loses it's right when you want to exclude what other people's likes.
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  6. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I will update if the game ever gets good I have enjoyed absolutely nothing so far I’m only a very slow 11 hours in. Controls super clunky, shooting very inconsistent, planets are a joke not real planets literally only a few things to do, I hate the scanning you have to be super close to scan and there’s almost nothing to scan, not like No Man’s Sky where you can scan EVERYTHING. Very very boring I’m trying to push through cause people say it gets better but this is a snooze fest so far I’m at Mars constellation mission. I’m trying to enjoy it but it’s definitely super weird and other games do everything better just haven’t had any fun yet. Expand
  7. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    game breaking buigs that you cannot solve by reloading - on multiple quests - shame on you!
  8. Sep 9, 2023
    1
    The PC performance is abysmal and the graphics of this game doesn't justify its poor performance at all.
  9. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    Hello fellow gamers. As an enormous fan of Elder Scrolls and Fallout, I was excited to see what was in store in this game. I had zero expectations after the Fallout 76 launch experience (which we don't have to talk about), and was willing to give it a chance. I heard all the promises made to us, and what the game was supposed to be, so I had an idea of what to expect.

    After experiencing
    Hello fellow gamers. As an enormous fan of Elder Scrolls and Fallout, I was excited to see what was in store in this game. I had zero expectations after the Fallout 76 launch experience (which we don't have to talk about), and was willing to give it a chance. I heard all the promises made to us, and what the game was supposed to be, so I had an idea of what to expect.

    After experiencing the game for about 8 hours, I am just confused lmao. Why did they spend so much time on this? This could have come out during the same era as Fallout 4 and you wouldn't even know.

    There's too many great games to waste time on this barely good game. Is it a Bethesda game? Well yes, it is. I guess we got what we should have all been expecting.
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  10. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    Maybe I was expecting too much of this next-gen exclusive but nothing about it feels next-gen at all. 30 FPS with tons of loading screens It's basically fallout with a space background. Something about empty procedurally generated worlds just doesn't excite me and the lack of vehicles sucks. The space exploration is mostly just combat It's all fast travel and cutscenes.
  11. Sep 10, 2023
    4
    NO tiene doblaje latinoamericano; la traducción tiene palabras extrañas como "Ostras", "Mola", "Pero vamos", "vosotros", etc.

    En pleno año 2023 se le da preferencia sólo al público ibérico (y al gringo), viniendo de Xbox que acostumbra localizar sus juegos.
  12. Sep 8, 2023
    2
    well Bethesda over-promised and delivered a last-gen game here. there's some Bethesda rpg charm here in the storytelling and roleplaying. but at its core, its just a first-person shooter built on a very dated engine from 2011. completely lacks the immersion found in open worlds like Skyrim, Fallout, Horizon, Ghost of Tsushima or even GTA. this is a bunch of segmented areas, disjointed bywell Bethesda over-promised and delivered a last-gen game here. there's some Bethesda rpg charm here in the storytelling and roleplaying. but at its core, its just a first-person shooter built on a very dated engine from 2011. completely lacks the immersion found in open worlds like Skyrim, Fallout, Horizon, Ghost of Tsushima or even GTA. this is a bunch of segmented areas, disjointed by loading screens, littered with fps combat & Bethesda's signature rpg mechanics. which does lead to funny moments as always, but ultimately feels dated & stale now. core gameplay loop is: talk to npc, fast travel, 1st-person combat, fast travel, talk to npc. repeat. its just lacking soul.

    Larian's games like Divinity & Baldurs Gate have given us a fresh look at the brilliance of interconnected story threads & rpg mechanics. games like Horizon: FW showed us how phenomenal these worlds can be without loading (draw distance, fidelity, detail, physics). No Mans Sky showed us how space traversal can be immersive & realistic by flying to a planet, entering its atmosphere, landing & climbing out of your ship. what does Starfield show us? what screams "next-gen" about starfield? xbox cant even get it to run faster than 30fps on their series x. sorry, no performance mode in 2023 is a massive fail.

    Bethesda needs to move on & join current gen. we can only hope they leave their creation engine in the dustbin where it belongs for ES6. because this stuff isnt impressing anyone anymore.
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  13. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    I bought „the most powerful console in the world” just to be disappointed with so much broken promises drom Todd and Phil… This is space fallout 4 in 30 fps and nothing more
  14. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo sem alma, gráficos claramente inacabados, história principal rasa, e promessas feitas e de longe não foram cumpridas, sem falar nos claros exemplos de modos e interfaces feitos pelas coxas, deixando claro que a única coisa levada a sério neste game foi o marketing, de resto ele não existe. Expand
  15. Sep 11, 2023
    1
    The game is booooooooring! Clearly made by a bunch of amateurs. This is even more embarrassing than Fallout 76 fail. At least that game tried to be fun and for the most part I enjoyed it.
    The level of ignorance from Tod about game performance is insane. Suggesting that I need to change my PC (12900k/3080/32gb) because on MEDIUM settings the game runs 50 FPS. Bethesda is officially dead
    The game is booooooooring! Clearly made by a bunch of amateurs. This is even more embarrassing than Fallout 76 fail. At least that game tried to be fun and for the most part I enjoyed it.
    The level of ignorance from Tod about game performance is insane. Suggesting that I need to change my PC (12900k/3080/32gb) because on MEDIUM settings the game runs 50 FPS. Bethesda is officially dead for me.

    Complete waste of time and expectations(((
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  16. Sep 10, 2023
    1
    This game is one buggy mess with 360 graphics , what's happening with the copying and pasting level builds in some planets, a 1 is for the devs for creating this... would really be stupid to rate higher with last gen graphics and an indie storyline..
  17. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    Aside from the game constantly crashing, the exploration (the biggest part of a space travel game) has very little to it and gets extremely boring hours later.
  18. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Sei lá o xbox sempre entrega jogos ultrapassado gráficos de 2010 jogo bugado, microsoft para de gastar dinheiro com marketing pra vende mentiras e começa investir nos Studio, o jogo mais feio e horrível que eu joguei nessa geração !!

    Sem alma / sem profundidade para os companheiros, bem como seu personagem. Você não sente apego a nenhum deles. Você faz a mesma coisa várias vezes e
    Sei lá o xbox sempre entrega jogos ultrapassado gráficos de 2010 jogo bugado, microsoft para de gastar dinheiro com marketing pra vende mentiras e começa investir nos Studio, o jogo mais feio e horrível que eu joguei nessa geração !!

    Sem alma / sem profundidade para os companheiros, bem como seu personagem. Você não sente apego a nenhum deles.

    Você faz a mesma coisa várias vezes e não é gratificante. Este jogo foi tão exagerado Fallout 4 é muito melhor do que este jogo.
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  19. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    A Buggy mess with no heart and soul. They should have done 10 planets with love instead we Got 1000 with nothing. Space travel a mess too because its a New gen loading Simulator
  20. Sep 8, 2023
    0
    Disappointing game. Totally bad NPCs, game without spirit, empty planets, excessive loads. Rating 0.
  21. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Se suponía que seria un juego next gen.
    Pero aún le falta muchísimo, tantos años de desarrollo para un mundo vacío?
    Es preferible un mundo pequeño pero cargadito de diferentes cosas, los npc no reaccionan como en otros juegos.
    Que falta de creatividad, se me hace que en cualquier juego de hace mas de 10 años los npc al menos reaccionan por mas bugs que tengan.
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  22. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    Ich weiß nicht was einige Spieler haben, klar es ist ein exklusiv Titel bei Microsoft aber die Entwickler sagten bekanntlich auch das sie das Spiel nur erstmal auf Microsoft laufen lassen wollen da sie das Spiel noch weiter verbessern wollen, also ist es nicht ausgeschlossen das es noch zur playstation kommt. (Abgesehen davon wenn man sich da beschweren will sollte man erstmal auf dieIch weiß nicht was einige Spieler haben, klar es ist ein exklusiv Titel bei Microsoft aber die Entwickler sagten bekanntlich auch das sie das Spiel nur erstmal auf Microsoft laufen lassen wollen da sie das Spiel noch weiter verbessern wollen, also ist es nicht ausgeschlossen das es noch zur playstation kommt. (Abgesehen davon wenn man sich da beschweren will sollte man erstmal auf die ganzen Titel schauen die sony exclusiv hat...)

    Jetzt aber zum Spiel, klar die Story ist hier und da noch überarbeitungsfähig, allerdings gab es auch genug Spiele die nicht einmal dieses Level beim Release erreichen.

    Die Flugsteuerung ist gewöhnungsbedürftig, ich fühle mich ein wenig sehr an die Hand genommen vom Entwickler da ich nicht selbst landen oder starten kann, ich wünschte mir an der Stelle sie hätten sich mit den Entwicklern von elite dangerous zusammen gesetzt.

    An sich macht das Spiel trotz allem echt Spaß und das schiffs Design der normal kaufbaren Schiffe ist mega gelungen allerdings ist durch die eingeschränkte flugerfahrung das alleinige Design relativ egal.

    Story an sich ist cool gemacht, wenn die Kommunikation mehr Emotionen zeigen würden würde alles auch besser rüber kommen und es würde einen mehr mitreißen.

    Aber zu guter letzt würde ich sagen trotz allem ein Spiel was es wert ist gespielt zu werden und wenn noch weitere Elemente hinzugefügt werden könnte ich wie bei skyrim mit den richtigen mods tausende von Stunden spielen
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  23. Sep 9, 2023
    3
    Falls far short of titles such as FO3/4, Oblivion and Skyrim… in fact it might be in a different Universe.

    To cut a long story short the landscapes and sometimes the music is pretty great, but that’s where the compliments end. The story is flat and wooden. Out of the gates I fail to find any kind of immersion, the voice acting is flat and while the story arc is a fantastic concept it
    Falls far short of titles such as FO3/4, Oblivion and Skyrim… in fact it might be in a different Universe.

    To cut a long story short the landscapes and sometimes the music is pretty great, but that’s where the compliments end.

    The story is flat and wooden. Out of the gates I fail to find any kind of immersion, the voice acting is flat and while the story arc is a fantastic concept it just doesn’t deliver. It tries to do a lot; none of which very well.

    With the exception of my interactions with the Crimson fleet missions were little more than fetch this for loosely related purposes and get that because ‘reasons’. Nothing really ties together very well. Loot is horrendous, nothing seems to be that unique or related to a mission set, items are quite similar; none descript, grey, common.

    Each planet or area feels empty and certain devoid of purpose. You land basically on the same planet each time where the surface, minerals and the animals are slightly different with a view habs containing random gear. It also misses some of the slightly more goofy sides of previous titles; you don’t build a giant robot, or meet a robotic space captain gone rogue or becomes besties with the undead.

    This is a £30 title at best, if you can play it free on game pass do it; except for Baldur’s Gate 3 (which is exceptional) there’s little else going on, but I’d think twice about paying £50-60 for it. Even the free version will leave you disappointed. I’ll leave on a positive note and that is the game does a great job with the way they introduce NG+, sadly I doubt I’ll be taking advantage of it.
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  24. Sep 9, 2023
    10
    Excelente juego, la verdad me ha gustado mucho la trama espacial, lastima que no pueda aterrizar la nave de manera manual, pero del resto está muy bueno.
  25. Sep 9, 2023
    4
    As an avid Bethesda fan, I was very excited for a Bethesda RPG in space. Unfortunately, this game commits one of the greatest sins any form of entertainment can make, its extremely boring.

    The gun-play is improved from the fallout series but the classic Bethesda exploration and even quest design is just flat out not here. Many main quests early on are just simple fetch quests to generic
    As an avid Bethesda fan, I was very excited for a Bethesda RPG in space. Unfortunately, this game commits one of the greatest sins any form of entertainment can make, its extremely boring.

    The gun-play is improved from the fallout series but the classic Bethesda exploration and even quest design is just flat out not here. Many main quests early on are just simple fetch quests to generic dungeons that are reused as generic points of interest. My first point of interest I explored outside of quests was re-skinned on a different planet as a main quest dungeon minutes later. How is that acceptable? The faction quests are mostly fun and interesting but the lack of RPG choices in many scenarios is noticeable. Exploring planets is tedious and they feel largely uninspired. The 1,000 planet "selling point" is a huge detriment to the Bethesda formula many of us love due to the inherent downsides of procedural generation. Rarely in this game will you run across a cool new story or dungeon outside of the main quest hubs.

    The perk system is lazy as the "challenges" are not challenges. They are simply just utilizing the skills you just purchased 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 times.

    There are pieces here for a really great game but much of the game, especially early, is a slog and that saddens me given how much time seems to be have been put into this game from the Bethesda team.
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  26. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    This game was huge let down for me because it was so hyped, and the way they described this game. Its the basic Bethesda formula nothing more nothing less. Main story is dry and poorly written. Combat is okay, exploration is pretty bad. People are also saying you need play the game for 12 hours for it to get good what a joke. And the fact that the game runs 30 fps on console is laughable.This game was huge let down for me because it was so hyped, and the way they described this game. Its the basic Bethesda formula nothing more nothing less. Main story is dry and poorly written. Combat is okay, exploration is pretty bad. People are also saying you need play the game for 12 hours for it to get good what a joke. And the fact that the game runs 30 fps on console is laughable. Huge let down for me i expected them to evolve and change the basic Bethesda formula. Expand
  27. Sep 9, 2023
    2
    My PC is high level maybe because of that I did not experience any technical problems with the game. I didn't have any problems with optimization.
    I guess Bethesda relies on modders to make the game look better.
    However, I think Bethesda is lying to us/players. The game is not Next-Gen. The graphics are not good, and the game physics are very bad. When we jump into the water, it's as if
    My PC is high level maybe because of that I did not experience any technical problems with the game. I didn't have any problems with optimization.
    I guess Bethesda relies on modders to make the game look better.
    However, I think Bethesda is lying to us/players. The game is not Next-Gen. The graphics are not good, and the game physics are very bad. When we jump into the water, it's as if the character hit the concrete, and when we shoot at the environment, there is neither bullet marks nor a physical reaction.
    The artificial intelligence is very bad, no one in the game reacts to anything, they just stare. Where is Next-Gen?
    Rockstar Games games released years ago are more Next-Gen than Starfield.
    Starfield looks like nothing but a soulless and dead work.
    This is not a game to be played as it is, and I think we players, instead of Bethesda, will trust the modders and wait for the game to be better.
    Well done, Bethesda.
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  28. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    Jogo péssimo. Faltou capricho no desenvolvimento do jogo, muitos loadings, muito tempo perdido andando a pé pelos planetas, poderia ter algo parecido como a "ND1 nomand (mass effect)" para poder explorar melhor os planetas e diminuindo o tempo. Mapa totalmente confuso, não mostrando os detalhes do planeta, npcs sem expressão facial. Fora que o jogo não roda a 60fps no Xbox series X. Enfim,Jogo péssimo. Faltou capricho no desenvolvimento do jogo, muitos loadings, muito tempo perdido andando a pé pelos planetas, poderia ter algo parecido como a "ND1 nomand (mass effect)" para poder explorar melhor os planetas e diminuindo o tempo. Mapa totalmente confuso, não mostrando os detalhes do planeta, npcs sem expressão facial. Fora que o jogo não roda a 60fps no Xbox series X. Enfim, jogo totalmente decepcionante. Expand
  29. Sep 11, 2023
    0
    The game is boring, woke, and repeatitive. The game is boring, woke, and repeatitive. The game is boring, woke, and repeatitive. The game is boring, woke, and repeatitive. The game is boring, woke, and repeatitive.
  30. Sep 11, 2023
    6
    It was 2006 when I first turned on Oblivion, hadn't had an Xbox long and I remember venturing out of the sewer to be greeted with a feeling of being truly overwhelmed. What a game that was for the time.

    I am yet to experience this with Starfield - premise is good, flying around the infinite universe, righting wrongs or maybe causing a few wrongs yourself. Yet I don't feel free. I
    It was 2006 when I first turned on Oblivion, hadn't had an Xbox long and I remember venturing out of the sewer to be greeted with a feeling of being truly overwhelmed. What a game that was for the time.

    I am yet to experience this with Starfield - premise is good, flying around the infinite universe, righting wrongs or maybe causing a few wrongs yourself. Yet I don't feel free. I feel bound by the menu's and repetitive cut scenes.

    The storyline is a little underwhelming, characters are very wooden and the locations feel very small and very repetitive.

    You essentially travel around violently murdering very similar enemies in settings that look very similar from one another, looting very similar items that encumber you but instead of having to sell your inventory to keep yourself afloat financially you get paid ridiculously high amounts for very simple missions so now I don't really loot anyone except high ranking mission bosses for the odd rare weapon or item.

    The characters you interact with have no personality, this game is a 17+ but you'd think you were sitting through a Sunday morning church service - I have not heard one profanity or met any real characters with any menace or intimidation.

    The levelling up system seems to be a complete waste of time, as soon as I found a decent gun I was able to destroy enemies far higher in level than me, so now there is no feeling of vulnerability.

    You can choose to have a high ability of persuasion to help with conversations but honestly you are better off with going down the straight up violence route to get to your goals so it feels completely useless.

    Jumping into a new system or planet I am yet to have any real random events, I haven't been part of any real space battles or anything on a grand scale that makes me think wow WTF is going on? This game just gives the impression of Fallout 4 in space and planets may as well be jpegs in the distance. Every dock, landing, jump etc is all cutscenes and you can fast travel everywhere which frustratingly is a lot easier once you realise you can press the A button on your destination to access the travel screen.

    Combat is acceptable except the AI seems very dated, some enemies just randomly get up and flee, some enemies literally bring a knife to a gun fight and charge headlong into a hail of bullets. I have not been overly challenged with the gunplay and have found all encounters to be very similar.

    I am only 10 hours or so into the game, I will happily write a review again when I have put some serious time into this game, it is keeping me going but right off the bat - this isn't Bethesda's best game. A lot of reviewers have given the developer credit for trying to make something of such a grand scale but ultimately through repetition alone it will have a shelf life.

    its the constant jumping from load screens that underwhelm me along with it being stuck on 30fps which I was quite surprised to learn.

    A couple of bugs so far was stuck in a character conversation but the game continued and a stuck loading screen both resulting in reloads but the game saves often so this doesn't result in lost time.

    Space combat is quite good, I found myself quite enjoying it once I got to grips with the controls and is a good change from the monotony of the gunfights.

    Ultimately this game has a lot going on but doesn't do any of it exceedingly well leaving you feeling a little disappointed.

    That being said RPG's that the people want cannot be made as we do not have the technology yet to create what Starfield wants to be.

    I was hoping for a game that mixes Halo, Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky, Otherworld's and Oblivion but sadly we have an ok game that is splitting opinions, that is entirely fair.
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 81 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 81
  2. Negative: 1 out of 81
  1. 70
    It's a big game, but starts way too slowly, and may never get interesting.
  2. Oct 16, 2023
    90
    It is true that you'll find a good number of barren wastelands with little to do other than extracting some resources and take off to more interesting places, but again it really depends on how you want to play. There's so much to do, so many systems and abilities to explore, missions to complete, spaceships to loot, and species to catalogue, that I honestly don't think there's anybody who thinks that exploring every square meter of this universe is the better way to enjoy Starfield.
  3. Oct 15, 2023
    80
    While it has weak spots and doesn’t push many boundaries, Starfield is still an excellent RPG experience. Bethesda has once again mastered the things it built its reputation on – world building, quest design, and deep customization. However, it’s found new things to excel at too, with exciting combat and a novel implementation of New Game Plus.