I played it for several hours when it first came out. It’s ok. The little bit of story I saw was engaging. I’m interested in the world - more so than Elder Scrolls. The gameplay is what I would expect from a Bethesda RPG. But it’s definitely lacking polish.
The thing is there are other games out there worth playing so there’s no reason to jump into unfinished Starfield right now. BG3 is sucking up a lot of gamers’ time. I’m still working on P5R that’s been in my backlog for awhile. The Cyberpunk expansion came out and that’s solid. There’s a bunch of stuff out there to play.
I will eventually play Starfield because what I saw has potential, but I’m going to do it after it’s had some improvements. I don’t think there’s too much reason for concern. This is about par for the course with Bethesda. It’s not like they were ever knocking it out of the park with great releases on day one. There are always elements of their games that draw you in, but it’s always been a little bit of a mixed bag. Considering the staying power of their previous games, I think this one will eventually get as good as the others in time.
I doubt it, the main issue with Starfield is that everything is hidden behind a bunch of UI and you can’t get further than ten feet without another loading screen.
It’s a space game where the spaceship doesn’t matter, since you can only fly it in small skyboxes and it essentially gets used as a fast travel hub. They took all the most interesting aspects of Elite or SC and removed the parts that made it fun. Yeah I can land on a planet, but it was just a loading screen. Now I can explore, but only for a bit before I have to walk back to my ship. No ground vehicles or anything to speak of.
They shouldn’t have even bothered, because they couldn’t actually commit to it.
I played it for several hours when it first came out. It’s ok. The little bit of story I saw was engaging. I’m interested in the world - more so than Elder Scrolls. The gameplay is what I would expect from a Bethesda RPG. But it’s definitely lacking polish.
The thing is there are other games out there worth playing so there’s no reason to jump into unfinished Starfield right now. BG3 is sucking up a lot of gamers’ time. I’m still working on P5R that’s been in my backlog for awhile. The Cyberpunk expansion came out and that’s solid. There’s a bunch of stuff out there to play.
I will eventually play Starfield because what I saw has potential, but I’m going to do it after it’s had some improvements. I don’t think there’s too much reason for concern. This is about par for the course with Bethesda. It’s not like they were ever knocking it out of the park with great releases on day one. There are always elements of their games that draw you in, but it’s always been a little bit of a mixed bag. Considering the staying power of their previous games, I think this one will eventually get as good as the others in time.
I doubt it, the main issue with Starfield is that everything is hidden behind a bunch of UI and you can’t get further than ten feet without another loading screen.
It’s a space game where the spaceship doesn’t matter, since you can only fly it in small skyboxes and it essentially gets used as a fast travel hub. They took all the most interesting aspects of Elite or SC and removed the parts that made it fun. Yeah I can land on a planet, but it was just a loading screen. Now I can explore, but only for a bit before I have to walk back to my ship. No ground vehicles or anything to speak of.
They shouldn’t have even bothered, because they couldn’t actually commit to it.