I have 500+ hours in the game and I still love it.
Sure I have changed a few things with mods, disabled the boring temple “puzzles” for example, but besides there is not much I could criticise with the game.
Lots of alike man made structures on the planets? Well, sure because most of them are old military stations created fast and efficient, all build with the same blueprints out of the military handbooks.
The realism of empty space and the space travel mechanic is something I really like, because that is how space is and functions. Space is huge, empty and utterly boring and it is up to everyone to find and/or create a meaning for themselves out there.
Starfield for me is a huge sandbox I can express myself in and have fun.
For me Starfield is one of the best games this year.
Sure BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077 both have the better and tighter overall storytelling, sure but I invested way more time into Starfield then into both of those games combined, because Starfield is scratching a very specific itch for me.
Space is huge, empty and utterly boring and it is up to everyone to find and/or create a meaning for themselves out there.
If I have to make the game in my head, I don’t want to pay that much money. In Skyrim, you also make your own fun… after the third playthrough, not in the first. It is my fault for buying a game at release and not waiting.
For me, there was something so fundamentally missing from this game that I just couldn’t be bothered to fill in the blanks myself, because those blanks were huge. I’ve tried to remember the name of a single NPC and I can’t. I had no emotional response to the world, the story, the NPCs. There were tiny bits that I liked, but they were smashed into the ground by loading screens and hurt because you could for a brief moment get a glimpse of what the game could have been.
I am still glad that there are people who genuinely love the game and have fun with it, but it is the only game I regretted buying in 2023. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077 on release, despite the shitshow it was.
I have 500+ hours in the game and I still love it. Sure I have changed a few things with mods, disabled the boring temple “puzzles” for example, but besides there is not much I could criticise with the game.
Lots of alike man made structures on the planets? Well, sure because most of them are old military stations created fast and efficient, all build with the same blueprints out of the military handbooks.
The realism of empty space and the space travel mechanic is something I really like, because that is how space is and functions. Space is huge, empty and utterly boring and it is up to everyone to find and/or create a meaning for themselves out there.
Starfield for me is a huge sandbox I can express myself in and have fun. For me Starfield is one of the best games this year.
Sure BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077 both have the better and tighter overall storytelling, sure but I invested way more time into Starfield then into both of those games combined, because Starfield is scratching a very specific itch for me.
If I have to make the game in my head, I don’t want to pay that much money. In Skyrim, you also make your own fun… after the third playthrough, not in the first. It is my fault for buying a game at release and not waiting.
For me, there was something so fundamentally missing from this game that I just couldn’t be bothered to fill in the blanks myself, because those blanks were huge. I’ve tried to remember the name of a single NPC and I can’t. I had no emotional response to the world, the story, the NPCs. There were tiny bits that I liked, but they were smashed into the ground by loading screens and hurt because you could for a brief moment get a glimpse of what the game could have been.
I am still glad that there are people who genuinely love the game and have fun with it, but it is the only game I regretted buying in 2023. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077 on release, despite the shitshow it was.
I can see that this game is not for everyone, or even for the majority of people.
Is it a perfect game? Far away from that.
But at the same time the game is not the shit show many people, and the steam reviews, make it seem to be.
I would say it is a solid game, a mostly positive with the potential for more.
I can see that this game is not for everyone, or even for the majority of people.
Is it a perfect game? Far away from that.
But at the same time the game is not the shit show many people, and the steam reviews, make it seem to be.
I would say it is a solid game, a mostly positive with the potential for more.