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I'm kinda astounded that Bethesda still seem to be really bad at like, setting up the start of their game and story to let you make a wide variety of custom characters that actually makes sense logically?

Like yeah you can make a decrepit old man in this one and give him a history as a professor, but he's still just signed up as manual mining labor? Like that's just bad and lazy as fuck design. You should not have to put blinders on and selectively choose to ignore core parts of the beginning of the game in order to have a consistent roleplaying experience.

Gameplay: Good, but the AI is trash and needs modding tweaks.

Worldbuilding: Lib trash.

Writing: Trash.

Politics: Trash.

It is probably the best base game for modding they've ever made though and I'm excited for when the Creation Kit eventually drops 6 months from now.

It's also extremely obvious that they've done a "muh russia" with the game because of Ukraine by not including anything about the soviet union nor Laika nor Yuri Gagarin etc etc, yet they include all the America shit.

Its the most bethesda game of them all. Terrible writing, story, plot... no improvements to the genre in any way. Plays exactly like oblivion, but with slightly better graphics. And god,

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the multiverse shit is the laziest of writing from them yet

Quests don't impact the world in any way. Finishing a faction questline just gives you a new item with no impact whatsoever.

4/10 game

Starfield is a game.

I didn't realize it was gonna be on game pass lol so I did end up downloading it even though I swore up and down I'd wait on buying until they fixed all the crap they were gonna inevitably do.

The amount of loading screens is kinda profligate, there's more than one quest where you go to a planet (loading screen) talk to a guy then to the next planet (loading screen) and talk to a guy, and just repeat. The combat is pretty bad, I can't say I was expecting super smart AI or whatever but there's been more than a few times where enemies just kinda stood somewhere far away and couldn't figure out how to path to the fight? The main storyline didn't capture my interest. There's still a lot of bugs, nothing that'll bluescreen or whatever but I've had VASCO twirling his head talking to me, the Charlie 3 guy rotating really fast, theres one quest marker that doesnt get removed during a quest in the Well which made me rely on the actual given instructions (which was a nice change of pace), just a bunch of stuff like that. Stealth needs an overhaul, it's hard to get the sneak attacks to rank up and it starts getting really useful at rank 3. Also, unarmed is very very underwhelming and hard to do - which I guess is fair but whatever.

I love the setting and aesthetic, I do like the NASApunk look. I actually gasped at New Atlantis topside and Neon city. Also, there's just so much stuff to find. The sidequests are usually pretty goos. The Well was cool. Getting UC citizenship seems to be a thing Bethesda expected people to do because it has a lot of strong writing, I didn't love UC as a faction but whatever they're obviously very lib. It feels like a lot of people are discounting gastronomy, which is understandable because it takes a lot of work to rank it up to where the buffs are really good. Oh yeah and seeing Earth all fucked up actually made me feel quite sad, I landed on it and just felt... upset I guess, which is a plus for me if a videogame can make me feel an emotion like that.

I didn't know how to feel about the religions... it was interesting to think of organized charitable Atheism as a religion or the like syncretic dialectic synthesis of ALL monotheistic religions? I didn't get to try out the Great Serpent stuff but they're interesting guess to just consider. For some reason the religious struggle in skyrim was cool for me but future humans with made-up religions aren't as cool? I'm not sure why I struggled with it. Also, a lot of the spacesuits are kinda ugly, hard to play fashion field.

I don't think I'd pay separately for this and I don't know if I'll finish it, but so long as it's on gamepass and so long as I keep having that I guess I'll keep it installed. I'm still eagerly anticipating a GOTY edition with unofficial bug fix mod at some point to actually enjoy starfield.

I was really enjoying it until I tried to build ships. The pieces you can build with have very, very limited customization options. They can only turn or flip certain ways, can only snap onto certain spots. It makes all ships end of looking very samesies.

ive been in a rut of only playing map/spreadsheet games. maybe this will get me out of it, i rlly want to shoot stuff and build custom spaceships

incredibly boring game. you keep feeling like maybe itll get deeper and more interesting but it never does. cyberpunk and baldurs gate at least create vibes and have a somewhat fun storyline to follow.

A space game without sentient alien crew 0/10 BETHESDA MISSED THE POINT AGAIN.

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Space magic being a spoiler dragon shout thing ughh making it so theres no perks for space wizard

Waiting years for modders to fix everything as usual

It's okay. It's my least favorite Bethesda game. I don't find its version of exploration all that interesting compared to their past entries.

Its fun, I'm having fun, but frustratingly not as good as it could be.

Level grind curve makes Morrowind look forgiving. There's just a lot of annoying shit and ways things could be handled better like transitions could have been done in game rather than via cutscene, just keep the warp animation up like every space game since Privateer. Encumbrance is irritating, base building is frustratingly obtuse. In terms of choice outside of a couple of quests you are railroaded down good/evil paths. Let Me Shoot the Quest Critical Character Bethesda! There are so, so many CEOs in this game I just wanted to shoot as soon as they tried to push me around. Finally, it looks like the deep lore isn't. The big questions like the main quest and the Varuun seem to just hit a brick wall, and there's so far not a lot of small questions outside "I think the terrormorphs are a sentient civilisation."

The worldbuilding is so, so depressing. It's easier to imagine the complete ending of the human condition than the end of capitalism.

And I'm stuck with the bug where when you go into menus it re-renders at 4k and your framerate tanks into single digits. So that sucks.

It’s bad.

I'm enjoying it so far for the most part. Combat could definitely be better, wish I had a lean button and a key to cycle through my quick weapons.

I'm not really interested in it. I already have too many games and another big open-world thing would take too much effort. Plus I already have Fallout New Vegas which is better.

But like, I have a goofy taste in games so don't let me ruin your fun.

Stale.

I'm enjoying it, it's pretty empty in a lot of places but actually I like that you can basically always know whether or not you're gonna have to talk to a human. Because I like listening to podcasts and stuff when I'm playing games like this. Skyrim is a bit too on/off in that regard- which as a game makes it better than Starfield, but as a chill vibes audiobook accompaniment, I prefer Starfield. The dead planets don't even have aliens on them and you won't stumble upon a pirate unless you intend to.

I like the ship building, although I am definitely gonna mod that aspect hard, and use some other kind of mod to adjust enemy ships accordingly.

It's certainly not a great game, but the mods are gonna be so fucking good I stg

I'm probably gonna do one playthrough and then play it again like 3 months after they drop the Creation Kit

Honestly I've been playing it but also asking myself why I've been playing it. I've had an overall smooth experience for the most part, some Bethesda jank, some glitches like doors not opening but that's solved with tcl. The more I play though the more I'm finding it to be unbelievably grindy. Levels trickle in once you're in the 30s. People on Reddit were so loud to say you don't need that many resources so the complaints about carry weight and the obnoxious weight of resources was actually a good thing but in reality you need a shitload of them. If you want to do weapon modding, good luck because it's so heavily gated behind not only skills and resources, but research that like 100 hours in and I'm nowhere near close to unlocking all of it.

My goal for the game was to fly a cool ship, to shoot cool guns, and to have a cool outpost. I finally hit class C ships and built one, but it's kinda dopey looking. I don't have the resources to do all the weapon modding research and I've been a loot goblin the entire game picking up everything I can in terms of resources. Even installed a mod that removed the weight of resources.

The game also takes a bunch of steps back from Fallout's weapon modding. In Fallout you could just buy a mod and slap it on the right gun, in Starfield, there are no mod items. If I find a better rifle that's the same exact thing but scaled up, I can't transfer my mods over to it, I have to rebuild all the mods again with all the rare and annoying resources once again. Same with ship building, can't transfer parts between ships.

At this point I've mostly given up on outpost building since that's another level dump to even get to a reasonable point. I know you can harvest resources through outposts and I have been, it's just so obnoxiously boring to teleport between each one to do stuff and the resource demand is also so damn high to build anything.

Haven't touched the main quest since I was first able to just run away and do my own thing. Most stuff in the game is a fetch quest, a go talk to this person quest, or a murder everyone quest. A quest that had an interesting premise, First Contact, was so bad, I ended up putting the game down.

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You're tasked with investigating a strange ship that arrived in orbit over a resort planet, the resort is rather tiny in planetary terms. You find that the ship is a generation ship, filled with the descendants of people that set out over 200 years ago for this very planet and are shocked to find that people already are at their destination. They want to settle the planet and ask you to negotiate terms for them to be able to settle. You go to the board room and are then faced with the most disgusting shit imaginable. They refuse to give even an inch of ground stating they have a claim that goes back years and that the colonists can either fuck off and die with you doing the murder, be allowed to settle but actually they'll just enslave them, or you can go and foot the bill for a grav drive for them to find a new home on their own. If you try to murder the execs, they're immortal like almost everyone in this goddamn game.

Honestly, I'm mostly ready to just hit up Rimworld and maybe pick up Stellaris in a few days with the new patch coming out tomorrow. Once again Bethesda has made a wide but incredibly shallow experience and left it to the community to make it better. Thank god I didn't pay for it.

My favorite genre is crpgs and I was obsessed with the original Baldurs gates and planescape torment so I loved the shit out of bg3 and played it up until the release of starfield. With that said, I love starfield and it is easily my game of the year now.

I'm liking it a lot so far. I just want to go to different planets and build bases and decorate.

This sounds like a good time, though Bethesda games never manage to hook or hold me for long.

So good. I've lost too much time to the game already. Space RPG? Hook it into my veins plz.