It sure feels impossible to have an honest conversation about Starfield online right now.

  • LinusWorks4Mo
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    321 year ago

    I like the game. it’s easy to spend hours in it if you just take it for what it is without thinking what you wanted it to be

    • essell
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      271 year ago

      I think you literally just described to secret to a content and fulfilled life.

      • @tburkhol@beehaw.org
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        71 year ago

        No doubt. Enjoy your video games the way you want to enjoy them. I picked up RDR2 again recently, got to the point where you’re supposed to break Micah out of prison, and I’m just like, fuck that guy. I’m going hunting and playing dress-up.

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      From what I’ve seen and heard, Starfield is on par with Fallout 3. I can’t imagine being upset about that. Fallout 3 is great. Seems like some people wanted it to be No Man’s Sky + Star Citizen + Cyberpunk and like… no, it’s a Bethesda game. You know what that means already. I’m looking forward to picking it up and playing it, as I’ve always enjoyed their games for the weird sandboxes that they are.

        • @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org
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          41 year ago

          I last played Fallout 3 about a year ago and it’s pretty clear playing Starfield that there have, in fact, been a lot of advancements in that time.

    • Dettweiler
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      141 year ago

      Exactly. I went in blind. No trailers, no interviews, no hype. All I knew was it was a Bethesda space game. It started off slow, but after about 12 hrs (half of which was me goofing off and gun running for money), I’m starting to really like the game.

      Seeing a trashcan explode into a tesseract-can is pretty funny, albeit a bit concerning about what other props have multiple copies embedded in them. I do hope Bethesda seriously re-evaluates their stance and does some optimization and scrubbing. The game runs ok on my system, but my card should not be screaming as hard as it is.

    • Silverseren
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      “if you just take it for what it is without thinking what you wanted it to be”

      Why would I do that for any video game? With that mindset, you could claim any game is good, because you aren’t actually engaging with its content on the level that it deserves.

      Don’t prop up bad games.

      • TehPers
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        21 year ago

        I had no expectations going in (wasn’t planning to play it) and came out having fun. I don’t know what expectations you or anyone else had, but maybe those expectations are what ruined the game. I don’t think anyone’s claiming the game is perfect (anyone who is probably is trolling), but it’s pretty dismissive of its strengths for people to say it’s unplayable (unless you legit can’t run it, which is fair). If all you focus on is what the game doesn’t do well, then you might as well only ever play perfect masterpieces because all other games will be a disappointment. If the price is a concern, it will probably go on sale eventually anyway, assuming you don’t find alternatives before then.

        I do think there are a lot of flaws with the game, but those flaws have already been elaborated in great depth by others. Despite those flaws, game is still fun and has a lot of room for mods to come in and make it better.

      • Executive Chimp
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        If you only compare games to what you want them to be then you can claim any game sucks. The gunpay in Madden games, for example, is awful.

    • conciselyverbose
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      111 year ago

      lol it actually is what I wanted it to be.

      It’s a mechanically reasonably modern (it feels very comparable to Deus Ex or Cyberpunk gunplay/stealth wise, with better perk/level-up design) Bethesda RPG. You have to fly around more because it’s set in space and most of space is empty, but there are still a lot of places to go and it’s easy to get sucked down a rabbit hole.

      My complaints are pretty mild. I’d like some kind of speeder for the empty “run a mile” bits, I miss the aimless wandering of terrestrial maps and kind of wish there had been some places set up to feel like that, and I occasionally see issues with texture loading. But it’s the game the direct said it was going to be, and I’m personally very happy with it (though if it could get cleaned up enough to run a little better on my steam deck I wouldn’t complain).