Idk, I like it. Obviously it’s not perfect. I’m level 32 and plan to keep playing.
My perception might be skewed though. My previous steam purchase was KSP2 and, comparatively, Starfield is much more polished and has way more content.
I am kind of in a similar boat. I mostly play games like KSP and Cities Skylines, and I’ve never played another Bathesda game. I actually enjoyed starfield enough to beat it, but not enough to play the new game plus.
Starfield probably hasn’t lived up to anyone’s expectations but people are acting like it’s not a solid game still.
trash game, wasnt too bad till they introduced space magic and the chosen one shit
space DMT was fun, space dragon shouts were just “why”. Additionally the fact there is no lore about the ancient race that built the artifacts infuriates me, not even a “they all disappeared due to mysterious circumstances”, they were, and now they are not, now go chase the macguffin
[SPOILER] Oh, the game does answer that...
What really pissed me off is that the game offers one option to ask “Who made this stuff?” when you reach the Unity. The reply you get? “You just answered it yourself”
Seriously? Taking fucking jabs at the player now? Fuck you, Todd Howard. Fuck you, Emil Pagliarulo.
yeah that’s not the sort of explanation or answer i feel satisfied with lol
you can also ask the Hunter at some point about where did the artifacts come from and he answers something like “don’t know, don’t care, i just want them and so should you”
then within unity it’s just a meaningless pseudo-philosophical (or meta) vagueness that pretends to say something whilst saying nothing because the writers haven’t come up with it yet
it’s just so painfully boring, i love TES and Fallout worlds for their surface level fun that occupies the dopamine gremlin in my brain and the deep lore full of mysteries and questions that pleases the nerd too. The worlds there feel like grand mysteries, they’ve spawned many debates and lore youtube channels trying to piece it together. Yeah they have plotholes, but as someone on tumblr said - plotholes are actually pockets where fans can keep their theories (or something like that).
What absolutely infuriates me about starfield is that bethesda had all the tools, all the experience, and all the manpower to give us another living, breathing world, a literal cosmos full of mysteries and opportunities - and they gave us this. Empty planets, with like 6 copy-pasted dungeons filled with either of 2 baddie guys to shoot at. I wanted to love Starfield, but after I finished it I just felt relief that it’s done, checked out the cool ship, and uninstalled it.
Don’t worry; free-labor modders will turn it into something better and Bethesda will be right back to making money from it.
I like how this one dude who helped make Skyrim multiplayer is the whole mod community in every Starfield post.
I know but he’s one of the pillars and it also represents how Bethesda fucked up by throwing this bland-ass game together.
Instead of buying this game, I started a new run in New Vegas. I am having the best time.
