Baldur's Gate 3 Ruined Starfield For Me

Stopping my Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough halfway to play Starfield highlighted the stark differences between the two RPGs

[ThinkThink]

Finishing Starfield, then moving onto Payday 3 for a palette cleanser, then going to dig into Baulders Gate 3 over Christmas break. I can't imagine trying to play all 3 at once.

[IMissJimRyan]

Different games. But I think most people that are engaged on games in internet (active forums users, for instance) are really sensible to how other people talk about the game, the hype, the "general concensus". A lot of these engaged gamers don't want to be on minority side of things. One game does not make another better or worse. But the opinion of others can make that. And it's a little bit sad that a personal experience is so much dependent on others validation for some.

[InUrFoxHole]

Shhhh we do not speak in truths here.

[BlackDoomAx]

And the opinion of others are not really their own, but the ones they were told to. Sad and scary.

[Snookies12]

I put about two hours into Starfield so far, and it's not bad at all. The menus and user interface certainly aren't great, but I'm surprised that it runs pretty dang smooth on PC. Running it on a 3070 at 4k on all high settings and it's holding up really well without many dips in frames (at the moment.) I'll have to see how well the game holds up down the line, but I'm enjoying it from what little I've played. Nothing mind blowing yet, but It certainly doesn't seem like a bad game by any stretch of the imagination right now.

[Crows90]

Not sure there's been a consensus that it's a bad game. Just like a 3/5 or 7 or 8/10 that's what most reviewers and players are actually giving the game.

Unfortunately for a Bethesda game, not being in the 90s means it's their worst reviewed game after fallout 76.

[Notellin]

Metacritic is 86. Your math is terrible and you need some work on fractions.

[thesoftware730]

Hahahahaha, you are funny, and so salty at the same time.

Man, it must be hard for you...COPE brother, Cope.

[ufo8mycat]

Same thing occurred for The Witcher 3. These games are, an exception, to everything else. That is what also makes them so special

[Crows90]

No. Don't go comparing the Witcher 3 to starfield. Not even remotely similar.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Don't ever disrespect Witcher 3 by comparing it to Starfield. By God...absolutely no respect for proper RPGs.

[Terry_B]

TheGamer, Videogamer and previously Gamingbolt, Kotaku and Destructoid ruined Game Journalism for me :-)

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Starfield is ok so far not amazing but not a bad game by any means, its just ok. I mean its a Bethesda RPG after all. Once you played one you played them all. Once I am done with Starfield I doubt ill do a second playthrough. Now Baldurs Gate 3 on the other hand... thats a helluva amazing game. Going for a third playthrough and I rarely ever go for even a second playthough in any RPG.

[anast]

I played it for a few hours yesterday. If it keeps going the way it is, it will ruin many RPGs for me. The game is incredibly deep and the voice acting is on point so far.

[Grave]

I just finished Witcher 3 (finally!) on PS5 and am now playing Baldurs Gate 3. Watching reviews and gameplay Starfield looks good, but it seems painfully average when compared to Witcher 3 and BG3. For me it's how bad the NPC interactions look in Starfield when compared to the other two. It's very immersion breaking for me. Where BG3 characters seem like they are real and a part of the world, Starfield's NPCs seem to be weird animatronic robots that are a little dated.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

Pointless comparison, those are 3 entirely different styles of RPG, so different in fact was it not for a RNG mechanic working on the background of all 3 games we'd consider the 3 of them entirely different genres altogether... In fact 3 different genres of 2 diferent categories of gaming itself with BG being played as a strategy game rather than an action one.

[GamingSinceForever]

Literally entirely different games. I game on the PS5 and I’d much rather play Starfield due to the type of game that it is. No disrespect to BG3 with it’s 96 meta score, but it’s just not my type
of game.

[Flawlessmic]

I finished bg3 and put about 90 hrs Into that and I'm about 25 hrs into starfield.

I'm with the writer whole heartedly bg3 is something special and really is a 1 of 1 game. How larian made everything work and flow into each other regardless of the decisions you made big or small not to mention it felt like every few minutes you were making a big decision.

Starfield in comparison to bg3 seems cookie cutter tbh, it's fall out in space which is great but after playing bg3 starfield doesn't feel all that impressive.

Anyway with that said they very different games and while bg3 towers over it just as it does against 98% of games, starfield for all its flaws is awesome and I'm absolutely hooked on it aswell. Basically every spare moment I have goes to playing it so I'm just glad I have all these great games to play tbh

[Levii_92]

BG3 is one of those games that ruin other more bland and inferior games in the same genre, hell even transcending the genres of RPG.