Any early Starfield Veterans wanna help our writer out here?
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Expectations for Starfield were sky-high, and while many felt it fell short of them, raw sales and other statistics tell a different tale.
Agreed. I'd love to know the budget on this one to be honest. What was it? 6-8 years in development?
Howard said this game had been a concept for 25 years. Let that sink in.
The ship building is kinda cool... And that's about it. In all seriousness, I don't think it's a bad game, but violently mediocre with some really head-scratching choices that made me go "why" rather than "wow" more often than not.
Same here. Not saying it's the best they've ever released, but the hate it gets is pretty absurd. I've been completely enjoying the 50 or so hours I've dropped into it.
To be fair, I have yet to play a single Bethesda game that I found enjoyable. The whole "talking to cardboard cutouts from the uncanny valley" thing is tolerable in games like Mass Effect, but it loses me completely in Bethesda titles.
I'll never forget advertised as an open world sandbox game but you run into invisible Star Trek barriers when exploring. GTA has never done that and neither has No Man's Sky. If people love this game good for them I am not touching it. And if Microsoft does say port this game to Playstation I am still not touching this game.
I started playing a few weeks ago and am enjoying it thoroughly. Perfect, absolutely not. Yet it's nowhere near as bad as what people make it out to be. Plenty of quests to get side tracked with. The gunplay has been tightened up significantly in my opinion since Fallout 4. I originally listened to the online crowd absolutely crap on the game and made me curious to see if it was that bad. It's not. It's a good and fun game. It just didn't live up to the developer hype and peoples expectations. Which wouldn't be the first time Bethesda, or Microsoft promised the world, and gave us the moon.
I will say that the beginning few story missions really kind of drag, but once you unlock powers it picks up. I think that first few hours soured a lot of folks who left it behind before really digging in to it. Which is understandable.
First few hours??? How about the first 130 hours according to the developers. Need to get past 130hrs to start enjoying the game.
Bethesda may have just dropped a major hint regarding the upcoming Shattered Space DLC for its action role-playing game, Starfield.
I dunno’ man but I tell you that I played Mass Effect Andromeda twice, once with all side missions and again avoiding all side mission. If you only play main missions in Mass Effect Andromeda, it’s a brilliant game, easily an 8/10 versus a disappointing 6/10 with side missions. And for what it’s worth, a lot of these glowing reviews for Starfield are from critics who had to rush through it and skipped a lot side missions. Don’t get bogged down by side missions, bad building, and loading screens if you don’t want to.
I've enjoyed the side missions more tbh. The campaign started slow but did get better for me at least.
Perk of maining the campaign is NG+ though, without spoiling anything it can make everything a bit more unique.
I'm in no rush to beat the main quest. I've been doing the side missions & exploring. It's how I always treat these Bethesda games.
Can’t you decide for yourself?
This has always been kind of a problem with me for big games. I love to take my time and play however I want but...that also means I'd have to really go out of my way to avoid spoilers on the internet so I get pressured to finish the main story as soon as possible...