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Starfield Metacritic user score sees sharp drop as gamers review bomb Bethesda RPG

The Starfield Metacritic user score has seen a sharp drop as it seems some gamers have decided to review-bomb the Bethesda RPG.

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JusttJD0099610d ago

Why is giving a 1 review bombing, but giving a 10 is normal?

Starfield is not a 10 and not a 1, everyone knows that.

In the end, the score will end up exactly as it should be and as the game deserves.
And, quite frankly... a 6.5 on average is what I would give it as well. (Perhaps a 7.)

Space Exploration minus the real exploration.
Fast Travel / Loading screen simulator.

In 2 months, this game will have died out just like fallout 76 did and will only have a small portion gamers left.

InUrFoxHole610d ago

You're absolutely drunk if you think starfield is a 6.5... 8 for sure. No 10 though.

JusttJD0099610d ago

And you have a case of space madness when you think it deserves a 8.

alexkarkar610d ago

2 out of 10 for me, 3 if i feel generous. the game is a stinking pile of regurgitated shit.

InUrFoxHole610d ago

Lmao... Ren and Stimpy
..... SPACE MADNESSS!

ChiefofLoliPolice610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

Wtf?! Dude your the one that's drunk in your own foxhole...a 8?? Lmao you have lost it. This game is at least a solid 5 maybe even a 6 but it damn sure ain't no 8. 😂

MrChow666610d ago

@alexkarkar
You are a very dedicated troll, I'll give you that, nive comment history dude...get a life

MrChow666610d ago

@JusttJD0099 Lol you made an account just to troll starfield...that's sad, are you ok?

Notellin610d ago

You're on N4G the most delusional bunch of day laborers and hourly workers out there. Completely useless bunch of people to use for any type of metric other than low functioning statistics.

Angyobangyo610d ago

It’s the user’s score. They are fully entitled to say if they think it’s a 6.5., the same way you think it’s an 8.

What’s with this hive mind nonsense where we all have to be onboard with the same scores. Grow up.

InUrFoxHole609d ago

@angy
Who said it had to be an 8?

azizlksa609d ago

hes not drunk he just didnt play it

shinoff2183609d ago

Notellin

How you start your comment off tells me about all I need to know about you.

Notellin608d ago

@shinoff2183 Tell me how I am you don't know anything about me.

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OWCY610d ago

So you play single player games for 2 months?

JusttJD0099610d ago

Good ones, yes you can and more importantly want to play for months and months.

But, yeah... if you get Halo, Redfall, Starfield.
Then, It's understandable that you don't play those for 2 months,

MrChow666610d ago

People still play Skyrim...

RaidenBlack610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

The review bombing at Metacritic and the typical comments here at N4G, is pretty much what I expected to happen for Starfield, tbh.
Nothing surprising.
And the cycle will continue once Spider-Man 2 drops. Somethings never change.

EvertonFC610d ago

Most gamers take there time imo and not rush through it in weekend and be done with it. Normally takes me a week then another week for a replay if I liked it enough on a harder difficulty and mop up some trophies.
2 months seems a bit long but I can see a month for those who work long hours etc.

Yui_Suzumiya610d ago

Typically takes a month to get through a lengthy visual novel with multiple routes. Would think a lengthy RPG would take longer.

Z501610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

Yes.
Ironically...Skyrim

anast609d ago

I played RDR2 SP for 3 years and I am still playing Cyberpunk.

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OMNlPOTENT610d ago

Lmao just come out and admit you haven't played Starfield if you're giving it a 6.5. It's just Sony fans review bombing it because they're salty they can't play it, pretty simple concept.

Huey_My_D_Long610d ago

Pretty sad if you can't see why people would give this game a 6.
Its a 6. From everyway I looked at this game its a 6.
Its not because its exclusive, I'd highly recommend other exclusives over this. HiFi Rush, Pentiment, even Sea of theives.
I have a PC and I could get gamepass to play it...My boy did, but I'm not even wasting the data.
But yeah the cities suck ass in Starfield, as well as the AI.
People litterally just go about their day if you pull a gun and just shooot up the place, as long as you don't hit a person its all good. Writing is typical bethesda, meaning really bad.
When half of the post I see loving starfield is about the potential of mods...yeah its because people expected the game to be shit and fixed up like all the rest of Bethesdas titles.

SeTTriP610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

Every major streamer is calling the game trash, I'm glad this turd isn't on Playstation.

Bethesda is an outdated studio I've said as much in a previous post.there's way to many open world option for Bethesda to continue to make the same game with a different coat of paint.sony has 3 first party open world games Nintendo has Zelda no one needs Bethesda anymore and this was a bad purchase on MS behalf the studio is archaic and irrelevant at best and straight up incompetent at worse.

OMNlPOTENT610d ago

@Huey_My_D_Long
Soooo you admit to not playing the game.. kinda proving my point here. Anyone who actually has played the game and can prove it wanna throw their input in here or is it just gonna be people blindly hating that haven’t touched the game?

wiz7191610d ago

@Omnipotent they didn’t play it along with a lot of ppl on here it seems .. lol they’re just mad it didn’t come to their precious PS5 , like usual when Sony doesn’t get a exclusive. They was praising Bethesda when they released Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop when it was an exclusive now suddenly Bethesda plus their games are suddenly trash lmao it’s comical .. I’ve been playing for a few hours and already love the random things that happen plus how open ended the game is , you can pretty much tailor it to how you want the game to turn out.

zeuanimals610d ago

PC master race and huge Bethesda fan here to say... This game is trash and its gonna be the second BGS game I'm never touching. Seems like they seem hellbent on making bland ass games now, whose only purpose is to waste your time with lazily made everything. But hey, atleast they spent 7 years painstakingly modeling all the different types of turds and trinkets you can pick up instead of making actual good quests, dialogue, combat, etc.

I guess I'll wait for Avowed, Obsidian ironically let me down with The Outer Worlds, but atleast their games have some personality still. Bethesda's writing and overall style has become the stuff of Tylenol nightmares. I feel like they purposefully left the planets and world to look as vanilla and boring as possible to encourage modders to remake them into something better. That's great, but they should start making their own games better rather than relying on modders to do it for free.

OMNlPOTENT610d ago

@Zeuanimals wow another person who didn’t play it with tons of negatives to say about it; how surprising. Play a game before you judge it or don’t play it and don’t judge it. Game still has very positive reviews on metacritic.

VincentVanBro610d ago

Yeah it’s really obvious tbh and pretty pathetic 😕

Z501610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

1. "fans" or fanboys???
2. Can't this game be played on a phone or Steamdeck???

FinalFantasyFanatic609d ago (Edited 609d ago )

@wiz7191
I don't even own a PS5 and I still think Starfield doesn't look that good, it looks very much like a double edged sword in terms of what I'd like to see in a game of this type. I main my PC and I really can't convince myself to buy this at full price, I've looked at streamers and reviews, and I can't help but think this was over hyped for what it is.

FinalFantasyFanatic609d ago

@Huey_My_D_Long
I'm going to call this the "Skyrim effect", where people have more fun modding the game and playing that over the vanilla version.

-Foxtrot609d ago

Lmao

Fallout 4 is at 6.7

When it's a multiplatform game it's fine but when it suddenly becomes an exclusive everyone points to the "salty fanboys" excuse to defend it.

OMNlPOTENT609d ago

@Foxtrot
And The Last of Us 2 is at a 5.8, so if we are going off purely user ratings, it's a pretty bad game.

-Foxtrot609d ago

Well yeah because the story is shit compared to the first game

Back then they said that game got review bombed aswell, then they “removed” them all and it’s still got a bad score

It’s deserved

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dmonee610d ago

Im wondering if some of the emptiness is to make space (no pun intended) for modders to do their thing without having much in their way. Perhaps development thinking was, “why waste resources, stuffing the world full, when modders are going to do it anyways.” I might be completely full of s*** with that way of thinking.

Lightning77610d ago

https://n4g.com/comments/re...

Exactly what I said. 1000 spam accounts to take down the user score with many joining in on the act. According to the ppl here we should expect the exact same hate and reaction from Xbox fans when Spider-Man 2 releases next month.

OMNlPOTENT610d ago

But there won’t be, because Spider-Man is going to be a great game. Just like Starfield. Why can’t we all just get along? I don’t understand it a bit.

lilmikey2011610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

i take it you cant afford and xbox to play starfield lol games is an 8 at the least. best game ive played in a long time. stay pissed

MrNinosan610d ago

You do know Starfield is playable on a lot more than Xbox, right?
I'm playing Starfield on my Series X, my PC, my phone and my work laptop.
Most people with interest of gaming can actually play the game for $10.

Notellin610d ago

You're a part of one of the most toxic communities in gaming. Thanks for admitting your embarrassing bias.

CBaoth608d ago

well good for us you're here to balance all that out eh?

andydalum610d ago

Because the game can be a 10 to someone (like myself) even with some flaws. People who are putting a 1 are either trying to bomb the score or have never played it which some of those reviews literally say they haven't played it.

Harkins1721610d ago

Not everyone has you're opinion bro. It's not for everyone. I love KH. Many people hate it. I can accept that.

Yppupdam610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

The minute I see articles referring to "review bombing" I immediately know that the game is actually nothing special, and is performing below expectations. Review bombing is code for the game is perfect, and the mean old customer/gamer is evil and wrong for not liking it. weak and pathetic.

S2Killinit610d ago

Well the metacritic score has been steadily going down as well, it now down to 85 with only 61 reviews.

jonivtec610d ago

100%....overhyped...thats it....subpar game for this...not bad...but not goo either...onyl for die hard bethesda fan...i would score it 6.In3 months its almost dead.

shinoff2183609d ago

So far I'd give it an 8. I don't think starfield will die out though. I disagree there. It's a fun game minus your complaints(I agree with the complaints except the loading isn't a huge deal).

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Good-Smurf610d ago

Nah some just got burned out of being repeatedly lied to by BGS and their paid media.
It's Not review bombing or else I'd already saw Mr.Yong Yea jump at the headline and make a video out of it but ever since he's got big and deeper into part of the industry he gotten much more selective on who to bash he usually quick on something like this but no longer as impartial as he'd liked to.
It can't be 9 or 10/10 game with this many issues of course die hard fans would defend it as an early access game but it helps that BGS should at least got the basics down which Starfield didn't especially at full price.
Giving early access title this high of a score only makes people assume that it can't get any better or it's too good to be true.

JusttJD0099610d ago

Mr. Yong Yea...
Mr. I repeat everything that I say 25 times in one video to make a point of 10 seconds.

You are definitely right though, but YongYea is not the only one.
Look at Angry Joe.
Mr. I change my opinion standards more often than my clothes based on who I
Iike and not.

VincentVanBro610d ago

The obsession with the “correct” score of Starfield is pretty hilarious 😂

peppeaccardo610d ago

Read the reviews and the critisms seem legit overall.

Sonic1881610d ago

I didn't have to read it. All I had to do was play the game. There's a lot of flaws in this game and it's definitely ain't a 10. More like a 7 or 8

peppeaccardo610d ago

When I am over the fence to get a game or not, I do ONLY read motly gamers reviews (Screw the biased gaming journalism). I am not a huge fan of Bethesda as I find their games too "blocky" gameplay wise and I feel they seem all created with the same RPG editor ... again my opinion and my taste for games. Once I saw that initial reviews I thought it was too good to be true .... and indeed I was right.

Rockstar610d ago (Edited 610d ago )

IMO this game is a 7 but let's be absolutely clear here, there is nothing wrong with a 7. This is a fine game but it has it's flaws. As far as Bethesda is concerned it's likely one of their more polished games. Yes, there are a few bugs but for Bethesda that's pretty good. There are a lot of 7 out of 10 games out there that I've had a great time with.

FinalFantasyFanatic609d ago (Edited 609d ago )

@Rockstar,
Review scores tend to be inflated anyway, not everything can be a 9 or 10, otherwise the scores become too meaningless. It's okay for some games to be average or above average, looking at the videos I've seen, I don't think this is up there with the best of the best games.

peppeaccardo610d ago

Check this out:

Starfield is an Overrated Piece of Sh*t (Review and Impressions)
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Fallout 4 on Switch 2 seems inevitable, but what about Starfield?

A Fallout 4 Nintendo Switch 2 port seems like an inevitability, but what about other Bethesda RPGs like Starfield.

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neutralgamer199233d ago

I think all games will end up on switch from Xbox. MS has embraced going to other platforms now if games aren't doing well on Nintendo MS may be more selective in the future

On playstation they have been quite successful

anast33d ago

I'm not sure too many people want to play Starfield.

Profchaos33d ago

Phils all but confirmed they are going in hard with the switch 2

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All are welcome to Switch 2. Microsoft Games Studios is interested in long term profits and market value not petty fanboy thoughts.

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Tom Warren: Bethesda Have Been Working on PS5 Starfield "For a While"

Tom Warren, senior editor at The Verge, claims on The Xbox Two + 1 podcast that a PS5 port of Starfield "should be ready" this year.

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gold_drake42d ago

i believe that 100%

but not cause its difficult to work the ps5, its cause the game itself is fundamentally broken asf

RaidenBlack42d ago (Edited 42d ago )

Yea they need to fix it and I think they teased some major updates and patches this year. And as the norm we know even those won't be perfect and it'll take another year or two to reach a better state.
What Starfield also need is few more DLCs to fix the barrenness. .... and especially a substantial banger one with story and exploration to coincide with the PS5 launch and renew some interest.

dveio42d ago

"its cause the game itself is fundamentally broken asf"

Thanks.

I hate the rambling around pretty obvious things.

Such as, like you said, Starfield is just a big pile of broken code.

The latest news about Starfield's developmental environment just proved it.

badz14942d ago

If they release a PS5 version and it's still a loading screen simulator, they will just embarrass themselves.

Abear2142d ago

Corporate greed is the sole reason it’s coming to PS5. Expect the same game. This is M$ and Bethesda trying to recoup losses and capitalize on huge PS5 player base in an attempt to fund their next lame project.

neutralgamer199242d ago

Hopefully there is a huge major patch that gives the game a fresh chance

rudero42d ago

I believe it 100% because it was already being developed for PlayStation before they were acquired.

Not a rumor or a magical Microsoft push…
It was already in development.

-Foxtrot42d ago (Edited 42d ago )

They are going to have to do something to make you want the PS5 version

They can't escape all the negative coverage it's received since launch so they will need something to draw people in and honestly I can't think of anything.

It will sell, it just won't sell as well as they would have hoped for a Bethesda open world game now that they are launching late when opinions have already been made.

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pwnmaster300042d ago

Hope it does pretty good, big fan of Bethesda.
But not gonna lie this game was fucking ass.

Probably my least favorite Bethesda style rpg ever.
Regretted paying to play it early.

moomoo31942d ago

It was so disappointing.. its not horrible but its a solid 7/10

UnbreakableAlex42d ago

Have fun with this ginormous bore fest!

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Report: Starfield on PS5 Seems to Be Loaded in Backend According to Mods

The official PlayStation logo has been spotted in one of Starfield's mods on Bethesda's own creations site.

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B5R58d ago

Just announce it already.

lukasmain57d ago

They should try to remove the stupid overabundance of ridiculous loading screens for the PS5 version. But I assume it's not possible because of their crap engine and/or their laziness to do anything about it. But it is possible in some instances as some modders have done so a few times for PC from what I have seen.

It will be super jarring and weird for PS5 players to see so many loading screens, I worry it will destroy any potential immersion. I don't think I could handle it honestly lol. Combining that with the uninspired gameplay, I expect it would tank my motivation to play and finish the game.

Profchaos57d ago

Yeah I feel like it was also the creation engine it was core to why I gave up on the game the forced tutorials I was still getting 4 hours in just annoyed me it did t help I had just played through tears of the kingdom st the time which had zero tutorials and being forced to stop for a guided tutorial every 20 minutes killed me I have up at 6 hours despite being a huge fallout fan

Armaggedon57d ago

If one doesnt like the screens, just dint olay the game. Just like if one doesnt not like being handcuffed, dont play a fromsoft souls game. They are integral to the games design.

BISHOP-BRASIL57d ago

Are you seriously trying to push loading screens as a voluntary design choice rather than a technical limitation in 2025? Good luck with that...

Armaggedon57d ago

I dont know… is me having input delay when I try to roll in elden ring a technical limitation?

Bathyj57d ago

Meh.
I just started Death stranding. I don't have time for that.

LoveSpuds57d ago

I am trying to wrap up my Elden Ring playthrough so I can get a replay of Death Stranding in ahead of the sequel. That new video last week has be really excited, I loved the first game, one of my fave platinum trophies.

Bathyj57d ago

This is my first playthrough.
I didn't really get it when it released.
But after that trailer I decided to give it another look.

After 5 hours, I've built my first bridge. While ïts to early to be 100% sure I think I'm hooked. I'll see how I go. It feels like a game that hard to sell to someone but if you know you know

There's just so much Kojima in the game.

LoveSpuds56d ago

Just wait until later in the game when you start building a network of zip lines. Journeys that used to take 20 mins are done on a couple of minutes, it feels so satisfying 😀

Hope it continues to resonate with you dude, enjoy!

Profchaos57d ago

If what never a matter of if but when

MaximusPrime_57d ago

I have zero interest in this game but there are people who like it. People have their personal preference.

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