Is Starfield Worth All Those 10/10s? - Video Review | WhatsGood

WG: "Starfield has been raking in massive scores from some big outlets, and other scores that aren’t as flattering. So how good is Starfield really? We can only give our own personal view after spending a whole bunch of time with it"

[LostPotato]

Was Baldur's Gate 3 worth all those 10's as well? See what I did there clickbait.

[Wintersun616]

Apples and oranges.

[EvertonFC]

😂🤣

[LostPotato]

Have to love this site as every comment get more down-voted then upvoted. Fanboys everywhere.

[KILLnFOOLz]

The title was most definitely click bait. It lured in the haters desperately needing another echo chamber to “affirm” their opinion so they can rush to the comment sections and down vote anything that goes against their opinion and up vote the other lemmings. Gaming culture has become so basic. In reality the game definitely wasn’t a 10 (95% of all games throughout gaming history aren’t) but it wasn’t your average game either on so many levels. Today many so called “gamers” tether a games rating to the console of their choice instead of viewing the game for what it is. Unless gamers detach their loyalty for a certain console when rating games our current means of game ratings will always be less than reliable and given enough time worthless.

[ChasterMies]

Hardly any game is a good as it’s Metacritic score. We know that overall review scores are so inflated that a 6/10 is considered unplayable. Way too many “reviewers” won’t score anything less than a 7. I think it would be more beneficial for gamers to have a ranking system. For example, how does Starfield rank against Mass Effect 2, Fallout 4, or Cyberpunk 2077? It’s easy to throw out a high score and make people happy. It’s harder think critically.

[Petebloodyonion]

I agree that a good review would be to compare it to what's considered the BAR.
A perfect score would me that the game sets a new Std for the genre.

[VivaChe]

Many developers employ internal pre-release reviewers and they do exactly this -- rank the game against others in the same genre.

[PhillyDonJawn]

I always felt it should be graded on a tier list.
S, a top game of the gen/goty
A, great game, goty contender
B, good game, fun to be had
C, Ok game, it's skippable but not a waste
D, Bad game, not worth playing
F, Broken, Boring should've never been made

[NotoriousWhiz]

Luckily reviews are more than just a score lol. There are usually lots of words that accompany them, but no one bothers to read those.

[shinoff2183]

Easy. No

Still a fantastic game that needed a little more time in the oven.

[mkis007]

Not more time just slightly different direction. If you can walk across a planet map then you should be able to fly between planets...why they couldnt do at least that much is beyond my comprehension.

[yeahokwhatever]

i wish there was LESS space time. the flying in space is by far the weakest aspect of the gameplay. im all about that mod that eliminates it entirely and just lets you fast travel like a normal person as god intended.

[got_dam]

@yeahok I'm on the opposite side of that argument. I think they put so much into ship building systems and it's wasted because you're planetsside or inside a station 90% of the time. The space flight is solid enough. I have played game that put a much bigger emphasis on space flight that control much worse. I'm not saying you are wrong for thinking what you do. I actually find it interesting. I think it shows that they were appealing to a couple different demographics an people from both are finding it lacking in the areas they were interested in. I believe it is a solid game and am having fun with it, but it is far from setting my world on fire.

[mkis007]

Exactly

Why dis they bother with the ship builder when you rarely need to be in the ship...the only reason would be to fight space battles occasionally when thr story demands it.

[ravens52]

Says "Starfield is nowhere near a perfect game" Proceeds to give it a 9/10. Can't make this shit up....

[anast]

I just read an article that said something like "there is a great game hidden underneath microtransactions - 8/10."

[Stanjara]

Game is a Fallout space skin.
Paid and early access reviewers gave 10.

[Petebloodyonion]

not a fan of Fallout or Skyrim but last I checked Fallout is supposed to be an amazing game so what's the problem if it's a fallout in space?
Should they score Spiderman a 6 because it's Batman Arkham skin in New York?

[Stanjara]

No comment.

[BillyCrystals]

Without the organic, wandering exploration which is the main appeal of Bethesda games IMO.

[Crows90]

I'm other words...this is unlike any Bethesda game. All the same flaws with less of the appeal. Outer worlds did it better

[on_line_forever]

Of course not

[Petebloodyonion]

I always have a problem with perfect game review because it's always subjective and based on feeling not on a factual system that let the user judge.

Example 1) MSG 5 was a perfect game but if it was made by no name at Ubisoft would it have scored 10 for an open world void of life and activities where you always replay the same missions with different parameters?

example 2) Zelda BOTW was 10 because the Story doesn't matter in Zelda despite always being important in all other reviews.

3) Bayonetta 2 exclusive on Nintendo = 10 but there's barely a difference between 1 a 2 Other games needs to evolve to stay in the same 9-9 score zone (see Batman Arkham Origin 7/10, all COD games, etc.

4) (my favorite) Quantum Break cons collecting too much stuff and reading vs. Control Pro (by the same reviewer) the joy of collecting the same exact stuff as QB (no joke).

[Crows90]

Ratings are easy. Remove perfect from the rating

5- great
4- good
3- average
2- bad
1- broken

[Redgehammer]

I rarely think anything deserves a 10, but after 125 hours it’s a solid 9, for me.

[Simundo]

No. But the industry in general spaffs out 10's like a horny teenager. It needs to learn to not get so over excited.

[MatrixxGT]

I’ve got about 35hrs in it. So far as a game I’d give it a solid 7.5. I do wish the ship travel was more fleshed out given the emphasis on base building and customization instead of “instanced” orbit zones.
However I’m having a great time with it. I only play a few hours on weekends and wish I had more time. My personal fun factor is a 9.
Lately review scores seem to need to be 8 or above or the game is classified as poop to todays gamers. I think we should move to a bad,good,great system.

[ravens52]

Probably the only truthful person. That's the problem, reviews should be objective not subjective. You just distinguished the two easily.

[anast]

That's a fair score.

[GhostScholar]

I haven’t seen many 10/10 but it’s a 9 for me. It gets better the more I play it. Main story is really great. I’m not mad that it gets review bombed because i can see someone not liking it, but I’m eating good with starfield and sea of stars.

[Simundo]

There's 17 10's across PC/Series X on Metacritic. Which isn't many when you compare it to BG3's 59 10's across PC/PS5.

[GhostScholar]

I really don’t get why starfield and baldurs gate 3 are being compared. They are completely different types of games. One is a traditional crpg based around dice rolls set in a high fantasy universe and the other is a shooter set in space. They are both great at what they do best. I don’t think star field is game of the year in 2023 but it’s still a great game and I’m having a blast with it. I’ll be having a blast with bg3 when it comes to series x too. I plan on having a blast with Spider-Man as well.

[anast]

I think the there is chasm between the objective quality of each game. So, while they are different games, the contrast is too striking to not mention.

[SyntheticForm]

After days of playing I'm in low 8 territory - mostly due to the incessant loading for which there's no excuse. I get this game was conceptualized and started development after Fallout 4, and on old hardware, but hell, why isn't the SSD leveraged more? It would bother me much less if the loads were instantaneous or much faster.

You fast travel to a planet which takes a load screen. You then fast travel to a more specific area requiring a load screen, but you're not *in* that area, you're outside of it, so another load screen. It's too damn much loading. The omission of local or any maps is just odd.