After it failed to get a single Game of the Year nomination, many players are realizing Starfield was always a very mediocre title.
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Good list I've had similar reactions to some games even ones on the list like the order and Callisto
Also I recently grabbed forspoken for, 5 dollars at a eb games Clarence sale and I am actually enjoying it more than I thought I would
Sometimes you just need to give critically panned games a chance
I feel like we’re finally starting to see a sea change in how we treat our favorite games. Sure, we all acknowledge that a game can suck and we can still enjoy it. Hopefully this results in meaningful review scores. Personally, I find a lot of bad games are better if you blast through them on the easiest difficulty. Callisto protocol on the image is a good example of this.
Actually, I started liking FO76 after the wastelanders DLC ... it has been my guilty pleasure
other games I can think of Order 1886, Driveclub, Resident Evil 6 (only the Leon part), Alpha Protocol (pretty unique, needs a remake), XIII Remake (after patches), Medal of Honor 2010, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Homefront The Revolution, Enemy Front, Legendary The Box, Faces of War, Conflict: Vietnam, Conflict: Global Storm & Codename: Panzers – Cold War
I loved The Order, ridiculous graphics for it's time and a very interesting setting, it was linear but not as bad as people say. Similar thing with Callisto Protocol, i admit that i played it a long time after release so maybe issues were fixed by then, but it was a fantastic Dead Space-like horror game with some of the best graphics i've seen in my life.
Thanks to the Starfield Creation Kit, the "Earth Restored" mod has transformed the Earth into a Pine Forest and filled the sea with life.
Shadow of the Erdtree saw a 1000% player count surge at its launch. Will Starfield’s Shattered Space be able to do the same?
I played Starfield this past weekend. I enjoyed it and overall was about 30 hours in, but as soon as I got the e-mail about the GamePass price increase, I cancelled my account and deleted Starfield, Halo, Forza and others off my Series X.
If I want to play those games, I’ll just buy them outright - and truth is, I’m pretty sure I won’t. They aren’t worth it to me.
I knew it was average but the only reason people are noticing for real is because Bethesdas lazy a$$ won't use a new engine. An up to date engine would have allowed them to trick everyone into thinking the game is OK. How you ask? Simple new engine would have fixed the following: 1. Loading screens from segment to segmant
2. Open world feel. it would have been connected on a new engine instead of in segments
3. Graphics would have been better as well
If those were fixed ppl might have defended it more easily. But they wanted to use the old engine. So it has those immersion breaking things along with the skeleton of the game such as repeated bases and treasures and lifeless planets hampering things. It's just atrocious.
Until Bethesda gets a new engine I'm not buying their games that use the outdated one. I have too much respect for myself.
What's the point of playing the new elder scrolls at this point? Its just going to be starfield all over again.
All we need now is Todd telling me old engines are a feature.
i think we all knew.
well, most of us.
For a game to be sucking up more cash then a black hole the game is mediocre I am not surprised.
Just a shame more people can’t admit the obvious downward decrease in quality compared to pat Bethesda games. If it wasn’t an exclusive more people would have ripped into it and called Bethesda out.
Yet all the paid "gaming journalists" cashed their cheques and gave perfect scores in most cases. Don't put this back on the "gamers".