Starfield Getting Up On It's Feet Was As Simple As Adding Vehicles It Seems

Shaheer from Tech4Gamers writes "Starfield was essentially incomplete at launch, even lacking basic features like vehicles, which are now being added to the game post-launch, making the experience way better."

[isarai]

Lol nah.

[Obscure_Observer]

"Lol nah."

Yes. Have you played? Because I don´t think you did.

Haters who wished on this game to fail are eating crow.

Starfield is pretty much alive and well with 11K concurrent players on Steam in the last 24 hours after one year!

Things will only get better with Shattered Space expansion.

I can´t wait!

[isarai]

Lol nah

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Fallout 4 has 22.5K after 9 years. A newly released Bethesda game not even managing half of that figure isn't something worth celebrating.

Skyrim has 27K after 13 years, by the way. What was your point again?

[Christopher]

I've put about 80 hours into the game. Ground vehicles isn't saving this game from repeat dungeons, boring weapons/combat, segregated story telling (nothing ties in, it just exists in parallel and even your final decision matters nothing for how the story ends), building things just to collect things to build and collect things better, and more.

I really tried hard to like Starfield, but it felt lifeless to me. Everything felt disjointed. It's as if you took game elements and just shoved them together, not wove them together. And, yeah, Starfield absolutely isn't the only game with this problem, but it was lauded as being more than the past and in the end fell flat as other games we've come to experience in the RPG genre. Bethesda hyped up a charge for the future by presenting the same thing we've experienced since 1999.

[cloganart]

This crowd will only change its tune on Starfield after it launches on PS5 lol

"It's actually not that bad..."

[Obscure_Observer]

@CantThinkOfAUsername

"What was your point again?"

My point?

My point is that Starfield is a VERY successful new IP, and after one year it still engages 12,459 concurrent players as of right now!

You tried to drawn a comparison but the very information that you´d provided regarding both Fallout 4 and Skyrim makes your whole "point" a mute one.

So are you really trying to compare Starfield which is a NEW IP one year in the market, with Bethesda´s most successful, popular and established games which by your own admission, have been in the market for 9 and 13 years respectively and have the same amount of that time worth of DLCs, Expansions, Mods, among thousands if not million patches, fixes and updates? Rubbish.

Try harder.

[Gamingsince1981]

A mute point ? Ummm what?

11k isn't many for a brand new game by bathesda that's terrible.

[esherwood]

Game was horrible and don’t see vehicles fixing that

[Kornholic]

MS still hasn't released SALES numbers for Starfield. The game flopped hard commercially.

[TheEroica]

He didn't play it.... He's too busy with the 4 other people playing concord... Sonys new multimillion dollar game and studio that nobody wants. The biggest financial flop in gaming history.

[Obscure_Observer]

@Gamingsince1981

"A mute point ? Ummm what?

11k isn't many for a brand new game by bathesda that's terrible."

Brand new? The game is one year old! It´s a SINGLE PLAYER game; not GAAS

@Kornholic

"MS still hasn't released SALES numbers for Starfield. The game flopped hard commercially."

Yeah Einstein, must be the reason why MS kept a team made out of over 200 developers STILL working on that game rather than just be done with and move on to Fallout 5. /S

Doesn´t matter how hard you haters try. The game is a major success and the next expansion after Shattered Space is already in development. Find another game to hate.

[Silly Mammo]

Obscure-
"makes your whole "point" a mute one."
*moot one

[VenomUK]

@cloganart said “This crowd will only change its tune on Starfield after it launches on PS5 lol. ‘It's actually not that bad...’”

When No Man’s Sky launched on PS4 it received strong criticism for under delivering on the game promised in the initial trailers. When it was released two years later on Xbox One it received praise and better scores. This wasn’t because of an anti-PlayStation conspiracy or ‘PlayStation tax’, it was because over the two year period the developer Hello Games had considerably improved the game so the version that launched on Xbox was a better version.

[anast]

Starfield (2023)
233 24hr peak
194th in top sellers
57% positive rating

Skyrim (2011)
28,000 24hr peak
167th top sellers
91% positive rating

Fallout 4 (2015)
23,000 24 hr. peak.
257th top sellers list
82% positive

The numbers are saying that adding a vehicle didn't help Starfield.

[DodoDojo]

So now 11k players is bad? I get it a lot of you hate Microsoft but that is in no means a bad number.

[gold_drake]

mkay, if u say so lol.

[LordoftheCritics]

LOL

Can't wait to explore more emptiness in that rover.

[MrDead]

Instead of running in a straight line for 10 mins to the copy pasted destination you can now drive in a straight line for 5 mins to the copy pasted destination.
Wow, I can see why tech4gamers is coving this, there's some real innovative tech happening in Starfield. What will be next, ships that can fly and don't just spin around a skybox with 2D planets?

[Julion0715]

Waiting for the dlc then I’m going back to play it

[PhillyDonJawn]

Same, finna try out Diablo 4 in the meantime since madden 25 was a let down

[Julion0715]

Diablo is fun and I like madden it’s much better than last year at least but I get what u mean, definitely could be better

[TheNamelessOne]

I don't care about the hate for this game. I think, if anything, it's exaggerated. The game definitely has its faults but, as a whole, I think it has a lot to offer. Still one of my favorite games of last year and is, actually, my favorite Bethesda game since Morrowind.

[Tacoboto]

I agree. Still waiting for the expansion to drop but it's the first Bethesda game since Oblivion I've put 100+ hours into, and I know when I return it'll be even better than the last I played.

Let's be honest though. The game is still receiving hate, a full year later, because Sony fans are bitter that their favorite publisher has abandoned single player games in pursuit of generic GaaS, and this is just a means of deflection.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

People don't like the game across the board no matter what platform. Who would enjoy seeing the same five or six areas repeated throughout the game, not be able to fly around as freely as expected, or slug through the same uninteresting missions? It's an objectively bad game, and there's more reasons for people ditching it than silly console wars.

[yeahokwhatever]

The hate for Starfield is that it didn't match expectations. You're kind of silly if you're playing on a console. lol

[Tacoboto]

"People"
"Didn't match expectations"

Love these words from yet more people echoing sentiments of others instead of sharing personal experiences.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

What does it offer?

[TheNamelessOne]

It offers actual depth in its roleplaying. You have agency over the factions you join, how you build your character and how that effects missions, dialogue, and the world around you. The gunplay isn't anything special, but it's solid and you can adjust whether you want enemies to be spongy or switch it to just a couple hits kill them or you as well. A lot of content in general.

[MrDead]

@TheNamelessOne

Wasn't the biggest issue that people had is that the game lacked depth, a million miles wide but one mile deep? The single most disappointing RPG from Bethesda, Starfield the illusion of scale and the lack of an RPG.
The game has a combined populated area that is smaller than Skyrim, and the entire game is 4 railroaded plotlines that don't let you Roleplay anything, you basically just looter shooter in small zones that follow linear storylines, every companion is poorly written and the world around you is the worst Bethesda has to offer, a handful of tiny towns that are meant to be hubs of civilisation and endless copy pasted locations. No exploration, no space flight and a game so bugged even the new buggy has bugged out trapping people inside.

The game is a series of loading screens and small squares, any feeling of going on a journey or adventure is removed and boy does it look dated.

Everything you listed is why Starfield was received so poorly received.

[Tacoboto]

"Wasn't the biggest issue that people had"

People who either had previously-stated agendas, and people who never played the game (the same people on this site still whining a year later). Based on how you talk about the game and its loading screens, it's clear your opinions aren't your own.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Facts, if and when it launch on ps5 the hate will magically disappear. You see Sea of thieves is now universally praised lol. The hate Indiana Jones was getting is gone

[ChasterMies]

There is an opportunity for a pun here, but tech4gamers fails miserably.

[Christopher]

Far from. Far from. It needs better content.

[DOMination-]

Not played it yet so couldn't comment definitively. My opinion basically doesn't matter here, it's just a view from afar so to speak.

But from the meta score of 83, it really doesn't seem like it was that bad of a game. Just missing something special to make it truly great or perhaps people getting tired of the Bethesda Game Studios "formula". Whatever it is, it feels like it needs another year of refining and maybe it could have a CP2077 renaissance. The question is, are BGS capable of taking the constructive criticism onboard - and more importantly - is their engine capable of providing gamers with the experience that they are after.

I remain sceptical on both of those points.

[Ezio2048]

The only thing vehicle has added is reaching the invisible wall even quickly than before lol

[Destiny1080]

the reason why every xbox exclusive is heading to playstation

we should be all very proud of what Bethesda has managed to achieve, and know you can space travel in cars

[ocelot07]

Nope sorry, I bought a disc copy fairly cheap recently. Installed it played for 2 hours now even though the performance on the series x (yes I have one of them again how long for god knows) is very good. I did a few quests and enjoyed the quests. The loading scenes where completely killing it for me.

I was actually enjoying the quests. But the navigation on the space map and then having to watch the ship take is so annoying and just takes away the fun I was having.

[anast]

Todd worked on this game for 25 years and they could even get a vehicle in on launch. Let that sink in.

[BlindMango]

"Starfield Getting up on it is feet"? It's = it is

[Deeeeznuuuts]

Played this at my friend's house because I don't own an Xbox and the little time I played, wasn't bad but I could definitely see how it'd get boring pretty fast and adding a vehicle won't make that any better, worse if anything because it'll show you what little space you actually have.

Also, I'm a huge Elder Scrolls and Fallout fan, it just didn't entice me as much as them games did

[PhillyDonJawn]

True, just wild they didn't have vehicles at launch.

[Armaggedon]

People have come up with so many different ways to just say this simple thing: They dont like the game

Black Myth wukong put me to sleep. I have no intention of going on an elaborate tirade to explain how the game failed and what it did wrong. I will just go play something else. Nice and easy solution.