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Starfield was the best-selling game of September, instantly becoming the 7th best-selling game of 2023 year-to-date.

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Weighing in with my anecdote: none of my friends were that excited about it. Lots of friends, even ones who are kind of casual about games or don't prioritize them as much as they used to, were real excited about Baldur's gate 3.

Nothing I heard about starfield made it sound especially new or exciting. I'll probably get it when it's on sale for cheap, but I paid full price for bg3 and felt like it was worth it.
- As someone who basically finished it (was putting off the final mission until I wrapped up the side quests, but then got bored and haven't bothered to pick it back up to finish it) I think waiting for a sale is the best choice
  
  For one thing, by then there will be mods, and this game desperately needs some mods to make it better, lots of QoL issues or half-assed gameplay that could be improved by mods
  
  But it also is pretty much as you describe, it's a fine game, but nothing to really get excited about. I had some fun with it, I also got bored of it pretty quickly. And for a game whose story is literallt built around the concept of Newgame+, there's very little reason to actually do one, because there aren't many different routes you can go - you can really only play as "Savior of the Galaxy", every other playstyle you might try leaves you actively fighting against the game
  
  If I picked it up for less than $40, id call it money well spent on an alright game that can kill a week or two of evenings, but for full price I'm left feeling a bit ripped off
  
  Phantom liberty on the other hand is a straight up BANGER, Cyberpunk is so much fun. Played Starfield for a bit then PL dropped and I don't think I've thought about it once since then haha.
  
  I don't even own the game yet but after watching one gameplay video, i looked to see if there's a mod to speed up the airlock doors. Thankfully yes.
And I have stopped playing and won't pick it up again unless they make some big changes. So much for having the longevity of Skyrim.
- It's already dropped off Steam's Top Seller list. Big name developer, lots of hype, kind of mediocre game. Not actively bad, so it didn't get the CP2077 hate, just nothing special.
  
  And for a game where exploration is a major theme, exploration is pretty strongly disincentivized. I gotta spend 3 minutes holding W to get to the closest point of interest from whatever my landing site was, and there's nothing but empty planet and a couple lead nodes in between? Or I can just pull up the quest and fast travel to the desto, skipping all the walking and loading screens?
  
  Ironically CP77 has better steam ratings at its launch that starfield has.
  
  Was BG3 on the Top Sellers list longer than a month?
It came with my framework laptop gpu. Wonder if that counts towards sales.
- Pretty sure it does, same with bundled gpus
  
  There was also the $30 I think upgrade for game pass. Which I think gave the early access and expansion pass. So even if game pass downloads don't count, upgrades probably do.
Good by any other standards than Bethesda’s.
- Ha, right.
  
  You mean "only good by the bethesda standard, and fails any other metric test"
- I'd argue it's the exact opposite - it's pretty good by Bethesda standards (in that it's relatively stable with lots of the kinds of content Bethesda likes to add), but bad by most other standards

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