Starfield hits ‘mostly negative’ on Steam, players complain of boredom
Starfield hits ‘mostly negative’ on Steam, players complain of boredom
Previously sitting at 'mixed', Starfield's Steam rating has dropped to 'mostly negative', with players describing the game as boring.
The worst thing a video game can do is be boring. Buggy games can be fun as you laugh at the absurdity of the physics. That was honestly one of the reasons I stuck with fallout 3, because I loved that you could turn someone supersonic with enough landmines. Even if the game crashes and you lose progress, you can't lose the fun you had playing the game.
I recently replayed fallout 3 after starfield failed to scratch my Bethesda itch, and I realized how much more alive the world felt (and how much less often I saw a loading screen when doing quests).
Really, really wanted to like this game. Morrowind was like, my entire childhood. Bethesda have been on a downward spiral for so long to me and I've completely lost my faith in their titles. Starfield felt soulless to me when I played. A game that's supposed to be about an organization of explorers, where the exploration consists of fast travel and loading screens. Starfield did a lot of things and it didn't do any of them phenomenally, and only a few of them adequately.
It certainly seems telling that everytime a news story about Starfield comes up, the picture with it is just a boring headshot of some normal looking person (or occasionally a pic of the ship builder). Bethesda's other games at least had distinct looks, some sense of art and aesthetic that gave them identity, even Oblivion's potato people.
I did the story and enjoyed it, just gotta get over the whole space sim mentality, this is a Bethesda game set in space, and it's decent at that.
However there is 0 fucking chance I'm gonna play though it 10 times just for an Easter egg. Their implementation of new game was kind of disappointing.
NG+ was a pretty big disappointment. There are a couple of dialogue choices which reference [Starborn] but for the most part you have to play questlines all over again as if you weren't Starborn at all. Seriously, I've lived through this situation seven times already - why can't I cut to the fucking chase that I know exists.
I'm holding out to see if the updates this year bring some life into the game, but I have doubts.
I liked it well enough. I didn't even hate the loading screens all that much.
Flying and docking gets really old, really fast. I'd be willing to bet that most of the people who complain that they have a loading screen for docking probably forget that within a few hours into Elite Dangerous they probably just hit the auto-dock key because repeatedly doing it yourself gets boring as hell.
What disappointed me was that there is simply no reason to replay it post-starborn. Sure...some things "might" be a little different. But it's fundamentally the same experience. So if you've completed most of the questlines before moving to the final mission (like I usually do), there is no reason to keep playing the game.
New Universes is just wasted potential. I wanted my post Starborn life to have the ability to jump between universes, like we were able to in that one mission in the research lab. That was great. And it's a power that should definitely exist.
Imagine you jump into a universe where Sam Coe is somehow the leader of the Crimson Fleet, and in order to accomplish a mission in one universe, you need to steal/get something from the Crimson Fleet, and instead of fighting your way through, you are able to go to the Universe where Sam Coe is the leader and use what you know about him to gain his trust so that he gives it to you and you can take it back with you.
THAT is what I wanted post-starborn; the ability to fundamentally change HOW I complete missions I had already done. What I got was...hey, this person dies instead of this person. So frustrating
Huh… interesting. I got so bored of it that I forgot about it and moved the fuck on. I’m bored of most games, even the “good ones.”
I'm enjoying the game.
I do get the criticism. It does feel like it's missed the mark a bit in terms of what I envisioned for a Bethesda space sim. But it's still fun to me.
Yeah it gets pretty repetitive in some areas
I just used mods and a game trainer to make the game more fun and explore places without limitations like in game money or ship fuel
But other then the exploration the game does get pretty boring and it's hard to find good places to explore that aren't bland
Edit: it also misses the same charm skyrim had, people say it doesn't have the same charm because it's a space game but I disagree
I can't say much on behalf of the game. I played a total of an hour or so, game was non-appealing and I could tell I wasn't going to like the skill/weapon system. It was just meh on all sides. I can see why it hit mostly negative.
Guess I should review it... Been too busy having fun playing it to do that yet