Side note. Why can you not fecking rotate modules in the starship design. You can mirror some pieces but can't rotate. Arrrgh.
Gaming Starfield | Metacritic (Series X): 83, OpenCritic: 86
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As soon as it went below 85 metacritic I uninstalled the game.
Fair.
You seen the SOT news? Perfect time for you to try it with a friend*. And that's not a sarcastic dig for once
(*not friend(s) as that might be a struggle for you to sort out...ahhhh that was a relief! Held it in too long)
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Bastards
I was playing this morning
Mentiroso!
Btw pro tip - clicking the right thumb stick will do a melee attack
Because I pay for it each month and can cancel the service whenever I like...
Ignore that mate, I thought you meant the GP as a whole. Believe it or not loads on the likes of twitter/Reddit want to believe it might crumble if Starfield did
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I know that some people say that review scores on metacritic dont matter because its all subjective and that jazz but as a consumer with a limited budget who am i supposed to rely on when i have make decision about whether a game is worth the money or not? Personally i tend to not trust Ign and gamespot the least for AAA titles but in this instance i think they got it right. In general games that score high on metacritic are worth it but with Diablo 4 and Starfield you are kind of left with the feeling of being conned. I think its a certain sign when the developer withholds the game from certain reviewers that something is amiss.
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Ignore that mate, I thought you meant the GP as a whole. Believe it or not loads on the likes of twitter/Reddit want to believe it might crumble if Starfield did
I don't understand the backlash beyond it being not to someone's taste. I'm really enjoying it and the modding a DLC opportunities seem endless.
I don't understand the backlash beyond it being not to someone's taste. I'm really enjoying it and the modding a DLC opportunities seem endless.
Personally, I think it's decent enough. Disappointing in many areas, but surprisingly good in others.
Some of the backlash directed at what they were hyping/promised is fair, but a lot is just the weirdos who want to see games fail because they are on the "wrong" system or even in the wrong genre for them. Oddballs to say the least!
So far my impression is that more than anything else the game is simply... boring.
I was pushed into the main story about some generic artifact that I don't really care about, and came to a city that is seemingly populated entirely by fetch quests.
Seriously, if New Atlantis were any more bland I'd be in danger of mistaking it for tap water.
I'm going to fly away and look for some action though I can't say the combat impressed me - it's a little too bullet sponge-y.
I was pushed into the main story about some generic artifact that I don't really care about, and came to a city that is seemingly populated entirely by fetch quests.
Seriously, if New Atlantis were any more bland I'd be in danger of mistaking it for tap water.
I'm going to fly away and look for some action though I can't say the combat impressed me - it's a little too bullet sponge-y.
Get your hands on an advanced regulator. Oneshots most enemies and kills most tougher ones in a few shots.
I right trigger everything in sight. Pew Pew
Got a day off today so will be putting some more hours in.
Still having an awful lot of fun. Going to focus on the Rangers faction quest as I'm really digging Akila city.
Still having an awful lot of fun. Going to focus on the Rangers faction quest as I'm really digging Akila city.
One thing I like about the combat is how Halo it feels to jump over things, get in close and gun but to the head.
Screw pumping a hundred bullets into someone, get in there and slap them up for daring to even look at you!
Finished the final main quest
Starting a ng+ as a starborn seems cool enough. But you loose everything you own. All your weapons, money, resources everything. And ng+isnt scaled so since you get to keep your lvl, powers and skills you are overpowered, but i dont understand why they couldnt up the levels of all the enemies at least. Decent game but i dont think the game is engaging enough to start over. Like many have said the game picks up during combat the rest is somewhat of a snoozefest and the loading screens makes it difficult to sit through
In theory the ng+ is a brilliant idea, the alternate universes being different from one another could be so interesting, but it’s really half baked and a bit of a dud
In a short while you’ll have the opposite problem, even on the hardest difficulty you just wipe everything away. That combined with the bad AI and there’s just no challenge at all.
I actually did enjoy the combat though, especially in low grav. It’s not outstanding or anything but I found it fun.
I've made my way to Mars since then and wiped out an outpost populated by hostile spacers. Flying around with a jetpack while shooting bad guys who are taking cover and throwing grenades is the most fun I've had in this game yet. It's already more interesting than the main story so I've made the executive decision to just completely abandon that. My new goal is to become rich by shooting people.
managed to build a ship now without ladders. Apart from at the dock. Need to do a huge overhaul again to get the side entry docker. will do at some point.
I can't stop playing it. Every time I have more than 10 mins spare, I end up with the controller in my hand.
I can't stop playing it. Every time I have more than 10 mins spare, I end up with the controller in my hand.
I really felt they could have let you keep your weapons and ammo though. Im attached to my favourite weapons and having to find them again would be a grind. No doubt the game would easy enough, its just one of those things i dont want to redo
So, is the NG stuff actually the most amazing thing ever?
Because Todd and Alock seem to think it is. What's the verdict?
Because Todd and Alock seem to think it is. What's the verdict?
yeah agreed, even more so your ships, or at least a blueprint for them.
I think it was a great idea, but really poorly executed. It’s a shame because story wise it could have been really interesting, but it ends up only really amounting to a superficial change. As for the game as a whole I had a lot of fun, and I can see why some love it, but it just feels a little undercooked to me. I’d give it an 83
Yes it's goated
Tell me where you are in the game and show me screenshots of your ship.
I'm level 2 at New Atlantis how's that relevant?
I really enjoyed that too, one problem that comes up is the outposts tend to be recycled a hell of a lot, which dampened my enthusiasm.
I sound really negative but I did have a lot of fun, but your post was fair about the negatives. The main quest does open up and introduce a new system which is also kind of fun
very reminiscent of the shouts in skyrim
Redskys Review as a Lvl14:
+ Combat is fun despite being bullet spongy.
+ Artwork is pretty with a few exceptions (faces).
+ Starship builder is novel.
+ Toilet roll tubes.
+ Space Stations/Bases are well designed. Only found one repetition so far.
- Music is generic and forgettable.
- Companions get in the way ALL THE TIME.
- Companions and NPCs in general are boring and one note characters.
- Some of the locations are bland.
- Main Mission is shite.
- Throws you in the deep end with no explanation on any of the mechanics. Forcing players to read guides is not a well designed game.
- The AI is laughably bad.
- The way the game deals with occupying other ships is so fecking frustrating. Having your home ship removed is annoying as feck.
+ Combat is fun despite being bullet spongy.
+ Artwork is pretty with a few exceptions (faces).
+ Starship builder is novel.
+ Toilet roll tubes.
+ Space Stations/Bases are well designed. Only found one repetition so far.
- Music is generic and forgettable.
- Companions get in the way ALL THE TIME.
- Companions and NPCs in general are boring and one note characters.
- Some of the locations are bland.
- Main Mission is shite.
- Throws you in the deep end with no explanation on any of the mechanics. Forcing players to read guides is not a well designed game.
- The AI is laughably bad.
- The way the game deals with occupying other ships is so fecking frustrating. Having your home ship removed is annoying as feck.
I was hoping you had built a sandwich ship
So...Bethesda all over running on the same engine all their games do
It feels like to me a load of different gameplay components and they threw in a bland story and shitty writing as an after thought.
I understand the reasoning behind the skill tree, but it's highly frustrating that you can't craft stuff because it's behind a tier system. I am collecting so much shit that I can't use because i'm having to put my points into the stamina/commerce and lockpicking skills which are essential to playing the game without pulling your hair out. But that also means that my ship is full of crafting stuff which I can't do anything with.
I think what they probably should have done is give you 1 point per level for each tech tree. Maybe there's merchants that sells ways of unlocking tech trees? No idea. But it's really fecking annoying. It feels like the type of game where you have to play for 100+ hours just to reach the point of being able to actually do some of the more interesting shit because it's all hidden behind tech trees etc.
It's actually a deeply annoying game in many ways if I'm being honest. It's just a horrific grind, which currently is not so bad because most of the things i'm finding at the moment are unique, but when the repetition starts that's when it'll become a bit shite.
Yes. You and I both suffer a lot for our love of games, we both put up with endless shite too (including from a mutual friend
). Starfield is one of those weird ones where we know it's actually shite, but somehow there is something there that makes it better than expected.Like I've said from the moment I booted it up...the parts are all there. Once again it's just a shame they aren't used properly.
I think we can all agree it's better than Cyberpunk and that's all that matters
Careful now. As much as I enjoy watching you being wrong on here over and over, I don't want those kpop wannabes come round to your house and feck you up!
If it comes down to it locky, I've got your back there. Feck the cybertools.
If we’re judging the games as they are now, then I think Cyberpunk is the better game. I couldn’t stand Cyberpunk but gave it a go after completing Starfield, and it’s definitely a more well rounded experience, especially when it comes to the writing, setting and characters. That opinion may change when I put more hours into it, as I’ve played a ridiculous amount of Starfield, but as of now I definitely have Cyberpunk above Starfield.
It’s all subjective to an extent, Starfield has a lot more freedom in what you do, so I can see people who really enjoy the Bethesda blueprint loving it, and Cyberpunk has had a lot of time since launch to fix it. In a year or two Starfield could be amazing (for me, as im sure for some it’s already there).
If you showed a novice Cyberpunk now and on release, they wouldn't believe it was the same game. It's quite astonishing how they've managed to salvage the game, although not the financial losses I'm guessing.