Starfield | Review & Discussion Thread

[Nimrota]

Something else infuriatingly basic that makes me think the game was rushed is the number of text box pop ups for quests. A few examples:
- You are tracking some enemies through a canyon, check a muddy footprint on the ground to see which way they go. I thought you might use the scanner and use "detective vision" like how games such as Witcher 3 implement it. I click on the footprint, a textbox pops up "The tracks veer slightly left." What??? They couldn't even put footprints in the dirt for you to follow? The entire quest is this: walk to location, click quest market location, text box telling you a small statement, another quest marker to follow, repeat until you get to your destination.
- Need to access a computer to access data to track someone down. I click on the computer. "You notice some auxiliary power banks in the next room. They appear to use standard Power Cells", quest then updates to 3 quest markets to find power cells and bring them back to the power banks I "noticed" in the next room.
This is all intensely reductive and boring. Quest markers, text boxes, when do you get to solve puzzles yourself or find things in the world yourself? I can only guess the answer is NEVER which is par the course for Bethesda. The game feels worse than FO4 in several ways which is saying a lot.

 

[ethomaz]

Why does playstation employ someone that will spend 7 hours doing this shit on an Xbox exclusive
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I had to explain to him that the planet doesn’t even exists in the game… she can’t land on it.

I have no ideia what the point these guys that didn’t play the game wants to do.

 

[Jim Ryan]

 

[ethomaz]

Wait, the planets aren't there? You just go through them?

Yes. They are just bitmaps that cross over when reach it.

7 hours to reach that bitmap and fly thought it

For Xbots it is finally a winner

 

[KiryuRealty]

Something else infuriatingly basic that makes me think the game was rushed is the number of text box pop ups for quests. A few examples:
- You are tracking some enemies through a canyon, check a muddy footprint on the ground to see which way they go. I thought you might use the scanner and use "detective vision" like how games such as Witcher 3 implement it. I click on the footprint, a textbox pops up "The tracks veer slightly left." What??? They couldn't even put footprints in the dirt for you to follow? The entire quest is this: walk to location, click quest market location, text box telling you a small statement, another quest marker to follow, repeat until you get to your destination.
- Need to access a computer to access data to track someone down. I click on the computer. "You notice some auxiliary power banks in the next room. They appear to use standard Power Cells", quest then updates to 3 quest markets to find power cells and bring them back to the power banks I "noticed" in the next room.
This is all intensely reductive and boring. Quest markers, text boxes, when do you get to solve puzzles yourself or find things in the world yourself? I can only guess the answer is NEVER which is par the course for Bethesda. The game feels worse than FO4 in several ways which is saying a lot.

If Bethesda left it to the player to play the game by finding and acting on clues found in the environment, they’d have to put the effort in to make sure those clues appear, and we all know they can’t be bothered to put in the work for that.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Something else infuriatingly basic that makes me think the game was rushed is the number of text box pop ups for quests. A few examples:
- You are tracking some enemies through a canyon, check a muddy footprint on the ground to see which way they go. I thought you might use the scanner and use "detective vision" like how games such as Witcher 3 implement it. I click on the footprint, a textbox pops up "The tracks veer slightly left." What??? They couldn't even put footprints in the dirt for you to follow? The entire quest is this: walk to location, click quest market location, text box telling you a small statement, another quest marker to follow, repeat until you get to your destination.
- Need to access a computer to access data to track someone down. I click on the computer. "You notice some auxiliary power banks in the next room. They appear to use standard Power Cells", quest then updates to 3 quest markets to find power cells and bring them back to the power banks I "noticed" in the next room.
This is all intensely reductive and boring. Quest markers, text boxes, when do you get to solve puzzles yourself or find things in the world yourself? I can only guess the answer is NEVER which is par the course for Bethesda. The game feels worse than FO4 in several ways which is saying a lot.

it was delayed an entire year my dude.

 

[Nimrota]

it was delayed an entire year my dude.

Needed to be delayed another 2-3.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

I had to explain to him that the planet doesn’t even exists in the game… she can’t land on it.

I have no ideia what the point these guys that didn’t play the game wants to do.

I'm sure they're bots they have no brain whatsoever absolute thickos

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Already posted bro get with the programme

 

[Crow]

Needed to be delayed another 2-3.

Lmao. Dude why did you even bother to play? You hated the game before you even played it. lol. Im only level 13 and im 33 hours in! This game is loaded with content. I didnt experience any major bugs. Not even minor ones so far. Its polished. Only issue is optimizations. They need to get a update out for performance issues before the standard release comes out.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Lmao. Dude why did you even bother to play? You hated the game before you even played it. lol. Im only level 13 and im 33 hours in! This game is loaded with content. I didnt experience any major bugs. Not even minor ones so far. Its polished. Only issue is optimizations. They need to get a update out for performance issues before the standard release comes out.

If you're wanting a performance update youre sadly mistaken the performance is down to the shit engine they use & it will never get better just look at Skyrim it got re released numerous times & the performance never got better

 

[Would_you_kindly]

If you're wanting a performance update youre sadly mistaken the performance is down to the shit engine they use & it will never get better just look at Skyrim it got re released numerous times & the performance never got better

FFS 30 fps for a game that looks like it was developed for PS3 & Xbox 360

 

[Would_you_kindly]

FFS 30 fps for a game that looks like it was developed for PS3 & Xbox 360

People rightfully tore into Gotham knights for being 30fps when it looks worse than Arkham Knight where was that energy for this game

 

[Nimrota]

Lmao. Dude why did you even bother to play? You hated the game before you even played it. lol. Im only level 13 and im 33 hours in! This game is loaded with content. I didnt experience any major bugs. Not even minor ones so far. Its polished. Only issue is optimizations. They need to get a update out for performance issues before the standard release comes out.

Only a bad actor can take criticism of a product before release as hating it. I stated my concerns which have all been proven correct. You must be from the Peter Ovo style of playing games - leave them on idle for several hours. Seriously, I got to level 13 in less than 10h, are you just walking across the empty planets doing nothing? The game throws XP at you easily, I've barely done main quests and this is where I am. Lots of bugs also, evidenced by many people showing them off. Go and read the subreddit, lots of people there talking about them, why you need to lie about this I'm unsure.

The Peter Ovo reference BTW for those that don't know is that he said he played 18h and he loved it, but he had 4 achievements when he posted that. You get 4 achievements in 1-2hours. Based on that, he hadn't joined any factions, hadn't made an outpost, hadn't travelled around, I guess he was just walking across empty tiles for 18h considering he didn't engage with any of the actual content of the game.

 

[ethomaz]

People rightfully tore into Gotham knights for being 30fps when it looks worse than Arkham Knight where was that energy for this game

The big thing here is that 30fps become the norm for Xbox Series X 1st party games.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Only a bad actor can take criticism of a product before release as hating it. I stated my concerns which have all been proven correct. You must be from the Peter Ovo style of playing games - leave them on idle for several hours. Seriously, I got to level 13 in less than 10h, are you just walking across the empty planets doing nothing? The game throws XP at you easily, I've barely done main quests and this is where I am. Lots of bugs also, evidenced by many people showing them off. Go and read the subreddit, lots of people there talking about them, why you need to lie about this I'm unsure.

The Peter Ovo reference BTW for those that don't know is that he said he played 18h and he loved it, but he had 4 achievements when he posted that. You get 4 achievements in 1-2hours. Based on that, he hadn't joined any factions, hadn't made an outpost, hadn't travelled around, I guess he was just walking across empty tiles for 18h considering he didn't engage with any of the actual content of the game.

No one should take peterovo seriously he's the biggest fanboy there is he literally created a website to spread misinformation & paint Microsoft in a good light

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Is this spam guys it's an old email address
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[Nimrota]

No one should take peterovo seriously he's the biggest fanboy there is he literally created a website to spread misinformation & paint Microsoft in a good light

Yeah nobody should take him seriously, it's just funny that he'll say he's loving the game when his own data shows he isn't doing anything of note in the game.

 

[Crow]

Only a bad actor can take criticism of a product before release as hating it. I stated my concerns which have all been proven correct. You must be from the Peter Ovo style of playing games - leave them on idle for several hours. Seriously, I got to level 13 in less than 10h, are you just walking across the empty planets doing nothing? The game throws XP at you easily, I've barely done main quests and this is where I am. Lots of bugs also, evidenced by many people showing them off. Go and read the subreddit, lots of people there talking about them, why you need to lie about this I'm unsure.

The Peter Ovo reference BTW for those that don't know is that he said he played 18h and he loved it, but he had 4 achievements when he posted that. You get 4 achievements in 1-2hours. Based on that, he hadn't joined any factions, hadn't made an outpost, hadn't travelled around, I guess he was just walking across empty tiles for 18h considering he didn't engage with any of the actual content of the game.

your concerns aren't correct lol. Almost all of them are opinion based. I've been playing doing quests and talking to everybody. I've been to Neon, Akila city. I don't shoot everything i seen. I'm not really interesting in procedural content. So not really planet exploring so far. Im sure their are bugs but nothing close to a buggy mess. BG3 had thousands of bugs, but it wasnt a buggy mess.

 

[Crow]

The mod potential for this game is insane. I expect to see a lot of cool shit in the upcoming months