Starfield, or, eating lasagna and hating Mondays, IN SPACE

https://www.pcmag.com/news/playing-starfield-on-pc-requires-an-ssd

this feels at least 5 years too late to be exciting anymore. sorry todd

Give us TES VI pls. Don’t care about space

I'm the exact opposite! Keep your dragons, give me exoplanets!

if I were still a gamer, and had the time to play games, and the ludicrously specced gaming pc required, I would play the shit out of this :(

I only just got the pun in the thread title. This is PC and XBox only, right? Thanks, Microsoft.

125 GB SSD required.

This is coming out on GamePass, and I’m curious it’ll have on BG3 talk

Kinda glad this is not on PS5 so I don't have to consider it. In some ways it looks like it could be the kind of immersive space RPG that I wanted Wing Commander to become, but on the other hand it seems like it could be mostly boring first-person shooter gameplay?

Tbh I only heard about this because apparently some dumb Starfield anticipators have some sort of vendetta against Armored Core releasing around the same time.

on the other hand it seems like it could be mostly boring first-person shooter gameplay?

Have you played Skyrim? I think it's going to be closer to that than, I dunno, Doom -- the combat isn't going to be the main draw for this.

No, never played it!

Expect janky combat -- the draw for Bethesda games are the side quests, narrative, and overwhelming size of their worlds (and putting bowls on the heads of NPCs).

this seems like another cyberpunk situation where the game's scope is smaller than 'giant seamless open world game with every type of gameplay and infinite possibilities' but no one working on it is allowed to temper peoples expectations

anyway it's going into early access this weekend so it'll become clear soon enough

Got really excited about the possibility of a surrealist space Garfield game, why you mislead me, Leee?

Sorry emil.y, maybe this thread can be inspiration for you!

Anyway, seems like the game is just fine: https://kotaku.com/starfield-reviews-metacritic-score-xbox-bethesda-rpg-1850792392

Couple of days yet, but been watching couple of streams on this (because I doubt I'm probably every going to buy it).

It's pretty much what I was expecting so far, F4 in space. Not seen any crashes, and only a few not bothersome glitches.

Woof, this sucks. Atrocious UI, I’ve put about 8 hours in and I still can’t comfortably get around the menus to save my life. I thought the space navigation was garbage, but then I discovered ship building and spent maybe 30 minutes trying to make one small modification.

Some genuinely shit quests that are boring at best and actively annoying at worst. Chatty, obnoxious companions inappropriately interjecting in your ear. I found a derelict ship that turned out to be a casino overrun by pirates that you have to fight in zero g. That should be fun, right? It miraculously wasn’t.

Finally threw the towel in when I was getting blown to hell in orbit by space cops seemingly everywhere I’d try to go for reasons that weren’t clear at all (no contraband on board, unless the hat I took out of a dead guy’s room counts).

Went in genuinely wanting to like this, but it really did everything it could to wear that goodwill out.

I played an hour, decided there are 100 better games I'd rather play first, so I'm doing that instead.

I stuck with this because I put in enough hours and I’ve read/heard enough about if you get to like the 10-12 hour mark (lol) it gets kinda fun.

It does and I’m finding myself getting into it. It still has a lot of problems, classic Bethesda ones and some new ones. Still think the UI sucks. It has the Fallout 4 thing of giving you a limited band of options for an RPG. Bad writing on the whole, sometimes comically so.

But… I still find myself just enjoying hanging out in this world and exploring things. It still has the Bethesda ~vibes~ thing that kind of gets to you. Like running back to your ship after a mission on a planet but it’s getting dark now and it’s raining as you power up and zoom off. Something cozy about it.

holy menus

I think I’m enjoying it… despite the menus, the UI, the janky combat, all the fast travelling… I think…

I heard it takes about 128 hours of gameplay until it gets going

feels like there’s far too much fast travelling. part of the charm of FO3/FONV was exploring the world on foot and happening across lots of weird and wonderful things by chance

that’s ok. I’ll still keep playing this garbage