Spade said:
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Lmao.
Verdict
It’s never a great sign when someone recommends a game on the grounds that it gets good after more than a dozen hours, but that’s very much the kind of game Starfield is, and I do recommend it. There are a lot of forces working against it, and the combination of disjointed space travel, nonexistent maps, aggravating inventory management, and a slow rollout of essential abilities very nearly did it in. It was the joys piloting a custom spaceship into and out of all sorts of morally ambiguous situations in a rich sci-fi universe that eventually pulled it out of a nosedive. I’m glad that I powered through the early hours, because its interstellar mystery story pays off and, once the ball got rolling, combat on foot and in space gradually became good enough that its momentum carried me into New Game+ after I’d finished the main story after around 60 hours. Like Skryim and Fallout 4 before it, there’s still an immense amount of quality roleplaying quests and interesting NPCs out there, waiting to be stumbled across, and the pull to seek it out is strong.
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They hated that slow start, although the slow rollout of abilities feels like a more hardcore RPG...
This doesn't feel like a 7/10 based on that verdict honestly, and this same dude gave Fallout 4 a 9.5/10, Lol.
| Spade said: Probs won't get nominated for GOTY |
Nope, it won't, too many titles this year which can slot into GOTY will push Starfield out.
Hopefully Hi-Fi Rush gets a nomination at least, it deserves it, I fear it will be overlooked because it released in January and it's more niche than the other GOTY contenders.
Ultimately won't matter, until Baldur's Gate 3 it was assumed that TotK basically had GOTY on lockdown and nothing will stop it, BG3 has changed that mindset at least but I still think TotK will take it, either way, nothing this year is beating TotK or BG3.
