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smroadkill15 on 29 December 2023
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Chazore said:
Norion said:

Did you seriously just try to use the Steam reviews that have been getting increasingly negative over time and have been mostly negative for the past several weeks as evidence for Starfield being well received overall? There has been a clear trend in its reception since launch and it has not been positive. The biggest Xbox release of the year getting this much negative and middling reception undeniably brings their year down at least somewhat and combined with stuff like Forza Motorsport and Redfall their year has been quite mixed for them software wise. I hope 2024 is better since Xbox needs a strong year.

Also ignoring the Steam threads, the countless mods being used on PC to FIX THE GAME, or the constant talks on YT of the issues with the game's mechanics, really poorly written story, to a point where Pete Hines spends a chunk of time bitching at anyone who has anything to say that isn't outright praise to the game as "wrong", and so on.


Also to note that SF was one of the biggest releases this year, and yet it won nothing at TGA this year, whilst other games, even those smaller ended up winning awards and earning high praise. The ones I've seen who give praise and don't challenge Beth, have given off impressions that they:

Don't care about actual good writing (Many people have proven beth's bad writing for years now).

Don't care about the plethora of loading screens.

Don't care that this is once again another Beth game releasing with an assload of bugs.

Don't care about dated mechanics.

Don't care about having or leaving a footprint within the game's world.

I know Sony isn't doing any better, turning to live service crap, turning Insomniac into a Marvel machine, and so on, but Xbox really need to get it's collective shit together, and those who even like the brand, need to actually challenge MS, not bat for them, actually challenge them (which involves the lack of praise and the desire to want refinement).

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Now critic reception matters when talking about awards? Lol. A lot of great games came out this year. Plenty of other well made games got snubbed for varies awards as well. It doesn't mean much. Sony won as many awards as Starfield did so that should tell you something lol. 

I thought the writing in the game was pretty good. I really don't understand this issue. Certainly not terrible like you are saying it is.

Loading screen can be annoying but not enough to ruin the game. Most are less than 10 seconds. 

The game being a buggy mess is over blown. Considering the scale of the game, it's well polished. After my 85 hours I ran into only a handful of bugs, mostly small, and only had one crash. Starfield is considerable less buggy than other Bethesda games as launch. 

As far as gameplay goes. I've enjoyed the gunplay. It feels smooth and responsive. Easily Bethesda's best feeling. People seem to still enjoy older Bethesda games with those same dated mechanics, but not it's a problem.

Leaving a footprint on the gaming world? Lol. It's not that serious. People can enjoy the game for what it is. 

Of course I could go over all the things it does. Shooting mechanics feel responsive and fun. Fantastic soundtrack. Great ship building mechanics and design. Overall graphics and look, especially environments, are great. Flying combat is solid. Plenty of varied locations and set pieces give it sense of scale of how big the universe is. Some great side missions and faction missions. An interesting way of tackling new game+. 

I'm getting bored of this conversation and thread in general. Later.