I found the discourse around Starfield interesting. PS Fans seemed to want it prior to it's release. Then it dropped and that sentiment changed. Then it shifted to Xbox fans saying people downplayed the game because it wasn't on PS5. Meanwhile I got the game for free with GPU upgrade and felt like I was playing a game from 10 to 15 years ago. Is it a bad game? No. It's just a woefully average one. There does not seem to be a robust mod scene to bail Bethesda out this time.
So many aspects of Starfield lag behind games that preceded it. The weapons from Cyberpunk 2077 seemed more futuristic despite it being set a half century in the future. The gun play was average. The conversation interactions lag behind in Mass Effect 1's. The thing that Bethesda excelled it, well crafted environments that would lead to you something interesting off the beaten path was absent. They traded hand crafted interesting environments for generic and boring procedurally generated ones. If I had bought the game on Steam I'd have refunded it.
