PC Gaming

8581 readers

217 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

Be Respectful.
No Spam or Porn.
No Advertising.
No Memes.
No Tech Support.
No questions about buying/building computers.
No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Starfield has lost 97% of its Steam players in less than six months (archive.is)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

149 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (18 children)

I mean part of that is people just finishing the game. That's fine.

But also the consensus seems to be the game is at best "okay", and people won't be going back to it like they do with Skyrim.

I'm not sure if anyone at Bethesda honestly expected it to be better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (7 children)

People are still playing skyrim

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Not every game can be Skyrim and setting the bar that high is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Skyrim was pretty bad. I'd say it's a pretty low bar. They did get the overall atmosphere right though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Regardless of your personal preferences, I don't think it's reasonable to call Skyrim's longevity and continued active user base a low bar

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like the "there are dozens of us! Dozens!" meme when I'm like I didn't think Skyrim was very good. The story was mostly thin, the combat wasn't great, the systems were shallower than the previous games, the leveling wasn't great (the scaling was better than oblivion but that's a lot bar).

I played it a lot but a lot of that was trying to get it into something I liked via mods.

Edit: I think Skyrim also has a certain meme status, where people who don't play a lot of games play it. That's a very loose measurement of quality.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The whole point of Skyrim is modding the shit out of it. Not actually playing it.

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (13 replies)