Starfield

The greater sin for me was that Starfield laid bare all the flaws with every other Bethesda game.

• The pseudo-choice that doesn't really make any difference to the story. You can do every faction's quest line. Making a choice doesn't preclude you making a different one once that quest line is done, nor does it have any effect on those other questlines going forward. Choosing the Freestar Rangers should, if not preclude you from joining the commonwealth, then at least have come up in the conversation when you're trying to convince the Freestar Ambassador to open the archive (for example).

• The inevitable stat building in the same direction because it's simply the easiest way to play the game. You always end up a stealth archer. You always end up a sneak sniper, etc... You can try your best to spec for something else early on, and then quickly realize that it's not really all that much fun.

• The impermanence of being a bad guy. Pay your bounty and suddenly everyone forgets.

In other Bethesda games, the storylines and atmosphere and sidequests were generally enough to forgive this kind of thing. But Starfield was so humdrum that you couldn't help but be annoyed by the same quirks that you forgave in other games.

I wonder how much overlap said fanbase has with the generic "Bethesda Softworks" fanbase, and how much of said fanbase has played other open-world RPGs released in the last decade.

The reviews on starfield, at launch, weren't actually all that harsh. Even now it has an 83 metacritic.

Bethesda, my dick has a fanbase of one.

Albeit a veylry very very small one

The most infuriating thing about Starfield is its potential. Another year to flesh out the system with a few interesting spots and work out the NPC quirks and that alone would bump it up from high C tier to B. Fundamentally the game just could have been amazing and that is perhaps the biggest reason why I'm, at least, so disappointed by Bethesda. Lots of honestly rather little issues that culminate into a mediocre experience that can and does often get boring quickly.

I wonder how many people regret their purchase like I do. I played 30 hours, dropped out and haven't looked back. It wasn't a terrible game, just not something that clicked with me in any way. If it weren't for the steep price I would not have forced myself to keep playing even that long, I was bored very soon.

I thought I could try the expansion on Game Pass, but turns out they only sell it and do not give it to Game Pass users for free, so I am not resubbing Game Pass and definitely not buying the DLC for another 30€. What a weird decision of them, could have given the game a new push of players.

Even when I look at the mods available I am just not drawn to it.

This is only the second game that I regret buying on release (not the pre-release, I was at least not that hyped) or at all since Watchdogs 1, but that I enjoyed in the end, it was just not what I had hoped for but still carried me to the end credits. I don't think I will see them for Starfield ever.

Glad that it has a fan base, just sad that it isn't for me.

I like the game but the latest DLC is utter crap, I'm not paying $30 for that.

I mean… Trump has fans. So… let’s not run to the “fans = good” equivalency.

I mean, it was ok and I quite enjoyed it.

But, I’ve played Skyrim through probably a dozen times. Fallout 4, 3, NV likewise. I might play the Starfield DLC but I struggle to imagine I’ll play through the whole game start to finish ever again.

Just like Morbius.

...is this fan base in the room with us now?

I mean, the NG+ mechanic is handled incredibly well.

The rest of the game is decent, but it's definitely geared towards kids. Probably the "cleanest" modern rpg, there's still some drugs/booze, but that's pretty much it. And while you can be evil, there's not a single evil companion. It's like a PG fallout in space.

But considering all the bad things I heard about it. I was really surprised with how good of a game it was.