2 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 32.8 hrs on record (18.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: 6 Sep, 2023 @ 3:37am

Think of this game as Fallout in space as any other idea, expectation or experience will make you want to fall into a black hole of fun.

]Cons:
  • Loading screens and janky UI take my immersion away
    You may as well go to a loading screen and fast travel than actually use your ship. You can "travel" to objects in space, but you need to load onto them anyway to access them. Not to mention the space flight content is deliberately designed to make achieving that borderline impossible.
  • Ship customization: It's fairly in depth, yet, its basically just a loading screen mule to carry your loot with you because most things in space are fairly pointless.
  • 1000 planets are bait. Just a bunch of generic events or POIs. Seems like they ripped the gameplay mechanic from NMS and Space Engineers without properly supporting the reason why you find materials in that way because its to heavily do with tech progressions or needed so you can carry on exploring and finding things. While you do craft mods and spacechips in this game, you can largely ignore it and be fine (See Freestar Coective, NG+ and one of the later main story missions for instance)
  • AI: Yeah its so quirky that Bethesda is allowed to have ♥♥♥♥ AI in their games and get away with it. If you run around most lower level enemies in this game you can recreate some clips straight from launch day Redfall. Other times expect your companions to get stuck in stupid things, enemies to no clip into things if they have boost packs.
  • Campaign is a bunch of fetch quests where you can potentially load and fast travel around five times in the space of around 2 minutes in some of the more obscene parts of it.

    ]Pros:
    • Gunplay seems largely better than previous BGS titles
    • Romance and character dialogue is better than it has been. But if you played BG3 going into this it still seems like this is an indie game in comparison because of how far leaps and bounds BG3 has improved over the choice meta in RPGS.
    • Graphics: While Starfield is still a bit of a pastry looking game with outdated character modelling, there are some moments of really nice beauty with the way they did planets, atmosphere, sunlight, etc. So, i'll give credit where its due.
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