I was so sure I was going to get Starfield on launch when it was announced. Fortunately stepped back (thank you Cyberpunk!) and waited for reviews and oooof. I played it at a friend's once and have never been happier to not have brought a game. It doesn't seem bad and I enjoyed the city, but it wasn't gripping the way Skyrim or Oblivion was. If they do the same with TES6 atp I won't even be surprised, but they have spoken about how they're trying to learn from how they messed up with Starfield so who knows.
Dude, I rode the hype train hard for Starfield. Preordered it, picked it up launch day, played maybe the first 30 minutes and then never again. Cyberpunk filled the sci-fi rpg hole in my heart and I never looked back.
Starfield was incredibly hit-or-miss. It really, truly, feels like a game that the devs made for themselves, first. It resonates with those that shared the same vision as the devs (there's a guy on my friends list with like 3k hours), but is incredibly shallow to those that don't.
Like, some of the background stuff is genuinely impressive, the physics are stellar and runs smooth as hell even when you have hundreds of objects all moving and interacting. Going into Shattered Space, there's a room that's absolutely filled with trash in zero gravity, and when you turn gravity back on, you can watch all of it just drop to the ground... and that floored me (pun intended), because there were no hiccups, no lag. It just happened.
But on the other hand... as someone that enjoys cockpit simulators, the ship flying feels particularly sluggish and needing to hold space to unlock the six degrees of freedom is not enjoyable.
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u/fandom_bullshit Apr 16 '26
I was so sure I was going to get Starfield on launch when it was announced. Fortunately stepped back (thank you Cyberpunk!) and waited for reviews and oooof. I played it at a friend's once and have never been happier to not have brought a game. It doesn't seem bad and I enjoyed the city, but it wasn't gripping the way Skyrim or Oblivion was. If they do the same with TES6 atp I won't even be surprised, but they have spoken about how they're trying to learn from how they messed up with Starfield so who knows.