From the time I heard about this game, I was very excited to finally be able to play it and it was the sole reason I decided to buy my Series X one year ago. About three months ago, all the bad news started rolling in and each time I heard more news, the less excited I became to play it. First, it was the game would be locked to 30fps. In this current gen, it’s also a deal breaker for me due to how bad Gotham Knights and Redfall was. I was surprised to see so many people defend this decision, to be honest. Then shortly after that, the news came about no ground vehicles or mounts, which would ensure the game to have slow and boring traversal. I kind of lost track of all the other letdowns I heard, but there were many. Even though I had lost most of my hope this game would be as great as everyone was hyping it up to be, I still wanted to just play it for myself. Just before release, I heard about no local area maps and invisible walls that cut players off from fully exploring entire planets, which contradicts what was said from developers. Overall, the game does play a lot like Fallout 4, a game that’s about 10 years old. Having said that, the game does have some good value to it, but definitely doesn’t deserve any of the praise it’s getting or any reviews over 3/5 or 7/10. I believe the game was rushed and released way too soon. The developers needed more time to polish up the game. Maybe another 3-4 months or even one year would have been good. As it is, the game is playable, but not a contender for game of the year. The most similar launch I’ve seen in recent years was Cyberpunk 2077. It was a mess at launch and now it’s a great game, worthy of GOTY. I hope to see Bethesda continue to fix the game and polish it up like it deserves.

Please add accessibility settings! It’s very sad they don’t exist and being color blind I can’t see some of the HUD’s info like environmental damage and character injury.

Skyrim in space…what’s not to like?!

Don’t expect no mans sky. Expect an amazing rpg experience.

The best game I've ever played

At it's best it's an 8, at it's worse it's a 5 but the good outweighs the bad. Should Bethesda be promising beyond what is capable from their studio? No. But I kept my tempered expectations and they paid off with this game. While most complaints I've heard are valid, the end product is still a style of casual action RPG that I am interested in playing. Now if we could get another non MMO Fallout entry this decade, that'd be swell.

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Don't buy it. This game is boring and do not make player to believe in its empty shelled world. I played TES series, fallout series, even Fallout 76 and in any of this games you likes something (world, mechanics, gameplay, lore, story and etc), but Starfield don't have anything to like. Its just empty shell.

For me the combat is too monotonous. The enemies are very similiar, the AI is poor, the weapon feedback is limpy. If you also hoped for combat like in Mass Effect 2 and 3 you will be disappointed. Also playing BG3 before, the dialogues and the story feel dull.

Its just a mediocre game there is nothing new in this game you can not see in other games. It's not bad it's just meh

I played it the first week it came out, and then stopped and had no desire to pick it up again. It's boring, vastly empty, and did I mention boring? I played a side quest that was 30 times as interesting as the main. Fast traveling, and the cutscenes that accompany it, are tedious. No reason or incentive to explore or build an outpost, unless you download a mod that lets you craft ammo, then maybe you can get some use out of it. I went to EARTH, EARTH FFS, and it was completely desolate. Nothing worth note. At all. How disappointing. Ships are beyond hideous and thus a terrible, unrewarding experience to make, and there's not even really much point in having one. If you like pressing one button to open your journal, two more to get to your destination, watching the same cutscene you've seen 217 other times, and then fighting some unintelligent AI aimbots, THIS GAME IS FOR YOU. Tragic, because I've been a huge Bethesda fan and literally have the Oblivion symbol tattooed on my chest. I wouldn't get the Starfield logo tattooed on me if I were paid.

the encumbrance mechanic is what ultimately led me to uninstall this game. the starting backpack capacity is tiny and there's no way of knowing early on what items are useful and what are just junk. the mechanic of running out of oxygen and losing all your health when you're overencumbered is terrible. there's just nothing fun about encumbrance mechanics and there never has been, it's just something a game shouldn't include in the year 2023. with that being said i also had myriad other issues and complaints about this game. the combat and gunplay is utterly dreadful, the robot companion kept pushing me out of cover and into enemy gunfire because for some reason companions don't clip through you. the game teaches you absolutely nothing in the first few hours so you have to just sort of fumble through all of the controls and mechanics which are all obscenely overcomplicated, especially the ship controls and navigation. when it comes to the missions it's almost always unclear where you have to go and what you're supposed to be doing, the lack of minimap and obvious waypoints is staggering. i can see why bethesda fanboys are raving about this game in the same way that i could understand someone who has only ever eaten porridge being excited the first time they're given a bowl of cheerios but as someone that has actually played good games everything about this feels like a mundane chore rather than an exciting adventure. absolutely do not bother.

Space Skyrim saved my life... Fr though we as a gaming community needed this. Thank you again Bethesda!

It's just mediocre. Combats been simplified so there's less involvement there. The space exploration is well terrible. The sites to see are there but it feels empty. I wouldn't suggest purchasing it.

fun for the first 2-3 questlines that aren't just fetch quests. Also if you want to have a fun time steer clear of any kind of space combat because they really tried their hardest to make it as terrible as possible. Also the whole reveal with the artifact honestly made me lose even more interest in the game that I barely had.

The game is simply copy paste of mass effect andromeda with a bethesda touch and an outdated engine the engine was basically made for fallout and it's Post apocalyptic word with pale colors but they used it anyway eventhough a space game should have bright and vivid colors let alone the very poor performance on a 2060s powered pc the game is just a mess made with fallout and prey leftovers baked into one word really disappointed

I honestly tried to like the game but I just couldn't. Even with a good PC I couldn't run the game on low settings and get a steady 30FPS. The story was terrible, NPC's were creepy and unnatural and the amount of menus you have to go through to land the ship is exhausting. Honestly, save you money and play something else

Boring

For a big game from big studio which was being in development for about 10 years, you get storyline very similar to Mass Effect, very few characters to talk to inside each location, very few opportunities to interact with NPCs, very few locations to go to on each planet and repetitive graphics. Difficult to master without support from online guides and underpolished mechanics with some characters holding "invisible" guns and companions talking over each other.

Great game that gives modern Mass Effect vibes.