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Kyo said:
So for someone that hasn't played this before. How much would you say the current game is worth. Based on the general consensus it's not worth paying full price right?
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I got 34 hours I mostly enjoyed out of it. There's some cool experiences in there, and it's not miserable rubbish. It's just so much less than it feels like it should be; and flawed in ways I think will be pretty unfixable.

It's on a 1/3rd off right now; I think it's reasonable value at that price.
 
917 hours. Now starting to get a bit bored, so if I understand how this thread works I should now be complaining about what a let-down the game is. At the moment I'm doing challenges. I tried Vow of Silence first, and it's a pain. The rules are: from the moment you tell Sarah that you need to clear your head you aren't allowed to talk to a human being. You can't buy or sell, you can't accept quests from people, only from terminals. Fighting on the ground is OK, but space combat is seriously hobbled. You need to build a settlement to mod ships, and you can't afford most pieces.

Now I'm trying only using the perks from one group. First up, only Combat. You are a god of death on the ground, rubbish in space because you can't built anything beyond a basic A class ship. I managed to take out a level 38, a level 30 and a level 22 ships in a single fight, but it took three attempts. Only Tech is the opposite: lethal ships, but underpowered on land. Now I'm on Science - pretty rubbish at both.
 
Cant believe this game is still as buggy as it is.

I found I couldn't aim down the sights of my gun at one point.

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And landing on the planets for particular missions is really confusing.

Mission "land at farm".

Set way point and press x to fast travel.

Arrive at destination, press m again to bring up map and set landing on blue marker.

Land. Get off ship and find that the blue marker is actually still pointing at the ship.

Back to ship, take off.

Repeat the above again, get off ship to find yet again the blue marker is pointing at the ship!

Take off again and this time I find a new landing marker for the actually mission I am on. (－‸ლ)
 
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Have recently tried this again and it just does not grab me one bit...
Between Skyrim, Fallout 3, NV, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 I've got over 5k hours played so am normally a Bethesda RPG lover but this just misses for me by a wide margin.

Between the endless loading screens, a game map that is simply too big and confusing and world spaces which soon start to become boring and ultimately pointless, I just cannot bring myself to even cheat or mod my way to the end....also the space combat is gash!
It just doesnt have that mystery or lure that previous titles had that made you want to explore the world in the hope that a sneaky dev had stashed away something you havent seen before in an unmarked location.

I think personally I would have preferred 1 solar system with 5-6 planets, with tighter map spaces and more localised hand crafted areas to experience. A damn shame really because I was hoping I would be sinking hours into it for years to come :(
 
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Columbo said:
Have recently tried this again and it just does not grab me one bit...
Between Skyrim, Fallout 3, NV, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 I've got over 5k hours played so am normally a Bethesda RPG lover but this just misses for me by a wide margin.

Between the endless loading screens, a game map that is simply too big and confusing and world spaces which soon start to become boring and ultimately pointless, I just cannot bring myself to even cheat or mod my way to the end....also the space combat is gash!
It just doesnt have that mystery or lure that previous titles had that made you want to explore the world in the hope that a sneaky dev had stashed away something you havent seen before in an unmarked location.

I think personally I would have preferred 1 solar system with 5-6 planets, with tighter map spaces and more localised hand crafted areas to experience. A damn shame really because I was hoping I would be sinking hours into it for years to come :(
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Game is crap.

If you want an rpg to sink your teeth in to try BG3.
 
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opethdisciple said:
Game is crap.

If you want an rpg to sink your teeth in to try BG3.
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Would love to, but turn based combat along with card games bore the absolute snot outta me. I've tried loads of turn based games on multiple occassions to try and get over my detest of them but they just are not for me. Not the games problem of course.

Its clearly a masterpiece and deserved every ounce of the praise its getting but the D&D ruleset (whatever that is, I've no idea :cry:) and the turn based stuff is just not my cup of brew, if it had been real time combat I would have been on it like a fly on turds but alas its just not my thing.
 
I feel the same about BG3, it looks fantastic, it's just a genre I have ever got on with.

I have put Starfield on the back burner for a year, hopefully by then it should have improved.
 
My interest is waining. Its only the graphics keeping my interest as they look truly awesome in some locations in HDR on my OLED.

I normally do all the side mission but as mentioned they start to seem pointless and repetitive.

I'm only level 36 and have 7 points to spend buy nothing seems interesting. My guns and ship seem OP already and I don't have any interest (or see the point) in outposts or research. Can make money quick just shooting/looting.


Its shame really at it starts of exciting and you want to get a money and a great ship etc. Then you get them too quickly and then there isnt anything to aspire to. I took the perk with the big mansion but Ive only been once and cannot remember where it is now or why I would go.


I've started just doing the main story and factions quests to get it finished.
 
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OK, so maybe I over reacted a little when I said it was crap. It's just there is way to many loading screens which breaks the immersion.

Also a lot of the side quests are pretty simple etc...

I've played about 15hrs so far and the game is a very average 6/10.

Was definitely expecting more.
 
Benofacter said:
i have a feeling that like Skyrim and Cyberpunk, this may actually be a decent game in 24 months time, its just pretty horrible right now.
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I don't think so. It seems to me that the issues with Starfield are so woven into the structure of the game that it is essentially unfixable. Some stuff can be cleaned up and improved, and that'll satisfy some people, but it'll never be a great game.
 
Mr Jack said:
I don't think so. It seems to me that the issues with Starfield are so woven into the structure of the game that it is essentially unfixable. Some stuff can be cleaned up and improved, and that'll satisfy some people, but it'll never be a great game.
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Like polishing a turd.


I dunno...... It's the complete lack of immersion, but I reckon with... a lot.... if work it could be possible.

Like some things in the game that make no sense or they just couldn't be bothered to do:

1. Add survival mode.

They have beds, food and drink, they've had the mechanics in previous games going back over 10 years, why not in Starfield? (Because they just couldn't be arsed it seems)

2. Add oxygen

Bit like Astroneers, maybe not quite as harsh, but say you got 30 minutes, you can upgrade it or whatever, but make it a limited amount, need resources

3. Make ship fuel actually have purpose and a usable resource

Something I never understood, to go to far away planet you need more fuel tanks, eg a higher capacity, but that then seems to last forever????? Does it just magically refuel (seems so)

4. Give waaaaay more purpose and functionality to outpost building (just add the stuff from fallout 4)

5. Add a lot more more into planets, sorry the copy and paste procedural system must have taken them all of 5 minutes to implement.


.....but if they added some of if this adding survival elements to the game, it would add immersion, and build that into base building (eg to make fuel away from settlements) to start giving of the stuff purpose.

You know, land on new planet, ok limited oxygen, have to find X or do Y to solve that first, then need food and water supply, then need fuel.

Also change the game breaking loot and sell vendor economy.

Right now everything in the game is just pointless, breaks immersion.
 
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