***The Official Starfield Thread*** (As endorsed by TNA)

Kelt said:
I just realised...I've pre-ordered a game.

I never pre-order!
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There was a thread a while back about pre-ordering. Some people just hate it when you pre-order it seems. My point was certain games you just know you will like so it is fine to pre-order and usually you even get to save a bit by doing so on cdkeys (does not seem to be the case for this game).
 
TNA said:
There was a thread a while back about pre-ordering. Some people just hate it when you pre-order it seems. My point was certain games you just know you will like so it is fine to pre-order and usually you even get to save a bit by doing so on cdkeys (does not seem to be the case for this game).
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Yeh, I've got hundreds of hours in FO3, FONV and FO4, not to mention Oblivion and Skyrim, etc.

So a bit of a no-brainer, really, to make an exception for Starfield.

Dunno about anywhere else, but SF premium is £86 on Steam, and £63.49 on CDKeys.
 
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CaptainRAVE said:
Can’t decide whether it’s worth buying a new GPU in order to run this at 4K 60fps. May wait and see what it takes to actually achieve that.
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Back in 2020 I was all in on the Cyberpunk train and got the 3080 from 1080ti just to play it. I'm still excited for Starfield but going to be sensible and take the wait and see approach. This time around DLSS/FSR have been great at letting the older gen keep up.
 
That's a lot of money for a game these days, recent Diablo 4 is also big bucks, im definetely more picky when it comes to buying a new game, unless its something i really want to play near release date, still a nice feeling when you play a game at launch that you have been looking forward to, however the recent jagged alliance 3 and remnant 2 im willing to wait for a sale
 
ShiWarrior said:
first time I've seen this extended trailer

Graphically not amazing, but the game itself looks really good, the content that's in the game,, and the gameplay makes this game a winner i think

time will tell

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Looks beyond stunning. What a fantastic thing they're creating.

TNA said:
Pretty sure this will be my GOTY :)

This and Cyberpunk expansion is all I need this year.
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Yep, very excited for both.
 
It looks like a real labour of love and that’s really saying something from Bethesda. Can’t wait. I’ll be staying away from Starfield discussion for a while on release, I want to experience it all on my own.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
It looks like a real labour of love and that’s really saying something from Bethesda. Can’t wait. I’ll be staying away from Starfield discussion for a while on release, I want to experience it all on my own.
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Same, haven't watched any videos, discussions, nothing.

I know it's set in space and that's about it.

If it's FO4 in space, that'll do for me, anything more will be a bonus.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
It looks like a real labour of love and that’s really saying something from Bethesda. Can’t wait. I’ll be staying away from Starfield discussion for a while on release, I want to experience it all on my own.
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Good call. I may step out of this thread for a while closer to release just incase.
 
Kelt said:
Same, haven't watched any videos, discussions, nothing.

I know it's set in space and that's about it.

If it's FO4 in space, that'll do for me, anything more will be a bonus.
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Exactly. No point trying to compare it to something like Star Citizen and then say oh but, but, but...

Just think FO4 in space and you will very likely have a blast!
 
Must...not....pre-order...I'm trying to keep my expectations in check, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't really looking forward to this.
 
MadMossy said:
I'm waiting until later this year before I upgrade from my 5700XT, ideally want the 7700 XT or 7800 XT depending on price/specs as it could be another few years before we see the 8000 series.
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6950XT worth a look IMO. I am thinking of upgrading from 6700XT, which will give me 50% or so @ 1440p, for you the upgrade will be quite a bit more. It smashes the 4070 apart from RT, which is a given really, and doesn't matter to many.

We don't know when the 7700XT/7800XT are coming, there's some speculation about specs which would put 7800XT roundabout the 6950XT (which itself is not too far behind 7900XT) at around the same price but probably more I'd say. Plus you're getting 16GB VRAM.

I've seen 6950XT's sub £600, might be worth considering.
 
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Darujhistan said:
6950XT worth a look IMO. I am thinking of upgrading from 6700XT, which will give me 50% or so @ 1440p, for you the upgrade will be quite a bit more. It smashes the 4070 apart from RT, which is a given really, and doesn't matter to many.

We don't know when the 7700XT/7800XT are coming, there's some speculation about specs which would put 7800XT roundabout the 6950XT (which itself is not too far behind 7900XT) at around the same price but probably more I'd say.

I've seen 6950XT's sub £600, might be worth considering.
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Interesting. I wonder whether it could push 4K 60+. They do seem to be good value.

I think my 750w PSU rules that out though, so perhaps I’m back to a 7900xt if I go down this route.
 
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If it doesn’t run well at 4K on a 4090 I’m gonna be p***ed.

Not sure whether to buy this or just play it via GamePass, still undecided.
 
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FoxEye said:
Atari 2600 games were (iirc) £50 in the late 80s.

However, I was also buying mail-order PC games from PC Shopper ads for like £12 in 1993. Think XCom1 cost me that (again iirc).

Pricing is all over the place. These days, I don't like to pay more than £25 for any PC game. £80 is hilarious. Even if it's the best game ever, that's too much.
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£50 in 1989 would £159 in todays monies. Games are generally £60 so they would need to almost triple in price to be at similar cost to what they did back then.

Even if you took that N64 games were around £50 still in 1996 then that would be £120 today. I don't get why people suddenly think that the price of games at £60-£70 is ridiculous compared to the £40-£50 it was for all consoles 3 decades ago.

Playstation games were closer to £40 back then. In 1994 that means they would be £100 now standard. So yeah they just are not as expensive as people think.

FredFlint said:
They will sell 50+ million copies, they could sell it for £10 and still make a big profit. £80+ is just pure greed.
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No they wont, not even close. Skyrim to date is 30 million copies. And that outsold everything else by at least 3x their other traditional games. So lets say 10 million copies in first 6 months at full price (this assumes those on xbox gamepass means Microsoft gives the same full price cost to their studio less the 30% when they assign the figures). That is £600 million in that period. 30% from other costs taken

Starfield is looking to be over £200 million in development. Then at least another £100 million in marketing and support there after etc. You are talking about possibly making £100 million over an 8yr investment. For a company of 500 direct employees, that is only £12.5 million a year. This generally doesn't include wider scale company costs tbh either. So you are maybe looking at half that as profit.
 
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