Was Starfield Worth The Wait?

Is not like skyrim cause it has loading screens between chunks of the world.
What skyrim did you play?
I'm intrigued.

Sooo many reviews are using the same kind of language like “yea it’s good, fun game.” Like no one is blown away by this. Game seems very mid honestly and looks like it was released 5 years ago. Skyrim came out and everyone’s minds were blown for years. This will be quickly forgotten

I would love to hear Alice's take on every single game.

You cannot fly from one planet to another. The planets are painted onto the skybox of a cube. The entire game is a series of cubes with cut scenes & loading screens between them, & it really is disappointing.

Have found it janky and rather boring and souless.

Another Bethesda Game by Todd ''sweet little lies'' Howard 😂

Sounds like a classic "wait for Steam Sale" game? i.e good but not great

Loving the game, it's Skyrim in Space. Put in 8 hours already. On PC is the best running Bethesda game to date, butter smooth at 4k. Switching between M&K and controller is seamless as well. I think ACG's review was spot on. Combat has exceeded my expectations. Orbital space flight has been fun as well. I wasn't expecting Star Citizen or Elite Dangerous in terms of travel so the game is hitting perfect for me.

Seemed pretty obvious it would be bland and characterless for a while now. Nice enough visual design for a grounded sci-fi tv show or movie sure, but not sure what else people were expecting. For Bethesda to whip out a scintillating story and deep, emotional characters from a top hat? If it had had something compelling to offer beyond the same systemic toybox they always bring we'd have glimpsed it by now.

I found the game to be so intensely boring and unimpressive that after six hours I got a refund from Steam. I hated it

I pray to the lord the Fallout 4 New Vegas mod team finds the strength to get it done. Because that's what I want, what I really really want

Bethesda got too complacent with making barebone copy paste radiant quest open worlds, then letting the modders do the rest. That was fine in 2015 when they had a monopoly on open-world sandbox experiences. In 2023 every game is open world sandbox. Starfield itself doesn't stand out from space engineers, no man's sky and outer worlds. Starfield sold more than Bolder Gate already and Bethesda... Bethesda never changes

Engagement for the engagement god!

It seems to lack the endearing character of previous Bethesda games. Tons of instancing and fast travel doesn't help, either. Bethesda should have picked a lane -- It's not as technologically innovative as Star Citizen, as emotionally gripping as Mass Effect, as psychologically rewarding as NMS, nor as tactical as FTL. It's a spiritless blend of them all.

It's not really a video game that warrants someone taking time out of an otherwise fulfilling life to play it, like Skyrim or FO3. It's more for people who rely on videogames to provide dopamine and a sense of accomplishment in their life. WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE.

In sum, you'll forget about it the moment you put it down.

No, not on PC. Horrible performance, no HDR, no FOV slider

Game combat feels unresponsive, shooting is not exciting, very bad AI that often stuck or staring somewhere. Fights between "bullet sponges" / NPC is comical (in a bad way) and badly level balanced. Dislogs are ...
Due to game mechanics, music and overall... it's like some sort of Fallout 4 MOD.
So far quests and exploration are mostly boring. Lots of loading screens which exacerbated by level design and fast travels between small locations. Some locations was rushed, poor lighting and environment.
Many issues with gameplay mechanics and UI, that prob can be fixed by mods.

Performance/optimization is terrible, many stutters and fps spikes.

Skyrim was the pinnacle of a Bethesda game. That studio only knows how to make one type of game and Starfield is just a Skyrim stretched out in a scifi skin. The new proc gen planet exploration and ships are just tacked on gimmicks that are neither well done nor useful. You can condense everything onto one planet, got rid of 999 other planets plus the flying and the game would still play the same.

Well done on being brave enough to express an honest opinion. When I first heard about this game I hoped it might be something special, but all the preview footage looked boring and just like a Skyrim/FO3/FO4/Obvilion reskin, which is really disappointing. I get that Bethesda have to deliver that, it's what people want and expect, and it's great too, but their major releases have a huge amount of excitement around them, they're landmarks in gaming, so it's not too much to hope for something more, taking that formula and making something special out of it instead of just another 7/10 game. Just look at the footage of the player checking all the lockers with the NPC bumping into them and how pathetically clunky that looks. That's the actual gameplay that you're gonna be doing for hours and hours in this game and it's unchanged and unimproved from Oblivion, that's 17 years ago! And possibly Morowind also, but i haven't played that to know. For many young people playing and enjoying this, they're playing a game designed before they were even born with a new lick of paint. Surely Bethesda could do better? Hopefully with the base game out, they will now be able to build some interesting and exiting expansions on this base.

Great chat. Alice is killing shit.

You really can't get me to pay money for this game. I'll be playing a bit on my ROG ally for free next week. If I wasnt playing for free I wouldn't play it at all from the gameplay I've watched.

Great video and agree with every point given. This game isn't the genre defining masterpiece, nor GOTY people were expecting it to be. Seen enough gameplay footage by now to know that it's not for me. I prefer something more immersive and polished. The lack of maps, poor AI and combat, and loading screens sealed the deal for me. Meh game

Reviewers are really treating this game with kid gloves. Weird.

hmm.

In short it's underwhelming and boring. Will wait another 12 months.

Even Cyberpunk was better. I force myself to like it . Graphics in new Atlantis looks like mess, probably the designers was on holiday and the evening office cleaners took over the job. Shame I did pre-ordered.

"Another (space) settlement needs your help."

Bethesda have been on a long spiral down since Morrowind, with a few minor upward bumps, like say Shivering Isles.
They murdered Fallout, but at least we got New Vegas out of it… ever since what they did with Fallout 4 I lost any enthusiasm for their games.

pirate until 2028 or so, gotcha

ok Bethesda, now you have that out your system, get a move on with what we really want, Elderscrolls 6 please!

I'm personally loving it. I understand why many people aren't feeling it. It has plenty of flaws. But I've put 20 hrs in in two days and I can't get enough. I hated FO4 and thought Skyrim was fine. I loved Morrowind, Oblivion, and FO3. I think a lot of it depends on how much you like the setting. I love space sci-fi and Starfield is my favorite game of the year so far. More than ToTK, more than Baldur's Gate 3, and considering I didn't like Spider-Man 1, probably more than Spider-Man 2.

Ive never heard someone articulate their thoughts so well without taking themselves seriously. Deeply insightful and easy listening. A real skill, I'm genuinely jealous.

It will tide me over until Phantom Liberty, and then 2 years from now I'll pick up the expansions and mod the ever living crap out of it.

Found the hype off putting and there's nothing in the reviews that has made me more interested in it. Looks very Brown

You can hear in Alice's voice tone that the game is crap. Shes trying her very best to think of good things to say about it.

Absolutely amazing game.

Unfair amount of pressure on it due to the majority of gaming being dominated by playstation unfortunately.

Theres obviously a lot of pushback against it.

Its a slow burn start like the Witcher 3, as you dig deeper it is fantastic.

Best Xbox exclusive so far.

If this was multiplat we wouldnt get half the complaints

"Competent" is about what I expected, though I'm still allowing the possibility that I'll really like it

Alice = based

Kajit: "Skyrim used to be populated with butterflys, not so much anymore." I still laugh at that line.

Can we have a huge disclaimer added here that says "We are part of the Eurogamer family"

Biggest problem why it does not feel like a Bethesda game is its basically just a series of loading screens there is no traveling yourself or landing yourself its not like Skyrim at all loses the feeling of freedom at traveling its just going from one instance to the next no living in.

Bethesda has proven itself another Gamefreak-esque studio. They have zero interest or ability to improve their core franchise. They're an irrelevant studio except for that population that's fine with effectively replaying the same game over and over with non-substantive graphical changes.

Good to hear the comments.

I honestly can't believe anyone expected anything more than a Bethesda game in space.

I think it's possible that we see more innovation from them on the new Elder Scrolls as they've got this to work from as a base in terms of the improved engine and whatnot but even then I wouldn't be at all surprised if that ends up just being another Elder Scrolls game.

That being said 'just another Elder Scrolls game' for me - and I imagine many people - is very exciting because I love that world, the same cannot be said for Starfield which always looked a little unispired to me. The whole 'searching for artifacts of an ancient alien civilisation' has been done to absolute death.

Between the slightly hackneyed plot and the pedestrian art style I just never found much to get excited about with this one. Be that as it may, it's available on game pass so I will absolutely give it a shot. Perhaps it will surprise me.

Alice is spot on. This is a 5 or a 6 at best. It’s the blandest tea you’ve ever tasted in your life and at no point is the “serious” plot ever written or delivered with anything approaching 2023 standards. I would argue it’s orders of magnitude worse than Skyrim and the Fallouts in every regard.

Everything is walled off and the things it limits you to ain't even that exciting. It's very sad.

Alice is super fun, I could hear her talk about games all day. Great positive energy 😎👌

„Planets are boring and empty and that‘s fine“ - what‘s wrong with this lady?

I was bored with it in the first half an hour. That's as far as I got. Graphics take precedence over story it seems anymore.

Betteridge's Law.

So what about the adoring fan??? You don’t think he has the Bethesda silly vibe? A tiny bit anyways

No.