The next Starfield update appearing later this week will bring changes to ship building, and the Shattered Space DLC arrives this Fall.
  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    143·
    6 months ago

    There really is something about Starfield that makes it so fun to hate. I usually just ignore stuff I don’t like, but really do make an exception for this game.

    I think it’s the way that people circlejerked the shit out of it on release and disregarded any criticism, so the vindication that it was ultimately a lifeless husk of a game was so satisfying.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      6 months ago

      I personally think people just have hateboners for certain devs and companies.

      Like people love to shit on Fallout 3 and 4, but it doesn’t change the fact that they’re still some of the most played games ever.

      • KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.socialEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        I mean, they do. But the case for Starfield specifically is how absolutely shite it is by comparison to even previous Bethesda games.

        Much rather play Fallout 3, 4 and any Elder Scrolls game than Starfield.

      • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
        65·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, but most played games ever puts them in the bracket with COD, FIFA and mobile games. Not exactly esteemed company…

        Like what you like, but those games are essentially the McDonald’s of the video game landscape. They’re fun and have mass appeal.

        Personally, I went into Starfield very open minded and not expecting too much, but was still very disappointed.

      • amio@kbin.social
        15·
        6 months ago

        See, this is exactly what people mean by disregarding any criticism.

    • boaratio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      6 months ago

      I guess I’m in the minority, but I really like Starfield, warts and all.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          6 months ago

          Genuine question, what do you do? I got burnt out after my third playthrough. The faction quest lines are great but outside of that the game is shallow and outposts make me want to die,l.

      • SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Same! I didn’t watch any trailers/presentations or read any hype. It’s exactly what I thought it would be. I’ve had a lot of fun discovering the universe.

        Not to say it’s a perfect game with no faults. But I do love it.

    • amio@kbin.social
      32·
      6 months ago

      disregarded any criticism

      Some people still do this. It is still pretty damn funny.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      I expected it to be on par with Fallout 4 or Skyrim. Not just the systems, though. But like… The worldbuilding and the stuff that actually makes those games fun. Starfield is so very big and yet so very small and empty at the same time. Its world building is incoherent and feels like people who don’t actually appreciate sci-fi just throwing every sci-fi trope they know into one big pot so it’s familiar and yet wrong at every major turning point of the various plots in the quests. It is just as boring to go through the story as it is to go through the physical actions of taking on the quests because both are basically just vast fields of emptiness. The one cool thing that actually is interesting and would have more people talking about it, is how the world might change in NG+. But it’s random and also only earned after beating the game, and even if you get a cool one it doesn’t make it worth playing through the game again.