Comment on Is it just me or is Starfield kinda meh?
Morgikan@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’m feeling the same way. Starfield isn’t a bad game, but it’s very meh. I enjoy the ship building aspect, but otherwise nothing really grabs me with this game.
Combat is a good example, too. There just doesn’t feel to be any impact to the weapons. Mobs just get shot but don’t really react to it. I know they will flee at times which is nice, but close range SMG fire to ones torso should illicit more of a response.
Fast travel also seems to be an detractor. Being able to fast travel anywhere you’ve been even if that place is across the galaxy really removes a lot of the exploration vibe the game would have otherwise. I know this isn’t a space sim, but a lot of the systems they have don’t really mesh well with others.
Starfield is like mediocre lite-RPG / space sim crossover that doesn’t do either very well.
Stillhart@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah it’s kind of weird but I feel like they’re too liberal with the fast travel. You really lose a lot of the sense of scale when you can just… go anywhere from anywhere.
I mean, that said, given all the loading screens, I guess more fast travel means less loading screens so it’s definitely a double-edged sword.
The RPG aspects seem really shallow after Cyberpunk. The space sim aspects are what I’m hoping keep me interested once I get deeper into it. Fingers crossed.
Morgikan@lemm.ee 9 months ago
To make matters worse, the space around each planet is it’s own load zone. Star systems are just collections of these zones. I don’t think they can patch zone loading as it’s done so much by design. It’s like they took what they had in FO4 and just slapped a sticker on it that said “space sim”.
Stillhart@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah, I was excited to go exploring space as soon as I got my ship, but it’s such a slog with all the loading! Even flying from a planet to its moon while already in space requires a loading screen. Like, I just want to play the game but I feel like I’m mostly loading or wrestling the UI…