Comment on Is it just me or is Starfield kinda meh?
Stillhart@lemm.ee 1 year agoFast travel also seems to be an detractor.
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.
Starfield is like mediocre lite-RPG / space sim crossover that doesn’t do either very well.
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 1 year 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 1 year 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…