Other compelling options available in the gaming market
Names everyone’s game of the year and complete disaster from idk 3 years ago that’s somehow started to be playable after several patches and fanboys pretending it is a great game.
Comment on Starfield is 30% off on Steam, not even during a major steam sale. It's been only two months.
iconic_admin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My gaming journey has involved extensive exploration of Bethesda’s worlds, with several hundred hours in Skyrim and over a hundred in Fallout 4. Currently, I’m immersed in the rich experiences of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, with Baldur’s Gate 3 standing out as a remarkable masterpiece. Despite the enticing 30% discount on Starfield, the average reviews it has received haven’t piqued my interest. When juxtaposed with the intricate and thoughtful design of Baldur’s Gate 3, Starfield doesn’t quite seem to live up to the expectations of a AAA title. Moreover, as time is a scarce commodity in my life as an adult and parent, I find it impractical to dedicate what little gaming time I have to Starfield, especially considering the other compelling options available in the gaming market.
Other compelling options available in the gaming market
Names everyone’s game of the year and complete disaster from idk 3 years ago that’s somehow started to be playable after several patches and fanboys pretending it is a great game.
What’s your point?
Even when Starfield gets ironed out, the story and gameplay will still be sub par.
Cyberpunk is a shitty game that doesn’t even deserve to be viewed as sub par even to this day. That’s my point.
Good thing that everyone is entitled to their opinion. To me, the game was pretty good at 1.0 (running on AMD hardware) and the story was very compelling.
The difference between cyberpunk 2077 and starfield is that cyberpunk screwed up the technical side of things at launch, but had a rich story with great characters and an immersive world full of environmental story telling even in very off the beaten track locations. CDPR has been able to improve the performance to match the quality of the rest of things
Subjectively speaking, Starfield in contrast had a decent technical launch but the world feels empty, the story is “meh” at best, the companions are one note boyscouts and the exploration gets stale very quickly. I don’t see Bethesda completely overhauling the game’s systems to change those things.
As an example, in CP2077 I was in a random section of Chinatown far away from any quest or location marker and decided to explore. I found my way to some enclosed pipe tunnel which lead to a huge pit with a platforming puzzle leading to a junk pile with a corpse which had a note on it and an exotic weapon. No reason to ever go that way, but there was something interesting to find.
In contrast, beyond my example of the frozen labs in my comment above, in 90 hours playing Starfield I never once found something of value in a cave. That is certainly not something that encourages exploration.
I feel bad for Cyberpunk fans, they’re are victims of tying themselves to a sunken ship.
Bought it on sale, stayed away for years.
Pretty fucking great game now, I do love it. Bought the DLC…not worth the full price but not bad.
Only took years of patches and changes
Nonsense! A few more patches and price drops and it’ll be playable and affordable right when I can also afford a video card that won’t make it look like ass.
I may be cheap, but I’m cheap like a fox!
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I played Starfield for around 150 hours. I went from that game to BG3. So far, I enjoyed Starfield more, but the games are so different they’re hard to compare.
Starfield was much more “turn off brain, sneak around, fight bandits” with story bits in between. I often didn’t have to put any thought into encounters if I didn’t want to. Mainly because it’s a Bethesda game, and I’ve played several before.
BG3 is slower, more methodical, with way more (and obviously better) story.
Starfield was more like comfort food, where BG3 is more like fine dining. Both great in different ways.
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bethesda is the McDonalds of RPG games.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 year ago
Rpg means collecting garbage to sell it for hours, right?
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks at massive amount of stuff in my characters inventory in New Vegas and Baldur Gate 3.
Maybe.