Starfield feels superficial and soulless! 👎

[Software22]

Fast travel menu simulator
Loading screen simulator
Walking simulator
I forgot another suitable title?

Where is space exploration? 🤡
I don't feel that magic and freedom that I felt exploring Skyrim.

Menu, loading, cutscene, menu, loading, cutscene, loading...
Walking an eternity on empty and uninteresting planets to find a generic procedural places like empty caves or repetitive outposts with some repetitive enemies.
NPCs/characters are robotic and lifeless, lack of depth.
Pathetic AI! Somehow worse than other Bethesda games.

What happened to Bethesda?
Did they really think this game would be fun?

[Dill Doe]

Originally posted by Esquizo:

Fast travel menu simulator
Loading screen simulator
Walking simulator
I forgot another suitable title?

Where is space exploration? 🤡

I don't feel that magic and freedom that I felt exploring Skyrim.

Menu, loading, cutscene, menu, loading, cutscene, loading...
Walking an eternity on empty and uninteresting planets to find a generic procedural places like empty caves or repetitive outposts with some repetitive enemies.
NPCs/characters are robotic and lifeless, lack of depth.
Pathetic AI! Somehow worse than other Bethesda games.

What happened to Bethesda?
Did they really think this game would be fun?

Wow. What a big disappointment. I had high expectations for this game, but it failed to deliver on many levels. Here is why:

• The graphics look old and outdated. The textures are bland, the lighting is dull, and the animations are stiff. The game does not look like a next-gen title, but rather a remastered version of an old game.

• The characters are very generic and lack depth. The voice acting and lip sync are bad. The dialogue is boring and clichéd. The characters have no personality or charisma. At one point, I was in TMD HQ (the old Red Marines unit HQ) and there were three people standing around with the same face: brown women with yellow eyes.

• The storytelling and what characters say are really boring. The plot is predictable and uninspired. The missions are repetitive and tedious. The choices are meaningless and have no consequences. The game does not make me care about the world or the characters.

• The music is recycled from Fallout. Many tunes are identical or very similar to the ones in Fallout 4, especially the generic in-game music such as in combat. Having logged in hundreds of hours in FO4, I know what I am talking about.

• The game is buggy, glitchy, and unstable. There are floating characters, crashes, freezes, clipping issues, etc. Typical for Bethesda games, but unacceptable for a AAA title in 2023.

• The game is basically Fallout 4 in space. It uses the same engine, mechanics, systems, and assets as Fallout 4, but with a different setting and theme. It does not offer anything new or innovative to the genre or the franchise.

WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT.

[Crix]

Most Bethesda games are soulless. Much of that has to do with their lack of character development, A.I. is dated. It seems though they made some improvements to their combat and animations throughout. This worked for them in past but today and moving forward their behind and it's going to hurt them in the long run.

Their overall progression compared to modern day games in visual fidelity is hurting them because I personally think Bethesda is cheap and bound to this dated old engine they continue to bandage. Essentially they do release the same game with minimal improvements that they must think they spend hundreds of hours on to such subtle improvements. It's like they spend so much time and effort on upgrading an engine it seems it would be better and more efficient to just build one from scratch. This does impact the experience. Many features I feel they can't do because of this engine like the space combat. It's on rails, you float in 3D space but don't actually fly. You can't transition from planet to planet on the fly like you can in other indie developed space games. A space game that is decades behind modern games in space flight.

[Christine Wurmblut]

You guys know that we can see that you do not own the game, right?

[wildcardbitches]

The magic is in the $100 you gave them.

[Jidobor🗿]

Soulless is the right term. Already too many times people described exactly why this game just doesn't make you feel immersed.
- too many loading screens
- too much empty space
- too much ctrl + c, ctrl + v

Main story feels like AI generated and I'm talking old kind of AI.

[Crix]

Originally posted by Christine Wurmblut:

You guys know that we can see that you do not own the game, right?

and you realize that there are plenty of gameplay videos out and streaming platforms that offer the same experience to come to an opinion. It's fair game. Just because it's not what you want to hear, doesn't mean their trolls.

[Æternum]

Originally posted by Christine Wurmblut:

You guys know that we can see that you do not own the game, right?

Considering anyone can watch a let's play on youtube, what difference does it make if they don't own it? You can still experience the game vicariously through youtubers. It's not 1999 anymore.

[CushyCrux]

why do all these guys who ♥♥♥♥ on the game have no mouse icon? Stop feeding trolls please!

[Dill Doe]

Originally posted by Christine Wurmblut:

You guys know that we can see that you do not own the game, right?

i own the game. Have the premium edition with now over 20 hours locked in!

[Jidobor🗿]

Originally posted by wildcardbitches:

The magic is in the $100 you gave them.

Unless you roleplay as a (space) pirate IRL *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*

[Christine Wurmblut]

Originally posted by ÆTERNUM:

Originally posted by Christine Wurmblut:

You guys know that we can see that you do not own the game, right?

Considering anyone can watch a let's play on youtube, what difference does it make if they don't own it? You can still experience the game vicariously through youtubers. It's not 1999 anymore.

I just find it mighty weird that most of the negative stuff is from people that do not own the game.

[Boby Happy]

I wanted to be an alien mutant with psychic powers going out sploring in space discovering new alien civilasations or just wild planets

human in space
with guns and jet-packs
...
-_-

[Christine Wurmblut]

Originally posted by Dill Doe:

Originally posted by Christine Wurmblut:

You guys know that we can see that you do not own the game, right?

i own the game. Have the premium edition with now over 20 hours locked in!

Not you, Dill Doe! :)

[Dog]

Called it, no one listened. Actively attacked in fact for trying to warn people to save their money. They dont listen, why do I even bother?

[Boby Happy]

Originally posted by Dog:

Called it, no one listened. Actively attacked in fact for trying to warn people to save their money. They dont listen, why do I even bother?

I dunno maybe you still believe in humanity and the power of hope and friendship or...whatever ?

here a big hug
you need it