Things wrong with Starfield

[PsychoPsyops]

- No HDR support, no contrast slider even.
- All planets devoid of content except for rocks, two plants, one animal and two buildings each; all have same human-sized height vegetation, same structures, almost nothing to do but walk and mine.
- Invisible walls!!!
- Lazy, bad writing within the main story questline.
- Every single skill locked behind perk; can’t even attempt them without their respectable perks.
- Can’t manually take-off/land ship, despite ship customization.
- No main world, no real helpful map, every planet separated by cutscenes and loading screens; kills all immersion compared to other Bethesda titles.
- Ugly green tint you cannot turn off in game.
- Bad AI.
- Most enemies are damage sponges.
- No FOV slider, despite it being a modern shooter.
- All surface level smoke and mirrors, little deepness, minuscule amount of substance.
- More of a disjointed, glorified looter-shooter, than an rpg.
- Bad art design for cities and clothing.
- Menus, scanner and ship hud locked at 30 fps.
- Small bugs present in previous Bethesda titles are present in Starfield decades later!
- Modder was hired, not for any of the above issues, but to design clutter…
- Same decades old tired formula
- $70 price tag for false-advertised disappointment.

Mods will fix a small number of these things, but it will still be a below average game for modern times. A company as big and experienced as Bethesda should be able to do better, and we should not be tolerating such bad products at full price!
Gamers love being taken advantage of, though.

[Nuttshell_Man]

Valid criticism of Starfield? You must be a troll!!

[PsychoPsyops]

Originally posted by Nuttshell_Man:

Valid criticism of Starfield? You must be a troll!!

Haha. Sad times, isn’t it?

[Dimebag Darell]

For FOV slider someone created a topic on a fix that i made.
A Flawless widescreen plugin.
Have a look if you're not afraid of third party software.

[Astariol]

I came here to say this. No gamma slider? Like, I don't even know how to respond. Every game I've ever played a brightness/gamma slider.

[FallenActual]

Valid also no city maps gamingbolt pretty much had the same points. I personally installed a fov mod already i cant play at low fovs without getting sick https://youtu.be/TwhWgD5OKXA?si=498kA_YnX97zTjpl

[dormdude]

I agree with all of this. But I'm still having a lot of fun with the game. I've already fixed several of these with mods. Fov, less spongy enemies, reshade, unlocked menu fps. They all have mods already. So long as you stick to quests it's still the same fun I've had with every bethesda game. I don't really hold these issues to the same level as you. So the game to me is a 7/10. Solid but not great.

[Astariol]

Originally posted by dormdude:

I agree with all of this. But I'm still having a lot of fun with the game. I've already fixed several of these with mods. Fov, less spongy enemies, reshade, unlocked menu fps. They all have mods already. So long as you stick to quests it's still the same fun I've had with every bethesda game. I don't really hold these issues to the same level as you. So the game to me is a 7/10. Solid but not great.

Yep. I am basically finishing the tutorial, then going straight to Nexusmods. This game needs a little polish

[Xcorps]

Sounds like a you issue.

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by PsychoPsyops:

- No HDR support, no contrast slider even.
- All planets devoid of content except for rocks, two plants, one animal and two buildings each; all have same structure, almost nothing to do but walk and mine.
- Every single skill locked behind perk; can’t even attempt them without their respectable perks.
- Can’t manually take-off/land ship, despite ship customization.
- No main world, no real helpful maps, every planet separated by cutscenes and loading screens; kills all immersion compared to other Bethesda titles.
- Ugly green tint you cannot turn off in game.
- Bad AI.
- Most enemies are damage sponges.
- No FOV slider, despite it being a modern shooter.
- All surface level smoke and mirrors, little deepness, minuscule amount of substance.
- More of a disjointed, glorified looter-shooter, than an rpg.
- Bad art design for cities and clothing.
- Menus, scanner and ship hud locked at 30 fps.
- Modder was hired, not for any of the above issues, but to design clutter…
- $70 price tag for false-advertised disappointment.

Mods will fix a small number of these things, but it will still be a below average game for modern times. A company as big and experienced as Bethesda should be able to do better, and we should not be tolerating such bad products at full price!

I would add

- Poor character interactions
- Poor voice acting
- Companions without motivation or souls (they are mules)
- No core RPG elements (mechnics/features)
- Action genre feat system, that locks you in and prevents freedom and player agency

But to be honest, many of the above are standards in Bethesda games, but with all the rest you listed, it just tips the scale over to shocked customers.. The game feels like it should have released back in 2005, if it had been, I might have still owned it, well maybe.

[PsychoPsyops]

Originally posted by Xcorps:

Sounds like a you issue.

Someone who doesn’t have anything better to compare this trash to would say that, yeah.

I get it, people can still have fun with it, sure. But the fact that remains is if people keep buying trash and scavenge fun out of it, there will be no incentive to make better products. Trash is what we will continue to be offered.

[Soccer]

I think what this game is missing, are epic events in the first hours.

[PsychoPsyops]

Originally posted by UFL40:

I think what this game is missing, are epic events in the first hours.

I mean, that would be nice and all, but it still wouldn’t make it an rpg.

[Ngoc]

You don’t seem to own the game

[Nvidium]

Might be easier to list what is right with starfield....

[Cyber_Chupacabra]

Originally posted by Ngoc:

You don’t seem to own the game

Gamepass.