Is this game worth it on sale for casuals?

[Amuro]

Will this game provide at least 30-50 hours of quality entertainment?

If you have 200+ hours and posted a negative review, please do not respond.

I plan on playing this game very slowly, in 1-2 hour shifts and it'll take me probably a year just to get to 50 hours played. Max 4 hours a month.

[off medication]

I'd wait for the 90% off sale its not really worth its current price imo.

[Vlad 254]

Put it this way, I have over 2,000 hours in Starfield and am still playing it to this day.

[Langkard]

I have close to 800 hours and I enjoy it. I am by no means a hardcore player. I'm just retired with lots of free time. The game is exactly what it claims to be - an FPS RPG set in space. Like previous Bethesda titles, it has a main quest line and many radiant/side quests. And it enables New Game Plus, so you can continue the game again while keeping your skills from the previous run, growing more powerful with each NG+ play through.

There is no better time to try a game you may or may not like than during a sale.

[Langkard]

And you can safely ignore the level 0 troll accounts. They are just broken records.

[veer]

It is worth every penny. I have over 2500 hours in this game and there is always something to do. With you playstyle you should have no problem. You can save and quit anytime your planetside or docked to a station. So you don't get stuck in a long play situation. I highly recommend Starfield as it is the most fun I've had in a game. As long as you have a computer system that can handle it. It is definately a next generation game.

[off medication]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Put it this way, I have over 2,000 hours in Starfield and am still playing it to this day.

AFK simulator while gatekeeping the forums is not normal sorry but the overall and recent reviews say otherwise.

[HeyYou]

I really don't wanna think about how many hours I have in the game at this point. (steam doesn't track your play time if you are in offline mode) Still playin', still havin' fun. If you like previous beth games, you should like this one too.

[veer]

Originally posted by Asmongoldenjoyer:

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Put it this way, I have over 2,000 hours in Starfield and am still playing it to this day.

AFK simulator while gatekeeping the forums is not normal sorry but the overall and recent reviews say otherwise.

I have over 2500 hours in game and I don't afk ever. Those are actual hours played and I can vouch for Vlad as well, He has actual played hours. Your insulting attempt to belittle Vlad shows a lack of maturity. The reviews you mention are baseless as they were political review bombing by a desturbed group.

[off medication]

The game isn't getting many new players which is sad because the creation kit is out while the game is on sale. This should answer the op's question. Wait another 2-6 years imo.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Ryu:

Will this game provide at least 30-50 hours of quality entertainment?

If you have 200+ hours and posted a negative review, please do not respond.

I plan on playing this game very slowly, in 1-2 hour shifts and it'll take me probably a year just to get to 50 hours played. Max 4 hours a month.

Well you are in luck because the best way IMO to play this game is slow and methodically. Looking at everything, reading everything and seeing where it leads.

If you play it fast one time, then start again in slow mode you see everything you missed the first time. I bet you will find that you will be unable to limit play time to the low numbers you posted.

[Xacova]

Originally posted by veer:

Originally posted by Asmongoldenjoyer:

AFK simulator while gatekeeping the forums is not normal sorry but the overall and recent reviews say otherwise.

I have over 2500 hours in game and I don't afk ever. Those are actual hours played and I can vouch for Vlad as well, He has actual played hours. Your insulting attempt to belittle Vlad shows a lack of maturity. The reviews you mention are baseless as they were political review bombing by a desturbed group.

Using assmon never played the game new profile stinks of known troll who has multiple accounts

[Cquarto91]

Yes needs to be 50% off at least.

[off medication]

Originally posted by Cquarto91:

Yes needs to be 50% off at least.

So true, at least 50%. 75% truly makes the most sense though according to logic.

[Xacova]

Originally posted by Cquarto91:

Yes needs to be 50% off at least.

i sort of agree on that ,i payed full price its not a bad game , i hope the creations kit keeps producing more content for it ,after 10 runs of ng+ it get stale a little

[MasterOfLazyness]

I've being playing the game more as of now since there are a bunch of mods to make life easier and their update gives more player options. I can easily recommend it on a sale or if bored is high enough.

The story is bare bones and borderline boring until you either start doing faction missions or get far enough in where you get space magic. Going to explore 1 out of 1,000 boring slightly RNG planets to another isn't where the focus should be but that's where Starfield and co, seem to think it is.

Events and missions are where interesting stuff happen. Grav jumping to a new area can have random encounters trigger which makes for interesting and dare I say, fun gameplay moments. Similar to getting stopped by a random NPC in Skyrim. Ships randomly will land on a planet and can have enemies or allies. You can even steal their ship! It's annoying to sell it and has some clunky menus to deal with just to do so.

The New Bounty Hunter missions (Yes, I'm including the BS paid one as well) are excellent experiences and give nice equipment. I still don't agree with having to pay for a single quest but that's for a different topic. Out side of the 2, current Missions on offer you get access to "elite" bounty hunting missions where they are basically the same as the Ranger Missions just not as annoying or coma inducing.

Ship combat is rough and honestly, when compared to the likes of Everspace 2, it's just down right terrible. Modding in better or more fun options will make the first bit of it more bearable to slog through until you can finally unlock more options.

Why Slog through? Because they took everything they could think of and placed them all being Skill Point Gates called Skill Challenges. Most of them are not challenging and are simply a check box required to hit before having to wait for another level to do it all again.
Instead of being able to increase the skill with ONLY usage, you hit a wall and need to spend a Skill Point.

To that end, Leveling in this game is downright terribly slow. Any and every item that gives EXP for X amount of time are often just meh. A lot of quests and missions give small amounts of Exp to the point where you just want to increase everything 2x or 5x to get the ball rolling already. I believe the main factor for leveling being slow is because they want you to not outpace the game's content before hitting New Game Plus. They have paced everything for you going through multiple NG+'s.

Companion characters are a great addition if they weren't all sticks in the mud. Any character you fancy will more often than not, require you to be a Non-hoarder and Non-StickyFingers type of person. Ignoring that they'll help you and add random points to some conversations you'll have but only if they're close enough when you start it.

Starfield is hardly the Fallout in space we all thought it would be and it seems very clear that Ground Combat is Bethesda's Strength here. Even if you reach a point where the space combat is enjoyable for you, the ground combat is just better all around.