Starfield is overhated

[HaskaMoosic]

Replaying this game for the first time since launch and its improved quite a bit, this game is wayyyy over hated, and the fact people rate Fallout 76 above this is actually crazy to me, i cant really think of anything wrong with it other than the optimization being absolutely piss poor, but otherwise it plays like any other Bethesda game and id actually go as far as saying this 1 ups Fallout 4 quite easily

i know I'm in the minority of people that like this game but I'm curious what ya'll actually hate about this game that isn't just hive mind mob mentality

[utahcowboy]

Yeah, I like the game myself quite a bit. I don't understand why there is so much hate hovering over it. I think it is a whole lot of fun. Currently, I'm doing an explorer playthrough and am visiting all the planets and scanning all the resources/flora/fauna and taking LOTS of breathtaking pictures whenever I find them. I am also mixing that in with doing the main questline slowly. Eventually I'll go through the unity also, but that will be a while. Playing the game slowly like this is causing me to notice a lot of details I never saw before. BGS put their heart and soul into making this. But, unfortunately, there are lots of folks who don't see the vision. Is it perfect? No. Does it still have issues I would like to see addressed? Yes. But I'm still having a blast playing it.

[RL 101]

You've answered the question in your last paragraph. I've already gone into detail on this and other issues in other threads, such as the easy influence of some individuals or the trash campaign that PlayStation fans launched on social media against the game (which continues to this day), but basically it's a compendium of trash campaigns against the game, influencers and youtubers looking for clicks and people with little personality jumping on the hate train out of pure gregariousness.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

Yeah, my feeling on Starfield has always been that it's not my favorite Bethesda game ever (Morrowind) nor my least favorite (FO4 personally,) but that I find it to be a very chill, engrossing game in space. It's like a less fantastical, somewhat more generic feeling, but somehow still atmospheric, Morrowind. Just set in space and with regular humans instead of an ash storm covered volcanic island with elves. And a lot bigger, of course. And with ship and base building. If I could describe it in one word, it would just be: cozy. I like existing in it.

[dannyj147]

Originally posted by RL 101:

You've answered the question in your last paragraph. I've already gone into detail on this and other issues in other threads, such as the easy influence of some individuals or the trash campaign that PlayStation fans launched on social media against the game (which continues to this day), but basically it's a compendium of trash campaigns against the game, influencers and youtubers looking for clicks and people with little personality jumping on the hate train out of pure gregariousness.

So much this, even before release the game was getting trashed on.

[RivvenDarke]

I dont think that there are many people left to hate on Starfield. 99% of the players just moved on and forgot it. If you are one of the 5K still playing and enjoying it - thats awesome.

Reality is that the game is dead. Even BGS seem to have realised that it wont "shape a decade".
The main game is shallow and boring, the engine is way past its prime and the writing is underwhelming. In the last 15 months they didnt even manage to fix all the major bugs and there were basically no big changes or improvements (one vehicle...WOW).

Oh, and one of the worst DLCs I have ever seen, with 70% negative its probably still overrated.
Look at the situation in gaming today. The megaflops, the burned hundreds of millions, the thousands layoffs.
The is ZERO chance that the bigwigs at Bethesda will greenlight any more major investments, so it will just fade away. And thats a shame as I totally would have liked tp play an awesome Starfield for a decade.

[Neo]

Yes the hate is over the top, mostly by the trolls. Have to disagree with you about the optimisation being poor though. The game runs buttery smooth on all the highest settings.

SF has been one of the well optimised games I've ever played, looks good too.

[veer]

Neo is correct , this game is highly optimized :) If it doesn't seem to be then well, It is probably something going on with your system. I run it on Ultra graphics and it is smooth as silk with no stutter. I7 13700 with a Nvidea 4070 graphics card.

[Corinze]

Originally posted by HaskaMoosic:

i know I'm in the minority of people that like this game but I'm curious what ya'll actually hate about this game that isn't just hive mind mob mentality

This is the problem, don't worry about what other think about a game you enjoy. If you enjoy it, play it, if not that is fine too but those are your reasons and no one's else.

Originally posted by RivvenDarke:

I dont think that there are many people left to hate on Starfield. 99% of the players just moved on and forgot it. If you are one of the 5K still playing and enjoying it - thats awesome.

This a Steam / PC thing, game is still popular on Xbox since it is free with game pass.

Reality is that the game is dead. Even BGS seem to have realised that it wont "shape a decade".

You do see this with mod content, personally I think this will drag on as more of a cult game

The main game is shallow and boring, the engine is way past its prime and the writing is underwhelming. In the last 15 months they didnt even manage to fix all the major bugs and there were basically no big changes or improvements (one vehicle...WOW).

Don't expect a lot from TES6 then, it is the same engine being used. All the bugs have been fixed, Bethesda did do good on that part and getting the game to run better across all platforms

Oh, and one of the worst DLCs I have ever seen, with 70% negative its probably still overrated.
Look at the situation in gaming today. The megaflops, the burned hundreds of millions, the thousands layoffs.

This, this is what should be discussed. The PC gaming industry is being gimped to support multiple platforms. TES 6 will be the same way. Wait for the fights about free mods verse paid creations with TES6, as hopefully the modding community finds the game interesting enough to mod.

The is ZERO chance that the bigwigs at Bethesda will greenlight any more major investments, so it will just fade away. And thats a shame as I totally would have liked tp play an awesome Starfield for a decade.

It would be Microsoft, Microsoft can't leave anything untouched, they'll use it as a tax write off and keeping pouring money, if Xbox playtime stays up.

[veer]

Op, don't worry you are not in the minority, You are part of the vast majority who love Starfield. The Silent majority that plays on many different platforms.

[Neuromante]

15M sales, 3k players...

strange reality. Christmas holidays, people are not working anymore...

[Cephei]

Originally posted by HaskaMoosic:

Replaying this game for the first time since launch and its improved quite a bit, this game is wayyyy over hated, and the fact people rate Fallout 76 above this is actually crazy to me, i cant really think of anything wrong with it other than the optimization being absolutely piss poor, but otherwise it plays like any other Bethesda game and id actually go as far as saying this 1 ups Fallout 4 quite easily

i know I'm in the minority of people that like this game but I'm curious what ya'll actually hate about this game that isn't just hive mind mob mentality

No, it’s just boring. Constant loading screens and empty worlds aren’t fun.
People don’t hate it because of a hive mind. They hate it because it’s a disappointing, repetitive mess that didn’t live up to the hype and the few shills left on the forum won’t change that.

[Cephei]

Originally posted by Neuromante:

15M sales, 3k players...

strange reality. Christmas holidays, people are not working anymore...

Starfield is shaping up to be the biggest disappointment of the decade as we approach 2025. Bethesda's lazy behavior, constant overpromises and horrendous DLC have only made things worse. They rode the hype train and delivered a game nobody wants to keep playing.

[Cephei]

Originally posted by dannyj147:

Originally posted by RL 101:

You've answered the question in your last paragraph. I've already gone into detail on this and other issues in other threads, such as the easy influence of some individuals or the trash campaign that PlayStation fans launched on social media against the game (which continues to this day), but basically it's a compendium of trash campaigns against the game, influencers and youtubers looking for clicks and people with little personality jumping on the hate train out of pure gregariousness.

So much this, even before release the game was getting trashed on.

Disagree completely. Before release, if you dared say anything negative about Starfield on forums like Steam you’d get swarmed by fanboys like a pack of hyenas. I saw it constantly, people defending the game like their lives depended on it even though they hadn’t played a single second of it yet. The hype was so overblown that any criticism got buried under waves of blind loyalty.

[Cephei]

Originally posted by veer:

Op, don't worry you are not in the minority, You are part of the vast majority who love Starfield. The Silent majority that plays on many different platforms.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, but this game has been completely abandoned. The so called silent majority must be really silent, because the player numbers are dead

[Corinze]

O look the kids game out to play, with the hate the game because they said so, here have a choo-choo and run along and play.