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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 41.8 hrs on record
Posted: Dec 10, 2023 @ 11:48am

Starfield is a game that has an excess of nothingness.
An open world RPG that is so overstuffed with meaningless content that the seams are starting to split and the empty calories are spilling out.

Starfield is big, both physically requiring 125 GB to install, but also in activities.
Planets, cities, missions, NPCs, combat, research, space travel, space combat, space research, ship building, base building, relationship building, main story, side stories, factions, jobs, and cooking.

And all of it beautiful, grand, silent, serine, action packed, and ultimately unfulfilling.
A tremendous lack of focus makes each individual part of the game hollow.

In the modern Glittering Era of entertainment; Starfield is another spec of shine, so concerned with bland mass appeal that it makes any individual gameplay mechanic as empty as the space we’re flying through.
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56 Comments
gabrielrock May 12, 2024 @ 11:01am 
@Midas Miser They started to directly, intentionally ruin their games from FO3 onwards, FO4 being their most known debut. Up until Skyrim you could say their games had a lot of pros and cons balanced in a fair way. While there was already criticism as to their IPs being wide as an ocean an deep as a puddle, up until ES5 you could say the "itjustworksdisease" hadn't fully consumed them yet. I'd vote for Fallout 4 as the de facto point of no return; Fallout 3 was just a control case in a test environment.
Midas Miser Mar 22, 2024 @ 2:45am 
I miss the days of Skyrim or FO4, where you could say, "you know that building with the (discription), and everyone familiar with those games would know exactly where you were talking about. In Starfield, you could literally be talking about any one of 1000 planets. Same goes for the quests.
Grey_t Mar 5, 2024 @ 7:50am 
I wish I could be this good with words. Dayum!
HeyJoe-HUN-(SNAKE)PCRPGCommunity Jan 8, 2024 @ 7:06am 
Sadly, but true story!
ThePhenomenalOne Jan 7, 2024 @ 6:06am 
I love how this review has a comment saying "bro, 40 hours? You barely touched it!" and there's another review with 130 hours saying "well, you played it for 100+ hours, it couldn't have been THAT bad"

Like, seriously, what amount of time can someone put in before they're allowed to submit a bad review?
Pulsar Lee Jan 5, 2024 @ 11:21pm 
not a bad review,everything you stated may be true but i felt as if you were reviewing No Mans Sky...now that game is the ultimate snore fest
11th Panzergrenadier Nordland Jan 5, 2024 @ 1:11pm 
Do you not understand what space is or something?
PapaHola Jan 4, 2024 @ 1:59pm 
Open world RPG? I haven't seen an open world anywhere in this game, and the only RPG elements I have seen, are a skill tree.
chase7219 Jan 3, 2024 @ 5:59pm 
Well said.
GrayDracKs Jan 3, 2024 @ 1:05pm 
beautifully wrote my good gamer