“This is what it was all for,” Todd Howard, Starfield’s creative director, said when asked for a response to the nomination. “Starfield is our most advanced game to date, requiring more loading screens to fast travel between destinations than any other game we’ve ever produced, and an indecipherable starmap I’m sure one of our fantastic people in the modding community will fix any day now.”
Not sure if satire or Todd just spoke the truth for once.
Okay but the map being stupidly indecipherable at first while also having to find specific locations for missions was just bad honestly it was mass effect but fallout lol
I’ve rage quit so many times because I’ve been trying to reach an uncharted planet, get to the one close to it from what I can see and either can’t find it again or the system I jumped to wasn’t actually close to where I needed to go.
I’ve played it for dozens of hours because I’m a glutton for punishment that loves hoarding sims but the game is definitely extra medium. I hope they significantly improve on it in the next year (without factoring in third party mods).
It’s like a beautiful luxury car with lots of features, but it has weird difficult doors and can only go 50 MPH.
The texture work at least, is absolutely gorgeous. Especially the interiors. Some of the handmade environments are very pretty too.
7/10 is generous
7/10 is fair if you consider that nobody is buying games that got 6/10. The scale for games only go from 6/10 to 10/10, and this goes back to the gaming magazines in the 90’s.
Something smelled fishy with that article:
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Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.
Why can’t gamers just find things to be “okay”. Starfield is not one of the top contenders this year, but to straight up call it bad is just ignorant
whats your rating? cause i find 7/10 to be a fair score. its not the greatest, too many problems to be really great, but its definitely a good game
Personally it was a 2/10. I deleted it after an hour after I couldn’t find the store to sell my things on the main planet base early in the game. That and then suffering through the ugliest character models the engine could come up with I’d had enough. Gameplay was extremely average and couldn’t save it from that point.
Having played for over a hundred hours, I think the best new feature is the problem.
Flying your ship is great, but since everything is done via quick travel in menus, it’s not really ‘fun’, you always jump into orbit and either a random encounter occurs or nothing at all happens.
Imagine spaceship experience that was more in line with how the control center in Battlestar Galactica works. You can just have room with an interactive mini-map to interact with. Then maybe they could have put more effort into making the galaxy less empty.
This was my biggest gripe. A game with an extensive spaceship building experience, battle features, different weapon types and the best they can come up with is “fast travel to a random event in space 7/10 nothing happens, the rest is Irish man singing, maybe a quick battle and mining rocks by blowing them up”. All in a tiny space.
