Starfield (XSX, PC) 9.1.23
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damn never seen that octopus creature before….seen that “moon” buggy tho…wish you could use it
Redguard
Hoonding
We aint having none of that bullshyt hereOutlaw
New Hope For the HaveNotz
Why do you think, us as owners of Starfield give a fukk about what this reviewer thinks?
The Stan Titan
Rookie
It's kind of hard to explain. This feels more like a survival game than Morrowind in this area.
When you do eventually get into the 'exploration' outside of clicking on the 'here's an icon on your map that says a thing is here' fast travel option, it's amounts to clicking on a planet, cutscene, menu, hold a button, click on a different planet, cutscene..... it's literally the most boring thing ever. Let's say you do find a planet worth landing on. Cool, drop in and find the same reused abandoned mining/research stations over and over again, filled with 1 of 3 generic enemy factions, and maybe you'll get a gun out of it?
I don't want No Man's Sky style empty planets and seamless travel but there has to be something? Make fuel more of a factor, make supplies a factor, make anything more than 'your grav drive isn't quite big enough to reach that yet' a factor. Make planet exploration actually mean something, give me specific types of planets to seek out, give me experiments or research to conduct on specific planets you know...
DetroitEWarren
Veteran
Definitely. This is very fair bruh. But in terms of exploration, it does everything all those ganes do abdvot does it better and on a more massive scale. I'd like to be able to travel around the whole planet seamlessly, but the game falling short in that area, doesn't mean that the exploration is worse than games where the similarities to Starfield is done exactly the same way. In all those games, you dealt with load screens inside of every building you enter. It's damn near exactly the same in Starfield.It's kind of hard to explain. This feels more like a survival game than Morrowind in this area.
When you do eventually get into the 'exploration' outside of clicking on the 'here's an icon on your map that says a thing is here' fast travel option, it's amounts to clicking on a planet, cutscene, menu, hold a button, click on a different planet, cutscene..... it's literally the most boring thing ever. Let's say you do find a planet worth landing on. Cool, drop in and find the same reused abandoned mining/research stations over and over again, filled with 1 of 3 generic enemy factions, and maybe you'll get a gun out of it?
I don't want No Man's Sky style empty planets and seamless travel but there has to be something? Make fuel more of a factor, make supplies a factor, make anything more than 'your grav drive isn't quite big enough to reach that yet' a factor. Make planet exploration actually mean something, give me specific types of planets to seek out, give me experiments or research to conduct on specific planets you know...
This is the one and the last. Took two hours and I had to go to multiple staryards to finish it. They need to put in some C-reactors that are single layered, most of the struggle came from me trying to hide the reactor while not losing the habs I wanted. 
Entering the ship into the the Deimos 2x2 Engineering hab and having it connect to the Nova Galactic 2x2 Living Quarters is
Only filler hab was a storeroom and computer room.
I think people are misremembering skyrim/fallout.
The dungenons in those games amounted to the same few templates as well.
Starfield actually has more variance in what you will see on the different planets compared to what you might see walking through the fallout wasteland.
The thing that’s different is your motivation to do the exploring. If you aren’t deep into ship building or base building, then there’s really no need to do a lot of exploring.
All of the extra planets are just window dressing to make the universe feel large and believable.
I stop by unique planets just for the spectacle, but I’m not the type of person to mess around with crafting/base building systems too much, so i probably won’t do a lot of random exploring. But that’s fine as there’s more than enough game here for me to do the things i like to do.
The one thing that is missing is “the journey” and i think that’s what people are saying when they complain about the menus.
In Skyrim and Fallout when you got a mission to an unexplored part of the map, the journey to get there was a mission in itself. In starcraft that journey has largely been replaced by menus.
But i think that’s just the nature of the setting. Humans have jet packs and can basically teleport. There’s really no need for anyone to spend hours traveling across land to anywhere. In a hypothetical world where humans have spread across the universe, lots of it would be empty space not even worth discovering. Contrast that to a fantasy or post apocalyptic setting and people walking around and discovering stuff makes lots of sense.
I’m having a good time with it so far. Classic bethesda branching path adhd fukkery to get lost in.
The dungenons in those games amounted to the same few templates as well.
Starfield actually has more variance in what you will see on the different planets compared to what you might see walking through the fallout wasteland.
The thing that’s different is your motivation to do the exploring. If you aren’t deep into ship building or base building, then there’s really no need to do a lot of exploring.
All of the extra planets are just window dressing to make the universe feel large and believable.
I stop by unique planets just for the spectacle, but I’m not the type of person to mess around with crafting/base building systems too much, so i probably won’t do a lot of random exploring. But that’s fine as there’s more than enough game here for me to do the things i like to do.
The one thing that is missing is “the journey” and i think that’s what people are saying when they complain about the menus.
In Skyrim and Fallout when you got a mission to an unexplored part of the map, the journey to get there was a mission in itself. In starcraft that journey has largely been replaced by menus.
But i think that’s just the nature of the setting. Humans have jet packs and can basically teleport. There’s really no need for anyone to spend hours traveling across land to anywhere. In a hypothetical world where humans have spread across the universe, lots of it would be empty space not even worth discovering. Contrast that to a fantasy or post apocalyptic setting and people walking around and discovering stuff makes lots of sense.
I’m having a good time with it so far. Classic bethesda branching path adhd fukkery to get lost in.
The Stan Titan
Rookie
This is one problem I have with the game, apart from the battle music which I wish you could turn off. At first it appears like a complex game but actually it isnt at all, in fact I think Fallout 4 was more complex than Starfield.I think people are misremembering skyrim/fallout.
The dungenons in those games amounted to the same few templates as well.
Starfield actually has more variance in what you will see on the different planets compared to what you might see walking through the fallout wasteland.
The thing that’s different is your motivation to do the exploring. If you aren’t deep into ship building or base building, then there’s really no need to do a lot of exploring.
All of the extra planets are just window dressing to make the universe feel large and believable.
I stop by unique planets just for the spectacle, but I’m not the type of person to mess around with crafting/base building systems too much, so i probably won’t do a lot of random exploring. But that’s fine as there’s more than enough game here for me to do the things i like to do.
The one thing that is missing is “the journey” and i think that’s what people are saying when they complain about the menus.
In Skyrim and Fallout when you got a mission to an unexplored part of the map, the journey to get there was a mission in itself. In starcraft that journey has largely been replaced by menus.
But i think that’s just the nature of the setting. Humans have jet packs and can basically teleport. There’s really no need for anyone to spend hours traveling across land to anywhere. In a hypothetical world where humans have spread across the universe, lots of it would be empty space not even worth discovering. Contrast that to a fantasy or post apocalyptic setting and people walking around and discovering stuff makes lots of sense.
I’m having a good time with it so far. Classic bethesda branching path adhd fukkery to get lost in.
There arent many systems and mechanics in the game that have any depth. The ship building is really cool and pretty deep once you get going. The outpost system though, really isnt. I wish they had taken what they did with Fallout 4 and really gone to town with it, but if anything its dumbed down from that game and also doesnt really have much use. It seems more like its there if you like building stuff but has no real impact on the game at all.
I didn’t mess around with base building in fallout 4 at all. Seemed pointless then. I probably won’t mess with in on starfield. Some people just like building stuff. I just wanna play the game. I’m happy they don’t make it such an integral part of the game. I’d play sim city or something if i wanted to do that
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