Starfield Review
Starfield reviewed on PC and Xbox Series X by Dan Stapleton.
It’s never a great sign when someone recommends a game on the grounds that it gets good after more than a dozen hours, but that’s very much the kind of game Starfield is, and I do recommend it. There are a lot of forces working against it, and the combination of disjointed space travel, nonexistent maps, aggravating inventory management, and a slow rollout of essential abilities very nearly did it in. It was the joys piloting a custom spaceship into and out of all sorts of morally ambiguous situations in a rich sci-fi universe that eventually pulled it out of a nosedive. I’m glad that I powered through the early hours, because its interstellar mystery story pays off and, once the ball got rolling, combat on foot and in space gradually became good enough that its momentum carried me into New Game+ after I’d finished the main story after around 60 hours. Like Skryim and Fallout 4 before it, there’s still an immense amount of quality roleplaying quests and interesting NPCs out there, waiting to be stumbled across, and the pull to seek it out is strong.
IGN gave it THAT score. You know the one I’m talking about!
A 7? Lol
@Justin Ammerman Yes
Time to harass the reviewer let’s go gamers! Opinion is not aligned with ours 😀 !
@slamhkthey are bias
Where are all the dorks saying this would be game of the year ???
No Maps is kind of crazy for a game of this scope
Never forget IGN gave Doom Eternal a 7, Deathloop a 10, and Alien: Isolation a 6.
and D4 a 9
Didnt Doom Eternal got a 9?…
Cope
True, this game deserves 5 at most.
This game is amazing, in my personal flavor and opinion. Im happy to have more Space/Sci-Fi games. Things will improve. Thank you Bethesda
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and IGN delivering 7/10 reviews.
lolno IGN gives out 8s and 9s like it’s candy
in the past 16 game reviews done by IGN, Starfield is the only game with a 7/10 review score 😆
Same reviewer gave Watch Dogs Legion an 8 lmao.
Gamespot also 7/10 among other outlets. Seems to be the trend for this game :/
@Seiken BGS “fans” coping hard. The joke is ign rates games too highly now the damage controllers are saying ign always gives 7s??? Loooolno
Seems like a really fun game with the bizarre decision to not have a map
It’s literally called “Field of stars” how the hell did they not include a map
Stop crying kid u dont need a map kid.
deadlines.
@RuTube981 it’s a design choice, games with maps often lack what feels like natural exploration
BGS games don’t have this problem as much, and if we look at Skyrim the one thing it did best was the sense of immersion with exploring
Big reason why it has that legendary reputation
When games have maps, it just feels like the map is guiding you to what you want to find
Rather than the own players curiosity, or just stumbling on something and being surprised by your discovery.
It’s way more dynamic this way
the game not even out yet ant the kids are already whining and crying and sitting in their diapers@Marco Polo HOE
No maps is actually insane.
It’s a game about exploration and it has a navigation system. Why do you need a map?
Gamers when a game doesn’t hold your hand to guide you to a ?:
@FordGTGuy They could have made it optional
@FordGTGuyit’s still a video game. There was nothing stopping them from adding a map and then adding an option to remove it if people wanted too. We can have both 😂
Despite the drawbacks the comparison to the Expanse has me intrigued.
It’s what got me hyped for this game in the first place. The Expanse is such a cool universe
After reading most of the reviews for this game, I’m getting the sense that this game is so massive that experiences can vary wildly. Ik u can say that about a lot of open world rpgs, but it seems to apply especially to starfield.
Yeah got to agree buddy. One trend I’ve noticed is pretty much all the reviews from 7/10 to 10/10 say it doesn’t get you particularly invested until 10-15 hours in
@Oasis Gaming To 10-15 hrs isn’t really that long in the grand scheme of things when it comes to this type of game.
@usasoldiern agree 100%. With a game that is so massive it’s no time at all. But for players new to RPGs or Bethesda they might not have the patience to get past that mark
@Oasis Gaming Isn’t it a while though until you start getting to the meat of the story?
Honestly bethesda RPG games are like an 8/10. When it comes to the mod friendly community it is an automatic 10/10. And I’m pretty impressed on the new version of the creator engine. And I’m excited for mods