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[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! (cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com)

submitted 1 year ago by quinten@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you've already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

Discuss all things Starfield below!

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[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My expectations are set by the gaming landscape as a whole. For example, virtually all games releasing nowadays have a manual save feature. I expect that. A dev coming out during development to say their game doesn’t have manual saving doesn’t suddenly make that okay.

It’s an extreme example, but my point is that a dev disclosing something before release shouldn’t magically negate all criticism of it. People are allowed to be frustrated by things this game does poorly that other games excel at, even if the devs were transparent about those shortcomings.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's not even that, I never talked about the space to planet transition because I expected that to be a loading screen.

I'm talking about how the game itself is structured, I thought the space travel and jumping from system to system was going to be more like elite, but it's just small instances with loading screens. Was that my fault for assuming that? I mean, they focused so hard on ship customization I assumed space travel was a big part of the game. At least the space gameplay, if not the planetary gameplay.

Bethesda was super closed off about how exactly the gameplay loop was structured because they knew the truth was going to reduce sales. So they let the reality of it just go unsaid while they kept you focused on the pretty screenshots.