Starfield Megathread

About 10 hours in, gaming on PC. Not really sure what to think yet. It hasn't sucked me in yet like Skyrim did when I played that for the first time.

Also, the game keeps crashing randomly without warning, just quick freeze then bam, straight to desktop, and I don't bother restarting the game.

You know what, I'm watching Ichigo 100% right now and it is bringing me 100% more joy than Starfield.

Just heard that people are refunding and/or boycotting the game due to it having pronoun selection.
(Source: Dextero)

If the game gets a playable demo on Steam, I might try it.

Just checked what the hell Starfield is. 350 złoty no thank you, I am no longer that often playing games and willingly to pay that much for them, if it would be 2-3 times cheaper I might be positive to buy it and play it.

The only game from 2023 which I have played is Honkai Star Rail, mainly because it is free.

@Fleeting_Dream What a dumb reason to boycott the game honestly. I haven’t played it yet so I can’t speak on it’s quality beyond any rumors I’ve heard, but I wouldn’t feel bad about the game over literal words. I get that people don’t like certain things which I won’t get into detail in over the forums, but we’ve literally always had pronouns for men, women, and people in general, which are the choices on Starfield (he/she/they). Such a dumb reason to get mad at the game.

@Dulonkk

I am using a GTX1080 and it is holding up just fine at 1080p. I have everything set between low-medium and I'm getting 70-90 FPS in interior areas with 30-40 in the city areas. To me, that's perfectly playable, not like some rich babies crying that their 4090 is only giving them 90 FPS with everything at ultra.

Still, the gpu is less important in this game than everyone is making it out to be. Starfield has pressed my cpu to 100% usage while running in all situations. I have a i7 7700k. Not the biggest baddest processor in town anymore but still no slouch. It's bottlenecking Starfield though, and if I had the choice, I would upgrade my cpu instead of my gpu if I wanted better performance.

Oh, and don't forget to install the game on your SSD. I installed it on my bigger spinny HDD at first and the game stuttered badly everywhere (as it streams in assets on the fly in a lot of places) but since I reinstalled on SSD it has been fine.

@Amityblight I do enjoy fallout 3 and I'll say starfield definitely more polished than average game. The guns and weapons feel good this time.

To me the game has some alright elements but if your wanting space travel it's like mass effect then no man's sky and as was only interested in the tech, seeing loading screens just disappointed me.

For story writing/feel/inventories hard to say yet how it is but it may be good in those areas. The weapon selection is good though. That and the lock picking looks simple, not awkward to do.

Is Starfield a good game, yes in some areas. Perfect no. For me, no. Can I look at the good, bad and what I was seeking yes.

Never hated the old school (computer RPG design) but modern in ways of Bethesda or table top RPGs I appreciate them even if don't play them I like what they do.

Again AAA even with a huge budget this game feels like even besides the procedural generation and graphics pushing and 30FPS to be cinematic (who cares and settings you'll turn off anyway of film grain/motion blur) AAA does limit on what 'they' seek as their visions and yet if want innovation to Indies or AAs (AAs willing to try some ideas and not follow a trend, any that go backwards people complain about, I enjoy them because the little details they did offer ACTUALLY appealed to me it's those details I cared for) itself.

While I don't think all triple i or triple a/well noticed Indies are that good, they don't hold back on ideas and well also if they want to be inspired they know the games inside and out for sure, some tweaks make sense besides their own ideas to be 'different' to well not make it directly like the IP as they can't (I mean when many are nostalgic while fine I don't particularly care for, people can eat them up, I personally just don't care, the ones that are unique are the Indies big and small I care about).


Don't know enough about the planets/atmosphere, can Bethesda do theming though yes. I do think Apocalypse 1950s is cool in Fallout for sure. NASApunk though. Eh. Like going fairly realistic is fine but eh. Also why say it tries to be realistic (not that they have to be 1 to 1 also if was it'd be boring) but I mean when you still have game design quirks it doesn't make a lot of sense. Why no culling the corpses then? Or other realistic things like fall damage or others. AAA games make no sense.

I know cinematic/realism are different but I do laugh sometimes which is it AAA game publishers/devs what tropes/formulas are to be followed. They don't need to I prefer gamey elements but still.

If you want an RPG you play Starfield, it's going to be good no doubt with the way Bethesda writes things (if you want also an old school but modern RPG you know why you get Bethesda games that's clear), the same with Baulder's Gate you get it for an old-school RPG with some good details in there that modernise them but your seeking the old school feel/design in areas.

I'm fine with old-school with some tweaks it never bothered me. I enjoy seeing a spin on old, or a spin on modern but some modern are a bit eh of spins/standard/trope/formula heavy that I appreciate different or old but a few twists to them more. Not even for nostalgia either it's just different design I'm not sick of.

if you want a survival game but not as much in-depth story you play No Man's Sky or literally any other space game from other studios (No Man's Sky has a story but it's not the same quality and was added in an update too).

As I prefer survival games then RPGs (only tactics) I'm going to be particular but doesn't mean they don't have merit even if I don't play them for my lack of interest in some design or tropes of RPGs.

Also nothing wrong with some design but I mean there is parts of 8th gen that I'm like sure the hardware wasn't that much a step up so they were limited, but 9th gen there is no excuses and I see still 7-8th gen decision

(besides players and their studio loving bias too, I critique even games/companies I think do good and bad I have no 'all they make is great' mindset I have hated on my childhood series for not evolving, even when they did but wasted their potential to be safe, what a waste of dev time and direction that's so disappointing to be safe/not move on and just appeal to casuals, or hardcore that want safe games it's just boring

So times I find playing it safe while fans eat them up boring) and go so it's better graphics, maybe quality of life but game design that hasn't changed or appealed to me so why should I buy a PS5/Xbox Series console at all.

I can buy 6th gen with ideas more unique then today left behind no one cares about but me uncovering them and their limits. Some games limits have been overcome, others haven't.

if people can't tell the difference/don't read and want 'good/bad' basics of writing and reading that's on them.

About 10 hours in, gaming on PC. Not really sure what to think yet. It hasn't sucked me in yet like Skyrim did when I played that for the first time.

Also, the game keeps crashing randomly without warning, just quick freeze then bam, straight to desktop, and I don't bother restarting the game.

You know what, I'm watching Ichigo 100% right now and it is bringing me 100% more joy than Starfield.

@StewedBeefHaunch I haven’t had any crashes at all, but my game hasn’t ran that well. If you’re freezing and crashing, maybe you installed it on a hard drive instead of an SSD. Otherwise I have no idea why you’d be crashing.

@Dulonkk For the life of me I don't understand how a game can be a 10/10 when you're barely getting 40fps. And on low settings of all things. Idk how you grade games. Did you download the DLSS mod? It works really well.

I'd say this game is a solid 7/10. There's nothing amazing the game does, nor does it do anything poorly other than how badly optimized it is unless you have a 4090/4080 which todd tried to imply when he said "upgrade your pc". The game isn't amazing graphically, it doesn't push any boundaries, nor does it innovate. As a game it's fine, it's not bad. But I think what will ultimately disappoint people is the ungodly amounts of hype and expectations the game had prior to it's release. When at the end of the day, it's just a pretty good game. Just not a great one. IMO anyway.

Some glaring issues I'm having with the game is. 1. Too many loading screens. Literally your time is spent on a loading screen much more than it is spent on exploring. Especially in certain cities.

2. The inventory system is ass. Although I did manage to make it better with the mod. But yet again, if I need a mod to fix something it just means it wasn't good to begin with.

Just my two major issues right now.

Is this a "buy" or a "sub to game pass to try"?

@Suntanned_Duck2 I read your post, and I think what you’ve said about Starfield is pretty accurate. It isn’t a game for everyone. So far, in the amount of time that I played the game, I like it but not as much as I liked Fallout 4 on launch, or as much as New Vegas. I’d chalk this up to the fact that I have to explore through warping around rather than walking around and seeing the world. Whenever I was actually on a planet, procedural generated or not, I was having a fun time. But the game does have other flaws too. The optimization is abysmal. I don’t understand how it runs poorly on practically all GPUs out at the moment. That doesn’t make much sense to me. No clue about consoles because I don’t use them.

The game does do a lot right though: the game has interesting features in it, the gunplay is decent but very reminiscent of other Bethesda titles, the aesthetic looks nice, and the worlds themselves are interesting.

@voidmask If you aren't a Bethesda fan, I would subscribe to Game Pass and try the game yourself. In the U.S. it is priced at $70, and while I was willing to pay that for Starfield, many people are not. Especially if regional pricing actually makes the game more expensive for you than it would be for me. If you are a Bethesda fan, unless you are absolutely certain that you will enjoy sinking your teeth into the game, I'd say pass on it and wait for a sale or go the Game Pass route. In my personal, biased opinion, the game is a 10/10, however to the more critical-minded, Starfield would not justify that sort of rating.