Punished Miku
Banned
I don't think these people could have survived Star Trek in the 60s.
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Roberts
Banned
That is how I approached all their previous games since Morrowind but intuition told me to try and stick to the main story this time. In many ways I'm glad I did, because (no spoilers) relatively early something happens that slightly influences how you play a game. You will know when you see it. I think that is good moment to branch out and do other stuff.
Red5
Member
Steam forum is a cesspit filled with looneys, trolls and rejects.
Kacho
Gold Member
It reminds me of early 2000s GameFAQs
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Looks like it's $30 on Woot right now. It'll have to wait for me, though. The rest of my 2023 is booked solid. I still haven't even started Bayo 3...
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Believe it or not, there will probably be people who refund this game just because of that.
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CrustyBritches
Gold Member
I'm on the Ranger questline, but Neon has some awesome side quests that totally derailed me. In a cyberpunk gang atm.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
He seems upset. I hope he's able to find Jesus soon.
Roberts
Banned
I'm stating the obvious, but YT play button looks like a clown nose on him.
Agent_Nobody
Banned
It was the same thing with pretty much all of the Bethesda games: you really really suck ass at the beginning, and you generally have a second difficulty bump falling in to your class when you don't quite have the perks, skills, or the set-up to make it click quite yet.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
I've found her, finally. Now I need to go to Enhance to change my gender.
twilo99
Member
Yeah, Larian handled the whole thing way better in my opinion..
twilo99
Member
They did the same with the early access on gamepass... some of us had to wait for over an hour to get in
twilo99
Member
Excellent OT
Amazing game. 40 hours in, 22 hours into 2nd character.
This thing will probably replace No Man's Sky for me as the go to game. Will miss seamless planet-to-space transition(and VR of course), but after playing 40hours, I really don't miss it as much as I thought I would.
Dogfighting is very fun, combat feels nice (although 1st person is a must for me, which is odd since I rarely, if ever, play shooters and always chose 3rd over 1st if I have the option).
Art Design is top notch, I understand what they were going for with 'Nasa Punk'. They nailed it.
Sound/Music is very fitting. Wandering around with the atmospheric sounds and soft background music reminds me of serene Star Wars moments. And the sound design for ships and scanning is very 'satisfying' for me.
Haven't done much of the main quest. With the first character I mostly played 'action side missions' and explored outposts etc, with the second character I played the first 10 hours roughly questing without firing a single bullet. Felt like two completely different games.
I like the dialogues (although BG3 feels more natural and better written) and the quests themselves are a lot of fun.
Finding stuff like Grandma or The Constant or the Mantis Quest is bringing back Fallout 3 vibes visiting Rivet City for the first time. Infact, most of the game feels like that for me, which is brilliant.
I wouldn't be able to review Starfield.
It's absolutely a 10/10 for me. Is it perfect? Absolutely not, but the flaws or bad parts and my nitpicks do not matter at all. The positives outweigh the negatives ten to one.
Something like this comes once in a decade for me.
In short: I'm in love, honeymoon period be damned. Standard for me is 30hours, then I feel like I need variety, a change in setting etc. The only other game where this happened after a couple hundred hours was No Man's Sky, so let's see how much Starfield I have to play til this feeling comes up
So you are running two characters? I was thinking about it today but I feel like it will be too much..
Punished Miku
Banned
Only other thing I could think of is that the physical run is probably quite small.Looks like it's $30 on Woot right now. It'll have to wait for me, though. The rest of my 2023 is booked solid. I still haven't even started Bayo 3...
Topher
Identifies as young
She's been my mainstay companion since she joined the crew.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
For me the issue was playing it how I did Skyrim and fallout doesn't work.
When you leave the cave in Skyrim you can run any direction and you will find engaging main quests, unique caves or creatures to fight etc.
Because starfield isn't a single world the majority of people who are bored are ones like me who didn't follow the main quest. The second at around hour 10 I stopped talking to people in new Atlantis and said fuck it I'll try main story and faction quests I found , presto the Bethesda magic appeared. In past games the magic was everywhere right away but in starfield that just isn't the case.
All new players should stick to main story and factions quests for the first 10-20 hours to get quick satisfaction with the game to be hooked.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Breathtaking.
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After 30~ hours in play time, I am finally arriving at The Eye for the first time lol. I should probably do a few story missions between the faction stuff.
Punished Miku
Banned
I actually took the complete opposite route and was fully hooked. As soon as I got to the city I was just hooked. Was like Mass Effect 1 + Morrowind. No map, just figure it out yourself. Still haven't hardly touched any faction or main quests. After gorging on city exploration I just went scanning into the wilderness and finding occupied outposts. Then doing multiple smaller side quests.
It's neat that there's so many different ways to approach this game.
Stuart360
Member
Gp1
Member
It's the first game that Bethesda nailed the characters and the character editor.-
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Cant believe I have to get up to take the kids to school...I just want to play all night.
Tomorrow and everyone gets to enjoy!
Tomorrow and everyone gets to enjoy!
Where's Ahsoka?
freefornow
Member
Every time Gaf! Every time. That OT thread title.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Wake the fuck up, Samurai
And yeah they nailed it! Captain Fisto reporting for duty:
Badlucktroll
Member
So has anyone found a scary ass Event Horizon inspired mission yet
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
For the newbies, take photos in the game as well as using the screenshot feature with the console. Photos you've taken will sometimes show up on the loading screens.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Not yet. On a total opposite side of the spectrum, I helped out a starship of children on a field trip.
Punished Miku
Banned
So you get loading screens with you standing behind Sarah bent over?
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
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CrustyBritches
Gold Member
This game is a modder's paradise. You could take one tile on a planet or moon and flag it as permanent like New Atlantis and create a whole custom city with it's own quest lines and everything.
Like a Mad Max scenario on Akila...
or something like Event Horizon on an abandoned ship or station...
Like a Mad Max scenario on Akila...
or something like Event Horizon on an abandoned ship or station...
Revolutionary
Member
A feature from Fallout 76, in case anyone didn't know.
On that note, if anyone is digging Starfield and didn't try out FO76 because of the reviews, I invite you to give it a shot someday. It may surprise you.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Pro tip:
in the equipment screen you can set it to hide your helmet/armor when on a habitable planet so you can see your clothes.
If you then go take off all your clothes, it'll show your armor instead. However if you put on just a hat in the clothing menu, it will show you in your underpants like this:
in the equipment screen you can set it to hide your helmet/armor when on a habitable planet so you can see your clothes.
If you then go take off all your clothes, it'll show your armor instead. However if you put on just a hat in the clothing menu, it will show you in your underpants like this:
cormack12
Gold Member
Wake the fuck up, Samurai
And yeah they nailed it! Captain Fisto reporting for duty:
Damn, Aloy did not age well.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Lost some weight though.
Topher
Identifies as young
Pro tip:
in the equipment screen you can set it to hide your helmet/armor when on a habitable planet so you can see your clothes.
If you then go take off all your clothes, it'll show your armor instead. However if you put on just a hat in the clothing menu, it will show you in your underpants like this:
Holy shit. That looks like a Starfield spinoff game from Double Fine if I ever saw one.
Tim Schafer, get in this thread!
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MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Breathtaking.
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After 30~ hours in play time, I am finally arriving at The Eye for the first time lol. I should probably do a few story missions between the faction stuff.
Super cool location!
Payday! 10 pieces of black market antiquities. Damn, it feels good to be a gansta.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Good advice. I joined the first faction that I came across (UC Vanguard, which you will get the opportunity to join very early on during the main quest). I thought it'd be like the Stormcloak quest in Skyrim... a few "go to this outpost and kill the bandits/pirates/whatever" quests, a few semi-interesting characters to meet, go kill the big bad guy, get a unique weapon and nothing else in the game world really changes.
Instead this faction went to 11 almost immediately, lots of big plot twists that tie into the game's main story and lore. Really awesome so far. Now I can't wait to see what happens with the other factions.