STARFIELD celebrates its second anniversary, Bethesda posted a cryptic teaser
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Punished Miku
Gaslighter Pro: 16.7 Fireflops
It's a totally fabricated issue. Going in buildings it's usually 1 second. It doesn't even matter. Anything that's 2-3 seconds, it cycles between all the photos you take in photo mode and actually looks nice.
No one actually gives a shit in reality. They've been told it's the worst thing ever, and just repeat it like mindless zombies. No one cares that there's loading screens in 90+ rated Metaphor, or Donkey Kong Bananza, or countless other games. You would be surprised how many games have loading screens, because most times people barely even acknowledge they're there. To even engage with this debate like it's based on honest opinions is a waste of your time.
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xrnzaaas
Member
For me even the first 4 hours were bad. The entire introduction is poor and it can also be quite dumb, like the reason for why you get an expensive first ship. The world also feels quite dead when you arrive in the first big city.
In my opinion you need to look hard to find cool content. There's some in the faction missions, but not a lot.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I played it at launch and I enjoyed it for what it is, although it was still very disappointing. For better or worse, it's a middle-of-the-road Bethesda RPG in a space setting.
I did the UC Vanguard faction quest line early on and it was really fucking cool. The rest of the game felt like a big letdown after that.
It wasn't overtly woke/preachy but it had a strong "Modern Audience" stink to it. There's like a perfectly homogenous blend of races/genders across all locales and all walks of life. There's a total lack of gendered behavior, like you could gender swap every single character and nothing would feel different or "off" about it (except for the girlboss characters now coming across as toxic males). Everyone everywhere wears frumpy unisex clothing.
And the writing was extremely lame. "Like HR was in the room" as Veilguard was described.
Lots of times your dialog choices are either "polite, don't rock the boat" response or "flippant, snarky, sarcastic zoomer" response. And often they'll make all of your options say something stupid, just so one of the girlboss characters can be like "no, that's not what this is about" and then proceed to lecture you.
I did the UC Vanguard faction quest line early on and it was really fucking cool. The rest of the game felt like a big letdown after that.
It wasn't overtly woke/preachy but it had a strong "Modern Audience" stink to it. There's like a perfectly homogenous blend of races/genders across all locales and all walks of life. There's a total lack of gendered behavior, like you could gender swap every single character and nothing would feel different or "off" about it (except for the girlboss characters now coming across as toxic males). Everyone everywhere wears frumpy unisex clothing.
And the writing was extremely lame. "Like HR was in the room" as Veilguard was described.
Lots of times your dialog choices are either "polite, don't rock the boat" response or "flippant, snarky, sarcastic zoomer" response. And often they'll make all of your options say something stupid, just so one of the girlboss characters can be like "no, that's not what this is about" and then proceed to lecture you.
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
I feel like they put a lot in place as a kind of safeguard for the engine logic, but were a bit overzealous in the execution; a lot of these screens can probably be minimised in a way there's less interruptions.
Like in the below video you can see a barely 2 second loading screen when the ship goes to space, during take off the player still has full control and all the logic is still working, it's only when it has to unload the planet area and load in the space area there's a brief loading screen.
This is different than the whole animation that plays when you actually take-off manually.
Sybrix
Member
Definitely right about the cities, it's not acceptable from a studio as big as Bethesda to have barron cities when you have offerings like CP2077, GTA, RDR etc.
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March Climber
Gold Member
No more loading screens pls, that's all I wish for
Ironically, this is the only type of mod that would fix it:
Planet-to-Planet/Objective mission selection (removing space).
Because then it would remove 4 loading screens and their animations (flying into space, flying into a new system, flying near a planet/spaceship, landing onto said planet/spaceship).
I don't have the skills to make this mod, but doing this and making the game less immersive would solve a ton of loading screen back-to-back problems.
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Its worth playing and does a lot of things well, but it sacrifices what made the Fallout and Skyrim great and that was unforgiveable.
It was too much quantity over quality.
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Topher
Identifies as young
Hated the second half of the main story. I enjoyed the faction quests more than anything else. Shattered Space DLC was disappointing. The "powers" weren't that great, but the core gameplay was fun. They are supposed to revamp the space exploration/battles which is badly needed.
Overall, still stay Starfield is a good game. Glad they are still adding stuff eventhough seems like we should have more at this point, two years later.
SEGAvangelist
Member
That last color looks suspiciously like the PlayStation charging light color.
Fess
Member
What are we talking about then, 5 seconds? 10? Grab a candy or whatever while you wait. It's not that bad. I grew up loading games from cassette tapes on C64 heh
They use your photos as loading screen, can make things less annoying if you make sure you take awesome photos.
nowhat
Member
Unlike ships in Starfield, they just fast travel.
Codes 208
Member
They just want to remind you theyre still a thing.
Like how MS posted that 30 year RARE anniversary post (just a week after canning two of their projects)
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
This would be the absolute best fit on the Switch 2. I really hope it gets a port.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
two years and its still a shit game that can slightly turn to less shit with mods. Their most disappointing and worst game ever. If people are thinking they were secretly working on something major that completely overhauls the entire game lmao to them.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Chukhopops
Member
I forgot about that, it's surprising considering how much hate the game got at launch. 130 pages review thread.Don't forget the most important:
Top 5 NeoGaf GAME OF THE YEAR: Starfield
It was one of the last battles of the console war but certainly the most fierce.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
It's a fun space WRPG. Some tried to make it more, or some make it less. I loved my 300+ hours spent with it.
Boo Who?
Member
I'm waiting for a sale on PC, I want to play the Stars Wars total conversion mod. Played a bit on Gamepass on Xbox and it was not great.No, no you honestly don't
I'm like you, I love this stuff. Space, so full of promise! Space ships, planets, ALIENS! Oh my..
This game will make you hate.
It's not worth it. Play Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky, that weird UBI Space game that looks like a cartoon.. (That wasn't that bad, actually..)
If you like Space games, don't bother. The loading screens alone are enough to piss you off, and that's before you get to the utterly lame ass characters with Gen Z writing..
And that Nightclub in game. Oh god, that Nightclub
Please, save yourself
Even the modders ditched it.
Last Hearth
Member
I won't believe they've changed Starfield into something I'd be interested in coming back to until I see new appropriately dressed dancers in the nightclubs. That's my litmus test.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
I bought the complete edition on the Series X, still a bit gutted about that..
And funnily enough, after I posted I checked out the price on key sellers and Steam, it hasn't dropped much at all for Steam, which surprised me somewhat
And to be totally honest, I never knew there was such a conversion mod, the last I read a lot of modders just didn't bother.
I'll check it out
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
We wanted the next evolution of Bethesda RPGs, this generation's Skyrim.
We got a decent 8/10 game that has < 25% of Skyrim's player count after 2 years.
Definitely not a total flop but also nowhere near the hit that Microsoft expected + needed.
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
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b0uncyfr0
Member
Except thats not the only time it happens right? Its everywhere. I was shocked they decided to ship a modern game like that - it completely breaks immersion for me and ill never enjoy it with such interruptions.
Sethbacca
Member
It's 2020 for the 5th year in a row at this point.
The "general idea" was great, I was hyped for years, but upon playing it, you quickly find it hollow and soulless, I managed about 20 hours, and even that felt like time poorly spent, which was a damn shame for the promise it held.
Shubh_C63
Member
The shooting and looting in this game is actually good.
Just everything around it is so mediocre making it a true ass game.
