Yes. Like many things in the game, base building has no real purpose other than to be a half-assed, bugged, home decorator sim with a questionably low amount of assets relative to the assets they could have enabled with some items buried behind an extremely dumb perk tree.
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Starfield has lost 97% of its Steam players in less than six months.
Yes. Like many things in the game, base building has no real purpose other than to be a half-assed, bugged, home decorator sim with a questionably low amount of assets relative to the assets they could have enabled with some items buried behind an extremely dumb perk tree.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Agreed and nothing wrong with that either btw, not everything is going to be 90+
JackMcGunns
Member
Does anyone know the stats of Fallout before the series on Prime?
Starfield is a massive sandbox with incredible potential. The people believing it's over for Starfield should be bookmarked for a future laughing stock.
Starfield is a massive sandbox with incredible potential. The people believing it's over for Starfield should be bookmarked for a future laughing stock.
SoloCamo
Member
Exactly, I played it at launch and see the clear potential. I'll pick it up in a few months time as I have it on Gamepass now to dabble with.
lordarchaon666
Member
It has potential but in today's market, from a studio of that pedigree, with as much hype behind it as it had, "having potential" should be considered a failure for the game. It shouldn't "have potential", it should have lived up to that potential.
SoloCamo
Member
And it's sales and reputation suffered for it. That doesn't mean that it can't be turned around. Only hurts them in the end when I buy it for a quarter of the launch price and end up with the better game after they get it to where it needed to be (or when enough mods fix it's failures). I'm in no rush with single player games as it's not like in multiplayer where servers are dead once people move on. Win-win for me... I save money and I get a proper game.
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Zheph
Member
a lot of modders have also moved on, its not as flexible as their previous games. Let's see what they cook for their DLC but it won't follow fallout/skyrim trajectory
James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
Starfield doesn’t have any of the cool lore that Fallout has.
It’s as generic as they come. I don’t think it’s fixable and Bethesda doesn’t have the resources to fix it when their time is better suited on other more popular IP like elders scrolls and fallout
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Daneel Elijah
Member
Lots of great games around it by the way. Cell to singularity is a great mobile game and magic is played IRL by millions of players.Position 223 right now:
JackMcGunns
Member
SoloCamo
Member
It has plenty of lore but it's also the first entry into the series. They've established a baseline to add onto.
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James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
They won’t be adding to the series after the DLC
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SoloCamo
Member
Source? They've confirmed no new starfield games? First I've heard that.
James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
Not anytime soon, the studio is working on elder scrolls next
SoloCamo
Member
Oh of course, I've been on the Betheda train since Morrowind's launch so I know their timelines can be... ridiculous. That said, with how few series they have I don't think Starfield is one and done.
Yonyx
Banned
They are games much older than Starfield. It's not normal for Starfield to have such meager numbers when it's still in its first year. It's not normal for Fallout 4 or New Vegas to have had better numbers already, with a decade more behind them (they surpassed Starfield months ago BEFORE the series fever).
Daneel Elijah
Member
I understand that. I just found it funny that even as being that low Starfield was with great games and choose to focus on that instead of their numbers. There is another thread about Starfield, that one was about it steam rewiews score that got 1 point lower since the last time it have been updated. For me, I follow that one more than the numbers of players because I care more about if I can have fun than seeking if more people think like me or not. Don't get me wrong I will seek validation like any other person for things I like but outside of some schadenfreude I don't really like doing it the other way.
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
That's my problem with current Bethesda games. They aren't about story or characters they're sandbox theme parks.
Fallout 4 wanted so desperately to be Minecraft.
MDSLKTR
Member
Stellar Blade flops so we get another Starfield thread
