shootingstar said:
Looks fine!! How are you getting on with Starfield? I really wanted to love that game but I just don't... Played for like 4 hours on game pass on my xbox, and it just wasn't clicking at all for me... On paper I should love it, as a huge Mass Effect fanboi, but I dunno, there's something really off about that game. Maybe it gets better with more play time?
I'm just about done with Starfield, but I got a lot out of it to be honest. The story isn't as inane Fallout 4's, and the other faction questlines are all right--one of them, the UC Vanguard, is actually pretty good. I like it's more grounded feel. I mostly enjoy the gunplay. There are a few quests that are gems.
It has lots of big problems. The exploration doesn't hold a candle to previous BGS titles, because the procedural generation is just really not good. The map is huge... and it's planets filled with the same 30 random POIs, which are identical down to item and enemy spawns. Due to the way the space travel works, you can't just start at point A and blaze a path through the wilderness to point B, finding interesting POIs on the way. The companions all have the same morality, and react in some infuriating ways to your actions.
There are some mind-bogglingly bad mechanics, the main one I'd have to say is: temples. If you play the game, you'll come to know what I mean.
A lot of people seem to adore shipbuilding, but I haven't done much with it, and you don't have to. You can beat the game easily with a pretty mediocre ship.
A BGS game doesn't need to meet a high bar for me to play it and enjoy it. I think "big problems but for some reason fun" sums up most of them. I think this one has shorter legs than the others but it was still enough for me to get some enjoyment out of it.
I can't believe how fast time has gone by... I'm no hardware expert either, but I'd like to replace parts as they near obsolescence. I think first on my list would be more RAM.
