Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

Overblown and knee jerk.

I'm enjoying the absolute fuck out of this game - hundreds of hours already and no regrets. This game is a lot deeper than anyone gives it credit for, it's fantastic, and I'm looking forward to more of it.

No Man's Sky bores the hell out of me and yet I'm having so much fun exploring planets and raiding pirate bases and being surprised by handbuilt content in what I thought would be a procedurally generated dungeon. Not to mention the surprisingly deep side and faction quests. Oh and so many hours playing with the shipbuilder.

I'm sorry you're not having fun guys. But maybe you should focus on things that are fun for you?

Gamers are known for never bandwagoning or over reacting.

It’s just a clunky reskin of fo4 with no depth. I’ve put about 50 hrs in at this point & will probably continue for a bit because it’s a comforting loot cycle that pleases my lizard brain. It really lacks the feeling exploration possibilities that Skyrim & fallout worlds have. The bugs, UI, bland emptiness, and shit tier maps are why I wouldn’t recommend…but is a decent time kill if you’ve enjoyed their previous games

I honestly don't get it. It's Bethesda. We know them. We know what Bethesda does. Did people honestly expect something different? Did they delusion themselves into thinking it was going to be different?

The game is exactly as i expected it to be. And I think it great.

That is damning considering Fallout 76 is on steam.

Honestly, I'm amazed by the hatedom for Starfield. It's ... a Bethesda game (and it's actually better at being a Bethesda game than Fo4). I'm not sure what people seem to have expected?

I got it for “free” with my new cpu purchase. I played about 5 hours. It was a total slog. Put it down and have zero regrets. Bethesda has been making some very boring games lately imo.

I'm not surprised...it's just okay. I've put maybe 25 hours into it and it's not grabbing me like I hoped it would. Fast traveling everywhere is boring, inventory management is a nightmare, and the UI is frustrating. The last straw for me was during the " Rook Meets Queen" mission >!where I'm supposed to be deep undercover in the Crimson Fleet yet I can't progress until I pay them 45,000 credits because there's a bounty on my head. Seriously? Either I'm undercover or I'm not. !< So I put it down to revisit Cyberpunk, and I'm hoping once I get through that the kinks will be ironed out and the mod tools with MO2 support will be ready. I still have more fun playing a heavily modded Skyrim.

Fast travel simulator 2023

Every time I go play it I barely make it an hour before I get incredibly bored. I think the Bethesda formula really didn't translate well to the bland space theme and has just run its course in general, at least for me. The nagging issues like endless loading screens, forced fast travel, miniscule carry weight, annoying UI, and lack of basic settings don't help either. I know there are mods to fix some of those, but we really shouldn't have to rely on mods to do something as basic as change the FOV in a game published by a billion dollar company.

"Bethesda has garnered a bit of a reputation for releasing games with loads of bugs in them,"

A bit? Lolololol

Game is kind of 'meh' at the moment. I paid more for this game than any other in my life, yet I am disappointed in what it's achieved.

The outpost mechanic is completely and utterly pointless, inventory management is a disgrace, questlines are forced and inflexible.

I will revisit in 6 months or so in the hope that modders finish making the game that Bethesda started. I have learnt my lesson to not buy a Bethesda game straight away though.

This is easily their best game post morrowind, in both story and gameplay, but I'm also not playing it anymore since it's so cpu heavy that it's forcing me to wait for fan patches or something; and I'm playing Cyberpunk just fine.

That's just Steam. Perhaps it's being held in higher esteem by the Playstation communi... oh wait.

Is that a screenshot from Starfield? Looks worse than i thougth.

I think I'm one of the few people that actually really enjoyed it

As buggy as Fallout 4 was I absolutely loved it and got me started on the Bethesda Train. Played New Vegas and Skyrim afterwards and those were great.

Starfield almost bored me to tears. Combat and Ship building are great but everything in between is just very average at best.

And then with Cyberpunk releasing it's 2.0 update and DLC these past week, I have almost no urge to go back to Starfield anytime soon.

So you're telling me that a game that is an unoptimized, buggy, shallow mess isn't game of the year? No...

Starfield just doesn't look or play like a game that came out in 2023. Fallout 4 was already behind the curve for it's time, and Starfield is basically just Fallout 4 in Space 8 years later. Rpgs have evolved in both gameplay and narrative and Bethesda just isn't keeping up. Don't know if it's a skill issue or it's corporate suits playing it safe and setting unreasonable deadlines, probably a mix of both.

Starfield may be a success financially and find a fan base for now, but it's going to be forgotten soon by most and definitely won't be seeing rereleases a decade later.

As to be expected from Todd "it just works" Howard 🙄 He has this weird ability to snatch failure from the jaws of success alot of the time.

It has it's share of problems, but for the most part I'm enjoying it greatly.

The biggest issue (for me) is that outposts are largely useless and can safely be ignored. Exploration is useless and can safely be ignored. They both need to be fleshed out and made much more important to the game as a whole.

I feel like I need to do outposts and scan planets to experience the game fully, but I don't want to do either of those things because they're pointless.

However on the flip side of that, a LOT of the quest lines are super fun and some of the best I've seen in a Bethesda game for sure. The whole Crimson Fleet storyline was great, for example, although I wish there were more options to subvert it. (I found myself wanting to drop certain evidence off with the news reporter rather than where I was supposed to. I was sad when it didn't let me.)

Ship building is great, but companions are clingy and needy.

The biggest positive is that we simply have a proper single-player game again instead of the pseudo-single-player crap from ubisoft where for certain missions you need to "team up" with other people online who may or may not be annoying as fuck.

So all in all, swings and roundabouts. But for me, the positives more than outweigh the negatives.

It just wasn't that good. Not terrible, but very bland. I put 30 hours in but finally stopped when I realized I wasn't having fun, I was only chasing the idea of fun.

I don't even like DND and I thought BG3's first act put the entire story of Starfield to shame.

Now I'm playing through Phantom Liberty and loving the hell out if it.

No surprise, if they had only upgraded their game engine so you didn't have so many cut scenes would have been much better.