Starfield Review

Starfield reviewed on PC and Xbox Series X by Dan Stapleton.
It’s never a great sign when someone recommends a game on the grounds that it gets good after more than a dozen hours, but that’s very much the kind of game Starfield is, and I do recommend it. There are a lot of forces working against it, and the combination of disjointed space travel, nonexistent maps, aggravating inventory management, and a slow rollout of essential abilities very nearly did it in. It was the joys piloting a custom spaceship into and out of all sorts of morally ambiguous situations in a rich sci-fi universe that eventually pulled it out of a nosedive. I’m glad that I powered through the early hours, because its interstellar mystery story pays off and, once the ball got rolling, combat on foot and in space gradually became good enough that its momentum carried me into New Game+ after I’d finished the main story after around 60 hours. Like Skryim and Fallout 4 before it, there’s still an immense amount of quality roleplaying quests and interesting NPCs out there, waiting to be stumbled across, and the pull to seek it out is strong.

[jaytatumforreal]

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Mr. Krabs sold SpongeBob to the Flying Dutchman for 62 cents.

[ftghb]

IGN got absolutely flamed for this, turns out....they were right all along

[VidaAnimada]

IGN gave it THAT score. You know the one I'm talking about!

[UBFM]

They hated him because he spoke the truth

[sebastianhaas]

"Modders, please help" is probably Bethesda's in-house mission statement

[TimeBucks]

These games are all about sandbox roleplaying.

[cantu]

People hated on this review, but as time goes on, it’s the most fair review of the game by a major publication.

[edward]

Resident evil 2, an 1998 game, has a opening door animation to try to cover up level loading.

Starfield 2023, use black screen to load levels.

[fictitiousnightmares]

A game where you can travel throughout space by not actually traveling.

[Bigkeensam]

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and IGN delivering 7/10 reviews.

[tompadinho]

This review... aged very well! 2 weeks after the hype has died down... damn... this game...

[biohazardousbacon]

It's baffling to me that in this game of "unparalleled freedom" that was supposedly "made for wanderers", you have to fast travel everywhere. It's their most restrictive game yet in terms of exploration.

[kicka]

Looks like a game to come back to in three years.

[edward]

If you can't fly around a planet, fly through atmosphere, and you warp and land through loading screen, then what's the point of having space ships?
Just make fantasy teleportation device to jump between places.

[ThunderBlastvideo]

Im giving this a like just because its finally a truthful review from IGN

[alexlight]

Building a transport ship and trying to fill it with every space cabbage in the game, THATS THE REAL ENDGAME

[moriokki]

Cant wait to spend 18 hours modding this then proceed to play it for 30 minutes

[jakechap]

The no map thing only really bugs me when I'm outside cities. It is frustrating in a city but actually having to explore the city to find things like vendors actually ended up being kind of a fun task for me. If still just that. A task.

[akchaney]

Throwing loot on the floor of my ship like a space hoarder 😂😂😂

[djbrax]

The space hoarder work around literally made me lol.