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Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed?

I don’t like it, so many loading screens, the faction bounties are copy/paste, the space combat is awkward, neon was a huge disappointment to me being just one long corridor with neon signs, the main quest railroads you like no other Bethesda game before it and it’s just not fun to me. I’ve come to the conclusion it’s just not for me and moved back over to baldurs gate 3 and recently started another new run in the outer worlds.

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cloaker@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Are you on an HDD? new PC, new SSD, haven't sat in a loading screen for more than 3 seconds but usually less than 1.

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- Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Nope, running off a series s which uses internal nvme SSD storage.
  
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  - rDrDr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ya it seems to load much faster on a PC. 1-3 seconds on a PCIE 4X4 drive.
    
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dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t even notice losing screen. They are almost instant for me.

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c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ll keep plying the low atmo worlds in Elite until the game for me comes out, I guess.

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- Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean, my opinion is anecdotal I suppose. I have friends that like it and some that think it’s just okay. For me, I just wasn’t having fun and that’s the point of games, to have fun. I also don’t really think their whole “NASApunk” style is very good. It doesn’t feel like it has any unique style or identity. It’s honestly baffling to me how it’s gotten some 9’s and 10’s for scores. It’s easily a 7 out of 10 for me, maybe even a 6. It’s definitely not the game Bethesda sold everyone on with marketing IMO.
  
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CharlestonChewbacca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I thought the main quest lines were pretty great.

All the side content is pretty bland though.

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- Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The loading screens are atrocious even for a Bethesda game. Walk up a ladder, loading screen, open a door, loading screen, dock with another ship, loading screen, travel to another planet in the same system, loading screen, land on a planet that’s already loaded, loading screen, exit the ship, loading screen. Maybe it’s different on PC, but I’m playing on a series S that has pretty fast read/write speeds and that’s just absurd. Pretty sure if my character could use the toilet there would be a loading screen for the bathroom.
  
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  - CharlestonChewbacca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You don’t need to do all that stuff though. Use your missions tab and the map to travel directly where you need to go.
    
    It’s a massive open world game, there are going to be loading screens. But you can limit them by fast traveling directly.
    
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    Kachilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So your suggestion is to not play the open-world part of the open-world game?
    
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    ech@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’re right that , but also, some of the best parts of a game like this is the immersion, which doesn’t really work well with fast traveling directly from point to point on your to-do list. I think Starfield is fine, tbh, but I do agree that the amount of loading screens is excessive. Games like NMS and Elite Dangerous have been doing seamless space travel for a long time now. There’s really no excuse.
    
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Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Skip the loading screens and just jump the walls or off balconies. Duh.

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