Sigh. All these publishers are doing by rushing games out the door is training future buyers to not want to buy games on release.
Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer
Submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Sales figures keep going up so why would they wait?
Caradoc879@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly. It was on games pass and it was still the most profitable release Bethesda has ever had. Why put in real effort when you don’t have to?
ObviouslyASquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
DLSS doesn’t fix a broken game loop
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How is the game loop broken?
ObviouslyASquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did you try to play stealth my guy. And how much fucking work do I have to put in, how much useless crafting do I have to do so I can just put a silencer on my gun common man if this doesn’t mean broken what does.
Epicmulch@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Everyone says everything is “broken” now. The game loop absolutely works so it’s not broken Yet it is flawed.
Phanatik@kbin.social 11 months ago
I doubt a patch nor mod support will motivate me to play this game. This is the most empty Bethesda game they've released when they could've had something special if they had any ambition.
cobysev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So does this mean the game is finally ready for me to buy? Just waiting on a Steam sale and I’ll finally get to play this. Bugs or not, I’m not paying $70 for a base video game.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d say probably not. Unless the graphics were the only thing holding you back, this update does not appear to have done anything to improve the gameplay loop, menu system, or story content.
Compared to previous Bethesda games, it actually ran rather well at launch even when missing the features added by this update. But I’d say there’s quite a lot more that needs to be done to call it a good game, with graphics/performance being the lowest priority on the list.
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So does this mean the game is finally ready for me to buy?
Nope. Worth waiting for a few more fixes and proper mod support.
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep, as someone who beat it several times, I agree with this. Its a great game, but is unpolished at launch like any bethesda game, 5 years from now it will have memorable gamer cultural references and a consistent modding/playerbase.
With the love of using the game engine to create entirely new games that bethesda fans have, I’m basically expecting a Star Wars/Star Trek total overhaul mod within the next decade.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Id wait till post expansion and creation kit imo.
Reletively speaking starfield is already a lot less buggy then other Bethesda game studio titles. Its just matter of fixing parts of the game some users didnt like.
Modva@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Think I’ll keep waiting a bit more. Give great mods time to get in.
kaiomai@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But Todd told me it was optimized!
c10l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The game we should have had at launch is one where my >100h save wouldn’t make it crash on load.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Did they finally release modding tools? Bethesda games without mods are such a slog and Starfield was worse than any previous one.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Menus the game?
BloodSlut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hell of an article title for an update that pretty much just adds DLSS support and the ability to eat food from the environment.