*S*T*A*R*F*I*E*L*D* / Starfield

The sad thing is that probably every single person here could write a better intro to the game, it makes it look like Bethesda either don't care or they're incompetent. And there's a lot of stuff like that.

I wouldn’t fancy being a colonist if this is the future of humanity. Earth is fucked. Imagine living on Mercury or another atmosphere free rock. Can’t ever go outside without a suit on, couped up in a habitat and one technical malfunction could be the spectacular end of you. Bleak.

You can punch stuff out of buildings to be able to pick them up without it being theft.

To be honest it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. It’s like look you got shit to do because ‘reasons’ now let’s just accept that and get into the real freedom here.
There is so much writing, so many tales, some great, some not. It’s an absorbing RPG that lets me play as I wish. Good stuff

There's mission later in the game that involves the kind of awesome first person immersion stuff lots of people were desperate for. Laughed when I played it. They chose to be lame.

For me this is lacking in exploration. Spent time exploring as much of a planet landing site as possible and it makes space exploration seem quite dull. Running kilo meters across a barren landscape with a few random poi spawning, with nothing much happening in them.

Procedurally generated planets is just not the same as having a huge seamless map to wander around, with hand crafted stuff on in it, which is what Besthesda games are about for me.

That’s not the games fault. It just can’t be reconciled with the ‘1000 planets’ space setting. There is still a load of great things here and I am enjoying getting stuck into the side quests and general vibe of the game.

But it’s missing what I realised I like the most about a Bethesda rpg. Going off in a random direction on a big open world map.

When Fallout 4 came out people were carrying on that it looked exactly the same as 2008’s Fallout 3, which it absolutely did not. I’m not playing Starfield, but when I saw people saying it looks the same as 2015’s Fallout 4 I dusted off the same grain of salt from last time. The engine does upgrade, it’s the moans that don’t. 

Yup they've massively improved texture resolution and surfaces, plus added a bunch of post processing effects. It's way better.

It obviously doesn't look the same as Fallout 4, but it looks the same relatively speaking to other current gen games how FO4 looked compared to its competition back then. Bethesda games never really look all that great.

But it looks good enough. Still a shame they can't figure out loading in the background. I'd gladly give up the possibility to chuck 1000 physically correctly rendered potatos in a room if it meant that they could do away with loading interruptions whenever you enter a building.

Tried to play the pc version on Xbox over steam link to the TV. It seems to be running great but... It will not for the life of me detect the Xbox controller input as anything other than mouse/keyboard input.

Can't do owt at all. Been at it for nearly an hour so have up and just went on the pc instead.

Omfg. Just found out that vents can be opened.

What an idiot. 😀

I was uo until 2am playing this. It's shaping up to be quite the time sink.

Just make Lin a sassy sexy green skinned alien chic, with 60’s beehive hair, a bikini and three boobs, boom- instantly a classic start.

I use vents for the stealth bits in-between running out intermittently and exterminating everything in sight with loud guns and explosives.