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

Nah, i reckon it's klepto companions.

I know it's not me! 😀

Nooooo please tell me companions don’t do this! My ocd’s gonna kick right off!

I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with companions and is in fact entirely related to ship building. Every single loose item in your ship gets transferred to the cargo hold every time you modify that ship in any way. It resets all that default ship junk with new items even if you've not picked up and moved any of it. Especially annoying for things like dumbbells which serve zero purpose and weigh a ton.

I kind of get why they had to do this but it is a bit ridiculous. It's essentially an extremely laborious infinite money cheat but who can be arsed for such little return.

Hmm. Hit 28 hours tonight and I'm starting to see the seams. The space bases are so similar. The planet surfaces are absolutely rubbish. Just 100x100m squares procedurally repeated. Change the colour of the dust and fauna a bit and wham, new planet created. Gah.

I hit over 30hrs yesterday and while I enjoyed the early hours it's pretty much the definition of bland. You spend way too much time in menus, fast travelling, loading screens and telling your companions to shut the fuck up. The game also looks more awful in so many areas like it should've released 5 years ago.

You get peaks of old Bethesda magic in certain side quests but it's just bogged down in so many half baked systems. Just main lining the story now and maybe Bethesda will do something with this game eventually.

I certainly had my fun with it, but yeah it's about as deep as a puddle and after a certain point it goes from being a fun diversion, to I'd rather watch paint dry than play any more of it.

I'll definitely dip back in for more at some point, but I definitely burnt myself out on this by spending a week of holiday time playing it.

Curious to see where they go with DLC, as they've kind of painted themselves into a corner in terms of adding new areas.

I think for me the main story is just incredibly boring. I spent most of my time in The Lodge trying to kill them all, whilst waiting for their tedious dialogue to end.. The most fun I had was stealing ships, and generally being a dick to poor innocent bystanders. I feel like they sort of missed a trick in this, in that you could really go down a good/evil route, but instead it steers you in the typical Bethesda way.

I still find it amusing that they confiscate all your stolen stuff and then spawn you next to the chest containing it all so you can just steal it again on the way out. Less amusing is that they've patched whatever bug it was that put all your contraband in there as well.

I’m on over a hundred hours now, still enjoying it well enough. I agree with basically all the negative points people are making, and right now I wouldn’t rank it above Skyrim or Fallout 3/NV, but there’s just enough good stuff there to keep coming back to.

I do think it deserves a few special shout outs for things it does better.

The weapon designs are excellent, I like how you can tell the manufacturer instantly, and the customisation options are fun to tinker with.

The quests are well written and frequently adaptable to your skillset- and there are LOADS to discover. If I may go a bit meta, I was missing the “wander off in a direction and see what you discover” element of the game, until I realised I was basically doing a version of that through the quest log. I really like picking a questline, being sent to a system, realising I have an activity there, which opens up another questline, oops I have too much stuff, back to base, quick shag for the experience boost, oh she wants to talk, guess we’re getting married now or something, etc etc. Wandering from one quest to another rather than one map icon to another somehow makes the loading screens a bit more bearable.

And lastly, of course, the doors. Best doors in videogames.

The wandering is what I want in their games. All the other jank I don’t have that much of an issue with, I almost enjoy it. Crappy Ui and lack of map doesn’t bother me either.

I like the atmosphere of the game and the world/ip in general. The gunplay is decent and the big quest lines are fun. The graphics can be great, but also pish in places. The space combat is a nice aside. Ship customisation is great.

I do find the gameplay boring as the only developed play style is guns. Melee and stealth are not as good as previous games. The skills are generally uninteresting and not as fun as previous games..

The random pois are mostly totally forgettable. I really tried having a go at exploring a whole planet but was so bored running to different points of interests with nothing there or having multiple repeats in the same biome.

There are none of the great random stand out moments like I remember from Skyrim ie the talking dog, the getting pissed then waking up in another city, the other daedrik artifact quests, the searching for priest masks and dragon shrines. The vampire murder town, the home in the mountains you find with everyone dead and gradually work out the cause.

There are far less lore books to find and read. Basic things from previous games are missing here; eating food without picking it up, being able to wait anywhere. Why?

Things you get told by npcs aren’t consistent with the game world. ‘There are tons of planets out there no one has set foot on’ Every one one I’ve been too has outposts/abandoned labs and ships landing every 5 mins . Or ‘this mining will make us rich’ The minerals sell for peanuts at vendors.

So much feels underdeveloped, underwhelming, half finished or just low effort. I’m ranting because I do really like playing their games, just disappointed in this one.

I enjoy this game, but I don't love it. And I really have to be in the mood for it. It's like a slow, poorly paced soap opera with me avoiding all the romantic options at all costs at all times. The mere idea of the voice lines just makes my nuts tighten in a most uncomfortable manner.

Has anyone played out the [Flirt] option with the various party members to, er. Fucking?

And yet I still want to keep playing if haha.

That would have been excellent. Our solar system actually has enough variety to provide different locations. People always forget the many moons of our largest planets. And to not have to render the whole Earth, you could just invent some catastrophe, be it climate collapse or nuclear war, or an alien invasion or whatever. Mars could be the new home with a few terraformed areas that house the major hubs. Hell, you could even do interesting stuff with the asteroid belt and the Oort cloud.

It doesn't seem like i have been missing too much by not landing at outposts unless required to for a mission then.

I am busy working through the terrormorph questline just now. It's been fun, but at level 30-odd I am possibly a little bit too OP for them now, so their actual threat was not much. Especially with some pistol and full stealth sneak attack bonuses at any rate.