homepage Forums SimHQ Community Community Hall Starfield.

So it's safe to say that you didn't bother with Kingdom Come Deliverance?

Fallout is just too darned depressing.

I would have preferred that.

Consider that we're probably looking at a '28 release for Elder Scrolls 6 and a '30 or '31 for Fallout 5.

A 15+ year wait for an awaited sequel is ridiculous!

I confess I did quit after a few hours, unsure why because it felt alright. A bit too slow for my taste I guess. Red dead is the only long game I stuck to recently, and mostly thanks to this forum.I did skip many secondary quests though.

MAUAHAUHAUHUAHHAU https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesda-sa...g-there-but-they-certainly-werent-bored/

Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored'

I will add here that this means massive scope for interesting user created mods.

Faulty reasoning there by Bethesda. The REAL astronauts weren't bored because they were REALLY doing space exploration.

When you are sitting in front of a computer monitor at your house you NEED an interesting and fleshed-out environment to explore.

Hopefully, Starfield tries to mimic the real universe in most respects.

In the real universe, I would expect fewer than one "habitable" planet per Star (and not necessarily inhabited).

So, I expect to find "nothing" on most planets. I.e. most planets are just "filler" in a real universe.

Not saying I'll like it when I start playing (after finishing Witcher 3).

Meantime:

That's my point. Sometimes full realism does not translate to fun and entertaining game.

My only advice re: Starfield... stay off the Steam forums

The Steam forum comments are almost as toxic as the Youtube comments.

I notice the Steam review score is slowly going down. I think the highest I saw it at was 86%, it's now 81%. The user score on Metacritic is barely over 50% but that may be due to review bombing.

Either way I'm glad I didn't buy it on release and I'm sure the game will be patched up a lot over the next few weeks.

And their lives were really on the line. And they were really landing on the lunar surface.
Also, if I want thousands of empty planets to land on, I'll go back to Elite Dangerous.

LOL! Well played sir.

Elite Dangerous actually has excellent planet generation, too. So does Space Engine, and as an added bonus, is free--unless you want to throw money the dev's way for the latest features.

Then there's No Man's Sky, which is quite awesome. 500 hours on Steam does not lie... However, don't expect a TES style story/NPC experience here. Best played in survival mode, like pretty much anything else.

A little Futurama/Starfield meme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGFp3yCe-q8

I'm only a few hours in and haven't touched any of the weapon/ship/outpost customisation stuff yet. Had a few entertaining missions (including one that draws heavily on Alien). Gunplay is tolerable but not great, companions are really only useful as pack mules or decoys but most of the time they like to get right into my line of fire.
The biggest disappointment for me (other than the IMO infuriating UI controls) is that the game doesn't really entice me to explore much. Not having a useable map means that I end up fast traveling a lot of the time. And since you can't actually fly to and land on a particular location, fast travel is usually the only option, which really takes away from the experience.

#%&*$#, that was good!