Unlikely. Bethesda has carved out a slot for itself as one of the most popular and profitable devs. Starfield sold extremely well, even though the reviews and hype have seemingly crashed down back to earth now. My point being they can get away with mediocrity, unfortunately
I initially felt strongly that the 7/10 was harsh. I’ve played every Bethesda game since Morrowind and have over 2k hours on Skyrim and FO4 (2k apiece).
I was SO exited to play and the game sucked me right in. Got a solid 80 hours in, completed all quest lines, then stopped playing and… haven’t turned it on since. I have no desire to build ships or outposts because:
Outposts have no benefit outside of RP.
If I NG+, I lose everything I spent time on and don’t have blueprints to remake stuff.
Hopefully QOL improvements, DLC and mods will suck me back in.
Yep. I’m a big fan of BGS and have played their games my whole life. Naturally I was super excited for their first new IP in however many years.
The game was around a 7/10 for me as well, which is fine , but left so much to be desired.
Overall, it’s a good game it just felt they stripped away a lot of things that I love in BGS games and expanded upon systems that I don’t particularly care for, nor do they give me a reason to care for. But I put a good 30-35 hours in, probably will give it another try down the line now that I know what to expect. Just a lot of other good/great games to play atm, and this one did not pull me in enough.
I think any time a game gets a bunch of hype, there’s no way for it to live up to the hype. Anyone who thought this wasn’t going to be space fallout with an extra focus on creating a big rich sandbox for the mod community to play, was going in with the wrong expectations.
That’s exactly what this game is and that’s a fantastic addition to the BGS line up for all of us who live to putz around in these type of games for years to come.
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u/APunnyThing Nov 20 '23
Cool, hopefully it gets better over time and Bethesda takes the criticism to heart on whatever project they make next.
Starfield is a fun enough game but it could have been a lot better and a lot less tedious to navigate both in menus and in space.