r/XboxSeriesX Nov 20 '23

Starfield is still being worked on by 250 Bethesda devs Discussion

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/bethesda-team
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u/sittingmongoose Founder Nov 20 '23

Even people in the starfield sub are pretty mixed on it. Nearly every comment is, I liked it at first but now I’m bored. And that’s a sub dedicated to it.

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u/CakeAK Nov 20 '23

To be fair, pretty much every sub hates the thing that they're there for.

I do think Starfield delivered just short of the hype, but he's not entirely wrong about user critics.

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u/UnHoly_One Nov 20 '23

I'm not saying "everyone loves it."

I'm just saying that in general, user reviews are very unreliable.

People give games 1/10 all the time just to bring the score down.

When was the last time you played a game that was legitimately a 1/10?

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u/sittingmongoose Founder Nov 20 '23

That I don’t disagree with. But I do think it’s accurate to say reviews are very mixed on Starfield. It’s certainly not a 1, I don’t think many games are even below a 4…that being said starfield is probably a solid 7.

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u/BadgerMyBadger_ Nov 20 '23

Well 5 and 6 is bang on average, so there will be plenty of 4s, and 3s, but 2s and 1s are a lot rarer.

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u/ksj Nov 21 '23

Yeah, but very few people are actually playing those games. I know I’m not. A game that is average out of the subset of games that I play is still probably in the 90th percentile of all games ever made. It’s probably inaccurate to say “I don’t think many games are even below a 4” (hard to say what the bell curve on this would look like) but it’s probably accurate to say “the vast majority of people aren't playing games below a 4.” It could even be accurate to say that the vast majority of people have never played a game below a 4.

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u/GoodApplication Nov 20 '23

It sounds like you simply don’t know how to sift through reviews to get an accurate representation of a game?

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

The starfield sub, haha. Come on mate.

Its rife with fucking losers who spend their time stalking the sub of a game they claim to hate.

It was flooded in the 2 weeks prior to launch, numbers flew up sharply. Probably just full of angry PS kids and MS haters.

Much of the negativity, especially shortly after launch was from people who hadn't even played the game.

Its fucking bonkers. People have watched streamers, then written full on review posts.

The problem with Starfield is not that it isn't a great game.

The problem with Starfield is many people assumed they would love it, purely because of the hype.

So they didn't actually manage expectations for anything about the actual reality of the game.

It was clearly going to be like all the other Bethesda games, but in space with a spaceship and lots of planets. Which for some people, is amazing. For some not so much. Fine, fuck off move on.

It was fucking obvious they hadn't reinvented the wheel for anyone who watched any of the gameplay videos.

So many fucking morons now in the gaming "world", i miss the days when it was niche and not every fucking pleb with a smartphone had a 2 page opinion for a game they played for 2 hours, acting like it was life or death.

Starfield sub is absolutely chock full of them.