r/XboxSeriesX • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 04 '23

Xbox wants Starfield to have the 12-year staying power of Skyrim Discussion

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/popular-like-skyrim
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u/EyeBumGaze808 Dec 04 '23

Got bored before i finished it.

Deleted to make room,cost me nothing and already forgot about it.

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u/TheDefendingChamp Dec 04 '23

I was on the final mission before ng+ and I was mad there were so many enemies because I wanted it to be over.

Started slow, then I enjoyed it for a bit, then it just became a slog.

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u/coltiga Dec 05 '23

Is NG+ a thing in stat field? It’s never been a thing in previous Bethesda games

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u/TheDefendingChamp Dec 05 '23

Yes. It's got a cool twist if you are super into the game.

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u/Pristinejake Dec 04 '23

Not me I love the game. I found no man’s sky to be boring after a while cuz there was no one to talk to. There was a lot of stuff to read but I wanted to talk to people. Love the exploration in no man’s sky but Star field not only has places to explore but you meet and talk to people along the way. I love it

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u/EyeBumGaze808 Dec 04 '23

Great to hear.

Funnily enough,NMS is my chillout/zen go to game.

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u/Pristinejake Dec 04 '23

Yeah it does have a zen feel to it but i get the zen feel on starfield when im scanning habitable planets. Some planets have actual rings from other planets that move closely to the planet your on. It’s pretty cool. Starfield I can chill out and be caught up on some neat habitable and then once I ran into a bounty hunter that needed help tracking a bounty and suddenly we were tracking across the planet searching for the bounty and when we found them I actually died a few times cuz he had a super crazy weapon I hadn’t seen and it destroyed me in the higher levels. Haha it was cool to be zend out and then discover some action.

One time I was scanning a planet and a ship landed close by and I high jacked the ship and I could’ve kept it but I didn’t want to pay for the registration 😂

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u/JarasM Dec 04 '23

I tried NMS when Starfield got me a bit bored, but I found it even more boring. I loved the moment of exploration when I finally fixed my ship and went to space, but then I had to land again, ran out of fuel and had to go back to shooting rocks with a laser. Felt like a game that's centered around mechanics I like the least from Starfield. I don't want to micromanage resources, I want to fly around in a spaceship and shoot at alien things.

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u/Pristinejake Dec 04 '23

Look in your notes in your inventory and find the note that says !!secret outpost!!

Activate the mission and head to the coordinates. Make sure to bring a ton and i do mean plenty of health and ammo.

After you finish that mission join the uc vanguard and head to the elevator and and go to the simulation room and you can have star ship fights all day long with different levels with increasingly harder ships to fight. You can even stop the simulation and go to the computer in the back of the sim and add custom settings to turn on better equipment and a second ship to help fight with you.

Seriously starfield has so much. The developers said that they wanted to say yes to as much things as possible. You wanna highjack a ship. Yes. You wanna fight stuff all day in a space craft, yes. You wanna do bounties all day, yes. You wanna explore planets and make money doing it. The game feels more like red dead redemption 2 than no man’s sky honestly. Even Tod Howard said, when asked what the game was like, that his game was closer to read dead redemption 2 than other space games. To me it is like red dead 2 in space.

Like in red dead you wanna be a bounty hunter you can, you wanna be in nature and hunt you can.

Starfield has a ton of roles. It’s a great role playing game.

Look up where to find the mission and bounty board to earn money

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u/JarasM Dec 04 '23

Thanks, but I was complaining about No Man's Sky, not Starfield in this specific case. I did all that in Starfield.

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u/Pristinejake Dec 04 '23

There’s a lock box on the bottom level of the lodge that you can store unlimited resources and equipment until you can add more cargo space to your ship

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u/JarasM Dec 04 '23

I was talking about No Man's Sky gameplay, but I have to say I don't enjoy the resource management in Starfield either. Running to that lockbox is such a chore.

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u/LightningYu Dec 04 '23

I feel like the biggest issue Starfield has is that firstly, bethesda either purposefully or out of incompetence did market the Game in the wrong direction. The way they showcased the Game and even how they worded their features (in a rather vague way if you think about it) i kinda feared it would be too much no mans sky and not enough bethesda, ironically it's the exact opposite.

Secondly even for what they aim for, which personally find conceptually even good, not every modern Sci-Fi Games need open-space-exploration and whatever, you can go the classic route and make it travel in between with "loading-screens" and use the space-element for some sidestuff, like some space-fights and such, but make it intiutive, make it fun.

Especially if we come to the whole how questing and worlds act in this game. I've absolutely no issue with having 990 out of 1000 Planets being random-gen and mostly empty for various stuff like have enough space for the radiant/random quest, (which i by the way love like the bounties, finally a game where you really feel like a bounty hunter because it doesn't feel as narrative-driven and scripted, though it still bothers me that you can't capture them alive), outposts and potentially modding. BUT atleast make 10 of them properly handcrafted, with focus on narrative and exploration and not an empty mess outside of the city itself. (by the way traversing would be another thing to tackle)

And same goes for quest-system - why do some quest exist like "bring me a beer across from the galaxy" AS A QUEST... why couldn't that be some sort of interaction based on the player... like a npc mention something, and you do it on your own agenda and not because it's a quest. I mean they were clever enought o split off the radiant quest to the missionsboard you place, why can't they do the same for the rest.

Anyway that being said, and i don't care about how people react to that, i still was surprised by starfield, i still liked / loved the game and is for me personally even the second best bethesda game after skyrim so far (and inb4 - i play bethesda games since Morrowind... only the og classics i never geniunly touched like daggerfall or arena). It still frustrates me that this two specific issues exists... misleading marketing and while conceptually cool some weird/bad design-decisions or how they implemented it.

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u/n94able Dec 04 '23

I liked it. I just wanted more substance and less bugs.

I got a bug which meant I couldn't finish the crimson fleet quest. Which meant I couldn't fight crimson fleet. Which shut down about a third of the bounties.

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u/iaan Dec 04 '23

I've easily sinked +150 hours in NMS. Couldn't get past 15 in Startfield...