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/Eldritch50 Dec 04 '23

I made it to 400 hours, but I was milking a dry cow for the last 100 or so. Just doesn't feel cohesive enough. It's 2/3 of a really good game.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

I’m not disagreeing with you but if you put 300 hours in and those weren’t milking the cow dry I think you got out of it what you should have. I played star field a bit and think it’s just straight up worse then my favourites. But 400 hours in a single player game if anything shows that their might be a lot of good in star field.

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u/Eldritch50 Dec 05 '23

Don't get me wrong, there IS a lot of good in Starfield. But eventually its shortcomings become glaring. I'm still playing Skyrim and Fallout 4, with 5000 and 1500 hours in each respectively, and I was hoping for the same long-lasting love from Starfield. It just has a much higher quotient of design decisions that deeply, profoundly annoy me, and they add up.

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u/shadypandaa Dec 04 '23

400 hours in any single player game is crazy, let alone a game you wouldn't even completely consider to be "really good".

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u/Eldritch50 Dec 05 '23

Not crazy for me. I've got more than 5000 hours in Skyrim. 400 is a brief flirtation. And there were parts of the game that I genuinely loved, like disabling, boarding and claiming enemy ships, especially those multi-level Va'ruun ships. That's more or less all I did for the last hundred hours. It's just that too many of the game's systems are half-arsed.