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/Volt7ron Dec 04 '23 edited Dec 04 '23

I couldn’t stay interested for 12 hours. I wanted to like this game. I gave it an honest chance. Just didn’t like it.

Edit: spelling

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u/Fdana Dec 04 '23

Apparently it gets good after 12 hours. Yes, that’s what people are seriously saying.

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u/siraiy Dec 04 '23

Honestly if your game has to be played for TWELVE hours before it "gets good" I aint playing, thats such a shit defence. Skyrim was engaging in the first 5 minutes!

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u/caverunner17 Dec 04 '23

My limit is 2-3 hours. IE 2 “gaming sessions” for me.

If the game isn’t interesting or engaging by that time, it’s probably not for me.

There’s too many good games out there that don’t take half of a normal length campaign to get good

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u/IMissMyZune Dec 04 '23

12 hours is a stretch imo but there's a lot of classic content in games, books, tv shows etc that don't "get good" until a while later. I felt this way about Red Dead Redemption 2 which IMO was one of the most boring games I ever played until about halfway when it became amazing.

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u/Anteater_Able Dec 04 '23

Does that mean Persona 5 is a bad game?

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u/shinikahn Dec 04 '23

I was thinking about P5, too. Look it is one of my favorite games of all time but it's true the intro is super slow and it's hard to recommend to any person who isn't an RPG fan.

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u/kaysn Dec 04 '23

People have accepted JRPGs to be slow burns. You think P5 is slow. Try Legends of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, it is a 40 hour prologue to Trails in the Sky SC. (Incidentally my favorite JRPG series. Second to Suikoden. I like to think the spiritual successor to it. With its amazing world building and political intrigue plots.)

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u/Fremdling_uberall Dec 04 '23

Tbh the first half of p5 is stronger than the second (not including royal). Or maybe I'm just tired of the whole fighting gods with the power of friendship type deal.

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u/siraiy Dec 04 '23

Persona 5 hooked me in immediately with the style and flair, so personally I don't think it's a fair comparison. If Starfields opening/my 50 hour playthrough was half as stylish as Persona 5 is Id absolutely be playing it more 🤷

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u/Nephisimian Dec 04 '23

Same for TV shows. No, it doesn't get good in season 2. I already gave the writers an hour and they couldn't think of anything to hook me, it's clearly not for me.

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u/zerovampire311 Dec 05 '23

That’s basically most MMOs though, a sad reality of game design failure.

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u/AscendedViking7 Dec 05 '23

It depends on the genre.

I haven't ever seen a CRPG that doesn't take a dozen hours to get good.