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/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

I was 30+ hours in and still not feeling it.

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u/Nephisimian Dec 04 '23

What I wouldn't give to have the attention span to be able to spend 30 hours playing a game I wasn't enjoying.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

I really wanted to give it a shot. I had a friend who put in over 100 hours and he told me it didn't get better.

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u/Useful_You_8045 Dec 07 '23

As someone who also played 100+ it doesn't.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '23

Such a shame

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u/Useful_You_8045 Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23

100 hrs into Skyrim and I'm pretty sure I 100% everything getting every achievement

100hrs into vanilla f4 with all the dlc I'm almost max lvl have complete control of the nuka park, halfway through far harbor and have a network of automatons linking every single settlement

100hrs into starfield... Did the ranger mission and the mantis got Sam killed (finally) then the rest is a blur of trying to sell my s#it trying to make a custom ship or trying to get into legit outpost building for defenders of this game to tell me "why do that? just buy resources."

In their past games I could've done that in 20 hrs tops if I actually went out exploring which I didn't do after my first planet in starfield and the whole time I was just reminded on taxes, how empty and uninteresting space is, and no one gives a s#it about you till you kiss their a$$ till it's shiny.

Yay👍😮‍💨

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '23

Seriously. I've put an ungodly amount of time into Oblivion, hundreds of hours into Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, etc.

Despite Fallout 4s flaws its a fun game with a world worth exploring.

Hell, it's not a Bethesda game, but I've beaten The Outer Worlds 3 separate times.

Starfield, 30 hours in and I was like, what am I doing wrong? So I started a second playthrough, different build and quickly realized how empty the NPC engagement was, no schedules and basically every named character is unkillable. So the idea of affecting the world in a meaningful way ala fallout went right out the window.

The Outer Worlds is closer to what I was expecting from a Bethesda sci-fi game.

If I wanted an empty game about resource management and walking across empty worlds, Death Stranding did it better lol.

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u/Useful_You_8045 Dec 07 '23

I mean it's the same thing no matter what you do

Played for 10 hrs don't like it "haven't played enough to criticize it"

Played for 30 hrs don't like it "well then you're just a hater why even play it at all?"

It's either one or the other