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/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.