Jokes on you guys… I expected dogshit from Bethesda. So a half baked space skyrim is actually more than I expected. 22 hrs in and I’m enjoying it. Solid 7/10 if you weren’t over hyped
I have a backlog full of 7/10 that are left untouched in my library. I’m not paying 70€ for 7/10 that i have to manage expectations. In fact, i’d rather buy outer wilds for a second time.
Day one on gamepass so I have no monetary investment 🤷♂️
I totally get your point though. And outer wilds was amazing
Better than Fallout 4 but no where near as good as Skyrim basically. it’s obvious Bethesda needs new ideas. It’s crazy to me how many gameplay concepts haven’t evolved at all since Skyrim.
I was going to get it and then I remembered that Bethesda games are best purchased 5 years after they’re released once all the models have had an opportunity to actually fix the game.
I expected better from the hype, but early reviews made it clear it was just another Bethesda game and I adjusted my expectations accordingly. I’d say 7 or 8/10 depending on how much you like Bethesda’s style.
It’s honestly 8.5 for me but I didn’t want to get ripped to shreds for saying I’m a fan of Bethesdas half assed rpgs
Perfectly understandable, and nothing wrong with being a fan of them.
I’d also give it an 8 or so and I haven’t liked anything they’ve done since Morrowind. I think the internet hate-train has its fangs in this one now, and it’ll be a while before a lot of folks can give it an unbiased chance.
They got lots off ammo from Bethesda, or so it seems. Although, hate content (for youtubers) is more profitable than anything else.
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The modders are working feverish to get it up to speed at least. So many QoL mods are being pushed out it’s hard to keep up. It might be a slow process for Bethesda, but I don’t think it’ll take that long for the game to reach some better standard of quality.
It’s just a shame it’s down to modders to do what Bethesda couldn’t.
It’s how Bethesda works. They release a barely functional foundation, then free labor fixes it and makes it into a working game.
I hate typing this ugh… in bethesda’s defense they’ve already started releasing key patches and announced further changes based on feedback. Here in the NMS forum I’d say people should be more sympathetic to that than usual. I don’t have a lot of faith, because of who it is, but then… I knew what I was paying for, and I think most other people did too.
Modders can fix the QoL issues, but the game is fundamentally running on an engine that just doesn’t do interplanetary stuff well.
That was also the case with Cities Skylines and Paradox. They never fixed the one-lane-only bug, or the one where hospitals kill patients sending ambulances to a home on the other side of the city that’s up a steep hill 6 map tiles away, having to go through downtown intersections that cycle 2 ambulances per green.
It’s Bugthesda. It’s not going to get anywhere unless Todd decides to make 14 re-releases like they did with Skyrim. Bethesda does nothing for free. NMS took whole fiasco to heart and worked their asses off to fix the game.
Can confirm, I bought No Man’s Sky the day of the Starfield launch. I’m a patient gamer, I don’t pre-order, I don’t play anything on launch, I don’t buy microtransactions, I don’t buy season -passes. It’s the most healthy and fun my relationship with video games has ever been. I haven’t payed full price for a game in years. Somehow publishers keep throwing free games at me, I now have way more entertainment that I could enjoy for the rest of my life.
i always feel so old playing old games
It’s a hell of a lot more polished now. I enjoyed it quite a bit for the 40 or so hours I played. I will probably be back at some point considering they have added a ton of content since I stopped playing. They should probably just work on a DLC at this point. I appreciate the hell out of them for making the game a lot deeper than what was initially promised but I also want to see them make some money for doing so.
They got my $60 at launch :grumble
Consider it a Kickstarter campaign which was only released recently.
I tried NMS because of Starfield, but my instinct to avoid it all these years was right. I can tell it’s a good game for what it is, it’s just not my thing.
I tried NMS because so many people said it was good. It’s not for me unfortunately. Sure they’ve fixed a lot of bugs and added a bunch of features, but none of those changes made it any more fun for me. :|
Yeah, I’m just not a “make your own fun” kinda guy when it comes to games, I want more structure.
Got this on 50% sale and it’s the best purchase I’ve made in a while. The game is so vast and well executed I’m absolutely in love. All aspects - ships, exploration, attachments, tools, bases, stations, freighters and enemies are so well done.
It also seems like a spiritual successor to the Galaxy On Fire series because that’s the first thing I thought of while playing this. If you’ve played any game of that series, imagine that being made into an open world, multiplayer legendary AAA title. That’s what this game has become in 2023.
It’s a must buy in my opinion, one for the books and the 50% off deal is an absolute steal.
I bought it two or so years ago when they fixed a lot of things and felt compelled to award their efforts and paid full price i think. I have hardly played it until last week and i’m like 30 hours in. This game is filled to the brim with stuff and content. I have hardly done a main mission and i don’t even know if i want to or should.
The only negative part about the game that i could think off is that the multiplayer is pretty wonky
I didn’t end up buying starfield since I know I won’t finish a Bethesda game and have been finally trying NMS out a few years after I bought it. It’s scratching the space exploration itch quite well.
Returned Starfield after an hour and a half of no fun. Been playing No Man’s Sky all week. It’s really good, they’ve just kept adding content to this game for years. It’s still the same old NMS game at heart, but there’s new things to explore and do, new quests and items. I’m enjoying it more than Starfield, which felt very much like a poor imitation with Bethesda assets.
I’ve seen people say game gets fun after 10 or so hours and to that I say really? Do you all go to movie theater 10h before movie starts?
A game isn’t a movie. You know this, right? It’s important that you know this.
What does that have to do with anything?
Do you all go to movie theater 10h before movie starts?
I think a TV show would probably be a more apt analogy here…
Yeah, recommending starfield can feel a bit like recommending a show that gets going halfway through the first season.
Game of Thrones is a perfect example. I was told it gets really good after a few seasons. I’m not going to endure the first few seasons because it might be good after.
I’m 5-6 hours in playing with a friend and for us at least it has been pretty fun. We got to build some simple bases and fight some pirates so far alongside doing a few upgrades on our mining guns and suits.
You can give a try and refund it easily on PC if you don’t end liking it, it’s also available on Gamepass if you don’t want to buy it.
To quote Jim Sterling… “getting your asshole sewn shut is more fun with friends, but that doesn’t mean people should do it”. And I have no doubt people have fun with the game. I just saw people on forums say fun starts at hour 10+, which I found to be stupid excuse. It should be fun, period. If you are having fun, more power to you. In the end that’s all that matters.
I also started having fun right away. The reason people say it starts slow is that the game doesn’t expose you to every aspect of play right away, for reasons both good (it would be a lot to take in) and bad (the game has some sort of allergy to showing you its cool systems and seems to expect you to learn them from wikis instead). So, when people tell me they’re not having a good time, I often check that they got to these systems in the main quest before haring off to do side quests without realizing they hadn’t encountered key features.
This is a flaw in the game, but the flaw isn’t “the game is boring”, it’s “the game lacks an adequate tutorial”. It’s still not for everyone but a lot of the people I talked to were pretty happy once they learned they were missing bits.
Sure, but just because some people think the fun starts at 10+ hours doesn’t mean it’s true, just that it’s true for them. My point was just to show that my experience has been different from that.
Ultimately trying it out yourself is the only way of knowing if you’ll like it or not, unless you already did, in which case, fair enough.
Been playing it and finished the old story. Now onto other things.
Is the story worth playing? I play for a week and always find new things that distract me.
https://steamcharts.com/app/275850 Really not much of a difference
How is a 100% increase in the 30 day average ‘not much of a difference’?
it seems like it’s a little bit more than April? Doesn’t mean it isn’t the biggest in a few years, but it’s not like it’s head and shoulders above. August and July look like they were fairly slow months so the gain in the 30 day average is kind of a skewed stat when the article’s talking about it being special int he span of years.
He could very well be talking about sales
Since they linked to the steam charts themselves I assumed they were talking about concurrent players. But maybe they were, I just thought it wasn’t significant
I think I am going to play some too. Starfield looks like mostly a flop so I won’t even buy it.
Starfield is enjoying massive success. You’re just in toxic echo chambers.
I wouldn’t call Starfield a failure, but it’s still Bethesda. Better off waiting for major bugs to be patched and the community mods to mature.
I never played a Bethesda game with mods right away. The games are generally best played vanilla first and modded on the second playthrough.
Also, there are far fewer bugs in this game than any other Bethesda game before it. As far as I am aware, none that are game breaking.
That doesn’t make the game good. If you like Bethesda jank and want to award their laziness, it’s honestly a great game.
There isn’t very much jank. You’re talking out of your ass.
i envy yalls patience. im 20 yrs old and if i play a game older than a year old i feel old
I’m in my 30s and just played a 15-year-old fan remake of the first episode of Doom, which itself came out in 1993. Yesterday, I just started playing a fan demake of that remake which was released November of 2022. I’ve also waited over a decade for Skyblivion, and waited for the FF7 remake to hit PCs before playing.
It gets easier to wait when you feel time pass by faster, and sometimes oldies act as comfort food.
My kid is 18 and he feels like tv series older than 3 years are also ancient.
Something about being that age I think.
For me it’s the opposite. I see a movie from 2001 and think: oh, what’s this new movie.
