I started playing it again after going back to Elite Dangerous. I'm on an expedition in Elite Dangerous so there is no one around. I'm back in Starfield to try and remember where I left off.

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[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hehe. So, I've got 243 hours into Starfield. Level 45.
For me, the game is side quests, killing bad guys all over the place, and taking over as many ships as I can.
I've completely ignored the main mission. Haven't really done any crafting other than upgrading weapons. I started a base and forgot where its at.
The companions are all horrid. I hang out with the robot guy. He's got good guns.
I use Heller's Cutter, Arc Welder, and Auto-Rivet. Nothing else. Seemed fitting for a miner. And people burn real good.
I mostly don't use ship storage except for uncommon stuff. I go through the ridiculous torment of tossing all my junk on the ground in a hold of my ship. Silly fun.
I don't do a lot of space combat. I've got a stack of Class C ships whenever I get around to optimizing them. At some point that will be a new piece of the game that I'll play.

I may never pursue the main mission. Looks kinda dumb. Can't tell you exactly what I've found fun in this game where I've opted out of most of the game. But ... every now and then I quicksave and just start burning down all the civilians. A lot of em won't die. But I keep trying. And then I load my save, because I want to be able to land there again.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I may never pursue the main mission. Looks kinda dumb.

It very much is, and the 'ending' was enough for me to drop the game and uninstall it same day. I barely made it to the end, and goddamn was it not worth it.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problems of Starfield, the ones that prevent it from being great even if only through modding, are engine-level problems. Those can't be fixed without remaking the entire game from scratch in a new engine, and nobody wants to do that.

Maybe in a couple decades we'll get Starfield Remastered made in UE9.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Not really an engine problem, but Bethesda not caring to make the setting even remotely believable and making the mechanical parts feel isolated and meaningless is what hurts the game the most.

Exploring and collecting materials almost serves a purpose, as you need them to craft/upgrade armor and weapons, or to create stuff around your base, but you can just buy the stuff you need off vendors, which makes both the exploration and the point of having a base pointless. Crafting is almost something you might care about, but you can buy pretty much anything you need off vendors (heal kits, drugs) or get them as drops. None of the crafting targets the ship or its parts, for whatever reason.

If the game was just Dungeon -> Vendor -> Dungeon loop, it'd be much, much better rated and less hated. The lack of variety is felt very early on anyway, it's not like cutting the bullshit would make it worse to endure.

Also, considering how nearly everyone using UE besides Epic themselves seem to do a really shitty job, including Bethesda with Oblivion Remaster, I'd expect that SF remaster to be even worse than the original 😆

[–] ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe they should just stay in their lane and keeping making Elder Scrolls and Fallouts..I'd be down with that.

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

If the base game has to be made better with mods then you’ve failed as a game designer.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I never played it, but believed the reviews that stated that there was basically no real metaplot, and there was a mini game involving floating through stars when you found an alien artifact that you couldn't skip after the first time.

Oh, and no real aliens.

WTF Bethesda?

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