Topic: Starfield

In case you're wondering, Starfield's review embargo lifts at Thursday, August 31st at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5 pm BST

https://mp1st.com/news/starfield-review-embargo-lifts-thursda...

Hype intensifying!

16GB artbook and soundtack (For premium ed.) should mean lots of content! I will be sure to enjoy that after finishing the main story.

Crazy there's only 60 comments on what's definitely the biggest xbox game launching this year. I tend to get overwhelmed with giant games myself, so I'm hoping Bethesda makes the game easy to navigate and has meaningful quests to keep me engaged.

Hype is real now, just hope it delivers, from what I've heard and seen from the Xbox peeps I follow is that were in good hands!

Only 152 hours and 11 minutes to go, guys!

Who else is going to Try their best to power through sea of stars before starfield releases?

@NintendoByNature that game should be quite big... I might try it though 😜

I kept GP going when it went up in price, just so that I could play this, but then drunk-bought the Premium edition yesterday.

It is all installed and ready to rock at 01:00 on Friday. Super stoked. I really hope it is what it seems to be....

I'm 100% certain that even if it is broken at launch, I'll get 10 years out of it for my £99 (yes, I'm looking at you, No Man's Sky)

Please don't tell Mrs Isca I drunk-bought it, though, otherwise I'll have to cancel GP....

@Balta666 I'll be doing my darndest lol
@Isca I'm emailing her right now 🫠

@NintendoByNature I'll save Sea of Stars for a quieter time. The next few months are going to be hectic. Starfield and BG3 (going to play it on my PS5, cant wait lol). Like a Dragon and Persona 5 Tactica in November, december has Avatar and februariyPersona 3 Reload and Granblue Fantasy. And then there are still a lot of maybe games. Way to many games for the time I have haha. But i hope Sea of Stars is a great game and i find the time to play it somewhere in between

@Lavalera you're not kidding. I'm a switch gamer as well and it'll be nonstop into January of next year with that new prince of Persia game.

Since I've been waiting on sea of stars forever, I'm going to play through it all. I love that developer.

Reviews going live soon!

Less than 5h for reviews. Do you think it will have a 90+ metacritic score?

Probably a 90 or close to.

I think it will be a 87/88 or around there. I really do expect it to be at least 85 or higher and i hope for Xbox it does score above 90. A lot of people still look at review scores to decide to get a game or not. For me it isn't that important. There are enough 90+ games I dont like and enough lower rated games I do like.

@Lavalera I would be very happy with a 90+ but I am not 100% sure it will get it also. Only one hour now!

I'll be watching the kinda funny podcast for the review. Then hopefully a review will roll in from PJ on this site.

Before the 'scores' drop, I just wanna say I couldn't care less what the 'average' score ends up being - I just want to see a game that is actually ready to play on Day 1 without having to tolerate major bugs and/or performance issues.

The rest is pretty subjective and in a game like Starfield, its more about the freedom, the systems and the 'performance' that matters. If the main story doesn't interest you, you don't 'need' to follow that path for example and your playthrough could be completely different from the 'reviewers' who may have followed 'just' the Main Story to get through it for the 'review'. Therefore I am more interested in seeing how well its been 'finished', its 'polish'. The rest is subjective but you can get an 'idea' of the Performance in general because the scores tend to be 'more consistent'.

Anyway, by the time I finish this and post my reply, the first scores should be out... I'll no doubt play and 'enjoy' (like I enjoy Fallout 4) even if its only '70' on Metacritic. 90+ wouldn't change my opinion - it would more likely indicate a lot more 'polish', the most 'polished' Bethesda game at launch to get more 'consistently' high scores.