Where's Our Starfield Review?

A lot of sites (especially UK) didn’t receive codes. Very strange on some of what was done across various sites.

How about a small ‘so far’ kinda review?

Wow, that’s disappointing. I was already refreshing the site. Must be disappointing for the writer(s) as well, since most will be playing the game already before the review is there.

Dang… bummer

Dang

Shame as i would have liked to have seen your review prior to tonight's launch.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner a lot of said UK sites are connected to the same owner.

So far the PC version has 27 critic reviews with an average score of 90 (metacritic).

It took until the 11th hour, but it looks like MS is finally redeeming themselves this year!

88 so far on OpenCritic.

10/10 from Destructoid, VGC, and GameRant.

I could quite figure out why the UK didn’t get review codes so I made up two:
1) Revenge for the CMA causing issues over ABK?
2) NDA’s work differently in the UK?

@AlwaysPlaying it seems more of the ‘bigger’ sites that probably give more scrutiny didn’t get codes.

Digital foundry did, on the condition they didn’t share with Eurogamer

Funny how DF got a code but Eurogamer didn’t 😂 that site has become the pits.

I look forward to the PXB review whenever it’ll drop.

@Fenbops Eurogamer are wa*k nowadays.

@Pranwell that’s one way of putting it. I agree.

Well, I have defended the Xbox for what now seems to be an eternity. Starfield needed to be "that game". The one all other games would strive to be like. IGN - 7, Gamespot - 7, Game Informer - 8.5. Crap scores. I'll check it out next week on Game Pass before my subscription expires on the 14th. I won't renew.

Shame your review will be late as you’re my go-to site for Xbox stuff, nevertheless I look forward to reading it. I haven’t yet seen/read all the reviews but I recommend Game Radar’s one, where they gave it 5/5. My 2 take aways from their review were 1) it’s very easy to get sidetracked in Starfield (Great news!), and 2) it’s Bethesda’s best game since Oblivion (ES4). This game is gonna be such a huge time sink! 🙂

@themightyant Just my opinion, but 86 to me is crap. The Xbox needed an absolute masterpiece. Like a "Zelda" level game. Something that Jim Ryan could have a heart attack over when looking at review scores.

Looks like reviews are middling

@Romans12
Of course I will be playing on game pass, but it’s dam shame it is not that GOW or TOTK for Xbox that may have got many more gamers or general public to buy an Xbox or game pass.

It’s definitely not that killer game Xbox needed.

It will probably mature overtime with updates, dlc and mods to make it even better though.

It's not that great of a game unfortunately I saw it coming a mile of all but the xbox fanboys thought it was going be the best game ever lol

@themightyant don't you think one could argue though that the 87 score is more likely to drop than stall or rise when the ignored parties launch their reviews 👀

@Romans12 it was never going to be like Zelda level. I'm just happy it's decent. Xbox needed it.

@Romans12 if you view games scoring 7 - 8.5 as crap then you are missing out on a lot of good games.

I look forward to seeing your thoughts. From the OpenCritic ratings, I am fairly excited though.

@Xboxer999 It absolutely is the killer app that Xbox has been looking for. They will spin up the marketing machine and it will hit hard. The general public care very little whether a game gets 85 or 95 on Metacritic. Good review scores do not equal popularity.

Looking forward to the game. Skyrim in space with extra features is all I wanted/ expected. This year is going to go down as an all timer in gaming.

@Jey887
Hope it will be, I shall definitely be playing on the 6th for many hours.

@Jey887 killer app on xbox I don't think so it's looks decent though

@Weebleman I'm still going to play it. I just wanted Microsoft to come out with a game that had Jim Ryan pooping himself just by looking at the review scores.

@Romans12 ‘I’ll check it out next week on Game Pass before my subscription expires on the 14th. I won't renew.’

What if you like it? I get the feeling you won’t and your minds already made up but what if you do?

I will be well into the game by the time I read your review, but read it and appreciate it I will.

I really hope sites that missed out won’t lower their scores to spite Bethesda.

@Dan1283 "xbox fanboys thought it was going be the best game ever lol"

Nothing wrong with that, what with all the hype and build up surrounding it. From what I've seen so far, the game looks brilliant, so hopefully, Bethesda will take on board some of the feedback and comments and make the game even better.

@RetroMan71 to be honest I'm looking forward to it now all the hypes out the way definitely looking forward to playing if its fallout in space then its the perfect game for me

@Dan1283 Same here... I've just purchased the early access premium this morning, so I will be jumping in later 👍

My rule is that if a developer is withholding access then it’s highly overrated and they’re trying to manipulate the system. I’m calling score manipulation.

@Romans12 kind of a ridiculous statement tbh. I don’t understand why you would choose what to play based on ratings in the first place, form opinions yourself. Either way those ratings aren’t terrible, and most negative reviews have very clearly been by someone who is either biased, had absurd expectations, or they didn’t put much time into the game.

I’ve put 2.5 days into Starfield so far and it’s fantastic. Best game I’ve played in years. It starts kind of slow but soon ramps up and then it’s nonstop fun and things to do. Play the game and see for yourself instead of being weird and threatening to cancel game pass in a comment section. It’s definitely worth it. Your loss if you dismiss it over a review score.

@CtrlAltDefeat How can it be ridiculous when it is "my" statement? And I've played the game now for about 12 hours. It's just not for me. I don't like it. If you love it, have fun with it.