I might be done with Starfield by next summer 😊

First time trying this and hopefully link works…i am too old for the internets 😵‍💫

https://photos.app.goo.gl/2Z5wUh61dvDL5kiz7

Should be a pic showing my xbox on display with the starfield wrap

Extremely happy with the Starfield one! Looks great and feels great. Really good material and has a nice weight to it. Wrap and snap. Simple and now my Series X is taking center stage next to my tv!

Anyone else experience Vasco appearing in ship through the floor. Happens on all my ships except the first one?!

Blood Omen 2. I still pop it in to my original Xbox to play it from time to time. Great extension to to Blood Omen series. Loved Soul Reaver on the dreamcast too. Wish they could bring all those games back. And put out a new one!

So…it seems like Starfield has it’s hooks in me. The over arching story beyond the first play through really has me questioning the type of person i want to be in the universe and what these choices will mean in years to come. Besides that the exploration and building whether it is ship or outpost or just taking on side quests is like a comfort zone when i just want to relax and un stress after a long day or week. I have tried playing other games but after a few hours i keep coming back to Starfield. I am sure at some point i will pause my time in this elaborate universe that was created but have not hit that threshold yet. Is it perfect…no. The more i play the more i see areas of improvement or would be nice if there was more. But regardless for me personally i wanted a universe to dive into and i have that. Each person is looking for their own reasons to play or continually play a game and different for everyone. If asked the question if there was one game you could take with you to a deserted island right now this would be the one for me.

What we need is a suit/weapon set system that maybe can be stored in your ship. Depending what you are doing you can grab the appropriate set instead of trying to do a load out that is good for anything that can happen. Exploring can have its own sets, hunting pirates another and so one. Have like a suit locker on the ship with the different loadouts that can be saved and upgraded as you find or make better gear for each set. This would make the different biomes and danger a lot more fun to mange then trying to keep it all on your personal inventory and getting encumbered after picking up 1 pistol.

I am not sure if this has been stated but this feels like it might be intentional on Microsoft side. Like here are these things we are thinking about let us slip it out and feel out the community response to these possible scenarios. This way they have a wide range of critical feedback to help them gage the potential release. For example many are excited about the controller so they can move forward with the controller. However other items that gets the most negative or disinterested comments they can re-work or say it was a leak and not really in the planning as it was internally communicated. In the end i think this will help Microsoft move forward with better options for their fans.

About a year ago maybe more, bestbuy had this wacky sale where cyberpunk 2077 was only $4.99. So i was like what the heck maybe one day I will play it. Looks like that day is finally here! It will have to wait a bit longer as I am neck deep in Starfield but this will be next! Glad to hear the wait is worthwhile 🥰

I would love the ability to create a shipyard at an outpost so I can display all the ships I own! Won’t hold my breath but most likely a mod for this will 1 day happen!

@BaldBelper78 “ Sea of Stars is superb.”
I have no doubt! I played the demo and enjoyed it and will play this when the time comes. Starfield is the game i have been waiting for to have the experience of living my own sci fi adventure!

My anxiety of having the main story spoiled had me kinda rush a bit but i am glad I did. Now I am in the new game plus and slowing way down and truly enjoying the sites and world that has been created! Very excited to truly explore at my own pace 😊

Normally i am jumping around and hard to stick to any of these new games. I really want to play sea of stars and lies of P! However, since I started Starfield things have become easier. Unless something changes in the coming months i will be playing Starfield and pick up new games starting in 2024. Only exception is FFX14 i need to log in regularly so I don’t loose my home 😏

Starfield! Every hour in better than the one before. Oh and the Kids Stuff trait, just keeps getting better as the game goes on! Highly recommend for those about to start the game!

I am up for having options and land vehicles could be great. However, even on skyrim I rarely used a horse due to the way it was implemented. Anything you see you would need to get off and pick up or get into random battles. They would have to introduce a whole new other system for scanning and picking things up leaving the vehicle behind to go checkout a cave or mine or what have you. But with the boost pack everything around you is at your fingertips tips and though i am still early looks like there are skills that would make it even more fun to traverse with the pack. That being said an exoskeleton would work great like Death Stranding with not only helping you traverse but increasing what you can cary. Looking forward to how the game feels towards the and post the main story ending as you unlock more skill’s compared to how it feels at the beginning. 😊

I am one of those players and loving it! About 10 hours in and getter into my groove.

That is absolutely stunning!!! I wish i had those skills but alas I will enjoy it from afar! Wow

I got my first ship on the surface of a planet. After killing the pirates i sat in the captain chair and it added to my roster (since on the surface it automatically made it my home ship). I then went to landing spot and went into frontier and sat in the chair. Went to menu and made Frontier my home shop again. Got a message that i have an unregistered ship. And next time i am in spaceport i can register if I want to make changes. So I went and flew Frontier to Jemison spaceport and was able to register then sell. Although registration was expensive and only made a couple thousand on the sale of the ship it appears you do not have to fly it to a port to sell it or register it. Hope this helps stay away from the bug 😊

Does anyone know if you can hire a home decorator or option to furnish a home? That would be great to pay for some basic set up and then tweak later especially early in the game when trying to get some resources going.

So I picked Kids Stuff and Dream Home. I love Kids Stuff, don’t want to spoil anything but this is a lot more than just visiting your parents. Highly recommend!

Also for Dream Home the cost at least for me is $125,000.00 credits. However you have to pay this in full! If you want to use the home until you have enough credits to buy it you pay weekly installments of $500.00 interest only 😜

I am happy with both Traits!

I am living the space dream. What an amazing game! 🥰

Wow…forgot all about the skins. Thanks for the reminder 👍

Honestly so many cool gear options don’t need the skins 😜

Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Sega need to follow what Atari just did. The 2600 with original look and function that can play the original cartridge/discs with all the modern day HD in place at a decent price point that way all the games I already own can work on it. Not only will it make physical media more desirable if developers want they can still make games for it. Saving gaming history by allowing modern day upgrade to the original console model. And for Atari both 2600 and 7800 cartridges work on the machine with only a small number that don’t. Anyway…my 2 cents

I just got that Bethesda feeling! So I just got to Jemison and decided to pick a spot and land before going to meet with Constellation. To see what exploration would be like. And wow! I step off the spaceship and start scanning. Find some places in the distance worth checking out, come across an abandoned mine and some life signs of what appears to abandoned surveyor tents. Fight some hostile wildlife. After about 30 minutes i sit back and really look at what is around me and i could literally spend hours in just this area of the planet. Just like in Fallout or Skyrim when you decide to go off the beaten path and think to myself this is just 1 planet and my wanderlust and thirst for adventure goes through the roof!

I had to stop and get back into orbit so i can get ready to go to New Atlantis and go see what Constellation is all about. However i can tell you I am hooked. I will be playing this for a long time and can’t wait to see where the story is going and what fantastic crazy adventures I find along the way. Just Wow!

I need to spend more time with the game to determine how it feels to me. I am in New Atlantis and won’t play again till tomorrow. I will say that i wish there was a bit more animation with the train like getting in and off. Just felt to abrupt.

Until Bethesda changes their game design structure we will have many loading screens. Skyrim has tons, going into anything, cities, houses, caves all load screens even big cities are broken up. Not saying it should stay this way. Hopefully they can do better with ESVI

Just got to first major city and started exploring a bit before heading to main quest objective. For those worried about the mini map have you been using your scanner? It helps me find things and areas around along with a cool lit path to next objective of active quest.

Bethesda games do not have minimaps so I wasn’t expecting one here but the scanner is a huge help!

Oops…forgot. Loving it so far but will not play more till Sunday. Helping daughter move into her first Apartment in Philly and we are driving up from North Carolina! I am already jonesing!

Siiilveeer Hawks! Yes…The Miraj will be in my fleet!

I always have a non modded gameplay file as my main file to play and continue playing with DLC. So for me modding is still a ways out for sure. With Skyrim and Fallout for (for console) there was a lot of great mods including gaming mods. I just hope with Starfield they expand on the storage. I believe 5 gigs was the cap on xbox.

Regarding paying for mods i never had too. They do offer that but as an option.

If they do the same for Starfield and expand the storage cap then should be great.

I always look for story content mods to add to the ever growing lore of the games and the mod community are always awesome and look forward to that!

@Moonglow from what i have read there are places in game you can go to change the appearance after character creation. They had this in Fallout 4 as well

@RetroMan71 one of their main pillars. Each game is huge…there has always been DLC story content and usually stellar (pun intended)! And then there is the modding community which can do some amazing work both on PC and console!

It has been an amazing experience for me so far. It is taking me a long time to get through the beginning but that is because i have the need to pick up everything and just stop and admire my surroundings. Only blemish i have experienced so for was pop in textures when landing on new Atlantis.

Full shutdown worked for me. Taking a smoke break…and jumping right back in! The music!!

And aaaawaaayy we go!!

Work done ✅, dinner done ✅, spending some quality time with wife watching Star Trek Lower Decks ✅!

In 55 minutes…wife who?!? 😏

You know what I love most about Starfield? The way it brings the community together to discuss our mutual anticipation for the release without any bickering 😊

The wait is killing me…can’t concentrate at work…basically just coming here to chat as I don’t want anything else to spoil me 😏

Wonder if i can get my character to look like Buck Rodgers?!

@BacklogBrad “IGN (BRAZIL) 9.5” time to brush up on my Portuguese. Looks like the game plays better in Brazil then USA.

I am Portuguese hence why I chose this a the reference 😏

All of this is what I expected. Reviews are opinions after all. So one person negative can be another’s positive. For example in the IGN review 1 of the lower marks was in the fast travel function. How you could be on a planet open the star map pick a city and the you are there after a small load screen. To me that is a positive thinking of how much time i will spend in this game. Being able complete a quest option on another planet and then fast travel to location of quest giver without having to get in your ship, fly into space, etc.

Not to say that the latter is bad. I will be doing that but after a while those quality of life functions help reduce some redundancy.

Just a few more hours to go! So excited!

@Lucylu1983 that stand is really nice. Do you get the little astronaut too?

@Lucylu1983 thank you!

Once you get the framed art would love to see it!

Starfield controller ✅, headset ✅, console wrap ✅, premium ✅, Funko Vasko ✅, poster in my game room of game cover ✅, work then play at 8pm ET ✅

I have a problem…i know.

First Funko ever…ordered. I think i am starting to recognize i have a galaxy sized problem when it comes to Starfield 😵‍💫

Wow…chills indeed. Listening and watching the video. I really don’t understand where all this negativity is coming from? Combine this with the live action trailer and it really emphasizes what I personally feel like my experience in the game world will be. I for one am enjoying the ride to release tomorrow 8pm ET cannot come soon enough!

Great job Bethesda ❤️

@tallythwack “ive just watched the video regarding the boundary, and the planet is basically tatooine,so boring as hell 😂”

See this could all be a silver lining 😊

Is it Thursday yet!!

@tallythwack I hear you. It would be great if we get all that and more but until the game comes out we won’t know.

This reminds me of when Fable came out on og xbox. I was hyped for all the promises pre launch and it ended up being a fraction of the promises. Was I disappointed, yes. But when i took away all the pre launch shenanigans and just started playing the game i ended up loving it for what it was not what it was supposed to be.

So who knows how much is out there. But if what is in there is fun and gives me an experience of being in space…then maybe the other stuff can be added in a sequel…in the year 2040 😜

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@tallythwack “fair points ,but in my view planetary exploration is compromised doin it this way…”

This is what i love about these discussions. What is immersive for one may not be for another. For a developer to find the balance to ensure a great experience must be daunting to say the least especially for a game of this size and everyone’s personal expectations!

For me it is more immersive breaking to be able to just keep walking and explore an entire planet (granted until release we do not fully know and may just be player choice). Thinking about resources of food or spacesuit limitations even if there were vehicles the fuel and wear and tear on the vehicle and just landscape crossing issues. Again for me it makes more sense to explore an area go back to ship pick up more supplies, drop of resources collected. Then decide where to ho next.

If the planets are truly open i would still play this way as it makes sense to me for my personal immersion.

That being said it would be great to allow for both play styles but if not then it will be up to the individual to determine if this is a buy or a pass.

@tallythwack i see your point.

However, here is how i look at it. Skyrim has 1 big map with points of interest like Whiterun and Riften and along the way you discover a cave or amazing mountain view or someone on the road that wants your sweetroll.

In Starfield the galaxy is the skyrim map and as you travel from solar system A to solar system B you find a derelict ship or a moon with a distress signal or someone on another ship wants to steal your sandwiches. You still get that experience it is galaxy wide instead of 1 land map. Do you really just want to keep going on the same planet and go oh look there is a mountain, and look a river, and an ocean and another mountain but there aren’t any living settlements or peoples trying to steal your sandwiches?

I think we need to think of this in a much wider field of view. No?

Related to the fully explorable planets.

Personally i prefer the chunks. Think about it this way. Star Trek, Star Wars and possibly others you get to a planet find where you need to go and then land do your thing and then move on. Want to explore another area of the planet…go into space pick another and explore. I mean do you really want to spend days, if not more, exploring just 1 planet? I don’t.

Also… Thursday seems like will never arrive 😵‍💫

Now if someone could do a Legend of Dragoon remake, sequel, spiritual successor…something. Please!

@Darude84
I know right! Peace in our time, world hunger, treating people with the respect and dignity all deserve…nothing on trying to figure out if I can handle 2 great RPGs at once!

I was afraid it was going to be this good. I played the demo and loved it. But with Starfield just a few days away I don’t want to start this now! But I don’t want to wait 3 years to finish Starfield either! Wonder if i can manage both…thanks a lot for making a great game 😵‍💫