I love Skyrim and I love sci-fi, but I just couldn’t put my finger on why I was so disappointed in Starfield and I think I know why (including peoples typical complaints like dull planets). It’s because I got my ship too fast and too easy. The “go everywhere” went from 0 to 100.
Like, if this was Skyrim, you’d escape Helgen and immediately be given a dragon to fly around the rest of the game.
If there was more story and multi-path faction choices to earn, steal, or build my ship THEN go into space. I would have felt like it was special. Then my future choices would hold more weight because of the game altering decisions I made planet side before getting to space.
Oh oh oh. Like, what if I learned that my father (who died under mysterious circumstances 🤨) had a hidden, half-built spaceship I had no idea about. One group wants to help me finish building it (quest by quest) because they were friends of dads but I have to earn those parts, but one group will buy the “hunk of junk” for enough to buy my own snazzy ship (but do I dare sell my fathers legacy 😱), but a third shady group will front the whole cost and even finish building it for free if I’ll become a smuggler for them, totally anti-the way dad raised me 😈. Shoot. Bethesda should hire me to fix Starfield for them 🤣🤣🤣
Plus the “load to space flight, load to solar system, load to land” just makes it feel too jarring. Like in Skyrim you could fast travel BUT you had to discover the place first, meaning you had to TRAVEL to the place first.
Jarring is the right word. I was gutted when I beat the game without even realizing I was beating the “boss”. I thought the whole “you meet future you of the past you becoming the cosmic you” was half way. When it ended I was gob smacked 😅.
Something major would really have to change for me to love (even like) Starfield but I think those changes would basically just make it a completely different game.
I enjoyed this game so much I actually made the effort to leave a review! 5 stars for sure. The voice acting is so good and lots of chances for replay ability to make different choices.
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I love Skyrim and I love sci-fi, but I just couldn’t put my finger on why I was so disappointed in Starfield and I think I know why (including peoples typical complaints like dull planets). It’s because I got my ship too fast and too easy. The “go everywhere” went from 0 to 100.
Like, if this was Skyrim, you’d escape Helgen and immediately be given a dragon to fly around the rest of the game.
If there was more story and multi-path faction choices to earn, steal, or build my ship THEN go into space. I would have felt like it was special. Then my future choices would hold more weight because of the game altering decisions I made planet side before getting to space.
Oh oh oh. Like, what if I learned that my father (who died under mysterious circumstances 🤨) had a hidden, half-built spaceship I had no idea about. One group wants to help me finish building it (quest by quest) because they were friends of dads but I have to earn those parts, but one group will buy the “hunk of junk” for enough to buy my own snazzy ship (but do I dare sell my fathers legacy 😱), but a third shady group will front the whole cost and even finish building it for free if I’ll become a smuggler for them, totally anti-the way dad raised me 😈. Shoot. Bethesda should hire me to fix Starfield for them 🤣🤣🤣
Plus the “load to space flight, load to solar system, load to land” just makes it feel too jarring. Like in Skyrim you could fast travel BUT you had to discover the place first, meaning you had to TRAVEL to the place first.
Jarring is the right word. I was gutted when I beat the game without even realizing I was beating the “boss”. I thought the whole “you meet future you of the past you becoming the cosmic you” was half way. When it ended I was gob smacked 😅.
Something major would really have to change for me to love (even like) Starfield but I think those changes would basically just make it a completely different game.
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I enjoyed this game so much I actually made the effort to leave a review! 5 stars for sure. The voice acting is so good and lots of chances for replay ability to make different choices.