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@WhiteRabbit

Lol, yeah, the latest Starfield Creations on Console have been an absolute joke for me, crashing my Series S plays of Starfield within 30 mins everytime. Wasted too much potential fun play time mucking with the stupid "activate/deactivate tick button" and "load order" for Creations, so decided to dump the broken concept and go back to Vanilla Starfield.

@BAMozzy

Yeah, There is that really great documentary about the making of Star Wars Jedi (the first one) that shows you are definitely correct regarding the role/action of Game Directors. If you haven't watched it already, I recommend checking it out, I think for free on YouTube. Best

Can someone mod to fix the terrible "space tribes" and "generic multiverse" storylines?

The in-game stories that were most grounded were the only good ones worth maybe re-playing, but even those weren't worth my $110:

Vanguard vs. Terramorphs
UC Sys Def vs. Crimson Fleet

Starfield DONE RIGHT! Looking forward to trying this via low-priced-and-undervaluing-the-product-Subscription-service, but wish it was 1st person view

Starfield done RIGHT

Looks like evil Satanic creepy/scary false snake god crap. Terrible, really terrible! Doesn't fit the "theme or mood" of Starfield at all. It's just gross demonic horror.

I want my $60 back to give to the poor and needy.

Gonna give this DLC storyline a miss and keep being a "space cop", me thinks.

25,000 x $30 - 30% store take, is not that much. Not even a full time salary for 15 people for a single year. They spent years making this with multiple people.

@InterceptorAlpha

This will definitely be a crutch for poorly programmed UE5 releases.

So when they can't program UE5 games to run properly on Xbox Series S, they can rely on this, made by another company.

The graphics on Xbox One were fine, so we know the Xbox Series hardware is more than fine, if only they could program their game properly.

So not even double. That's not 'huge'. False hype much?

Next-gen Avatar > Starfield. Playing Avatar, clearing the map before its Story DLC 1.

Really wanted Starfield to be a polished Star Citizen, but it's just old-school Skyrim in space with nonsense no vehicles or phones/radios and proc gen repetitive garbage.

The update just has basic features that should have been present when the game was initially publicly released in Sep 2023. Why would we praise gameplay settings and maps and 60FPS, this is all just basic stuff. They still don't have basic land vehicles in this future game, or phones, or proper significant variety in procedural gen 'exploration' tiles/outposts.

@IGN_Commenter

It would be half the time to 'see' the same number of frames at 60FPS. So half, only 100h.

@LaurenceJ1987

Only some devs/publishers use that 300MB template nonsense, you must have just been unlucky. The Hogwarts pre-install was the full 80GB game ready to play on release hour 1.

If it's downloadable, then it's ready to use immediately.

I'm thinking it's going to be more Waller-Bridge super serious and less Angelina Jolie fun action in todays PC society. Probably going to be boring

@shoeses

I agree re Main Story, but that's why I enjoyed rejecting the unity (and the chatter between with the main characters about rejecting it was fun), and I've stayed in my original universe.

I try to play a little Starfield every day, all in my original universe, and role-playing as a 'space cop' doing mission board missions. There's an entire game in just that.

Nice. And we need on-planet vehicles to drive around!

@RIghteousNixon

I've played about 200 hours so far, making it the best value game I've ever bought by far. I stayed in my original universe, completing the main+faction questlines, and now I try to role-play daily as a "space cop", doing mission board missions for creds and upgrading things. I'm about level 55 I think.

@RIghteousNixon

Yeah, Starfield is my 2023 GOTY. I try to run a mission board mission every day, all still in my original starting universe.

@CaptainCluck

Xbox console != Windows phone which only lasted a short trial period with the public (no traction).

MS makes heaps of hardware. Xbox console is going to be around as long as MS and the USA is.

@Ralizah

You forgot about the Halo TV show

Hollywood will always look for good original stories to make into film.

@Browntrouser

Yeah, this was my second favourite game of 2023 after Starfield.

@adamjsams

This was my second favourite game of 2023 after Starfield.
Playing even on Series S is fine, and I played from Day 1. I'm not too fussy in regards to graphics/performance. It's fun to play, but I did struggle with the "blue-alien-endlessly-going-after-human machine-outpost-after-outpost" storyline, and the difficulty was too hard even on easiest (but they patched that reasonably now).

@Dimey

Yeah, I've been thinking the exact same thing... Play after 6-mths to 1-year later when cheaper and you can track the level of bug fixes.

Worst UE5 game on Xbox Series S so far (tiny internal res, bad coding/no optimization, Blurry/ugly, made unenjoyable ) Tried to get a refund but couldn't

@GrandValkyrie

"big H E dubba hockey sticks no" - wow this is some local speak! Have no idea what it means, lol

@BowsersBuddy

Thanks, will sub to try/complete also. All this sub nonsense has to be losing most companies massive $

Hoping this is my personal GOTY!

@Fishticon

"Not every game is for everyone." - Yep, you know it to be so, Testify!

And kart racers, can never have enough good kart racers like CTR:NF or NKR.

Yuck, what is this, 1991 remastered, lol!? Anything for a buck I guess. I really want 2024+ AAA+ Starfield+ single-player sci-fi campaign games with no microtransactions.

@AlwaysPlaying

Advanced Warfare campaign is the best

Then Infinite Warfare campaign

as a sci-fi fan that is. All others are too realistic military murdering for me, dull story.

@Bionic-Spencer

Yeah, just like TV and Movie streaming, of which most companies are notably failing at making profitable (no wonder why when you devalue the product to only a few cents per hour of viewing), unless MS can be the 'Netflix of gaming', then it will always lose and they will abandon it eventually. However though, MS is such a big company (doing other profitable things) that a loss-leader product like GamePass might be valuable in the whole scheme of customer loyalty/retention to MS products as a whole. I reckon GamePass loses them massively when you factor in upkeep/system/engineering/server costs vs. people buying games old school-like.

Mirrors Edge Catalyst. Thought it was gonna suck but had a really likable characters and sci-fi-ey story

No games about giraffes!?