At launch, Starfield was celebrated but it didn't take long before a hate campaign began against it and people started posting tons of negative reviews of the game. They complained about ridiculous things like the lack of vehicles (plenty of games don't have vehicles), and the lack of things to do (this is false, there is plenty to do).
The truth is that people had unrealistic standards. They wanted 1000 individually crafted planets and when they realised they were procedurally generated, people lost their shit without realising what an immense undertaking they were asking for. Starfield manages to provide a good variety of games and exploration always rewards you with amazing sights and plenty of opportunities to take photos. At the end of the day, Starfield provides more content than 99% of games out there. It is better than No Man's Sky @BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS. How you can you visit places like Neon and Akila and complain that the game is empty? There are so many settlements with an incomprehensible amount of content. There is also a host of lifeforms to discover and they all behave differently, making it exciting to explore the wild parts of planets.
People complain that many of the missions are fetch quests, but they fail to understand that much of the fun of the game comes from the journey. Traveling to different places, speaking to different characters and discovering new things is exciting, and fetch quests expose you to new content.
What I find strange is that people complain about the writing and the story. This is the best writing in a game recent. It's so fun talking to different characters because they all feel so different and they have varied motivations. I can't wait to meet new characters and it's exciting to pick what I'm going to say to them. I enjoy the persuasion situations where you have to pick the right thing to say to convince a character to do something. These are high stakes situations and I don't save scum so I deal with the consequences of my actions.
I will admit that the game is not perfect and there are some flaws. For example, there are a lot of loading screens. Secondly, 60fps mode isn't particularly stable. However, none of these shortcomings tarnish the game in a major way. Furthermore, Bethesda has listened to fans and updated the game to give players plenty of the features they have been asking for, making the game even better than it was at launch. That is a beautiful thing to do, and not many developers would do that. Thank you Todd Howard.
The hate campaign against Starfield was started by CHUDS who were mad that there weren't many conventionally attractive women in the game. You could see it on /v/, and it eventually spread to Reddit where chuds latched onto the narrative.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16c0z6n/why_are_all_the_girls_ugly/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16g935o/why_are_the_npcs_so_darn_ugly/
Of course, this discourse spread to Steam where a bunch of reviews started complaining about ugly NPCs. You can tell its chuds writing these because they use terms like "woke".
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/4035850502436992213/
From here, it became easy to just call the whole game "woke" and the kinds of criticisms that came from this were ridiculous. People were mad that you could choose they/them pronouns!
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3824173464657206483/
So with all this needless hate gathering around Starfield, it became a hot topic in the culture wars which led to the torrent of bad reviews. That is why there is a negative perception of the game. However, for those of us who know what the game is trying to be and are playing it with a pure heart, we recognise that Bethesda has bestowed a masterpiece upon us. This is a beautiful game with so many twists and turns. It's innovative, unorthodox, yet so effortlessly fun.
I'm feeling quite sad right now because @ToeBeans ignored me cruelly and I don't know what I did to her to deserve this treatment. However, I'm about to play Starfield and it's going to make me feel much better. I might not have true friends online, but when I'm playing Starfield, Sarah Morgan and Sam Coe are my best buddies and they'll never desert me. Here are some of my favorite screenshots from the game. Looking at them helps me feel better.
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It's a bad game sneedfan
They put together like 3? 4? underwhelming cities that are less interesting than most of the cities in Oblivion, assembled one of each of the vanishingly few different POIs and then called it a day
Interesting procgen planets are possible and a team of 16 bongs managed it almost 10 years ago but massive bethsoft couldn't be fricked to even do that
It's a bad, empty game
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It's also just Skyrim. You go around exploring to find temples where you unlock a new form of magic power while upgrading your gear and stats.
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Which with the exception of about three of them, you will never, ever use
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seeing the same 3 copy/pasted POIs on every planet in landed on was the fricking worst. there wasn't enough variation. everything felt EXACTLY THE SAME.
it's the most disappointed i've ever been by a video game. i played it for like 60 hours that first couple months after release and have never went back to it. i'm not even sure if mods could fix the game.
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Jesus christ
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They're not even remotely interesting planets?? Like I find a planet on NMS I like even in an uncharted system (i.e. 0 structures of any sort anywhere) and I can spend hours just wandering around it if I want to, looking at shit and finding cool places to take pictures or build
Starfield even when you find a planet that isn't just a dead ball of nothing, it has animals and trees and shit, it's all BORING BORING BORING
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They could've released the ship builder as a stand-alone module for five bucks and it would've gotten better reviews than the full game.
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How? You always have seen everything after visiting the same kind of planet three times. No mans sky is no different, and thats its biggest flaw too.
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It takes a bit longer to get bored of the NMS procgen since it has more things to use for procgen. It's real advantage over starfield is the relatively seamless exploration where you can actually fly from planet to planet, around planets, summon ground/water vehicles and capital ships. Not the procgen, although it is serviceable compared to starfield.
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I played NMS probably like 200 hours overall too, so I dont dount it has its playability value. But honestly, the planets (and plants and creatures) are boring very fast. Its really once you have seen one, you have seen all. Maybe they brought a bit more variation with recent updates, but overall its still not a lot.
Most of the games playtime comes from grinding in the end.
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I don't know why anyone is surprised that GOD HOWARD got their shekels again
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