The problem with Starfield is that most of the problems aren't fixable. Sure, they can incrementally fix it, but no amount of patches will fix a loading screen inbetween every door, the lack of exploration, the awfully mediocre dialogue and boring roleplaying...

I say this as a general fan of the game by the way, but I just don't see it being relevant for more than a year.

12 years!? Pure fantasy.

I played Cyberpunk for the first time properly recently, having waited for enough patches to make it worthwhile and what hit me the most after playing Starfield is the quality of conversation. NPCs you talk to emulate real people - they walk around, show emotion, interact with the environment etc. In Starfield, every conversation is a fixed camera POV of you staring directly at the character’s face. It’s so awkward, not at all realistic, unbelievably dated, and I can’t understand why Bethesda continue to make that design choice when there have been countless better implementations over the years.

I've said it before. The real problem with Starfield - compared to TES or Fallout - is it's bland SF.

TES is not just vanilla fantasy world, it has its own lore and most importantly its own character, its own feel. Fallout is the daddy of post-apocalyptic worlds and has personality in spades.

But Starfield, so far, is just... a bit meh, it has no beating heart, no joie de vivre no unique identity.

It's nice to want things.

Phil is such a delusional dork. Starfield was "alright" at best. Its time to work on fixing Bethesda's technical debt and move on the ES6.

Looks like its gonna be about 12 years short of that goal

Seems unlikely. Skyrim is good

Skyrim was an awesome game at launch, even without mods. The epic storyline, they way you're face to face with a dragon within minutes of starting, and the diverse range of races and classes you could be made it your own. There's a reason why it lasted as long as it did.

• 1000 planets to explore. So why couldn't they have let you upload your base to a server online, and then have other people's bases randomly appear in your game as you play? Bearing in mind, this would not be an online game, you would have the opportunity to download them.

• Ship building is fun, but it's too limiting. It feels like a system that's still in its infant stages and could've been refined. Give me the ability to resize modules, have the ability to merge parts, so my ship looks more like the ones in Mass Effect or Star Citizen, and not like a mass of parts bolted onto each other.

• Bethesda NPCs just don't work in 2023. There's so little life in them, and the voice acting sounds like they are speaking in a recording booth. There's no life to their voices or characters. It's so jarring, going to Starfield after playing Baldurs Gate 3, or Cyberpunk 2077.

• Loading screens.

• Boring. At least give me an all terrain vehicle to explore 1000 planets, or don't make carrying capacity and oxygen so difficult to manage. How about they give us free DLC after release that continues to add curated content to other planets. Give me a damn reason to play the game, Bethesda! What the hell is this BS?

It didn't even last 2 months for me. Super bored of it

I haven't bought Starfield yet. $49 on sale just seems pricey to me. Bring it below $25 or no deal.

Why wouldn’t he? Why would anyone not want a game they put out to continue to be successful for a long time?