Current Events > Starfield is No Man's Sky and Starbound if they were actually good games

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Remember Starbound? I really liked that game, but it so many shortcomings, and got boring quickly. I had high expecations for NMS as well, but it just falls flat as a video game. Starfield is a success, and is the space game that I've always dreamed out. I'm so happy :D

I heard NMS came around.

NMS is amazing though

ragnarokius posted...

I heard NMS came around.

I mean it has a lot of...stuff I guess? But it's still very boring to play. It feels more like a simulator than a space video game? All you do is fly around in your ship. There's very little story or combat, and it gets boring rather quickly.

The comparisons to No Man's Sky are so shallow. Starfield is not really a full exploration game in the same way that Skyrim and Fallout aren't full exploration games. Yes you explore an open world to find quests, factions and characters but the meat of the game is the questlines, everything else is perfunctory and suitably shallow. Where Starfield falls down is the open world is largely the same barren rock repeated in different colors, the same bases, the same enemies to kill and where it excels is the bespoke crafted cities and space stations where all the quests are, in this vein it's basically just Skyrim and Fallout in a different set dressing.

The game it's most similar to in terms of structure is the original Mass Effect. In that game you have a handful of bespoke planets where all the main quests happen and dozens of "explorable" worlds that have one of two of the same base on the same barren rock with varying colors. At least Mass Effect gave you the Mako to drive though.

Get off the copium.

No Man's Sky is just Starfield without anything to do.

I was hyped for NMS, even after the controversy of the launch, but I've tried to play it three times after all the updates and man. It's so boring. So so boring.

Starfield is what I wanted from NMS, and the game I've wanted since Morrowind really.

Everytime I read about Starfield/NMS comparisons I just assume the folks saying that simply never played the game.

ragnarokius posted...

I heard NMS came around.

RuneterranSnap posted...

NMS is amazing though

I haven't played NMS since 2020 I think. What have they added to the game?

RuneterranSnap posted...

NMS is amazing though

lmao

ragnarokius posted...

I heard NMS came around.

making it "a decent game" after many years isn't considered "coming around"

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

lmao

making it "a decent game" after many years isn't considered "coming around"

It's a fantastic game.

JacobyCrane posted...

The comparisons to No Man's Sky are so shallow. Starfield is not really a full exploration game in the same way that Skyrim and Fallout aren't full exploration games. Yes you explore an open world to find quests, factions and characters but the meat of the game is the questlines, everything else is perfunctory and suitably shallow. Where Starfield falls down is the open world is largely the same barren rock repeated in different colors, the same bases, the same enemies to kill and where it excels is the bespoke crafted cities and space stations where all the quests are, in this vein it's basically just Skyrim and Fallout in a different set dressing.

The game it's most similar to in terms of structure is the original Mass Effect. In that game you have a handful of bespoke planets where all the main quests happen and dozens of "explorable" worlds that have one of two of the same base on the same barren rock with varying colors. At least Mass Effect gave you the Mako to drive though.

This is the best description I have read about this yet. The folks who wanted cool fallout/Skyrim type quests in a space setting are happy. The folks who wanted NMS style exploration are disappointed.

Since all I wanted out of the game was the Bethesda systems I have come to expect, I am loving the game. I get why some people wanted more space exploration out of this-especially because Bethesda kind of leaned into that in the marketing. But I expected a standard Bethesda game with a sci-fi skin, and that is what I got. I am very happy with it.

NMS is better though