Current Events > I beat Starfield after 70 hours (Spoiler-free review)

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This is one of the greatest games I've ever played. It has everything from great quests to great game systems. The questlines are incredible. I spent most of the 70 hours between playing the Vanguard faction and main quest, a bit of exploring and a bit of random quests. The Vanguard story was really good and interesting, and you could even consider it as a main story quest if the main story quest wasn't there. However, the main story is where the grandeur and eye-popping moments happen. Bethesda went all out with this one. Every second playing the game was a joy. It has a lot of "Bethesda" moments. From the NPCs to the "dungeons". All of the places that you have to go to for the questlines are varied and interesting. I didn't explore too many planets or dinked around a lot, but I enjoyed the moments that I did dink around. What sets this from say Skyrim is that I didn't get bored or annoyed by the level design. I remember getting a bit annoyed by some of the places in Skyrim (blackreach lol). There are some incredibly beautiful planets and moons. This is Bethesda's best looking game.

There are some issues with the game. It's not a perfect game of course. UI and inventory is a bit janky, along with storage boxes. The game connects research benches with your ship's storage, but doesn't extend it to any other storage in the game (like at your home or the Lodge) so this means you have to carry your materials on your limited storage in your ship or lug it to an infinite storage box at the lodge or somewhere similar. It is a bit unoptimized on PC if you have a Nvidia card, and runs a bit crappy at times. The maps need work. No location maps when you're in a base, cave, town, etc. The star maps look good though. Exploring planets can get tedious after a while. It'd be nice if they included land vehicles or at least an auto-run.

Overall, I loved the game. I want to post this and then get back to playing! This is going to go down as one of the greatest games ever. There's also some really cool gameplay mechanics that are tied to the story, but I don't even want to mention it because it is a spoiler, so please don't mention it in this topic. This game is going to be played for years. This is the new generation of Skyrim and once they give it some more quality of life improvements and patches (along with the planned dlc), it's going to be *chef's kiss*.

If you like sci-fi stories and space games, I highly recommend it.

This has to be a joke post

Pikachuchupika posted...

This is one of the greatest games I've ever played.

Whoever made that fucked up with this line

Not a joke at all. I've enjoyed this game a helluva a lot and will continue to do so for many years to come.

I just finished all four faction quest lines and have done 150 side quests and 2 companion quests. Im about to do unearthed mission and a few more misc quests before i finish it up and head to new game +. Ill probably save that for the expansion next year though. I think im around 150 hours

I agree its a fantastic game. I think its biggest flaw is its probably paced just a little too slow, a lot of people will probably bounce off before they really get far enough to see how good the game really is. I honestly think this is probably bethesda's best game

The game feels like a better Mass Effect to me. Its just missing all the cool alien species