Starfield

[NYJin2011tm]

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I was expecting issues but through Steam didn’t have one so I was pleasantly surprised. By 8:15 I was playing.

[NYJin2011tm]

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I will never understand fanboys. I’m mostly a PS gamer but I game on all systems and enjoy all.

[poulka]

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Yeah no complaints from me one XBOX series X was able to start at 8:05. Got to meet Constellation, had a few gun fights one space ship fight and built my first outpost. It kind of rugged but it nabbed me some uranium. LOL.

[Bard]

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Guys. I love it.

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[poulka]

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Guys. I love it.

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Yes me too. My goodness I am stoked. Right just focusing on materials and weapons and a little money

[Gotmadskillzson]

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10 out of 10 for me. Game is just awesome. Give me that Mass Effect vibes, just only on a way more massive scale.

[RockinDaMike]

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Nice, i'm glad most people are enjoying it. 5 more days for me to play it

[ClassActFan]

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Well, I played all night and I'll be getting up in a few hours to get my day started, but it was worth it.

Loving it so far. Say what you want about the AI enemies not being the best, but can we please come to a majority agreement that the gunplay -- for a Bethesda game, at least -- is freakin' awesome and satisfying?!

The only thing I'm truly disliking right now is not being able to set a custom waypoint. Been trying to procure some digipicks and going to different shops in New Atlantis has been a bit of a pain to navigate to.

[Bard]

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Running on 2 and a half hours of sleep into work today, lol. Worth it. Going to go get Starbucks and a Red Bull for the day!

Can't wait for 4pm to get home and play some more!

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[PPerfect_CJ]

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Played all of last night and still haven’t left the first planet yet! Loving it. Everything about it screams Fallout and that is a great thing. I’m gonna put SOOOO many hours into this.

[tc020791]

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Only got in a few hours last night. It’s not exactly what I was expecting, I thought it would be a little more open world and exploration focused, rather than mission and side quest driven. With that being said, I understand why the studio did this, they probably felt like alot of people would miss out on all the love they put in this game if they didn’t give you some sort of path to follow.

For some people that will be a welcome addition, for others they will be upset that they can’t just go and do whatever they want, whenever they want. For me personally, I am somewhere in the middle, I have heard the game does open up more once you reach the city of Neon.

Things that stand out immediately to me is the attention to detail in literally everything that’s around you. If you focus on the NPC and their facial animations you may not be super impressed. But if you look at the clothing, the environments, the guns, the ships. The attention to detail on all of those things are the best I’ve seen in any game. Plus you can pick up literally everything you see. I’m only a few hours in so I’m not sure what I should and shouldn’t be picking up yet, what everything actually does, but for now I’m picking up anything I can get my hands on [emoji23].

Overall I’m really enjoying the game so far, though I’ve only played for a small amount of time. Will be back to give a bigger impression once I really get going.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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If I remember correctly, the first 30 or 40 hours of gameplay is basically like a tutorial to teach you how to do everything without actually feeling like a tutorial. Then after after that, the training wheels come off and it opens up. I mean one does have to learn a lot about the different factions and who is beefing with who.

Only played 4 hours and I am enjoying the hell out of this game. In the beginning I was literally picking up everything, looting every dead body I came across and looting everybody I killed. Than all of a sudden I noticed was moving slower and my crew mate was like why are you carrying all that junk. Then I looked down and saw I was way over weight limit for what my current body type can carry, which was causing me to burn through oxygen quicker. Made it to the nearest store and sold 99% of the stuff. I was boosting everything: cups, pens, fruit, helmets, spacesuits, cereal, oatmeal, wrenches, LOL. Had like 8 different kind of guns, 3 different kind of knives. I was the loot goblin.

I love the fact you can switch from 1st person to 3rd person when ever you want. Love the fact it is a photo mode and it made it pretty clear and up front there is a photo mode and easy to get to. This game is basically everything I thought Mass Effect Andromeda would be. New territory, you get to explore, set up outposts, recruit crew members for your ship, for your outpost. You can board enemy ships which is cool as hell. I spent like 20 minutes just creating my character, the character creation screen is pretty deep, almost as deep as Baldur's Gate 3 creation screen. Love how people respond and interact with you too based off your background and apparently, you can become wanted in this game too because I saw a wanted meter level.

[ODogg]

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Starfield - a neuro-divergent old man gamers point of view based upon about 4+ hours of play on the PC.

I have mostly avoided all the press about Starfield, because for some reason, at some point, I sort of thought it was a game like Duke Nukem, that'd I'd be hearing about forever and a day, and it was just exhausting.

So after the initial discussion of it 83 years ago, I have pretty much not watched or read about it. Honestly I think a lot of gamers get fatigue regarding a game before it even comes out with all the information that is out there. STOP reading and WATCHING all that crap.

Nothing wrong with checking it out, hell I do too, but at some point you need to just move on and wait for it to come out.

Anyways, with a long development cycle comes raised expectations for many. Not me, usually the longer a game is being developed the less I think about it and thus my expectations are, well pretty much very little if it's not a game that arrives on time.

For my experience I went with the best gaming system, that is the PC, and despite some of my own technical issues (nothing with Starfield) after a brief spell of trying to get my Razer Tartarus to work, I eventually decided to just use the joystick.

As I mentioned before, Starfield is a space game, that we all know. But games about space do require a certain amount of imagination, after all, all that us humans so far have found in space is a bunch of satellites and trash we put out there.

If you're not a gamer who has dreams and imagination about space and space travel, the stars and planets far away, then please just piss right off, exit stage left and go play call of duty or fortnight please.

This game is an amazing game, very well polished in my four hours, no graphical glitches, ran very smooth on my system and very easy to get started.

In a short amount of time I had a ship and was flying around. Dreams of Wing Commander from the PC haunted me as I fought my first dog fight. It was great to be back in outer space fighting just like the old days of WIng Commander, a game many of us in the 90's bought a new PC for, or upgraded our PC to play.

The game does take some short cuts that No Man's Sky does a bit better, such as cut scenes that show you landing instead of you just landing yourself, things of that nature. It's a little jarring at first figuring that out, but once you do it's fine, just a different approach to space travel.

Surprisingly the planet combat was very well done, it reminds me a lot of The Division. The game gives you first person and two third person views to use, of which I took advantage of, often switching on the fly, which works really well.

The first couple of hours was a bunch of story and talking, which is fine, but I really prefer to create my own stories (there's that damned imagination!) and so I kind of just moved on through them. After a while the game sort of releases its hand held tour on you and lets you roam and do your thing, which is where for me it gets very interesting.

I'm the type of player who likes to ignore the main story and just do whatever I want. To me games like this should be (and sometimes are) just a big old sandbox universe for me to play in and I really don't like to be told a bunch of story to lead me through the game (that's oa traditional way to game that many gamers prefer and I get it, but it's also the type of thing that constricts gaming in my view).

As I concluded my 4 hour session I was just getting into the point where I was really loving the game and just doing random ****, which for me is where the real fun comes in, feeling as if I'm out in space and I can do what I like, that to me unleashes what I love about gaming, the possibilities, not a story of a romance between Bob and Agatha or whatnot. Just my preference, stories are in my mind, not in a game dialogue.

My only question and/or complaint is that when I'm flying in space I have a difficult time to see if I'm really doing anything. I cannot see if I'm flying closer towards my target since it doesn't give a distance (or if it does I"m missing it) so I'm using fast travel more. I really do not want to fast travel everywhere though as that sort of defeats the purpose of exploring. This is something I plan to figure out tonight.

Does everything look super realistic? No, a large part of it looks "gamey" and you know, that's fine for me...may be an issue for some who might have expected super cutting razors edge graphics. Now don't get me wrong, aesthetically the game looks incredible, but its clearly going for a realistic but bethesda touch look to it and I for one think it is spectacular.

And on PC it is as smooth as butter on most high and some ultra settings. I do have a quibble with them not offering 3840x1660 but I imagine that will be patched (highest it offers is the 34" resolution) and I know some gamers who have 49" monitors are very angry about this, but isn't that kind of them for buying a monitor only about 1% of gamers can enjoy? So no sympathy here, screw you, buy a regular monitor Mr Moneybags

My final thought is that this game is going to be around for years, like Fallout and Skyrim and will have **** tons of mods, especially on PC (does anyone know if you can mod on Xbox?) and I will likely be playing it for years.

Unlike many people who are trying to rush through and beat the game (something else I'll never understand, do these people also wolf down their gourmet meals like a fat fair kid at a hot dog contest??) but not me.

I spent about an hour or more in the character creation screen, which by the way is really, really good and I recommend everyone TAKE YOUR TIME and really think about your character instead of rushing to get into the game. Man, character creation is getting great between Baldurs Gate (still the gold standard) and this game!

For folks who don't like it, well I feel bad for you, but hey some things just aren't some folks bag, I get it, and so should you. This game has not been overhyped by anyone other than the gamers who can't wait to shred it to little pieces over every little thing the miserable, keyboard warriors can find.

Well have at it folks, go enjoy your miserable bug hunting and snarky videos. Go enjoy posting comments on social media attempting to make everyone else as miserable and insufferable as you are.

As for me, I'll just be over here exploring the galaxy and having the time of my life doing things that I will never do for real..... but have always dreamed about.

Starfield has so far exceeded my expectations and I can't wait to dive back in over the holiday weekend!

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[NYJin2011tm]

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I never played Skyrim or Fallout so Bethesda world is new to me so it will be interesting for me.

I’ve only played up until character creation last night. I’m not one willing to not get sleep to play. I’ve got all weekend to play. Liking it so far. Running 4k with just about everything on high and getting 80-90 fps. I just went with whatever it was set at for now.

[ODogg]

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When you're in space and flying toward a target, how can you tell the distance to go? Or do you have to just fast travel to the target, which I hope not as flying around was something I was looking forward to doing.

Last night I spent a long time just in space and not sure I was actually doing anything in regards to traversing towards my target