Starfield

[Nigel Tufnell]

Starfield model build, new video.

 

 

[DisturbedSwan]

Too early to post reviews seeing as they dropped 4 minutes ago, but its sitting at an 89 on OpenCritic at the moment.

[Nag]

First review I looked at (Destructoid) gave it a 10... was not expecting that.

[DisturbedSwan]

Reviews:

 

OpenCritic

 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

That IGN 7 will be responsible for some 'discourse', I am sure. 🍿

[Nigel Tufnell]

10 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said:

That IGN 7 will be responsible for some 'discourse', I am sure. 🍿

Just watching this weeks episode of Unlocked, they are emphasizing that the 7 is a good score.

[Maryokutai]

I'm having a bit of a first-world problem at the moment because I start working again when the game comes out but I really, really don't want to support that early access nonsense MS is doing.

[Nag]

Think I'm gonna book next Friday off to give this a good rogering.

[one-armed dwarf]

I put an hour into it and it ran at like 60 at 4k, it's very demanding on the GPU side. That said, it looks really good. I picked 'chef' as the class for my character, and gave him traits that make him introverted, addicted to jumping and a bounty on his head. You know, a backstory that just makes a lot of sense and leads to immersive role playing outcomes involving jumping over bounty hunters and trying to avoid social situations so you can cook some weird alien dishes and eat them alone in space

 

I'll make a thread over the weekend I guess

[Maryokutai]

I've also decided to enter the Hall of Hypocrisy and bought the 30 bucks 'early access no backbone at all edition' upgrade. I stand by my principles in other fields in life, let me be weak where it doesn't matter.

 

Anyway, first three hours are really meh, I'll wait for dwarf's topic and post more then. Runs fine on Xbox as well btw., just as a heads-up.

[one-armed dwarf]

I mean, feel free to create that thread. I'm not trying to lay ownership on it or anything, share the 'meh' impressions of the Digital Dickhead edition as you've played more than I have at this point

 

To keep the thread news related then I guess I will share the Digital Foundry writeup on the Xbox version. They also say it's good

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/starfield-launches-as-a-polished-consistent-experience-on-xbox-series-x-and-series-s

 

 

[Metroid66]

It appears these two have upgraded the procrastination perk.

[mmmark]

I’ve been watching this being played. Looks incredible to me. Can’t believe I’ll just be paying £10 to play it for a month. 

[Nag]

Out of interest, how do people play their Bethesda games... first or third person?

 

Skyrim and Fallout 3/4 I played in first person but I'm thinking I might play this in a Gears of War style.

[Maryokutai]

I tried 3rd person but the animations are really distractingly bad, so I went back to first person.

[Nag]

That's why I went first person in their previous games... bit sad they aren't any better in this.

[one-armed dwarf]

It would be too difficult to keep track of action in 'dungeons', due to the camera banging into corners and walls

[Nag]

That's a good point also.

[Nag]

This has apparently been responsible for a 1000% boost in Xbox Series X sales on US Amazon... obviously I don't know how low those numbers were to begin with but thats a decent rise in numbers.

[DisturbedSwan]

Not surprising, big games sell consoles.