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Out of a 3 minute trailer, I saw 15 seconds of gameplay. But let’s be real. This is Bethesda. We know what to expect. Tons of bugs and an already prepared statement to release after people realize their $70-$300 game isn’t released in a playable state. The best thing to do is wait for release. Check out reviews from your favorite source and also User reviews. Then wait a year for the community mod that fixes all the bugs that Bethesda was not able to fix. Then you might as well wait another year for DLC and for Starfield to be on sale.
Out of a 3 minute trailer, I saw 15 seconds of gameplay.
Yeah, I was confused too. Then I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMOPoAq5vIA - I haven’t watched it yet, but it seems to be a new video going through gameplay.
Definitely. Just found that video myself. So far it looks good, but I’m still being realistic: these are handpicked well developed segments ready to showcase the public. This is still Bethesda at the end of the day.
There’s like a 50 minute gameplay walkthrough.
This is the way
As always, try to keep your hype in check and wait for the release. It sure looks good now but we’ll never know until someone has played it.
Let’s hope it will work out excellent!
Hype checking is not my strong suit
I wish you good luck then. 👍
I really like what I’m seeing, ranging from the depth of things to do, to how granular the systems are, to how much I love the art direction Bethesda has taken. That said, it still won’t be a day-1 buy for me when it launches, I simply don’t trust big AAA releases anymore and will wait at least a little while to see if it’s simply unpolished, or flat-out broken.
Starfield players on day one: “This game is incredible and life-changing! I’m so glad I pre-ordered!”
Starfield players on day 2: “PSA to new players, be careful not to go into space or else your save will get corrupted!”
Don’t know why but I’m skeptical. AAA releases have been quite often a disappointment for me the past few years. Hope it’s going to keep the promise…
It looks and feels very Bethesda-esque, for better of worse
It’s Bethesda so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s bugs at launch. But still looks pretty cool!
Bug? No sir, here at Bethesda those are called “features” or, as we like to say, “Modder’s Delight”.
Zelda was good at least.
Zelda was just the same as BOTW. If you liked the first game sure you’ll probably enjoy TOTK. But it fixed none of the numerous issues that many people had with the game, and created a lot more on top.
Not to mention it’s years later and still limited by 2009 tech
Same, but hopefully the story’s all right
I like the look of the game (compared to No Mans Sky) but I can’t trust Bethesda. I won’t preorder, but I’ve got hope.
The Starfield Direct showing really sold me on this. It looks like it comes the closest to my dream space game of anything released so far. Elite Dangerous nailed the feel of piloting your own spacecraft, but I didn’t get on with the actual structure of the game. No Man’s Sky continues to do amazing things, but its spaceflight feels a bit too stripped back for me and it still feels a little too aimless for my tastes.
This looks like a perfect middle ground, all backed up with a full blown Bethesda RPG too keep me engaged. :D
My only criticisms based on the Direct are that characters, and indeed character interactions still look a bit dated compared to more recent games, especially Cyberpunk 2077, and that the combat still looks a little janky. Don’t get me wrong, it looks a lot better than Bethesda’s older games, but still seems to be showcasing some rather basic AI and spongey enemies. Hopefully the RPG elements will make this side of the game feel more rewarding.
The characters seem to still being doing that Bethesda thing where they just stand in attention at you and stare you down lol.
Really curious to see how the combat actually feels and if there will be a V.A.T.S. like system, I know that’s something that a lot of people like and the combat is this game looks a lot faster than any combat in a Bethesda game before. So it could turn some people off who aren’t a big fan of fast paced combat but really enjoy Bethesda stories and worlds.
It’s very funny that I think everyone familiar with Bethesda games saw those NPC interactions and was like “oh yeah that’s a Bethesda rpg.”
Still, I’m cautiously optimistic. Wait for full release and reviews before purchasing, etc.
Maybe I am just incredibly contrarian, but the art direction really inspires no emotions in me. I understand the idea of “NASApunk” but it looks like every DeviantArt near future art page. Blocky construction with a lot of triangle shaped cutouts and scalloping.
There is the cowboy sector and the cyberpunk sector, and on their own they look more interesting, but it seems like a kitchen sink approach to a tone instead of something with a more coherent identity.
I hope the game has more heart and identity, and I end up being one of those haters shown in a retrospective video on how great it is.
I completely agree with this take, including the “I hope I’m wrong” bit. It just looks… bland? Like it’s relying on the idea of space being expansive and vast and full of… well, everything that exists - but in the end will it just feel like a Bethesda game with a space assets subbed in?
Then again I still play No Mans Sky so my desperation to be a space-man is obviously without limit.
Agree mainly for me it’s the npcs. They really look like assassins creed npcs. No real character in them just the bare human minimum lol.
They just look like Bethesda npcs to me.
After that 45 minute breakdown I’m very excited for No Man’s Skyrim. I can definitely understand the hesitation, it’s almost definitely gonna be riddled with bugs on release, but I’ve got gamepass, so I’ll happily beta test for y’all!
Daaaaamn u saying this on gamepass???
Day one on gamepass.
Based on the extended gameplay, I’m super hyper. Don’t think I’m going to pre order it. I have an old gaming laptop. No idea about optimization yet. But hopefully it’s Bethesda experience in space! Such times I really wish I had a decent gaming rig
I’m excited. It’s Bethesda so of course it’ll be full of bugs. In some ways it’s become part of the Bethesda charm. The on planet gameplay looks like a very polished No Man’s Sky and that’s a good thing.
I refuse to buy into the “bugs are part of the charm” narrative of Bethesda games. It was cute 15 years ago, but they should really be able to release a working game on release by now.
They should, but they won’t. It’s already a record selling game in steam. Why would they pay their Devs to iron out all the bugs when mod creators will do it for free?
Good for you. No one cares.
I want to be able to play this in vr. Modded Skyrimvr is probably the best gaming experience I’ve ever had.
Me too buddy me too
With Bethesda making an entire galaxy for this game the next elder scrolls has got to come out alot quicker right? Going back to a single province(or maybe even a few) has to be a walk in the park by comparison Huff’s more copium
One thing I would love to see is a diversity of biomes within one planet.
That got me pretty hyped.
The ships, cities, space travel, combat and planets look awesome.
Less enthused by the character designs and models which look straight out of Skyrim. Character faces still have dead eyes and barely any expression to them which frankly seems a little unacceptable in 2023. Nevertheless this is a day one for me, this looks like it has loads to enjoy.
And as soon as the mods start coming out oh boy, it’s going to be pretty awesome.
Going to be interesting once the modding come about on Starfield. I would still wait for the reviews to come out before buying the game though.
my big hope is that it’ll run with proton on linux…
Will it be on steam? If yes I’m fairly certain it’ll work fine. I’m able to play Microsoft Flight Sim on Linux so Starfield should be piece of cake
MS seems pretty consistent with trying to get their games to run on Steam Deck, so I think that bodes well here.
All the previous games in the engine work on the steam deck, obviously it’s been modified for this game but fingers crossed it continues.
They are still using that engine? Ugh ☠️
Same engine doesn’t necessarily meant the same problems. Game engines aren’t a monolith solution - Source, for example, the engine that used to be famous for its physics back in the day, uses another engine to handle said physics.
So, the fact that Starfield is going to use the same engine (I don’t know if it does, actually, I don’t care) is not a reason to panic or be upset. For all we know, they may have updated many of its components in one way or another, including swapping some for better alternatives.
Having seen the entire Starfield Direct, I honestly do believe it’s an upgraded version of the engine - it really looks like it doesn’t behave in the same way. And, well, the new tech the devs can leverage allows them to work on some older engine limitations as well, resulting in a smoother experience overall, especially knowing what they were going for in this game.
uses another engine to handle said physics
I would love to expand on this for people that may not know, the physics in Source are based on Havok. (Wikipedia Article)
