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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Starfield - bored already.
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 21:06:09 -0700
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I was jiving with Starfield a bit, but a couple days later and I'm bored 
with it.  Level 11.  It does feel like Fallout in space, only with every 
bit of soul removed from it.

It's got a kind of mix between the main quest feeling a bit Star Trek, 
explore strange new worlds and feels optimistic in that sense.  And a 
bit like other space games where you can side with different factions, 
Privateer maybe, and some of that is pretty dark.

Only the space combat isn't particularly good, neither is the ground 
combat, especially with the lack of VATS (locking on in space is a bit 
like VATS, but nothing in ground combat like that yet, and the majority 
is ground combat)

It's got Fallout's loads of junk everywhere to pickup and the logistics 
of dealing with that, as well as research and crafting, which I don't 
like.

Most of the quests feel, I don't know souless, or simplified.  I did 
kind of like the space frog quest, but it still felt like it was made 
for kids by someone who isn't one.

The skills/levelups I don't really like, it feels like going back to 
Dungeon Master where you had to do repetative tasks to raise your skill 
in something.  It was a cool idea, but sucked in execution.  I also 
don't really have any idea what I should or could do with the skills, 
they seem difficult to choose a path, or what's important first, even 
after looking at suggestions nothing I follow seems to work the way it 
was described.

The biggest game flaw is constant loading screens, it's not just that 
they're long (most games I play now are so fast I can't even read the 
tool tips, but not Starfield) It's that they're constant.  I'll often 
have to go through several in a row to get where I'm going.  Space 
travel - loading screen, langing, loading screen, fast travel to to the 
tram, loading screen, take the tram, loading screen.  Go down to the 
undercity, loading screen, enter shop, loading screen.  It's just way 
too much.

In addition to that looking at the ground map means I have to hit escape 
4 times to get out of menus back to first person, I might be missing 
something to get straight back, but I haven't found it.

I have had the usual bugs where I have to restart.  Things just quit 
working.  When I first started playing I thought that corpo advertisers 
had taken over the universe as all the planets looked like they had cola 
logo over them.  They were hard to read and I eventually figured out 
they said 'You aren't supposed to be seeing this' or something, looked 
it up and you have to exit and restart the game to get it to go away.

I've had other things stop working like inventory or whatnot as well.

I have time right now to play it, but just don't want to.  It's kind of 
sad as I generally like these kinds of games, and there's something 
there, it's just all rather meh.  I think I'd rather go play Privateer, 
or Rogue Galaxy Outlaw, or even give Elite Dangerous or Everspace 2 
(very high ratings) another chance again.

I suppose I can try ME:Andromeda, as I seem to be tending a bit more 
toward action, which ME was definately heading more into.  I'm not even 
really feeling like a space game now though.

I really want to play more EDF, but waiting for the mood to hit my 
daughter,  I suppose I could go back to one of the older games in the 
series.

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-Justisaur

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