Predatory pre-order bonus skins to get people to buy before they know what they’re actually going to experience (buggy shitshow)
Countless attempts to hype up the game and huge random assurances from the devs
Preemptively admitting the game has jank and trying to make it seem okay lol
none of this is particularly different from their other releases, and 2 & 3 arent even out of the ordinary for AAA gaming in general, regardless of quality or reception
Wow that is way more of a neckbeard take. There is no way in hell starfield is going to beat totk. It’s going to be janky shit, but outside of specific communities nobody cares about starfield in comparison.
There is no way in hell starfield is going to beat totk.
Tears of the Kingdom sold over 10 million copies so far. Breath of the Wild sold 31 million.
Skyrim sold 60 million.
Zelda, being Nintendo exclusive, is a much smaller franchise than major Bethesda games. Unless Starfield is a total bust at launch like No Man’s Sky or Cyberpunk (and even those managed 10+ and 20+ million copies sold), it will beat TotK easily.
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but outside of specific communities nobody cares about starfield in comparison
Maybe somewhere in the middle, honestly. Highly publicized bugs at launch, people complaining they’re under-delivering on what we all knew was marketing bullshit, then bugs get fixed under the radar and the game turns out to be amazing by the time they release their first DLC.
People always harp on about not pre-ordering, but you know what’s even better? Ignoring launch hype. I mean, look at Cyberpunk.
Yea, single player games, on consoles, can be 100% enjoyable even at 30fps. BotW and TotK are perfect examples of it. I haven’t seen any trailers or reviews or content of Starfield, btw, so don’t anyone date call me a coper.
I think it’ll be just like every other release. If it’s not absolutely perfect people are gonna shit all over it, but the reality will be that it’s fine. There’s no such thing as a perfect game. Either play and enjoy it or don’t. It’ll be on GamePass day one, so your monetary investment in trying it doesn’t have to be $70. Hell, you can probably find a free trial somewhere to try it with. So who cares if it’s not perfect or not. I bet just like all of their other games it’ll be a load of fun.
The scope of the game is too big for Bugthesda to deliver. It’s litteraly 2 games in one, Fallout + No Man’s Sky, how can anyone believe it’s not gonna be the biggest bugfest of all time?
Let’s say that somehow, Bethesda finally release a game which doesn’t need modders to fix it, we all know they overpromessed and overhyped it. Planets are gonna be tiny instances, not fully open, otherwise they would have shown vehicles to travel on them.
I would love Starfield to be everything they promess but considering the history of Bethesda, you can’t trust Todd lies again.
I wasn’t actively tracking it, but the latest I could find in the blizzard forums was six day ago.
The last patch note I stumbled upon was on June 9th. So my educated guess would be no.
But hey, at least they fixed some issues with the in-game shop. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Is it going to be horrible ? No. Just from the gameplay I’ve seen I can tell you I’m going to have a good time. Will it live up to my personal expectations? Absolutely not. But neither did cyberpunk and anytime someone asks me for a good cyberpunk game I don’t hesitate to tell the cp2077 is in a league of it’s own, despite all the shortcomings.
As for the 30fps thing, it makes no sense to me why there can’t be a performance mode
Graphics aren’t the only thing that are heavy on resources. The thing with Bethesda games is that you have a lot of clutter items scattered around (like tin cans, forks and cheese wheels) that you can pickup, drag around, and because of this interactive nature, there’s physics calculations for all these items, and this hogs resources. You can’t just lower texture resolution or turn off anti aliasing and be done with it, you’d have to fundamentally change how the game works to make a performance for a Bethesda game
It’s free on GamePass so I’ll be playing it on PC on day one. I have high hopes but realistic expectations (this is Bethesda so it’ll likely be broken af). I really WANT it to be good though!
it’s a Bethesda game, it’ll be jank but in ways where the game is still enjoyable imo. there’s like a certain charm to the way Bethesda games are bugged to hell for me. yeah I like when a character suddenly becomes an eldritch ragdoll in dialogue.
I think one thing to remember is that it’s going to be on the XBox Game Pass when it releases. So if you are subscribed to that, you can download it for free and play it before you decide whether to get it or not.
Though, given it’s supposed to be 125 GB, I’m seriously wondering if I want to dedicate that much storage space on my XBox Series S to it…
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It’s on Gamepass, I literally lose nothing from trying it day one whether it’s pants or brilliant.
none of this is particularly different from their other releases, and 2 & 3 arent even out of the ordinary for AAA gaming in general, regardless of quality or reception
Plus number 4. It’s a Bethesda game, if you don’t expect jank/bugs then I have a bridge to sell you…
Ofc it will be broken at launch but the amazing modding community that comes with Bethesda games will have that shit sorted in no time
Doesn’t make the base game any better.
It’s probably going to be the game of the year, maybe beaten by TOTK. Certainly it’ll be one of the best selling games of all time.
This is such a neckbeard take.
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Wow that is way more of a neckbeard take. There is no way in hell starfield is going to beat totk. It’s going to be janky shit, but outside of specific communities nobody cares about starfield in comparison.
Tears of the Kingdom sold over 10 million copies so far. Breath of the Wild sold 31 million.
Skyrim sold 60 million.
Zelda, being Nintendo exclusive, is a much smaller franchise than major Bethesda games. Unless Starfield is a total bust at launch like No Man’s Sky or Cyberpunk (and even those managed 10+ and 20+ million copies sold), it will beat TotK easily.
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I’d think that about a mobile game like Fallout Shelter, but at 170 million copies sold it beats all other Bethesda franchises together.
I think it’ll be close as TOTK is a really, really strong contender. In any other year Starfield would get it for sure. But TOTK is pretty incredible.
BG3 comes out the week before too.
Maybe somewhere in the middle, honestly. Highly publicized bugs at launch, people complaining they’re under-delivering on what we all knew was marketing bullshit, then bugs get fixed under the radar and the game turns out to be amazing by the time they release their first DLC.
People always harp on about not pre-ordering, but you know what’s even better? Ignoring launch hype. I mean, look at Cyberpunk.
Yea, single player games, on consoles, can be 100% enjoyable even at 30fps. BotW and TotK are perfect examples of it. I haven’t seen any trailers or reviews or content of Starfield, btw, so don’t anyone date call me a coper.
It’s a bit rougher in an FPS, but not a deal-breaker if the game is good.
Good thing this is an RPG then.
I mean literally the first-person camera.
Like you the fact you’re moving a crosshair makes it much more noticeable. It’s the same on desktop for 60Hz vs. 120+Hz too.
I don’t care so much though, I doubt I’ll even hit 30 FPS on my potato.
This post reads as if you’re a PlayStation player that still obsessed over the cOnSoLe WaRs and is just salty.
You mean… marketing?
Pretty much everything you said is dumb or just not true, but that one was especially hilarious.
I don’t own a playstation
This is factually true
Didn’t say you did
And I didn’t say everything wasn’t
I think it’ll be just like every other release. If it’s not absolutely perfect people are gonna shit all over it, but the reality will be that it’s fine. There’s no such thing as a perfect game. Either play and enjoy it or don’t. It’ll be on GamePass day one, so your monetary investment in trying it doesn’t have to be $70. Hell, you can probably find a free trial somewhere to try it with. So who cares if it’s not perfect or not. I bet just like all of their other games it’ll be a load of fun.
I think it’s probably going to be fine, even if it does have some bugs.
But I’m not buying it on release week or probably even month anyway so it won’t burn me if it isn’t.
You could just try it on gamepass (10€ for a month ).
If it sucks, you still have a huge choice of other great games to play
The scope of the game is too big for Bugthesda to deliver. It’s litteraly 2 games in one, Fallout + No Man’s Sky, how can anyone believe it’s not gonna be the biggest bugfest of all time?
Let’s say that somehow, Bethesda finally release a game which doesn’t need modders to fix it, we all know they overpromessed and overhyped it. Planets are gonna be tiny instances, not fully open, otherwise they would have shown vehicles to travel on them.
I would love Starfield to be everything they promess but considering the history of Bethesda, you can’t trust Todd lies again.
Point 5) No games are released finished anymore an no gamer is ever happy.
Diablo 4 seems finished on release. Also Hogwarts and Elder Ring
But someone will always unhappy.
Outlast Trials also released finished and polished (even if it is still Early Access). Though i guess that game is not big enough to count
Yeah but D4 also had a known issue, where when you log off with your hardcore character it just dies because of a server bug (error code 316009).
Excuse the bird-page, but here is an example.
Was this fixed?
I wasn’t actively tracking it, but the latest I could find in the blizzard forums was six day ago.
The last patch note I stumbled upon was on June 9th. So my educated guess would be no.
But hey, at least they fixed some issues with the in-game shop. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
I’m looking forward to FFXVI myself, loved the demo, it’s shaping up to be a pretty good release.
This sounds about right.
I don’t think its going to be a massive blunder, I do think that its being hyped up a little too much right now.
Is it going to be horrible ? No. Just from the gameplay I’ve seen I can tell you I’m going to have a good time. Will it live up to my personal expectations? Absolutely not. But neither did cyberpunk and anytime someone asks me for a good cyberpunk game I don’t hesitate to tell the cp2077 is in a league of it’s own, despite all the shortcomings.
Off topic but I am SUPER STOKED for the upcoming Cyberpunk overhaul.
I’m hoping it will be decent, but the official trailer made it look empty and boring. It did not inspire confidence for me.
Not sure if you’ve seen it, but there was also a 30 minute deep dive where they showed off most of the different features of the game.
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Graphics aren’t the only thing that are heavy on resources. The thing with Bethesda games is that you have a lot of clutter items scattered around (like tin cans, forks and cheese wheels) that you can pickup, drag around, and because of this interactive nature, there’s physics calculations for all these items, and this hogs resources. You can’t just lower texture resolution or turn off anti aliasing and be done with it, you’d have to fundamentally change how the game works to make a performance for a Bethesda game
It’s free on GamePass so I’ll be playing it on PC on day one. I have high hopes but realistic expectations (this is Bethesda so it’ll likely be broken af). I really WANT it to be good though!
it’s a Bethesda game, it’ll be jank but in ways where the game is still enjoyable imo. there’s like a certain charm to the way Bethesda games are bugged to hell for me. yeah I like when a character suddenly becomes an eldritch ragdoll in dialogue.
I think one thing to remember is that it’s going to be on the XBox Game Pass when it releases. So if you are subscribed to that, you can download it for free and play it before you decide whether to get it or not.
Though, given it’s supposed to be 125 GB, I’m seriously wondering if I want to dedicate that much storage space on my XBox Series S to it…