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[–] li10@feddit.uk 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

There really is something about Starfield that makes it so fun to hate. I usually just ignore stuff I don’t like, but really do make an exception for this game.

I think it’s the way that people circlejerked the shit out of it on release and disregarded any criticism, so the vindication that it was ultimately a lifeless husk of a game was so satisfying.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I guess I'm in the minority, but I really like Starfield, warts and all.

[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

Same! I didn't watch any trailers/presentations or read any hype. It's exactly what I thought it would be. I've had a lot of fun discovering the universe.

Not to say it's a perfect game with no faults. But I do love it.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I personally think people just have hateboners for certain devs and companies.

Like people love to shit on Fallout 3 and 4, but it doesn't change the fact that they're still some of the most played games ever.

[–] KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago

I mean, they do. But the case for Starfield specifically is how absolutely shite it is by comparison to even previous Bethesda games.

Much rather play Fallout 3, 4 and any Elder Scrolls game than Starfield.

[–] li10@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but most played games ever puts them in the bracket with COD, FIFA and mobile games. Not exactly esteemed company…

Like what you like, but those games are essentially the McDonald’s of the video game landscape. They’re fun and have mass appeal.

Personally, I went into Starfield very open minded and not expecting too much, but was still very disappointed.

[–] Renacles@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't be an elitist, taste is subjective.

[–] li10@feddit.uk -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Every famous/5-star/gourmet chef has a favorite shitty food. That's just a fact.

Taste is subjective.

[–] amio@kbin.social -4 points 7 months ago

See, this is exactly what people mean by disregarding any criticism.

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

disregarded any criticism

Some people still do this. It is still pretty damn funny.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I expected it to be on par with Fallout 4 or Skyrim. Not just the systems, though. But like... The worldbuilding and the stuff that actually makes those games fun. Starfield is so very big and yet so very small and empty at the same time. Its world building is incoherent and feels like people who don't actually appreciate sci-fi just throwing every sci-fi trope they know into one big pot so it's familiar and yet wrong at every major turning point of the various plots in the quests. It is just as boring to go through the story as it is to go through the physical actions of taking on the quests because both are basically just vast fields of emptiness. The one cool thing that actually is interesting and would have more people talking about it, is how the world might change in NG+. But it's random and also only earned after beating the game, and even if you get a cool one it doesn't make it worth playing through the game again.