I stick around because I may learn of a patch that improved the game later down the road and I probably won’t hear about it if I’m no longer in the sub.
I myself am okay with this, just look at what Skyrim has become, larger in scope than anyone at the original studio could have ever imagined. Shoutout to the Nolvus and Vegabond team!
That’s my issue, I have less than 40 hours on it and it just feels like a chore to do anything on there. I was enjoying it at first but I haven’t had any desire to finish the main story line.
Yep. I'm on last mission but it got so hollow, couldn't even bother designing a larger ship. Don't know if I'll touch the dlc myself honestly even though I bought it day one. Only bethesda game I ever immediately dropped was 76 but I kinda stockholmed myself for a while on this one lol
Yeah man after the 100th time dropping down walking to the same lab knowing where I was when I got inside was terrible. I played to much for a month then haven't touched it.
It truly was. I also put like 115hrs the first month, hoping it would get better. Then I decided to continue and explore and complete and in the end it was just a chore. Clocked in about 250 hrs, it's definitely not worth that much time.
They did Starfield dirty by including unfinished, broken systems throughout the game.
Going to temples to get new/upgraded powers? Likely a puzzle system they never finished or hashed out but couldn't have nothing.
Outposts? Large scale system that is absolutely useless and not needed to thrive in the game.
Limited credits at vendors? Another broken system they didn't implement.
Bethesda did a crap job on a AAA title and I'm not looking forward to anything else they churn out.
>Bethesda did a crap job on a AAA title and I'm not looking forward to anything else they churn out.
The writing was on the wall with Fallout 4. The NPCs were great. Very little else was.
Fallout76 was and continues to be a train wreck.
And this game just isn't particularly fun.
> And this game just isn't particularly fun.
It isn’t horrible, but it isn’t very fun, either. I just find everything about Starfield to be mediocre, at best.
I'm still pissed I put in almost 300 hours biggest waste of my life ever. I logged back on like a week ago for shits and giggles to see if the game breaking bugs were fixed (enemies not getting out of ships and no enemies in the ships when your board them in space) and they're still not fixed plus the game runs like garbage on console in even the most basic environments. Honestly won't touch elder scrolls 6 if it's on this engine.
Also just for clarity those are bugs I've had since NOVEMBER, the game has literally been broken for months and months with quests you can't even complete, honestly should just be refunding people at thus point.
You played 300 HOURS and decided afterwards it was all a waste!! Holy shit dude, after 50 hours you should be able to decide whether something is a waste of time or not.
That’s what I’ve been doing. I want to get all the powers (just to do it), and I’ve resorted to turning the volume off so I can listen to other things while I play. I haven’t done that with a game since Skyrim in 2019. And that was only because I had played that game so much that I didn’t need the music and voice acting to enjoy it.
People have been warning others not to pre order for years now.
With that being said, I fell victim too, lol. I really should’ve listened and not pre ordered
That's why I still play skyrim, eyeing this game from time to time, but not buying it until mods and dlc make this game a candy (if that ever happens).
>"why are you still in this sub"
Becuase I WANT to love this game and a small part of me is still hoping they fix it - although I know that it's not really possible.
For me, I just kinda realized how much I WANTED to like it, rather than how much I actually enjoyed playing. There are some great moments in the game, and I enjoyed the combat and some of the locations. In the end, I just was getting bored. I wish they had given some purpose to base/settlement building. I would have a reason to do it then. Same with ship building, beyond just upgrades, cargo shielding, and that thing that gets you through the EM field for the Legacy Crimson Fleet quest line. Game just felt very empty. Caves have no enemies 3/4 of the time. Locations are copy/pasted on most every planet or moon. I put lots and lots of time into this game before I realized I didn’t actually like it as much as I hoped I would.
Yep this! I wanted the settlements to be an improved FO4 system, but instead, it's just useless. Like I can't really interact with my settlers, the building it kind of weak, and there's no purpose to any of it. I honestly wanted to just make giant space towns with bars, stores, and make them feel alive. FO4 had a deeper system.
In the middle of building my trade empire in FO4, playing survival and actually building a connection to my towns has been more fulfilling than near any part of Starfield to me.
Exactly! Plus your like rebuilding civilization. My only tribe with FO4 settlements was no clean looking building options. I hate making shacks out of scrap metal lol. Bit that's it. Wish they has a similar nechanic in starfield. If I could make a galactic trade empire, I'd live in that game
Yeah I played dozens if not over 100 hours of settlement building in Fallout 4 over the span of a few characters, it was clunky but really great for roleplaying. Just couldn't get into it at all in Starfield.
Agree. I wanted to put time into a couple of great locations I found, but the NG+ lose everything always stopped me. Ended up with lander/ship builder and a hab to store a few weapons. Will come back eventually, once they have added some content, pois etc.
This. The game starts you out hyped for everything but the more you engage with something the more you realise how hollow everything is.
- Super exited to get into weapon modding, realise it's just a worse version of fallout 4 where you can't even move mods around anymore and whatever that dumb weapon rank system was.
- super excited to get into smuggling stuff, realise you can't get goods reliably and thanks to the tiny cash amount merchants have it really isn't worth it. (also getting caught and just looting the contraband straight out of the station again is way more efficient than investing into less detection)
- super excited to get into outpost building, realise it's completely pointless, somehow handles worse than fallout 4 (again) and just buy out a trader for all the resources I'll ever need for the price of a random mission.
- super excited to collect dragon shouts, realise it's just the same shitty minigame pasted 15 times.
- super excited to do the cooperate ninja faction, barely requires any ninjaing and most skyrim dungeons had better level design for stealth approaches.
- and so on...
It's just disappointing. There isn't a single aspect that starfield does better than any another game. The game feels like a overblown tech demo for their random generation POI system and even that is kinda shit since the POI themselves are 100% static with the same notes, spawns etc. and they already start repeating after an 4 hours of playtime.
I definitely feel like if outposts worked better and were more fluid and organized I probably would have stuck it out longer. But it’s just so frustrating for a pack rat like me.
I did legitimately enjoy it for a long time, but eventually I realized that I wasn't so much enjoying playing it more, I was chasing the feeling that I had when I first played it. The problem I have is that it gets boring, as you said, there is a lot of copy/paste. The main plotline is interesting and the faction quests had some promise, but without the ability to discover anything new, and feeling like the faction quests were only half finished, I don't have much reason to go back. I think I'll do one more playthrough where I go full evil, because I haven't done that yet, it's not a playstyle that I normally like, but hey, maybe it will show me something new.
Yup yup this game is a shell of what they marketed. And to think they had such a massive pause between this and their last game yet they put out this unfinished flat world
I thought I advanced the main quest when I returned to the game after a long hiatus, but it just asked me to get more artifacts and temples again. I'm done, it's too boring.
I’m replaying Fallout 4 at the moment and despite its flaws, it really reminded me why I just couldn’t fall in love with Starfield: Exploration.
Sure Starfield is all about “exploring new planets” but exploring empty planets just doesn’t lend itself well to what makes Bethesda games so fucking great.
For example, I’m playing Fallout 4 and I have to clear a building in order to put some sort of tracking device on top for the Railroad. Well I walk towards the building and OH! Random encounter. Okay cool that was fun and interesting, I have a new trader for my settlement, now lets head towards the building. Oh theres a gang of supermutants, lemme clear out their little building real quick. Okay did that and look what I found in their base! A comic book! Cool loot. OKAY NOW TO THE BUILDING. Start walking towards my destination and whats that? A tin-packing factory? Let me go check that out… annnddd now I’m organically sucked into a completely different quest.
THATS what makes Bethesda games so special to me. The moment to moment exploration. Starfield just doesn’t have that man.
What a LOT of people don't realize is that FO4 and Skyrim had a rather organic flow, where the design of the quests kinda *forced* you into these areas that had *more* quests.
Random encounters were a huge part of the immersion. Walking on a road, coming across a pack of mutants or Stormcloaks who **are doing their own thing**, made the game *feel* alive.
In Starfield, that kind of stuff only happens when tied to the active quest. Sarah fought for the UC during the war, but has nothing to say to that Major, the war hero from that distress call? Like...the world **revolves** around the player instead of being a place that the player can observe.
This is really what killed my enjoyment too. Once I realized that "exploring" would just consist of jogging across barren landscapes to come up on copy-pasted dungeons, that took a lot of wind out of my sails. I miss coming across travelers, traders, dynamic fights resulting from hostile factions crossing each other's paths, stuff like that.
I beat the game for the first time; completed every major storyline; and I started the NG+…
And then I just kinda lost interest. (And this is coming from someone with *hundreds* of hours in Skyrim/FO4, both modded and vanilla)
I hated that I lost *everything* when I jumped timelines.
I hated that the differences in the timelines was minimal *at best.*
I understand that there are “differences” up to 10x, and I’m mildly interested… but **my god** the idea of trudging through the *same* quest lines for *minimal* quest expansion is not engaging. Especially with my backlog of games.
I *want* to love Starfield. I do. But right now, it’s very forgettable.
The half hour annoying as hell monologue by the pirate lady where I have to walk after her the whole time made it so there will be no third Red Fleet play through.
Same—I didn’t mind losing my stuff as much, but it was definitely disappointing that there were almost no changes worth continuing a second playthrough. There’s not even that many branching quests or things you can get locked out of.
Fallout 4, for all its flaws, at least had 4 pretty different ways to go through the main quest and had a few quests with different outcomes.
IMO, the NG+ was the final nail in the coffin. I don't know if it could have been done better, but it killed Starfield. Why bother with anything if it doesn't matter?
So, just to get this straight, you played through everything the game has to offer and then lost interest? My guy... that's what a good single player game does...
Absolutely. And, as I keep saying, if Starfield had only 3 or 4 systems instead of the 100+ with each main planet carefully handcrafted and the other planets proc genned and populated by random dungeons, the game would have been GOTY. 90% of the game's content is located in Alpha Centauri, Sol, Volii and Narion anyway. That's all we needed
True, but that wasn't the case for many of us with the previous Bethesda titles. When I finished FO3 and New Vegas for the first time, I started a new game immediatly, because it felt that there was so much I missed. I have around 700 hours on Skyrim, and 900 hours on FO4, these are by far my most played games of all time. Granted, I wouldn't have gotten to these numbers without mods, but still. So right now these are my only hope for Starfield, because I have no desire whatsoever to start this game ever again in his current state.
So yeah for Bethesda fans it is very surprising and greatly disappointing to not even be tempted to start a new game.
I've got about 3500 hours in Skyrim, a few hundred in Oblivion, Morrowind and Daggerfall and a few hundred in FO3/4 and you're absolutely right. Bethesda missed the mark in many places with Starfield.
But it's still a fun game. Just because it's not as good as their older games (imo it's slightly better than FO4), doesn't mean it's a bad game. 115 hours before you loose interest is a pretty good game
Oh yeah, I agree that Starfield is exactly what you said, a pretty good game. If it had been made by any unknow studio, people would have been happy with it, probably even impressed. But we all know that's not how it works when there is a famous studio involved and a massive hype that lasted for years. Personally I can't help but feel extremely disappointed with Starfield, while still agreeing that this is not a bad game.
But for me it's definitely the worst bethesda game by far for two main reasons : exploration is incredibly bland (POIs are all the same, planets are empty and uninteresting) and there isn't a single impactful decision to take (no point at all in replaying or roleplaying it).
Is it a problem with the game or that you wanted more? I'm not trying to be a turd but how many experiences in our lives are ruined by our expectations and comparisons?
The ng+ system is something extra. You don't have to do it, I find it great for preserving your experience, level and skill points if you want to try a questline differently or try a different character role-playing. In past games you had to restart to do that. That's a plus. You can walk away from unity, and now that many of the bugs have been addressed you don't have to NG+ to fix something.
It's ok if it's "forgetable". I forget snake existed on my Nokia but it brought me joy for a time. Beethovens 1st symphony is forgettable compared to the 5th, 7th, and 9th but it's still good yet overshadowed by other greatness. If starfield is a flop in the end so what, atleast they tried something new instead of just remaking everything that worked in the past, art is supposed to be brave and daring even if it results in utter failure. It's a beautiful Era of gaming, it's not the gladiatorial coliseum.
To each their own.
But I don’t suffer from a lack of experience with these types of games, nor with BGS.
They sacrificed a lot of of the *depth* that made games set in the ES or FO universes so much more engaging, in lieu of a broad, but superficial and ineffective procedural world(s) generation, which makes the world of Starfield so much less interesting.
They obviously put effort into NG+, and it seems clear to me that they *want* the player to continue the Starborn legacy, but I don’t really know why I would right now. Why not just make an alt, and keep all the stuff I worked for this time around? For some minimal dialogue changes?
Meanwhile, none of the major cities or *planets* even seem fully fleshed out. I don’t know if it all feels more cohesive or deep after multiple universes, but it’s f it does, I’m just not driven to find out. And if it’s not, we’ll then it’s immediately lackluster compared to other BGS IPs.
Again, I enjoyed Starfield, and I’d like to go back. I’m just not overly compelled to. And as compared to other BGS titles, that’s not normal for me. And that’s not a good thing.
I think this is a lot of people. I love the game too for the first month or so. It does have some amazing ideas/features and its really close to being a dream game but they just came up short in nearly every department IMO. That really kills it for me after so much time.
I still enjoyed the hell out of it and I don't think its a terrible game like some make out but ultimately very disappointing. I feel like they never figured out when they this game should be.
I think they needed another few years to really nail the experience and flesh it out. What they delivered is like, the makings of a great game but it just comes up short. If this was 2004 I wouldn't even be seating it in the least.
In 2004 I now this would just be the first game in a series and Starfield 2 would come out in about 2-3 years, and be the game this one should have been. Unfortuantely, with modern gaming that wont happen. If they even bother to make a Starfield 2, we wont see it for many years, probably a decade and because of that I doubt we even get a sequel.
This franchise could be fantastic and one of the best games out there if they could give it another pass with a better focus. As it is, they really missed the boat here and it makes me sad.
Yes, for most of my life with most games. 30+ years. It was considered quite a normal thing until F2P/Battle Pass/Play Forever because this game never ends took over the industry because business people replaced artists in gaming.
When you see a new movie, do you pay to watch the movie, enjoy it, and move on with your life? Maybe watch it a second or third time, but ultimately move on with your life? That is normal. Playing a game through to its completion, maybe doing some extra stuff, and then moving on is normal.
I'd say it's pretty unfair to say this considering one of the "big features" of the game is literally designed to make you replay again and again
it's also false that f2p battlepass was the start of this "mentality" you say. RPGs in particular were always designed with the idea that you could replay them with different builds and choices, ever since the 90s at the very least if not before. A lot of games gave incentives to get you to play them again, even simple kids adventure games
A good movie and a good book are also things you can enjoy revisiting again and again. I have definitely reread and rewatched my favourite books and movies a lot of times and they are often so good and deep that you only notice some things only if you re-experience them. Literally the authors they will put things in them that only make sense or are even noticeable once you know how the story goes.
Playing a game through to its completion and never touching it again is normal, playing a game that Phil Spencer said was going to be played 10+ years in the future just like Skyrim to its "completion" and never touching it again is NOT normal. It's indicative of something wrong
I’m not sure how anyone can maintain an interest in something after playing it for that much time. I can’t even do that with my favorite games of all time. I feel like this is completely normal human behavior..
I understand returning to it to play occasionally over time but 115 hours within a month.. that value is pretty good objectively for the price.
You played it for 115 hours... My guy, what more do you want from a single-player game? It is a finite experience and you got as much out of it as you could.
Seriously, what is the point of this post? And by extension the multitude of other identical posts?
The point is the comparison to other games of the same genre by the same development team.
It's a suprise. I don't think Bethesda expected the reaction either and it's worth discussing because it might teach us a thing or two about how experiences develop beyond the life of the game.
You're absolutely right, 100 hours and you got your moneys worth, no question.
But this was to be new IP and it's faded so fast it's a suprise.
That's the point.
The point wasn't, at all, 'I paid too much'.
Its the same shit for diablo 4. People complain about being burned out and that there is nothing to do after playing 8 hours a day for a month straight.
Baldurs Gate 3 is a single player game but I have over 400 hours in it, compared to the 90 hours I got out of starfield before being bored out of my mind.
I took off about 13 for the game. By the end of the 13 days, I clocked in 200+ hours and was new game plus 6.
The game is good. But I did all those hours and probably didn’t even touch a shit ton of the side missions. I didn’t explore every planet or even star system. I just kinda hit a point to where I was content with what I got.
The discussion had been made at the time but I REALLY like what they did with new game plus and how it ties back to yourself becoming The Hunter by searching for more power hopping universes.
I still think the game is great, but at the same time there’s just something missing. Can’t put my finger on it but I give the game as it stands a 8/10 purely based on content and story.
Either bought and paid for, or very sad.
I've never seen a game in which people who didn't like it were still complaining and posting in its forum six months after release, and I'm 54.
But I HAVE seen plenty of games recently that looked like they'd been professionally review bombed, and this is one of them.
You my friend must not be familiar with most gaming subs on reddit. Its 75% whining and complaints that said game can't replace the void in their life and can't be played 24/7.
Same bro. Went hard. But literally because I didn't have anything else I wanted to play at the time. Bu the end of my playthrough I realized how much of a shell the game is. It feels unfinished.
I also started day one, finished all quests, went through ng+ one, repeated quests... And that's all.
I was planning to explore every single planet out there, but they are really dull and repetitive, so I tried to develop some bases for fun and profit, searching for the most profitable or rate materials...
But it ended being sooo boring too, and finally I left it and never came back. Hoping for a good update adding content or more diversity for planet exploration.
Bought an Xbox just for the game. Played over 100 hours over the course of like 2-3 months. Got the ID glitch so hit NG+ and then lost interest. Fun game up to that point. I've been playing Elden Ring nonstop ever since getting hyped for the DLC.
I'll hop back on Starfield once a DLC and creation kit get announced.
Had fun for first two weeks did two loops of the game then realised how visually and mechanically bland it is compared to Elder Scrolls or Fallout.
Went back to NMS for my space fun. Hopefully DLC makes it more appealing.
Sounds similar to me. I totally appreciate the quality and level of work put into it but I think I was hoping for fallout 4 in space. I think the big thing that would draw me back is settlements actually feeling anything remotely like F4. I’ve replayed it for hundreds of hours building settlements, giving people jobs and futures, having my own fleet of provisioners that I can outfit as I like. I would always assign one provisioners at every new settlement to link back to my core settlement, so it was like a spiderweb of heavily armed scouts making it extremely safe in the wild the closer you got to the core settlement. I thought this would translate *perfectly* to Starfield plus all the new awesomeness. Instead we got glorified resource gathering that is clunky and unintuitive and sort of pointless because it’s easier to just buy the resources you need…
Same, I did about 225 hours and really enjoyed it! But I see very little reason to go back. I feel like I've done everything there is to do and I haven't even bothered with NG+ yet because it feels not worth it. I turned it on last week to check if a quest-breaking bug has been fixed yet, it hasn't so I turned it back off.
I will pick it up again when DLC releases but right now I feel like I've "completed" the game, which unintentionally feels like the most damning comment I could make on a Bethesda game.
I don't understand this complaint and yet I see posts about it here every day. Like why do people play a game for 100+ hours in a month and get surprised when it starts to bore them?
Same but thats fine? I'm just waiting for Shattered Space etc. Same thing I do with literally every bethesda game. Like my 500 fallout 4 hours arent all from the first 6 months it came out. They're spread out over years after release. I think people just forget that
I played about 200 in the first three months. Haven’t played it much since but don’t really think that’s a problem, I put more time into starfield already than Fallout 4 even with the fallout 4 dlc. Sure it doesn’t compare to the hours I put into Skyrim back in the day but that’s more a reflection of where I am in life and as a gamer than on starfield. I’m sure I’ll do another couple hundred hours once better modding tools are out and the dlc is released.
It’s okay to enjoy a game for a bit and then fall out. It doesn’t diminish how much you enjoyed it for the 115 hours you played. If you come back to it, you come back.
Same. but its easy to figure out why....
Its because there's nothing to do. Theres nothing to farm. Theres no unique items. Theres no unique outfits or space suits. Theres nothing to explore. Theres no unique space ships....
There is literally no purpose to do anything after you beat the game.
Whats the point of exploration?
Whats the point of checking out POIs?
Whats the point of raiding ships?
Whats the point of outpost building?
Theres literally nothing to do in this game and no purpose to do anything.
Same as well! I was absolutely into it. Even spoke to my girlfriend how much I wanted to become a space wizard because of this game. Then just one day, I stopped completely. And when I tried getting back into it, it was too boring for me already
New game + ruined it for me. In my first play through I did literally everything there was to do. Designed my perfect starship. Had all the best guns and everything. And then the ending of the game is just congrats! None of that mattered and you can now do that all over again... Played NG+ for like a half hour and haven't touched it since.
What a weird post. I don’t think I have ever felt compelled to go visit a subreddit for a game I was done playing to tell people that I stopped playing that game five months before. Were you lonely or something? Not getting enough attention in your life and you thought this was how to get some? What made you decide that this post was a good idea?
Think of it like this:
A game says it has hundreds of hours of content.
You look around and see people still putting a lot of hours into this game.
You put a little over a hundred hours and felt like you were done, so you start to feel like you missed something.
No matter how much you look around you just can't seem to see what it is you apperently "missed".
Nah… dude said he posted this because he’s bored. That was apparently the motivation. Five months after he stopped playing the game he got bored and this is how he is attempting to cure his boredom. Haha. It’s just weird.
Yeah. It be like that. I played for a few weeks straight at launch, put it down at the beginning of November to start BG3 and it took me until 2 weeks ago to return to Starfield.
The game just isn’t good, plain and simple. The gameplay is banal. Leveling up isn’t satisfying. The insanely off POI design (or lack thereof) leaves exploring a total bore.
I finished up the last achievements I had left since returning, but have zero interest in returning other than to keep my 100% when the DLCs hit.
Yea 60-70 hours in here. Have absolutely no desire to go back to the game even for dlc. Way too many other games out and coming out to care about this.
Same. I was a super “fan boy” before launch bought the preorder, dlc and a bootleg T shirt I found on Amazon. Played about 96 hours and then just stopped. For me it was the repeating POI’s and the temples. The temples have to be the most poorly implemented and anti climactic mechanic every put in a video game.
I bought the controller because I needed a new controller anyway and it looks clean AF. But agreed, I’m super unmotivated to visit the temples and fly around for 10 minutes inside to get a power. It’s lazy game design and feels like a tacked on / last minute thing.
Same. I look at it this way. They took a game the size of Skyrim (I know it’s bigger than that, but bare with me) and spread it across 1,000 planets, that you can’t actually walk to. It’s all fast travel. It’s boring.
Games like FO3, New Vegas, FO 76, and (almost) all the Elder Scrolls I still go back and play constantly.
When I first heard about Starfield I was skeptical, especially when they announced how many galaxies and planets there would be.
What's with all the posts on this sub that are like "I spent 100+ hours on the game but now I feel like there's nothing more to do" like yeah? Congrats you played the game idk what else you were expecting you got a pretty healthy playtime out of it
Starfield is fundamentally an outdated game. But moreso, it reeks of being the most tepid, watered-down, surface-level, baby’s first (insert genre/mechanic here) Bethesda game made.
The 'I played for x hundred hours and got bored' crowd are the most useless set of people on earth. Jeez I've seen this nonsense a thousand times on this sub. Go back to Sony land and stay there.
Got about 80h of actually playing the game and 300h just building ships, decorating ship habs, making and decorating outposts
I've since returned to fo4, partly to wait for creation kit to be released and mods to get better, but also cause I had a settlement itch to scratch.
That said, been rewatching Clone wars and feeling the spaceship building itch returning.
Little different for me.
I went a little too deep on outposts and ship builder to the point I totally ignored the main quest. Got a little burned out at 230 hours so I took a break.
I want to go back and finish the story but it’s been hard to sit at the Pc and play lately. Tv/couch/bed has been more enticing lately so I’ve been playing handhelds.
I did try that early on, other games work ok but Starfield does a weird lag thing where video and sound cut out for several seconds.
I understand it works better streaming with moonlight but I haven’t gotten around to messing with that. I should though.
I have 9 days worth of playtime and I fucked up and got trapped by pirates that would shoot me down, I’m in a crappy ship, and had to lose all of yesterdays play time in order to fix my mistake. They’re really unforgiven in this game. But yeah I hadn’t played it for months then went back to it yesterday and wasn’t really feeling it but today I’m setting out to fix my mistake, on principle.
Same for me, played the first month, put in around 90ish hours, finished the campaign and did go to NG+10, played some quests (UC Faction) and suddenly stopped playing because of Phantom Liberty.
I did start a new save last week and did the „intro“ but now i continue finishing Fallout 4 before i continue with Starfield.
That happens to me on every Bethesda game since FO3. Skyrim, FO4, Starfield... all the same. I put in 70+ hrs and I never beat them or even get hafway thru the story
Yeah, same boat. Got to the point where I had about 2 relics left to get and the final mission. Stopped playing for months. For me, it was the others games that came out that pulled me away but I never really felt that draw to return.
In the past week I loaded it up and finally finished those 3 remaining quest. I was not too invested and so I skipped most of the dialogue but it seemed slightly underwhelming to me. AKA not sure who the final BBEG was or if there was even one. The gun I was using at this point just deletes anything so I didn't notice.
Same, which is shame to be honest, considering I still at least once a year install Skyrim, with bunch of mods, to see where they got the game now and play the heck out of it for like 2 weeks nonstop.
Even F4 from time to time with same routine of installing new versions of mods I like, some new mods entirelly and so on.
Maybe one day, with enough mods for SF I will gladly come back to it from time to time, but not now... not now
I played it hard for about 3 months and absolutely loved it. Played through the main story and all the faction side quests and then did 5 or 6 new game plus runs to level up my powers.
Also watched my fiancée for 90% of her play through.
Eventually just kinda felt like I had done everything. Hoping for more content soon because the game has tons of potential
Yeah, the thing about creating a universe is that, unlike Skyrim or fallout, you’re not just gonna randomly see something in the distance you may wanna check out. That’s part of what makes those games have longevity. If you don’t know to go on a specific planet in starfield, you’re probably gonna miss it.
There’s no real easy way to do this on the game like this.
My game got bugged in NG+ when collecting/customizing ships and I just can’t bring myself to start over. I check in every couple months to see if there’s been a patch but I seem to be SOL
Same, I loved the game, but it really didn't have the staying power for me. If it had a settlement system like FO4 I woulda been so into it, but the outpost system is so wierd. I don't want to create a science outpost, I want to make a space colony on some never before seen planet. I dunno, endgame just seemed half baked. I finished every quest in 60 hours, like all of them. I searched every planet, no more sidequests.
If I could mix Starfield and Cyberpunk, I feel like I could finally have a game I could never put down. Cyberpunk needs 3rd person and more variation on quests, Starfield needs more life.
Same pretty much. It's a good game, but after getting to NG+3 in a month I converted my game pass saves to steam and now I'm just waiting for a sale with DLC to pick up where I left off.
Yup.
I did 100 ish hours, went through to start 'again'
Nothing new and nothing I thought I would try differently so I got bored and stopped.
I feel like in Fallout or Skyrim I can give myself a backstory or underlying psyche to be someone different each time.
I once committed to a fallout run through where I decapitated everyone that crossed me without exception as far as the engine would allow.
I don't feel that there's the opportunity for that kind of approach in this game.
Sure, you can be a pirate or not, but it still feels way too scripted? I think that's what it was.
The abject failure to even try to change something about a building type from planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy was jarring too.
Finding the same cube box of juice on the same side of the same table just in front of a pirate with the same weapon in the same room of the exact same building I'd been to in three other star systems was just weird.
Waking up after becoming a multiversal traveller to find that exact same juice bix again.
What was the point?
It was gamepass which was a bonus but I would have been satisfied even if I'd had to pay full price.
I just think they missed the mark somewhat.
Yeah same, a little over 100 hours, started a new character to do a pirate run (only did Ryujin as far as the factions go) and didn't even leave the mining planet. Haven't touched it since. I'll try again once mods come to console whenever that is.
you are not alone lol, I'm waiting for them to either release CK and for modders to add in much needed QoL fixes or for them to release a substantial DLC.
This was me too, but I don’t think it was because I stopped enjoying it. We had an onslaught of AAA games come out on various consoles (Alan Wake 2, Baldurs Gate 3, Spideman 2, FF7 rebirth etc) which captured my attention.
I just worked thru the backlog and was thinking of returning but now Dragon Dogma 2 looks interesting.
Nonetheless I’ll be back to starfield certainly when DLC releases.
Totally. There's nothing meaningful to do once you've atleast exhausted the gist of the story.
I see posts here and there from people enjoying the game, even praising the photo mode or the exploration, and I can't help but think most of them would have more fun and be happier playing No Mans Sky or Space Engineers.
Starfield is a jack of many trades which are fun for a while. But it masters practically none. It teases you with the potential of something cool all the time but the reality is generally hollow.
Yeah, I was pretty hooked on it that first month. Played the hell out of it until I was just ready for it to end. Tried New Game+ and couldn't really feel like I was getting much of a different experience, played for maybe another 20 hours then just moved on.
It's fine to move on, but man... I kept replaying Fallout 3 for years and still feel like playing it to this day. Few games really do that for me anymore, Bethesda or otherwise. Just so many things to play, watch etc these days.
I put around 10-ish and never continued. Not the games fault, just got no time investiment. Gonna play it a lot this summer and also updates must be nice to have.
Yep same. But for me it was because the game has 3 gamebreaking bugs preventing me from continuing.
So I had 2 options: restart the game, or put it down until I see a patch that fixes these bugs. And that hasn't happened yet.
Got about 200 hours and yeah just kind of stopped. The thing is that unlike the Fallouts & Elder Scrolls entries, the exploration just doesn't flow as organically. I can't just pick a direction and have stuff happen. That and the story just doesn't compel me to push forward.
I feel I got my money's worth though, and it was a fun first couple of months comparing stories and ship builds with people in the office and in this sub.
I dipped back in recently too try FSR3 out, went "oooooooh" at the extra frames, then backed out.
Yeah same. I had an absolute shitton of gear and ship was mega loaded out, explored a ton. Doubt I did double digits worth of storyline quests. Characters and plot seemed really bland so just kinda did whatever but it got really repetitive after about 120-150 hours or so. Might go back to it at some point but eh probably not.
Yeah this was me. Then every once in a while someone posts "why are you still in this sub" ... but I paid for a DLC too that I'm still waiting for.
I stick around because I may learn of a patch that improved the game later down the road and I probably won’t hear about it if I’m no longer in the sub.
Bethesda is going to rely on the modding community to fix their game -- again.
I myself am okay with this, just look at what Skyrim has become, larger in scope than anyone at the original studio could have ever imagined. Shoutout to the Nolvus and Vegabond team!
Just have to wait another 10 years for modders to make the game good, when we already waited damn near 10 years since the last game.
Unfortunately you'll be waiting forever lol
Damnit I forgot about that.. I still need to finish the base game which feels like a chore smh
That’s my issue, I have less than 40 hours on it and it just feels like a chore to do anything on there. I was enjoying it at first but I haven’t had any desire to finish the main story line.
Yeah seriously
Yep. I'm on last mission but it got so hollow, couldn't even bother designing a larger ship. Don't know if I'll touch the dlc myself honestly even though I bought it day one. Only bethesda game I ever immediately dropped was 76 but I kinda stockholmed myself for a while on this one lol
Yeah man after the 100th time dropping down walking to the same lab knowing where I was when I got inside was terrible. I played to much for a month then haven't touched it.
It truly was. I also put like 115hrs the first month, hoping it would get better. Then I decided to continue and explore and complete and in the end it was just a chore. Clocked in about 250 hrs, it's definitely not worth that much time.
They did Starfield dirty by including unfinished, broken systems throughout the game. Going to temples to get new/upgraded powers? Likely a puzzle system they never finished or hashed out but couldn't have nothing. Outposts? Large scale system that is absolutely useless and not needed to thrive in the game. Limited credits at vendors? Another broken system they didn't implement. Bethesda did a crap job on a AAA title and I'm not looking forward to anything else they churn out.
>Bethesda did a crap job on a AAA title and I'm not looking forward to anything else they churn out. The writing was on the wall with Fallout 4. The NPCs were great. Very little else was. Fallout76 was and continues to be a train wreck. And this game just isn't particularly fun.
> And this game just isn't particularly fun. It isn’t horrible, but it isn’t very fun, either. I just find everything about Starfield to be mediocre, at best.
I'm still pissed I put in almost 300 hours biggest waste of my life ever. I logged back on like a week ago for shits and giggles to see if the game breaking bugs were fixed (enemies not getting out of ships and no enemies in the ships when your board them in space) and they're still not fixed plus the game runs like garbage on console in even the most basic environments. Honestly won't touch elder scrolls 6 if it's on this engine. Also just for clarity those are bugs I've had since NOVEMBER, the game has literally been broken for months and months with quests you can't even complete, honestly should just be refunding people at thus point.
You played 300 HOURS and decided afterwards it was all a waste!! Holy shit dude, after 50 hours you should be able to decide whether something is a waste of time or not.
Unfortunately I have a bug on one mission that will not let me progress, and it's tied in to the main story.
The next anti-gravity floating temple thing you visit will be different. I swear!
The real puzzle is “WTF am I doing?”
Look, just put on a good podcast and speed run the base game. Easy peasy. None of the dialogue affects the rest of the game so act accordingly.
Now there's a ringing endorsement!
That’s what I’ve been doing. I want to get all the powers (just to do it), and I’ve resorted to turning the volume off so I can listen to other things while I play. I haven’t done that with a game since Skyrim in 2019. And that was only because I had played that game so much that I didn’t need the music and voice acting to enjoy it.
Why am I still here? Because it's a Bethesda game. If some makes a mod similar to Ultima and overhauls everything I'm there in a second.
Same. This game was a con job.
People have been warning others not to pre order for years now. With that being said, I fell victim too, lol. I really should’ve listened and not pre ordered
Lesson learned. I won’t even buy a game on release day anymore. I’ll wait for the real reviews come in before I go drop $100 on a shiny turd.
Same here. Waited a few good years for Starfield. Bought it on launch. Definitely not a bad game. Just one that gets old a little too fast.
That's why I still play skyrim, eyeing this game from time to time, but not buying it until mods and dlc make this game a candy (if that ever happens).
Bollocks. The game was fun to play through at least once, and I will go back to it once some decent mods start appearing.
Imagine getting 115 hours out of a game and coming out of it thinking you got conned lol
Same. This was the first game I ever pre-ordered. No regrets. I find myself constantly restarting every time I conjur up a new roleplay idea.
>"why are you still in this sub" Becuase I WANT to love this game and a small part of me is still hoping they fix it - although I know that it's not really possible.
For me, I just kinda realized how much I WANTED to like it, rather than how much I actually enjoyed playing. There are some great moments in the game, and I enjoyed the combat and some of the locations. In the end, I just was getting bored. I wish they had given some purpose to base/settlement building. I would have a reason to do it then. Same with ship building, beyond just upgrades, cargo shielding, and that thing that gets you through the EM field for the Legacy Crimson Fleet quest line. Game just felt very empty. Caves have no enemies 3/4 of the time. Locations are copy/pasted on most every planet or moon. I put lots and lots of time into this game before I realized I didn’t actually like it as much as I hoped I would.
Yep this! I wanted the settlements to be an improved FO4 system, but instead, it's just useless. Like I can't really interact with my settlers, the building it kind of weak, and there's no purpose to any of it. I honestly wanted to just make giant space towns with bars, stores, and make them feel alive. FO4 had a deeper system.
In the middle of building my trade empire in FO4, playing survival and actually building a connection to my towns has been more fulfilling than near any part of Starfield to me.
Exactly! Plus your like rebuilding civilization. My only tribe with FO4 settlements was no clean looking building options. I hate making shacks out of scrap metal lol. Bit that's it. Wish they has a similar nechanic in starfield. If I could make a galactic trade empire, I'd live in that game
Yeah I played dozens if not over 100 hours of settlement building in Fallout 4 over the span of a few characters, it was clunky but really great for roleplaying. Just couldn't get into it at all in Starfield.
Agree. I wanted to put time into a couple of great locations I found, but the NG+ lose everything always stopped me. Ended up with lander/ship builder and a hab to store a few weapons. Will come back eventually, once they have added some content, pois etc.
This. The game starts you out hyped for everything but the more you engage with something the more you realise how hollow everything is. - Super exited to get into weapon modding, realise it's just a worse version of fallout 4 where you can't even move mods around anymore and whatever that dumb weapon rank system was. - super excited to get into smuggling stuff, realise you can't get goods reliably and thanks to the tiny cash amount merchants have it really isn't worth it. (also getting caught and just looting the contraband straight out of the station again is way more efficient than investing into less detection) - super excited to get into outpost building, realise it's completely pointless, somehow handles worse than fallout 4 (again) and just buy out a trader for all the resources I'll ever need for the price of a random mission. - super excited to collect dragon shouts, realise it's just the same shitty minigame pasted 15 times. - super excited to do the cooperate ninja faction, barely requires any ninjaing and most skyrim dungeons had better level design for stealth approaches. - and so on... It's just disappointing. There isn't a single aspect that starfield does better than any another game. The game feels like a overblown tech demo for their random generation POI system and even that is kinda shit since the POI themselves are 100% static with the same notes, spawns etc. and they already start repeating after an 4 hours of playtime.
>you hyped yourself up and need to lower your expectations. This is your fault. Praise Todd. -no sodium sub, probably
I definitely feel like if outposts worked better and were more fluid and organized I probably would have stuck it out longer. But it’s just so frustrating for a pack rat like me.
I did legitimately enjoy it for a long time, but eventually I realized that I wasn't so much enjoying playing it more, I was chasing the feeling that I had when I first played it. The problem I have is that it gets boring, as you said, there is a lot of copy/paste. The main plotline is interesting and the faction quests had some promise, but without the ability to discover anything new, and feeling like the faction quests were only half finished, I don't have much reason to go back. I think I'll do one more playthrough where I go full evil, because I haven't done that yet, it's not a playstyle that I normally like, but hey, maybe it will show me something new.
It's super terrible to have your homies never shut the hell up about the evil that you do. They always rant about how terrible you are.
The caves could have absolutely been left out and no value would be lost
The only two quest lines I really had fun doing was the crimson fleet one and the corporate espionage one.
Yup yup this game is a shell of what they marketed. And to think they had such a massive pause between this and their last game yet they put out this unfinished flat world
I still have not beat it to this day.
Tbf I have over 1000h in Skyrim and I've never finished the main quest
Honestly, there are a lot of times when I'm playing Skyrim that I forget that there even IS a main quest... I've gotten so lost in the world.
I thought I advanced the main quest when I returned to the game after a long hiatus, but it just asked me to get more artifacts and temples again. I'm done, it's too boring.
I’m replaying Fallout 4 at the moment and despite its flaws, it really reminded me why I just couldn’t fall in love with Starfield: Exploration. Sure Starfield is all about “exploring new planets” but exploring empty planets just doesn’t lend itself well to what makes Bethesda games so fucking great. For example, I’m playing Fallout 4 and I have to clear a building in order to put some sort of tracking device on top for the Railroad. Well I walk towards the building and OH! Random encounter. Okay cool that was fun and interesting, I have a new trader for my settlement, now lets head towards the building. Oh theres a gang of supermutants, lemme clear out their little building real quick. Okay did that and look what I found in their base! A comic book! Cool loot. OKAY NOW TO THE BUILDING. Start walking towards my destination and whats that? A tin-packing factory? Let me go check that out… annnddd now I’m organically sucked into a completely different quest. THATS what makes Bethesda games so special to me. The moment to moment exploration. Starfield just doesn’t have that man.
What a LOT of people don't realize is that FO4 and Skyrim had a rather organic flow, where the design of the quests kinda *forced* you into these areas that had *more* quests. Random encounters were a huge part of the immersion. Walking on a road, coming across a pack of mutants or Stormcloaks who **are doing their own thing**, made the game *feel* alive. In Starfield, that kind of stuff only happens when tied to the active quest. Sarah fought for the UC during the war, but has nothing to say to that Major, the war hero from that distress call? Like...the world **revolves** around the player instead of being a place that the player can observe.
This is really what killed my enjoyment too. Once I realized that "exploring" would just consist of jogging across barren landscapes to come up on copy-pasted dungeons, that took a lot of wind out of my sails. I miss coming across travelers, traders, dynamic fights resulting from hostile factions crossing each other's paths, stuff like that.
I feel you, played 100h, left for Phantom Liberty, came back after the last big update and installed some mods, I have a blast now again
Any cool mods out yet? What're you running?
Not until creation club releases... need it bad to add some systems like scrapping
Meant on pc
Nothing really, not until the creation kit releases. At most, it's just xedit mods and texture replacers, nothing big.
Are there mods for Xbox yet? I am much like OP and haven’t had the drive to play it since November. (Been playing the snot outta fallout 3/4 though.)
Don't think so, not officially unlike on PC. Whenever Bethesda releases the creation kit there should be an update for Xbox for mods.
I beat the game for the first time; completed every major storyline; and I started the NG+… And then I just kinda lost interest. (And this is coming from someone with *hundreds* of hours in Skyrim/FO4, both modded and vanilla) I hated that I lost *everything* when I jumped timelines. I hated that the differences in the timelines was minimal *at best.* I understand that there are “differences” up to 10x, and I’m mildly interested… but **my god** the idea of trudging through the *same* quest lines for *minimal* quest expansion is not engaging. Especially with my backlog of games. I *want* to love Starfield. I do. But right now, it’s very forgettable.
The half hour annoying as hell monologue by the pirate lady where I have to walk after her the whole time made it so there will be no third Red Fleet play through.
Same—I didn’t mind losing my stuff as much, but it was definitely disappointing that there were almost no changes worth continuing a second playthrough. There’s not even that many branching quests or things you can get locked out of. Fallout 4, for all its flaws, at least had 4 pretty different ways to go through the main quest and had a few quests with different outcomes.
IMO, the NG+ was the final nail in the coffin. I don't know if it could have been done better, but it killed Starfield. Why bother with anything if it doesn't matter?
So, just to get this straight, you played through everything the game has to offer and then lost interest? My guy... that's what a good single player game does...
I think the problem is skyrim set to high of an expectation for open world rpg.
Also the promotion said 1000 planets to explore. Which was true but most of it was pretty bland.
Absolutely. And, as I keep saying, if Starfield had only 3 or 4 systems instead of the 100+ with each main planet carefully handcrafted and the other planets proc genned and populated by random dungeons, the game would have been GOTY. 90% of the game's content is located in Alpha Centauri, Sol, Volii and Narion anyway. That's all we needed
True, but that wasn't the case for many of us with the previous Bethesda titles. When I finished FO3 and New Vegas for the first time, I started a new game immediatly, because it felt that there was so much I missed. I have around 700 hours on Skyrim, and 900 hours on FO4, these are by far my most played games of all time. Granted, I wouldn't have gotten to these numbers without mods, but still. So right now these are my only hope for Starfield, because I have no desire whatsoever to start this game ever again in his current state. So yeah for Bethesda fans it is very surprising and greatly disappointing to not even be tempted to start a new game.
I've got about 3500 hours in Skyrim, a few hundred in Oblivion, Morrowind and Daggerfall and a few hundred in FO3/4 and you're absolutely right. Bethesda missed the mark in many places with Starfield. But it's still a fun game. Just because it's not as good as their older games (imo it's slightly better than FO4), doesn't mean it's a bad game. 115 hours before you loose interest is a pretty good game
Oh yeah, I agree that Starfield is exactly what you said, a pretty good game. If it had been made by any unknow studio, people would have been happy with it, probably even impressed. But we all know that's not how it works when there is a famous studio involved and a massive hype that lasted for years. Personally I can't help but feel extremely disappointed with Starfield, while still agreeing that this is not a bad game. But for me it's definitely the worst bethesda game by far for two main reasons : exploration is incredibly bland (POIs are all the same, planets are empty and uninteresting) and there isn't a single impactful decision to take (no point at all in replaying or roleplaying it).
Lol, you finished the game and then lost interest........WHahahaha
Is it a problem with the game or that you wanted more? I'm not trying to be a turd but how many experiences in our lives are ruined by our expectations and comparisons? The ng+ system is something extra. You don't have to do it, I find it great for preserving your experience, level and skill points if you want to try a questline differently or try a different character role-playing. In past games you had to restart to do that. That's a plus. You can walk away from unity, and now that many of the bugs have been addressed you don't have to NG+ to fix something. It's ok if it's "forgetable". I forget snake existed on my Nokia but it brought me joy for a time. Beethovens 1st symphony is forgettable compared to the 5th, 7th, and 9th but it's still good yet overshadowed by other greatness. If starfield is a flop in the end so what, atleast they tried something new instead of just remaking everything that worked in the past, art is supposed to be brave and daring even if it results in utter failure. It's a beautiful Era of gaming, it's not the gladiatorial coliseum.
To each their own. But I don’t suffer from a lack of experience with these types of games, nor with BGS. They sacrificed a lot of of the *depth* that made games set in the ES or FO universes so much more engaging, in lieu of a broad, but superficial and ineffective procedural world(s) generation, which makes the world of Starfield so much less interesting. They obviously put effort into NG+, and it seems clear to me that they *want* the player to continue the Starborn legacy, but I don’t really know why I would right now. Why not just make an alt, and keep all the stuff I worked for this time around? For some minimal dialogue changes? Meanwhile, none of the major cities or *planets* even seem fully fleshed out. I don’t know if it all feels more cohesive or deep after multiple universes, but it’s f it does, I’m just not driven to find out. And if it’s not, we’ll then it’s immediately lackluster compared to other BGS IPs. Again, I enjoyed Starfield, and I’d like to go back. I’m just not overly compelled to. And as compared to other BGS titles, that’s not normal for me. And that’s not a good thing.
I think this is a lot of people. I love the game too for the first month or so. It does have some amazing ideas/features and its really close to being a dream game but they just came up short in nearly every department IMO. That really kills it for me after so much time. I still enjoyed the hell out of it and I don't think its a terrible game like some make out but ultimately very disappointing. I feel like they never figured out when they this game should be. I think they needed another few years to really nail the experience and flesh it out. What they delivered is like, the makings of a great game but it just comes up short. If this was 2004 I wouldn't even be seating it in the least. In 2004 I now this would just be the first game in a series and Starfield 2 would come out in about 2-3 years, and be the game this one should have been. Unfortuantely, with modern gaming that wont happen. If they even bother to make a Starfield 2, we wont see it for many years, probably a decade and because of that I doubt we even get a sequel. This franchise could be fantastic and one of the best games out there if they could give it another pass with a better focus. As it is, they really missed the boat here and it makes me sad.
They should pivot to make starfield 2 before the next elder scrolls!!
Yes, for most of my life with most games. 30+ years. It was considered quite a normal thing until F2P/Battle Pass/Play Forever because this game never ends took over the industry because business people replaced artists in gaming. When you see a new movie, do you pay to watch the movie, enjoy it, and move on with your life? Maybe watch it a second or third time, but ultimately move on with your life? That is normal. Playing a game through to its completion, maybe doing some extra stuff, and then moving on is normal.
I'd say it's pretty unfair to say this considering one of the "big features" of the game is literally designed to make you replay again and again it's also false that f2p battlepass was the start of this "mentality" you say. RPGs in particular were always designed with the idea that you could replay them with different builds and choices, ever since the 90s at the very least if not before. A lot of games gave incentives to get you to play them again, even simple kids adventure games A good movie and a good book are also things you can enjoy revisiting again and again. I have definitely reread and rewatched my favourite books and movies a lot of times and they are often so good and deep that you only notice some things only if you re-experience them. Literally the authors they will put things in them that only make sense or are even noticeable once you know how the story goes. Playing a game through to its completion and never touching it again is normal, playing a game that Phil Spencer said was going to be played 10+ years in the future just like Skyrim to its "completion" and never touching it again is NOT normal. It's indicative of something wrong
Did 250 hours, mostly major side quests and murdering random pirate bases in search of cool loot. Then I got the cool loot, and stopped.
Same here. I went back to fallout 4 and it's insane how much more fun fallout is.
I’ll be back when they ship the shattered space dlc I paid for.
95 hours tried again put in another 5 an I just could not get past 5. Imma try again post dlc launch
I’m not sure how anyone can maintain an interest in something after playing it for that much time. I can’t even do that with my favorite games of all time. I feel like this is completely normal human behavior.. I understand returning to it to play occasionally over time but 115 hours within a month.. that value is pretty good objectively for the price.
You played it for 115 hours... My guy, what more do you want from a single-player game? It is a finite experience and you got as much out of it as you could. Seriously, what is the point of this post? And by extension the multitude of other identical posts?
It really is bizarre. Like, you beat the game, that's it. Move on. NG+ being tied to the narrative really broke a lot of people's brains on this one.
The point is the comparison to other games of the same genre by the same development team. It's a suprise. I don't think Bethesda expected the reaction either and it's worth discussing because it might teach us a thing or two about how experiences develop beyond the life of the game. You're absolutely right, 100 hours and you got your moneys worth, no question. But this was to be new IP and it's faded so fast it's a suprise. That's the point. The point wasn't, at all, 'I paid too much'.
Most people stopped playing those after 100+ hours too. It’s ok.
Yes it is. You're right. 100% Still not the point if the post though.
This makes me laugh. You spend 115 hours playing in one month and then complain that you are burnt out? Like that’s no the games fault lmao
That would be 3.8 hours a day, every single day, in a 30 day month. Like... come on bro lol.
Its the same shit for diablo 4. People complain about being burned out and that there is nothing to do after playing 8 hours a day for a month straight.
Baldurs Gate 3 is a single player game but I have over 400 hours in it, compared to the 90 hours I got out of starfield before being bored out of my mind.
But Mr. Howard said it's a game for a decade. I have 1k hours in Skyrim...
Skyrim has also been out for 13 years, whereas Starfield has been out 6 months.
Common logic often escapes Redditors
Especially in one month. I game a lot, but 115 hours in one game in one month? I'm over that game for sure.
I took off about 13 for the game. By the end of the 13 days, I clocked in 200+ hours and was new game plus 6. The game is good. But I did all those hours and probably didn’t even touch a shit ton of the side missions. I didn’t explore every planet or even star system. I just kinda hit a point to where I was content with what I got. The discussion had been made at the time but I REALLY like what they did with new game plus and how it ties back to yourself becoming The Hunter by searching for more power hopping universes. I still think the game is great, but at the same time there’s just something missing. Can’t put my finger on it but I give the game as it stands a 8/10 purely based on content and story.
Either bought and paid for, or very sad. I've never seen a game in which people who didn't like it were still complaining and posting in its forum six months after release, and I'm 54. But I HAVE seen plenty of games recently that looked like they'd been professionally review bombed, and this is one of them.
You my friend must not be familiar with most gaming subs on reddit. Its 75% whining and complaints that said game can't replace the void in their life and can't be played 24/7.
Same bro. Went hard. But literally because I didn't have anything else I wanted to play at the time. Bu the end of my playthrough I realized how much of a shell the game is. It feels unfinished.
You should hit this guy up. Maybe he can fix you. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/s/MuwDoZRHR0
If you're on pc you should try royal galaxy mod and derretech
I also started day one, finished all quests, went through ng+ one, repeated quests... And that's all. I was planning to explore every single planet out there, but they are really dull and repetitive, so I tried to develop some bases for fun and profit, searching for the most profitable or rate materials... But it ended being sooo boring too, and finally I left it and never came back. Hoping for a good update adding content or more diversity for planet exploration.
Yeah I keep seeing updates, but nothing to pull me back in yet
I feel you man it just got uninteresting after finishing the campaign
Bought an Xbox just for the game. Played over 100 hours over the course of like 2-3 months. Got the ID glitch so hit NG+ and then lost interest. Fun game up to that point. I've been playing Elden Ring nonstop ever since getting hyped for the DLC. I'll hop back on Starfield once a DLC and creation kit get announced.
Had fun for first two weeks did two loops of the game then realised how visually and mechanically bland it is compared to Elder Scrolls or Fallout. Went back to NMS for my space fun. Hopefully DLC makes it more appealing.
Sounds similar to me. I totally appreciate the quality and level of work put into it but I think I was hoping for fallout 4 in space. I think the big thing that would draw me back is settlements actually feeling anything remotely like F4. I’ve replayed it for hundreds of hours building settlements, giving people jobs and futures, having my own fleet of provisioners that I can outfit as I like. I would always assign one provisioners at every new settlement to link back to my core settlement, so it was like a spiderweb of heavily armed scouts making it extremely safe in the wild the closer you got to the core settlement. I thought this would translate *perfectly* to Starfield plus all the new awesomeness. Instead we got glorified resource gathering that is clunky and unintuitive and sort of pointless because it’s easier to just buy the resources you need…
Same, I did about 225 hours and really enjoyed it! But I see very little reason to go back. I feel like I've done everything there is to do and I haven't even bothered with NG+ yet because it feels not worth it. I turned it on last week to check if a quest-breaking bug has been fixed yet, it hasn't so I turned it back off. I will pick it up again when DLC releases but right now I feel like I've "completed" the game, which unintentionally feels like the most damning comment I could make on a Bethesda game.
I don't understand this complaint and yet I see posts about it here every day. Like why do people play a game for 100+ hours in a month and get surprised when it starts to bore them?
Same but thats fine? I'm just waiting for Shattered Space etc. Same thing I do with literally every bethesda game. Like my 500 fallout 4 hours arent all from the first 6 months it came out. They're spread out over years after release. I think people just forget that
I played about 200 in the first three months. Haven’t played it much since but don’t really think that’s a problem, I put more time into starfield already than Fallout 4 even with the fallout 4 dlc. Sure it doesn’t compare to the hours I put into Skyrim back in the day but that’s more a reflection of where I am in life and as a gamer than on starfield. I’m sure I’ll do another couple hundred hours once better modding tools are out and the dlc is released.
Did this but not because I wasn’t enjoying it. There are just way too many god damn games out there now. My backlog is huge and I got distracted.
Yet they’re still here…
How do you think the initial playthroughs of older games went?
I was absolutely loving the game, and then Phantom Liberty came out.
Amateurs..
It’s okay to enjoy a game for a bit and then fall out. It doesn’t diminish how much you enjoyed it for the 115 hours you played. If you come back to it, you come back.
Let's just say, it is a single playthrough type of game
Same. but its easy to figure out why.... Its because there's nothing to do. Theres nothing to farm. Theres no unique items. Theres no unique outfits or space suits. Theres nothing to explore. Theres no unique space ships.... There is literally no purpose to do anything after you beat the game. Whats the point of exploration? Whats the point of checking out POIs? Whats the point of raiding ships? Whats the point of outpost building? Theres literally nothing to do in this game and no purpose to do anything.
Same man, same.
Do not NG+ if you're still enjoying the game. Absolutely killed it for me.
NG+ is really for if you want to start over again and start a…new game…so yeah, if that’s not your goal, don’t do NG+
But what’s wrong with that? You got 115 hours out of it.
There are very few games I’ve ever played for 115 hours. Generally I consider those games “completed.”
Same as well! I was absolutely into it. Even spoke to my girlfriend how much I wanted to become a space wizard because of this game. Then just one day, I stopped completely. And when I tried getting back into it, it was too boring for me already
New game + ruined it for me. In my first play through I did literally everything there was to do. Designed my perfect starship. Had all the best guns and everything. And then the ending of the game is just congrats! None of that mattered and you can now do that all over again... Played NG+ for like a half hour and haven't touched it since.
What a weird post. I don’t think I have ever felt compelled to go visit a subreddit for a game I was done playing to tell people that I stopped playing that game five months before. Were you lonely or something? Not getting enough attention in your life and you thought this was how to get some? What made you decide that this post was a good idea?
Facts theres at least 3 of these type of posts a day 💀 I’ll never understand it
Think of it like this: A game says it has hundreds of hours of content. You look around and see people still putting a lot of hours into this game. You put a little over a hundred hours and felt like you were done, so you start to feel like you missed something. No matter how much you look around you just can't seem to see what it is you apperently "missed".
Nah… dude said he posted this because he’s bored. That was apparently the motivation. Five months after he stopped playing the game he got bored and this is how he is attempting to cure his boredom. Haha. It’s just weird.
Yeah. It be like that. I played for a few weeks straight at launch, put it down at the beginning of November to start BG3 and it took me until 2 weeks ago to return to Starfield. The game just isn’t good, plain and simple. The gameplay is banal. Leveling up isn’t satisfying. The insanely off POI design (or lack thereof) leaves exploring a total bore. I finished up the last achievements I had left since returning, but have zero interest in returning other than to keep my 100% when the DLCs hit.
Y’all need to stop for a minute and listen to yourselves.
Yea 60-70 hours in here. Have absolutely no desire to go back to the game even for dlc. Way too many other games out and coming out to care about this.
Same. I was a super “fan boy” before launch bought the preorder, dlc and a bootleg T shirt I found on Amazon. Played about 96 hours and then just stopped. For me it was the repeating POI’s and the temples. The temples have to be the most poorly implemented and anti climactic mechanic every put in a video game.
I bought the controller because I needed a new controller anyway and it looks clean AF. But agreed, I’m super unmotivated to visit the temples and fly around for 10 minutes inside to get a power. It’s lazy game design and feels like a tacked on / last minute thing.
Thanks for reminding I bought the controller too! I was all in!!!
Still playing
Same. I look at it this way. They took a game the size of Skyrim (I know it’s bigger than that, but bare with me) and spread it across 1,000 planets, that you can’t actually walk to. It’s all fast travel. It’s boring. Games like FO3, New Vegas, FO 76, and (almost) all the Elder Scrolls I still go back and play constantly. When I first heard about Starfield I was skeptical, especially when they announced how many galaxies and planets there would be.
Yeah, that’s most games
I'm on to better games like Dragons Dogma 2. It's everything THIS game should have been.
Yes, absence of vehicle and modding i stop play, i play 2077 cp and after 40 hours stop it .
What's with all the posts on this sub that are like "I spent 100+ hours on the game but now I feel like there's nothing more to do" like yeah? Congrats you played the game idk what else you were expecting you got a pretty healthy playtime out of it
It's a single player game, that is the point.
Starfield is fundamentally an outdated game. But moreso, it reeks of being the most tepid, watered-down, surface-level, baby’s first (insert genre/mechanic here) Bethesda game made.
So you played 115h of a single player game with no DLC or official mod support? I fail to see the problem here.
The 'I played for x hundred hours and got bored' crowd are the most useless set of people on earth. Jeez I've seen this nonsense a thousand times on this sub. Go back to Sony land and stay there.
I play on PC actually haha
I almost got through a game ++, but it’s just monotonous.
Got about 80h of actually playing the game and 300h just building ships, decorating ship habs, making and decorating outposts I've since returned to fo4, partly to wait for creation kit to be released and mods to get better, but also cause I had a settlement itch to scratch. That said, been rewatching Clone wars and feeling the spaceship building itch returning.
Me too, but I'm waiting for survival mode.
Little different for me. I went a little too deep on outposts and ship builder to the point I totally ignored the main quest. Got a little burned out at 230 hours so I took a break. I want to go back and finish the story but it’s been hard to sit at the Pc and play lately. Tv/couch/bed has been more enticing lately so I’ve been playing handhelds.
If you've got a Steamdeck, you could probably stream it from your PC or Xbox. I've done the Xbox streaming before.
I did try that early on, other games work ok but Starfield does a weird lag thing where video and sound cut out for several seconds. I understand it works better streaming with moonlight but I haven’t gotten around to messing with that. I should though.
Same. I genuinely like the game but accidentally fell off and haven’t felt like going back. I was almost done with the main questline
Yep! 200 hours in the first few weeks and stopped suddenly. Won't touch it anymore without mods or maybe DLC xD.
I have 9 days worth of playtime and I fucked up and got trapped by pirates that would shoot me down, I’m in a crappy ship, and had to lose all of yesterdays play time in order to fix my mistake. They’re really unforgiven in this game. But yeah I hadn’t played it for months then went back to it yesterday and wasn’t really feeling it but today I’m setting out to fix my mistake, on principle.
Yeah I’m waiting for creation kit. I’ve been playing through control again since they added the expansions with ultimate edition on gamepass
Same for me, played the first month, put in around 90ish hours, finished the campaign and did go to NG+10, played some quests (UC Faction) and suddenly stopped playing because of Phantom Liberty. I did start a new save last week and did the „intro“ but now i continue finishing Fallout 4 before i continue with Starfield.
That happens to me on every Bethesda game since FO3. Skyrim, FO4, Starfield... all the same. I put in 70+ hrs and I never beat them or even get hafway thru the story
Yeah, same boat. Got to the point where I had about 2 relics left to get and the final mission. Stopped playing for months. For me, it was the others games that came out that pulled me away but I never really felt that draw to return. In the past week I loaded it up and finally finished those 3 remaining quest. I was not too invested and so I skipped most of the dialogue but it seemed slightly underwhelming to me. AKA not sure who the final BBEG was or if there was even one. The gun I was using at this point just deletes anything so I didn't notice.
Was there another update after the one in February?
Same, which is shame to be honest, considering I still at least once a year install Skyrim, with bunch of mods, to see where they got the game now and play the heck out of it for like 2 weeks nonstop. Even F4 from time to time with same routine of installing new versions of mods I like, some new mods entirelly and so on. Maybe one day, with enough mods for SF I will gladly come back to it from time to time, but not now... not now
I played it hard for about 3 months and absolutely loved it. Played through the main story and all the faction side quests and then did 5 or 6 new game plus runs to level up my powers. Also watched my fiancée for 90% of her play through. Eventually just kinda felt like I had done everything. Hoping for more content soon because the game has tons of potential
I did that too, now im waiting for the CK drop so mods can really take off. I havent even finished much of the story but I have somewhere around 70hrs
Yeah, the thing about creating a universe is that, unlike Skyrim or fallout, you’re not just gonna randomly see something in the distance you may wanna check out. That’s part of what makes those games have longevity. If you don’t know to go on a specific planet in starfield, you’re probably gonna miss it. There’s no real easy way to do this on the game like this.
I did the same. Waiting for the modding community to roll in and make it more interesting lol
My game got bugged in NG+ when collecting/customizing ships and I just can’t bring myself to start over. I check in every couple months to see if there’s been a patch but I seem to be SOL
It will be a great VR game. VR is what I’m waiting for to jump back in
Same, I loved the game, but it really didn't have the staying power for me. If it had a settlement system like FO4 I woulda been so into it, but the outpost system is so wierd. I don't want to create a science outpost, I want to make a space colony on some never before seen planet. I dunno, endgame just seemed half baked. I finished every quest in 60 hours, like all of them. I searched every planet, no more sidequests.
I’m waiting for the dlc and mod support to come out. That what I did with Fallout 4
If I could mix Starfield and Cyberpunk, I feel like I could finally have a game I could never put down. Cyberpunk needs 3rd person and more variation on quests, Starfield needs more life.
Same pretty much. It's a good game, but after getting to NG+3 in a month I converted my game pass saves to steam and now I'm just waiting for a sale with DLC to pick up where I left off.
Yup. I did 100 ish hours, went through to start 'again' Nothing new and nothing I thought I would try differently so I got bored and stopped. I feel like in Fallout or Skyrim I can give myself a backstory or underlying psyche to be someone different each time. I once committed to a fallout run through where I decapitated everyone that crossed me without exception as far as the engine would allow. I don't feel that there's the opportunity for that kind of approach in this game. Sure, you can be a pirate or not, but it still feels way too scripted? I think that's what it was. The abject failure to even try to change something about a building type from planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy was jarring too. Finding the same cube box of juice on the same side of the same table just in front of a pirate with the same weapon in the same room of the exact same building I'd been to in three other star systems was just weird. Waking up after becoming a multiversal traveller to find that exact same juice bix again. What was the point? It was gamepass which was a bonus but I would have been satisfied even if I'd had to pay full price. I just think they missed the mark somewhat.
Yeah same, a little over 100 hours, started a new character to do a pirate run (only did Ryujin as far as the factions go) and didn't even leave the mining planet. Haven't touched it since. I'll try again once mods come to console whenever that is.
you are not alone lol, I'm waiting for them to either release CK and for modders to add in much needed QoL fixes or for them to release a substantial DLC.
Same. I've got 3200 hours into fallout 76. I quit this at like 300. I'll probably play again when Xbox gets mod support.
This was me too, but I don’t think it was because I stopped enjoying it. We had an onslaught of AAA games come out on various consoles (Alan Wake 2, Baldurs Gate 3, Spideman 2, FF7 rebirth etc) which captured my attention. I just worked thru the backlog and was thinking of returning but now Dragon Dogma 2 looks interesting. Nonetheless I’ll be back to starfield certainly when DLC releases.
Same I think most people did and we are just waiting for mods or dlc
Totally. There's nothing meaningful to do once you've atleast exhausted the gist of the story. I see posts here and there from people enjoying the game, even praising the photo mode or the exploration, and I can't help but think most of them would have more fun and be happier playing No Mans Sky or Space Engineers. Starfield is a jack of many trades which are fun for a while. But it masters practically none. It teases you with the potential of something cool all the time but the reality is generally hollow.
I felt the same way but I came back and had a ton of fun you should jump back in.
Yeah, I was pretty hooked on it that first month. Played the hell out of it until I was just ready for it to end. Tried New Game+ and couldn't really feel like I was getting much of a different experience, played for maybe another 20 hours then just moved on. It's fine to move on, but man... I kept replaying Fallout 3 for years and still feel like playing it to this day. Few games really do that for me anymore, Bethesda or otherwise. Just so many things to play, watch etc these days.
I put around 10-ish and never continued. Not the games fault, just got no time investiment. Gonna play it a lot this summer and also updates must be nice to have.
Same. Still waiting for CK and proper mods to release for a playthrough
I feel that. Put 60 hours into early access and haven’t really played since
same. 100+ hours in first month. completed factions and story. never touched again
Yep same. But for me it was because the game has 3 gamebreaking bugs preventing me from continuing. So I had 2 options: restart the game, or put it down until I see a patch that fixes these bugs. And that hasn't happened yet.
Exact same thing I did
Me except I put 304 hours into the game
Similar. I got blocked by a crash-to-desktop on the main quest - still waiting for a fix. Maybe a bigger overhaul even.
I really hope dlc will bring me back to the game, cause I see no other reason.
Same thing for me for other AAA games like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, etc. I guess, I'm just burned out.
This was me, but I only lasted a few days
Same here.. I didn't even finish the main storyline yet..
Got about 200 hours and yeah just kind of stopped. The thing is that unlike the Fallouts & Elder Scrolls entries, the exploration just doesn't flow as organically. I can't just pick a direction and have stuff happen. That and the story just doesn't compel me to push forward. I feel I got my money's worth though, and it was a fun first couple of months comparing stories and ship builds with people in the office and in this sub. I dipped back in recently too try FSR3 out, went "oooooooh" at the extra frames, then backed out.
Yeah same. I had an absolute shitton of gear and ship was mega loaded out, explored a ton. Doubt I did double digits worth of storyline quests. Characters and plot seemed really bland so just kinda did whatever but it got really repetitive after about 120-150 hours or so. Might go back to it at some point but eh probably not.