idk if we have a Starfield thread, but i spent a few hours with the game last night and idk - it’s pretty boring!
like it’s pleasant enough to play and it’s on Game Pass so i’ll probably spend more time with it, but it has not made much of an impact so far. there’s also a lot more killing than i was expecting - i had this sense the game was about 50s future optimism and space travel and i’ve already murdered a dozen people with machine guns.
the assets look really nice and you can tell there’s a lot of work that went into making the places feel real, but in terms of being a space-travelling game with a massive scale, it’s pretty mundane feeling in a post-No Man’s Sky world. even NMS 1.0 which was also boring, at least entering and leaving planets felt like something. in Starfield, you don’t even have skippable cutscenes showing any of the interstitial stuff; it’s like you just load into all these places that don’t feel connected, which is very videogamey in an 8-bit sort of way.
i was able to talk a guy out of fighting me which is always a fun thing to do in these kinds of games, so idk - i will keep exploring to see if something finally pulls me in, but for now, it’s a lot of the same: enter a room, steal all the garbage in the room to sell it, shoot some dumbasses, talk to some smarmy folks who give you purpose.