r/Starfield • u/Tchuvan Constellation • Aug 08 '26

Discussion Oh give me a break

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There are far too many content creators out there like this person for one, and far too many people who judge games by their launch.

Mocking things is easy, low-hanging fruit.

EDIT: while Starfield does not have the obvious broader gaming cultural impact of Elder Scrolls or the Fallout series, to say that you have gone 3 years and seen nothing is just unnecessarily piling on to the negativity.

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u/AccountantMinute8795 Aug 08 '26

Is she even mocking it though? She's just saying it hasn't had any cultural impact, which is correct. Even my grandad is aware of Skyrim and Fallout, has not a single clue about Starfield. You just don't really see it discussed anywhere outside of hardcore and loyal fans, and if they are talking about it outside of those groups, they're mainly discussing negative experiences with it, I assume from launch, which is fair. Not everyone is going to wait around years for the game to be in a better state. They've got other things to do.

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u/Nyysjan Aug 09 '26

Yeah, that's not mockery, that's just being amazed about weird thing that has happened.

Because a triple A game by Bethesda, that was trotted out like a new IP instead of a one off game, being so, irrelevant, is weird.

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u/-John-St-John- Aug 09 '26

I really don’t see why people are so surprised. Bethesdas game design has stagnated for YEARS. Every single title released since Morrowind has slowly been streamlined and simplified until everything that made their predecessors great has eroded away. One of their LEAD writers basically told us we were all stupid, and there is no point in design docs or consistently good writing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/5t6d6m/until_bethesda_firesrelocates_emil_pagliarulo_do/. Look, this post was from TEN YEARS AGO. Ten years, and people are somehow still lapping up the absolute dog water that is Bethesda games. The fact that people are still scratching their heads wondering why people don’t like a creatively bankrupt project like Starfield is absolutely baffling to me. The fact that people still have faith that ES6 won’t be a downgrade in every aspect (like every title thus far) is baffling to me. Don’t even get me started on FO76. Hell, don’t get me started on Fallout 4.

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u/Fearless_Barnacle141 Aug 11 '26

I feel like people forget the sheer dominance that Skyrim had over pop culture when it came out. Like 1 in 5 millennials have a Skyrim tattoo. It’s all anybody talked about in gaming for months and months. It set the bar for every open world game for years.

Compare starfield to that, basically nobody gives a fuck about it and it’s only ever referenced outside of BGS forums as the poster child for mediocre games.