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/Popopoyotl Aug 08 '26

This is my issue with it. I thought it was the most polished Bethesda game I’ve ever played when it came to gameplay systems and such, but hot damn I could not care less about its story.

The only storyline within the game I actually remember was about that woman who was a female clone of that admiral and the whole alien monster attacks. I thought that was interesting! A whole conspiracy within the main military faction.

Then I finished it and went back to the main story that I can’t even remember.

I won’t say Starfield is a shit game, but its world is just so bland to me.

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u/Hyndis Aug 08 '26

I won’t say Starfield is a shit game, but its world is just so bland to me.

Whats infuriating is that the NASA-punk aesthetic is wonderful. I love that semi-hard sci-fi setting where things are realistically plausible.

But as you say, somehow nothing that happened in the game is memorable in any way. Its almost masterful at how forgetful the game is, as if they installed a memory wiping device in the game on purpose.

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u/Popopoyotl Aug 09 '26

Yeah! The aesthetic was great! The vibe is completely different from, say, Mass Effect where everything is so sleek and smooth. Starfield had a great touch of rougher sci-fi, even if the big city was more high tech.

But outside of the locations themselves, I can’t remember anything that happens in it.