Released today 9/1/23. Just bought it and since the company gave us off after lunch due to 3 day weekend, I'm playing until Tech plays tonight.
I was really looking forward to the game, but all the reviews I've seen make it seem just kind of...overwhelming yet boring. I love the new open world games that they're coming out with but they all seem to be missing a bit of something to make them truly great. Elden Ring was the only one that really hit the mark lately and that somewhat came out of nowhere. Starfield has been talked about for like 4 years now and in the last few months the developers seemed to talk down the expectations.Pretty good so far. No bugs to speak of on console.
This world is immense. So many systems with so many planets per system with so many outposts per planet or orbital stations etc. Gameplay is good, and so many different things to do. A little overwhelming.
I was really looking forward to the game, but all the reviews I've seen make it seem just kind of...overwhelming yet boring. I love the new open world games that they're coming out with but they all seem to be missing a bit of something to make them truly great. Elden Ring was the only one that really hit the mark lately and that somewhat came out of nowhere. Starfield has been talked about for like 4 years now and in the last few months the developers seemed to talk down the expectations.
My slim hope was that the game would kinda flop sales expectations without Playstation gamers and Bethesda/Microsoft would relent and publish the game to PS, too. These negative reviews are probably helping that concept, but I strongly doubt it will actually happen. And to this point, I'm content waiting for Starfield to mature with some game updates + add-ons from Bethesda and some strong mod support.