**** Starfield ****

Eventually started as I was at my wits end with nothing to play across 4 consoles so it was a toss up between this and Baldurs but went with this as I know I will drop off for Elden DLC.

10 or so hours in and I am enjoying it way more than I thought I would, the sheer scale of it is really is flabbergasting even though its probably worlds of nothing when you think about it thats all space and the galaxies really are.

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Booted up again during lunch in work and now I have an idea on how to add all mission markers to the map it makes way more sense to me. think its going to be one I am really going to enjoy.

The xBox version of the update is scheduled to be available today. Wasn't there earlier this morning.

It's not hate, and it's not the same kind of hate Cyberpunk got for the bait and switch fraud it was at launch. This simply isn't a great game, and no DLC will make it great because unlike Cyberpunk it doesn't have the potential to be great.

Well that was predictably disappointing. None of the broken story line bits fixed, but now it's broken at 60fps, so I guess that's a positive way of looking at it; I can now land at 3 ports and be spawned under my ship with my head buried in the underside of my ship, unable to get out from under it but at least the view is smother for a few seconds before I have to reload from the last save. Still not having any urge to play any more.

I think any argument that includes 'we all know' automatically undermines itself. If that was even remotely true there would be no need to say it.

I don't think the negative response had anything to do with the platform limitations. The steam reviews themselves paint a clear picture from people who obviously already bought it on PC, why would they care if it wasn't on PS5?

I understand some folks like it, some may even love it, many hate it (going by reviews, forums, and statistical steam results). I found it massively disappointing, poorly written and engineered with half baked implementations of good ideas and most of all just boring. To Cordell's point the things that are wrong with it are not deails like bugs or levelling/loot systems but how it's fundamentally put together. If you like that great, but for anyone who doesn't there is no fixing this with DLC or anything similar and Bethesda have proven themselves the least capable of doing so lately regardless (looking at you so call Next-Gen Fallout4 patch….) I mean they're incredibly proud of adding 60FPS, welcome to the acceptable frame rate of the noughties.

I finished the story, thought it was decent but did not get into any ship building, etc. Hated the ending. While I enjoyed my time with Starfield don't know if I have any inkling to revisit. Definitely worth a play through alright.

I mostly enjoyed it too, although the final few hours became bit of a grind. I had no interest in the base or ship building elements. I don't see myself playing through it again, it would have to be something special (like the remastered Witcher 3).

How does this run on pc? Just copped I can play it on pc now so might give it a go. I'm a bit below recommended GPU but above recommended everything else; 3060 12gb, 32gb ram, Ryzen 7 5800x.

I also ask as I see the SN850 2Tb can be got for €160 on Amazon.de at the moment and seems like a deal… anyone know if these things need a heatsink?

Downloading now anyway, we'll find out how she runs, both the game and my pc as this is the first game I'm trying on it after spending 30 minutes debating would I buy Factorio, Satisfactory or Dyson Sphere Project. Was leaning towards DSP as I felt a space itch, then remembered I had Gamepass Ultimate so hey. I've only the OG experience on Series X to compare it to, and I demand my 60fps so will see how much I've to sacrifice for it.

I would always put a HS on a >=Gen4 top end drive. Depending on overall ambient heat inside your case you may or may not end up throttling under heavy use but long term high heat is never healthy for your components. If your MBD has a HS for M2s, even a simple array then consider using it otherwise for peace of mind if nothing else I'd add at least a simple one.

Sorry comrades forgive my ignorance here as I'm not a Bethesda historian but I love the games (Skyrim, Fallout, Starfield)………BUT please correct me on this if I am wrong.

Has Todd Howard not overseen one failure after the other recently? I understand bugs are part of Bethesda folklore but what about the complete shell of a game that gets released upon official launch e.g. Starfield and that Fallout 76 nonsense. Am I also right in saying that he didn't create of this titles in the first place.

Starfield problems are deeper than being buggy and unfinished, it really wasn't that bad from this point of view, and it's not fixable. It's really not feasible to create a game where you explore tens of planets and they all are large and rich and complex, from this perspective The Outer Worlds did it much better, couple of planets with more to explore. But it wasn't a failure or a bad game either.