Why is this a negative review? If this game was made by an indie studio with very limited resources in few years I would leave a positive review. But how in the world a company that huge, with nearly unlimited budget, resources and in the end backed by Microsoft (which guarantees good marketing) and having years and years of time came up with this shallow, soulless, unoriginal, unimaginative, poorly written, poor looking, poor performing game?

So what is Starfield? Intro is generic. You're in a mine and you find a magical artifact, then you get attacked by bandits and your journey on searching for more artifacts begins.
Oh yeah there's character creator which is just bad.
You get your ship, your guns, a companion and you explore the space, a 1000 planets in close proximity to earth. Oh speaking of earth – it's a desert. Nothing wrong with that, something happened, everything was destroyed, probably will happen in real life eventually. But how on earth (no pun intended) a huge skyrscraper with glass survived that while there's absolutely nothing else left? Don't look for any logic in this game, it doesn't exist. Temperatures on planets never change, day or night it stays the same. Gravity means nothing, you can walk and run at the same pace on low or high gravity. It only affects how high you can jump. Oh sorry I forgot there's no logic and this game has nothing to do with science or sci-fi because it's pure fantasy where no laws of physics or logic apply.

Game is very small. Biggest cities are just small towns, enclosures with lifeless, poorly designed, often identical npc's walking back and forth or standing doing nothing. Each time you enter a building there's a loading screen. Sure it's very short, a second or few but why? Oh yeah because developers are lazy and with hundreds of millions available they can't create an engine which would match some other engine from 5 years ago. This engine just isn't capable of delivering open world experience.

Oh did I tell you the game isn't open world? There's no sense of exploration because everything happens in small instances, enclosed surrounding or tiny rooms.
There are few main planets with main cities (villages) which serve as capitals but there's nothing outside, there's no map, no towns, nothing to explore outside. People just flew light years to colonize the planets and built Whiterun sized villages there with huge walls around it. Very sci-fi, much science.
Also everyone in the universe is using same exact furniture, computers, coffee makers and all the other appliances and things.
I married a character. The wedding is pure meme material. You go to a lonely npc in the middle of the night, npc says few lines and you're husband and wife. Oops sorry lifemates, it's a space name for married couple. No ceremony, no animations or interactions just your loved one standing there lifeless saying how she loves you. This was the lowest effort event in the game i've every seen.

But hey lets go explore the space huh? Those 1000 planets. Of course it's realistic that most planets are empty and vast, I agree it's realistic. But why every planet has identical outposts in the middle of nowhere with two people sitting there and waiting for you? Same structures everywhere, same resources, same copy pasted stuff all over the place. Yes planets look different, some of them look very different but you don't feel that. +80 degrees or -185 – no difference. Trees are green with -15 outside, same gas everywhere, some random animals spawning attacking you. You explore the flat planets and after 10 hours realize there's no point.
There are spaceship battles, you just pew pew other ships and loot them. It's not clear how repair your ship or upgrade, you kinda find that out randomly since the game has no map at all so navigating to a certain facility is difficult. Same goes for finding shops.

UI? Haha I better shut up because without swearing it's impossible to describe.

Quests. There are plenty. Most of them are generic but some could be really fun and tell a story. But even that is messed. Like finding a person who was born on a random planet alone and never seen civilization. But with zero logic that person just adapts to city life and navigation in it in an instant.

Of yeah one more scientific fact – the whole part of the galaxy is a jpeg. It's not open world, the planets are just jpeg's and you can't fly to them. You can only fast travel. The whole space is fake, it doesn't exist, you can't land on planets, they don't have clouds or atmosphere.
This game is the biggest and most blatant copying of other games. These developers have no creativity at all. One thing is copying themselves, it's normal, lots of studios release different games which are similar to each other, you can recognize the game by its style. But Bethesda decided to copy other games like No man's sky, Elite Dangerous but failed even at that.
Going to a “new” planet and you put out your scanner and scan things just like in No Mans Sky...only it's much simpler and serves no purpose. Another even more blatant copy is ship systems from Elite Dangerous. It's nearly identical. Those who played instantly recognize it.
They had no ideas of their own, they tried to glue together few ideas they got from other games and ended up with soulless and shallow experience where everything feels disconnected. There's no seamless gameplay, it's all just small spaces of nothing. You don't feel like you're exploring. But wait, Starfield also has dungeons, the most generic and copy pasted ones. Again they all look the same, just different layouts.

Graphically the game is ok, looks like lower budget AA game. World seems lifeless and empty, character models are the best we've seen in Bethesda games but they still look average and in certain lighting conditions they look terrible. And all the random npc's are lower quality and look atrocious. Animations are bad. Facial animations and expressions are very basic and hair is straight up from 2010.
In general graphics are mediocre. Witcher 3 from more than 8 years ago looks better (without the next-gen update).

Performance on release was terrible because it's an AMD sponsored game. Just to compare Cyberpunk on ultra + psycho + path tracing and get almost the same performance.
Considering how the game looks, performance is terrible. Graphics like that should run on a potato at ultra 60+ fps.
Tested on 7800x3d, rtx4080, 32GB 6000mhz @3440x1440.
The game supports ultrawide at least.
Took them months to add dlss and ability to eat food. Is this a solo indie project?

Sound design is generic and boring. Music you don't even pay attention to, voice acting is ok. But it's hard to hear the voices when you laugh so loud at those poorly written dialogues.

Starfield is a disappointment of the year hands down. For a low budget indie AA game it would be good. But for AAA title it falls short almost everywhere.

Pros

• Somewhat fun at times
  
• Cities (villages) are different and have certain vibes
  
• Sometimes you stumble upon some great views for screenshots
  
• Lots of quests

Cons

• Gameplay is outdated copy paste from other Bethesda games
  
• Copies ideas from other games but fails at making them work
  
• Outdated graphics from 10 years ago
  
• Broken outdated engine
  
• Shallow and empty
  
• No open world, everything is fast travel and tiny instances
  
• Loading screens every 2 minutes
  
• Poor writing
  
• Shallow characters
  
• Poor performance

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[h1]Big cup of mediocrity[/h1] Why is this a negative review? If this game was made by an indie studio with very limited resources in few years I would leave a positive review. But how in the world a company that huge, with nearly unlimited budget, resources and in the end backed by Microsoft (which guarantees good marketing) and having years and years of time came up with this shallow, soulless, unoriginal, unimaginative, poorly written, poor looking, poor performing game? So what is Starfield? Intro is generic. You're in a mine and you find a magical artifact, then you get attacked by bandits and your journey on searching for more artifacts begins. Oh yeah there's character creator which is just bad. You get your ship, your guns, a companion and you explore the space, a 1000 planets in close proximity to earth. Oh speaking of earth – it's a desert. Nothing wrong with that, something happened, everything was destroyed, probably will happen in real life eventually. But how on earth (no pun intended) a huge skyrscraper with glass survived that while there's absolutely nothing else left? Don't look for any logic in this game, it doesn't exist. Temperatures on planets never change, day or night it stays the same. Gravity means nothing, you can walk and run at the same pace on low or high gravity. It only affects how high you can jump. Oh sorry I forgot there's no logic and this game has nothing to do with science or sci-fi because it's pure fantasy where no laws of physics or logic apply. Game is very small. Biggest cities are just small towns, enclosures with lifeless, poorly designed, often identical npc's walking back and forth or standing doing nothing. Each time you enter a building there's a loading screen. Sure it's very short, a second or few but why? Oh yeah because developers are lazy and with hundreds of millions available they can't create an engine which would match some other engine from 5 years ago. This engine just isn't capable of delivering open world experience. Oh did I tell you the game isn't open world? There's no sense of exploration because everything happens in small instances, enclosed surrounding or tiny rooms. There are few main planets with main cities (villages) which serve as capitals but there's nothing outside, there's no map, no towns, nothing to explore outside. People just flew light years to colonize the planets and built Whiterun sized villages there with huge walls around it. Very sci-fi, much science. Also everyone in the universe is using same exact furniture, computers, coffee makers and all the other appliances and things. I married a character. The wedding is pure meme material. You go to a lonely npc in the middle of the night, npc says few lines and you're husband and wife. Oops sorry lifemates, it's a space name for married couple. No ceremony, no animations or interactions just your loved one standing there lifeless saying how she loves you. This was the lowest effort event in the game i've every seen. But hey lets go explore the space huh? Those 1000 planets. Of course it's realistic that most planets are empty and vast, I agree it's realistic. But why every planet has identical outposts in the middle of nowhere with two people sitting there and waiting for you? Same structures everywhere, same resources, same copy pasted stuff all over the place. Yes planets look different, some of them look very different but you don't feel that. +80 degrees or -185 – no difference. Trees are green with -15 outside, same gas everywhere, some random animals spawning attacking you. You explore the flat planets and after 10 hours realize there's no point. There are spaceship battles, you just pew pew other ships and loot them. It's not clear how repair your ship or upgrade, you kinda find that out randomly since the game has no map at all so navigating to a certain facility is difficult. Same goes for finding shops. UI? Haha I better shut up because without swearing it's impossible to describe. Quests. There are plenty. Most of them are generic but some could be really fun and tell a story. But even that is messed. Like finding a person who was born on a random planet alone and never seen civilization. But with zero logic that person just adapts to city life and navigation in it in an instant. Of yeah one more scientific fact – the whole part of the galaxy is a jpeg. It's not open world, the planets are just jpeg's and you can't fly to them. You can only fast travel. The whole space is fake, it doesn't exist, you can't land on planets, they don't have clouds or atmosphere. This game is the biggest and most blatant copying of other games. These developers have no creativity at all. One thing is copying themselves, it's normal, lots of studios release different games which are similar to each other, you can recognize the game by its style. But Bethesda decided to copy other games like No man's sky, Elite Dangerous but failed even at that. Going to a “new” planet and you put out your scanner and scan things just like in No Mans Sky...only it's much simpler and serves no purpose. Another even more blatant copy is ship systems from Elite Dangerous. It's nearly identical. Those who played instantly recognize it. They had no ideas of their own, they tried to glue together few ideas they got from other games and ended up with soulless and shallow experience where everything feels disconnected. There's no seamless gameplay, it's all just small spaces of nothing. You don't feel like you're exploring. But wait, Starfield also has dungeons, the most generic and copy pasted ones. Again they all look the same, just different layouts. Graphically the game is ok, looks like lower budget AA game. World seems lifeless and empty, character models are the best we've seen in Bethesda games but they still look average and in certain lighting conditions they look terrible. And all the random npc's are lower quality and look atrocious. Animations are bad. Facial animations and expressions are very basic and hair is straight up from 2010. In general graphics are mediocre. Witcher 3 from more than 8 years ago looks better (without the next-gen update). Performance on release was terrible because it's an AMD sponsored game. Just to compare Cyberpunk on ultra + psycho + path tracing and get almost the same performance. Considering how the game looks, performance is terrible. Graphics like that should run on a potato at ultra 60+ fps. Tested on 7800x3d, rtx4080, 32GB 6000mhz @3440x1440. The game supports ultrawide at least. Took them months to add dlss and ability to eat food. Is this a solo indie project? Sound design is generic and boring. Music you don't even pay attention to, voice acting is ok. But it's hard to hear the voices when you laugh so loud at those poorly written dialogues. Starfield is a disappointment of the year hands down. For a low budget indie AA game it would be good. But for AAA title it falls short almost everywhere. 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