The later, negative reviews reminds of the recent articles involving Rotten Tomatoes. Studios would have early screenings for friendly critics, some of whom were paid by the studios’ PR teams, to pump up the early Tomatometer rating. Then when the larger audience of critics could see the movie, the score would drop. But the studios got their great Tomatometer rating for the first weekend. Anyway, don’t be surprised by the less than enthusiastic response from later reviews.
I feel like this won’t age well. The best mods in in 2023 doesn’t mean much in the same week the game released.
I dunno’ man but I tell you that I played Mass Effect Andromeda twice, once with all side missions and again avoiding all side mission. If you only play main missions in Mass Effect Andromeda, it’s a brilliant game, easily an 8/10 versus a disappointing 6/10 with side missions. And for what it’s worth, a lot of these glowing reviews for Starfield are from critics who had to rush through it and skipped a lot side missions. Don’t get bogged down by side missions, bad building, and loading scree...
Whither Halo.
Absolutely consoles don’t need disc drives. My house has 2 PS5 digital editions, one since launch. Zero issues with the lack of disc drives. In fact, the digital purchasing lets us all share each other’s games, usually mine, and play the same game at the same time on-line.
Eventually I get bored with these games and start beelining to the end of the main story. As for these folks, well, speed running is its own thing.
“Commodore 64 – machines with less than one percent of the power of modern PCs.”
Try 0.001% the power of a modern PC. Then, as now, the space genre has limited appeal. About the only game with universal appeal is GTA. Why explore it he universe when you can commit crimes at home.
Allegedly because the game hasn’t been out a month.
Whoa, sanity. Some folks won’t like that.
The other way of saying this is that they believe the high scores are unjustified.
Halo Infinite is so forgettable that N4G has been flooded with articles saying Starfield is the first big Xbox exclusive this generation, the savior of Xbox, and the kickoff to Xbox’s exclusives. Hype meets reality.
Apparently “Starfield” would be worse if Xbox didn’t need a win. 🤦🏻♂️
Am I out of touch? No. It’s the children who are wrong.
Microsoft never mentioned NMS, of course, but the scanning looks exactly like NMS. And they showed space combat so you would think that would mean flying from planet to planet in a solar system. Even the dinosaur aliens look like NMS. And Starfield does have resource gathering and bad building like NMS, except in NMS, someone else could happen on your base and use it’s resources to help them on their galactiv journey.
Except I love NMS exploration. You even get to name the systems and planets for other player’s to see. NMS is understandably limited by its small dev team. We’re talking tens versus Bethesda’s hundreds. If NMS had the resources to make fully voiced NPCs and such, you’d have a game for the ages.
“It's true: you cannot continuously walk around planets in Starfield. You can select a landing spot virtually anywhere on a planet from out in space, but once you're there, Starfield renders a square-shaped chunk of planet that's roughly a kilometer or two wide.”
What a bummer. The marketing of this game made exploration look like No Man’s Sky. I never expected Starfield would only generate a 1 kilometer area with invisible walls. This is pathetic by modern gami...
Someone else said it was the best since Oblivion. Is Oblivion better than Fallout 3? Some review sites game perfect scores to Fallout 4, which is apparently now considered a low point point for Bethesda single player games. Good example of why shouldn’t paint yourself into a corner with your reviews.
Review scores have been so inflated for so long that 8/10 looks mediocre. Basically, too may “news” sites are just extensions of publishers’ public relations. Or maybe more gamers need to grow up.
Whoa! PC Gamer was disappointed? This is serious. But let’s be real. 7.5 is a great score. It’s ridiculous to think that every game needs a score of 8/10 or greater. It’s also an affect of the Microsoft marketing machine that folks thought this game should be the second coming of Christ. I’d be happy enough if Starfield is less of a disappointment than Fallout 4.
I bought No Man’s Sky for $25 and it’s quadrillion planets are all driveable.