Starfield

Starfield is....... boring. Very boring. Bethesda’s latest entry feels like the black sheep of its catalogue. The premise could have been interesting but it all falls flat. The characters are one dimensional and fit neatly into archetypes. Your companions are especially disappointing. Despite having different backgrounds and personalities, most of them have nearly the exact same moral compass and react to your choices in identical ways. There is very little friction, disagreement, or ideological conflict between them. The factions are not much better. They all have interesting concepts on paper, but Bethesda didn't explore them beyond the surface level. The Freestar Collective are just space cowboys. The United Colonies is the stereotypical clean, bureaucratic space government. Ryujin is the legally distinct version of Arasaka. The Crimson Fleet is the space YAR-HAR! faction. They're all recognizable and easy to understand, but none of them feel dangerous, or morally complicated. The world itself is strangely sterile. There's npc chatter that talks about wars, political tension, corporate exploitation, piracy, religious movements, and humanity struggling to survive beyond Earth, yet almost none of that tension is reflected in the actual atmosphere of the game. Cities feel clean, safe, and lifeless. Criminal organizations are more like mildly rude clubs. Even the supposed lawless settlements don't feel genuinely dangerous. Exploration, which should have been the heart of the game, quickly becomes tedious. Landing on a new planet sounds exciting until you realize that most planets contain the same handful of repeated POI's scattered across slightly different terrain. You walk for several minutes, reach a location you have already seen on 10 other planets, kill the same enemies, loot the same containers, and leave. There is no real sense of discovery because the game constantly reminds you that almost everything was assembled from the same collection of interchangeable parts. The galaxy may be enormous, but very little of it feels meaningful. Even travelling through space is fragmented. You open a menu, select a destination, watch a loading screen, land, open another menu, and repeat. There is no feeling of making a journey across the stars and space mostly exists as a backdrop between menus. The quests suffer from the same lack of ambition. Bethesda gives you plenty of things to do, but very few choices feel meaningful. Dialogue options often lead to the same outcome, major decisions rarely affect the wider world, and the game seems terrified of allowing the player to permanently disrupt anything important. That is probably Starfield’s biggest problem. It rarely takes risks with its writing, characters, mechanics, or world. Everything feels carefully designed to avoid challenging, or inconveniencing the player. The shipbuilding is genuinely impressive. Some faction quests are enjoyable. The visual design can be beautiful, and the NASA-punk aesthetic does give the game a distinct identity. But none of those strengths fix the fundamental problem. Starfield does not make its universe feel worth exploring It gives you hundreds of planets, but very few reasons to care about any of them. It gives you dozens of characters, but very few worth remembering. It gives you an entire galaxy and somehow makes it feel smaller, emptier, and less alive than Skyrim a 15 year old game. Starfield is not terrible. It's just forgettable.

bad

énorme étron

procedurally generated trash

This is a very nice game, its exciting, has great characters and many storylines. The sandbox feeling is amazing.

Il gioco è noioso. Ho provato 3 volte a giocarci, ho finito un intero loop ed iniziato un secondo, ma il gioco è semplicemente noioso. E' pieno di meccaniche super interessanti, dalla costruzione della nave, all'albero delle abilità, fino agli "urli", ma è noioso. La struttura del gioco è noiosa. E' un rpg spaziale, e non è presente minimamente esplorazione. Il gameplay loop è continuamente un: - Ascolta NPC che ti da la missione - Apri menù, viaggio rapido - Spara a qualcosa - Apri menù, viaggio rapido - Riscuoti ricompensa da npc Sempre così, l'esplorazione è pressoché inutile, a differenza di skyrim dove eri in una singola mappa e andando in giro ti piovevano missioni e scoprivi segreti, qua ci sono tante aeree con un punto di interesse principale e deglii elementi extra che si ripetono e servono solo per trovare oggetti e forse qualche attività secondaria. L'esplorazione dello spazio è inutile e disincentivata, dato che per andare nello spazio devi passare da un menù, e per atterrare idem, anche se hanno introdotto delle migliorie. Nello spazio poi non c'è assolutamente niente. Infine, proprio perché il viaggio spaziale è inutilmente tedioso, il viaggio rapido lo si può fare anche nelle località che non si è ancora scoperte. Di conseguenza non c'è nessun incentivo a esplorare, ma solo fare un viaggio rapido tramite un menù. E' la definizione esatta di gioco da fattorini, dove devi andare da punto A a punto B e poi tornare a punto A, solo che qua il viaggio è 90% fatto tramite il menù del viaggio rapido. Lo scopo di un gioco dovrebbe essere divertire, e questo fallisce miseramente

just not a good game. extremely boring and empty, outdated engine, bad combat, not nearly enough unique items, slow quests

Con solo 16 horas me está encantando, aunque hay algunas mecánicas que aún tengo que aprender, pero sé que va a ser un juego que al igual que otras sagas de Bethesda, voy a disfrutar varios cientos de horas. :)