I was SO wrong about Starfield - AMAZING Game

So I've been playing Starfield for about

between 20 and 30 hours, and I feel like

this game is actually not as bad as

everyone is saying. When I first started

playing the game, I have to admit it did

feel pretty janky, didn't really feel very

smooth, and I was struggling to find where

the fun in the game was. But after playing

it for quite a long time now, I'm starting

to realize that this is actually not a bad

game. So if you're just going to focus on

the main story and blitz through the game

as quickly as possible, then probably you

can finish the game in like 30 or 40

hours, and you might not get an amazing

experience because the main story probably

isn't that interesting. I'm not going to

spoil the story because I haven't actually

gotten very far into the main story

because I've been too busy and preoccupied

doing the side quests. There's a lot of

things you can do in the game that you

don't really have to do. They're just like

little side things such as upgrading your

weapons, buying a house, decorating your

house, upgrading your ship, buying

different parts for your ship. And all

this requires skill points and money that

will take quite a lot of time to be able

to aim towards those goals and achieve

those goals. And I do have some personal

goals, such as I want to pay off the

mortgage on my house, and I want to

upgrade my pistol with a magnetic rail

barrel, or whatever it's called. But I

don't have enough points in weapon

engineering, so I need to level up more to

get points for weapon engineering, and I

need to collect some materials in order to

upgrade my pistol. So I feel like I'm very

busy trying to achieve these little side

quests or these side achievements that

aren't really necessary to do the main

story. I could just ignore all that and

just head straight for the main quest and

finish the game in maybe a weekend, but

then that will kind of suck out all the

fun of the game. I don't really feel like

Starfield is the kind of game where you

can just sit back and let the game show

you what's fun or give you a good time.

You kind of have to not depend on the game

to be able to give you a good time. You

have to go and search for your own good

times in the game by having your own goals

and having things in the game that you

want to achieve. For example, you could

dedicate hundreds of hours towards just

the shipbuilding mechanics and being like

an ace pilot, and building the best,

coolest ship you could ever think of and

filling it out with an amazing crew and

then doing all these kind of space

missions and bounty hunting missions that

happen in space. Or you could just

completely ignore the shipbuilding and

spaceflight aspects of the game, just use

fast travel to get everywhere, and you

wouldn't even have to touch the

shipbuilding mechanics of the game even

once. The point is you have the choice to

be able to really get stuck into one

aspect of the game, which I believe the

shipbuilding aspects of the game is

Probably one of the best parts of the game

and very unique to Starfield. One thing

I'm really enjoying right now is disabling

a ship's engines and then boarding the

enemy ship and then just taking out their

crew and then stealing everything they

have on the ship. Usually they'll have

thousands of credits in the cargo hold and

a bunch of other useful things, and then

you can actually steal their ship and then

go and sell the ship at some dockyard. So

I feel like that's pretty fun and that

could be an entire game on its own. Sure,

there are some disappointing things about

the game, like there's way too many

loading screens. You can't really have

true freedom with flying your ship around

to the surface of a planet and back into

space. Also, the combat mechanics with the

guns and the gunplay is not exactly that

deep. You just kind of shoot at the enemy.

The enemy AI is kind of dumb. They just

stand around getting shot at. They don't

even try to take cover. And there's not

really an extensive in-depth skill tree

that you could make your own playstyle

with. So either you just use like a gun

you've got, which is your favorite gun— do

you like long range or snipers or pistols

or I don't know, like a melee weapon.

It's not very complex of a, of a combat

system. And although the quests, most of

the quests can be kind of boring, a lot of

people say that it's just like a fetch

quest, run here, run there, talk to these

people. But sometimes talking to these

characters can be quite enjoyable, and you

do have quite a lot of options when it

comes to how you interact with all of the

characters. You could either be honest,

or you could lie to them and just come up

with some straight-up complete lie Which

is kind of funny sometimes, or you can try

and persuade them using your social

skills, or you could even bribe them using

money to get them to do something you

want, or you can threaten them and even

attack them. So depending on what kind of

person you want to be in this galaxy, it

really is up to you, and you do get a lot

of flexibility with how you progress the

storylines. You want to lie to them or

persuade them, or, you know, be the good

guy and be honest. I think it's pretty

interesting how all of the quests give you

a lot of options to how you handle the

situation. For example, so I had to do

this side quest where I had to hunt down

this guy who was hiding on someone else's

ship, and I had so many different options.

I could either just blow up the ship with

my ship, I could lie to them and board

their ship and pretend to be friendly and

then attack them inside of their own ship,

or I could just talk to them and persuade

them to ditch the guy on some planets and

pretend they never met him. So many other

people in reviews are saying, oh, the

game's boring, too much talking, Too many

characters you have to interact with, too

many loading screens, the combat's not

really interesting. And these people

probably don't know what gaming was like

back in the '90s. Back in the '90s, when

point-and-click adventures were really

popular, games like Broken Sword, Monkey

Island, Grim Fandango were all about

talking to characters. People these days

just don't know how to enjoy games like

that anymore. It's like people just

completely lost the patience to be able to

just read and interact with characters in

a game. So to be able to truly enjoy this

game, you really need to have some

patience and give the dialogue a chance

and actually read or listen to what the

other characters are saying so that the

side quests and the main quest can feel

even slightly interesting. And then when

you couple that with having the ability to

be able to interact with these characters

in so many different ways, then it really

does make the game quite interesting. Now

obviously the game has quite a lot of

glitches and bugs right now, and the

performance on certain machines isn't

exactly optimal. But eventually they're

going to release fixes and patches, and

all these bugs will get squashed out. It

will just take some time. Again, people

need to have some patience. And then

people are saying there's loads of

planets, but they're all really bland and

boring and empty to explore. But what do

you expect? I mean, planets in the

universe in real life are also just barren

wastelands of nothing because there's no

people there and there's no buildings

there. So obviously there's going to be

nothing there. But that isn't where the

fun of the exploration of the game comes

in. I don't really care about all the

planets, but what I do find interesting

are things like the different settlements,

the abandoned star yards and space

stations dotted around the galaxies, and

also the inhabited star systems where you

can just board it, explore it, talk to the

people, maybe attack them or steal from

them. So even though all of the planets

are basically pretty boring and bland, I

still feel like there's a lot of

interesting places to explore and loot and

pillage and have some cool gunfights. The

game's only been out about 6 days for

early access, and it only just came out

today for everyone. So you got to give the

game a chance. Most games are not

amazingly perfect on day one. Give it a

few months or a year, and I feel like this

game could be really special, especially

with people modding the game. There's

going to be some really cool mods coming

out soon, and some of the bugs have

actually already been fixed with a few

mods. And I know I spent a lot of money on

this game to be able to have the privilege

of playing early access, but I really do

feel like I could easily spend over 1,000

hours on playing this game just on my

first playthrough. I think the problem was

the game was hyped up way too much, and

watching the promotional marketing videos

before the game came out made it seem like

the game was going to be so amazing and

revolutionary and groundbreaking, and

people got their expectations up way too

high. And the problem is Todd Howard and

the Bethesda team are just too good at

marketing and too good at overhyping their

own products, and it's actually at the

detriment to their own game because if

they just played it normal and didn't

overhype the game so much, then people

would probably have much lower

expectations and be able to enjoy the game

as it is right now much more. So after

playing the game for nearly 40 hours, I

would have to change my initial score of

6.2 out of 10 to maybe a 7.2 out of

10. It is growing on me, and I do find

myself really enjoying the game and

wanting to play all day long. So if it's

able to do that to me, then I feel like it

must be a pretty good game.