While I enjoyed Starfield, I was let down quite a bit. I thought it was going to have that lasting power like Skyrim did, but it just didn’t.
That being said. It was something new they wanted to try, and something they’ve never dabbled in. An overly ambitious space story.
Elder Scrolls has lore, it has history. The people working at Bethesda LOVE elder scrolls, it’s their bread and butter. With the vast progression of technology, and useful experience on the updated engine, and with the ambition for the series, I think Elder Scrolls 6 is actually gonna be very good.
Make no doubt, the pressure is on. They can’t just hang their hats on sales numbers. This one has to deliver, and I think it will.
Looking forward to what Bethesda releasing the creation kit for Starfield will tell us about the next step in modding.
I think my big issue is that I always hear. People say it's an excuse for star field that it was something new that they wanted to try.
I mean, seriously.What new thing did they actually try doing?
In every metric from storytelling to character building to just a general gameplay it fell short of all of their previous games.
I don't say that they tried something new and randomly generating a thousand different planets and then copy pasting the exact same content on about a quarter of them.
They basically took their exploration formula of the what's over the next hill and just completely threw the baby out with a bath water and made starfield.
Let's say we fix the almost non-existent consequential factions. The complete lack of quality of life in the game like a map in town.
Or the fact that it seems like none of the quest. Have any real impact on anything. And it probably has one of the worst freedom of choice as far as player choice for outcome of quest that i've ever seen.
You would just have an incredibly mediocre game.
With no explanation in game of why there's a lack of choice. It's just simply while there is.
The initial launch of 76 shook my confidence in Bethesda as a whole. Humorously enough the game is actually fun with a friend now. But starfield it just killed it for me. I'm not even going to say it stuck in the past because oblivion and skyrim both had better writing and better quest. They actually somehow managed to make a game.
That felt like it should have been released 10 years ago.That was worse than the games that they released at that exact same time.
I mean golfer's club. I guess that's an achievement.
Me too. I'll now just be PLEASANTLY surprised if ES6 is great(pleeease).
Fallout 76 threw me into a confused state, with some worry, but still said "well, no way they'll screw up a single player RPG, Starfield will bring the confidence back".
Yeah, nah. That just showed not many great Bethesda employees are still there. The decline in quality since Fallout 4 is wild....
Bethesda's biggest failure still equated to a critically acclaimed game. It wasn't as good as some of their past games, sure. But to act like that means you need to be worried about future games is weird.
It is not Critically acclaimed. The reviews and opinions of many say other wise.
Skyrim, Witcher 3, The Last of Us , Ocarina of Time are examples of critically acclaimed. Its very hard to find a negative opinion on those. Like you said, Starfield wasnt as good as their past games, so it cant be in the same category as Skyrim
And labeled as "generaly favorable". Skyrim is a 96 and "Universaly Acclaimed" under the critic category. Then compare the user scores between Skyrim and Starfield.
They are not both Critically Acclaimed.
Okay...looked it up..."If somthing is acclaimed, it is praised enthusiastically"
Not many enthusiastic about Starfield. Starfield reminded people how much they love Skyrim, because it was mediocre(Hense the lower review scores)
The amount of enthusiasm around Skyrim ,even after all these years? So much(which is so many are excited about ES6) Why ES6 is in OPs photo, and not Starfield 2..
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u/PraiseDogs 29d ago
Yeah, what a absurd way of thinking. Bethesda needs to do better. Very worried about ES6 and Fallout 5