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Alex Battaglia tests the new beta version of Starfield on PC, showing off improvements to HDR and CPU performance plus …

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Cool, maybe I'll pick it up in a year or three when it's like $5 for the GOTY edition. I heard it's a pretty bland game though, so maybe not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's still a good time, just not for a long time.

They made a huge universe and then filled it all with copies of a very small subset of items. It feels like Fallout/Skyrim/etc had a lot more unique content on launch even though the 'world' of starfield is technically a lot larger and that makes it feel even emptier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems like instead of making 1000 procedurally generated planets, they should have made maybe 10 handcrafted planets you could traverse and find things tucked away to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but would have required effort and like, taken a while. They had their poor shareholders to think of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe by the time I get around to playing it, there'll be enough mods and updates that it becomes sustained fun.

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