Tolga Cetiner

Fair warning: I only played a few hours of this game, but in my opinion, that’s enough. I had no long standing expectations for this game, I did not even know what starfield was until a few days before release. I was a little bit hyped because I generally like Bethesda games and I like space. Well, I was disappointed. It’s not bad, per se, it’s just boring. So I boot up the game and I’m greeted with an underwhelming title screen. Whatever, I start the game. I am immediately hit with graphical glitches, something I almost never encounter on my console. It’s extremely distracting as the whole screen pixelates and freezes every minute or so. Anyways, the coloring is so drab. It’s worse than fallout 4, it’s extremely monotone. One color throughout. The mine is all brown. The first few worlds are all gray. It looks devoid of life, like a shell of a game. And to be given a laser gun only for it to pass through some NPCs… This is a bad sign of what’s to come. There is no choice, there is no “role play”. You can say “I don’t want to leave” and you are still forced to leave the starting planet. I am not exaggerating when I say this game is a menu simulator. You MUST spend at least a third of your time, maybe even more, in the menus because it’s required to travel. That’s right, in a game about exploring SPACE you travel not through a spaceship, but through a fast travel menu. Space is just an in between for loading screens to get to planets. Bethesda somehow managed to make No Man’s Sky look like a masterpiece, something that is hard to achieve. After the first few main missions I quit the game and could not bring myself to return. It’s extremely boring, go here scan this, do ten loading screens to fight generic enemies, etc. Speech doesn’t matter, it’s more of a convenience but dialogue is BLAND just like EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS GAME. I never thought it was possible for a game to lack so much personality. Fallout 4 had its problems, but it at least had the previous entries in the series to draw inspiration and lore from. It is soulless, and even if it gets better later, it’s not worth playing. The first few hours of your game are the MOST IMPORTANT, if the player has to slog through hours of tedious gameplay to get to “the good stuff” then your game is bad. This is the biggest failure since Fallout 76 (however nothing can quite reach the level of mismanagement that was that train wreck). Bethesda has set a precedent twice now. They will crank out bad games to make money off of us. I got this through game pass, so it’s no skin off my back. But DO NOT EVER PAY MONEY FOR THIS GAME. Bethesda deserves to have its pockets hurt after the stuff they have pulled…