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Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don't put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It would seem so to me. When there’s a big disparity across the ratings - positive and negative are similar on metacritic with little in between - it raises a lot of red flags to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno dude, I've heard a lot of people have legit complaints about the game, especially on PC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For PC, game optimization is very inconsitent. When I'm in a smaller space like a dungeon or the Constellation Lodge, it's actually pretty great and runs smoothly. When I go into the city though, the framerate is terrible. The graphics also become significantly worse. So yeah, wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those negative reviews are from PC players having to deal with Bethesda jank again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People also need to stop calling 40fps unplayable. They expect their 3050 to run every game at 120fps on Ultra.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Uh no. People are barely doing 30 fps in the lowest settings with this game

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's reasonable to expect high framerates in 2023. If people want the game to run smooth there's nothing wrong with that. Hell, doom eternal was a Bethesda game and it looked gorgeous and ran like butter, so we know they can pull it off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bethesda was the publisher of Doom Eternal and had nothing to do with the engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair point. But still, if the doom eternal engine puts theirs to shame so easily, maybe they should have done some more work on their engine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people also seem to not know that you can't just spend 80% of your budget on a graphics card and buy whatever CPU you can afford with whatever is left.

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

I have a 3080 and the game runs noticeably worse in the cities than it does in small rooms. And that's with everything at low-medium and 75% rendering resolution which seems ridiculous. And the game doesn't even look that good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard the game is bottlenecked by the CPU. What do you have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a ryzen 3900x. It's never been the bottleneck for me before. I can have 20 applications open while playing most games without a hiccup.

I have high standards, but still, there's no reason starfield should perform so much worse than other modern games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I know there are, I’m not saying otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nah. There are good reasons to love and hate the game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure if it's evidence of organized review bombing. but yeah, it seems like most people are just being as extreme as possible because they know it's a scale of averages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems like a standard reviewing to me. Now go look at The Last of Us Part 2, now that game is truly review bombed.

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

I dunno, TLoU2 definitely got it harder but there’s still that massive gap in middle range reviews (see image) that made me question it with Starfield.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s because it’s Metacritic, people only rate in 10s and 0s. Look at Baldurs Gate even. It’s 75/2/21 split.

Regardless, People diss on pro journal reviews, but user reviews are 100x worse, I have never relied on them except for Steam Reviews.