Starfield

I’m having a blast as well. I’m getting sidetracked by all the random side missions and activities that I’m 16 hours in and still haven’t really completed the first main storyline mission. I had to figure things out that would have been taught to me during that mission apparently.

My only issue is resources and modding. Carrying all that crap around on the off chance I need it is killing my carry capacity.

Otherwise I’m just blasting through space and enjoying the dialog and pickpocketing/stealing everything I see. Good times.

I mean, once I got past the whole "Here, take my starship and utility bot. It's cool. I'll just stay here with these miners who're now hunted by a notoriously bloodthirsty merc group. Have fun!"... Sure. 🤦🏼‍♂️

That sorry excuse for writing is how you begin your groundbreaking game, Bethesda? Truly? 🙄

Absolutely loving it. Constantly getting sidetracked, missions, helping folk, I've even been enjoying surveying planets. Although I will definitely need the skills to make that quicker an easier.

No Man's Sky was the biggest disappointment I've ever experienced as a gamer. Mining to build something to refine something you mined to make a part you need to mine something to fuel. So boring.

Yes, but I'm glad my expectations were lowered before I played it since it was hyped up to be more than just another open world Bethesda game. It's fun for what it is and I really appreciate that being encumbered doesn't reduce your run speed, it just makes your stamina (oxygen) lower as if you were sprinting. I've been able to realize my dream of looting absolutely every piece of garbage (that isn't marked as stealing) and selling it when I get back to a city, whereas in previous Bethesda games I had to actually be selective in what I took.

I'm having too much choice paralysis. 😵‍💫

I will spend hours just wandering aimlessly looking for things to do end up with 20 missions and not want to do any of them because along the way I learn something new that's possible and seek to check that out. I've just been bouncing around 3 or 4 star systems going between Mars, New Atlantis, Neon and Akila and feel like I've barely scraped the surface.

It's fun to notice the tropes, though. Its like they just took everything from sci-fi they thought was cool and shoved it into one game. You've got the Star Trek planet, the Cyberpunk planet, the Firefly planet, a faction that's basically Starship Troopers, the NCR Rangers from Fallout (everyone thought they were so cool), evil corporations filled with snappy dressers... I'm sure there's gotta be a derelict ship or station that has a terramorph infestation that is going to be basically Alien/Aliens (and I can't wait to find it). As a huge sci-fi fan, I appreciate the hell outta this game for the nerdgasm it gives me.

I love No Mans Sky, and still play it regularly today.

I am also really enjoying Starfield - I am glad they are different games as I wouldn’t want what would amount to playing the same game, slightly differently skinned.

Overall, really enjoying it. I have seen complaints that basically amount to “its another bethesda experience” which isn’t necessarily wrong, but I do enjoy their games in general.

I am approximately 15 hours into the game

I'm 17 hours in so far and really enjoying the game. For a short moment at the beginning I was a bit annoyed because I couldn't find the last resource to scan on a planet to get 100%. But the next day I said screw that and continued the main quest and I'm having a blast since then. The game is exactly how I imagined it. The only thing I wished was that they would used small cutscenes more to hide loading screens.

I'm nearly 50 hours in already (and haven't played at all today, yet 😎) and having so much fun with the game, barely even touched the main story because I'm so fixated on rebuilding my ship constantly

I'm like 30+ hours in and it's all I'm thinking about at work rn. That doesn't always happen, few games hook me like that. Halo 2/3 from MS/HS, probably Skyrim to an extent, ESO (forever and always apparently, cause I'm still playing that amongst Starfield), and now this. And it's all aspects. I want to build my ship, I want to do my outposts and crafting, I want to explore planets to find needed resources, gear, and weapons, I want to finish the main story, and the side quests (and I'm actually agonizing over which side I want to go with). Menus are weird, but it barely detracts. If anything it helps me get where I need to go quickly, the travel to objective feature is awesome for someone like me who couldn't find New Atlantis at one point because I forgot which system it was in.

I'm debating bringing my Xbox with me to a friend's house for a weekend trip so we can play there.

I'm definitely bringing it, who am I kidding?

Im having a lot of fun, running around the planets trying to find new locations, I want to start building bases because I have so many followers I cant assign to stuff

Also has anyone else been having a flickering screen issue on PC? I turned off film grain but that didn't seem to help.

Edit: figured it out. Turning off FreeSync fixed the issue. Not sure why it was causing an issue but whatever.

I'm loving the game for it being finally a Bethesda game in a setting I actually enjoy.

And, No Man's Sky tickles a completely different itch for me.

Super fun, I wish I could fly around in atmosphere.

I realize now that is asking a lot since the game is almost completely instanced instead of free roam.

But the naysayers from early access have been proven wrong. The game actually runs fantastic on my 3080 (despite my processor necking the system), at 60-70 fps with everything on ultra and scaling down to 80%.