Late-arriving review copies are not uncommon, but access this far behind so many other outlets is extremely unusual - particularly for a game of Starfield's promience. It has, thankfully, been a very long time since Eurogamer was impacted by a similar situation, and cases such as this are very rare across the industry. We look forward to playing Starfield and providing the quality and breadth of coverage you expect and deserve.
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Expectations for Starfield were sky-high, and while many felt it fell short of them, raw sales and other statistics tell a different tale.
Agreed. I'd love to know the budget on this one to be honest. What was it? 6-8 years in development?
Howard said this game had been a concept for 25 years. Let that sink in.
The ship building is kinda cool... And that's about it. In all seriousness, I don't think it's a bad game, but violently mediocre with some really head-scratching choices that made me go "why" rather than "wow" more often than not.
Same here. Not saying it's the best they've ever released, but the hate it gets is pretty absurd. I've been completely enjoying the 50 or so hours I've dropped into it.
To be fair, I have yet to play a single Bethesda game that I found enjoyable. The whole "talking to cardboard cutouts from the uncanny valley" thing is tolerable in games like Mass Effect, but it loses me completely in Bethesda titles.
I'll never forget advertised as an open world sandbox game but you run into invisible Star Trek barriers when exploring. GTA has never done that and neither has No Man's Sky. If people love this game good for them I am not touching it. And if Microsoft does say port this game to Playstation I am still not touching this game.
I started playing a few weeks ago and am enjoying it thoroughly. Perfect, absolutely not. Yet it's nowhere near as bad as what people make it out to be. Plenty of quests to get side tracked with. The gunplay has been tightened up significantly in my opinion since Fallout 4. I originally listened to the online crowd absolutely crap on the game and made me curious to see if it was that bad. It's not. It's a good and fun game. It just didn't live up to the developer hype and peoples expectations. Which wouldn't be the first time Bethesda, or Microsoft promised the world, and gave us the moon.
I will say that the beginning few story missions really kind of drag, but once you unlock powers it picks up. I think that first few hours soured a lot of folks who left it behind before really digging in to it. Which is understandable.
First few hours??? How about the first 130 hours according to the developers. Need to get past 130hrs to start enjoying the game.
Bethesda may have just dropped a major hint regarding the upcoming Shattered Space DLC for its action role-playing game, Starfield.
Only 10/10 reviews are allowed :D
It's almost like MS & Bethesda don't want Eurogamer's or Digital Foundry's opinion out there affecting day one sales.
Which would imply if they expected good reviews then they would have supplied game codes in plenty of time.
I mean, if it's as amazing as it's being hyped up to be, why not supply an early code to one of the more prominent Xbox flag waving review sites?
DF got theirs... Eurogamer will just have to wait.
I think this landing zone stuff is going to hurt the exploration amazment of the game, and lower review scores. This seems like an attempt to weed out critical reviewers from embargo day reviews.
I always feel like people are insecure about their product when they wait exactly till release to drop reviews, but then again, it’s early access. So, those who didn’t pay extra for a Digital Deluxe edition will get to see reviews and unedited streams to make up their mind before the “public” release.