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I am one of the 10 people on earth who really enjoyed playing Starfield. The space combat seemed like a love letter to the old Wing Commander series, the art design was beautiful, there was a lot of fun content. I think i made it to NG7 before they took it off the free to play. When it's on sale i can't wait to grab it.
by comparison i hated The Outer Worlds which was the first 'it's like fallout in space!' that was promised so i was tickled when Starfield actually was like fallout in space.
I really like it until I started having problems with what I think must have been save bloating, making it more and more difficult to save. Which in turn made me quite until a possible fix as I didn't want to risk the save becoming unplayable.
Then I played other things and sort of forgot to check if it was fixed, but I still really liked the game.
I tried The Outer Worlds but couldn't stand it.
I felt that Starfield was good with the potential to be great (with enough added content, which they haven't done yet, but here's hoping).
The Outer Worlds, on the other hand, feels like it pretty much reached its limit. It's a better game vanilla, since it has more content and far less empty space, but I don't think that there's any more they could really have done with it. Not quite great, but definitely worth playing.
And the "Fallout in space" line references the overall vibe of TOW, with '50s-'60s style culture and advertising. Starfield has Fallout's mechanics, but it's more of a Star Trek or Firefly aesthetic, depending on where you are.
Overall, I enjoyed my experience with Starfield. I just wish I didn't spend half of my time trying to build the optimal bases for trading hubs. Apart from that, everything was good
I can understand someone complaining that it wasn't Fallout 5, but I definitely think it deserved a higher Steam rating.
To be honest, I think it had a decent chance to be Fallout 5, but in space. Maybe if they doubled the number of companions (read: not followers) and put all the new ones in different factions. I honestly expected the lady who pulls you into the gang in the ocean city would be a follower with how fleshed out she was
The bases were interesting! Getting an interplanetary production system going took some figuring and i never got an inter-system network up. If the mod scene keeps going for it they sure have a lot to work with!
I enjoyed it for a while, but the whole ng+, while pretty cool, really killed it for me. My first playthrough I made bases, upgraded weapons, etc. Then I learned about all the cool perks you got from ng+ and did that. The problem is you lose all your bases and material farms. So you're in this weird spot of having to bum rush all 10 universes to get the maximum benefit before actually setting up any significant settlements. I burned out quick. Also a bunch of the powers are underwhelming, and space travel is DOGSHIT. NMS, elite dangerous, hell even star citizen are space games. Starfield is NOT.