Star Field is very expansive when it comes to exploration, it's essentially fallout but in space, with the cool customization option of customizing your ship, choosing Traits to make your character unique with benefits and detriments as well.
The game has it's typical Bethesda format of gameplay similar to that of Skyrim or Fallout however adds more uniqueness with the world.
Collecting loot throughout the galaxy obtaining better weapons and space suits based upon rarity is fun, but randomized of course. Joining the different factions in the game is also really cool like joining the VANGUARD (FUTURE MODERN ARMY), FREE STAR RANGERS (SPACE REDNICK HILLBILLY COWBOYS), RYUJIN INDUSTRIES, CRIMSON FLEET, or SYS DEFS. Going on fun Side missions that hopefully don't break
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The companions within this game are all really likeable, with the best ones being Andreja and Sarah (which funfact you are able to marry both if you marry Andreja first, and later romance Sarah, and later convince Andreja to let you be married to both of them, and boom 2 wives :D ) Then you have Sam Coe who has his daughter, and Barret who is funny and has his robot friend Vasco.
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The story revolves around you starting your quest in a mining group finding a mysterious artifact and later leaving after being attacked by the Crimson Fleet, and later going to NEW ATLANTIS in order to join Sarah Morgan and Co in order to solve the mystery of the Artifacts.
After joining you go on several adventures to different Solar systems, obtaining more artifacts and gaining powers after visiting Temples within the game. Even though these powers are really cool to use, unlike Skyrim where you find yourself using them most of the time or some times, here you can honestly forget you have powers if your weapons are legendary.
Story essentially has you meet this group called "THE STAR BORN" who we find out are Humans who have traveled the multiverse. You can side with the Hunter or the Emissary who have differing perspectives on who should be allowed to control the multiverse, or you can tell them both to screw off and be god yourself.
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Here comes the biggest issue with Starfield....
IF YOU INVESTED SO MUCH TIME COLLECTING WEAPONS, OUTFITS, SPACE SUITS, RANDOM OBJECTS, HEALING ITEMS, PREPARE TO SAY GOODBYE TO ALL OF THAT WORK AND HOURS YOU SPENT, ALONG WITH ALL THE DATA FROM PLANETS SURVEYED.... PREPARE TO SAY GOODBYE BECAUSE THE WAY THE GAME WORKS IS AN INFINITE TIMELOOP OF DIFFERING CONSEQUENCES AND TIMELINES/MULTIVERSES. SOOOO IF YOU WASTED ALL YOUR TIME SAMPLING ALL PLANETS IN ALL THE SOLAR SYSTEMS WITHIN THE MILK WAY. CONGRATS, YOU'VE JUST WASTED YOUR TIME.
Want to know the best part? You can do it OVER... AND OVER... AND OVER AGAIN. And yeah sure, you can do different things as the timelines repeat, but legit the only real significant change is how the game starts, in the sense when you travel to NEW ATLANTIS you have a RNG chance of something unique happening to Constellation, like having all of them be killed by an Evil Andreja, or Sam Coe's daughter as a Star born kill everybody, or meeting a voice acted version of yourself that can become your companion (Not romancible though), etc. (really there's 9 different possible ways of starting, 1 being very rare)
As cool as the resets are, as someone who spent a lot of time in the first timeline, it's really demoralizing to be told "screw you, you lose everything, yeah sure you get a cool armor and ship, but all those legendary weapons, armor, and guns you collected along with your money and healing items you can say BYE BYE TO THEM!"
Really they should've just kept all the things within the infinite Safe in CONSTELLATION regardless if you travel to a new multiverse. But no, that specific choice made by Bethesda made me put my hands up after beating it the first time and say "I'm done, I'm happy with all I've seen, but I am not doing that all over again, I would gladly do it if you let me keep all the stuff I spent so much time doing... but no, you took it away, and as much fun as I had, you removed my motivation to want to keep playing over and over again cause you took away all my hard work."
This game makes you feel like all you've done in the first play through is a waste of time... atleast for me. It made me legit stop playing after beating the first time. Because as cool as the new RANDOM CHANCE new starts are, It makes you feel like you wasted your time... ESPECIALLY IF YOU SPENT SO MUCH TIME SURVEYING PLANETS LIKE WTF BETHESDA. You can do this 10 times and the only thing that changes is you get a new Starborn suit that depending on the RESET NUMBER gets a new apparel indicating how many resets you've done, and a new Starborn ship... you still lose everything you've done.
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Another big issues is lack of resolution for a big part of the game called "NEON CITY" where a man named Benjamin Bayu becomes a corrupt president over the place, and you think with all the different side missions you do, you'd be able to finally confront the asshole and essentially do a "VIVA LA REVOLUTION!" but no... you NEVER GET TO KILL HIM AND SOLVE THE CORRUPTION OF NEON CITY.
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THE HUGEST ISSUE IS: the bugs in this game. A lot of storylines in terms of side missions can just bug out because you decided to go somewhere too early... or just randomly stop for no reason. Like the Ryujin Industries storyline, or the VANGUARD storyline after I went to TOLIMAN TOO EARLY SO THE STORYLINE STOPPED AFTER BRINGING BACK THE ROBOT. OR SAM COE'S STORYLINE CAUSING ME TO GET STUCK HAVING TO RELOAD A SAVE FROM 5 HOURS BEFORE. And while some of these issues can be resolved on PC with commands... if you're on XBOX SERIES X like me you're screwed.
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I swear I hope when they update the game they fix those issues along with having an option to take all of your stuff when you decide to RESET the Universe along with the ships we customized. I know that in the future they're adding DLC... but I swear BETHESDA really needs to understand that when something feels unsatisfactory to the player where it feels like their time was wasted... it makes you want to stop playing. And I while I did enjoy my time with the game and explored everything needed to be explored... to have the game essentially tell me "all that hard work you did was for nothing when you decide to travel the multiverse" really kills the motivation.
At first I had this at 4 Stars... but honestly with the way the game treats you after you've done everything, along with quest breaking bugs, NEON CITY with Benjamin Bayu's Corruption never getting a proper resolution... I have to drop it down to a 3.5. 3.5 is fair because when I had fun... I REALLY HAD FUN.
Really hope updates rectify the issues I have with it, if not at the very least when MOD SUPPORT arrives in 2024, players will do it.
The game has it's typical Bethesda format of gameplay similar to that of Skyrim or Fallout however adds more uniqueness with the world.
Collecting loot throughout the galaxy obtaining better weapons and space suits based upon rarity is fun, but randomized of course. Joining the different factions in the game is also really cool like joining the VANGUARD (FUTURE MODERN ARMY), FREE STAR RANGERS (SPACE REDNICK HILLBILLY COWBOYS), RYUJIN INDUSTRIES, CRIMSON FLEET, or SYS DEFS. Going on fun Side missions that hopefully don't break
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The companions within this game are all really likeable, with the best ones being Andreja and Sarah (which funfact you are able to marry both if you marry Andreja first, and later romance Sarah, and later convince Andreja to let you be married to both of them, and boom 2 wives :D ) Then you have Sam Coe who has his daughter, and Barret who is funny and has his robot friend Vasco.
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The story revolves around you starting your quest in a mining group finding a mysterious artifact and later leaving after being attacked by the Crimson Fleet, and later going to NEW ATLANTIS in order to join Sarah Morgan and Co in order to solve the mystery of the Artifacts.
After joining you go on several adventures to different Solar systems, obtaining more artifacts and gaining powers after visiting Temples within the game. Even though these powers are really cool to use, unlike Skyrim where you find yourself using them most of the time or some times, here you can honestly forget you have powers if your weapons are legendary.
Story essentially has you meet this group called "THE STAR BORN" who we find out are Humans who have traveled the multiverse. You can side with the Hunter or the Emissary who have differing perspectives on who should be allowed to control the multiverse, or you can tell them both to screw off and be god yourself.
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Here comes the biggest issue with Starfield....
IF YOU INVESTED SO MUCH TIME COLLECTING WEAPONS, OUTFITS, SPACE SUITS, RANDOM OBJECTS, HEALING ITEMS, PREPARE TO SAY GOODBYE TO ALL OF THAT WORK AND HOURS YOU SPENT, ALONG WITH ALL THE DATA FROM PLANETS SURVEYED.... PREPARE TO SAY GOODBYE BECAUSE THE WAY THE GAME WORKS IS AN INFINITE TIMELOOP OF DIFFERING CONSEQUENCES AND TIMELINES/MULTIVERSES. SOOOO IF YOU WASTED ALL YOUR TIME SAMPLING ALL PLANETS IN ALL THE SOLAR SYSTEMS WITHIN THE MILK WAY. CONGRATS, YOU'VE JUST WASTED YOUR TIME.
Want to know the best part? You can do it OVER... AND OVER... AND OVER AGAIN. And yeah sure, you can do different things as the timelines repeat, but legit the only real significant change is how the game starts, in the sense when you travel to NEW ATLANTIS you have a RNG chance of something unique happening to Constellation, like having all of them be killed by an Evil Andreja, or Sam Coe's daughter as a Star born kill everybody, or meeting a voice acted version of yourself that can become your companion (Not romancible though), etc. (really there's 9 different possible ways of starting, 1 being very rare)
As cool as the resets are, as someone who spent a lot of time in the first timeline, it's really demoralizing to be told "screw you, you lose everything, yeah sure you get a cool armor and ship, but all those legendary weapons, armor, and guns you collected along with your money and healing items you can say BYE BYE TO THEM!"
Really they should've just kept all the things within the infinite Safe in CONSTELLATION regardless if you travel to a new multiverse. But no, that specific choice made by Bethesda made me put my hands up after beating it the first time and say "I'm done, I'm happy with all I've seen, but I am not doing that all over again, I would gladly do it if you let me keep all the stuff I spent so much time doing... but no, you took it away, and as much fun as I had, you removed my motivation to want to keep playing over and over again cause you took away all my hard work."
This game makes you feel like all you've done in the first play through is a waste of time... atleast for me. It made me legit stop playing after beating the first time. Because as cool as the new RANDOM CHANCE new starts are, It makes you feel like you wasted your time... ESPECIALLY IF YOU SPENT SO MUCH TIME SURVEYING PLANETS LIKE WTF BETHESDA. You can do this 10 times and the only thing that changes is you get a new Starborn suit that depending on the RESET NUMBER gets a new apparel indicating how many resets you've done, and a new Starborn ship... you still lose everything you've done.
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Another big issues is lack of resolution for a big part of the game called "NEON CITY" where a man named Benjamin Bayu becomes a corrupt president over the place, and you think with all the different side missions you do, you'd be able to finally confront the asshole and essentially do a "VIVA LA REVOLUTION!" but no... you NEVER GET TO KILL HIM AND SOLVE THE CORRUPTION OF NEON CITY.
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THE HUGEST ISSUE IS: the bugs in this game. A lot of storylines in terms of side missions can just bug out because you decided to go somewhere too early... or just randomly stop for no reason. Like the Ryujin Industries storyline, or the VANGUARD storyline after I went to TOLIMAN TOO EARLY SO THE STORYLINE STOPPED AFTER BRINGING BACK THE ROBOT. OR SAM COE'S STORYLINE CAUSING ME TO GET STUCK HAVING TO RELOAD A SAVE FROM 5 HOURS BEFORE. And while some of these issues can be resolved on PC with commands... if you're on XBOX SERIES X like me you're screwed.
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I swear I hope when they update the game they fix those issues along with having an option to take all of your stuff when you decide to RESET the Universe along with the ships we customized. I know that in the future they're adding DLC... but I swear BETHESDA really needs to understand that when something feels unsatisfactory to the player where it feels like their time was wasted... it makes you want to stop playing. And I while I did enjoy my time with the game and explored everything needed to be explored... to have the game essentially tell me "all that hard work you did was for nothing when you decide to travel the multiverse" really kills the motivation.
At first I had this at 4 Stars... but honestly with the way the game treats you after you've done everything, along with quest breaking bugs, NEON CITY with Benjamin Bayu's Corruption never getting a proper resolution... I have to drop it down to a 3.5. 3.5 is fair because when I had fun... I REALLY HAD FUN.
Really hope updates rectify the issues I have with it, if not at the very least when MOD SUPPORT arrives in 2024, players will do it.