He’s setting himself up for disappointment if he’s expecting Starfield to be the next Skyrim. He’ll be lucky if it’s the next Fallout 4.

That’s plenty of time to generate more barren planets for players to walk around in and go “You know, I could be playing Baldur’s Gate 3 RIGHT NOW”

Its not just video games - but why is it these CEO clearly screw up and make a mess of things yet remain employed? This sounds like string of bad management decisions. C-suite should pay the price. And not with a golden parachute - they should get the same severance any other employee gets. It amazes me with the focus…

Absolutely agree. It’s an exceptionally solid 7/10 experience for fans of the genre, but even then not one I’d recommend without reservation. There are moments of greatness which are too often offset by baffling content and design choices. This isn’t unique to Starfield, of course, but even players who love the game…

I think this is the right take, even as someone who quite likes Starfield. It’s a good game, but it’s not an outstanding game, and GOTY really should be for the latter.

You know it’s a slow year for RPGs when Lies of P (possibly the worst name for a video game in history) makes the list. No disrespect to P as it’s a very competent and interesting Soulslike, but that seems like a stretch.

I installed Skyrim over the weekend, saw it was on Gamepass thought ah well screw it. Installed some graphic mods, started playing..... And I lost 3 hours! LOL

Starfield was not ghosted, it wasn't deserving. 

That’s part of the issue. The other issue is that there’s just nothing interesting to find. BGS made a handful of unique POIs, then copied and pasted them across thousands of planets. Once you realize this, the appeal of exploration goes out the window because you know you’re just going to “discover” things you’ve…

Starfield honestly lacked the charm of skyrim or fallout. I think it was mainly an issue in how you traveled. It was all insta-teleport which removed most of the exploration wonder that it could have been.

I’ve got no problem paying more for games if the publishers would commit to that money going directly to higher wages for the developers.

I mean, fair point overall. I won’t let a single review change my mind, but I will let this information temper my expectations. Kotaku is generally a shadow of its former self, and maybe even a shadow of that shadow. Agree that that is primarily what I come here for also. That said, John is one of the more intentional…

I wouldn’t write it off based on this one review. Every other one I’ve read has been pretty overwhelmingly positive. Kotaku has become notorious for writing negative, condescending, clickbait titles since the scandal a few years back and subsequent staff changes. I only come to scan headlines and see if I’ve missed…

The “shooting” part, which admittedly isn’t the strongest point, ends up being such a small percentage of the game it seems weird to focus on it at all.

The failure of these is one a many examples that I think shows just how impressive it is that they managed to pull off the Marvel movie universe as well as they have. It took them almost 15 years to actually get to a movie generally considered to be an outright failure (“Eternals”).

It’s such a bonkers world where we have multiple new Star Trek shows and yet a Seth MacFarlane show is the only one that actually feels like Star Trek.