For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

Discuss all things Starfield below!

  • Izzy
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    19510 months ago

    I’ll let you know in 2 years when it is on sale for at least 50% off.

      • @TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world
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        2510 months ago

        Boy oh boy everyone hates inventory limits and tedious management but devs still feel the need to make sure we have a reason to return towns and what not as the excuse.

        Like fuck you, give me a better reason than inconveniencing the fuck out of me while I was out in your world having fun.

      • Overzeetop
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        -2910 months ago

        Mods are the very first thing that turns me off in a game. I want to play a game, not go stack mods on top of mods just to fix the shit the studio didn’t feel like working on.

          • @Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz
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            10 months ago

            But Cities Skylines 1 is borderline unplayable outside of Steam because the non-steam players can’t use that one third-party traffic mod on the Steam Workshop that fixes the annoying only-one-lane traffic jams the devs did jack shit about until their recently-released sequel

          • @symcal@lemmy.world
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            110 months ago

            Sure, just like SkyUI is “optional” for Skyrim.

            Sure, you can. But you will gouge your eyes out.

          • Overzeetop
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            -110 months ago

            100% true - but if people feel the need to create so many mods, then there are probably lots of things people feel aren’t good enough about the game. I’ll admit my gaming time is limited, so just researching and adding mods could easily take all my time. I mean, fuck, I sold my Warthog HOTAS and went back to a cheap thrusmaster not because I liked the thrustmaster better, but because I was spending more time writing and fixing scripts and updating my bindings than actually playing the game. And every time an update would come out that would break a script I would spend pretty much my entire gaming time budget for a couple weeks just getting it running again. It got to the point where I just didn’t play those games because every patch would change something and something (even something small) would break or be incompatible. I’m kind of over that.

            • Harrison [He/Him]
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              310 months ago

              Every game gets modded, the number of mods reflects how easy it is to do, not the need for them.

    • @Nihilore@lemmy.world
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      1810 months ago

      It’s $120 in Australia, even at 50% off it’s still more than I’d ever spend on a game. Just gonna keep waiting

      • @CaptKoala@lemmy.ml
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        510 months ago

        Yeah we pay an 80% markup just for existing and I hate it, but the gaming industry has been dropping quality while simultaneously increasing prices for some time now.

        The only games in the last couple years I’ve paid full price for are CP2077, BG3 and Battlebit. Everything else is bought during the sales, usually at a steep discount, where many of these games should be priced by default.

        Fuckin corpo dogs, they’ll ruin anything and everything they can to make a buck.

      • Izzy
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        1210 months ago

        Thanks. I might look into the endless things from 2+ years ago that are on sale now. Probably not though. Too many books to read. 😵‍💫

          • Aielman15
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            310 months ago

            Hyperion+Endymion by Dan Simmons. Such a wonderfully written book that evokes so many sad feelings.

            It’s veeeery slow (basically the entire first book is build up for the second one), but it’s so rewarding watching all the threads come together by the end.

      • Piecemakers
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        210 months ago

        I mean, we were clearly all so patiently holding our respective breath for this absolute genius comment of yours to grace our screens, O’ wisest of asses. What’s a little longer, really?

        • @Ado@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Oh wisest spender of 60 dollars, you are the light. How will I ever decide to expend that amount over the next 24+ months. Lmao. Get your goofy ass on

          • Piecemakers
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            110 months ago

            You spend less than $60 in two years’ time? Your Internet bill must be the cheapest on the planet. Your grocery expenses must also be next to nothing if you’re surviving on the warmth of your hot air whinging alone . Fascinating.

      • Izzy
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        3410 months ago

        Being a patient gamer isn’t strictly about money. It’s about not getting caught up in hype and making more calculated decisions. Even so, wanting to pay what you think something is worth is just good practice.

        • tal
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          10 months ago

          I’m not going to wait two years – though I’m opposed to preordering – but there are other benefits too. Two years down the line:

          • A bunch of bugs are patched. Even if Starfield is relatively free of bugs, there will be some.

          • The wikis for the game have been written up. Some obsessive person will have sat down and figured out the quirks of game mechanics and documented them. Understanding stuff like the relative merits of armor-piercing, bleeding, and so forth in Fallout 4 was complicated.

          • Starfield’s expansion packs will be out.

          • Mods will be out, and there will probably be some pretty “must have” ones.

          • You’ll have more hardware oomph to throw at the game, make it smoother/higher res.

      • R0cket_M00se
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        1710 months ago

        What if I told you it’s possible to have money and not want to waste it on dumb shit?

      • @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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        610 months ago

        Lmao I only buy games when they’re discounted too and suddenly I have 186 games in my steam library, most of them are still unplayed . I’m not in a hurry to buy more games with such a long backlog.