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Bethesda are individually rebutting Starfield Steam reviewers, defending the loading breaks and "empty" worlds
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I finished my time with the game after 150 hours. Enjoyed the hell out of it, but it has flaws.
It's not as bad as many will have you believe.
I’m taking a break because it takes up a ton of space and I had other games I wanted to focus on, but it isn’t a bad game at all and I’ve had fun with it. It just isn’t the worlds perfect “live life in space” so everything game.
The two games with the most play time in my library are Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077, both of which received some serious negative reviews. I think that for AAA titles that are significantly hyped up before release, people will shit on the game no matter how good it is.
To be honest, it makes me angry at times. I write software; not games, mostly utilitarian programs for a specific business-related task or for my own use at home. I know how much time and effort goes into developing and testing a program so that it doesn't explode when users of varying technical skill levels use it. The fact that people are so critical is really disrespectful to the countless programmers, visual artists, audio engineers, etc that go into making a full-scale game. Just enjoy the fact that you have a visually stunning and fun experience.
I'm also a swe and I think this is a dishonest take. I agree there is so much work that goes into game making, more so than I could ever imagine at my job, but at the end of the day they are making a promise and putting out a product. If the product is unfun, buyers have the right to be upset (within reason of course). I put about 40 hours into starfield and not a single one of them I would consider fun. I even googled "when does starfield start being fun" because I've played plenty of games that get fun after hour 10 or whatever. Just as an aside I put collectively over multiple consoles and pcs 1000+ hours into skyrim so I'm no stranger to Bethesda
I agree completely with you. I'm also a software developer.