Bethesda is spending more on marketing the game than they probably did developing the game. This is a classic Microsoft move, they did the same thing with Windows Vista.
Right now they basically bought Reddit and own the mods on the Starfield forum. They won't allow any other subreddits with 'Starfield' in the title to exist. Going to have to kick Reddit to the curb soon.
Steam reviews would put the game at "Mostly Positive" - since 22% of the reviews are currently negative - from "Very Positive" where it is currently frozen at. Metacritic gives it a review score of 86 but a User score of 5.4 OUCH!
Bethesda is going to have to keep spending hard to mask all the bad reviews Starfield is getting.
Bye bye Starfield, ya basic.
Yep, Bg3 is going to win GOTY. Why were we even worried?
I’m not happy about this result for Starfield. Skyrim and Morrowind are probably my favorite games, but they’re a decade and two decades old. After Skyrim, every RPG for 10 years was trying to do Skyrim, until some of them actually advanced the medium. After Breath of the Wild’s introduction of verticality and physics, Witcher 3’s combination of cinematics with comprehensive open world exploration and narrative choice, FromSoft’s introduction of complex and difficult combat with unique enemy design and visual storytelling, countless games investing in quality animation and expression over 4k graphical computer-eating monstrosities, and the CRPG renaissance games showing that people like reactivity, activity density, and in-depth systems and mechanics, Bethesda is beginning to look very dated.
They’re not doing anything new with their formula. They’re not revolutionising the open world or the ability to explore and become anything or anyone. It’s the same game with a new coat of paint, slapping in some widgets and customisation mechanics that people never praised to begin with when they were introduced in Fallout 4. That’s fine to do for 5 years, but 10 is too much.
Remember the human (This is a forum for a video game):
