Starfield is great for Bethesda. It's a step to the right direction, RPG wise. It has RPG system that can satisfy most of casual/tourist and tolerable for some RPG elitist. <- personal opinion btw.
But I think people expect Uber Mega success 11/10 game, but what they get is an 8 game. I wouldn't bother to see user reviews on Metacritic, I read some, and 99% of 0 score giver are just dumb reviewer.
On top of that those who dislike Bethesda already raring their daggers especially since after Fallout 76 flopped.
BG3 is obviously a winner for this year. Starfield is good. Good year for RPG both for casual and hardcore.
All zero score reviews are essentially protest reviews. I think Steam reviews are more useful as they are 1) Binary and 2) you have to own the game - they ask you whether you would recommend the game - not for some 1-10 arbitrary number. It solves an important problem with reviews in general.
What no one complains about is that Bethesda can go out and buy 100 different 10/10 reviews from pay for review publications and claim they are an amazing game based on bullshit marketing. Professional reviews have no standard to be held to except their readership - which is why IGN (USA), Eurogamer, NPR, PC Gamer and a handful of others were the only reviews that were honest.
Anyone that gave that game a 100 didn't even play it and just took the cash - looking at you PC World and Destructoid.
