The Game Pass Version Of Starfield Can Be Upgraded For Early Access

Which is not something I’m going to do personally, but the information may benefit someone. I’m still torn between getting it on Steam or just Game Pass.

I can’t seem to find whether it will be Play Anywhere.

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s Bethesda. It’ll never not be buggy.

    I’ve no plans to get the game, but maybe I’ll check it out in three to five years when modders have fixed the game and added some real content.

    • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I imagine it’ll be good in a few months.

      Bethesda gets a lot of criticism for buggy launches, but all huge games are just as bad really. I hit a game-breaking bug in Baldur’s Gate 2 recently and had to enable cheats and use the console to even continue. And Cyberpunk also had loads of experience-ruining bugs like enemies seeing through walls repeatedly.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It been put back a year to polish. In in agreement that preordering in the digital age is silly, especially on Xbox where you can install a game without buying it yet ready for when you do, but theres no reason to think this will be as bad as their previous titles.

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        To me it’s more than just the fit and finish. Bethesda writes awful stories. I can’t think of a single stand-out character in their recent titles, like even going back to Oblivion. There’s never any depth, you’re never asked to question motives, they usually fall into bland and obvious archetypes and never really develop past that.

        Fallout 4 at least tried somewhat with the followers, but even then none of the stories were particularly compelling.

        However, the games do make for decent sandboxes, and modders do some really amazing things with them. That’s what I’m looking forward to.

        Plus with all my pessimism going into it, if Bethesda magically manages to pull something that’s only semi-terrible out of their arse maybe I’ll even be impressed. It’ll be difficult to fall short of my expectations at least.