AAA gaming continues to swirl the drain. Thank goodness for indies.

@DeadlyMustard: Yeah, that's a weird thing to me. You can spend all this time crafting a custom ship, then you just fast travel everywhere.

This review pretty much nails all my concerns perfectly. It seems like Starfield is a decent enough game, but doesn't take it to the next level by exploiting the endless reaches of space to do something more ambitious and innovative compared to previous games. It really is just Skyrim in Space.

Woo baby, this is the goofiest controversy in a while. Kern's criticism was silly, but some of the responses to it have been absolutely unhinged. I think the start screen looks really nice, except for the box up in the top right, which ruins the slick minimalist appearance. But it's hardly worth getting that worked up over. Let's worry about whether the game itself is any good.

Funny to come back to this entry five years later and reexamine my thoughts. I have played a lot of Death Stranding and Cyberpunk 2077, but have completed neither. Starfield is only just now coming out in three months, and my hype levels have crashed. Fallout 76 was garbage. Beyond Good and Evil 2 is in development hell, and The Elder Scrolls VI has had literally no news since that single teaser videos.

Wow, another AAA game with technical issues at launch. Who would have guessed.

I'm fine with it getting delayed, if it means a better product in the end. Fallout 76 might have benefited from a delay like this, although the entire gameplay premise of that game may have doomed it anyway.

@RSM-HQ: Skyrim is only just over eleven years old, not thirteen.

@rudlzavedno: Gaming is just fine. Look beyond AAA and there's an endless wealth of quality out there.

And now we know all of this was a big fat lie.