It's probably going to be the game of the year, maybe beaten by TOTK. Certainly it'll be one of the best selling games of all time.

This is such a neckbeard take.

Nah, I think you're way overblowing this. Starfield is going to be a success, it'll be the least buggy release they've ever had and people will love it. Monetization? Sure. 30fps? Yeah that's standard for consoles. It's not going to be a perfect game, it's just going to be a damn good one. Enjoy it in the sea of mediocrity we have right now

Bethesda jank is what brought us the Giant Space Program in Skyrim so I'm definitely fine with some jank. They've also said it's the least buggy Bethesda game they've made. It feels like you're just picking bad points to shit on the game.

This post reads as if you're a PlayStation player that still obsessed over the cOnSoLe WaRs and is just salty.

3. Countless attempts to hype up the game and huge random assurances from the devs

You mean... marketing?

Pretty much everything you said is dumb or just not true, but that one was especially hilarious.

Do not pre-order games.

Do not buy AAA games at launch, especially Bethesda games.

I think it'll be just like every other release. If it's not absolutely perfect people are gonna shit all over it, but the reality will be that it's fine. There's no such thing as a perfect game. Either play and enjoy it or don't. It'll be on GamePass day one, so your monetary investment in trying it doesn't have to be $70. Hell, you can probably find a free trial somewhere to try it with. So who cares if it's not perfect or not. I bet just like all of their other games it'll be a load of fun.

Patient gamers unite!

I don't understand why anyone is naïve enough to still preorder from companies like Bethesda.

Mostly I don't understand pre-ordering games at all (patient gamers represent) but from Bethesda? You're basically paying to get kicked in the shins. Surely we all know this by now.

With the abysmal state of most AAA releases, I just hope they manage to give the game some soul to it. I'm tired of clones and Elden Ring has been the only recent AAA title that feel like creativity was still put into it.

Honestly I could not care less about console FPS locks. If you don't play Bethesda RPGs on a PC then I don't even know what you're doing with your life.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/patientgamers

For the win. It's helped me avoid wasting money on most game purchases I've done.

This is why I am going to wait for reviews before I pull the trigger. It hope it runs reasonably okay on PC but the required specs don't give me confidence.

Is it going to be horrible ? No. Just from the gameplay I've seen I can tell you I'm going to have a good time. Will it live up to my personal expectations? Absolutely not. But neither did cyberpunk and anytime someone asks me for a good cyberpunk game I don't hesitate to tell the cp2077 is in a league of it's own, despite all the shortcomings.

I never expect a stable game from Bethesda, I only hope when I play it (months/years later) there are community patches to fix most of it, and most importantly mods to make it more fun

As for the 30fps thing, it makes no sense to me why there can't be a performance mode, that being said I play on PC and if it's locked to 30 there then there are some major problems

The pre order bonus I just see as a common market tactics today, and am just glad it doesn't unlock abilities early like the preorders for spider-man on PC

And yeah I don't buy the "least buggy Bethesda game ever on release" thing, becouse well, that doesn't say much

Point 5) No games are released finished anymore an no gamer is ever happy.

There is likely going to be loading screens when entering buildings like in past games built on basically the same engine.

Not sure what people are actually expecting from starfield. It'll be TES/Fallout in space. The story will be mediocre but who plays Bethesda games for the main quest anyway? The graphics won't be top-notch, but who plays Bethesda games for the graphics? It won't be completely bug-free, but who... You get it. It will be a game that we will play for decades to come, especially with mods. But I don't expect it to be a revolution of the genre.

1. 30 fps lock is not a bad thing for a not action heavy rpg, many games already did and prove that if you do it properly it's not that bad.
2. you don't have to do the pre-order no one is forcing you to pre-order. They set a FOMO flag on the pitfall if you go ahead and fall then it's your issue.
3. every big budget game hypes their game, they have to cause marketing money sometimes exceeds the development cost.(depending on the audience reach results, they usually don't spend marketing money like idiots.)
4. if it doesn't pull a cyberpunk then I think it would be fine.

my predictions:

1. at best it would be a space new vegas, At worst a space warp simulator cause loading or procedurally generate stuff for the system you are in takes time. And then it's full of copy paste settlements where 95% of the planet is not even worth visiting, you just scan locate settlement, land near by do your space fetching and then move on.
2. it would be some interesting landscapes probably from AI generated ideas so main location won't feel too repetitive.(so do a planet with just one biome, except story relevant planets.)
3. space combat is probably gonna suck or forced cinematic thing(force you to land somewhere, get ship taken away, etc. )
4. many startrek/starwars "inspirations" for factions.

Predatory pre-order bonus skins to get people to buy before they know what they’re actually going to experience (buggy shitshow)

Countless attempts to hype up the game and huge random assurances from the devs

Preemptively admitting the game has jank and trying to make it seem okay lol

none of this is particularly different from their other releases, and 2 & 3 arent even out of the ordinary for AAA gaming in general, regardless of quality or reception

Their game engine is shit, always has been shit.

30FPS cap is a function of their old engine being shit and attempting to keep up with modern engines.

I wish they would just abandon the engine already and move forward with a modern engine.

I don't think its going to be a massive blunder, I do think that its being hyped up a little too much right now.

I don't know if any of these things are going to doom the game outright, per se, but there's been a lot of hype building around the game for a long time and I think that's... potentially ominous. It's being positioned as the Next Big Thing(tm), and it's rare that any game can live up to that. Even if it's not a complete Cyberpunk-esque disaster, failing to live up to the frankly impossible expectations that are being foisted upon it are very likely to result in backlash.

I’m 100% expecting this game to crash and burn in the most outrageous manner possible. I’ll be surprised if it turns out to be a good game.

It’s possible that they’ll get around to making it good eventually but I’m betting it’ll be total garbage at launch

it's a Bethesda game, it'll be jank but in ways where the game is still enjoyable imo. there's like a certain charm to the way Bethesda games are bugged to hell for me. yeah I like when a character suddenly becomes an eldritch ragdoll in dialogue.

I think one thing to remember is that it's going to be on the XBox Game Pass when it releases. So if you are subscribed to that, you can download it for free and play it before you decide whether to get it or not.

Though, given it's supposed to be 125 GB, I'm seriously wondering if I want to dedicate that much storage space on my XBox Series S to it...

The scope of the game is too big for Bugthesda to deliver. It's litteraly 2 games in one, Fallout + No Man's Sky, how can anyone believe it's not gonna be the biggest bugfest of all time?

Let's say that somehow, Bethesda finally release a game which doesn't need modders to fix it, we all know they overpromessed and overhyped it. Planets are gonna be tiny instances, not fully open, otherwise they would have shown vehicles to travel on them.

I would love Starfield to be everything they promess but considering the history of Bethesda, you can't trust Todd lies again.

This sounds about right.