Did anyone watch the gameplay and extended deep look at the game? They did a “Starfield Direct” and talked about it quite a bit.
It looks impressive and fun, kind of No Man’s Sky meets Skyrim-in-space?
I haven’t watched that, but I’ll be playing it on day one so I’m not really keeping up with gameplay reveals.
System requirements have dropped though. Interestingly, an SSD is listed as required.
Yeah, my 2020 gaming laptop has one, but I have no idea if it will run on it. I’m terrible at guessing. Every other Bethesda game of the past 15 years or so was highly customizable, so I don’t care if it is on low details, but I’d like to play it.
I’ll be playing it on my Xbox Game Pass.
Technically my console is too old but thanks to cloud gaming I can still play it.
What do you mean? What console? Xbox One?
Xbox One X.
It’s confusing, there is the Xbox One, Xbox One X, and Xbox X. And they’re all different generations of console. For crying out loud Microsoft, at least pick a new freaking letter.
XBox One and XBox One X are the same generation. The One X is just a higher end version of the XBox One. The new generation is the XBox Series X (and Series S)
It’s a bit of a nitpick. Microsoft likely considers them to be the same generation. However, they weren’t released at the same time, and there are versions of games created for the One X as compared to the One. I had different versions of the Destiny game for each console. I think of them as half a generation apart. The One doesn’t even support 4K TVs.
Hey, so if the game is not released for that console, how can you play it? Uh, buy the Windows version and somehow use your system to play it?
As I said, cloud gaming.
I sometimes play Xbox games from my crappy old Samsung tablet with miniature controller when I’m traveling.
Pretty common requirement for a lot of bigger games today. Otherwise load times are absolutely crushing. For a new Bethesda game, I can’t imagine playing off HDD anymore.
Any word how they’re going to do mods? I assume this game will come to gamepass so I’d play it there if anywhere, but gamepass has such a bizarre and awful file system for how it works that it might be unmoddable unless they build mod support into the game rather than requiring access to the file system.
If it’s the norm for bethesda games it’ll be unplayable unmodded and I’m not gonna buy it on another platform just to mod it.
Yes…there will be mods but XBox modding seems uncertain:
Thankfully, Todd Howard himself has confirmed that Starfield mods will be supported by Bethesda, stating in a November 2021 Reddit AMA: “Our plan [is] to have full mod support like our previous games. Our modding community has been with us for 20 years. We love what they do and hope to see more make a career out of it.”
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Bethesda has yet to confirm outright whether Starfield will feature mod support for Xbox Series X and S, but there are some positive signs. - SOURCE
I’ve used quite a few mods with the new Flight Simulator on GamePass, via the file system, and it works just fine. The worst part is finding the damn folder, but once you do (and make a shortcut to it), it works fine.
It seems they are moving BG3 release time up some to avoid the conflict (Aug 3 for PC although PS5 version has been moved back a week to Sep 6).
These are a few weeks old, but here are a couple of things I stumbled across today:
Starfield Already Has a Negative Review on Metacritic
Starfield Has the ‘Fewest Bugs’ of Any Bethesda Game, Says Xbox Head:
My first thought is that’s still setting the bar pretty low.
I’m still having a hard time getting excited for this game. I definitely won’t be buying it at launch. I need to see enough reviews to know that it’s actually an RPG and that the game’s focus is on making a good game instead of being focused on trying to sell you crap like their creation club content.
This is Bethesda’s chance to prove to me that they can still make an RPG, which is something that I very much doubt at this point. Hopefully they’ll prove me wrong.
I’m optimistic. They could have released this last year, but chose to delay another year. I think that is a good thing. Cyberpunk clearly needed another year or more and did not take that time. Tears of the Kingdom was “finished” in March of 2022, but they spent a year making sure it was 99% non-buggy, which it really is.
I won’t pre-order this game, but will let it sit for a bit with reviewers and the public to see.
I’ll probably buy it when I get a current-gen console, which may not be for a while. Still re-playing old games on my Xbox One.
I have a three-year old gaming PC. I ran Hogwarts Legacy this year and have run other games. I’m hoping Starfield has a lot of graphic options so my 2020 machine can run it.
If it does not run, I’ll be waiting a long time.
I have never come across a game my 2020 PC can’t run yet…