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I found and customized the ship I wanted, I completed the faction quests that were interesting to me and got through the main campaign, and at the end of it, I found\u2026 not much. Just a big, empty universe that was tedious to comb through.\u00a0 And if the devs\u2019 responses are anything to go by, they thought that boring universe was great when making Starfield. As originally noted by Project Zomboid\u2019s Andy Hodgett and highlighted again today by IGN, the Starfield devs (or at least someone writing on behalf of the studio) have been responding to negative reviews of the game, making frequent use of this quote: \u201cWhen the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there. 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But toward the end of the main campaign, I realized there wasn\u2019t any gameplay loop holding my attention.\u00a0 Starfield is purportedly a game about the element I love the most in Bethesda games: exploration. I played Skyrim so many times and with so many characters because the game\u2019s map continually rewarded my curiosity. Even after a couple hundred hours, I saw a peak I hadn\u2019t traversed, and there would almost inevitably be something of interest to me there I had missed before, like a dragon priest fight or even a new dungeon.\u00a0 In contrast, Starfield quickly punished my curiosity. 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I don\u2019t even think Starfield <\/em>is a failure, per se. There are clearly many, many players who enjoy it and sunk hundreds of hours into the title, just the same as I did with Skyrim<\/em>. But I do think it will ultimately go down as one of Bethesda\u2019s lesser games, and would be very surprised if we ever saw a sequel. The studio\u2019s repeated responses to criticism come off like a comedian trying to explain their joke to the audience, ensuring them of its hilarity. That\u2019s not a very reassuring picture for the IP\u2019s future. <\/p>

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I found and customized the ship I wanted, I completed the faction quests that were interesting to me and got through the main campaign, and at the end of it, I found\u2026 not much. Just a big, empty universe that was tedious to comb through.\u00a0 And if the devs\u2019 responses are anything to go by, they thought that boring universe was great when making Starfield. As originally noted by Project Zomboid\u2019s Andy Hodgett and highlighted again today by IGN, the Starfield devs (or at least someone writing on behalf of the studio) have been responding to negative reviews of the game, making frequent use of this quote: \u201cWhen the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there. They certainly weren't bored.\u201d It\u2019s a slightly different phrasing of a quote from Bethesda months ago when managing director Ashley Cheng said not every planet was \u201csupposed to be Disney World.\u201d\u00a0 The message from Bethesda to players is clear: If you find Starfield boring, you\u2019re wrong. It\u2019s a position emblematic of a core Starfield problem. The tedium, the empty sandboxes with scant activities\u2014none of it was ever a development problem. It was a feature from the start. Like many people, I was initially taken with Starfield. I\u2019d poured hundreds of hours into Skyrim and various Fallout games before it, and the visuals and intrigue of a new Bethesda world were immediately interesting to me. And there really is so much to do from the start, with new ships messaging you almost everywhere you jump, intriguing gravity mechanics in space station gunfights, new cities to explore, and more. But toward the end of the main campaign, I realized there wasn\u2019t any gameplay loop holding my attention.\u00a0 Starfield is purportedly a game about the element I love the most in Bethesda games: exploration. I played Skyrim so many times and with so many characters because the game\u2019s map continually rewarded my curiosity. Even after a couple hundred hours, I saw a peak I hadn\u2019t traversed, and there would almost inevitably be something of interest to me there I had missed before, like a dragon priest fight or even a new dungeon.\u00a0 In contrast, Starfield quickly punished my curiosity. I\u2019d land at random places on planets hoping for cool points of interest and maybe even a quest or two, and just found vast, empty spaces with some cookie-cutter locations and underwhelming activities with scant rewards.\u00a0 That is apparently the game Starfield devs envisioned: a universe designed to make you feel incredibly small and insignificant, even as you cross dimensions and navigate through some Windows 98 screensavers to gain supernatural powers (that incidentally feel pretty damn close to Dragon Shouts). I don\u2019t mind shooting for awe and isolation as design philosophies, but Bethesda realized it was making a video game, right? You set a game in a future where humanity went out and colonized the stars; you didn\u2019t have to make the moon Disney World, but you could\u2019ve at least made it more interesting than a Whole Foods. I don\u2019t even think Starfield is a failure, per se. 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