The Starfield thread

JoE said:
I just find it amusing how these scorecards ignore the bad reviews. Marketing 101 hey.
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If 7/10 is considered bad then there's a bigger issue. And I can understand why it got a score like that, because there are some valid annoyances.

The problem is the lack of a standardised rating scale across the industry. When you're using a scale that's x/5 or x/10 it's harder to address the annoyances without severely bringing a game down.

IMO the Metacritic critic's average is exactly what I would rate the game. And that's only because it's x/100. I don't feel like it's a 9/10 or 8/10 game, it feels to me like an 88/100 game...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
If 7/10 is considered bad then there's a bigger issue. And I can understand why it got a score like that, because there are some valid annoyances.

The problem is the lack of a standardised rating scale across the industry. When you're using a scale that's x/5 or x/10 it's harder to address the annoyances without severely bringing a game down.

IMO the Metacritic critic's average is exactly what I would rate the game. And that's only because it's x/100. I don't feel like it's a 9/10 or 8/10 game, it feels to me like an 88/100 game...
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There was a time where 5/10 or 50/100 meant average.
Not bad, not great, but if you like the genre you will enjoy it.

A bad game used to be 4/10 or 40/100

For some reason 7/10 now means bad when it should actually mean good.
I mean, 6/10 should be above average

It's pretty dumb
 
furpile said:
They are almost the same price as SSD's now. Especially the smaller sizes. And seems to be more available.
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I was actually surprised how cheap they are now.
Picked up an intel NVME SSD 1TB for under 1K yesterday.

Granted it's only 3k speed, but still.
 
furpile said:
They are almost the same price as SSD's now. Especially the smaller sizes. And seems to be more available.
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will definitely consider it for my next upgrade - there are 2 open NVME slots on my motherboard

the only ballache is installation since I have to remove cards to get to the slots
 
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RedViking said:
Does anyone else experience audio separating / delayed from the visuals?

It is this part of the HDD / SSD problem?
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Googlefu sez:

While there is no official statement on it, Starfield's audio cutting and out-of-sync issue, as per the reports, is mainly due to installing the game on a regular hard disk or an external SSD.
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www.ggrecon.com

Starfield audio cutting out issue: Bug causes & how to fix

Audio cutting out in Starfield is an issue that keeps on cropping up for several players. Here's what you need to know about how to fix it if it happens to you.
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Cool. I'll stop asking performance related issues for now until I have the HDD/SSD resolved. Will continue to try to see if I can get the coffee machine to work in the meantime.


I also realised now everytime I shoot the pirates their ship flies away. Need to stop killing them.
 
RedViking said:
Cool. I'll stop asking performance related issues for now until I have the HDD/SSD resolved. Will continue to try to see if I can get the coffee machine to work in the meantime.


I also realised now everytime I shoot the pirates their ship flies away. Need to stop killing them.
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Is this on planet? If so, what I do is I ignore the dudes on the ground and board the ship first, then attack them when they follow me in. The ramp forms a choke point so they're easy to kill and even if they do fly off, you're on the ship so you can't still kill and steal it.
Did this yesterday with the Va'ruun, stole their ship and went to sell it. Registration cost around 14k, ship value was 972. This was not the profit I had imagined.
 
Beyond.Celsus said:
There was a time where 5/10 or 50/100 meant average.
Not bad, not great, but if you like the genre you will enjoy it.

A bad game used to be 4/10 or 40/100

For some reason 7/10 now means bad when it should actually mean good.
I mean, 6/10 should be above average

It's pretty dumb
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I think reviewers also review based on whether they clicked with a game or not.

Back in the day there were more guidelines that reviewers used based on criteria like Story, Visuals, Sound, Gameplay and out of those things an avg would have been given. This was back in the PCGAMER, NAG, PCFORMAT magazine days.

Nowadays if you read a review it is mostly based on how the reviewer felt or what the game did for the reviewer etc.
 
dotdan said:
I think reviewers also review based on whether they clicked with a game or not.

Back in the day there were more guidelines that reviewers used based on criteria like Story, Visuals, Sound, Gameplay and out of those things an avg would have been given. This was back in the PCGAMER, NAG, PCFORMAT magazine days.

Nowadays if you read a review it is mostly based on how the reviewer felt or what the game did for the reviewer etc.
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Also back in the paper days, reviewers reviewed games based on their key focus.
Racing guys reviewed racing games and FPS guys reviewed shooting games. These days a "gamer" reviews all of them.

I mean I for one will give all turn-based games crap scores cause I like "action"

edit: Spelling
 
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AlphaJohn said:
Also back in the paper days, reviewers reviewed games based on their key focus.

Racing guys reviewed racing games and FPS guys reviewed racing games. These days a "gamer" reviews all of them.

I mean I for one will give all turn-based games crap scores cause I like "action"
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Dude, I feel exactly the same. EXCEPT for Baldur's Gate 3. Only turn-based game I've enjoyed and it's fantastic.
 
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