Name: Starfield
Item: Starfield
Rating: 6.5
Author: Philip Tauschek

Alright. I decided to make a review on this game when the dust has settled. Everyone was talking about, both bad and good. And I wanted the honeymoon phase to be over.

So, after playing several hours. I can say that the game is good. But, it has a lot. And I mean a lot of flaws.

Lets start with the good.

1. It's NASA-punk. Its not cyberpunk or its not steampunk. It's got the whole space thing going on for it so if you ever fantasized being a astronaut wielding a shotgun or an AK47, this game has the looks and feel.
2. The diverse builds you can come up and play. The combinations you can create is quite fun to meddle around with. So if you wanna be a character that has improved skills in melee and get boosted stats if you are with no companions, and have more stats when you are in zero G, you can do that.
3. Gunplay is great. In fact its better than Fallout4 imo. If you have worries if the combat is bad, well no worries here.
4. There's an impressive crafting system. If you love collecting and farming for resources and then crafting them to useful items such as medicines and gun parts etc, this game has it.
5. Spaceship customization. You want a spaceship full decked out on firepower, you can. You want one that can carry more load and be tank as F, you can too.

Now the bad.

1. It has an extremely dull and slow start.
2. Most NPCs you meet are downright butt ugly and uninteresting.
3. YOU CANNOT BE A FULL FLEDGED BAD GUY. You cant! The game has so many restrictions. I wanted to be a astronaut bandit that is both a cannibal and a leader of a space pirate fleet. I was hoping to raid friendly space vessels and raid their loot and capture the passengers and sell them to be slaves. 
How sad that a 1993 PC game called Wing Commander: Privateer lets you do that (the capture and selling your enemies as slaves btw) but a 2023 game wont let you. It's just like Fallout 4. It forces you to be good. F that. Games back then had the balls to let players do that. For shame.
4. Some places looks ugly as sin. The entrance to the Constellation Headquarters for example looks badly designed. Just thinking about it gives me a headache.
5. Uninteresting and boring dialogue. I tend to skip so much dialogue and only pay attention to speech checks cause listening to boring conversations and dialogue is just painful.
6. The fast traveling system is a joke. The UI just made it so messy, clunky and confusing.

And there you go. If you wanna play Fallout 4 but in space, Starfield is for you. I wont recommend buying it in full price if you want to play it in PC. But if you got an Xbox with Gamepass, try it out. You might sink in a couple of hundred hours on it.

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Philip Tauschek