Every good Bethesda game started off with an amazing hook for an interesting story. Skyrim, you're captured crossing the border and are about to be executed, only to narrowly escape during a dragon attack! Fallout 4, the whole world descends into nuclear apocalypse as you barely make it to your fallout shelter, to emerge in a completely changed world to avenge the death of your spouse and find your kidnapped son! And finally Starfield, you're a miner that comes across a piece of alien technology, and you have an unexplainable vision about the universe. Thats it. also you get attacked by pirates.

The Story for Starfield is soo boring and tedious, I feel like i'm about half way done with the main quest and I have absolutely zero desire to continue. I don't have 127 hours because I've been on the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next, I have 127 hours WAITING for something good to happen. I played through the Vanguard side quest and its branching side quests, and that had been way more entertaining than the story ever got for me.

"oh, 127 hours! The game must have lots to do!!" There's a difference between having a lot of things to do, and something taking a lot of time to do. Starfield is the latter. It becomes very obvious when a studio starts making mechanics and missions to just fill time, and not actually add anything. I still have so much to explore in Starfield, but the thing is it takes so long to do anything worth doing. And even then any exploration outside of quests is met with subpar rewards. You can make game maps as large as you want, none of it matters if there's nothing to see as you're traversing the map, once you've seen some, you've already seen everything.

Every good Bethesda game started off with an amazing hook for an interesting story. Skyrim, you're captured crossing the border and are about to be executed, only to narrowly escape during a dragon attack! Fallout 4, the whole world descends into nuclear apocalypse as you barely make it to your fallout shelter, to emerge in a completely changed world to avenge the death of your spouse and find your kidnapped son! And finally Starfield, you're a miner that comes across a piece of alien technology, and you have an unexplainable vision about the universe. Thats it. also you get attacked by pirates. The Story for Starfield is soo boring and tedious, I feel like i'm about half way done with the main quest and I have absolutely zero desire to continue. I don't have 127 hours because I've been on the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next, I have 127 hours WAITING for something good to happen. I played through the Vanguard side quest and its branching side quests, and that had been way more entertaining than the story ever got for me. "oh, 127 hours! The game must have lots to do!!" There's a difference between having a lot of things to do, and something taking a lot of time to do. Starfield is the latter. It becomes very obvious when a studio starts making mechanics and missions to just fill time, and not actually add anything. I still have so much to explore in Starfield, but the thing is it takes so long to do anything worth doing. And even then any exploration outside of quests is met with subpar rewards. You can make game maps as large as you want, none of it matters if there's nothing to see as you're traversing the map, once you've seen some, you've already seen everything.