StarfieldAnalyst

Starfield right now is having issues with two types of gamers who are divided amongst themselves. It is a division that has been going on for some time, but I believe that it is becoming more of an issue. As of right now, there is a whole cottage industry that seems to be more interested in criticizing the game than in actually understanding how difficult it is to make games anyway. This seems to be a constant on YouTube where there are tons of channels that seem to be attacking the lead writer of the game instead of providing constructive criticism. These channels are obsessed with attacking the game. It has been this way for many games on the site for about some time by now.  However, the biggest issue that is dividing gamers right now is the conflict between sandbox gamers and theme park gamers. Much of what is causing the issue is that Bethesda has been catering too much to people who want an experience rather than sandbox. The issue with theme park gamers is that their games tend

Starfield is too big complaints  It has been a very common complaint amongst Starfield players that the game is too big. This is one of the points against Starfield that I just cannot understand. The game was always meant to be large in scope and I find the complaints to be rather petty and lacking in substance. Starfield is a game that was made in the spirit of space trading games of the 1980s such as Elite Dangerous and Space Control but on much grander scale and with 3d visualizations of the planets. People who have played those games would understand what Starfield was doing in comparison with other games such as Skyrim. Unfortunately, because Skyrim sold so many copies, Starfield is literally in the shadow of that great game.  This shadow on Starfield is to its deteriment. There are too many people who just seperate Skyrim from Starfield and instead conflate the concepts of such games together.  Those two games were particularly very popular in the 1980s and 1990s but have since b

 It has been stated many times that Starfield in many ways is a continuation of what Bethesda was using in Skyrim. It is in a long lineage from the days of Arena in 1994, which was an important stepping stone towards Starfield. It is said that Arena had many of the elements of procedural generation already in 1994 and this has been seen by many astute YouTubers. However, in 1994, such technology was primitive and only starting to be used in the video game industry. This was an industry that only a decade before been relying on graphics that did not display many pixels at all. Arena in many ways was a revolution in open world RPGs. To the gamers of that year, which was already filled to the prim with amazing games, Arena was incredible achievement. They had only seen games that were largely top perspective games, but this was something entirely new and interesting. This is what many of these gamers today do not understand. Many of them complain about Starfield as if they were expecting

  Video gaming these days can be a quite lonely experience in meat space. When video games were dominated by the arcades, video gaming was more social and less reliant on communication platforms such as Reddit. However, in this current moment, we have to rely on sites such as Reddit in order to communicate ideas and trade information with each other. However, the site has become a place of much toxicity. I have been subscribed to the Starfield subreddit for many months and it has become a place of negativity and mostly just attacking the game.  Starfield isn't a perfect game by any means, but I have truly enjoyed the size of the game. Just the thought that there are spaceships in this game that have interiors and crew on them gives me a sense of scale that is just not found in other games. Starfield is not a game that be everything. There is a limit to its ambitions, considering that it had to be released on the Xbox, which can only handle so much as result of its hardware and soft

  There are way too many games these days are not supported properly by their developers. I have seen too many great titles get abandoned by developers that are only seeking a quick monetary return. Companies such as Microsoft and Electronic Arts are really only interested in profit. While they may say that the care about the art form, they are liars in many ways. Electronic Arts actually started as a company that wanted to make video games into an art form and then transformed into a huge conglomerate that buys up studios and their intellectual property and then ruins it. However, Bethesda is a bit different from the rest of these companies.  While Bethesda is a developer and not a publisher, they have a reputation for caring about their games. The opening title of the Elder Scrolls Series, Arena, was released as freeware ten years after its release. This is something that other companies have refused to do so. Unlike so many other companies out there, Bethesda has respected its fanba

 Starfield has gotten much criticism by people for being an outdated game that is simply stuck in the past. This hardly is the case, considering that games such as Starfield are not even that common in the video game industry. Starfield's development was a monumental process for Bethesda. It involved the labor of some 500 people who are all highly skilled in programming and other tasks in the making of video games and people have to understand this. This was not an easy task by the people who were making it. However, people continue to attack the game for not being what they wanted and are making videos about how it is a mediocre game. It is not surprising that the game is getting all this criticism. People have been complaining about video games since the beginning of the industry, but the expectations are getting way too high.  We already see this with the release of the GTA VI trailer, and expectations are already going through the roof with so many people who make video games t

 I have just returned to the wonderful virtual world of Starfield, and I have to say that I am still greatly enjoying the game. The complaints about Starfield are somewhat valid in some ways but most of it is just to criticize the game to get views on YouTube. That's the honest reason. Some of the YouTube aristocracy have made careers just on criticizing games for either being woke or not aligned with their political beliefs. Some of these commentators are very intelligent people who make great points about how politics is infecting the gaming industry. However, there are many just want to attack the game for not being the next Grand Theft Auto game, which is a very unrealistic expectation. I just looked at the GTA VI trailer and I must say that Starfield looks like a very old game in many ways but Starfield is its own thing and should be respected as being a great achievement. When I played the game, I am not thinking about the Grand Theft Auto series, I am thinking about Mass Eff