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Starfield is now mostly negative in recent reviews (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 10 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 80 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well if the companies refuse to give you a demo to try, maybe you should pirate it to try and then purchase it.

Another option is becoming a patient gamer and just waiting for the game to get better (if it does) a year or two down the line and then buy it at a discount.

In the last few years there aren't many games I didnt regret buying early.

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I usually do pirate and then buy (if worthy) but surely a major Bethesda release would be worth 80 bucks, right?

Right?

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

riiiiiight

[–] CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wrong. They proved that they could no longer be trusted after the release of Fallout 76.

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

That was a gigantic flaming red flag that I ignored

[–] archon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Only consolation is that it might be good in 5 years.. :(

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago

I'd rather buy it than spend hours and hours downloading and failing to unpack it for unknown reasons.

But I'm not going to spend more than like 10 minutes trying to make it work. If it takes longer than that, it's just a shit game that doesn't deserve my money. Too many other perfectly good games to spend my time playing to fuck around with all of that.