Starfield is Bethesda's Least Buggiest Game to Date, Say Sources
With Starfield in the hands of media and creators, there's been one question I've wanted answered for months - Is Starfield full of bugs?
Bethesda never disappoints!
We'll need to wait for the release. Before launch cyberpunk was also getting good reviews ;)
Honestly this is what pissed me off about the reaction to cyberpunk bugs. I remember how the fallout games were at launch. And I think even now trying to play new Vegas on Xbox (360 I think?) Has an issue if your save file gets too big where the save will corrupt.
CDPR definitely over promised. But every business does. They probably should've not released on last gen consoles at all, but that is tricky as fuck. I mean when they started to dev cp2077, I doubt Sony and MS even had dev units for next gen. Probably should've delayed last gen release only, made a transparent explanation and apology, and did what they ended up doing after release. But I had a low mid tier PC that played it at a solid 60 fps without major issue at launch. And it was exactly what I had hoped.
I'll probably also really like starfield, warts and all, when it drops. These are just my type of game.
Honestly this is what pissed me off about the reaction to cyberpunk bugs. I remember how the fallout games were at launch
I bought the fallout games at launch. I bought Cyberpunk months after launch when I found it on clearance. Cyberpunk was still far less playable for me than the fallout games were at launch.
This was due to:
Additionally, CP2077 had all the same bugs in Fallout/Elder Scrolls releases.
I usually power through buggy RPG releases, but I waited to give CP a couple more patches before actually trying to play through it.
Even if it is true, the bar is embedded somewhere on Earth's inner core.
To be fair, Bethesda games are a fucking train wreck at launch so this is like an article saying this is the dryest water they've ever made.
Careful the devil doesn't trip over that bar.
That's a pretty low bar to cross.
You know, I don't remember Morrowind actually being that bad, but I played on the GotY version so maybe they actually fixed their shit in those days.
The GotY version of Morrowind feels less buggy than the original release. For example, some older PC versions frequently crashed because of some pointer error in the UI. The game detected this and created crash-recovery savegames like what MS Office does for your documents.
If the best praise their PR people have to put forward is that it's not quite as horrifically buggy as previous Bethesda games, that's... not a great sign; Microsoft paid $7.5B for ZeniMax in large part so that this specific game would be an Xbox exclusive, if it's not the level of masterpiece that gets people to buy Xboxes just to run it then it'll be one of their biggest fails since Clippy.
Eh, I'd say that's pretty good in context. Bethesda has, for the most part, put out very successful games. Bugs and Bethesda are pretty synonymous though, and that this is on the less buggy side is something to quell hot takes of "Bugfield" before people even touch it. And I think the embargo restricts deeper comments on the game, so these may he the only comments we get for a few more days.
"least buggiest"? Hmm, I know what "least buggy" would mean, not sure how to parse this one. On the bottom end of the buggiest bunch?
The gamiest of games
I know all the best words, okay, people are saying that I know the most beautiful words, okay, no one knows more about words than I do, big beautiful words, the WORDIST even.
Last time I saw this headline my brain just skipped "least" and read it as the buggiest game to date.
How far did they dig to find that bar?
Take the mask off, Todd, we know it's you!
Yeah I call bullshit. Plus the least buggy game release ever for Bethesda really isn't setting the bar high.
It only has 69,419 bugs this time instead of the usual 69,420+.
Well yeah, this game doesn't have buckets. So that's helped.
Starfield tastes like shit the least amount of any other Bethesda game!
This almost reads like an Onion headline.
/c/nottheonion@lemmy.world is that way, Todd, please don't trip on the low bar you set while you leave
Which means nothing and I will still wait for actual reviews after the release
And the unofficial patch that fixes the eorst of the bugs.
I truly don't understand people that buy something on release day and then complain about bugs, now, in 2023.
I look forward to getting it on sale a year or two after its release, but "least buggy" bethesda game still leaves a lot of rooms for bugs. It's like saying the "least buggy and most polished 3d sonic game yet!" . I still expect to sometimes clip through a loopdiloop and die.
As long as they're not game breaking, that's the best we can hope for. Or at least that they are entertaining bugs. With Skyrim, I admit after the patches I missed seeing flying mammoths and cows.
I want an ant to somehow launch a planet into my spaceship
Can't tell if this is damning with faint praise, or just an incredible self own
That is really not a high bar to cross, though.
I still couldn't limbo under the bar that sets. The bugs in Bethesda games are usually not game-breaking (in my experience), but they are legion.
They are usually fund-inducing bugs which are the best kind of bugs.
It just works!
I don't know, man. The eyes on the lady in the thumbnail pic look like they about to pop out and do all sorts of crazy shit.
It is photoshopped. The original.
Actually really unethical journalism to do that shit and not even add a disclaimer. And even if they added a disclaimer it should not not be the image that shows alongside the article in a feed.
"and the award for the tallest dwarf goes to...."
theres no way bethesda could make a game that was as buggy as new vegas was at launch (and still is to this day)
I think they definitely could, and have. Super buggy games are kind of their thing, it didnt stop with new vegas.
But I dont think it will hurt sales. Long as it isnt crashing the game, people have been waiting for a bethesda rpg like this for ages. Even if npc heads do rotate like propellors people will buy this thing.
But does it have 16x the textures?
That's not saying much
My brain auto-corrected the word "least" out of it and I just thought that was to be expected.
Such a great article full of absolutely nothing.
new tesla model least likely to spontaneously catch fire and explode to date, say sources
When sky's the limit, that's not really reassuring.
Let's hope it's as good as they're hyping it up to be. Until next week!
I will wait till the videogamedonkey breaks the game then I will decide
That thumbnail is something else🤣
mfw a Bethesda game doesn't launch with thousands of handcrafted bugs
That woman's eyes are like from anime.
