How will it last as long as Skyrim when it has relatively little to no content?
Im sure theyre banking on the modding community keeping Starfield on life support for a decade or more
The modding community won't be terribly motivated to build on top of their base game either, if the base game doesn't feel worth playing for long...
I feel like people with the ability to mod starfield would rather spend time modding skyrim
Exactly, it’s so fucking gross. Free labor, so why wouldn’t they I guess
relatively little to no content
It has about as much handcrafted content as Skyrim if you count all settlements, crafted-quests, dungeons, etc. Just because it has a ton of procedural content with a ton more random missions than Skyrim doesn't mean it has less handcrafted.
I understand why some people say it feels like Starfield has little to no content because they swim (or fact travel) in an ocean of procedurally-generated stuff.
For me, each playthrough I'm discovering at least a handful of big new things I missed the previous playthrough.
To get to brass tacks, estimates have been showing Starfield has approximately 400-500 named quests. Skyrim vanilla has 274.
So if you think it won't last as long as Skyrim because you think nobody likes it, that's defensible from the Mixed reviews. But it's not due to lack of content but (arguably, because I like it) quality of content.
Some side quests in Starfield are longer than the main quests of other games.
For example, it took me the same amount of time to play through SF once as it took to play through The Witcher twice, including the DLCs.
"Little to no content" is an outright lie.
Just in sheer quest counts, Starfield blows Skyrim out of the water.
Settlement counts as sizes? Ditto. There's only 4 Major Cities, but there are non-city settlements as big as Skyrim Cities.
And New Atlantis is Massive.
I call bs. How many hours for that one Starfield playthrough then?
135 to 140 hours approximately. I didn't put a lot of effort into outposts, so it could've been more.
How will it last as long as Skyrim when it has relatively little to no content?
Im sure theyre banking on the modding community keeping Starfield on life support for a decade or more
The modding community won't be terribly motivated to build on top of their base game either, if the base game doesn't feel worth playing for long...
I feel like people with the ability to mod starfield would rather spend time modding skyrim
Exactly, it’s so fucking gross. Free labor, so why wouldn’t they I guess
It has about as much handcrafted content as Skyrim if you count all settlements, crafted-quests, dungeons, etc. Just because it has a ton of procedural content with a ton more random missions than Skyrim doesn't mean it has less handcrafted.
I understand why some people say it feels like Starfield has little to no content because they swim (or fact travel) in an ocean of procedurally-generated stuff.
For me, each playthrough I'm discovering at least a handful of big new things I missed the previous playthrough.
To get to brass tacks, estimates have been showing Starfield has approximately 400-500 named quests. Skyrim vanilla has 274.
So if you think it won't last as long as Skyrim because you think nobody likes it, that's defensible from the Mixed reviews. But it's not due to lack of content but (arguably, because I like it) quality of content.
Some side quests in Starfield are longer than the main quests of other games.
For example, it took me the same amount of time to play through SF once as it took to play through The Witcher twice, including the DLCs.
"Little to no content" is an outright lie.
Just in sheer quest counts, Starfield blows Skyrim out of the water.
Settlement counts as sizes? Ditto. There's only 4 Major Cities, but there are non-city settlements as big as Skyrim Cities.
And New Atlantis is Massive.
I call bs. How many hours for that one Starfield playthrough then?
135 to 140 hours approximately. I didn't put a lot of effort into outposts, so it could've been more.
I feel as if you never actually played the game.