I mean… it’s amost as if Skyrim has years of iteration under its belt and a thriving modding community who can use mod tools to keep things fresh.
Older, cheaper game with a vastly larger modding scene has more players? No shit, Sherlock!
Don’t forget most people bought Skyrim before it was on game pass, and starfield launched on it
It’s also conflating 1 game against 3 seperate versions of another.
Yeah this type of ‘news’ is pointless. Regardless of which is better, there is just far more content for Skyrim. Of course it has more longevity.
Yeah? So does Fallout 4 and it has lower player numbers currently…
Melee combat appeals to a broader base with fewer quality options. If you feel like playing a shooter with a decent story, there is more competition to Fallout 4. Fallout 76 comes to mind.
That sounded sassier than I meant. But that gameplay style will split users into a wider number of titles, was my point.
Todd Howard for the last decade: PLAY SKYRIM!
Todd Howard now: Stop playing Skyrim please and PLAY STARFIELD!
Soooo many people boarded the hype train. Speaking of, there’s only a few hundred viewers left on Twitch as well, 2 months after release lol.
Part of the issue is that it also took them 2 months to get any sort of qualified patch out the door.
The previous ones only fixed like 2-3 game breaking bugs each and that was that.
The most recent one does a tad more, but still nothing to write home about.
Some people keep parroting that Bethesda has always had a absolutely horrid trackrecord of patching their messes, so you shouldn’t complain about that, but I refuse to give them a pass on that.
People that keep saying that are pretty much saying “yeah, me dog shits in my bed every single day and I’m not going to do anything about it because they’ve always done that.”
And they originally wanted to release around when Redfall released.
After two months everybody literally saw all the game had to offer, so no surprise there.
It’s getting dumb what spins they’re putting on all of this Starfield coverage. Yesterday it was getting stiffed for Game Awards nominations, today it’s low playercount on Steam. I wonder what it’s going to be tomorrow, because Microsoft paid for coverage, good or bad.
Stiffed?
To get an award you have to have earned it.
They weren’t stiffed on anything as they didn’t earn anything.
This while from day one they were talking like they deserved a Grammy (which they literally posted on their press release page).
There were a few articles about it earlier this week (can’t find them, but they got posted on Lemmy). Feels like average outrage farming from “games journalists” honestly, since all the articles I can find about it now are from today about how “Nuh uh, it actually didn’t get snubbed! Your articles are wrong!”
I think that them announcing mod support for next year actually caused people to abandon it quicker. I mean, they had to talk about mods because it was so expected, but I wish they had support ready to go with the October patch. Give everyone a month to play the story without the temptation to completely overhaul with silly mods, then announce support in time for holiday sales.
I really enjoyed the gamed but I am also waiting to revisit it after mod support is officially added.
I’m personally waiting to see if it will come out again for VR. Bethesda always sells a new copy of the game to have VR support.
The game barely runs in pancake mode and their response to that was “get a better computer”. I’d hate to see what they would expect to even try to run Starfield in VR.
Also, their VR versions are, frankly, not very good. You absolutely have to tweak and mod them to get them to run well and be enjoyable.
I updated my rig 4 years ago, and not to the top of the line. Starfield ran beautifully for me on release. I don’t really understand all the people acting like it required cutting edge builds to operate.
I felt the response was valid. How often do consoles get upgrades? PCs require them less frequently, but if you are using a 10 year old rig, it’s like trying to play PS5 games on a PS3.
Too many treated it like their statement had “get good” energy. =/
So far i very much enjoyed non moded skyrim VR and fallout 4 VR and they run really well on my very good last gen gpu “3090”.
Keep in mind, they released in the 10X0 era. Also, I found Skyrim needed ini tweaking to bring back the view distance. Even still, compared to most native VR games, I found the interactions lackluster without mods.
Dude the 3090 is a 24GB MONSTER of a GPU that cost $1500 USD when it came out
Yea. i got a good deal on marketplace. I’m extremely happy with it. :)
They got rid of their VR internal teams, so probably not.
That sucks. I was really looking forward to more VR games from bethesda. I know a lot of people work on flat screen to VR mods that are often better then what the studios would do so i might still be able to play it in VR someday.
Give it 10 years.
I’m honestly fine if it takes 10 years.
It’s almost as if Skyrim enjoyed a Creation Kit of some sort was full of over a decade of mods with a (unofficially) completely patched game. I would probably be playing it too instead, if my savegame didn’t end up getting becoming near corrupted by the time I’m nearly done completing half of the game. But there’s a mod for that, too.
I think Skyrim is a pretty cool guy. He kills dragons and doesn’t afraid of anything
Other than hitting the Shout button when trying to play tag.
