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[JohnnyFootball]

Starfield will not be even close to Game of the Year for me. It's a good 7/10 game that is worth playing, but it doesn't have the "curiosity" factor that made previous Bethesda games were playing. They went with a more is better approach. 1000 planets with mostly procedurally generated content completely disincentivized any exploring.

 

[rofif]

Starfield will not be even close to Game of the Year for me. It's a good 7/10 game that is worth playing, but it doesn't have the "curiosity" factor that made previous Bethesda games were playing. They went with a more is better approach. 1000 planets with mostly procedurally generated content completely disincentivized any exploring.

Is it a good 7/10 game?
I could barely get 2 hours into it and i always finished bethesda games day1... maybe my gaming habits changed but I just don't feel it.

 

[Rykan]

Sneering and unnecessarily rude, that's the tone you want to set? This is the kind of opener people with social skills wouldn't make. Tbh, from this point you've lost me and had me thinking there's no point replying to you, if that's your opening then why would I bother?

I'm going to improve my experience of this enthusiast's forum by ignoring your comment. Try to be more polite if you want to debate my posts with me in the future, there's nothing in it for me to argue with rude people on the Internet. Life's too short.

I'm the one setting the tone? You're claiming that your personal pick for GOTY, which is a completely subjective opinion, by the way, is the only objectively correct answer, and that 'fanboys' of other titles need to be 'honest' and acknowledge that nothing can challenge your personal pick.

The utter and outright complete lack of self-awareness on your part is stunning, to say the least.

 

[Arsic]

Had a blast with Zelda & FFXVI and I'm currently having a blast playing through Starfield, which as expected had to clearly be played for long periods of time instead of doing the journalism BS of playing like 15-20 hours and basing the whole game around that.

Starfield in a vacuum is a good game. Then you play phantom liberty and realize quickly how many warts it has.

FF16 I loved and think it’s a good, borderline great game, but has many issues. Empty open world areas with no reward to exploring, the game is piss easy, has some major pacing issues, no actual customization/progression with meaningful choices, and some of the worst side quests ever to name a few.

Zelda? Easy slam dunk out of your 3 as GOTY. Opus magnum stuff.

Other amazing games this year:

RE4 Remake
Lies of P
Armored Core 6
Baldurs Gate 3( likely will win GOTY most places)
Phantom Liberty

With two more potential GOTY candidates left:
Spider-Man 2
Alan wake 2

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Is it a good 7/10 game?
I could barely get 2 hours into it and i always finished bethesda games day1... maybe my gaming habits changed but I just don't feel it.

I very much think it is a good game that does a lot of things well. If they had made it smaller with a few systems that were fleshed out, I think it would have been an 8.5-9.

It would never reach a 10, since there are still too many little things it doesn't do well. In that it never fully takes into account decisions the way Witcher 3 does. Big Dan Gaming mentioned that in it's video.

 

[SF Kosmo]

BG3 really is that good?
I've checked multiple vids from it... it seems good for an isometric rpg, old school like icewind dale 2 or something. but is it more than that ?
It's certainly not everyones cup of tea.

It's more than that. The sheer amount and depth of choice is frankly unlike anything I have seen in a game before. If you don't love turn based RNG-heavy combat, you might struggle with that aspect, but it's an incredible achievement of a game.

 

[Balducci30]

re4 remake and bg3

 

[F0rneus]

"It's a Bethesda game" defense mode activated

I suggest reading the post by boss man EviLore as to why the game's problems go far beyond the easy defense that "Lolll but Beth games got bugs"

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/starfield-is-one-of-the-worst-written-rpgs-of-all-time.1661499/post-268435308

 

[Crayon]

Move starfield and ff16 to the goty kids table. Get BG3 up front. Leave seat open for sm2 or Allen wake.

AC6 was robbed.

Hogwarts was cancelled.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

‘I don’t care what anyone says’, but posts on a forum where people post opinions.

Now, the only one there worthy of GoTY is TOTK from your pick and even that got stale after a few hours for me.

Game of the year (so far) is either RE4 Remake, Baldur’s Gate 3 or probably the new Mario game coming in a few weeks. One of my personal favourites is CS2 as I’ve sunk a bunch of hours into that and stayed up playing way later than I usually would.

Starfield and FFXVI aren’t even close to game of the year to me, less so Starfield because at least FFXVI started out quite strong. Starfield was boring from the get go.

Also, if I have to play 20 hours of a single player game for it to get good, then it’s not a good game, it’s poorly paced. It’s like watching a movie and saying it was great because it ended good, despite the first 2 hours being boring.

 

[skneogaf]

 

[Gideon]

Realistic contenders:

-BG3
-Spiderman 2
- TOTK
- RE4
-Pikmin/one of the upcoming Mario games/FFXVI

There's no place for Starfield in the GOTY nominations

 

[JimboJones]

It's only between BG3 and Zelda in my eyes.

 

[AmuroChan]

OP, you obviously cared enough to create a thread to see what other people are saying.

 

[Skelterz]

It will be Zelda 100% that games brilliant.

 

[Arsic]

It will be Zelda 100% that games brilliant.

I think it’ll win some places and other places will give it to BG3.

 

[ByWatterson]

FFXVI is an absolute triumph of world building, lore, characters, and tone.

TOTK is an explosion of creativity and nostalgia.

Starfield is a dud and we all know it.

 

[Boss Man]

Anyone who says anything other than Baldur’s Gate 3 or Zelda is trolling.

I’d give it to BG3 only because ToTK was more of an iteration on BoTW. Both completely worthy of GOTY though.

I couldn’t even finish FF16. I like Yoshi-P, the guy clearly loves Final Fantasy and he knows video games. I think he should either be making mobile games or have someone else to answer to though, he just goes way too hard on streamlining.

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

You're allowed to be wrong.

 

[Bernardougf]

 

[Fake]

I don't care what anybody says, but I'll check the replies anyway​

 

[Fredrik]

Hell the title GOTY is stupid anyways as if there's some objective metric that determines all people's taste and preferences.

True, in the end it’s just subjective opinions and a popularity contest, and a great game can fall far down simply because too few people have played it even if everyone who actually play it think it’s the best game of all time.

But for me, trying my best to be objective, Starfield is the biggest disappointment of the year simply because of the pedigree of the studio and my love for them. Not an outright bad game by any stretch, but far below Bethesda's previous offerings in my book. I wanted to like it more than I actually did.

I won’t even try to have an objective opinion, I can only judge games subjectively based on my own taste in games. And regarding Starfield, I just like to play it, that’s it. It’s my most played game of the year at this point, literally everything else has been put aside to wait until I’m done with Starfield. So for that reason it’ll be a GOTY contender for me.

But I’m no doubt disappointed too. I’ve had some rants about stuff. But I rather focus on things I like and after the initial disappointment it went from 7.5 to 9. I got positively surprised at how good the combat is, fun and varied, and the ship building is legit awesome, I enjoy the base building gameplay loop, I like doing quests and in general I just like the amount of content and spending time in the universe. One playthrough finished at 80+ hours, 50+ hours deep into my second one, and there is still new stuff happening everytime I play.

I understand that the majority on GAF don’t share my taste in games though, when Metroid Dread was my GOTY with a wide margin GAF thought Halo Infinite was the GOTY which wasn’t even on my top 10.

 

[Negotiator101]

What a silly premise. Please show me your evidence that the press only put 10-15 hours into Starfield. I’m calling major bullshit on that one. Maybe some of them just didn’t enjoy the game? It’s OK for differing opinions, you know. It’s not some conspiracy.

A lot I'd say, I'll just say Starfield is the best 83mc rated game of all time and that's a fact.

 

[Represent.]

What a terrible year full of bloat.

 

[Hero_Select]

I played FF16, Starfield, ToTK.

Theres only one game in that list that going be in the running for GOTY.

It's going to be between Zelda and BG3 and I prefer TotK by a good amount.

 

[Boss Man]

It's going to be between Zelda and BG3 and I prefer TotK by a good amount.

ToTK reminds me so much of GoW: Ragnarok.

Both of them were pretty iterative - I wasn’t even very excited to start them, but I thoroughly enjoyed both once I did. Both of them were objectively better than their incredible predecessors and very easy to call the best game that year.

BoTW with a build mechanic might truly be the best game since BoTW without a build mechanic. Like, seriously, I say that without sarcasm. It just feels wrong to give something so iterative a title like GOTY though. It would have to really have no competition. Baldur’s Gate 3 feels like much more of an achievement this year.

 

[proandrad]

Sony and Nintendo really convince yall totk and ragnarok weren’t just full priced expansions packs. Yearly call of duty games have more new assets than both these games combined.

 

[Crayon]

Sony and Nintendo really convince yall totk and ragnarok weren’t just full priced expansions packs. Yearly call of duty games have more new assets than both these games combined.

All those assets still work and they are the hardest part to make. With how long games take, and the demand for more from audiences, binning all the assets is not automatically the best approach. It would be neat if everything looked new and different. Instead, things still look merely great and we have actual games to play. Not waiting years more and not teases on twitter "gauging interest" to see if stuff is financially viable.

 

[Atrus]

Starfield was a lazily developed game that doesn’t deserve RPG goty nomination much less a goty one.

The game is chock full of abandoned systems they tried to implement but didn’t finish and mechanics that exist in prior Bethesda games but didn’t bother to replicate in this one. It doesn’t even do much right as it fails as a planetary explorer, fails as a space trucker, fails as a space combat sim, and fails as an RPG.

There is nothing memorable to take away and the more time you spend on it, the more you come to understand how Bethesda failed at developing this game. It can be a “good” game if you spend like 20-30 hours and focus only on the main and faction quests and then stop, but the more time you spend on anything else the more mediocre it becomes.

 

[Thirty7ven]

BG3 really is that good?
I've checked multiple vids from it... it seems good for an isometric rpg, old school like icewind dale 2 or something. but is it more than that ?
It's certainly not everyones cup of tea.

It’s incredible, and you just need to get over how it looks and actually give it a shot. The game is loaded with actual significant hand crafted content, unlike other games that like to throw mountains of trash at you to padd game time.

Already a classic.

 

[Topher]

I was being sarcastic?

Guess not. All the games you mentioned (GoW, GoW:R, RDR 2, ER) can be considered "mass market" based on the huge number of copies each sold so using that as rationale as to why one game won GOTY over another doesn't really make sense.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

which as expected had to clearly be played for long periods of time instead of doing the journalism BS of playing like 15-20 hours and basing the whole game around that.

I’m happy you have the time to waste on digital entertainment, some of us work and see gaming as a secondary past time. I shouldn’t need to play 50 hours to appreciate the game.

 

[VanCityGamer]

A lot I'd say, I'll just say Starfield is the best 83mc rated game of all time and that's a fact.

Except that it literally isn’t a fact. It’s your opinion. If that is the best you’ve got, that’s pretty weak.

 

[glimmerman]

Hogwarts legacy

This. Also BG3... and Dave the Diver!!

 

[Pop]

Umm Spidey 2, BG3 and Hogwarts

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

No and only 2 you mentioned got GOTY worthy average review scores.

 

[LordCBH]

I’d love to see Hogwarts win just so the purple place has an insane meltdown. But it’s gonna be between Zelda and BG3. My preference is BG3

 

[Danjin44]

I feel like Armored Core VI is going to be overlooked by so many people, it fucking shame. I even go far as say ACVI has better NG+ than Elden Ring and other their pervious games.

 

[nemiroff]

Ok, fine. np

 

[Meicyn]

Baldur’s Gate 3 gets my vote with Hogwart’s Legacy as a runner up so far this year.

 

[Gaelyon]

I agree. You should put any of those games as GOTY contenders as long as BG3 win.

 

[ShirAhava]

I feel like Armored Core VI is going to be overlooked by so many people, it fucking shame. I even go far as say ACVI has better NG+ than Elden Ring and other their pervious games.

Armored Core VI is far better than any game released this year

I've go as far as the say its the best game released since Titanfall 2

 

[Crayon]

Armored Core VI is far better than any game released this year

I've go as far as the say its the best game released since Titanfall 2

Strong words, but it's excellent. Currently banging my head on the grinder/volcano boss. This game is a beast.

This will take a minute for me to get through. The bosses are so though but the checkpoints make it doable

 

[kirby007]

i agree with you OP everyone else is an idiot

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Had a blast with Zelda & FFXVI and I'm currently having a blast playing through Starfield, which as expected had to clearly be played for long periods of time instead of doing the journalism BS of playing like 15-20 hours and basing the whole game around that.

Are you not aware it’s early October, and there’s lots of games that haven’t been released yet? Like Lords of the Fallen?

You couldn’t possibly have an objective GOTY decided yet unless you’re not interested in actually picking from every game you’ve played thru 12/31.

Nice try, tho! Let’s circle back on this before New Year’s.

 

[Azelover]

They are all excellent games. But if I had to choose I'd say Tears of the Kingdom is probably gonna win..

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

The only award Starfield deserves is the Most Disappointing Game of the Forever

 

[Gudji]

Starfield shouldn't even be on the GOTY nominations.

 

[manfestival]

Starfield is probably the best game ever created

 

[Guerilla Munch]