After diligent reading...
I seem to be completely out of character!
So... I have to say I pre-ordered Starfield. Already 4 weeks ago and the CE (which will even contain the first addon, which I don't even know yet).
Of course I'll do a hell of a thing and write that... e.g. on Steam in the comments, because hell is reigning there right now.
AMD vs Intel and NVidia. XBox vs the "poor" Playstation gamers. Singleplayer vs MMOers and... in general... Oh God.... almost embarrassing the people, how they go about it (or I'm getting old and that's normal now^^)
Why did I do this? Well... I don't scrimp between 40 and 100 euros if I'm
REALLY interested in something and I can hardly wait.
That only happens to me twice in 5 years. Due to this.
In my opinion, Starfield fills a niche here that is finally being filled.
Alternatively, I would only see "Star Citizen" with potential .... IF IT WAS FINISHED before 2030 ...! Before that I think the real Mars landing is slowly coming and I don't even mean that ironically.
But I fundamentally reject this "pay to win" approach, which is very likely to be the case in the future.
At least if it breaks a frame that can no longer be endured.
Currently buying ships for over 1000 euros...? A 3D model, so to speak, which I will probably be able to mod/program myself at StarField sooner or later? and that in a still PreAlpha which is embarrassing...??
Almost 600 million shot up over the years and all you see is what's finished so far?
So for me something like that borders on crime. It reminds me very much of the
Ponzi principle. You haven't heard the thunder then, I think
But somehow you get away with it. Or there are enough stupid people who finance it. Of course you can also write the same about me (see above^^). But I think there is a difference like night and day.
In comparison, you have to look at the actually "thin" 6-digit grants that EGO receives/received from the federal government in grants as an innovative game developer.
And here we are at a solid game that can keep up with such "monsters"!
If something then degenerates with others, you just have to look at "World of Warships or Tanks". What's going on in the shop and how money is made from every little "shit" (and above all how much) has nothing to do with gaming in my opinion.
At that time, World of Warships also served a niche that I found interesting and where there was nothing before. But then it messed me up so much that I now serve my interest with "
Ultimate Admirals Dreadnoughts".
Comparable here then with StarField & X4: Foundations. David & Goliath. However, both will be/remain playable here! Just because something isn't heavily hyped doesn't mean it's bad.
Unfortunately, this is only going to get worse. That alone is a very big point to play X4 with what it offers. Of course you don't HAVE to buy anything, I'm more concerned with the "feeling" or the immersion that a game then has.
And that goes completely down the drain with the above-mentioned "WoW's", for example.
Will I switch because of StarField though? Clear NO!
I think you can only compare Starfield and X4 to a limited extent.
Starfield will probably serve everything a little bit. A modern graphics engine paired with first person shooter and open world elements. Then the niche universe, more like an open universe.
It will probably try to go deeper into the story as far as individual characters go, but that has never been Bethesda's forte and certainly won't be in Starfield.
X4 is more sandbox. I'm thinking about it now and would say I spend most of my time in X4 on the map with my complex economy rather than "jetting around" somewhere.
I guess 80/20.
Starfield won't be able to top that in the slightest. I'll spend more time farming resources myself, which will be something completely different in this "world" and again X4 doesn't have that.
StarField will probably do a bit of everything, but nothing really deep. But where is it written that = this is bad?
And yes. there will be bugs. Bethesda is the market leader there
That doesn't influence my decision in the slightest. The big point here is A: Mods! These will balance quite a bit, and the opportunities Bethesda offers to do this are unparalleled.
Skyrim only lived on mods, otherwise it would have been dead for years. An original installation has around 12 gigabytes, if I remember correctly. I just checked my directory and was a bit surprised... a whopping 93 gigabytes!
But then also on a halfway tolerable level (which also runs!... tricky) In addition, the same thing again on GB's because fuses. But a vanilla would be unbearable today.
That's why I don't even begin to understand the discussions elsewhere about the allegedly "hefty" 125GB from StarField.
Likewise the requirements. On the one hand let the PC run if possible, but then stream the whole thing with 8k to the 75"+ TV and if possible with five hundred and thirty FPS
and on the other hand, whine ala: Hey, is my GTX-1070Ti still enough? And my Intenso 500GB SSD for 15 euros is full. Ridiculous...
On the subject of bugs, I see things more positively at Bethesda lately, because something has changed. Microsoft has the finger on it. What they partially achieved with Fallout will not happen here. I'm very, very sure of that.
Alone the change from the release, which was actually already fixed for last year, I push back to that. According to the motto: "
No, we don't want it that way. You have to take a look at it again" was also one of the reasons for my pre-order decision.
Add to that the disaster with Redfall. And I always assume that you learn from mistakes. In that case both... Well... yes... I have to and will just think positively here.
Another reason for my Pre-Order was simply my futuristic & ultra-modern Internet connection of no less than 6MBit/s (+-5.3 real). Yes... more is not possible... apparently I live in Dark Germany.
We have 95% very good coverage, but wherever this is not the case, the remaining 5% are there
Has anyone ever tried to jiggle 125 GB with 5.5 MBit/s over the line when a release starts via Steam? I can confirm that there is no joy! I reckon with 2.5 to 3 days of pure download time and only if the servers don't bitch.
With a release where... I don't know... 500,000 to maybe 700,000 people are trying to download it at the same time, I already suspect bad things.
.. especially extremely economical in times of "save electricity here and save electricity there"
Sounds macabre, but yes. That was also included in my decision, for one even a pre-order ^^ Otherwise it would push me back by 3 weeks and that in turn...
...yes..this would be very stupid, because I have 2 1/2 weeks of vacation from the first week of September, which I am spending here in "Dark Germany"
So at least that would fit, although it has been registered for 10 months.
Conclusion:
Yes, I'm looking forward to it.
Yes, for me there are not only purchase but also pre-order reasons.
Yes, bugs don't bother me as they will be less (reason see above)
Yes, the genre "Universe" is awesome
yes, because THANK GOD... SINGLE-PLAYER!!
No, despite everything, that won't detract from X4. Now I have to schedule my time, but leave it there/check it off? why?
No, because for me they are 2 different games despite everything.
No, procedural worlds and events are
not bad if there is always something "handmade" INSIDE of them. Can only be
even more positive after Skyrim, Fallout and Co.
No, from what I've seen so far and where my interests are, I'm 100% not going to land on my face. Even with bugs
No, even if AMD is exclusively involved and I'm an RTX-3060DUAL-12Gb user, I don't care much.
If I make my purchase decisions dependent on such individual things, I'm screwed after every 3 games... .. no matter how I align myself. And this will only get worse in the future. NVidia probably didn't put enough on the table here.
The smarter one was probably NVidia anyway, because this single thing and here and there 2 more don't detract from them. DLSS or FSR or not as far as this case is concerned.
My decision to buy my Asus PG278QR was also based on GSync, but above all on NVidia's "3D Vision 2". Well... I can still... with a graphics driver from Anno-domini
God... how I miss that. I still don't understand that to this day.
In the end it doesn't matter anyway ("Wumpe" in German) what I wrote
Usually to each their own and never force anything on anyone.
PS: GooGle Translation... Yaaayyyy