Bethesda Exec 'Hasn't Come Close' To Finishing Starfield After 160 Hours

i will never get those 160 hours in starfield i get bored easily and i jump to another game i have finished on the xbox consoles 4 games in the last 20 years i own more than 1200 games

I don’t even plan to finish it. I just want to do whatever I want in space. That’s what happened with me in Breath of the Wild as I just glided around doing random stuff and never beat that lol. Still had a blast. But we’ll see, maybe the main objective will really hook me.

I just want to take all the time it needs to fully experience this. If that means 6 months of solely playing this game that’s totally fine by me. Can’t wait to get completely lost in this!

I am excited for this game. Can't wait to check it out.

@XBOX045 I’m with you on that one. It’s not that I’m bored, but I get attracted to other games and then keep going back and forth between them all the time.

I have a few games where I have invested hundreds or even thousands of hours (MMORPGs / Multiplayer games) but 99.99% of the games I have played are unfinished at varying degrees.

Mostly 30-50% through, some games 70-80% through. And I promise myself I’ll finish them one day.

My only platinum on PlayStation is Horizon Zero Dawn. I have no 100%s on Xbox, Switch of PC. But Breath of the Wild is close on my Wii U.

@Altaria_97 I also don't think i will finish game , very big game .

I’m usually interested most in the story so very low chance I have anywhere near that many hours in the game. I’m just hoping the story is good.

Knowing me, I'll dabble in side quest stuff, but I'll focus mostly on the main quest and then move on.

I can't live in games.

Maybe during lull periods I will jump in and do something interesting; but just looking at the games release these next several months, I don't think there will be a "lull"

I'll be interested in the % who start this game actually finish it. If GP didn't exist I reckon I'd have played it for months (or longer) and would have tried to finish it. Having it on GP, once I start getting a little bored I'll just jump on another game and resign SF to 'just another game' and not bother to persevere with it. Guess not long until I find out though.

It’s like eating your favorite dessert all day for months… eventually you might want something else but it’s going to be a glorious next few months!

'Finish' is somewhat subjective in a Bethesda game as there isn't really an 'end' to these games. Yes you can play through the entire 'main' storyline for example and reach the 'end' of that, but these games are usually much more 'Role Playing'.

By that, I mean you can start off by following the 'main' story line, branch off and go and become whatever you want to be in this 'world' - whether that's an explorer, a space pirate, a smuggler etc, set up your own base or not. Point is, you could 'never' finish the main story because you branched off and went a different way.

Doing 'everything' that is possible, different dialogue options, different career paths, different traits/skills etc I doubt would be possible in 200hrs. Its that 'freedom' that makes this an almost 'endless' game.

Therefore I doubt I'll finish 'everything' possible and will probably never consider it 'finished' - much like Fallout 3/4 or any of the Elder Scrolls games I started. Even after reaching the 'end' of the main story in F3, I still felt that I had barely seen the world and so much territory I hadn't yet been to. Fallout 4 I have no idea where I am at in its main story but after hundreds of hours, I still feel like its in my 'backlog' rather than 'finished'.

I've really grown tired of games that demand hundreds of hours of gameplay as I've got older. Give me a nice, linear 10 hour game and I'm happy.

Speedrunner will finish this game in 16min.

...and that length of a game is why I'm not gonna buy it. I also have to care for friends, work, sleep, dog, food. Gaming is supposed to be a fun and relaxing endeavour. A game this size more seems like stress for me - When will it finish? When will it finish?
I'll be watching some of the videos published online to grasp the awesomeness of this piece of art. But I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna play it.

@__jamiie just my thoughts. It might even be non-linear - just make it possible to finish with in a reasonable amount of time. Then if playing the game was a positive experience, one can revisit it with some different difficulty level.

Yesterday - after 2 years - reinstalled AC:Valhalla and completed the Siege of Paris, totalling 175 hours. So 160+ is a good thing.

@JakobU Well said Sir. I'm currently playing through Shadow Warrior. Decent enough and I know I don't have to give up my wife and pets for it.

@__jamiie Wife?! Uh, take care man. When the lion's not around the antelopes are having fun. Now that's a completely different game :0

It'll go one of two ways for me with Starfield. I'll either get bored and move on, or it'll be all I play for months. Depends on the game. I'm not going to put hundreds of hours into a game just because it's there. If the gameplay and loop doesn't grab me, I'm out.

@vded Case in point! 175+ hours of AC Valhalla sounds like hell to me.

@Markatron84 Indeed, it's hell. But I like Ubisoft's open worlds, plus this Valhalla era. And with the DLCs not even have completed the 60% of achievements..

@XBOX045

Finishing 4 games in 20 years with 1200 games owned sounds like a severe lack of attention span.