Watch Out! Some People Are Trying To Ruin Starfield For The Rest Of Us

So essentially the same thing that happens on every playstation studios release lol

In other news the sky is blue 😂 But thanks for the heads up anyhow, although I tend to avoid large sections of the internet due to the pervasiveness of toxicity that is out there.

Will obviously be avoiding spoilers, but I never understand why people are so desperate to hate a game. Some sites have been posting articles why Starfield will be rubbish or why other games will be better for months now.

How sad are the lives of review bombers? I honestly feel sorry for them.

@somnambulance most of the negative comments I've seen have come from big PS fans, so you can assume it comes down to it being exclusive to Xbox and the console wars.

I think I've read a spoiler on Twitter so yeah, watch out.

Doesn’t have to be PS fans, some people just like to spoil for others anyway. Not to mention it has early access so story will be out there before majority play it

Poor PS users who will not be able to play the game...

In all seriousness, people can be really petty.

@somnambulance every Xbox exclusive gets review bombed, metacritic cleans up some of it. PS fans with nothing to do besides give every PS game a 10 and every Xbox game a 0.

I dont understand review bombing, it seems petty and infantile.

Any true gamer should want Starfield to be phenomenal! Bethusda have created some of the most memorable games in history and a return to that form should be celebrated by anyone who truly appreciates the art of crafting games.

It does annoy me that I'll endure a week of spoilers before we get it 'day 1' on gp, but thats another issue 😊

If the game lives up to the hype the only negativity with the game will be the frame rate for the xbox series x anyway which is pretty bad in 2023 every game should have performance and resolution modes

@Jenkinss so just the same as Xbox does to PS or Nintendo and so on. All are the same.

I think i'll be keeping off social media, there are some sad and unstable people out there. I never cared about review scores, just if I like the look of it (and eventually like the whole thing).

It's going to be interesting to see what kind of negative comments are classed as "review bombing".
I'm sure there are going to be plenty of people who are dissatisfied with the 30fps choice and leave negative comments, is criticism of poor performance justified or a review bomb?

@Chaotic_Neutral more than justified running at that frame rate and if its a buggy mess then it' will deserve it but it might be great as well it needs be great for everyone to look past that in my opinion to review bomb a game is sad and shouldn't happen

@Chaotic_Neutral You can def mark down for performance issues/story sure, but review bombing is giving something 0 or 1 which even that Gollum game woudn't be. Some of the best games of all time are 30fps so a 0 won't fly for that reason.

@Chaotic_Neutral being critical of a game's performance is justified. Going on Metacritic and giving the game in question a 0 is not. And let's face it, the majority of people leaving negative "criticism" and scores for Starfield won't have even played it. Don't get me wrong, if Starfield is not good, I want to know, but I don't go to user reviews to find out, because 99.9% of users are not critics; more often than not they're irrational and butt-hurt.

@Titntin The entire internet is comprised of infantile behavior. The gaming community loves nothing more than to throw tantrums.

Hohoooooo....... Things is about to get spicy at this point. Let's go haters. Do your worse.

Some people need to look into why Starfield is 30fps. There are videos explaining why from both Bethesda and Digital Foundry. It comes down to the scale and scope of the game, differing planetary lighting, and item persistence (so you can, for example pick up some cheese at point A, drop it at point Z on a completely different planet, and it will still be at point Z 200 hours later). 30fps was a design choice to give the best game possible, yet people criticising the decision just don't understand the reasoning. A little bit of research will explain everything, and then the hurt they are feeling over the frame rate, should completely vanish...

@Tintin Day5 on Gamepass

@Markatron84 @Darylb88 @Dan1283 Couldn't the same be said for the fan boys running and giving it solid 10's.
That's why I love aggregate sites, it balances the extremes and gives an overall score based on everyone opinions

No doubt IGN will be doing their bit - I'm sure those familiar always see stuff like: xxxx ending explained or how to do this this and that...then 5mins later they'll get on their high horse and try protect people from spoilers 🙂

@Chaotic_Neutral exactly if it's rubbish it deserves slating if it's great it deserves praise I remember xbox fanboys trying praise redfall lol

All PS / Nintendo / Xbox exclusives get review bombed so this shouldn't even be in the article. It should have been specifically about warning people to avoid spoilers at all costs and possibly the comments would maybe focus mainly on recommended sites/articles that people have read that haven't spoiled anything. Instead its 50% of people saying 'we hate PS5 owners' and the other half like me saying 'we're all the same'.

Regarding the frame rate - if its a stable 30fps to allow amazing gameplay such as the item persistence (mentioned by @Fiendish-Beaver), stable fps, improved graphics etc then sounds perfect to me. TotK, BotW, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, Witcher 3 frame rates aren't great but what games they are!

@Amigator Was the guy named xbottears playstation ambassador or something like that on twitter? Because I accidentally saw his one line comment but I highly doubt he knows the story and is just being a 🍆head. Then again doesn't really affect me because I'll probably never finish the game because I'll be looking at things, especially if they're shiny lol.

Although I've not played the game nor have I had any spoilers but one thing that has me intrigued since last showcase is the final scene. The game will revolve around the artifact and we'll get the power of the artifact at the end which we can use to kill everyone in sight not gravity power like most have been saying. But I could be wrong. Just less than 3 weeks more. Can't wait to get my hands on it

@Chaotic_Neutral Yes if you have given a 10 you basically need to do a in depth review to justify why it goes above and beyond other games or stands out in an innovative way. Scoring a 10 does make more sense than scoring a zero though every day of the week.

I'm sure you'll be able to form your own opinion of the game without the help of aggregate sites though.

Is this news story one of those sponsored ones by the publisher perhaps? Looks just a bit fishy.

@Chaotic_Neutral absolutely. People in their droves giving a game they might not have even played a 10 is just as irrational and fanboyish as people giving it a 0. Aggregate sites are indeed a good source of information, because they have all the reviews for a game easily accessible in one place, but I don't count user reviews in that usefulness. Users suck.

This is unfortunately just a part of modern gaming. I’ve had to avoid spoilers from fanboys and trolls on PS5 and Switch exclusives too; they’re petty and juvenile but they’re also easy to avoid. I’ll do fine avoiding these too, but it’s worth the reminder to everyone to keep their guard up.

Review bombing is just as obnoxious. Few games are worth a 0 or a 10, and I wouldn’t trust a single user review score until at least a few days after launch — and certainly not before.

@Dan1283 I'm not a fanboy, but I enjoyed playing Redfall. It certainly wasn't without fault, but I found it to be fun and engaging.

That being said, I certainly wouldn't have given it a 10/10. Bugs aside, it's a 7/10 for me. I liked the story. I liked the environments. I liked the gameplay loop. I liked the various approaches to certain scenarios (even if it wasn't quite as open-ended as other titles).

It's a shame that we have seen zero support since launch to at least address the biggest issues with the game. I felt it had a good foundation for being something bigger - maybe not necessarily from a technical level, but content-wise a good start for expanding things further.

Maybe Microsoft is hoping to have like a Final Fantasy XIV type reboot and fix it all at once instead of making incremental changes and do like a Redfall 2.0 re-release.

I do think there is a good game there (even as a multiplayer game), it really just needed more time in the oven (and maybe a little more support from Microsoft).

Sadly it will affect the critic score too.

@JON22 I don't remember the name but it was a one line comment so it could be him. And yeah, It could be bs. In any case, just to be sure, stay away from Starfield's social media people.

@Microbius @Fenbops I assume you thought the same of people who gave GoW 0 or ToTK. It happens to all consoles, it’s not exclusive to Xbox

In addition to this, there's been a suggestion that Starfield will be getting "review bombed

It's a console exclusive so it was bound to happen, more so because the console is Xbox.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Not nearly as big of an issue, probably because of the massive difference in volume in number of users.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner of course but I don’t really see many gamers outside of the PlayStation community moaning about PlayStation exclusives and review bombing them, not to the extent from that community.

I’m currently playing GOW:R actually. Good game. More of the same but enjoyable.

@Microbius ‘There was even an open poll on TwitteX done on the subject of which fanbase is the most toxic ridiculous etc...the results

Xbox 15.8%
Playstation 71.8%
Nintendo 4.2%
PC 8.2%’

🤣 not surprised by those results. I’ve been saying for ages it’s the worst fanbase.

Really hyped for this. Does it the ps fans' bitterness add to it? My hands type no, but my eyes say yes.

Just ignore it. Ultimately you know if you’re going to play it or not. If happens to every console unfortunately.

It’s a shame metacritic don’t introduce some sort of system that verifies you have actually played the game first.

@Microbius

You could easilly look at it another way:
PC and switch owners are just doing there thing, they are relatively unconcerned for 'dominance' as best console.

If you were to assume that a similar proportion of a consoles user base were the kind of idiots who engage in this toxic *****, then you would expect to encounter twice as many PS idiots as Xbox idiots simply based on install base (42m vs 21m).

This certainly seems to borne out in interactions online. I think the toxicity is pretty equaly spread between the camps myself, but with one camp being twice as large, their idiots are everywhere. 🤣

Id rather nobody de evolved to that level, but it seems to be a reflection of the modern human condition and sadly, its getting worse not better. For those of us who simply love games, its becoming a daily nuisance..

what nonsense, they have nothing to do in their level

@Microbius Im not doubting that, though im not sure how definitive a poll of people's subjective feelings on twitter can be relied on for accurate data 🤣
Accurate or not, its certainly a reflection of how so much childishness seems to come from one direction, it certainly feels like it to me too. I was merely suggesting that a pool of twice the number to start with might explain that disparity. Or we can believe that anyone choosing a ps to game on is either lacking in sense to start with, or is somehow transformed by their choice!🤣Fun as the latter explanation is, I suspect the 'twice the number theory' has more to do with it.
Whatever the reason for it, I wish such pathetic behaviour wasnt part of modern gaming.

The review bombing thing is just sad little attention seekers. Same with the spoilers. I've mainly steered clear of anything involving Starfield as I want to go into it knowing nothing. As for reviews, I never have and never will pay any attention to any reviews except my own. Ghost Recon Wildlands got loads of bad reviews, but I personally think it's probably the best game I've played in months. It's all about personal preference. Reviews are just someone's personal opinion (or attempt at down rating a game)

Review bombing almost never helps and usually the attention it garners increases sales. If I didn’t know people were just that insane to get that invested in either a game or what random strangers buy I would think these were marketing ploys by now.