
Starfield may have only just arrived on Xbox Game Pass, but as you've probably seen, it's been playable for a number of days in early access. That's given eager-to-play folks plenty of time to try the game out already, and well, one industry figure from the PlayStation side of the coin has chimed in on their experience so far.
David Jaffe, the original Director of God of War and Twisted Metal, has incredibly high praise for Bethesda's new RPG. In fact, Jaffe says that Starfield is "easily one of my top 3 games of all time" and encourages anyone to try it out with a Game Pass subscription.
"I'm console agnostic, y'all KNOW that. A great game is a great game. I say this because if you love games as well and don't have an XBOX, you owe it to yourself to get Gamepass for a month and try out Starfield (even if just using cloud). It is easily one of my top 3 games of all time.
Now your millage will vary of course, BUT if in the past you've found yourself realizing your taste and mine is similar ENOUGH, don't let this childish console 'war' nonsense keep you away from this brilliant thing. If you love 1p action adventures, you owe it to yourself."
Of course, this is just one opinion among a sea of Starfield thoughts already out there, but it's safe to say Jaffe has seen and played loads of titles over the years so a top three nomination from him seems like very high praise indeed - especially given his PlayStation background.
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Giving this one a whirl through Xbox Game Pass seems like an absolute no-brainer anyway - just as Jaffe proclaims in the above tweet. You can simply try it with one month of Game Pass and see if you agree with these thoughts!
Is Starfield making its way up there in your estimations? Tell us in the comments section below.
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All I'll say is that Starfield is making me feel the same way RDR2 made me feel when it came to the world building and exploration. Could spend hours just lost in the world without even knowing it.
Must say though that the discourse on this game on places like Twitter shows you that the world isn't lacking on idiots. 😂
The OG God of War is the only one I ever played.
I own all three consoles, I think Microsoft is killing it this Generation, Microsoft has definitely made more hits than misses this gen. Microsoft has made great moves and acquisitions.
I’ve been a Sony guy for years. I went with Microsoft this gen for all third party games because I’m not a fan of Jim Ryan. Sony has had so many remakes and remasters. Most of Sony titles that I like have been dormant. Jim Ryan has made multiple bad moves this gen.
@Cashews
God of War is a great series of games. III, and Ascension were disappointments. But, the past two reboot games are great action-adventures.
@NeoRatt I enjoyed GoW when I played it but once I played Devil May Cry and later Bayonetta I found the gameplay to be a bit simple and the setting a bit boring. It felt like Gears of War for action/adventure. Like a bro-game that choses blood and gore as a storyline because the gameplay was weak. 2 cents - like I said my familiarity with the series was only once - and a million and a half years ago.
I'll revisit someday.
I'm still way too early in to make a final judgement but its racing up my list of games of this generation. It's been everything I love about bethesda from the start.
Skyrim and Oblivion are 1 and 2 on my all time list so I was pretty certain this one would be great. So far it has lived up to the hype.
@Cashews
I like DMC and Bayonetta too. I got into DMC later, but purchased Bayonetta on day one and didn't stop til I was done the game.
I agree that GoW felt boring at times. And that peaked in III, and Ascension. But the last two are very good games deep on story and great gameplay.
That’s some great praise. I’ve been avoiding the discourse on Twitter because it’s generally full of trolls and console wars — but from all of the people in my life personally, they absolutely love this game. I shamefully bought the premium edition to get early access, but I’ve yet to play it due to Sea of Stars consuming me. Oh, well — I don’t mind supporting a Bethesda game. I can’t wait to jump in!
High praise. Jaffe's always says what he thinks in the moment.
But he also has pretty severe ADHD, probably ADD, and is usually high as a kite on stream. He also labelled his video "STARFIELD=GREAT but VERY UGLY!!!". Point being he's erratic, ask him in a week or two and his Top 3 has likely changed.
As much an all as I would like to jump in to this game and try it out, I don't think I have the free time to commit to it. Will hopefully get to it before the end of the year.
Loving it so far. Such a brilliant game and lots of fun! Don't think I'll ever get bored of exploring the worlds and meeting all the different characters
Aaach this is the guy who can't play Metroid 😂
This is what i try and explain. It’s ok to have your favorite console and play most games there. But don’t like a great game go unplayed if you can afford another console. Support more of the industry. I am way way more a Xbox guy than PS, due to controller preference. But i bought a PS4 and PS5 just to play a handful of titles, like GOW and Last of Us etc etc. SF is a system selling game and it’s not over yet. They still have many many games coming from over 30 studios. Same with PS5 still plenty of big titles coming out. I understand not everyone needs, wants or can afford 2 consoles. But many can they just choose to pick a side and then talk mess about the other console and ignore great games there. That seems beyond dumb to me.
So many great games to say it’s in the top 3 - my new criterion is it a masterpiece or not. So Starfield is in …
Everyone's opinion is valued and that's great praise for me it's not even in my top 30 games ever skyrim and fallout 3 are though amazing games this gmae is great though
@HonestHick Hi there friend.
Saw your comment and just had to say, in the words of the Mandalorian, "This is the Way".
I am more of a PS guy myself, but I love many diferent types of games and this is why I own a PS5, a Switch and a Series X.
And like you said, not everyone can aford that many systems or even want to do so, but to me, I just have to be able to play Metroid, Zelda, Gears of War, Halo, Spiderman and The Last of Us, just to name a few.
In my opinion, people should just enjoy videogames for the entertainment and joy they provide instead on focussing on a dumb console war that does not matter.
On another note, Starfield, in the 3.5 hours I´ve played so far on my Series X seems to be a pretty good game.
Can´t wat to dive more over the weekend.
Cheers and enjoy the game people
@RaZieLDaNtE i completely agree. Well said. For those of us that want more than one console, don’t make the whole industry look bad fighting amongst each other on which plastic box you prefer. Glad to see you own all 3 and it really is awesome when you do cause there’s not a game to miss out on and there is very little windows of having nothing to play. Glad to hear you are enjoying SF. I am still grinding my Diablo 4 characters nightly. Thanks for the awesome reply. 😀
@Deshalu sadly i dont beleive Jim or sony will be ever accounted for anything they do, because PS fanboys is so blnded and aggressive to support there plastic box, PS doesnt have backward compatibiity just to make poeole buy PS5 games, PS charge for next gen upgrade scam nobody say a thing,PS increase PS5 2 years old console price by 50$ nobody complains, PS pushed for 70$ game prices even on remasters nobody complains, they increased prices of PS plus by 33% nobody complains, sony has very few exclsuives this gen and focusing on live ervice games in future....nobody complains...
sony is like that bully in the class who i a total a***** that surprisly everyone repect him and all girls want him to do them
It’s a good game, but not even my favorite Bethesda game. Top 3 of all time is wild.
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